Back when I was younger and going out with the Queen of England and other lesbians, I used to put on Barry White and George Benson and Grover Washington, Jr. for a romantic mood type of music. Now, unfortunately, they are all dying off. Thank goodness their music lives on, especially for us old geezers.
So go out and get a Barry White album (or CD) and listen to some good music and relax.
Do it after the fireworks, though.
By the way, does anybody have a price listing for three telephone lines in Washington County, Oregon. I've heard we're being charged by COMCAST over 100 dollars for three phone lines. There's got to be a better deal.
Shakespeare Sonnet
O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem
For that sweet odour which doth in it live.
The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye
As the perfumed tincture of the roses,
Hang on such thorns and play as wantonly
When summer's breath their masked buds discloses:
But, for their virtue only is their show,
They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade,
Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so;
Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made:
And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth,
When that shall fade, my verse distills your truth.
Trudy Schuett has a plea for help. For more information visit the following link.
RichardHRichard Hayden is the listowner of the Abused Guys Yahoo Group, a support group for domestic violence victims active since 1998. Richard has been a source of much encouragement and support for both me and my activism efforts, and was instrumental in ensuring my research into the subject of DV for my book, Friends to the End, was accurate. He was also among the first to "break the Pink Barrier" by publishing man-friendly DV works at the now-defunct Themestream website.
If it wasn't for Richard there probably wouldn't be a DLJ.
When I heard a few weeks ago he'd been diagnosed with leukemia, he also told me a bone marrow transplant could be his only hope. So I was determined to do what I could to help. The more donors there are, the more chances that Richard can find a match and continue his work with and for abused men.
How You Can Help
If you have a website, go to http://www.desertlightjournal.com/RichardH.html and get the link and graphic for your site.
Well, the crazy, homophobic, white supremacist ex-wife (the one I divorced in 1980) is still sending over her loony buddies to insult me, harass me, accuse me of all sorts of nonsense, and to scream at me about the latest conspiracies I'm involved in and why I'm evil and need to be killed.
Apparently, one of the horrible conspiracies I'm involved in is the conspiracy to let colored folk become citizens of the US in violation of the teachings of Robert Wangrud.
Another conspiracy I'm supposed to be involved in here in Washington County, Oregon is the conspiracy to turn all our kids into homosexuals.
It seems I'm involved in the conspiracy of the Queen of England and the banks of England to take over the world as evidenced by the following excerpt:
THE QUEEN IS EXPOSED BEHIND US BANKING SYSTEMBRITISH CONTROL OF US BANKS - ALL THE KINGS MEN CAN'T PROTECT HER OR DEFEND THE FRAUD, THEIR ACTS LEAVE QUEEN/ENGLAND VULNERABLE ON GLOBAL CORPORATE CHESSBOARD - UNPROTECTED, ENGLAND CANNOT HIDE BEHIND FRONTS OR REPRESENTATIVES ANYMORE IN US COURTS
Evidence that US is not controlling our own courts. Many layers of representatives now shown to be corrupt to the core, corruption seen to be now to the top of a global corporate beast, controlled by the "secret" government in London.
My homophobic, white racist ex-wife and her psycho family also send female loonies over to not only tell me what a lowlife I am but to try and seduce me so I'll join their crazy movement. They even send underage teenage girls over and these girls spout some of the stupidest nonsense you've ever heard. One thing they all have in common is the ability to be angry all the time and the inability to have a rational discussion (they don't talk....THEY SCREAM) about even mundane subjects like the weather or traffic conditions around Washington County, Oregon. They also have the strange ability to wake up angry and hate, with extreme hate, whoever they are ordered to hate any particular day.OREGON JUDICIAL WATCH - PUBLIC MEETING -
OCTOBER 30, 1999, 9:00am
Oregon Judicial Watch will hold its first monthly breakfast meeting
on October 30, l999 at 9:00am at The Old Country Buffet located at
l0542 S.E. Washington St. Portlalnd, Oregon.OJW was formed a year ago to focus public attention on the severe
corruption problem in the Oregon court system. Please plan to
attend. Bring family and friends and other concerned citizens.If you have questions please call Pamela Gaston
503-845-6734,
Roger Weidner 503-232-669l,
Helen Solem 503-429-8400.
