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"Once Michael Colquitt arrived to meet his father, he said Joe Colquitt was upset because he wasn't attending church like he should, and at some point alleged the argument came to a head with the pastor pulling out a handgun."

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When Barack Obama moved into the Oval Office in January, he inherited a military not just drained by a two-front war overseas but fighting a third battle on the home front, a subtle civil war over its own soul. On one side are the majority of military personnel, professionals who regardless of their faith or lack thereof simply want to get their jobs done; on the other is a small but powerful movement of Christian soldiers concentrated in the officer corps.
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I thought cnn's "holograms" (video here) were dumb, cheesy, and pointless, but I didn't realize how sinister they were. (AC = Anti-Christ)

Think of the AC using this technology to to project his image GLOBALLY, for all those to bow down to.

He could realistically be everywhere at once. Now...how would one bring it to life (outside of just speaking)?

My son sent me this about a week or so ago. He says his office also has Cisco Telepersentation but not to this extent.
Cisco can do this now, and I bet CNN latched onto their technology. Yes, soon the AC's image really can be broadcast around the world. I am awestruck to still be here to have a glimpse of this technology and now understand how it will be after we're raptured.

From the same thread:

Well the frightening thing is that AC will have this technology at his disposal to perform false miracles, such as projecting his image into the sky so that people think he's floating, or making himself appear to walk on water. Granted this technology requires a lot of equipment to record and project the image, so he can't do it just anywhere. But think about this, all he has to do is project his image into the sky (or onto the water) in one location before an adoring crowd, then simply televise that to the rest of the world. What a perfect way to trick the unbelievers into thinking he's the Messiah. People will believe anything in those times, he'll have little difficulty deceiving most of them.

emphasis mine.

They've also done experiments where they projected images of Jesus, Buddha, and other religious figures in the sky using the same technology. (By "they" I mean the government, not CNN).

to their credit, at least some of the posters there realize it's a video effect.

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As seen in northwest knox county.

...and the food fetishist's wet dream.

Of all the right-wing figures who have promoted Mike Huckabee's extraordinary political rise from a backwater church to the national pulpit of a presidential campaign--and there are many--perhaps none know the former Arkansas governor and current Republican presidential front-runner better than Jay Cole. A Baptist minister based in Fayetteville, Arkansas, with a right-wing radio talk show of his own, Cole has been instrumental in inspiring Huckabee's rise over more than two decades. Indeed, when Huckabee was the governor of Arkansas, it was Cole who persuaded him to arrange the release from prison of a convicted rapist, Wayne Dumond, who had become a born-again evangelical in prison--the most controversial act of Huckabee's career, which still dogs him on the campaign trail.
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Cole, a vitriolic Clinton critic who calls the former president "trash" and says he helped produce the infamous anti-Clinton propaganda video The Clinton Chronicles, immediately embraced Dumond's cause, taking to the airwaves to paint him as the victim of a dark conspiracy. Cole claimed without evidence that a vindictive Clinton and his surrogates had framed Dumond and had possibly orchestrated his castration as well.
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Huckabee routinely warns of the threat of "Islamofascism" at campaign rallies and is perhaps the first major presidential candidate in American history to essentially call for the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Huckabee declared during a New Hampshire fundraiser in October that a Palestinian state should only be established outside of biblical Israel, possibly in Egypt or Saudi Arabia, according to the Jewish Russian Telegraph. He reiterated this position during an appearance on Face the Nation in November.

Most of the batshitcrazy in the article is not directly attributed to Huckabee, but that doesn't change the fact that Mike Huckabee is not a sane man

I bet it looks positively festive at night when the crucifix lights are on.

Despite the poor execution (what's up with Santa's arms?), I salute this man's humbuggery.