On Coffee and Bitterness:

Thought for the Day:
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
(I am re-reading it for inspiration)

In the “Dumb Fucks” that piss me right off category this morning:
Vets Seek Apology For Anti-Gay Protest At Funeral: (CBS) CHICAGO A group of military veterans on Monday demanded an apology for last week's funeral protest in northwest Indiana by an anti-gay church group. But the opponents admit they are powerless to halt the Kansas church that is vowing to keep spreading its message of hate at new military funerals this week.

Angry chants greeted mourners arriving for the funeral of Army soldier Adam Harting. Members of the Westboro Baptist Church had come from Topeka, Kan. to spread their message. On Monday, decorated Vietnam veteran Ald. Jim Balcer and parents of the war dead called for an end to the funeral protests.

“To protest at funerals, is wrong. The families of these men and women should be allowed to grieve in privacy and dignity with their loved ones,” Balcer said. “To publicize the most vile and hurtful at the most sacred of times breaks up the funeral of our soldiers.” The Westboro church says the First Amendment gives them the right to condemn gays and to interpret combat deaths as simply God's wrath against U.S. homosexuals.

“It is not okay to be gay,” said Shirley Phelps-Roper, a member of the Westboro church. “Those guys over there in Iraq, this nation has angered the lord their god and the wrath of god is poring out on them. God is dealing with this nation, and you can't do one thing to stop it or stop him from blowing those young people to pieces.” “I'm not going to argue religion with them, in my opinion what they're doing is wrong, I will not change nor back off from my statement,” Bacler said. “They are wrong and they should apologize to the families.”

Phelps-Roper scoffed at an apology. In fact, she is leading new protests this week at the funerals of the unit from Ohio that suffered double-digit deaths. Authorities all over the country are permitting the strange protests but through clenched teeth.

The State Senate is looking at a bill that would make it a crime to disrupt a military funeral. This fucking nut has been around for a while, with his sloped foreheaded Stepford family in tow, doing the God hates fags thing for the media, guess that didn’t get him enough air-time so he targets military funerals. See what the fuck happens when you let the loons run the asylum.

Let me make another point, the functional definition of Taliban means Islamic Seminary Student, think of how our country would be if it was governed by Fundamentalist Seminary students and Oral Roberts underclassmen. Its always nice to start off the day cussing before ever getting out of bed.

In Other News:
Rosa Parks is dead, and we all lost a little something. It is my hope that if tested we would all have 50% the guts this woman had.

Wes did a fitting tribute with this:
"In Paradisum seems appropriate here..."

In paradísum dedúcant te Ángeli:
in túo advéntu suscípiant te Mártyres,
et perdúcant te in civitátem sánctam Jerúsalem.
Chórus Angelórum te suscípiat,
et cum Lázaro quóndam páupere
ætérnam hábeas réquiem.

May Angels lead you into Paradise:
may the Martyrs welcome you on your arrival,
and guide you into the holy city of Jerusalem.
May a choir of angels receive you,
and with Lazarus, who was once poor,
may you have eternal peace.

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Todays Bill:
"All that glisters is not gold."
--From The Merchant of Venice (II, vii)
(There is one hell of a lesson here, one I have had to learn a few times. "All that glisters is not gold; / Often have you heard that told. / Many a man his life hath sold / But my outside to behold. / Gilded tombs do worms enfold." Don’t we all have our own Portia, our beliefs, our loves that were not what they seem or upon getting them were not at all what we thought we knew?)

Quote for the Day:
Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I remain, sleepless, and spoiling for a fight:

JQP esq.