Kemple Runs a Fundamentally Stealth Campaign
Terry Kemple, the Bell Shoals Baptist based Christian crusader against everything from bikini bars to bathrooms is running for a seat on the Hillsborough County School board. This a county wide seat to oversee almost 200,000 students and over 11,000 teachers working at about 250 schools in the 8th largest school district in the country.
Per his campaign website, his primary qualifications for the job include the stunning feat of once having managed a full blown baker's dozen of helpers and the fact that some of his grandchildren are in school. No mention of his own educational achievements or background, but he's deeply religious, so Jesus will help him get up to speed.
Kemple is running on ideas that are both substantive and designed to inform voters of his oft repeated beliefs that the Christian creation myth should be taught in science classes and that abstinence only should be taught from 6th grade through college graduation comprised of meaningless drivel about accountability and cooperation and can be boiled down to the three simplistic phrases that anchor his "platform" while managing to say absolutely nothing:
That gruel is pretty thin. Where are the rants against Darwin and calls for teachers to have the "academic freedom" to proselytize? How about demands to build the public school calendar around Christian holidays? And what about abstinence only?
Any bill that goes beyond abstinence-only is "antifamily and anti-God" because it will encourage sex outside marriage, said Terry Kemple, a Christian community activist in Brandon who once ran a sexual-abstinence ministry.
"You don't give kids an option like that without expecting them to exercise the option," said Kemple, who has also been active in opposing the state's proposed new science standards because they embrace Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. "There should be an unequivocal, zero-tolerance program. 'You will not have sex.' That's it."
Don't the voters need to know about Terry Kemple's stands on these divisive issues?
Apparently Mr. Kemple is running something of a Stealth campaign. It's a good strategy in this non-partisan election in which there wont even be a "D" or an "R" next to any candidate's name on the ballot, since his name recognition in the religious right community is huge, and the lack of any fairly recent public activism on his part has allowed most other voters to gratefully forget all about Terry Kemple and the numerous odious stands he has taken in the past.
So come November, certain churchgoers with church approved voting lists in hand will be sure to check the box for Kemple, and a certain percentage of uninformed voters will check that box out of name recognition, and some will check it randomly, and when all the checks are added up, the 8th largest school district in the country might have Terry Kemple as one of its members.
Which makes his platform more of a campaign strategy:
"You can't expect what you can't inspect."
Terry doesn't want the voters to inspect his actual views...
"Concentrating on using the resources we have to their maximum is far more important than worrying about how to get more."
The religious right community will provide the votes...
"Together we can make a difference."
Jeebus for everyone! Bwaaaaahahahahahahahaha!!!
Thankfully, someone has taken the time to put together a site that is infinitely more informative than Kemple's own official campaign site. It's one stop shopping for all of Terry's krazy krusades.
You can learn about Terry's DisPepsi campaign. You'll reminisce about days gone by as you read about and fondly recall the billboards of yore featuring made up "quotes" from our founding fathers, and you will wonder how our kids have survived this long without Terry's guidance as you learn about his heroic efforts to excise Darwin from our public schools.
Link to this site often, and send it to any of your friends who vote in Hillsborough County. If the electorate is informed, Terry Kemple can be sent back to Bell Shoals to drink Coke and our kids might just be allowed to learn.
Government Kidnaps Christian Children!
Lori Allain, victim of sinful persecution!
RL here.
Well, the fascist army of the godless government is at it again. First, we had Waco and Ruby Ridge. Now Tom's River will forever be invoked with the same prayerful short intake of breath.
On Wednesday, God's soldiers Arthur and Lori Allain were unlawfully apprehended in a Tom's River, N.J., motel room along with several of their offspring.
Their supposed crime: child abuse!
That's right – the 'authorities' have once again ignored the will of God and have manufactured evidence in order to take these righteous folks into custody and kidnap their natural children.
A fugitive wanted along with her husband in Hernando County, Allain is accused of starving a 10-year-old girl to 29 pounds and locking her in a back room in the couple's Royal Highlands mobile home.
......After two and a half months of searching, authorities captured the elusive Allains in Room 150 of a Quality Inn motel on Route 37.
