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Rubicon95
Skeptic Friend
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 Posted - 12/31/2004 : 11:10:18 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
But will they? At this writing, I have yet to see anything.
CBN (700 Club - Robertson entity) has their link up. I am just waiting for Fallenwell to do a 911 on this. I've done searches on him and the tsunami. No words at all not even condolences.
Not even on the MM website http://www.faithandvalues.us/
It kind of reminds me of Job's friends. They were there to give advice and accuse him but short on aid.
I have a sick feeling that the grass roots relief efforts will be claimed by them.
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 12/31/2004 : 13:48:39 [Permalink]
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I am skeptical that money given to Robertson and his ilk will ever reach the areas effected by the tsunami.
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"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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14408 Posts |
Posted - 12/31/2004 : 13:55:28 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Rubicon95
quote:
Originally posted by filthy
But will they? At this writing, I have yet to see anything.
CBN (700 Club - Robertson entity) has their link up. I am just waiting for Fallenwell to do a 911 on this. I've done searches on him and the tsunami. No words at all not even condolences.
Not even on the MM website http://www.faithandvalues.us/
It kind of reminds me of Job's friends. They were there to give advice and accuse him but short on aid.
I have a sick feeling that the grass roots relief efforts will be claimed by them.
Kinda like Bush waiting three days to even issue a statment. Had to see the way the wind was blowing, first.
Ok, that's unkind. Apologies. But Robertson's history makes me paranoid enough even to wonder what percentage will go into 'overhead.'
At this point, I'll assume that Falwell will jump on board, as will others as yet unheard from. I think you may be right -- they will grab all of the credit they can, earned or otherwise.
Ah well. It all will help and from what I'm hearing, the grassroots effort has been terrific.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 12/31/2004 : 14:50:39 [Permalink]
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The Rev. Fred Phelps, infected pile on the bleeding anus of Christianity, checks in: quote:
Friday, December 31, 2004
RAW STORY has discovered that the Westboro Baptist Church leaders known for picketing the funeral of Matthew Shepard, the young college student brutally murdered in Wyoming in 1998, have released the following statement regarding the tsunamis which hit Southeast Asia earlier in the week.
The statement, which was posted on their website Wednesday alongside dozens of other archived "press releases," thanks God for the tsunami and for the death of any gay Swedish vacationers who perished at the time.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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Posted - 12/31/2004 : 16:06:22 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by filthy
The Rev. Fred Phelps, infected pile on the bleeding anus of Christianity, checks in: quote:
Friday, December 31, 2004
RAW STORY has discovered that the Westboro Baptist Church leaders known for picketing the funeral of Matthew Shepard, the young college student brutally murdered in Wyoming in 1998, have released the following statement regarding the tsunamis which hit Southeast Asia earlier in the week.
The statement, which was posted on their website Wednesday alongside dozens of other archived "press releases," thanks God for the tsunami and for the death of any gay Swedish vacationers who perished at the time.
WHAT THE FUCK????
Edit: Is it really, really not a satire or something else? Or is this "god hates fags" for real?
If it's not a sick joke, who ever is in charge should be shot dead! And I don't mean somewhere convenient like between the eyes, but somewhere preferably where it will take many hours of massive pain without passing out too quickly. |
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ljbrs
SFN Regular
USA
842 Posts |
Posted - 12/31/2004 : 18:01:00 [Permalink]
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(because Sri Lanka, having the largest number of fatalities, probably is full of bodies which need to be buried FAST).
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Just to clarify, Sumatra appears to have the highest bodycount at the moment, not Sri Lanka.
Sorry about that. I read the it from another source before I had had time to check everything out completely. Regardless, the whole thing is catastrophic for everybody concerned. The devastation on Sri Lanka (formerly, Ceylon) was just awful.
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"Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve about these suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds."
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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14408 Posts |
Posted - 12/31/2004 : 18:02:28 [Permalink]
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The sick prick really is for real. Every now and then he makes the news, to the disgust of everyone axcept his ministry; mostly comprised of his own family.
Beside Phelps, even Falwell looks, if not good, then at least a little better than the slimey toad I usually call him.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 12/31/2004 : 21:38:29 [Permalink]
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http://www.humaniststudies.org/enews/disaster_relief.html
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"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 12/31/2004 : 23:18:24 [Permalink]
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Phelps and his hate are for real.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 12/31/2004 : 23:33:21 [Permalink]
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| Rubicon95, while I understand what you were trying to point out (and I saw your retraction), suggesting anything about Skeptic News was a rather low blow, as the lead article there is about how the site was more-or-less shut down in July of 2003. |
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the_ignored
SFN Addict
2562 Posts |
Posted - 01/01/2005 : 00:09:10 [Permalink]
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I'm hoping I can get and hold onto a job long enough to actually make a donation. I have to pass the exams first. This time, the waiting is killing not only me.
I really wish I'd have gotten this sooner, then I'd have something to give. |
>From: enuffenuff@fastmail.fm
(excerpt follows):
> I'm looking to teach these two bastards a lesson they'll never forget.
> Personal visit by mates of mine. No violence, just a wee little chat.
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> **** has also committed more crimes than you can count with his
> incitement of hatred against a religion. That law came in about 2007
> much to ****'s ignorance. That is fact and his writing will become well
> know as well as him becoming a publicly known icon of hatred.
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> Good luck with that fuckwit. And Reynold, fucking run, and don't stop.
> Disappear would be best as it was you who dared to attack me on my
> illness knowing nothing of the cause. You disgust me and you are top of
> the list boy. Again, no violence. Just regular reminders of who's there
> and visits to see you are behaving. Nothing scary in reality. But I'd
> still disappear if I was you.
What brought that on? this. Original posting here.
Another example of this guy's lunacy here. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 01/01/2005 : 02:58:35 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by the_ignored
I'm hoping I can get and hold onto a job long enough to actually make a donation. I have to pass the exams first. This time, the waiting is killing not only me.
I really wish I'd have gotten this sooner, then I'd have something to give.
There's plenty of time, Ig. Those folks are going to be hurtin' for a while. I have a feeling that the real disaster will begin when cholera, typhus, dysentary and the rest come a'callin' Also, more puddled water will mean more mosquitos with all of the joyous tidings they bring, not excluding dengue and leprosy.
Our benevolent and compassionate government is now putting up 350 mil. Do ya see it, guys? Howling and braying, long and loud, actually can make the bastards do the right thing. We should howl and bray more often. A lot more often!
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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