Texas Governor Rick Perry is taking highly effective action against the drought that is ravaging Texas: he’s issued a proclamation for three days of prayer for rain.
But of course, everyone knows rain incantations can’t possibly work without also slaughtering a goat while performing a ritual dance.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:46:36pm |
Seems like this is a common Republican response to rain. I remember it happened in 2007 I believe in Georgia. How about Perry actually do something about the drought instead of being a passive aggressive pussyshit?
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jamesfirecat Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:46:58pm |
Seriously? It sickens me that any state in America has been reduced to the point that “pray for x” is our go to plan….
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Mad Prophet Ludwig Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:47:03pm |
This will halt Climate shifts about as effectively as cramming people into cathedrals did to pray to stop the plague. It’s truly the same medieval thinking in the GOP
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:47:08pm |
Take a good look at Texas folks, because that’s the model upon which the GOP wishes to mold this nation.
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wrenchwench Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:47:49pm |
Holy shit.
What kind of sacrilege would it be in the wingnut world if one were to pray for an easing of AGW?
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Mad Prophet Ludwig Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:47:49pm |
re: #4 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
Take a good look at Texas folks, because that’s the model upon which the GOP wishes to mold this nation.
By 2080, their governor will be Lord Humongous.
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:48:15pm |
re: #6 LudwigVanQuixote
By 2080, their governor will be Lord Humongous.
The Ayatollah of Rock and Rollah!
//
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iossarian Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:48:17pm |
I am currently praying for Natalie Portman, the chick out of Glee and 80s Cindy Crawford to pay me a special visit.
It isn’t working though. Maybe someone should tell Perry that prayer is not very effective at making things happen in the real world.
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Fenris Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:48:30pm |
Sounds like he’s trying to recoup himself after asking the feds for help with the wildfires.
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dog philosopher Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:48:39pm |
what was that you said? a republican is gonna pay for brains?
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iossarian Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:48:51pm |
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:49:12pm |
Hey Texas—if you suck really hard you could bring some rain clouds down from here. (Or not. They would dump out over the Rocky Mountains.)
What if the entire state set a date to wash their cars?
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lawhawk Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:49:20pm |
All that’s left is the need for one little goat? For two zuzim? /
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:49:24pm |
re: #8 iossarian
I am currently praying for Natalie Portman, the chick out of Glee and 80s Cindy Crawford to pay me a special visit.
It isn’t working though. Maybe someone should tell Perry that prayer is not very effective at making things happen in the real world.
Which chick?
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Mad Prophet Ludwig Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:49:43pm |
re: #5 wrenchwench
Holy shit.
What kind of sacrilege would it be in the wingnut world if one were to pray for an easing of AGW?
Well they know that AGW isn’t real… They believe in real things like the Easter bunny, that poor people all did something to deserve being poor, that all rich people earned their wealth and that trickle down economics works. They also believe that no corporation would harm people and that black people aren’t really Americans.
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researchok Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:50:18pm |
This isn’t that big a deal.
Remember this?
Evangelicals asked to pray for rain at Barack Obama nomination
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Mad Prophet Ludwig Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:50:24pm |
re: #7 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
The Ayatollah of Rock and Rollah!
//
Ohhh man… please put up the clip. I got to do something afk.
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:50:39pm |
Praying for rain has a long and honorable tradition, and I will not object.
I do object to the governor of a state telling people to pray, but that’s a different battle.
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Talking Point Detective Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:50:54pm |
Whew!!
I used to be concerned about the potential impact of climate change. Now I realize that if there are any negative effects, all we need to do is pray them away.
Such a relief!
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William Barnett-Lewis Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:51:07pm |
I’m somehow certain that this will work about as well as me waving a dead chicken once upon a time to cure a SCSI complaint…
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:51:19pm |
re: #16 researchok
This isn’t that big a deal.
Remember this?
Evangelicals asked to pray for rain at Barack Obama nomination
THAT I missed. WTF? People think God answers prayers uttered out of sheer pettiness?
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iossarian Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:51:24pm |
re: #14 EmmmieG
Which chick?
I don’t know. She was on the cover of Rolling Stone showing her panties.
I’ve never even seen the show, but she looked like she knew how to have a good time.
j/k obviously as happily married!
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:53:04pm |
re: #17 LudwigVanQuixote
Ohhh man… please put up the clip. I got to do something afk.
I am gravely disappointed. Again you have made me unleash my dogs of war.
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Fenris Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:53:10pm |
re: #12 EmmmieG
What if the entire state set a date to wash their cars?
Ooh! I know! Howabout a picnic, followed by a parade? The floats will all feature the winners of a sand castle-building contest!
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researchok Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:54:11pm |
re: #21 SanFranciscoZionist
THAT I missed. WTF? People think God answers prayers uttered out of sheer pettiness?
I can’t believe you missed that!!
The story is a favorite of mine. To me, it marked the opening shot of the downfall into stupid for much of the right (myself excluded, of course).
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iossarian Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:54:28pm |
re: #25 lawhawk
Yeah, that’s her. Stoke up her fire and she’ll go like a train, and other such macho man humbug.
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Gus Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:54:59pm |
There he — they — go again. Pretending to be men of the cloth instead of the politicians they were elected to be. You can pray or perform rain dances for 1000 days and it won’t have any affect on the weather of climate.
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wrenchwench Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:55:33pm |
NOW, THEREFORE, I, RICK PERRY, Governor of Texas, under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Statutes of the State of Texas, do hereby proclaim the three-day period from Friday, April 22, 2011, to Sunday, April 24, 2011, as Days of Prayer for Rain in the State of Texas. I urge Texans of all faiths and traditions to offer prayers on that day for the healing of our land, the rebuilding of our communities and the restoration of our normal and robust way of life.
Science denial is one thing, but to be so innumerate as to lack the ability to count to three, or so grammatically challenged as to fail at plurals, AND to be elected governor— surely Texas must be a wondrous state.
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:55:54pm |
re: #29 Charles
Would it be OK if I pray to Cthulhu?
Like I always say, why settle for the lesser evil?
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HappyWarrior Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:56:02pm |
I missed that story too. Really, does Focus on the Family think God if he exists cares about their petty hatred of Obama? If he’s focused on prayers, it’s from the hungry and lonely nto some petty jackasses from Focus on the Family who think God is a right wing Republican.
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Fenris Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:56:09pm |
re: #29 Charles
Easier than voting for him: Image: cthulhu4prez-preview1.png
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:56:13pm |
re: #24 fenrisdesigns
Ooh! I know! Howabout a picnic, followed by a parade? The floats will all feature the winners of a sand castle-building contest!
And we can all wear silk and leather and carry paper flowers that will run if they get wet.
And someone can leave the cake out in the rain.
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Gus Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:56:20pm |
re: #16 researchok
This isn’t that big a deal.
Remember this?
Evangelicals asked to pray for rain at Barack Obama nomination
I can’t think of any other response other than “what a bunch of douche bags.”
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b_sharp Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:56:21pm |
re: #3 LudwigVanQuixote
This will halt Climate shifts about as effectively as cramming people into cathedrals did to pray to stop the plague. It’s truly the same medieval thinking in the GOP
Extremely good point. History has lessons for us if we actually look at it.
In my opinion, it is insane to repeat the same process over and over while expecting different results. However, if you ignore your previous trials, each trial is a fresh start which allows you to believe what you are doing isn’t insane.
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wrenchwench Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:56:24pm |
re: #29 Charles
Would it be OK if I pray to Cthulhu?
Only if you were a Texan.
I urge Texans of all faiths and traditions…
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Randy W. Weeks Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:56:45pm |
Not really surprising coming from good, old Gov. Goodhair, is it?
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:57:25pm |
What was the rumbling just now? An earthquake? No, it was the Founding Fathers rolling in their graves simultaneously.
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b_sharp Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:57:48pm |
re: #8 iossarian
I am currently praying for Natalie Portman, the chick out of Glee and 80s Cindy Crawford to pay me a special visit.
It isn’t working though. Maybe someone should tell Perry that prayer is not very effective at making things happen in the real world.
I wonder if all the prayer confuses god enough he/she/it can’t make up she/its/his mind?
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researchok Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:57:57pm |
re: #28 Gus 802
There he — they — go again. Pretending to be men of the cloth instead of the politicians they were elected to be. You can pray or perform rain dances for 1000 days and it won’t have any affect on the weather of climate.
Excellent point.
Politicians as The Chosen Ones.
We could have a field day with that…
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jamesfirecat Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:58:08pm |
re: #29 Charles
Would it be OK if I pray to Cthulhu?
If you gain his favor you will be among the first consumed!
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b_sharp Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:58:24pm |
re: #12 EmmmieG
Hey Texas—if you suck really hard you could bring some rain clouds down from here. (Or not. They would dump out over the Rocky Mountains.)
What if the entire state set a date to wash their cars?
Kill a spider and then wash their cars.
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Fenris Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:58:36pm |
re: #37 wrenchwench
Only if you were a Texan.
As I am Texan, I shall be praying to Eris. Hey, if she’s real, gotta cover your bases.
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iossarian Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:58:39pm |
re: #41 b_sharp
I wonder if all the prayer confuses god enough he/she/it can’t make up she/its/his mind?
That’s it!
FUCK YOU RICK PERRY AND YOUR INTERFERENCE WITH MY MEGA-ORGY PLANS!
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Gus Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:58:44pm |
re: #3 LudwigVanQuixote
This will halt Climate shifts about as effectively as cramming people into cathedrals did to pray to stop the plague. It’s truly the same medieval thinking in the GOP
If Arizona and Utah now have official state handguns then I have a suggestion. The Republican party should have an official metal: bronze as in the Bronze Age.
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Gus Thu, Apr 21, 2011 12:59:20pm |
re: #42 researchok
Excellent point.
Politicians as The Chosen Ones.
We could have a field day with that…
You know that GOP is backwards right? It’s really POG for “Party of God”.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:00:13pm |
re: #8 iossarian
Jane Lynch? She pitches for another team. Hate to spoil your fantasy.
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BishopX Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:00:34pm |
For those of you (like me) who generally don’t use wall calendars, I would like to point out that Friday the 22nd is Good Friday, and Sunday the 24 is Easter Sunday. So Mr. Perry is calling on everyone to pray three of the holiest days on the christian calendar.
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researchok Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:00:37pm |
re: #48 Gus 802
You know that GOP is backwards right? It’s really POG for “Party of God”.
//
You are a mean person.
I like the way you think.
More please
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:00:39pm |
re: #40 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
What was the rumbling just now? An earthquake? No, it was the Founding Fathers rolling in their graves simultaneously.
Actually, they had no problem with prayer and so on. John Adams proclaimed a day of prayer in 1798. Abraham Lincoln had a day of prayer. Franklin thought they should pray during the Constitutional Convention.
But I think both Franklin and Jefferson would be out experimenting with different kinds of cloud busters.
