You should check out the timeline
of when the bans went into place. In 2004 Ken Mehlman was the chair of
the Bush re-election campaign. From 2005-2007, he was the head of RNC.
During those two short time spans 23 of the bans were enacted. For the
past couple of years, Mehlman has been working to undo that damage or at
least prevent it from spreading further.Monday, May 7, 2012
Via JMG: Marriage Map
You should check out the timeline
of when the bans went into place. In 2004 Ken Mehlman was the chair of
the Bush re-election campaign. From 2005-2007, he was the head of RNC.
During those two short time spans 23 of the bans were enacted. For the
past couple of years, Mehlman has been working to undo that damage or at
least prevent it from spreading further.
Via Tricycle Daily Dharma
Tricycle Daily Dharma May 7, 2012
The Wise Investigator
You
always need to check the quality of mind; only if the quality is good
are you practicing in the right way. This is how the quality of practice
should be measured; not by posture or by the number of hours of
sitting, walking, or standing meditation you do.
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- Sayadaw U Tejaniya, "The Wise Investigator"
Read the entire article in the Tricycle Wisdom Collection
Read the entire article in the Tricycle Wisdom Collection
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Via JMG: UNSHOCKING: Prosperity Gospel Televangelists Are Ripoff Artists
Here's just a little of what the New York Times says about televangelists Paul and Jan Crouch. Mr. and Mrs. Crouch have his-and-her mansions one street apart in a gated community here, provided by the network using viewer donations and tax-free earnings. But Mrs. Crouch, 74, rarely sleeps in the $5.6 million house with tennis court and pool. She mostly lives in a large company house near Orlando, Fla., where she runs a side business, the Holy Land Experience theme park. Mr. Crouch, 78, has an adjacent home there too, but rarely visits.Here's the part you may find the most infuriating.Its occupant is often a security guard who doubles as Mrs. Crouch’s chauffeur. The lavish perquisites, corroborated by two other former TBN employees, include additional, often-vacant homes in Texas and on the former Conway Twitty estate in Tennessee, corporate jets valued at $8 million and $49 million each and thousand-dollar dinners with fine wines, paid with tax-exempt money.
Ms. Koper and the two other former TBN employees also said that dozens of staff members, including Ms. Koper, chauffeurs, sound engineers and others had been ordained as ministers by TBN. This allowed the network to avoid paying Social Security taxes on their salaries and made it easier to justify providing family members with rent-free houses, sometimes called “parsonages,” she said.In case you're wondering why Mr. and Mrs. Crouch maintain separate side-by-side luxury mansions in multiple cities, I remind you of this.
In September 2004 the Los Angeles Times reported that in 1998 Crouch paid Enoch Lonnie Ford, a former employee, a $425,000 formal settlement to end a wrongful termination lawsuit. At that time it was reported that Crouch had had a homosexual encounter with Ford. TBN officials acknowledge the settlement, but contested the credibility of Ford who is a convicted felon.
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