......Lori Allain, 49, and Tommy Allain, 47, are scheduled to appear before an Ocean County judge at 1:30 p.m. today to determine when they will return to Florida to stand trial. If they waive their right to a hearing, the couple could be extradited to Hernando County within a week, said Robert Gasser, of the Ocean County prosecutor's office. Otherwise, it could take about a month.
No Bail On Return
The couple face charges of aggravated child abuse in Florida. The Allains have testified the girl in their care had an eating disorder and that she and her older brother were severely abused by their mother, prompting them to lie and steal food.
An independent state investigation found Department of Children & Families caseworkers repeatedly missed warning signs and should have removed the children from the Allain home.
......Hurricane Wilma hit South Florida Oct. 24, delaying the trial until the next day. The couple have said in previous interviews they weren't notified of the change. They ran from the law, Lori Allain has said, to protect their sons from going into state custody.
Lori, whose tribute to the lord on her chest reads 'Only God Can Judge Me' in reverential script, vigorously refutes the charges.
"I'm going to tell you what. . . . Get up off my family. Got it? And you can quote me on that."
"I have no fear in this case."
"I would like the truth to be out there. To me, the truth comes out, and then me and my husband have no fears."
"You've got to understand. The biker world is a very, very big organization, and they're all over the U.S. and the world. When they know you're right . . .
you're not going to find us.""People tend to judge us because we have tattoos and wear leather. Everyone keeps referring to this tattoo (across her chest that says "Only God Can Judge Me"). That's been on my chest since 2000. It doesn't come from this case. That's my belief. They stereotype you. All these people can judge me. Guess what? I don't care. On the final day God's going to judge me. And he knows my heart. He knows I'm a good person."
"I didn't agree her weight was 29 pounds. I think her weight was 34 pounds."
"I'm a people person like you wouldn't believe."
Obviously, this God fearing couple have been set up by the secular leftist homosexual agendists, but those forces may well have miscalculated, and when the Christian bikers get through with Hernando County... well, let's just say that the Sheriff up there better find Jesus pretty soon.
Poor timing
This report is making the rounds.
Tax refunds sought by 1.6 million poor Americans over the last five years were frozen and their returns labeled fraudulent, although the vast majority appear to have done nothing wrong, the Internal Revenue Service's taxpayer advocate told Congress yesterday.
A computer program identified the refund requests as suspect and automatically flagged the taxpayers for extra scrutiny for years to come, the advocate said in her annual report to Congress. These taxpayers were not told that the I.R.S. criminal investigation division suspected fraud.
The advocate, Nina Olson, said the I.R.S. devoted vastly more resources to pursuing questionable refunds sought by the poor - which under the highest estimate is $9 billion - than to the $100 billion in taxes not paid each year by people who work for cash and either fail to file tax returns or understate their income.
As for the suspected fraud in refund requests, Ms. Olson said her staff sampled the suspect returns and found that 66 percent were entitled to the amount sought or more. Another 14 percent were due a partial refund. She expressed doubt that many among the remaining 20 percent had committed fraud.
......"At a minimum, this procedure constitutes an extraordinary violation of fundamental taxpayer rights and fairness," Ms. Olson wrote, adding that it "may also constitute a violation of due process of law."
Her staff's sample of frozen returns found that the average reported income was about $13,000 and the refund due was about $3,500.
About three-quarters of those affected were employed parents who applied for the earned-income tax credit, under which all income and Social Security taxes can be returned and, in some cases, a payment made.
Which makes the timing of this corporate welfare education scheme* rather unfortunate.
This week a consortium of public and private nonprofit groups began trying to get employers in the Tampa area to encourage low- and middle-income workers to take advantage of the earned income credit this tax season. The credit can reduce the amount of taxes owed. Taxpayers can qualify for between $399 and $4,400 in tax credits.
On Tuesday, the consortium, called the Prosperity Campaign, approached employers in the West Shore business district, where an estimated 4,000 businesses are situated.
"There are lots of entry-level workers we need to reach," said Ron Rotella, executive director of the Westshore Alliance, a business group that plans to help educate workers about the overlooked credit.
