Aug 20th, 2008 A.D.

[First, thanks to my friend who's back on Yahoo Answers. If you (or anybody for that matter) want to call yourself "Dr. Zoom Zoom 3.0" or whatever and cut and paste past answers, that's fine. It's a big help. Thanks again! It'd be nice if you'd email me. I guess you're kind of shy. I don't bite I promise. ]

POSITIVE FEEDBACK

I got an email from someone who decided to give up Satanism.

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"I recently read your article about the myths that Anton LaVey perpetuated about his life.

For the last six years of my life I have called myself a Satanist. I embraced it in High School. I was a lonely, sad, pathetic kid who was angry at the world. Satanism (at least as I interpreted it; some Satanists are successful) said that it was good that I was alone because people have nothing to offer me. Satanism said that I was part of the alien elite when in fact I was a social outcast who alienated everyone around me and isolated myself from the gift of fellowship with other people.

This has continued to the present day where I have up until recently tried to improve my lot in life by implementing Satanic philosophy into my life. I see now the reason why I've been trying to improve for six years without changing one thing; Satanism is devoid of substance.

I can not have faith in any spiritual religious faith, though I do envy the fellowship of the Christian lifestyle.

My artificial identity prop has been torpedoed by the u-boat of reality.

Thank you for freeing me. You parroted criticisms from others, but your hard-nosed additions really slapped me in the face. I needed that."

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I encouraged the writer to read C.S. Lewis, and not give up on the idea of being a Christian. There's a saying: Don't envy the successful man, be one!" Likewise, don't envy Christians, be one! There is such a thing as a thinking man's Christianity (or thinking person's Christianity to be politcally correct), and I think most Satanists never hear about it. I have a feeling the writer will find it.

As far as "parroting" things other people have said about LaVey, well, I'm merely repeating things his own family have said before. If I had time and a staff of writers, I'm sure I could have something more original. I knock out a half decent website, even if I do say so myself.

And that reminds me of another fan email I got, which mentioned:

"As an IT student and (if I do say so myself) fairly good graphic designer, I think you could make your site WAY more aesthetically pleasing."

Well, I don't claim to be an HTML wiz. If one of you reading this want to volunteer to design a new website for USMINC, please feel free! Just email me and let me know.

The email also went on to say:

"I like your style... I was raised in an Assembly Of God church. I spent four years as a total atheist, that may not seem like much but believe me, I know how others think. By others I mean atheists, agnostics, mormons, scientologists and most importantly... People like me. "

It's always good to get positive emails. It's nice opening an email and not getting blasted out of my chair. That's the only payment I get.

July 29th, 2008 A.D.

Wiccans Manufacture Hate Crimes

On Yahoo answers a woman asked this question:

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I work at an abortion clinic as a volunteer pro-choice advocate, who is licensed to counsel women considering abortions and show them other options. I share the work with another advocate. Neither of us are Christians. My co-worker is six months pregnant, and while protesting the clinic today, several men came up and attacked my friend, saying that they were "doing the work of Christ" and that a Satanist (she's a witch, not a Satanist) shouldn't be allowed to breed, as her sin would be visited upon her descendants.Would this be seen as moral? These are pro-life protesters--does the religion really matter in whether or not a child survives? My co-worker was sent to the hospital, and they're not sure if the child will be stillborn, as it's vitals are weak, but the arrested Christians and several of their friends suggest that this was the right thing to do, quoting the infamous--"Thou shall not suffer a witch to live."

So, moral or immoral and why?

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Now, you mean to tell me she doesn't know Christians would consider this immoral?? Of course Christians consider this immoral! Obviously she posted that question to slam Christians. And it's also obvious to me she's a Wiccan.

I noticed details missing out of her story. No date when it happened, no place, no city, no country even. The red flags went up. A search engine result yielded nothing.

I asked for details and of she gave none. All it would take is one phone call to a police dept. to verify the details (and yes, I've done stuff like that before). Surely if there were arrests there was a police report. I told her she could email me the details and she LIED about emailing me! Since she lied about that, I can assume she lied about the rest. And the part about the Christians calling the Wiccan a Satanist & quoting the Old Testament and the "sins being visited upon their descendents"...it's something straight out of Silver Ravenwolf!

If a story like this actually happened, you can bet 2 things:

1 It would be all over the news. There would be no way to cover up a story like this.

2. Neopagans and occultists of all stripes as well as the rest of the Christian haters would make this woman the poster child of their cause. They'd never stop talking about it.

The scary thought is, how many other times have Wiccans lied about being the victim of hate crimes? Sure they're could be some juvenile who keys up a car plastered with Wiccan bumperstickers. When you advertise, things like that will happen (and in that case, there's no way to know if the car got keyed up because of the bumperstickers, or because of an angry ex-boyfriend, angry co-worker, someone who did it at random for the heck of it, etc.). But the fact of the matter is, America is the most tolerant nation on earth. That's why there are more Wiccans here than any where else. After 9-11, you heard about maybe one or two Muslims being beaten up. But when a Dutch film producer was murdered by a Muslim because a made a film critical to Islam, people were buring Mosques in Holland. There's a big difference. Wiccans, be greatful you live in a tolerant society. And too all of you reading this, don't make up hate crimes no matter who you are. There's enough hate and lies in the world already without it being added to. What happened in Knoxville is a good example.

The man in that case hated the Bible and church, although that part probably won't get mentioned. Here it is:

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Karen Massey, a neighbor to Adkisson, told the Knoxville News Sentinel about a lengthy conversation she had with Adkisson a few years back in which she told him her daughter had just graduated from a bible college. She said she was surprised by his reaction when she told him she was a Christian.

"He almost turned angry," she told the newspaper. "He seemed to get angry at that. He said that everything in the Bible contradicts itself if you read it." She also said Adkisson spoke frequently about his parents, who "made him go to church all his life. ... He acted like he was forced to do that."

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Whenever anyone sees a story like the one about Christians assaulting a Wiccan, it should be challenged. Ask for details, do some research, don't take everything at face value.

Sometimes it's better to be right than liked.

July 25th, 2008 A.D.

IT'S STILL THE ECONOMY, STUPID

Here's part of an interesting Op/Ed piece I want to share with you all (not to mention cut and paste is easier and faster than writin' stuff myself!):

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Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times
Frank Rich
By FRANK RICH
Published: July 20, 2008
THE best thing to happen to John McCain was for the three network anchors to leave him in the dust this week while they chase Barack Obama on his global Lollapalooza tour. Were voters forced to actually focus on Mr. McCain’s response to our spiraling economic crisis at home, the prospect of his ascension to the Oval Office could set off a panic that would make the IndyMac Bank bust in Pasadena look as merry as the Rose Bowl.

“In a time of war,” Mr. McCain said last week, “the commander in chief doesn’t get a learning curve.” Fair enough, but he imparted this wisdom in a speech that was almost a year behind Mr. Obama in recognizing Afghanistan as the central front in the war against Al Qaeda. Given that it took the deadliest Taliban suicide bombing in Kabul since 9/11 to get Mr. McCain’s attention, you have to wonder if even General Custer’s learning curve was faster than his.

Mr. McCain still doesn’t understand that we can’t send troops to Afghanistan unless they’re shifted from Iraq. But simple math, to put it charitably, has never been his forte. When it comes to the central front of American anxiety — the economy — his learning curve has flat-lined.

In 2000, he told an interviewer that he would make up for his lack of attention to “those issues.” As he entered the 2008 campaign, Mr. McCain was still saying the same, vowing to read “Greenspan’s book” as a tutorial. Last weekend, the resolutely analog candidate told The New York Times he is at last starting to learn how “to get online myself.” Perhaps he’ll retire his abacus by Election Day.

