>I do not know how he has managed to stay in business. He was busted for buying
>a hooker and watching her do things with fruits and vegetables; despite that
>people still send him money. Go figure.
He's the white jesse jackson.
>> I see the potential for a lot of scandal
>> in this faith based ministry idea getting
>> millions of dollars for running social
>> programs. The checks and balances
>> had better be really good.
>
>You can hear scientology's lips licking from here!
>
This seems like one that wasn't thought through very well. For a RepuboNazi
it's all very well for the local all-white Baptist church to get $$$ from Uncle
Sugar but when it comes to the Scientologists, the Muslims, and the Pagans
getting an equal share of the ca$h, then look out!! In the fine print of the
(Burning) Bush Proposal there must be the words "white" and "Christian" written
in such small letters that no one has noticed yet.
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> >>
> >>I do not know how he has managed to stay in business. He was
> >>busted for buying a hooker and watching her do things with
> >>fruits and vegetables; despite that people still send him
> >>money. Go figure.
>
>
>
> I hear his followers in numbers are only
> a shadow of what they once were.
> Supposidly he has a secret Swiss Bank
> Account he set up years ago that he
> is drawing money from in order to
> stay in business.
>
> I haven't seen his syndicated religious show on my local cable system for
> several years.
It's still running on one of the satellite-delivered channels (which
may or may not be on some cable systems). His son is seen frequently.
I think the program merely allows faith-based organization to compete for
government contracts. If you've ever seen how government contracting works,
you won't worry about checks and balances.
+ Ejucaided Redneck <briarh...@yall.com> wrote in message
+ news:3A836DEC...@yall.com...
+ > GO-SPAM-YO-...@bigfoot.com wrote:
+ > >
+ > > On Thu, 08 Feb 2001 20:02:54 -0500, Ejucaided Redneck
+ <briarh...@yall.com>
+ > > wrote:
+ > >
+ > > >He's also got a thing going with "syndicated radio" which apparently
+ > > >rakes in more than a few shekels. Last year Swaggert applied for a
+ > > >license to open a "robot radio station" here in Morehead KY, which
+ would
+ > > >be part of his syndication efforts. Haven't heard any more about it.
+ > >
+ > > Somehow it doesn't surprise me that Swaggart would have a fondness for
+ "more
+ > > head".
+ >
+ > Especially since it's so close to Frenchburg.
+ >
+ > And to get _there_ you go right through Salt Lick.
+ >
+ Isn't that somewhere near Big Bone Lick, too? I seem to remember that
+ right off I-75 somewhere in that neck of the woods.
+ I recall that the Jim and Tammy Bakker Ordeal happened somewhere around
+ the same time, and Rev. Bob Tilton fell from grace, too, a little later. I
It was better than that. When Jim and Tammy got caught, Jimmy
Swaggert took over PTL, and spent several weeks ranting against them.
It was during this time that The Reverend Swaggart was meeting his
backstreet girl at the motel after a long day in front of the
microphones. It was especially gratifying to watch him get caught
right in the middle o fa prolonged anti-Bakker Holier Than Thou rant.
If these guys understood anything about Christianity, they
would know that nobody is authorized to pass judgment on anyone else,
and if they knew anything about psychology, they would know that the
loudest preachers are always the worst offenders.
The other God Fearin Hypocrite you were thinking about might
have been Oral "Anal" Roberts, who announced that God told him to meet
his fund raising quota or jump off the bell tower, or something
unlikely like that.
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in article G94J7...@world.std.com, Rich Clancey at r...@world.std.com wrote
on 2/21/01 2:21 PM:
> The other God Fearin Hypocrite you were thinking about might
> have been Oral "Anal" Roberts, who announced that God told him to meet
> his fund raising quota or jump off the bell tower, or something
> unlikely like that.
It got worse than that. Roberts began claiming that he had
occasionally raised the dead during his services -- specifically,
congregants who had keeled over and died from all the excitement. He
also said that other preachers had done it, too, but didn't have the
courage to admit it.
People not only listen to this stuff, they believe it and they send in
great gobs of money. We're all in the wrong business.
Then check out Lyndon Johnson.
Hmmmm. Now that you mention it, they never did appear in the same place at
the same time.
