Monday, August 30, 2010

this, not that

one of the best things about moving back to san diego is that national public radio is back in my life. i love NPR, but for some reason, I enjoy it best when driving, and i'm happy to say that my NPR famine is officially over.

anyway, I just listened to a fascinating segment was on pat robinson - you know, that freaky televangelist. side note – back in the 80’s, when televangelists were all the rage, didn’t you JUST KNOW that something was not right withTammy Faye and Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart, Jerry Falwell, and Pat Robinson? If it’s not obvious from this picture below, then I hope your job doesn’t require you to operate heavy machinery:



Even as children, we knew something was not right. They they gave you Sunday Morning heebie jeebies even if you got a glimpse of them when flipping through the channels. Then, we found out that not only are they weird, they are bad people, too.

Take a look at this Wikipedia list titled, “List of Christian Evangelist Scandals”. It’s crazy!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_evangelist_scandals

So back to Pat Robinson. To be perfectly honest, I have now forgotten most of the details of the story because I was so distraught after hearing it, but this is the gist of it: pat robinson is allegedly involved in some situation involving blood diamonds. Supporting not just any blood diamond cartel, but the most violent one. meaning, the cartel that coined the phrase "blood diamonds" because they chopped off PEOPLE’S HANDS. I KNOW! ICK!!

FURTHERMORE, he was involved in the trafficking of ARMS!!! DOUBLE GRODY!!! ARMS?!?! who the heck buys ARMS? who WANTS ARMS?

it wasn't until i was parked in my driveway that I realized I was thinking about the wrong kind of arms.

Not this kind of arms:
That kind of arms: