ONE Campaign...are you in?
The one campaign is up and running, it is looking stong. Tania and I are in. Please come along. Pray, write, buy the wristband do everything to stand with a growing number of people who care about Africans. I am. I will.

Go to www.one.org
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enjoying x&y...
Coldplay nails it again with their new x&y album. Excellleeennnttt!!!

I have been reading this= http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1573223093/104-0943000-6574365?v=glance. Here's cool quote by the guy who just wont go away...he's unreal. I wish it were different. I expect less but he comes with more and keeps showing up everywhere....in my life.

"Right now there is the biggest pandemic in the history of civilization, happening in world now with AIDS. It's bigger than the Black Death, took a third of Europe in the Middle Ages. Sixty-five hundred Africans are dying every day of a preventable, treatable disease. And it is not a priority for the West: two 9/11s a day, eighteen jumbo jets of fathers, mothers, families falling out of the sky. No tears, no letters of condolence, no fifty-one-gun salutes. Why? Because we don't put the same value on African life as we put on a European or an American life. God will not let us get away with this, history certainly won't let us get away with our excuses. We say we can't get these antiretroviral drugs to the farthest reaches of Africa, but we can get them our cold fizzy drinks. The tiniest village, you can find a bottle of Coke. Look if we thought that an African life was equal in value to an English, a French, or an Irish life, we wouldn't let two and half million Africans die every year for the stupidest of reasons: money. We just wouldn't."

--- Bono, p. 81
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God hates fags?
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/news/061105_nw_tracygay.html

It just so happened that Tania's cousin Jarod was graduating from West High (Tracy) yesterday which become one of two targeted demonstrations by the group from Kansas - self titled "God hates fags." See their website
http://www.godhatesfags.com/main/index.html.

We (me and Rob - Tania's brother in law) went outl looking for them yesterday afternoon, but we missed them. Then this morning they showed up at couple of churches (episcopal and catholic). Rob and my father-in-law we able to talk with some of these folks a bit. And all this has provided some interesting conversation about the bible, about fundamentalists, about hate and love, and alot more.

Outside of the good in all of that...this group is freakin weird. They've gone astray...a biproduct of ultra modern, american, red-state bull shit-church. What are they doing in central California shouting obsenities to my father in law and telling him that he will soon "eat his own feces"!?

Only in America...I know it's obvious but this kind of "faith" and "practice" is so false...in so many ways...
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