One day they can wake up and be nice to a person in order to get something from the person and the next day they can act like vicious mad dogs with rabies and try and kill you. This link will take you to an example of how they turn on people mindlessly. For all practical reasons they are totally and criminally insane, not to mention so mentally ill they are a danger to themselves and others.
These vicious, out of control freaks are actually able to con some people into doing their bidding, for example, here in Washington County they have total control over a psycho, white supremacist cop. They have also managed to con at least one Navy JAG officer (maybe more), many years ago, to forge a signature (mine) to confessions of crimes that are physically impossible to commit unless one is a supernatural demon of some sort.
I'm not sure how these morons were able to pull it off but they actually got the US Navy to not acknowledge a divorce decree unless it was done in a common law court.
Only in loony, homophobic racist Washington County, Oregon
By the way, my suggestion about starting a database of crazy white supremacists brought an amazing amount of weird responses.
Good grief!!!!???? First free speech on campus, then graduate studies, then beautiful women, AND NOW.......AND NOW......UCLA is allowing professors to have blogs!!!!!!?????
This is the end of civilization as the French know it. Where will it all end? Next thing you know UCLA will have some sort of commie, pinko film studies program.
If you want to see how far this ridiculous free speech thing has gone, check out Mark A. R. Kleiman
Mr. Den Beste. USS Clueless - How not to treat pneumonia, is not feeling well. In addition to his new antibiotic I recommend Marx Brothers movies. I want him to get well so he doesn't feel the need to put sleazy, porno pictures on his website. Maybe I should introduce him to Dark Lady. She's a writer here in Oregon. Dark Lady is sometimes known as Theresa Reed, who is Campaign Director of the Libertarian Party of Oregon.
Man, let a few people know you're working on a lawsuit against a county and that you've been in communication with some lawyers from out of state, and the next thing you know you have people coming over wanting to know why you're suing the county and what evidence you have.
Some of the people coming over wanting to know all sorts of stuff about my impending lawsuit against Washington County, Oregon also say things like, "You better not sue the county" or "You don't have a case, so give it up".
I live at 4125 SW 175 in Aloha, Oregon and even my neighbors are coming over and telling me not to sue the county because according to them, "You will lose and, besides, you don't have a case".
If you don't believe me, you can always ask my neighbors.
Only in loony, homophobic, racist Washington County, Oregon.
Well, I've read the online version of the New York Times and the LA Times and Shark Blog and XRLQ and their comments about Seattle PI.
Even if Seattle PI is silly, which it is, I would like to see its continued existence.
Now it's time for a Shakespeare sonnet and then I'm going to plug some Oregon news outlets.
What is your substance, whereof are you made,
That millions of strange shadows on you tend?
Since every one hath, every one, one shade,
And you, but one, can every shadow lend.
Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit
Is poorly imitated after you;
On Helen's cheek all art of beauty set,
And you in Grecian tires are painted new:
Speak of the spring and foison of the year;
The one doth shadow of your beauty show,
The other as your bounty doth appear;
And you in every blessed shape we know.
In all external grace you have some part,
But you like none, none you, for constant heart.
Here in Oregon, which nobody in the rest of the US cares about, we have many newspapers and many of them are very good and some are........well.........interesting.
I'm not a news pundit like many bloggers are simply because I really don't know that much about how news becomes news or which news is important and which news is nice but gloss.
I'm learning, though, and sometimes when I'm not receiving hate emails or death threat emails I receive emails asking my opinion about some of the news going on in the world.
So probably in the future I will be giving more opinions about more subjects covered by various news organizations.
Despite the guarantee of free speech, here in loon central we don't really have freedom of speech.
For example, once my sister (Chris Andrea Hays) became a member of the psycho Roger Weidner/Victor Oekerman gang, she was precluded from communicating with me as a sister and a normal human being.
I mean, for example, I sent home a bunch of stuff when I was in the military from 1980 to 1984, and all of it disappeared, and I'm still trying to figure out where it went.
Something tells me it went to the sleazeball gang, but I can't tell for sure.
Also, after I came back I still put some of my stuff over at my parents' house (they told me to store anything I needed storing at their place and they would take care of it) and that stuff disappeared, too. I'm also still trying to find out what happened to some money in my saving's account (a little over ten thousand dollars meant for my two daughters college fund) that mysteriously disappeared some years ago.
Despite all these mysterious things that have happened, at the moment my sister and her buddies in the cult are preparing for the "pulse" attack from Russia and China. According to the gang I'm involved in the conspiracy to attack America (I'm really not) and so this is another reason I have to be destroyed.
