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Become a Social Network Ninja with BrizzlyJustin Stravarius on April 15th 2010
It's another day and we have another ninja app lined up for your attention. Today's social network ninja app is Brizzly that has been making waves with its acquisition of the Twitter iPhone app Birdfeed and making it available for free. Brizzly lets us manage two of the leading social networks, Facebook and Twitter. How best does it play? Well, let us go and see!
Sign Up
The sign up form at Brizzly is extremely simple with just three fields for you to fill. I particularly loved that you do not have re-enter your password again to verify it. Also, you can choose, if you, want to integrate your Twitter account or Facebook account from here; I clicked on Twitter.
You'll have to activate the Brizzly account by clicking on the activation link sent to your email address. You'll be greeted with an error page if you have not jumped through this hoop.
Now here comes the annoyance number one. I've selected to integrate a Twitter account in the very first step itself. Yet, I was again asked to choose after the verification process. A bug maybe?
The second time seems to be the charm; I was directed to the Twitter OAuth approval page. Your login credentials are not stored at Brizzly.
Brizzly was very direct and open, letting me know that it might take some time while they are pulling up all the data from the Twitter stream. Even though they say that the process could take a minute or two, I found it to be much quicker.
Okay, now comes annoyance number two. After all these somersaults, do you get to see the Twitter stream or the dashboard? Nope. Brizzly wants to "enlighten" you before boarding their app rocket. Haven't we seen and ignored the "Learn more" option thing in the homepage itself? Why so serious Brizzly? Most of us learn by trial and error.
Finally we are then redirected to the dashboard which, even at the very first glance, looks great and tastefully designed.
User Interface and Dashboard
Brizzly sports a stylish three column layout a la the Facebook news feed page. Your entire Twitter stream is organized under four categories on the left.
Pictures and videos in tweeted links are organized in tabs for easier access. This is a feature every Twitter client should add as people are sharing more pictures and videos every day. If there are any new updates in any of the sections, you will be alerted by a cute blue dot by the side. Neat. New Twitter accounts can be integrated by clicking on the Add another Twitter account link.
You can add and monitor up to five Twitter accounts in Brizzly.
The profile page is adequate and it displays the standard set of information like follower and following count, favorite tweets, lists, etc.
I found a glitch with the follower count displayed by Brizzly. As you can see, the Brizzly profile says I have 11 followers, however, the Twitter profile page says I have 10 followers. My ego would have been satisfied with a hundred more followers but alas I received only +1.
You can delete your tweets from this page. Also, I deleted my Twitter profile picture and Brizzly had a very hard time reloading the default Twitter profile image.
All your @replies and mentions are listed in this page. Brizzly has an interesting feature here. If you click on the "?" icon, the details of the person who sent the tweet are shown.
You can reply back from this page itself. Pics can be uploaded from the PC directly. Surprisingly there is no built in URL shortener here. If you find someone to be annoying with a whole lot of updates or mentions, just click on their profile icon to bring up the mute menu. From here, you can either unfollow them or choose to mute them. With the mute option, you will not see his/her tweets in the homepage anymore.
Direct Messages
All your sent and received DM's are listed under this category. Creating a DM is such an easy task; click on the Create a direct message link and type the name of the person. You will then be shown a list of people from your contacts to choose from.
Once you click on the name of the person, a composing window for the DM shows up on the right hand side of the page.
The DM conversation is designed in such a way that it looks like a regular IM chat. Hands down, this is a great idea by the Brizzly team. Also, once you receive a DM, it's hard to miss with the blinking profile pic notice — a nice idea and a brilliant execution indeed.
You can create public or private lists from the Brizzly dashboard.
The Brizzly team has added the same magic when adding members to the list you have just created. Just start typing the the first few letters of the username and the contact's username will be listed for you to choose from. Sweet.
The search bar at the top of the page works in the same manner too.
Saved Searches
Creating a saved search works like in any other app. However, there is no option to view multiple search results in a column view. This seriously cripples the usability of the web app.
No mind blowing features in the tweet window — actually it looks pretty deserted. No URL shortener (What? Why?) and no tweet scheduling either.
Unsent tweets can be saved as drafts and these drafts can be viewed from the drafts tab at the home page.
Trends and NewsOkay. This is by far the best trends and news section design I have seen in a web app. Trends are listed on the right side of the page. And if you click on the "Why?" link, you can see a description of the trend. These descriptions are pulled from the Brizzly guide, which is like a wiki any user can edit.
Adding a Facebook Account
You can add your Facebook account and update your status message from the Brizzly dashboard, though it's a three pronged process. First you will have to integrate your Facebook account via fbconnect, then you will have to allow the app to publish, then you will have to allow it for offline access. This time the circus master is Facebook and Brizzly is not responsible for these hoops.
You can update your status, see the recent activity of you & your friends, view the wall and add comments from here. However, you cannot post the same status update to Facebook and Twitter at the same time, like you can in Hootsuite.
