Mom May Have Sacrificed Her Son in Preparation for the Rapture
On Saturday Maine police found the body of a small, blond, blue eyed boy wrapped in a blanket alongside a remote dirt road in South Berwick, Maine, near the New Hampshire border.
The child seemed to be well nourished and well cared for before he died. But police were puzzled because no one had come forward to report the tyke missing.
The story made the evening news across the country.
A tip was called into the police after a computer-generated image of the boy wearing a t-shirt with the words ‘Aviator Series’, was broadcast nationwide on Monday.
The mystery of the dead blond boy was solved on Wednesday when a state trooper approached a blue pickup truck at a highway rest stop two states away in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. The truck matched the description of a blue truck that was seen in the area where the body was found.
The woman inside the truck had a confession she wanted to get off her chest: “I killed my son. I want to kill myself,” she told the state trooper.
Julianne McCrery, 42, was placed under arrest. She had been sitting in her truck reading a bible when she was arrested.
The boy was identified by various media outlets as Camden Pierce Hughes, age 6, McCrery’s son.
McCrery, of Texas, told police that she had given Camden too much cough medicine. But an autopsy revealed the boy died of asphyxiation (suffocation).
World Will End On May 21st Says ex-MTA Worker
A retired MTA worker in New York is so confident the world will end next Saturday that he has spent $140,000 — his entire nest egg — on MTA advertising to assist his fellow New Yorkers in preparing for the rapture.
“I’m trying to warn people about what’s coming,” said 60-year-old Staten Island resident Robert Fitzpatrick, who retired from the MTA in 2006. “People who have an understanding [of end of times] have an obligation to warn everyone.”
“Global Earthquake! The Greatest Ever – Judgment Day: May 21,” the $50,000 – $90,000 ads literally shout from bus shelters, subway trains and subway platforms all around the city.
The Metro Transit Authority is happy to take his money, although critics wonder why the MTA is feeding into the May 21 hysteria.
“It’s an individual’s prerogative to spend their money as they see fit,” said MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz.
Fitzpatrick is a loyal follower of California evangelist Harold Camping, who used a complex mathematical formula to predict the exact date of Judgment Day when Jesus Christ returns to Earth to book Final passage for all believers, and non-believers.
Camping also predicted a previous Judgment Day — on Sept. 6, 1994. But that was just a dry run.
“It’ll start just before midnight [May 21st], Jerusalem time: It’ll be instantaneous and global,” said Fitzpatrick. “There are too many scriptures talking about ‘sudden destruction.’”
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Bishop Eddie Long Will Face His Accusers in Court
Remember when Bishop Eddie Long told his congregation that he had 5 rocks and he hadn’t thrown one yet? Well, he just heaved one, according to the Atlanta Journal.
The AJC reports that the judge overseeing the Bishop Eddie Long sex scandal case has set a trial for late Summer. The news indicates that settlement negotiations that have been ongoing for months have broken down and the case will go to trial.
This is actually good news for Long and his dwindling flock over at New Birth Missionary Baptist church, which was once 25,000 members strong.
Long found himself embroiled in a sex scandal late last year when a young man alleged that Long coerced him and other young men into sexual relationships with him in exchange for clothing, cars and trips.
The pastor has long maintained that he gave the four male plaintiffs gifts, including cars, clothes and assistance with rent, but he denied that the endowments were in exchange for sex.
When the news first broke last November, New Birth Missionary Baptist Church and the LongFellows Youth Academy filed responses saying they could not confirm or deny whether sexual misconduct took place.
But Long’s attorneys pointed out that there was no law against having sex with consenting adults.
All of the plaintiffs admitted in news broadcasts and in court documents that they were fully grown men when the consenting sexual acts took place.
Religious Paper Photoshops Hillary Clinton Out of ‘Iconic’ WH Photo
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Little Eliza, the Royal wedding flower girl was not in this original, so-called ‘iconic’ White House press photo, but now Secretary of State Hillary Clinton isn’t either.
If you recall, this photo was originally thought to be the moment when Osama bin Laden’s head was blown away by a Navy SEAl commando sharpshooter last week. But the photo has since been invalidated by Hillary herself who says she was coughing — not recoiling in horror — when the picture was taken.
Well, the photo is back in the headlines today after a religious, ultra-orthodox Jewish newspaper, Der Tzitung, cut Hillary and another woman out of the picture that ran on its front page on Sunday.
Why would anyone be surprised that the editor of an ultra-orthodox Jewish newspaper would rather see Hillary barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen than in a room full of virile men?
In that culture, women and men are not equally yoked. Women know their roles and they happily assume their positions behind their men, who in turn provide for them and their children. It’s an arrangement that works for them.
