QOTD

"The power of Christ compels you!"
- Max Von Sydow, "The Exorcist"

Well, I'm going to church today. And Gram isn't even here to drag me. He he.
No, I'm just going to see St Eth's choir sing at a church. It burns... it burns!

I bought a new gas can yesterday (nice segue). The thing looked like some Rube Goldberg contraption, so I asked the Ace Hardware guy where the plain, old gas cans are. "We can't sell those any more... EPA rules."

Needless to see the "contraption" was and is just fucking ridiculous. So, here I am. I'll tie this back into religion in a minute... post-rant.

Well, I googled. I can't find a specific rule, but I did find this:


I like this.

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“By allowing citizens to trade in old gas cans and in return receive free environmentally friendly cans, we are cleaning up the air throughout Illinois, especially in larger metropolitan areas."
- Renee Cipriano, Illinois EPA schmoe

Isn't that sweet... gas cans... menace to society. Idiots.
Oh, its not even fun ranting on this stuff. You know. I know. Everyone knows we don't need a rule to make gas cans all fucked up, and we don't need to fucking give them away. Jeez.

Here's the tie back to religion. I'm not religious, but there's something going on out there. The world seems built in a nearly perfect balance. Example: You dole out a thimbleful of authority out to some dolt like EPA Renee or Senator XYZ and boom... I don't care how well-intentioned, it get abused in the end. There is no Daddy out there, and if there ever is, he'll screw you in the end.

The point: The balance in our world... why? and where does it come from?
You got me, but I'm suspicious that it didn't just crawl out of the mud, ya know.

This is interesting (more interesting than my shallow theology)... EPA Renee bears a striking resemblance to Linda Blair in "The Exorcist". See?


Quickie...

Movie: "The Exorcist"
Review: 5 bill-stars (out of 5)... on my top ten movie list and absolute no-brainer as the scariest movie ever made. Though still not as scary as EPA Renee.
church me up... yow, bill

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"In another University of Chicago survey, this one of married couples, 75 percent of the Americans who pray with their spouses reported that their marriages are 'very happy' (compared to 57 percent of those who don't). Those who pray together are also more likely to say they respect each other and discuss their relationship together."
- from Five Things Super-Happy Couples Do Every Day

PS - That QOTD above is an easy call... you gotta believe. If you don't, life's a rough ride, eh.
PPS - Not believe in God, necessarily... just believe in something like yourself, or humanity or President-Elect Obama (he he he... sorry, couldn't resist) or whatever.

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