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Wed, Jul. 1st, 2009 01:51 pm

Oh wait...I already did!

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Mon, Jun. 29th, 2009 04:52 pm



N'zati and Adun go on a crystal hunt
N'zati and Adun go on a crystal hunt

Adun, a rather mysterious and high-ranked Mandalorian, has taken N'zati under his armored, hard-point studded wing, making sure the naive young hybrid doesn't get himself into excessive amounts of danger.

In addition, he invited N'zati to a distant and icy planet covered in ruins to search for the focus crystals N'zati has been assigned to find by the Underlord on Malachor V.
Adun leads N'zati to a mysterious statue...
Adun leads N'zati to a mysterious statue...

While seeming not to guide N'zati at all, Adun manages to subtly herd him to the location of a giant statue, seeming oddly out of place in the desolate landscape.
The ancient statue reminds N'zati of old statuary from his home...
The ancient statue reminds N'zati of old statuary from his home...

These statues were of gods the ancient Sith worshipped prior to the arrival of the Dark Jedi from the Republic. Tragically for the Sith, they believed the Dark Jedi to be gods as well, and in worshipping them, allowed themselves to be enslaved.
Hidden at the base of the throat of the statue, like a wound, is a red crystal...
Hidden at the base of the throat of the statue, like a wound, is a red crystal...

...which N'zati eventually finds out Adun put there for N'zati to find as a gift. The crystal is one that Adun had carried for years, through many battles, and he found this way--a treasure hunt--to deliver it to a young student who might have use of it.

Adun is both a good friend and a terrible enemy. N'zati is grateful he falls into the category of friend.





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Sun, Jun. 28th, 2009 09:38 pm


...from the Faces of Pride booth.


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Sun, Jun. 28th, 2009 05:17 pm

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Sun, Jun. 28th, 2009 05:01 pm

So, this guy had a booth where he made pendants of clay that say peace in many languages and takes donations only...

And in one of the bowls of pendants I found these...

...thus revealing that...

A. Sith are Scottish
B. We've been pronouncing it wrong, and
C. Sith must really be a faction of Jedi if the word means "peace."

Too silly. So, of course, I bought one. Peace out, Sith!

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Sun, Jun. 28th, 2009 04:55 pm

I had a great day--spent time with [info]unibear, although sadly not a lot as she was feeling under the weather, but also intercepted with [info]cinchntouch and hufe. Only regret was not getting a pic of [info]unibear, [info]cinchntouch and I together. It has been many years since we were all in the same place atthe same time.

Great Pride but very tired now from sun and crowds and walking. Glad to be heading home. :)

Pride portraits!

A very small subset of the crowd watching the parade.

Jewish Faith Groups supporting gay marriage...

Self-aggrandizing photo...

Watching it all go by, part 1.

Watching it all go by, part 2.

Cutest salt and pepper shakers...ever.

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Sun, Jun. 28th, 2009 11:48 am

Naked, out-of-shape happy people!

Thank god for people who are easy in their own skins.

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Sun, Jun. 28th, 2009 11:39 am

Can barely see parade. Doesn't matter. Having a blast! And met up with [info]unibear!

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Sun, Jun. 28th, 2009 10:16 am

We just went through the first tunnel on the route and a little kid declared, "Light speed!"

Life is good on my train.

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Sun, Jun. 28th, 2009 10:09 am

My car is full of families going to the A's game in Oakland and men and women wearing freedom rings and rainbow bracelets heading to San Francisco for Pride. What a happy vibe on the train!

Even at our suburban Dublin station, both events get their own combined line and Fast Pass.

Life is good.

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Fri, Jun. 26th, 2009 02:50 pm

Yum! And nice out!

Gonna get me a turkey burger and fries. Happiness is comp time on a Friday!

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Thu, Jun. 25th, 2009 01:55 pm


... just sayin'...


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Thu, Jun. 25th, 2009 10:45 am


(Parse that above title as you will...)

WESTMINSTER, UK, August 15, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A priest of Westminster, the leading diocese of the Catholic Church of England and Wales, has written that promiscuity, whether homosexual or heterosexual, can lead to dire spiritual consequences, in addition to the dangers to physical health.

Promiscuity, as well as homosexuality and pornography, says 73 year-old Fr. Jeremy Davies, is a form of sexual perversion and can lead to demonic possession. Offering what may be an explanation for the explosion of homosexuality in recent years, Fr. Davies said, "Among the causes of homosexuality is a contagious demonic factor."

Fr. Davies continues: "Even heterosexual promiscuity is a perversion; and intercourse, which belongs in the sanctuary of married love, can become a pathway not only for disease but also for evil spirits."

Nice to know that folks in Britain are just as fucking crazy as folks in Connecticut...

Oh, apparently abortion can lead to possession, too...

The Church's writings on exorcism and demonic possession say that a person can be influenced or even possessed by demonic forces when they are "hardened" in serious sin and the Church specifies that these include people who are involved in heavy drug use, violence and sexual perversions. It is also noted that the "heinous crime" of abortion exacerbates these. Italian exorcist Fr. Gabriel Amorth writes that it is particularly difficult to liberate a victim who is guilty of abortion, and that this can take a "very long time".


