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The Poisoning of American Politics by Radical Christian Dominionists
Religious Liberty in the Massachusetts Bay Colony…the hanging of the Quakers…a model for the Dominionists
"When the pretended friends of religion lead infidel lives; when they carry religion to market and offer it in exchange for luxuries and honors; when they place it familiarly and constantly in the columns of newspapers, manifestly connected with electioneering purposes, and when they are offering it up as a morning and evening sacrifice of the altar of political party- these men are placing a firebrand to every meeting house and applying a torch to every Bible" Abraham Bishop in an oration at Wallingford CT on 11 March 1801
"See, the problem is, is that Satan has had too much of his way in our society because he has a government! And the only way to overthrow a government is with a government. It won't happen otherwise." C. Peter Wagner
Every time that I hear a politician of any party invoke God or quote scripture my stomach turns. In our modern era this really began with Jimmy Carter. For better or worse the man wore his faith proudly. The Southern Baptist Sunday School teacher from Plains Georgia let it all out when he talked about his faith, sin, lust and adultery in a Playboy Magazine interview in 1976.
There was actually nothing wrong with what he said or that he identified himself as a "Born Again Christian." But Carter set a precedent and brought a previously apolitical part of the population into the political process in a way never seen before.
Urged on by politically motivated preachers like Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, John Hagee and James Robison Evangelicals like the young Michelle Bachmann rushed to the polls like flies to a honey trap. Before long posturing political preachers were in the became a staple of conservative politics and the core of the Republican Party base.
Now 35 years later we have radical preachers openly clamoring for a Christian theocracy and brazenly advocating the complete dominion of Christians over all areas of life. The theory is called "Dominionism" or "Seven Mountains" theology. Many of these preachers are openly allied with a number of high profile Republican Presidential candidates in a take no prisoners campaign to destroy their opposition within the Republican party and nationwide.
C. Peter Wagner a Professor of Evangelism at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena California is one of the most prominent proponents of this political theology and he wrote:
"Our theological bedrock is what has been known as Dominion Theology. This means that our divine mandate is to do whatever is necessary, by the power of the Holy Spirit, to retake the dominion of God's creation which Adam forfeited to Satan in the Garden of Eden. It is nothing less than seeing God's kingdom coming and His will being done here on earth as it is in heaven." Letter dated 31 May 2007
Of course by 1980 Carter was tossed aside by his Evangelical supporters like cup of boiled peanuts gone bad. The preachers who once supported him disappointed with him over the Panama Canal treaty and the economy ditched him and whipped up Evangelical support for Ronald Reagan. Reagan wiped Carter off of the electoral map like Sherman marching to the sea.
With Reagan's victory the now emboldened preachers pressed for more power. Groups like Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority and Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition became major supporters and contributors to conservative candidates and politicians as did James Dobson's Focus on the Family and the American Family Association.
Now Reagan to his credit talked a lot about faith and God but he certainly could not be considered one of the real Evangelical Christian faithful. He was divorced and a sparse attendee of the mainline Presbyterian Church USA. He was married to a woman who brought mediums into the White House to conduct séances. He cut taxes but raised taxes when he needed to. He withdrew U.S.Forces from Beirut after the Marine barracks was destroyed with the loss of 241 American lives and he became Soviet Premier Gorbachev's buddy. Before he was President he raised the sales tax in California and signed one of the most liberal and permissive abortion laws in the nation. That was well before the Roe v. Wade decision. In short if he was running now for any office he would already be out of the race as a Republican.
Since Reagan departed the Presidency the preachers and politicians are aided in their struggle for control by the third member of the Unholy Trinity the pundits such as serial divorcee Rush Limbaugh, the Talibanesque team lead by Joseph Farah at World Net Daily and a host of others.
Now to be fair Democrats were and are not above using preachers and scripture for their own purposes. Some seeking to capitalize on the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other early civil rights pioneers not only used their pulpits to further civil rights which I have no issue with but to promote themselves and a place at the table in the Democratic Party and its policies. Others minsters mainly from liberal denominations used their pulpits to promote all sorts of other agendas that were called liberal, socialist or left wing, even though most had decent scriptural support and in some cases were supported by the social teachings of both the Roman Catholic and some Protestant denominations. However Liberal politicians have never used these preachers over the years as brazenly as conservative politicians use Evangelicals, Charismatics and other conservative Christians including Roman Catholics.
Bill Clinton was a master of using scripture in his campaign as well as in enunciating his policies. He got everyone going with his "New Covenant" acceptance speech at the 1992 Democratic Convention which was a masterful speech though it brazenly co-opted a Christian theme as its own. Initially some of the current radical preachers we Clinton backers as the felt that President George H.W. Bush was leading the United States into the New World Order.
What tickles me is that one of the leading Seven Mountain's "prophets named Paul Cain spoke at my church after the election and said that "God told him that Bill Clinton would be elected and that it was because of Clinton's "humility." Joyner wrote in Rick Joyner's Morningstar Prophetic Bulletin in 1993 "The Lord said that He was giving us a new president who is better than we deserve. He represents a reprieve from a New WorldOrder that the Church is not prepared to face at this time…"
I love it when self appointed prophets catch themselves on their own tangled web of lies. Of course the real reason had nothing to due with the Christian faith but the fact that Cain and his ilk didn't like George Bush and believed that he was ushering in a "New World Order. This was shameless, but then that is nothing new.
