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Posted:  31 Aug 2009 15:33
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It's listed near the top of government agendas from Washington to Arlington, Tenn., an opening as standard as reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.

Before anyone takes a vote, debates the latest controversy or approves an expenditure, someone strides to the podium and asks a higher being to bless the meeting and the officials making the decisions.


http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2009/aug/31/bless-this-meeti ...
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Posted:  31 Aug 2009 21:14
The comments afterward are more interesting than the article.
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But the backdrops peel and the sets give way and the cast get eaten by the play, there's a murderer at the matinee, there are dead men in the aisles

And the patrons and the actors too are uncertain if the show is through and with sidelong looks await their cue, but the frozen mask just smiles