Final Thoughts
With the profile pic, Brizzly struggled like a drunken man walking on a slippery slope. After I deleted the profile pic from my Twitter homepage, my Brizzly profile pic either did not load or my old pic was loaded. This flickering match continued throughout my review (about three hours or so) even after force refreshing the page.
Lack of columns and a URL shortener are huge disappointments. Now that Twitter has started filling the holes in its feature set, it's imperative that the Brizzly team fills these obvious holes in their app. Brizzly does have some bright ideas but that could only garner them a 7/10 from me.
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Race, Religion, and the Lost Cause: Observation from the National ONA Gathering
Today is June 19th, Juneteenth, the day in 1865 when news of Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation two years earlier finally reached enslaved persons in Texas. It coincides with the National Gathering of the UCC Open & Affirming National Gathering and a Race and Religion course assignment on whether the Lost Cause still exists in the South today. All things work together, and it is fitting.
When I was a kid my parents took my little brother and me to Shiloh National Military Park. This began and strengthened my fascination with the Civil War. Other Southern writers have written about how prominently Civil War lore figured into their childhoods, how it shape their psyches as Southern men. No major battles took place in Alabama like in Virginia and Tennessee, so my parents—who took exactly one vacation in their lives and it was NOT to the beach—hauled us on a day trip to Shiloh. We saw the exhibits with artifacts from the battlefield: bullets, bayonets, buttons. We saw a film that mapped out the two-day fight from April 6-7, 1862, the bloodiest battle until Antietam five months later. It remains the sixth on the top ten list. We walked around sites so horrific they had been named: Hornets Nest and Bloody Pond, water colored red by soldiers' blood. At the end of the day, my parents took us to the gift shop, where we were each allowed one souvenir. My brother and I got the same memento—a confederate private's cap. We did not even consider the Union blue cap of the yankees.
I think perhaps the Lost Cause takes on a different meaning for working class Southerners than it had for the old plantation class that evolved into wealth obtained from industry and later, investment. For us, the Lost Cause equated with the tragic romanticism of the lost war. The South is a contested place; it is a place looked down upon by those outside—and sometimes inside—of it. During the tour, my brother and I cheered for the Shiloh story of Day 1, that went to the confederates. On the second day, Grant's reinforcements arrived, Albert Sidney Johnston was shot, and the battle went to the Union. The feeling I had then is similar to the physical and emotional drain I feel after the University of Alabama loses a big game to Auburn. It is real disappointment that I feel for the rest of the day. Our land had been invaded and we had lost. That was my lost cause, and its symbols took on religious meanings—the Stars and Bars battle flag, the gallant General Lee upon his steed Traveler (yes, I know the horse's name), and of course, Dixie, our hymn.
Constructing the Lost Cause narrative so strong that is part of the psyche of Southerners who have no discernable connection to the Old South other than geographic location required a national comprehensive campaign. So the question to consider is, in whose interest was it to create the Lost Cause as an organizing theme? The white plantation class, supported by southern newspapers convinced poor whites that they were whiter than they were poor; thus, they allied with the people who looked like them. We continue to do this today, voting and allying against our economic interests because they are white. Northern and Southern Protestants turned defeated confederates into defeated Christians as the Lost Cause became a vehicle for Southern Redemption—redemption that was religious, social, and political.
Yesterday, I attended a session at the UCC Open and Affirming (ONA) National Gathering in Milwaukee, called Offensive Faith: Queering the Playbook for Religious Engagement. Rev. Naomi Washington-Leapheart, of the National LGBTQ Task Force stressed the intersectionality present in dismantling systems of gender and sexuality oppression. People of color are disproportionately affected by violence in this country; the same is true for gender violence. One of the pictures she shared prompted my reflections here, connecting religion, the Lost Cause, and racial (and gendered) violence. I look at it now and am offended, yes, but I see it and know that the stirrings of nostalgia I also feel seeing the old black and white photo that could have been taken at Littleville Elementary School, where I grew up a confederate child. My nostalgia is a fruit of white privilege, and so too is offensive.
The second photo Rev. Leapheart shared will likely offend Lost Causers—not only them, it will offend many other white people. I think when we as a people can be offended by both images because they stand for a history of racial violence in which religion has been complicit—then we might hope for redemption.
Please also take time to visit the National LGBTQ Task Force web site and read about their All of Me. All the Time campaign for the Equality Act. They have this description:
The National LGBTQ Task Force educates federal policymakers about the need for non-discrimination protections that ensure the whole person is able to advocate for themselves when discriminated against, wherever that discrimination takes place. We work with a wide range of progressive partner organizations across the country both at the state and federal level, like the National Black Justice Coalition. The Task Force shifts the conversation from a political and technical one to a national and inclusive conversation based on morals and values.
Alabama Gilead: The Beguiling of Conservative Women
for Jenny Nixon
Last weekend, I attended the National Gathering of the Southeast Conference of the United Church of Christ, a denomination with a history of social justice advocacy that dates back to colonial New England. The UCC has always, to my knowledge, ordained women ministers, and it is a space where I feel welcome to offer and develop my gifts of leadership. One evening at dinner, I gravitated to a woman dining alone and asked if I could join her. I didn't join her because she was alone; I joined her because I had been in a previous session with her and heard some of her story. I remember she had said: I was in Alabama during the Civil Rights years, and the League of Women Voters kept me sane. I wanted to hear more.
