Bush outlines aid; Declares day of prayer

[sabra]

http://www.news8austin.com/content/your_news/default.asp?ArID=145151

Bush outlines aid; Declares day of prayer


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The administration also is cutting red tape to enable displaced families to receive federal benefits administered by the states -- even if they fled across state lines. These include Medicaid, food stamps, jobless compensation and child care.

Bush spoke 10 days after the hurricane devastated the Gulf Coast and swamped the city of New Orleans.

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Bush also declared Sept. 16 a national day of prayer and remembrance for Katrina's victims.

[leftylady]

1. That Day of Prayer will really help the ones who died.

[rkc3]

2. Maybe he's hoping that those who died while he played guitar will

pray for him. He's used to having people speak up on his behalf.

[eeper69]

30. Played guitar, entertained old folks, and ate cake....EOM

[yojon]

22. Pray that these criminals will meet justice

in the Hague.

[Turbineguy]

3. I know what I'll

be praying for.....

[Zenlitened]

4. What is prayer?

:shrug:

[DRoseDARs]

37. It's something you give when you don't have the wherewithal to do more...

...unless you're the President, in which case it's just an empty gesture meant to deflection attention away from the incompetence of your administration.

[Zenlitened]

38. Hmmm... interesting answer. As good a definition as any I've heard.

:hi:

[CountAllVotes]

5. I have a dream

and within that dream lies my prayer for you * .

[nookiemonster]

6. It's CYA.

Just like lowering the flag to halfstaff after Renquist died, and THEN they acknowledged the Katrina issue and lowered it for THEM too. Sick.

Fuckers have to be shamed into everything.

[MindPilot]

7. That's the rightards' answer to everything: prey

[Laelth]

42. Oh, very nice!

:applause:

-Laelth

[CottonBear]

8. * should pray that he doesn't spend the rest of his sorry life in prison.

I, personally, hope that he does.

[glugglug]

25. I dunno

Bush might enjoy PMITA-ville.

[SomewhereOutThere424]

9. More like...

He and his buddies will have a day of 'preying' on the american people's suffering by assigning halliburton to this and politicizing it all.

[Danmel]

10. Is there going to be a memorial service at the National Cathedral?

I didn't think so. I intend to say "Kaddish" this Sabbath for Katrina's victims. Too bad they couldn't get real help when they needed it.

[pippin]

11. I'll be praying all right

. . that this bunch of criminals will receive the justice due them. :mad:

[CountAllVotes]

15. Amen!

Same here! :grr:

[Wells]

28. God hates George Bush

Jesus told me so last time we got together over beer. When a camera pans George in 'pray face', he's actually practicing Streets of LA in him mind, zooming around, hopping sidewalks to run people down, especially blacks. This is how George trains himself to keep a straight face - "run people down, express compassion". Whenever George gives two thoughts about praying, God slaps him to keep from hearing whatever stupid thing he has to say. Sometimes, God trips him off his bicycle as a chastizement, but it only makes George meaner. God tried to choke him with a pretzel once, but George has been even nastier ever since.

[0rganism]

12. Faith-based Emergency Management Agency

*heavy sigh*

[hopein08]

34. Yep, just like those fundamentalists I read about a few weeks ago....

who are facing criminal charges because their branch of some religion does not believe in medicine. The parents tried to "pray" their babies well and, lo and behold, the babies died.

Is the thinking that maybe if we pray hard enough, food will fall from the sky (along with houses, money, water, dead -but now alive- relatives, and A NEW PRESIDENT?

[bookman]

13. Dear God

Please protect the world from the actions of this moron.

:) (I swear I just typed moran. DU is getting to me.)

[jaysunb]

14. I'm praying for Mr Fitzgerlad to help us

out of this deep shit we're in. :evilgrin:

[0007]

16. The all knowing power know the prayers before they leave the heart

Same as the all knowing power is well informed that junior can go fuck himself and his senile cock sucking fucking daddy and his goddamn ugly fucking mother and his stupid looking smiling wife that appears half brain dead.

[Dr Batsen D Belfry]

17. No doubt there will be a commemorative communion wafer n/t

[benfranklin1776]

39. With his picture emblazoned thereon, available for a 500.00 RNC donation

....since that whole commemorative "looking utterly clueless while staring out the plane window on 9.11" photo didn't bring in as much money as they had hoped during the 2004 campaign.

I will be praying, that all those who have perished in the death and destruction he has caused did not die in vain and for deliverance from his evil.

[Demeter]

18. Prayer Won't Save You, George

Aside from the fact that you are beyond prayer, your future is looking very orange and stripy; and so is the future for your nearest and dearest closest business and political friends; at least the top 100.

[u4ic]

19. Why couldn't he just declare it a "day of mourning"?

Secularism is alive and well in the US, eh? :eyes:

[Skittles]

20. I'm sure every one of those people trapped in their attics was praying

enough already

[cliss]

21. OK: I'm praying.

"Dear God,

please remove these murderers and thugs from power. They have been responsible for many, MANY deaths."

"I have faith that Goodness will prevail. These men are pure evil on earth. Please create a spiritual Tsunami that will sweep these corrupt people out of the White House".

