Another rehab 'success' story that goes along with Lindsay Lohan, Michael Richards & Isaiah Washington's 'recovery'.
I find this funny...
On February 6, 2007, one of four ministers who oversaw three weeks of intensive counseling for Haggard, Tim Ralph, stated that "Haggard is completely heterosexual".
Haggard has condemned "homosexual activity.”
In the documentary Jesus Camp, one scene shows a sermon where he preaches, "we don't have to debate about what we should think about homosexual activity. It’s written in the Bible."
Joseph E. Duncan III
Joseph Duncan is an alleged American serial killer, and convicted sex offender who received national attention after being arrested in connection with the kidnapping of Shasta Groene, age eight, and her brother Dylan, age nine.
Duncan has a long history as a violent sexual predator, and was clinically diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder in 1980, while in prison for raping a younger boy at knifepoint.
In 2004, Duncan groped the genitals of a 7-year-old boy. He was arrested in April 2005 in Minnesota. The judge granted bail at $15,000. A businessman in Fargo, Joe Crary, gave Duncan money for bail. While thus freed Duncan jumped bail.
Idaho police believe Duncan was also involved in the May 2005 murders of Dylan and Shasta's family: Brenda Groene, 40, Slade Groene, 13, and Mark McKenzie, 37. According to Shasta's police interview, an intruder tied her family members up, and then she and her brother were taken into a 2000 Jeep Cherokee.
"The Fifth Nail" and "Fifth Nail Revelations"
Duncan recorded many of his violent sexual fantasies, even to the extent of becoming a sex offender advocate working for the repeal of sex offender law. He published his ideas on the Internet. He titled it "Fifth Nail", which is also the URL for his personal website.
According to lore, in addition to the four nails used to pierce the body of Jesus Christ as he was hung upon the cross, there was a fifth nail that was taken away and hid by gypsies. Duncan adopted the name for his own website and blog. The website depicted Duncan's day to day life as a sex offender. Together with his many years of incarceration, Duncan expressed his feelings of persecution.
Investigators are also considering the possibility that a "Minnesota girl" mentioned in his online diary could be related to another minor who is listed as missing. Duncan can receive the death penalty.
"The Fifth Nail" advocates for sex offenders and contained material that called for the legal reform law aimed at sex offenders, calling them, "State Sanctioned Discrimination." Duncan was particularly angered by the requirement for sex offenders to participate in a public registry. Criminologists and psychiatric researchers are studying the blog to better understand the mind and behaviors of a sociopath.
With the help of a "ghost blogger", Duncan has been posting to his new blog "Fifth NailRevelations", from prison. He writes his blog entries by hand and mails them to the "ghost blogger", who posts them exactly as written.
According to media reports, law enforcement agencies have been watching the contents of the new blog in hopes of gathering incriminating information about Duncan's crimes, both known and unknown. People familiar with the case and with Duncan's handwriting say that it's all but certain that the entries are authentic.
COLD CASE
In August 2005, California cold case investigators connected a single fingerprint to Duncan in an unsolved homocide. The case, cold since 1997, is the murder of 10-year-old Anthony Michael Martinez, a resident of Beaumont, California.
Anthony was abducted April 4, 1997 right in front of his friends after an unknown male approached them with an offer of one dollar, if they help him find his missing cat. The boys refused the offer, but the stranger grabbed Anthony by the collar, placed a knife near his throat, and threw him into a white vehicle.
Anthony's nude body was found April 19 near Indio California. His hands were bound with duct tape, where the killer left his fingerprint. Duncan is believed to have been in the southern California region around April 1997.
For One More Day
Albom’s tribute to family and particularly motherhood is his second novel and the first to feature a female protagonist.
It explores questions of regret, divorce, and how we would spend one special day with the ghost of someone we loved.
As readers we embark on the “one more day” that so many wish they had with a lost loved one – a day to ask questions, seek forgiveness, and reexamine the life you thought you had.
Sidney Poitier - The Measure of a Man
Oprah's New Book Club Selection
In this unabridged memoir, Sidney Poitier recounts the inspring story of his rise from childhood poverty in the Bahamas to a life marked by grace, success, and material and spiritual riches.
Waiting For Snow In Havana - Confessions of a Cuban Boy
by Carlos Eire
Waiting for Snow in Havana is both an exorcism and an ode to a paradise lost.
For the Cuba of Carlos's youth -- with its lizards and turquoise seas and sun-drenched siestas -- becomes an island of condemnation once a cigar-smoking guerrilla named Fidel Castro ousts President Batista on January 1, 1959.
Suddenly the music in the streets sounds like gunfire. Christmas is made illegal, political dissent leads to imprisonment, and too many of Carlos's friends are leaving Cuba for a place as far away and unthinkable as the United States.
Carlos will end up there, too, and fulfill his mother's dreams by becoming a modern American man -- even if his soul remains in the country he left behind.
NEW MOVIE RELEASES TO WATCH THIS WEEKEND
Hollywoodland is a uniquely compelling exploration of fame and identity, inspired by one of Hollywood's most infamous real-life mysteries.
It’s June 16, 1959. The glamour of Tinseltown permanently fades for actor George Reeves, the heroic Man of Steel on TV's Adventures of Superman, as the actor dies in his Hollywood Hills home. Behind the icon was a complex man who gave his life to Hollywood in more ways than one.
Augusten Burroughs (Joseph Cross) experiences a childhood that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father (Alec Baldwin) and an unstable mother (Annette Bening), he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch (Brian Cox), and spends his adolescence as a member of Finch's bizarre extended family.
