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How Much Is That Pastor In the Window?

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:46:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Come on Joel...let's fight against the mentality that churches simply want to get into your pockets. How much did Jesus charge for communicating the gospel in the Bible? Oh, I forgot...NOTHING!

We don't charge for the light show at TBC. Want to know why? It communicates that we don't want the money of our guests. It communicates that it's a free gift to the community. It communicates that we want anyone to come to the event, even if you can't afford a car or car radio (we'll play it via boombox for you).

There's a family attending TBC since the light show. They decided to attend because it blew them away that we didn't charge a penny or even take donations. Did the event cost TBC something? You bet you — on all fronts (money, time, volunteers, risk). Was it worth not charging? Judge by the width of God's smile. OK, you really can't — but I wonder which communicates a more positive feeling in the end about who Jesus is and what He came for. That's a message EVERYONE s

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Dallas service to bear witness to Osteen allure

By SAM HODGES / The Dallas Morning News
samhodges@dallasnews.com

Most preachers throw open the church doors and hope for a decent-size crowd. Joel Osteen, in his traveling worship services, charges admission and still draws a throng.

The majority of the nearly 15,000 expected for Mr. Osteen's Sunday night event at American Airlines Center will have paid $15 for a reserved seat.

Others will have spent three or four times that for choice seats through online ticket brokers.

Mr. Osteen said he thought about using a free-ticket system, but after talking with arena managers and others, concluded that a modest charge for reserved seats would lead to more orderly events.

Still, Mr. Osteen acknowledges that ticket sales are important to recouping the roughly $250,000 it costs him to put on an event, including renting an arena. He also takes an offering and sells his books and tapes, and he generally breaks even, he said.

Michelle McMullen, Missing and Wanted

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:04:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: There are so many questions and accusations surrounding the disappearance of Michelle McMullen, the young mother of a 6 year old, Jayden. Michelle was reported to be taking classes online and had transferred to a college in Louisiana to complete her on campus studies. Apparently she decided to bring her son back to Harrisburg, PA to stay with her parents while she finished her schooling. On the night of September 28, it is reported that Michelle dropped Jayden off at a friend's home in Harrisburg, who, by the way, was not expecting her nor had made prior arrangements to keep Jayden, turned around and headed back to Louisiana, a 17 hour drive.

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The "what ifs" swirling around this case are like smoke around a campfire. Her family reported her missing after they had not heard from her within a reasonable amount of time, and her car was found abandoned in Hagerstown, MD only a little over an hour's drive from where she dropped of her son.

"[Police] told me that a missing person case isn't a priority but a person with a warrant out for their arrest is," Michael McMullen said. "The facts of the [theft] case doesn't fit. They're trying to add mystery to it because the [Harrisburg] police dropped the ball" on the missing person investigation.

A little 6 year old boy is without his mother, he doesn't know why, he has the same questions that the rest of Michelle Mc Mullen's family has and that is where is she? Is she safe? Is she hiding? What has happened to her?

All Jayden knows is that his mother isn't talking to him.

"And he's very upset," Michael McMullen said. "He wants to know why."

Tags: michelle mcmullen, mothers are vanishing, missing mothers, missing persons, missing adults, crime, victim, abduction, justice

Missing the old McCain

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:24:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Funny and scary at the same time.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Dear Old Golden Dog Days

I miss August. August was neat. The Dow was over 10,000 and nobody had ever heard of Sarah Palin.

Remember how we used to joke about John McCain looking like an old guy yelling at kids to get off his lawn? It’s only in retrospect that we can see that the keep-off-the-grass period was the McCain campaign’s golden era. Now, he’s beginning to act like one of those movie characters who steals the wrong ring and turns into a troll.

During that last debate, while he was wandering around the stage, you almost expected to hear him start muttering: “We wants it. We needs it. Must have the precious.”

Remember when the McCains wouldn’t talk about the fact that their son was in Iraq? Oh well.

Palin has been pressing the line that people don’t really know “the real Barack Obama,” and who could make the argument better than a woman who we’ve already known for almost six weeks? Really, she’s like one of the family.

