An Email.

There seems to be a question as to whether or not P.T. Barnum actually said, "There's a sucker born every minute" as the legend goes.
It really doesn't matter. Evidently, someone calling himself alternately Michael Price and Michael Lyndon does .
I've pasted a copy of an email I recently received from Michael.

Needless to say, I have deleted his email. I considered replying but will simply post his message here.


Michael Price
rawkshop@yahoo.com


Hi,
My name is Michael Lyndon and I'm a former blogger and
currently a social media/internet marketer working primarily with bloggers. I know how hard it is to start a blog from scratch and get it into the search engines and around the web. Through my experience marketing my blogs, I've developed a manifest that got my blog in search engines and around the web and my traffic soared.

I'm offering my services as a social media and internet marketer exclusively to bloggers. I can develop and implement your social media/internet marketing campaign for a one-time fee of $500 or I can provide you with the manifest I use for $100; in which case you could initiate your campaign yourself.

Here's a few details of the criteria I place an emphasis on in my social media campaigns:
- blog submission to directories
- social media account creation and interaction
- back link building
- much more...

I also offer a Digg submission service. For a fee of $500, I can get one blog post of yours to the frontpage of Digg.

I hope to be of service to you and I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Also, If you know of any bloggers that could use my service let me know and I'll discount my services for you or give you a referral fee.

Kind regards,

-Michael-

Am I being Intolerant?

Although the party I'll be referring to in this post isn't likely to read this, I will not, for obvious reasons, put in enough information about her identity for anyone to know for certain who she is.

She attends church where my wife and I go. She is an occasional lector and Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion.There are times when we are invited to the same social function.

She isn't a cradle Catholic; she converted at the request of her Catholic husband. After a few conversations with her, I discovered that she doesn't accept the Church's teachings on abortion and birth control. She identifies with the cowardly and hypocritical position known as "pro-choice".

Although we haven't spoken on other social issues involving the Church, I would not be at all surprised to learn that she supports the idea of women in the priesthood as well.

She voted for Barack Obama....even going so far as to wear an Obama button while assisting in Holy Communion until I had the deacon in charge of EMHCs put a stop to that.

I find her entire attitude towards abortion and Catholic teaching absolutely appalling. She knows my thoughts on this. I am offended that she would insist on going against the Church yet still participate in distributing Holy Communion.
Personally, I feel that her beliefs concerning abortion and her vote for Obama should excommunicate her.......that isn't my decision to make, however.

When I see her at Mass, I will not speak to her; I will not confront her. Never the less,the look of disdain of my face is obvious.

My question to my readers is this:
Am I being intolerant towards this individual?

Nigerian Goat Held Over Robbery.

From SKYNEWS :

Nigerian police are holding a goat on suspicion of attempted armed robbery - amid claims it used black magic to morf from a human to escape justice.

Vigilantes took the animal to police, claiming it had been a person trying to steal a Mazda 323.

"The group of vigilante men came to report that while they were on patrol they saw some hoodlums attempting to rob a car," Kwara state police spokesman Tunde Mohammed said.

"They pursued them. However one of them escaped while the other turned into a goat.

"We cannot confirm the story, but the goat is in our custody."

He went on: "We cannot base our information on something mystical. It is something that has to be proved scientifically, that a human being turned into a goat."


I think I may have gotten an email from this goat...........

Obama Rescinds Mexico City Policy.

On Friday, President Obama rescinded the "Mexico City Policy", lifting the ban on U.S. government funding for international "health" groups that perform abortions, promote legalizing the procedure or provide counseling about terminating pregnancies.

Is there really any point to writing about this?
Obama supporters most likely don't understand the written word and as a picture is worth a thousand words, I'll let this picture do my talking for me.

Coincidentally, the dimensions of this jpg are 349 x 317 pixels.

Man Punished For Abandoning Rats.

From wpri.com:

A Providence, Rhode Island man is in trouble after he abandoned nearly 300 rats on the side of the road.

The man, Toby Duffany, pleaded no contest to animal abandonment and was ordered to pay $1000 restitution and perform 50 hours of community service.

Police say Duffany crammed 280 rats into aquariums and cages, and left them on the side of the road in Foster last month. The rats were discovered several days after they were abandoned. 72 rats had died and the rest had resorted to cannibalism.

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals euthanized the living rats.

In court, Duffany said he got rid of the rats because they could not live in his apartment with his new baby.
The Rhode Island SPCA was disappointed with the punishment.