I realized that today
again for the first time
in ages
I cared enough about something with you
to get mad about it.
What does that mean?
12.22.2006
12.12.2006
well, I'll be switched! Mary got knocked up! ... somehow
below I've posted an article about Mary Cheney, the lesbian daughter of our illustrious Vice. Does anybody have any thoughts? Does anybody read this blog anymore? Hello, is this thing on? I have thoughts, surely- just thought I'd see what was rolling around in your heads, my cyberspace compatriots, first.
also, here's a coupla photos of the old girl, ifnya don't know whom I'm speaking of.
holding the Bible for dear old dad.
that's mary on the left, and partner heather poe on the right.
Mary Cheney Expecting Baby With Her Partner
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By JIM RUTENBERG
Published: December 6, 2006
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 — Mary Cheney, the daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney, is expecting a baby with her partner of 15 years, Heather Poe, Mr. Cheney’s office said today.
Lea Anne McBride, a spokeswoman for Mr. Cheney, said the vice president and his wife, Lynne Cheney, were “looking forward with eager anticipation” to the baby’s birth, which is expected this spring and will bring to six the number of grandchildren the Cheneys have.
Mr. Cheney’s office would not provide details about how Mary Cheney became pregnant or by whom, and Ms. Cheney did not respond to messages left at her office and with her book publisher, Simon & Schuster.
The announcement of Mary Cheney’s pregnancy, which was first reported today by The Washington Post, and her expected status as a same-sex parent, prompted new debate over the administration’s opposition to gay marriage.
Family Pride, a gay rights group, noted that Ms. Cheney’s home state of Virginia does not recognize same-sex marriages or civil unions to same-sex couples.
“The news of Mary Cheney’s pregnancy exemplifies, once again, how the best interests of children are denied when lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender citizens are treated unfairly and accorded different and unequal rights and responsibilities than other parents,” the group’s executive director, Jennifer Chrisler, said in a statement.
Focus on the Family, an influential Christian group that has provided crucial political support to President Bush, released a statement that criticized child rearing by same-sex couples.
“Mary Cheney’s pregnancy raises the question of what’s best for children,” the group’s director of issues analysis, Carrie Gordon Earll, said in a statement. “Just because it’s possible to conceive a child outside of the relationship of a married mother and father doesn’t mean it’s the best for the child. Love can’t replace a mom or a dad.”
In 2004, Ms. Cheney worked on the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign, which was victorious in part because of the so-called values voters who were drawn to the polls in key states by ballot measures seeking to ban same-sex marriage.
Mr. Bush that year voiced strong approval for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, as he did this year, too. While gay rights groups called on Ms. Cheney to speak out against the proposed ban in 2004, she remained silent.
But Ms. Cheney wrote in a book published earlier this year that she had considered resigning from the campaign after learning that Mr. Bush would endorse the proposed amendment. She wrote that her father talked her into staying, arguing that other important issues were at stake in the 2004 campaign.
As she promoted her book this spring, Ms. Cheney said a federal ban on same-sex marriage would “write discrimination into the Constitution.” She also made a donation this year to a group fighting a ballot initiative outlawing gay marriage in Virginia. Voters approved the initiative in November.
The vice president has hinted at his own disapproval of the proposed amendment. Asked where he stood on the issue during a campaign stop in Iowa in 2004, Mr. Cheney said, “Freedom means freedom for everyone.”
Ms. Cheney’s pregnancy is certain to add another wrinkle to the complex relationship between the White House and evangelical Christian leaders, some of whom complained this year that Mr. Bush was not doing enough to fight for a ban on gay marriage.
Dana Perino, a spokeswoman for Mr. Bush, said that Mr. Cheney had recently told the president about his daughter’s pregnancy and that “the president said he was happy for him.” The Cheneys have five grandchildren by their other daughter, Elizabeth.
Ms. Cheney, 37, is a vice president at AOL; Ms. Poe, a former park ranger, is 45.
also, here's a coupla photos of the old girl, ifnya don't know whom I'm speaking of.
holding the Bible for dear old dad.
that's mary on the left, and partner heather poe on the right.
Mary Cheney Expecting Baby With Her Partner
Article Tools Sponsored By
By JIM RUTENBERG
Published: December 6, 2006
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 — Mary Cheney, the daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney, is expecting a baby with her partner of 15 years, Heather Poe, Mr. Cheney’s office said today.