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b_sharp Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:00:56pm |
re: #18 SanFranciscoZionist
Praying for rain has a long and honorable tradition, and I will not object.
I do object to the governor of a state telling people to pray, but that’s a different battle.
A long and honourable(?) tradition?
Shouldn’t the measure of an act be the outcome, not how long it’s been done?
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:01:32pm |
re: #52 EmmmieG
Actually, they had no problem with prayer and so on. John Adams proclaimed a day of prayer in 1798. Abraham Lincoln had a day of prayer. Franklin thought they should pray during the Constitutional Convention.
[Link: www.constitution.org…]
But I think both Franklin and Jefferson would be out experimenting with different kinds of cloud busters.
Huh, you learn something new every day.
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Achilles Tang Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:01:47pm |
The governor of Georgia did that a couple of years ago when there was a serious drought and Florida and Georgia almost came to fisticuffs over water.
I think that sincere or not, this type of call avoids the need to ask the faithful to inconvenience themselves in any way with water restrictions. After all, who can blame the Governor if God hisself doesn’t do something so simple as to make rain? It has to be deserved punishment.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:02:27pm |
re: #54 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
Huh, you learn something new every day.
I was serious about the cloudbusting, though. If anyone had even thought to suggest it, Franklin would have designed a better one, and Jefferson would have made a really stylish one.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:02:59pm |
Prayer is one thing but to act like this is going to solve the problem like Perry is doing is moronic and he knows it. All it is a “Look at me and how Christian I am” grandstanding that gets nothing done.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:03:21pm |
President Obama has asked the people to pray before. Has said that our prayers are with folks too. It’s been going on for a long, long time.
I see nothing wrong with this.
Unless it doesn’t rain and the Governor begins to blame God.
Remember what St. Ian sang, though; “The one who made kittens, put snakes in the grass.”
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Gus Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:03:26pm |
re: #51 researchok
You are a mean person.
I like the way you think.
More please
Bwahahaha! Of course this wouldn’t be a big deal if the GOP wasn’t having a daily religious pronouncement. I mean, why doesn’t the GOP just start building Minarets around the country so they can transmit their daily pronouncements to the nation and their “flock”. It’s just weird.
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MinisterO Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:03:46pm |
It’s God’s will that Texas should suffer drought. Maybe he’ll change his mind if we all say pretty please at the same time.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:03:52pm |
re: #56 EmmmieG
I was serious about the cloudbusting, though. If anyone had even thought to suggest it, Franklin would have designed a better one, and Jefferson would have made a really stylish one.
LBJ’d just be out there pissing on everything.
/
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Fenris Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:04:00pm |
re: #48 Gus 802
You know that GOP is backwards right? It’s really POG for “Party of God”.
//
I remember they had President-themed Pogs back in the nineties. It’s nostalgic and youngsters don’t pay attention to them anymore, so it’s the perfect symbol of the POG party! en.wikipedia.org
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wrenchwench Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:04:09pm |
New Registration: SHOWmeBIRTHcertificant
I can’t wait…
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Feline Fearless Leader Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:04:24pm |
re: #59 Gus 802
Bwahahaha! Of course this wouldn’t be a big deal if the GOP wasn’t having a daily religious pronouncement. I mean, why doesn’t the GOP just start building Minarets around the country so they can transmit their daily pronouncements to the nation and their “flock”. It’s just weird.
It’s the sheer *thought* of building minarets on holy Texas soil that has caused God to withhold the rain in the first place!
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:04:39pm |
re: #61 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
LBJ’d just be out there pissing on everything.
/
I can only upding this once?
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researchok Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:04:55pm |
re: #57 HappyWarrior
Prayer is one thing but to act like this is going to solve the problem like Perry is doing is moronic and he knows it. All it is a “Look at me and how Christian I am” grandstanding that gets nothing done.
I have no issue with prayer whatsoever. In fact, prayer can be a most meaningful experience.
That said, prayer has no business as a political plank. None whatsoever.
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William Barnett-Lewis Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:05:27pm |
re: #57 HappyWarrior
Prayer is one thing but to act like this is going to solve the problem like Perry is doing is moronic and he knows it. All it is a “Look at me and how Christian I am” grandstanding that gets nothing done.
Yeah, well, it just shows how much they actually pay attention to scripture. One hand not know what the other hand does and not praying loudly like the hypocrites and so on.
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Achilles Tang Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:05:44pm |
re: #53 b_sharp
A long and honourable(?) tradition?
Shouldn’t the measure of an act be the outcome, not how long it’s been done?
One could mention that phase about doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome each time, but the problem is that there is always someone on TV who swears it worked, like the sole survivor of an airplane crash, or the captain of the winning team.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:05:48pm |
re: #66 researchok
I have no issue with prayer whatsoever. In fact, prayer can be a most meaningful experience.
That said, prayer has no business as a political plank. None whatsoever.
YEp, this is how I feel about this.
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:06:00pm |
re: #63 wrenchwench
New Registration: SHOWmeBIRTHcertificant
I can’t wait…
It takes something out of it when you broadcast your intentions ahead of time. Obviously not a very high grade troll.
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researchok Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:06:21pm |
re: #59 Gus 802
Bwahahaha! Of course this wouldn’t be a big deal if the GOP wasn’t having a daily religious pronouncement. I mean, why doesn’t the GOP just start building Minarets around the country so they can transmit their daily pronouncements to the nation and their “flock”. It’s just weird.
Until the GOP rids itself of the the evangelicals, look for a milder version of your scenario to be reality.
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wrenchwench Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:06:29pm |
re: #50 BishopX
For those of you (like me) who generally don’t use wall calendars, I would like to point out that Friday the 22nd is Good Friday, and Sunday the 24 is Easter Sunday. So Mr. Perry is calling on everyone to pray three of the holiest days on the christian calendar.
I thought he was including Friday for Muslims, Saturday for Jews and Seventh Day Adventists, and Sunday for Christians, Cthuluists, etc.
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Gus Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:07:12pm |
re: #72 Stanley Sea
I’m praying to a ham on Sunday.
“Please forgive me for this pig I am about to kill…”
//
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Charles Johnson Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:07:57pm |
I have nothing against anyone praying for anything they like, by the way.
But the simple reality is that praying will not make it rain. This is Dark Ages thinking.
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The Mountain That Blogs Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:08:20pm |
But of course, everyone knows rain incantations can’t possibly work without also slaughtering a goat while performing a ritual dance.
Well, the Kyrgyz parliament certainly knows it.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:09:38pm |
Now. Like I said, I don’t have a problem with the prayer thingy.
I’m probably not a very good Christian, though. I don’t think God sends rain in this fashion.
He is very busy right now trying to find a way to ensure that the Los Angeles Lakers do not win another NBA championship.
Bless the Celtics.
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BishopX Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:09:39pm |
re: #73 wrenchwench
I mean it’s always possible…I just think the timing is a little suspect. Most of these declarations are for one day only, stretching this one out at this point in the year seems weird to me.
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jaunte Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:10:09pm |
Here in Texas, football fans also pray for for their team to win.
It works every weekend of the season, at least half the time.
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wrenchwench Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:10:14pm |
Does his right hand know what his left hand is doing?
Gov. Perry: Texas Can Be the Nation’s Next High-Tech Hub
Gov. Rick Perry today urged leaders in higher education and technology to continue working to make Texas the nation’s next hub for innovation, collaboration and competition in technology development and manufacturing.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:10:14pm |
re: #79 BishopX
I mean it’s always possible…I just think the timing is a little suspect. Most of these declarations are for one day only, stretching this one out at this point in the year seems weird to me.
Maybe he’s trying to hit every day of worship possible.
Also, really, it costs almost nothing.
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Gus Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:10:47pm |
re: #80 jaunte
Here in Texas, football fans also pray for for their team to win.
It works every weekend of the season, at least half the time.
That must mean that God truly does answer prayers.
//
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Randy W. Weeks Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:10:59pm |
One second thought…prayer brings a great deal of peace and comfort to a lot of people. And there are a lot of hurting people in Texas right now due to the drought.
Obviously this ain’t gonna make it rain, but if it helps some people get through the hard times, I don’t really have a problem with it; we all cope with bad times in different ways.
disclaimer: I am an atheist.
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researchok Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:11:00pm |
re: #73 wrenchwench
I thought he was including Friday for Muslims, Saturday for Jews and Seventh Day Adventists, and Sunday for Christians, Cthuluists, etc.
It’s the phony righteousness that gets me.
He hasn’t called for prayer for better education, to combat racism or more effective government because that might mean compromise, acceptance of reality and hard work on his part.
Prayer is easy if you don’t have to follow up, personally.
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wrenchwench Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:11:55pm |
re: #79 BishopX
I mean it’s always possible…I just think the timing is a little suspect. Most of these declarations are for one day only, stretching this one out at this point in the year seems weird to me.
I forgot my sarc tag. No way do I think he was considerate of non-Christians. I think you were correct that he’s going for the Easter Weekend timing.
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b_sharp Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:12:22pm |
re: #85 LoneStarSpur
One second thought…prayer brings a great deal of peace and comfort to a lot of people. And there are a lot of hurting people in Texas right now due to the drought.
Obviously this ain’t gonna make it rain, but if it helps some people get through the hard times, I don’t really have a problem with it; we all cope with bad times in different ways.
disclaimer: I am an atheist.
The ultimate placebo effect.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:12:29pm |
re: #88 wrenchwench
I forgot my sarc tag. No way do I think he was considerate of non-Christians. I think you were correct that he’s going for the Easter Weekend timing.
Are you suggesting the ritual slaughter of chocolate bunnies?
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researchok Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:12:37pm |
re: #78 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Now. Like I said, I don’t have a problem with the prayer thingy.
I’m probably not a very good Christian, though. I don’t think God sends rain in this fashion.
He is very busy right now trying to find a way to ensure that the Los Angeles Lakers do not win another NBA championship.
Bless the Celtics.
God will forgive you for that.
//
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Gus Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:12:52pm |
What happens if it start raining footballs and handguns on Texas? And no water.
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:13:58pm |
re: #53 b_sharp
A long and honourable(?) tradition?
Shouldn’t the measure of an act be the outcome, not how long it’s been done?
You got some practical way of making it rain, let me know about it.
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wrenchwench Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:14:00pm |
re: #90 EmmmieG
Are you suggesting the ritual slaughter of chocolate bunnies?
I think if you eat the ears last, it will rain.
That’s so hard to do, though.
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researchok Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:14:14pm |
re: #92 Gus 802
What happens if it start raining footballs and handguns on Texas? And no water.
That would mean Charlton Heston is well placed up there.
I’d immediately join the NRA.
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Gus Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:14:20pm |
In what people around the world are calling a miracle, half of Texas is buried under 13 feet of footballs which began raining from the sky at approximately 1:35 UTC (Universal Texas Clock).
