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October 22, 2009
And This Is Why People Call The ACLU.......
Yes, I know I have been "missing in action" for a bit now but to quote the old line "i've been sick..."
Well, yes I have on many levels; sick of the small town corruption and now sick with the flu.
Small towns have reputations for being bastions of ignorance for a reason...it's usually true.The sad part is, it's not the townspeople that are the issue,the people here are funny, kind, generous and very smart, no it's usually the city council that suffers, quite badly, from the "big desk tiny brain syndrome".
And the city council has many enablers....usually working on the greed theory. It's so much easier and more gutless to gloss over the crap that is occurring than to stand up and fix it. It's so much easier to screw over people buying the real estate than to let them know what they are actually getting themselves into.
For instance would you expect a town in California to pander to a church that is so rife with superstitious idiots that they are convinced that Halloween is "Satan's holiday"?
No? Well, welcome to my world.....
But before you start thinking that they "mean well', let me dispel that thought for you because they don't. As I already said the townspeople aren't the problem, it's just a handful of manipulative and very very dishonest people that are. The cast of characters wouldn't be believable in a movie and yet they are quite real.
You wouldn't think you would ever have to worry about a church, would you? Well, think again.
And why pray tell, are they so fixated on this? On imaginary bogey men instead of, oh I don't know going after the wife swapping groups that flourish here? Funny, I don't remember the real estate agent disclosing this, or the fact that I wouldn't be 'allowed' to celebrate Halloween by passing out candy to kids.....because the "hip" pastor isn't so much a pastor as he is a frustrated cruise ship activities director.
Did I mention he has a mullet?
How would you like to pay half a million bucks for a house, and the heinous taxes that go with it here in California, only to find yourself blinded by huge rented halogen lights aimed right at your front door on Halloween by "the church".....merely because they don't approve of Halloween? Okay, you might be able to buy that they don't like Halloween, after all some churches can be pretty backwards, except for the fact that they then put on their own Halloween party where they block off the street [and main fire department thoroughfare I might add] call their gathering a "Harvest Festival" [pagan alert] and the 5 kids that go to the church there dress up as witches and vampires. I am pretty sure the Lutheran Missouri Synod had no idea they were hiring the world's biggest idiot...after all, if you are going to piously protest anything that might ,to quote the idiot, "smack of paganism"...perhaps you should take your own advice and not put on a pagan demonstration, hmmm?
The pastor's wife, who is as dumb as a fence post then runs out in the street screeching "don't go there, come over here" at any child who might be brave enough to play Helen Keller and find their way through the blinding lights to my front door for candy.
The same pastor's wife who, in the first weeks we were here viciously and very unfairly gossiped about her neighbors...neighbors who obviously had already had enough of her bullshit....and repeated a story about her daughter to my husband and I [in front of her husband, the pastor, who just nodded and smiled as if she were recalling a lovely Christmas scene] that was so vile, so embarrassing that my face was red for about an hour. It's not like I have virgin ears ...please, ask anyone who was around when a cow kicked me on the ranch. No, what she had to say was beyond crude, and she thought it was hysterical. So much so that she could barely get the story out for laughing, but sadly she prevailed. My husband and I were rooted to the ground in horror, and I remember feeling the sick sensation in the pit of my stomach wondering what in the hell we had gotten ourselves in to.
One of my friends and neighbors really spoke the truth when she said "if it weren't for "Christians" everyone would be one" .......and this church is the poster child for that. Real Christians are not the town bullies, they do not force their views on others and they really do not take advantage of all too human weaknesses to manipulate the town council. And most of all they do not bear false witness.
And this church does all of the above. And brags about it......
It really saddens me that this kind of willful ignorance and nastiness is not only sanctioned by my town, but encouraged by it and simply because "someone" has the Polaroids...........
And that's why it is so necessary for a city council, especially in a small town, to be populated by decent honest people. Maybe someday we'll get some of those, but I'm not holding my breath.
Now excuse me while I go cough on the fake pastor.......
This is part one of this story, they really don't want me to write part two......
Posted by ChristmasGhost at October 22, 2009 03:17 PM
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you've been out with the flu and I had to contend with a root canal- but I didn't mind because I was in a vicodin-induced dreamland for 3 days before the endodontist could see me- thank goodness for Big Pharma!
you didn't miss anything- the president is still a screwup.
Posted by: Jones at October 22, 2009 07:25 PM
WRITE PART TWO! WRITE PART TWO!!
If they are hitting your house with a search light, that IS considered disturbing the peace. Have you called the cops on these idiots?
Alternately walk out of your house with an axe and act like you're searching the ground. Make your way to the power cord of the search light, yell "SNAKE!" and chop it.
Posted by: TFMo at October 22, 2009 07:54 PM
Jones...boy is the president still a screw up!Vicodin...ahhh, I'm just operating [if you can call it that] on high fever induced dreams ...and not even good ones where I am kicking the "pastor's" ass or anything.Sucks....
TFMo....I would call the cops but guess what? The chief of police and the mayor are both over there [even though they don't go to church there] sitting on their happy asses....so who am I going to call?
And they are there in their official capacities....ON HALLOWEEN.
Yes, nothing dirtier than a small town.
Isn't it just sick that people can project their own dark sinister thoughts onto the ONLY holiday that is just for kids?
Taliban comes to mind....
Posted by: christmasghost at October 22, 2009 08:10 PM
Then call the state troopers. Or threaten with a lawsuit. Hang out your front door with your cell phone, snap a few pictures of them and say "Hey, any of you want to wish my lawyer a Happy Halloween?"
Posted by: TFMo at October 22, 2009 10:02 PM
LMAO... don't hold back, tell us how you really feel, ghostie.
Hey, here I was thinking you were ranting on why the same city council fathers think that a building sided with underlayment is more attractive and historical then a building sided with the same stuff as half a dozen buildings on Main Street as well as the FREAKING TOWN MUSEUM.
Did you see where dumb-O is now advocating at the UN for suspending Free Speech in regards to (Muslim) Blasphemy. Could you imagine what would happen if some GOP'er tried to do that with Christianity or worse yet... JUDAISM
Posted by: The Good Son at October 23, 2009 09:32 AM
LMAO... don't hold back, tell us how you really feel, ghostie.
Hey, here I was thinking you were ranting on why the same city council fathers think that a building sided with underlayment is more attractive and historical then a building sided with the same stuff as half a dozen buildings on Main Street as well as the FREAKING TOWN MUSEUM.
Did you see where dumb-O is now advocating at the UN for suspending Free Speech in regards to (Muslim) Blasphemy. Could you imagine what would happen if some GOP'er tried to do that with Christianity or worse yet... JUDAISM
Posted by: The Good Son at October 23, 2009 09:32 AM
"Good Son".....how about the fact that the town is run by the town drunk and the town whore, who happen to own the only newspaper, sit on the city council [yeah, seeing any conflict of interest problems yet?] and that this very same church's board is headed up by a NAZI.
The very Nazi that they brag will get them what ever they want at the town hall....and does.
What about the money laundering? The sex parties at the fairgrounds?
I am thinking of inviting the HELL'S ANGELS to town for Sunday brunch...every frickin' Sunday.....
I'm calling it "Brunch for Bikers"....you know, it's an outreach program, wink wink...
Posted by: christmasghost at October 23, 2009 10:13 AM
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