VirusHead

You are Brigitte Bardot

Naturally sensual and beautiful You’re an exotic beauty who turns heads everywhere You’ve got a look that’s one of a kind

Yeah, I wish I looked anything like that…

I haven’t done this in a while, but here are some things that caught my eye today while I was updating my blogroll. Loosely grouped by topic, here ya go…

• I have a special fondness for these open letters to George W. Bush from his ardent admirer Belacqua Jones. The latest is no exception.
• Pastor Dan at Street Prophets has video and transcript of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid rebuking the President.
• At Reconstitution, a news roundup – including that the FBI Bureau Chief who stuck up for fired US Attorney Carol Lam has suddenly… um…retired.
• At MyDD, Jonathan connects some dots between Nevada’s GOP Gov. Jim Gibbons and the prosecutor purge scandal.
• Bill at Liberal Oasis argues that a hearing is not a circus, no matter who would like to frame it that way. Issue the subpoenas, already.
• At The Nation’s Notion blog, Tom illustrates the attempts to put debate, oversight, and diplomacy on the sidelines, away from the fundamentalist religion of global force and “preventive” war.
• At Information Clearing House, an article by Heather on how we are moving closer to a nuclear attack on Iran.
• Ann at The American Prospect blog has an idea about why Eric Keroack, the birth-control hating head of the federal Office of Population Affairs, has really resigned. Hint: Sorry, it’s not because of activist pressure.
• JibJab has a new video: What We Call the News
• So we’re fighting to protect the freedom we’re dismantling? Anyone have a problem with that? Pinko Feminist Hellcat sure does.
• PB at Prose and Thorn discusses raising flags as activist banners. Hmmm. I still things flags are creepy.
• America is Burning has an interesting post about the contrast between George W. Bush and Al Gore during the Katrina catastrophe.
• Scooper at A Blind Chihuahua Speaks talks about changing the government’s diapers.
• MC Carl Rove at Hail Dubyas. If you saw that embarrassing episode, then ’nuff said. Even W was smart enough not to join in.
• At Satirical Political a diagnosis of Rove-Arian cancer.
• Seth at Hermes News asks what it really means to support our troops.
• Boyd at NonViolent Jesus: “War is the anti-Gospel“
• Rev. Billy Bob at Less People, Less Idiots hasn’t seen any red states or blue states, but he has seen a group of people who care more about this country’s survival than the agendas of either party.
• buttrrflyyz grieves.
• In Cult News from Rick Ross, it turns out that Hank Johnson, my Democratic Representative in Georgia, may be a member of a fringe Buddhist cult. And here I thought he was just a dim bulb to replace Cynthia McKinny. The last time I saw him, he looked like he was chewing his cud.
• Oliver Wills notices that conservative talk show host Michael Savage praises God for 9/11: “That was God speaking.”
• Religious News has an article about an upcoming documentary on the innocuously-named Westboro Baptist church hate group. When I first ran across them, I thought it was satire – making fun of the right-wing pseudo-Christians. It couldn’t possibly be for real. But noooooo. Can the Baptists formally disown them, or is this just an overt voicing of what is already implicit among the right-wing pseudo-Christians?
• Richard at Love Ministries objects to forming a cult around the overnamed A Course in Miracles. My assessment: ditto for The Secret.
• Todd at Hell’s Kitchen is giving himself a 90-day body and soul cleansing.
• Darrell at Blog of the Grateful Bear is enthralled by the Magdalene Mystique.
• At Truth and Beauty, keep your eye out for the Carnival of Islam in the West on Friday April 6th. For now, the renovation of a 1100 year old church in Turkey, and the “baroque and amusing flag-lowering ceremony/bristling stand-off which occurs at Wagah, on the border between Pureland and India, daily” narrated by former Monty Python player Terry Jones.
• Oh, such a wonderful resonant e.e. cummings poem posted at Professional Mirror, Ph.D. by Dr. Medusa! I want to be your friend.
• Frogs and Ravens offers a meditation on the silver maple.
• Ever had the blues? Read this poem by Radical Druid
• The always-surprising and lovable Rudy Rucker has some ideas brewing for his latest cyberpunk creation. Gnarly parasims, man.
• Douglas Rushkoff is looking for some votes in the Eagle Award contest for his DC Testament comic (under the category of Favorite New Comicbook). If you haven’t seen it, go download the first issue. I would also like to recommend Absolute Sandman v1 (Neil Gaiman & various; DC/Vertigo) in the Favorite Reprint Collection category.
• Of course, my recommendation doesn’t do a thing at all to keep Neil Gaiman’s hair from preparing to escape from his head and go hunting for weasels.
• Jeff at VanderWorld (under occupation) shows us archeological finds from an office clean-up. (No way am I posting what I find when I excavate this office, don’t even think it).
• My dear husband John at Machinic Life still has not posted one single blog entry. At least give me the updates for the pages before your book comes out, wouldja?
• Bitch Ph.D. grouses about how the low tolerance for disruptions of any kind at school are making life difficult for working women with kids (of course, she puts it a bit more colorfully).
• In the most recent post, Just Tenured unconsciously answers the question she asks in the previous post. Don’t pluck out your eyes, just take a little time out to be human. Laugh a little. You need some comic relief.
• Full Court Press gives us the depressing news that, on appeal in the Eighth Circuit Court, Union Pacific’s insurance won. They are free to cover Viagra and even Rogaine while refusing to cover birth control. Those newly-hairy guys are going to be pumped up with nowhere to go if the women get smart…
• A reminder to women from Pandagon: Even when you feel bound to say yes, you can still say no.
• Rosei at Timeless Thoughts needs some hugs and encouragement. A tip: Never bail out parents with loan money. Even when you feel bound to say yes, you can still say no.
• Mama Christy’s has a warning about the killer “choking game.” How would you like to get a call like that from the school principal?
• At Lena’s Boys see the new kitty Manu. Awww.
• Ann at Rock Rebel Granny has an adorable photo of her grandson Jonathan. Awww.
• From Professional Lurker, high-heeled purple sneaker boots! Drool. No, I don’t have anywhere at all to wear anything like that… and with those heels, I couldn’t even walk. Nonetheless.
• A Melted ice cream truck and a prohibition on growing hands on fences at World Wide Weird.
• And last, check out the tortilla art at Reuter’s Oddly Enough.

