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Tuesday, June 4th, 2013
Citing Stand Your Ground, Jury Acquits Man Who Killed Wife’s Lover
By Nicole Flatow on Jun 4, 2013 at 9:00 am
Ralph Wald, a 70-year-old Vietnam veteran, walked into his home around midnight, and less than ten seconds later, fired three shots at Walter Conley, according to ABC News. He told the jury he thought Conley was raping his wife when he saw them having intercourse in his home. But during a 911 call, when the dispatcher asked Wald if the man was dead, Wald responded, “I hope so!” and refused to help the man. He asked for medical help for his wife, Johnna Flores, since he thought he accidentally shot her also. He said he didn’t recognize Conley even though he had been roommates with his wife prior to her relationship with Wald, lived next door to Wald, had tattoos of Flores on his neck and back, and worked for Flores at her fencing company.
Prosecutors argued that Wald, who suffered from erectile dysfunction, killed Conley in a jealous rage, pointing out that Wald used the word “fornicate” in reports to police, and never the word “rape.”
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Saturday, June 1st, 2013
Michael Glatzke back before he realized that the only boy he was supposed to love was God.
THE GAYING OF AMERICA
Homosexuality – the way God sees it
Exclusive: Michael Glatze calls on Christian men to stand against ‘rape’ of divine relationshipBy Michael Glatze
Homosexuality is a problem.
For you, perhaps, Bozo. For me, your attitude toward homosexuality is the problem.
Let’s just be clear: Everybody knows that homosexuality is not the same thing as heterosexuality. But what not everybody understands is that homosexuality is not a perversion of heterosexuality. Homosexuality is a perversion of the correct relationship between God and His creation, man.
Hmmm… To start with, homosexuality is not a “perversion” of anything. Beyond that you seem to be saying it’s a perversion of a “relationship” between two “guys.”
Thus, since God is male and His creation – man – is male, the appropriate relationship (under the Headship of Christ) is to be satisfied in spiritual union with God.
In rhetoric this is called “begging the question.” It means assuming the conclusion in presenting the premise. You can’t base a second conclusion on the fact that God is “male” until you first prove that he/she/it is. Are you sufficiently presumptuous as to claim you know what one would see if God were to raise the hem of his dainty pink nightie?
This “Headship of Christ” thing is kind of funky! Are you saying that there’s a three-boy relationship here, and that Christ is the “dom” and you and God “subs”? But with no hint of carnality since just one of the three of you is flesh and blood, the other two manifesting themselves only in visions of what someone existing only as pure spirit might look like. Maybe like an image appearing in a desert. mirage?
That is why Paul, in 1 Corinthians 6, says we have “become one spirit” with God. And, it is also why Paul describes, in Romans 1, the pattern of degradation that takes place when men turn from God. Ultimately, it results in homosexuality, because the man – seeking for a spiritual fellowship with God – positions himself either as a “god” for another man, or in the position of worshiping another man as “god.”
This seems an acknowledgement of the practical difficulty I mentioned just above. A man wants to bridge the existential gap and consummate his love. In terms of this threesome that means making it with another man, with either him or the other guy pretending that his carnal flesh is in fact spirit of the same substance as God. And that’s how you define homosexuality?
God gifted me with a personal walk through homosexuality to the other side. Now, today, I’m happy and living a good, God-honoring life. I am satisfied with my God; thus, He is satisfied with me. And in that satisfaction I am able to share with people the kind of Christianity I know honors my Lord and Savior…
So God was like Virgil, and you like Dante the Pilgrim, walking through that part of Mt. Purgatory where the “unnaturals” were going through detox? That seems somewhat prideful on your part. But what comes next goes way beyond pridefulness and into world class hubris. “I am satisfied with God; thus He is satisfied with me.” In other words, you control God’s emotional state (God being the sort of spiritual being that experiences human emotions like love and anger and jealousy and fulfillment). It’s a strange universe you inhabit, Mr. Glatze.
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Oh, incidentally, how does the Holy Ghost fit in here. Does it have sex or gender? And what about women – like Eve, Lilith, and the Virgin Mary? And how does the last’s impregnation relate to the question above concerning sexual consummation of a relationship between a flesh and blood human and a spirit?
Lilith, Adam’s first wife. A common version of the legend is that Lilith liked to be on top during sex. Adam wanted always to be dominant, so he asked God to make another woman for him, one who wouldn’t try to be his equal. So God took one of Adam’s ribs and made Eve, a subordinate part of her master. Lilith was kicked out and left to wander the earth — some say as a witch, some a demon, some a succubus. She’s often depicted with red hair. In earlier centuries she was blamed for wet dreams and SIDS.
Exxon-Mobil CEO on the environment
Thursday, May 30th, 2013
Exxon Mobil rejects gay-discrimination ban during Dallas shareholders meeting
By DAVID KOENIG
AP Business Writer
Published: 29 May 2013 03:30 PM
Updated: 29 May 2013 06:15 PM
RelatedEditorial: Time for Exxon Mobil to endorse gay equality
DALLAS — The CEO of Exxon Mobil Corp. says there’s no quick replacement for oil, and sharply cutting oil’s use to reduce greenhouse gas emissions would make it harder to lift 2 billion people out of poverty.
