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You haven’t spent very much time around ‘aw shucks’ country pastors, have you?

[Feet make good soup!]

Never know, and I really don’t want to know any politician that intimately, Fred may have over indulged at the cheese plate the night before. But I think it would be fair to say that Huck seems to suffer from diarrhoea of the mouth and constipation of the brain.

At least when George Bush was reading My Pet Goat, he genuinely had no idea Manhattan was being terrorized. And it wasn’t by his own plane.

I’m a country pastor and this is in the little black book of country pastoring.  We love to see Mike “give em hell harry” or “tell the truth and they’ll think it’s hell”. 

Go Mike Go

“It’s not mudslinging if it’s the truth”.

Did anyone ask Fred?  Maybe he was suffering from gastro-indigestion. 

In all seriousness, this is good fun and If Mike turns up the heat a few more degrees it’s going to get hilarious.  Fred will wonder what that freight train that was that ran him over as he watches it roar off into the distance leaving him scratching his head or other parts.

Old Tigers are more dangerous when they believe this is their last hunt.

From , “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”
Old tigers, sensing the end,
they’re at their most fierce.       
And they go down fighting.

I’m a country pastor

You live outside of Chicago.

The purpose of government shouldn’t be to do good, but simply to refrain from doing evil.

Here’s a satellite photo picture of the church I work in, Look at it, It’s all cornfields around there.  Country Pastor am I.  Nothing less, nothing more.

Speaking of Which, I’m late for our Friday Recovery Group meeting. 

TA

Old Tigers are more dangerous when they believe this is their last hunt.

From , “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”
Old tigers, sensing the end,
they’re at their most fierce.       
And they go down fighting.

Here’s a zoomed out view, which shows that it’s not exactly rural.

But whatever.  I’m not about to get into a pissing match about it.

Have fun at you’re recovery group.  I’m off to my weekly atheist group.  I chair the Beating Up Sunday School Kids committee.

The purpose of government shouldn’t be to do good, but simply to refrain from doing evil.

Wow, with that ample parking you must do quite well with the bingo. Lots of cash in the box, no wonder you are in bed with the Democrat Hucklebee. He loves people with lots-O-cash.

Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem

Here’s a satellite photo picture of the church I work in, Look at it, It’s all cornfields around there.  Country Pastor am I.  Nothing less, nothing more.

Hey, I was in your neighborhood last summer. I made a wrong turn when I was attending training at Fanuc U.S. and about 10 minutes later found myself in that area!

At least when George Bush was reading My Pet Goat, he genuinely had no idea Manhattan was being terrorized. And it wasn’t by his own plane.

well, it might have taken more than 10 minutes, all of us were loaded!

At least when George Bush was reading My Pet Goat, he genuinely had no idea Manhattan was being terrorized. And it wasn’t by his own plane.

Thanks, Rob. I especially like that fully covered horse track to the west of LaFox. Nothing quite says rural America like a fully covered horse race facility.

Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem

Nothing quite says rural America like a fully covered horse race facility.

Not to mention being within a dozen or so miles of O’Hara.

At least when George Bush was reading My Pet Goat, he genuinely had no idea Manhattan was being terrorized. And it wasn’t by his own plane.

Are you guys suggesting in order to be classified as rural, your church needs to be a one room schoolhouse church combo in the middle of no where?
Not all ruralism is in ND ya know!

Are you guys suggesting in order to be classified as rural, your church needs to be a one room schoolhouse church combo in the middle of no where?
Not all ruralism is in ND ya know!

Quite right Anna, ruralism can occur in downtown Las Vegas at a church to seat a thousand where Wayne Newton preaches to his flock. Or was that a James Bond movie, I’m so confused! LOL

At least when George Bush was reading My Pet Goat, he genuinely had no idea Manhattan was being terrorized. And it wasn’t by his own plane.

Mega buck houses to the northeast and pretty much all around. Elburn and Lafox are on a rail line direct to Chicago. It’s rough being 40 miles away from Chicago and still considered a suburb.

Hvywht is right.  This is a really wealthy area.  I’m not but everyone else is.  I live about two miles ENE of the Church.  My house is here.  The one with the curved drive and the white patio out back.  Simple one story ranch.

Spartacus is right too, we are about 40 minutes to O’Hare.  and about 40 miles from Downtown Chicago.  There are a lot of training facilities in St. Charles using the old Anderson Accounting facilities.

