Saturday afternoon I was channel surfing when I came across this man, Donnie Swaggart, of "Donnie Swaggart Ministries" in Baton Rogue, LA.  (Does naming his ministry after himself say anything about his ego?)  He is the son of Pastor Jimmy Swaggart who got into trouble with prostitutes. 

Anyway, I watched him go through a sermon with all the screaming and pointing and hopping across the stage.  About half way through his sermon he began to point out that Catholic priests were guilty of child abuse for years without pointing out the similar number of pastors and youth pastors with the same problem in the protestant world.  ( I used to follow a website that monitored case after case of pastors and youth pastors arrested for child molesting. http://mojoey.blogspot.com/)

Anyway, he went on to say that the "gay agenda" was to get the law of the land changed to lower the age of consent for sex for children to as low as six years old, inferring that gays were pedophiles.  What a crock!!

But it's important to understand just what kind of ideas some of the religious extremists wrap their heads around. 

I actually saw Santa in a commercial last night!!  Amazing!!

Last night I upgraded my cell phone to an Apple 6.  My old phone was a hand-me-down from Josh and was a 3.0 or 4.3, something like that.  My old phone got to where it wouldn't update some of my applications because it was too old, so it was time to change. 

This billboard was put up in the home town of Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples and went to jail for contempt of court.  Nice!!

I haven't always seen eye to eye with the judges at fanstory.com. They've thrown a couple of my submissions out of contests because they didn't fit their strict rules. So today's writing prompt is to write a short poem that is no more than eight lines and the first word starts with my first initial and the last word starts with my last initial. Here is my entry:

Judge This!!

Keep it short, eight lines, no more.

Break their rules, the judges roar.

Toss your work into the trash,

Really sets my teeth to gnash.

Bare your heart, put pen to paper,

Break the rules it turns to vapor.

Speak your mind to no avail,

Toe the line or you will fail. 

--Ken Ferguson--

I had a physical last Wednesday and everything seems to be fine.  I'm still borderline diabetic and need to work on my diet and more exercise.  I asked my doctor again if I could get a quick liposuction and tummy tuck, and just like last year, she just laughed at me.  Even when I told her I would do better this time in keeping the weight off if she would give me another chance, she turned me down.  :-( 

Happy Birthday to Jo Raquel Tajada, aka Raquel Welch, who turns 75 years young today.

Raquel has been married four times and has two grown children.

Raquel started her career with small television parts on McHale's Navy,"  "The Virginian," and "Mork & Mindy."

He big break came when she appeared in "One Million Years B.C." in a fur bikini.

 Happy birthday to a favorite around my house, actor Mark Harmon who turns 64 years old today.  Mark is married to actress Pam Dawber of "Mork & Mindy" fame, and they have two grown children. We still watch Mark on "NCIS" reruns. 

Those were the days!!

The writing prompt today at fanstory.com was "She didn't lock her door..." and this is what I came up with:

A Lesson Learned

She didn’t lock her door that day,

“I was running late,” she’d later say.

“My one year old was throwing a fit,

My head was throbbing, I felt like shit.” 

A crook discovered the unlocked house,

He snuck on in; as quiet as a mouse.

He helped himself to the pick of her riches,

Even took a pair of her old denim britches. 

Officers were called and arrived in a hurry,

Doing their job, so it seemed in a flurry.

Searching for evidence, and dusting for prints,

Looking out for clues, and checking for hints.

A print was developed; the CSI ran to the lab,

In no time at all she’d identified the cad.

Officers moved quickly and arrested the crook,

They even recovered the britches he took.  

“I’ve sure learned my lesson,” she said with a grin,

“I’m sure I’ll never ever do that ever again. 

The cops were just super; I can’t thank them enough.

For arresting the bad guy and recovering my stuff. “
--Ken Ferguson--

American self help author and motivational speaker Wayne Dyer died yesterday at the age of 75.  I have read several of his books and heard him speak in person a couple of years ago.