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Good Intentions Spark
Swift Condemnation
Last week, District Two
Councilwoman and now
notorious homosexual Aja
Edwards* posted the following
to the Moms of New Braunfels
Facebook page: Hi moms! Im in the
beginning stages of working on some programs
and resources for LGBT youth in NB. If you are a
mom of a child who is out or the mom of a child
who might be struggling with sexual or gender
identity issues, please PM or comment here.
Im looking to use these parents and kids as a
research panel to see what kinds of programs
might be needed. Thanks!
Uh oh. For those of you that might not
know, LGBT stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual,
and Transgender - you know, the next foregone
conclusion in civil rights. Reaction was mixed,
but one respondent got the attention of the
community at large pretty quick. Im not going to
mention her name or that of her Facebook page,
as Im currently practicing something called
impulse control, but heres her quote: Anyone
else have a problem with this? Get out of city
council if you want to promote LGBT issues in
NB. Agree? for (sic) Disagree?
Get out of city council if you want to promote
LGBT issues in NB. Well. That certainly perked
my ears up. I immediately began thinking about
what other charitable causes someone might
advocate that could disqualify that someone from
holding elected offce. I couldnt think of any,
because thats a really dumb premise.
Then I thought about what Judge Dib
Waldrip wrote to the Houston-owned Herald-
Zeitung when the Boy Scouts started to allow
the gay to join their merry band of campers.
Not even I called for Waldrips head on a
stick for that one*, although a case could be
made that the random homo might be at a
disadvantage in his courtroom. My advice to
gays: dial down the fabulous a few notches
when appearing before Dib, and dont be
upset about it. Its a huge leg up to know a
judges opinion on things before having to go
before one. Gotta use that edge. (Tip: Judge
Boyer is a total mark for Star Trek.)
Anyway, the gist of that issue was that
Dib now considers the title of Eagle Scout
diminished because openly gay boys (you
know, sissies) are now in the
running to earn it. Fair enough.
The Scouts (despite their
obsession with rope and knots)
are a traditional faith-based
organization, and frankly,
traditional religion is, in general,
not so homo friendly. They dont
have to be, as everyone has a right to
associate with whom they choose, arguments
and lawsuits about public accommodations
notwithstanding. The Christian churches (and
Jewish and possibly Islamic organizations) that
are ok with the gay, while very nice and all,
arent paying attention to their own holy books.
Those books are pretty clear on the issue.
The animus is ancient. Middle Eastern goat
herders did not dig on the gay. They just had a
real problem with it for some reason, and even
today people refer back to those guys for moral
instruction on all manner of issues. Its tough
being of the homo, and has been for a good
long while. Maybe we should give the gays a
break and let them hold offce. After all, youre
not going to fnd many gay politicians that dont
advocate for homo youth. That would be like
expecting a Jew to accept your invitation to
come over for ham sandwiches. Kinda. Which
reminds me, Edwards is also a Jew. Oh snap.
There goes the neighborhood.
There was another comment made later in
the conversation, by another respondent, about
Edwards ftness to hold offce. This one made
my blood run cold. Not because its anti-gay, but
because there are people who base their votes
on things like whos snuggling with whom and
how rather than where the tax money goes:
She was married with step children and after
becoming elected shes divorced and gay...
Seems as shady as any politician. I believe
change starts in small government such as city
council, well I dont want someone representing
the city when she can vote and truly represent
who she truly is. I mean, thats a new level of
stupid. But it does explain A LOT.
Gods forbid that woman discover that
Edwards was married to a non-white. There was
a time that would keep one from holding offce
as well. District Two might have pre-empted this
whole thing had enough of the right people
been paying attention.
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Continued from page 3.
For the record, the person that made the
divorced and gay comment also vowed to
be at every City Council meeting from that
point on, but failed to appear on Monday
night. We know because we waited for her.
Perhaps her investigation into the sexual
history of her new landscape architect/
offce furniture saleslady/oil change guy ran
overtime. Cant be too careful with whom one
does business with, after all.
I bristle at all manner of tribalism, but its
a fact that this is how humanity behaves and
weve got to live with it - see the frst episode
of this seasons The Walking Dead for an
example of where viewing others as the not
us gets everybody, eventually. (Seriously, its
real good. Not much Carl.) I hate the idea that
gay youth need special support, but they do,
and the reason is that there is a good portion
of society thats on a mission to marginalize
them. If they werent treated as a separate
tribe, they wouldnt act like one. Not that
theres anything wrong with that.
