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Friday, 23 May 2008 |
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My friend, Brooke, has started a baby prints business! I'm adding her to my Shout-Outs section. I have been trying to help her out with the logo, getting customers, and all that fun stuff. It's harder when you don't live in the same state though... She is located in the Fairhaven, Dartmouth, Fall River, Westport, Acushnet, Marion, Mattapoisett area of Massachusetts. Anyway, check out her myspace! 
Custom ceramic baby impressions are made to order in a variety of sizes and colors. The process begins with me pressing your child's hands and feet into soft clay. After the impression is made, I will hand-carve your child's name, birthday, birth weight and length onto the tile. Each piece is hand-painted and fired in my kiln 2-3 times. Preserving your child's prints in clay is one of the best ways to remember just how small they once were. The perfect gift for moms, dads, and grandparents!
To make your new life with baby easier, I will travel to your home to do the baby prints. Please contact me via myspace for more information! Comment First! | Quote This Article | E-mail |
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Friday, 23 May 2008 |
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Loving Children
for the Lord UPDATE
Derek Gillette
Wow. This story has been incredibly popular. Considering how many Loving Children for the Lord segments I have, I guess I should be a little bit surprised that I haven't had more people show up at my site and giving their opinions on the guilt or innocence of convicted child molesters from the church. As I mentioned in the original Going Outside the Church post, I believe those claiming to be sexually assaulted first. ALWAYS. It is one of the least reported crimes in the world so when someone comes forward to say they have been sexually abused (especially young kids) then I say "guilty until proven innocent" (this is how the American justice system works anyway even though people like to pretend it's the opposite). Well, first I had a little conversation with someone who claimed to know Derek Gillette (and gave me the correct spelling of his name). That can be found in the comments in my original post. I promised to keep up with the proceedings but it seems as though my work was done for me by other readers. So here is the update on the Gillette case. From the Cherokee Tribune : A pastor pleaded guilty to two counts of child molestation in Cherokee County Superior Court on Friday. Derek Gillett, 38, of southeast Cherokee County, was arrested in March for molesting two juveniles "for some time," according to police reports. He was a pastor at Cornerstone Community Church in Forsyth County. After hearing the plea, Judge Jackson Harris sentenced Gillett to 30 years. He will serve 10 years in jail and the remainder on probation. During his plea, Gillett said he was "forever sorry" and that he had dishonored his family and "put them through a world of hurt." Prior to forming Cornerstone last year, Gillett served as a volunteer youth director at Midway United Methodist Church in Alpharetta. The victims were not members of the congregation, sheriff's office Public Information Officer Sgt. Jay Baker said, but their relationship to Gillett was not released to protect their identities. He originally was charged in March by the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office with two counts of aggravated child molestation and two counts of sodomy. Gillett was released later that month from the Cherokee County Adult Detention Center on $50,000 bond, but with conditions including that he wear a GPS monitoring device at all times and not have unsupervised contact with juveniles.
And so there you have it. He is guilty and everyone who knows how these types of deals work knew it from the beginning. I'm sure they offered him some kind of plea bargain but the fact of the matter is he did it. So he could have either admitted it and gotten a shorter sentence OR plead "not guilty", had the whole thing drag out, had all of the sordid details revealed by OTHER people in court or thru cross examination, and then gotten a really long sentence. He was "smart" and chose the former. I feel bad for his family but not nearly as much as I feel bad for those girls. He took advantage of them, raped and molested them, and then expected to get away with it because he was their step-father, a paster, an authority figure. So... fuck'im. Time to sit in a cell with other men who have done bad things and think long and hard about why he did what he did. Hopefully the family of the REAL victims in this case can move on in a positive direction now. For more information, please check out this comment that was left on the original post. Thanks for keeping me updated, guys and gals!
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Thursday, 15 May 2008 |
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The California Supreme Court has given a big ol' smiley-face ruling to the marriage equality question! How's about that one? Massachusetts and now California. And the trend will continue. Take THAT, creepy-crawly-fundie jerks!
The assholes at Freeper are already freaking the FUCK out. And I love it. Oh, I love it so much. So so so so so much. Pam (from Pam's House Blend) has more.
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Thursday, 15 May 2008 |
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"The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.
No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this.
For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.
And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people.
As far as my experience goes, they are no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything 'chosen' about them."
*Albert Einstein*
By now I'm sure that everyone has read those words apparently taken from a letter that Einstein wrote concerning religion. Lots of people on the atheist blogosphere are taking it as a "score one for us!" and saying that it proves that Einstein was an atheist. My blog title is kind of misleading cuz...... I don't agree. All I see here is a man who is saying that the Christian and Hebrew "God of the Bible" means nothing to him. I don't see it as a declaration of atheism at all.
It's long been said that Einstein was a deist. He may not have believed in any gods from organized, mainstream religion but that does not mean that he claimed to reject all forms of "god" (He capitalized the word "God" which leads me to believe he was speaking about a specific one - the one he mentions in the letter - and not "god" in terms of a personal "god" or something out of our realm of understanding which may or may not have created the universe, etc.). Others read that and see "I am an atheist" but I just don't see it. I'm definitely happy to know that Einstein didn't believe in the Christian God or the Jewish God and all the bullshit written in their holy books but we kind of already knew that. It'd be really hard to hold as much respect for the man (who everyone agrees was a genius) if he really, honestly believed that a god used to walk around and talk to people 4,000 years ago or that one dude carried all of the animals in the world on a boat for 40 days or that a couple of angels almost got raped by a town full of 'sinners' (but *phew* got saved cuz the homeowner just offered his daughter instead). In fact, I'm sure Einstein would not have researched ANY of the wonderful mathematic equations and ideas that he came up with if he had believed those things. So..... I don't see it as such a big deal, personally. If the guy was an atheist he would have said it. Loud and clear. But he didn't. Comments (1) | Quote This Article | E-mail |
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