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Posted By Radiofreeeuropa 1 year, 5 months ago in News

Rockville preacher Rocky Twyman started this goofiness in April, annoying station owners and managers in D.C.- and prices began rising rapidly. Undeterred, he has spread his dumb movement to places like Florida and Ohio. Wherever his prayerful dupes show up, gas prices rise even faster. Guess how he tops this!

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    Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 5 months ago

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    Oh Lord, I beseech thee, please ignore those prayers for peace or food and give us more dinosaurs to ride 'cause we can't afford these cars anymore. The price of oil (which of course we don't believe in because the world is only 10,000 years old and it takes longer than that to make oil)is too high.

    God (apparently a free-marketer) has so far ignored these efforts.

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      Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 5 months ago

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      What do you think about praying in front of the Saudi Embassy?

      How, indeed, is that working out? Maybe if they took up Satanism they could stay at home saving gas on that trip to the ol' megachurch.

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        CRYMTYPHON1 year, 5 months ago

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        Sorry; i am on this guy's side.

        First, gas prices are important to people's daily lives.

        Second, the fact that the prayer does not work in no way invalidates the value of the prayer.

        Third, it is those who are willing to be silly for their spiritual beliefs who actualy have spiritual beliefs.

        Finaly, at least he isn't badgering gays or praying for more war or the smiting of the disney channel or whatever.

        Also Finaly, I like nutcases.

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          memestryker1 year, 5 months ago

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          "I like nutcases."

          They do add comic relief, don't they?!

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            Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 5 months ago

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            Well your right, if it keeps them from bashing gays, protesting at soldier funerals, molesting children, etc. I guess that's a good thing. And I am inclined to like oddballs myself.

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              HannibalBarca1 year, 5 months ago

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              Must be the Irish in you, Always a soft spot for those who are touched by the Gods.

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                CRYMTYPHON1 year, 5 months ago

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                The O'Crymtyfons are a very old noble irish family I just made up.

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                star531 year, 5 months ago

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                only God can judge the value of prayer

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                Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 5 months ago

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                I'll give him an B in the comic relief category.

                How come Gawd went and put all the oil under 'dem Muslim countries den?

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                  david_nwpa1 year, 5 months ago

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                  Alaska and North Dakota are Muslim countries?

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                    Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 5 months ago

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                    I was thinking Texas....LOL.

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                Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 5 months ago

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                Looks like Allah may have a little more influence in this area Jesus.

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                  RickyDawkins1 year, 5 months ago

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                  zing!

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                  RickyDawkins1 year, 5 months ago

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                  Those are the smart ones, imo.

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                    MereMortal1 year, 5 months ago

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                    Some of the comments below the article are funnier than the article. From the comments:

                    "Oil will soon be $300 a barrell. All praises be due unto Allah."

                    "Exxon execs are only given more power when you pray to them."

                    "God hears your prayers just fine - He just wants your fat lazy ass to ride a bike and stop polluting His planet."

                    "We are a nation of retards. "â;¦one nation under the mean IQ, indivisibleâ;¦""

                    And, so far, my favorite: "You all watch: Next we'll see a crying televangelist asking us to send money to support their praying for lower gas prices, and the dumb-ass bible-thumpers will send him some.

                    Gallon of gas: $4.25

                    Gallon of gas for a good christian: $4.25 $1.00 "prayer expenditure"

                    Watching idiots chant/clap in futility AND lose more money: Priceless"

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                      cloud151 year, 5 months ago

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                      "God hears your prayers just fine - He just wants your fat lazy ass to ride a bike and stop polluting His planet."

                      LOL that was the best one.

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                      gamahuche1 year, 5 months ago

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                      I think Janis had it right in the realm of hedonistic prayer:

                      "Oh Lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?

                      My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends!"

                      Wow! If I'd been G_d at the time I'd have sure given her one as long as she sang for me every day, just for 5 minutes..

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                        HannibalBarca1 year, 5 months ago

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                        Me, I loved her ode to cons "Cry Cry Baby"...lol

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                          DeadXXXManXXXTalkin1 year, 5 months ago

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                          after a fashion, he did buy her that mercedes

                          *after all, she was born into a situation where she developed a voice that made her a lot of money

                          I was born to be sung to by a tone deaf mother, so God bought me a subaru

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                          *accuracy ruins effective writing-couldn't say she was born with that voice, babies aren't born making music, that's for sure. The vocal cords have to grow and develop, the ears has to hear and interpret, etc.

