It’s Tuesday…yippee.
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Steve Kelley, The New Orleans Times-Picayune
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Jeff Darcy, The Cleveland Plain-Dealer
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Rob Rogers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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If there’s a way to make a dollar from anything, some huckster is going to find it.
A bigoted pastor who has assailed gays and Muslims is launching the “9-11 Christian Center at Ground Zero” a mere two blocks from the World Trade Center site this Sunday, but so far the project hasn’t drawn a peep of protest from those who are outraged by the “ground zero mosque.”
Pastor Bill Keller of Florida said today he will begin preaching Sunday at the Marriott at 85 West Street… A weekly service is planned at the hotel until the $8 million 9/11 Christian Center finds a permanent space. (Fundraising is going well, Keller told Salon today.)
To get a sense of where Keller is coming from, consider his project’s website, which calls Islam a religion of “hate and death” whose adherents will go to hell. It also says: “Islam is a wonderful religion… for PEDOPHILES!”
…Keller has a history of seeking to profit from his various projects (one, called Gold for Souls, involved telling people to simply mail him their gold and jewelry). The 9-11 Christian Center appears to be no different. The project’s website features a prominent link telling viewers to “Earn $$$ – Click Here!” It goes to a letter from Keller offering people a 10 percent referral cut on donations from their friends to the 9/11 Christian Center.
Another example of Christianity being hijacked by con artists praying preying on the weak-minded and hate-filled types out there. Let’s get it straight: No one was upset with an Islamic community center being built in NY until they were told they had cause to be upset by the likes of Pam Geller, Limbaugh, Beck and Fox News. Then every bigoted jackass out there jumped on the idiot bandwagon leaving the door open for opportunists like “Pastor” Bill to fleece money from the sheep.
And watch him get away with it.
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Damn…notes from the stall should have been my idea for a web site. Some of the funniest stuff I’ve ever read has been off the walls of bathroom stalls.
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It’s your fault.
Why is the recovery faltering? There are many explanations: a depressed housing market; weaker-than-expected exports; cautious corporations. But consumers, representing 70 percent of the economy’s $14.5 trillion of spending, are the crux of the matter.
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The recovery is a creature of confidence, or its absence. “In normal times, psychology doesn’t matter much. It reflects economic conditions,” says Zandi. “But in abnormal times, it’s the reverse. Psychology determines economic conditions.” What the boom and bust left is a massive case of collective doubt.
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Glenn Beck’s world might be considered shady but blogging sure isn’t…well in most cases, anyway. A time consuming passion is a better description of what goes on at this end. I try to keep ‘Please donate if you can‘ posts down to a few a year. That’s a few more than I would prefer having but the bills need to get paid. Sorry I need to ask.
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