Daley says she hopes the campaign is a success. Bosses benefit if workers are educated about the tax credit.
"It gives you a much better employee," Daley said. "I may work harder because my boss appreciates me."
Uh, yeah... my boss appreciates me to the point of underpaying me so severely that the government feels obligated to supplement my meager pay.
*Government subsidized payroll in the form of a tax credit that employers are touting as extra income.
BlogWood Exclusive: Leaked Memo Maps Schools Strategy
According to untrustworthy high level school board sources, the recent revelation that Governor Jeb! Bush feels that evolution need not be included in any future statewide science standards combined with the upcoming fight over the future of sex education in Hillsborough County Schools have spurred this anonymous internal memo, apparently written by a conservative School Board member and leaked to BlogWood by a super-secret mole, which very frankly lays out the basic framework for dealing with these and other burning issues.
From: (Redacted)
To: School Board Members
Re: A simple strategy for dealing with many contentious issues
All:
We received a real wakeup call when we tried to mess with the Christian holidays. Despite the fact that our new policies on holidays and absences mirrored those in many other districts, our righteous brothers rose up and demanded that we acknowledge no other deity but our own. Threatened with eternal damnation at the polls, we meekly complied, looking foolish as we fecklessly flip flopped.
We really need to avoid confrontations like that in the future, and I think I have the perfect strategy for dealing with some current and upcoming issues that might raise the ire of some of our constituents.
The contentious issues in question are the Gay Sex Clubs that have sprung up in many of our high schools, Intelligent Design v Evolution, and sex education.
Let's combine these three seemingly unrelated but equally controversial topics into one easy to manage policy: the Forced Abstinent Design (FAD!) Club.
Here's how it will work:
It's well documented that abstinent equals straight, so we simply cure our gay students by forcing them to be abstinent. No more need for a Gay Sex Club.
Now, many of you may be howling with derision right about now, for it is well established that gays, much like rabbits, have little more than sex on their minds at all times. We'll overcome this problem of enforcement by utilizing the Pink Triangle Male Chastity Belt. Designed for men and boys, this sturdy contraption blocks all rear entry access with its stylish and lightweight but incredibly strong aluminum alloy construction. For instructional and other purposes, school principals, parents, and members of the clergy will have keys.
As for the girls, common sense dictates that girls cannot by homos, since, obviously, they have no little soldiers to insert into unclean orifi.
We'll introduce our kids to the Abstinence Only lifestyle in the FAD! Club, reinforcing the Pink Triangle Male Chastity Belt with peer pressure and intrusive governmental spying to ensure that both straight and formerly gay kids toe the line. We make membership in the FAD! Club a requirement for graduation. Since Abstinence Only is being taught in the FAD! Club, there is no need for any actual sex education in the curriculum proper.
Finally, on non-Christian religious holidays, we'll sponsor Intelligent Design theme parties, encouraging all students to take part by dressing up as their favorite Biblical historical character, honoring God the unknown designer who put life on earth just 10,000 years ago.
I think that we can all agree that these contentious issues could well tear apart our community and cause rifts that could take years to heal. By enacting the FAD! Club and making attendance mandatory, we will avoid potential confrontation by eliminating any possibility of controversy.
Storms does Bay Area proud
(Note: Yes, this is the post that I promised to put up yesterday. Yes, it is late. For those of you who have been waiting with baited breath, I apologize, and I will fully refund the cost of your subscription upon request.)
Howls of derision from the usual sources are accompanying Ronda Storms' (R – Homophoburbia) testing of the waters for a possible State Senate run. Call me crazy, but I, for one, think it's a great opportunity for the Tampa area.
Look, for the past few years, due to the hard work of Rep. Dennis Baxley, Ocala has been in the legislative limelight as Dennis' wise leadership has led to numerous widely noted initiatives.
It's time for the Bay Area to stand up and send our own Dennis Baxley to Tallahassee. With the experience Ronda has in Hillsborough County's political minor leagues, she should be able to hit the ground ranting and make an immediate impression state wide that will bring our area the widespread recognition that it deserves.