It's amazing to me that my relatives are scurrying around trying to find ways to lesson the impact of a delusional "pulse" attack by Russia and China instead of focusing their attention on some of the problems facing Oregonians and, in particulaR, Washington County residents.
I've been working on a database of the weird white supremacists in Oregon and, especially, the crazies here in Washington County. Man.....talk about suicidal actions.
What's weird is that the sleazy, crooked, white supremacist cop who goes to my relatives' church and who is a member of the psycho Roger Weidner/Victor Oekerman gang sent one of his buddies over to tell me....get this......this is a quote from one of his crazy buddies here in Washington County........"There's twenty of us and we can get you anytime we want."
At the moment, I've recently found out, this crazy cop and his homophobic, racist buddies are conducting an investigation of me for being (I swear I'm not making this up):
This idiot cop has also investigated me for homosexual activities, but even if I were doing homosexual stuff (which I'm not) it's not illegal.
I asked some personnel in a couple of federal law enforcement agencies for their opinion on these investigations and I was told to make some sort of record about the shenanigans of the crooked cop who is a member of the lunatic, homophobic, white racist Roger Weidner gang and make an official civil rights complaint.
It's pretty well documented now that the mother of my two daughters has been an informant for the crooked, crazy cop for about fifteen years and that she has information about his illegal activities on behalf of the lunatic, homophobic, white supremacist Roger Weidner gang, AND that it is just a matter of time before she is persuaded to act as a witness against the crazy cop.
So while he is trying to frame me, the feds are investigating him and his buddies.
Loony, homophobic, racist Washington County, Oregon is one strange county.
In the meantime I'm still working on the following investigations:
Only in loony, homophobic, racist Washington County, Oregon..
Today I want my four readers that are usually passed out in Joe's Saloon in the Virgin Islands to check out this blog.
I have been a little hesitant about linking to Iranian blogs, unlike Jeff Jarvis, for fear that the more people who link to Iranian bloggers the more the Mullahs will get pissed off and the more the secret police of the Mullahs will try to ferret out Iranian bloggers and punish the Iranian bloggers.
However, Jeff Jarvis is a professional whereas I am not, and I'm changing my view so that more and more I'm convinced he has been doing the right thing by publicizing Iranian bloggers as much as he can.
Now, the Christian Science Monitor has pretty much decided, as indicated in the link below, that this is a subject that is worthy of even more news coverage.
Proliferating Iranian weblogs give voice to taboo topics | csmonitor.com
The link below will take you to a story about what not to do if you have a law firm and somebody in the law firm screws up big time.
My Shingle | OUCH - This Is A Disciplinary Action Waiting to Happen
Also, I forgot to mention a useful link that I was asked to mention and it is DAILY WHIRL - RSS Feeds From Legal News and Info Sites.
I have it over on the left among my links. Of course, once I put it over on my links nobody reads it. Not even my four readers that are usually passed out in Joe's Saloon in the Virgin islands. I heard they were going to the Cayman Islands so they could meet the famous Instapundit but after toasting the pilot who would take them to the Cayman Islands, they passed out again.
The following link will take you to a story that, if true, shows the Associated Press to be pompous, self-serving, miserly and...........(I have to say it because, after all, this is the "Sleaze Report").........sleazy.
Info about the Uganda Civil War and the Rwanda Civil War.
For those who want to help there is an organization called The International Rescue Committee - is a non-profit, non-sectarian, voluntary agency providing assistance to refugees around the world.
The International Rescue Committee was founded at the request of Albert Einstein to assist opponents of Hitler. The IRC helps people fleeing racial, religious and ethnic persecution, as well as those uprooted by war and violence.
As usual, I recommend that anybody giving to a non-profit organization do a little investigating.
Speaking of the Libertarian Party of Oregon, the Libertarian Party of Washington County is hosting its first annual summer picnic in Shute Park located in Hillsboro. (Southeast 10th Avenue and Maple Street.)
The picnic will be on Saturday, July 19, 2003 from 3:30 till 7:00PM. There is a suggested donation of $5.00 per person. Which will buy you a raffle ticket, food and a soft drink. There will not be any alcohol available due to park regulations.
