First coming to the notice of the public when they picketed the funeral of Mathew Sheppard back in 1998, The Phelps continue to stomp on their first amendment rights and abuse the second by picketing the funerals of soldiers who may or may not be gay. The fact that these soldiers died to protect them meaning nothing to the added grief of the Bass' family and now the Snyder family. They even re-write words from Ozzy Ossbournes's Crazy Train and use them to spread their hate and evil. Ozzy and the family may be a bit crazy but they aren't hateful and the use of one of his signature songs for this purpose makes him "sick". It's hard to understand the Phelps especially since a documentary about them called "The Most Hated Family in the Country," didn't bother them at all except for the fact that it was "country" instead of "world". For how long will this family continue to add to the pain of families across the country. Maybe it's time for us to beat them at their own game and protest their protesting of such a sacred event. Perhaps that will ease the extra blow that these people, if you can call them that add to the surviving members of these honorable soldier's. All I know is that when someone's life choice matters more than what they sacrificed for all of us something is
horribly wrong and it needs to stop and be recified if not by the courts by the people.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/30/AR2010093007243.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2010/10/08/2010-10-08_ozzy_osbourne_to_westboro_church_get_off_my_crazy_train.html
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Just One More Reason I Miss NY (The Masshole Hit and Run Incident)
New Yorkers get a bad rap, and maybe there are a few people here and there who perpetuate that rep, but for the most part NYers are good people and if they hit you they stop unlike here in MA where Saturday afternoon I was the victim of a Hit and Run by shopping cart via big ass white pickup truck which I felt just as much as if I were moving. You shouldn't have to wear a seatbelt parked in a Stop n Shop parking
lot (in Quincy), but if I had maybe my bones wouldn't hurt with the shock as a female trying to go through the parking lane next to me drove her giant truck into a cart she could've avoided straight into my front side and then left me in shock as she looked at me and then drove away. I now know where the term Masshole comes from and I'm not saying all Bostonians are bad. My brother in-law is one and he'd never just drive away from such an incident. Still, I've had more incidents: 5 (4 of which were rear endings and none my fault) since I came up here ten years ago than I had in 16 years of driving in NY the first of which was less than 6 months after getting my liscense and the other a man trying to get his wife to work forgetting to stop for a light turning red. I'd just gotten my car a month earlier. NY drivers may drive too fast, come out of nowhere but the take atleast stop and have a yelling match with you about who's fault it is even when it's obviously their's.
To look in someone's eyes with an expression of "you were in my way" and then to leave is just irressponsible and cowardly, and is what upsets me most about the incident aside from whoever couldn't walk fifteen feet to get the cart into the proper place and the ache in my bones from the impact which though minimal felt more extreme. Seriously, do I have to wear a seatbelt even when I'm not moving!!! Now I wait to find out if the store caught it on tape or not. I know my chances of this are minimal but if nothing else I would like to give this woman a piece of my mind on just plain common decency. I don't think that's a lot to ask for, do you!?
lot (in Quincy), but if I had maybe my bones wouldn't hurt with the shock as a female trying to go through the parking lane next to me drove her giant truck into a cart she could've avoided straight into my front side and then left me in shock as she looked at me and then drove away. I now know where the term Masshole comes from and I'm not saying all Bostonians are bad. My brother in-law is one and he'd never just drive away from such an incident. Still, I've had more incidents: 5 (4 of which were rear endings and none my fault) since I came up here ten years ago than I had in 16 years of driving in NY the first of which was less than 6 months after getting my liscense and the other a man trying to get his wife to work forgetting to stop for a light turning red. I'd just gotten my car a month earlier. NY drivers may drive too fast, come out of nowhere but the take atleast stop and have a yelling match with you about who's fault it is even when it's obviously their's.
To look in someone's eyes with an expression of "you were in my way" and then to leave is just irressponsible and cowardly, and is what upsets me most about the incident aside from whoever couldn't walk fifteen feet to get the cart into the proper place and the ache in my bones from the impact which though minimal felt more extreme. Seriously, do I have to wear a seatbelt even when I'm not moving!!! Now I wait to find out if the store caught it on tape or not. I know my chances of this are minimal but if nothing else I would like to give this woman a piece of my mind on just plain common decency. I don't think that's a lot to ask for, do you!?
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