PLEASE tell me that this shit isn’t happening, and that I am being whooshed. Because if it is real… FUCK. :mad:
The only fasting I’m doing is to meet the media’s ridiculous expectations and standards set for ideal female beauty.
I’m down to 103 lbs.
I ain’t praying though.
Does this mean that Bush is now the Pope? Does he get to wear a funny hat?
I thought fasting was also a form of civil disobediance… you know that dirty peacnick Ghandi guy. So can we pray for peace too or would that be one of those bad thoughts that the gubberment dosen’t like?
A funny hat would match his brain quite nicely. Yeah, Bush should accessorize in that manner. 
No, this is not a whoosh. As Bob Dylan reminded us many years ago, America believes it has God on its side.
I don;t know then whether to be more frightened/upset that it was thought of, or the fact that it has a good chance of passing.
They done lost their marbles.
So what are they going to do to those who don’t participate in this day, if it actually passes? Are we going to be considered “unamerican”? Not everyone prays and I’m very scared that a resolution like this could come about. Isn’t freedom from religion part of our Constitution? Last I heard, praying was religious. And so is God.
Please. This is a political ploy to the extreme.
I doubt it ever comes up for a vote. If it does, it will likely pass. (Note the other instances pulled from history to help “validate” this bill in its full text.) Net effect on the U.S., or any other country on the globe: zip.
This is the legislative equivalent of pablum.
Sounds like a lot of superstitious nonsense to me.
Well, shit, who do you think is going to win this war for us?
George Bush?
. . . but at least Congress isn’t going to sacrifice virgins.
It will be freedom fries, liberty toast and Bordeaux for me.
[General Turgid]
Gentlemen, we must not allow a prayer and fasting gap!
[/General Turgid]
I’m not saying that this resolution isn’t scary and inappropriate, but it is just the House expressing an opinion.
Granted, it isn’t something they should be doing, but they never listen to me.
You mean, out of all those 18, 19, and 20 year old soldiers there isn’t a single virgin? :dubious:
It’s… a resolution. Resolutions have no “force of law” behind them, this isn’t something they’re going to “enforce” and make everyone fast and pray.
The Senate can pass a resolution saying “The Enterprise could beat the Star Destroyer with one warp nacelle behind its back” if it so wanted. They regularly pass resolutions for things such as deaths in the families of members, etc.
It’s silly, yeah. But it’s not like Congress is saying “You WILL fast and pray or else!”
Isn’t there a song about ‘with God on our side’? :rolleyes:
Does this show the Christian God* is better than Allah? :smack:
*the American Christian God, of course
Oh, they’re all war criminals anyway, so what the hell? Down the hatch, I guess.
Umm- sorry, I guess I didn’t think that one through. Good thing this isn’t GD.