Earnest Call to Prayer for California

Contact: Kara Silverman, 212-584-4331, ksilverman@5wpr.com

MEDIA ADVISORY, Aug. 8 /Christian Newswire/ -- In June 2008, GOD TV's Wendy Alec received a startling prophecy concerning coming judgment on the State of California, but Wendy and her husband Rory, who jointly head up GOD TV, believe this can be stayed, if Christians will gather together in steadfast prayer and intercession for this region.

The GOD TV founders are therefore urging believers across the USA and the nations to participate in a critical prayer event this weekend as the network breaks with its normal schedule to air a solemn assembly of prayer and fasting LIVE from San Francisco. Organized by the Justice House of Prayer in San Francisco, the meeting will be led by Lou Engle of TheCall and will feature prayers of intercession and repentance. The LIVE broadcast will be introduced by Rory & Wendy Alec, who will link to the event from the GOD TV studio in England.

The LIVE broadcast will air at 7pm local time (PST) / 10pm (EST) on Friday August 8, enabling DIRECTV viewers to watch on channel 365 and Sky Angel IPTV viewers to watch on channel 138. Internet viewers will be able to watch via webstreaming at www.god.tv/stream or via video on demand at www.god.tv/god. Highlights of the program will also be carried on GOD TV on Sunday August 10.

"God is looking for intercessors to stand in the gap on behalf of California and we who are believers are those intercessors," said Lou Engle. "We as the Church must repent for our attitudes toward the homosexual community and replace faultfinding with intercession. It is also our responsibility to plead the Blood of Jesus over the innocent bloodshed of millions of unborn babies and intercede for those in authority. To ignore the urgency of the times, would be to stand by as this State is thrown in front of a spiritual freight train. Now is our time to fast and pray."

Wendy Alec prophesied on June 14, 2008 that the scales of sin were so full over California that judgment could not be withheld if there was no repentance and she warned of coming devastation in San Francisco and Los Angeles, but that God would establish His own Golden Gate of repentance, revival, cleansing and holiness: "And I saw thousands of the tiniest of lights, these were intercessors meeting in small groups – piercing the heavenlies. Then the brighter lights were fellowships of churches all across California... and it was because of these ones that the judgment would be stayed and I saw a sign that read: 'MORE TIME - REVIVAL FIRE'. And the Lord said, 'A great grace shall arise from California that shall impact the north even to the state of Washington'." The full text of this prophetic word, entitled 'The Bay' can be read at www.unknownprophet.com.

"This is an extremely important event for GOD TV at this time when America faces a crucial election and especially with the current push to try and legitimize same sex marriage across the USA, starting in California," said Wendy Alec, who is the director of television at GOD TV. "It has been said: 'As San Francisco goes, so goes California and as California goes, so goes the nation'. There has never been a more crucial time for Christians across the USA to pray into this situation and we believe we can gain the prayer support of millions more as we air this wake-up call to believers on GOD TV around the world."

GOD TV chief executive, Rory Alec said he looked forward to welcoming viewers to the LIVE broadcast. "According to Scripture, God doesn't do anything without first telling His servants," he said, quoting Amos 3:7, "so that they can sound the alarm as they are led of the Lord. GOD TV has been raised up as an extraordinary prophetic platform for this time - with a powerful ability to rally the Body of Christ like never before and now is the time to sound the alarm in San Francisco. We carry a great burden in our hearts for America and feel we must pray fervently for California right now."

The Justice House of Prayer in San Francisco, takes place exactly a week before TheCall, DC, a mass gathering on the National Mall on August 16, also led by Lou Engle, where a one million-strong crowd is expected to gather at National Mall. This will also be televised LIVE by GOD TV. For more information visit: www.thecall.com or www.god.tv.

P.S. I changed all of the links to The Church of Google because I just can't bear to link to these idiots.

Earnest Call to Prayer for California

Contact: Kara Silverman, 212-584-4331, ksilverman@5wpr.com

MEDIA ADVISORY, Aug. 8 /Christian Newswire/ -- In June 2008, GOD TV's Wendy Alec received a startling prophecy concerning coming judgment on the State of California, but Wendy and her husband Rory, who jointly head up GOD TV, believe this can be stayed, if Christians will gather together in steadfast prayer and intercession for this region.

The GOD TV founders are therefore urging believers across the USA and the nations to participate in a critical prayer event this weekend as the network breaks with its normal schedule to air a solemn assembly of prayer and fasting LIVE from San Francisco. Organized by the Justice House of Prayer in San Francisco, the meeting will be led by Lou Engle of TheCall and will feature prayers of intercession and repentance. The LIVE broadcast will be introduced by Rory & Wendy Alec, who will link to the event from the GOD TV studio in England.