Mr. McCain’s fiscal ineptitude has received so little scrutiny in some press quarters that his chief economic adviser, the former Senator Phil Gramm of Texas, got a free pass until the moment he self-immolated on video by whining about “a nation of whiners.” The McCain-Gramm bond, dating back 15 years, is more scandalous than Mr. Obama’s connection with his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Mr. McCain has been so dependent on Mr. Gramm for economic policy that he sent him to newspaper editorial board meetings, no doubt to correct the candidate’s numbers much as Joe Lieberman cleans up after his confusions of Sunni and Shia.

Just two weeks before publicly sharing his thoughts about America’s “mental recession,” Mr. Gramm laid out equally incendiary views in a Wall Street Journal profile that portrayed him as “almost certainly” the McCain choice for Treasury secretary. Mr. Gramm said that the former chief executive of AT&T, Ed Whitacre, was “probably the most exploited worker in American history” since he received only a $158 million pay package rather than the “billions” he deserved for his success in growing Southwestern Bell.

But no one in the news media seemed to notice Mr. Gramm’s naked expression of the mind-set he’d bring to a McCain White House. And few journalists have vetted the presumptive Treasury secretary’s post-Senate history as an executive at UBS. The stock of that banking giant has lost 70 percent of its value in a year after its reckless adventures in the subprime lending market. It’s now fending off federal investigation for helping the megarich avoid taxes.

Mr. McCain made a big show of banishing Mr. Gramm after his whining “gaffe,” but it’s surely at most a temporary suspension. When the candidate said back in January that there’s nobody he knows who is stronger on economic issues than his old Senate pal, he was telling the truth. Left to his own devices — or those of his new No. 1 economic surrogate, Carly Fiorina — Mr. McCain is clueless. Even Arnold Schwarzenegger, a supporter, said that Mr. McCain’s latest panacea for high gas prices, offshore drilling, is snake oil — and then announced his availability to serve as energy czar in an Obama administration.

The term flip-flopping doesn’t do justice to Mr. McCain’s self-contradictory economic pronouncements because that implies there’s some rational, if hypocritical, logic at work. What he serves up instead is plain old incoherence, as if he were compulsively consulting one of those old Magic 8 Balls. In a single 24-hour period in April, Mr. McCain went from saying there’s been “great economic progress” during the Bush presidency to saying “Americans are not better off than they were eight years ago.” He reversed his initial condemnation of mortgage bailouts in just two weeks.

In February Mr. McCain said he would balance the federal budget by the end of his first term even while extending the gargantuan Bush tax cuts. In April he said he’d accomplish this by the end of his second term. In July he’s again saying he’ll do it in his first term. Why not just say he’ll do it on Inauguration Day? It really doesn’t matter since he’s never supplied real numbers that would give this promise even a patina of credibility.

Mr. McCain’s plan for Social Security reform is “along the lines that President Bush proposed.” Or so he said in March. He came out against such “privatization” in June (though his policy descriptions still support it). Last week he indicated he isn’t completely clear on what Social Security does. He called the program’s premise — young taxpayers foot the bill for their elders (including him) — an “absolute disgrace.”

Given that Mr. McCain’s sole private-sector job was a fleeting stint in public relations at his father-in-law’s beer distributorship, he comes by his economic ignorance honestly. But there’s no A team aboard the Straight Talk Express to fill him in. His campaign economist, the former Bush adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin, could be found in the June 5 issue of American Banker suggesting even at that late date that we still don’t know “the depth of the housing crisis” and proposing that “monitoring is the right thing to do in these circumstances.”

Ms. Fiorina, the ubiquitous new public face of McCain economic policy, adds nothing to the mix beyond her incessant display of corporate jargon, from “trend lines” to “start-ups.” Before she was fired at Hewlett-Packard, its stock had declined 50 percent during her five-plus years in charge. She missed earning projections — by 23 percent in one quarter — much as she now misrepresents both the Obama and McCain records. This month she said Mr. McCain wanted to require insurance plans to cover birth control medications along with Viagra, when in fact he had voted against it.

Ms. Fiorina received a $42 million payout (half in cash) from H.P., according to a shareholders’ subsequent lawsuit. With this inspiring résumé, she now aspires to be Mr. McCain’s running mate. So does the irrepressible Mitt Romney, who actually was a business whiz before serving as Massachusetts’s governor. Beltway wisdom has it that the addition of such a corporate star will remedy Mr. McCain’s fiscal flatulence.

But Mr. Romney, while more plausible than Ms. Fiorina, is hardly what America wants at this desperate time. His leveraged buyout dealings as co-founder of Bain Capital induced plant closings, mass layoffs and outsourcing. If Mr. McCain truly intends to “put our country’s interests” above politics and reach across the aisle to move the nation forward, as he constantly tells us, why not go for a vice president who’s the very best fit for the huge challenges at hand?

The obvious choice would be Michael Bloomberg — who, as a former Republican turned independent, would necessitate that Mr. McCain reach only halfway across the aisle, and to someone who is his friend rather than a vanquished rival he is learning to tolerate.

Romney vs. Bloomberg is not a close contest. Bloomberg L.P. has roughly three times the revenues and employees of Bain & Company, where Mr. Romney ultimately served as chief executive. Mr. Romney rescued the Salt Lake City Olympics while running it in 2002, but Mayor Bloomberg revitalized New York, the nation’s largest metropolis, after the most devastating attack in our history. The city he manages has more than twice the budget of Mr. Romney’s state.

Yes, Mr. Bloomberg is a closet Democrat and an alpha dog who doesn’t want to be a second banana. And his views on gay civil rights and abortion would roil the G.O.P. base. But Mr. Romney shared some of those same views before he flip-flopped, and besides, these are not ordinary times. Millions of Americans are losing their homes and jobs. Whole industries are going belly up. The national crisis at hand, not yesterday’s culture wars, should drive the vice-presidential pick.

Mr. McCain reminds us every day how principled he is. That presumably means he’d risk a revolt by his party’s dwindling agents of intolerance and do everything in his power to persuade Mr. Bloomberg to join his ticket in the spirit of patriotic sacrifice. The politics could be advantageous too. A Bloomberg surprise could impress independents and keep the television audience tuned in to a G.O.P. convention that will unfold in the shadow of Mr. Obama’s address to 75,000 screaming fans in Denver.

But this is fantasy political baseball, not reality. Mr. McCain, sad to say, hung up his old maverick’s spurs the day he embraced the Bush tax cuts he had once opposed as “too tilted to the wealthy.” And Mr. Bloomberg? It’s hard to picture a titan who built his empire on computer terminals investing any capital, political or otherwise, in a chief executive who is still learning how to do, as Mr. McCain puts it, “a Google.”

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McCain; a flip-floping, out of touch elitist...bad for the economy, bad for America.

CIAO FOR NOW

WICCANS CLAIM THEY WERE "ATTACKED", THEN CUT AND RUN
First, a message for my friend in Massachusetts. You used to post on Yahoo Y and A, then you stopped. What happened? You were a big help to me.

Next, I don't enjoy being perceived as the bad guy. I get tired of being called "stupid", "bigot", "bitter" and all the other things occultists call me, including the four letter words. Call me all the names you want, but I will continue to tell the truth!

Recently someone on Yahoo Y and A mentioned this website as an "attack" on Wicca. Its funny how every time you question the origins and beliefs of Wicca it suddenly becomes an "attack". I posted a well written response to his accusation. A couple of other Christians also posted links to apologetics websites. The result? He tucked his tail between his legs and withdrew the question. No intelligent debates are allowed when clinging to superstition.