                          as for 'soul', lots of people got lots of soul and sound like a spitted civet when they try to sing

                          kinda like knowing what notes to hit on your strat but being forced to play with your elbows

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                          disraeli1 year, 5 months ago

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                          Yet another sign of the end times.

                          Can't afford the gas. Bring on the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

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                            Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 5 months ago

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                            Praying for peace among nations, stability in the middle east,...(I wouldn't poke fun at that)that would help out with gas prices to boot. But I guess there's no cameras rolling for that kind of thing. Hey God, while your at it can you drop the price of that new Acura I had my eyes on and heck, while I'm here gassin' up and praying can ya drop some free slurpies out of the sky?

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                          Mutainia1 year, 5 months ago

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                          Hmm. People wasting their time away praying for cheap gas. I GUESS that's funny.

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                            Mutainia1 year, 5 months ago

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                            Would it be better if they lost their faith, thought there was no moral agency looking down at them, and, so they felt free to drill into your car's gas tank like some have been doing in San Francisco? May they continue to believe there is a God that answers prayer, I say.

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                              Dionys1 year, 5 months ago

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                              "so they felt free to drill into your car's gas tank like some have been doing in San Francisco? "

                              If you think it's only happening in SF (and if you actually think it has to do with religious morality), you're even more stupid than most of us think.

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                                TOD3961 year, 5 months ago

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                                Dionys, you are a piece of dung. Mutania never inferred that SF is the only place that people drill into gas tanks. he merely referenced that it happens in SF, as was reported in a national news story a short while back. As for stealing gas from a person's automobile, yes, it DOES have to do with morality, religous or otherwise.

                                And no you are not more stupid than we think. We think you have the intelligence of a slug...

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                                  Mutainia1 year, 5 months ago

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                                  "If you think it's only happening in SF (and if you actually think it has to do with religious morality), you're even more stupid than most of us think." Hey, O "I'm not a Muslim". I'm sure it's not just happening in Frisco. I just heard it to be and, was using it as an example. By the way, HOW do I think drilling into gas tanks deals with religious morality? Possibly because I believe that those who pray probably DO believe in a God that says "thou shalt not steal" MAKING it a moral agency that they follow, and, in the process, you don't have to worry so much about what's happening in San Fran (and OTHER places. How's that? OTHER places. You happy NOW O "I'm not a Muslim"? OTHER places.) :)

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                                  Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 5 months ago

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                                  Umm I don't think that is the only or likely alternative, quite frankly.

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                                    Mutainia1 year, 5 months ago

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                                    Hope springs eternal.

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                                simonsez1 year, 5 months ago

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                                Maybe he's already sent help and we haven't recognized it yet.

                                You can buy a very good SUV for a third of what it cost new and when O is pres, the price will probably come down to around $1.50. Praise the Lord ...

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                                  TOD3961 year, 5 months ago

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                                  You can buy a very good SUV for a third of what it cost new and when O is pres, the price will probably come down to around $1.50. Praise the Lord ...

                                  When O becomes president, all will be right in the world. He will have the power to make everything right again.

                                  And if he is elected, and everything stays the same, or more likeley, gets even worse, can we come back and bitch-slap you for being so gullible?

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                                    Sabretooth1 year, 5 months ago

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                                    "And if he is elected, and everything stays the same, or more likeley, gets even worse, can we come back and bitch-slap you for being so gullible?"

                                    You can bitch slap me if things get worse when Obama is president as long as i can kick you azz for electing Bush twice and driving oil through the roof by destabilizing the ME...mission accomplished.

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                                      TOD3961 year, 5 months ago

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                                      You are making two wrong assumptions.

                                      1. I didn't vote for Bush.

                                      2. You are letting your mouth write a check your a$$ can't cash. Slow your roll there cowboy, you don't want to go there with me...

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                                      simonsez1 year, 5 months ago

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                                      Just kidding, folks ...

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                                    BillsCatz1 year, 5 months ago

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                                    I wholly agree with the "silly" part. My first though when seeing the article yesterday was these people are plainly a couple of attention-seeking nut-cases, period. Yeah, lets go hang around a gas station and pray! Yeah, pray that the media grabs onto it, other nuts will join in and they end up with followers, attention and -- of course -- money. Didn't do anything to affect the price of gas at even one station, but that was never the real point. Halleluiah!

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                                      bek4231 year, 5 months ago

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                                      I think I'm going to start praying for the price of Godiva chocolates to go down.

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                                        Truzseeker1 year, 5 months ago

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                                        praying won't help, but action will !

                                        http://blizzard.rwic.und.edu/~nordlie/water_inj...

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