Let Us Prey
Please meet Virginia GOP lieutenant governor nominee E.W. Jackson. He is Ken Cuccinelli’s running mate.
Jackson believes that sin causes birth defects and that yoga is based in Satanism. He also believes that “while giving to the poor is important, the most powerful giving for wealth-building is upward giving.” What he apparently does not believe is that spelling is an act of the devil. His new self-published book:
To me, the best part is that he has written his own ten commandments, enshrining them in chiseled stone, because apparently God’s weren’t good enough.
I have no idea what he’s going to do with that axe but he better not chop down the Washington Monument.
Thanks to Brian for the heads up.
I don’t think that ax will cut down much of anything. Huh.
And more folks self-publish these days than get their books published via big publishing companies. Authors who care get someone respectable (read: someone who can spell, among other things) to edit their books.
I’d agree that sin can cause birth defects: the sins of the irresponsible companies that pollute and destroy the earth.
Just curious: why is everyone who likes to drive on public roads and go to public parks so against government?
1Let us hope that the fine folks in Virginia:
21. Can read and spell
2. Can spot a moron
3. Won’t vote for a moron who can’t spell
maryelle:
3Don’t waste too much hope on Virginia voters.
Look what they have now.
Many of our East Texans came from Virginia.
E.W. Jackson is a Harvard law graduate, and so is Ted Cruz. Can you imagine the swelling of pride in Cambridge, Massachusetts hearts that must cause. Come to think of it, W got his MBA at Harvard. Prouder still!
4What is “upward giving”? Giving more money to the wealthy?
5You can’t make this stuff up!
6There is a serious case of Dumb and Dumber raging thru the country.
@Mimi Diane – yes, he actually said it would be best to send to him.
“For example, as you read this book, you may feel a deep spiritual affinity for the things I am teaching and therefore a profound spiritual kinship with me. We may never meet in person, but you can draw on the anointing which God has placed on my life by sowing into my ministry. That opens a spiritual door for you to partake at a deeper level and for me to impart to you as one in Covenant with me. That is how I have come to support other ministries. Wherever you are moved to give, do it consistently and generously. This will start a flow of prosperity in your life which will enhance all the other principles you have learned.”
…and, yet, he still can’t seem to pay his taxes.
7Don’t think of them as chiseled in stone.
Think of them as “engraved images.” You know, as in “Thy shall not create . . .”
PS Hi to all you folks at the NSA
8Oh, lovely contradiction! His supposition is that in meditation, you empty yourself, and Satan just loves a vacuum, so meditation will lead to serving Satan. [Meditation quote here: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/06/virginia-gop-candidate-ew-jackson-yoga-satan/65925/%5D
On the other hand, we have his ‘comandments.’ First one on the right hand side of the book cover is “Meditate it into existence.” Is “it” Satan coming to reside within? [The commandments are easy to view on the Amazon.com website if you click on the cover to enlarge it.]
Released in 2008, he’s apparently not sold enough of his self-published book to release a 2nd edition with a correctly spelled cover. The few reviews he’s gotten run from total sycophant (only one of those) to “you’ve gotta be kidding me.” He’s gotten 5 1-stars, 1 3-star, and 1 5-star rating. The 3-star thought the 1-stars were “fraud posters.” Reminded me of the Palin family blaming things on “haters.” It’s a 1.9/5 rating and only that high because of the one who drank the Kool-aid.
9@Cheryl, that’s a lot of words to say, “Send me money, lots of money, every day.”
10What is extraordinary is that this guy has had any sort of success at all.
11Long sigh . . . .
12dear uncle dave: yale not havard,
13For some reason his Wickipaedia page doesn’t mention his phenomenal book. Is there anyone out there who has the time to go update? It was last updated yesterday – surely he’s not ashamed to put a picture of it out there!
14Is it wrong that I read the bottom line on the book cover as saying “mOcking your dreams come true”?
15@ Wyatt_Earl FTW, that rocked! 😀 thanks for the chuckle, I can always use ’em!
16O.K. The guy can’t spell. Obviously he couldn’t hire an editor. But who designed, and printed the book jacket?
Never mind.
And, he’s running for what office in Virginia?
I need to tell my cousins to move from Alexandria.
Good Grief!
17Play the Cuccinelli or Jackson game! Democrats need to blanket the web with similar games on all crazy candidates.
18Carpenters use a hammer to fix things, not a single blade ax. You would think a religious man like E.W. Jackson would have noticed there are no Bible passages that mention Jesus (a carpenter himself) wielding an ax.
19This is very timely for me because I’m in the process of creating a self-published book. Here I am, agonizing over little things like correct punctuation and this doofus can’t even recognize the whopper of a misspelling when it’s staring him (and us) in the face. And he’ll probably make more in royalties from his book. Go figure…
20http://cuccinelliorjackson.com
Play the Cuccinelli or Jackson game! Democrats need to blanket the web with similar games on all crazy candidates.
21I dunno. Maybe he needs to fix stupid before he starts on Washington. Just a guess.
22@Wyatt,
I read your post as ” Craven images” – good work!
23It’s a good thing Mr. 10 Commandments hasn’t heard of the fertility festival in Kawasaki Japan. His self righteous head would explode.
24I will see EW Jackson and raise him my cousin Bessie who was a preacher during the Great Depression and took care of thousands of homeless, hungry and cold folks of all sorts and never asked for a dime herself. She sang her own gospel hymns while accompanying herself with a guitar. Bessie ended up with a very simple little wooden house in a forgotten part of a very big city after World War Ii and considered herself the luckiest person in the world for the opportunity to help thousands of complete strangers. I live in Virginia and I vote and it won’t be for Mr. Can’t Spell a Lick.
25An uncle Tom perhaps?
26Virginia’s GOP: working hard to prove that not all the jackwagons come from Texas.
Wyatt_Earl, as for saying hi to the NSA… Some years ago a British friend was talking to his brother on the phone when there was some noise on the line.
27“What’s that?”
“Oh, probably someone listening.”
“Well then, let them listen to this….” The brother, who’d been in the merchant navy, let go a string of breathtaking profanity. Maybe that’s the way to go.
Are we sure this isn’t Alan Keyes after some really bad plastic surgery?
Back in my younger, hungrier days, I joined the local Republican Party because I was a young man in a hurry and they were the only game in town. I even became a precinct committeeman.
My soul hadn’t been sold, but it was well and truly in hock to the Dark Side.
Anyway, it was 2004 and a certain skinny kid with a funny name was running for the Senate. The only guy who could beat him had disappeared after a pretty tame sex scandal involving…his ex-wife, who played 7of9 on Star Trek Voyager.
So the only guy they could find to run in his place, after everyone including Coach Ditka turned them down, was Alan Carpetbagger Keyes. He was invited to speak at our annual golf outing. The stage was set up near the parking lot, and I watched the proceedings from near a hot dog stand on a slight rise above the audience.
As Keyes spoke, before my very eyes, first one woman, then another, then several, got up and LEFT…in front of God and everyone! Mind you, these are the YANKEE version of the Belles of Heaven, and Keyes was stampeding them like a coffee grinder on a cattle drive.
I look at this guy in Virginia, and I swear, it’s the same guy… with an axe.
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