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:14:46pm |
re: #55 Naso Tang
I think that sincere or not, this type of call avoids the need to ask the faithful to inconvenience themselves in any way with water restrictions.
Are they not doing water restrictions? We always have in California when things get bad.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:14:48pm |
If I had any idea of how to box up our weather and send it to Texas for three days, I would do it. Seriously.
Because: 1. I’ve been looking at rain all winter. I’d like to see the sun.
2. I’ve lived in Texas. I’ve done the whole letting-the-spaghetti-water-cool-off-and-putting-it-out-on-the-garden-because-outside-watering-is-prohibited thing. No fun.
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BishopX Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:15:01pm |
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Charles Johnson Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:15:50pm |
Why is God punishing Texas with a drought?
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Gus Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:16:01pm |
Let’s face it. The only reason Texas is not getting any rain and is in a severe drought and experience wildfires is simply because of their sinful ways and rejection of God’s spoken word.
//
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researchok Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:16:27pm |
re: #97 Gus 802
In what people around the world are calling a miracle, half of Texas is buried under 13 feet of footballs which began raining from the sky at approximately 1:35 UTC (Universal Texas Clock).
You’d join the NRA, too.
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allegro Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:16:27pm |
I’m just checking the weatherbug forecast for Houston… slight chance of rain Sunday after midnight and 20% Monday thru Wednesday. Convenient timing eh?
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:16:30pm |
What happened to the whole “God’s Plan” jazz and how we, as good followers, should not question it or go against it? If it’s in his Plan that Texas suffer a terrible drought, then isn’t praying for rain going against said Plan, and thus wrong in his eyes?
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:16:33pm |
re: #100 BishopX
That or the scientific vivisection of some peeps.
Er…true confession? I come from a very warped family. We have Bunny Day on Saturday (with Sunday reserved for the religious part of the Holiday) at Grandma’s.
This year, she wants to have a peep war, so we are bringing nerf guns, bows & arrows, catapults, etc to slaughter peeps.
Yes, this would be the classically beautiful woman in my avatar.
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Decatur Deb Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:16:54pm |
Remember that some gods have a wicked sense of humor. It’s less than 6 weeks to hurricane season.
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:16:56pm |
re: #93 Varek Raith
You will kneel before Tlaloc!
That’s not how Tlaloc is worshipped. I just had lunch, so I will not get into the details about how Tlaloc is worshipped.
That said, there is burrito joint in downtown San Francisco named in his honor which is very good.
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:16:59pm |
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jaunte Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:17:18pm |
re: #102 Charles
Why is God punishing Texas with a drought?
God has apparently been snooping around online
bbones.com
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Decatur Deb Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:18:19pm |
re: #111 jaunte
God has apparently been snooping around online
[Link: www.bbones.com…]
Dancing naked has religious precedents.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:18:34pm |
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researchok Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:18:44pm |
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Killgore Trout Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:19:03pm |
NOW, THEREFORE, I, RICK PERRY, Governor of Texas, under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Statutes of the State of Texas, do hereby proclaim the three-day period from Friday, April 22, 2011, to Sunday, April 24, 2011, as Days of Prayer for Rain in the State of Texas. I urge Texans of all faiths and traditions to offer prayers on that day for the healing of our land, the rebuilding of our communities and the restoration of our normal and robust way of life.
Muslims too? Sharia!
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b_sharp Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:19:13pm |
re: #94 SanFranciscoZionist
You got some practical way of making it rain, let me know about it.
It isn’t an either - or situation.
Why bother if it doesn’t work?
All it does is give people a sense they are doing something so they don’t feel helpless. In some cases it will cause people to do nothing when something can be done.
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b_sharp Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:20:32pm |
re: #97 Gus 802
In what people around the world are calling a miracle, half of Texas is buried under 13 feet of footballs which began raining from the sky at approximately 1:35 UTC (Universal Texas Clock).
I thought UTC was something Asian. You know, from Australia or whatever.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:20:37pm |
nytimes.com
OT: I am sure some of you heard what happened in Belarus recently, well Lukashenko’s response to this is that there’s too much democracy there. Guess one shouldn’t be shocked as the guy does openly admire Stalin I believe.
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b_sharp Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:21:30pm |
re: #102 Charles
Why is God punishing Texas with a drought?
Is he punishing them, or did she just forget Texas was there?
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Gus Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:21:42pm |
re: #102 Charles
Why is God punishing Texas with a drought?
If they are suffering this plight then it would only be because of the sinful ways of Austin and Houston!
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:22:32pm |
re: #102 Charles
Why is God punishing Texas with a drought?
Because he didn’t get the starship he requested.
///
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iossarian Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:22:35pm |
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Mad Prophet Ludwig Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:23:11pm |
re: #102 Charles
Why is God punishing Texas with a drought?
A little note abut prayers for rain. A major portion of a prayer I say several times a day goes something like this:
It shall come to pass if you surely listen to the commandments
that I command you today to love the Lord your God and to serve him with all your heart and all your soul,
That I will give rain to your land, the early and the late rains,
that you may gather in your grain, your wine and your oil. I will give grass in your fields for your cattle and you will eat and you will be satisfied.
Beware, lest your heart be deceived
and you turn and serve other gods and worship them.
The anger of the Lord will blaze against you, and he will close the heavens and there will not be rain,
and the earth will not give you its fullness, and you will perish quickly from the good land that the Lord gives you.
So those commandments you are supposed to follow include things like charity to the poor, upholding the rights of the widow and the orphan, not stealing, not exploiting workers, and most importantly, worshiping God before worshiping oneself or material things
Short form, unless God lied, GOPers are totally SOL when they pray for rain.
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William Barnett-Lewis Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:23:36pm |
re: #109 SanFranciscoZionist
That’s not how Tlaloc is worshipped. I just had lunch, so I will not get into the details about how Tlaloc is worshipped.
Uhg. Thank you.
(Seriously. It’s worse than some of those internet memes people tell you not to look up.)
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:23:42pm |
re: #124 iossarian
Islam isn’t a religion, it’s a political ideology.
Can’t political ideologues also pray for rain?
/
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Decatur Deb Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:23:48pm |
re: #124 iossarian
Islam isn’t a religion, it’s a political ideology.
We could all be wingnuts in our spare time. Are they hiring?
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Gus Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:23:52pm |
Here ye all men by my presents!
If ye burn down Austin it will then rain 40 days and 40 nights!
//
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researchok Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:23:59pm |
re: #102 Charles
Why is God punishing Texas with a drought?
Too much emphasis on football, not enough on books.
And longhorns on Cadillacs. Some sins cannot be expiated.
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Mad Prophet Ludwig Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:24:40pm |
re: #127 SanFranciscoZionist
Can’t political ideologues also pray for rain?
/
See my 125… They can… and God already said it will work about as well as nipples on a rooster.
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Gus Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:24:49pm |
Perhaps there are witches in Texas? We must find the witches in Texas! Once we rid Texas of the evil witches it will begin to rain!
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:25:11pm |
re: #132 Gus 802
Perhaps there are witches in Texas? We must find the witches in Texas! Once we rid Texas of the evil witches it will begin to rain!
You’ll know them because they’ll weigh the same as a duck.
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:25:24pm |
re: #132 Gus 802
Perhaps there are witches in Texas? We must find the witches in Texas! Once we rid Texas of the evil witches it will begin to rain!
How will we know if they’re a witch?
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researchok Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:25:31pm |
re: #129 Gus 802
Here ye all men by my presents!
If ye burn down Austin it will then rain 40 days and 40 nights!
//
Can we substitute Waco? There is good BBQ in and around Austin.
And Waco has an experienced fire department.
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Randy W. Weeks Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:25:31pm |
re: #102 Charles
Why is God punishing Texas with a drought?
You know, I realize this is a pretty ripe target, but I’ve seen the effects of drought up close back in the 80’s. Riding through miles of devastated countryside and herds of starving cattle to my grandfather’s ranch was a damned sobering experience.
Praying for rain ain’t gonna make it rain, but it can give a sense of control over a situation where you’re utterly powerless.
I guess I’m not a very good atheist.
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Achilles Tang Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:25:37pm |
re: #85 LoneStarSpur
One second thought…prayer brings a great deal of peace and comfort to a lot of people. And there are a lot of hurting people in Texas right now due to the drought.
Obviously this ain’t gonna make it rain, but if it helps some people get through the hard times, I don’t really have a problem with it; we all cope with bad times in different ways.
disclaimer: I am an atheist.
I doubt any of us have a problem with that, sarcastic comments or not. The point is that I doubt there is any believer who didn’t figure out all by themselves that they could pray for rain, and did so long before the governor opened his political mouth.
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Gus Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:25:49pm |
re: #134 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
How will we know if they’re a witch?
We have a problem! There is no water for to see if they float!
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b_sharp Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:25:51pm |
re: #132 Gus 802
Perhaps there are witches in Texas? We must find the witches in Texas! Once we rid Texas of the evil witches it will begin to rain!
What would be the consequences of a state full of newts?
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:25:54pm |
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:26:15pm |
re: #137 Naso Tang
I doubt any of us have a problem with that, sarcastic comments or not. The point is that I doubt there is any believer who didn’t figure out all by themselves that they could pray for rain, and did so long before the governor opened his political mouth.
True Believers have been praying for some time now. They weren’t waiting for a political sign.
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jamesfirecat Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:26:34pm |
re: #111 jaunte
God has apparently been snooping around online
[Link: www.bbones.com…]
Texas, has a whorehouse in it, lord have mercy on our souls!
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Decatur Deb Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:26:39pm |
re: #134 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
How will we know if they’re a witch?
They’ll make TV ads that say “I am not a witch”. Wiccan taqiya, y’know.
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Mad Prophet Ludwig Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:26:41pm |
re: #130 researchok
Too much emphasis on football, not enough on books.
And longhorns on Cadillacs. Some sins cannot be expiated.
See my 125… also, I have heard that the Big Guy really, really does not care for rodeo. Something about not being needlessly cruel to animals and making a jackass out of yourself by a suicidal attempt to look manly, by riding a bull after you have tied up the bull’s testicles.
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researchok Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:27:07pm |
re: #132 Gus 802
Perhaps there are witches in Texas? We must find the witches in Texas! Once we rid Texas of the evil witches it will begin to rain!
Witches, Texas, Delaware…
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MinisterO Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:27:12pm |
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Mad Prophet Ludwig Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:27:37pm |
re: #134 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
How will we know if they’re a witch?
If they weigh the same as a duck of course!
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:27:41pm |
re: #142 jamesfirecat
Texas, has a whorehouse in it, lord have mercy on our souls!
I would think God would be the most angry about the women being trafficked in from other countries and forced into it.
I would think God would be really, really angry about those, especially if the women are little girls.
