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   JDG said, 4 days ago

   I am from Kansas and I always feel that if you don’t want to be laughed at, don’t make yourself laughable. Kansas is Laughable!!
   The religious righties in charge weren’t satisfied with the law prohibiting same sex marriages, the legislature might change that, so they arranged a vote on a constitutional amendent at an obscure time when only those threatened with brimstone from the pulpit went to vote.. It passed… Now we have that AND Fred Phelps……

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   rac0308 said, 4 days ago

   Lucky you….

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   nighthawks said, 4 days ago

   well, you have a great college basketball team…..and Dorothy and Toto used to live there…..uh, Gayle Sayers went to KU……uh, Matt Dillon , Chester , Doc and Kitty used to live there….but , kidding aside, I commiserate with you being under the thumb of the thumpers, we have our own here in Indiana, though they haven’t had the power to go THIS far, yet

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   nighthawks said, 4 days ago

   Fred Phelps?– was he the guy in Mission Impossible that listened to tapes on his machine that kept self destructing?

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   Phil N. DeBlanc said, 4 days ago

   Jim Phelps = Mission Impossible

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   fritzoid said, 4 days ago

   The “Reverend” Fred Phelps is the guy who busses his followers around the country, picketing funerals and courthouses with “GOD HATES F_GS” signs…

   He was just here in San Francisco for the Prop. 8 hearings, and the word was spread not just within the gay community but within the Jewish community (Rev. Fred’s not too keen on Jews, either) NOT to counterdemonstrate, because a confrontation is just what they want.

   The one good thing about Brother Fred is that he wears his hatred openly. There are a lot of people who (perhaps without even acknowledging it to themselves) share Fred’s opinions at heart, but they’re horrified if you point out that they’re relying on the exact same arguments.

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   jtpozenel said, 4 days ago

   We’re not required to leave a comment if we have nothing to say, right?

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   BIG PINK MOM said, 4 days ago

   Why not jtp? It’s been known to happen. :)
   My former sister-in-law moved from Kansas to Indiana to get her kids away from her over zealous religious parents.

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   Joe-Allen "Joe" Doty said, 3 days ago

   Fred Phelps calls his “church” Westboro Baptist Church;” but, his personal doctrine has never been Baptist, neither American Baptist nor Southern Baptist.’

   He has stated that God created homosexuals (not his word) so that God would have some people to hate and have some people to send to “hell,” too.

   I saw Fred Phelps in June 1968 at a Tulsa Diversity Pride Festival because he had been invited by Johnny Lee Clary to join him in protesting the event.

   Clary had been a pro wrestler and had also been the Grand Dragon of the Oklahoma arm of the White Knights Of The Ku Klux Klan, before he became a “Christian.”

   While the pride event’s main sponsor was going to provide its own security at the city park where it was to take place, Phelps and his gang sent notices the sponsor and to the city of Tulsa that they were going to be holding protest demonstrations at the park and elsewhere in Tulsa.

   Well, the City of Tulsa decided to provide police protection for the event and folks protesting the event were not allowed to get on the park property or very close to those involved in the event. The Tulsa Police Department not only provided individual officers who walked around, they provided TPD Cruisers and mounted on horses officers.

   Before the event officially started, PFLAG had a little sidewalk parade for 3 blocks to the Park.

   The then TPD Police Chief suggested to the folks at “Tulsa Oklahomans for Human Rights” that they have a real parade on the street to the parks each year and they would provide protection then.

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    Joe-Allen "Joe" Doty said, 3 days ago

    Every one of the Phelps Westboro Baptist Church protests actually are anti-gay protests.

    If fact, they list their protest schedules on their original “God Hates F…” website.

    The reason that Phelps’ terrorist gang started having protests at US Military funerals is that the national TV and print newsmedia had been ignoring them.

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    prbrown459 said, 3 days ago

    Love to see one of my all-time favorite bands in a comic strip (Rush mentioned as well). To be nit-picky the image attributed to Phil Ehart is actually Robby Steinhardt. Phil is front and center in the top image. Robby is actually no longer with the band and was replaced by David Ragsdale.

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    adfogg said, 3 days ago

    As a member of an American Baptist Convention church, which I think most people would consider the mainline Baptist denomination in America, I squirm when I see and hear radical churches calling themselves “Baptist”. Our Southern Baptist brothers are much better organised than we are, but I think feel the same pain. Now there are people from a Baptist church arrested in Haiti. Are they from my denomination? Who knows?