In 1974 some Wiccans calling themselves The American Council of Witches'(sounds like something from Sebrina The teenage Witch, doesn't it?) wrote a statement that's still circulating called "Principles of Wiccan Belief" one of those beliefs read: "11. As American Witches, we are not threatened by debates on the history of the Craft, the origins of various terms, the origins of various aspects of different traditions. We are concerned with our present and our future." But of course, they don't actually mean it. I cited this reference as part of my response to the accustaion, too.

Author and Scholar Rossel Hope Robbins was a pioneer in debunking Wicca. He gave lectures around the U.K. in the early 1960's. In attendance at these lectures was Sybil Leek, a pioneer of the Wicca hoax. She would bring her pet crow with her and get it to squak to disrupt the lectures. Even back then Wiccans wanted to cling to their cherished fantasies instead of the truth and stiffle any opposing view.

One Wiccan girl said Wicca is 10,000 years old and called this site "B.S.". I don't think she meant Bachelor of Science. Of course, she didn't list any reasons why she thought that. Well, maybe she'll investigate Wicca as thoroughly as I have and come to the same conclusion I did.

The fact of the matter is, some of you out there know extremely little of what you speak! Wicca isn't thousands of years old. It was created circa 1950. There are references on this website, and even so people still say "cite your references". There was someone on an internet forum who asked me to cite a reference even though I had just cited a reference! Pay attention when you read something on the site, please.

Look, I can have a different opinion and that doesn't make me a bigot. Do you mean to tell me everyone with a different slant on something is a bigot??? In that case I guess everyone in the world is a bigot.

As for Wicca, it isn't thousands of years old. It was created in 1950. I think we need to start a lawsuit and settle the age of Wicca in court. No Christians killed any Wiccans during the witch hunt era. Stop hating. You are the ones doing the hating. You hate Christians so bad you can't see straight. You use the "Burning Times" myth as an excuse. There were about maybe 40,000 people killed over a 500 year period, and the vast majority of them were Christians. I don't care what book from Llewellyn written by some hack author said!

Wicca's moral code, which is left up to the individual, is out of sync with the rest of the world's religions. This is a fact! All religions have commandments and rules. Adultery, fornication, homosexuality, etc., are all sins. Read the Moral Compass page, and you'll the various scriptures of various religions cited. How can you decide objectively what "harms none" without a moral code that transcends the individual? You can't. Wicca's lack of a moral code is due to the fact is was created by Nudist and Swinger Gerald Gardner circa 1950. Source? Triumph of the Moon & Crafting the Art of Magic. If you don't read those books, don't blame me for your ignorance.

I fell for the same lie that's being spoon fed to the public. If I want to warn people of the fraud that's being perpetrated, it's my right. I will not be silenced!

The fact of the matter is, Wicca isn't ancient or magical. A lot of you can't handle this idea. Here's another thing some of you can't handle: I was a solitary Wiccan like a lot of you reading this, and I rejected it for Christianity. If you people didn't hate Christians so much, it wouldn't drive you so crazy. If I'd said I left Wicca for say, Buddhism, Hinduism, or even Islam, or even atheism, you wouldn't have a problem with it. Ask yourself why that is. I'll tell you why, it's because you hate Christians!

Now, some of you are going to cast spells and hexes on me. Some of you will email me about it, and I imagine 10 times as many will do some sort of spell and not email me about it. Ask yourself this question....

If I'm on the receiving end of all this "negative energy", after 4 years why am I still here??? Shouldn't I be dead? Or shouldn't I have at least closed the website?

First, occultists are on an ego trip. ( That's why you never see a Dr. Livingston or Mother Teresa who's an occultist. It's impossible for an occultist of any kind to be selfless.) They don't have magical powers. I've been reminded lately of the arrogance some occultists have.

Second, I have Jesus Christ, and I'm shielded from any such supernatural things anyway!

Occultists, think about joining the winning team. Look at the famous occultists and how they wound up. All the occult does is bring misery and misfortune into your life.

You don't have to park your brains at the door to be a Christian. You can still believe in Evolution and the Big Bang. To believe in Wicca howeevr, you have to believe in a revised history.

FORMER CHURCH OF SATAN MEMBER DENIED PAROLE
Manson murderer and Anton LaVey follower Susan Atkins, a.k.a. Sexy Sadie,Sadie Mae Glutz, was denied parole from prison. Atkins has been in prison 37 years...longer than any female in CA state history. Before hooking up with Manson, Atkins had been a follower of Satanist Anton LaVey. She had been part of his cheesy "Topless Witches" night club act. As part of the act dressed in a vampire costume (but topless), Atkins would get inside a coffin and take LSD, and then describe the experience. During one performance, it's said Atkins didn't want to come out of the coffin.

Atkins wasn't the only Mansonoid to belong to the Church of Satan. Bobby Beausoleil was also said to be a member. He teamed up with another CoS member, Kenneth Anger, and played the part of Lucifer in one of his movies. In one scene, Beausoleil can be seen dressed in 19th century garb above a sign that reads Crowley's motto "Do What Tho Will".

All this Satanic LSD vampirism must have prepared Atkins for being one of Charlie's "witches", as he called them. When she killed 8 1/2 mos. pregnant TV and film actress Sharon Tate, she licked the blood off the knife she killed Tate with, and wrote the word "PIG" in Tate's blood. At her trial, she testified that Tate had pleaded for her life and that of her unborn child, to which Atkins replied, "Woman, I have no mercy for you."She stated at the sentencing phase that she had stabbed Tate because she was "sick of listening to her, pleading and begging, begging and pleading"..

The Manson Family were all sentenced to death, but later the sentences were commuted to life in prison in 1975 when the California Supreme Court ruled capital punishment unconstitutional. Even though the court later reversed this decision, the law was not retroactive. Atkins was denied parole 12 times over the years. During her 2000 parole hearing, Tate's sister Debra, read a statement written by their father, Paul, which said in part, "Thirty one years ago I sat in a courtroom with a jury and watched with others. I saw a young woman who giggled, snickered and shouted out insults, even while testifying about my daughter's last breath, she laughed. My family was ripped apart. If Susan Atkins is released to rejoin her family, where is the justice?"

Patty Hearst, who shared the same prison as Atkins, recounted her experience with Atkins on the David Letterman Show. Hearst said the prison guards assigned the Manson girls kitchen duty, and put them in charge of the knives apparently as a cruel joke. All the other inmates were terrified to work in the kitchen due to this...understandably so.

In 1977, Atkins wrote the autobiographical book, Child of Satan, Child of God. In it, she claimed she had found Christ in 1974. It's not uncommon for convicts to "get religion" in an attempt to gain parole. Her account of how things happened doesn't exactly jibe with the facts, and she leaves details out. She whitewashed her role in the murders,now claiming she never killed anybody. She also claimed the Manson hideout at Barker Ranch was neat as a pin and that the police dirtied it up. The police found a plate of feces in the refrigerator, among other things, and had no need to dirty a house to somehow frame the Mansons. This lead critics to discount much her story in the book. Police say forensic evidence placed Charles Manson himself at the murder scene, but neither Atkins nor any of his other followers ever admitted it.

In 2002, Atkins filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming that she was somehow a "political prisoner" due to the repeated denials of her parole requests. Over the years, Manson has been connected to dozens of other murders besides the ones he was convicted of with the body count still climbing. Recently, a new cache of human skeletons was found on the Baker Ranch, and police are now busy with even more unsloved Manson Murders. Atkins has never mentioned anything about this new crop of bodies. She never came completely clean.