Her name is Jenny Nixon, and she is a resident of the Uplands Retirement Community in Pleasant Hill, Tennessee, which, if you ask me, is one of the best kept secrets in retirement living. Jenny was hard to miss all weekend because of her booming voice, head of solid gray hair, piercing blue eyes, and the shape her body has decided to take as she got older, which required her to use a walker. Yes, I'd appreciate your company, she told me. I eat more slowly than most people these days. I fetched us a couple of pieces of strawberry short cake for us and sat down.
Jenny was born in Oregon in 1933 but had gone to college in California and lived for some time in Washington State. I'm a Westerner, she told me with a glint in her eye. What attracted me to her was that she had been a women's rights activist in the 1960s and 1970s. It isn't too often that I get to meet a feminist–a real feminist–from the "women's lib" era. But that wasn't the only reason I wanted to hear more of her story; our stories, as it turns out, had something in common: Alabama. Will you tell me more about your time in Alabama? I asked her. I think it's important, and I know it's interesting! That's all it took. I will recreate her narrative here with only minimal interruptions of my interjections and comments.
My first husband was an aerospace engineer, and "Mr. Boeing" sent him to Huntsville, Alabama, where he worked on the rocket that sent us to the moon. It was 1964. Kennedy had been assassinated, but worked progressed on the space program. We lived in South Huntsville. Our kids eventually went to Chaffee Elementary School, White Middle, and Grissom High~~all named after the astronauts killed in the Apollo 1 fire at Cape Canaveral in 1967. Of course, that was my first husband. The only things we had in common were our kids–and bridge. We were an unbeatable bridge team! I am very proud that I always spoke well of him to my children. That was very important to me, that they kept a relationship with him. He was a good father.
In those days, the senior engineers had a choice of moving or not, and most of them chose not to. So there were communities of young families with young children. Before Boeing, before NASA, Huntsville was a cotton town; once we got there, it was a city of 20- and 30-somethings. I had young children, my husband was an engineer, I was college educated. I needed something to do because I couldn't just stay at home. The League of Women Voters really did keep me sane. My husband didn't really approve of the amount of time I spent working, but I did it anyway. I was president of the local chapter. In those days I could mimeograph flyers at my house. We met at my house over the years.
I was in Huntsville the year the President signed the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. We worked hard. One of our projects was a weekly bi-racial lunch, where we went to lunch as a group of Black women and white women–together–to a restaurant. In Alabama in the 1960s that was a radical act. You just didn't do it. My husband's job was integrated because it was the federal government, so they hired Black engineers. George Wallace was governor during that time, and it was not easy.
I used to tell my friends in the West that not everybody in Alabama was racist, that there were people there who worked for civil rights. I tried to bring my children up that way; of course, sometimes the teachers reported that they were being disrespectful. They didn't say "ma'am." But they turned out fine. Eventually, more of the women went to work outside the home, so there were fewer of us who could do volunteer work with the League. When my husband was transferred to Washington State, that was the end of my Alabama years.
By that time, we were finished with our shortcake. I'm keeping you, I said. Yes, I'd just as soon go home now, she replied mater-of-factly, as she asked me to dial her current husband George on my cell phone. George, this is Jenny. You can come and pick me up now in front of the cafeteria. Five minutes, yes. Goodbye. Spoken like a Westerner.
Last month, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed into law the harshest abortion bill in U.S. history. According to the Washington Post, only three women had a voice in the Alabama state senate, where all 25 votes cast in favor of the bill were from white, Republican men. This in a state where although 51% of the population is made up of women, only 15% of the legislature is–one of the worst ratios in the country (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/05/15/typical-male-answer-only-women-had-voice-alabama-senate-men-passed-abortion-ban/?utm_term=.8fd84fe87878).
This morning, an opinion piece from the New York Times popped up in my news feed called Where Are the Socially Conservative Women in This Fight?
The American family needs defending and right now men are leading the charge. Written by Helen Andrews of the conservative Washington Examiner, a central them was a critique of the "Two Income Trap," a term coined by Senator Elizabeth Warren in her book by the same name. Andrews opines:
Marriage simply no longer offers the financial security it once did. The consumer goods that singles buy have gotten cheaper, but the things that middle-aged parents spend the most money on — houses, education, health care — have gotten more expensive, while wages have stagnated. It has become difficult for a family with one breadwinner to afford a middle-class standard of living. "Mom's paycheck has been pumped directly into the basic costs of keeping the children in the middle class," Ms. Warren's book "The Two-Income Trap" explained. The mass entry of women into the work force is one reason for this financial insecurity.
