Save the Date: International Moment of Frustration Scream Day

Coming soon this October 12th, and every one thereafter!!!!


International Moment of Frustration Scream Day -- To share any or all of our frustrations, all citizens of the world will go outdoors at twelve hundred hours Greenwich time and scream for thirty seconds. We will all feel better, or Earth will go off its orbit. Co-sponsored by Low Thresholders of the Earth League.

New Orleans Had it Coming???

Louisiana State Senator said that New Orleans' evil, sinful ways were the reason behind God's wrath of Katrina. Now, seriously! WTF?!?!?!

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Alabama legislator: Katrina was God's wrath on sinful coast

9/28/2005, 1:56 p.m. CT The Associated Press

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A state senator in Alabama says Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment on a sinful part of America.

State Sen. Hank Erwin, R-Montevallo, wrote in a weekly column for news outlets: "New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast have always been known for gambling, sin and wickedness. It is the kind of behavior that ultimately brings the judgment of God."

Erwin, a former conservative talk-radio host and now a media consultant, wrote the column after a tour of hurricane-wrecked Gulfport and Biloxi, Miss., and Bayou La Batre on the Alabama coast.

"Warnings year after year by godly evangelists and preachers went unheeded. So why were we surprised when finally the hand of judgment fell?" Erwin wrote. "Sadly, innocents suffered along with the guilty. Sin always brings suffering to good people as well as the bad."

The New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary was flooded by Katrina. Erwin said the Baptists knew they had put themselves on the front lines ministering in a sinful place that could be targeted.

He said he didn't think the hard-hit residents of the low-income lower 9th Ward in New Orleans were singled out for especially harsh punishment but were merely in the way, as were the shrimpers in Bayou La Batre.

Click here to read the full article on Nola.com.

14 Year Old Girl Expelled Because Parents are Lesbians

The Ontario Christian School in Ontario, CA suspended a 14 year old female student, Shay Clark, after learning that her parents are lesbians.  It's such crap!!!  Their excuse, "Your family does not meet the policies of admission," Superintendent Leonard Stob wrote to Tina Clark, Shay's biological mother.  The School's policy states that at least one parent cannot engage in practices "immoral or inconsistent with a positive Christian life such as cohabitating without marriage or in a homosexual relationship."

 

Okay, so because it's a private school, they can pretty much say what they want and have their own special rules.

 

BUT what I want to know is how long Shay has been attending this school.  And if she has been attending this school for quite a while, how is it that the school didn't know about her parents?  If they've known for a while, but are acting on it now for some reason or another - they better give this family back the money that was paid them for her to attend this private school.

 

AND I fully expect for this school to start kicking out students whose parents are cohabitating.  If they don't, then it's just another lump of bull.

 

 

Click here to read the article.

 

 

And here is the official statement that's posted by the school on their Web site:

 

"Thank you for your inquiry regarding a student that had been enrolled at Ontario Christian School. The student is not attending Ontario Christian, as the family does not meet admissions criteria. The ministry of Ontario Christian is to promote discipleship of Jesus Christ as defined by the Bible and consistent with historical Christianity. The school forms a voluntary partnership with parents who seek the same discipleship. Therefore, the school requires that at least one parent be a confessing Christian and active in the local Christian church. In this case, the parent does not meet the criteria by participating in a homosexual relationship. We regret that this relationship was not disclosed at the time of admission, as that information would have prevented enrollment and the occasion for misunderstanding.

The mission of Ontario Christian School is to provide for the children of Christian parents a Biblically-based, quality education that nurtures students to grow in knowledge, conviction and maturity; therefore, our focus is to equip students with the vision and skills to engage all relationships and culture under the authority of Jesus Christ."

San Diego Breast Cancer 3 Day Walk

On October 14-16, thousands of men and women will be participating in the San Diego Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk, benefiting the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.  Many of you may remember that I participated as a walker a couple of years ago, and last year as a volunteer.  Unfortunately, I cannot participate this year, but one of my good family friends is.

 

Penny Bell, a good family friend is participating.  This will be her second walk, she participated last year in the S.F. walk.  Penny and her family live across the street from my parents in Morgan Hill, CA.  I grew up with one of her sons, Gerry, who is only a couple of years older than me.  The Bells are probably the most kind-hearted people you would ever meet - always giving, always smiling - wonderful people to have in your lives.  When she's not busy donating time to her church, Penny works as a cardiac nurse - tending carefully and lovingly to many patients.

 

With about three more weeks left until she walks, she's barely half-way to her $6,000 fundraising goal.  If you can help sponsor Penny as she walks 60 miles over 3 days, it would mean a lot to her - and a lot to me.  Even if you can forego going to Starbucks for a week to get your daily fix, that $15-$20 would be incredibly helpful.  And even if it's $5 or $10, every bit adds up to helping a great cause.

 

To learn more about the 3-Day Walk click here.

 

To read more about Breast Cancer's affects on men and women, and to learn about how the Susan G. Komen Foundation is helping rebuild non-profit institutions supporting breast cancer in areas affected by Hurricane Katrina, click here.

Hollywood Power Outage Sends City Into Chaos

No electricity for 26 minutes. 'This is our Tsunami.'

By Joshua Gates

Actor, Photographer. Victim.

LOS ANGELES, CA, September 12, 2005 - Horror and disbelief swept through the greater Hollywood area this afternoon as a minor power-outage turned the city into a virtual war zone and local residents struggled to deal with the devastating aftermath.

