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According to the satirical website The Onion, there are apparently problems with speaking in tongues during teleconference church services.
In an effort to reduce disruptions during a prayer meeting held by teleconference Tuesday, Pastor Terry McEvers of the First Pentecostal Church of God reportedly asked that any congregants presently speaking in tongues place themselves on mute for the duration of the service.
…“If we all fall to the floor and unleash our miraculous gift of tongues at the same time, then everyone will just be shouting their divinely inspired strings of syllables over everyone else, and no one will understand what’s going on. A big garbled mess like that won’t do anybody any good.” According to sources, the pastor went on to request that members enable video on their devices if they intended to take up serpents, because that’s something no one ever gets tired of watching.
He is back from a one-week hiatus to comment on recent developments.
Incidentally, Trump has received much ridicule for saying that his suggestion about the need for testing whether injecting disinfectants might be a cure for Covid-19. He got even more ridicule when he tried to downplay his dangerous idiocy by saying that the comment was made ‘sarcastically’ when it was clearly not. It seemed like he did not understand what ‘sarcasm’ meant. But I read that what he might have meant to say was ‘hypothetically’. That would have made more sense. But while that explanation may be giving him some underserved credit, it also shows that Trump has difficulty with polysyllabic words, which is consistent with his general level of verbal incompetence.
A hilarious and clever offering from Roy Zimmerman. It is definitely a must see/listen.
Reporter’s were stunned when at Friday’s White House coronavirus Task Force briefing, where Trump usually rambles on for a couple of hours spewing lies and dangerous nonsense, he and Pence left after making a few comments without taking any questions. The briefing was over in less than 30 minutes. One report says Trump had been told by his advisors that his popularity is going down and that these briefings may be the cause.
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As a result of the failure of the Trump administration to move quickly to provide health care workers with the personal protective equipment they need, it has fallen upon others to fill the need.
Samantha Bee explains the steps that need to be taken before we can start relaxing the distancing rules and why that cannot be done quickly.
I tend to be somewhat business-like in my conversations with people other than close friends and thus I often find myself in conversations with people, either face-to-face in the good old days or nowadays via phone or video or audio chats, in which the time has come when I want to end the conversation but find it awkward to do so without implying that I am tired of the other person’s company. Since we are now confined to home, the old standby of saying one has another engagement to get to is no longer credible.
Rat has decoded a common technique used to end calls.
On the latest episode of his show Last Week Tonight, he describes the symbiotic relationship between Donald Trump and the right wing media that creates an echo chamber that rapidly spreads dangerously false information about coronavirus causes and cures.
As Samantha Bee points out in this excellent segment, it is the consequence of systemic racism that results in every disaster hurting those sectors more.