Now as a disclaimer as a 16 year old I worked for Gerald Ford's campaign and voted for Reagan twice. Since I became a Republican because of the radicalism espoused by George McGovern in 1972 when my dad was in Vietnam surrounded by the North Vietnamese. This made me a very pro-military and anti-Communist. It was because of Carters foreign policy flubs and weakness that I supported Reagan. I was and still am a Christian, but I didn't vote for Reagan or any other Republican because of their faith or the faith of their opponent. Now I do like it when men and women that I vote for represent the best of their faith and don't lord it over those that are not of their faith. When I vote I vote the vote for a candidate based on what I see as their qualifications for the office and not their religious views.
Unfortunately there are a number of prominent candidates and their supporters that seem to want Theologian in Chief. Politicians can see that and that pander shamelessly to their religious supporters often to the exclusion of all others. If I want a theocracy I'll go to Iran or Saudi Arabia thank you, but I don't and you shouldn't either unless you are planning to convert. But that is the plan of the Dominionists.
However those pursuing the radical Seven Mountains Dominionism actually want a theocracy will use any party or any President to establish it. Clinton didn't give it to them so they went to the Republicans. Their rhetoric is scary. Rick Joyner who is one of the big supporters of this movement within the Tea Party and Republican Party said something that should give anyone that has a hankering for religious liberty and liberty of conscious chills. Perry is not simply a ranting nut but a nut that has the ear of viable Presidential candidates. Back in 1996 Joyner wrote about what was going to happen to Christians that didn't agree with his understanding of his prophecy threatening to change "the very definition of Christianity….for the better…."
"On February 23rd of this year I was shown for the third time that the church was headed for a spiritual civil war … the definition of a complete victory in this war would be the complete overthrow of the accuser of the brethens' strongholds in the church … this will in fact be one of the most cruel battles the church has ever faced. Like every civil war brother will turn against brother like we have never witnessed in the church before … this battle must be fought. It is an opportunity to drive the accuser out of the church and for the church then to come into unity that would otherwise be impossible … what is coming will be dark. At times Christians almost universally will be loath to even call themselves Christians.Believers and unbelievers alike will think it is the end of Christianity as we know it and it will be through this the very definition of Christianity will be changed for the better." Morning Star Prophetic Bulletin May 1996
Cindy Jacobs another one of these politically connected prophets made this claim on the internet back in 2000:
"For there is a radical sound that I have issued – there is a sound that has come from heaven, and it even now has come to earth. And the Lord says, these are going to be days where I am going to trouble the enemy through you. These are going to be different days than you have ever known, and I am going to require sacrifice of you that you cannot imagine. I am going to require a sacrifice of your children, says the Lord. And the Lord says, I'm going to shake everything that can be shaken…" and that "There are churches that will be command posts for revolution, and to these command posts I would say, I am going to bring a revolution. Look and see; I am calling radical revolutionaries to the church." http://www.elijahlist.com/words/display_word/85
If you ask me that is a threat to all Americans. One of Joyner's friends the late John Wimber who founded the Vineyard Churches said of his neighbors at Calvary Chapel "Calvaryites are sometimes a little too heavily oriented to the written Word." That is something Wimber criticized Christians that he saw as too heavily oriented to the Bible. Simply being a Bible Christian is not good enough for the Dominionists, theirs is an all or nothing take no prisoners approach that discounts 2000 years of Christian history, theology and tradition in favor of their alleged "words from God."
This is not about theology or faith at all. It is about power and money. Leading Dominionist C.Peter Wagner wrote: "nine of the components of GAN {Global Apostolic Network} are on my heart, but especially those related to wealth and wealth transfer. I am in touch with 17 potential wealth transfer brokers, some of them expecting release momentarily. It is hard to comprehend, but some of them go to multiple millions, billions, and more. My task is to prepare a high integrity infrastructure for distributing these funds when they begin to flow. Zion Apostolic Network and The Hamilton Group are in place as agencies to carry this out. Our motto is "Sophisticated Philanthropy for Apostolic Distribution." Letter from Global Harvest Ministries dated August 20, 2007
The original Dominionist was R. J. Rushdoony who was very open in what he believed:
"One faith, one law and one standard of justice did not mean democracy. The heresy of democracy has since then worked havoc in church and state . . . Christianity and democracy are inevitably enemies." R.J. Rushdoony, The Institutes of Biblical Law p.100
Rushdoony's son-in-law Gary North was even more blunt about the ultimate goal of Christian Reconstructionism:
"We must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government. Then they will get busy in constructing a Bible-based social, political and religious order which finally denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God."
This is the real goal of Rick Perry's The Response prayer meeting of 2011 and the perverted gospel that these preachers use to get politicians to fulfill their agenda and Perry obliged them well. If it was simply a day of prayer then others that were not Christians would have been welcome. It has been made manifest in now countless examples of political brinksmanship motivated by uncompromising politicians, pundits and preachers who have adopted an almost "Talibanesque" view of life, faith and politics.
Some of these preachers are not above advocating or praying for death of their political opponents. There was a whole campaign of prayer against President Obama led by the discredited and court-martialed Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt. He and others advocated praying the imprecatory prayers of the Psalms including Psalm 109:8 which says: 'Let his days be few; and let another take his office.' Massachusetts based preacher Scott Lively advocates killing gays overseas and supports laws in places like Uganda to legalize that. Unfortunately the list can go on and on.
