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Ah, yes, the power of prayer.
Remember a couple of weeks ago when the Focus on the Family nuts all decided to pray for rain at the Democratic convention? PZ talked about it. Even Olbermann featured it. With the bad publicity, they decided to pull the video, and it's no longer available on YouTube. Which is a shame, really, given what happened this morning:
DENVER - A sprinkler system partially flooded part of the Pepsi Center Monday morning.
The Denver Fire Department, which has a crew stationed at the center all week, was able to respond quickly before 5 a.m. when the sprinkler went off.
The sprinkler was located on the club level in a skybox which had recently been renovated to host a news crew. It appears the skybox belongs to Fox.
After going off, the sprinkler released 50 to 100 gallons of water per minute and 9NEWS crews estimate it was on for around 5 minutes.
Yes, Faux News's skybox was flooded.
(Nearly) Instant Karma, anyone?
Jim Downey
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Praying for Rain? You Betcha'!
I ask you who might God prefer to be our next president? Christians might think McCain, because of his pro-life stance.
There was talk weeks ago, bouncing around the christian community, about whether it would be wrong to pray for it to rain at the outdoor stadium acceptance speech by Obama at tonight's democratic convention.
Well rain is coming, and a lot of it. A deluge in fact. But it isn't coming to Denver.
As of right now it is predicted that a category 3 hurricane will strike the gulf coast, perhaps, God forbid, even New Orleans this coming Tuesday, - right in the middle of the republican convention. Does God have a sense of humor? You bet He does!
Not only will He provide a very real, destructive reminder of the failed republican response to Katrina during their convention, but if the storm is serious enough, the republicans will have to compete with a hurricane for television airtime as well. It could be split screen coverage, and depending on the ferocity, even pre-empt the network coverage of their party unifying event.
Meanwhile, it is scheduled to be 70 degrees and sunny, when Obama takes the stage tonight in Denver.
Many christians did pray for rain. And, He, in His infinite mercy and wisdom answered that prayer, and gave all of those what they prayed for. Just not in the way that they thought He would. I hope Olbermann picks up on it.
Reminder
This reminds me of the punch-line of a joke, which I don't remember, in which the hand of god comes down out of the sky and a voice booms, "because you piss me off." That would certainly be within the realm of interpretation of rain flooding Faux News's booth.
Frank Moorman, skeptic
Pray for rain? Pray for diarrhea!
If you want to see a funny parody of the "Pray for Rain" video, check out Pray for Diarrhea.
That's brilliant.
From what I remember of the original, that's an almost shot-for-shot remake of the original, complete with the same phrasing and tone. Very well done! Thanks!
Jim Downey
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It's amazing how far simple substitution takes it
Thanks, Jim. The word substitution worked so simply and beautifully, the script practically wroted itself!
Fox News
Think it might have been deliberate? While in no way condoning or supporting such activity ... I'd still fall over laughing.
And have you seen this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUpssQz2sTw
A Fox News "reporter" goes out and tries to talk to some of the protestors at the Democratic National Convention. The dimwit with the mike goes throught the crowd keeps asking "Don't you people believe in freedom of speech? Don't you believe in freedom of speech?"
Watching, I wished someone would snatch the mike away from him, yell into it, "This IS freedom of speech!" and then ... ahem, do something earthy with it.
Instead, the crowd starts chanting "F*ck Fox News! F*ck Fox News!"
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