Elections Astrology: Obama, Lincoln, JFK, Bailout Games and Palin's Potency

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:00:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A long and detailed look at the Astrology of the elections and of the candidates.

Clip Source: www.realitysandwich.com

Elections Astrology: Obama, Lincoln, JFK, Bailout Games, and Palin's Potency

Obama, Lincoln, JFK

I have recently received a few emails from people who are actively meditating and visualizing healing, protective light energy around Barack Obama and his family. It is my feeling that we must not only isolate our prayers and luminous meditations to Obama, but also to McCain, the other candidates, and to the bankers and all government officials at this crucial time. This national crisis is an invitation on a personal level to examine our souls. We have the power to flow unconditional love out in all directions, without prejudice or preference, but for the healing of the entire nation.

In some of my research over the last few months, I discovered powerful links in the charts of Abraham Lincoln, JFK, and Barack Obama.

McCain Calls For Respect For Obama, Gets Booed

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:35:20 GMT

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Clip Source: www.411mania.com

McCain Calls On Supporters To Be Respectful Of Obama, Gets Booed

"I want everyone to be respectful. And let's make sure we are, because that's the way politics is done in America."

"I have to tell you, he is a decent person, a person that you do not have to be scared [of] as president of the United States."

The crowd booed, and some yelled "Come On, John" after McCain said this.

A woman at the town hall asks softly: "I've heard that Sen. Obama is an Arab."

"No, maam. He's a decent family man and citizen," McCain says. "He's not. Thank you."

Even FOX News spent a lot of time this afternoon talking about how McCain is now at odds with his own campaign

It's hard to make the case that people should be scared of an Obama Presidency, which is the goal of McCain's TV ads, when McCain himself says people have no reason to fear an Obama Presidency.

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Tags: mccain, palin, politics, hate, fear, obama, rallies, fox, news

McCain's Chilling Dance With the Dark Side

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:48:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Now, I'm not saying that it's wrong to ask questions about Obama's relationship, such as it was, with Bill Ayers. Or with Tony Rezko or with Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Just as it wouldn't be inappropriate to raise questions about McCain's association with G. Gordon Liddy, the convicted Watergate burglar whose colorful history includes telling listeners to his radio show in 1994 to shoot federal agents in the head. When McCain went on Liddy's radio show in November 2007, he told Liddy, "I'm proud of you, I'm proud of your family... It's always a pleasure for me to come on your program, Gordon, and congratulations on your continued success and adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great."

The candidates' associations with these people, and their responses to questions about them, give you a view into their judgment. But at a time of great economic uncertainty -- so uncertain that the smartest people in the world are scratching their heads about what to do -- whi

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McCain's Chilling Dance With the Dark Side

So the McCain camp is trying to raise doubts about Barack Obama -- even though the Illinois senator has been on the national stage for four years and has been under the presidential campaign microscope for the last 20 months. They seem to have no qualms appealing to the cultural fears of their agitated, and now energized, base by practically branding Obama as un-American or anti-American. And this is eliciting an ugliness at McCain-Palin events that is justifiably raising alarms that some nut job is going to act on the Republican ticket's cynical campaigning.

For two days now, there have been stories about boisterous McCain-Palin supporters screaming inflammatory words at the very mention of Obama's name. Words like "terrorist" and "Kill him!" and "treason." And at no point has McCain or Palin called on those folks and others who would imitate them to stop.

If they keep doing what they're doing, they'll deserve to lose.

Tags: mccain, palin, obama, politics, rallies, anger, rage, hatred, racism, smear

Make Your Own Wind Turbine One Step at a Time

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:25:48 GMT

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Clip Source: ezinearticles.com

If you learn how to make your own wind turbine you will be taking advantage of so many great reasons to make yourself smile. You see if you make your own wind turbine you can easily reduce your energy bill by at least 80%. You will make your own wind turbine for less than 200$. You will be doing your part to keep the earth green and you can be spending some quality time with your family if you decide to make your own wind turbine.

Tags: make your own wind turbine, wind turbine

Dish TV Washington Special Promotions

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:15:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Dish TV Washington Special Promotions.

