I guess it was a shocking experience for all!

Texas Pastor Electrocuted During Baptism

Mon Oct 31,12:42 AM ET

A pastor performing a baptism was electrocuted inside his church Sunday morning after adjusting a nearby microphone while standing in water, a church employee said.

The Rev. Kyle Lake, 33, was stepping into the baptistery as he reached out for the microphone, which produced an electric shock, said University Baptist Church community pastor Ben Dudley. Water in a baptistery usually reaches above the waist, said Byron Weathersbee, interim university chaplain at Baylor University.

Lake was pronounced dead at Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center, nursing supervisor Pat Mahl said. The woman being baptized apparently had not stepped into the water and was not seriously injured. Pastors at University Baptist Church routinely use a microphone during baptisms, said Jamie Dudley, the wife of Ben Dudley and a business administrator at the church.

"He was grabbing the microphone so everyone could hear," she said. "It's the only way you can be loud enough." About 800 people attended the morning service, which was larger than normal because it was homecoming weekend at nearby Baylor University, Dudley said. Lake had been at the church for nine years, the last seven as pastor. He had a wife, Jennifer, a 5-year-old daughter and two 3-year-old sons.

At a remembrance attended by about 1,000 people Sunday night at First Baptist Church, Ben Dudley told the UBC congregation that they would move forward as a church. "I don't know how, when, why, where or what's going to happen, but we will continue as a church in the community because that is what Kyle would have wanted," he said.

America's poster child for the whacked out mental patients is at it again, so says ABC News. One can only hope that maybe Cindy Sheehan will also...

A) Allow someone to tie her mouth shut
B) Some millionaire will donate sessions for her with a psychiatrist
C) Come to the realization that while she acts up and sullies the memories of her son, that nobody really cares: she is now at the 17 minute of her 15 minutes of fame.
D) Could maybe get a job as a circus sideshow
E) All of the above

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cindy Sheehan, the military mother who made her son's death in Iraq a rallying point for the anti-war movement, plans to tie herself to the White House fence to protest the milestone of 2,000 U.S. military deaths in Iraq.

"I'm going to go to Washington, D.C. and I'm going to give a speech at the White House, and after I do, I'm going to tie myself to the fence and refuse to leave until they agree to bring our troops home," Sheehan said in a telephone interview last week as the milestone approached.

"And I'll probably get arrested, and when I get out, I'll go back and do the same thing," she said. The death toll among U.S. military forces since the March 2003 invasion stood at 1,996 on Sunday

Pres. Ronald Reagan's 11th Commandment was for Republicans "not to eat thy fellow Republicans." It is fun though to see when "liberals" do it, especially in the case of the whacked-out left-wing bird brain she-bitch Cindy Sheehan when she tore into the other she-bitch Sen. Hillary Clinton in an article which appeared on the news website "WorldNet Daily."

By Joe Kovacs
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

Cindy Sheehan, the so-called "peace mom" on a crusade to end U.S. involvement in the Iraq war, is publicly blasting Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., for her continued support of the ongoing conflict.

"I think she is a political animal who believes she has to be a war hawk to keep up with the big boys," Sheehan writes in an open letter. "I would love to support Hillary for president if she would come out against the travesty in Iraq. But I don't think she can speak out against the occupation, because she supports it. I will not make the mistake of supporting another pro-war Democrat for president again: As I won't support a pro-war Republican."

"I believe that the intelligent thing for Democrats to do for 2006 and 2008 would be to come out strongly and correctly against the botched, bungled, illegal, and immoral occupation of Iraq," Sheehan added.

During the noon hour I happened to turn on the TV and what to my wonder....Martha Stewart's new TV show is on. It was past ridiculous...Martha extols a new mag she is publishing called "Body+Soul." She talks about it and then says, "It's a wonderful new magazine which all of our audience members are going to receive." The crowd goes delirous...clap-clap-clap, hoot-hoot-hoot. Then she goes into how she washes her face in the evening.... "With all of my media engagements, posing for magazine and book covers, I'm under tremendous pressure on keeping myself looking great." Once again, the crowd goes delirous...clap-clap-clap, hoot-hoot-hoot. The segment ends in about five minutes and then she comes back and says, "We've assembled a gift package of the Johnson's Baby Oil, Galbol-90 from Yon-ka, and a Martha Stewart face cloth from Martha Stewart Everyday from K-Mart." Once again, the crowd goes delirous... yayyyyyyyy.....clap-clap-clap, hoot-hoot-hoot.

I hit the OFF button on my remote....not soon enough.

A true friend

Accepts you the way you are, doesn't doubt you
Won't give up on you, believes in you no matter what
Never judges you, understands you even when you make no sense
Holds you close at heart, picks you up when you are down
Wipes away your tears, offers support and calms your fears.

