As a follow up on my previous post about Rob Schenck's plan to show up at ACLU headquarters to deliver 20,000 petitions asking them to stop doing things that bother them, I got an email from a source at the ACLU who is having quite a laugh over the whole thing. It seems that the press release for this little stunt was circulated around the office today and they all noted that Schenck had gotten the address wrong. The only one to show up so far appears to be a reporter wandering around in front of the building talking on his cell phone, asking where everyone is. Meanwhile, Schenck may be up the street delivering his petition to the New York Stock Exchange.
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By way of ScienceBlogling Ed Brayton, we discover that the Right Reverend Schenck is back in action, anointing political structures hither and yon. From Ed (italics mine):
Pam at Pandagon describes two workers in Texas "who were fired after praying over another staff member's cubicle and anointing it with olive oil." Where had I heard about similar lunacy befor
This is the text of an email sent to members of a religious right group called Faith and Action in the Nation's Capital concerning the ACLU and engaging in the usual hyperbolic rhetoric we've come to know and loathe:
They're doing it again. The raving mad wackaloons are oiling up the hearing rooms for the Sotomayor confirmation.
This is getting too funny.
Maybe he went to Florida to reclaim the power of the supernatural from the Kabbalists who were hired to protect the citrus crops.
"Florida's citrus crop contributes billions of dollars to the state's economy, so when that industry is threatened, anything that might help is considered. Back in 2001, when citrus canker was blighting the crop and threatening to reduce that vital source of revenue, an interesting -- if not quite scientific -- alternative was considered.
Katherine Harris, then Florida's secretary of state -- and now a member of the U.S. House of Representatives -- ordered a study in which, according to an article by Jim Stratton in the Orlando Sentinel, "researchers worked with a rabbi and a cardiologist to test 'Celestial Drops,' promoted as a canker inhibitor because of its 'improved fractal design,' 'infinite levels of order,' and 'high energy and low entropy.'"
The study determined that the product tested was, basically, water that had apparently been blessed according to the principles of Kabbalic mysticism, "chang[ing] its molecular structure and imbu[ing] it with supernatural healing powers."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10054116/
Wow, that's the funniest thing I've read all night. I'll be chuckling about this for days.
Schenck and Mahoney are the sorts of ingrates Jesus warned about. ACLU has been for 80 years the single most active organization defending Christians and their rights under the Bill of Rights.
In the Old Testament, sometimes when people tried to do stupid things, God confounded them so they were simply unable to carry out their task. Now you tell me Schenck went to the wrong building?
That's evidence of divine design, to those watching the omens . . .