So I get this email from my boss:

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

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THIS ONE WILL SCARE YOU.........
..FORWARD TO EVERYONE ON YOUR EMAIL LIST.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcBaSP31Be8

"It is impossible to rightly govern a nation w/o GOD and the Bible." , George Washington

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6_xgKWzhRw&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxUud3yOsSk&NR=1&feature=fvwp

My reply:

Actually what I find scary is the possibility of losing my job and not having any health insurance like the rest of the industrialized world.

[phantom power]

1. I would also find it scary if that guy was my boss.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

2. You know, the crazy thing is that the guy is so cool in every other aspect.

He's aright winger who actually got into arguments with his family for defending Obama after the election. This is the first time he emails me shit like this. I'll make sure it's the last.

[TommyO]

3. Small company, or large company with a dedicated, independent, HR department?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. We're a small satellite office of a relatively large architecture firm in New York. nt

[TommyO]

5. If it were a large company, I would recommend going right to HR

but it sounds like it would be easy to single you out if you did. I see you already have a handle on it and are making sure it doesn't happen again, probably more tactfully than I could muster under the circumstances.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

6. The thing is that as a supervisor he could not be any nicer. It pisses me off that

an intelligent man such as him can believe this dumb shit.

[MiniMe]

7. What a bunch of BS

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

8. OH NOES DEATH PANELS!!!!

[donco6]

9. Fake Quotations

Fake Quotations: Washington and Governing without God
Posted by sbh on Friday, 3 July 2009

Did George Washington say

It is impossible to govern the world without God and the Bible.
From: Fake Quotations

Did George Washington say

in his farewell speech of 1796?

No. Not then or any other known time.

This particular version is relatively modern. The statement appears to go back (through several permutations) to a claim made by an 1835 biographer on unknown authority. Supposedly George Washington said to a gentleman skeptical of the existence of a Supreme Being:

It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe without the agency of a Supreme Being.

It is impossible to govern the universe without the aid of a Supreme Being.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one.

You will note of course that the sense here is quite different from the sense of the derivative version. When the version quoted above is dragged out, it is with the intention of showing that Washington believed that God and the Bible were an essential part of governing a nation. In the 1835 version Washington is explaining that it is impossible for the universe to run without God keeping it going, so to speak. But the thing is, if there is a genuine version, this one is it.

http://fakehistory.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/fake-quotations-washington-and-governing-without-god/

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

10. Thank you. I was Googling that quote because it sounded bogus. But

couldn't find a definitive answer. That's the sigline from his douchebag friend who sent out the email in the first place.

[Ian David]

11. Sounds like a hostile work environment to me, IMHO. n/t

[Phx_Dem]

12. Too bad employees can't fire the boss for sending inappropriate e-mails

at work.

[chemenger]

13. The question is ... Who's God?

Since he also threw the Bible in there I'm guessing he means the Christians' God. But which denomination? Lutheran, Methodist, Southern Baptist, Catholic, ???

And which version of the Bible ... New King James, New International, New Century, ???

And I'll also throw into the mix ... New Testament governance (which says "Love your neighbor as much as you love yourself) or Old Testament governance (I'll smite your ass if you so much as break just one of my countless number of commandments).

OY VEY!!!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

14. I knew that quote had to be bullshit. See post 9. nt

[mstinamotorcity]

15. I would go to my boss

And ask him why he sent me the e-mail.Unless you have been discussing politics at work this should be very insulting.I would explain to my boss that i don't read e-mails on political issues during times that i am working.Me personally i would ask that he refrain from such behavior.But by him being the boss i would simply make it my business to let him know that i don't do political issues where i work.Lets go to the bar and have a couple.So that way when he gets slick to the tongue you can hit him in the mouth and blame it on the al-al-alcohol.:P :P :P