Ministers Put "Holy Oil" on Alito Hearing Room Chairs

I couldn't make this sh*t up if I tried.

And this is from the Wall Street Journal!

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Insisting that God "certainly needs to be involved" in the Supreme Court confirmation process, three Christian ministers today blessed the doors of the hearing room where Senate Judiciary Committee members will begin considering the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito on Monday.

Capitol Hill police barred them from entering the room to continue what they called a consecration service. But in a bit of one-upsmanship, the three announced that they had let themselves in a day earlier, touching holy oil to the seats where Judge Alito, the senators, witnesses, Senate staffers and the press will sit, and praying for each of the 13 committee members by name.

"We did adequately apply oil to all the seats," said the Rev. Rob Schenck, who identified himself as an evangelical Christian and as president of the National Clergy Council in Washington.
Ministers Say They Blessed Seats Ahead of Alito Hearing

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this is the first time i've ever got the feeling that anyone was complaining about the mention of oil around here.

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i mean seriously, the national clergy council is in effect lubing up senators seats. anybody wanna wager the irony is lost on them?

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PJ - I will give Papa the benefit of the doubt on this one, and says he jokes because there is no defensible argument for what they did.

But, I could be wrong.

The joke is on you.

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no, it's really not. i can look at something like this, see the inherent insanity of it and call it as such.

but whatever, as with everything else in pj-land, once it is stated to be so, it is so, regardless of any evidence or facts to the contrary.

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Pal Joey, if Alito had been Jewish a Rabbi would have schmeared chicken schmaltz on the chairs!

I say smear the seats with cow manure....and arrest the idiot ministers with breaking and entering

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I say, pray for whoever you want, there's far crazier ways to express your religion. But oil? I worked one summer at a religious outlet store, and broke a bottle of that stuff, and I smelled like Baptized Baby for what felt like weeks.

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Your post & signature say both "voodoo" and "hoohoo". You've exceeded the number of repeated O's per day that you're allowed. You've been banned for 5 minutes. Woo Hoo. :)

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"The oil, which I doubt is water based..."

Yes, since I am an expert on the subject, I can officially state that holy oil, like so many oil, is in fact, not water-based, but oil-based.

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