Sonny did! Hallelujah!
November 15, 2007 at 3:03 pm by Scott Henry in NewsBoy, were we wrong here at CL.
We had joined the national chorus of skeptics, naysayers and scoffers who made light of the governor’s efforts on Tuesday to petition the Lord for precipitation.
But after last night’s rain event — only a day and a half after the state-sanctioned prayer session — we admit to having egg on our face (Sonny side up, of course).
Now that we know our governor has a broadband connection to heaven, we’re imagining future prayers that could be used to overcome problems facing our state:
• Please, Lord, give us a balanced budget that contains just enough pork to keep our constituents on the side of righteousness, rather than contributing to our ungodly opponents.
• Please, Lord, widen Roswell Road at I-285 during rush hours and around lunch.
• Please, Lord, give us clean-running storm drains on North Avenue.
• Please, Lord, smite the greedy mussels of the Apalachicola River for stealing our precious water. If possible, please smite them in a creamy tomato basil sauce.
Can you think of anything else to add unto the Sonny-do list?
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November 15th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Proverbs 25:23
As a north wind brings rain,
so a sly tongue brings angry looks.
November 15th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
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Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
November 15th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
Nevermind that it had been in the forecast for days….
November 15th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Please Lord, stop the sanctimonious sarcasm and religious elitism of the Creative Loafing writing staff.
That one would be nice.
November 15th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
O, ye of little appreciation for showmanship.
Behold, Gov. Elmer Gantry!
November 15th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
@ elnina: Verily I post unto you, I haven’t the slightest clue what thou art talking about.
November 15th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
Scott, you ignorant slut. Elnina is talking about the biblical admonition that you are to pray in secret, not in public like the Republicans. She is quoting a “liberal” Bible verse that is ignored by right-wing loud-mouth Christian assholes like Sonny Perdue. Oh, by the way, when are you going to start writing about butt plugs again?
November 15th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
That’ll teach me to forget lessons learned from “Davey and Goliath” cartoons.
November 15th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
Thank you for clarifying that, Odd Ogg.
Sonny prayed to impress man. Had he simply been praying to God he could have done that without the TV cameras.
November 15th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
What do you think the mood would be like if you could sit down with Sonny one-on-one and play XTC’s “Dear God” for him on vinyl?
November 15th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
“I don’t mean a big a reduction in the price of beer.”"
November 15th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
Answer to Prayer or Chinamen at work?
http://www.macon.com/543/story/186899.html
Mark 14
32-34They came to an area called Gethsemane. Jesus told his disciples, “Sit here while I pray.” He took Peter, James, and John with him. He plunged into a sinkhole of dreadful agony. He told them, “I feel bad enough right now to die. Stay here and keep vigil with me.”
November 15th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
“Did you make mankind after we made you?”
November 16th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
Lemme ramble a bit, there is too much going on in Bbib County to focus today. Correct me if i’m wrong but Fresh Loaf hasn’t had this many comments in Eons, i think we’re on to something… There ain’t nothing new under the sun, unless you all come down to the Macon City Auditorium to see Oprah, Saturday at high noon.
This stuff reads like poetry, in motion, wonder why he left out the importance of a good pair of shoes? Maybe it’s in another chapter, more later….
Mathew:
13This is why I speak to them in parables:
“Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.
14 In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: ” ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
15 For this people’s heart has become calloused;
they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’
16But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.
17For I tell you the truth, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.