Missouri Men’s Basketball made their final road trip of the 2007-2008 season this weekend, as the Tigers traveled to Norman Oklahoma where they allegedly gave Oklahoma a basketball game before allegedly losing 75-66.
Details are still unclear, but a hearing to review the loss has been scheduled for their return to Colombia.
CNN has an article about a retired detective who is posing as a tween girl online in order to draw out and bust child molesters.
"The latest defendant is Allen Kauffman, 63, who resigned as mayor of Collins and pastor of Temple Lot Church after he was arrested January 11 at home in his small town about 110 miles southeast of Kansas City."
Generally speaking, the more self-righteous the person is, the bigger the skeletons that come out of his closet. It’s funny that Ted Haggard in Colorado got busted buying gay sex, but in the end, who really gives a fuck? It’s two adults having consensual sex . . . granted, for money, but you know . . . whatever. It’s really only even newsworthy because one of the consenting gay men is a giant hypocrite who uses his podium to preach anti-gay rhetoric while giving rim-jobs to his crank dealer behind his congregation’s back.
But this Missouri guy preys on kids. He got busted trying to solicit sex from a 60-year old man posing as a 13-year old girl online. omg lol k im laghing @ him i hope cops beat hm up lol
He’s a scumbag, check. But, adding pathos to all this skeeve, he’s a religious scumbag who tells other people how to live their lives and preaches about morality and "family values."
From the Temple Lot Church website (emphasis mine):
"The (Temple Lot Church) is… the true Church restored in the last days by Christ himself to prepare the world for His final return . . . the Church of Christ posesses true priesthood authority and spiritual gifts given by Christ for the purpose of spreading His Gospel to all ‘kindreds, nations, tongues and people.’"
These are the kinds of dumb rabbit-holes literalist religion sends you down into. So Christ himself gave Chester the Molester "true preisthood authority"? Really? Gee, wouldn’t that would make Jesus a fucking moron?
And is "true priesthood authority" as good as "real ultimate power"? Because if not, I’m OUT, bible boy.
The more of this stuff I hear about, the more I think that the people who are bible-literalist Christians only come in two categories: hiding something, or trying to cover up some personality flaw. Get some therapy, let go of any literal interpretation of metaphor (it’s only going to lead to neurosis), have a glass of wine, some consensual sex (with ADULTS, you freaks) and get on with being limited, human, ignorant and a tiny, tiny speck in an otherwise unimportant part of a massive universe that is 100% without any meaning at all.
Missouri’s premier Missouri Lifestyle magazine just hit newstands at Pump-N-Gos and Fast-Marts all across the states! Look for it just beneath Juggs, Glue Huffer and Firearm Fun Time:
This is pretty much the world that I live in. Sure, we have beauty queens, but they’re all just a bad hair day away from kidnapping and torturing their thieving, lying, no-goodnick boyfriends.
In the December 18 indictment, Fulbright is accused of holding and torturing her 24-year-old ex-boyfriend in early December with the help of three other men, including another man she had previously dated. Authorities think the dispute began because the ex-boyfriend was believed to have stolen jewelry given to Fulbright by the former beau suspected of helping in the attack.
Fulbright invited the man to her apartment, then excused herself to shower, said police spokesman Sgt. Fabian Pacheco. Then two men showed up and bound him with plastic ties and duct tape, accused him of taking the jewelry, and threatened to shoot him with pistols, Pacheco said.
When Fulbright finished her shower, she allegedly bit the man on his forearm, right hand and ear, held a butcher knife to his head, and told him she was going to kill him. Authorities said the man was taken to another home, where the assault continued, then taken back to Fulbright’s house, where she guarded him with a gun.
The man finally managed to free a hand and grabbed the gun, which discharged but hit no one, authorities said. As their struggle spilled outside, the man screamed for help, then ran to a home down the block, while Fulbright returned to her apartment, Pacheo said.
Okay, a quick note to the criminally entrepenurial out there: when the time comes to leave somebody watching over the victim with a firearm, don’t choose the beauty-pagent-has-been. I’m just sayin’. Your dumb ass deserves to go to jail.
And while I’m sure social-culture and/or feminist blogs will cover it in better detail than I could, how much delight is the American press taking in presenting the former American-beauty-standard apotheosis’ fugly mug shot? Man, she looks like ass (and I would too if photographed immediately following kidnapus-interuptus). There’s just a level of gloating to it all that seems to leak out from between the words of the story.
Now, I’m not myself a Tottenham supporter, but I do have a soft spot for the White side of North London (and a man-crush on Dimitar Berbatov). I think that as good as Martin Jol was for them, Juande Ramos is the guy to take them to the next level, but in the interim, there’ll be more rants like the following from the secret bomb-shelter beneath White Hart Lane:
I’ve been kind of keeping this under wraps, but I’ve decided to make some pretty big changes in my life. Over the last year or so, Emily and I have become increasingly involved with issues relating to developing countries; from both a political/economic and a spiritual point-of-view.
Most recently, I read The End of Poverty, by Jeffrey Sachs, and was taken by the plausibility of his work. It’s more than just a pipe dream; his vision of reaching an end to world poverty could become a reality in our lifetime if we only committed a fraction of the resources toward ending poverty that we do to waging war. Sachs bases his well-thought-out and comprehensive approach to eliminating world poverty upon his conviction that everything depends on everything else — that, for instance, you cannot cure poverty in Africa without beating AIDS, which requires infrastructure, which requires stable government, and so forth.
Sachs is not himself a particularly spiritual man, but his ideas got me to thinking; what is the ultimate foundation upon which reliable, compassionate social structures are built? To my mind, the answer is an abiding and pervasive social relationship with Christ.
Emily and I have spent a lot of time praying over this issue recently, and we have come to the conclusion that while we are not high-powered economists or influential politicians, we can still do our part to advance Mr. Sachs’ vision by abandoning the dubious “luxuries” of the first world for the spiritual fulfillment of ministering the Word among the most needy (and deserving) people of the world.
“I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in an eat with him, and he with Me…And, to all who receive Him have the right to become children of God (Revelation 3:20; John 1:12).”
We’ve already made arrangements with the people over at JCA (Jesus Christ Africa), and in two short weeks we will travel to their headquarters in Branson, Missouri for a two-month intensive training/prayer retreat (and faith-based variety show) after which we will fly to Africa for our direct ministries. Normal postings last six to nine months, but Emily and I have been moved by the spirit to sign up for an 18-month posting. We are hoping to be posted to Malawi, but there is a chance that we might be more needed in Nigeria, which would be okay also, of course.
We don’t anticipate having any internet access while training or during our post, so we won’t be able to stay in touch, but remember, “. . . neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 8:31-39).”
God bless and keep you, and I hope to hear from you all upon our return on or before Christmas 2007.
