edit: hmm, upon re-examining the thread title, I can't help but wonder if I'm being a hypocrite...

[ July 19, 2002: Message edited by: meades ]

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She's just too predictable, especially when I control what she says ...

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[ July 19, 2002: Message edited by: clockwork ]

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Actually, I was being a bit tongue-and-cheek there (although that wouldn't surprise me, either). Turns out Robertson and whatever church/media assets he has is expanding in China. Always helps to toe the government line in a dictatorship. A few nice words here and there probably makes a lot of problems go away (or alternately, a permit or two to come your way).

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About 190 miles away, in a densely forested region of Liberia called Bukon Jedeh, Robertson's employees were busy working on a much more valuable token of Taylor's appreciation. There a crew of 35 Liberians were digging deep holes into the red, claylike soil on a plot of land contracted out to Robertson. Their goal was to uncover the spot, beneath the gravel and laterite, that they believed held five million ounces of the stuff that the Book of Revelation says lines the streets of heaven: pure gold. Gold that if sold on the open market could reap about $1.5 billion.

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Pat Robertson has a long history of cozying up to Third World dictators. This tendency first earned a lot of attention in the mid-90s, when his dealings with the bloody kleptocrat Mobutu of Zaire [now Congo] became known.

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Yesterday The Post published a letter from Christian Coalition founder Dr. M. G. "Pat" Robertson, responding to columns I have written concerning his pursuit of gold in Liberia. It's easy to become so preoccupied with the details of Robertson's letter that his main point is missed. As I understand his proposition, yours truly has done him wrong: Freedom Gold, Robertson's private, for-profit company, is digging for commercial grade ore in Liberia so that he might be in a better position to lift the fallen, find the lost and bring the sinful into righteousness.

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The columns referred to (although I missed the fourth):
Robertson's Gold
Robertson's Liberia deal
Robertson's Business Buddise

Other things of interest about Robertson is his views on Zambia and he apparently had a MLM scam going in the eighties.

[ July 20, 2002: Message edited by: clockwork ]

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Speaking of MLM scams, apparently the religious right and the Republicans are quite involved with endorsing and protecting firms like Amway.

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According to the December 1998 issue of Mother Jones $camway founder Richard DeVos and his wife Helen each donated $500 000 to the Republicans in April of 1997. Not only that but Trent Lott and Newt Gingrich slipped a provision into a tax bill that gave Amway a tax break on its Asian branches.

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Considering this, it doesn't surprise me that Pat Robertson supported a one-child policy in China. I'm sure it had a lot less to do with the good of the environment and world, and a lot more to do with keeping the "heathen" populations under control.

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Edit: it's 'an' not 'a'.

[ July 20, 2002: Message edited by: SHH ]

And the thing is, both of them were "Republican Babe of the Month"! Is this a fluke?

Rachel
Ann.

[ August 29, 2002: Message edited by: audra estrones ]

A friend told me that "Media Whores", in homàge to Rush Limbaugh, ran a photo of an Afghan Hound and labelled it "Ann Coulter."

I'm told this touched off angry responses from the readership who were offended.

........seems some of them owned Afghans.......

I'm all for feeling positive about your body and all that jazz, been known to enjoy being photographed my own self, but I also know that it generally has a negative impact on how seriously one gets taken in thinking circles.