I will say this. When I was a kid, the gays
were way more interesting. The amount of
nonsense the average gay had to put up with 30
years ago meant that only the most brazen and
slightly crazed of the bunch would dare let on
that they werent just like everyone else. They had
the money and energy the rest of the citizenry
spent on kids, and as a class those people made
some great art. They wrote plays and painted
paintings or at the very least enjoyed the heck out
of them. Those queers had bravado.
Today, being gay is considered damn
near normal in much of the civilized world,
and your average homo is as mundane as
the rest of us. I know dozens of gay men. A
disturbing number of them go to bed at 9pm,
just like I do. It may seem as if gay culture has
been tamed, but thats not really the case. The
boring majority simply made their existence
known, having been there the whole time,
silently enduring a ridiculous judgment.
Homos have been cast out, as it were. Gay
pride parades and musical theater and excellent
taste in fabrics didnt pop up out of a vacuum.
When just getting up in the morning is an act of
defance against a good portion of the populace,
the boldest of an affected tribe will raise a fag to
let you know that while theyve been separated,
they wont be ignored. We really should expect
that by now, what with womens suffrage and
whatnot. How many times does a culture need to
learn the same lesson?
Heres an experiment for you - start
telling people the color of their skin makes
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Continued from page 3.
For the record, the person that made the
divorced and gay comment also vowed to
be at every City Council meeting from that
point on, but failed to appear on Monday
night. We know because we waited for her.
Perhaps her investigation into the sexual
history of her new landscape architect/
offce furniture saleslady/oil change guy ran
overtime. Cant be too careful with whom one
does business with, after all.
I bristle at all manner of tribalism, but its
a fact that this is how humanity behaves and
weve got to live with it - see the frst episode
of this seasons The Walking Dead for an
example of where viewing others as the not
us gets everybody, eventually. (Seriously, its
real good. Not much Carl.) I hate the idea that
gay youth need special support, but they do,
and the reason is that there is a good portion
of society thats on a mission to marginalize
them. If they werent treated as a separate
tribe, they wouldnt act like one. Not that
theres anything wrong with that.
I will say this. When I was a kid, the gays
were way more interesting. The amount of
nonsense the average gay had to put up with 30
years ago meant that only the most brazen and
slightly crazed of the bunch would dare let on
that they werent just like everyone else. They had
the money and energy the rest of the citizenry
spent on kids, and as a class those people made
some great art. They wrote plays and painted
paintings or at the very least enjoyed the heck out
of them. Those queers had bravado.
Today, being gay is considered damn
near normal in much of the civilized world,
and your average homo is as mundane as
the rest of us. I know dozens of gay men. A
disturbing number of them go to bed at 9pm,
just like I do. It may seem as if gay culture has
been tamed, but thats not really the case. The
boring majority simply made their existence
known, having been there the whole time,
silently enduring a ridiculous judgment.
Homos have been cast out, as it were. Gay
pride parades and musical theater and excellent
taste in fabrics didnt pop up out of a vacuum.
When just getting up in the morning is an act of
defance against a good portion of the populace,
the boldest of an affected tribe will raise a fag to
let you know that while theyve been separated,
they wont be ignored. We really should expect
that by now, what with womens suffrage and
whatnot. How many times does a culture need to
learn the same lesson?
Heres an experiment for you - start
telling people the color of their skin makes
them inherently different from each other and
see how long it takes before it becomes a
problem for everybody.
Ok, now do it with eye color. Or hat
color. Or weight. Its easy to create and drive
a meaningless wedge. Were all different from
one another in thousands of defnable ways,
so it hardly requires any thought whatsoever.
A feeling of inadequacy that needs to be
projected onto somebody else will do just fne.
Those that choose that path should keep in
mind that sooner or later theyre going to fnd
somebody they love or respect on the other side
of an unnecessary gulf. And thats going to
make for a bad day indeed - choosing between
conscience and ideology is a tough gig. If you
ask me, its best to integrate them ahead of
time. That requires a good deal of effort and
moral courage, however.
Before I close this out, let me throw this
one into the mix: The gay kids who buy into the
marginalization that too many are selling - and
almost any teenager will - become automatic
prey for societys creeps. These older, trusted
friends (most often male authority fgures)
move in where they see a weakness, and exploit
it until maybe the law catches up with them.
