Holy Crap: Dan Patrick Edition
Y’all have heard me talk about Fort Worth Pastor and TeeVee Evangelist John Hagee.
He’s a doozy who thinks everything is a sin except gluttony. Well, his gluttony. Your gluttony is probably still a sin.
Hagee thinks that Catholics allowed the wholesale slaughter of Jews and that Hurricane Katrina was God’s revenge for Homosexuality (which is believes is a seven syllable word). He doesn’t think too highly of females (which makes you wonder about that whole seven syllable homosexuality thing) and has decided that slavery wasn’t really all that bad.
He has also decided that Dan Patrick would be a darn fine Lt. Governor for Texas.
“It has been my privilege to work with Senator Patrick over the past eight years on legislation in Austin designed to benefit the educational growth and development of Texas students. I know Senator Patrick to be a man of integrity, choosing right over wrong, ethics over convenience and truth over popularity.” Pastor John Hagee
Now that right there is some holy crap.
Ethics? ‘Scuse me, did he say ethics? You can say a lot of things about Dan Patrick but ethical ain’t one of them.
The Home Skool PAC also endorsed him but their chalkboard slates got accidentally erased in the mail.
Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.
Sorry, but the Rotund little Rev. Hagee happens to preach his jibberish down south of Ft. Worth in San Antonio. You may have mistaken him for any number of lunatic preachers up here in North Texas, i.e. Benny Hinn for instance.
1OH, shucks! Its like my mamma used to say, like flocks to like. And I add, when enough of them get together, the mass weight takes ’em all down at the same time. ‘Course, they never think of that all by themselves.
2My deepest apologizes to Fort Worth.
3The only positive thought I have about Hagee is if we vote by weight, he’s my man. Other than a so called man of the cloth, he and Christie rank one two on my list for questionable human beings.
4Televised religion is performance, pure and simple, and has less to do with morality than raking in the big bucks from all those poor little old ladies who can’t afford their pills.
5@ Bud Malone-I have often thought that the very best training ground for grifters and con artists of any stripe was a seminary school likely a Southern Baptist seminary school. This is just judging by the Reverend Mike Hucksterbee. I note Hagee’s “church”is nondenominational which means he’ll fleece believers of any sort. I suspect the Tundra Tart might have gone to seminary, to develop her natural talents, had she not been so busy trying to graduate from some secular school or just find one that suited her. My experience with Texans, granted it’s only based on two years of being stationed at Ft. Hood on my return from Asia many years ago tells me that while some Texans are none too bright. they’re generally too bright and discerning to be taken in by Patrick and this stack of organic matter put out by this faux preacher.
6Saw a Dan Patrick TV ad last night. Disgusting. The usual brags: family man, “man of faith” (shown with hands folded, supposedly praying with others), says he will “fight Obama” (people who think fighting Obama or any other President is the primary duty of a Texas Atty Gen. need to study more), and oh yeah, he pushed through a law for the “minute of silence” in schools so kids can pray. (Of course they can pray–you don’t need a formal period to pray. You just do it, and nobody but you and God knows about it. That’s how Jesus SAID to do it.) That’s the only educational thing he bragged about last night.
Even in the Texas Constitution, it doesn’t say that the main duty of a Texas Attorney General is “Fight Obama” or “the President of the United States.”
And making kids be silent for a minute is not the same thing as passing legislation to improve schools by, for instance, PAYING FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION! (sorry. A bit excited there.)
7Hurricane Katrina was God’s revenge for John Hagee!
8Not fond of Hagee.
9It sounds as though Hagee believes in praying for public education, praying for it to fail that is.
10Thanks, Elizabeth. You said what I wanted to say, only much better. Yep, that about covers it.
11Daniel Goeb (aka Dan Patrick) is running for lt. gov, not atty. general, but all the repugs on the Texas ballot are running against the President.
12I am still predicting that Dan Patrick will beat Dewhurst in the GOP primary
13Dan Patrick is all for teaching creationism in public schools. Yeah, that’ll benefit the growth and education of our students. While we’re at it, why don’t we teach that the Earth is flat and the sun revolves around us?
14Um. . . did I miss something? Homosexuality IS a seven-syllable word. At least it is here in Maryland. Is it different in Texas?
15When did he move from San Antonio? Good riddance!
16That Other Jean, homosexual is seven syllables. The RWNJs vary state by state as to which syllable they place the emphasis, while thumping the Old Testament.
History, science and logic are gohmerted by the ‘Xtians who pick and choose their bible quotes more carefully than they select from a menu in a restaurant. Their mockery of the Ten Commandments is fun, too. Homosexuals bad, Newt Gingrich, not so much.
On their secular side the RWNJs are huge fans of the “ends justify the means” license to kill. Literally. Orwell was good, but even he could not anticipate the lengths the gohmert butts would lie to advance their insane/gohmert agenda.
Probably not in any reasonable near future, but those who under our Constitution violate separation of state and religion will lose their tax exempt status. John,endorsing a candidate, Hagee would be an excellent test case.
17The Rev. John Hagee is based in San Antonio. His megachurch is the Cornerstone Church, which has some very cult-like and controlling characteristics, not to mention the nepotism aspect. Hagee and clan mostly live in a very upscale part of San Antonio called “The Dominion”, nuf said.