Find more information about Special Dish TV WA Promotion.

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Tags: washington, wa, dish, network, tv, satellite, dishnetwork, dishnet

Joe Biden's remembrance of single fatherhood forges a listener bond

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:52:49 GMT

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Clip Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com

Sarah Palin wasted precious little time trying to establish a personal connection with the huge audience that tuned in for her Thursday night debate with Joe Biden.

In her very first answer, she evoked the image of Saturday soccer games where parents, while watching their children dash about from the sidelines, candidly discuss their concerns about the economy. Just a few minutes later, she dropped the phrases "Joe Six-Pack" and "hockey mom" into one of her responses.

Biden -- as much a creature of Washington as Palin is not -- waited much longer to seek to establish a visceral bond with his listeners. Indeed, the 90-minute verbal joust was nearing its end when he did so.

But the story he movingly related -- of his experience as a single dad to two young sons seriously hurt in a car accident that killed his wife and daughter -- widely was viewed as his standout moment in the debate.

Tags: biden, family, debate, children, palin

Fatal Fallout, Coping With Crime

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:18:20 GMT

clipped by: Delilah1234
clipper's remarks: This series explores the effect of crime from the perspective of not only the victim's family, but the family of the convicted. It is a raw look at how in a moment's notice, so many lives are changed, some for the better, some for the worse.

Clip Source: www.myrtlebeachonline.com

In 1982, columnist Issac Bailey's brother Herbert "Moochie" Bailey Jr. was charged in the stabbing death of James Bunch, a former Bonneau city councilman. Bailey recently spoke for the first time about the slaying with the victim's family, as well as his own, for a six-part series that explores the lingering effects of murder on the families of the victims and the accused.

Special series

Coping with crime

A fellow inmate stabbed one of my youngest brothers "in the back and the face,'' he told me as nonchalantly as if discussing the blueness of the sky.

It was during a fight in a Baltimore prison. Zadoc Bailey stabbed the other guy in the back. Neither reported the incident, so neither received treatment. They didn't want to be taken to solitary confinement.

A small scar is still visible on his face.

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Tags: crime, victims, families, families of convicted

Who You Callin' A Maverick?

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:45:01 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

There’s that word again: maverick. In Thursday’s vice-presidential debate, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, the Republican candidate, used it to describe herself and her running mate, Senator John McCain, no fewer than six times, at one point calling him “the consummate maverick.”

But to those who know the history of the word, applying it to Mr. McCain is a bit of a stretch — and to one Texas family in particular it is even a bit offensive.

Considering the family’s long history of association with liberalism and progressive ideals, it should come as no surprise that Ms. Maverick insists that John McCain, who has voted so often with his party, “is in no way a maverick, in uppercase or lowercase.”

“It’s just incredible — the nerve! — to suggest that he’s not part of that Republican herd. Every time we hear it, all my children and I and all my family shrink a little and say, ‘Oh, my God, he said it again.’ ”

“He’s a Republican,” she said. “He’s branded.”

LA man kills family, himself over financial woes

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:27:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Dick'n'George will get a laugh out of this.

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

A 45-year-old Los Angeles man who was allegedly distraught over money troubles has shot and killed his wife, three sons and mother-in-law before taking his own life, police said.

The father of three, who was not immediately identified by authorities, was believed to have shot five members of his family and then himself sometime after 6:00pm on Saturday (local time), a Los Angeles police spokesman said.

It's "a very tragic scene, total devastation inside this home," deputy chief Michael Moore told reporters at a news conference.

"We believe this to be a murder-suicide."

The man, a former employee of major accounting firms who had an MBA in finance but was having trouble finding a job, left three letters in the home detailing his financial difficulties, police said.

"We believe that he has become despondent recently over financial dealings and the financial situation of his household and that this murder-suicide event is a direct result of that," deputy chief Moore said.

Mentally Ill Killed by Medication

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:02:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The gentle, artistic boy who played the cello and bass guitar was long gone.

