Carol Rutz’s Annexe

From the DO NOT WANT files of the Consumerist, one woman’s discovery of unwanted critters in her box of Goobers:

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Here is something from the American Council for Education regarding academic garb and hoods:

[regarding]Trimmings. The binding or edging of the hood is to be velvet or velveteen, two inches, three inches, and five inches wide for the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctor’s degrees, respectively; the color should be indicative of the subject to which the degree pertains (see above). For example, the trimming for the degree of Master of Science in Agriculture should be maize, representing agriculture, rather than golden yellow, representing science. No academic hood should ever have its border divided to represent more than a single degree.

I ought to return my hood to the Sem, and tell ‘em to gimme the RIGHT academic hood…the Scarlet colored hood. They gave the the white colored one for Arts, Letters, and Humanities. Their rationale was that I was getting my Master of Arts degree…ergo, white. It should be Scarlet, for Historical THEOLOGY. And if you guys do not think that is proof enough, here is one guy who studied Historical Theology.

See…I was right! But I can’t go back in time to the 2003 graduation and it’s not the same as getting it right the first time.

Here is a letter that has revealed the ridiculousness of Pr May’s situation. Let’s see…if you are a Lutheran minister, you do Lutheran things, NOT Baptist things. That means that if someone has a sick child that needed to be Baptized, you do not IGNORE what Christ said in Matthew 19: “Let the little children come to Me” and of course Article IX of the Augsburg Confession. Christ did not add: “…providing that you ask your supervisors or corporate body first before the children come to Me.”

If you do not want Pr May to be a Lutheran minister, then why did you sent him in the first place?

The following is a report from Pr. James May regarding his mission work in West Africa.

By His Grace alone,
Pr. James May

I shed no tears for your children. For you, of course, but not for your kids.

Do yourselves a favor. Let them face the consequences, and use that bail money instead for a better purpose, like helping out with the medical bills of the kid they screwed up.

They may be your snowflakes, but they knew what they were doing.

What did these guys ever done to you, citizens of the Purple Palace?!

From the bowels of Fark and the Independent of Ireland, this article from Mr O’Connor.

Mr O’Connor’s idea of responsibility is a myth, and an self-aggrandizing one at that. All of his hard work will merit bupkis in heaven. Obviously, he expects a reward because he is not like the other youth who do play video games and remained at their parents’ home due to one reason or another. Surely, he already got his reward.

Procreation and getting hitched does not mean guaranteed responsibility; anyone can rub two… errr, organs together and produce a sprog. Getting married to the WRONG person is always a BAD idea. Going over in financial debt because of starting out is not swell. I can tell you about one of my sibs, who after her graduation with a BA in social work…got an offer to work for 8 dollars per hour…in Los Angeles, where you are lucky to get a halfway decent apartment for 900 dollars per month.

For a while, she remained with her family, helps pay for the food and rent, and got a more decent job with better pay. She saved up and is now independent. Is what she did irresponsible and a mark of a “fairly developmentally retarded” human being? As a family, we believe in being financially secure, carrying each other’s burdens until one is ready to take upon the task, and to love each other, improving our lives. To hell with Mr O’Connor’s anemic concept of “responsibility”!

Today is Quinquagesima, the Sunday right before the start of Lent. The Epistle reading, 1 Corinthians 13, has something to say regarding one’s motivation:

If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

The human being has only two true responsibilities: To love God and to love his neighbor as much as himself. Upon this Great Law hangs everything else. And such love is a gift from God, never scrounged up from ourselves. It does not answer the specific preferences of music, the arts, and how a family unit deals with financial challenges.

To Mr O’Connor, I can only offer this lyric from Hank Williams:

Mindin’ other people’s business seems to be high-toned
I got all that I can do just to mind my own
Why don’t you mind your own business
(Mind your own business)
If you mind your own business, you’ll stay busy all the time.

Courtesy of the Wittenburg Door, a scandal uncovered: Did Kenneth Copeland made a mistake when he made a fundraising drive for Huckabee within his annual ministers’ conference?

From The Ledger:

Trinity cites a blog post by former George H.W. Bush staffer Doug Wead to the effect that Huckabee called Copeland during a ministers’ conference last week that Copeland was hosting. Wead reports: “Copeland, carefully observing all the laws governing non profits, as a private citizen, re-convened a private meeting, turned to his friends and raised $111,000 in cash and reportedly a cool million in promises for Huckabee.” Wead says he has two sources about the contact.

And here is some footage from the conference:

I’ve been active in the grassroots for some time and this is the first time I’ve ever been active in a presidential campaign.

Let me cut to the chase: Respond to the New Republic piece head-on and start naming names and answer directly. And if you have bloody good evidence that there is forgery, sue the magazine for libel. I know that you have taken moral responsibility for hiring the bozos, but please, name them!

Meanwhile, the blokes at the Ron Paul Forums have done pretty intense work examining Kirchick’s material. We have invested our money and manpower into your campaign. DO NOT let us down. Thank you.

Addendum: Berin of the Gays and Lesbians for Ron Paul blog also have a detailed post on Kirchick. So basically…there is some history of muckraking.

We know what Fox News did to Dr Paul is ridiculous and despicable– in fact, even the New Hampshire GOP withdrew its official endorsement from the forum.

And to show insult to injury, Frank Luntz is suspected of using the same people for different “random focus groups”. The thing is that it is supposed to be composed of undecided voters. Instead…we have Chuck.

It would be one thing if Mr Luntz would disclose that his groups does contain members from prior sessions. But the assumption is that it is a *fresh* focus group, with new members. That is very misleading.