Here is latest on Mike Teel's "The Good Eats" restaurant. Below he even opens his first restaurant on Folsom Blvd, the Scottsdale, Arizona restaurant was closed. Does this surprise anybody? Teel's buddies as The Sacramento Bee have yet to report this closing. I wonder why?
Shortly before this article was publishes, Teel's new wife is seen as the new CEO of this Arizona Corporation. What a joke....
It is amazing that there is so much debate going on in America concerning health care reform. Too bad this kind of public outcry for support or opposition to this reform didn't exist for the Iraq war. Think of the total cost this war has brought to America along with the thousands of American lives lost fighting this war. And, think about the thousands of lost lives of innocent Iraqi people- plus how their country has been devastated by this conflict. For what? Over delusions of weapons of mass destruction? Or because some leader there wanted to kill George Bush's father? I don't know.
Here is what I do know: The American people are showing exactly what they are made of-selfishness! Only when something that can personally affect them, an individual American. do they get involved and voice their opinion. The Iraq war doesn't affect most Americans because they aren't in Iraq fighting this war, so there isn't a need to scream like they are today in their liking or disliking for health care reform.
However, there is good news if health care reform does take place: The insurance industry and the rich will surely be affected most by these new health care changes...I guess rich people like Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck will be required to help pay for this new health care. Oh, too bad.
Do Hollywood actors get you all excited? Do you believe that these people are really that special as they seem to think they are? Does standing in front of a movie camera for a living make somebody worthy of idolatry?
I haven't paid to see a motion picture at the movie-house in a long, long time. I don't like supporting them or their outrageously expensive lifestyle.
Anyway, how about paying a sport athlete money for their autograph? Below is a news article I found on Yahoo news featuring a college football player being paid for his autograph. Who is this guy? Is he special or something?
He is just a fricken football player and people are paying this guy money for his autograph.
This is the same guy who finds football games a nifty place to shed his tears as seen below on a youtube video:
I don't believe Jesus would think this guy knows how to bear his cross. Hey, it's all about him and not Jesus. If it was about Jesus, this guy wouldn't think about selling his dumb autograph for a profit.
OK-he was arrested for DUI after leaving a gay bar. Hey, if you were exposed to Arnold Schwarzenegger and the rest of California's elected officials for any length of time, you too might find yourself driving drunk after leaving a Sacramento gay bar.
It appears a reporter for the New York Times may have been plagiarizing others writings. I guess this type of dishonesty is important to the New York Times but isn't important to the members of the Bayside Church of Roseville/Granite Bay as seen on Ray Johnston's page. Click on the image below to read the Associated Press NY Times story:
When I was young, my mother was very verbal in her dissatisfaction with me watching "The 3 Stooges" on TV. She thought these guys were so stupid and such bad influences on people. Me, I thought they were so funny. Being nearly 60-years old, I am starting to believe my mother was right. The 3 Stooges were bad influences on many people. Just look at those who are elected into pubic positions. I mean public positions.
The voters in America put into public office some of the stupidest people that in many ways make the 3 stooges look somewhat smart. For instance, take the Governor of California . He signs a bill that makes it illegal to talk on cell phones while driving because it distracts drivers-which can cause car accidents. I personally believe talking on cell-phones and car accidents do go hand-in-hand.
Now look at what the Gov is planning on doing to bring in extra revenues. Knowing that drivers aren't going to be distracted talking on their cell phones because it is illegal, he now wants to distract drivers by selling advertisement space on the freeways. Drivers will now use their cell-phones to contact freeway advertisers while driving their SUV's into freeway mediums.
Moe, Larry and Curly would soitenly call this a stupid idea.
In the winter of 1972, some 38 years ago, I found myself hitchhiking through the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I had no money, food, shelter or even a place to lay my head. In fact, I had no idea why I was there. I was cold and entered a small mom & pop store on a corner street and asked the young female clerk if I could sweep the front of her store for a loaf of bread and milk.