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Stanley Sea Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:27:42pm |
haha
chrislhayes Christopher Hayes
Am I right that the agreed upon hashtag for the 2012 GOP field is #mortifyingshitshow ?
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What, me worry? Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:27:47pm |
From one of my most favorite movies and one of its funniest scenes, I give you the Frisco Kid.
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Decatur Deb Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:27:52pm |
re: #139 b_sharp
What would be the consequences of a state full of newts?
Visit Cobb Co. GA for a scale model.
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researchok Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:27:58pm |
re: #144 LudwigVanQuixote
See my 125… also, I have heard that the Big Guy really, really does not care for rodeo. Something about not being needlessly cruel to animals and making a jackass out of yourself by a suicidal attempt to look manly, by riding a bull after you have tied up the bull’s testicles.
You know way too much about that….
//
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Achilles Tang Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:28:13pm |
re: #141 EmmmieG
True Believers have been praying for some time now. They weren’t waiting for a political sign.
What I said.
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Uncle Obdicut Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:28:25pm |
re: #58 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Having this as your approach to drought and climate management; that’s wrong.
Accusing God of being the one who decides who gets droughts and who gets rain— that strikes me as a really bizarre thing too. If it’s true that God can make it rain, does he just really fucking hate Ethiopian babies?
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Randy W. Weeks Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:28:49pm |
re: #137 Naso Tang
I doubt any of us have a problem with that, sarcastic comments or not. The point is that I doubt there is any believer who didn’t figure out all by themselves that they could pray for rain, and did so long before the governor opened his political mouth.
I guess that’s right. But he’s doing so other much damage that calling for prayer seems like some pretty small shit.
I guess the situation is a little too personal for me.
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Mad Prophet Ludwig Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:32:05pm |
re: #136 LoneStarSpur
You know, I realize this is a pretty ripe target, but I’ve seen the effects of drought up close back in the 80’s. Riding through miles of devastated countryside and herds of starving cattle to my grandfather’s ranch was a damned sobering experience.
Praying for rain ain’t gonna make it rain, but it can give a sense of control over a situation where you’re utterly powerless.
I guess I’m not a very good atheist.
Yeah, well it will only get much much worse if things are not done to avoid climate change.
Here is the short form future of Texas.
1. It gets a lot hotter for a lot longer and crops fail as it rains less instate and rivers dry up.
2. Cattle that depend on that water and the plants they eat quickly go away in a tragedy of the commons as people try to hold on to their ranch at the expense of others.
3. Mexico gets devastated at a faster rate and you face hundreds of thousands of starving and desperate refugees. It will make the current immigrant situation look like a little trickle. They will not come unarmed either since they really have no choice.
4. Your state economy gets completely destroyed when places like Galveston and Houston are flooded out.
5. Texan refugees head north where people in those states treat you like you treated the Mexicans.
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Summer Seale Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:32:25pm |
I personally think that the Republican party went over the cliff and into the deepest recesses of insanity when they convened this little medieval mentality embarrassment of a show (remember that?), and almost all the rest since then has just be trimmings on the side.
I think anytime the GOP is brought up on any Religiously insane issue or scientific denial, these videos should be presented on the side as a reminder of just what it is we’re talking about.
P.S. Also note that the videos have been removed from YouTube, possibly because they were the most embarrassing shit the right has had televised in years about their leaders. I’m going to sleep so I’m not going to look for them right now, but I think most here will remember exactly what they looked and sounded like.
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b_sharp Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:34:01pm |
re: #159 Gus 802
OK! Are you ready folks!
This! Is funny.
What is his right hand doing? That’s an awful self satisfied look on his mug.
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Uncle Obdicut Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:35:54pm |
Meanwhile:
Kyrgyz Parliament Sacrifices 7 Sheep For Evil Spirits
I approve of this more than praying for rain, because:
meat from the slaughtered animals will be sent to homes for the elderly and the disabled.
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MinisterO Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:36:19pm |
It’s fun to mock Perry but I can’t really get upset that a windbag politician plays to his base with an ostentatious pronouncement of faith.
Assigning credit for the inevitable eventual rain, however, would be despicable.
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What, me worry? Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:37:09pm |
re: #160 Summer
I personally think that the Republican party went over the cliff and into the deepest recesses of insanity when they convened this little medieval mentality embarrassment of a show (remember that?), and almost all the rest since then has just be trimmings on the side.
I think anytime the GOP is brought up on any Religiously insane issue or scientific denial, these videos should be presented on the side as a reminder of just what it is we’re talking about.
P.S. Also note that the videos have been removed from YouTube, possibly because they were the most embarrassing shit the right has had televised in years about their leaders. I’m going to sleep so I’m not going to look for them right now, but I think most here will remember exactly what they looked and sounded like.
They prayed for healthcare reform to fail and look what happened. So was God not listening?
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:37:28pm |
re: #163 Obdicut
Meanwhile:
Kyrgyz Parliament Sacrifices 7 Sheep For Evil SpiritsI approve of this more than praying for rain, because:
That is a thought. What if they accompanied their prayers with donations to the needy? Maybe that would get God’s attention.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:37:42pm |
re: #85 LoneStarSpur
That was an awesome post, btw. Nice to meet ya.
The neat thing about your post? You’ll be able to think about it while you are BURNING IN HELL THROUGH ALL ETERNITY!
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What, me worry? Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:38:34pm |
re: #164 MinisterO
It’s fun to mock Perry but I can’t really get upset that a windbag politician plays to his base with an ostentatious pronouncement of faith.
Assigning credit for the inevitable eventual rain, however, would be despicable.
All politics is local, as they say. Or maybe heavenly in some places.
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Uncle Obdicut Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:39:31pm |
re: #166 EmmmieG
Or accompanied their prayers with voting to increase investment in renewable energy, acknowledged that AGW was real, and condemned those who are denying AGW?
Now that hasn’t got a prayer of happening.
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Randy W. Weeks Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:39:31pm |
re: #158 LudwigVanQuixote
Yeah, well it will only get much much worse if things are not done to avoid climate change.
Here is the short form future of Texas.
1. It gets a lot hotter for a lot longer and crops fail as it rains less instate and rivers dry up.
2. Cattle that depend on that water and the plants they eat quickly go away in a tragedy of the commons as people try to hold on to their ranch at the expense of others.
3. Mexico gets devastated at a faster rate and you face hundreds of thousands of starving and desperate refugees. It will make the current immigrant situation look like a little trickle. They will not come unarmed either since they really have no choice.
4. Your state economy gets completely destroyed when places like Galveston and Houston are flooded out.
5. Texan refugees head north where people in those states treat you like you treated the Mexicans.
I get all that, but it doesn’t mean I have to take enjoyment out of what people are going through now.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:39:53pm |
re: #135 researchok
Can we substitute Waco? There is good BBQ in and around Austin.
And Waco has an experienced fire department.
Recycled joke…
WACO = We Ain’t Coming Out!
Changed later to;
WACO = What A Cook Out!
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b_sharp Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:40:42pm |
re: #171 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Recycled joke…
WACO = We Ain’t Coming Out!
Changed later to;
WACO = What A Cook Out!
That was tasteless.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:41:26pm |
re: #164 MinisterO
Like Pat Robinson turning a hurricane.
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Decatur Deb Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:41:39pm |
re: #170 LoneStarSpur
This isn’t enjoyment, it’s mild Lizard fury.
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Achilles Tang Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:41:44pm |
re: #163 Obdicut
Meanwhile:
Kyrgyz Parliament Sacrifices 7 Sheep For Evil Spirits
I approve of this more than praying for rain, because:
It’s actually a long standing Muslim tradition. Animals have to be slaughtered correctly in any case and doing so at home is not uncommon in many areas.
It can also be done for any celebratory or symbolic reason, such as buying a new car, then having a barbecue and party, and some meat will likely be given away as well.
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b_sharp Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:43:49pm |
re: #174 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Like Pat Robinson turning a hurricane.
Put Pat Robertson in a canoe, in the eye of a hurricane and tell him to paddle.
You did mean Robertson, right?
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Decatur Deb Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:44:23pm |
re: #176 Naso Tang
It’s actually a long standing Muslim tradition. Animals have to be slaughtered correctly in any case and doing so at home is not uncommon in many areas.
It can also be done for any celebratory or symbolic reason, such as buying a new car, then having a barbecue and party, and some meat will likely be given away as well.
Our off-post quarters in Korea were in an ‘International Manor’. During the Iraq/Iran war we had citizens of both in our building. Someone slaughtered a goat (I hope) in the stairwell.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:46:10pm |
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jaunte Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:46:34pm |
Texas wildfire photos:
April Saginor, from the Texas Forest Service, told CNN Radio: ‘We’re actually seeing Texas burn from border to border. We’ve got it in West Texas, East Texas, in North Texas, in South Texas - it’s all over the state.’‘We’ve got one in the Dallas area that’s four fires that have actually merged together.’
She added: ‘Some are over 100,000 acres, and they’ve been burning for over a week, so that’s our priority right now, to put out the big ones.
slumz.boxden.com
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Randy W. Weeks Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:46:38pm |
re: #175 Decatur Deb
This isn’t enjoyment, it’s mild Lizard fury.
Agreed…’enjoyment’ was a poor choice of words on my parts.
Like I wrote…I’m just too close to this. And I’m having a shitty day cause we found out the dog has cancer and my wife is a wreck.
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Mad Prophet Ludwig Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:47:54pm |
re: #170 LoneStarSpur
I get all that, but it doesn’t mean I have to take enjoyment out of what people are going through now.
I don’t take any enjoyment in this. I truly am sorry for all the innocent people who will be killed by it. I am infuriated that such tragedy can be prevented but assholes like Perry who are helping to insure it is not prevented.
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Decatur Deb Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:48:46pm |
re: #182 LoneStarSpur
Agreed…’enjoyment’ was a poor choice of words on my parts.
Like I wrote…I’m just too close to this. And I’m having a shitty day cause we found out the dog has cancer and my wife is a wreck.
Sucks—we lost a Sami to liver cancer a 2 yrs ago.
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:48:49pm |
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Decatur Deb Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:49:28pm |
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blackvalleybob Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:50:40pm |
But Perry is taking measures to fight these blazes, and he is asking for federal help. Praying for rain, whether it helps or not, certainly does not hurt—and if he were a native American praying or dancing for rain, you wouldn’t dare be making fun of him.
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jaunte Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:51:35pm |
Texas fires are pushing the state deeper into debt:
Since Sept. 1, the beginning of the state’s fiscal year, the Texas Forest Service owes $36.3 million for firefighting costs, according to Robby DeWitt, the agency’s associate director for finance and administration. Of that, $23.8 million is due the federal government for air support, he said. dfw.cbslocal.com
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Varek Raith Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:52:06pm |
re: #187 blackvalleybob
But Perry is taking measures to fight these blazes, and he is asking for federal help. Praying for rain, whether it helps or not, certainly does not hurt—and if he were a native American praying or dancing for rain, you wouldn’t dare be making fun of him.
