Litterbugs In Topeka

After riots in Ferguson, Missouri and prior to the dispositions of charges against violent police officers in Baltimore, Maryland; and also, concurring with a church shooting in South Carolina that not only killed nine people, but was done for racist reasons.......Topeka, Kansas has a problem with littering. These pamphlets were found on lawns and affixed to vehicles in Topeka.

According to KAKE, the telephone number listed on the pamphlet is non-functioning, but several people who have dialed it beg to differ.

Senator Clementa Pinkney, also the pastor of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina was among the slain. Will flags be flown at half staff?

In Case You Skipped Church This Sunday

The churchgoing teachers in Frankfort, Kansas, have a message for you if you skipped church on Sunday. They want you to know that as long as you are white and christian, Jesus doesn't mind if you ignore the laws of the land and act like a bigot!

Look who's Paying Officer Wilson's Bills

Not only does Darren Wilson have the protection of the entire police department after shooting someone in cold blood, (how many of us could count on having our names withheld for as long as his was if we committed crimes?) he has the support of the Ku Klux Klan! That's right; the Klan has raised the money for this creep to take an extended vacation, miss court dates, get a woman knocked up, and buy a house, all in the same general area......so we know he isn't worried about revenge or indictment.

While a murderer hides and skips going to court, a hate group publicly raises the money for him to do this. Would your local court allow anyone to do this for you, if you skipped any court appearances? Or would that be considered obstruction of justice?

Here We Go Again.....Westboro Baptist Church

Westboro Baptist Church vs. the Ku Klux Klan.  Geez.

Ya know, before I moved to Kansas, I had no idea Westboro Baptist Church existed. I thought that people like Fred Phelps were only in movies, or something. I really didn't know anyone could begin acting so stupid, and keep it up for damn near thirty years. He wanted Gage Park, in Topeka, cleaned up, back in the 80's. When it didn't happen quickly enough for him, he didn't run for city council, so he could launch his own clean-up efforts, or volunteer. He decided to go on a decades-long hate campaign, instead. And he took his bible with him.

I wish I could say that these people are the craziest, most dangerous Christian religious folk a person could run into, but sadly, I don't think they are. Yesterday, on Memorial Day, they got counter protested by Klan, of all bunches. I am so sorry for the people who just wanted to visit Arlington National Cemetery.

I think it would be interesting if, during one of Westboro Baptist Church's silly-assed marches, a few people showed up with signs, stating everything from "Legalize Pot" to "Save the Whales" and and mixed in with the Phelps's, making them less visible. Or......everyone could dress up in halloween costumes, and just walk around with them, drawing attention away from the Phelps's. 

Phred Phelps is not the first Christian who has wanted me to believe that God does not love me, he probably won't be the last. He just happens to be sillier about it than most.