On Sep. 16, I will be praying extra hard.

[dickthegrouch]

23. Bush wants to encourage opium?

Silly me, I thought there was a war on drugs.

(Religion is the opium of the masses).

[belle]

24. "Jesus loves you, but I don't really give a shit about you"

[Missy Vixen]

26. I'm praying that the truth will come out

All of the truth. The White House and FEMA's non-action on the Gulf Coast re: Katrina. The Downing Street Memo. The persons who revealed Valerie Plame's responsibilities at the CIA. The elections of 2000 and 2004. The questions we still have about September 11th.

In the meantime, I pray for those suffering in this tragedy; I pray for mercy. I pray for those so desperately trying to help.

Julie

[GoddessOfGuinness]

46. And that people will believe it...

instead of regurgitating the same old glass of KoolAde!

[Dem2theMax]

27. He doesn't need to tell me to pray.

I pray every single day that he and his evil cabal wind up behind bars, ASAP.

As for "remembrance for Katrina's victims" -- I'm praying that the victims of Katrina, the ones who survived, will now survive being victimized by * and the same evil minions.

[Catfight]

29. Still pandering to his base. I stopped believing in God when bush

stole the WH and started his redneck rampage of killing innocent children and our young soldiers for his oil dealings. He is rotten to the core.

[geniph]

31. Yeah, the prayer worked soooo well

for those trapped in attics and collapsing houses.

I'll pray, all right, Shrubby, but ya ain't a-gonna like what *I'm* praying for. I'm thinking guillotines and tumbrils.

[Eurobabe]

32. fuck Bu$h and his lame ass prayers

eom

He needs some REALITY-BASED training!!!

Actually he needs to be removed from office. :mad: :mad: :mad:

[MasonJar]

33. I'm praying that Bush gets impeached. Prayers can go both

ways.

[truthisfreedom]

35. is that what he was doing during the days he could have been preparing to

save tens of thousands of American lives? was he praying, or was he PREYING?

[hopein08]

36. I'll remember and pray for the victims on 9/16 but...

I'll also be saying my own prayers for what I want. A new president, jail for the people in power, that sort of thing that it pains me to think about in terms of prayer. Good God, the Republicans have muddied the idea of prayer for me. This is disgusting.

By the way, I have an honest question...why wait until 9/16 for the national day of prayer? Why not something sooner? Too close to 9/11?

Anyway, this is the prayer I will honestly be most thinking of. I found it in a book about Eleanor Roosevelt and her work on the UN Council on Human Rights. It was her nightly prayer, according to the book.

"Our Father, who has set a restlessness in our hearts and made us all seekers after that which we can never fully find, forbid us to be satisfied with what we can make of life. Draw us from the base content and set our eyes on far-off goals. Keep us at task too hard for us that we may be driven to Thee for strength. Deliver us from fretfulness and self-pitying; make us sure of the good we cannot see and of the hidden good in the world. Open our eyes to simple beauty all around us and our hearts to the loveliness men hide from us because we do not try to understand them. Save us from ourselves and show us a vision of a world made new."[/i}

[Carni]

40. Where did that Voodoo Queen thread go? Someone give me a crash course

I'll dedicate the day to saying a *special prayer* for THAT SOB- I don't give a flying F--- what it does to my karma.

[Delphinus]

41. Even though I'm not a religious person ...

(spiritual but not religious), I never mind when people pray for me. However, the government should be doing something tangible and not focusing on prayer. Let the people, let the churches, do the praying. Let the government do the work!

[ignatius 2]

43. Do you suppose he could name without a love note from Rove, even one

of the victims names?

[adigal]

44. Bush needs all of the prayers he can get

The poor, good people of the Gulf Coast who died no longer need our prayers. They need our hard work and vigilance.

[TankLV]

45. :Please "god" - take this creature from us. Delliver us from this evil

family and party of jackals.

Please let them suffer as they have made us suffer.

Please bring justice to them in the form of your define and horrible punishment.

Please make it so that they can never again assume control over the lives of the innocent.

Please stop the killing and the corruption.

"Please rid us of this evil scumbag."

Amen

[slay]

47. He better pray the American people don't put him in prison for treason

that dirty rotten little lying coward - isn't that right Georgie Boy? :mad:

[AzDar]

48. Ahhh, prayer....The last refuge of a scoundrel. n/t

[Hekate]

49. Dear God: Please help us cleanse the the People's House...

... of the toxic flood of corruption that has befouled it to the rooflines. Help us, we beseech Thee with all our hearts, to rebuild our government as it was meant to be -- a servant of the people and not the people's master.

And much more in the same vein. I've mentioned before that Bush has driven me to pray about politics, something I always thought was a bit like praying your football team would win. Under the circumstances, I've changed my practice.

If nations have "souls" then our nation's soul is in deadly peril. It is we who must do the work, but some divine help would be most welcome.

Hekate

#Why won't the Chickenhawk cross the road?#
#Why isn't the Chickenhawk waitin' on the levee?#

[antonialee839]

50. I am laughing like a looney toon.