Author: Chamonix1

Ok..I received this email today…I copied some of it…It is from someone that I knew about 12 years ago’s Mother (the mother is probably about 48 and lives near St. Louis.) I worked with this womans daughter on a show for about 3 months. I haven’t seen or spoken to these people since. I have no idea how she even got my email (but as you will read..she, alone, needed to send it to 1000 people.) They have no idea what my life style/ religion is…They basically know nothing about me. I guess Dobson’s troops are getting stronger by the day. Mass emailing their own grass roots organization. These people are really trying to make America a Christian Nation. I just cannot believe the scare tactics they use with unintelligent people in middle America. (The following is part of the letter)  

type in your name, then send to everybody you know.
> > >    Dr. Dobson is going on CNBC to urge every Christian to get
involved.
> > >   I hope you will think about signing this and  forwarding to all your
> > >family and friends.
> > >
> > >    Dr. James Dobson, with Focus on the Family, pleads for our  action.
> > >   An organization has been granted a Federal Hearing  onthe same
subject
> >by
> > >the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in  Washington, DC.
> > >   Their petition, Number 2493, would  ultimately pave the way to stop
> >the
> > >reading of the gospel of our Lord  and Savior, on the airwaves of
> >America.
> > >They have 287,000 signatures to  back their stand! If this attempt is
> > >successful, all Sunday worship  services being broadcast on the radio
or
> >by
> > >television will be  stopped.
> > >
> > >   This group is also campaigning to remove  all Christmas programs and
> > >Christmas carols from public schools! You as  a Christian can help!
> > >   We are praying for at least 1 million  signatures. This would defeat
> > >their effort and show that there are many  Christians alive, well and
> > >concerned about our country. As Christians we  must unite on this.
Please
> > >don’t take this lightly. We ignored one lady  once and lost prayer in
our
> > >schools and in offices across the nation.  Please stand up for your
> > >religious freedom and let your voice be  heard.
> > >
> > >   Together we can make a difference in our  country.
> > >
> > >   Please press “forward,” CLEAN UP THE  MESSAGE (delete prior email
> > >addresses), and forward this to everyone you  think should read this.
> >Now,
> > >please sign your name at the bottom (you  can only add your name after
> >you
> > >have pressed “Forward” OR cut and paste  the text). Don’t  delete any
> >other
> > >names, just go to the next  number and type your name. Please do not
sign
> > >jointly, such as Mr. &  Mrs. Each person should sign his/her own name.
> > >Please defeat this  organization and keep the right of our freedom of
> > >religion. When you get  to 1,000 names on this list, please e-mail back
> >to:

My Response:

Please don’t ever send me shit like this ever again. James Dobson is one of the most hateful, evil men to walk the earth. Please research him and his organisation….take a look at how he feels about gay rights/civil rights and many other issues that are important for American. He constantly wants to change or break laws so we can be ruled by his religion and his church. Hilter had similar beliefs. I believe in separation of Church and State…which is written into the Constitution of the United States. I have a God that I pray to and I am not interested in Dobson trying to make all Americans pray to his God. He is a pathetic human Being.  I have spent the last year working to bring down Bill Frist, Tom DeLay and the other Republican Puppets of Dobsons and his bullshit hateful group Focus on the Family. This organization and Dobson are Hatefilled people. Please Wake up. They recently had a TV telethon to get rid of the filibuster in the Senate to try and take away all of the rights the minority party has in regards to selecting Judges in our country. Please read both sides of the argument in regards to this man and his organisation and if you still believe in these people and the BS Propaganda they preach please keep it to yourself and don’t ever send Propaganda like this to me ever again.   Thank you,    

“These Dobson people are big, and you can see what they are up to. They are working their way through middle America…yup..all the red states and battleground states and spreading stuff like this…”our poor kids can never sing christmas carols again…”  Just thought this might light a fire under a few butts here at the Tribune…Next time we need to make calls to our Senators..think of this email..It will continue to inspire me to fight Dobson, Frist, DeLay, the Chimp and the entire bunch of Lying Crooks in the Repub party.
     

I know Bush’s Federal Judge choices are disgusting to many of us, pathetic to most, activist to many. One already got through (Owen from Texas). I am not sure what’s going to happen, because of the Mod Squad 14 backroom deal, with Brown from California or PRYOR who used to be the Attorney General of Alabama, and for the time being is sitting on the 11th Circuit(Bush back doored him one night, but his time is running out, now Bush must make him legit and lifetime..yikes). A lot has been mentioned about Brown from California, so I am gonna use this diary to toss out some Facts about PRYOR…Are you with me….here we go…..

