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RamboLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 01:31 PM Original message |
Pray-in at S.F. gas station asks God to lower prices |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 01:35 PM Response to Original message |
1. I like Malloy's suggestion best.. |
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StarryNite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 01:37 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Oh good lord! |
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Joe Bacon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 09:39 PM Response to Reply #2 |
58. Yes, they are nuts |
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meow2u3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 09:12 PM Response to Reply #1 |
57. The powers that be will jack up the price of water |
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DesertRat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-27-08 03:41 PM Response to Reply #1 |
72. Good one! |
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Mad_Dem_X (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 08:25 AM Response to Reply #1 |
87. Hee hee! |
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LakeSamish706 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 01:37 PM Response to Original message |
3. Holly Crapolla.. They gotta be Republicans. n/t |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 02:13 PM Response to Reply #3 |
18. Republicans in San Francisco? |
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LakeSamish706 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 02:16 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Must be just plain nut jobs then.... n/t |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 02:52 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. i've heard worse ideas than praying for change |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 07:27 PM Response to Reply #22 |
49. There are worse ideas, but given that it's been demonstrated that prayer has no effect... |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 11:22 PM Response to Reply #49 |
59. You are soooo goddamned wise! |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-27-08 03:56 PM Response to Reply #59 |
73. No, you give me too much credit - double-blind trials have shown they were wasting their time. |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-27-08 05:00 PM Response to Reply #73 |
77. Go on... |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-27-08 09:25 PM Response to Reply #77 |
79. If you think even great people can't be better and do more, you worship idols. |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 12:17 AM Response to Reply #79 |
83. It's presumptuous, that's the problem |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 01:03 AM Response to Reply #83 |
84. "more mortal than them" means what, exactly? That I haven't done great things like MLK? |
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brentspeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 04:05 PM Response to Reply #19 |
28. "Nut jobs" who also give up their free time to volunteer at a soup kitchen |
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dmallind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 09:02 AM Response to Reply #28 |
89. Does doing something good stop anyone from being a nutjob? NT |
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Speck Tater (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 01:37 PM Response to Original message |
4. OMFG! We are supposed to outgrow "magical thinking" by age 12 |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 07:36 PM Response to Reply #4 |
51. Didn't you get the memo? |
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fshrink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 01:38 PM Response to Original message |
5. I heard you. I will lower them down. |
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samdogmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 01:38 PM Response to Original message |
6. Gosh...I'm sure "God" will get right on this! |
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fshrink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 04:26 PM Response to Reply #6 |
31. I just did. |
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samdogmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 07:26 PM Response to Reply #31 |
48. Wow, God, thanks! |
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fshrink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 11:48 PM Response to Reply #48 |
60. I do have a long list. See what I can do though. |
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Donkeykick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 01:42 PM Response to Original message |
7. Most chances are... |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 01:42 PM Response to Original message |
8. WWJP? |
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BlueJazz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 01:44 PM Response to Original message |
9. I Love this part >> "Our leaders don't seem to be able ....." |
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Mojorabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 04:14 PM Response to Reply #9 |
30. This is the problem |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 01:44 PM Response to Original message |
10. If I owned the gas station, I'd start raising the price by $0.01 every minute until they left. n/t |
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emilyg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 01:46 PM Response to Original message |
11. Like chicken soup - it can't hurt. |
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ohio2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 04:34 PM Response to Reply #11 |
33. Tell that to PETA .............. nt |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 07:29 PM Response to Reply #11 |
50. In this case, agreed, because no one's sick. But it's been demonstrated through valid studies... |
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Scairp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 01:48 PM Response to Original message |
12. Hey! |
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Mabus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 01:49 PM Response to Original message |
13. Now if he could just cast out the demons in the candy rack |
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boobooday (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 01:53 PM Response to Original message |
14. Geez, why didn't we think of that before? |
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angstlessk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 01:56 PM Response to Original message |
15. they're praying to the wrong God, ain't that Allah's domain, oil??? |
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Mz Pip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 02:10 PM Response to Original message |
16. We do have our share of |
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diane in sf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 02:11 PM Response to Original message |
17. Time to save money for an electric car, or pray for it. |
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TroglodyteScholar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 02:25 PM Response to Original message |
20. Sounds like the GA rethug governor's plan for dealing with the state's water shortage... |
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ozymandius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 02:35 PM Response to Original message |
21. As good-intentioned as it sounds, I am skeptical it'll work. |
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snooper2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 09:30 AM Response to Reply #21 |
90. you are "skeptical" it will work... |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 03:07 PM Response to Original message |
23. i am so fucking sick of religious nut-jobs EVERYWHERE. |
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hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 03:27 PM Response to Original message |
24. Bad news. God's not going to make any more oil. |
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olddad56 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-27-08 02:18 AM Response to Reply #24 |
62. But Bush and Cheney are going to make more oil... |
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Joe Bacon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-27-08 09:44 AM Response to Reply #24 |