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The founder of SilentLambs.org has started up JWChildCustody.com to highlight the issues connected with JW divorces, and to help to protect the children of divorcing parents when only one of the parents is a Jehovah’s Witness.

If you are a parent who is going through a divorce from someone who is a Jehovah’s Witness, this site is a valuable resource for you. There is a toll free number to set up a free consultation as well as email correspondence for specific legal issues. Know that it is always in the interest of the organization for the children to stay with the JW parent. The Watchtower Bible and Tract corporations provide legal help to help ensure that this happens. Parents who may have left the organization are frequently “demonized” to their own children! There have been few resources as yet for parents who are targeted for this treatment, and little recourse in a legal system that remains largely unaware of the psychological issues involved.

If you are a former JW, please take action! Individuals are needed who can write legal affidavits (a personal, written, and notarized statement) regarding their personal knowledge or experience of the following:

1. Medical Issues – Blood and how you were affected: why you believed in not taking blood transfusions or other blood products of any kind. Did you or any member of your family suffer any kind of loss as a result of the blood doctrine?
2. Alienation from Non-JW Family Members, including parents and siblings – how (and why) you or family members made a choice not to have normal relations with non-JWs. How did you view non-JW members of your family if you grew up as a JW? How did others in your family view them? How were non-JW members of your family treated by JW adults and children?
3. Isolation from Society – How (and why) you personally were affected as a child by beliefs about worldly associations, school activities, higher education, careers, patriotism, and interaction with people outside the organization as a whole.
4. Theocratic Warfare – Your personal belief as a Jehovah’s Witness about being truthful (and whether you were ever encouraged to lie) to worldly authorities. What was acceptable behavior if you felt your beliefs or religion were being threatened in any way? In what ways or circumstances was there a different standard for within the organization, and outside it?

I am pleased to see some action on this area. The most heartbreaking letters I receive have to do with destructive family dynamics. Shunning and alienation from non-JW family members can be very extreme.

All by itself, divorce is a hard enough thing for children to navigate.

Silent Lambs has been speaking up for the powerless for some time. Thanks for caring about the children. I am very proud of Bill and Janet Bowen, and of all the people who have contributed – in all their different ways – to getting the message out there. Public awareness has grown, and there are now documented resources for anyone who cares to look.

Kudos to Silent Lambs – silent no more, victims no more.

Since the inception of silentlambs the purpose of the website was to give victims a voice, protect children and educate about child abuse issues. After hearing over 6,000 abuse stories in the last seven years everything that was stated in the beginning has proven itself to be the truth about the cover up of abuse in the organization of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

We have simply asked for specific actions to protect children.

Report all allegations of abuse to police

Never reappoint pedophiles to positions of authority.

Never allow pedophiles to call on the homes of the public.

To this day not one of these simple requests has been enacted as policy of the organization.

I continue to hope that even within the JW congregations, there will be recognition that major reforms are long overdue, that policies of cruelty and fear and domination and exploitation show no signs of the spirit of love. I hope this for the wider community too…

How will you be defined in the dictionary?

Just enter your name – it’s a random generator.

VirusHead –
[adjective]:

Pretentiously academian

Yikes! Aww……man…. I’m going to try it again…

VirusHead –
[noun]:

A poltergeist sent back in time to change the course of history forever.

Whew! That’s much better. The other one is…wrong, but too close! lol

Heidi N –
[noun]:

A person with a sixth sense for detecting the presence of goblins

Well, that’s pretty accurate…

Thanks Laureth. I repented of my impulse not to post these (hee-hee).