Factor in the gay teen suicide rate, and then tell
us that someone who wants to help isnt ft to
hold public offce. Perhaps its you, Madam Two-
Shoes, who isnt ft to provide moral instruction.
(At least to us guys - see 1 Timothy 2:12)
\m/
Mike Reynolds
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heavy on the controls. Its an honor to fy, but I
cant say its a fun aircraft to fy.
The B-25 is fun to fy, this one is not. In the
air, its real stable. You point it somewhere and
it wants to keep going that way, but it does not
want to turn or do something different. It takes
a lot of muscle to get it around.
Debbie has 25 years of fight experience
behind her and began fying the Superfortress
two years ago. She compared fying the plane
to driving an 18-wheeler with nine fats.
Debbie is the frst woman to fy the B-29
in 65 years. She explained the signifcant role
women played in aircrafts history.
During testing, the planes main test pilot
was killed and the aircraft had numerous
problems, least of which was its habit of
catching fre.
When the chief test pilot was killed, it
sent ripples through the ranks of pilots, she
said. The pilots felt it was an unsafe aircraft
and was not ready to fy, and so Paul Tibbets,
who was in charge of the B-29 program,
was having trouble getting the pilots into the
airplane. So, he went to Sweetwater, Texas,
and picked up a couple of Women Air Service
Pilots and trained them quietly. He then took
them around the air bases and forced his men
to watch women to fy the aircraft. He had no
problems after that.
The CAF base at San Marcos Airport
has a phenomenal collection of WWII-era
aircraft, the most impressive of which is Yellow
Rose, a B-25. The B-25 was a medium-range
bomber and used extensively in both theaters
of the war. It was the B-25 that was used in
the famous Doolittle Raid, when 16 B-25s took
off from an aircraft carrier and attacked the
Japanese mainland in April, 1942. The attack
shocked the Japanese, who thought they were
invulnerable to attack. Unable to land on the
carrier, 15 of the planes had to be ditched in
China, while one few to Russia.
The Yellow Rose fies to numerous events
across the country, but when she is at home,
those wishing to take a ride in the plane can
do so for $450 ($425 if pre-registered).
The Central Texas Wing in San Marcos
also has a (faux) Japanese Zero and
Japanese Kate, a torpedo plane, which were
cobbled together from other planes of the
period. Both planes were used in the movie,
Tora, Tora, Tora. The Kate was also used in
the movie Pearl Harbor.
Besides the several beautiful planes in the
hangar, the San Marcos base also sports an
impressive museum, which contains numerous
items from the Second World War. There is a
collection of American uniforms and fightsuits,
but there is also a Nazi offcers uniform, some
Russian uniforms and Japanese pilot suits.
As well, there are medals, medallions and
small arms from a variety of combatants. Any
historian or lover of history could easily spend
hours in the museum.
CAF volunteer Mel Soderberg showed
us what could be the museums most
impressive piece: a non-descript, rusted
plank of metal. However, the piece was the
plate used in the seat from Lt. Col. Jimmy
Doolittles B-25, which crashed in China
after the attack on Japan.
Soderberg has been a dedicated CAF
volunteer since 2005.
I got involved with CAF because I liked
the program and what they were doing, he
said. Its important to teach history, especially
to kids. We probably few more than 100 kids
last year at no charge.
To keep the CAF and its Central Texas
Wing flying, naturally, is expensive. The
Yellow Rose B-25, for example, burns
150 gallons of fuel per hour. And besides
the upkeep of the planes already housed
there, the group is continually working on
newly acquired planes.
Besides such events as the B-29 fy in,
which also included a C-14, the Central Texas
Wing holds a number of fundraisers. On
Friday, November 8, the group will hold its
annual 1940s-style Dinner Dance. There will
be food, a huge Glenn Miller-esque swing
band and a big dance foor. The event will be
held in the hangar.
Clint Epley is the museums curator and is
charge of organizing the Dinner Dance. Epley,
who has fown practically every plane in the
hangar, was a Navy pilot for 26 years and
reached the rank of commander.
Epley hopes to again raise at least
$30,000 from the event, which will be enough
to keep the organization fying.
If we sell out, we will make our
goal, he said. We have room for 1,200
people and we usually have more than
1,000 show up.
Epley said that he is impressed by the
large numbers of younger people who show
up to dance to swing music and noted that
most of the participants show up in the
proper period attire.
