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September 26, 2008

Not The Noah You Want To Go Through A Flood With!

by @ 12:33 am. Filed under Nuts on Parade

This one really is even wilder, because the man’s name really is “Noah”…

Pastor sentenced for theft of hurricane relief funds

U.S. District Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt sentenced Noah A. Thomas, Jr. to 17 months in federal prison for mail fraud in connection with funds granted to the church he ministered, announced U. S. Attorney Jim Letten.

Court documents also show that Thomas created a scheme to defraud the Church of the $35,000 Bush-Clinton grant funds for his own personal benefit by having the $35,000 check mailed to his house and then deposited into a bank account that he established and controlled. Thomas created a similar scheme to defraud the church of the SBA loan money by having the SBA wire the initial $10,000 disbursement of the disaster loan into the same bank account. Thomas spent at least $10,000 of the relief money on a new Dodge Durango for himself.

According to the court documents, Thomas pleaded guilty on April 9, to a one-count bill of information. Prior to Hurricane Katrina, Thomas was the pastor of Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church.

When Katrina hit, the congregation’s building at 2241 South Liberty Street in New Orleans was devastated by floodwater. The church did not have flood insurance so the congregation applied for a SBA loan and a grant from the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund to offset the cost of rebuilding. The church was awarded a $252,000 disaster loan from the SBA and a $35,000 grant from the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund.

The court sentenced Thomas to the 17 month prison term and ordered him to repay the funds over 60 monthly payments.

(Hat tip Ernest.)

Well does anything more need to be said? He’s a crook, they got him and he’s going to prison. Lord willing he’ll repent. Better that he’s humbled now and possibly repent, than live a lie and possibly die never having repented.

September 25, 2008

It’s Not Illegal, Just Unethical… Pressure To Take Money You Can’t Afford!

by @ 2:46 pm. Filed under Business

Just an interesting video.



Ex-bankers on pushing customers to rack up debt

I say, the documented performance reviews don’t lie! But sometimes company spokespeople do.


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September 24, 2008

The Blog Is Back Up, Short A Few Comments. Plus Some Odd Symbols. (*Updated: All Clear*)

by @ 3:36 pm. Filed under Tech

Sometimes efforts to perform routine maintenance go awry. And sometimes backups don’t have all that they’re supposed to have in them :) . But no matter, thank God through Jesus Christ I’m saved by grace. And to boot the blog is working again. I was able to get all the posts back after some DB maintenance really messed things up. But it seems some of them have an odd character where quotes used to be. And I was able to get most comments back, up till 9/17/2008. Unfortunately my more recent backup failed to include some more recent comments. It’s all a long story, but bottom line is all posts are back and most comments too. I’m still working on getting the comments after 9/17/2008 till now back. Till I’m done getting those comments back, probably NOT a good idea to make any new comments :D . I’ll update this post when you can make comments again. But any new comments made at the moment might be permanently lost when I get the others restored. For now, enjoy reading :) .


update 9/24/2008 11:45PM:
Finally got all the comments back and also was able to get rid of those odd looking characters that were showing up. Here’s a note for you who backup your own Wordpress database to a .sql file. Before restoring, open the file in Notepad and save it with ANSI encoding. That’s how I got rid of the odd characters and was much easier than other options. And regarding your backups, make sure you’re using Wordpress recommended backup options. (MySQL DB restore tools [in phpMyAdmin] use UTF8 and that’s the option to select in the restore file character type, but somehow if the file is not saved as ANSI encoded, the odd characters show up, because the DB or the DB backup process or Wordpress does something odd with the encoding of text.)

So all is back to as it was yesterday, praise the Lord.

September 23, 2008

Will Clay Aiken Become The Spokesman For The False Homosexual “Christian” Movement?

by @ 11:53 pm. Filed under Questionable Items

OK, he’s admitted it, he’s homosexual. Which leaves us with one of those where do we go from here type of pauses. Because he’s claimed so many times that he’s a Christian.

Well before I even bother with the homosexual aspects, I didn’t even know this guy had a baby. And I certainly didn’t know he conceived the baby through artificial insemination of a woman almost twice his age. I think it’s sad he’s gone to have a child when he knows he didn’t even care to marry. The mother is someone he knows, that he’s never indented to marry, he’s homosexual. He’s fathered a baby out of wedlock and never was even thinking of making the baby a household as instructed in the Bible he claims to take instruction from.