Lea Anne McBride, a spokeswoman for Mr. Cheney, said the vice president and his wife, Lynne Cheney, were “looking forward with eager anticipation” to the baby’s birth, which is expected this spring and will bring to six the number of grandchildren the Cheneys have.
Mr. Cheney’s office would not provide details about how Mary Cheney became pregnant or by whom, and Ms. Cheney did not respond to messages left at her office and with her book publisher, Simon & Schuster.
The announcement of Mary Cheney’s pregnancy, which was first reported today by The Washington Post, and her expected status as a same-sex parent, prompted new debate over the administration’s opposition to gay marriage.
Family Pride, a gay rights group, noted that Ms. Cheney’s home state of Virginia does not recognize same-sex marriages or civil unions to same-sex couples.
“The news of Mary Cheney’s pregnancy exemplifies, once again, how the best interests of children are denied when lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender citizens are treated unfairly and accorded different and unequal rights and responsibilities than other parents,” the group’s executive director, Jennifer Chrisler, said in a statement.
Focus on the Family, an influential Christian group that has provided crucial political support to President Bush, released a statement that criticized child rearing by same-sex couples.
“Mary Cheney’s pregnancy raises the question of what’s best for children,” the group’s director of issues analysis, Carrie Gordon Earll, said in a statement. “Just because it’s possible to conceive a child outside of the relationship of a married mother and father doesn’t mean it’s the best for the child. Love can’t replace a mom or a dad.”
In 2004, Ms. Cheney worked on the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign, which was victorious in part because of the so-called values voters who were drawn to the polls in key states by ballot measures seeking to ban same-sex marriage.
Mr. Bush that year voiced strong approval for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, as he did this year, too. While gay rights groups called on Ms. Cheney to speak out against the proposed ban in 2004, she remained silent.
But Ms. Cheney wrote in a book published earlier this year that she had considered resigning from the campaign after learning that Mr. Bush would endorse the proposed amendment. She wrote that her father talked her into staying, arguing that other important issues were at stake in the 2004 campaign.
As she promoted her book this spring, Ms. Cheney said a federal ban on same-sex marriage would “write discrimination into the Constitution.” She also made a donation this year to a group fighting a ballot initiative outlawing gay marriage in Virginia. Voters approved the initiative in November.
The vice president has hinted at his own disapproval of the proposed amendment. Asked where he stood on the issue during a campaign stop in Iowa in 2004, Mr. Cheney said, “Freedom means freedom for everyone.”
Ms. Cheney’s pregnancy is certain to add another wrinkle to the complex relationship between the White House and evangelical Christian leaders, some of whom complained this year that Mr. Bush was not doing enough to fight for a ban on gay marriage.
Dana Perino, a spokeswoman for Mr. Bush, said that Mr. Cheney had recently told the president about his daughter’s pregnancy and that “the president said he was happy for him.” The Cheneys have five grandchildren by their other daughter, Elizabeth.
Ms. Cheney, 37, is a vice president at AOL; Ms. Poe, a former park ranger, is 45.
12.08.2006
John in India
My dear mentor, John Hay, Jr., is preparing to head to India next month, bicycling hundreds and hundreds of miles over six weeks to raise money to rebuild a hospital. Two bishops are riding with him, benefiting this aging Free Methodist medical building. I snagged the following article from the Indy Star for ya'll to peruse... keep them in your prayers.
IndyStar.com Metro & State
November 27, 2006
Pastor preparing to bike India
Trip helps Free Methodist Church support a rural hospital there
By Diana Penner
diana.penner@indystar.com
John Hay Jr.'s heart has long been in serving the community and God.
Soon, his legs will get involved, too.
Hay, senior pastor at West Morris Street Free Methodist Church since 2003, plans a 2,000-mile bicycle tour of India to raise money to rebuild a rural Indian hospital affiliated with the Free Methodist Church.
"It's a long time in the saddle," Hay said, noting he already has developed, well, saddle sores in training.
Regardless, on the day after Christmas, the 47-year-old father of four is leaving Indianapolis for India.