I was dirty and must have looked so terrible to this young woman. She told me that this store belonged to her father and that she couldn't give me anything in the store because it all belonged to him. However, she told me she was getting off work real soon and that I could go with her to her place and enjoy a meal, take a bath and listen to her boyfriend play the guitar.
I told her OK and when she got off work she drove me to her place. I took a hot bath, had a hot meal and was able to spend the warm night there with her and her boyfriend. I felt so serene that it didn't take long before I had fallen asleep from the sound of her boyfriend quietly playing his guitar. Not only was I blessed by God but also blessed by these two young people who didn't look at me with disgust and saw me as a human being in need.
The next morning, she provided me a hot breakfast and then she and her college girlfriends were kind enough to drive me to a good place for me to hitchhike down south towards highway 80.
To this day I don't even know the name of that young woman who trusted me, fed me, provided me a bath and a warm place to stay for that one special night in a place I surely didn't belong. This could arguably be the greatest single human experience I ever had in my life.
I wonder how the future was for her life and if she even remembered the young man she assisted on that cold winter night when all he was looking for was something simple to eat and she unselfishly provided him a lifetime memory of thanksgiving?
Isn't it though? This is the most mismanaged world a person could ever conceive of. And what really makes it depressing is the fact it has become a "me" world. It seems like most people are trying to do something that makes them the news of the day.
Go to the websites of the top churches in America and see for yourself that the pastor of the church is being highlighted more than Jesus. They are selling everything from books they have written to anything else that can make a buck. Check out Joel Osteen. This guy is nothing more, in my opinion, than a person out to make his name known than Jesus. He and his wife have their own websites in addition to the website at the church they belong to.
Pastors all over America are living a lavish livestyle because church members have made them appear like they are something special and should live like kings. Hello-I don't believe Jesus preached this. It has become just a big scam in America.
The only difference between church pastors and union leaders is the fact that pastors pray and quote from the Bible. I believe that most pastors get involved in preaching because they learn early that having others pay for their lifestyle, without really working, is not too bad of an idea after-all.
On January 13, 2010, Pastor Ray Johnston of the Roseville Bayside Church, was caught plagiarizing a letter a church pastor by the name Rick Warren wrote back on December 30, 2009 to the members of the Saddleback Church. There is absolutely no excuse for Johnston doing this kind of dishonest act.
I guess it doesn't matter how a pastor gets the members money as long as he gets the money!
Click on the image below to read Ray Johnston's letter and Rick Warren's letter.
Below are the comparisons of the two letters compiled by Jack Nordby:
Dear Bayside Church,
It has been brought to my attention that Pastor Ray Johnston has crossed an ethical line
when it comes to biblical principles in his recent email letter to the Bayside Church Family.
Was Ray inspired by the Holy Spirit when writing to his "Bayside Family" in his plea for $250,000
or was he inspired by the success of Rick Warren's recent letter to the Saddleback Church?
His letter plagiarizes the letter of Rick Warren from Saddleback Church.
To plagiarize according to Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary is to: steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own
Compare the following statements made in both letters.
Rick Warren's newsletter dated December 30th, 2009 is in blue text.
Ray Johnston's email to Bayside members dated January 12, 2010 is in green text.
Rick Warren writes this on 12/30/09:
This is an urgent letter unlike any I've written in 30 years.
Ray Johnston writes this on 01/12/10: I don't send letters like this without a lot of thought. In fact, this is the only email like this I've sent in my 15 years as your pastor.
Not much thought but perhaps a lot of copying and pasting.
Rick Warren writes this on 12/30/09:
Please read all of it and get back to me in the next 48 hours.
Ray Johnston writes this on 01/12/10: Please read all of it and respond as quickly as you can.
Rick Warren writes this on 12/30/09:
I have thrilling news to share with you below but first some seriously bad news:
Ray Johnston writes this on 01/12/10:
I have stunningly good news to share with you, but first, here is my concern.
Rick Warren writes this on 12/30/09:
Please read this end-of-the-year review and then take one of the 3 actions below.