According to Rabbi Jason Miller, a blogger for The Jewish Week, the newspaper cut Hillary and the other woman out of the photo “because it could be considered sexually suggestive.”
CNN called the newspaper for comment and is still awaiting a response.
Update:
I didn’t see this coming at all! According to the Washington Post blog, Der Tzitung’s editor has apologized for Photoshopping Hillary Clinton out of the so-called ‘iconic’ WH photo.
Der Tzitung responded in an emailed statement, that the photo editor did not read the fine print on the picture and the newspaper has since apologized to the White House and State Department. “In accord with our religious beliefs, we do not publish photos of women, which in no way relegates them to a lower status… Because of laws of modesty, we are not allowed to publish pictures of women, and we regret if this gives an impression of disparaging to women, which is certainly never our intention. We apologize if this was seen as offensive.” Read the full statement at the bottom of the post.
Obama: “Bin Laden is Not a Trophy” *UPDATED*
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In breaking news out of Washington DC, U.S. President Barack Obama has decided he will not release death photos of 9/11 mastermind Osama Bin Laden.
Sources are telling media outlets that Obama, who was raised a Muslim, feared disapproval from the Muslim world if he “disrespected” the mass murderer.
Conspiracy theorists and Al Qaeda had called for the White House to release the gruesome photos to prove that Bin Laden was dead after Obama announced he was executed early Sunday morning in Islamabad, Pakistan.
But Obama, who ordered a sea burial for Osama in accordance with Islam traditions, stood firm on his decision not to release the photos.
“Bin Laden is not a trophy,” said Obama in an interview he taped today with CBS News program “60 Minutes”.
Said Obama: “The risks of release outweigh the benefits. Conspiracy theorists around the world will just claim the photos are doctored anyway, and there is a real risk that releasing the photos will only serve to inflame public opinion in the Middle East.”
He added: “Imagine how the American people would react if Al Qaida killed one of our troops or military leaders, and put photos of the body on the internet. Osama bin Laden is not a trophy — he is dead and let’s now focus on continuing the fight until Al Qaida has been eliminated.” Source
The full program airs Sunday night on CBS.
UPDATE I, 5:35pm ET:
REUTERS Pictures and The Guardian UK has the gruesome death scene photos showing the bodies of 3 men inside the shot out compound where Osama bin Laden died. Click HERE to see the photos but be warned: they are graphic!
Osama is not in any of the pictures. For now, the bin Laden pictures are under lock and key — at least until Barack Obama is voted out of office.
Originally posted on May 4, 2011 @ 1:59pm
Guys That Make Us Want to Jump The Broom
The new Columbia Pictures film ‘Jumping the Broom’ produced by Tracey Edmonds and Bishop T.D. Jakes is a romantic comedy that explores today’s difficulty in abstaining from sex until marriage.
Bishop Jakes fuses religion and comedy to challenge the film’s audiences to explore the option of abstinence before marriage.
The film asks the question how easy is it to abstain from sex until you jump the broom? And which guy would make you want to Jump The Broom?
Laz Alonso and Paula Patton play Jason Taylor and Sabrina Watson, a young couple who decide to spend the rest of their lives together in Holy matrimony. But when their two families from opposite ends of the tracks converge on Martha’s Vineyard for their dream weekend wedding, problems crop up and threaten to derail the happy event.
After meeting with Bishop Jakes for a counseling session, Taylor makes the decision to abstain from sex until his marriage to Watson.
In addition to abstaining from sex, Watson has to deal with her parents (played by Angela Bassett and Brian Stokes Mitchell) who have problems in their own marriage and appear on the brink of divorce.
And Taylor faces pressure from his friends who scoff at the idea of abstaining from sex until marriage.
‘Jumping The Broom’ also stars Mike Epps, Loretta Devine, Meagan Good, Tasha Smith, DeRay Davis, Julie Bowen, Romeo Miller, Gary Dourdan, Pooch Hall, and Valarie Pettiford.
‘Jumping The Broom’ opens everywhere on May 6, 2011.
Promotional consideration provided by Columbus Pictures
Because Some of You Need Jesus
If you thought the dead birds falling from the sky in Arkansas was an omen — you were correct.
Our Lord and Savior Jesus Chris is set to make His first official appearance on earth since being nailed to that cross about 2,000 years ago. This, according to an expert who used mathematics and dates from the Bible to determine the exact date.
According to Splash News, the billboard is erected near one of the busiest roads in Los Angeles for the purpose of high visibility to the heathens and sinners driving by.
The date ‘May 21st 2011′ is printed on the huge billboard. A religious website named www.wecanknow.com is behind the advertisement. An American Christian radio broadcaster named Harold Camping has predicted this exact day using mathematics and dates from the Bible. He also predicts that this will be the start of Judgement Day and the end of the World will follow on October 21, 2011.
