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Canadian border guards are under orders to prevent members of a fundamentalist American church from crossing into Canada to protest at the funeral Saturday of a Winnipeg man brutally killed on a Greyhound bus last week.
Westboro Baptist Church, a controversial Kansas-based sect, intends to picket the funeral of 22-year-old Tim McLean to tell Canadians his slaying on July 30 was God’s response to Canadian policies enabling abortion, homosexuality and adultery.
Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day’s office sent an alert to border patrol to “look out” for people with signs and pamphlets consistent with the messages that the church promotes and to keep them out of the country, Winnipeg MP Pat Martin told CBC News on Friday.
“Entering Canada by a U.S. citizen isn’t an absolute right, and if you’re coming here only to disrupt the social order and to promote what we consider to be bordering on hate crimes or hate language, they shouldn’t come into Canada,” Martin said.
“We’re not going to allow these people to compound the tragedy of the McLean family loss, and Canadians simply won’t tolerate these lunatics disrupting what should be a respectful service.”
Try to stay away from pattern prints. Stick with solid colors. Your mother wears pattern prints, not youIf that green dress could just walk off the television and be mine, it would be much appreciated.
To do list: Throw a Mad Men themed Halloween Party.
“The two wars we’re currently waging are what’s immoral. The way that Wall Street and the banking industry peddled an unsustainable mortgage system to the American people is unethical. The No Child Left Behind Act is unconscionable. Where John Edwards puts his penis is low, low low on my list of wrongs I can feel “disappointed” about.” — Broadsheet : What to make of the Edwards fiasco?
Yes, I know.
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Dear frangry,
I may be a little buzzed, so forgive the spelling and grammatical errors. Here is the thing. While I agree with your general outrage for a woman who is being publicly humiliated, you are kind of off the mark here. It is terribly easy (and kind of natural) to get outraged in their defense, but political wives make a deal with the devil.
I loved Elizabeth Edwards and questioned her husband’s decision to go out on the stump while she was so sick, but in our fucked up country? You have to act like a talk show host (Oprah) to get elected. That is the gig, apparently even if your wife is dying of cancer. I liked Edwards - more than I care to admit — because he seemed both electable and sincere. He is none of those two now.
But let me take an issue with your post. First, few of us on tumblr have lost a child, and, quite frankly, hopefully none of us will. She lost a grown child, one she had known for almost two decades. None of us will hopefully know that kind of sorrow. She is also dealing with an incurable form of cancer. Again, godspeed to all of us. Think about those two events. I can’t fathom it. She knows how she is going to die, and probably has a reliable timetable for that.
That in no way excuses her husband’s infidelity. Far from it, and quite frankly, to the contrary. Just don’t lay blame on a woman who is, perhaps, standing beside her husband of many years, despite the knee jerk reactions of many. This is a Polaroid snapshot on many years of marriage, played out in sound bytes, and yet one she is forced to endure, on account of her husband being a public figure.
I guess the shorter version is this: we ladies can get all righteous and indignant when the poster wives don’t lose their shit when we think they should. But in this case, and perhaps all cases, we need to remember that life isn’t all soundbytes, quotes, and interviews, and none of would want our relationships judged on the lowlights of those private moments. I am in no way giving John Edwards a pass, but am extending one to Elizabeth, who loved this guy through many years, including the loss of their first born. She doesn’t need to be anyone’s role model of wifedom. She is just a chick, dealing with a lot of shit. And maybe, just maybe, she doesn’t want to spend her last years in court and in front of press mics. Maybe she just wants to spend her remaining time with the family that defined her life. I get that.
FUCK YOU. I’m sorry you have cancer and your kid died, etc. But to be honest, everyone has gone through shit like that in their lives. But not everyone sits there and lies and pretends that they are someone they are not. That they are married to someone who doesn’t exist. Fuck you for sitting by a man who you knew was cheating on you, in a time in your life when what you needed was support. Fuck you for supporting someone who is a liar and a fake. Fuck you for helping create a persona that never has existed.
I hope you beat your cancer for your kids. But at the same time, you’re just as bad as your husband.xo,
Frangry
Even when she’s buzzed, karion makes total sense.
“I thought, There is nowhere else in the universe I would rather be at this moment. I could count the places I would not rather be. I’ve always wanted to see New Zealand, but I’d rather be here. The majestic ruins of Machu Picchu? I’d rather be here. A hillside in Cuenca, Spain, sipping coffee and watching leaves fall? Not even close. There is nowhere else I could imagine wanting to be besides here in this car, with this girl, on this road, listening to this song. If she breaks my heart, no matter what hell she puts me through, I can say it was worth it, just because of right now.” —
Rob Sheffield- Love is a Mix Tape
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This will be my next book purchase.
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Going on vacation for a couple of days.
Be back soon.
Here’s a little Bale for you before I go.
xo.
“You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you’re satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you’ve got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you’re trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.” —
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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Ugh. So true. This is the reason I despise all of my things, and get such pleasure out of throwing stuff away. Except shoes..I lurve all my shoes, but shoes go with you when you walk away.
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Har.
“I’ve been asked again and again for my response to the now infamous McCain celebrity ad. I actually have three responses. It is a complete waste of the money John McCain’s contributors have donated to his campaign. It is a complete waste of the country’s time and attention at the very moment when millions of people are losing their homes and their jobs. And it is a completely frivolous way to choose the next President of the United States.” —
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Obama should run an ad with this quote and say, “McCain will take your money and then fuck over your children with it.”
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Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall
(Really impressive set of architecture photos.)
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