69. Oh, that's not true |
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electron_blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 03:28 PM Response to Original message |
25. Some people have no clue how things really work in the world, do they? |
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DavidMS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 03:33 PM Response to Original message |
26. The Dark Ages called... |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 03:47 PM Response to Original message |
27. That will be one of the prevailing responses to peak oil in the states |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 04:12 PM Response to Original message |
29. Okay, I'm gonna take an unpopular stand to defend Rocky here: |
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ohio2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 04:40 PM Response to Reply #29 |
34. worshipping the sacred RAC for 50 years now |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 05:36 PM Response to Reply #34 |
38. That might be an interesting anthropology course |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-27-08 05:50 AM Response to Reply #34 |
64. The sacred Royal Automobile Club? |
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bitchkitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-27-08 06:59 AM Response to Reply #34 |
65. Ha! At first I thought that |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 05:48 PM Response to Reply #29 |
39. What a GREAT post S4P!!! |
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Mabus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 06:29 PM Response to Reply #29 |
43. I guess it depends on where you live and how you choose to live your life |
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llmart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-27-08 04:16 PM Response to Reply #29 |
76. I disagree.... |
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ohio2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 04:32 PM Response to Original message |
32. This douchebag is from DC yet...he went to SF to do this PR stunt? WTF is he smoking? nt |
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mwb970 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 05:12 PM Response to Original message |
35. He sounds bitter. |
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tavalon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 06:12 PM Response to Reply #35 |
41. Good one! |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 05:15 PM Response to Original message |
36. I didn't know God was in charge of petrol prices! |
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madmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 05:27 PM Response to Original message |
37. So watch bush will hear this, open the reserves, and say god told him to! |
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TheCowsCameHome (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 06:10 PM Response to Original message |
40. ...and miraculously, the prices were instantly posted at ground level |
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Broadslidin (949 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 06:22 PM Response to Original message |
42. As our Born Again Christan Bush decrees death & destruction upon the insolent Iranians... |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 06:32 PM Response to Original message |
44. This actually makes me incredibly sad |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 06:36 PM Response to Original message |
45. Oh Lord.... |
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MJJP21 (262 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 06:51 PM Response to Original message |
46. Prayer |
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GoddessOfGuinness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 07:22 PM Response to Original message |
47. Why can't we separate our material crap from our spiritual beliefs? |
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zanne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-27-08 07:32 AM Response to Reply #47 |
67. You mean like praying for your football team to win? |
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DeSwiss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 07:49 PM Response to Original message |
52. Now that's what I call "Prayin' For Ethyl" |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 07:50 PM Response to Original message |
53. God is totally going to listen to this. It has no higher priority. |
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Sabriel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 07:56 PM Response to Reply #53 |
54. He's gone a bit deaf, apparently. |
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samdogmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 08:03 PM Response to Reply #54 |
55. But.....God just answered me up thread! |
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bluesmail (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-26-08 08:12 PM Response to Original message |
56. someonebeat me to the Good Lord bs. |
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olddad56 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-27-08 02:15 AM Response to Original message |
61. Before I went to Costco for gas today, I prayed it would be less than $4 a gallon.... |
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zanne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-27-08 07:29 AM Response to Reply #61 |
66. HAH! nt |
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truthisfreedom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-27-08 03:00 AM Response to Original message |
63. Might work. |
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tanyev (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-27-08 07:45 AM Response to Original message |
68. And God said, "Why didn't you listen to Jimmy Carter 30 years ago?" |
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Minnesota_Lib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-27-08 11:52 AM Response to Original message |
70. And while you're at it, God, can you check under the hood? Amen. |
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Historic NY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-27-08 03:22 PM Response to Original message |
71. Did it go down yet? 4 cents here in NY since yesterday............ |
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timtom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-27-08 03:56 PM Response to Original message |
74. Not one of the better uses for prayer... |
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timtom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-27-08 04:08 PM Response to Original message |
75. I am astonished at the intellectual level of discourse on this thread. |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-27-08 09:28 PM Response to Reply #75 |
81. Excuse me, but pointing out facts isn't "piling on". |
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Acadia Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-27-08 08:15 PM Response to Original message |
78. Pray for nationalized oil companies. |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-27-08 09:27 PM Response to Original message |
80. idiots n/t |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-27-08 09:30 PM Response to Original message |
82. HAHAHAHA!!! Note to SF bible-thumpers. Religion jumped the shark a loooong time ago. |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 03:43 AM Response to Original message |
85. Read "The End of Faith" by Sam Harris |
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bdamomma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 08:21 AM Response to Original message |
86. too much religion can REALLY make people stupid. |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 08:57 AM Response to Original message |
88. OMG |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 09:43 AM Response to Original message |
91. Have they tried the laying off the hands directly on the gas pump? |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 10:00 AM Response to Original message |
92. Kind of gives you a good insight into the future of things |
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shain from kane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-28-08 02:20 PM Response to Original message |
93. Please, God, give me gas. |
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