tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35012109.post7061210821599620314..comments2023-10-14T08:05:51.183-07:00Comments on see how we almost fly: Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03662927122733057638noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35012109.post-52140575302659093092010-01-23T14:58:56.140-08:002010-01-23T14:58:56.140-08:00Gerry, I totally agree with you. The Democrats fe...Gerry, I totally agree with you. The Democrats fell asleep at the wheel. They--we--just didn't believe that Massachusetts of all places, could go Republican. It can be taken as a wake-up call for November, and from what I read in the paper, Obama is heeding it as such.<br /><br />Yes, Robertson was referring to the Haitians' practice of voudoun, one of the most misunderstood religions around. It is not devil-worship. <br /><br />Like the ancient Greeks and Romans, voudoun acknowledges that there is both "good" and "bad" in humans and in their divine counterparts, the loi, the gods, who can be benevolent or angry. <br /><br />For a good read on the subject there is Maya Deren's book Divine Horsemen. Because voudoun is the religion of people who were not for the most part literate, it does not have a Scripture. The stories and especially the songs which are essential to the ceremonies are passed down through oral tradition. People experience God directly through revelation in voudoun, whether that happen in dreams, asleep or awake, or through spirit possession. <br /><br />I have been privileged to attend voudoun ceremonies and they are powerful. There is no devil-worship involved, but plenty of singing, dancing, drumming, and deep deep faith. What else can you say about a people whose response to devastation is to sing sacred songs?Alisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03662927122733057638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35012109.post-47590170355064297092010-01-22T06:32:28.229-08:002010-01-22T06:32:28.229-08:00The so called "pact with the devil" was ...The so called "pact with the devil" was most likely a return to their own form of religion and a rejection of traditional Christianity as proposed by their French occupiers I would speculateAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35012109.post-25947419418936718702010-01-22T06:30:26.512-08:002010-01-22T06:30:26.512-08:00http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/01/21/haiti-and-...http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/01/21/haiti-and-the-pat-robertson-paradox/#c24887577Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35012109.post-66886371096471315352010-01-21T13:58:28.890-08:002010-01-21T13:58:28.890-08:00And another thing. The Prop 8 people poured a lot...And another thing. The Prop 8 people poured a lot of money into their campaign. There's a well-organized, well-funded republican machine determined to get power back. To both points I say...so what? What did the democrats do to prepare for this election? How well-organized and well-funded are the democrats? Coakley and the democrats were ill-prepared for an election they easily should have won. Instead of worrying about what the right is doing, liberals and democrats need to look at themselves in the mirror and ask the hard questions, and find ways to get better organized and prepared. Because if they don't...you're going to see a lot more of this in November.Gerry Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14870190454993499852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35012109.post-85212127085113844722010-01-21T10:54:16.838-08:002010-01-21T10:54:16.838-08:00The sooner people stop taking Pat Robertson, Rush ...The sooner people stop taking Pat Robertson, Rush Limbaugh and their ilk seriously, the sooner they will be relegated to the scrap heap of irrelevency. <br /><br />How's that?Gerry Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14870190454993499852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35012109.post-38818554933736432512010-01-20T19:23:04.464-08:002010-01-20T19:23:04.464-08:00Yeah, I heard she did not run a very exciting camp...Yeah, I heard she did not run a very exciting campaign. I also heard that the Prop 8 people poured a lot of money and support into the conservative republican candidate. So I think it is a combination of factors, including a well-organized republican machine determined to get the power back.<br /><br />By the way when i originally posted I had not actually heard pat Robertson deliver his quote. I had just read it in the papers. I heard a clip of it today on the radio. If there were a stronger word than ignorant asshole I would use it. The supreme irony is that the Haitian people are the most spiritual that I have ever met. one young woman was just rescued from a crushed building today--8 days after the original quake hit. She spent 8 days without food or water with a wall on top of her and when they lifted her out on a stretcher she was singing hymns! Those are the people he denigrates as having made a pact with the devil.Alisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03662927122733057638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35012109.post-50188245043875817802010-01-20T15:19:46.072-08:002010-01-20T15:19:46.072-08:00You ask 'how could they not elect a democrat i...You ask 'how could they not elect a democrat in Massachusetts.' I think the problem is Ms. Coakley and her campaign was asking the same question. They thought they had it in the bag. It appears that her campaign pretty much just mailed it in, taking for granted that Massachusetts would always vote for a democrat. Turns out they were wrong.Gerry Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14870190454993499852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35012109.post-73467500464407117702010-01-20T09:31:30.538-08:002010-01-20T09:31:30.538-08:00i'll second that
shit, shit...i'll second that <br /><br />shit, shit...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35012109.post-9933472362758181732010-01-19T22:20:22.992-08:002010-01-19T22:20:22.992-08:00Shit. Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit.Shit. Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit.Alisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03662927122733057638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35012109.post-67033853022620925132010-01-19T19:33:57.005-08:002010-01-19T19:33:57.005-08:00We didn't vote in a Democratic senator, and I ...We didn't vote in a Democratic senator, and I can't believe it! I'm so so upset about it. How could it have happened this way/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com