Is always proud of you, walks beside you with head held high
Warms your soul, values your importance and gives unconditionally
Speaks fondly of you, loves you for the person you are
BUT pulls you back into reality when needed....

I really have to get this off my chest:

By and large my whining and complaints to myself, but I'm past being mad and upset with people who go out of their way to make plans to do something with me, then back out without telling me totally inconsiderate of my plans. This has happened now two weekends in a row.

In that I'm a caregiver, I don't get a lot of opportunities to get out of the house. Getting out of the house most of the time is either being at a doctor's office, going to VONS or Walmart. For over a year I've been chatting with an individual who calls the east coast his home. About 6-7 months ago he announces that he is coming to San Diego on business and makes good and sure that I will be available to do dinner, show him around town and such, to the point that he calls me at 3:45 in the morning on the day he is supposed to show up in town to make sure that I'm available...which I have skewed everything around to follow through. First dinner gets cancelled on Thursday night. Then we work towards getting together on Friday for dinner, keeps me on tender hooks for several hours, and then cancels at the last minute again leaving me high-and-dry without dinner...so I ended up having a late dinner which usually leaves me a bit queasy.... So much for that. Then all of the one hundred and one excuses he gave me why we couldn't get together.

UPDATE ON DRAMA #1: Friendship brought to a quiet close.


Then for a week prior to last weekend I have some new friends who have just moved to San Diego who make sure that I and a friend will be available for dinner. I hear nothing to the contrary that anything would be cancelled, yet when I call to see what time we were supposed to be getting together, I am told that the person's partner is not in town (the one who made the initial arrangement) had left for Palm Springs to babysit a friend's dog....never saying anything to me....

UPDATE ON DRAMA #2: All is well....apologies exchanged, misunderstanding solved and acknowledged all is well again...and I couldn't be happier. It turns out I didn't get the whole story as they assumed I knew about the sudden situation and the ensuing miscoordination. These people are QUALITY people.


The lack of consideration by some people is just galling to me...and really incredibly irritates me....

Although.....my frustration pales compared to this poor bloke's situation:

Man getting tattoo dies after dizziness, fall through glass

ASSOCIATED PRESS

A 28-year-old man getting a tattoo at a parlor in Brooklyn died after getting dizzy, falling headfirst into a glass case and cutting his neck, police said.

Juaquin Leger was pronounced dead at a hospital Thursday afternoon, police said.

Calls to the Buzz tattoo shop that was identified by police as the shop where the man fell went unanswered Friday. Police said the death was under investigation.

Originally published on October 14, 2005

I really getting to the point that I'm sick and tired of "people of the cloth" who impose their views on others. Where did their divine intelligence come from?

I'm way more spiritual than to follow some religious dogma. I have seen how "religion" is used to control people and destroy them if they don't go by the word of one individual by what they believe is the truth, etc. Christiandom with all of its "flavors" a bit like Baskin Robbins...it all comes down to necessarily to goodness but marketing....seeing how one sect tries to lure the sheep from one to another. Just because someone puts on a dark robe with colorful scarves and perhaps sings perhaps a little less out of tune doesn't make them more Godly.

Because of "religion" so many people have to hide who they really are to so many because of the "fear" of "judgement" and reprisal from others which has been inculcated with a certain belief from others.

My relationship with God is a personal one... I live life by the Ten Commandments and my conscience...and that is fine by me.

Oh man, this is sure to get people to watch that STUPID, IDIOTIC ABC-TV new series "Commander In Chief." Again, this is a case of the Hollywood elite thinking the millions of minions who are not boozed up and drugged up really care what they think..... Ah yes, the world according to whacked out Cindy Sheehan, pigged out Barbra Streisand, and now...drugged and drunk over-the-hill actor Donald Sutherland.

'COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF' SUTHERLAND: BUSH WILL DESTROY OUR LIVES

Choking back tears, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF star Donald Sutherland warned this week: President Bush "will destroy our lives!"

The star of the new ABC drama, which follows the first woman President of the United States, lashed out at the real White House during a dramatic sit down interview with the BBC.

Sutherland ripped Bush and his administration for the war and Hurricane Katrina fallout.

"They were inept. The were inadequate to the task, and they lied," Sutherland charged.

"And they were insulting, and they were vindictive. And they were heartless. They did not care. They do not care. They do not care about Iraqi people. They do not care about the families of dead soldiers. They only care about profit."

At one point during the session, Sutherland started crying: "We stolen our children's future... We have children. We have children. How dare we take their legacy from them. How dare we. It's shameful. What we are doing to our world."

Sutherland went on rip Karl Rove's "methods and means" against people like Cindy Sheehan.

"We're back to burning books in Germany," Sutherland said of NBC's editing out of Kanye West's comment on Bush during a hurricane relief telethon.

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway.
You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."
---Eleanor Roosevelt