In the 1980's, Atkins was married to a wacky millionaire who married and divorced hundreds of women attempting to set the Gennis Book of World Records for having the most marriages. The gent later claimed Atkins tried to kill him after they consummated their marriage. They sounded like an ideal couple.

In April 2002, she told a reporter of her work to discourage teenagers from idolizing Manson...something she should have started doing 30 years ago. Manson is said to have at least two official websites, and hundreds of websites by sickos who idolize him. Zeena LaVey is married to a Manson follower who calls himself Nicholas Schrek, and the Manson/Church of Satan connection has thus come full circle.

Atkins now has brain cancer, can't communicate, is paralyzed on one side, and has had a leg amputated. The parole board and Gov. Schwarzenegger have denied parole, considering the nature of her crimes. Considering Atkins' condition, paroling her now would only mean she would be transferred from one institution, to another, such as a hospice, hospital, or nursing home. Would there really be a point in doing it? As a matter of fact, she's already out of prison, in a hospital bed.

While in prison, Atkins and the other Manson gals earned PhDs. The prison they stayed at had a swimming pool and a tennis court. One critic called it a "women's liberal art college with a barbed wire fence." While bleeding hearts say Atkins should be showed compassion, I'd say she has been for years and certainly more than she showed her victims.

Sounding more like a New Age prosperity twerp that writes books for Unity than a venerated economist, former Senator Phil Graham - - Sen McCain's pick for Sec. of the Treasury - - says the current recession is just a figment of our imaginations, and that America is a nation of "whiners".

Now wait a minute... maybe we folks who don't make 7 figures a year like Graham and McCain should put take this advice to heart.

>The next time you fill up your tank, give the cashier $10 instead of $40. When he/she says you owe him/her $30, tell him/her "No, I used to pay $10 for a fillup before everyone started imagining the price of gas going up. It's still $10. Quit imagining things!"

>When your house is about to be foreclosed on, tell the bank "So what if I can't pay the ARM you assured me was a fixed? I'm only 6 monhts behind. Stop being such a whiner!"

>When you lose your job because your company had to file Chapter 11, keep showing up for work anyway, realizing it's all just an illusion, just like Christian Scientists tell themselves about their cancer right before they die w/o any medical treatment.

Try these same techniques at the grocery store, the hospital, high end stores, etc., etc., Of course, perhaps we should look back at history when previous folks have tried similar stunts. Marie Antoinette supposedly once commented starving masses who had no bread should eat cake instead. She recieved a decapitation while a mob cheered on for such advice. Maybe the G.O.P should think about that.

Now to be fair to Marie, some historians don't think she actually said "Let them eat cake". But others think she did. They think the reason she made such a statement was because she had been surrounded by wealth and opulance all her life and simply couldn't imagine what it would be like not to have bread. They contend she wasn't being cruel by saying the breadless peasants should eat cake, just very naieve.

Once I worked at a Seventh Day Adventist hospital where before each shift we had to hear someone read from a SDA devotional. One time the subject was about prosperity and how it was a "state of mind". Of course, since they were paying CNA's $4/hr and LPNs $7/hr, (still nothing even in 1990) I can see how they would want their help to think that. The Doctors and executives were all making six figures a year. Rich people don't want you to think they don't have enough money (hence the need for a tax cut at every turn) and poor people have too much. Small wonder they have such a hard time getting into heaven.

Did you know during the depression of the 30's the richest people in the country thought there was no depression when polled? That's because it didn't effect them. Does sound similar to something like we're seeing now? Are we in a recession that no one will call a recession, and at best, is "imaginary"?

In Phil Graham's mind, you're all a bunch of whiners because you lament your Kia got repossesed. Then just drive your Mercedes, silly! They're about to foreclose on your home? Just write a check from your Money Market accont and pay off the $100,000 or so you owe. They have no concept of being in dire straights, having never been in them.

Grandpa -- er-- Senator McCain has admitted he doesn't know a whole lot about the economy. This means he will be relying on people like Phil Graham for advice.

It would be scary if these people are in charge of our economy. Let's keep them out.

You know what else is scary? Starvation. Be sure to click on the Hunger Site banner below.

And you don't have to stand for the whole "Prosperity is a state of mind" manure, you can fight back.

DURHAM, N.C., July 3 (UPI) -- Three people have been arrested in Durham County, N.C., in a series of alleged Satanic rituals involving violence, police say. Police said the most recent arrest was of Diana Palmer, the vice chairwoman of the Durham County Democratic Party, who was allegedly linked to the suspected rituals including a rape, ABC News said Thursday.Palmer's attorney, Bill Thomas, denied an earlier police report that his client attempted to remove items from the home where the crimes occurred."Ms. Palmer vehemently denies any association whatsoever with a Satanic cult," Thomas said. "She further denies any knowledge of a crime being perpetrated by the persons previously arrested."Suspect Joseph Craig, 25, was arrested last week and accused of kidnapping and beating a man, along with raping a woman as part of the alleged Satanic rituals. Craig's wife Joy Johnson, a former Durham County Democratic Party vice chairwoman and head of the local chapter of the Young Democrats, was also arrested and charged with allegedly assisting in the rape and assault. ABC News said both victims had met the couple on the Internet and voluntarily went to their home when the crimes occurred sometime between January and June."

The couple had apparently met over the Internet (probably for "swapping"). The man was aledgedly beaten with a cane, and the woman raped. All this was done as part of some kind of homeade Satanic ritual. Of course, just about all Satanic rituals are homeade.

The Church of Satan was of course quick to point out these folks were never official members. Ironic. These people are probably the most worldly successful Satanists to date (excluding Marylin Manson), and yet they weren't official members. They are, none the less, Satanists, and it should be remembered most Satanists aren't official members of CoS. In true Satanist fashion, they wound up in jail and have blown any chance of future success.

One CoS apologist even ranted online about refusing to be part of "the stereotypes Christians invented about Satanists", etc. Eventually, you either get tired of making such excuses and ditch Satanism, or you continue to enjoy playing the victim of the "evil xtians". That's all Satanism, or any area of the occult, really is. It's the old "Us vs. the evil xtians" schtick. It's really no different than Wiccans who rant about the word "witch" having negative meaning due to Christians, when in reality it has a negative conotation in every language and culture, including those where Christianity was absent or in the minority.

It might seem scary that these folks in the Tarheel State had any political power, even if it was very limited. But it should be remembered they're not typical politicians, nor typical Satanists. When they get out of prison, the only bill passing they'll be doing is behind a cash register at Mickey Dees.

When Lakshmi was born into a poor, rural Indian family in 2005, villagers in the remote settlement of Rampur Kodar Katti in the northern state of Bihar believed she was "sacred" and even "an avatar". As news of her birth spread, locals queued for a blessing from the baby. "After she was born, for a whole month crowds of people came to see her," the child's mother said, "It was said that Lakshmi had been born here."

Her parents, Shambhu and Poonam Tatma, named the girl Lakshmi after the Hindu goddess (idol) of wealth who has four arms. However, they were forced to keep her in hiding after they were approached by men offering money in exchange for putting their daughter in a circus. The extra arms and legs turned out not to be the result of devine intervention, but the remains of a parasitic twin.

If Lakshmi was a goddess of wealth, she certainly seems to have passed India by. India is one of the poorest nations on earth.

In Nov. 2007, the girl had the extra limbs removed as part of a 27 hour operation. The girl went through the proceedure OK and is doing fine (pictured here). Many villagers, however, remain opposed to surgery and are still planning to erect a temple to the idol Lakshmi, who they still revere as sacred. Had it not been for the British, who made India a colony for a couple of hundred years, there never would have been hospitals like the one Lakshmi recieved her operation in. Hinduism used to eschew any kind of charity for fear of violating Karma. When the British arrived there, there were no hosptals or orphanages. Sick people simply died in the street.

KOLKATA 2006 (Reuters) - Thousands of people are flocking to an impoverished Indian village in eastern West Bengal state to worship a man they believe possesses divine powers because he climbs up trees in seconds, gobbles up bananas and has a "tail." Devotees say 27-year-old villager Chandre Oraon is an incarnation of the Hindu monkey god Hanuman -- worshipped by millions as a symbol of physical strength, perseverance and devotion. "He climbs up trees, behaves like a monkey and is a strict vegetarian, but he is no god and his condition is just a congenital defect," says Bhushan Chakraborty, the local medical officer.

Tucked away in a hamlet in Banarhat, over 400 miles north of Kolkata, the state capital, devotees wait for hours to see or touch Oraon's 13-inch tail, believing that it has healing powers. Doctors said the "tail" -- made up of some flesh but mostly of dark hair -- was simply a rare physical attribute. "It is a congenital anomaly, but very rarely do we find such cases," B. Ramana, a Kolkata-based surgeon, told Reuters.

Could it be instead of being some sort of "archetype" of the human mind that Lakshimi is just an idol modeled on some poor deformed girl like this one born thousands of years ago? And could Hanuman be inspired by a deformed man thousands of years ago as well?

The late Maharashi Mahesh Yogi promoted the idea that Hinduism, which he repackaged as "Transcendental Meditation", could solve the world's ills and bring about divine knowledge and intelligence. In reality all it does is promote superstition.

Have a great Independence Day tomorrow, you folks in America. Pray for our borthers and sisters in Great Britain, which is falling to apostasy and Islam Pray for revival in Britain.

Rev. Dobson had this to rant about our future Prez on Sean Hannity's radio show:

“What terrifies me is the thought that he might be our president . . . might be in the Oval Office . . . might be the leader of the free world . . . might be the commander in chief — because as I said a minute ago, the man is dangerous, especially in regard to this issue of morality. I can’t tell you how strongly I feel about this. "

What scares me, Rev. Dobson, is that Bush II has been secretly negotiating the merger of Canada, Mexico, and the U.S.A. into something called "The North American Union" with a currency called the "Areo" to combat the Euro...and this information comes from Phyllis Schafly, not some blogger wearing a tin foil hat on his head. Bush II did it secretly, behind closed doors. Our country is being taken away from us in secret treaties, straight out of a "Left Behind" movie, by someone who is supposedly a Christian.

Bush's and Chenney's friends are manipulating the oil futures market to make themselves even richer while people are literally chosing between gas for their car and things like medicine, food, or clothes for their kids. Everyday people who have a major medical illness in this country, like a heart attack for instance, have to file for bankruptcy because they can't afford the $250,000 medical bill. Don't tell me it doesn't happen, I've known people who have gone through this including my own late father. I know other people that have gone through things like this as well. Meanwhile, the G.O.P. cheerleaders like Glenn Beck (LDS) and Rush Limbaugh (pretends to be a Christian) keep saying the only hope for this country is yet even more tax cuts for the rich.

Just because someone mouths the words Christians like to hear doesn't mean they're not playing them for fools.

When one of the richest guys in the world says the economy is geting worse instead of better, someone better listen! Warren Buffet has been an icon of Yuppie avarice for decades, and he says the U.S. Economy is in trouble. Furthermore, he's backing Barrack Obama. That low level sound you hear is Rush Limbaugh grinding his teeth. Here's an excerpt from a news item:

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- Billionaire Warren Buffett has already said he thinks the U.S. economy is in a recession, and now he says the economy is getting worse. Buffett told CNBC in a live interview Wednesday that all the data he sees from Berkshire Hathaway Inc. subsidiaries shows the economy weakening. "Everything connected with construction and with consumer, I see weakness, and if anything, it's accentuating a little bit." Buffett also said he thinks inflation is picking up, especially in steel and oil, so it should be a concern for the Federal Reserve.

"I think Barack is going to have plenty of money," he said.Buffett will help make sure that's true by appearing at a campaign fundraiser in Chicago next Wednesday.

Remember, the Republicans aren't going to do squat about anything conservative Christians really believe in. They think we're a bunch of inbred hillbillies. It's time we stopped voting for them, because all we're really doing is making millionaires richer at the cost of our country's future. Neither party is going to do anything about morality, so it really all boils down to economics. This year, vote Democrat. The job you save could be your own!

Here's an interesting article from a couple of years back I found that I'd thought I'd share

Alice Cooper Is A Christian

Tuesday, 28 March 2006 http://www.jesusjournal.com/content/view/79/85/

Alice Cooper

Rock star Alice Cooper shocked the world in the 1970s with an alcohol-fueled stage show that explored taboos ranging from murder to necrophilia. Years later he shocked the rock world by quietly embracing Christianity.

He’s getting a lot of visibility from his syndicated radio show, “Nights With Alice Cooper,” which is heard 5 nights a week on more than 80 stations around the country. Cooper told a guest, “It’s great, I get to play the anything I want to play.” Interestingly, his musical tastes are far-ranging, from Motley Crue to the Beatles.

He also interviews retro rock stars like Ozzy Osbourne, Joe Perry from AeroSmith, and Brian Johnson from AC/DC.

Besides his radio program, Cooper maintains an active tour schedule. Little known to most people is that he owns AliceCoopersTown in Phoenix, Arizona, his hometown. It is a restaurant that pays homage to baseball, a sport he is passionate about.

He also loves golf, and his Solid Rock Foundation holds an annual golf tournament to aid at-risk youth in the Phoenix area.

While his on-stage antics and the radio show do not settle well with some Christians, Cooper has a vibrant faith. Though he rarely spoke openly about his faith, he did open up some time ago with Lonn Friend, editor of the on-line rock magazine KNAC.COM, Cooper spoke at length about his drinking days, faith in God, and views on the shock-rockers who are following in his footsteps.

Cooper was introduced to alcohol when he began his music career, and drank heavily for the next 15 years. Lonn quoted Cooper as saying, "I was a totally functional alcoholic, probably the most functional alcoholic ever. I never missed a show. I never stumbled. I never slurred a word. I mean I was the Dean Martin of rock n' roll," he told KNAC.COM. Cooper said divine intervention is what broke his drinking habit in the mid-1980s. "I honestly think I was simply and completely healed," he said. "I guess you can call it a miracle. It's the only way I can explain it. It was absolutely eliminated from my life."

Cooper has often been called the model for today's shock-rockers, including Marilyn Manson. While he doesn't criticize Manson for his on-stage theatrics, Cooper takes issue with Manson's anti-Christian stance.

"He's very vocal about it," Cooper told KNAC.COM. "I believe [the Manson album] AntiChrist Superstar was pointed right directly at me. I didn't volley the first shots in this whole thing. His whole anti-Christian thing, and I'm like 'Hey, I'm Christian, and I'm not going to denounce what I believe.' I can be a rock 'n' roll star, a Christian and Alice Cooper."

Cooper continued, "I think Marilyn had a really bad Christian experience when he was younger. My guess is he got involved with some less-than-Christian-Christians and that really, forgive the expression, nailed him. You know, he's one of the greatest button pushers I've ever met. And I know that game because I invented that game...Manson clicked because he found a whole new set of buttons to push, he even pushed my buttons, which is pretty impressive since I was pushing buttons before he was born."

