The National Day of Prayer occurs on the first Thursday of each May. This is a day of prayer for all, as long as 'for all' means only those who subscribe to the Lausanne Convenant of the Judeo-Christian heritage (whatever that means). A day of prayer that does not cross the church/state line, as long as a proclamation from President George W. Bush and similar proclamations from the governors of all 50 states and the support of the House and Congress don't count as crossing the church/state line. A day of prayer that helps people, as long as by 'helping people' one means mumbling magic spells to an invisible monster that lives in the sky instead of delivering potable water, food, medicine and the like to people in need. The National Day of Prayer - your tax dollars at work?
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Ensure a Free and Fair Election (Ban Paperless Voting Machines
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
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