We hope that you can make it and please bring a friend. Please RSVP to chair@lpwc.org
Equal custody laws could lower divorce: Anthony. 29/06/2003. ABC News Online
The Reverend Donald Sensing has an interesting post about what some American Muslims think about some of the extemists targeting Americans and citizens from countries that are perceived as being America's friends.
The state where I was born, California, has managed to get itself into a huge financial mess. It also seems to have gotten itself into an energy mess.
There is a recall effort going on and XRLQ has some pretty good opinions at the link below about what's going on in California.
damnum absque injuria: Three For The Price of One?
Update: I've just been watching a Fox Special Report and the anchor person said tonight at midnight California needs to come up with a budget AND that CA is about 38 billion (that's right - 38 billion) in the hole.
What good is having secrets when everybody but the American people know what the secrets are? Link via Eschaton.
Who says there's not money to be made from the Internet. Now all I gotta do is figure out a way to own a news station.
About one-quarter of the 157 stations surveyed were using their Internet sites specifically to lure new-to-TV advertisers, such as real estate and employment recruiting, said Mr. Borrell.
The following state rankings are from the US Census Bureau. Washington County, Oregon has the highest percentage of loonies running around.
If you click on the link below you will be taken to a list of Oregon wineries. If you're not in Oregon, the link below will take you to a list of wineries in your state, if you have any wineries in your state.
To view the proposed legislation in either HTML or PDF format, click on the link below.
LII.
So am I as the rich, whose blessed key
Can bring him to his sweet up-locked treasure,
The which he will not every hour survey,
For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure.
Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare,
Since, seldom coming, in the long year set,
Like stones of worth they thinly placed are,
Or captain jewels in the carcanet.
So is the time that keeps you as my chest,
Or as the wardrobe which the robe doth hide,
To make some special instant special blest,
By new unfolding his imprison'd pride.
Blessed are you, whose worthiness gives scope,
Being had, to triumph, being lack'd, to hope.
I agree with Cato the Youngest but I guess my opinion has been overruled.
DB's Medical Rants has fielded 9 questions and has managed some answers. Some of the questions are good, but I would have asked a few different ones. But, hey, I'm not Donald. Here's the first question Donald asks -
1. Do you agree hospitalists improve the quality of patient care and reduce costs?
Now, I'm not DB Rants, but I would have answered the question this way, "When you sober up, then will you ask a question that makes sense?"
Heh, heh, I cheated on the answer I gave up above. I belong to several email lists made up of all sorts of medical specialists (they let me on their email lists because I told them I wish to learn from them and they said, "OK") and the consensus was that the question by Donald was really stupid.
DB's Medical Rants: 9 questions - and answers
Lambert is posting a lot of posts over at Eschaton.
I disagree with almost all of Lambert's posts, but they are so interesting that I think you should read Lambert's posts.
His first post is one of those great posts about a really cool person you know and you get to rant and rave about how cool that person is and it is
Jack Bog's Blog - Happy birthday, Judge Goodwin and the other post is about how he was one of the first to blog about certain political shenanigans.
Newsflash from Loon Central.
I have been told to quit being a Scientologist because Scientologists are evil.
That shouldn't be too difficult to accomplish since I've never been a Scientologist.
For some idiot reason, the Roger Weidner gang became convinced over twenty years ago that I was a scientologist, a homosexual Satanist, an eater of corpses, and on and on. Now they are intent on surviving the "pulse attack" from Russia and China.
Anyway, the Roger Weidner gang imparted the information about me being a Scientologist, a homosexual, a corpse eater, etc., to a fiance I had at Rota, Spain in 1984 which caused my fiance, Cathy Winters, AND her mother to spend weeks trying to convince me to quit being a Scientologist, a Satanist, a homosexual and on and on.
Cathy Winters was the proud owner of a switchblade knife. When she was drunk, which was almost every night, she would show off her expertise with that switchblade. This caused her to stab innocent bystanding things like tables, walls, doors, the bed, some of my clothes, etc.
Strange girl. Whenever she got too drunk and too violent I just split into town and partied with the natives, or the Italian or German or English vacationers.
Man, I really liked Rota, Spain. Too bad I spent most of my time there being on light duty because of a silly assault and knife attack that happened to me shortly after I got there.
Three Teens Compete for Preaching Prize.
I wonder which contestant God is rooting for.