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Thu, Jun. 25th, 2009 09:48 am


...I present you with my morning's dollop of sheer, unadulterated fury.  I don't know why this particular outrage outrages me more than many other outrages these days, but I read this article in the morning paper and felt my blood pressure pop.

(This version is from NBC New York, although I read it in my local paper...)



* As an aside, from reading a bit, these sorts of "exorcisms" also happen a decent amount in white churches as well as African-American, so... if I had videos of those, too, I'd post 'em.  I don't want this seen as a "black church" problem.  It's a scary fundamentalist church problem in general.


Exorcist Outs “Homosexual Demon,” Sparks Outrage

A 16-year-old named “Freddy” is seen on the floor, going into spasms as women put blankets over him, in a bizarre ritual that was briefly posted on YouTube, giving a 20-minute glimpse into an apparent exorcism.

"Rip it from his throat!" a woman yells. "Come on, you homosexual demon! You homosexual spirit, we call you out right now! Loose your grip, Lucifer!"

Someone puts what looks like oil on the teen’s face. He flails, according to Fairfield Weekly.. He struggles. Someone yells at him.

"Stand him up," a "prophet" orders. "Something needs to come out of his belly."

...a church official this week denied that the teenager was injured or that the church is prejudiced.

“We believe a man should be with a woman and a woman should be with a man," the Rev. Patricia McKinney, of Manifested Glory Ministries in Bridgeport, told The Associated Press. "We have nothing against homosexuals. I just don't agree with their lifestyle."

McKinney claimed the boy is 18 and came to the church last year and collapsed on the floor during a service. She denied the church is prejudiced and says they took care of the youth.

McHaelin said her organization is aware of five cases in recent years in which youths in her program were threatened with exorcism.

"What saddens me is the people that are doing this think they are doing something in the kid's best interests, when in fact they're murdering his spirit," McHaelin said.          

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The way this came to light is the church originally posted the footage of this charming event on YouTube.  It has since pulled it.  However, if you want to see it, people grabbed it before it could be "disappeared"...

...but I haven't found a valid link, yet.  Anybody got one?

Edited to add:  Ok, here it is...

http://www.metroweekly.com/gauge/last_word/2009/06/homosexual-demon-exorcism-vide.html

The first video is a news clip, the second is the exorcism footage in more detail.

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Tue, Jun. 23rd, 2009 11:58 am

Wheee!

I am kind of having fun, actually.  

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Tue, Jun. 23rd, 2009 10:29 am


http://www.geocities.com/patrick_farley/gayMarriageChart-large.png

This is rather entertaining.  The above link takes you to a larger scale version.


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Mon, Jun. 22nd, 2009 04:26 pm

Goats ate my trail!!!! A couple hundred goats have been temporarily pastured along Arroyo Mocho trail, apparently, to eat all the excess fire hazard weeds and brush and foliage.

Damn, now I see why the Middle East has no vegetation! (Yes, I know this is grave over-simplifying but goats do eat darn near everything not nailed down.) In their fenced off area they have eaten all the grass, all the shrubs, and are resolutely working their way on their hind legs through all the young trees!

From evidence, they get moved a bit further along every so often...parts of the trail they are not currently in show marks of their voracious appetites. They are kinds cute, but sheesh!

Anyway...first day back walking in about a month. Between anemia and sick just haven't been able to.

Speaking of anemia...blood test tomorrow to see if I have improved on my nasty tasting but tummy tolerated liquid iron...

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Tue, Jun. 16th, 2009 10:51 am

...Influenza A, resulting in reactive airway (ie, asthma from the coughing, etc.) plus, most likely, bronchitis.  I have a nifty inhaler which is possibly making my anxiety worse with its stimulant properties and hasn't done a lot to clear my airway yet, and am getting zithromax today for the bronchitis.

Go me!  I'm a sweepstakes winner!

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Sat, Jun. 13th, 2009 08:12 pm

Went to brunch with [info]unibear and spouse, which was very nice. On the way back from San Jose, stopped at Best Buy to get LOTR online. Then took care of [info]_oy_'s kitties and by the time I was done I collapsed asleep until 7:30 at night.

Had dinner and am now feeling too crappy and exhausted to even load the game and try it out. Instead sitting with heating pad on chest in living room, posting by iPhone, and wondering if I should go to urgent care tomorrow. Having been told three times, "it's just a virus" is all well and good, but I was diagnosed by phone and have a forty year history of things like bronchitis and pneumonia from colds.

If this is still just a chest cold, it's a fucking awful one. I don't know how the hell I will teach classes Monday and Wednesday and do a work presentation on Thursday. I'm all in.

This endeth the whine.

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Wed, Jun. 10th, 2009 02:34 pm

(Apologies for length--I tried to do an LJ cut and the HTML got so weird that I can't even work out why it isn't working anymore...anybody have these problems using the Rich Text side of LJ?)
 

So, I have posted about Shepherd's Gate before--the homeless and women's shelter in the area that euphemistically calls its services "Christ Centered." Which, as far as I can tell, translates to "Fucking Screaming Insane."

