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"Fear gan dia" |
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17 Sep 2003 05:48:32 PM |
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In plywood we trust |
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/hurricane/2003-09-16-isalbel-va-beach_x.htm
Fate, flight, plywood and prayer
By Laura Parker, USA TODAY
VIRGINIA BEACH - Televangelist Pat Robertson has boasted that his
prayers once diverted a deadly hurricane from his religious
broadcasting headquarters near here and sent it "harmlessly out to
sea."
The amphibious assault ship, USS Bataan heads out to sea from the
Norfolk, Va., Naval Base Tuesday. It was one of 40 ships that left.
AP
As Hurricane Isabel bore down on the tidewater lowlands along
Virginia's southeast Atlantic coast Tuesday, Robertson again asked
God to spare Virginia Beach and the East Coast. But while Robertson
was praying, many people around here were also putting their faith
in plywood - a lot of plywood.
"I'd say it was 50-50: 50% prayer, 50% plywood," David Groth said
of this community's preparations, as he hung another board over the
front window of David's Beach Shop and Mini Mart on Atlantic Avenue.
"I'll stay open 'til there's nobody around. But when it start
raining sideways, it's time to go."
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Hmmm, I wonder which will work better - prayer or plywood? :-)
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Fear gan dia ### http://goddamliberal.blogspot.com
Director, EAC Division for Leaving the Toilet Seat up.
-No God for Ireland! he cried. We have had too much
God in Ireland. Away with God!
-James Joyce, _A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man_
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| User: "Jesus Christ" |
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| Title: Re: In plywood we trust |
17 Sep 2003 08:31:51 PM |
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"Fear gan dia" <thdrlrtrhnhxs@btxqddxndbxn.com> :
Hmmm, I wonder which will work better - prayer or plywood? :-)
It's which one that will get the most credit that bothers me.
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| User: "Dr. Smartass" |
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| Title: Re: In plywood we trust |
18 Sep 2003 11:36:40 AM |
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"Fear gan dia" <thdrlrtrhnhxs@btxqddxndbxn.com> wrote in
news:3f68e4c0.003@btxqddxndbxn.com:
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/hurricane/2003-09-16-isalbel-va-beach_x
.htm
Fate, flight, plywood and prayer
By Laura Parker, USA TODAY
VIRGINIA BEACH - Televangelist Pat Robertson has boasted that his
prayers once diverted a deadly hurricane from his religious
broadcasting headquarters near here and sent it "harmlessly out to
sea."
<snip>
Hmmm, I wonder which will work better - prayer or plywood? :-)
As I remember that storm--being right in its path TWICE--it came up into
the Gul, made an oddball right turn and followed the coast a little, then
got bored and cut right back across and went after us again.
Home Depot is my church!
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Dr. Smartass
BAAWA Knight of Heckling -- a.a. #1939
"And the knowledge that they fear
Is a weapon to be used against them."
--Rush, "The Weapon"
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: In plywood we trust |
18 Sep 2003 05:41:14 PM |
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On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:36:40 +0000, Dr. Smartass wrote:
"Fear gan dia" <thdrlrtrhnhxs@btxqddxndbxn.com> wrote in
news:3f68e4c0.003@btxqddxndbxn.com:
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/hurricane/2003-09-16-isalbel-va-beach_x
.htm
Fate, flight, plywood and prayer
By Laura Parker, USA TODAY
VIRGINIA BEACH - Televangelist Pat Robertson has boasted that his
prayers once diverted a deadly hurricane from his religious broadcasting
headquarters near here and sent it "harmlessly out to sea."
I see "god" sent another hurricane after Pat...
--
Mark K. Bilbo
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: In plywood we trust |
19 Sep 2003 01:35:11 AM |
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In article <pan.2003.09.18.22.41.12.200980@eac.org>,
"Mark K. Bilbo" <iskanipa-y@hoo.com> wrote:
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:36:40 +0000, Dr. Smartass wrote:
"Fear gan dia" <thdrlrtrhnhxs@btxqddxndbxn.com> wrote in
news:3f68e4c0.003@btxqddxndbxn.com:
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/hurricane/2003-09-16-isalbel-va-beach_x
.htm
Fate, flight, plywood and prayer
By Laura Parker, USA TODAY
VIRGINIA BEACH - Televangelist Pat Robertson has boasted that his
prayers once diverted a deadly hurricane from his religious broadcasting
headquarters near here and sent it "harmlessly out to sea."
I see "god" sent another hurricane after Pat...
IIRC, a few years after Pat 'prayed away' the one hurricane, another
one came up the coast and knocked down the transmission tower for his
radio station. Maybe old Pat forgot to pray that day? I wonder how
much plywood he has on his windows.
