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Terrence Patrick Bean, a major Democratic fundraiser and founder of the Human Rights Campaign—one of the largest gay rights groups in the country—was arrested in Oregon Wednesday on an indictment that he sexually abused a teenage boy in 2013.

Police have said that the Portland activist has been charged with two counts of third-degree sodomy, a felony, and one count of third-degree sex abuse, a misdemeanor.

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I went to Dr. Forstchen’s book signing on Saturday and bought a paperback copy of Day of Wrath. Although I have read frequently from a young age, I have never read a book like this. I found myself actually shaking as I read this book with clenched teeth.

If this scenario ever comes to fruition, I could not imagine the consequences on Muslims across the world. This book is highly recommended. I also recommend buying copies (when available) and sending them to your “representatives” in government.

David DeGerolamo

From simple truths of today:

… to predictions of future greatness:

Shamelessly ripped from Blue’s Blog and Earl of Taint

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The Bible states that fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. It also states that being afraid is a sin: you have no faith in God’s plan.

The nation sits and waits in a fear manufactured by our government, media and lack of faith. A decision is expected tomorrow and the media would have us believe that one decision will generate nationwide protests and possibly riots. Is this your America?

Our “leaders” are doing nothing to alleviate the situation and the pResident tells the protest leaders in Ferguson to “stay the course”. And that is the problem: there should be only Americans working together to solve our problems, not divided special interests. Our government is using everything to divide us: race, economic status, educational status, immigration, sexual orientation, gender, age or political party. Any common ground such as the future of our children is not discussed. And we do have common ground.

So why is no one unifying us? Why are we being divided? We know the reason and yet no one speaks up. No church leaders, no political leaders and no black leaders in this case. At least none the media will show.

I do not believe that America has fallen so low that one incident would put the entire nation in fear. But I could be wrong. We will find out shortly. And we will also find out if this is the final crisis that the government will not allow to go to waste. Or we may find out that this nation is still a God fearing country.

David DeGerolamo

Sporadic confrontations and violence between protesters and police continued to occur overnight in Ferguson as multiple news agencies report grand jury considering whether to indict the Ferguson police officer who shot and killed teenager Michael Brown is unlikely to meet and render a decision this weekend. The fear, as we have previously noted, is a major uprising as one sign protested, “if the killer cop walks, AmeriKKKa Halts,” and as Fox reports, Brown family attorney is managing expectations, “99% of the time the police officer is not held accountable for killing a young black boy,” Crump said. “The police officer gets all the consideration.” There is, however, another potential reason for delaying the decision’s reporting, as VICE reports, business owners in the St. Louis, Missouri area have hired private military contractors to transport guns and gold, fearing their shops will be targeted by looters if a grand jury does not indict.

As Fox reports, a grand jury decision this weekend is unlikely,

The grand jury considering whether to indict the Ferguson police officer who shot and killed teenager Michael Brown is unlikely to meet and render a decision this weekend, sources told Fox News on Saturday.

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Day By Day Cartoon

“Three of the group were tied to stakes in readiness for execution. At the last moment there was a roll of drums, and the firing squad lowered its rifles. Reprieved, the prisoners were put in shackles and sent into Siberian exile – in Dostoyevsky’s case for four years of hard labour, followed by compulsory service in the Russian army. In 1859 a new tsar allowed Dostoyevsky to end his Siberian exile. A year later he was back in the literary world of St Petersburg.

“Dostoyevsky’s experience had altered him profoundly. He did not abandon his view that Russian society needed to be radically changed. He continued to believe that the institution of serfdom was profoundly immoral, and to the end of his life he detested the landed aristocracy. But his experience of being on what he’d believed was the brink of death had given him a new perspective on time and history. Many years later he remarked: “I cannot recall when I was ever as happy as on that day.”

“From then onwards he realised that human life was not a movement from a backward past to a better future, as he had believed or half-believed when he shared the ideas of the radical intelligentsia. Instead, every human being stood at each moment on the edge of eternity. As a result of this revelation, Dostoyevsky became increasingly mistrustful of the progressive ideology to which he had been drawn as a young man.”

From BBC News “A Point of View: The writer who foresaw the rise of the totalitarian state”