Three Teens Compete for Preaching PrizeUpdated 7:42 PM ET June 27, 2003
- They came from across the country, arriving on a college campus during an April rain to do what young Americans do every year - compete for a national championship. But these contestants were not vying for a sports trophy or a debate badge, they were after a higher goal.
"It would be nice to end my senior year in high school with getting a first place in nationals," said Ben Shuler, 18, of Columbus, Ga.Shuler was one of 2,400 students who made the trip to Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C. They were competing in 75 different categories that all had one thing in common — God.
"Evangelistic preaching is very important, because that's what it's all about," Shuler said. "There's only two things that will ever last, and that's the word of God, and the souls of men."
Shuler was competing in the category of Evangelistic Bible Preaching — one of the bigger crowd pleasers, demonstrating Bible knowledge seasoned with a requisite salvation message. He was one of 14 contestants, winners in their home states, who were given 10 to 15 minutes each to preach before a classroom audience and panel of three judges. Six advanced to the finals.
The contest, the American Association of Christian Schools (AACS) National Competition, is geared to evangelicals. In a recent ABCNEWS poll, 34 percent of Americans identified themselves as such.
Evangelicals emphasize one's individual relationship with God. Each accepts Jesus Christ as a personal savior. They may seek to convert others, spreading the Gospel, or the "good news" of redemption, through missionary work and other forms of evangelism known as "witnessing." One bears witness to his own conversion experience so that others may be inspired to follow; in this, preaching is a key tool.
‘Witnessing’ With Ben Shuler
Weeks before the Greenville competition, Shuler stood on a rundown Georgia street, praying with a young woman over a chain-link fence that rims her dusty front yard. "Forgive me of my sins, come into my heart," she repeated after him in a near-whisper. "I am trusting you and you alone to take me to heaven when I die," she said.
A small crowd had gathered by the time Shuler was done. Youth pastor Robert Rodriguez invited the group to dinner; but none showed up that night. Still, Shuler pressed on. "Do you guys go to church anywhere?" he asked a group of small boys on bicycles. "What we're doing is just going around inviting people to church."
"I'm different than a lot of people," Shuler said. "Outside of my school, I don't really have any friends," but, he said, "I don't have a lack of fun in my life, because there is nothing more fun than doing what's right, and serving the Lord."
Gary Shuler, Ben's father, said he and his wife tried to control what their children watch on television. They didn't want them listening to rock music. "To tell you the truth, Ben does a good job of policing his own life," he said.
"Truly, what scares me is that I would never want to be unfaithful to the Lord," Ben Shuler, the youngest child of four, explained. "I never want to do something that would ruin my testimony, that would cause me to have to leave the ministry, and that I would not be an effective witness for the Lord in doing so."
As Shuler preached his winning message before state judges at the wood-paneled front of a small stone church, his mother, Carol, filmed him on home video from her pew.
The Competition: Isaiah LewisAcross the country, in New Hampshire, Isaiah Lewis, 16, won that state's Evangelistic Bible Preaching competition, his adolescent voice breaking even as his hands cut the air with the authority of a seasoned preacher.
"I totally recognize that God has given me an ability to speak, and that's not something I need to be proud about," Lewis said. "To preach the word of God is the most incredible feeling in the world … and winning is just really a bonus on the end of it."
Seated in an immaculately ordered bedroom, a row of colorful preaching prize ribbons tacked to the wall and a group of boxes stacked into a makeshift practice pulpit at the foot of the bed, Lewis explained his passion.
"I believe there are many young people, that if they would truly examine their heart, and truly listen to what God is telling them, they would find that God is calling them to share his word," he said. "It's a duty, but it's a privilege, to give myself to God and say 'use me.'"
Lewis' mother Debbie, visibly moved by her son's accomplishments, said she was convinced people would be saved by her son's preaching. "It's a very humbling thing, that the Lord could use your child to preach the gospel. It just makes me cry."
The Competition: Eric StanleyEric Stanley, 18, pitches for the Crusaders, his high school baseball team in Odessa, Mo. Before they take the field, his coach prays with them; but before Stanley takes the pulpit, it is his pastor who acts as coach.
"At first, I do feel nervous, and the jitters take over. But once I start preaching, a peace comes over you, and you get to share the truths of God's word with others," Stanley said. "The qualities of a good preacher are not necessarily his boldness and the way he presents. It's his heart."
Stanley's father, Rick, said he and his wife wanted to bring up their children differently than they had been. "His mother and I both grew up not living godly lives, and not having Christ as our personal savior, and we both knew what that meant to us."