On Dec. 30, he, two other Americans and two Indians expect to begin their journey from the southern tip of India to New Delhi. They hope to ride 65 to 80 miles a day, six days a week, for about six weeks.
They're not sure where they will sleep each night, but they will have tents when a more permanent structure isn't available.
The goal is to raise $600,000 for Umri Christian Hospital, founded in central India 55 years ago by the physician-father of one of the other American riders, Bob Yardy, a physical therapist born in Umri who now lives near Champaign, Ill.
The third American is Free Methodist Bishop Joseph F. James, one of four North American bishops of the church. James has lost more than 50 pounds preparing for the trek, Hay said.
Hay regularly cycles for health and fun, logging about 4,000 miles a year. Since last summer, though, he has ratcheted up his training and hoped to get in several 60-mile rides this holiday weekend to test himself.
Umri is a 100-bed hospital with a staff of about 35 people, including three full-time doctors and eight full-time nurses. It serves an area of about 300,000 people, Hay said, and relies largely on donations because many of its patients can pay little, if anything, for their health care.
The cyclists, who'll be accompanied by one support car to carry their gear, plan to arrive in Umri around the third week of January, Hay said. They are taking their bicycles along as luggage, plus an array of extra parts and repair equipment.
In addition to raising money for the hospital, the effort already has raised $37,500 to buy 750 bikes for outreach workers in India.
While he's cycling through India, Hay plans to blog daily about the trip, although he hasn't quite figured out the logistics.
"For me, it's a once-in-a-lifetime challenge," he said. "I couldn't do it without the support of the congregation -- they see it as a really important thing to do."
Call Star reporter Diana Penner at (317) 444-6249.
Copyright 2006 IndyStar.com. All rights reserved
***
Want to help?
Tax-deductible donations to Umri Christian Hospital should be sent to the King Trust Charitable Fund, P.O. Box 580, Spring Arbor, MI 49283. Checks should be made out to "Umri Christian Hospital Foundation, Bicycle India 2007."
John Hay Jr., senior pastor at West Morris Street Free Methodist Church, plans to blog daily -- or as often as he can -- while on his 2,000-mile bike trip in India beginning Dec. 30. Follow his trip at www.bicycleindia2007.blogspot.com.
Go to www.bikeindia.org for more.
-- Star report
IndyStar.com Metro & State
November 27, 2006
Pastor preparing to bike India
Trip helps Free Methodist Church support a rural hospital there
By Diana Penner
diana.penner@indystar.com
John Hay Jr.'s heart has long been in serving the community and God.
Soon, his legs will get involved, too.
Hay, senior pastor at West Morris Street Free Methodist Church since 2003, plans a 2,000-mile bicycle tour of India to raise money to rebuild a rural Indian hospital affiliated with the Free Methodist Church.
"It's a long time in the saddle," Hay said, noting he already has developed, well, saddle sores in training.
Regardless, on the day after Christmas, the 47-year-old father of four is leaving Indianapolis for India.
On Dec. 30, he, two other Americans and two Indians expect to begin their journey from the southern tip of India to New Delhi. They hope to ride 65 to 80 miles a day, six days a week, for about six weeks.
They're not sure where they will sleep each night, but they will have tents when a more permanent structure isn't available.
The goal is to raise $600,000 for Umri Christian Hospital, founded in central India 55 years ago by the physician-father of one of the other American riders, Bob Yardy, a physical therapist born in Umri who now lives near Champaign, Ill.
The third American is Free Methodist Bishop Joseph F. James, one of four North American bishops of the church. James has lost more than 50 pounds preparing for the trek, Hay said.
Hay regularly cycles for health and fun, logging about 4,000 miles a year. Since last summer, though, he has ratcheted up his training and hoped to get in several 60-mile rides this holiday weekend to test himself.
Umri is a 100-bed hospital with a staff of about 35 people, including three full-time doctors and eight full-time nurses. It serves an area of about 300,000 people, Hay said, and relies largely on donations because many of its patients can pay little, if anything, for their health care.
The cyclists, who'll be accompanied by one support car to carry their gear, plan to arrive in Umri around the third week of January, Hay said. They are taking their bicycles along as luggage, plus an array of extra parts and repair equipment.
In addition to raising money for the hospital, the effort already has raised $37,500 to buy 750 bikes for outreach workers in India.