Why yes, yes I would.
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allegro Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:52:29pm |
re: #187 blackvalleybob
But Perry is taking measures to fight these blazes, and he is asking for federal help. Praying for rain, whether it helps or not, certainly does not hurt—and if he were a native American praying or dancing for rain, you wouldn’t dare be making fun of him.
If he were a native American praying for rain it would be sincere. But he isn’t and there isn’t a sincere cell in his body. That is the joke and source of lacking respect.
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Decatur Deb Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:52:30pm |
re: #187 blackvalleybob
But Perry is taking measures to fight these blazes, and he is asking for federal help. Praying for rain, whether it helps or not, certainly does not hurt—and if he were a native American praying or dancing for rain, you wouldn’t dare be making fun of him.
Who is he going to ask for help after his secessionist friends take over?
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:52:43pm |
re: #189 jaunte
Texas fires are pushing the state deeper into debt:
But how can Texas be in debt? It’s running a surplus!
///
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:52:52pm |
re: #185 SanFranciscoZionist
*kicks dust… looking down apologetically….*
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:52:59pm |
re: #183 LudwigVanQuixote
I don’t take any enjoyment in this. I truly am sorry for all the innocent people who will be killed by it. I am infuriated that such tragedy can be prevented but assholes like Perry who are helping to insure it is not prevented.
Guys, I’m just going to put in here that drought in the American West is not strictly an AGW issue. It IS an issue of having put too much human and cattle pressure on an environment not designed to support such, but we’ve been running these cyclical water problems out here for quite some time.
Rick Perry did not cause the drought. He may have the worst ecological judgement in the history of man, but it’s not his fault it’s not raining in Texas.
‘At’s all.
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Four More Tears Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:53:27pm |
re: #188 Gus 802
The grail’s a winner.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:53:38pm |
re: #194 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
*kicks dust… looking down apologetically…*
That’s okay. You’re still our favorite Rotund Non-meat-eater of questionable parentage.
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Varek Raith Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:53:45pm |
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jaunte Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:54:01pm |
re: #187 blackvalleybob
Rick Perry the Flirter-With-Secession?
Texas has been receiving federal help with West Texas wildfires for more than a week. Personnel from more than a half-dozen federal agencies — including the Forest Service, the National Park Service and the Bureau of Land Management — have been battling some massive fires, including a 150,000-acre fire in Coke County north of San Angelo.
dfw.cbslocal.com
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JeffM70 Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:54:09pm |
So if God doesn’t end the drought does that mean God has forsaken Texas?
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:54:20pm |
re: #191 allegro
If he were a native American praying for rain it would be sincere. But he isn’t and there isn’t a sincere cell in his body. That is the joke and source of lacking respect.
Which is fair, but it’s not Perry who’s hurting the most here.
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b_sharp Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:54:31pm |
re: #188 Gus 802
Couple of quickies I just whipped up…
Can you animate the first one so it’s a bobble head?
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:54:37pm |
re: #194 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
*kicks dust… looking down apologetically…*
OH FOR GOODNESS’ SAKES! IT’S OK!!
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Four More Tears Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:54:59pm |
re: #201 JeffM70
So if God doesn’t end the drought does that mean God has forsaken Texas?
Doesn’t that assume that he gave a crap about it in the first place?
/
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allegro Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:55:19pm |
re: #202 SanFranciscoZionist
Which is fair, but it’s not Perry who’s hurting the most here.
Indeed he isn’t. That’s why his useless pandering pisses this Texan off Big Time.
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:56:02pm |
re: #206 JasonA
Doesn’t that assume that he gave a crap about it in the first place?
/
Didn’t you know? God Blessed Texas.
//
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Gus Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:56:22pm |
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Varek Raith Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:56:36pm |
re: #204 SanFranciscoZionist
OH FOR GOODNESS’ SAKES! IT’S OK!!
Lol.
*Note too self, refrain from really tasteless jokes*
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:57:13pm |
re: #210 Varek Raith
Lol.
*Note too self, refrain from really tasteless jokes*
*Grumbles as he throws out half his jokes*
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:57:14pm |
re: #186 Decatur Deb
Thank you David Gilmour for discovering Kate Bush!
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Lidane Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:57:38pm |
*sigh*
And people keep electing this jackass. WHY? =P
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Decatur Deb Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:57:46pm |
God is Catholic, and Mexican, and he wants his Mission back.
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:57:53pm |
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iossarian Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:57:55pm |
re: #187 blackvalleybob
But Perry is taking measures to fight these blazes, and he is asking for federal help. Praying for rain, whether it helps or not, certainly does not hurt—and if he were a native American praying or dancing for rain, you wouldn’t dare be making fun of him.
Here’s the difference. People like Perry have seen to it for years that minorities get the shitty end of the stick. If, in those circumstances, people who have been fucked over time and time again cling to a belief system because it’s all they have left, then I treat that with respect.
On the other hand, assholes who want to condemn us all to a slow roasting death in order to line the pockets of their tall-hat small-dick buddies, but then come up with sanctimonious bullshit about how the lord will provide can go fuck themselves.
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What, me worry? Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:59:03pm |
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Varek Raith Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:59:44pm |
re: #211 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
*Grumbles as he throws out half his jokes*
If it’s a terrible event, I’ve made/laughed at a terrible joke about it.
*I’m just good at not saying them around the wrong people.*
:)
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Lidane Thu, Apr 21, 2011 1:59:57pm |
re: #215 SanFranciscoZionist
He has really good hair.
Too bad that’s all he’s good for. He’s been damn near worthless as governor.
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calochortus Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:00:03pm |
I really don’t get people who think that just praying for something is going to fix it. I know that the concept is a New Testament promise, but you’d think by now people would have figured out it doesn’t work.
Even though I’m not religious I understand the concept of praying as a meditation, praying to discover God’s will, praying to get yourself in harmony with things-as-they-are, and so forth. I just don’t understand why people think that God might be waiting for us to vote on whether we want drought, or someone’s cancer cured and then acts on it.
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What, me worry? Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:01:11pm |
re: #204 SanFranciscoZionist
OH FOR GOODNESS’ SAKES! IT’S OK!!
No it’s not. He should be flogged. He should be forced to perform a chubby rain dance.
:p
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theheat Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:01:18pm |
It’s no wonder the US is sucking hind teat in technology. We’re either launching people into space or praying for rain. Pssst - it’s the in-between stuff that matters.
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jaunte Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:01:31pm |
re: #213 Lidane
*sigh*
And people keep electing this jackass. WHY? =P
He keeps spreading the patronage around:
More than $17 million of the $83 million Perry has raised since 2001 during his governorship came from people he appointed to state boards, commissions and agencies or their spouses, according to the report by the nonprofit Texans for Public Justice.
dallasnews.com
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b_sharp Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:02:07pm |
re: #216 iossarian
Here’s the difference. People like Perry have seen to it for years that minorities get the shitty end of the stick. If, in those circumstances, people who have been fucked over time and time again cling to a belief system because it’s all they have left, then I treat that with respect.
On the other hand, assholes who want to condemn us all to a slow roasting death in order to line the pockets of their tall-hat small-dick buddies, but then come up with sanctimonious bullshit about how the lord will provide can go fuck themselves.
I think you meant ‘penile challenged buddies’.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:02:41pm |
Perhaps Elmer Fudd can lend Texas his Sword and Magic Helmet.
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Shiplord Kirel Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:03:54pm |
True story:
A few years ago, we were also going through one of our periodic droughts. Lubbock mayor David Miller proposed a resolution calling for a day of prayer for rain. The proposal was widely ridiculed and even made the national media, but the resolution passed. I was among those mocking it in public here. A few days later, a downpour hit Lubbock County. My hobby farm, which is less than half a mile from the city limits, got almost half an inch of rain, but no measurable amount fell in the city itself.
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:03:57pm |
re: #219 Varek Raith
If it’s a terrible event, I’ve made/laughed at a terrible joke about it.
*I’m just good at not saying them around the wrong people.*
:)
Yeah, I engage in all kinds of dark humor, mostly because it’s the only way I can cope with tragedy.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:04:53pm |
re: #229 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
(don’t get me started on dead movie star jokes)
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What, me worry? Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:06:21pm |
re: #221 calochortus
No one watched my Frisco Kid video. I’m thoroughly insulted.
God doesn’t make it rain. He gives us compassion when we are filled with anger. He gives us comfort when we are filled with sadness. He gives us courage when we are afraid, but he doesn’t make it rain.
Of course, just like that, he can change his mind!
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Charles Johnson Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:06:52pm |
Hot Air has turned into such a joke. Allahpundit posts about the NY Times poll on Birthers, with his usual weak equivocations — and his audience posts a deluge of Birther comments.
If they polled right wing blog commenters, the percentage of Birthers would approach 100%.
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Petero1818 Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:07:12pm |
Seriously? “Texans of all faiths”? Wow must be a bad drought if they are willing to have Muslims pray to Allah over this as well//
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AlexRogan Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:07:57pm |
re: #40 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
What was the rumbling just now? An earthquake? No, it was the Founding Fathers rolling in their graves simultaneously.
Hell, if one were to hook up generators to the Founders’ spinning corpses, you could probably power most of the Eastern seaboard right now…
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:08:02pm |
Would have been cool to see that.
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:08:07pm |
re: #222 marjoriemoon
No it’s not. He should be flogged. He should be forced to perform a chubby rain dance.
:p
Well, if he’ll perform a chubby rain dance…
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:08:17pm |
re: #222 marjoriemoon
No it’s not. He should be flogged. He should be forced to perform a chubby rain dance.
:p
Is that different from a skinny rain dance?
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Petero1818 Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:08:19pm |
re: #231 marjoriemoon
No one watched my Frisco Kid video. I’m thoroughly insulted.
God doesn’t make it rain. He gives us compassion when we are filled with anger. He gives us comfort when we are filled with sadness. He gives us courage when we are afraid, but he doesn’t make it rain.
Of course, just like that, he can change his mind!
Really? But did you drove or did you flew?
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Shiplord Kirel Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:09:15pm |
re: #233 Petero1818
Seriously? “Texans of all faiths”? Wow must be a bad drought if they are willing to have Muslims pray to Allah over this as well//
I’ll see if I can sacrifice a dinner guest to Cthulhu.
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:09:28pm |
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b_sharp Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:09:42pm |
re: #236 SanFranciscoZionist
Well, if he’ll perform a chubby rain dance…
There’s a joke in there somewhere about sporting a chubby.
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What, me worry? Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:10:20pm |
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Mad Prophet Ludwig Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:10:29pm |
re: #195 SanFranciscoZionist
Guys, I’m just going to put in here that drought in the American West is not strictly an AGW issue. It IS an issue of having put too much human and cattle pressure on an environment not designed to support such, but we’ve been running these cyclical water problems out here for quite some time.