There’s still lots of country here. I get deer in the back yard, Coyotes and Pheasants.  We can’t shoot, but they are there.

I like living in “Rural Illinois”.  Well mostly Rural.  And, 2H9, I wish we could fill the parking lot.  We built a 500 seat auditorium.  We aren’t filling it.  That translates to offerings.  We need to fill the parking lot.  Must be the pastors. 

There are a lot of horses here.  Lots.  I don’t get it.  I’m not a horse person.

Now you know more than you wanted to. 

I miss really really rural sometimes, then I don’t.  Even though I don’t live like most of my neigbors in million dollar homes and 200,000 incomes, I live well enough.  I am not Sr Pastor of the Church.  I’m an associate.  I am a co Pastor at another Church in Downtown Chicago. 

So, maybe I’m not a humble country parson.  Bi vocational too, make a living doing other things.  that way if anyone ever threatens to “Pull their tithe”  I show them the door.  I have such a nice pastoral manner.

My biggest problem as a Pastor is my temper.  I have the capability to tell someone to go to hell.  I don’t mean it but my fuse is shorter than a Pastor’s should be. 

So, to the topic of the post, I would have been perhaps less judicious than Mike.  I would have said he was full of Crap. 

See, there I go again.

On Sunday I am giving a “Compassionate Conservative sermon”.  Maybe I’ll post it on my blog and then link it from SA.  That way you can see what you are missing ;>)

You will be surprised to see it’s not what you think.  I’ll make Mike Huckabee Proud.

Old Tigers are more dangerous when they believe this is their last hunt.

From , “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”
Old tigers, sensing the end,
they’re at their most fierce.       
And they go down fighting.

I’m a country pastor and this is in the little black book of country pastoring.  We love to see Mike “give em hell harry” or “tell the truth and they’ll think it’s hell”. 

Go Mike Go

“It’s not mudslinging if it’s the truth”.

Gotcha, nothing wrong with your boy having a little fun at an opponents expense. Seems kinda different from your opinion in “Fred Takes Huckabee to the Woodshed”:

I wasn’t impressed.  You don’t gain ground by tossing dirt.

So, accurately pointing out your opponent’s record is a no-no, but calling the guy who just told everybody what you’re all about CONSTIPATED…well, that’s just good fun.

Double standard much?

It’s all political bullshit. Liberals (and Robert108) lie and spin and twist and obscure and distract and cheat to protect their guys and hurt the opposing team. It’s like wrestling. They distract the ref while their team mate hits you with a chair. There’s no rule they won’t break, no law they won’t skirt, no crime they won’t forgive as long as they can win.

my fuse is shorter than a Pastor’s should be.

...not pugnacious

-KJV

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I never claimed to be perfect, just available.  Perfection in clergy is rare, believe you me.

Old Tigers are more dangerous when they believe this is their last hunt.

From , “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”
Old tigers, sensing the end,
they’re at their most fierce.       
And they go down fighting.

Gene, basically I’m just yanking your chain. You should realize by this point that the only way I will vote for Hucklebee is to keep Hilldabeat or Obamar out. His neo-Christian socialist dogma is crap, and his history in Arkansas proves he is no conservative. 

As for your church, here in very rural western PA I see congregations building monstrous, hideously ostentatious churches. Gaudy does not even begin to cover it. And with our very low population there is no possibility that they come anywhere near filling them. And I know of little 2 and 3 room churches who have trouble keeping their utilities on, who still send substantial amounts of money to missions all over the world. Just how life is.

Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem

I live about two miles ENE of the Church

When I looked at the map, I thought Bald Mound might have been your spot!

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”(Proof) You’re, as we say in Hawaii, No Ka Oi!”

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Hey Hey Hey, I have hair,  it’s just misplaced

Old Tigers are more dangerous when they believe this is their last hunt.

From , “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”
Old tigers, sensing the end,
they’re at their most fierce.       
And they go down fighting.

That’s okay, Gene!

All good men come out on top!

Shrugging off the mindless, baseless attacks of Liberal hyenas and jackals since 2007

”(Proof) You’re, as we say in Hawaii, No Ka Oi!”

-unsolicited testimonial

Gene said:

that way if anyone ever threatens to “Pull their tithe” I show them the door.

That’s what hookers do, too!  Mighty Christian of you, Brother.

Gene also said:

Did anyone ask Fred?  Maybe he was suffering from gastro-indigestion.

