Desperate people are easily exploited and now another one of those exploiters has been exposed. An outfit called the Christian Prayer Center advertised that they could get many people to pray for one’s need and provided testimonials to the power of such mass prayers. It turns out that those testimonials were fake and that no one actually was praying on behalf of those who sent in money.
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Another day, another plan to stop Donald Trump is reported in the news, along with criticisms of such moves. I have stopped paying much attention to these reports as they have become so numerous as Trump continues to inexorably increase his lead among delegates for the nomination. This is mainly because these plots never address the crucial end-game: If they do manage to stop Trump, then who becomes the nominee and how do they prevent Trump’s supporters from revolting at what would essentially be a coup by party insiders against them?
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I came across this news item in the British newspaper The Independent about a row within the ruling Conservative Party following the resignation of a cabinet member who says he objects to major cuts being made in disability payments.
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This is an excellent film. It is a lightly fictionalized version of the events that led up to the financial crash of 2008 due to the housing bubble. It focuses on several individuals who looked closely at the way that housing prices were rising at a far faster rate than the rise in people incomes would predict, looked closely at the mortgages that were being handed out that enabled people to pay ever-increasing prices for the same homes, and came to the conclusion that the whole system was rotten with no accountability and was destined to crash.
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Schadenfruede is not generally an honorable emotion. It seems wrong to rejoice in the tears of others. But in some cases, the guilt is removed and one can rejoice openly and gleefully and one of the pleasures of the Republican primary race is seeing the hopes and ambitions of one awful candidate after another being dashed. The pleasure would be even sweeter if the remaining candidates were not as bad or even worse.
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Last year I wrote about the mysterious attacks that had been made on the home of an 85-year old man who lived in Euclid, a suburb of Cleveland. Over a year or more, the man’s house had been pelted several times a week, and the police were baffled as to who was doing it and how and why.
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There was always something phony about Marco Rubio. He had the ingratiating smile of a person who tried hard to make you like him and yet that very effort on his part was what turned you off, like the person who keeps wanting to be friends with you and yet the more he or she tries, the less you want to. He also had some of the most extreme positions on issues and a steely-eyed certainty in his own rightness and the support of god for them even when they were utterly abhorrent. I am truly glad to see him get the boot.
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This is an old clip, harkening back to the hilarious failure of Ben Carson to get on stage during the Republican debate just before the New Hampshire primary. If you missed it, here is what actually happened at the debate. It never gets old for me.
Take a look at this video clip that I obtained via Rob Beschizza. It is supposedly from a live broadcast. The blonde woman on the left of the screen seems to mysteriously disappear before one’s eyes.
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Cleveland makes every effort to shake off its image as just another decaying rust-belt city with nothing to offer and the city takes every chance it gets to improve its image. So when it snagged the Republican convention this year, it was hailed as a great coup because you would have media from all over the world coming to cover it and the city would get to show its good side.
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