Terry Ellsworth
The good black people are really letting themselves being duped by these
side show freaks. What a pity!
in article 20010223155255...@ng-fl1.aol.com, Terrymelin at
terry...@aol.com wrote on 2/23/01 2:52 PM:
>Sharpton...what a fat, sloppy, greasy, lying, self-appointed, worthless sack
>of shit who still insists Ms. Brawley was telling the truth even tho she
>admitted she lied big time. But Al's not about to give up the spotlight
>that shone on him during that lying travesty.
Bob, Bob, Bob ... let me guess. You're not black, are you?? I'm shure that
those "good black people" that you cite really appreciate your helping them
decide which of their leaders are "fat, sloppy, greasy" and which ones are more
suitable to your, uh, "mighty white" tastes.
I suppose that you miss those days when the 'good' black pholks would have
referred to you as Mastah Bob ;)
I wonder how long it will be before the racist RepuboNazi rightwingers finally
realize that the major reason the Jesse Jacksons, Muslims, and Al Sharptons
have so much clout in black communities is precisely because they offend you
turkeys with their very existence?? RepuboNazis have consistently ignored the
desires and interests of minorities and (lately) anyone else who disagreed with
them. It's no wonder that black people simply won't have anything to do with
the GOP.
A recent poll in Florida pointed out that 60plus% of the black population felt
that Al Gore was the rightful President and that 40% felt that there was an
organized conspiracy amongst the RepuboNazis to deprive them of their right to
vote. It does sorta seem like the GOP has gotten away from that concept of 1
person, 1 vote, doesn't it??
> >It's no wonder that black people simply won't have anything to do with
> >the GOP.
>
> Take that, Colin Powell, Alan Keyes, and Condoleeza Rice.
...and J.C. Watts, Reggie White, Armstrong Williams, James Brown (the
singer -- dunno about the Fox Sports anchor), Lionel Hampton, Muhammad Ali
and (at least as of ten years back) Tony Brown...
...and Louis Armstrong was a lifelong Republican as well; so was Ezy-E(sp?),
the late N.W.A. rapper...
> So let's see now, White folks shouldn't comment on Black leaders ... men
> shouldn't comment on abortion ... and women shouldn't comment on the
draft.
...I stoped commenting on why Afro-American Republicans were freakish when I
saw that photo in THE BOOK OF ROCK LISTS of Lester Maddox explaining the
joys of the Democratic Party to James Brown (or so the caption claimed) --
that image put it all into perspective for me...
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Love your enemies. It drives them right up the bloody wall.
The spirit of the original post was that Jimmy Swaggart is a bullshit
artist, a self-proclaimed leader of insecure weak-minded white people, a
perpetrator of deception, and a media darling pig. I'm too polite to ever
call him a flaming asshole.
On the other side of the color fence, Al Sharpton never did let go of the
Ms. Brawley lie that put his fat ass into the limelight. Now he's venerated
as a self-proclaimed leader of his people. What has Al done for them except
grow fatter and basked in the media attention? Where's the beef, except in
his stomach?
Whites and Blacks both deserve better than these self-indulging media
spotlight hogs and circus acts.
THE CRUX OF IT: The sad thing is that so many feeble minded people support
them, and even worse people like them. Are people of all colors that
desperate for someone/anyone to believe in that they feel freaks and
bloodsuckers (thanks, Khalid) are their salvation?
Now, like the kid with the lisp sitting on a block of ice...
"my tale is told."
>> >It's no wonder that black people simply won't have anything to do with
>> >the GOP.
>>
>> Take that, Colin Powell, Alan Keyes, and Condoleeza Rice.
Let's see, that's something like .0000000000000001 percent of the black
population of the United States. Sorta proves my point. The GOP doesn't have
anything like broad appeal for the minority population of the USA. When you
vote RepuboNazi you vote for racism.
Alan Keyes is an interesting example. He's clearly a cynic who simply has
found profit in being a token minority in a majority-dominated political
system. Sorta like the black Rush Limbaugh, who doesn't really believe the
nonsense that he spews but loves to take that money from rightwingers and ca$h
those checks. Too bad that Keyes has become a traitor for the rights and
concerns of his own people.
>Pirate John is a seriously confused creature, and may even be certifiable.