“What good is it to save the planet if humanity suffers?” CEO Rex Tillerson said at the oil giant’s annual meeting Wednesday.
This guy is on the House *Intelligence* Committee!
Wednesday, May 29th, 2013
May 28, 2013 11:37 AMGOP Rep: Gitmo Hunger Strikers Look Like They’ve Put On Weight
…A Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights… discussed the humanitarian crisis at Gitmo as more than 100 of the detainees have participated in a hunger strike where guards are force-feeding prisoners through nasal cavities.
[Rep. Mike Pompeo (R KS)], who visited Guantanamo Bay last week, said that was not the case as he becomes visibly agitated after being confronted with facts.
“It is not a crisis mode,” he said Sunday. “We have prisoners down there that have chosen not to consume calories, have chosen not to take protein. We now have an obligation to try to take care of them. The last thing to say about these folks who are assertedly hunger strikers is that they look to me like a lot of them have put on weight.”
Great move by Craig Melvin [interviewer from MSNBC], as he immediately asks him how he could possibly know if the detainees had put on weight unless he saw them before they started their hunger strike. After which Pompeo tries to change the subject in order to save face.
Chicago racist school closings
Saturday, May 25th, 2013
CPS approves largest school closure in Chicago’s history
May 23, 2013|By Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah, John Chase and Bob Secter | Tribune reporters
Months of argument and anguish over Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s push for sweeping school closings came to a climax Wednesday as his hand-picked Board of Education voted to shut 49 elementary schools and transfer thousands of children to new classroom settings.
Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett withdrew her recommendation to close four other schools at the last minute as it became clear some board members would fight to save them.
But the board gave a ringing endorsement to Emanuel’s vision for a downsized school system, which he argues will help combat a massive budget deficit and allow the district to distribute scarce resources more efficiently.
Critics were unconvinced, and many forcefully expressed objections during and after Wednesday’s board meeting. Ald. Ameya Pawar, 47th, one of several City Council members who spoke on behalf of schools in their wards, argued that schools serve as the glue of many neighborhoods.
“Closing a school is akin to closing a community,” Pawar said.
But Byrd-Bennett, in urging a vote for the administration’s proposal, said that doing nothing to address underused and poorly performing schools was harmful to children.
Note that the schools closed and neighborhoods affected are predominantly black.
Byrd-Bennet’s argument in the last paragraph above is absolutely bass-ackward. First, she says the kids in an area aren’t learning as much as they should, so we’re going to close their schools. Think about it! That’s equivalent to saying there’s too much crime in this area, so we’re going to close the police stations there … or there are too many undocumented immigrants crossing the U.S./Mexico border, so we’re going to lay off half of our Border Patrol agents.
Second, what exactly does she mean when she says the schools are “underused”? She means there are fewer kids in each class than in some other schools. So we’ll “solve” that by closing those schools and significantly increasing the class size in their new schools, thus hurting both the new kids and the kids and teachers who have been there.
I was in graduate school in Durham, NC, a few years after the city schools had been integrated. A lot of the white parents who could afford it had subsequently moved to suburban subdivisions outside the city limits (city and county were separate school systems). This meant that the city schools had fewer students overall, but the ratio of blacks to whites was higher. My wife had just started a new job at predominantly black Burton Elementary School, which had been a source of pride for its neighborhood and the nearby “projects.”
So I read a story in the newspaper saying that because their average class size was around 20, the city was going to close a number of schools. I hit the roof, because my wife’s 4th grade class had 34 students in it! The school zones had been drawn in such a way as to have significantly lower class size in predominantly white schools than in my wife’s predominantly black school.
Luckily, I knew a reporter for the Durham newspaper, and I got him to look into it. He did and wrote a story revealing what was happening. Lo and behold! In about a week a number of kids were transferred out of Burton and the average class size was more workable. One small victory. But that was over 40 years ago. Today the same stunts are being played out in big cities all over the country, on a vastly greater scale.
Parents who can afford it will begin taking their kids out of the public schools and sending them to for-profit charter schools. So more public schools will be closed. It’ll be de facto privatization.
Brain-dead Louis.
Friday, May 24th, 2013
Congressman: Women Should Be Forced To Give Birth To Fetuses With No Brain Function
By Tara Culp-Ressler on May 24, 2013 at 9:06 am
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX)
At a congressional committee hearing to discuss a proposed measure to criminalize abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, a Texas lawmaker told a woman who made the difficult choice to terminate a non-viable pregnancy that she should have carried the fetus to term anyway — even though an MRI had already revealed that he was missing a large part of his brain and didn’t have much chance of survival.
War on Women: Compare and Contrast Images
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
How are the two images alike? How are they different? In both cases, what’s the significance??
