I Get Riled
I know this is kind of old news now, but i’m going to bring it up here anyway, just to ask the following question:
What does it say about your country when your nation’s chief law-enforcement officer says that, “not every wrong, or even every violation of the law, is a crime.”?
What a spectacular stretch of semantics.
Also in the news is this video:
It turns out that Christian right evangelical group, Focus on the Family hires this guy Stuart Shepard to make videos for them. Which is fine, of course. The problem is that this particular video is so ridiculously void of conscience that Keith Olbermann went ahead and featured Shepard as one of his Worst People in the World.
In case you didn’t watch the video, Shepard asks people to pray for rain to fall in Denver on August 28th to interrupt Barack Obama’s presidential nominee acceptance speech. Shepard actually uses the phrases “abundant rain, torrential rain … flood-advisory rain… I’m talking about umbrella-ain’t-gonna-help-you rain … swamp-the-intersections rain.”
Just for fun, i thought it would be interesting to google how far Denver, Colorado is from Cedar Rapids, Iowa where just a few months ago, the type of rain that Shepard asks people to pray for caused an estimated $1bil worth of damage and destruction… 714 miles. Priorities, please.
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August 13th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Interesting.
As for “not every wrong, or even every violation of the law, is a crime”, that actually makes me think about revolution, which is often against the law but could hardly be called criminal in the grand scheme of things. But taken out of context I’m not sure if that’s a good reading of the intention of the quote.
I’m astounded by fanatics who think god is omnibenevolent and then pray for god to destroy people they hate. What kind of intellectual compartmentalization has to happen for people to think that makes sense?
Religion is the breeder of all things evil in humanity.