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Anonymous Anonymous

A wise man, Massad Ayoob once said, You're born with intelligence, but not with ethics.

We learn ethics by the examples of those who touch our lives whether it is our family and friends, our neighbors, teachers, real life heros or heros in movies and on TV. They all inspire us in one way or the other.

Their examples are stronger teachers than any book we can read or any class we can take on Ethics.

A good lesson to remember for ourselves.....what lessons are we teaching by our examples? Apparently, the "anonymous" letter writer of Pottawatomie County, Kansas must have received some negative influence on the road that has brought him or her to where they are now. We can only hope that "Hambone Anonymous" has very little contact with impressionable youth.

Good luck, Pott. Co. Sheriff's Office in tracking down Anonymous and bringing his career in the letter-writing business to a halt.

Fred, You Gotta Love Him....NOT!

Strange, that Fred Phelps continues to spread his hate of homosexuals after all these years. Strange, that he goes all over the United States to do so and someone hasn't "made his day." Strange, that when in San Francisco, his group was chased away by tomato-pelting bystanders, and yet in Topeka he is allowed to "do his thing" because he has the right of free speech.

While the anti-funeral picketing bill continues its way to becoming a law, Fred continues to picket funerals of anyone who has died of aids, of soldiers - because the Army has the don't ask, don't tell policy, fallen coal miners - because that state's congress didn't pass the laws that Fred Phelps thought they should. Strange, that someone in the depths of grief, hasn't at least cleaned Fred's plow. So, Fred continues on, spreading his hate on the streets and passing it down to his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, who we often all see on the street corners of Topeka. There is a group called "Not Today Fred" that have picketed opposite whatever corner Fred's group (Westboro Baptist Church) happens to be on. I'm not sure if they are still active or not, but it was nice to see them out letting Topeka know that we aren't in denial about Fred.

Fred keeps hanging on to this mortal life, but one day, he will learn that his posters which say that God laughs when gay people die, are wrong. God won't even laugh when Fred dies, but probably a lot of us will.....