tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-909873906945302299.post3494674933933138187..comments2023-06-04T08:20:57.435-04:00Comments on Port Reporter Unlimited: No place for hate?Gillian Swarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16075628273664457571noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-909873906945302299.post-19863901183292298962009-11-20T13:19:10.855-05:002009-11-20T13:19:10.855-05:00Yes, anonymous, if it had been GW's photo bein...Yes, anonymous, if it had been GW's photo being defiled in that manner, I would have been just as upset.Gillian Swarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16075628273664457571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-909873906945302299.post-31121233990972467732009-11-20T10:04:07.252-05:002009-11-20T10:04:07.252-05:00and i'm sure you were just as upset when peopl...and i'm sure you were just as upset when people were spewing their hate about GW, right?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-909873906945302299.post-64784056239366239882009-11-19T22:01:56.025-05:002009-11-19T22:01:56.025-05:00The Whale doesn't serve coffe last time I chec...The Whale doesn't serve coffe last time I checked, LOL<br /><br />I was thinking more like Abrahams on a mild spring morning on the patio.<br /><br />But do be careful with the larouchies.macsurfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-909873906945302299.post-46821139852184309652009-11-19T21:36:54.211-05:002009-11-19T21:36:54.211-05:00macsurf, yes I do need to be a little less 'in...macsurf, yes I do need to be a little less 'interactive' w/these kinds of people. I have met Frank Schaefer; I have his book "Crazy For God." Yes, let's have coffee ... but maybe not at the Whale, OK?Gillian Swarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16075628273664457571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-909873906945302299.post-76578038833089213602009-11-19T21:24:52.601-05:002009-11-19T21:24:52.601-05:00Gillian, be careful dealing with the Larouchies.
...Gillian, be careful dealing with the Larouchies.<br /><br />Way back when in 1980, fresh out of college, I was an advance person on Jerry Brown's presidential campaign.<br /><br />We were under strict instructions to tell all volunteers that, if they came into contact with Larouche followers, most often it would happen at campaign events outside the gates of Seabrook Station, to NOT engage them.<br /><br />They apparently had a history of becoming aggressive, even assaultive, if too directly challenged.<br /><br />They are extremists not unlike the Tea Party Movement, Birthers, and sundry other right wing conspiracy theory elements.<br /><br />Here's something for you and your readers to check out.<br /><br />A fundamentalist Christian group is selling Tee Shirts and bumper stickers that say in big letters, "Pray for Obama".<br /><br />In smaller letters it says, Psalm 109:8.<br /><br />I checked out the psalm, it reads; "May his days be few, may another take his place of leadership. May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow."<br /><br />Some of these crazies are coming perilously close to calling for Obama to be assassinated.<br /><br />As one religious scholar said, "This is trolling for assassins. This is the American version of the Taliban. This is the Old Testament Biblical equivalent of calling for Holy War".<br /><br />His name is Frank Schaefer. He wrote a book titled "Patience With God". Rachel Maddow interviewed him the other night and what he had to say was, truly, frightening.<br /><br />Especially because so many of these crazies are getting so much encouragement from certain elements in the media, and from within the GOP.<br /><br />Maybe we can have coffee when I return from Costa Rica in April.<br /><br />Ciao for now.macsurfnoreply@blogger.com