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defrogSome weekend reading for you (because God knows you all have nothing better to do on yr day off than sitting in front of the computer reading long articles).
1. Santa Barbara public elementary schools have opened their doors to an afterschool program known as the “Good News Club”, which aims to convert young children to their form of Christianity and to encourage them to spread the word to fellow students.
Result: 6-year-old born-again Ashley goes up to Jewish classmate Emma and tells her: “You can’t go to heaven. If you don’t believe in Jesus, you are going to hell.” When the teacher explains that beliefs and truth aren’t the same thing, Ashley cries. “You mean they lied to me right here in school?! Because that’s what they taught me here! How can they lie?”
I'm not kidding.
2. Donald Rumsfeld’s Worldwide Intelligence Update, a top-secret daily digest of critical military intelligence, came with cover sheets adorned with Scripture quotes during the invasion of Iraq. And that’s one of Rumsfeld’s nicer qualities, according to his former peers.
3. You have to be rich to be poor. Put it another way: The poorer you are, the more things cost. For example:
You don't have a car to get to a supermarket, much less to Costco or Trader Joe's, where the middle class goes to save money. You don't have three hours to take the bus. So you buy groceries at the corner store, where a gallon of milk costs an extra dollar. A loaf of bread there costs you $2.99 for white. For wheat, it's $3.79.
Just a little something to keep in mind the next time you hear someone carry on about how hard it is to get by on $500,000 a year in Manhattan or $53,000 a week in Hartford CT.
In God we trust – all others pay cash,
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1. Santa Barbara public elementary schools have opened their doors to an afterschool program known as the “Good News Club”, which aims to convert young children to their form of Christianity and to encourage them to spread the word to fellow students.
Result: 6-year-old born-again Ashley goes up to Jewish classmate Emma and tells her: “You can’t go to heaven. If you don’t believe in Jesus, you are going to hell.” When the teacher explains that beliefs and truth aren’t the same thing, Ashley cries. “You mean they lied to me right here in school?! Because that’s what they taught me here! How can they lie?”
I'm not kidding.
2. Donald Rumsfeld’s Worldwide Intelligence Update, a top-secret daily digest of critical military intelligence, came with cover sheets adorned with Scripture quotes during the invasion of Iraq. And that’s one of Rumsfeld’s nicer qualities, according to his former peers.
3. You have to be rich to be poor. Put it another way: The poorer you are, the more things cost. For example:
You don't have a car to get to a supermarket, much less to Costco or Trader Joe's, where the middle class goes to save money. You don't have three hours to take the bus. So you buy groceries at the corner store, where a gallon of milk costs an extra dollar. A loaf of bread there costs you $2.99 for white. For wheat, it's $3.79.
Just a little something to keep in mind the next time you hear someone carry on about how hard it is to get by on $500,000 a year in Manhattan or $53,000 a week in Hartford CT.
In God we trust – all others pay cash,
This is dF
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on 2009-05-22 03:11 pm (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-Fsfou190s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZFG5PKw504&feature=related