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One Final Word
My dear friend Michele slipped into eternity on Wednesday, February 1. She was a remarkable woman who left a legacy of faith, determination, and love. For three years she courageously battled the ovarian cancer that eventually robbed her of her life. A few days before she died, one of her docto
posted 8:43:41pm Feb. 10, 2012 |
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The rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated
My husband told me that there are rumors that I've died. I'm happy to report that I'm still very much alive. My cancer has gone to stage four but we are controlling it with chemo, the cancer numbers are currently in the normal range. I've stopped blogging to concentrate on my daughters and writing a
posted 7:07:55pm Aug. 23, 2010 |
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An update and a prayer request
Several people have asked about Michele's condition, and have promised to pray for her. On her behalf, I thank you for that. I spoke with her a little while ago, and she asked that I come here and tell you what's going on, and to ask you to pray for her. She isn't able to post here herself right
posted 4:55:36pm Apr. 06, 2010 |
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Rest in peace, Internet Monk.
A man known in the cyber world as The Internet Monk, has died. Michael Spencer lost his battle with cancer tonight.
My prayers go out for his family and for all those who loved and will miss him. :(
posted 11:52:00pm Apr. 05, 2010 |
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The peace that passes all understanding, pt. 1
I'm coming out of my normal hiding place to make a few comments.
The internet is a strange place. It is often a wonderful place, a helpful place, a unifying place. But it is also alienating, cold, and is the perfect medium in which to depersonalize others.
Through it, I have seen people reach out
posted 4:39:08pm Mar. 25, 2010 |
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posted April 15, 2008 at 10:50 am
Big hairy deal. So citizens are rounded up, roughed up, handcuffed and hauled away for doing nothing illegal. So what? Gay citizens have been used to that for decades. Stuff like this happens when you ‘elect’ Bush/Cheney and let them pass the “Patriot” Act, and do illegal wiretappings, etc., etc., etc., yada yada yada.
Tell us something that’s actually news, Michele.
OR, propose turfing the thugs out of office. Sounds like something a “compassionate” “conservative” would like to do, no?
posted April 15, 2008 at 11:08 am
I’m not going to jump on Michele for this one. She’s bringing it up because she’s as appalled about this as anyone would be.
I wonder what goes through the head of a cop who’s arresting someone for asking a question?
posted April 15, 2008 at 12:12 pm
What should be going through the cop’s head is what is going to happen to his job when the media gets its hands on it.
I see big civil rights judgements coming and some poor cop raising his kids in a cardboard box.
posted April 15, 2008 at 12:43 pm
I live in the DC area. It used to be that weddings, picnics, demonstrations, dancing, etc. were permitted at most of the monuments and parks in the area. I was working in the Reagan administration when they imposed the first set of significant restrictions (I opposed them but it wasn’t my call). Post 9/11, the 17 different police forces in DC are hyper-sensitive about anything even a little bit twitchy. A sad reflection on sad times.
posted April 15, 2008 at 5:38 pm
There is a new dance called “the Happy Recessions dance”. McCain and Clinton believes that blue collar workers are dancing in the streets because of their outsourced jobs. The happy recession dance?
posted April 15, 2008 at 6:37 pm
Such is the price of electing Republicans to office.
posted April 16, 2008 at 1:57 am
it’s our own fault (well, not mine in this case) for being too wiling to give up our freedoms for a false sense of security.
posted April 16, 2008 at 5:50 am
It’s just fascism in action.
I thought that, as a proud conservative, you’d be happy with the exercise of our new police state.
After all, 9/11 changed everything.
posted April 16, 2008 at 6:14 am
I find it hard to believe that the Bush administration has anything to do with the DC cops. How convenient that you people ignore the fact that the cops are under the control of Democrats.
“I thought that, as a proud conservative, you’d be happy with the exercise of our new police state.”
You are ignorant of conservatism if you think we support police states. We don’t, we believe in individual liberty.
posted April 16, 2008 at 10:47 am
The DC police and the 16 other police forces in Washington (Capital, National Park, FBI, Secret Service, college campus, Metro, etc. etc. etc.) all operate under the federal, especially with regard to the anything involving security or the monuments, which are operated by the federal Park Service. Everyone is entitled to her own opinion, Michele, but no one is entitled to her own facts. Please make a few phone calls before making such a claim. “Hard to believe” is all the more reason you should check it out. Please do not perpetuate falsehoods. You owe your readers better.
posted April 16, 2008 at 11:08 am
But they report to the city not the president, right?
posted April 16, 2008 at 12:51 pm
If it’s the Park Service cops, who have jurisdiction over the monuments, they report to the President. It is a Federal agency.
posted April 16, 2008 at 12:54 pm
The Park Service cops, who have jurisdiction over the monuments, report to the President. It is a Federal agency. And even the DC police are subject to the Federal rules on arresting demonstrators (which under the very strict Federal regulations going back to the Reagan administration, which was the first to clamp down, can include dancing).
You have a lot of good thoughts to make, Michele. I wish you were not so quick to name-call and assume.