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PFLAG of Tulare and Kings Counties will continue to meet on the third Sunday of each month.

Next meeting:

Everyone is welcome, and no one is required to speak. A PFLAG meeting is a safe place, and everyone is expected to respect the confidentiality of what is said.

This message went out to the CCA mailing list this morning. I know not many of you are likely to vote in the upcoming Fresno mayoral race, but just in case…

I saw both Henry T. Perea and Ashley Swearengin this evening and asked each one directly their position on Proposition 8, the proposed constitutional amendment seeking to ban same-sex marriage in California. Swearengin told me that she is supporting Proposition 8. Perea told me he saw same-sex marriage as a civil rights issue and he is opposing Proposition 8.

Howard K. Watkins
Chair, CVPPAC

Since October 29, 1929 is likely right around the corner, a review of the rules for FDIC insured bank accounts is probably not a bad idea. I don’t have a lot of love for CNBC, but Suze is good, and probably on our team.

I stumbled upon this at The Times of London. It’s about a new presentation of the Roman emperor Hadrian. Nicely seasoned excerpts:

Among the most appealing sections of this show is that dedicated to Antinous, the beautiful Greek boy with whom Hadrian fell in love. Curators let the museum’s wonderful silver Warren Cup with its flagrant scenes of sodomy set the stage for a liaison which at that time was considered quite normal. What was odd, this show suggests, was the cult that ensued after Antinous’ death in a Nile flood. The mourning Hadrian not only founded an entire new city in his honour but commemorated him in various god-like incarnations including as the Egyptian deity Osiris, who (complete with perfectly polished pectorals and loincloth bulge) meets the visitor at the entrance to this show.

Sadly, the article is not illustrated. It continues:

Was it the depth of his grief that made Hadrian create this gay icon? The exhibition suggests another slant. Hadrian, the first emperor to sport a full Greek-style beard, was nicknamed “the Greekling” for his love of Hellenic culture. Now by celebrating this passion through the apotheosis of a Greek boy, he kept a potentially rebellious sector of society safely pacified. He made the Greeks feel an appreciated part of his empire. It was an adept political move.

Bright man! Full story here.

… stupidity would hurt.

I found this through a member of the International Court System emails.

Can you believe a company can actually get away with this?

I choose not to shop here until they change their policies and who knows. Maybe I will take my business elsewhere from now on.

Michael

Yes, I know. I’m dating myself.

And they said John Kerry flip-flopped!

She started out calling local police.  Then the Tulare County Sheriff’s Department. Then other local agencies. For years she’s been telling the same story, about drug usage, drug sales, child endangerment, and lately prostitution of a very small child.  She’s called agencies in surrounding counties, such as Kings County Sheriff, Hanford and Lemoore PD, Fresno County Sheriff, and Fresno PD.  Her story sounds legit at first, sometimes you just never know. But after years of dealing with her, we knew that her stories had almost no basis in fact.  The last couple of years she did become aware of some legitimate information about drug dealing, and detectives tried to separate the fact from delusion, but it was never easy.  Well, this year she really escalated her activities.  We had already heard from the Fresno office of the FBI, but within the past few months it just got out of hand.  She called the Highway Patrol (and used the name “Mrs. Reeves”!!) after calling and speaking to me (”Sheriff’s office, dispatcher Reeves”) to get the number to “the state police”.  In the past few weeks, we’ve heard from The Office of the Secretary of Defense, at the Pentagon, The Secret Service, and the DEA!  It was just getting nuts….   pardon the pun.

Well, no more.  Documentation, documentation, documentation.  It was finally possible to get her admitted on a mental health hold.  First a 3 day hold, then a 14 day hold, then some kind of permanent commitment.  She shouldn’t be able to harass anybody with her delusions anymore.  Hopefully they’ll find some level of medication for her so she’ll at least be free of her fear for the child.  It would be terrible to actually believe that what she described was going on, and nobody would listen to you.  She’s getting help, and we won’t have to deal with her anymore!  Of course, nature abhors a vacuum, so the next 5150 is undoubtedly waiting in the wings to step in and taker her place……

I can’t wait……