Old Abraham Bishop was right; these people are setting fire to every meeting house and putting the torch to every Bible. Unfortunately most of their supporters will either ignore or quash what I and others write about these people. Truth doesn't matter to them.
I had that happen to me. Sometimes even from people that know me or have served with me at the altar. Facts didn't matter, all that mattered were the talking points and the agenda. The founders of this country did not as these people say desire anything like this. In fact Thomas Jefferson said "History I believe furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance, of which their political as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purpose." (letter to Baron von Humboldt, 1813)
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The Radical Influence of the Christian Dominionism on American Politics: It's All Jimmy carter's Fault….Not Really but it is a Catchy Headline
Every time that I hear a politician of any party invoke God or quote scripture my stomach turns. In our modern era this really began with Jimmy Carter, for better or worse the man wore his faith proudly. The Southern Baptist Sunday School teacher from Plains Georgia let it all out when he talked about his faith, sin, lust and adultery in a Playboy Magazine interview in 1976. There was actually nothing wrong with what he said or that he identified himself as a "Born Again Christian." But it set a precedent and brought a previously apolitical part of the population into the process in a way never seen before. Evangelicals like the young Michelle Bachmann rushed to the polls like flies to a honey trap. Before long posturing political preachers were in the mix and now 35 years later we have radical preachers openly clamoring for a Christian theocracy and brazenly advocating the complete dominion of Christians over all areas of life. The theory is called "Dominionism" or "SevenMountains" theology. Many of these preachers are openly allied with a number of high profile Republican Presidential candidates in a take no prisoners campaign to destroy their opposition within the Republican party and nationwide.
Of course by 1980 Carter was tossed aside by his Evangelical supporters like cup of boiled peanuts gone bad as the preachers disappointed with him over the Panama Canal treaty and the economy ditched him and whipped up support for Ronald Reagan. Reagan wiped Carter off of the electoral map like Sherman marching to the sea. When he did the now emboldened preachers pressed for more power. Groups like Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority and Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition became major supporters and contributors to conservative candidates and politicians as did James Dobson's Focus on the Family and the American Family Association.
Now Reagan to his credit talked a lot about faith and God but he certainly could not be considered one of the real Evangelical Christian faithful. He was divorced and a sparse attendee of the Mainline Presbyterian Church USA. He was married to a woman who brought mediums into the White House to conduct séances. He cut taxes but raised taxes when he needed to. He withdrew U.S.Forces from Beirut after the Marine barracks was destroyed with the loss of 241 American lives and he became Soviet Premier Gorbachev's buddy. Before he was President he raised the sales tax in California and signed one of the most liberal and permissive abortion laws in the nation well before the Roe v. Wade decision. In short if he was running in 2011 for the 2012 nomination he would already be out of the race. Since Reagan departed the Presidency the preachers and politicians are aided in their struggle for control by the third member of the Unholy Trinity the pundits.
Now the democrats were and are not above using preachers and scripture for their own purposes. Some seeking to capitalize on the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other early civil rights pioneers not only used their pulpits to further civil rights which I have no issue with but to promote themselves and a place at the table in the Democrat Party and its policies. Others minsters mainly from liberal denominations used their pulpits to promote all sorts of other agendas that were called liberal, socialist or left wing, even though most had decent scriptural support. However Liberal politicians have used these preachers over the years as brazenly as conservative politicians use Evangelicals, Charismatics and other conservative Christians including Roman Catholics.
Bill Clinton was a master of using scripture in his campaign as well as in enunciating his policies. He got everyone going with his "New Covenant" acceptance speech at the 1992 Democratic Convention which was a masterful speech though it brazenly co-opted a Christian theme as its own. Initially some of the current radical preachers we Clinton backers as the felt that President George H.W. Bush was leading the United States into the New World Order. What tickles me is that one of the leading Seven Mountain's "prophets named Paul Cain spoke at my church after the election and said that "God told him that Bill Clinton would be elected and that it was because of Clinton's "humility." Joyner wrote in Rick Joyner's Morningstar Prophetic Bulletin in 1993 "The Lord said that He was giving us a new president who is better than we deserve. He represents a reprieve from a New World Order that the Church is not prepared to face at this time…" I love it when self appointed prophets catch themselves on their own tangled Web of lies. Of course the real reason had nothing to due with the Christian faith but the fact that Cain and his ilk didn't like George Bush and believed that he was ushering in a "New World Order. This was shameless, but then that is nothing new.
