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UPDATE: 1. February 2010
of who I appear to be,
place your blazing torches under me...
Effigy on OPHELIA
Natalie
Merchant

The Chinese economy grew by
10.7% during the quarter ending
December, 2009, compared to
same quarter of 2008.
CHINA’S ECONOMY
NOW #2, JAPAN #1/IHC
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REFORMISM or REVOLUTION?
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THE GOD WHO WASN’T THERE
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Man In Prison For Trying To Kill Wife
With Snake
AP, Feb. 25, 2003
CHILDERSBURG, Ala. — A former snakehandling preacher
serving a 99-year sentence for trying to kill his wife with a rattlesnake
escaped briefly from a work detail.
Prison officials said Glenn Summerford, who has
served about 11 years of his sentence, slipped away from the work detail for
about 45 minutes Friday before being returned to custody. He then was moved
from the work center at Childersburg to the state prison in St. Clair County.
Summerford, 58, was convicted of attempted murder in
1992 after his wife, Darlene, testified that he grabbed her by the hair and
forced her to put her hand in a cage of rattlesnakes after hitting it with a
pipe to make the snakes mad. She was bitten twice but survived. Summerford at
the time handled snakes as pastor of the Church of Jesus With Signs Following
near Scottsboro.
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NOTE: This incident was included in a TV
program—Investigative Reports, I believe. The highlight of the trial was when
wife Darlene was on the stand. When asked if the congregation kept snakes, she
replied “Yes, sir.” Then asked if they fed the snakes Darlene replied “Yes,
sir.” Then when asked if they bred the snakes Darlene—without a pause—replied,
Oh no, sir…they do that all by themselves.” The court broke into hysterics.
Darlene was a hit (her husband was convicted). Unfortunately many people in the
congregation blamed her for the “disgrace” of the trial & being held up to
ridicule in the voracious & viperous (pun intended) national media
coverage. Within a few months Darlene’s home was burnt to the ground in an act
of arson. —JEF



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