Newshound

Well, I've spent the last two weeks at my new position, and it's been a growing experience.

Work's good, but being in charge of a newsroom means doing whatever it takes to get things done. That means, right now anyway, a lot of hours.

So not sure how often I'll be ablt to post anything. Besides the work that needs to be done, I'm still handling all of the marketing duties for the Guymon rodeo. That's also time-consuming.

But I wanted to log in and say that all's well. I'll try to post more later when time allows.

Straight to the looney bin

*WARNING -- WARNING -- WARNING ... foul language included in this thread. If you would be offended by foul language, please do not continue reading.*

Fred Phelps and his followers (er family) at the Westboro Baptist Church (uh ... wouldn't that be blasphemous to call his messages of hate as part of a BAPTIST CHURCH?) should check themselves in to the nearest looney bin, because they're just so fucking insane.

I'm continually checking out the group's Web site, www.godhatesfags.com, because I want to know if these assholes plan to picket the service for Guymon hero Joshua Pearce, who was killed Sunday in Iraq (see next story on this blog). This afternoon, the idiots from my fair home state's capital are heading across to Jeff City, Mo., to picket the Missouri Legislature's ruling to ban these fartknockers from picketing at such places as ... oh, a hero's funeral.

And other states hope to inact the same law so that these soldiers can rest in peace and that their families can be at peace as the grieve and say goodbye.

These fuckheads plan to picket the Pennsylvania Legislature tomorrow for the same reason. Oklahoma lawmakers hope to fasttrack a similar bill as to make their pickets in the Sooner State illegal by week's end. Get ready, OKC. Idiots are awaiting on the horizon to promote hatred ... IN GOD'S NAME!

Are you fucking kidding me? Yeah, I've known these dilrods have been doing this, and it's pissed me off for some time. City officials in Guymon are sincerely hoping the state comes through before Pearce's memorial service so the city can be a terrific host to Phelps and his blowhard offspring in the Texas County Jail.

Phelps' hate-mongers plan to be in Dodge City this weekend for the funeral of another soldier, Specialist Jessie Davila, who was killed by an explosive device in Iraq. On the hate-filled Web site, the Phelps' fanatics report that Davila was "killed by an IED straight from the hand of the Lord his God. God, who alone holds the power of life and death, and is the creator of ALL things, including the IED has become the enemy of America. He is punishing this nation and one of his weapons of choice is the IED. Every soldier that comes home in a body bag would fall into the class of people that God has executed judgment upon and sent straight to hell."

You see, Phelps and his flunkees have tried rather unsuccessfully to spread their wealth of hate, primarily against homosexuality, for decades. Because the success rate is so low and because the Westboro Baptist Church has a congregation made up primarily of those with Phelps genes or (moronically) married to Phelps genes, the group has expounded its hate-monging to American soldiers who have died serving their country.

Phelps and his cronies of hate stand for everything they supposedly preach against. They continually write that those not living the lives as the Bible identifies will go straight to hell by the hand of God, yet their hate is leading them on a very similar path. The Lord God shall strike his vengence against them, and Josh Pearce and Jessie Davila will view their burning from a perch in Heaven.