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Appointed to city council (as a known atheist)
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Appointed to city council (as a known atheist)

"Be ye not lost amongst Precept of Order." - Book of Uterus, 1:5, "Principia Discordia, or How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her."
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RE: Appointed to city council (as a known atheist)
Quote: "James, my neighbour's dog is crapping on my lawn again . . ."

Tell them you'll pray for it to stop!

Big Grin
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Good on you, James, and note that an atheist holds elective office in Asheville, NC too.
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(December 26, 2012 at 12:54 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Good on you, James, and note that an atheist holds elective office in Asheville, NC too.

Even more awsomeness.
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I've been considering running for city office, myself, but I dunno where to even begin. Plus I'd make a lousy politician; I hate backstabbing.
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You know in the UK, no one gives two fucks what your religion is.
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(December 26, 2012 at 5:36 pm)5thHorseman Wrote: You know in the UK, no one gives two fucks what your religion is.

So you are the tree in the woods no one is around to hear?Smile

Just being silly. I really wish America could get to that point, maybe someday we will. It does however seem to be trending that way.

It really would please me to see "no religious test" in our Constitution be employed on a more consistent basis.
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(December 26, 2012 at 10:56 am)Minimalist Wrote:
Quote: "James, my neighbour's dog is crapping on my lawn again . . ."
Tell them you'll pray for it to stop!
Big Grin
ROFL!
My wife and I had to go to Scottsbluff to take the dog to the vet (a 120 mile round trip). When I got home there was an E-mail flame war going on in my mail box between the village clerk, the village chairman, and the fellow who lives across the street that had parked two trucks on the sidewalk leading up to the hall (he rebuilds vehicles in his yard, and the new village hall he feels is his personal parking lot).

All of them wanted me to settle it. (I am the guy who is least divisive.)

I went over to his house and made a gentle suggestion that parking on the sidewalk and in the handicap space is not going to do much to engender love between him and the community, that I realise he has no space in his yard to park all his dead vehicles, and that perhaps he could (for the short term) at least park them parallel on the street. (It's not like there is a whole lot of traffic in a village of 128.)

After some discussion, and a beer or two, he agreed and moved his vehicles off city property.

Chalk up one for being not divisive.

"Be ye not lost amongst Precept of Order." - Book of Uterus, 1:5, "Principia Discordia, or How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her."
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Print out a bunch of these, keep them handy and dispense as needed.

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