Patriot Baxley chairs the House Education Panel, and one of his top priorities has been to ensure that every classroom in Florida is equipped with a properly sized American flag. Some classrooms were actually displaying non-conforming flags and buying textbooks and computers with funds that could have been used for jingoistic displays. Baxley sponsored a bill that put an end to those questionable practices.
He also led the charge for the state to save poor Terri Schiavo's productive and meaningful life. Some people, such as Terri's evil husband, felt that Terri's stated wish to die should she ever find herself absent a functioning brain should be honored. Baxley knew better, and sponsored a bill explicitly designed to derail our society's 'culture of death.'
Speaking of death, Dennis' best known effort might be the 'Cracker Git Yer Gun' law which allows a citizen to legally shoot criminals and other brown skinned types who may seem to be a threat. This law was way overdue and replaces the much weaker castle doctrine. The castle doctrine is for pussies.
Baxley is also actively involved in an effort to reign in liberal college professors and protect vulnerable young fascists from having to engage in thought while attending institutions of higher education. See, those liberal professors abuse the young republicans by basing grades on evidence that students have absorbed and retained a portion of the brainwashing reeducation that is common on our communist infested campuses. Baxley knows that this is an unfair abuse of power on the part of the professors.
These are but a few examples of the work that Baxley has done, all of which reflects back on his home district of Ocala.
Based on her local performance to date, our own Ronda, should she find herself in Tallahassee, could easily jump right in and make a splash in the Senate, bringing some much needed notice to our area.
Ronda wisely micromanages public library decisions, and provided the spark that gained Tampa national recognition as the area which is morally strong enough to stand up against the homosexual agenda.
Ronda is leading the fight against nudity. As a conservative, she knows that any government which allows its citizens to practice freedom of speech by gallivanting around all nekkid is not exercising enough control.
And, much like our glorious President, Ronda recently broke the law and violated people's civil liberties in order to protect us all from severe threats. In Ronda's case, she had the moral strength to interfere with the opening of a bikini bar – an establishment that fully intended to employ scantily clad sexually loose harpies to trick good Christian men into consuming mass quantities of alcohol.
I could go on and on listing Ronda's numerous accomplishments, but her good works are just too numerous to fully document. Suffice it to say the Ronda is ready for the big leagues, and if elected, she's sure to garner tons of state and national publicity for Tampa and Hillsborough County.
So, run, Ronda, run! Let's show those hicks in Tallahassee what Tampa is made of!
Run, Ronda, run!
Later today: Ronda Storm's would do the Bay Area proud as State Senator. Find out why, later this afternoon at BlogWood!
Don we now our gay apparel
Joe Redner has a holiday gift for Ronda Storms and Killer B. Brian Blair.
Joe Redner, king of the strip clubs, says he's gay.
The disclosure came in his federal lawsuit against Hillsborough County commissioners, who recently banned the county from acknowledging or participating in gay pride events.
The longtime activist who has made millions from strip clubs said he included his sexual orientation to bolster his argument that the policy directly affects him.
His original suit, filed in October, didn't mention he was gay. Concerned that he needed to show a personal connection, he added the language to papers filed last week in the case.
Asked about that new information, Redner's voice shook a bit as he said he was frustrated that his sexual orientation would merit such attention. He confirmed that he is gay and denied that he would say he's gay simply as a legal strategy.
"Why is everybody so afraid to be a homosexual?" said Redner, 65, who has been married twice and has children and grandchildren. "They don't even have a right to ask the question whether I'm a homosexual or not. They don't have that right. They think you choose to be a homosexual."
Put it this way: unless someone can prove Joe Redner is not gay by producing pictures of him not in bed with a live boy, it's totally up to Joe to make the determination.
Past behavior has absolutely no bearing on the issue. Our raging Christian-led homophobia ensures that many folks remain closeted for most or all of their lives.
Further, there exists no physical test for gayness. I can truthfully declare myself gay today and straight (or cured!) tomorrow, based solely on what I perceive to be my feelings at a given moment in time.
Homosexuality is defined as attraction to members of the same sex, said Michael Cole, a spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign. It's about orientation, Cole said, not necessarily partners.
