A Message to Pat from Paul in Helena

Message to PatPssssst — hey Pat Robertson,Pat, I’m speaking to you again…… you know….. The Big Guy.Well I guess 2006 didn’t turn out like we’d predicted. That tsunami we’d hoped for, you know, the one that was supposed to decimate the northwest US coastlines, just didn’t pan out. Well maybe your minions will buy a partial prophesy with all the flooding in the northeast. What’s that? No, I don’t have time to bother with all the suffering in Darfur, or the Middle East….. I’m too busy punishing Ariel Sharon for pulling out of Gaza. And I’m really sorry for not telling you to pass on that hot tip to George dubbya — the one about scraping off Rumsfeld and Rove prior to the election. It’s funny I didn’t see that coming. Anyhow, let’s both keep praying that the flim-flam profiteering evangelist thing keeps working for you — not like some of those other phonies, you know, Baker, Swaggert, and Haggard. With any luck, people will continue to buy the “conversations with God” scam and you won’t be exposed for the money worshipping, self-absorbed, faux righteous, bigoted fraud that you are. End Transmission……The twisted little voice inside your head.Paul Montgomery2326 Hauser Blvd.

1st Female Speaker of the House EVER

About time! We still have a long way to go. Women make up roughly 50% of the population and we have only a 16% representation in the House. Its better but not good enough.


WASHINGTON (AP) -- It shouldn't be surprising that it took more than 200 years for Congress to select a female speaker of the House. The United States isn't exactly at the forefront when it comes to women in politics.
Women make up a larger share of the national legislature in 79 other countries, including China, Cuba, North Korea and Vietnam, according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, an association of national legislatures. The U.S. even trails a couple of fledgling democracies: Afghanistan and Iraq.
"When my colleagues elect me as speaker on January 4, we will not just break through a glass ceiling, we will break through a marble ceiling," said Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who is set to lead the House when the Democrats take over. "In more than 200 years of history, there was an established pecking order -- and I cut in line."
There were 22 women in the House when Pelosi was first elected to her California district in 1987. There will be a record 71 female representatives when she takes over as speaker, giving women 16 percent of the seats.

The Lord didn't say nuclear. But....something like that

VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia (AP) -- Evangelical broadcaster Pat Robertson said Tuesday that God has told him that a terrorist attack on the United States would cause a "mass killing" late in 2007.
"I'm not necessarily saying it's going to be nuclear," he said during his news-and-talk television show "The 700 Club" on the Christian Broadcasting Network.


"The Lord didn't say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something like that."

HELLO!, GOD SPOKE TO YOU BUT YOUR NOT SURE WHAT HE SAID AND DID NOT GIVE MORE DETAILS. FREAKING INCREDIBLE! TELL ME WHAT DOES HE SOUND LIKE? STRANGLY SIMILAR TO YOURSELF I BET.
YOUR INSANE AND PEOPLE WHO WATCH YOUR SHOW ARE IDIOTS.

The Golden Rule

"Do to no one what you would not wish others to do to you."
Confucius
"Do no impose on others what yourself do not desire."
Analects of Confucius 15:23
"Do naught to others which, if done to thee, would cause thee pain: this is the sum of duty"
Mahabharata 5:1517
"Thou shalt love thy neighbor as theyself"
Leviticus 19:10
"Whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them."
Matthew 7:12

But, we all know how very difficult this is.
I copied this down by hand years ago and recently found it in my stacks of notes and research. So, I'm not sure the spelling and references are accurate. You get the point.

Hypocrisy/Letter to the Editor

We now learn that 95 percent of us have had premarital sex (IR, Dec. 20). Compare that with the roughly 27 percent of us that self-identify as evangelical Christians and one detects an obvious overlap.Not long ago I read that Oklahoma — a prominent “Bible Belt” state — has the highest divorce rate in America.In just the past year, two conservative culture warriors were “outed” by their own behavior — one a publicly anti-gay “Family Values” Republican congressman caught soliciting underage boys; the other the president of the National Association of Evangelicals, the epitome of institutional homophobia in America, now undergoing spirituality-based homosexual “deprogramming.”It all makes you wonder how many “pro-life” women have surreptitiously had abortions.So then, why do conservative evangelicals still feel entitled to legislate morality for the rest of us vis-à-vis South Dakota’s recently defeated abortion criminalization statute, Kansas’ and Pennsylvania’s attempts to outlaw science in science classrooms, proposed “defense of marriage” (whose marriage was under attack?) constitutional amendments, and provably inadequate “abstinence-only” federal educational edicts.I, for one, think it’s about time these folks get their own house in order before trying to legislate their morality on the rest of us.W. Craig Heymann1618 Lyndale