--
John Hachmann, aa #1782
Pierre Laplace, when asked by Napoleon on why he made
no mention of a god in his book on astronomy: "Sire,
I have no need of that hypothesis."
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: In plywood we trust |
19 Sep 2003 06:32:53 AM |
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On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 23:35:11 -0700, johac wrote:
In article <pan.2003.09.18.22.41.12.200980@eac.org>,
"Mark K. Bilbo" <iskanipa-y@hoo.com> wrote:
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:36:40 +0000, Dr. Smartass wrote:
"Fear gan dia" <thdrlrtrhnhxs@btxqddxndbxn.com> wrote in
news:3f68e4c0.003@btxqddxndbxn.com:
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/hurricane/2003-09-16-isalbel-va-beach_x
.htm
Fate, flight, plywood and prayer
By Laura Parker, USA TODAY
VIRGINIA BEACH - Televangelist Pat Robertson has boasted that his
prayers once diverted a deadly hurricane from his religious
broadcasting headquarters near here and sent it "harmlessly out to
sea."
I see "god" sent another hurricane after Pat...
IIRC, a few years after Pat 'prayed away' the one hurricane, another one
came up the coast and knocked down the transmission tower for his radio
station. Maybe old Pat forgot to pray that day? I wonder how much plywood
he has on his windows.
Plywood, shmywood. He probably hauled ***** to some mansion or other on the
opposite coast...
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Mark K. Bilbo
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: In plywood we trust |
20 Sep 2003 01:23:42 AM |
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In article <pan.2003.09.19.11.32.53.153799@eac.org>,
"Mark K. Bilbo" <iskanipa-y@hoo.com> wrote:
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 23:35:11 -0700, johac wrote:
In article <pan.2003.09.18.22.41.12.200980@eac.org>,
"Mark K. Bilbo" <iskanipa-y@hoo.com> wrote:
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:36:40 +0000, Dr. Smartass wrote:
"Fear gan dia" <thdrlrtrhnhxs@btxqddxndbxn.com> wrote in
news:3f68e4c0.003@btxqddxndbxn.com:
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/hurricane/2003-09-16-isalbel-va-beach_x
.htm
Fate, flight, plywood and prayer
By Laura Parker, USA TODAY
VIRGINIA BEACH - Televangelist Pat Robertson has boasted that his
prayers once diverted a deadly hurricane from his religious
broadcasting headquarters near here and sent it "harmlessly out to
sea."
I see "god" sent another hurricane after Pat...
IIRC, a few years after Pat 'prayed away' the one hurricane, another one
came up the coast and knocked down the transmission tower for his radio
station. Maybe old Pat forgot to pray that day? I wonder how much plywood
he has on his windows.
Plywood, shmywood. He probably hauled ***** to some mansion or other on the
opposite coast...
Or decided to visit one of his favorite African dictators to see how
his mining operations were going.
--
John Hachmann, aa #1782
Pierre Laplace, when asked by Napoleon on why he made
no mention of a god in his book on astronomy: "Sire,
I have no need of that hypothesis."
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: In plywood we trust |
20 Sep 2003 09:25:18 AM |
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On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:23:42 -0700, johac wrote:
In article <pan.2003.09.19.11.32.53.153799@eac.org>,
"Mark K. Bilbo" <iskanipa-y@hoo.com> wrote:
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 23:35:11 -0700, johac wrote:
In article <pan.2003.09.18.22.41.12.200980@eac.org>,
"Mark K. Bilbo" <iskanipa-y@hoo.com> wrote:
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:36:40 +0000, Dr. Smartass wrote:
"Fear gan dia" <thdrlrtrhnhxs@btxqddxndbxn.com> wrote in
news:3f68e4c0.003@btxqddxndbxn.com:
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/hurricane/2003-09-16-isalbel-va-beach_x
.htm
Fate, flight, plywood and prayer
By Laura Parker, USA TODAY
VIRGINIA BEACH - Televangelist Pat Robertson has boasted that his
prayers once diverted a deadly hurricane from his religious
broadcasting headquarters near here and sent it "harmlessly out to
sea."
I see "god" sent another hurricane after Pat...
IIRC, a few years after Pat 'prayed away' the one hurricane, another
one came up the coast and knocked down the transmission tower for his
radio station. Maybe old Pat forgot to pray that day? I wonder how
much plywood he has on his windows.
Plywood, shmywood. He probably hauled ***** to some mansion or other on
the opposite coast...
Or decided to visit one of his favorite African dictators to see how his
mining operations were going.
