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Bev, thanks for speaking out against this old fool.He gets crazier with each comment., Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: "Beverly Bashe" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 6:42 PM Subject: Re: Pat Robertson's Katrina Cash > In my opinion, Pat Robinson is a Grade-A jerk, and should be banned from > public airwaves. He almost sounds deranged, puffed up with his own > perceived power...and, unfortunately, influences too many people. > > Bev Bashe > ---- rayilynlee <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> Pat Robertson's is the face of Christianity the world sees. We need to >> denounce him. >> Pat Robertson's Katrina Cash >> Max Blumenthal >> >> >> >> PRINT THIS ARTICLE >> EMAIL THIS ARTICLE >> WRITE TO THE EDITORS >> TAKE ACTION NOW >> SUBSCRIBE TO THE NATION >> Every cloud has a silver lining. Hurricane Katrina has devastated >> New Orleans, leaving thousands dead and hundreds of thousands homeless, >> and plunging the entire city into chaos. In the hurricane's wake, the >> Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and its director, Michael >> Brown, forced out of his former job at the International Arabian Horse >> Association, with no credentials in disaster relief, have become targets >> of withering criticism. Yet FEMA's relief efforts have brought >> considerable assistance to at least one man who stands to benefit from >> Hurricane Katrina perhaps more than any other individual: Pat Robertson. >> >> With the Bush Administration's approval, Robertson's $66 million >> relief organization, Operation Blessing, has been prominently featured on >> FEMA's list of charitable groups accepting donations for hurricane >> relief. Dozens of media outlets, including the New York Times, CNN and >> the Associated Press, duly reprinted FEMA's list, unwittingly acting as >> agents soliciting cash for Robertson. "How in the heck did that happen?" >> Richard Walden, president of the disaster-relief group Operation USA, >> asked of Operation Blessing's inclusion on FEMA's list. "That gives Pat >> Robertson millions of extra dollars." >> >> Though Operation USA has conducted disaster relief for more than >> twenty-five years on five continents, like scores of other secular relief >> groups currently helping victims of Hurricane Katrina, it was omitted >> from FEMA's list. In fact, only two non-"faith-based" organizations were >> included. (One of them, the American Red Cross, is being blocked from >> entering New Orleans by FEMA's parent agency, the Department of Homeland >> Security.) FEMA, meanwhile, has reportedly turned away Wal-Mart trucks >> carrying food and water to the stricken city, teams of firemen from >> Maryland and Texas, volunteer morticians and a convoy of 1,000 boat >> owners offering to help rescue stranded flood victims. While relief >> efforts falter in the face of colossal bureaucratic incompetence, the >> Bush Administration's promotion of Operation Blessing has ensured that >> the floodwaters swallowing New Orleans will be a rising tide lifting >> Robertson's boat. >> >> >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: >> mailto:[log in to unmask] >> In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: > mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn