Today's the day: Vote to throw the bums out!

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40 years in the wilderness

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The 40 years in the wilderness refers, of course, to the many years the Republicans spent in the poltical outhouse. Heh heh. In 1954, the Dems, led by the great Sam Rayburn (a mentor of LBJ) retook the House after control had seesawed back and forth for 10 years. Rayburn was so sure that the Republicans would take back the House in the Eisenhower re-election year of 1956, that when he became Speaker after the 1954 election, he didn't even bother to move his furniture back to the better office suite occupied by Joe Martin (the Republican Speaker).

As it turned out, the Republicans didn't re-take a majority of the House for 40 years (The Gingrich "revolution" of 1994). We've been in the minority for ten years. But it seems like 40 because the G.O.P. has done about 40 years of damage while they have been in "power."
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Alien Lore 90: UFO Sightings By Christian Evangelical Ministers

"And there shall be signs in the sun, moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts failing them from fear, and for looking after those things coming on the earth; for the powers of heaven shall be shaken."

Luke 21: 26-27

Pastor Christopher Ward: "I saw a UFO April 1st, 1997 just 5 days after the Heaven's Gate mass suicide, out front of my home in Leesburg, Florida. It was absolutely silent, about a football field in length, 1/5 as wide, black with red lighting. It was shaped like a elongated triangle. It was traveling very fast east to west about 500 feet overhead. It disappeared in about 10 to 15 seconds. I was with Rev. Ed Buehler and his wife Carol and my wife Rita. We watched as the Airforce scrambled to intercept." If you click here, you can hear Reverend Ward discussing UFOs and their agenda.

Monsignor Corrado Balducci (Vatican Curia): "Extraterrestrials are not demonic, they are not due to psychological impairment, they are not a case of entity attachment, but these encounters deserve to be studied carefully...By now, at this point, there are several considerations made with certainty that these beings do exist. It cannot be doubted. It can also be said...that this phenomena does exist."

Click here to read an article on Balducci's beliefs, Vatican Official Declares Extraterrestrial Contact Is Real.




Paul Crouch Sr. (C.E.O. Trinity Broadcasting Network): "Could I pose a guess and just say our benevolent government in an effort to just try and keep us all from getting scarred to death kinda likes to pooh pooh the whole thing and kinda keep it a kind of ethereal thing, nonexistent fascination..."

Chuck Missler (The Missler Report): "What we do know is that they are real; they show up on radar (multiple radar simultaneously), they are seen by competent witnesses, thirteen astronauts--not only have they seen them but some report that they have never been on a mission without seeing them."

Bob Larsen

Bob Larsen (author of Larson's New Book of Cults, Larson's Book of Spiritual Warfare, and UFOs and the Alien Agenda): "It was a sticky summer evening. The buzz of heat bugs drowned out all other sounds. I stood on the front porch, watching swarms of fireflies in their dazzling display of pyrotechnics. Then it (UFO) appeared, just across the road and a section's distance of farmland away. It drifted across the eastern horizon, just above the Kotchswars' barn."

"The dim light of dusk prevented me from making a positive identification, but my childhood imagination filled in the blanks. 'They' were up there in that thing (UFO), peering down on me! I was sure their telescopes were studying my every move. I cautiously stepped off the porch into the front yard for a closer look. Dodging a cloud of gnats, I crept across the lawn. Slowly I moved in the direction of the object (UFO). It did not seem to be going anywhere in particular, and I could not see the lights that people identified with such spaceships. Gradually the object dimmed from view and melted into the darkening sky."

Hal Lindsey

Hal Lindsay: "I mentioned this (visitation of the heavenly hosts in Genesis 6:4) in The Late Great Planet Earth."

Jeff Fenholt

Jeff Fenholt Describing his UFO encounter: "It was...just a big object that went over the top of us. The newspapers said the next day that police cars chased it."

The UFOs and The Church Web Site says:

"It is important that the Body of Christ take an aggressive and Biblical position concerning UFOs and extraterrestrial life.

"We believe that UFOs and their hosts are the "Wicked Hosts in High Places" of Ephesians 6:12.

"We are warned several places in the Bible not to worship the heavenly hosts. It is also said that Yahweh/Jehovah is the Lord of Hosts (Saboath).

"Therefore, they are created beings.

"We reject evolution and extraterrestrial life form theories.

"We do not believe they qualify as demons because they are not earthbound and they do not seek embodiment. They also do not attempt to attach themselves as in demonic possession. Although, demons may be their slaves.

"We believe they are capable of incredible technological demonstrations. UFOs and alien life forms would be within their genetic engineering capability. Jesus warns us of deception that could fool even the 'elect.' Paul warns the Thessalonians of 'lying wonders.'

"They have managed for fifty years to avoid any disclosure of their hidden agenda. They fly in military formation and have on occasion destroyed government aircraft and equipment.

"As an exorcist of many years, I have listened to hundreds of UFO abductee stories. I have listened to their reports of fear, terror, probing, implants, abduction (kidnapping), sexual assault, fetal development, brutal physical assault and mayhem.