The LIVE broadcast will air at 7pm local time (PST) / 10pm (EST) on Friday August 8, enabling DIRECTV viewers to watch on channel 365 and Sky Angel IPTV viewers to watch on channel 138. Internet viewers will be able to watch via webstreaming at www.god.tv/stream or via video on demand at www.god.tv/god. Highlights of the program will also be carried on GOD TV on Sunday August 10.

"God is looking for intercessors to stand in the gap on behalf of California and we who are believers are those intercessors," said Lou Engle. "We as the Church must repent for our attitudes toward the homosexual community and replace faultfinding with intercession. It is also our responsibility to plead the Blood of Jesus over the innocent bloodshed of millions of unborn babies and intercede for those in authority. To ignore the urgency of the times, would be to stand by as this State is thrown in front of a spiritual freight train. Now is our time to fast and pray."

Wendy Alec prophesied on June 14, 2008 that the scales of sin were so full over California that judgment could not be withheld if there was no repentance and she warned of coming devastation in San Francisco and Los Angeles, but that God would establish His own Golden Gate of repentance, revival, cleansing and holiness: "And I saw thousands of the tiniest of lights, these were intercessors meeting in small groups – piercing the heavenlies. Then the brighter lights were fellowships of churches all across California... and it was because of these ones that the judgment would be stayed and I saw a sign that read: 'MORE TIME - REVIVAL FIRE'. And the Lord said, 'A great grace shall arise from California that shall impact the north even to the state of Washington'." The full text of this prophetic word, entitled 'The Bay' can be read at www.unknownprophet.com.

"This is an extremely important event for GOD TV at this time when America faces a crucial election and especially with the current push to try and legitimize same sex marriage across the USA, starting in California," said Wendy Alec, who is the director of television at GOD TV. "It has been said: 'As San Francisco goes, so goes California and as California goes, so goes the nation'. There has never been a more crucial time for Christians across the USA to pray into this situation and we believe we can gain the prayer support of millions more as we air this wake-up call to believers on GOD TV around the world."

GOD TV chief executive, Rory Alec said he looked forward to welcoming viewers to the LIVE broadcast. "According to Scripture, God doesn't do anything without first telling His servants," he said, quoting Amos 3:7, "so that they can sound the alarm as they are led of the Lord. GOD TV has been raised up as an extraordinary prophetic platform for this time - with a powerful ability to rally the Body of Christ like never before and now is the time to sound the alarm in San Francisco. We carry a great burden in our hearts for America and feel we must pray fervently for California right now."

The Justice House of Prayer in San Francisco, takes place exactly a week before TheCall, DC, a mass gathering on the National Mall on August 16, also led by Lou Engle, where a one million-strong crowd is expected to gather at National Mall. This will also be televised LIVE by GOD TV. For more information visit: www.thecall.com or www.god.tv.

P.S. I changed all of the links to The Church of Google because I just can't bear to link to these idiots.

"Whatever...It's a pile of shit. "

“If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague. It is difficult to understand the public policy towards AIDS. It is the first time in the history of civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue instead of the true health crisis it represents.”

“In light of the extraordinary funds already being given for AIDS research, it does not seem that additional federal spending can be justified. An alternative would be to request that multimillionaire celebrities, such as Elizabeth Taylor (,) Madonna and others who are pushing for more AIDS funding be encouraged to give out of their own personal treasuries increased amounts for AIDS research.”

"Whatever...It's a pile of shit. "

“If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague. It is difficult to understand the public policy towards AIDS. It is the first time in the history of civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue instead of the true health crisis it represents.”

“In light of the extraordinary funds already being given for AIDS research, it does not seem that additional federal spending can be justified. An alternative would be to request that multimillionaire celebrities, such as Elizabeth Taylor (,) Madonna and others who are pushing for more AIDS funding be encouraged to give out of their own personal treasuries increased amounts for AIDS research.”

"What if our republic were now shattered?" wrote the Rev. M. R. Watkinson to Secretary of the Treasury Salmon Portland Chase on Nov. 13, 1861. "Would not antiquaries of succeeding centuries reason from our past that we were heathen nation?"

The United States of America Was Not Founded As a Christian Nation.

