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marfknox
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 05/01/2006 : 10:27:45
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http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/nation/14465584.htm quote:
President Bush on Friday rejected the idea of killing FEMA.
"The lessons of Katrina are important," Bush said. "We've learned a lot here at the federal level. We're much more ready this time than we were last time."
"Let's, first of all, pray there's no hurricanes," Bush said "That would be, like, step one."
It will never cease to amaze me that people think prayer has the potential to stop natural disasters, but somehow it isn't God's malice when they strike anyway. I guess all those people died last year because our government officials weren't putting aside enough time for prayer circles.
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
Posted - 05/01/2006 : 14:19:56 [Permalink]
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Sure...just pray and the whole weather pattern of a rotating body with an atmosphere and solar heat source will stop.
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 05/01/2006 : 15:40:31 [Permalink]
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Or, Step 3, flush the incompetent bastards out of the government like cleaning out a clogged sewer line, burn the chairs their sorry ass' sat in, and then make damned well sure the next bunch knows exactly what will happen if they demonstrate anything like the same stupidity.
Imfuckingpeach! [truncheonslap]
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Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 05/01/2006 : 15:44:20 [Permalink]
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My hometown of Abilene, Texas has been called the belt buckle of the bible belt; as, no doubt, other places have been also. Some years ago, the Abilene area suffered quite a drought spurring "pray for rain" days, as the local paper called it. Weeks went by with out a drop of rain, then the deluge came -- parts of the area got up to five inches one afternoon. The huge headlines the next day called it "Miracle Rain, Prayers Answered". Article mentions how god opened up the heavens to end the drought. Further down the front page was a lessor story about how the heavy rain destroyed the local cotton crop.
Easy game of pick and choose they play. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 05/01/2006 : 16:59:03 [Permalink]
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Me, I advise praying for good national leadership.
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 05/01/2006 : 18:36:10 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by HalfMooner
Me, I advise praying for good national leadership.
I'd almost say I've been praying for Bush to fall on his presidentcial face ever since taking office. And, by god, my prayers have been getting answered day by day! It's a miracle!(?)
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"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
-Neil DeGrasse Tyson |
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moakley
SFN Regular
USA
1888 Posts |
Posted - 05/01/2006 : 19:08:07 [Permalink]
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Sincerely, Andy Rooney
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The Pope traditionally prays for peace every Easter and the fact that it has never had any effect whatsoever in preventing or ending war never deters him. What goes through the Pope's mind about the being rejected all the time? Does God have it in for him?
edited to add: Fortunately, 55th National Day of Prayer is Thursday. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 05/01/2006 : 19:57:13 [Permalink]
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Randy stated: quote:
I'd almost say I've been praying for Bush to fall on his presidentcial face ever since taking office. And, by god, my prayers have been getting answered day by day! It's a miracle!(?)
You have to stop doing that, Randy! It's working too well. Every time Bush falls on his face, some other poor bastard gets a bloody nose.
This reminds me of Bush's recent promise that he'll never lose his nerve in Iraq. What does he personally have at risk? That slimy coward got himself out of combat in his generation. This in turn reminds me of a WWII soldiers' saying about General George Patton. They called him "Old Blood-and-Guts. His guts, our blood."
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Ghost_Skeptic
SFN Regular
Canada
510 Posts |
Posted - 05/01/2006 : 22:12:29 [Permalink]
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Maybe Katrina and the other hurricanes are punishment from Gaia for not signing the Kyoto accord on greenhouse gas emissions. 
Looks like Bush is praying to the wrong god as usual. |
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