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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 07:51 PM
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2 dead after Robertson’s plane crashes in Conn.
GROTON, Conn. - A Learjet registered to religious broadcaster Pat Robertson crashed in Long Island Sound while flying in heavy fog Friday, killing both pilots, authorities said. All three passengers escaped without serious injury.

Robertson was not aboard. “I am deeply grieved and my heart reaches out to the families and to the people on the plane,” he said in a statement.

The twin-engine plane went down a half-mile short of the runway at Groton-New London Airport. Authorities said the passengers were able to get out on their own and were pulled from the water and taken to the hospital with minor injuries.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13105641/

Alas, God did not call Pat home.
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 07:54 PM
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1. Hmmm, God's trying to tell you something Pat! n/t
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SharonRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 07:57 PM
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4. You took the words right outta my mouth!
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seriousstan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 08:39 PM
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10. How crude. What was God telling Wellstone? Kennedy?
Any other innocent victim of an accident?
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 09:13 PM
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17. Crude...maybe, but if you owned a plane that crashed, wouldn't you
at least think...."Oh man, that could have been me"?
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seriousstan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 09:25 PM
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18. Not when fog is to blame. Maybe if mechanical reasons but not fog.
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WhiteTara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 12:38 AM
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24. sounds like pilot error
or instrument failure? Taking off in adverse weather conditions is definitely pilot judgement.

I wonder who the passengers were that were so important that they gave their lives.
I'm sorry for the families' loss.
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President Kerry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 10:15 PM
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20. I think the poster was implying
Pat's tendency to invoke God's wrath whenever something tragic happens (like Katrina or 9/11).
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smirkymonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 09:16 PM
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36. Now Pat's going to think "God" saved him from the clutches of
death. :eyes:
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DuaneBidoux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 10:16 PM
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21. Unlike Wellstone, Robertson regularly proclaims catastrophes are
God's wrath on the victims. He's just getting a little of his own medicine. I think the crew were perhaps being punished for following a false prophet.
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seriousstan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 02:52 PM
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35. They followed a false prophet by leasing a jet owned by a company owned by
Robertson? What kind of sick logic are you operating on? Get off the koolaid!
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DuaneBidoux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-04-06 06:30 PM
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38. My point is that his targets are capricious...one of those capricious
targets hit close enough to his home that one think he would get an equally strong message from God out of the event.
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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 09:31 PM
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19. God is telling him not to fly in night fog
God's wisdom is sometimes obvious
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 12:56 PM
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34. Pat has been openly critical of some junta policies of late
Maybe it wasn't God trying to tell him something...
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 07:54 PM
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MrPrax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 08:14 PM
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6. I was disappointed too n/t
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 07:55 PM
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3. Robertson wasn't involved at all. The airplane was being used for
a charter by another company.
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VegasWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 08:42 PM
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11. Probably to fly in more conflict diamonds for Patwa! nt
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 08:47 PM
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14. Read the article. The airplane was being used as a charter, unrelated to
Robertson or his business. The pilots were apparently flying some golfers somewhere. The only relationship between Robertson and this accident is that he or his business is the registered owner of the airplane. I can't stand Robertson, either, but this accident had absolutle nothing to do with him, any more than if I owned a car rental business and somebody I didn't know rented my car and had an accident with it.
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VegasWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 09:00 PM
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15. True. It is just so damn hard not to make fun of the fat old fool. nt
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CONN Donating Member (249 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 11:17 AM
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33. Hmm Robertson is in the plane leasing business... does he pay tax?
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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 07:58 PM
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5. Surprising that when God was speaking directly to Pat ...
... only a week or so ago about major storms hitting the US this summer, he forgot to give him a heads-up on his pilots being killed.

So what's the spin going to be on this one?

(a) These men died doing the Lord's work, or
(b) These men were evil-doers and the Lord struck them down

Hmmmm ....
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truthisfreedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 08:21 PM
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7. enough, people. let the freepers be known for hate. not us.
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peacetalksforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 08:25 PM
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8. It's human nature to say what is being said here, but distasteful human
nature comments by freepers is criticized all the time on DU. Keep the thought if needed, but don't write it. Rise above.
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 08:28 PM
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9. Pat is actually deeply, sadly disturbed
That plane was full of his "blood diamonds" pulled from the ground from Robertson's own mines on the back of slave laborers, and sold around the world to finance civil wars.

Tonight, Robertson will drink his powershake, leg-press 2,000 pounds, and cry for the loss of his diamonds.

You know who's to blame for this?

Abortionists, liberals, and professional volleyball players.
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 08:44 PM
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13. volley ball players?
:shrug:
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 08:08 AM
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28. Yeah. Volleyball players. It makes as much sense as blaming the gays. n/t
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 08:34 AM
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30. Good point.
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smirkymonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 09:19 PM
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37. ...dont' forget Bill Clinton's penis
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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 08:43 PM
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12. This isn't 'Breaking' news...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=1338756

Pat Robertson's Lear Jet crashes --
malaise - Fri Jun-02-06 06:37 PM Original message
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Vidar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 09:07 PM
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16. God's aim is off.
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JanusAscending Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 10:33 PM
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22. God never makes mistakes.
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Mr_Spock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 08:23 AM
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29. lol
:rofl:
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Brundle_Fly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-02-06 11:07 PM
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23. I am surprized...
Pattie boy didn't have a comment along the lines of...

Their choice of lifestyle brought the wrath of the lord..

God told me about this and I foresaw....

etc etc, add stupid Pattie boy comment.
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 12:49 AM
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25. Hello Pat, this is GOD. I know you've claimed you talk to me
but we BOTH know you don't. I know you are a nasty little phony holding the Prince of Darkness's hand.

now, in you last days, before you descend into the pit, I'll give you one chance to understand the message this time is meant for YOU. Repent NOW, apologize to everyone you lied to about ME, and give back the treasure you've stolen to the needy, oh, and go tell Hugo he needs to repent too.

Your Teacher, GOD.
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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 07:15 AM
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26. OK, Pat, what did Gawd have against those pilots?
Robertson believes in the angry Gawd of pestilence, natural disasters and impotence. According to Pat, nothing bad happens without it's a "sign of Gawd's displeasure with us".

Or perhaps Gawd, for whom a second is like 10,000 years to us, needed some news Learjet jockeys and got impatient?
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Vinca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 07:53 AM
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27. When I heard it was Robertson's plane, I almost got religion. nt
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geomon666 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 08:55 AM
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31. Maybe Chavez was under the influence of Preemptive Strike.
Or maybe God is tired of you spewing filth in his name, so sayeth the atheist.
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johnfunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-03-06 09:46 AM
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32. Jehovah talks to Pat Robertson
"Watch your pasty ass, pal -- I nearly smited you, and for good reason!"
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