Broken Things

American Campaign Finance:
So the American Supreme Court decided today that it is OK for corporations to essentially buy elections. They just overturned an old campaign finance law that restricted the political contributions of corporations, and opened the doors for them to give unrestricted amounts of money to candidates. So essentially, what we will have is corporations pouring massive amounts of money into the election funds of candidates, producing even more of those asinine campaign ads, and making for even more corrupt politicians. Just what this country needed. Yeah - that is broken.

Aid Delivery to Haiti:
I keep hearing basically the same exact story coming out of Haiti: there is tons of aid just waiting to be delivered to the starving survivors, but there is no way to get the aid to the people because the airport is jammed, the port is busted, and the roads are impassable. Man, it makes me almost wish that someone had invented some kind of aircraft that is capable of vertical take-off and landing, that could fly supplies and troops and aid workers to the remote areas where people need help. With a vehicle like that, we could have helped all of these people already, it seems. . . .
Heck, I dunno: HELICOPTER anyone? All these excuses about not getting aid out are pathetic. If we can drop food and guns and jeeps and tanks behind enemy lines via helicopter while those choppers are getting SHOT AT, why on earth can we not do the same thing to help people who are desperately in need? That is broken.

This Guy:

Good ol' Conservidiot Pat "Wouldn't Know God if He Shook My Hand" Robertson. Listen to what he said recently, in his typical way of speaking first, looking goofy second, and thinking sometime next week:

"It may be a blessing in disguise. ... Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. Haitians were originally under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon the third, or 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, okay it's a deal. Ever since they have been cursed by one thing after the other." –Pat Robertson, on the earthquake in Haiti that destroyed the capital and killed tens of thousands of people, Jan. 13, 2010

OK, Pat: we all know you are a blathering moron, but please explain this: what precisely did the devil do to overthrow the French? Were you there when this deal was made? Is it in some voodoo journal you read? Or maybe you know about it from your own extensive Satan worship. Whatever the case may be, one thing is completely clear: God would NEVER do this to people, especially not for something as silly as making some supposed pact with the devil. God LOVES people, and earthquakes just happen. If God punished people for doing evil things, why didn't he wipe Rome off the map after killing thousands of innocents during the Crusades? Or why didn't he throw Palestine into the sea after the Jews killed his son? Or, better yet, why hasn't he afflicted Pat Robertson with every disease known to man for sowing his particular brand of toxic ignorance and hate?

So yeah, this guy is broken.