Sophie and Kyle
It's been quite a week in Bloomington. A good friend's nine-year old daughter Sophie won her division at the Monroe County Fair talent contest. Well, it was actually a duo--Sophie and her dummy friend, Kyle. I mean "dummy" in the right sense...the kind of dummy like Charlie McCarthy... the kind that sits on your lap and moves its lips while you smile sweetly and throw your voice into its mouth--or something like that.
Bless Sophie's heart. A year ago she was fighting for her life at Riley Children's Hospital then suffering from the affects of large doses of steroids. Sophie must have learned her skills for ventriliquism during her months of recuperation. We know she was taught by her mother and her maternal grandmother. I've been told that Sophie's mom was quite an accomplished ventrilquist and performed with her dummy in the Miss Louisiana beauty contest. And that's all I'm going to say about that.
The Exorcist.
The Bloomington Herald Times reported this week that a chap named Eddie Uyesugi, a minister- in- training at the Cherry Hill Ministries in Bloomington, faces preliminary charges of confinement and battery with injury in the beating of a 14 year old autistic boy during the process of casting out demons e.g. exorcism.
According police reports, Kim Norris, the Cherry Hill church pastor said that the school teaches how to cast out demons, but students are only able to practice [the art of exorcism] after graduating from the Church's 2 1/2 year program. In another report, Norris noted, "A ritual to cast out demons is part of the school's teaching manual, but only after graduating from the program are people qualified to cast out spirits--and its done in church, not the home.
...I know that makes me feel a lot better. Exorcism could really hurt the property values! Who want's to knowingly live next door to a demonizer or someone who makes a living out of taunting the devil.
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