Ray Johnston writes this on 01/12/10:
Please read this end-of-the-year review and then take one of the 3 actions below.
Rick Warren writes this on 12/30/09:
2009: A BANNER YEAR OF MINISTRY IN SPITE OF THE RECESSION. There's so much to share -
I can only hit the highlights (maybe 5%) of how your church has served our community this year:
Ray Johnston writes this on 01/12/10:
2009: A MONUMENTAL YEAR OF MINISTRY IN SPITE OF THE RECESSION. There's so much to share -
I can only hit the highlights (maybe 5%) of how our church has served our community this year:
Rick Warren then writes all about what the church's ministries have been doing.
Ray Johnston then writes all about what the church's ministries have been doing.
Rick Warren writes this on 12/30/09:
YOUR GIFTS HELP THE POOR & THOSE HURT MOST BY THE RECESSION:
Ray Johnston writes this on 01/12/10: YOUR GIFTS ARE HELPING THOSE HIT HARDEST BY THE RECESSION
Rick Warren writes this on 12/30/09:
1. Click HERE right now to and give as large an end-of-the-year gift as you can to help
avert this crisis. If we all do what God leads us to do, we'll all be a part of a miracle.
2. Mail in your gift today. Gifts must be postmarked in 2009 to be posted as 2009 gifts for
tax purposes. Mail to: 1 Saddleback Parkway, Lake Forest, CA 92630.
3. Drop your gift in the box at the front door of the Ministry Center at 1 Saddleback
Parkway so you know for certain we get it TODAY or Thursday.
Ray Johnston writes this on 01/12/10:
Click HERE right now to give as large of a one-timegift as you can. Direct your giving to “Tithes.” If we all do what God leads us to do, we can be a part of something amazing
Mail in your gift today.
Bayside Church
P.O. Box 2336
Granite Bay, CA 95746
Drop your check off at the church offices this week.
8211 Sierra College Blvd. Suite 440
Roseville, CA 95661
Rick Warren writes this on 12/30/09:
Saddleback is the most generous church family I know. You have always comes through when asked.
Ray Johnston writes this on 01/12/10:
I've said it before, ...you are the most generous church on the face of the planet! You always come through.
The pastor said he planned to talk about what he called his church's "radical generosity" in the rest
of the weekend's sermons. Quote from The Huffington Post Dated 01/03/10
Ray Johnston writes this on 01/12/10:
It's about God's call to Radical Generosity in every area of our lives. You don't want to miss it.
This email is not sent to shake your faith because we all know that our faith is in Jesus Christ.
It is sent to question the inspiration and motivation of Ray Johnston. Is he being inspired by God
or is he just trying to introduce unscriptural financial practices at Bayside?
Rick Warren's plea was for $900,000. They got $2.4 million instead.
Ray Johnston's plea is for $250,000, is he hoping for over $1 million dollars?
I do not see anything in scripture that closely resembles these pleas.
What "in the world" was Ray thinking when he decided to do this to the Bayside family? With these kind
of unscrupulous practices, Bayside's finances should be held under a microscope and examined with a
fine tooth comb.
What should Ray Johnston do? Ray should publicly apologize to the membership.
He should apologize to Rick Warren for plagiarizing his letter. Then he should resign.
He sent out a follow up email concerning the disaster in Haiti. If he gives 10% to disaster relief there,
then he will still be short of his $250,000 goal. If you want to help Haiti, give directly to World Vision.
I recently posted nine comments on an article The Bee regularly runs called "On the move" as a way to prove a point. When you open up this PDF file you will see that when my screen name "Fur" account is open I can see the nine comments I have posted. However, when my "Fur' account is signed out, then all of my comments are now invisible. Nobody's computer will have these comments visible for them to read. Just another way for The Sacramento Bee to show how deceitful they are.
Now anybody reading this Bee "on the move" page will not see any comments posted by "Fur." All nine comments were posted by "Fur."
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