1/12/2014::Yesterday's news

South African pastor makes members eat grass, steps on them (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

Pastor Daniel Lesego of Rabboni Centre Ministries situated at zone 2 Ga-Rankuwa, north of Pretoria, made his members eat grass and stepped on them while making illustration that the spirit of God can lead people to eat anything.

Under the instruction of the Pastor, dozens of followers dropped to the floor to eat the grass at his ministry in Garankuwa, north of Pretoria after being told it will ‘bring them closer to God.’

His controversial methods have drawn criticism from thousands of people although members of his congregation swear by his methods – he is said to have claimed that humans can eat anything to feed their bodies and survive on whatever they choose to eat.

Who counts as poor in America?

Homeless people without shelter from this week's frigid temperatures. Medicaid patients living out their days in a nursing home. Orphaned kids raised in foster homes. Or Dasani, the "invisible child" profiled in the New York Times five-day spread. Who among them counts as poor?

Fifty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson announced a legislative agenda to wage "unconditional war on poverty in America." But how do we know what poverty is in America?

Dip below the so-called "poverty line," and you're in poverty. Sit at or above it, and you're not. Also known as the "poverty threshold," this is the official cutoff the Census Bureau establishes for statistical tabulations of who is poor.

L. Ron Hubbard's Great-Grandson Spills The Family Secrets On How Scientology Started

A spoken word performance: Scientology has a history of silencing critics. If you want to know where that history comes from, look no further than the experiences of Jamie DeWolf, the great-grandson of L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology. Learn his family's story. Then share it.

Why liberal heroes are mostly deluded Democrats, druggers, dopey or dead?

Tim Leary, Aldous Huxley and Ernest Hemingway are all dead, but that's not all they share in common. They all have the dubious distinction of using their imaginations to lead or at the least influence an entire generation whose progeny are with us today living out their vision.

Leary, who espoused the journey into psychedelic drugs for young and old alike, left the world for his final trip having never seen any other vision except the one granted to him by Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. (LSD)

Hemingway committed suicide, a fatal decision that many of his followers have taken to repeating until this day.

Huxley's brave new world is now well under way in the liberal vision of America's youth, deluded democrats and drug puffing proselytes who probably have long forgotten who gave them permission to waste their lives in the first place. {I sense a bit of jealousy and hostility on the author's part. Must suck to be him to have to follow the party line just to fit in.]

First-grade teacher seizes Christian kid’s candy canes, says ‘Jesus is not allowed in school’

[Curious to see what, if any, further legal action come out of this incident.] A first-grade teacher at a public elementary school in Southern California allegedly snatched a bunch of candy canes bearing a brief religious message from a first-grade boy. She told the poor kid “Jesus is not allowed in school” and then — right in front of his little six-year-old eyes — ripped the religious messages from each candy cane and dumped them in a trashcan.

The boy’s name is Isaiah Martinez. He attends Merced Elementary School in the Los Angeles suburb of West Covina.

The first-grade teacher accused of religious bullying is Valerie Lu. One of the candy canes was for her. The rest were for Martinez’s classmates.

Donald Macinnes loses Gaelic School chaplaincy over gay remarks

A Church of Scotland minister who said being gay was a disorder and perversion has been removed from a chaplaincy role at the Gaelic School in Glasgow.

Donald Macinnes' comments on a Facebook page related to Scottish government moves to introduce same-sex marriage.