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Aug. 12th, 2003 09:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsMan, what is it with church leadership these days? The head pastor of a church in Mesa, Arizona is being charged with sexual exploitation of a minor and luring a minor into a sexually exploitive relationship. Well, at least he wasn't Catholic. Gives those of us on the outside a chance to spread around the love.
Heh. The newspaper refers to the local law enforcement official as "Sherrif Joe."
Bwahahaha! Michael Johnston, the chair of National Coming Out of Homosexuality Day, has been outed as still sexually active with gay men, having bareback sex and not disclosing his HIV+ status.
His fellow Christians say that "he has asked for forgiveness and received it." Yeah, bully for him. What about the men he had sex with?
The Christian Action Network is planning to release it's annual video tape on "Gay Day at Disney." It started as an informal arrangement on Florida BBS's in the late 80's, grew into an annual event Disney tried to prevent, and finally became an officially sanctioned (but not sponsored by Disney... they're careful with that) event with speakers and celebrities. CAN's "Christian guerrilla," Martin Mayer, says the tape depicts "homosexuals kissing and fondling one another. It's absolutely impossible to describe the depth of depravity we saw."
A federal parks ranger informed a man outside Independence Hall in Boston Philidelphia that Independence Hall was, quote, "a First-Amendment Free Zone." The man was protesting the recent (and in his opinion, eyesore) addition of metal bicycle racks, thinking them out-of-character with the old building. He simply sat next to one on his lunch break with a sign reading "Free Independence Hall" and some smaller writing explaining his views. The ranger bullied him out of the park.
The Ranger Service later apologized, explaining that some of the rangers working there were new and "didn't know their history."
Hey, Rangers:
[Edit: I can't believe I blew that one. Oh, well, it's just a Usenet Spelling Flame Conundrum.]
If you think I get on Bush's case about the Farm Bill too much (hey, when the price of an apple triples in 2008 because farms that should have upgraded last year to be competitive put it off, don't say I didn't warn ya), consider the latest from the NY Times, Harvesting Poverty, in which the economists point out that the efficiency of industrialized farming combined with domestic price support (like the Farm Bill and the EU's local subsidies) make capital investment in third-world farming so unattractive that the most fertile land in Africa is left fallow the people are left starving.
Heh. The newspaper refers to the local law enforcement official as "Sherrif Joe."
Bwahahaha! Michael Johnston, the chair of National Coming Out of Homosexuality Day, has been outed as still sexually active with gay men, having bareback sex and not disclosing his HIV+ status.
His fellow Christians say that "he has asked for forgiveness and received it." Yeah, bully for him. What about the men he had sex with?
The Christian Action Network is planning to release it's annual video tape on "Gay Day at Disney." It started as an informal arrangement on Florida BBS's in the late 80's, grew into an annual event Disney tried to prevent, and finally became an officially sanctioned (but not sponsored by Disney... they're careful with that) event with speakers and celebrities. CAN's "Christian guerrilla," Martin Mayer, says the tape depicts "homosexuals kissing and fondling one another. It's absolutely impossible to describe the depth of depravity we saw."
A federal parks ranger informed a man outside Independence Hall in Boston Philidelphia that Independence Hall was, quote, "a First-Amendment Free Zone." The man was protesting the recent (and in his opinion, eyesore) addition of metal bicycle racks, thinking them out-of-character with the old building. He simply sat next to one on his lunch break with a sign reading "Free Independence Hall" and some smaller writing explaining his views. The ranger bullied him out of the park.
The Ranger Service later apologized, explaining that some of the rangers working there were new and "didn't know their history."
Hey, Rangers:
[Edit: I can't believe I blew that one. Oh, well, it's just a Usenet Spelling Flame Conundrum.]
If you think I get on Bush's case about the Farm Bill too much (hey, when the price of an apple triples in 2008 because farms that should have upgraded last year to be competitive put it off, don't say I didn't warn ya), consider the latest from the NY Times, Harvesting Poverty, in which the economists point out that the efficiency of industrialized farming combined with domestic price support (like the Farm Bill and the EU's local subsidies) make capital investment in third-world farming so unattractive that the most fertile land in Africa is left fallow the people are left starving.
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Date: 2003-08-12 05:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-12 05:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-12 09:06 pm (UTC)Farm subsidies are an abomination. Perfect evidence that what happens in DC has real meaning on a global scale. Africa isn't poor for some nebulous, unknown reason. Africa is poor because we bloody well keep it poor, because we're too scared of change to do more than wave pretty words at them.
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Date: 2003-08-12 09:25 pm (UTC)Yes, dominated by large farms owned by white farmers, but exporting staple foodstuffs to neighbouring countries, as well as pretty heavy foreign investment in supplying higher value crops to first-world countries.
It wasn't the subsidies to EU or US farmers which wrecked that agricultural industry.
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Date: 2003-08-13 07:28 pm (UTC)And no, it wasn't EU or US farmers which wrecked that economy-- it was EU policies that supported the farmers who owned the land according to the rule of law and the sheild of contract. When Mugabe did away with both, the country went to Hell. No surprises here.