Look at that last sentence again. It's important, as Andrews turns her argument for the emergence of conservative women toward women's desire for marriageable men. She references the now-viral quote by Fox's Tucker Carlson: "Study after study has shown that when men make less than women, women generally don't want to marry them. Maybe they should want to marry them, but they don't." Andrews expounds:
As it happens, there is an abundance of data on Mr. Carlson's side. Wendy Wang is the director of research at the Institute for Family Studies, and before that she worked at the Pew Research Center, where she co-wrote a report about unmarried Americans. "The number of employed men per 100 women dropped from 139 in 1960 to 91 in 2012" among never-married Americans 25 to 34, her report found. "In other words, if all never-married young women in 2012 wanted to find a young employed man who had also never been married, 9 percent of them would fail, simply because there are not enough men in the target group."
Poor white men. No one wants to marry them. And why not? Because women have taken their jobs!
Here's another jewel from Andrews, citing an MIT study: When women's wages went down relative to men's, marriage and fertility actually went up. I do not have to paint the phallic imagery here, do I?
So, rather than build an economy built on sustainable infrastructures, living wages, affordable health care and child care, paid leave for parents of all genders, tax payer funded college tuition, and jobs in a 21st century world–Alabama leads the rest of the country in this ignoble approach to economics, which, make no doubt about it, it is. Abortion legislation is not about morality or religion or the salvation of Alabama souls. It is political, for it will keep the good Christian people voting Republican–against their own financial and reproductive interests. And this, friends, will keep the Republican coffers full.
The Alabama bill, along with Andrews's call for conservative women to take up the call to put women back at home rearing children while their men go off to work, is dangerous. Under the guise of fighting for our "right" to stay home and raise children–and do the majority of domestic labor without pay as part of the contractual obligation to which their marriageable men are entitled–women will be demanding to have our rights revoked. Rights that people like Jenny Nixon worked–from her home, while her children were at school–to make available to us. And, women like Governor Kay Ivey, who have the facade of power, do the bidding of male legislators. If you want to see what the world will look like when this retro-vision is enacted, look no further than the Alabama legislature. Or the list of Fortune 500 CEOs, or the U.S. Senate.
There's another place you can look. Watch The Handmaids Tale, Seasons 1 & 2. It was not Commander Waterford who was the architect of Gilead. Rather, it was his wife, Serena Joy, who was the power and talent of the movement. In one chilling scene, which I've included below, Serena uses her charismatic speaking talent to turn a group of college student protesters to her conservative vision. Keep watching, though, to see how it turns out for her after she cedes her power. See how she lives in Gilead. The cost of equity and equality is high–we continue to pay it. But there is also a cost to maintain our liberty, and part of that cost is vigilance. Margaret Atwood noted in her book the wages of inattentiveness. Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.
Have you written your story down, recorded it somewhere, I asked Jenny. No, she said. I thought about it but haven't. I still remember it, though. I pray that we will all remember, before we boil in a bathtub of our own making.
The Power of a Conservative Woman: Serena Joy Waterford, The Handmaid's Tale
NYT: Where Are the Conservative Women
'A typical male answer': Only 3 women had a voice in Alabama Senate as 25 men passed abortion ban
Season of Lilacs: Memoir For My Mother
Down home, where they know you by name and treat you like family,
Down home, where a man's good word and a handshake are all you need.
Folks know when you're fallin' on hard times you can fall back on
Those of us raised up—down home. (Alabama, 1985)
When my grandmother died, it was April, and the lilacs were in full bloom. I think back on those lilacs now, realizing that they, like the women in whose lives they played such a part, define homeplace for me. I realize that I cling to them, the flowering, decadently-scented lilac that stands at the doorway like the angel at the Garden of Eden, and the women of Big Mama's. But the angel armed with flaming sword was placed at the Garden's entrance by God to keep people out, so homeplace, even as it beckons, has its own fiery barriers. I can no more cross the threshold of home guarded by the lilac than Adam and Eve could get past God's messenger. And yet, just as the searchers have sought the now mythic Eden, Southerners, like me, spend an endless quest yearning for homeplace, trying to go home.
It was around my grandmother's table that I first learned about homeplace, as she and her 5 remaining daughters, the sisters, recollected the old hard days and made plans to go back. In the same way that bell hooks (1990) contends, "houses belonged to women" (p. 41), for me, home is made by them. On Sundays, over coffee and caramel cake, they lovingly described the house and place where six babies were born. I learned that the old homeplace was a location of enshrined desire. And it is within nostalgia, a yearning for home, that desire and homeplace ideology intersect.
Daddy's people did not like Mother's people. My father's father had finally left the farm, got factory work, and moved inside the town limits. When his son, my father, fell in love with a girl from "the mountain," it appeared to them like a step backward. My mother's home was a place of noise and music and laughter and hard liquor—everything that Daddy's fundamentalist Christian mores denounced as sinful. The pact was made: when they married, she would disavow that lifestyle, stay away from home. I knew very little of my maternal family until I was 12 years old and my mother could not stay away any longer. She took me with her to Sunday coffee at Big Mama's.
By the time I met them, Big Mama had left her job at the local truck stop, and the sisters had divorced the wild young men who drank and played music on Saturday nights. I returned to a Sunday afternoon matriarchy that had resigned itself to calm. Now the sisters and their daughters returned to sit around the same table, now cluttered with chipped coffee cups rather than bottles of Jack Daniels. Big Mama's house was not quiet or orderly. The old house creaked and heaved with determination as it enveloped the lives it cradled, including, again, Mother's, and now, mine.