1. PRYOR called Roe v Wade- “The Worst Abomination of Constitutional Law in HISTORY”

2. PRYOR filed an Amicus Curiae brief challenging a unique Texas Statue Prohibiting possession of firearms by Individuals, subject to a temporary restraining orders in DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CASES. Alabama had no similar statue.

3. PRYOR Condemning any constitutional Right protecting “the choice of ones partner” As “Logically extend(ing) to activities like Prostitution, Adultery, Necrophilia, Bestiality, Possession of Child Pornography, and even Incest & Pedophilia.”
4. PRYOR is beyond anti-gay…saying “States have a prerogative to recognize that “Homosexual Activity” is harmful and exposes both the individuals and PUBLIC to deleterious spiritual & physical consequences.”
5. PRYOR Believes that “Executing the mentally retarded did not violate the US Constitution prohibition against cruel & unusual punishment.” The SCOTUS rejected PRYORS argument & prohibited ALL STATES from executing the mentally retarded

PRYOR loves Big Tobacco Money & NRA Kickbacks.

PRYOR was the Co-Chair of Alabama’s ELECT BUSH/CHENEY 2000 CAMP.

PRYOR believes in No Separation of Church & State.

I am sure this is just the Beginning of what evil lurks behind the man. I beg you all NOW…Start calling your Senators…I call My Senator BOXER about 3 times a weeks just to let my voice be heard about this Hideous Individual. This Judicial Activist PRYOR is an “Extraordinary Circumstance” and should NOT be allowed on the Bench and should be Filibustered if need be. PRYOR CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO PASS ONTO THE FEDERAL BENCH OF THE 11th CIRCUIT. Please join me now…Call your Senators and have them VOTE NO when PRYOR comes up on the Senate Floor. This Man is Americans Worst Nightmare.

(Cross posted with Daily Kos)

        I just received a “Thank You” letter for my donation in regards to the South Asia Tsunami Relief and other Unmet Needs. MSF aka “Doctors Without Borders” is an amazing organization, they are often the first relief org. to arrive at the scene of an emergency and the last to leave. They go into the most remote and dangerous parts of the world. They also speak out against human rights abuses and violations of international humanitarian law that it’s teams witness while providing medical relief.
     
  MSF was founded in 1971 by a small group of FRENCH Doctors, today more than 2,500 doctors, nurses, other medical professionals, and logisticians from 45 nations volunteer each year. They work in all most 80 countries.

       Anyone who donated to this amazing organization or who still wishes to donate should know what they are up to now, along with the South Asia Tsunami releif.

       Supporting the Ugandan health system: They run a 350-bed therapeutic feeding center and a supplementary feeding program, as well as four clinics and two mobile clinics. In Gulu district, they run a night shelter for the nearly 4,000 children seeking a safe place to sleep each night.

       Treating TB patients in Georgia:
At Gulripsh hospital in the separatist republic of Abkhazia, their staff provides care and Meds for nearly 240 people suffering from TB, including about 20 patients living with multi-drug resistant TB.

       Combating HIV/AIDS with Antiretroviral-ARV
        therapy:
They currently are providing ARV’s to more than 23,000 patients living with HIV/AIDS in 27 countries and that number continues to grow each month. They continue to fight for improving access to quality medicines and removing obstacles to the use of generic medicines.

Anyone interesting in making donations & learning more about this amazing organization please check out WWW.doctorswithoutborders.org  You could become a field partner and help with a donation for as little as $7.50 a month, that’s only .25 cents a day or just make a one time donation. Disasters, Epidemics, and Wars often occur without warning. Sometimes it’s best if you can spare some change to help out before the next disaster strikes.

          “We are by nature an organization unable to tolerate indifference; and we believe that it is both possible and necessary to take action”  -Rony Brauman,M.D. Co-Founder MSF

          “We volunteer because we are needed-it’s that simple. Doctors and bandages don’t stop wars and epidemics. But saving lives and speaking out is our job.”  -Peter Orr, Volunteer

MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES aka DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS was Awarded the 1999 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE.

Maybe this is a good place to keep a list of our favorite Charities and Organizations and the difference they make in the world..Feel free..go ahead…what are your favorites?