"The best way to know if someone is gay is to ask," said Cole, whose group is a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender political organization.
......But county Commissioner Brian Blair, a defendant in Redner's lawsuit, said he doesn't buy it.
"I just think it's a publicity stunt," Blair said. "Why would this have not come out before?"
This is gonna drive Ronda and Brian batty.
Radio hosts Jack Harris and Tedd Webb were grilling Redner on his recent disclosure of his sexual orientation - homosexual.
When the truthfulness of his revelation in federal court records was questioned, Redner answered: "That would be perjury." Then he laughed.
Storms flipped.
"I said to myself, "It's a court of law, it's not a circus, this is serious, the integrity of the court is serious,' " Storms told the Times on Tuesday.
Schiavo forms PAC
The husband of the Pinellas County woman who became the focus of a national end-of-life controversy has started a political action committee to keep the heat on politicians who tried to intervene in the case and fight his efforts to remove her feeding tube.
"The easiest thing would be to move on and let the headlines fade," Schiavo said in a statement Wednesday. "But my experience with our political leaders has opened my eyes to just how easily the private wishes of normal Americans like me and Terri can be cast aside in the destructive game of political pandering."
The Schiavo controversy already had emerged as a political issue. Polls showed voters overwhelmingly supporting Michael Schiavo's position in the debate, and Democrats in Florida and elsewhere routinely bring up Schiavo to cast the GOP as out of touch.
......When courts consistently ruled in his favor, leaders in Tallahassee and Washington tried to step in to keep her alive. President Bush cut short a vacation in Texas last year to join more than 200 members of Congress who passed legislation designed to force the reinsertion of her feeding tube.
"Those politicians lost a basic respect for marriage, family and personal privacy," Schiavo said.
The new federal PAC, TerriPAC, will raise money to "educate voters on where their elected officials stood when they had a choice between individual freedom and personal privacy and overreaching government action."
Another political committee is planned to concentrate on state races in Florida.
TerriPAC will request donations through its Internet site (www.TerriPAC.org) which also will provide information on how members of Congress voted on the Schiavo bill and what they said on the issue. The site also will encourage people to obtain living wills.
......"It would be easy to dismiss my actions as partisan. But I was a lifelong Republican before Republicans pushed the power of government into my private family decisions," Schiavo said. "And it is not so simple to forget those politicians who shamelessly sought to squeeze political leverage out of my family's most emotional hour."
His critics remain unforgiving.
His endorsement of Virginia's new governor, Tim Kaine, drew attention. Now, TerriPAC's targets are Florida gubernatorial candidates, U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., U.S. Senate Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., and U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, the embattled former House majority leader, said Schiavo's adviser, Florida-based Democratic political consultant Derek Newton.
Schiavo said he is channeling his "sadness, anger and worry" into defeating "politicians who shamelessly sought to squeeze political leverage out of my family's most emotional hour."
Others see different motives.
"He's exploiting a tragic situation and dishonoring Terri's memory," said Anthony Verdugo, director of Miami-based Christian Family Coalition.
Vote and bare it: Antinudity ordinance may dance onto Nov. ballot
On Wednesday, Ronda Storms had a premature referendum.
"I may be dead wrong," Storms told her colleagues.
Her proposal caught commissioners off guard. They said it's premature to call for a referendum.
......Hagan and other commissioners said they support Storms' desire to put the ordinance to a vote and could place it on the ballot in November.
The nudity issue flared during a morning discussion about prohibiting mobile adult entertainment venues, such as the "stripper bus" parked outside Raymond James Stadium during the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' most recent home game.
Hagan said he wants lawyers to review whether regulations deal with mobile adult entertainment or whether changes to strengthen the laws are needed.
Storms said taking such an approach to the adult industry, which she described as "a bottomless pit of creativity," was piecemeal.
Last year, commissioners refused to allow a nonbinding referendum on whether to ban nude entertainment, even after 10,000 people signed petitions calling for the vote.
This year, the county hired attorney Scott Bergthold, who specializes in adult regulations, for $10,000 to review county rules that restrict, but do not prohibit, nude entertainment.