"What if our republic were now shattered?" wrote the Rev. M. R. Watkinson to Secretary of the Treasury Salmon Portland Chase on Nov. 13, 1861. "Would not antiquaries of succeeding centuries reason from our past that we were heathen nation?"

The United States of America Was Not Founded As a Christian Nation.

"God, I don't know what to do. My son has just been given a horrible diagnosis for a horrible disease. I don't know what kind of being you are but, if you will spare my son of this disease, I will give to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for the rest of my life."

"God, I don't know what to do. My son has just been given a horrible diagnosis for a horrible disease. I don't know what kind of being you are but, if you will spare my son of this disease, I will give to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for the rest of my life."

This is a request for help. Disabled veterans are being treated as if they are a burden on the government's checkbook, and the government is getting away with it, mainly because the situation is so far out of the public's collective eye that the military can quite effectively sweep it under the rug. Politicians are using our sacrifices as political capital in front of the nation, while the Army medical system turns around to our face and disdainfully treats us as if we are asking for something we do not deserve. All we want is the care we were promised, and all we are getting is organized resistance from the military medical bureaucracy. In some cases, this resistance amounts to the pure manipulation - and even alteration - of the medical regulations, for the sole purpose of reducing the amount of money the Army has to pay disabled vets upon their separation. I have turned to this kind of appeal, frankly, because I am out of options. I believe that the only thing that can even begin to fix a problem such as this one is true exposure to the bright lights of public scrutiny.

When wounded soldiers comes home, they have to go through an evaluation process in which a panel of Army doctors determines what their final disability rating will be. If they decide that the soldier rates less than 30%, then they can separate that soldier with merely a severance check, and never dole out another dollar to him or her again. Should the rating be above 30%, the Army is required to medically retire that soldier, and send him or her a monthly check after they leave the service. In principle, this makes sense. But this is being abused by those doctors, in that they are intentionally low-balling wounded vets in order to get them under the 30% ceiling and get them out, for obvious reasons of saving money. Just in my case alone, I have seen doctors lie on official reports about what I told them, make childishly snide comments about the appeals that I have written to the Physician Evaluation Board (PEB), and one doctor even suggested that a previous diagnosis was invalid simply because I was "fine" on the day he saw me. (And I have proof - to include hard copies of documents showing the offenses.) This does not stop with the low-level doctors, by any means. The Army PEBs operate on instructions given to them by their command, and one in particular is very telling. Since soldiers began coming home with serious concussion injuries, the Army medical community has seen fit to publish instructions to its PEBs concerning certain ratings and how they are to be 'interpreted' pertaining to veterans' disability claims. One of them that I ran directly into deals with the occurrence of migraine headaches, which many veterans with concussion injuries suffer from, and how they are to be viewed. The schedule that lists ratings that are to be applied states that for a 50% rating, migraines must meet the frequency requirement of at least two pper month, and the severity must be prostrating. After veterans began receiving this rating for their complications from IED-induced concussions, an instruction to physicians was published informing them that from then on, the word 'prostrating' was not to be interpreted as it is defined, but rather for migraines to be considered prostrating for rating purposes, the soldier must have stopped and sought immediate, emergency medical attention. Due to the fact that it is very difficult for someone laying prostrate from a migraine to get up and make it to the ER, you can imagine how well this worked in reducing the number of veterans that received disability ratings for their migraines.

And aside from the failings of the rating process, once the soldier is done with that, then there is the incompetent bureaucracy within the ranks of those handling retired service members to deal with. I was retired in January, but did not see a single cent of my retirement money until June. And when it did begin, taxes were being deducted - which shouldn't happen, because combat wounded vets get tax exemption from their disability checks. After getting that fixed, I recently discovered that I have absolutely no medical coverage whatsoever - which I found out while trying to get my prescriptions filled - because my retirement documents never got to the agency responsible for administering my care as a medical retiree. The incompetence of those that handled my retirement file ensured that the necessary paperwork failed to reach almost all of the necessary agencies. And I am by no means the only one this type of injustice is happening to, but instead it is a widespread occurrence. The reason for this is that once the soldier leaves the service and begins the fight for his or her benefits, it is simply that soldier against the entire framework of the Army bureaucracy, and that is far from a fair fight. (They do allow you a liaison in order to to help you navigate the system, but if mine was any indication, this is more of a burden than a help - in asking her to participate in a conference call to discuss why I disagreed with my initial rating of 10%, she resisted and actually said to me, "I'm not here to hold your hand through this.") So I have ended up in a position quite familiar to veterans - broke, living with my parents, in debt up to my ears from the months without income, and having no consistent medical coverage.

