scombrid

I guess that means that I'll have a pre-Thanksgiving tailgate feast in a church parking lot.

dangin

I think the counter activity of "party on" is the best thing we can do on that day. Let's all work on sponsoring as major (and news coverage obtaining) party we can on said day. Church parking lots should be used for said party whenever possible.

Darwin's Finch

I wonder how many of the jackasses who voted for this will actually fast that day? Does this mean no fundraising dinners?

penumbra

If memory serves, fasting is a traditional, time-honored way of inducing hallucinatory delusions. A single day might not be enough to really do it, but then, these yahoos have enough delusions already, don't they?

Toto

A lot of these wimpy modern Christians have reinterpreted "fast" to mean "don't eat quite as much as you usually stuff into your face."

How convenient.</Church Lady>

wildernesse

I had to read this sentence several times before I stopped wondering WHERE you were driving those fasting nuts. haha!

As a Christian, I think that prayer and fasting should be done in private and go unmentioned in public life. Therefore, I think that the government is overstepping its authority and threatening to devalue the very faith it hopes to promote.


--tibac

Yellum Notnef

Ah! This explains that ad I saw from Burger King about those new Nov 27th atheist burgers.


Mmmmmmmm......atheist burgers.

Solsticin

I'm dumbfounded that this passed even with the regime currently taking over.

*goes back to throwing darts at the Bush poster*

Stephen Maturin

Ain't it the truth! That contemporary interpretation is all the more odious when you view it with the people who passed this resolution in mind. Hell, to folks like Dennis Hastert and Henry Hyde, "fasting" probably means little more than limiting yourself to only one family-size bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken, a dozen Krispy Kreme glazed donuts and five pounds of gravy fries per meal.

Congress cranks out these silly non-binding concurrent resolutions by the bushel. Always been that way, always will. Mere frequency doesn't make these pronouncements any easier to stomach, though. This one's especially noxious. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Bush's 2004 reelection campaign commercials end up sounding a lot like the "Whereas" clauses of S. Con. Res. 155. The resolution itself isn't any better:

"[T]he sense of Congress", my narrow lilywhite ass. Nowadays you might as well substitute the phrase "the circularity of rectangles."

"All people," even the Congress critters? Please. Those folks wouldn't know humility if it strolled into their offices, introduced itself and evacuated its bowels on their desks.

Can't help but wonder how many Members of Congress really plan on taking an entire day off from lying, thieving, boinking interns and vote whoring.

"Dear Jebus, why are so many of my colleagues better at lying, thieving, boinking interns and vote whoring than I am?"

"Dear Jebus, please teach me to be a better liar, thief, boinker of interns and vote whore."

"Dear Jebus, please don't let me piss away all this delightful 9/11 terrorist hysteria. Grant me the resolve to ride this gravy train all the way to the very last stop."

Krieger

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
And you think you're so clever and classless and free
But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see
A working class hero is something to be

John Lennon was right!