"On February 23rd of this year I was shown for the third time that the church was headed for a spiritual civil war … the definition of a complete victory in this war would be the complete overthrow of the accuser of the brethens' strongholds in the church … this will in fact be one of the most cruel battles the church has ever faced. Like every civil war brother will turn against brother like we have never witnessed in the church before … this battle must be fought. It is an opportunity to drive the accuser out of the church and for the church then to come into unity that would otherwise be impossible … what is coming will be dark. At times Christians almost universally will be loath to even call themselves Christians. Believers and unbelievers alike will think it is the end of Christianity as we know it and it will be through this the very definition of Christianity will be changed for the better." Morning Star Prophetic Bulletin May 1996
This is not about theology it is about power and money. Leading Dominionist C.Peter Wagner wrote: "nine of the components of GAN {Global Apostolic Network} are on my heart, but especially those related to wealth and wealth transfer. I am in touch with 17 potential wealth transfer brokers, some of them expecting release momentarily. It is hard to comprehend, but some of them go to multiple millions, billions, and more. My task is to prepare a high integrity infrastructure for distributing these funds when they begin to flow. Zion Apostolic Network and The Hamilton Group are in place as agencies to carry this out. Our motto is "Sophisticated Philanthropy for Apostolic Distribution." Letter from Global Harvest Ministries dated August 20, 2007
This is the real goal of Rick Perry's The Response prayer meeting a few weeks back and the perverted gospel that these preachers use to get politicians to fulfill their agenda and Perry obliged them well. If it was simply a day of prayer then others that were not Christians would have been welcome.
Old Abraham Bishop was right; these people are setting fire to every meeting house and putting the torch to every Bible. Unfortunately most of their supporters will ignore or quash what I and others write about these people. I had that happen with a man from my former church that actually knows me today. Facts didn't matter, all that mattered were the talking points and the agenda. The founders of this country did not as these people say desire anything like this. In fact Thomas Jefferson said "History I believe furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance, of which their political as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purpose." (letter to Baron von Humboldt, 1813)
Filed under christian life, faith, philosophy, Political Commentary, Religion
Tagged as 1976 election, abraham bishop, c peter wagner, calvary chapel, christian coalition, christian dominionism, christian theocracy, cindy jacobs, congresswoman michelle bachmann, democracy, democrat party, focus on the family, george h w bush, gerald ford, james dobson, jerry falwell, jimmy carter, jimmy carter playboy article, john wimber, moral majority, pat robertson, paul cain, president bill clinton, president ronald reagan, r j rushdoony, republican party, rick joyner, rick perry, seven mountians theology, tea party, the american family asociation, the response, the unholy trinity, theocracy, vineyard churches
Padre Steve's Flashback to Early Contemporary Christian Music
Me, top row 3rd from right with Continental Singers Tour G 1979 at Mount Rushmore
I became an active Christian a few years after what is now called ContemporaryChristian Music came on the scene. Back then it was simple called "Jesus Music." Over the last 35 years or so I have seen this genre of Christian music morph from a small segment of the music scene to a rather large and profitable industry. I really don't listen to too much of the new stuff in fact unless the artist was around in the late 1970s or early 1980s I probably wouldn't know anything about them or their music.
In those days it was still possible to hang out with groups when they came into town. In 1979 the group The Sweet Comfort Band came to my hometown, Stockton California for a series of concerts in local high schools (God forbid this happen today) culminating with a Friday night concert at one of the larger churches in town. The guys were down to earth and real and talked about real life, even movies not just church. That was eye opening because it kind of blew away my idea that "Christian" artist were somehow a step above the rest of us. These guys showed me that Christians could be down to earth and able to relate to people. I was able to meet others at the 1979 Continental Singers rehearsal camp as I prepared to go as a Spotlight Technician with the Continental Singers Tour G.
When this genre of music first came out the record labels that carried the new contemporary artists were either labels that had previously carried gospel singers such as Word and Light and start ups such as Maranatha! Music, Sparrow/Birdwing Music and Larry Norman' Solid Rock Records. When larger secular labels discovered that there was money to be made they acquired most of these labels giving them more visibility but I think less independence than they had previously.
The music was as diverse and the artists performing the songs, everything from rock and country rock, to jazz and middle of the road music. Some artists had been successful secular recording artists before becoming Christians or rediscovering the faith that they had grown up with. The music varied in quality, some groups were very good and even pushed the edges of artistic license allowed in Evangelical Christianity while others were not that good and were pushed into the limelight because they had long hair and played guitars. Some of the bands such as Love Song would achieve a certain status in Contemporary Christian music that long outlived the length of time that they were in existence. Some bands were one album wonders while some like Daniel Amos remained together for many years.
As the genre grew a sub-genre of contemporary praise and worship music grew out of Calvary Chapel beginning with an album called The Praise Album. These were simple worship songs that small groups especially youth groups and college age groups could easily sing with just a guitar. They fit what John Wesley said about hymns was that they must be easily sung and not complicated. As such they grew in popularity and many other churches and recording labels got in on the game in opinion saturating the market with music that is only remarkable in its poor quality and insipid theology. The theology in most of the early songs was simple, based around Jesus and God's love and not written to advance quasi politic agendas. There was not the warlike quality of many of today's so called "worship music." I know that some will rake me over the coals for this but I have a hard time calling something worship when it is nothing more than a rally or fight song. Some of these early songs are here: Freely, Freely http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCLconoyX9I As the Deer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvQwvDfY5dk&p=90917541439498D0&playnext=1&index=82 In His Time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjab00qQG3k&feature=related, Karen Lafferty's Seek Ye First http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LMQfOp9w8k&feature=related The Servant King http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwIukabdw3E and the Spirit Song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqkvIhs7Ijg
But in this essay I'm going to go back in time and look at some of the early artists and their music beginning in the early 1970s and ending in the mid-1980s. This is kind of an arbitrary line because in 1984 I left the United States for a three year tour with the Army in Germany where I lost track of most of what was going on in Christian music and when I returned did not find the newer artists as much to my liking. For me it was simply a matter of musical preference. It is hard to find much of this music now. Many songs were only on LPs and produced in limited quantities. Since many were obscure and this was before the digital age very few video recordings exist for many groups. As such some people have taken audios and mixed them with slide shows or videos or the videos are from "reunion" type concerts 20-30 years after the songs were first introduced.