So, if you read through this and it seems wrong to you, especially if it makes you a bit angry, then I'm asking for your help. The only thing that will fix this problem is to shine a spotlight on what is happening, because once that happens, the freedom of action that the Army medical community has enjoyed in bullying the wounded soldiers applying for disability will be gone. Once the public is cognizant of exactly what has been done to the veterans the government so profusely praises for their sacrifice, their hypocrisy will be laid bare. If you know anyone - journalist or not - that will take this story and tell it to the public, please let me know. The above injustices are only the tip of the iceberg, even in my case, and I have documentation of many more transgressions.

A disabled vet has fought far too much already to have to continue to fight with their own government like this when they get home. In this case, it is the soldier who is looking to citizen for help with this fight. -via Pharyngula

This is a request for help. Disabled veterans are being treated as if they are a burden on the government's checkbook, and the government is getting away with it, mainly because the situation is so far out of the public's collective eye that the military can quite effectively sweep it under the rug. Politicians are using our sacrifices as political capital in front of the nation, while the Army medical system turns around to our face and disdainfully treats us as if we are asking for something we do not deserve. All we want is the care we were promised, and all we are getting is organized resistance from the military medical bureaucracy. In some cases, this resistance amounts to the pure manipulation - and even alteration - of the medical regulations, for the sole purpose of reducing the amount of money the Army has to pay disabled vets upon their separation. I have turned to this kind of appeal, frankly, because I am out of options. I believe that the only thing that can even begin to fix a problem such as this one is true exposure to the bright lights of public scrutiny.

When wounded soldiers comes home, they have to go through an evaluation process in which a panel of Army doctors determines what their final disability rating will be. If they decide that the soldier rates less than 30%, then they can separate that soldier with merely a severance check, and never dole out another dollar to him or her again. Should the rating be above 30%, the Army is required to medically retire that soldier, and send him or her a monthly check after they leave the service. In principle, this makes sense. But this is being abused by those doctors, in that they are intentionally low-balling wounded vets in order to get them under the 30% ceiling and get them out, for obvious reasons of saving money. Just in my case alone, I have seen doctors lie on official reports about what I told them, make childishly snide comments about the appeals that I have written to the Physician Evaluation Board (PEB), and one doctor even suggested that a previous diagnosis was invalid simply because I was "fine" on the day he saw me. (And I have proof - to include hard copies of documents showing the offenses.) This does not stop with the low-level doctors, by any means. The Army PEBs operate on instructions given to them by their command, and one in particular is very telling. Since soldiers began coming home with serious concussion injuries, the Army medical community has seen fit to publish instructions to its PEBs concerning certain ratings and how they are to be 'interpreted' pertaining to veterans' disability claims. One of them that I ran directly into deals with the occurrence of migraine headaches, which many veterans with concussion injuries suffer from, and how they are to be viewed. The schedule that lists ratings that are to be applied states that for a 50% rating, migraines must meet the frequency requirement of at least two pper month, and the severity must be prostrating. After veterans began receiving this rating for their complications from IED-induced concussions, an instruction to physicians was published informing them that from then on, the word 'prostrating' was not to be interpreted as it is defined, but rather for migraines to be considered prostrating for rating purposes, the soldier must have stopped and sought immediate, emergency medical attention. Due to the fact that it is very difficult for someone laying prostrate from a migraine to get up and make it to the ER, you can imagine how well this worked in reducing the number of veterans that received disability ratings for their migraines.

And aside from the failings of the rating process, once the soldier is done with that, then there is the incompetent bureaucracy within the ranks of those handling retired service members to deal with. I was retired in January, but did not see a single cent of my retirement money until June. And when it did begin, taxes were being deducted - which shouldn't happen, because combat wounded vets get tax exemption from their disability checks. After getting that fixed, I recently discovered that I have absolutely no medical coverage whatsoever - which I found out while trying to get my prescriptions filled - because my retirement documents never got to the agency responsible for administering my care as a medical retiree. The incompetence of those that handled my retirement file ensured that the necessary paperwork failed to reach almost all of the necessary agencies. And I am by no means the only one this type of injustice is happening to, but instead it is a widespread occurrence. The reason for this is that once the soldier leaves the service and begins the fight for his or her benefits, it is simply that soldier against the entire framework of the Army bureaucracy, and that is far from a fair fight. (They do allow you a liaison in order to to help you navigate the system, but if mine was any indication, this is more of a burden than a help - in asking her to participate in a conference call to discuss why I disagreed with my initial rating of 10%, she resisted and actually said to me, "I'm not here to hold your hand through this.") So I have ended up in a position quite familiar to veterans - broke, living with my parents, in debt up to my ears from the months without income, and having no consistent medical coverage.