I thought that guy got booted?
'Sides, Pat's into Chinese communists lately.
"Redistribute my wealth baby! Oh Jeebus!"
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Mark K. Bilbo
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: In plywood we trust |
21 Sep 2003 01:46:37 AM |
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In article <pan.2003.09.20.14.25.17.294609@eac.org>,
"Mark K. Bilbo" <iskanipa-y@hoo.com> wrote:
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:23:42 -0700, johac wrote:
In article <pan.2003.09.19.11.32.53.153799@eac.org>,
"Mark K. Bilbo" <iskanipa-y@hoo.com> wrote:
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 23:35:11 -0700, johac wrote:
In article <pan.2003.09.18.22.41.12.200980@eac.org>,
"Mark K. Bilbo" <iskanipa-y@hoo.com> wrote:
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:36:40 +0000, Dr. Smartass wrote:
"Fear gan dia" <thdrlrtrhnhxs@btxqddxndbxn.com> wrote in
news:3f68e4c0.003@btxqddxndbxn.com:
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/hurricane/2003-09-16-isalbel-va-beach
_x
.htm
Fate, flight, plywood and prayer
By Laura Parker, USA TODAY
VIRGINIA BEACH - Televangelist Pat Robertson has boasted that his
prayers once diverted a deadly hurricane from his religious
broadcasting headquarters near here and sent it "harmlessly out to
sea."
I see "god" sent another hurricane after Pat...
IIRC, a few years after Pat 'prayed away' the one hurricane, another
one came up the coast and knocked down the transmission tower for his
radio station. Maybe old Pat forgot to pray that day? I wonder how
much plywood he has on his windows.
Plywood, shmywood. He probably hauled ***** to some mansion or other on
the opposite coast...
Or decided to visit one of his favorite African dictators to see how his
mining operations were going.
I thought that guy got booted?
Taylor was, but apparently Pat has/had some other friends in that part
of the world, like Mobutu from Zaire, and Frederick Chiluba of
Zambia..."who in 1991 had declared Zambia a Christian nation. ³Your
country is a standard for not only Africa, but the entire world,² he
gushed, and to the audience said, ³Wouldn¹t you like to have someone
like that as President of the United States?²". from:
http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/aah/vaneck_10_4.htm
Chiluba stepped down in 1992, but presumably he's still around.
'Sides, Pat's into Chinese communists lately.
"Redistribute my wealth baby! Oh Jeebus!"
"Workers of the world unite, and don't forget to make a generous
prayer offering by calling the 800 number on your screen. We have
hundreds of 'volunteer' comrades waiting to take your calls!"
Interesting playmates Pat has.
--
John Hachmann, aa #1782
Pierre Laplace, when asked by Napoleon on why he made
no mention of a god in his book on astronomy: "Sire,
I have no need of that hypothesis."
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: In plywood we trust |
19 Sep 2003 12:03:05 AM |
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On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 17:41:14 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<iskanipa-y@hoo.com> wrote:
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:36:40 +0000, Dr. Smartass wrote:
"Fear gan dia" <thdrlrtrhnhxs@btxqddxndbxn.com> wrote in
news:3f68e4c0.003@btxqddxndbxn.com:
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/hurricane/2003-09-16-isalbel-va-beach_x
.htm
Fate, flight, plywood and prayer
By Laura Parker, USA TODAY
VIRGINIA BEACH - Televangelist Pat Robertson has boasted that his
prayers once diverted a deadly hurricane from his religious broadcasting
headquarters near here and sent it "harmlessly out to sea."
I see "god" sent another hurricane after Pat...
If Pat does get hurricaned, this time the Lord will have:
a. moved in mysterious ways
b. had a purpose we cannot comprehend or is yet to be revealed
c. answered his prayers, this time with a "no"
d. all of the above
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| User: "Jos Flachs" |
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19 Sep 2003 05:25:31 AM |
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On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 00:03:05 -0500,
wrote:
I see "god" sent another hurricane after Pat...
If Pat does get hurricaned, this time the Lord will have:
a. moved in mysterious ways
b. had a purpose we cannot comprehend or is yet to be revealed
c. answered his prayers, this time with a "no"
d. all of the above
e. thought: "got you this time, fucker!"
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| User: "raven1" |
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| Title: Re: In plywood we trust |
20 Sep 2003 03:16:05 AM |
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On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 17:25:31 +0700, Jos Flachs
<'wcruise'@ksc15.th.com> wrote:
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 00:03:05 -0500,
wrote:
I see "god" sent another hurricane after Pat...