The revolution in Christian music began in Costa Mesa California at a little country church called Calvary Chapel. The church made the effort to reach the "hippies" that hung around the beach towns including many musicians. The group Love Song was perhaps the first group to reach any form of national prominence and their songs such as Little Country Church http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZkWrn9SXwo&feature=related, and Two Hands http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW12P7upc6o&feature=related became early examples of how the music could be popular and contemporary. The lead singer of the group Chuck Girard went solo and made a number of albums but Rock and Roll Preacher was one of his signature songs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_I3R3tC6Rk&feature=related
Other Calvary Chapel Groups that recorded on the new Maranatha! Music lable included the Children of the Day who released For those Tears I Died http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np8GJGZ3Vv8 Mustard Seed Faith who released Sail on Sailor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPDAC4-ZkEc&feature=related the country rock band Bethlehem and Desert Song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMkpLzomcxM&feature=related as well as Bill Sprouse and The Road Home who had one song that made the group before Sprouse died, the song Psalm 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gJ2XPDf_jE and The Way who produced two albums under Marantha one of their songs being Song of Joy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77Le6G63eZY .
Two other groups Daniel Amos and the Sweet Comfort Band also hailed from the early days of Maranatha Music. Both groups endured and although they had different music styles they could both have fun with their music as well as make provocative statements about the church and how Christians related to society. Daniel Amos initially was a country rock band with a sound somewhat similar to the Eagles. They would retain some of this but moved on to some of the more cutting edge New Wave Rock styles of the 1980s. Their signature album was Shotgun Angel a country rock album with a side two that was a mini concert about the Second Coming of Christ from a Pre-Tribulation Dispensational theology understanding, an understanding that was quite common in the groups of that day. That album included Black Gold Fever, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZkWrn9SXwo&feature=related, Shotgun Angel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFD8_-v4bhw&feature=related, Posse in the Sky http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwa5gep9CBc&feature=related and Fall in Your Father's Arms http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOTar60srFg&feature=related. Their First Album include one of my favorite songs of the ear I Ain't Gonna Fight it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=intea3oCcDk Later releases include the albums Horrendous Disc and Alarma! The song I Believe in You http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMkpLzomcxM&feature=related from Horrendous Disc and Walls of Doubt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbFTcGAAQkk&feature=related from Alarma! Interestingly enough Daniel Amos is considered by some to be one of the best bands from a creativity standpoint in the 1980s Christian or secular. The group stayed together and after they broke up Terry Taylor the leader of the group formed other bands including The Swirling Eddies and the Lost Dogs. One of the more interesting songs of the Swirling Eddies is Hide the Beer the Pastor's Here" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b74VWclpH6c which deals with some of the hypocrisy of some Christians who will condemn someone for drinking yet excuse all sorts of other unseemly behaviors.
A second group from the Maranatha label was the Sweet Comfort Band. This band led by Bryan Duncan and Randy Thomas had a light jazz and rock style that featured Randy Thomas Jazz Guitar and brothers Kevin Thompson's Alembic 5 string bass guitar and Rick Thompson's drums. The group produced a number of albums before they broke up in the late 1980s with Bryan Duncan going solo. They have on occasion gotten together in reunion concerts though Kevin Thomas died in May of this year. Their first album Sweet Comfort which came out on the Maranatha label included Childish Things http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R8wY0DCI3A&feature=related When I was Alone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbFTcGAAQkk&feature=related It's so Fine http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igp9WJ7QLUE&feature=related and Get Ready http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EhcPuwBvZg where Kevin had a great bass solo. They left Maranatha and signed with Light Music where they made a number of albums including Breakin' the Ice which featured Breakin' the Ice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ4cddT0Eh0&p=20C05334BBE82D2F&playnext=1&index=1, Good Felling http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJWwcRYT1p4 and Got to Believe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3x7Myegr24 Other later albums featured songs like Ride the Tide http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8oSc7jY288&feature=related
The interesting thing was that many Christians had a hard time with both Daniel Amos and the Sweet Comfort Band. The members of SBC were frequently berated for their jazz, rock, funk style by Christians who felt that the style was "of the Devil" and both groups frequently played for free on places like the Sunset Strip because they felt it was more important to play for non-believers than believers. Wow, imagine that? When one looks at much of what is called "Contemporary Christian Music" now these groups stand in stark contrast. They were not playing for the approval and entertainment of Christians.
Other artists emerged outside of Calvary Chapel, some who had been successful in their own right prior to becoming Christians such as Barry McGuire who had been with Credence Clearwater Revival, had been in the musical Hair and had his own hit Eve of Destruction for which he is best known. McGuire's music is harder to find online and much of what is now available comes from a series of concerts with Peter York, Phil Keaggy, Terry Talbot and others on the music of the 1960s. However Eve of Destruction http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntLsElbW9Xo and his post conversion song Calling me Home http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxoRzqZnP98&feature=related make for interesting listening. Barry still tours and is still entertaining. I remember seeing him a number of times in Sacramento in the late 1970s at a church called The Warehouse.
