Sooner Be Blue

Mostly politics, a few current events, a squirt of seltzer down yer pants .. a little blog for my rambles and rants.

2008/6/1

In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Nozzle

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@ 05:40 AM (4 months, 11 days ago)

Praying in the Name of Gas
 
D.C. residents have began gathering at a gas station in Petworth for 'Prayer At the Pump' in response to unprecedented gas prices.
 
...."Our pockets are empty, but we're going to hold on to God!" Twyman, a community organizer from Rockville, said as he and seven other people formed a semicircle, held hands and sang, pleading for divine intervention to lower fuel prices. [..]
 
http://tinyurl.com/57lma3
 
Do they take requests? I want a flying unicorn!
 
Instead of praying they probably should have considered not voting against their own self interests the past couple of elections.
 
And if they're going to pray, they should pray for their cars to run on sunshine. If a miracle happens and it works, they'd save themselves a lot of money...and if it doesn't, well, it would be as effective as what they're doing now.
 
Why don't they just pray for all the oil fields to be constantly refilled like Bible wine goblets...or at least car gas tanks. And while they're at it, pray for a few giant oil fields in the USA, preferably in out of the way places like my back yard.
 
I'm praying for pie.
 

2008/4/28

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a gallon of gas

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@ 07:09 AM (5 months, 15 days ago)
 
"Choir director brings prayers for lower gas prices to SF"
 
"SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A choir director who hopes prayer can bring down high gas prices is trying out his approach at some of the costliest pumps in the country.
 
Rocky Twyman of Washington, D.C., came to San Francisco over the weekend to stage a pray-in at a Chevron station. He is also calling on churchgoers to ask for God's intervention where he says politicians have failed.
 
Gas costing $4 a gallon or more has become common around the San Francisco Bay area.[..]"
 
http://tinyurl.com/3zofqq
 
Yeah, that's what we need, a National Day of Prayer for Gas Prices...close the schools, put TV cameras at all the gas pumps to watch as our high priest Preznit leads us to greater glory...Exxon-Mobil Hallowed be thy name...
 
Why don't they just pray for more efficient cars...or a cheaper, cleaner alternative fuel source?
 
And, if I were the Omnipotent Creator of the Infinite Universe, I'd be a little pissed that this choir director guy was wasting my time with gas prices. Why isn't he more concerned with war, disease, famine, poverty, global warming, etc.?
 
I hear that the Iraqis pray for higher prices. Looks like their god is more powerful.
 
Pray: to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
-Ambrose Pierce