Cooper's embrace of Christianity was more a return to faith than a coming to faith. "I was pretty much convinced all my life that there was just one God and there was Jesus Christ and there was the Devil," he told KNAC.com.

"You couldn't believe in God without believing in the Devil. I always tell bands that the most dangerous thing you can do is to believe in the concept of the Devil or the concept of God, because you're not giving them full credit. When you believe in God, you've got to believe in the all-powerful God. He's not just God, He's the all-powerful God and He has total control over everyone's life. The Devil, on the other hand, is a real character that's trying his hardest to tear your life apart. If you believe that this is just mythology, you're a prime target because you know that's exactly what Satan wants: To be a myth. But he's not a myth, of this I'm totally convinced. More than anything in the world, I'm convinced of that."

Cooper said, "We have to make a choice. And everybody, at some point in their lives, has to make that choice. When people say, 'How do you believe this? Why do you believe this?' I just say nothing else speaks to my heart. This doesn't speak to my intellect, it doesn't speak to my logic - it speaks right to my heart and right to my soul, deeper than anything I've ever thought of. And I totally believe it. That being said, I'm not a very good Christian. I mean, none of us are ever 'good' Christians. That's not the point. When you're a Christian, it doesn't mean you're gonna be good, it means you've got a harder road to pull."

Though some have questioned combining his faith in God with his rock-and-roll background, Cooper doesn't see a conflict. "I'm the first one to rock as loud as I can, but when it comes to what I believe, I'm the first one to defend it too," he said. "It has also gotten me in trouble with the staunch Christians who believe that in order to be a Christian you have to be on your knees 24 hours a day in a closet somewhere. Hey, maybe some people can live like that, but I don't think that's the way God expected us to live. When Christ came back, He hung out with the whores, the drunks and miscreants because they were people that needed Him. Christ never spent His time with the Pharisees."

But while Cooper may still speak to some of his old themes, he has a new message today.

"I used to celebrate moral decay, the decadence of it," he admitted in the KNAC.com interview. "I can look back on what I did then and what I'm doing now and they're two different things. But at the time I was the poster boy for moral decay, you know. So yeah, I've got a lot to be forgiven for...out of ignorance, I thought I was doing the right thing. I was totally in agreement that every guy should sleep with every girl and drink as much as they can. I don't believe that now. I don't believe in it, because I see how destructive it is."

Spiritual awakening is happening around the world, Cooper believes. "It's obvious humanity is craving for answers directly born of awareness," he said. "That's the healthiest thing I've seen in a long time because there is something better and everybody's gotta find it in their own way. People aren't feeling fulfilled by how many cars they own or the size of their stock portfolio. Even the addicts are saying, 'It doesn't matter how many drugs I take, I'm not fulfilled. This isn't satisfying.' There's a spiritual hunger going on. Everybody feels it. If you don't feel it now, you will. Trust me. You will."

TRUTH: Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a Christian.

LIE: Barack Obama Won't Say The Pledge of Allegiance/Won't Put His Hand Over His Heart

TRUTH: Senator Obama does indeed put his hand over his heart to say the Pledge of Allegiance, and you can see it

Special thanks to my friend in Switzerland for the heads up. I've been tweaking and fixing the site and a few things may still need tweaking.

Tuesday Weld is a Satanist? Why, it must be true because I read it on the internet!

It’s become apparent LaVey was hardly a source of credible information (http://www.usminc.org/satanism.html), and the Weld/Satanism claim is probably yet another fable. LaVey was, in fact, a notorious liar and fraud. LaVey also claimed Jayne Mansfield, Marilyn Monroe, and Mia Farrow were all Satanists, which of course has proven to be nonsense. Mansfield thought he was a joke and used him for publicity, & Lavey never even met or knew neither Monroe or Farrow. There’s been a rumor that Tina Louise was a member of the Church of Satan stemming from an urban legend that she appeared in a girlie magazine dressed in a devil suit. She not only is not a Satanist, she never appeared in said girlie magazine, either. Lavey’s incredible tale of being an Oboist for the non-existent San Fransisco Ballet Orchestra has been debunked, along with his non-existent degree in criminology (he was a high school drop-out!), the lie that he was a police photographer, and the bogus “circus lion tamer” claim…along with dozens of others.

In fact, LaVey turned out not to be a colorful “junk yard philosopher” millionaire swinger, but rather just a lying, wife beating pimp who (self-admittedly)engaged in canibalism on at least one occasion, and who died broke.

As for his claim that Tuesday Weld was a Satanist, I find it rather doubtful. I'll believe it when I get something solid from the Weld camp. To put it bluntly, Tuesday Weld had a life, and she didn’t need Satanism. The dedication to Tuesday Weld and others in the first edition of the Satanic Bible had to be removed when some of the people threatened lawsuits against Avon Books for using their names. I would imagine Weld was one of those individuals.

Why Tuesday Weld? Because LaVey had started the lie that he played the part of the Devil in the horror film Rosemary’s Baby. Weld actually had a part in the film, and LaVey probabaly chose to make Weld a target for his inuendos due to this. It wouldn’t be the first time the Church of Satan has tried to hijack a celebrity, not being satisfied with Marylin Manson .

“I am fed up with being under the thumb of this population [Muslim immigrants] which is destroying us, destroying our country and imposing its acts,” Bardot said.As the Muslim population grows in the Western World, the clash of cultures is becoming more obvious. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, recently suggested that it was “unavoidable” that some aspects of Muslim Sharia law would be adopted in Britain. Sharia is government law based on the Qur’an.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was quick to chastise Williams. “Our general position is that sharia law cannot be used as a justification for committing breaches of English law,” Brown’s office countered. For a glimpse of how English laws and Sharia laws collide, one need only look at nations under strict Islamic law. Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, are examples where Sharia law condones: forced marriages, multiple wives, 99 lashes for adultery, and execution by family members for leaving Islam.

Recently in Scotland, a Muslim restaurant owner was about to lose his license for speeding. He pleaded undue hardship because his two wives lived in different towns and he had to spend every other night with them. An exemption was granted.

In February, the British government cleared the way for husbands of multiple wives to claim welfare benefits for all their partners. Though bigamy is outlawed, Muslim men have never been prosecuted who brought more than one wife when they immigrated. The government estimates there are at least 1000 polygamous marriages in Britain. Authorities are also having to deal with honor killings and forced marriages, allowable in Islam, but contrary to Western laws.It is increasingly obvious that Islamic law and laws based on biblical morality are miles apart. Another Muslim practice is called Mutaah or Urfi, a short-term, temporary “marriage” that can last for a few weeks, a few days or even hours. To Westerners this looks too much like prostitution but it is considered legal in Islam.

Western courts are struggling in other ways with this “culture shock.” In France, retired actress Brigitte Bardot is facing a fine of thousands of Euros for publicly stating that the Muslim community is “destroying our country and imposing its acts.” She is being charged with “inciting racial hatred” and has already been fined four other times for speaking out against Muslim practices. Christians must not be afraid to speak out against Islam. Would you rather be “politically incorrect” or see your daughter in a “short-term marriage” to a Muslim immigrant.

Muslim leaders have lost their fear of sending people to the U.S. They no longer worry that they will be won to Christ. Soul winners, they need to begin worrying again!

Hello and thanks to my friend in Massachusetts who's visited this site 255 times or more (yes, you). And thanks to everyone who sends me emails of encouragement and support. Your friendly emails are the only payment I get from doing this...but the retirement plan of this job is Heavenly!