"At 15 Daniel was being bullied at school and then started to have strange thoughts, anxiety and sleep problems. A doctor prescribed him a powerful drug called Stelazine and that was the start of a nightmare which eventually led to his death. He had bad physical reactions to the medication straight away but every symptom was seen as more evidence of schizophrenia and treated with more medication. Alternative treatments were never an option; keeping him calm was the priority.

"Daniel was really passive and never complained but my mum was convinced the medication was going to kill him. She changed GPs many times, went private, bought vitamins and demanded blood tests; getting better care for Daniel became her full-time occupation but she was accused of interfering. In the months before his death, Daniel suffered from three major epileptic fits brought on by drinking too much water. Why was he so thirsty? I

Clip Source: www.independent.co.uk

Daniel Galvin died of a heart attack in August. He was six stone overweight and had high blood pressure; his hair was falling out and he was incapacitated by trembling legs. He was 29.

Daniel's family believe his symptoms, and his untimely death, were caused by side effects from the powerful psychiatric drugs he had been taking for 14 years. He is, they think, one of thousands of people with mental health problems who have died prematurely because their physical health was neglected.

People with mental health problems and learning disabilities die on average 10 years younger than the rest of the population, according to the Disability Rights Commission. Obesity, diabetes, certain cancers and heart disease are far more common among people taking psychiatric drugs

"When my big brother died at the age of 29, he was a fragment of the person I used to know. He was obese, had no energy; his legs were constantly restless and cigarettes had become his life.

Tags: mental illness

Elderly gays forging new alliances

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:48:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: There are over 2.5 million gay seniors in the U.S. All of them have lived through the days when being gay meant facing discrimination, job loss, familial animosity, alienation of friends etc. But times have changed, and gay seniors have new recognition as important members of society.

Sage, is a new organization, supported by AARP that helps gay seniors live the kind of lives to which they are entitled. Finally, elders who happen to be gay, can join us younger gays in taking our place in the new freedoms, being granted us in the ever expanding acceptance and tolerance of society. Things are far from perfect, but we are definitely getting there.

Clip Source: www.365gay.com

Frank Carter was once a globe-trotting professional dancer; his world is smaller now. He battles multiple health problems, walks with a cane and rarely leaves his compact Manhattan apartment.

As an 86-year-old gay man, with no family nearby and many acquaintances long since dead, he’d seem a likely prospect for isolation.

Stoll came into his life though a program that matches infirm gays and lesbians with volunteers who commit to making weekly visits.

Advocacy groups say the estimated 2.5 million gay seniors in America are twice as likely to live alone, four times less likely to have adult children to help them, and far more fearful of discrimination from health care workers.

A watershed moment comes this month, when the AARP - the largest advocacy group for Americans over 50 - for the first time sponsors a major national conference focused on gay and lesbian aging.

SAGE (Service and Advocacy for GLBT Elders), the New York-based organization

AARP’s involvement is “a big breakthrough

Tags: gay, homosexuality, seniors, retirement, marriage

Best ADT Security Texas Deals

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:46:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Best ADT Security Texas Deals.

Find the best ADT TX Promotions here

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Clipmarks | Family time Clips

How Much Is That Pastor In the Window?

Michelle McMullen, Missing and Wanted

Missing the old McCain

Elections Astrology: Obama, Lincoln, JFK, Bailout Games and Palin's Potency

Elections Astrology: Obama, Lincoln, JFK, Bailout Games, and Palin's Potency

McCain Calls For Respect For Obama, Gets Booed

McCain's Chilling Dance With the Dark Side

McCain's Chilling Dance With the Dark Side

Make Your Own Wind Turbine One Step at a Time

Dish TV Washington Special Promotions

Joe Biden's remembrance of single fatherhood forges a listener bond

Fatal Fallout, Coping With Crime

Coping with crime

More Special series Headlines

'But he's still my brother'

The victim's view

Piecing it together

Enduring abuse

Loved one lost

Crime's reach stretches beyond criminal, victim

Who You Callin' A Maverick?

LA man kills family, himself over financial woes

Mentally Ill Killed by Medication

Elderly gays forging new alliances

Best ADT Security Texas Deals