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    Hugh B. Hayve said, 3 days ago

    Next they’ll be telling us that there is no “Stairway to Heaven”!

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    Joe-Allen "Joe" Doty said, 3 days ago

    The “Stairway to Heaven” is called a “ladder” in Genesis.

    But, only angels were using it. See Genesis 28:12. The NIV Bible has “stairway” and the KJV has “ladder.”

    Some people think that Elijah went to heaven in a chariot. But, he actually went to heaven in whirlwind.

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    mtmccollough said, 3 days ago

    Elijah went to Heaven in a whirlwind? The way Dorothy left Kansas? Hmmn…

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    fritzoid said, 3 days ago

    Paul Nicholas found Heaven on the seventh floor, when his elevator got stuck. I don’t know it that was the same elevator where Aerosmith found Love, though.

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    Joe-Allen "Joe" Doty said, 2 days ago

    Dorothy in the “Wizard of Oz” never actually went anywhere.

    Everything that happened after she got hit in the head only happened in her brain while she was in a temporary coma.

    That’s why as soon as she clicks her heels together, she finds herself in a bed with her family standing around it.

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    fritzoid said, 2 days ago

    In the books, it’s clear that Oz is an actual place, and Dorothy really travels there. The “tap your heels three times” bit was just put in for the movie.

    In fact, the whole “No place like home” moral was fabricated for the movie, and Salman Rushdie (who LOVES the movie, and has written about it at length) has always seen that as as the one huge, false note which comes close to ruining it for him: After having seen Oz, why on EARTH would anyone want to return to Kansas, Auntie Em notwithstanding? Particularly since, as the local film writer here in S.F. recently put it, Toto is still under threat of a court ordered execution. At the end of the movie the Wicked Witch of the West is dead, but Miss Gulch is still out pedalling around somewhere…

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    Joe-Allen "Joe" Doty said, 2 days ago

    Why the silly comment, fritzoid?

    Dorothy Gale, a 12-year-old farmgirl, longs for “a place where there isn’t any trouble”, rather than her mundane Kansas farmhouse existence. After being knocked unconscious during a tornado by a window which has come loose from its frame, she begins to dream. In her dream, Dorothy, her dog Toto, and the farmhouse are transported to the magical Land of Oz. …

    … Dorothy says a tearful goodbye to the friends she has met in Oz and then follows Glinda’s instructions to get home, which consist of closing her eyes, tapping her heels together three times and chanting “There’s no place like home.” Back in sepia tone, she awakens in her bedroom in Kansas (still chanting “There’s no place like home,” in her sleep) surrounded by family and friends and tells them of her journey. Everyone laughs and tells her it was all a dream, except Uncle Henry, who says sympathetically “Of course we believe you, Dorothy.” Toto appears and jumps onto the bed. A happy Dorothy, still convinced the journey was real, hugs Toto and says one last time, “There’s no place like home.”

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    fritzoid said, 2 days ago

    Yes, Joe, that’s what happens in the movie. In the original book, the tornado actually lifts the house and transports it to another place - Oz. As in the movie, the book’s Dorothy returns to Kansas with her magic shoes (which are silver, not ruby), but when she gets there Auntie Em and Uncle Henry are homeless since their house (with Dorothy inside) was carried away. In a later book, Dorothy returns to Oz WITH her aunt and uncle.

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    scobber said, about 9 hours ago

    Joe, you wrote, presumably in all seriousness, that “Elijah … actually went to heaven in whirlwind.”

    And you accuse fritzoid of writing a silly comment???

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    fritzoid said, about 5 hours ago

    Elijah ACTUALLY went to Heaven in a Toyota. It’s true!

    He was heading to West Ninevah (which is almost Heaven, according to the WN Jaycees), but overshot his exit because his breaks failed. Next thing you know, BAM, he’s seeing off-ramps paved with gold. As long as he was there, he decided to stop for a cold one at the Bosom of Abraham Bar & Grill. He had a few too many, though, and was feeling no pain when he got back on the road.

    Unfortunately, the Assyria Highway Patrol pulled him over for weaving across the lanes. His license had the special Prophet of God sticker, though, so the cop was going to be lenient, but after Elijah puked on the officer’s shoes there was really no choice but to write him up. The police report included Elijah’s admission that he had a bad case of the spins, and that was how the whole “whirlwind” story got started.

    (Now THAT’S a silly comment.)