Some images never leave us. When Big Mama got sick in 1983, the sisters rallied. Nobody was taking care of their mother except them, and they stayed with her around the clock for a year. On a Sunday very different from those spent around the table, I saw death still in the claiming. Big Mama had no appetite and was drinking only a little milk. Mother was at her bedside trying to get her to eat yogurt. I could not bear to go into the dark bedroom, witnessing the scene instead from the next room, as close as I could get but not nearly as far away as I longed to be. My mother coaxed her mother to eat, tiny spoonful by tiny spoonful, cooing to her as she had to my own baby, to me as an infant. She tenderly spoke words of love to her mother, words devoid of joy, words sickeningly rich with heartache. I had never felt so low and empty and sick, and I never have since.
After she died, I was wracked with remorse because I missed so many years. I loved her, and I treasure the time I spent with her. But regret and guilt are old friends who call often; there would be no moving forward. Then I dreamt my dream. She and I were alone in the darkness, and I, grown and helpless, was sitting in her lap. She enveloped me in an old string quilt, soft and comfortable with age. Her words and her body soothed me; I knew that I had known her. And my heart and mind rested easy.
When the sisters finally made the pilgrimage back home, some 50 years after leaving it, they carried with them buckets and tools. They came for artifacts, tangible memories. Each collected cuttings from foliage that remained, now overgrown with scrub bushes and weeds. My mother and her four sisters cut through the wild vines and tall weeds to re-claim their mama's garden and take it home with them—old plants: mock orange, iris, forsythia (yellow bells), and lilac. Since then, wherever Mother has lived, wherever I have lived, we have dug up a piece of those plants, with good roots so they will live. "They won't ever even know they've been moved," she tells me. I do this because wherever I live, it comforts me to know there is a lilac by my door.
This piece was adapted from an academic paper published as Whitlock, R.U. (2006). Season of lilacs: Nostalgia of place and homeplace(s) of
difference. Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education. Fall-Winter 2005.
Inflaming the Christian Right: Franklin Graham, Pete Buttigieg, and Changing Our Mind
It should come as no surprise that they're coming for Pete Buttigieg. He's smart, frank, funny, personable, courageous~~everything in a politician that would constitute a threat to the one of the least popular incumbent presidents history. Strategically that's why he's already under attack. How he's under attack represents low hanging fruit politically. Pete Buttigieg is a gay man. It's low hanging fruit because this fact inflames–really inflames–the roughly 25% of Evangelical Christians in America who make up the president's strongest base.
On April 25, 2019, Franklin Graham Tweeted (naturally) a response to Buttigieg's candidacy, "God doesn't have a political party. But God does have commandments, laws & standards. Mayor Buttigieg says he's a gay Christian. As a Christian I believe the Bible which defines homosexuality as sin, something to be repentant of, not something to be flaunted, praised or politicized…."
Earlier in April, an NBC report suggested that Graham's view is out of sync with that of most Americans. Polling data indicate that almost 70% of Americans would be either "enthusiastic" or "comfortable" voting for a gay or lesbian candidate (USA Today). The remaining 30% is Trump's hard core base and includes the 25% Evangelicals who enthusiastically support him regardless of evidence of impropriety. The Fox News/fake news true believers. My people.
I come from generations of Fundamentalist Christians, growing up in the Church of Christ~~a denomination that historically refrained from political engagement beyond the civic duty to vote. But even voting was private~~between you and God. We believed that "rendering unto Caesar" meant that our faith was personal and would come full circle on Judgement Day. All of that began to change with the campaign of 1980, when Ronald Reagan challenged the Son of a so-called New South, Jimmy Carter. Precisely because our denomination had not been political, the shift was very noticeable.
On April 26, David Gushee, Distinguished Professor of Christian Ethics at the McAfee School of Theology, Mercer University, and Director of its Center for Theology and Public Life, spoke with CNN's Don Lemon in response to Graham's Twitter attack. Gushee's book Changing Our Mind traces his personal and theological journey toward inclusion of LGBTQ Christians (it's in my Kindle as we speak!). (Franklin's remarks, incidentally, make Changing Our Mind doubly applicable in light of the United Methodist Church's February 2019 decision to exclude LGBTQ members from ordination and marriage.) A disclaimer: I am a student at McAfee working toward an MDiv and certificate in Christian Ethics, and I will take Christian Sexual Ethics with Dr. Gushee in the spring. His ethics are grounded in Jesus's Sermon on the Mount and outlined in the seminal book on the subject: Kingdom Ethics: Following Jesus in Contemporary Context (2016), co-written with the late Dr. Glen Stassen. Although he wouldn't do it because of his ethical convictions, I would put David Gushee's understanding of Jesus's teachings up against Franklin Graham any day. But again, I have a dog in the hunt.
I had an "ah-ha!" moment as the CNN interview concluded:
LEMON: ...I think it's interesting that you say that the Christian right has been in the grip of the Republican Party for 40 years now and it's getting worse….