Well, I realized some people only surf on to one page of the website without ever going to the index page. So, I combined all those stats and have the same counter for all the pages...which turns out is what I sould have been doing all along =D.Hee hee. I work for free, and I get what I pay for, what can I say. Hey, if I had a brain, I'd play with it. (Come to think of it, if I had a brain, I would have never gotten into the occult in the first place! Geeze!). So, it turns out the website has actually gotten altogether around 54,000 hits since it's been on the 'net. WOW!

Things are going well for me. Everyone likes the new format (except for you out there in TV land who hate my guts and wish me dead. lol!). The site itself seems to be getting well over 100 hits per day. That's 3000 hits a month! 36,000 hits a year! The curses and negative thoughtforms some of you are supposedly sending don't seem to be working. You guys have to start trying harder or something. You know when you were supposed to use an eye of newt instead of a geko eye...yeah, that's why the curse didn't work! LOL! Or could it be you simply don't have any powers? Or if you do, could it be the Christian God really is more powerful after all? Someday you'll wise up and want to be on the winning team like I did. Until then, I'll keep praying for you.

HOLYHEAD, Wales - A man who dressed up as Darth Vader, wearing a garbage bag for a cape, and assaulted the founders of a group calling itself "The Jedi Church" was given a suspended sentence Tuesday. Arwel Wynne Hughes, 27, attacked Jedi Church founder Barney Jones — aka Master Jonba Hehol — with a metal crutch, hitting him on the head, prosecutors told Holyhead Magistrates' Court. He also whacked Jones' 18-year-old cousin, Michael Jones — known as Master Mormi Hehol — bruising his thigh in the March 25 incident, prosecutors said.

The two cousins and Barney Jones' brother, Daniel, set up "The Church of Jediism, Anglesey Order", last year. Jedi is the faith followed by some of the central characters in the "Star Wars" films.The group, which claims about 30 members, says on its Web site that it uses "insight and knowledge" from the films as "a guide to living a better and more worthwhile life."

Is it just me, or do you think these guys need to find girlfriends? Kids, whacking each other with metal crutches and watching too many Star Wars videos isn't how you find God. Go to a real church. You might even meet some nice girls there.

The website has gotten an overhaul. There are probably a few things here and there that will need tweaking. Man, it was more work than anyone thought! LOL! This website has been online about 4 years or so now. It's appraoching 7000 hits, and that's just from free advertising. Despite all the occultiniks sending it "negative energy", it continues to grow and flourish. If you notice a broken link or something that doesn't work right, be sure to send an email to: everybody@usminc.org

Man, the level of intolerance occultniks have for opposing ideas never ceases to amaze me! In about 4 or 5 days time, I've gotten 8 emails, three of which said things like the website should give equal time to Satanists! LOL! Right, how many Satanist website give "equal time" to Christians??? Someone else said the website was "slanted toward Christianity". LOL! Ya think??? Yes it is, just like Muslim websites are slanted towards Islam, Wiccan websites are slanted toward Wicca, etc., But for some reason the rules are supposed to be different for me! Thank God they're not, though. I freedom of religion and freedom of speech guaranteed by the Constitution (that pesky ol'e thing again).

These same advocates for religious tolerance can't even spell "Christianity" or "Christian" with a capital "C" in their emails, and they do it out of bitterness and hate. Then they have the umittigated gaul to call me a bigot??? I pointed out to one persistent emailer that his wanting me to have views on the occult acceptable to him was bigotry and intolerance on his part. That sent him packing.

I think the most amusing part was one email from Satanist that was concerened I exposed certain Christian cults and said it wasn't fair and that I should also expose snake oil televangelists. LOL! Since when have Satanists been concerned about fair play for Mormons??? Of course, she could have meant the Gnostic page. Oh well. If I had the time and resources, I'd have a page about every sect out there, but I don't.

I also recieved one email that said "Great website. Keep up the good work." Getting one of those is always uplifiting.

The website is going to get a much needed overhaul soon. It will make it easier for me to add pages and mantain the site. Kewl, huh?

For you return vistors, you may have noticed a few changes, like the theme music. I'd thought I'd make it less intense.

A drive by emailer from Pennsylvania simply wrote "Wow! You are one bitter person!" Gee, sorry you feel that way. I've been reading the Don Rickles book on how to improve your personality and everything, too.

Seriously though, I'm aware this website scares many people because it shatters illusion and superstition. The emailer didn't specify as to what exactly qualified me as "bitter" (or even what I on this website made him or her feel so threatened), perhaps it was the links webpage, designed for people to help themselves. Or maybe it's the banners for the Hunger Site? If some misinterpret loving the truth as somehow being "bitter" I suggest that they do examinig of their own lives, and see if perhaps they're not just projecting their own bitterness. Anyone who craves magic spells for power probably has some areas in their own lives they need to get counseling for. If you don't get help here, get it somewhere.

Hope everyone had a good Passover. We had matzos, Manichewitz concord grape, and lasaungua. My wife doesn't understand cabbage and mashed potatoes don't go with lasaungua (I'm sure I spelled that wrong).We had a New Testament Passover, even though I pretty sure Jesus and the 12 didn't have any kind of Pasta dish. And now we start the feast of unleavened bread.

In Scientology news, high ranking member and actor Jason Begay (level OT V counselor I think he said) has left the group, calling it a cult. Begay claims no matter how high level "clear" one becomes, Scientology invents yet another level to climb too, making clear, in reality, an unattainable goal. Begay was a higher ranking member that John Travolta or Tom Cruise. Begay says he has spent around $1,000,000 for Scientology/Dianetics auditing during his stint. I wonder if he's bitter? If so, I think he has good reason to be. Hopefully he'll find Christ and overcome his bitterness eventually.

Well, it seems one of the candidates goes to a crazy church where they say crazy things. Yes, I’m talking about….

John McCain is a member of The Episcopal Church (TEC). Up until last year, TEC used to be ECUSA, the Episcopal Church of the United States of America. But it wasn’t politically correct to have the “USA” part, so it was dropped. The Church is about as liberal as the United Church of Christ, in fact, UCOC was formed by Episcopal ministers in 1964, who didn’t find ECUSA (now TEC) liberally enough. Of course, that was in 1964, and critics observe the two churches are about the same now. TEC still has some conservative hold outs, but they are quickly being eliminated. Conservatives are forced to go along with the liberal agenda, or lose their buildings and property. TEC made headlines when it ordained an openly gay bishop, Gene “Enema Fun Boy” Robinson at a ceremony with his gay lover present. The Episcopal Church is planning to revise it’s prayer book to include same sex unions. It has endorsed “shacking up” as acceptable since 1979. In fact, Bishop John Howe of Orlando, supposedly a conservative Bishop, has admitted he has people on his paid church staff who “co-habitate”. Despite McCain’s claim to be pro-life, TEC is officially pro-choice, even if they don’t always admit it. If you cherry picked the things various TEC ministers have done and said over a 40 year period (the same length of time Wright was a minister), you would no doubt find things similar to those of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, I can guarantee it.

So before we begin to throw stones at Obama, let the other candidates remember the old adage about glass houses.

Jeremiah Wright of Obama’s church, Trinity United Church of Christ of Chicago, has made news when clips cherry picked out of 40 years of sermons were played on the airwaves. Some of the things this guy said were reprehensible. Politically, he’s on the same level as Michael Moore. It’s really not surprising, since the United Church of Christ is the most liberal Christian denomination around. Left leaning liberal churches tend to be more focused on politics than Bible preaching, for those of you who aren’t familliar with such churches. Some are saying this is the kryptonite that will do Obama in.

But let’s look at it from the perspective of the other two candidates and decide who’s a Bible thumpin’ fundementalist. Lessee...ah...hmmm..none of them. Like I said, we have a choice between 3 liberal Senators.

