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…if you don’t want to be my friend anymore.

I’m cutting back on the coffee. (c)

Way back. Might have to do away with it entirely.

I’m just so not a nice person some days. Many days. Too many days (ask my kids). And I’m thinking the caffeine might be part of the problem, rather than the solution. Wish me luck.

:p

I grabbed this from ThinkProgress, but it is very interesting that now that we are five years beyond this historic day, not only has ABC created a “dramatized” account (translate: make it more exciting for viewers, to drive ratings), but their Football division has decided to put on a double header on September 11.

How many people have died because of what happened? Both that day, and in the wars we created in their name, soldiers and many more thousands of innocent civilians.

On September 10 and 11, ABC Television is planning to air a program called “The Path to 9/11.” Though ABC claims that the program is based on the facts, the truth is that it distorts the facts and the conclusions of the 9/11 Commission. The ABC program, written by avowed conservative Cyrus Nowrasteh, goes out of its way to place blame on the Clinton administration for 9/11 and whitewash the failures of the Bush administration. That simply isn’t true.

Help me do something about it.

Visit this website and send a message to ABC: http://www.ThinkProgress.org/TellABC

This made me laugh out loud. I thought it was satire, like The Onion, but then I realized they were serious.

Hello?

The First Baptist Church dismissed Mary Lambert on Aug. 9 with a letter explaining that the church had adopted an interpretation that prohibits women from teaching men. She had taught there for 54 years.

The letter quoted the first epistle to Timothy: “I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent.”

Fifty. Four. Years.

She was a teacher for fifty four years, and presumably not required to “be silent” that whole time.

Pardon my french, but What the fuck?

It gets better. The kid that fired her is on the city council!

The Rev. Timothy LaBouf, who also serves on the Watertown City Council, issued a statement saying his stance against women teaching men in Sunday school would not affect his decisions as a city leader in Watertown, where all five members of the council are men but the city manager who runs the city’s day-to-day operations is a woman.

“I believe that a woman can perform any job and fulfill any responsibility that she desires to” outside of the church, LaBouf wrote Saturday.

I say “kid” because I doubt he has been there all these 54 years. BTW, here’s his blog (we’re discussing the ’seven deadly sins” this week) and here’s the church’s web page. It’s nice to see they support our troops, although I suspect it’s only the males they really support.