Thirteen Steps

This is great. Be sure to turn subtitles on. Oh, and screw Mr. Rogers. Lo Pan is always the victor.

I caught some coverage of the middle-school shooting in Florida while at lunch today. The talking head stated that, “…the student then pointed the gun in a threatening manner at an officer…” Here’s a news-flash for you, Mr. Talking Head; there aren’t very many non-threatening manners in which a gun can be pointed at someone. Thanks for the redundancy, though. Do me a favor and perform seppuku as soon as you can.

Since we’re on the topic of news…

(CNN) — Evangelist Pat Robertson apologized in a Wednesday letter for saying that the major stroke suffered by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was divine retribution for “dividing God’s land.”

The apology — offered in a letter to Sharon’s son, Omri — followed a threat by Israel to exclude Robertson from a proposed $50 million Christian heritage site in northern Israel.

“My zeal, my love of Israel and my concern for the future safety of your nation led me to make remarks which I can now view in retrospect as inappropriate and insensitive in light of a national grief experienced because of your father’s illness,” Robertson wrote.

Funny how he backtracks as soon as the threat of being bumped from the Christian Heritage project is on the table. Does anyone else find it hard to believe the whole “My zeal, my love of Israel” bit from a guy who, in August said that “…God would bring judgment against Israel…” for its withdrawal from Gaza?

For the record, I don’t see how Robertson’s stating that Sharon deserved the stroke could be out of “concern for the future safety…” of the Nation of Israel. Countries in transitional periods [such as being in between leaders] are quite vulnerable.

Where’s his personal integrity as a conversational partner with god? If it’s retribution, it’s retribution, whether insensitive or not. God’s never been much on sensitivity-training for his prophets. He’s more of a ‘tell it like it is’ sort of guy, according to biblical evidence.

Pat, I hate to be the uneducated, 25 year-old atheist that gives you advice, but perhaps you should stop citing God every time something awful happens to people. I’m hard pressed to find even a Christian that believes that you and God are on speaking-terms. I guess what I’m trying to say is that you’re full of shit and God [whoever that may be] probably knows it.