I see no evidence to suggest McCain would be better at handling the economy. In fact, he’s even said he doesn’t understand economics. I don’t know if he’s a “better Christian” than Senator Obama, and that point doesn’t matter. We’re electing a President, not a Sunday School teacher. We’ve been voting for the “better Christian” the last two times, and now we’re in a recession. Like I said, the Republicans are lying when they say they’re going to anything about abortion, repealing gay rights, etc., so quit buying their lies. Republican legislators too busy getting busy in airport men’s rooms.

Hilliary Clinton is a member of the United Methodist Church. The United Methodist Church is made up of both conservative and liberal congregations. The Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington which Hillary Clinton regularly attends describes itself as a "reconciling congregation." According to them, this means aside from not making any distinctions about race, ethnicity, or gender, they also invite "gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons to share our faith, our community life and our ministries." It’s probably about as liberal as the United Church of Christ from the sound of things. Hilliary seems to be involved in some New Age activity herself. She says she talks to the spirit of Eleanore Roosevelt...one wonders if she means that metaphorically or via some kind of seance. There’s a book called Think And Grow Rich that was popular among the yuppies of Hillary’s era that suggested a visualization technique that sounds similar to Hilliary’s chat’s with Eleanore. A few years back, it came to light briefly that a psychic had been fired from her staff. The psychics job was some kind of bizarre money making scheme to “advertise via the spirit world”. For a U.S. Senator to be involved in such occultic stupidity should make anyone question if she is fit to hold office.

More disturbing is Hilliary’s alleged anti-Semetism. According to one ex-staffer, Hiliary called him a “Jew B******d” during Bill’s first run for Prez. The man only had one Jewish grandparent, and was a Baptist. Hilliary’s definition of what makes one a Jew would therefore seem to follow that of what the Nazi’s in WWII Germany defined a Jew...also disturbing. Clinton defector Dick Morris (who’s Jewish) said he also got the feeling Hilliary was an anti-Semite. Morris claimed somehow the White House dinners he attended would always include pork, to which Hilliary would apologize to Morris. He said the first time it happened, he dismissed it, but after it happened every single time, he realized it was done on purpose.

Is it important to have a President who doesn’t hate Jews? You bet! Here are good reasons why:

"A new, controversial, and important movie opens April 18 nationwide. Ben Stein's "Expelled" is one ofthe more evenhanded, clever, and well-produceddocumentaries currently on the market. While the Evolution/Intelligent Design debate can sparkmuch emotion, anyone walking away from this film will be convinced that the merits of Intelligent Design should be taught on the same level playing field as Evolutionary Theory. This film is about the freedom of speech, the freedom of ideas, and ability to express those ideas...not specifically about whether God created the heavens and the earth."

"The film has been described as subtly clever and occasionally funny. But be warned, emotions are stirred up by the film,especially regarding the movie's overall theme*, and many scenes especially later in the movie might be difficult to watch based on one's ethnic and religious background. *Many scenes reference Nazi Germany, and Ben Stein (who is Jewish) actually visits many Nazi death camps. The atheism ofNazi Germany, according to the film,
alowed out of Darwinism, and atheism produced eugenics which led to The Holocaust."

I remembered a show from when I was you called "Simplified, Illustrated, and Painless Sunday School". Why it isn't out on DVD is a real mystery. Some say it's because non-theists might be scared away from the title and the quirky style of the show might scare away Christians. I say, the show had an audience of millions, will probably become a cult classic, and should be out on DVD! It was a funny show, it aired on CBS on Sundays before it became politically incorrect to endorse the Judeo-Christian religion. While doing some research on it, I came across a reference to one of the episodes. It was about the Tower of Babel. In it, the host Marshall Efron, visited the UN building and read a list of the 200 + languages spoken there...the new Tower of Babel!

If you remember the show and want to see it on DVD, please write a letter to CBS and demand it, won't you?

By the way, with all due respect, I’m still not buying the "we need to vote for McCain because he’s pro life" line of bull some of the rest of you are falling for. For the past 8 years we’ve all been hearing "McCain is too hotheaded", "McCain is too liberal", "McCain caves in to the Democrats", "McCain does things without thinking them through". McCain has sponsored the "sham-nesty" bill to give illegal aliens a helping hand, and co-wrote the disastrous Campaign Finance Reform bill - - which even he can’t seem to abide by!

Now all of a sudden, McCain is suddenly the right man for the job. He’s regenerated, just like Dr. Who (or perhaps it is Bush who is regenerating into McCain, by giving him a 3rd term)! Now he’s even supposedly more of a hardliner than Bush...which of course his aides are denying (and they’re right). http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20080312/pl_bloomberg/apzut4blweek

Now after you read that, how many of you knew Bush gave nuclear material to the North Koreans, btw?

When are you people going to get it? Politicians only care about wealth and power, and it doesn’t matter if they’re Republicans or Democrats. I don’t care if this one or that one is supposedly pro-life. McCain is supposedly pro-life. Really? Then what’s his plan to eliminate abortion on demand? What’s the time table? What’s that you say, you say he doesn’t have one? That’s because he really doesn’t care about abortion, none of the Republicans do. They'd be afraid they'd lose votes if they did. If they lose votes, they lose power and money.

There’s a book a lot of you need to get a copy of, it’s called Tempting Faith by David Kuo. Kuo was part of the so-called Faith Based Initiative program (translation: Bush vote getting scam). Kuo discovered the Bush administration could care less about conservative Christians and thought them all idiots. Remember that next time you vote for a Republican, you’re voting for someone who thinks you’re an idiot. True, Democrats think the same thing.

You may not know of a practice Mormons have of baptizing for the dead. In a nutshell, it goes like this: Mormons practice secret rituals in their temples that involve proxy baptism for people that have passed on. They also have proxy marriage ceremonies so that people in the afterlife can not only dead males can become Mormons, but also have polygamous marriages in the afterlife with dozens, hundreds, perhaps thousands of goddess wives. These converts in the afterlife can then go on to become gods over their own worlds. Screwy, ain'it?

In recent years, many Mormons have been busy little beavers baptising for dead Holocaust victims, and even dead Jewish celebrities including the Three Stooges. Woo-woo-woo! Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk! I wonder if Moe became a god if his wrath upon the sinners would be a giant cream pie being thrown from the sky? Or maybe if Curley were a god he’d flood the worlds he creates with a giant seltzer bottle? Curley was a bit of a player, so I guess he’d like the polygamous wives part. Hard to say what the god Larry would do...it would probably involve telling Moe to "Ah, leave ‘em alone!" a lot. You know Moe would definitely be a vengeful god! Nyaahh-ahh-ahh!

While it’s certainly an act of futility to baptize people for the dead, as well as marrying for them in hopes they can be gods, there is a much more serious problem about all this. Jewish leaders are afraid Mormons are inadvertently helping Holocaust deniers, because it will cause confusion by re-inventing Jews as Mormons on paper. In fact, with the Mormon penchant to cry persecution at every opportunity, I can imagine a few years from now hearing how 6 million Mormons died in the Holocaust.

On an even darker note, another person who was baptized by proxy and sealed in a proxy marriage was Adolph Hitler. Folks, if there’s one person who will never make it into Heaven and deserves Hell, it’s Hitler. I’m quite sure he committed the unpardonable sin, and no Mormon ritual is going to save him. Furthermore, I can’t imagine any Mormon who would think somehow he was redeemable. The only thing more ludicrous tahn thinking Hitler could mumble a few words before he ate his gun and somehow make it into heaven is thinking someone could be baptized in his place. Jesus said in the Bible "Not everyone who says to me 'Lord! Lord!' will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven".