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	5/5/2005

God Hates Fags Coming to Durham (allegedly)

Their website www.godhatesfags has been hijacked and redirected to www.godlovesfags so this is the best quick description I could get on the group, which I heard of for the first time yesterday.

An army of individual pastors and their local churches have put up sites dedicated to tradition anti-Catholicism. One of the most loathsome is from Pastor Fred Phelps�f Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. Phelps has made a name for himself for decidedly homophobic hate speech. Its Internet address is godhatesfags.org. Phelps refers to the Catholic Church as a "fag" church and claims that a third of Catholic priests are actively homosexual, seducing young boys and women. (The logic is his, not mine.) He reproduces an alleged "Diary of Another Fag Catholic Priest" and asserts that, "fag priests and dyke nuns is the order of the day for Kansas Catholics. They deserve the sick, perverted leadership that now dooms and damns them."

Apparently, (per a police permit to march on the sidewalk) Phelps group is supposed to show up uninvited at The First Baptist Church in Durham this Sunday. They are masters of the photo op. The money trail on them would be interesting I bet.

9:45:25 AM

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Koh'ls Frozen Custard - update (fans only)

After learning about the the Kohl's employee whose fingertip was severed in the frozen custard machine in Wilmington...and that the customer who found it in his drive-thru order would not give it back to doctors (and its owner) so that it might be re-attached, I had several rambling immediate thoughts.

The condensed version is this:

If the injured employee is taking things in stride (and is not surrounded by a swarm of lawyers) he needs to get is 15 seconds of fame on David Letterman's show. Letterman got a few cracks out of his misfortune so Letterman ought to consider bringing him on the show to tell the rest of his story.

The customer who found the finger (cleanly severed from just behind the fingrenail) and refused to give it back for attempted re-attachment needs to be outed. The 23 year-old employee might at least feel good about getting some national TV attention over his plight. When his grandkids ask him about the missing end of his finger, he can run the Letterman video clip for them.

Kohl's are a handful of stores owned by a few hard working local families. They are not Wendy's, McDonalds or Jack-in-the-Box. Fans of their excellent frozen custard need to step up and show their support. They have two choices:

1) Use the long established Kohl's Flavor of the Day Crisis Line (910) 452-4433. Give them a call and place your pick up order. (Note: They have already heard the line, "Hold the finger tips.")

2) Get on-line and order your favorite Kohl's flavors to be overnight shipped to your family and friends around the country. Minimum order quantity is around $75. But hey, Kohl's is a nationally recognized brand name now and worth every penny. If you need a break on price you might get a discount on the flavor of the week, Butterfinger Blast.

12:17:19 AM

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