Now, at Bob Jones, Stanley called his father with news that would spark a 15-hour drive across the country to see his son preach. The list of first-round winners had been posted at the National Competition: "I made it to the finals, so you can go ahead and come on down," Stanley told his dad.
The Finals: Paradox and PressureThe paradox of a preaching competition is lost on neither organizer nor participant; many competing students are conflicted over preaching to win, rather than to glorify God.
"We try to help the preachers understand that they are not really competing against one another," said preaching judge Randy Leedy. "The opponent that they face … is the devil."
But particulars matter when even that timeless struggle against Satan is adapted to the competition's 10- to 15-minute format. "We are very interested in the content of what the man has to say in his sermon, and we are interested in how he says it," Leedy said. "We want to see a naturalness, a spontaneity. Does he engage the audience?"
The purpose of the competition is "to produce a generation of people that will make a difference in the world in which we live," AACS president Carl Herbster said. "We're developing some real soldiers for the Lord Jesus Christ."
But all the pressure to smoothly save souls got to Shuler. After preaching in the finals, he broke down in tears, huddled in a hall doorway with Lewis and another contestant, shaking.
"Ben has a very passionate heart for God," Lewis later offered. "He was just pouring out his soul before God. 'Lord, save these men,' he kept saying, over and over. 'Use these words that I have spoken, save these men.'"
"I was crying because of the souls of men; my heart is to see souls saved," Shuler explained. "Some people think hell is a fairy tale, but it is not. Hell is a reality."
"It just upset him so much to think that someone might die and go to hell, and it just broke his heart," said Shuler's mother, Carol. "Preaching is not an easy calling."
Prize in the SkyGathered in Bob Jones' plush central auditorium, winners heard their names announced. This year, Lewis claimed first prize, and Shuler landed third. Stanley failed to place; while disappointed, he vows he is undeterred from his calling to preach.
"It's an awesome feeling," said Shuler, thrilled to have been named third in the nation. "I don't deserve to be here. I don't deserve to preach the word of God."
"I just talked to Ben Shuler and Eric Stanley," Lewis said after the ceremony, "and we just kind of looked at each other and said, 'Who cares?' …The word of God was preached by six individuals in that room who love God."
This report was written from a two-part Nightline presentation that aired June 19 and 20. George Griffin and Matt Kauffman provided the reporting for the story.
Do you really think winning a "preaching prize" is gonna get you into heaven? Personally, I don't know so asked a Sikh and he spent a lot of time expaining a lot of stuff to me. Unfortunately, his was talking in a language I didn't understand, but his body language told me that what he was saying was really important.....at least to him. Hmmm, come to think of it, he sounded like Republicans sound because I can't figure out what they say, either.
Which brings up this story.
Falwell apologizes to gays, feminists, lesbians
September 14, 2001 Posted: 2:55 AM EDT (0655 GMT)
LYNCHBURG, Virginia (CNN) -- The Rev. Jerry Falwell said late Thursday he did not mean to blame feminists, gays or lesbians for bringing on the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington this week, in remarks on a television program earlier in the day.On the broadcast of the Christian television program "The 700 Club," Falwell made the following statement:
"I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen.'"
Falwell, pastor of the 22,000-member Thomas Road Baptist Church, viewed the attacks as God's judgment on America for "throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked."
But in a phone call to CNN, Falwell said that only the hijackers and terrorists were responsible for the deadly attacks.
"I do believe, as a theologian, based upon many Scriptures and particularly Proverbs 14:23, which says 'living by God's principles promotes a nation to greatness, violating those principles brings a nation to shame,'" he said.
Falwell said he believes the ACLU and other organizations "which have attempted to secularize America, have removed our nation from its relationship with Christ on which it was founded."
"I therefore believe that that created an environment which possibly has caused God to lift the veil of protection which has allowed no one to attack America on our soil since 1812," he said.
Pat Robertson, host of the 700 Club program, seemed to agree with Falwell's earlier statements in a prayer during the program.
"We have sinned against Almighty God, at the highest level of our government, we've stuck our finger in your eye," said Robertson. "The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America."
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Executive Director Lorri L. Jean bristled at the idea that gays and lesbians had anything to do with the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that may have left thousands dead, and demanded an apology from Falwell.
