Lubbock, Texas, plans to pray for rain

United Press International ^ | July 24, 2006 | United Press International, Inc

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[no dems]

Could I give them some direction for their prayer? Over here in Southeast Texas we've been drenched all summer. Just ask God to move the rain from here to there; please.

[GSlob]

"...most coaches realize God can't grant that prayer for both teams."
Such an opinion is full of heresy and blasphemy. "Is there anything difficult for the Lord?" He can grant that prayer for both teams, but usually does not.

[horse_doc]

Living in California's Bay Area, it's difficult to imagine our mayor and city council calling us to pray for something specific.

I dunno - I can see them publically praying to Baal, for a speedy and bloodsoaked end to a Republican Congress . . .

Seriously, the only weird thing about this story is that it is news at all. My childhood memories of West Texas are full of public officials praying for rain.

Until I left the High Plains, I thought that everyone, everywhere, did that. How was I supposed to know that there were places on Earth that get more than 12 inches of rain a year?

[DakotaRed]

I hope no city employees, on the clock or on city property engage in this. If so, someone will be sure to file a suit for Separation of Church and State, even if it rains, finally.

Maybe the ACLU will succeed to having a restraining order issued against the rain, should it start coming down.

[tumblindice]

Last time I was in Lubbock, they were having a drought and sufering a tremendous dirt storm. The cars were all brown.

And it was so dry, the Baptists were sprinkling and the Methodists were using a damp washcloth.

[LonePalm]

Everybody sing along.

They're rioting in Africa.
They're starving in Spain.
There's hurricanes in Florida
And Texas needs rain.

The world is just full
Of unhappy souls.
The French hate the Germans.
The Germans hate the Poles.

Italians hate Yugoslavs.
South Africans hate the Dutch.
And I don't Democrats very much.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Tex Pete]

I realize nothing is too difficult for God....I just meant that there will be one winner of a football game. It isn't important enough that both teams pray to God for victory. Only one will emerge victorious anyway.

[GSlob]

A miracle of both teams winning at the same time in the same game will surely bring a lot of people to the Lord. Besides, it will bring low all the 'wisdom' of bettors, fans and pundits, and that's another bonus. It might even plug the inane MSM sports coverage.

[Ciexyz]

Prayers offered up that there are no more heat-related deaths across the country, that the elderly are looked after.

[Jedidah]

I love Lubbock and all it stands for, and I'll join in the prayers for rain, but . . .

ain't no way Tech is more conservative than A&M.

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[FreeRadical]

The comments on the UPI post are telling. There's scorn and mocking and ridicule and even a little Bush Derangement Syndrome thrown in for good measure.

It all proves once again: The left can tolerate anything but a God Fearing type.

[humblegunner]

What always puzzled me was seeing both football teams in high school praying before the game in a huddle. Did that mean that the one that won was the one God favored?

DSL vs Dialup.

Connections are important!

[af_vet_rr]

Its main attraction is Texas Tech University, considered more conservative now than Baylor, SMU, Texas A&M and Texas Christian University.

Conservative enough to cuss out my daughters, my mother, and anybody else within range at a UT/TTU football game. In Austin. People who were just sitting there, watching the game. Getting cussed out by Tech fans because Tech was getting blown out.

Tech is just like most of the other colleges in Texas - they have their party animals, they have their party areas of town, and even with it being a dry county, they have their runs to the strip(s) to get their liquor and party down.

Don't get me wrong, Tech has plenty of nice people there, just as every college in Texas has. One of them felt bad enough to apologize to my mother and my daughters even though they had nothing to do with it, and another went and got the cops (who got there before my brother, dad, and I got back, which was a good thing for their physical well-being - I don't think they'd want to explain to their parents why they had to check in to Brackenridge).

[af_vet_rr]

Didn't they just caught a fish with human-like teeth in or near Lubbock, TX? It was on FR another day. Traditionally, monsters, signs and prodigies like that surely demand more than a day of prayer - Lubbock needs to declare public fasting, and have penitential processions with flagellations and hair-shirts. The processions are to be barefooted and ought to proceed on their knees, too.

They need to pray to the volcano god as well, because unless I'm mistaken, there is a fault-line in that area and they have had earthquakes in the past, and with everything else going on out there, the last thing they need is earthquakes ;-)

[HostileTerritory]

Perhaps they can pray to God to give them the sense to stop trying to grow cotton in the steppe. Texas cotton rakes in the subsidies from the feds.

He's passed up this opportunity before, maybe this time He'll decide to intervene... but I doubt it.

[HostileTerritory]

Also, didn't the Aztecs used to do this, too?

[Coldwater Creek]

Looks like your dad knew just what he was talking about.

West Texas is getting flooded. It has been raining for weeks now. Even my hometown of Portales, NM on the Texas border has had more rain in the last month than all last year.

[syriacus]

America needs more reservoirs.