The hollow man

Michael Green sent me this:

SOURCE: http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/08/15/bush_lbj/print.html

The hollow man

Bush's inability to feel the pain of others -- highlighted by Cindy Sheehan's peace vigil -- is a stark contrast to the anguish LBJ felt over casualties in Vietnam.
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Religious leader advocates assassination

I thought there were laws to lock up religious leaders if they publicly incited murder.
Oh... maybe those laws only work on Moslem religious leaders.

Pat Robertson, host of Christian Broadcasting Network's The 700 Club and founder of the Christian Coalition of America, called for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200508220006

He should go straight to jail. If he was a Moslem cleric exhorting people to assassinate Tony Blair you can bet he'd be languishing behind bars right now. Such an idiot would deserve jail. This insane Christian extremist belongs in jail too.

Can you say double standards?

human cloning

You know, I can't figure out what the big deal is about human cloning. People get their knickers in such a knot about it, but every identical twin on the planet is a clone. It is not like it is unnatural.

"But," those shiny-eyed, anti-cloning fanatics rush to tell me (like it matters) "there will be awful hitler-like people who clone themselves."

Really? I wonder. And some feeble law is going to stop some uber-wealthy nutcase? Like it has stopped so many other things, yeah?

"But," they breathlessly press on, "it would be a travesty of human rights to have these clones raised to be..."

...to be wealthy, powerful people? Oh the poor dears. My heart bleeds for them.
Why the hell are people worried about cloning when there are children starving all over the world?
Are people fucking nuts or something?!?!