I read the book and just loved it...call me crazy! lol
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
BOOKER T WASHINGTON
Washington, Booker Taliaferro,1856–1915 - American educator
Born in Franklin County, Va. his mother was a mulatto slave on a plantation, his father a white man.
After the Civil War, he worked in salt furnaces and coal mines in Malden, W.Va., and attended school part time, until he was able to enter the Hampton Institute (Va.). A friend of the principal paid his tuition, and he worked as a janitor to earn his room and board.
After three years (1872–75) at Hampton he taught at a school for African-American children in Malden, then studied at Wayland Seminary, Washington, D.C. Appointed (1879) an instructor at Hampton Institute (now Hampton Univ.), he was given charge of the training of 75 Native Americans, under the guidance of Gen. S. C. Armstrong. He later developed the night school.
In 1881 he was chosen to organize a normal and industrial school for African Americans at Tuskegee, Ala. Under his direction, Tuskegee Institute became one of the leading African-American educational institutions in America. Its programs emphasized industrial training as a means to self-respect and economic independence for black people.
Washington gave many lectures in the interests of his work, both in the United States and in Europe, and he was counted among the ablest public speakers of his time.
In 1895 at Atlanta, Ga., Washington made a highly controversial speech on the place of the African American in American life. In it he maintained that it was foolish for blacks to agitate for social equality before they had attained economic equality. His speech pleased many whites and gained financial support for his school, but his position was denounced by many African-American leaders, among them W. E. B. Du Bois.
Washington was the organizer (1900) of the National Negro Business League, a group committed to black economic independence.
He received honorary degrees from Dartmouth and Harvard.
Among his many published works are his autobiography, Up From Slavery (1901, repr. 1963), The Future of the American Negro (1899), Tuskegee and Its People (1905, repr. 1969), Life of Frederick Douglass (1907, repr. 1968), The Story of the Negro (1909, repr. 1969), and My Larger Education (1911).
Today on Dr. Phil:
Flasher Exposed
For almost 30 years, Thomas has been driven by an obsession that has nearly destroyed his life. However, he has managed to keep this dark and dangerous secret from his friends and family.
Living a Double Life
Thomas is an exhibitionist. He claims to have exposed himself to over 50,000 women during a
25-year period. As a result, he has been convicted of felonies and served time in prison.
QUESTION TUESDAY - HOW MANY FIRST COUSINS DO YOU HAVE ?
It's QUESTION TUESDAY !
I was thinking the other day that when I was little I thought all families were like mine...Big, Irish Catholic.
Now, I realize that isn't true...
My mother's mother had 11 kids (2 died after childbirth). Subsequently my grandmother went on to have 27 grandchildren.
My father's mother had 6 kids and subsequently had 9 grandchildren.
This brings me to my question:
HOW MANY FIRST COUSINS DO YOU HAVE?
I have 36 !
I really should do a post of a typical family gathering growing up. We were all very close and some of us still are....now I can add to the mix my cousin's children.
My family had the biggest house and a built in pool, so the parties were always at my home.
There were BBQ's, swimming, beer and lots of music & dancing. I learned to jitterbug at a very early age.
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Robin Helene Vogel began her writing career as a plagiarist-at the age of six, she copied chapters from her favorite Bobbsey Twin novels and sold them door-to-door for a penny.
This endeavor led to the desire to write original material, and she's written articles and stories for GLAMOUR, LADY'S CIRCLE, WOMEN'S WORLD, NEWSDAY, WRITER'S DIGEST, MODERN ROMANCES, BEREAVEMENT and many other publications.
She's the author of two children's bereavement books, "Rachel's Star of David" and "The Snowman", and contributed a chapter to THE CHILDREN'S BIRTHDAY PARTY BOOK.
She's married to Dan, a patient, devoted man who puts up with her bordering-on-insanity mood swings, and mother to Brad, a college student who has inherited her wicked sense of humor but is a heck of a lot smarter.
Since Dan, Robin and Brad all have diabetes, much of Robin's time is spent writing articles on this illness and praying for a cure, especially for Type I diabetes, which requires her son to test his blood sugar and take daily insulin shots. She runs, walks, and begs for money to fund diabetes research, and fervently hopes to see a cure in her family's future.
Laugh Out Louds For Mums by Robin Helene Vogel with illustrations by Caroline Christian
LAUGH-OUT-LOUDS FOR MOMS, a funny, lyrical, wondrously-illustrated book dedicated to mothers everywhere, is guaranteed to make you laugh out loud as you read familiar little poems and brief anecdotes about the pitfalls, pratfalls, joys and horror stories of mothering.
From pregnancy cravings to projectile vomiting to post-birth, permanent weight gain to pediatrician's visits to despising your kid's choice of mate, this book will make you realize that you're not alone in the insane asylum that is motherhood, and there are others who are sitting in playpens in fetal positions, sucking their thumbs, just as you are !
I'm a mom, a mom on call--what do I do? I do it all !
I nurse my kids while sick myself, put together a steel bookshelf,
Type your letters, boss o' mine, cook gourmet, clean divine.
Wear a teddy for my mate, give him sizzling love that's great;
For all of this effort, what do I gain? More of the same, more of the same!
Yes, I'm a mom, a mom on call, what do I do? Damn, I do it all !
Filled with whimsical illustrations by Caroline Christian, LAUGH-OUT-LOUDS FOR MOMS will lead mothers, new or old, on a familiar journey that will stir up memories ad laughter-for many years to come.
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