Supporting the Troops...

The inimitable jmhm sends along word of a fundraiser for the family of a slain soldier: pledge money for each minute Fred Phelps (*spit*) protests at his funeral.

Pass it along, please. Until God steps down and whacks Phelps upside the head with a lightning bolt (which God is probably not going to do -- all that free will stuff), we need to find a way to counteract him ourselves. And, as has been pointed out in the article and elsewhere, counter-protests simply give him attention.

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Happy Birthday, wordweaverlynn!! I hope it was a good one.

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Peter Jennings died. I knew he had been ill, but ...

I did not watch network news much since I had kids, mainly because I would wait to watch the news late at night. But I did like Jennings, probably the best of any anchor since Uncle Walter.