OK…So I was raised a catholic..yup….baptised, confirmed, went to CCD, church, sometimes 3 times a week. I still have memories of the smell of the strong incense the priest swayed back and forth during some of the special services. I especially liked midnight mass on Christmas eve..not because of the mass, for me it was all about getting to stay up late in hopes of seeing St. Nick (Santa). I remember any red light in the sky…my Mom or Grandma said “There is Rudolph”. Rudolph=Church?.
        I thought it odd that some of the priests that I looked up to, on some occasions..like the church fair and several pot luck dinners..would get blitzed…drinking one to many beers and acted like fools. My Irish priests always had a way of drinking a little to much and saying things I questioned. I think it was around the time I was about 12 or 13 . Things began to change.
       I was getting ready to go into the confessional on Sunday…(this would be the small, dark, scary room you go into to confess your sins with the priests (that you know) on the other side, there is a wall so you can’t see them, but there is also a little net when you kneel near your face..with a cut out and there is mesh or net over the cut out about a foot by 6 inches of opening) Most of the time…you say a few of your sins and he tells you to slam out a couple of “Hail Mary’s” or “Our Fathers” and all would be forgiven..the bigger the sin, the more prayers are piled on you. I can’t imagine what the wife beaters and murderers had to do to be forgiven or how many hundreds of prayers they had to say. Anyway back to my story.

        As I am walking up to the confessional booth (the light above was off, so I could go in)..I got freaked out…no, i didn’t have some horrible scary sin to confess..I was just consumed by fear of going into that small booth and pretending God was on the other side. Why couldn’t I just speak to him in my pew or my bedroom or backyard or while driving in my Moms car. Why did I have to go into this scary, dark, small, cramped black pit and pretend he was on the other side listening to me. I Keep thinking of a drunk priest or hungover priest on the other side just waiting to get to lunch or go back to bed and sleep it off. So I didn’t go..that’s right..I gave it up..right then and there. No confession from me in that dark place anymore. I would talk to God directly, somewhere more peaceful and bright. I also noticed around this time, during the part of Mass where the priest can talk about anything…I would always come down to how much money our Church needed. Then they brought out the wooden bucket on a long pool and stuck it in front of every person in the row until they dumped money in it. Many times (growing up poor) I would put my hand in it pretending to put something in it. Today I make my donations to charities..Docs w/o Borders aka: Medecins sans frontieres.(is my Fav)

       The reason I write this diary is yesterday I was getting my mail..and by mistake I recieved a paper sent out by the LA Catholic Church/Mission. The headlines on the front page made me gasp…
700,000 sig’s IN, 200,000 to GO..(Parent’s right to Know will be the first pro-life effort to reach the state ballot in CA history)
       Soooooooooo Impressed! 6,000 pro-life marchers hit the streets in San Francisco “the walk was the best witness to the Gospel I’ve ever seen”
       Are they Serious” Pro-life Democrats hopeful for change to party” w/ pix of Pelosi and kerry
       Parents Right to know petitions-inside
Next pg-My phone company does what? Does your phone company support Abortion, pornography, or the GAY AGENDA?(Caps theirs not mine)If yes, Choose Sienna-A Catholic Phone Company. It is dedicated to promoting catholic culture and will contribute a percentage of your bill to the Catholic or Pro-Life charity. Get great phone service and help the unborn. Sienna (named after St. Catherine of Siena)
next pg- (A picture of a giant Cross) copy says” Carry this 1,500 miles all summer for no pay” Hurry! only 20 positions left. It’s an add looking for people to carry the giant cross from May-July across America to support Pro-Life and meet mothers that are just minutes away from killing their own babies.

       And then I saw the ad in the back for “Living Air Purifiers” that also help clean your sins away” right next to “homemade bible dolls”-Adorable! Lovingly handmade-we have priests, sisters, Marys, angels, bishops, cardinals and …..coming soon…..THE SAINTS. Start your collection now!

        How could I, at such a young age, have known that The Catholic Church was such a scary place. Back then I didn’t know squat about politics and what an important part the Church played in them. I still don’t understand why they chose a dark scary room to represent God, and make it the one and only place that you can get a direct line to him and be forgiven. Although for all I know…nowadays..maybe all they have to do is sign up for Sienna-A Catholic Phone Company and they can avoid the dark room and just dial him direct.

     If I believe anything it is that “GOD LOVES EVERYONE”, and the Government and Church should always be seperate, and Women should make all decisions in regards to their Bodies.