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

Notwithstanding that I'm soooooo Hurricane Katrina'd and Rita'd out, I'm really coming to my own conclusion that it will NEVER rise again.

The time has come that we should simply fill it in and start a new city somewhere else that doesn't take Billions of $'s to create the same mess... Not only that, I see all of the bickering between all of the politicians both Republican and Democrats...and that by itself is going to impede any progress towards a rebuild.

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I really thought better of Bette Midler....and this is why I will NEVER be a Democrat... I do not want to be associated with a party that has no class or sense of modicum in expressing its dissent:

Rolling Stone Magazine website

Political chatter was kept to a minimum at both events, with performers mostly sticking to the program: championing aid for New Orleans. But a few artists angrily denounced government officials for their slow response to Katrina's devastation. "I Wish New Orleans was dry and Washington was underwater," said Tom Waits. Bette Midler had even stronger words: "I got a letter from the Republican Party the other day. I wrote back, 'Go fuck yourself.'" She then added, "George Bush is a fan of mine -- he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him."

Phoooey!

Gov. Schwarzenegger will not sign a measure legalizing gay marriage....and I agree with him. If he would approve of it, he would be going against Prop 22 where the people have already given their vote several years ago.

Secondly, this "marriage" would not be worth the paper it is printed on because the other states would not be recognizing it. Until questions about finances, adoption, alimony, property rights are answered when a couple divorces are answered...then we can talk about "marriage." Right now, gays and lesbians think they can have one right but not the responsibilities which are tantamount to a true "marriage."

FAME! I'm gonna live foooooh---evah!

Upfront I will say that I have not had the biggest regard for the loud breast clubbing chanteuse Celine Dion. I commend her for making a generous contribution to the Hurricane Katrina relief...but after that she should just f***** shut up and sing "My Heart Will Go On" while being dragged mid-air about the Celine Dion Theater in Las Vegas:

Dion slams US authorities over Katrina response

07/09/2005 - 08:52:09

Canadian singer Celine Dion has launched a scathing attack on US President George W Bush's Iraq policy, while criticising his country's slow response to the southern states devastated by last week's Hurricane Katrina.

Dion, who has donated $1m (€7.99m) to victims of the storm, grew visibly emotional as she told of her frustration watching tens of thousands of survivors wait days for aid on CNN's Larry King Live TV show on Saturday.

The Think Twice hitmaker fumed: "I open (sic) the television, there's people still there, waiting to be rescued, and for me it's not acceptable.

"I know there's reasons for it, I'm sorry to say, I'm being rude, but I don't want to hear those reasons."

Dion criticised authorities for arresting looters in New Orleans, Louisiana, saying they should make rescuing the stranded victims a priority.

She said: "Oh, they're stealing 20 pair of jeans or they're stealing television sets. Who cares? They're not going to go too far with it. Maybe those people are so poor, some of the people who do that they're so poor they've never touched anything in their lives. Let them touch those things for once."

Dion referred to Bush's controversial war in Iraq, saying: "How come it's so easy to send planes in another country to kill everyone in a second, to destroy lives? We need to be there right now to rescue the rest of the people."

If the horrific pictures from New Orleans aren't bad enough, you know have the politicians trying to make themselves self important. A case in point are the most irrelevant Reverends Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson grandstanding and trying to incite hatred by saying the delay in Federal help to rescue the residents of New Orleans was because President Bush hates black people, yada, yada, yada.

What about someone calling them on their THEIR racism towards white people?

Now this sounds legitimate through my Yahoo Messenger "left messages" window:

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If it is printed in the Weekly World News, it must be true...

OOPS! DRUGSTORE CONFUSES SUPER GLUE WITH HEMORRHOID CREAM!
Tuesday August 30, 2005

TURNER JENSEN, a pharmacist in Skyfine, Wyo., got into a sticky spot after he confused Super Glue with hemorrhoid cream, says an E.R. physician who treated several victims.

"All over town, people were sealing their anuses shut, while school kids were crying because they couldn't make their projects stick together," says Dr. Ryan Seasee.

Delroy Montgomery, a 45-year-old rodeo rider, was one victim of the mistake.

"My 'roids were burning, and I was scheduled to ride the bucking bull," says Montgomery. "Dr. Jensen gave me the tube and I took it home and applied it liberally, hoping for that soothing relief."

When it came time for his turn at the rodeo, Montgomery mounted the bull, but quickly blacked out from anal pain. An ambulance rushed him to Our Lady Of Dripping Blood Hospital, where he joined the crowd of perplexed patients.

Mrs. Edna Dalloway was one of them. "I suffer from chronic diarrhea," says the 65-year-old librarian. "After I used the lotion Mr. Jensen gave me, I couldn't even break wind! Before I could get to the hospital my stomach blew up so big it looked like I was nine months pregnant."

Dr. Seasee examined the patients and immediately discovered the problem. He easily dissolved the glue with solvent.

The red-faced pharmacist apologized to the residents.

"I have to keep the glue behind the counter because of the kids huffing it," explains Jensen. "I'm so sorry for the mix-up."

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You Passed the US Citizenship Test

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