Scooby Superhero

"So, Pt, remember on Shabbos, that game you were playing with Iguana?"
"Scooby superhero?"
"Yeah. What was it about?"
" Well, Scooby superhero's evil twin invented a cloning machine and made a whole world of evil twins and called it 'evil twin clones land'."
" Yeah, I watched that part."
" You WATCHED us!? Oh no!"
" What, Pt?"
" Then now you know Scooby supehero's secret identity!"
"Who's that?"
" Scooby doo."
"Oh."
That is one crazy kid.

"It's Time To Free Jonathan Pollock"

The principle says,"So, as part of a conitenent wide program, our school, along with hundreds of others, are going to say tehillim every day after davening. Also, I have sent a letter to President Bush urging him to free Jonathon Pollock."
The principle looks around." Who here knows who Jonathon Pollock is? Well, to tell you the truth, it doesn't really matter, becuase he is a fellow Jew who is in jail for not such a good reason, and has been in jail for a long time because of the anti-semites in the goverment. He needs our teffilos so he can finally be freed."
My question is, all opinions on Jonathon Pollack aside, is that isn't it more political than anything else? Why are we saying tehillim for politics?