Slog - Comments on Notes From The Prayer Warrior http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/notes_from_the_prayer_warrior_6 In this missive, the Prayer Warrior claims to have had an official title bestowed upon him by the White House. The title: Special Envoy for Adoption, Family Values, Religious Freedom, and Medical Relief. March 16, 2007 Dear Prayer Warrior, Thank you for praying for my call to the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. It went very well. I was honored to receive a commission by the White House Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives as a Special Envoy in the following areas: Adoptions, Family Values, Religious Freedom, and Medical Relief, which allowed me to meet with... Copyright 2008 Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:20:52 -0800 Sat, 17 Mar 2007 08:04:39 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by dkseeger Is this White House special envoy thing for real?

]]> dkseeger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/notes_from_the_prayer_warrior_6#c672192 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/notes_from_the_prayer_warrior_6#c672192 Life Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:46:00 -0800 Comment by XXXdrjeangreyXXX Don't we have laws against this kind of stuff?

]]> XXXdrjeangreyXXX http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/notes_from_the_prayer_warrior_6#c672203 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/notes_from_the_prayer_warrior_6#c672203 Life Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:51:23 -0800 Comment by Dave Coffman Perfect. Next he'll be using the title "Ambassador".

]]> Dave Coffman http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/notes_from_the_prayer_warrior_6#c672208 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/notes_from_the_prayer_warrior_6#c672208 Life Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:55:37 -0800 Comment by SendHutchtoFredHutch The only thing that will make me believe in God at this point is if this HUGE asshole gets some kind of inoperable cancer that lets him linger in severe pain for years. Also I hate the fucking "pray for me" thing. If God is all knowing and seeing and has some huge plan, then aren't prayers just annoying and useless? And if they do work Hutchfucker wants us to use our magic "prayer powers" to what? Make sure his meetings go well? God forbid we pray for a sick child or something. Fucking goddamn asshole.

]]> SendHutchtoFredHutch http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/notes_from_the_prayer_warrior_6#c672211 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/notes_from_the_prayer_warrior_6#c672211 Life Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:57:25 -0800 Comment by Herding Morons toward Jesus It just goes to show you the power of idiots: This bozo got enough naive losers to believe in him and his "church", which is really nothing more than a pyramid scheme based out of a public high school gym.

We used to get some Antiochers here to defend Hutch, but we haven't seen them in quite some time. Maybe they hocked their computers to help buy Hutch a new BBQ after the unfortunate Propane Tank Incident of 2006.

Well, hopefully the new president will put a quick death to the Office of Faith Based Initiatives, and Hutch will have to find a new gravy train for his Latvian adventures.

]]> Herding Morons toward Jesus http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/notes_from_the_prayer_warrior_6#c672218 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/notes_from_the_prayer_warrior_6#c672218 Life Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:10:36 -0800 Comment by Jude Fawley This guy is kind of like Good Soldier Svejk or the guy Chauncey Gardiner from Being There - he's bumbling around the world and somehow ends up a special envoy, despite barely being able to write.

(I know the literary parallels are not perfect - and Svejk may in fact have been a genius in fool's clothing, like Mullah Nasrudin, but I don't care)

Now that I think of it, this needs to be a novel that depicts the neocon world from the perspective of a clueless born again. Anyone?

]]> Jude Fawley http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/notes_from_the_prayer_warrior_6#c672230 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/notes_from_the_prayer_warrior_6#c672230 Life Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:18:45 -0800 Comment by monkey Thank you Hutch. You've helped me decide to come out of the athiest closet. Keep your god damned religion to yourself, please.

]]> monkey http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/notes_from_the_prayer_warrior_6#c672235 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/notes_from_the_prayer_warrior_6#c672235 Life Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:27:14 -0800 Comment by Original Andrew Our tax dollars at work.

]]> Original Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/notes_from_the_prayer_warrior_6#c672255 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/notes_from_the_prayer_warrior_6#c672255 Life Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:42:05 -0800 Comment by ellarosa is he really funded by the us gov't? under the office of faith based initiatives? for real?

]]> ellarosa http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/notes_from_the_prayer_warrior_6#c672267 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/notes_from_the_prayer_warrior_6#c672267 Life Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:51:36 -0800 Comment by Gitai Hutch shouldn't expect much from the career diplomats, or really even from the ambassador. Like all ambassadors to friendly, but generally unimportant countries, Catherine Todd Bailey is a patronage appointee (you don't think she speaks Latvian, do you?) who got appointed for raising money for Bush's 2004 campaign. She's essentially a figurehead with a routine that wouldn't look unfamiliar to Miss America, going to official events, cocktail parties, and once in a while signing her name. Meanwhile, the career diplomats are busy taking care of visas, and a few undersecretaries and higher ups are doing the real diplomacy.

As for any anti-gay bullshit legislation that Latvia may pass, even under the pressure of Hutch, Latvia is a member of the EU whose human rights guarantees cover us queers. Latvians like EU subsidies a lot more than they hate gays.

]]> Gitai http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/notes_from_the_prayer_warrior_6#c672323 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/notes_from_the_prayer_warrior_6#c672323 Life Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:15:47 -0800 Comment by gfish Good thing Hutch is over there dealing with the imminent threat of Latvia legalizing gay marriage! That could happened any century now!

]]> gfish http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/notes_from_the_prayer_warrior_6#c672334 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/notes_from_the_prayer_warrior_6#c672334 Life Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:58:24 -0800 Comment by COMTE Damn! How many quarters did Hutch shove into that gumball machine in Jay Hein's office?

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/notes_from_the_prayer_warrior_6#c672520 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/notes_from_the_prayer_warrior_6#c672520 Life Fri, 16 Mar 2007 23:08:36 -0800 Comment by vooodooo84 Did you know that one million children die every year from malaria in Africa? This is so horrible because our country learned that malaria is a treatable and preventable disease many years ago. - Jay Hein

(if only those lazy africans would get off their asses and learn that malaria is treatable i wouldn't have to bother with this)

]]> vooodooo84 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/notes_from_the_prayer_warrior_6#c672556 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/notes_from_the_prayer_warrior_6#c672556 Life Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:57:16 -0800 Comment by DreadLion If only those damn self serving tribal
chiefs who were funded by European whitey( fragging mercenaries for hire, bored whiteboy mercs who love to lead tribes in war like they are in some damned tarzan movie) would allow the African doctors and Nurses who learned through education how to treat malaria avoid war and subjegation of the tribes so the medical staff could treat the victims without Bullets and Rpgs whisteling by their ears every godamn day and scaring the victims away. Get rid of the need for a tribe to buy Ak47s and rpgs from stinking arms dealers, and trade the money spent on guns on the medical needs of a whole village. Africans are not lazy. They are a strong people who tend to let themselves get fucked occasionaly by what I call War hunters. Mercs are crawling everywhere in those jungles and they make tribes turn on oneanother the same way the whiteman did to the Native americans over here.

]]> DreadLion http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/notes_from_the_prayer_warrior_6#c672668 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/notes_from_the_prayer_warrior_6#c672668 Life Sat, 17 Mar 2007 08:04:39 -0800