Whose side is he on???

This is kind of long, but it scared the hell out of me.

Well, I should blog about SOMETHING

Several people have emailed me and mentioned that I haven't been blogging. And I can tell by my feed that a lot of people have been here to look for something from me. Imagine that.

I guess I haven't had anything to complain about lately. Well, nothing that I want to share with the world.

So let me just bitch about the fact that border patrol agents Ramos and Compean continue to rot in jail for doing their jobs, and that a federal appeals court upheld their sentences this week. And the fact that the government has refused to comply with the Freedom of Information Act request for documents detailing the agreement between the US and Mexico which allowed drug smuggler Aldrete-Davila to return to this country and testify against the agents! And the fact that this smuggler was given immunity from prosecution and free medical care at an Army hospital. And the fact that some people, including our president, are in favor of giving Mexico millions, make that over a BILLION dollars, with the hope that it will be used in the war on drug cartels. (Merida Initiative. Look it up.)

Why won't Bush pardon the agents? And why does he want to give tax-payers money to that country? What is going on?

And some people will vote for a man for president just because he gives pretty speeches and he's the right color.

Yes, all of this really pisses me off.

There's more. I'll save that for later. :)

Lawyers.....always looking out for us

I have a mutual fund with an investment company that has recently settled in a class action lawsuit of which I was completely unaware.

I am entitled to the whopping sum of $20.22.

Credit vouchers are being issued. Three yearly vouchers of just under $7.00 each!

So I don't really get to see this windfall. I get to apply it to fees I would be charged by the investment company. And again, I can't apply it all at once. I can only use one voucher per year for the next 3 years. $6.74 for the first two years, and $6.75 the last.

The time it would take me to call and figure out how to have the credit applied is worth more to me than $6.74.

But at least the attorneys are richer.

God Bless America.

It's the Bible, you idiot

So, not only are we supposed to accept homosexuality as being a perfectly normal way of life (no, it isn't), now we need to change what the Bible says, too???

CASCADE TOWNSHIP -- A Canton man is suing Zondervan Publishing and a Tennessee-based publisher, claiming their versions of the Bible that refer to homosexuality as a sin violate his constitutional rights and have caused him emotional pain and mental instability. (Oh, BOO HOO!)

Bradley LaShawn Fowler, 39, is seeking $60 million from Zondervan, based in Cascade Township, and $10 million from Thomas Nelson Publishing in the lawsuits filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

Fowler filed the suit against Zondervan on Monday, the same day U.S. District Judge Julian Abele Cook Jr. refused to appoint an attorney to represent him in his case against Thomas Nelson, a Tennessee publisher.

Fowler filed a suit against Thomas Nelson in June. He is representing himself in both claims.

"The Court has some very genuine concerns about the nature and efficacy of these claims," the judge wrote.

Fowler alleges Zondervan's Bibles referring to homosexuality as a sin have made him an outcast from his family and contributed to physical discomfort and periods of "demoralization, chaos and bewilderment."

The intent of the publisher was to design a religious, sacred document to reflect an individual opinion or a group's conclusion to cause "me or anyone who is a homosexual to endure verbal abuse, discrimination, episodes of hate, and physical violence ... including murder," Fowler wrote. (STFU!)

Fowler's suit claims Zondervan's text revisions from a 1980s version of the Bible include, and then delete the reference to homosexuality without informing the public of the changes.

The other suit, against Thomas Nelson and its New King James Bible, mirrors the allegations made against Zondervan.

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Happy 4th of July

Freedom isn't free...........