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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 03:30 PM
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Rabbi: Serving the "gods" of lust, pornography, homosexuality & abortion can prevent rain!
The nuts are really coming out of the woodwork now to work their personal agendas into this Georgia drought.

And, help me out, is it a blasphemy to type the word "god"? Why does this "media advisory" use "g-d"?

Also, finally: why does "abortion on demand" eliminate "millions of pre-born incense" and why does "G-d" weep about same? Thank you. :silly:


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Contact: Rabbi Yehuda Levin, 718-469-6999

MEDIA ADVISORY, Nov. 13 /Christian Newswire/ -- Rabbi Yehuda Levin, whose prayer for rain in Columbia SC on August 7, 1986, was followed by four days of rain. (See documentation by visiting our web site www.GodReignOverUs.com) came to Atlanta and prayed for rained at the Goldome Capital Building on November 7, 2007. To view the video slide program and prayer click here.

Around the time of Rabbi Levin's prayer Governor Perdue announced he (too) would be holding an ecumenical service at the same location on Tuesday November 12. Rabbi Levin who is an emissary of over 1000 Rabbis of the Rabbinical Alliance of America and The Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the U.S. and Canada issued the following statements: We are very encouraged by Governor Perdue's continuation of praying for rain. According to the Jewish tradition such prayer was often accompanied by fasting, but more importantly by introspection repentance and a commitment to better ones ways. Thus to make our prayers truly effective and end this drought and various "natural" disasters, we call upon the Governor and religious leaders statewide and nationally to specifically condemn the immoral movements that surely cause Divine displeasures and harm our country and youth physically and spiritually:

A- Abortion on demand, eliminating millions of pre-born incense causes G-d to weep according to a source in the Kabbalah.

B- Homosexuality & Homosexual marriage were the final societal breakdowns which brought about the flood of Noah and the destruction of Sodom (hence the name sodomy) according the ancient midrashic text.

C- Pornography which robs innocence of our youth & destroys families is prohibited by the Torah (Bible): "AND DO NOT STRAY (EXPLORE) AFTER YOUR HEART AND AFTER YOUR EYES WHICH YOU LUST AFTER THEM" (numbers 15:39).

The Bible states "Beware lest your heart be seduced & turn astray serving gods of others and bow to them. Then the wrath of G-D will blaze against you, He will restrain the heaven so there will be no rain & the ground will not yield its produce... (Deuteronomy 11:15, 16)". Serving the "gods" of lust, pornography, homosexuality & abortion can prevent rain! G-d takes note of the rejection of his mandate to reproduce: "Male & Female he created them... & G-d said (to them) be fruitful & multiply" (Genesis 1:27, 28). He similarly notes the corruption of his marriage commandment: Therefore a man shall leave his father & mother & cling to his wife & they shall become one flesh (Genesis 2:24)

The common denominator of the aforementioned immoral movements is that they encourage lust, sterility and bareness. Measure for measure G-d makes His earth scorched, sterile and barren. We call upon all religious leaders, broadcasters and conservative G-d fearing talk show hosts to raise the issue of prayer coupled with condemning immorality. Now is the time to challenge the Atlanta talk show hosts and others who scoff at the efficacy of prayer. "One scoffer can undo one hundred chastisements." G-d built into His Creation that everyone of us can be a "DroughtStopper", as it states in Genesis 2:5 according to Talmudic exegesis "... for G-d had not sent rain upon the earth as there was no man to work (i.e. worship for the benefit of watering) the soil". All we have to do is pray that G-d Reign Over Us!


http://www.earnedmedia.org/ryl1113.htm
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IndianaJones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 03:32 PM
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1. I thought some guy cutting corners on a dam brought about that flood. nt.
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enid602 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 03:35 PM
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2. lust, pornography, homosexuality
Hell, who needs rain when you've got all that?
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enid602 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 03:35 PM
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3. lust, pornography, homosexuality
Hell, who needs rain when you've got all that?
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Lurking Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 03:35 PM
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4. Jews often do not type the word
because you were not supposed to put it on something that could potentially be erased or defaced.

There is no hard and fast rule. I do it out of habit. But if I am cutting and pasting a quote, for example, I don't go in and change it to "G-d".

And, yes, the whack jobs are crawling out of the woodwork.