Forty years. Reagan, the Moral Majority, Trickle Down Economics, strengthening the military-industrial complex, unregulated capitalism, corporate tax cuts~~the most significant political and economic ideological shift in U.S. history~~and I was there. I saw. From the pews of a little country church in North Alabama. My people~~those 25% die hard Trump supporters~~were the strategic targets of the Republican machine in 1980, and we remain in its grip today. I am not suggesting we are absolved of our complicity; we have not yet repented of our collective sin of racism, for example. I'm saying the Republican Machine (not persons who vote Republican, whom we love as Jesus loves) is like a crooked preacher: it knows the Bible well and uses it to sway the sheep. It uses cultural context or insists on literalism, whichever best advances its agenda–which is, again, to inflame good people to vote. Over nearly half a century, it has accomplished an astonishing goal, really: creating god in a Republican image and we, my people, worship at its feet. That's called idolatry, y'all. Gushee's Kingdom Ethics suggests a different way, a Jesus way, to do politics together as a people, but to see it we will have to melt the Golden Calf of the Republican god.
My people believe~~really believe~~that electing a gay man as president will doom the U.S. as God turn's His (no gender free God here!) back on us. In fact, we see plenty of examples of how He is already exacting His punishment on us as a call to repentance~~a call to return to being a Christian Nation, God's U.S. chosen people. I know a good man~~a Godly man~~who believes God is sending a meteor toward Earth as retribution. "We better turn back to God," he says, "or He will destroy this sinful nation!" When Franklin Graham reminds Evangelicals that God's "laws, commandments, and standards" supersede political parties, he gives them no option save worshiping the carefully crafted Calf. And yes, he precisely politicized Buttigieg's sexuality. I know what my people will say to an interpretation of scripture toward a new Christian Ethic where Pete is evaluated as a candidate by his qualifications rather than as a person based on his sexuality. They will say, "Even the demons believe, and tremble" (James 2:19). They will be suspicious; they will believe they are being tricked by fast talkers and twisting scriptures. They will gather more closely around the Calf.
In a speech in early April, Pete said his relationship with Chasten had made him "more compassionate, more understanding, more self-aware and more decent." He then directly addressed Mr. Pence, "as one man of faith talking to another," the New York Times aptly puts it: "And yes, Mr. Vice President, it has moved me closer to God."
That's my favorite part because I identify with it. My relationship isn't just a good fit in which I found a life companion~~it has brought me, in-relation, closer to God. It is in my relationship that I can feel the kind of love that God pours down on us, the kind God expects us to pour on each other. Not only that, it inspires me to act with love and compassion to others~~that's pretty big! Jesus Ethics can be planted and take root in places where we talk to one another about compassion and decency and relationships that bring us closer to God. We can change our minds and decide to love.
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A Parenting Psalm: Wisdom Prayer for My Children
I remember as a young girl my Daddy pointing out the difference between knowledge and wisdom. Wisdom comes with age, he said. Well, he finished, it ought to. It occurs to me—I am trying not to worry about it, really—that because of life's circumstances, there are many "words of wisdom" I have not taught my children and may not ever have the opportunity to tell them. Help me, oh God, put some of them down here.
Be happy with how you look—love your body; it contains your beautiful spirit. Your body will change as you get older; help it along with kindness. You don't ever have to think of unpleasant or embarrassing moments from your past; banish them as soon as they enter your mind if they bring you pain. Try to forgive your parents; they are deeply flawed. Know that you are loved, and it's ok to feel the love from generations before you. Fill your life with non-human animals; you already know they love you unconditionally. You can feel it. Carry yourself with pride without being prideful; it just means admire yourself with humility. If you have children, teach them the Bible stories and make them learn some verses; if you have forgotten, learn them again. Don't be afraid of the dark; don't be afraid to fly; don't be afraid to travel. Stay away from negative people; trust your instincts if you have doubts about someone's integrity.
Never settle when it comes to a partner; never be with someone who is settling for you. Go outside. Go see some old ruins. Go to New York City and Washington D.C. and New Orleans. Go to the Pacific Ocean. Go stand in an old cathedral and an old country church in the woods. Remember to look up at stars. Find a job you like and stick with it. Save enough money, but don't worry about not having a lot of it. Don't accumulate a lot of things; curb your desire for things. Let yourself be enthusiastic. Let yourself be awed. Remember that children are raised to grow and go—whether it is you or your children. Read. Pray for guidance when making decisions: let your litmus test be, Will I regret more if I do it or don't do it? Sing. Learn to do something fun that you are proud of. Eat dessert now and then. Keep a journal. Know that when most people say "happy" they mean "instantly gratified." Those aren't the same: be happy. Be kind. Let yourself be a nerd when it comes to learning. Never stop learning. Have integrity. Look at some art, and learn something about it. Take care of earth however you can; we're using it up and won't get another. Help people. Take help from people when you need it. Learn poetry. Believe in God so that you can know that God is with you and has been there through all of it.