The outage struck at 1:35 PM, during L.A.'s busy afternoon coffee and Pilates rush hour. Traffic lights fell dark, local gyms and sushi restaurants were without power for nearly 30 minutes and many businesses were illuminated only by the light of the sun and its blistering 78 degree heat. "It was horrible," said out of work actor and voice-over artist Rick Shea. "I was in a Jamba Juice on Melrose when it hit and the blenders simply shut down. A woman lunged for my Berry Lime Sublime an after that, well, it got pretty ugly."

In the ensuing panic, local radio stations broadcasted conflicting reports as to exactly which local businesses would be offering relief supplies. Almost 100 people flocked to the Starbucks at Santa Monica and La Brea only to find helpless baristas, no hot coffee and a totally meager selection of baked goods.

"My mother is 83 years old and we heard on the radio that this Starbucks was going to be up and running. If she doesn't get a venti Arabian Mocha Sanani, I don't know what's going to happen to her, I really don't." said Lucinda Merino of Los Feliz.

To make matters worse, those few people who did manage to get coffee were further thwarted by a total lack of artificial sweeteners on site. "Sugar in the Raw? Are you frigging kidding me?," sobbed avid salsa dancer, Enrique Santoro. "I'm on the South Beach Diet and my insulin levels are going to go crazy if I use this. Why isn't the rest of the country doing something?"

Deteriorating conditions will force authorities to evacuate the thousands of people at local Quiznos, movie theaters and upscale shopping centers, including the The Beverly Center, where a policeman told CNN unrest was escalating. The officer expressed concern that the situation could worsen overnight after patrons defaced multiple "So You Think you Can Dance" posters, looted a Baby Gap and demanded free makeovers en masse at a MAC cosmetics store during the afternoon.

At least 2,000 refugees, a majority of them beautiful, will travel in a bus convoy to Beverly Hills starting this evening and will be sheltered at the 8-year-old Spago on North Canon where soft omelettes with confit bacon and Hudson Valley foie gras was being airlifted in by The National Guard.

Honorary Mayor of Hollywood Johnny Grant told a group of embedded reporters at a Koo Koo Roo Chicken restaurant on Larchmont that, "The scope and scale of this disaster is almost too much to comprehend. Local carwashes are at a stand-still, the tram tour at Universal Studios has been on hold for almost an hour now and I've been waiting for a rotisserie leg and thigh with a side of green beans for upwards of 15 minutes. This truly is our Tsunami."

"We want to accommodate those people suffering in the Beverly Center as quickly as possible for the simple reason they have been through a horrible ordeal," Grant said.

"We need water. We need edamame. We need low-carb bread," said Martha Owens, 49 who was one of the thousands trapped in the Beverly Center when the escalators stopped moving. "They need to start sending somebody through here."

Along miles of coastline, the power simply surged, causing writers to lose upwards of a page of original screenplay material, causing Direct TV service to work only intermittently and forcing local residents to walk outside and look helplessly at the Pacific from their ocean view decks. "I can hardly begin to put this experience into words," said longtime Two and a Half Men writer John Edlestein. "I was just getting into my rhythm and making some real headway on a scene where Charlie Sheen parties with a busload of female volleyball players when my Power Book crapped out. I have nothing. Simply, nothing."

Delivering his weekly radio address live from the White House, President Bush announced he was deploying more than 7,000 additional active-duty troops to the region. He comforted victims and praised relief workers.

"But despite their best efforts, the magnitude of responding to a crisis over a disaster area this sunny and trendy has created tremendous problems," he said. "The result is that many of our citizens simply are not getting the help they need, especially in the Hollywood Hills, and that is unacceptable."

Gay Marriages ALMOST Legal in California

I hope this goes through. I'm a married, heterosexual woman who has several gay friends who deserve to share the same legal benefits I have that the civil union of marriage provides.

From today's L.A. Times:

Legislature OKs Gay Marriage

By Nancy Vogel Times Staff WriterWed Sep 7, 7:55 AM ET

SACRAMENTO — The California Legislature made history Tuesday as the Assembly passed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage.

With no votes to spare, California's lawmakers became the first in the United States to act without a court order to sanction gay marriages. The measure was approved after three Democratic lawmakers who abstained on a similar proposal that failed in June changed their minds under intense lobbying by bill author Assemblyman Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) and gay and civil rights activists.

No Republicans voted in favor of the bill. Forty-one of the Assembly's 47 Democrats voted yes; four Democrats voted "no," and two abstained.

The bill, which would change California's legal definition of marriage from "a civil contract between a man and a woman" to a "civil contract between two persons," now goes to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. He has signaled that he will veto it.

Tuesday's vote came after 23 lawmakers addressed the chamber, many of them focusing on the historic element of their action, others relating intensely personal stories.

In a moment of high drama, with dozens of gay rights supporters watching from the gallery, Simon Salinas (D-Salinas) hesitated for several seconds as the tally hung at 40 "ayes" — one short of passage. Then, having promised Leno months ago that he would not let the bill fail, Salinas pressed the "aye" button on his desk, making the final vote 41-35.

Those seconds "seemed like an eternity," said Mark Guzman of El Dorado Hills, as he and his partner of 14 years, J. Scott Coatsworth, celebrated in the Capitol rotunda after the voting.

Click here to read the full article.