Well crap

[ebonlock]

Looks like we all missed the national day of prayer and fasting, as it was apparently declared on March 17 http://www.ffrf.org/news/index.php?n=fasting.html.

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[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

I suspect it's being done out of symbolism. Regardless of where you stand on the whole is-this-good-government question, there is a long and distinguished history of various domestic and international leaders asking for prayer and/or divine intercession when things hit a rough patch; I imagine this is in that same vein.

Like much of what Congress does, it's a waste of time.

Well nice to know our tax dollars are being well spent. Wonder if I wrote to Mike Honda and just asked him what the logic was behind all this if I'd get something more than a canned response..hmm...

[centerfire.livejournal.com]

Well nice to know our tax dollars are being well spent.

It's the government. :) Of course it's an inefficient waste of money and time. :)

Wonder if I wrote to Mike Honda and just asked him what the logic was behind all this if I'd get something more than a canned response..hmm...

I dunno. I've written a gaggle of letters to congresscritters over the years. The most honest one I ever got was from the late Joe Moakley, after the travesty that was the Communications Decency Act. In as many words, the response read, "This was asstastic legislation that I oppose, but it was packaged with a lot of other stuff that I support, and so I didn't have a lot of choice but to hold my nose and vote yea."

On the other hand, I get a lot of very gaseous responses back from the Gun Control Gals, Feinsten and Boxer, whenever I write them to protest their latest bit of foolishness.

So I think it's a crapshoot.