McGuire recorded on the Sparrow label founded by Buck Herring. The label also featured the long lived Second Chapter of Acts who performed such memorable songs as Mansion Builder http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmxcotW-O0w and the Easter Song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gggPpVtEKQ&feature=related,
and Keith Green the Jewish convert to Christianity who wrote Make my Life a Prayer to You http://vodpod.com/watch/2188390-keith-green-make-my-life-a-prayer-to-you-subtitles He'll take Care of the Rest http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAe0q21YgTQ&feature=related, The Victor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wil0PBylyW0&feature=related and When I Hear the Praises Start http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIgVU_5FsqA&feature=related. Green would produce many songs that have endured among his fans and those that wound never see him in person. Green had a hard edge to his message and died in a private plane crash with two of his children in the summer of 1982. His wife Melody carries on his musical legacy.
Another artist on the label was John Michale Talbot who along with his brother Terry had been founding members of the group Mason Proffit before becoming Christians. John Michael produced two albums on the label before his conversion to Roman Catholicism where he became a lay Franciscan. He remained on the label for years producing albums which helped introduce a generation of contemporary Christian listeners to the liturgy and Catholic spirituality. His album The Lord's Supper was a breakthrough as he adapted music from the Mass into a beautiful album. His adaptation of the Apostle's Creed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxACNt-QRAo was amazing in its musical style and difficulty and his Holy is His Name http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aYecuDlDYM is an enduring classic. Talbot's brother Terry also recorded on Sparrow one song which is entitled No Longer Alone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR0KBRO-e7g
Other artists included Larry Norman who might be considered the first Christian rocker and Randy Stonehill who recorded on Norman's Solid Rock label. Norman is best known for his songs The Rock that Doesn't Roll http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzB638GRfJ0&feature=PlayList&p=44A2023098B233CF&index=0&playnext=1 I'd Wish we'd All Been Ready http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1FcTKNXlO0 and Why Should the Devil Have all the Good Music? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWh8-FPelHU&feature=related
His friend Randy Stonehill wrote songs like King of Hearts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1Q0RO3yi8Y&feature=related, First Prayer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmhsY7NeFhM&feature=related Keep me Running http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP2dB208ISI&feature=related and Song for Sarah. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crDIHKaMwyA&feature=related Norman died in 2008 after a long illness and Stonehill has continued to produce often touching on topics that other Christian artists fear to tackle.
Guitarist Phil Keaggy has had a long and illustrious career in both Christian and secular music with his song Your Love Broke Through being among my favorites. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wil0PBylyW0&feature=related
Paul Clark and Liberation Suite brought an English twist to the genre, this song Make a Joyful Noise was taped during their 1976 European tour http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYfa4iQg8e4 while the Pat Terry Group produced You'd be There http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWMBV0WoTeI&feature=related and Don Francisco recorded the classic He's Alive! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2slLdaK5Wg&feature=related Amy Grant produced many albums beginning in the late 1970s and still remains popular. Song's like My Father's Eyes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmOEJXNtF0E and El Shaddai http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYcEHguYwtc&feature=related remain hits to this day. Likewise Evie Tourquist (Karlsson) was incredibly popular, especially with young Christian guys in the mid to late 1970s and the song Pass it On http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHQLRm_O9mU was a staple of many high school groups.
Other groups have passed into obscurity with their albums nearly impossible to find. The early "Jesus Music" often produced in primitive studios was certainly sincere it varied in quality as well as theological content. At the same time the early artists pioneered new ways of expressing their faith in music which has influenced the music of churches that in the 1970s considered such music to still be "the Devil's music." I could go on to write about other artists but most of those came later and really don't fall into the early years that I am trying to limit this musical essay to, but the fact is that these artists as well as others changed Christian music. The impact has been mixed while there is much positive in the music many Christians and churches threw out their musical and theological heritage in the rush to become more relevant. Likewise the absorption of Christian music labels into secular labels which were later acquired by multinational entertainment groups is not necessarily a good thing because those corporations are totally profit driven and undoubtedly influenced the content, theology and style of the music produced by current artists causing some of the older artists to become independents.
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I guess in the long run we will see the fruit of this movement, the good and the bad and hopefully the good will outweigh the bad and maybe, just maybe the music will again be the music of the church and not merely of publishing houses that sell a product to churches.
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Dealing With Fibromyalgia During Pregnancy
For those who don't know, fibromyalgia is a rare and chronic syndrome, which has symptoms similar to those of pregnancy.
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If you might be identified with Fibromyalgia throughout your being pregnant, it's crucial to grasp the causes, signs and problems of this situation. It is so as a result of the possibilities to misdiagnose Fibromyalgia as a result of most of its signs are identical as these of being pregnant.
Causes of Fibromyalgia
While the precise reason behind Fibromyalgia is unknown, however there are some theories, based mostly on ranges of various hormones, stress ranges, biomechanical modifications, weight acquire, genetic predisposition, and alterations in autonomic methods and immune system. Haemerrhoids could also be common throughout being pregnant.
During being pregnant, the placenta releases varied chemical compounds like cytokines, neuropeptides, neuro-steroids, and amines. So, these neuro-hormones could also be accountable for growing or triggering Fibromyalgia signs. Moreover, the hormones launched by ovaries are linked with alterations of pain notion and loosening of joints and ligaments in the entire body.