So, if you read through this and it seems wrong to you, especially if it makes you a bit angry, then I'm asking for your help. The only thing that will fix this problem is to shine a spotlight on what is happening, because once that happens, the freedom of action that the Army medical community has enjoyed in bullying the wounded soldiers applying for disability will be gone. Once the public is cognizant of exactly what has been done to the veterans the government so profusely praises for their sacrifice, their hypocrisy will be laid bare. If you know anyone - journalist or not - that will take this story and tell it to the public, please let me know. The above injustices are only the tip of the iceberg, even in my case, and I have documentation of many more transgressions.

A disabled vet has fought far too much already to have to continue to fight with their own government like this when they get home. In this case, it is the soldier who is looking to citizen for help with this fight. -via Pharyngula

As a professing atheist, you can’t be "sure" of anything. You don’t know that there is no God. You don’t know if Hell is a reality. All you have is your beliefs (faith) that God and Hell don’t exist. You have faith in what you believe. You can’t be sure that the sky is blue (it’s not), or that the sun rises (it doesn’t). You don’t know for certain that the blue or the red that you see is actually the same colors that others see. You don’t know if evolution is true, or even if a rock is "hard," because you have no concrete definition of what "hard" is, other than what a dictionary tells you and what you have come to believe from the beliefs of others. For all you know, you might be insane and have twisted perceptions of what others see as reality. That’s why knowing God is such a wonderful thing. It’s because He knows the thoughts of everyone that has ever existed, and He is ever-present on every planet to determine if there are or are not green leprechauns.

As a professing atheist, you can’t be "sure" of anything. You don’t know that there is no God. You don’t know if Hell is a reality. All you have is your beliefs (faith) that God and Hell don’t exist. You have faith in what you believe. You can’t be sure that the sky is blue (it’s not), or that the sun rises (it doesn’t). You don’t know for certain that the blue or the red that you see is actually the same colors that others see. You don’t know if evolution is true, or even if a rock is "hard," because you have no concrete definition of what "hard" is, other than what a dictionary tells you and what you have come to believe from the beliefs of others. For all you know, you might be insane and have twisted perceptions of what others see as reality. That’s why knowing God is such a wonderful thing. It’s because He knows the thoughts of everyone that has ever existed, and He is ever-present on every planet to determine if there are or are not green leprechauns.

June 30, 2008

The Dangers of Auto-Replace

In addition to blocking traffic from websites they don’t like, it looks like the web-geniuses behind the American Family Association’s OneNewsNow site have a few other tricks up their sleeves, such as automatically replacing any use of the word “gay” with the word “homosexual” in any of the AP stories they run … leading to instances in which proper names are reformatted to meet their ridiculous standard, such as this article about sprinter Tyson Gay winning the 100 meters at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials in which he is renamed “Tyson Homosexual”:

Though AFA has since corrected its article, it looks like this auto-replace feature has been embarrassing them for quite some time now:

And while they may have fixed this particular instance, it looks like they haven't gone back through their archives and corrected other articles where this happened, such as this article where professional basketball player Rudy Gay is referred to as "Rudy Homosexual."

June 30, 2008

The Dangers of Auto-Replace

In addition to blocking traffic from websites they don’t like, it looks like the web-geniuses behind the American Family Association’s OneNewsNow site have a few other tricks up their sleeves, such as automatically replacing any use of the word “gay” with the word “homosexual” in any of the AP stories they run … leading to instances in which proper names are reformatted to meet their ridiculous standard, such as this article about sprinter Tyson Gay winning the 100 meters at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials in which he is renamed “Tyson Homosexual”:

Though AFA has since corrected its article, it looks like this auto-replace feature has been embarrassing them for quite some time now:

And while they may have fixed this particular instance, it looks like they haven't gone back through their archives and corrected other articles where this happened, such as this article where professional basketball player Rudy Gay is referred to as "Rudy Homosexual."

"We are geared towards bringing the Christian business model to the rest of the world."

"Triangle Christian Business Network will bring visibility to your business and expose your product to thousands that visit our website as well as church websites that are affiliated with TCBN."

"We are geared towards bringing the Christian business model to the rest of the world."

"Triangle Christian Business Network will bring visibility to your business and expose your product to thousands that visit our website as well as church websites that are affiliated with TCBN."