And what of the other babies you’ve made Clay Aiken? Typically artificial insemination involves making more babies (some who like to deny them humanity call them embryos) than are actually implanted into the mother. So what of the other babies? Will he just leave them in a freezer? Is he planning to let them become human guinea pigs for “embryonic stem cell research”? Has he made any plans for their adoption? There are real Christians, who are willing to adopt these children some would rather use as test rats. Will Clay Aiken give his other children the opportunity to grow up?

So he’s homosexual and he’s claimed to be Christian. Back to that where do we go from here pause I was talking about. Given he’s claiming homosexuality, is he going to try and continue to claim Christianity also? Is he saying that he’s struggling with same sex attraction and seeking to turn from what he knows to be evil? Well we know unfortunately that’s probably not the case. He sadly appears to be trying to claim he’s gay and it’s OK. I just hope I’m wrong about that and he does come out to claim he’s struggling against sin and would rather turn to living righteously.

Ephesians 4:17-24 (New American Standard Bible)

17 So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, 18 being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; 19 and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. 20 But you did not learn Christ in this way, 21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus, 22 that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, 23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.

One has to now ask if Clay Aiken really heard Him as he claims to have? But sadly it appears the false “gay christian” crowd will have yet another spokesperson. Which would mean he did not hear the Lord. Imagine if Soulforce gets hold of Aiken and takes him to see homosexual friendly TD Jakes? It would be very interesting to see who would turn away Aiken if the reprobates take Aiken touring with them.

Either Clay Aiken is not a Christian, or he better start talking about how he hates being homosexual and is seeking to turn from that evil feeling he has for members of the same sex. Because if he claims the Lord approves of what he’s doing, he has not heard from Christ in truth.

September 22, 2008

Jamal-Harrison Bryant, A Popular Name, But Not For The Sake Of The Gospel Of The Lord Jesus!

by @ 10:11 pm. Filed under Nuts on Parade

I think it says something, when a pastor is known as a great metrosexual, but when it comes to his sermons they are devoid of Christ and only expose his hypocrisy. Once upon a time, when I was drinking the poison of delusion, I used to think mess like pastors being known for “fashion” was something cool, but now I find it to be rather disgusting. Like a dog going for it’s own vomit, as God had Peter write, 2 Peter 2:22 [click to expand link].

While real men of the gospel were not concerned about looking pretty during a sermon, 1 Corinthians 4:10-13 and the Lord Jesus told them not to worry over apparel, Matthew 6:31-34. The Pulpit Pimps take the opposite route and what would one expect from someone who preaches another gospel? While Jamal Bryant is the subject of this post, this is a matter common with pulpit pimps. They’re so concerned about LOOKS, that the only thing many appreciate them for is LOOKS. (Or looks and tickling their ears with false teaching.) How many of the Apostles of the Lord Jesus made the style pages of publications of their day? But the pulpit pimps of today seem to be regular figures.

Look at this from the style section of the Knoxville News Sentinel newspaper, out of Knoxville, Tennessee. The article is a profile of a man the paper finds to be a sharp dresser, a guy named Ashanti Bailey.

Personal style: Passion for fashion at tender age still ingrained (emphasis added)


Ashanti Bailey’s personal style

* Style icons: Designer/rapper/actor Sean Combs aka P. Diddy, designer/actor Derek Watkins aka. Farnsworth Bentley, singer/actor Jamie Foxx and Baltimore megachurch pastor Jamal Bryant

Now I’ll say, when I was taken in by delusion, what I’m saying now about Bryant and other pimps made absolutely no sense to me. And I’m sure their followers can’t make sense of this post, if any of them happen to read it. But just the same, the following scripture is for those who follow men like Bryant, Eddie Long, TD Jakes and other fashion show plates. Lord willing, something will register as to why what those men are doing is wrong.

Matthew 23:5-12 (New American Standard Bible)

5 “But they do all their deeds to be noticed by men; for they broaden their phylacteries and lengthen the tassels of their garments.

6 “They love the place of honor at banquets and the chief seats in the synagogues,

7 and respectful greetings in the market places, and being called Rabbi by men.

8 “But do not be called Rabbi; for One is your Teacher, and you are all brothers.

9 “Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven.

10 “Do not be called leaders; for One is your Leader, that is, Christ.

11 “But the greatest among you shall be your servant.

12 “Whoever exalts himself shall be humbled; and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted.

and

Matthew 23:25-28 (New American Standard Bible)

25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside they are full of robbery and self-indulgence.

26 “You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, so that the outside of it may become clean also.

27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.

28 “So you, too, outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Some who disagree with the things I say would like to claim I am being a “Pharisee”, but the truth is, some of you don’t really understand what a Pharisee is.

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