InsanePorcineBovine is just, uh, "mad" because she discovered that she left her
best swastika at David Carson's mobilehome love nest down in Texas. You,
Carson, and the other trailer trash RepuboNazis need to stick together -- you
clowns were meant for each other.
>Such crap you distribute.
>
>The Dems, over the years, have convinced Af-Ams that the Dems themselves hold
>the only key, with generous outpourings of welfare money, no reciprocation
>necessary. No work necessary. The Dem policies have gotten Af-Ams where they
>are
>today ... largely on the dole, largely in prison, largely in fear of their
>lives.
Such crap you eat, Hotmail Boy (jeese, I'm responding to some jackass who
cannot afford an email account -- that's pathetic!!) You've been listening to
Limbaugh's show again. Come up with some original thoughts.
If the RepuboNazi policies are so good for black Americans, then how come black
Americans are so solidly in opposition to them?? You jackasses voted in a
Prez. who was a drunk until he was 40plus and has only worked for the last few
years (having George Bush support you is a luxury that few black pholks have)
and you called black Americans "lazy"??
Jesus Christ, you are a moron. Right up there with the rest of your political
buddies.
I bet he thinks that is literature.
Lincoln was a republican, so the events of the civil war left most
southerners democrats for nearly 100 years. For many decades in many
areas down south republicans didn't even waste their money running for
office.
That was the era of the "yellow dog" democrat as in "I'd vote for a
yellow dog running as a democrat over any republican!"
Then the demcrats began embracing civil rights and the end to
segregation and similar and generally promoting the status of blacks
in America. This drove more and more (need I say it? white)
southerners to the republican party until today we see the republicans
dominating much of the south.
It's pretty amazing to see GW Bush so successful out of Texas on his
fortunes with the "Party of Lincoln".
But do you see my point and why so few blacks identify with the
Republican party in this day and age as the republicans have largely
been perceived as rising, in the south at least, as a reaction to the
civil rights movement and a party embraced by symbols of the bad old
days such as Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms?
I don't think blacks' suspicion of the republican party is completely
unjustified. As Dick Gregory was always fond of pointing out, the
"good old days" imagery which conservatives often find attractive
means something very different, and not very comforting, to your
average black person. As he'd put it, "Yeah, let's bring back the good
old days...let's bring back POLIO!...the only thing good about the
good ol' days is that they're GONE!"
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Damn right, and most of them were turned out by Everett Dirksen, bless his
soul.
The only think I didn't like about ol' Ev was the way he kissed helpless young
female staffers. It was like being licked by a cow.
Back in those days, Senators and Congressman could grab any part of you they
wanted, and you couldn't even say "eek."
Maybe someday I'll write a book on which parts of the female body certain
Senators liked best.
Nah, I don't really mean that.
Actually it was mostly passed with Republican votes from up north.
Terry Ellsworth
Hmm,would be interesting to see that clause in the rules.
: Maybe someday I'll write a book on which parts of the female body certain
As Marvin Gorman jumps for joy...
I do not know how he has managed to stay in business. He was busted for buying
a hooker and watching her do things with fruits and vegetables; despite that
people still send him money. Go figure.
Michael O'Connor - Modern Renaissance Man
"The probability of one person being right increases in a direct porportion to
the intensity with which others try to prove him wrong"
>>Jimmy Swaggart had angioplasty yesterday in Baton Rouge. He
>>drove himself to the hospital. Gee, where was Jimmy's wife
>>to drive him as he was potentially at death's doorstep?
>>Gee, I bet Jimmy the phony holy man, party animal and
>>whoremonger is insured quite heavily. Mrs. Swaggart, you
>>go, girl. He owes you for the humiliation he put you
>>through.
>>
>
>I do not know how he has managed to stay in business. He was
>busted for buying a hooker and watching her do things with
>fruits and vegetables; despite that people still send him
>money. Go figure.
>
He's probably all some people can find to pin their faith on.
Now, isn't that a thought?
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> Jimmy Swaggart had angioplasty yesterday in Baton Rouge.
He has a heart?