"It is my opinion that, within this so called group of UFOs, there are hostile and dangerous elements that have a hidden spiritual/political/scientific agenda."

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"I am a deceiver and a liar." -- Rev. Ted Haggard

"Wildman" Ted Haggard on whom we've reported twice in recent days:

President Bush Silent On Recent Ted Haggard Revelations

Rev. Haggard hauls out the old reliable "just the tip" and "I didn't inhale" defense )

has been fired by the 14,000 member church he founded. On Friday he stepped down from his leadership of the National Association of Evangelicals, and "temporarily" resigned from the New Life Church. He would be reinstated, he said, when it was proven he had not engaged in homosexual relations with a prostitute. An independent board of the church, however, found that "Our investigation and Pastor Haggard's public statements have proven without a doubt that he has committed sexually immoral conduct."

"The fact is I am guilty of sexual immorality. And I take responsibility for the entire problem. I am a deceiver and a liar."

The Republicans have once again been put in a tight spot by penis-loving members who invite scrutiny by simultaneously fighting against gay rights, gay marriage, and gay adoption, while they pursue and pursue a closeted, but gay, lifestyle.

"There's a part of my life that is so repulsive and dark that I have been warring against it for all of my adult life," said Reverend Haggard.

How this affects the election is anyone's guess. We DO know that the evangelicals/Christian right are already angry with the president and the Republican-controlled Congress for their failure to deliver any real gains on social issues--even before the recent homosexual sex scandals involving Mark Foley and Rev. Haggard. The pendulum might swing mightily if the allegations surrounding President Bush and Reverend Haggard prove to be true. All This Is That, as you may recall from yesterday's article, is investigating those allegations, but has been met with a wall of silence. . .
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Will Rogers On The Democrats

Vote Dem On Tuesday -- If We Can't Put Them All In The Hoosegow, Let's At Least Send Them Back Where They Came From!

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Torture? Dems: "We've always been against it."

Three days to go! Don't forget to go to the polls on Tuesday, November 7th. And throw the bums out!
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President Bush Silent On Recent Ted Haggard Revelations

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The President--as of Friday, at least--has not yet leapt to the defense of his old buddy, the Reverend Ted Haggard. The White House remains most circumspect on the matter.

A reporter from All This Is That called and emailed the White House numerous times on Friday, inquiring whether the Pastor and The President had also enjoyed homosexual relations. None of the messages were returned as of press time.

An Associated Press photographer present at the photo opportunity pictured above said that as they shot this photograph, The President's right hand rested on Reverend Haggard's buttocks.
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Rev. Haggard hauls out the old reliable "just the tip" and "I didn't inhale" defense

Evangelist Ted Haggard confessed today that he bought meth and received a massage from a gay prostitute who claims he was paid for drug-fueled trysts by the outspoken gay marriage opponent. Reverend Haggard was, until this morning, head of the 30 million member National Association of Evangelicals, as well as his own megachurch, with a congregation 14,000 strong.

The Reverend resigned as head of the National Association of Evangelicals [1] and stepped down from the pulpit of his Colorado church while they check out the stories and allegations. Jones recently made the story public when he told a radio station of his three-year sexual relationship with the minister.



Haggard resorted to The Jimmy Swaggart ("I just put the tip in. Just the tip"), [2] and the Bill Clinton ("I never inhaled") defense. He denies actually having sex with Mike Jones, male prostitute, echoing the former President's "I never had sexual relations with that woman."



As for the methamphetamines, Ted Haggard told reporters he bought the meth "because I was curious." He threw it away. "I bought it for myself but never used it." he said. "I was tempted, but I never used it."
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[1] Curiously, the NAE's web site is now blank, and "under construction."
[2] Frank Zappa commemorated Swaggart's arrest in Lonesome Cowboy Burt (Swaggart Version):

I huff
And I puff
(Hratche-plche
Hratche-plche)
And I pump up my sanctified erection
Till my cheeks
Puff up
An' turn red
Along with my neck
(Say, varmint!)
I drool
On my shirt
Takes a little while before I squirt
But I've been doin' it for twenty years and they haven't caught me yet
UH-OH!
Made a mistake this time!
Now I've sinned.
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Friends Don't Let Friends Vote Republican

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President Bush's Last Hurrah

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The President is off into the hinterlands, delivering--for him--a firebrand speech hammering on the same old tired issues. I don't know what brain-spams caused these candidates to bring in POTUS when he is riding a sub-40 approval rate--but it can't hurt the Dem prospects!
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Poem: Changes 18/Fixing what has spoiled

It is progress
To cross the great water
The wind blows low on the mountain

A righteous leader
Roils the people
And strengthens their spirit

Not by obeying the laws and dictums
But by living
The Good Life

Setting right
What was spoiled by the father
And the mother

The righteous leader
Does not serve kings and princes
The laws on the books

Or Robert's Rules of Order
The righteous leader
Reports to a Higher Authority.
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