By: kickingtheground
Lubavitch is the sect that announced that their Rabbi, Rebbe Menachem Mendel Scheerson, was the messiah.That view was fairly common among the Lubavitch (and still exists to some extent), but I'm...
View ArticleBy: zaelic
The rabbi seems to be wearing a Lubavitcher fedora. If I know anything, I know my Hasidic hats. Lubavitch is the sect that announced that their Rabbi, Rebbe Menachem Mendel Scheerson, was the messiah....
View ArticleBy: soyjoy
I'm saying that google still points there, when the words are absent. stonerose gets it. Yeah, thanks, I get it too. You mean you've never clicked on a Google news link and found the right page but...
View ArticleBy: infowar
Maybe it gives Bush more ammo to rag on Congress. After all Bush speaks with god/jesus doesn't he? Couldn't he get to the bottom of this?
View ArticleBy: inksyndicate
The revealing part is when you shine a flashlight at the cockroaches...and they just stay there. It's humbling, and really changes the way you look at the media. It turns out they will only write about...
View ArticleBy: five fresh fish
That may be a very telling point, skallas. The Internet is kind of like shining a flashlight under the refrigerator: you can see all the cockroaches scurry about.
View ArticleBy: Wulfgar!
Is it now the responsibility of all elected officials to make this country look dumber than dirt? We *elected* these people. If one follows the syllogism, than I think this stands as proof that yes,...
View ArticleBy: skallas
fff: There's obviously something deeply wrong with your government. There has always been, really. Now thanks to the internet and a lot of political busybodies we get to see a glimpse of what happens...
View ArticleBy: inksyndicate
I really don't understand what is going through their minds -- some slippery slope of self-rationalizations, starting with, "Everyone else does it." Someone on FreeRepublic claims this has been going...
View ArticleBy: y6y6y6
"There's obviously something deeply wrong with your government." The last four years have left me with the feeling that we are indeed living through the End of Days. But rather than Armageddon, it's...
View ArticleBy: y6y6y6
If you are a U.S. Congressman, what the hell is going through your head as you present a crown to the world's most notorious living cult leader and then proclaim him to be the King Of Peace? You see...
View ArticleBy: kindall
Because its wrong and won't make an ounce of difference. I know that, and you know that, but I'm just shocked that there isn't at least one person in the world who doesn't know that.
View ArticleBy: jessamyn
I wrote to Howard Ford who is on the invite list asking him what exactly was going on there. I will go down the invite list and ask everyone else what the hell was going on as well.
View ArticleBy: inksyndicate
Right, right...I think Google News recorded the first version of the story. It's also in the first version of the story to hit the "Nexis" news archive.
View ArticleBy: dash_slot-
oh, I know what inky was saying - but I'm saying that google still points there, when the words are absent. stonerose gets it.
View ArticleBy: stonerose
dash_slot-, Google News is only in beta. It's prone to spout off random, menacing phrases, and to attribute them falsely to major news outlets. Maybe the leader will notice me! I love the leader. /homer
View ArticleBy: five fresh fish
There are some 17000+ MeFi members. The majority of them are, I believe, American. That's enough people to start making a difference. MeFi Americans: Take Back Your Country! There's obviously something...
View ArticleBy: dash_slot-
Bizarre. This news.google.com search says that the phrase "Reverend Sun Myung Moon is none other than humanity's Savior, Messiah" appears here. Can you see it?
View ArticleBy: inksyndicate
Nothing wrong with people running around calling themselves the Messiah. This is a church and state issue, and one of potential hypocrisy on the part of Congressmen claiming to be supporting...
View ArticleBy: skallas
kindall: I don't understand why no one has. Because its wrong and won't make an ounce of difference. There are thousands of people in the world right now calling themselves messiah and more...
View ArticleBy: kindall
It's not that I think someone should assassinate Sun Myung Moon. It's just that I don't understand why no one has.
View ArticleBy: inksyndicate
One thing to consider, when looking at this as a censored story, is that the only mention of this in a non-Moon publication, in the Washington Post, was scrubbed from their website before the paper hit...
View ArticleBy: Sidhedevil
Seriously, people. Everyone should write to their local newspaper demanding coverage of this story. It's so FUCKING CRAZY that someone will bite. I'm sending notes to the Boston Globe and Boston...
View ArticleBy: soyjoy
It's a sad condemnation of our nation's top journalists that this isn't on front pages everywhere with the headline "YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS, ON GOVERNMENT PROPERTY, KISS COMPLETE FREAKING WACKO'S ASS."
View ArticleBy: troutfishing
I'm just going to have to hold this stinking mass of shit up to my Born-Again brother's nose.
View ArticleBy: five fresh fish
I think the only thing that would scare me more is if Dark David Miscavige, commandant of the $cientology freaks, were to be made King.
View ArticleBy: skallas
Moon isnt that myserious, he believes he's the messiah and the end-times are coming. He also is fucking wealthy and a lot of politicians are on his payroll. A lot of conservatives share his end-times...
View ArticleBy: Salmonberry
What are you people doing down there? First you dump tea in a harbour to rid yourselves of monarchy, and now you're crowning new ones. And this is a very inefficient use of public funds. Why didn't you...
View ArticleBy: inksyndicate
I know, I think the shofar is only to be used on the High Holy Days. But Moon has a posse of Jews, Muslims and Christians who follow him around and say he's the Messiah. It's all very sentimental and...
View ArticleBy: troutfishing
Oh, and.......WTF ? Why is some guy blowing a shofar in the Moon coronation pics?
View ArticleBy: troutfishing
punishinglemur - So, doesn't Satan cling to your genitals? Do male angels have balls? Does Moon have a disgusting amount of influence in US government? Are US gov. officials clinging to his genitals?
View ArticleBy: snarfodox
This is just begging for an 'overlord' comment, but I can't stop shuddering enough to do it.
View ArticleBy: loquax
Most of the time I really respect American government, political traditions and society. Sometimes I have no idea what to say about what's going on down there.
View ArticleBy: inksyndicate
See, if Moon had thrown this party at a ballroom (he typically uses the Sheraton), he wouldn't have been able to recruit people by claiming that the U.S. Congress named him the Messiah.
View ArticleBy: PrinceValium
Unfortunately, as I hinted in the AskMe post, it's unlikely that this or any other blatant Establishment Clause violation within the federal government will ever be litigated. Michael Newdow, of Pledge...
View ArticleBy: infowar
Perhaps as owner of the Washington Times and UPI (not what it was) combined with a history of anti-communism is what attracts the politicians? Perhaps it is his money? Maybe it is his political actions...
View ArticleBy: mr.marx
Or will they just show up anywhere they get an invitation to appear? Maybe they thought the invitation to "meet The King" meant somebody finally pulled Elvis out from Area 51.
View ArticleBy: inksyndicate
By the way, I know a very similar headline was posted to Metafilter last month, but this material is completely new.
View ArticleBy: punishinglemur
[more inside] from my 6 minute late FPP: The Reverend Sun Myung Moon is a mysterious character. Despite referring to gays as "dirty dung eating dogs," he managed to attract Senator Mark Dayton, noted...
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