>>>A moment after these words were spoken a picture of two young men was shown being hung for commiting homosexual acts, in 2005. So I imagine that there are no homosexuals in Iran. They hang them.
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>>I've heard "they kill them" when I once was invited and attended a meeting in which the speaker diverted into anti-government rants and spoke fondly of the "morals" he witnessed during his visit to Chad. They had "no queers" because they "killed 'em". Then the speaker got back "on message" pitching AmWay.
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>>At the after-meeting dinner I mentioned the "queers" references adding I thought it was irrelevant *at least*. They tried to persuade me to understand that AmWay was a "people business, I wouldn't want them coming in my house -- I have sons, ya know." Then there was a closing prayer.
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>About 15 years ago a neighbor invited Katy and I to an Amway meeting in San Jose. It was like a religious cult. One member drove down each month for the meeting and he lived in Northern Idaho! I think that is around 800 miles one way.
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>Is there still an Amway? Perhaps the meetings have been replaced by the Internet.
I think the more successful representatives are now giving their money to Scientology.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