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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 03:41 PM
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10. Thank you :) Now about that incense . . .
;)
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MindPilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 03:42 PM
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13. Maybe pre-born incense is before you light it...
:hide:
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Lurking Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 04:02 PM
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31. Well the aborted baby's name was Frank, see.....
and I think now we know what happens to rabbis who hang out at Free Republic. ;)
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 03:36 PM
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5. I wasn't aware of any homosexuality during the time of Noah's flood.
I thought, reading my Bible, that there was a whole whack of "begatting" during that time. :shrug:

Man, the things you learn about from homophobic rabbis!
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 03:41 PM
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12. Silly rabbi, tricks are for...ah, what's the use. nt
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FredScuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 04:02 PM
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30. The penguins were a little fruity
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 03:36 PM
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6. Man, those religious gasbags all sure do hate sex.
It doesn't seem to matter which religion it is, either. They all hate sex, children, and especially where children come from.

May they all inhabit their sexless hells in peace and leave the rest of us alone to pursue happiness in the normal fashion.
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 04:02 PM
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29. The anti-sex BS stems from the Plato, Pythagoras, and middle eastern Manicheans.
It is from those sources that the Abrahamic religions got notion of the physical body and especially things like sex being sinful or disgusting.
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 03:38 PM
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7. So why is New Orleans the second-rainiest city in the mainland U.S.?
behind only Mobile, Ala.? (Hilo, HI has both beat all hollow, but I digress.)

Lust, pornography and homosexuality are all in abundant supply in the Crescent City; abortion, not so much, largely due to the tirless efforts of anti-choice kooks like this. And yet -- no drought! It's a miracle! :eyes:
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 03:46 PM
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17. San Francisco gets a lot of rain, too.
Religious extremists are the same all over the world, whatever they call themselves.

I expect to see a lot more of this kind of thing as climate change accelerates, disasters become more acute, and resources are depleted. Human beings do not react well to stress. I expect to see medieval-like behavior of mobs.
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 05:59 PM
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41. "God Hates Fog" nt
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Crunchy Frog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 04:19 PM
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35. God varies his punishment to suit the locale.
He punishes NO with floods and hurricanes.
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MindPilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 03:38 PM
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8. Crazy ain't it? These people believe this without question.
But global climate change and evolution are myths. :banghead:
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 03:38 PM
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9. If we send this guy some bottled water, maybe he'll shut up
and go back into the headboard.

lol
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TechBear_Seattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 03:41 PM
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11. Talibangelicalism: Not just for Christians any more. n/t
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gollygee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 03:43 PM
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14. I thought religious folks said that it caused hurricanes
which does it cause? Too much rain, or not enough?

:crazy:
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 03:46 PM
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16. And terrorist attacks...
and headaches... and foot odor...

I'm sure they could find something they personally disapprove of that causes all manner of Bad and Really Nasty and Undesirable Things.

:crazy: x a brazilian!
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 03:45 PM
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15. So what caused the destruction of Sodom, really?
Was it sex-related stuff or was it people being selfish and greedy?

I've heard so many interpretations. :crazy:

And honestly I'm only curious in an intellectual sense... I'm not crazy enough to think that a book written thousands of years ago by tribesmen actually holds much water.

:rofl:
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 03:47 PM
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19. Most Biblical scholars say it was the sin of inhospitality that did in Sodom.
People were selfish and greedy and when they were mean to visitors that was the last straw. It has nothing to do with being gay.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 03:48 PM
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20. That sounds SO much more reasonable.
If there is a Goddess, I doubt it's as obsessed with what people do with their reproductive organs as fundies are.

:crazy: x infinity!
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IndianaJones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 03:51 PM
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22. sodomy. nt.
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 03:53 PM
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23. You're funny. (nt)
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TlalocW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 03:54 PM
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24. I think
That somewhere in the New Testament, Jesus chastises people not to be like the people of Sodom, and by that he meant greedy and inhospitable.

The whole thing where the men of Sodom gathered around Lot's house and said, "We wish to have relations" with the men (angels) in Lot's house, has only recently been interpreted to be homosexual in nature. The phrase in the original language means to talk with. But Lot panicked at the idea, even offering up his own daughters to them to leave the angels alone, which re-enforces the whole sexual angle unfortunately. But in my mind, you've got a gang of men in Lot's front yard, and the leader has a big, heavy tree branch in one hand that he's slowly smacking the palm of his other hand with while saying, "Hey, Lot... Let us see your guests... We just want to... 'talk' with them. Heheheheheh."

