By presidential proclamation, today is the National Day of Prayer

[katinmn]

So get busy and start prayin'!

NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim May 5, 2005, as a National Day of Prayer. I ask the citizens of our Nation to give thanks, each according to his or her own faith, for the liberty and blessings we have received and for God's continued guidance and protection. I also urge all Americans to join in observing this day with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.
http://www.nationaldayofprayer.org/index.php?action=story_page&story_id=49

Our Governor, Tim the Tool Pawlenty, has complied and will participate in a prayer rally today. What's happening in your state?

[bitchkitty]

1. Jesus H Christ!

What a fucking idiotic thing to do. EQUAL RIGHTS! I call for a National Commit a Sin Day. I've got some good ones in store.

Chimpie is a goddamned moron and so are his subjects.

[trotsky]

2. Hey kat --

You messed up our governor's official title. The word "Man" is not in it. ;-)

[katinmn]

9. fixed it. Thanks. :-)

I was going to write his Indian name "Tim Little Tool," given to him by the Red Lake band, but that's another story.

[trotsky]

13. My uncle (a superintendent) calls him "Tim from Eagan"... LOL

Personally I like "Timmy Asshat".

[katinmn]

3. oh, and don't forget to stop at the Natl Day of Prayer store!

http://ndp.citystar.com/shop/

[NVMojo]

4. Good, I am praying hard for him to disappear soon!!!

[quaoar]

5. Can we pray

for an end to the nightmare that is the Bush Administration?

Lord, we beseech you to ease this foul plague that has beset us!

[Ganja Ninja]

6. It's also Cinco de Mayo.

Guess which one I'm going to be celebrating.
:party: :toast: :beer: :party: :toast: :beer: :party: :toast: :beer: :party: :toast: :beer:

[dhinojosa]

15. Oh man....THAT'S RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PARTY!!!!!

[dhinojosa]

7. Lord, get rid of this asshole in the White House. We ask this in the....

name of the LORD.

AMEN

[katinmn]

11. excellent!

[demnan]

8. Dear God, if you exist

please remove this imbecile and his cronies from our government. Deliver us from the evil of their policies and the bloodthirstiness of their wars. Amen.

[The Backlash Cometh]

10. Yeah, there was a sign outside the YMCA about that.

Saw it the same day someone stole my daughter's cellphone during her workout.

[mopaul]

12. i am praying for a great misfortune to befall w

[Hugin]

14. Hmmm... I pray *best* from home.

Guess I'll knock off here this morning and head that
way.

They'd better not cut my pay... Cuz I'm doin' exactly
what has been asked of me.

I also pray best in front of my stereo with a beer and
a good movie on the tube.

:popcorn:

See ya' off to pray.

TTFN...

[katinmn]

17. It's un-American to restrict Christian religious expression

Wage slaves, get home and pray -- now.

Enjoy your day!:)

[barbaraann]

16. Here's a prayer.

A PRAYER FOR CHILDREN
Ina Hughes

We pray for children
who put chocolate fingers everywhere,
who like to be tickled,
who stomp in puddles and ruin their pants,
who sneak Popsicles before supper,
who erase holes in math workbooks,
who can never find their shoes.

And we pray for those
who stare at photographers from behind barbed wire,
who’ve never squeaked across the floor in new sneakers,
who never “counted potatoes”,
who are born in places we would not be caught dead,
who never go to the circus,
who live in an X-rated world.

We pray for children
who bring us sticky kisses and fistfuls of dandelions,
who sleep with the dog and bury goldfish,
who hug us in a hurry and forget their lunch money,
who cover themselves with band-aids and sing off-key,
who squeeze toothpaste all over the sink,
who slurp their soup.

And we pray for those
who never get dessert,
who watch their parents watch them die,
who have no safe blanket to drag behind,
who can’t find any bread to steal,
who don’t have any rooms to clean up,
whose pictures aren’t on anybody’s dresser,
whose monsters are real.

We pray for children
who spend all their allowance before Tuesday,
who throw tantrums in the grocery store and pick at their food,
who like ghost stories,
who shove dirty clothes under the bed and never rinse out the tub,
who get visits from the tooth fairy,
who don’t like to be kissed in front of the car pool,
who squirm in church and scream in the phone,
whose tears we sometimes laugh at and whose smiles can make us
cry.

And we pray for those
whose nightmares come in the daytime,
who will eat anything,
who have never seen a dentist,
who aren’t spoiled by anybody,
who go to bed hungry and cry themselves to sleep,
who live and move but have no being.

We pray for children
who want to be carried and for those who must.

For those we never give up on and for those who don’t get a chance.

For those we smother and for those who will grab the hand of anybody kind enough to offer.

[katinmn]

18. that's beautiful and sad.

:-(

[barbaraann]

19. I cry every time I read it.

n/t

[Obamanaut]

22. Thank you. eom

[katinmn]

23. Hey usnret88!

Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[barbaraann]

25. You're welcome.

And welcome to DU. :hi:

[realFedUp]

20. God, work through us to have the truth revealed to all

starting from the fixed elections, Bush Inc.complicit in
9/11 happening, that Marvin Bush was head of
security at the WTC until 9/11, that Bush/Blair Inc.
secretly agreed to invade Iraq and contracts were signed in
October of that year at the State Dept., etc.

[katinmn]

21. Our "Christian" leaders new morality in practice:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3601569&mesg_id=3601569&page=

[Rob H.]

24. Shirley Dobson, wife of SpongeDob FundyPants, is the coordinator

That really tells me all I need to know about it. :grr:

[katinmn]

27. Geeze. I wonder how much taxpayers money went to her to

coordinate this national bullshit.

[Rob H.]

29. Good point!

The really crazy thing is, the local weather reports on our Air America Radio affiliate have been sponsored by the National Day of Prayer all week! They just went on the air here a couple of months ago so I know they need the money and everything, but did no one check out who the organization's members are?!

[Bouncy Ball]

26. I don't require the government to tell me when or how to pray,

thank you very much.

I do just fine on my own.

[NYCGirl]

28. There's been a National Day of Prayer every year since 1952 signed into

law by Harry Truman.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/day_pray2.htm

[katinmn]

31. yes, it's an annual thing. And now it has a much higher profile

I really wasn't aware of it until this year.

[Jack Rabbit]

30. OK. Dear Lord . . .

Please smite the Bush Administration and restore democracy to this great nation so that it is stronger than ever. Amen.

[sinkingfeeling]

32. Dear God, help us to get rid of this fascist regime that has taken

over our country. Help us to be rid of the crazy fundies that use you as an excuse to hate. Amen

[Selteri]

33. Let us pray - That he gets taken to the Hague for War Crimes and

Crimes against Humanity.

[txaslftist]

34. I'm praying for a new president.