1940s attire is not required, but
is encouraged, he said. Probably 70
percent of the people come dressed from
the 1940s.
The cost for the Dinner Dance is $45 per
person, or $550 for a premier table for 10.
Dinner is from 6-7:30 p.m., and the dancing
begins at 7:30 and runs until 11 p.m.
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Dear Mexican: Ive heard that
the Tijuana donkey show featuring a
female whore is not real other than the
fact that they do bring out a donkey
and do some simulation for people
who are drunk.
Down-Low Loco
Dear Gabacho: Youre right. And
after months of research, the Mexican can
confrm the full history of donkey shows, the
supposed borderlands specialty in which
women have sex with donkeys before a live,
paying audience. Not only are they not a
thing in Tijuana (or Juarez or Acapulco or
anywhere in Mexico frequented by tourists),
theyre actually a wholesale gabacho
invention that says more about how America
projects its fevered perversions onto
Mexicans and Mexico than anything about
Mexicans themselves.
None of the Tijuana Bibles, the infamous
X-rated comics of the Great Depression that
showed all sorts of depredations, make any
mention of such shows south of the border
(the excellent 1997 anthology, Tijuana Bibles:
Art and Wit in Americas Forbidden Funnies,
1930s-1950s, even points out that the foul
funnies got their name not because they were
made in Mexico but as a gleefully sacrilegious
pre-NAFTA slur against Mexicans). The
earliest published account even mentioning
donkey sex shows in Mexico doesnt pop
up until 1975, in the book Binding with
Briars: Sex and Sin in the Catholic Church.
Before that, mentions of donkey shows
in newspapers, books, or magazines were
exactly that: donkeys on display at county
fairs, and nothing else.
But after porn star Linda Lovelace claimed
her then-husband was going to force her to
get ###### by a donkey in Juarez, Mexico
in her 1980 memoir, Ordeal, the act quickly
seeped into mainstream American culture.
Three years later, the search for a donkey show
in Tijuana is a plot point in the Tom Cruise flm,
Losin It; by the mid-1980s, a pioneering ska
band called themselves The Donkey Show
based out of San Diego, no less.
Really, the biggest culprit in spreading
the donkey show myth is Hollywoodin the
past decade alone, theres been mention
of the act in at least a dozen high-profle
projects, from The 40-Year-Old Virgin to
Two-and-a-Half Men and more. This proves
once again that Hollywoods stereotyping of
Mexicans havent changed in a centurybut
what else do you expect from screenwriters
(notwithstanding the awesome writers at the
new ABC sitcom Cristela and the upcoming
FOX cartoon, Bordertown, for which Im a
consultant) who know Mexicans mostly as
their nannies, car washers, gardeners, cooks,
and the janitors in their offces?
Are there sex shows between humans
and animals in Mexico? Im sure there are,
just like there are in the United Statesin
fact, the earliest account I could find of
people paying to see a woman-donkey
coupling is in the November 1915 issue
of the St. Louis-based medical journal The
Urologic and Cutaneous Review, in which
a doctor recalled a case 25 years earlier
where spectators at such a show (including
a judge, sons of a social reformer, and
a secretary of a girls aid society) were
criminally tried after a woman died during
the copulation. But leave it to gabachos
to stereotype such debauchery as being
as exclusively Mexican as the Aztec
pyramids and a corrupt government.
Pinche gabachos
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I recently had the opportunity to participate in
an online radio broadcast with former New
Braunfels Mayoral candidate Jason Dias.
The show is called 1cityunderGod, and we
talked at some length about my agnosticism.
The discussion was great and perhaps useful
to people that dont really understand that
midpoint between theism and atheism, but
there was one topic that we really didnt have
enough time to discuss, and I thought I would
use this column to address it.
The evangelical aspect of Christianity is
a key element for most people of faith, but
bringing the good news to people is no
easy task. The task is made even more diffcult
when Christians encounter people who are
resistant to the very idea of a God. Jason was
interested in my ideas on how Christians might
reach people not inclined to religion or even
openly hostile to it. I do have a few ideas, but
they arent part of traditional evangelism.
I grew up in a religious environment, an
evangelical one as well. Jehovahs Witnesses
are nothing if not evangelical. But, Witnesses
do more than just go door to door. A key
aspect of their faith is that they offer their own
lives as witness to the glory of God. This isnt
easy; people are fallible, but every Witness
is expected to make their lives an example
to others to every extent that they can. Much
of the craziness we hear about Witnesses is
directly related to their attempts to both live
their lives as an example to the world (think
of the distinction between worldly and spiritual
things) while staying apart from the world.