Rick Perry did not cause the drought. He may have the worst ecological judgement in the history of man, but it’s not his fault it’s not raining in Texas.
‘At’s all.
So the A is for Anthropogenic. Care to explain how that isn’t?
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calochortus Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:12:40pm |
re: #231 marjoriemoon
There. I watched it. Feel better now? ;-)
But it doesn’t answer the question-does the prayer make him change his mind?
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Big Steve Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:13:30pm |
The thing about my part of Texas is that you can get an average six month supply of rain in one afternoon.
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allegro Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:13:39pm |
Just got this in an email from a dear friend in Seguin, TX…
The fires are north of here near Austin. The air in Bexar and Guadalupe Counties is filled with smoke and overcast. I am scared pea-green because there is dead grass in my pastures about 6-12 inches high. I don’t have a tractor. Also, most people are saying to stay off the pastures because the heat of the engines could start the grass on fire.
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calochortus Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:15:44pm |
re: #244 LudwigVanQuixote
I think she means that its anthropogenic, but not necessarily warming related. We in the west have always assumed that the best years are “normal” and therefore routinely exceed the carrying capacity of the land. Not really a good plan.
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wee fury Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:18:59pm |
I dunno, praying for rain is like … .
Asking an Irish Catholic Priest what the church does to help alcoholic and drug addicted parishioners. And, being told that … “we pray for them.”
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Mad Prophet Ludwig Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:19:13pm |
re: #29 Charles
Would it be OK if I pray to Cthulhu?
It seems to work for Palin… Just please for the love of all that is unholy have at least 15 boxes of condoms ready before you snog a shoggoth.
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Shiplord Kirel Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:19:34pm |
Today is San Jacinto Day in Texas, the 175th anniversary in fact.
This has brought out the Secesh crazy at the Fever Swamp.
Sam Houston, the victor at San Jacinto, had a notably low opinion of secessionists.
He was removed as governor in 1861 for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy:
“Fellow-Citizens, in the name of your rights and liberties, which I believe have been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. In the name of the nationality of Texas, which has been betrayed by the Convention, I refuse to take this oath. In the name of the Constitution of Texas, I refuse to take this oath. In the name of my own conscience and manhood, which this Convention would degrade by dragging me before it, to pander to the malice of my enemies, I refuse to take this oath. I deny the power of this Convention to speak for Texas….I protest….against all the acts and doings of this convention and I declare them null and void.”
He also made this prescient prediction:
“Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives, you may win Southern independence if God be not against you, but I doubt it. I tell you that, while I believe with you in the doctrine of states rights, the North is determined to preserve this Union. They are not a fiery, impulsive people as you are, for they live in colder climates. But when they begin to move in a given direction, they move with the steady momentum and perseverance of a mighty avalanche; and what I fear is, they will overwhelm the South.”
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What, me worry? Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:21:21pm |
re: #245 calochortus
There. I watched it. Feel better now? ;-)
But it doesn’t answer the question-does the prayer make him change his mind?
I don’t really know how it works. hehe How’s that for an honest answer.
God is a source of strength. Faith is strength for most people. I don’t know if God listens to every prayer spoken by every person or any and all, but prayer can be healing for ME or in a group, for a lot of people. That is the power of prayer to me.
I think a rain dance probably borders on idol worship or ego worship. Most silly things that people do probably borders on idol/ego worship. I mean if Perry goes out and does a rain dance and it rains, he gets credit right? So was it God who made it rain or was God just listening to Perry - Oh dear, I don’t want to even go there!
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SidewaysQuark Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:21:31pm |
At least they’re not sacrificing children to Tlaloc.
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Stanley Sea Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:21:33pm |
Domestic Terrorism lollapalooza.
Mich Tech engineering grad accused of plotting to blow up federal building in Detroit - freep.com bit.ly
The FBI has “identified a person of interest in what [it is] calling a case of domestic terrorism” in Jefferson County, Colo., just two miles from Columbine High School, Denver’s KUSA-TV reports. npr.org
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AlexRogan Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:22:08pm |
re: #123 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
Because he didn’t get the starship he requested.
///
Why does God need a starship?
///
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:22:21pm |
I prefer to dance rather than pray, way more fun than hanging out next to some Klansman in texas who got bought a governorship
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:22:30pm |
re: #244 LudwigVanQuixote
So the A is for Anthropogenic. Care to explain how that isn’t?
We get periodic drought in this part of the world.
If the entire world unites tomorrow to turn back climate change, we will still get periodic drought in this part of the world.
Now, if we’re proposing moving most of the population of the state of Texas and dismantling the ranching industry, that would be one thing, but it’s unlikely to happen.
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Mad Prophet Ludwig Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:22:37pm |
re: #255 SidewaysQuark
At least they’re not sacrificing children to Tlaloc.
For the record… It is MY loknar!
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:23:04pm |
re: #257 talon_262
Why does God need a starship?
///
to dragrace other Gods in starships, of course
sheesh guys, that was easy
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:23:24pm |
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:24:00pm |
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:24:15pm |
re: #248 calochortus
I think she means that its anthropogenic, but not necessarily warming related. We in the west have always assumed that the best years are “normal” and therefore routinely exceed the carrying capacity of the land. Not really a good plan.
Sure. The fact that Texas is carrying a human/cattle load the land cannot meet—and that California is carrying a human/vegetable load the land cannot meet—is an anthropogenic situation. So was the Dust Bowl, for that matter.
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calochortus Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:24:28pm |
re: #254 marjoriemoon
Nothing better than an honest answer. And like I said, even though I don’t believe in a deity myself, I understand how prayer can work to help a person or a group. Praying for rain, or a pony strikes me as magical thinking, which humans are certainly prone to do, but I’d like to think modern literate humans can do better. I suppose I’d be wrong.
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Stanley Sea Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:24:41pm |
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:24:48pm |
re: #255 SidewaysQuark
At least they’re not sacrificing children to Tlaloc.
Yet. Ranchers get a little crazy desperate in a bad drought.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:25:20pm |
re: #21 SanFranciscoZionist
THAT I missed. WTF? People think God answers prayers uttered out of sheer pettiness?
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:26:40pm |
re: #269 Slumbering Behemoth
That I’ve seen.
And back during the Gaza withdrawal there was a group of ‘kabbalists’ who were trying to kill Sharon with magic.
People are insane.
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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:27:11pm |
re: #233 Petero1818
Seriously? “Texans of all faiths”? Wow must be a bad drought if they are willing to have Muslims pray to Allah over this as well//
That means Baptists AND Methodists.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:27:23pm |
re: #266 calochortus
Nothing better than an honest answer. And like I said, even though I don’t believe in a deity myself, I understand how prayer can work to help a person or a group. Praying for rain, or a pony strikes me as magical thinking, which humans are certainly prone to do, but I’d like to think modern literate humans can do better. I suppose I’d be wrong.
Magical thinking in a state that is hosed in 50 years from water shortages
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:27:33pm |
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researchok Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:27:56pm |
re: #270 SanFranciscoZionist
That I’ve seen.
And back during the Gaza withdrawal there was a group of ‘kabbalists’ who were trying to kill Sharon with magic.
People are insane.
You don’t have to go all the way top Gaza to find insane.
You are in SF.
Look out the window.
//
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Mad Prophet Ludwig Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:27:59pm |
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:28:09pm |
re: #270 SanFranciscoZionist
That I’ve seen.
And back during the Gaza withdrawal there was a group of ‘kabbalists’ who were trying to kill Sharon with magic.
People are insane.
now I’m imagining Madonna with a palantir
when was her kabbala dabbling? Was that an early2000’s thing?
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:28:45pm |
re: #275 LudwigVanQuixote
STERN!
he’s nothing but a low down…
double dealing…
back stabbing…
larcenous perverted…WORRRRRRRRRRRM
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:29:04pm |
re: #276 WindUpBird
now I’m imagining Madonna with a palantir
when was her kabbala dabbling? Was that an early2000’s thing?
I think she’s still at it, last I heard.
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What, me worry? Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:29:18pm |
re: #266 calochortus
Nothing better than an honest answer. And like I said, even though I don’t believe in a deity myself, I understand how prayer can work to help a person or a group. Praying for rain, or a pony strikes me as magical thinking, which humans are certainly prone to do, but I’d like to think modern literate humans can do better. I suppose I’d be wrong.
Hmmm atheists/agnostics have a form of prayer though, when they “really hope” or wish for something. “I hope I get that job”, “I hope that girl goes out with me” etc. Is that much different than praying?
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Varek Raith Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:29:24pm |
re: #235 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Would have been cool to see that.
KILL THE WABBIT, KILL THE WABBIT!!!!
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Mad Prophet Ludwig Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:29:44pm |
re: #265 SanFranciscoZionist
Sure. The fact that Texas is carrying a human/cattle load the land cannot meet—and that California is carrying a human/vegetable load the land cannot meet—is an anthropogenic situation. So was the Dust Bowl, for that matter.
This is a good point. However, the rain is going to get less and less in the coming decades. The heat will increase water demand more and more. In fact, it already has.
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Mad Prophet Ludwig Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:30:15pm |
re: #277 WindUpBird
he’s nothing but a low down…
double dealing…
back stabbing…
larcenous perverted…WORRRM
I hear he sold drugs to elementary school kids while dressed as a nun.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:30:22pm |
re: #275 LudwigVanQuixote
seriously, that movie looms large, made me a lifelong fan of BOC
I’m pretty sure my mother did NOT know Heavy Metal was full of tits and beheadings and people getting chopped in half with claymores when I went over to a friends’ house to watch the VHS bootleg we had
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:30:25pm |
re: #281 LudwigVanQuixote
This is a good point. However, the rain is going to get less and less in the coming decades. The heat will increase water demand more and more. In fact, it already has.
That’s for sure.
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wrenchwench Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:30:25pm |
re: #279 marjoriemoon
Hmmm atheists/agnostics have a form of prayer though, when they “really hope” or wish for something. “I hope I get that job”, “I hope that girl goes out with me” etc. Is that much different than praying?
Yes. Much.
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What, me worry? Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:31:08pm |
re: #285 wrenchwench
Yes. Much.
Really? Because it’s not directed at God, but isn’t the hope and dream the same?
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Mad Prophet Ludwig Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:31:11pm |
re: #276 WindUpBird
now I’m imagining Madonna with a palantir
when was her kabbala dabbling? Was that an early2000’s thing?
What she does ain’t kaballah. It’s some new age crap, but it ain’t kaballah any more than Scientology is a church.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:31:16pm |
re: #278 SanFranciscoZionist
I think she’s still at it, last I heard.
tying to start that car, still? :D
“man, it doesn’t turn over, I don’t get it!”