Neuroendocrine transmitters similar to serotonin, cortisol, growth hormone and substance P management the working of autonomic and neuro endocrine methods, that are thought-about as roots of growing fibromyalgia.
During being pregnant, when there are modifications in pain notion and sensory notion resulting from low ranges of serotonin hormone, it may possibly result in growth of Fibromyalgia.
Symptoms of Fibromyalgia
There are probabilities that its signs could also be aggravated in the course of the first and third trimester of being pregnant. But in some girls it has been seen that the signs could get relieved too. Look for these indicators:
Widespread pain, in lower back, chest, stomach and legs
Tiredness and low energy ranges
Nausea, complications and dizziness
Altered sleep patterns
Memory associated challenges
Restrictions in each day actions
Irritable bowel syndrome, like constipation, challenges with urination, and hemorrhoids
Leg swelling and varicose veins
Heartburn and nostril bleeding
Fear of childbirth
How to diagnose it?
There is not any definitive take a look at accessible to diagnose the situation, however your physician will do an intensive examination, together with detailed historical past, physical evaluation and general emotional and behavioral standing. To affirm the situation, a sure standards must be met like:
Symptoms persist for greater than 3 to six months
Pain in additional than 7 tender factors when physician checks over definitive areas
Fear, anxiety, fluctuating moods, and depression
Irritable bowel syndrome signs
What is the influence of Fibromyalgia on pregnant girls and the child?
As a number of methods are concerned in Fibromyalgia, it aggravates the pregnancy-related signs primarily within the first and third trimester. Some signs, similar to anxiety, depression, physical and psychological stress, can have direct and oblique results on pregnant girls and in addition on infants.
With infants, it may possibly result in.
Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR), the place weight and general growth of child is hampered.
Frequent miscarriage
Premature supply, as some research present that there are probabilities of early labor.
In case of pregnant girls, it may possibly trigger
Stress, anxiety, depression and concern of childbirth: These signs could be seen in additional extreme kind with Fibromyalgia. This could have an effect on the flexibility of the girl to ship naturally and recovery period of post-delivery.
Gestational diabetes: It is kind of common to have it in Fibromyalgia because the blood sugar ranges elevate throughout being pregnant and as you ship, they get balanced. If it goes unnoticed, then there are probabilities that the mother can develop problems like pre-eclampsia, that's excessive blood pressure, delivering extra-large child, and even hypoglycemia, which suggests low blood sugar ranges within the child instantly after beginning.
Preterm untimely rupture of membrane (PPROM): If water breaks earlier than 37th week of being pregnant, it's thought-about as preterm or untimely rupture. Since there's leakage of water, there are probabilities of getting an infection to the mother.
Placental abruption: The separation of placenta from uterus, which causes blood loss, can interupt the provision of vitamins and oxygen to the child, in case of fibromyalgia. It could trigger early supply, vaginal bleeding, speedy contractions and irregular heart rate of the child.
Venous thromboembolism: It's a critical complication as there's blood clot caught contained in the deep veins of the lower body, which restricts blood from the realm, which may even be even deadly.
Polyhydroamnios: It's a uncommon complication when an extreme quantity of amniotic fluid is current within the amniotic sac that will result in preterm supply, and placental abruption. Keep your sugar in test throughout being pregnant.
Treatment measures throughout being pregnant
As being pregnant is a vital part of each lady's life, this situation is well- managed pharmacologically and conservatively. It is finest to have common follow-ups along with your physician and taking medicines with correct dosages are vital. Health care professionals like physiotherapists may also help you to deal with these signs effectively.
The following are a number of pointers that may be of assist:
Lifestyle modifications similar to dividing your actions, taking breaks in between, and having relaxation for no less than 15 to twenty minutes after each three hours.
Taking assist from relations and mates.
Adapting a balanced and healthy eating.
Massage, like kneading over the back, leg and arms could be helpful.
Yoga together with asanas, Pranayama and meditation may also help to spice up ranges of serotonin hormones, which in flip will assist to steadiness temper and general energy ranges.
Exercises such low depth stretches, power based mostly workout routines, and sluggish paced cardio workout routines could be achieved to enhance flexibility, power and stamina.
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Tim M. Otto Posted On December 2, 2012
Sid Griffin, the leader of The Coal Porters, has written several books that have been published including one on Gram Parsons as well as co-writing the screenplay for the Parson's documentary: "Fallen Angel." He is also an expert on The Byrds & The Burritos Bros. bands. But Sid is most well known for leading the 1980's Alt Country band The Long Ryders…a pioneering group at least 20 years ahead of their time coming out of L.A.
The Coal Porter album Find The One starts with the catchy and upbeat "Barefoot On The Courthouse Lawn." Sid comments on a video: "After 40 or 45, you have to lay down the electric guitar." (I happen to agree with Sid here). Maybe Sid just feels more comfortable now on mandolin? His vocals certainly still sound pretty much the same as those far off days of Rock & Roll glory! Yes, he still has that special touch even on mandolin.
Carley Frey, sounds sweet and pleasant on the second cut: "Never Right His Wrong." She plays fiddle in the band and her voice has a nice presence to it. The album is produced by legend John Wood who also produced Nick Drake & Beth Orton. A guest musician of some note is Richard Thompson who played AC guitar on "Hush U Babe/Burnham Thorpe." No electric guitars or amps allowed!