"The terrible tragedy that has befallen our nation, and indeed the entire global community, is the sad byproduct of fanaticism. It has its roots in the same fanaticism that enables people like Jerry Falwell to preach hate against those who do not think, live, or love in the exact same way he does," she said.
"The tragedies that have occurred this week did not occur because someone made God mad, as Mr. Falwell asserts. They occurred because of hate, pure and simple. It is time to move beyond a place of hate and to a place of healing. We hope that Mr. Falwell will apologize to the U.S. and world communities."
Falwell told CNN: "I would never blame any human being except the terrorists, and if I left that impression with gays or lesbians or anyone else, I apologize."
Man, I don't understand this. I used to like to take peyote and then go to Willie Nelson and Led Zeppelin concerts in Tucson, Arizona and now I find out that that's not conducive to Republican inspired attempts to control Americans through strange, bizarre Calvinistic religious edicts.
Well, maybe I can make up for my transgressions by reading something by Hunter S. Thompson.
Here in Oregon we have one of the biggest sewers you can possibly imagine. It is called the Willamette River. Periodically the local news folk tell us to NOT go swimming in the river, to NOT go fishing in the river because the fish are contaminated and to NOT let pets go swimming in the river.
And now in honor of the Portland City Council's efforts to take from the poor and give to the rich, we bring you Jim Karlock and his opinion.
Well, it's time to update the world about what is happening in Washington County, Oregon right now. We're seeking info from bureaucracies and others, including the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) in association with everybody for the "beam particle" attack by Russia and China. Fortunately, the brilliant leaders of the Hillsboro, Oregon Chamber of Commerce have contacted SAMHSA.
Remember, don't forget the toilet paper. According to experts, the "particle beam" weapons won't interfere with toilets, unless you live in Portland, Oregon, where the Portland Water Bureau does interfere with toilets.
That great chef of Chinese food, Victor Oekerman, and his brilliant legal advisor, Roger Weidner, have offered to cook Chinese food in anticipation of the efforts of Russia and China to "pulse" America. According to Victor and Roger, "everybody but them damn furriners" are welcome.
Only in loony, homophobic, racist Washington County, Oregon.
Todd S. Elwyn, M.D., J.D of the University of Hawaii is now, officially, a Laughlin Fellow. He has also written an interesting article - eMedicine - Factitious Disorder : Article by Todd S Elwyn, MD.
Many of the females, including my sister (Chris Andrea Hays), in the psycho Roger Weidner/Victor Oekerman gang suffer from "Munchausen syndrome by proxy". In other words, they either deliberately make their kids sick so they can show what great mothers they are by healing the "sick" kids, or they pretend their kids are sick, thereby gaining sympathy from other members of the cult.
Between seeking sympathy and preparing for WW III and bugging me and my two daughters and the mother of my two daughters, I don't see how members of the cult have the time to relax and read a book.
There seems to be a controversy about the importance of
Doctoral versus Masters' Degrees in Clinical Psychology - There are large and important differences between the doctoral (Ph.D. and Psy.D.) and masters (M.S. or M.A.) degrees in clinical psychology. This page describes both general differences between the degrees, but some important differences regarding the Department of Psychology's programs.
Tell you what, Marquette certainly has me convinced....... of something, I'm not sure what. Oh, I remember, when drinking orange juice, always kill any possible germs in the juice by adding vodka.
Now let's turn our attention to another controversy - Psychology vs Psychiatry.
All right. Now that we've studied a couple of controversies, it's time to go swimming.
I've actually been asked to name a few good authors. This is a pleasant diversion from being accused of all sorts of things, including being a part of the Russian/Chinese conspiracy to "pulse" attack America with "beam particle" weaponry.
At the moment I'm reading "London: the Novel" by Edward Rutherford and "The Bear and the Dragon" by Tom Clancy.
There is also The Online Literature Library, where you can read some classics that are in the public domain. (Yes, you can even copy what's at the The Online Literature Library legally.)
The following not-widely-read authors I recommend:
Read all the books from the above mentioned authors for your enjoyment, not for testing purposes. I swear, sometimes I think literature classes teach people to hate reading more than the classes teach people how to enjoy reading.
I've written about Hacktivismo before. I'm glad word is getting out about Hacktivismo. Findlaw even has an article about Hacktivismo so click on the link below.
