Damn Hippies lining up for some of that marijuana.
Do you know what surprised me? There weren’t more people in walkers and scooters.
The good news: You can go to Colorado and buy pot.
The bad news: You have to stay in Colorado to smoke it. You cannot bring it home with you.
Let me tell you why they should let priests have s-e-x. It would put them in a much better mood.
Robert J. Robbins at Our Church of the Saviour in Manhattan arrive on the scene last September. Up until then, the church had rang their bell twice a day, at noon and then again 6:00 pm. All was well.
Rev Robbins, however, decided that the bells should be rung hourly following a hymn from 8:00 am until 8:00 pm.
It even made the New York Times.
“It’s so drilled into my head that, even when it’s not ringing, I still hear it,” said Tamara Kozlakowski, whose apartment is directly across the street from the church’s tower…”
It was deemed a bit much because the bells aren’t really bells, they are an electronic sound.
Rev. Robbines, however, saw things differently.
The pastor had not responded to neighbors’ requests to scale back the bells but had made his defiance plain in church newsletters, calling neighbors’ complaints “anti-Christian.”
The anti-Christians responded …
…a former concertmaster with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in Minnesota, said the bells were “like a torture” for his partner, who is undergoing chemotherapy for cancer and is being deprived of crucial rest time during the day.
Mr. Tecco said he had been keeping a tally, which as of Friday approached 1,500 renditions of the “four-verse-hymn” that is tolled.
And an anti-Christian church member also responded …
A woman who lives in a building next to the tower and who is a member of Father Robbins’s congregation, said she, too, had told the pastor that she found the bells intrusive and largely unnecessary.
“He told me the message of the bells is that God is calling us to be better people,” she said.
So, the day after the New York Times article hit the newspaper with all the neighbors complaining, a miracle happened. The bells magically rang all night long. The whole damn night. Nobody in a six block area got any sleep. It was a miracle and obviously a sign from … uh, God?
After being contacted about the ringing by a reporter, Joseph Zwilling, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of New York, contacted Father Robbins about the nighttime ringing. The pastor, Mr. Zwilling said, called it a mechanical error and was apologetic about the disturbance it caused.
Nobody believes that. Nobody.
So here’s the bottom line, I honestly believe that Rev. Robbins would be a much nicer person if (1) he would listen to God calling him to be a better person, and (2) he got laid occasionally.
But that’s just my guess and I’m pretty sure I’m right.
Thanks to Rick for the heads up.
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Thanks to John Kwitkoski for the very cool graphic.
Arizona, my friend.
Twenty year old man target shooting with his girl. Decides to show off .
Citing evidence and witness statements, deputies said Roe was target shooting in the area with his girlfriend. When he was kneeling down for a shot, he accidentally discharged a shotgun, hitting himself in the foot, the sheriff’s office said.
There was no word on the man’s condition.
Embarrassed as hell, that’s his condition.
… a candidate for governor in Arizona.
Republican State Sen. Al Melvin, who is running for governor, attributed the following quotes to Abraham Lincoln.
“You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.”
“You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.”
We’re pretty sure Lincoln never said that. Manly, because the google will tell you that it was said by William J. H. Boetcker, a preacher who’s been dead since 1962. However, the google will also tell you that Ronald Reagan attributed these idiotic quotes to Lincoln at the 1992 Republican National Convention.
Good Ole Al Melvin says he got the quote “from a Republican club newsletter,” where they also quoted George Washington as saying, “Barack Obama is a Kenyan Muslim.” Okay, so I made up that last part. I hope. I hope I didn’t spoil the headline in the next Republican Club Newsletter.
On the amusing side, Melvin said …
“If Obama had said it, I would have credited him,” Melvin said. “I know he wouldn’t have said it, but that was the point.”
Oh, so you put attribute those quotes to things Barack Obama never said. Well, there ya go. That alone is proof they are correct.
My head hurts.
Thanks to TexasTrailerParkTrash for the heads up.