This is my prayer, God, for my children. Amen.
Remembering Sri Lanka on Earth Day 2019: A Lament Psalm
Update: CBS News confirmed that an Islamist extremist group claims responsibility as retaliation for the NZ Christchurch bombing. Seems ISIS and the locals are vying for top spot. So my musing is this: if "Islamic Extremist Groups" are terrorists, then are white nationalists who wear red MAGA hats also? They're playing with and off each other right now. Endgame is the same.
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Warrior God. God of the victor David. It is with humble defiance I approach you, calling in my part of the covenant you have with your people~~all of us. Yesterday, at the moment 31% of the inhabitants of this planet shouted Hallelujah, Christ is Risen!, 290 souls on a tiny speck of it were blown up as they worshipped you. Five hundred more were wounded in this execution, 2,000 years after the one we remember. Terrorists, the news tells us. A local Sri Lankan group who couldn't figure out how to coordinate and carry out a mass murder were provided resources by an international group who made suicide bombers out of them. The local attackers learned well; Sri Lankans know terror today—right at this moment—terror in the dreadful feeling, in the knowing, that it might not be over. Terror leads to terror and death to death. The story is familiar.
Enough, enough.
Loving God. David's Good Shepherd. In the cruelest irony, today is Earth Day. This is the day that activists and poets alike remind us that we are destroying the very ground we live on, the very air we breathe. We are indiscriminate in our destruction, though, for we also kill each other. Christ is risen, indeed. So I will repeat the words of the prophet, How long, LORD, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, "Violence!" but you do not save? (Hab 1:2). And I ask all of us who praised the Cosmic Easter Bunny yesterday, just what in the world has Christ risen for? Grant us peace on earth, or at least grant that we may want to want it, for peace leads to peace and love to love. I trust you from the depth of my soul. When it comes to this, I do not really have a choice. Amen.
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(Un)Holy Saturday: A Community Lament Psalm
It is Holy Saturday, God, the day good Christians celebrate Jesus's body lying in the tomb while his soul descended into hell, the Harrowing of Hell, they call it. Holy Saturday is coming home from a funeral. Everybody is exhausted, and the loss is starting to get real. You have to eat~~people have brought food~~but you are not hungry, might never be hungry again. After Big Mama's funeral, I sat at the familiar kitchen table with her old friends, who told stories. Those of us at the table laughed until we cried, but the sisters—my mother and Lois and Mary and Judy and Barbara—were in the dark bedroom where their mother had taken her last breath; they did not laugh. They could hardly hold themselves up, so they held each other. It was raw and ugly, and if any of them had dared, they might have cursed you, God. They were groaning in their utter desolation. Holy Saturday started like that, with women holding vigil in their sorrow.
There is another word I first (and pretty much only) heard in the Bible: iniquity. Iniquity is to wickedness what groaning is to grieving. You are good, God, and trust in your goodness outweighs my worry; but my fundamentalist conscience tells me our United States will give an accounting for our iniquity. We sin together, all of us: we are inhospitable to neighbors at our borders, we march in hatred to maintain an apartheid state, and we lay offerings at the feed of corporate gods. We do not merely turn our heads as our poor fight to live—and often lose the fight—but we defiantly jut out our chins at them because they got what they had coming. It helps that they are different colors than we are. We incarcerate young men of color to prove our point. We busy ourselves with what goes on in one room of the house—the bedroom—with little concern with what goes on in the rest of your world. Longsuffering God, batter our hearts, as the poet cried (John Donne). Lay us bare again so that in our nakedness the only place our eyes can turn is to you. On this Holy Saturday, harrow our souls toward reconciliation with you as we keep vigil for the terrifying Resurrection we (don't) know is coming. Amen.


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I have always loved America and have lived there twice during my studies. I moved to California whilst completing an internship at NASA which was an amazing experience. Since becoming a professional Pet Portrait Artist I have had many clients from the US in multiple states such as Florida, Alabama, Indiana, California, New Mexico, Texas and many more. This has allowed me to gain the experience for drawing a wide range of cat and dog breeds.
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This is my color pencil A5 portrait of Wedge the black and white cat. I loved drawing black and white cats because of the high contrast of their fur and their piercing eyes. A5 is a great size for head and neck portraits but it is possible to fit the whole body like this portrait. You can see her original reference picture in my cat portrait gallery.
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THE Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) welcomed Friday, January 18, the Alliance of Concerned Teachers' (ACT) petition filed before the Court of Appeals questioning the constitutionality of a memorandum that orders the profiling of ACT members.
But DILG Secretary Eduardo Año defended the Philippine National Police's (PNP) conduct of intelligence gathering on ACT members against the group's claim that it violated its members' right to association, right to assembly and to petition the government for redress of grievances, and the right to privacy.
"I wish to emphasize that the PNP has done nothing to violate any of the rights mentioned in the petition. In fact, allegations of a police crackdown on ACT is absolutely devoid of basis or evidence and is merely a propaganda ploy to earn precious media mileage ahead of the party-list elections in May," said Año.