One of the TV news programs a few years ago reported that with the
collapse of his "ministry" Swaggert rented nearly the entirety of his
suddenly empty "college" campus to the state of Louisiana for use as
office buildings. He's got a lot of clout in Baton rouge, and is making
millions off that deal. The state claims it's cheaper than building new
offices....
Same program showed him still preaching in his monstrosity of a
"church," but the crowd was so small he had black curtains hanging to
mask all the empty seats.
He's also got a thing going with "syndicated radio" which apparently
rakes in more than a few shekels. Last year Swaggert applied for a
license to open a "robot radio station" here in Morehead KY, which would
be part of his syndication efforts. Haven't heard any more about it.
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Especially since it's so close to Frenchburg.
And to get _there_ you go right through Salt Lick.
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Hell, "Baton Rouge" sounds fairly apt for Brother Jimmy if you think about
it right.
He gives great contrition. "Ah-ah have sin-inned a-against you!" The
sobbing is priceless. He could have taught Clinton a thing or two, but
it would have been a political risk to steal Swaggart's act outright;
too many of the rubes... sorry, constituents had seen the original.
MattH
Isn't that somewhere near Big Bone Lick, too? I seem to remember that
right off I-75 somewhere in that neck of the woods.
I recall that the Jim and Tammy Bakker Ordeal happened somewhere around
the same time, and Rev. Bob Tilton fell from grace, too, a little later. I
miss Tilton crawling around in the envelopes that carried the cash,
squinty-eyed and "speaking in tongues." That blasphemy should have been
thwarted much sooner than it was. It was entertaining, in a Jerry Springer
Trashy sort of way. It seems like there was another one, too, but I can't
remember who it was right now.
>> Somehow it doesn't surprise me that Swaggart would have a fondness for
>"more
>> head".
>
>Especially since it's so close to Frenchburg.
>
>And to get _there_ you go right through Salt Lick.
... which ain't too far away from a charming little Kentucky park called Big
Bone Lick ...
> I recall that the Jim and Tammy Bakker Ordeal happened somewhere around
> the same time, and Rev. Bob Tilton fell from grace, too, a little later. I
> miss Tilton crawling around in the envelopes that carried the cash,
> squinty-eyed and "speaking in tongues." That blasphemy should have been
> thwarted much sooner than it was. It was entertaining, in a Jerry Springer
> Trashy sort of way. It seems like there was another one, too, but I can't
> remember who it was right now.
Never fear. Tilton is back with the same gig, and has been for several
years. (He always looked to me like the Cesar Romero version of the
Joker, with all that hair.)
Peter Popoff may be the one you're forgetting. He was gone for a
while, too, in part thanks to an expose by the great James Randi.
Randi got a guy with a scanner to pick up the radio messages Popoff's
wife was sending Popoff during services for his "miraculous"
divinations of peoples' names and physical conditions. (Randi also
found a guy who dressed as a woman and was "cured" with great
regularity on the Popoff circuit.) Popoff now shows clips of his
services from the good old days; he and his wife do fresh wrap-arounds.
Popoff offers a small ampule of "miracle oil" (non-Crisco, I trust) in
return for a donation.
Ernest Angley is dead, I think. IIRC, he did a little time in West
Germany (this goes back a way) for fraud.
James Randi is a hero. He should live forever.
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Peter Popoff, unfortunately, is still around. I just saw him the other day
on some channel. The expose has been on pretty recently too (as a repeat on
Discovery or A&E or Learning Channel.) That's why I was so surprised when I
saw Popoff.
Re: Ernest Angley - I wondered what happened to him. Used to see him on tv
when we lived in West Virginia. Had some neighbors that would do imitations
of him and have us in stitches.
Hard for me to believe people can be so gullible...but I guess Oral Roberts
is still going strong too. Wonder what Richard Roberts first wife if up to
these days. I was very surprised they got divorced. Good for her to finally
realize what a charlatan he is.
Marty
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I hear his followers in numbers are only
a shadow of what they once were.
Supposidly he has a secret Swiss Bank
Account he set up years ago that he
is drawing money from in order to
stay in business.
I haven't seen his syndicated religious show on my local cable system for
several years.
I see the potential for a lot of scandal
in this faith based ministry idea getting
millions of dollars for running social
programs. The checks and balances
had better be really good.
You can hear scientology's lips licking from here!