Priest Tells Congregation To Go Out and Steal
A British Anglican priest is encouraging his poverty stricken parishioners to go out and steal from high end stores.
In his Sunday sermon, the Rev Tim Jones told his parishioners that ‘stealing from successful shops was preferable to burglary, robbery or prostitution.’ I wonder if he knows that burglary, robbery and stealing are one and the same?
I’ve heard of black pastors asking to see W2 forms to prove that members of their congregation work enough overtime to fill the pastor’s Bentleys with gas. But for a Priest to ask his church to go out and steal? It just seems ungodly.
He told parishioners it would not break the eighth commandment ‘thou shalt not steal’ because it ‘is permissible for those who are in desperate situations to take food that they might not starve’.
‘My advice, as a Christian priest, is to shoplift,’ he told his stunned congregation at St Lawrence and St Hilda in York.
‘I do not offer such advice because I think that stealing is a good thing, or because I think it is harmless, for it is neither.
‘I would ask that they do not steal from small family businesses, but from large national businesses, knowing that the costs are ultimately passed on to the rest of us in the form of higher prices. Read More…
The police and, naturally, local business owners were not too happy with the Priest’s sermon as you can imagine.
It looks like times are as bad overseas as it is right here in the good ol’ US of A. We have a president who seems to care more about his legacy than about the 10% (really 16%) unemployment. But at least Barack Obama isn’t encouraging the poor to go out and steal.
Obama just looks the other way when Democrats like Harry Reid brazenly take bribes right under his nose! Or he pretends not to notice that the Dems health care bill is loaded with payoffs to Senators.
By the way, that health care bill goes before the Senate for a vote on Thursday. And if it passes (and the GOP’s bill is merged and signed by Obama) you will begin paying out of your noses for healthcare that doesn’t take effect until 2014 — 2 years after Obama is voted out of office. Oh, and the biggest winners will be the insurance companies.
How is that for Change?
*UPDATE* T.I. Released To Halfway House
UPDATE:
According to Grand Hustle employees, rapper T.I. is back home in Atlanta.
Rather than catch a commercial flight, which would have tipped off the media, T.I. arrived home in a custom van or bus just in time to celebrate the holidays with his family. T.I. will spend the next few months in a downtown Atlanta halfway house before being released on house arrest his final month.
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According to a well-placed source, rapper T.I., who is serving a 12 month and a day bid on gun possession charges, will be released to an Atlanta halfway house to serve out the remainder of his sentence after the New Year.
This is good news to the legions of fans of the wordsmith widely considered the best rapper of his generation.
T.I. is expected to be released to the halfway house before his scheduled May 26 release date — maybe in February or March 2010. Unlike the strict prison rules that T.I. must now adhere to, the halfway house rules will be more relaxed.
T.I. will most likely be allowed to leave the halfway house during the day to work at his Grand Hustle offices or even to marry his sweetheart Tameka “Tiny” Cottle!
Meanwhile, T.I.’s clothing line AKOO is doing big business. The Fall/Winter Collection is selling out in major retail outlets. The Holiday ’09 Collection include staples such as Pea and Sport Coats in herringbone and hounds tooth, hooded cardigans which play on the idea of the traditional grandfather sweater, custom denim, chucky wool sweaters and classic rugby shirts and jackets for that well-dressed man in your life.
If I had a man or a son I would outfit him in pieces from T.I.’s line because the line is top quality.
Mixed Race Girl Suffers Racism in China
A mixed race Chinese girl living in Shanghai suffers racism because of the color of her skin.
Thanks to loyal reader Sasha for the video link!
More Hoodrat Stuff (“I Know one day you might Google us”)
Every attention whore has their day, and yesterday was Mashonda’s day to shine. I know she couldn’t wait to Twitpic these images of her son, Kasseem Jr., celebrating his birthday with his deadbeat dad Swizz Beatz at FAO Swartz toy store in Manhattan.
The kid looks depressed doesn’t he? Like he knows he was born to be a photo op for his narcissistic parents and nothing else. Little Kasseem Jr. looks like the walking wounded who’s seen one too many battles between his parents.
You can tell he’s undernourished, wearing a size 3T? My grandnephew is 2-years-old and wears a 4T.
Of course Kasseem’s self-absorbed parents don’t see the damage they’re doing to their son because, well, they’re self-absorbed. So they probably think if they throw enough money at him, such as buying him frivolous things like $400 Louis Vuitton sneakers, that he’ll forget they were horrible parents when he was little.
Mashonda even tweeted “I know one day you might Google us, but I just want you to know there was always love…” Isn’t it sad that the kid has to grow up and Google her tweet to see that they always loved him? Child protection services needs to step in and evaluate this child’s home environment.
Maybe Mashonda should lean on Solange Knowles for advice. Solo seems to be a really great mother to her son Julez.
Hoodrat News
Fantasia Barrino’s new reality TV show premieres Monday, Dec. 28, on VH1.
Mariah Carey’s star is fading fast on the heels of her latest flop album and the fact that no one seems to be talking about her acting in the critically acclaimed “Precious” flick. So she might as well jump on the next fastest thing moving (since Nick Cannon seems to be doing nothing for her street cred). Mimi and rap fraud Nicki Minaj teamed up to shoot a video for “Up Out My Face” off Mimi’s remix album. My readers are wondering when Mattel is going to step in and slap Nicki Minaj with a Barbie copyright infringement notice?
Yes, thugs can be hoodrats too. Gucci Mane might be in prison for probation violation but he’s still hawt on the streets and on the cover of the latest issue of XXL magazine.
Did Obama Throw Desiree Rogers Up Under the Bus?
The word around Washington DC is that Barack and Michelle Obama’s friend, Desiree Rogers, has been fired as a result of that embarrassing scandal involving the reality TV couple who crashed the White House state dinner last month.
There is no confirmation of this, but tongues are wagging that, at the very least, Desiree has been demoted to the equivalent of a White House desk job since dropping the ball by not posting a staff member at the WH gate to receive visitors.
I told you Desiree was going to be trouble from the moment we first laid eyes on her whispering in Barack’s ear, didn’t I?
I LOVE Sandra McElwaine’s write up on Desiree for The Daily Beast blog. LMAO @ Desiree “swanning about at White House parties.”
Desiree Rogers will no longer be swanning about at White House parties. Au contraire. Ever since the glamorous social secretary was hobnobbing with celebrities, oblivious to two reality TV wannabes who were crashing the Obamas’ first state dinner in November she has been given a timeout.
Even though her Louboutin stilettos still click down the historic hallways of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, there have been no more appearances in designer gowns or pronouncements about pushing the unique Obama brand. Instead the sophisticated Harvard MBA seems to be adapting to more formal protocol and attempting to play a more traditional behind-the-scenes role as she oversees the care and feeding of more than 50,000 guests at 28 different holiday receptions. [Link]
There are others who say the black chick got put back in her place. But I disagree. I told you she was trouble from day one because her snobbish attitude and her attention seeking desire to be in the limelight overshadowed her achievements.
Plain and simply, she was the wrong woman for the job. Desiree should be working for a marketing, PR firm or an entertainment network where her attention seeking tendencies are better suited.
Celebs Out & About: Rihanna and Melissa
Pop singer Rihanna and her BFF Melissa arrived back home in LA on Monday after RiRi taped Carson Daly’s NYE special in NYC over the weekend.
Rihanna looked hawt in a mid length black pea coat, sexy black stripper boots and animal print scarf with matching bag.
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