While he's cycling through India, Hay plans to blog daily about the trip, although he hasn't quite figured out the logistics.
"For me, it's a once-in-a-lifetime challenge," he said. "I couldn't do it without the support of the congregation -- they see it as a really important thing to do."
Call Star reporter Diana Penner at (317) 444-6249.
Copyright 2006 IndyStar.com. All rights reserved
***
Want to help?
Tax-deductible donations to Umri Christian Hospital should be sent to the King Trust Charitable Fund, P.O. Box 580, Spring Arbor, MI 49283. Checks should be made out to "Umri Christian Hospital Foundation, Bicycle India 2007."
John Hay Jr., senior pastor at West Morris Street Free Methodist Church, plans to blog daily -- or as often as he can -- while on his 2,000-mile bike trip in India beginning Dec. 30. Follow his trip at www.bicycleindia2007.blogspot.com.
Go to www.bikeindia.org for more.
-- Star report
12.03.2006
To the Indianapolis Star
Dear Editor,
I am a member of a performing arts ensemble that found itself rehearsing today out of St. Luke's UMC on 86th. After spending several hours in the building, I exited with my mother to the parking lot, tossing her the keys so I could take a much needed nap on the ride back to Hendricks County. As we approached my vehicle, she asked me why my window had been left down, and then we both realized together that in fact it was broken, not down, and my dash was torn out. My vents were broken and my stereo was gone- glass shards littered the ground and the interior of my vehicle.
After initial shock and a little sadness, I started trying to gather my wits; fortunately my theif didn't have many. My Daytimer sat out in the open, zipped, still full of my credit cards and money. Turns out all he or she got was in fact the stereo, which appears to have put up a little bit of a fight.
So why do I need to tell you all this, dear Editor, and readers? Because I have no idea how to get in touch with this other human who linked themself to me in this act. But I want them to know something: I forgive you. I'm sorry about whatever circumstances are causing you to steal. I mean it. I'm poor now, but I've been poorer, and I know it hurts. I know sometimes we do things to make ourselves feel better for a little while, and some of those things cost money. Sometimes we have kids who want Christmas presents and we can't even afford to buy them new shoes. I'm sorry because one day you may regret this, and nothing will undo what you did today. I'm sorry that we aren't both a little different, because who knows how else we could have been linked other than this theft of a stereo that I'm sorry to say I'm pretty sure you won't get much money for. I wish you had someone in your life that could help you; maybe you do. Maybe that person will show you this letter. But I want you to know that it's alright. And I hope whatever made you do it gets better so you don't have to do it again.
Insurance isn't covering it, but I'll make it work. I hope you're ok.
-Liza Swart
I am a member of a performing arts ensemble that found itself rehearsing today out of St. Luke's UMC on 86th. After spending several hours in the building, I exited with my mother to the parking lot, tossing her the keys so I could take a much needed nap on the ride back to Hendricks County. As we approached my vehicle, she asked me why my window had been left down, and then we both realized together that in fact it was broken, not down, and my dash was torn out. My vents were broken and my stereo was gone- glass shards littered the ground and the interior of my vehicle.
After initial shock and a little sadness, I started trying to gather my wits; fortunately my theif didn't have many. My Daytimer sat out in the open, zipped, still full of my credit cards and money. Turns out all he or she got was in fact the stereo, which appears to have put up a little bit of a fight.
So why do I need to tell you all this, dear Editor, and readers? Because I have no idea how to get in touch with this other human who linked themself to me in this act. But I want them to know something: I forgive you. I'm sorry about whatever circumstances are causing you to steal. I mean it. I'm poor now, but I've been poorer, and I know it hurts. I know sometimes we do things to make ourselves feel better for a little while, and some of those things cost money. Sometimes we have kids who want Christmas presents and we can't even afford to buy them new shoes. I'm sorry because one day you may regret this, and nothing will undo what you did today. I'm sorry that we aren't both a little different, because who knows how else we could have been linked other than this theft of a stereo that I'm sorry to say I'm pretty sure you won't get much money for. I wish you had someone in your life that could help you; maybe you do. Maybe that person will show you this letter. But I want you to know that it's alright. And I hope whatever made you do it gets better so you don't have to do it again.
Insurance isn't covering it, but I'll make it work. I hope you're ok.
-Liza Swart
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