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Chicken In Chief

Check it out. This is the “Chicken In Chief” that herself drew for the protest sign my mom’s taking to Crawford. I’ve got some lovely, talented and properly-aligned women in my life, people.

Robertson has apologized for making his stupid ass comments. A little tardy and a little insincere, but hey. It’s something, right?

Ok, never mind that Pat Robertson is freaking insane. Let’s focus on the fact that he’s supposed to be a Christian. A Christian believes in the Ten Commandements, no? And what is one of those little edicts? “Thou shalt not kill.” Not “Thou shalt not kill (except for commies).” Not “Thou shalt not kill (except for people you disagree with).” Just straight-up “Thou shalt not kill.”

So, what the ever-loving fuck is this asshole doing calling for Hugo Chavez to be killed? At the very least, this little episode should alert all his “good, Christian followers” to a little, shall we say, dissonance in the beliefs of Pat Robertson. Then again, it’s not like the people who listen to Robertson seriously are going to question him, anyway.

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Pat Robertson seems to think that the US should assassinate Hugo Chavez - the democratically elected president of Venezuela. Robertson, in his delusional state, believes that a country that the State Department of the US has identified as 96% Roman Catholic (and two more percent Protestant) is a threat to serve as “a launching pad for… Muslim extremism all over the continent.”

The man is, of course, a loon and isn’t really worth the electrons I’ve just wasted on him. Except for the annoying fact that people actually watch his show and believe his rantings. Not that any of those people (A) will ever read this or (B) would be swayed by any logic I (or anyone) present explaining that the statements that Robertson makes are, well, insanely stupid.

Argh.

CNN has the obit.

Ooh. Hey. Ted Kennedy has an op-ed piece, Why Roberts’s Views Matter, in the Washington Post today about why it’s so dang important that the Senate be allowed to review data from 16 of the cases that Roberts handled as deputy solicitor general from 1989 to 1993. Predictably, the Empire is trying to withhold this information. Kennedy does an effective job of explaining why the Empire is wrong to do so.

The closing of the piece is particularly powerful:

No one has an automatic right to a lifetime position on the Supreme Court. A nominee to the high court must first demonstrate that he has a core commitment to constitutional rights and liberties. He must show that he is in the mainstream of modern judicial thought and that he would not use an ideologically motivated interpretation of our Constitution or laws to reverse the hard-fought gains we have made to make this nation more just.

Gee, somehow it seems so obvious when it is written out in English words by someone who, no matter what you may think of him, can pronounce “nuclear” properly.