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I'm not going to comment on the Schiavo fiasco any more than to say this: the supporting conservatives have lost any justification, from here on out, for using "activist judges" as a pejorative term.

This is the very image of hypocrisy.

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Ok, so I'm not going to restrict my comments to just that. I'll add a little something that I find a bit ironic.

There's an old joke about the priest and the flood. It runs something like this:

There's this priest, and he's at his church while the rain keeps pouring down. When the water rises to his knees a canoe comes by, and the people inside say, "Father, get in -- we'll take you to safety!" But the priest says, "No, go save someone else. God will take care of me."

The waters keep rising and when they're at his chest a rowboat comes by. The people inside say, "Father, get in -- we'll take you to safety!" But once again the priest says, "No, go save someone else. God will take care of me."

So the waters keep rising. Eventually the priest has to climb on to the roof of the church to stay above the water, and at this point a helicopter comes by. They drop a rope ladder and say to him, "Father, climb up -- we'll take you to safety!" But just like before, he says, "No, go save someone else. God will take care of me."

So he drowns.

When he's in heaven and finally gets his audience with God he asks him, "Why didn't you help me? I've been a faithful servant all these years, why didn't you save me?"

To which God replies: "What did you expect? I sent you two boats and a helicopter!"

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Christians have this saying: God works in mysterious ways. Even in the Bible there's story after story involving God using people to achieve his ends. (Pontius Pilate, anyone? Or Pharoah?)

I'm not a Christian... but even so, I have to wonder if god is sitting up there shaking his head, saying, "How many verdicts do I have to hand down before they finally get it?"

If you keep praying and the opposite keeps happening, even the faithful should start to wonder if that's what god actually wants. Maybe some people feel that they know better and know what god really has in mind, but in the words of the late Bill Hicks -- I've never been that confident.