Hagee’s influence is not to be underestimated, religiously or economically.
He founded the national CUFI organization (Christians United For Israel), with all its lobbying influence upon our nations policies (secular), especially foreign policy. And which, to some of us, seems to advocate and foment ‘unrest’ in the volatile Mid-East in furtherance of his much anticipated “End Times” scenario (borderline treasonous, IMO).
He and family also exert a tremendous financial and economic influence over this area, and extending to the state and national sphere too.
People like his ilk are a clear and present danger to our nation, IMO.
18Preachers who endorse candidates need to have their tax-free status revoked PDQ. Shame the IRS is too spineless to do it.
19http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtYXHJCQAX8
donquioterocket-here is a video of the Alaska grifter being de-witched and de-voodooed by a nut job witchdoctor from Kenya. Palin left this this strictly conservative episcopal church in 2002. And you thought Obama and the Rev Wright were different.
20“Sandridge” his clan lives in a part of San Antonio called “the Dominion”?
21is that were the first (disposed of) Mrs. Hagee lives too?
Just curious.
Who the hell is Dan Branch???? W are getting inundated with ads for this AG candidate who looks like a real Cruz wannabe. “Worked with Ronald Reagan? This guy looks younger than I am so I have to question that one. Oh yeah, “Promoting an Moment of Silence”…
Lordy, I’m weary of these guys
22Anyone know how the IF ladies’ group works and if so, is it connected in any way to the Cornerstone Church?
23Juanita,
24I am so grateful for the hard work you do keeping the world informed. even if I do worry even more about Texas than I used to. Just in the last week Glenn Beck was going on about the good work of Rev. Hagee so that, by itself, confirmed my suspicions about this guy. If a preacher is morbidly obese he is
a poor example of Christianity.
Carol @ #21, assuming you’re not familiar with the area…
The Dominion area was first developed years ago as a very high dollar (gated) community off I-10, outside what is now 1604 on the far NW side of SA. Lots of ‘famous’/$$ people live there.
Hagee is an adherent to the “Dominionist” theology wing of thumpers (or some mix, I have little interest in such beyond its’ threats, Wiki it).
I have suspected that the Hagees had something to do with developing it, but haven’t researched it (his brother, et al., is a silent partner in the Rev’s far-flung financial empire, son is now the church’s main pastor; these R’s have nepotism and patronage down pat). Visit the church’s website, dig in, most interesting.
If you’re really curious, there are property assessment/tax websites for most all TX counties, that you can find property valuations on without a trip to the courthouse (for almost anyone’s property, some people seem to be hidden though, including one of JJ’s favorite former Senator/economist- pg, who is/was in the area).
I’m barely aware of his first wife, think it wasn’t amicable; maybe she got a Dominion place out of it? Wiki it.
25Wikipedia is our friend, just mention it to a wingnut and watch the fireworks; they hate it because it is as fact and reality based a resource as is humanly possible.
rev Hagee is an inspiration, tape his pix to the frig door and you will lose at least a few extra pounds.
26This quote from a blog is backed up in other reliable sources:
27” John Hagee had an adulterous affair and divorced his wife to unbiblically remarry a much younger woman from his own former congregation. What does John Hagee get in return for his heretical ministry? John Hagee has a $2.1 million dollar 7,969 acre ranch with not one, but FIVE lodges, a managers house, a gun locker, a smoke house, a skeet range and three barns. In the year 2001, John Hagee received $842,000 in salary and $414,485 in benefits making him one of the best paid men on earth in ANY field. For comparison, Billy Graham (probably the most well known living religious figure in America), took only $174,000 in compensation that year.”
My favorite teevee rip-off artist in the Metroplex is Robert Tilton – he used have a billboard on the outskirts of Big D on a grain silo – it said World of Faith – but I always read it: World of Fish~
I clicked on his show one night and lo’ and behold he had his tiny kid on the show with him – about 5 yro. He could not even communicate with the little boy – it was pathetic – you could tell the boy was afraid of him and wanted no part of being on the teevee machine. Wonder which wife popped this one out – must be a new one because ole Bob is getting on up there in age…….
28I am asking that you all read/watch this. It’s an article from the NYT about science, humanity and tolerance.
3.
THE STONE
The Dangers of Certainty: A Lesson From Auschwitz
I thought the lik would show up. You can google it.
29NOW you may poke around in this. One of my friends in NY told me about it. Be tolerant while you’re figuring out your strategy.
Search Results
Tea Party Leader Dan Patrick Turns Focus to Education – NYTimes …
http://www.nytimes.com/…/tea-party-leader-d…
30The New York Times
by Morgan Smith – in 89 Google+ circles
Oct 27, 2012 – State Senator Dan Patrick is expected to introduce a plan that includes vouchers for private schools in Texas, a policy that has been previously …
Hagee is in Santone. Ft Worth has Kenneth Copeland, a TV preacher busted for scamming money for Haiti, holding the IRS at bay and lately, a measles outbreak. Vaccines cause messed up people.
How many aircraft does a TV preacher need?
Binny Hinn Laden is another one…..
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