Hate so silly it could make you sick
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Tennessee Editorialist Speaks out,
Small, pitiful groups of perverse traitors cloaked in a warped, hate-filled and degraded version of Christianity are tirelessly traveling across America, cruelly protesting at the funerals of American soldiers killed in Iraq.
They are scheduled to stop in Middle Tennessee today, in Smyrna and Ashland City, to dishonor the solemn services and add to the horror and grief of those who mourn Staff Sgt. Asbury F. Hawn of Lebanon and Spc. Gary Reese Jr. of Ashland City. The Army National Guardsmen served together in the 278th Regimental Combat Team and died in an enemy attack Aug. 13 in Iraq.
Members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., will be there, not to spread the comforting Gospel of Jesus Christ, but to spew a disgustingly vulgar and crude message of gay hatred while celebrating the death of U.S. soldiers.
This evil little congregation, led by Fred Phelps, gained infainfamy for showing up at the funerals of homosexuals to taunt family and friends and to promote their own unique brand of hatred. This summer they started picketing the funerals of soldiers killed in battle with placards that say, "We hate gays" and "Thank God for dead soldiers."
Their Web site, http://www.godhatesgays.com/, promotes the protests in crude press releases that say, "They turned America over to fags; they're coming home in body bags."infamy for showing up at the funerals of homosexuals to taunt family and friends and to promote their own unique brand of hatred. This summer they started picketing the funerals of soldiers killed in battle with placards that say, "We hate gays" and "Thank God for dead soldiers."
On the bright side apparently someone hacked the forwarding and the
God Hates site is forwarded to a
God Hates Phelps site
Google Chat
Google this week introduced their versiom of Chat. I hadn't used chat clients in a while, but I thought I would try it out. It is very spartan and doesn't have a load of features. It doesn't play with other formats at all and you can't have group chats. It doesn't even have search capabilities. Still the beauty of it may just be in the simplicity. It does support voice, but I haven't tried it out yet, and probably won't. The quality of the voice is getting good reports though. One needs a Gmail account to use Gtalk, and the program does monitor your gmail account for new emails. Gmail is only available via invitation which one can get by emailing
me with first and last name information. On the whole I like it, its simple downloads and loads quickly.
Coming to A DNS Server near you
Liberty's blog has been a lot of fun, and grown tremendously. We've covered Hurricanes and elections. Justice injustice, and even Pelicans. All in all its been a lot of fun, at Zero cost. Blogger is free, and I've successfully used SBC's provided web space to keep it going.
After 2 years I invested in a domain name and web space. I'm running out of space at http://pages.sbcglobal.net/liberty.freedom With the new site I will be free to post more photo's and not try to skimp on some other features. Folks will be able to type out the web address a little easier, Whats tough though is that lots of folks have been real kind with their linkages. and promoting the site is not one of the fun tasks of blogging. In the long run its going to be worth it. The new site will be at
http//:libertysblog.com Right now there isn't much/anything, and it may take a couple of days before the dns servers all get activated.
Irony from the Left and Right
In Crawford the Protestors put up crosses to represent the fallen, as part of their protest of the Iraq war. Some Guy mows them down with his pickup in protst.
Is it me? but the thought of leftist putting up crosses, and a right winger mowing them down is a more than a little ironic. The neighbors never seemed to mind the stench of the pig farm that was the Bush Ranch before W bought it, but they are complaining about Cindy stench these days.
As President Bush's neighbors seek relief from protesters by way of the county commission, one local resident took matters into his own hands and now has been charged with criminal mischief. McLennan County resident Larry Northern, 59,
faced $3,000 bail Tuesday after witnesses said he swerved his pickup truck in and out of a display of crosses set up on the side of the road by anti-war protesters.
The crosses represented the U.S. troops who have died in Iraq, with individuals' names on each. Northern was charged with criminal mischief over $1,500 and under $20,000. Cindy Sheehan, who has led the protest outside President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, said she was very upset by the vandalism. "I just want to say that what happened last night is very disturbing to all of us and it really should be very disturbing to America, because no matter what you think about the war, we should all honor the sacrifices of the ones who have fallen," said Sheehan, whose son Casey died in Iraq in August 2004."What we saw here last night was a sacrilege ... five of
those crosses are those of my friends," added protester Charlie Anderson, who said he is a veteran of the Iraq war. But Sheehan and her group are largely blamed for creating the hostility brewing among the president's neighbors, who have appealed to the McLennan County Commission to erect a barrier that could prevent anti-war protesters from congregating on the road outside Bush's ranch. More than 60 people signed a petition sent to the commissioners asking them to expand the no-parking zone that bans cars within a few hundred feet of the ranch. The effect would be to push the anti-war protesters, who have pitched tents and set up port-a-potties on the winding two-lane road, about seven miles away from the neighbors' properties into the town of Crawford. Some residents said they worry about the safety of children waiting for school buses in the area. Schools began classes Tuesday.
"All those of us that live in that area and in that community and our children also have civil rights, and we do feel that those are being seriously compromised at this time," said John Laufenberg, who attended a Tuesday meeting of the commission and refuted concerns raised by protesters that expanding the parking ban would violate civil rights.
Northern's alleged aggression isn't the first by area residents. On Sunday, Bush neighbor Larry Mattlage fired a shotgun, in part to sound his frustration with the constant guests in his neighborhood. Police say Mattlage broke no laws and so he was not arrested. No one was hurt in either incident. Bush said he sympathizes with Sheehan but has made no indication that he will meet with her. Sheehan did meet with Bush in June 2004, at a gathering at Fort Lewis, Wash., for grieving families.
Meanwhile, Elizabeth Edwards , wife of former vice presidential candidate John Edwards, wrote a letter of support for the protesters that urged others to call the president and demand he meet with Sheehan."The president's cavalier dismissal of Cindy Sheehan is emblematic of a greater problem. This is a mother who raised her son to love his country enough to serve. ... And when the worst does happen, when
the world comes crashing down and she puts the boy she bore, the boy she taught,
the boy she loved in the ground, what does that government say to her? It says we'll do the talking; we don't need to hear from you," Edwards wrote.
Rob has something about this
A long time Passing
Some time off from blogging. Its been a while longer than I expected.
Mostly this sabbatical has been about readjusting time. There is only so much time in a week. So much time in the day. ( 9 hours at work + 2 hours driving). Other projects come into our lives and something just has to give.
The other projects are:
Getting a handle on Visual Basic .NET, an almost impossible task, but I did get a product out that works somewhat reasonable.
Beta testing Agent 3.0. What sucks for a blogger is that I'm tied to a none disclosure agreement. Its released now and I like it it, but it doesn't have all the features it sorely needs yet. Multi Server Email !!
Exercise and good health. I bought a tread mill. It sucks up at least 30 minutes a day of my time. I still eat poorly I love good food, but hopefully I will drop a few pounds.
