Is it starting to be time to consider Canadian Citizenship?Is there nothing in the Constitution this sock puppet will fail to molest?King George has issued a Royal Edict:Executive Order: Responsibilities of the Department of Homeland Security with Respect to Faith-Based and Community InitiativesBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to help the Federal Government coordinate a national effort to expand opportunities for faith-based and other community organizations and to strengthen their capacity to better meet America?s social and community needs, it is hereby ordered as follows:Section 1. Establishment of a Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives at the Department of Homeland Security.
thanks Tom. I think.
Wounderful….
Where is my toaster?
I’m sorry; my brain isn’t working.
What exactly does Homeland Security have to do with “expand(ing) opportunities for faith-based and other community organizations and to strengthen their capacity to better meet America?s social and community needs…”
WTF???
I’ll post here also so no one misses my pearls of wisdom……calm down. It’s a joke.
OK…which one do we post to?
What’s wrong with this approach? Isn’t American Atheists Inc considered a “tax-free” community organization?
So, let’s see, you complain about slow response. Complain about people still doing without, 6 months after Katrina. Now you complain about an approach….
What don’t you complain about?
How about offering an alternative?
Maybe you can close the library for a few days and let the employee hand out meals in the bayou.
Truth is there is no other network besides churches and many soup kitchens that are in place to take care of those still suffering from Katrina.
Dave, how much did American Atheists donate to the cause?
lets try that again.
I disagree the curches aren’t housing the people now are they. And if they are why are there normally a lot of homeless people on the street. We have a whopping great big church near us and a bunch of homeless people still wandering around outside in the dead of winter (Michigan). It seems to me that shelter is the formost problem to do with the Katrina victims so tell me how are the churches helping?
It almost sounds like the government is trying to pass the buck. “Thousand Points of Light” meets “Faith Based Initiative” on ste_roids.
So when the next super-globalwarming-fueled hurricane rolls around FEMA can ring its hands and religious organizations will be stuck with orchestrating the entire humanitarian / rescue response.
Strange days.
Comment from: anadrol [Member]
So are you saying it’s the churches fault you have homeless people?
Look a bit harder. I’ll bet there are shelters nearby all supported by your church communities.
anadrol what have you done to help the homeless?
I’ve located several Form 990′s filed by American Atheists Inc. Doesn’t look like they’re doing anything about the homeless either.
phreedm:
Are you being deliberately obtuse?
Or is your reading comprehension that poor?
Or are you using allegory as a tool here?
Why don’t you set us an example of your own good works?
Please. I am curious.
Eventually faith based tax dollars will buy a large quantity of pre-poisoned kool-aid or maybe a shiny new .50 caliper Branch Davidian style machine gun. Or better, tax dollars will allow a generous preacher to handout $100.00 bills to all his parishioners for pedagogic purposes, or for whatever reason.
Praise the Lord, I saw the light.
Bush is a genius.
Hey Phredummy, got a clue where this came from?
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. –That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
I sent money to Tulane. My mother graduated from their medical school in 1950 and my wife was an associate dean of their school of law.
My skill set does not match with the majority of the needs in the New Orleans parishes. My money went to fund free medical clinics.
Someone much more fun than you, Phredummy, observed:
When I was back there in seminary school
There was a person there
Who put forth the proposition
That you can petition the Lord with prayer
Petition the lord with prayer
Petition the lord with prayer
You cannot petition the lord with prayer!
Can you give me sanctuary
I must find a place to hide
A place for me to hide
Can you find me soft asylum
I can’t make it anymore
The Man is at the door
…
Welcome to the Soft Parade
All our lives we sweat and save
Building for a shallow grave
Must be something else we say
Somehow to defend this place
Everything must be this way
Everything must be this way, yeah
The Soft Parade has now begun
Listen to the engines hum
People out to have some fun
A cobra on my left
Leopard on my right, yeah
The deer woman in a silk dress
Girls with beads around their necks
Kiss the hunter of the green vest
Who has wrestled before
With lions in the night
Out of sight!
The lights are getting brighter
The radio is moaning
Calling to the dogs
There are still a few animals
Left out in the yard
But it’s getting harder
To describe sailors
To the underfed
JIM Morrison & The Doors: Soft Parade
Phredummy – talking to you is akin to describing sailors to the underfed. There is no common point of reference.
Government – according to the Declaration, is both a right and a duty to serve the common good. Government that is so bad as to allow thousands of our fellow citizens to die needless deaths is a governement that cannot stand.
God is not the excuse, though this Government tends to blame all things they screw-up on God’s will.
The faith-based initiative is, for the most part, sophistry. What Bush has done is to extend the government teat to the excluded child and weaning that child from the flow of tax dollars will be one painful lesson in teething for all of us.
phreedm,
I don’t pretend to help people in need like the churches do. Hey if I was tax free and collecting money off of people I would find it my moral duty to try and find shelter for as many people as I could. It seems to me that all the church’s money goes to lining the pockets of the people running them. It seems to me that there is a disparate relationship between the number of homeless around our area and the manicured niceness of the churches lawns.
p.s. by the way when ever I see a homeless person standing somewhere near a place I can buy them a meal I usually do. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a cadilak driving priest do the same thing.
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