If Pat does get hurricaned, this time the Lord will have:
a. moved in mysterious ways
b. had a purpose we cannot comprehend or is yet to be revealed
c. answered his prayers, this time with a "no"
d. all of the above
e. thought: "got you this time, fucker!"
And how do we know that "god" wasn't aiming at Pat, but missed?
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| User: "" |
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19 Sep 2003 08:16:30 AM |
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On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 17:25:31 +0700, Jos Flachs
<'wcruise'@ksc15.th.com> wrote:
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 00:03:05 -0500,
wrote:
I see "god" sent another hurricane after Pat...
If Pat does get hurricaned, this time the Lord will have:
a. moved in mysterious ways
b. had a purpose we cannot comprehend or is yet to be revealed
c. answered his prayers, this time with a "no"
d. all of the above
e. thought: "got you this time, fucker!"
f: decided not to kill other praying people just because Pat asked
"Him" to.
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| User: "Douglas Berry" |
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19 Sep 2003 09:33:03 AM |
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On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 17:41:14 -0500, several witnesses claim to have
seen "Mark K. Bilbo" <iskanipa-y@hoo.com> scrawl a message on the
wall:
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:36:40 +0000, Dr. Smartass wrote:
"Fear gan dia" <thdrlrtrhnhxs@btxqddxndbxn.com> wrote in
news:3f68e4c0.003@btxqddxndbxn.com:
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/hurricane/2003-09-16-isalbel-va-beach_x
.htm
Fate, flight, plywood and prayer
By Laura Parker, USA TODAY
VIRGINIA BEACH - Televangelist Pat Robertson has boasted that his
prayers once diverted a deadly hurricane from his religious broadcasting
headquarters near here and sent it "harmlessly out to sea."
I see "god" sent another hurricane after Pat...
And after Bush.
--
Douglas Berry
http://gridlore.home.mindspring.com
Atheist #2147, Atheist Vet #5
Ezekiel 13:20 "Wherefore thus saith the
Lord GOD; Behold, I am against your pillows"
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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19 Sep 2003 10:31:36 AM |
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On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 14:33:03 +0000, Douglas Berry wrote:
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 17:41:14 -0500, several witnesses claim to have seen
"Mark K. Bilbo" <iskanipa-y@hoo.com> scrawl a message on the wall:
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:36:40 +0000, Dr. Smartass wrote:
"Fear gan dia" <thdrlrtrhnhxs@btxqddxndbxn.com> wrote in
news:3f68e4c0.003@btxqddxndbxn.com:
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/hurricane/2003-09-16-isalbel-va-beach_x
.htm
Fate, flight, plywood and prayer
By Laura Parker, USA TODAY
VIRGINIA BEACH - Televangelist Pat Robertson has boasted that his
prayers once diverted a deadly hurricane from his religious
broadcasting headquarters near here and sent it "harmlessly out to
sea."
I see "god" sent another hurricane after Pat...
And after Bush.
Well, if "he" gets them, I'll stop being atheist...
(There, finally, evidence that would demand my verdict!)
--
Mark K. Bilbo
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| User: "Gregory Gadow" |
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| Title: Re: In plywood we trust |
18 Sep 2003 09:12:27 AM |
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Fear gan dia wrote:
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/hurricane/2003-09-16-isalbel-va-beach_x.htm
Fate, flight, plywood and prayer
By Laura Parker, USA TODAY
VIRGINIA BEACH - Televangelist Pat Robertson has boasted that his
prayers once diverted a deadly hurricane from his religious
broadcasting headquarters near here and sent it "harmlessly out to
sea."
The amphibious assault ship, USS Bataan heads out to sea from the
Norfolk, Va., Naval Base Tuesday. It was one of 40 ships that left.
AP
As Hurricane Isabel bore down on the tidewater lowlands along
Virginia's southeast Atlantic coast Tuesday, Robertson again asked
God to spare Virginia Beach and the East Coast. But while Robertson
was praying, many people around here were also putting their faith
in plywood - a lot of plywood.
"I'd say it was 50-50: 50% prayer, 50% plywood," David Groth said
of this community's preparations, as he hung another board over the
front window of David's Beach Shop and Mini Mart on Atlantic Avenue.
"I'll stay open 'til there's nobody around. But when it start
raining sideways, it's time to go."
<end extract>
Hmmm, I wonder which will work better - prayer or plywood? :-)
There is a beautiful Arab proverb: Put your trust in Allah; but tie up your
camel first.
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Gregory Gadow
techbear@serv.net
http://www.serv.net/~techbear
Is your faith so weak and your god so powerless
that, without government endorsement of your
religion, all hell will break loose?
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