(via What’s new by Bob Park – Friday, January 15, 2010) 2. CIA: HOW MANY SPIES HAS THE POLYGRAPH EXPOSED? According to a CBS News account of the suicide bombing at a CIA base in Afghanistan, “The double agent was brought onto the base without first being given a polygraph test, one of the basic … Continue reading “Again: Are polygraphs worthless?”
Category: Politics
Truly Awful
Pat Robertson says Haiti paying for ‘pact to the devil’
PAT ROBERTSON: And, you know, Kristi, something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon III and whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, “We will serve you if you will get us free from the French.” True story. And so, the devil said, “OK, it’s a deal.”
And they kicked the French out. You know, the Haitians revolted and got themselves free. But ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after the other. Desperately poor. That island of Hispaniola is one island. It’s cut down the middle. On the one side is Haiti; on the other side is the Dominican Republic. Dominican Republic is prosperous, healthy, full of resorts, et cetera. Haiti is in desperate poverty. Same island. They need to have and we need to pray for them a great turning to God. And out of this tragedy, I’m optimistic something good may come. But right now, we’re helping the suffering people, and the suffering is unimaginable.
KRISTI WATTS (co-host): Absolutely, Pat.
Radical cleric Pat Robertson weighs in on yet another tragedy giving it his own “special” spin. He must be truly a shit of human being to be able to put such a spin on the deaths of thousands of people.
(more…)Terror!
What [Obama] should be doing is following the right things Bush did. One of the right things he did was treat this as a war on terror. We had no domestic attacks under Bush. We’ve had one under Obama. — Rudolph Giuliani We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s … Continue reading “Terror!”
Joe the Plumber
(via Eschaton) For those of you keeping score at home, “Joe” the “Plumber” is not: really named “Joe” really a plumber a Constitutional scholar
Oh, Really?
Mr. 9/11 Gets Amnesia: ‘We Had No Domestic Attacks Under Bush; We’ve Had One Under Obama’
“What [Obama] should be doing is following the right things Bush did. One of the right things he did was treat this as a war on terror. We had no domestic attacks under Bush. We’ve had one under Obama,” Giuliani said.
Even if Giuliani misspoke and meant since 9/11/2001, he is still lying. Let’s not forget the anthrax attacks and Richard Reid.
(more…)Putting things into perspective
Terrorism Still Less Deadly in US Than Lack of Health Insurance, Salmonella Worrying about terrorism isn’t something that keeps me up at night…
Newt Gingrich: Medieval Meteorologist
As callista and i watched what dc weather says will be 12 to 22 inches of snow i wondered if God was sending a message about copenhagen — Newt Gingrich (via Twitter) Perhaps Newt should have his local haruspex interpret the sacrificial entrails just to be sure.
Joe Lieberman is…
Go to Google, type in “Joe Lieberman is” and see what the auto suggestion recommends.
Oh, really?
(via Eschaton)
We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term.
— Dana Perino (from the November 24 edition of Hannity on Fox “News”)
People are Stupid, Part VII
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Losing NY-23 candidate Doug Hoffman became the latest in an increasingly long line of conservative politicians to blame his problems on ACORN yesterday despite the complete lack of evidence the organization played any role in his defeat.
The Republican base is with him though. PPP’s newest national survey finds that a 52% majority of GOP voters nationally think that ACORN stole the Presidential election for Barack Obama last year, with only 27% granting that he won it legitimately. Clearly the ACORN card really is an effective one to play with the voters who will decide whether Hoffman gets to be the Republican nominee in a possible repeat bid in 2010.
A 52% majority of GOP voters nationally think that ACORN stole the Presidential election for Barack Obama – More evidence that prolonged exposure to Fox “News” rots the brain.
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