Do you really want to posit that Huckleberry’s behavior is acceptable?  Really?  Because somebody could accuse Mikey of being a “delusional asshat who is borderline schizophrenic and a typical sociopath.”  Well gee…has he had a psychological work-up to prove that he is none of the above?  Golly Geewillikers, then that surely must lend some credence to the claim.

Further:

If Mike turns up the heat a few more degrees it’s going to get hilarious.  Fred will wonder what that freight train that was that ran him over as he watches it roar off into the distance leaving him scratching his head or other parts.

Hell, now that I think about it, maybe YOU are a delusional, schizophrenic sociopath.  The magical thinking required to opine that Huckster is capable of steam-rolling anybody is laughable.  He is a naive, lying, pandering naif who is on the verge of crashing and burning.  His record on anything of substance is execrable, and only dupes, rubes, and blindly ideological evangelical (but I’m repeating myself) folks could support such a douchebag.

There should be no question that, if there were to be an old fashioned Lincoln-Douglas-type debate, Fred would own Huck—in fact, he’d clock any of the aspirants for either office—both sides because he’s smarter and quicker—and has core values.  I believe Fred’s best chance to make up some ground is to toss his gauntlet out there—Huck would almost have to pick it up—Rudy might do it as well.  Some good old one-on-one for the heart and soul of the Republican Party.  This would be good fun, and it would give the Dem’s some gastritis as well.

Hey Gene, best to stay west of the valley.  I drove by a group (15 or so) of sign waving Ron Paul supporters in beautiful downtown Batavia today. Had to laugh at the loonies.  Batavia used to get a bunch of crazies camped outside of Hastert’s office when he was Speaker.

hvywgt,

I drove down State Street today in Geneva and the Paul brigade was there with posters and a really mean look on their face.  Vote for Ron Paul or we’ll come burn your house down.

Very Scary thing them.

Did you know Denny?  I met him a few times at Chamber fetes.  Decent guy.  Oberweis or Lauzen?  OR?

I was pretty Lauzen till I got this bad brochure with cows from him about Oberwiess.  Who runs these campaigns?  Are they nuts?

Remember when Denny ran last time,  All we heard about was Ethanol in his ads.  Remember when we used to have a Republican Party in Illinois.

It’s pitiful.

Old Tigers are more dangerous when they believe this is their last hunt.

From , “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”
Old tigers, sensing the end,
they’re at their most fierce.       
And they go down fighting.

Fred is constipated. Period.

Fred is constipated. Period.

Knowledgeable, witty and incisive political commentary, as usual!  /sarcasm

If govt control of the economy were the way to go, the Soviet Union would be the richest, most powerful nation in the history of the world.

Thanks to Obama, America remains the only country where it is illegal to drill our own oil!

And, as usual, Gene ignores acknowledgement of his borderline-socialist/moonbat philosophy.  Pastoring shouldn’t be a fee-based activity, semantic parsing to benefit your own bias shouldn’t be acceptable, and faith in magical thinking doesn’t make your position stronger.  But, keep on keeping on, Brother Gene.  You keep giving those agnostics, such as me, more reason to dislike evangelicals and suspect them of being intellectual idiots.  Kudos!

skh.pcola:

Gene ignores acknowledgement of his borderline-socialist/moonbat philosophy.  Pastoring shouldn’t be a fee-based activity, semantic parsing to benefit your own bias shouldn’t be acceptable, and faith in magical thinking doesn’t make your position stronger.  But, keep on keeping on, Brother Gene.  You keep giving those agnostics, such as me, more reason to dislike evangelicals and suspect them of being intellectual idiots.

That was, in my personal opinion, a mindless, offensive anti-Christian rant and speaks more to your limited intellectual capacity than it says anything about Gene. It also appears to be the fanatical ravings of an unstable mind.

It is one thing to disagree with Gene’s beliefs, but to descend to mindless name calling indicates a deep seated fear of the Truth on your part. Most of the greatest scientific minds throughout all human history, names revered even by agnostic scientists of today, have been passionate bible believing Christians. These people are all your intellectual superiors in every possible way and neither they nor Gene can properly be called idiots; that is, someone with an IQ of 25 or less.

We can disagree with the views of others without deliberately being disagreeable.

In keeping silent about evil, in burying it deep within us, so that it appears nowhere on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The Gulag Archipelago