Witnesses are prohibited from celebrating
most holidays we recognize, they dont take
blood transfusions, they dont drink in excess
or smoke or engage in extramarital sex of any
kind. All these things are prohibited to them,
and transgression can result in the Witness
version of excommunication: disfellowship,
where they are no longer recognized by or
associated with the Church or its members.
This treatment is not punishment for sins,
were all sinners; its designed to ensure that
the Church itself is not shamed by its members.
Even with these restrictions, you can fnd a
great many people who claim to have had bad
experiences with the Witnesses. I cant speak
to any of those claims. I wasnt there to see
them. Though I dont have any reason to doubt
these claims, I can say that my experiences
with the Witnesses have been wholly positive.
Bad experiences do more than just embarrass
the Church; they run a very real risk of driving
people away from the arms of God.
My point here is not to chastise evangelical
Christians for allowing sinners in their midst but
to remind them that the experience Christians
have had with their church may not be the
experience of others they speak with. This is
important to remember because its diffcult to
have a productive discussion if the two parties
involved are not in agreement with regards to
the terms. If you consider religion a positive
force in your life and the world, and the person
youre talking to considers it the opposite,
you are unlike to agree on much said in the
discussion afterward.
So, how does one go about solving
this problem? Well, it probably isnt going
to be solved by talking. In this respect, the
Witnesses have the right idea: actions speak
much louder than words.
It saddens me when I see government
programs that offer outreach to seniors,
youth or the poor, not because they dont
do good (though this is often the case) but
instead because they shouldnt be something
the government does. If we indeed do have
a responsibility to our fellow man, then that
responsibility is one based in religious,
not secular, thought, and the responsibility
is individual, not collective. Can the
government really implement something like
the Meals on Wheels program better than a
local church could?
Serving the elderly, mentoring the young,
and helping the afficted should be the
province of the church. Doing these things are
truly evangelical opportunities. A local church
can provide the organizing structure, and the
fock can provide the money and manpower.
Seek out seniors who need help and feed
them, help them with daily chores, clean their
house, fx their porch, or just talk to them.
Offer tutoring and mentoring for children,
hold small carnivals or family picnics where
all are invited, or create a lending library for
childrens books at the church. Design food
programs for the homeless, take collections to
stave off collection agencies for someone who
has lost their job, or create a food bank.
Its not necessary to use these
ideas to preach. In fact, it might be
counterproductive. The actions themselves
are enough to provide the evangelism. The
idea is to replace any negative perceptions
of religion with positive ones. This will
happen naturally when people associate
only positive experiences in their life with
the church. Its not much of a short-term plan.
Results may not be obvious for a generation,
but I doubt God has a problem with taking a
long-term perspective on things.
When I say dont preach, I dont mean
that you should leave God out of things
entirely. You dont have to talk with someone
to reach them, though. There are other ways
to achieve that goal. We all have our own
troubles, but its important to offer a good
witness to your faith. Be cheerful. Pray when
you need to, and dont be afraid to let others
see you do so. Dont tell people that your faith
is the most important part of your life; show
them. Act in a respectful manner; be friendly
and outgoing, and never condemn. Allow
people to wonder if their life might be better
with God in it than without.
One last note, There is a good deal
of government money out there available
for the tasks I describe above. Someone
knowledgeable in grant writing could
fund a project, or several of them, much
better than probably any church could on
donations alone. Dont take the money. If the
government funds what you do, you are an
agent of the government, not God. There is
no free lunch in this. If you cant fnd the cash
to do what you want, go back to the drawing
board. Dont blame the congregation; dont
blame the world; ask if you (I speak only to
individuals prompted to act on my words
now) are doing enough.
If youre doing everything you can and still
cant make things happen, think smaller or seek
out new ideas. There are a books available
that discuss guerilla marketing techniques that
might easily be applied to entrepreneurial
ventures designed to charitable purposes. The
ideas dont need to be designed to make a
proft, but they do need to be clearly affliated
with the church you hope to represent, and
always remember that you are a witness for
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Job Expo 2014
Wednesday, October 22
11am-4pm
McKenna Events Center
801 W. San Antonio Street
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