Update On Letters To Methodist Bishops
I’ve sent a series of letters to U.S. Methodist Bishops trying to get them to pay attention to U.S. Government sponsored torture. I finally convinced two out of fifty to do something.
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Social Security Signs On With Big Brother
A story in the NY Times reports the Social Security Administration provided the Department of Homeland Security with access to thousands of files. And some of you want the Patriot Act expanded. There goes Government being the “servant” of the people.
Read moreLite Blogging
So you may be wondering why there hasn’t been much posting lately. I spent the past several days building a test blog with all the plug-ins and functions I really wanted to use. I wanted to get a nice clean installation for this blog. I have not been following good practices, as I’ve implemented plug-ins and other functions directly on this blog without testing them fully.
Read moreIdea for College Republicans
Over at Jesus’ General he’s proposed a great resolution for the CRNC to dissolve until after the war, and all of them show what true patriotism is, and help the military overcome its recruiting deficit. (I wonder if there will be a military recruiting table near their meeting?)
Read moreGitmo Embarassment Keeps Going and Going
Is the Constitution still on Display at the National Archives? Are we bothering with the pretext any longer?
Read moreHere I Go Again
I felt compelled to write another to the U.S. Methodist Bishops. My friend Glenda chastised me, saying I was going to cause them to just start deleting my messages. Indeed, at least two already do that (I request a read receipt). But as I told her, I can’t stop them from doing that, but I feel an obligation to try to move them. I can only do what I can do, and they will only do what they feel compelled to do.
Read moreFred Phelps To Picket Soldier's Funeral
According to a story in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Fred Phelps and members of the congregation of his Westboro Baptist Church will picket the funeral of an Idaho National Guard soldier killed in Iraq. The church has been picketing the funerals of other soldiers as well.
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The president of Gold Star Families for Peace, a mother who lost a son in Iraq, criticized the United States? ?illegal and unjust war? yesterday during an interfaith rally in Lexington.
Read moreRaise Your Hand If You Love Lynching
The following Senators apparently think lynching was okay. At the very least, they didn’t think there was any reason to apologize for the U.S. Senate allowing it to go on. The following Senators, for some reason, did not want to go on the record saying it was a bad thing that Southern Senators had previously filibustered anti-lynching legislation.
Read moreAnother Letter to U.M. Bishops on Torture
I believe we as a nation are acting egregiously in this “War On Terror,” and I believe that good people in this country are standing by and letting it happen. It has happened previously in the history of the world, and the consequences have been dire. So, I will make a deal with you. I will stop pestering you about the issue of U.S. Government Sponsored torture, if you will write a letter to the President, and ask that the U.S. cease torturing captured prisoners, charge or release detainees (especially women and children), and observe all tenants of the Geneva Conventions regardless of the ?status? he elects to assign these people. I do not believe that is asking too much.
Read moreZach and Ex-Gay “Ministries”
Making the rounds of the blogoshpere is the blog of 16 year old boy who came out to his fundamentalist parents. They had him committed to a Tennessee-based “re-education” facility. Some Ex-gay ministry called Love In Action.
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