Vodka Pundit's plan to end racism makes sense to me. Vodka Pundit also brings up a very important question, "Why should only Mexicans be able to get real Mexican food?" It's not fair.
In a post by Randy Barnett at the Volokh Conspiracy, there is a reply by Marcus Cole to a posting by Eugene Volokh entitled "JUDGING CLARENCE THOMAS".
Because I think this letter from Marcus Cole is important, I'm going to put Randy Barnett's complete post below.
Reply to Volokh's MSNBC Blog on Justice Thomas: Stanford Law School professor (and good friend) Marcus Cole has written the following moving reply to Eugene's guest blog on MSNBC entitled Judging Clarence Thomas:Dear Eugene,
I appreciate the logical fire to which you put Maureen Dowd's feet. I'm afraid, however, that you have missed an opportunity to challenge the racist premise that is central to her argument, a premise shared by many of those on the left.
In order to make her argument, Maureen Dowd assumes that Clarence Thomas, and all successful African Americans, owe their success to Affirmative Action as the but-for cause of their success. No African American, according to this premise, is capable of making it without a helping hand from omniscient social architects. Clarence Thomas must be an ingrate for refusing to acknowledge that very decent white people on the left made it possible for him to be where he is today. I'm sorry, but I am sick of this arrogant and utterly racist mind-set, and I refuse to tolerate it any longer.
In the current Affirmative Action environment, blessed by our Supreme Court this past Monday, there is nothing that any American of African descent can do that can separate himself or herself from the unspoken accusation that he or she is the beneficiary of more than they deserve.Let me illustrate my point. I am willing to bet that I am the only member of this list who feels compelled to put his standardized test scores and National Merit award on his CV. Why do I do this? For those of you who do not know me personally, it is not a matter of braggadocio. Every September I have to deal with nearly 60 prima donna first year law students whose first and only (initial) reaction to my skin color is that they have been cheated out of a "real" Contracts professor, and are stuck with an "Affirmative Action" instructor. Many of them come around when, as some "gunners" often do, they look up my CV and find that I have outscored virtually every single one of them on the test around which they have centered their lives, the LSAT. Others usually come around by mid semester when they have had an opportunity to compare my teaching to that of their other instructors. If numbers (standardized test scores and teaching evaluations) could obscure my skin color, my life would be heavenly.
I am not complaining. I live a truly blessed life. But to insinuate that my life is nothing more than an Affirmative Action storyline is the insult that I endure year in, year out. I have done everything I can do to distinguish myself. I've worked hard (scrubbed toilets as a janitor to put myself through college at Cornell, among other things). Yet nothing I do is enough to satisfy anyone on the left that I am their equal without need of their help, or anyone on the right that I am not where I am because of affirmative action.
If I recall correctly, Justice Thomas entered Holy Cross in 1968. I was seven years old at the time, and I do not think of 1968 as the heyday of Affirmative Action. I don't recall it being widespread in 1972 when (I think) he entered Yale Law School. Why assume that Dowd and the other racists on the left are correct? Why assume that he is pulling up a ladder upon which he ascended? Are we at a point where it is inconceivable that an African American can do anything in this world that can make him or her worthy of respect as a free and EQUAL man or woman to any other man or woman in this society?
Justice Thomas is a favorite target of the left, and is likely to remain a target. But those on the left need to know that real people, ordinary people, suffer from the "good" that they would impose upon us. The Supreme Court, by validating race-conscious government, has likely ensured that tens of thousands of Black orphaned children will go unadopted simply because government adoption agencies refuse to allow them to be raised by loving parents of a different race. They also ensured that the filthy, bookless, crime-ridden cesspools that pass for public schools in our inner cities will never be confronted, since the virtually illiterate "graduates" will be guaranteed admission to colleges that cannot possibly provide the remedial help necessary to give them a descent education.
I recently told a "pro-affirmative action" friend who teaches at the University of Pennsylvania that my dream for my two sons is different than most other Americans. While most other Americans dream of sending their children off to Harvard, Yale or Stanford, I dream of my two sons attending the University of California at Berkeley, a school to which only the objective accouterments of their abilities will gain them access. I am very pessimistic that this society will ever see past their skin color to actually value and enjoy them for the talents with which God endowed them, and the character with which I hope to leave them. Instead, I fear that they, like me, will engage in a year-in, year-out, day-in, day-out, relentless pursuit of personal liberty, and the respect necessary to exercise it.