"We must be reminded that intelligence gathering is a task routinely done by law enforcement officers all over the world as part of their mandate and it was CPP founder Joma Sison himself who identified the front organizations of the CPP-NPA-NDF (Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army-National Democratic Front of the Philippines)," he added.
Año said the PNP will only be guilty of dereliction of duty and negligence if they will do nothing about the statement of Sison where he tagged ACT as among the communist group's allies.
"With this, we maintain that, as stated by the Supreme Court in several of its decisions, that the right to privacy is not absolute and may nevertheless succumb to an overriding state interest deemed legitimate and compelling," Año said.
On Thursday, January 17, the ACT, represented by its National Chairperson Joselyn Martinez and its Secretary-General Raymond Basilio, together with ACT National Capital Region Union, Manila Public School Teachers Association (MPSTA) and ACT Region III Union filed a petition for prohibition against a PNP memorandum that orders policemen to conduct profiling and intelligence gathering of ACT members.
It said the PNP's order to its policemen has caused fear among the ACT members.
Earlier, PNP Chief Oscar Albayalde said such order is part of the government's effort against internal security problem, including the NPA rebels. (SunStar Philippines)
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LISD takes over TAMIU
After a weekend of tournaments, LISD programs and St. Augustine return to normal non-district play Tuesday. But there is one LISD team that looks to stay unbeaten while the rest and the Knights look to build momentum. All three LISD teams will play at Texas A&M International.
Nixon (3-0) plays host to Corpus Christi Ray for 7:30 p.m. matchup. This is a rematch of last year's second round playoff game in which the Mustangs won 87-73.
Both teams return a lot of firepower from last season's squads. Nixon brings back players such as Albert Melendez, Joseph Garcia and Jose Herrera while Ray returns Trevor Allison and Robbie Hillard.
Although the Mustangs would like to get another win over the Texans, they are more concerned about improving from week to week.
"We are trying to get into a rhythm," Nixon head coach Pete Solis said. "My main focus is that we get better every week. If you get better every week then you will have a good season. So far we have improved every week."
In this year's game against Ray, Nixon has a handful of options to go to. The Mustangs currently have four players averaging double-digit points per game. Melendez leads with 19.5 with Juan Marines, J.C. Ayala and Bryan Garcia right behind him with 19, 11.5 and 11.5, respectively. Herrera is close to averaging double-digits as well with 9.5.
"Everyone is working together," Solis said. "Whoever has the ball is gonna shoot it. If you are open, we expect you to shoot."
After Ray, Nixon will be back in action on Wednesday when it travels to Corpus Christi Moody (1-2) at 1:30 p.m. The Mustangs are coming off a 84-79 win over Cibolo Steele, who was 32-2 a year ago and won District 27-6A. Steele defeated Nixon twice that year winning 76-64 on Nov. 17 and 65-52 on Dec. 2.
Cigarroa returns to town as it hosts Corpus Christi Miller in a 4:30 p.m. matchup.
The Toros (2-6) are coming off a 2-4 performance at the La Joya ISD Tournament. Cigarroa finished second in the silver bracket after falling 49-48 to Mission Veterans in overtime.
Entering the game against the Buccaneers, Cigarroa would like senior Mike Gallegos to get more involved with the offense.
"Mike as a junior would score 20 points or more at times," Cigarroa head coach Enrique Villarreal said. "Our other seniors, Jesus Meza and Barry Callahan, have been able to carry the workload. But we need all three seniors to score to be successful. Mike will pass the ball a lot. He needs to be a little bit more selfish."
When Gallegos score more than 10 points this past weekend — against Mission and Mission Veterans — the Toros were competitive in each game.
Martin will take on Corpus Christi King (1-2) at 6 p.m.
The Tigers (2-3) are coming off a weekend in which they went 1-3 at the San Antonio Northside ISD Tournament. Their lone win was against San Antonio Churchill 70-61.
Although Martin struggled, it did see 6-foot-5 freshman Kevin Garcia come into his own. Garcia scored 15 or more points in each of the Tigers' four games. The freshman even totaled 33 points and eight rebounds in a loss to San Antonio Reagan.
The Tigers will be at full strength for the first time this year as players such as Mathew Duron and Miguel Sanchez return with the football season finally over. Martin will close out the week at Alexander (8-0) Friday for a 5 p.m. showdown. The teams met twice last season as the Bulldogs rolled 73-50 at home but lost 70-66 at the Border Olympics.
St. Augustine will hit the road again as it travels to Zapata (0-1) for 7 p.m. matchup.
The Knights (1-10) are coming off a 0-6 weekend at the Adidas Basketball Classic. Although St. Augustine went winless at the event, head coach Rodrigo Romo saw improvement out of his young team.
"We obviously try to win," Romo said. "This past tournament we had two chances to win. We lost in overtime against Kipp and had a three-point loss to Jubilee. W just don't have the pose to close out games yet. Zapata isn't a pushover, so we will have to grind for a victory."
St. Augustine will finish the week out on the road against United South (2-0) Saturday at 2:30 p.m. The Panthers beat the Knights 64-47 last season when they met in the Border Olympics.
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