Well, this post is engendered by the fact that Shepherd's Gate was featured in a local newspaper article today.  Apparently, donations are way down and they need $150,000 by the end of June or God will take them up to heaven (Oh, wait, that was someone else)--or they will have to close down half their bed-space.

Of course, there is some rumor that the bed spaces at Shepherd's Gate are pretty much NEVER at capacity.  So, if true, that likely wouldn't hurt them too much.  Just saying.  (Oh, and incidentally, they can't keep bedspaces open here, but they are still running a shelter in Costa Rica?  Um... what?  Also, no mention of financial crisis on their website...hmmm...)

Now, granted, I can't prove the bedspace thing, nor am I attempting to.  However, I can provide a link and a sample of writing from a fascinating blog written by a man whose organization is endorsed by Shepherd's Gate ( http://riverofglory.net/endorsements/endorsements.htm) and who claims to provide many services for a "Livermore women's shelter."  So, this is what Shepherd's Gate means when it says "Christ Centered"?  Wow.  I find this extremely disturbing.  Here’s the blog link:  http://www.riverofglory.net/dblog/?page_id=62

(My snotty commentary will appear in HELLFIRE RED.)

May 09

Healing & Deliverance Revival

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I don’t know how else to describe what took place tonight at the Women’s Shelter in Livermore.  (I could think of a few ways.  Certifiable comes to mind.)

During the worship time, the Holy Spirit revealed through a vision that there was someone in the meeting that had an issue with one of their eyes. I saw an image of a drawing like you see in the encyclopedia of the eyeball and optic nerve, etc., so I knew that someone needed to get healed of something in their eye.

I called it out and three people raised their hands! (Why is it he can get a vision of an encyclopedic eyeball illustration but can't get an image of the one needing the healing?)  They all lined up for prayer, and the Holy Spirit did not disappoint. The first woman we prayed for received a powerful touch from the Holy Spirit as I commanded life and healing into her eye. Then, the second person was an elderly man; he and his wife had come to support the ministry and be intercessors. Apparently, he had undergone cataract surgery on his eye, and now saw a fuzzy image - like a film over the eye. I placed my hand on his eye and ripped out (in the Spirit) the blockage. (That must have hurt.)  It seemed to have startled him, (Ya think?) but then, he put his glasses back on and exclaimed, “It’s clear! It’s clear!” I think he was a bit shocked that he had been healed! (Or he was trying to think of something to say to keep the scary man from touching him again.)  The third person was a woman who had been seeing weird things through her eye and was having a lot of trouble with it fluttering, etc. I chopped this tormenting spirit off of her (All beware the tormenting fluttering eyelid spirit, renowned throughout Hell for his evil ways), and then gave her a blast of the Holy Ghost right in her face by blowing on her. (That's nice--hope you had an Altoid beforehand and have no communicable diseases) She got an awesome impartation, healing, and ended up falling out.  (Falling out, I am learning, is a euphemism for "fell over on the floor.")

Then, the Spirit revealed - through a vision again - that someone had a problem in their heel or ankle. (But again, that pesky Holy Spirit didn't bother to mention who it was--uh huh...) IMMEDIATELY, a woman raised her hand and said, “It’s me! It’s me!” She had plantars fasciitis in her left foot, which causes great pain in the heel and arch. I knelt down and blew on the bottom of her foot, and she was INSTANTLY HEALED! She jumped up and was bouncing, “WOW! It’s gone!!!” Hahaha!! Hallelujah Jesus! (I might add that these things are being done to residents of the shelter, who really don't have much choice about attending these things or not...)

Then, we prayed for a few women who had broken and hurting hearts and watched as the Holy Spirit brought joy and love into them. One young lady who had recently been released from jail got a very powerful impartation of joy and peace, and had her hurting heart operated on by the Holy Spirit. Afterward, she literally had sparkling eyes and a glowing face. Wow! What an amazing transformation.

Toward the end of the evening, just as we were about to pack up, I prayed for a lady who was having pain in her side. As I placed my hand there and ripped out what was ailing her, she dropped to the floor in a heap and laid there motionless. (So, she was unconscious or catatonic and you didn't call 911? Nice.)  We continued to minister to her, and immediately the demon spirits that were in her began to manifest and speak through her.

Over the next 2-1/2 hours, we prayed for her deliverance, commanding the spirits out, one after another. This woman was so bound, they had literally taken her over and were using her body to move and speak. They shouted profanities at us, laughed, mocked, and basically tried to play with us and lie to us repeatedly.  (By mocking, do you mean to say they were making fun of what you were doing?  Because, you know...)

Finally, after the last demon came out and went back to the pit of hell, we were able to minister to her and got her baptized in the Holy Ghost; she jumped for joy and cried as she got her new gift of speaking in tongues. What an AMAZING transformation!  (She now babbles with the best of them...)

She was so grateful to be completely free - finally! She had been dealing with this bondage for so many years, but was now finally - totally - free! THANK YOU JESUS!!!

All in all, I would say it was a pretty good night… Truly a healing and deliverance revival meeting! :)



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