TlalocW
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TechBear_Seattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 05:18 PM
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37. "Relations" is an entirely incorrect translation
The word that is actually used is YDH, which carries a sense of "to know." It is used (if memory serves) 398 times in the Hebrew Scriptures; only ten times is it used as a euphemism for sex and then only in cases where a man is having sexual relations with his wife. Sexual "sins" are denoted with the euphemism ShKV, "to lay down." If the writer of the Sodom story had intended for the crowd of Sodom to rape the visitors, then why did he not actually have the mob saying, "Bring them out that we might lay with them?"

That this should be the one and only use of YDH for "illegitimate" sexual relations is beyond any kind of belief.
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TlalocW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 05:21 PM
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38. Right - I was striving for that explanation but didn't have all the facts
So I think my little scenario of the guy with the stick might be pretty close to the truth. :)

TlalocW
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 03:57 PM
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26. Gamorreans.
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 03:59 PM
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28. I think penicillin can clear THAT up. nt
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TlalocW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 03:47 PM
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18. So if it's really raining hard, and you want it to stop
Should you make sure that all the waiting rooms of your city's abortion clinics are stocked with the latest hardcore gay porn mags?

TlalocW
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Nihil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 08:41 AM
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45. You bad!
:spray: :spank:
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 03:49 PM
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21. So ask the Rabbi why the rain won't
fugging stop in Jamaica?
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 03:55 PM
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25. Why are you so against rain?
Why do you seek to control it, and keep it from escaping the clouds?

You misoprecipitist.
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 03:58 PM
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27. Meanwhile, fundamentalists in the government are busy trying
Edited on Tue Nov-13-07 03:59 PM by Skidmore
to develop the Sodom and Gomorrah weapon--the one that smites unbelievers and turns them into pillars of salt. The Book of George is being revealed as we speak so that the sons of men may have their eyes opened, their hearts hardened, and their coffers filled.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 04:03 PM
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32. Ummmm... isn't Israel kinda, you know, DRY?
Just sayin'...
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 05:59 PM
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40. No, actually, much of Israel has a fairly mediterranean climate. Sort of like California.
Wet air comes off the ocean and hits the mountains, turning into rain.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 04:31 AM
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44. Well, California is not thought of as particularly wet
If you know what I mean. Not like, say, Florida usually is.
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 06:09 PM
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47. No, but we certainly have a temperate climate. That's why some 80% of the nation's produce comes
from here.

You can see what I'm talking about graphically illustrated in this picture. Look at the color difference west and east of the mountain ranges.

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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-15-07 03:21 AM
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48. Yeah, I can see where the mountains stop the moisture
I lived for a while in South Dakota and visited the Black Hills there, you moisture hogs!!!

:P

I thought the mountains in the Israel/Syria/Jordan/Lebanon area were only a quarter or so the size of the Rockes. I mean, yeah, they would capture SOME moisture, but not be like, say Florida usually is. Or was, I guess, thanks to global warming and all that.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 04:04 PM
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33. two words....rain dance
not prayers dammit
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Crunchy Frog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 04:15 PM
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34. All they have to do to end the Georgia draught
is to hold a few public burnings at the stake of homosexuals and abortionists, and maybe toss a few Muslims onto the flames as well.

It's going to be so wonderful living in a theocracy.:crazy:
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Evoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 04:24 PM
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36. If god doesn't like abortions, then He shouldn't have them.
:evilgrin:
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 05:57 PM
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39. More proof that crazy fundy whackjobs aren't exclusive to Xtianity & Islam.
Edited on Tue Nov-13-07 06:00 PM by impeachdubya
There are uptight Jewish fundy kooks, too.

There are even anti-sex neo-puritans on the allegedly "secular left".

One thing that unites all strands of humanity- the desire to regulate the sex lives of other consenting adults :crazy:
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SalmonChantedEvening Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 06:15 PM
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42. I want a job like this!
You can blame climatic conditions on everything except THE FUCKING IMPACT we are having on the climate.

Sign me up now!! :sarcasm:
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CorpGovActivist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-13-07 11:56 PM
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43. So, They Won't Be Playing "It's Raining Men," As the Closing Hymn, I Take It? n/t
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Kip Humphrey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-14-07 08:57 AM
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46. Er, sorry Georgia... I didn't know.
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