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What, me worry? Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:31:39pm |
re: #287 LudwigVanQuixote
What she does ain’t kaballah. It’s some new age crap, but it ain’t kaballah any more than Scientology is a church.
Amen brother!
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:32:01pm |
re: #287 LudwigVanQuixote
What she does ain’t kaballah. It’s some new age crap, but it ain’t kaballah any more than Scientology is a church.
Oh I know, that’s why I make fun :D
it’s about as real as Yuri Geller
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Stanley Sea Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:32:59pm |
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:33:20pm |
re: #286 marjoriemoon
Really? Because it’s not directed at God, but isn’t the hope and dream the same?
my distinction is this: hope isn’t directed at an entity you think is listening, prayer is. Or at least sometimes prayer is.
Hope is just like, blowing on the dice before you roll them at the craps table
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Charles Johnson Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:33:54pm |
Bigot Jerome Corsi’s Birther book is now #1 on Amazon.
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Varek Raith Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:34:08pm |
re: #294 WindUpBird
my distinction is this: hope isn’t directed at an entity you think is listening, prayer is. Or at least sometimes prayer is.
Hope is just like, blowing on the dice before you roll them at the craps table
GOD DAMN THAT RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR THAT ISN’T RANDOM!!!
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:34:09pm |
re: #292 marjoriemoon
Ack bbiab.
Ack Bbiab! I count five rebel ships out past the moon.”
“Notify the shuttle. Vader must hear about this at once.”
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wrenchwench Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:35:15pm |
re: #286 marjoriemoon
Really? Because it’s not directed at God, but isn’t the hope and dream the same?
If they are the same, the act of praying is much more shallow than I thought.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:35:16pm |
re: #296 Varek Raith
GOD DAMN THAT RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR THAT ISN’T RANDOM!!!
it’s all just clock cycles!
There is no God! *throws computer in sink, cries*
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calochortus Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:35:36pm |
re: #279 marjoriemoon
Hmmm atheists/agnostics have a form of prayer though, when they “really hope” or wish for something. “I hope I get that job”, “I hope that girl goes out with me” etc. Is that much different than praying?
You can long for something without believing that the longing will produce a desired result. I’m sure that there are as many atheist who go bowling wearing their “lucky socks” as believers who do, however. As I said, we all seem to have something of an inclination towards magic, but when it comes to the important things, I wish we’d recognize that it just doesn’t work.
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Mad Prophet Ludwig Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:36:55pm |
re: #295 Charles
Bigot Jerome Corsi’s Birther book is now #1 on Amazon.
[Link: www.amazon.com…]
I hear it has lots of pictures and simple words for the target audience.
It is right next to Dick and Jane go to Kenya and See Spot Run for Office.
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:37:15pm |
re: #295 Charles
Bigot Jerome Corsi’s Birther book is now #1 on Amazon.
[Link: www.amazon.com…]
Yeah, and Atlas Shrugged, Part I is a runaway blockbuster, at least according to it’s Rotten Tomatoes viewer rating.
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BongCrodny Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:37:59pm |
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Mad Prophet Ludwig Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:38:54pm |
re: #303 BongCrodny
I think you have that reversed.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:39:31pm |
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:40:33pm |
re: #295 Charles
Bigot Jerome Corsi’s Birther book is now #1 on Amazon.
[Link: www.amazon.com…]
I wonder if the library has a copy, hmmm
this could be the beginning of a series of grand amusements for the campaign season
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:42:02pm |
It probably shouldn’t, but this sentence made me laugh:
“Good Friday is not a good day to get a pap smear.”
Support Planned Parenthood on Good Friday
We have a weekend of reason and lunacy coming up. On the reason side, atheists will be gathering in Iowa to discuss science and a sensible interpretation of the universe, taking advantage of a holiday none of us find particularly interesting. On the other side, that holiday celebrating the magical ‘death’ and imaginary resurrection of a weird Jewish mystic is regarded as also a good time to come out and oppress people. As is traditional, mobs of fanatics will turn out on Good Friday to surround local women’s clinics and harass and threaten the patients. Good Friday is not a good day to get a pap smear.
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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:42:16pm |
Among other things, the bills would apparently:
* Require non-tenured teachers who strike to be fired immediately. Suspend the teaching certificate of tenured teachers for at least two years or permanently revoke the certificate.
* Consolidate cases so that all employees alleged to have participated in a strike would be judged together; the time period for these cases would be greatly collapsed.
* The union representing the employees on strike would be decertified for five years. The state would order a new election with a different union. These penalties would apply even if no actual strike occurred, but if a union or its representative was found to “solicit or encourage any other person to strike” or to “conspire with any other person to cause a strike.”
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Varek Raith Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:43:10pm |
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freetoken Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:43:31pm |
WaPo opinion blog struggles with what is happening in the GOP:
Trump, Palin, and the GOP electorate
Donald Trump isn’t going to be the Republican nominee for president. But in a way, that’s beside the point: The odds are mounting that the actual nominee is going to sound very much like Trump, not to mention like Newt Gingrich and Michele Bachmann.I liked Ed Kilgore’s column this week about Trump, which argues that while Republican elites will likely succeed in denying the nomination to Trump or any other rogue candidate, they’re still stuck with Trumpism:
This year, GOP voters’ hunger for radicalism is so great that it can be filled by essentially anybody. Kill off Trump’s candidacy and the demand will remain, leaving an opening for yet another demagogic charlatan to take his place.
What Republican politicians and leaders of GOP-aligned interest groups want is a presidential nominee — and if they’re lucky, a president — who they can rely on to be reasonable with them. That is, one who will stick with them on the big issues, or at least always treat them as allies and work to keep them happy. As long as Republican establishment figures think they can count on a candidate to do that, they’ll overlook his or her crazy rhetoric.But Republican elites will do what they can to veto any real rogue candidate (as Trump would be if he really runs) who they don’t think they’ll able to rely on once in office.
That gets back to the original rogue candidate, Sarah Palin. What has hurt Palin as a prospective candidate, and has resulted in GOP elites turning against her publicly, is that they believe (probably with good reason) that she can’t be trusted.
The upshot: It has become less likely over the last several months that a real crazy and untrustworthy candidate will win the Republican nomination. Nonetheless, Kilgore is right about the appetite of the Republican electorate for Trumpism. Therefore, it’s become more and more likely that the eventual nominee will have to spend a lot of time and energy pretending to be crazy, or at least working at ways to appeal to a constituency that wants to hear crazy things.
The Overton window has lurched so far to the right that I suspect whatever GOP candidate finally gets the nod will like be almost as crazy as he/she sounds.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:45:53pm |
re: #309 Varek Raith
“[O]ur membership is committed to treating homosexuals and heterosexuals equally. Our congregation believes it is unfair to provide different services and benefits to heterosexual couples than we can provide to gay and lesbian couples,” said associate minister Rev. Ryan Kemp-Pappan.
[Insert derogatory comment about southerners here]
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wrenchwench Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:46:04pm |
re: #309 Varek Raith
Kentucky Church Unanimously Votes To Stop Signing Marriage Licenses Until Gay Marriage Is Legalized
Why those backwards, southern… wait, what?
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Gus Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:46:53pm |
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:47:38pm |
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Gus Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:49:25pm |
re: #314 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
GAH! MY EYES!
Butthurt has already hit critical mass no doubt. =)
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moderatelyradicalliberal Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:49:27pm |
That’s my fool governor.
/facepalm/
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:49:33pm |
re: #313 Gus 802
Great Cthulhu’s Tentacles! What is wrong with you man?
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Targetpractice Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:51:20pm |
re: #315 Gus 802
Butthurt has already hit critical mass no doubt. =)
If you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go stab out my mind’s eyes with a spork.
/
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William Barnett-Lewis Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:51:51pm |
re: #312 wrenchwench
Why those backwards, southern… wait, what?
There are good believers everywhere just as there are bad ones. We got some winners over in Monroe forex. I got them mad at me when I enquired why they were wasting money protesting and suing about nudists when they should be spending that coin on widows. orphans and the poor.
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:52:34pm |
re: #307 Slumbering Behemoth
It probably shouldn’t, but this sentence made me laugh:
“Good Friday is not a good day to get a pap smear.”
I don’t know what’s wrong with us.
I also don’t know what’s wrong with people who spend Good Friday hassling ladies at clinics. All the Catholics I know spend Good Friday, you know, praying and stuff.
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Gus Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:53:05pm |
re: #318 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds
If you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go stab out my mind’s eyes with a spork.
/
We’ve got. Nothing better to do. Then watch TV and have us a couple of brews!
//
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freetoken Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:53:40pm |
Stupid, stupid Hollywood… Fox Searchlight’s new “SciFi” movie:
If there were another planet the size of Earth that close to our planet (note in the images that it is quite a bit larger than the moon) the gravitational pull would fling both planets into radically strange orbits. Even without that, the changes in the tides would be orders of magnitudes greater than what we see with just the moon.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:54:04pm |
re: #319 wlewisiii
Don’t you see? The reason we have widows, orphans, and the poor is because we tolerate unholy nudists.
/
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prairiefire Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:54:47pm |
Tina Fey’s “Prayer For A Daughter”:blogs.babble.com
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freetoken Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:55:14pm |
It’s supposed to be a movie with redeeming qualities, but I think like usual one would have turn off one’s brain in order to watch it.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:55:23pm |
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calochortus Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:59:10pm |
re: #325 prairiefire
Tina Fey’s “Prayer For A Daughter”:[Link: blogs.babble.com…]
Lovely and funny all at once. Sort of like the parenting of children, but after they’re grown so you forget the PTA meetings.
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reine.de.tout Thu, Apr 21, 2011 2:59:25pm |
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:00:49pm |
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:01:51pm |
re: #325 prairiefire
Tina Fey’s “Prayer For A Daughter”:[Link: blogs.babble.com…]
A friend posted that to Facebook. I love it.
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Walter L. Newton Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:04:43pm |
What can you expect…
Texas Governor Rick Perry is taking highly effective action against the drought that is ravaging Texas: he’s issued a proclamation for three days of prayer for rain.
stupid god believers.
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Stanley Sea Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:05:23pm |
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:07:37pm |
re: #334 Gus 802
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Lidane Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:07:57pm |
Sweet. John Cole over at Balloon Juice just linked the new Beastie Boys video:
This is currently on repeat. I’m loving this song. Awesomeness.
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Walter L. Newton Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:08:21pm |
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Prononymous, rogue demon hunter Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:08:26pm |
Is this a result of short term cyclicas variations within the local climate, or a more permanent change resulting from AGW? I don’t know.
I do know what isn’t causing the drought: Not enough prayer in Texas.
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Robert O. Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:09:53pm |
Wait! I want Gov. Perry to do a RAIN DANCE for us!!!!
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Prononymous, rogue demon hunter Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:09:59pm |
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Achilles Tang Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:10:34pm |
re: #187 blackvalleybob
—and if he were a native American praying or dancing for rain, you wouldn’t dare be making fun of him.
Why not?
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Walter L. Newton Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:10:45pm |
re: #344 Robert O.
Wait! I want Gov. Perry to do a RAIN DANCE for us!!!
Why are you making fun of Native American culture?
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:11:16pm |
re: #309 Varek Raith
AWESOME.
Man, i went to Kentucky once, and it was for a SF con, they flew me out there to do a bunch of demos and bring paintings, SF geeks are EXACTLY THE SAME EVERYWHERE, with different accents
sale goths, same old dudes who are fandom greybeards, some young guys running the art show, same Moorcock fanatics, same people in the dealer’s room selling piles of Simon Bizley and Roger dean books
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Achilles Tang Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:11:36pm |
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:11:52pm |
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BongCrodny Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:11:57pm |
Completely illogical.
The only possible chance they have of making it rain is this:
“And the Flying Spaghetti Monster called unto Pirate Mosey, and spake unto him out of the pirate ship of the crew, saying 2 Speak unto the children of the seven seas, and say unto them, if any pirate brings an offering unto the FSM, ye shall bring your offering of spaghetti and meatballs or rum and fish head stew.” Piraticus 1:1
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AlexRogan Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:12:08pm |
re: #271 negativ
That means Baptists AND Methodists.
Sort of like in The Blues Brothers, where the band rolls up to Bob’s Country Bunker:
Elwood: “So, what kind of music do you have here?”
Bob’s wife(?): “Oh, we got both kinds. We got Country and Western!”
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:12:37pm |
re: #347 Walter L. Newton
Why are you making fun of Native American culture?
Gary larson did it first, hahahah
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Walter L. Newton Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:12:56pm |
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:13:23pm |
re: #347 Walter L. Newton
Why are you making fun of Native American culture?
Perry doesn’t need to do a Native American rain dance. I will allow him to do “Mayim” with the members of the Texas lege if he prefers.
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Walter L. Newton Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:13:40pm |
re: #354 WindUpBird
Gary larson did it first, hahahah
Big shit… who is Gary Larson, your arbitrator of good taste?
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:13:54pm |
re: #353 talon_262
Sort of like in The Blues Brothers, where the band rolls up to Bob’s Country Bunker:
Elwood: “So, what kind of music do you have here?”
Bob’s wife(?): “Oh, we got both kinds. We got Country and Western!”
I use that quote more than any other from the Blues Bros
usually when I’m making fun of people who know nothing about music
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wrenchwench Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:13:58pm |
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BongCrodny Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:14:05pm |
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:14:59pm |
re: #357 Walter L. Newton
Big shit… who is Gary Larson, your arbitrator of good taste?
come on, you have to remember the Far Side!
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darthstar Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:15:22pm |
I see the colicky one is waking from his nap…
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blueraven Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:16:05pm |
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Walter L. Newton Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:16:16pm |
re: #362 darthstar
I see the colicky one is waking from his nap…
Bite me… (your day wouldn’t have been complete).
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darthstar Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:16:32pm |
re: #363 blueraven
Wow…Breaking news
Senator Ensign to resign this Friday
[Link: www.politico.com…]
He wants to spend more time with his employees’ families?
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darthstar Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:16:53pm |
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Walter L. Newton Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:17:01pm |
re: #361 WindUpBird
[Link: www.thefarside.com…]
come on, you have to remember the Far Side!
Of course I remember the Far Side… still doesn’t mean I think that everything Larson draws is in good taste, or in any taste.
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calochortus Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:17:51pm |
re: #363 blueraven
Wow…Breaking news
Senator Ensign to resign this Friday
[Link: www.politico.com…]
I trust he won’t let the door hit him on the way out.
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jaunte Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:17:51pm |
re: #325 prairiefire
That’s really great. I’m sending it to my three.
May she play the Drums to the fiery rhythm of her Own Heart with the sinewy strength of her Own Arms, so she need Not Lie With Drummers.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:17:58pm |
re: #363 blueraven
Wow…Breaking news
Senator Ensign to resign this Friday
[Link: www.politico.com…]
Hilariously, I never think a Republican should resign because of an affair
Probably the best decision that guy ever made was getting his car waxed, it’s everything else they do, that they should resign for
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:18:08pm |
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blueraven Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:18:41pm |
re: #365 darthstar
He wants to spend more time with his employees’ families?
LOL, I guess! Curious though, why he is resigning now when he has already stated he wouldn’t be running again. Special election and all that…hmmm
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darthstar Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:19:24pm |
re: #373 blueraven
LOL, I guess! Curious though, why he is resigning now when he has already stated he wouldn’t be running again. Special election and all that…hmmm
Probably because mom and dad said he’s old enough to pay for his dick’s wayward adventures on his own.
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SanFranciscoZionist Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:19:38pm |
re: #356 SanFranciscoZionist
Perry doesn’t need to do a Native American rain dance. I will allow him to do “Mayim” with the members of the Texas lege if he prefers.
Here we go. One of the absolutely universal Israeli folk dances.
The text is taken from Isaiah 12:3—With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.
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darthstar Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:20:22pm |
re: #373 blueraven
LOL, I guess! Curious though, why he is resigning now when he has already stated he wouldn’t be running again. Special election and all that…hmmm
He’s a Senator…no election - just an appointment. Republican governor. Basically makes the next guy the incumbent…unless the governor appoints Sharron Angle…wouldn’t that be a hoot!
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Prononymous, rogue demon hunter Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:20:31pm |
re: #362 darthstar
I see the colicky one is waking from his nap…
Hey now! I slept way longer than a nap.
Err.
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blueraven Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:21:09pm |
re: #374 darthstar
Probably because mom and dad said he’s old enough to pay for his dick’s wayward adventures on his own.
Or maybe another shoe is about to drop?
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calochortus Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:21:55pm |
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William Barnett-Lewis Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:22:51pm |
Well, till later all. I’m off to participate in some moderately old rituals (feet washing, stripping of the altar, etc) of my own Anglo-catholic tradition.
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calochortus Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:22:51pm |
re: #375 SanFranciscoZionist
Upding for happy memories of my folk dancing days…
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blueraven Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:23:18pm |
re: #376 darthstar
He’s a Senator…no election - just an appointment. Republican governor. Basically makes the next guy the incumbent…unless the governor appoints Sharron Angle…wouldn’t that be a hoot!
Ah yes, of course. Still, this is strange.
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researchok Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:23:37pm |
re: #375 SanFranciscoZionist
Here we go. One of the absolutely universal Israeli folk dances.
The text is taken from Isaiah 12:3—With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.
This dance is way better
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AlexRogan Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:26:20pm |
re: #295 Charles
Bigot Jerome Corsi’s Birther book is now #1 on Amazon.
[Link: www.amazon.com…]
Oy vey…
/facepalm
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prairiefire Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:32:32pm |
re: #370 jaunte
I didn’t know you had that many daughters! One 13 year old girl is enough for me.
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AlexRogan Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:34:46pm |
re: #306 WindUpBird
I wonder if the library has a copy, hmmm
this could be the beginning of a series of grand amusements for the campaign season
It’s just in preorder right now…what I wonder is how the hell Corsi’s book is #1 on Amazon in preorder?
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AlexRogan Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:38:45pm |
re: #363 blueraven
Wow…Breaking news
Senator Ensign to resign this Friday
[Link: www.politico.com…]
This scares me in more ways than one, because Sharron Angle is back like a social disease:
The move could clear the way for Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval to appoint Rep. Dean Heller to fill Ensign’s seat, giving the GOP congressman the comforts of incumbency and a leg up as he pursues a full term in 2012.
If Heller were appointed to the upper chamber, it would also trigger a special election in Nevada’s 2nd Congressional District, where Sharron Angle and former military commander Kirk Lippold are already in the race.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:42:57pm |
re: #386 talon_262
It’s just in preorder right now…what I wonder is how the hell Corsi’s book is #1 on Amazon in preorder?
because every klansman and rube in the country wants it ahead of the election.
So they can KNOW THE TRUTH!!!
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Thu, Apr 21, 2011 3:46:49pm |
re: #387 talon_262
This scares me in more ways than one, because Sharron Angle is back like a social disease:
she’s just the top of the psycho pyramid, Angle has a hand shoved up her backside, someone else is operating, she’s not the leader, she’s barely present IMHO
My friends at EVO in Vegas saw her, (and giddily called me up to tell me minutes later) and all Angle’s fundraiser types, because they had events in the same hotels. Body language was such that she was this meek little thing in the wake of all the money
all ancient old biddies with pearls, fat bloated GOP guys in suits who looked like hammered meat, like those DAs in fear and Loathing, fleshy monsters, rich as hell, like Jabba the Hutt, all around Sharron Angle
And they all looked directly at the one hispanic guy in the group when my friend’s group walked through. Looked right at him like he was poison.
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What, me worry? Thu, Apr 21, 2011 4:20:03pm |
re: #298 wrenchwench
If they are the same, the act of praying is much more shallow than I thought.
Sorry I had to dash out.
I don’t think I said they are the same. I think they are similar. Much in the same way that speech can be considered a prayer, or a curse. Obviously if you use self-talk, you’re not directing it at a deity that can “get” you something, but you are still hoping that things will fall into place to your liking.
What I think we’re talking about is the power of speech, either to each other or to ourselves. Once something is out there, you can’t pull it back. A kind or ugly word can change your day. Gossip can ruin a person forever.
Many believers acknowledge that the world was created by the spoken word. (The Lord said, “Let there be light”. And there was light.) That is the power of speech. It’s part of our uniqueness among living things. The power to heal, hurt and create with words.
Or I guess one can say, “be careful what you wish for.”
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hugh59 Thu, Apr 21, 2011 4:20:18pm |
Getting back to the original topic, does it hurt anyone if a public official wants to call for a day of prayer? It’s not like they can force anyone to join in.
If I recall, Winston Churchill declared a day of national prayer right before the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk. I guess he was a fool for doing that. God and religion probably had nothing to do with the success of that operation; but maybe it gave some of the population comfort.
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dell*nix Thu, Apr 21, 2011 5:04:59pm |
re: #356 SanFranciscoZionist
Dance A Little Sidestep from Best Little Whore House In Texas
Youtube Video
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Decatur Deb Thu, Apr 21, 2011 5:13:30pm |
re: #391 hugh59
Getting back to the original topic, does it hurt anyone if a public official wants to call for a day of prayer? It’s not like they can force anyone to join in.
If I recall, Winston Churchill declared a day of national prayer right before the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk. I guess he was a fool for doing that. God and religion probably had nothing to do with the success of that operation; but maybe it gave some of the population comfort.
And Stalin rehabilitated the Orthodox Church for its morale value. Don’t think that was a deep conversion. Perry is somewhere on the Churchill-Stalin Scale.
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