My favorite cut on the album is an unusual choice for a bluegrass group…David Bowie's "Heroes." But in their "Alt. Bluegrass" way they really pulled it off nicely though a bit toned down. Nice vocals by various members of the group and some tasteful harp by Sid. And speaking of Sid, my favorite original here is: "The Gospel Shore" written by Sid with shades of The Long Ryders in it, but without drums. The dog house bass is featured here instead.
"The Betsey Trotwood" is a kind of laid back bluegrass instrumental that really starts smoking when Carly cranks up her fiddle! "You Only Miss Her When She's Gone", reminds me of an old Kingston Trio barn burner!
The album comes complete with a former BBC announcer who introduced The Beatles on Sid's tune: "Ask Me Again."
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Koketso Moeti | Amandla! Magazine Issue No. 41 | SEPTEMBER 2015
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In 2007, ANC councillor Grisham Bujram was shot dead by a bodyguard and lover of the then-mayor of Dundee. The killing was carried out using the mayor's car, but the murder charges were withdrawn in 2011 because of insufficient evidence. The former mayor walked away a free woman.
In 2008, IFP Endumeni councillor Peter Nxele was gunned down after he raised questions about R50 000 that had gone missing from a council business grant.
These killings are detailed in a report by Paddy Harper of City Press written earlier this year, titled 'Killing of whistleblowers "business as usual" in KZN'.
But these murders are not unique to KZN. Over the last years, a worrying number of whistle-blowers have been killed, fired or had their lives ruined. This is particularly pervasive in small town municipalities and peri-urban areas. The most well-known case is that of Moss Phakoe.
Moss Phakoe paid dearly for unearthing corruption, fraud, nepotism and mismanagement. As an ANC councillor and unionist, he dug up evidence showing multi-million-rand fraud in the North-West province, an act which signed his death warrant.
On the evening of 13 March 2009, his body was found slumped over the steering wheel of his car with two bullet wounds, only two days after meeting Cooperative Governance Minister Sicelo Shiceka and handing over a dossier of allegations about the Bojanala District Municipality.
Supporters of the late Rustenburg councilor Moss Phakoe, protest outside Mafikeng High court sitting in Rustenburg | Photo: Itumeleng English
According to Alfred Motsi, Phakoe's confidant, colleague and fellow whistleblower, almost a year before Phakoe's death the two of them had compiled a dossier of evidence of corruption, amounting to millions of rands. They took this dossier to the ANC regional and provincial leadership, to NEC members Billy Masetlha and Siphiwe Nyanda, to ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe, and to the Office of the then- President, Kgalema Motlanthe.
Following a lack of action, they then sent the evidence to Jacob Zuma, who invited them to see him over the 2008 festive season. Following this meeting, they met a group including then-deputy president Baleka Mbete, Thandi Modise, Premier of the North-West province and ANC treasurer-general Mathews Phosa.
It was agreed that the dossier should be provided to the now-deceased Sicelo Shiceka, who would call a meeting to resolve the problem. Also present in this meeting was Matthews Wolmarans, the man who would later stand accused of the murder.
In 2011 there were a number of shocking arrests made:
In August, Enoch Matshaba, a former Umkhonto we Sizwe operative.
In September former Rustenburg Executive Mayor Matthews Wolmarans, Amos Mataboge, a Rustenburg councillor and well-known businessman, Oupa Mphomane.
Charges against Mphomane and Mataboge were dismissed for lack of evidence.
The murders remain unsolved following the decision of the Supreme Court of Appeal in 2014 to set aside the conviction of Matthew Wolmarans and his bodyguard Enoch Matshaba. Wolmarans reportedly intends to 'sue the state and, individually, all seven police officers who wrongly implicated and arrested him for the much-publicised murder'. The career of the former mayor was also recently revived after he was sworn in as a councillor.
A witness in the 2012 trial for Phakoe's murder alleged that 'Zuma and other party leaders decided to deal with the corruption claims within the ANC'. If this is true, it raises the question: why are 'political solutions' being applied to criminal cases? Doing so undermines the rule of law.
Solly Phetoe, COSATU Provincial Secretary in the North West says, 'Moss Phakoe was not killed by ghosts, the police must tell us who did it'. He expresses concern that the police wrongfully arrest people, while the real killers are running in the streets. 'Anyone who takes it upon themselves to fight corruption faces the possibility that they will be killed and no-one will be punished for it. As a voice against corruption in the province, even I am worried about my safety'.
While the Phakoe case received a lot of coverage due to his position within Cosatu, the case is part of a bigger system of impunity. There is a pattern of people who expected support from the state and did not receive it.
In Phakoe's case, there must be answers to these questions:
What happened to the dossier that was handed to minister Sicelo Shiceka?
What follow-up was made on the allegations made in the dossier?
What happened to the 'secret report' regarding the dossier which was allegedly handed to former North West premier, Maureen Modiselle?
What was the outcome of the probe into Phakoe's death and corruption in the province, which was instituted by Modiselle?
Justice for Moss Phakoe and many other whistle-blowers will remain elusive for as long as the corruption against which they took a stand remains unresolved.
Koketso Moeti is Executive Director of amandla.mobi and the National Coordinator of Local Government Action. She writes in her personal capacity.
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Over-Borrowing America Slides To Third World Status?
Matt Taibbi's GRIFTOPIA, a book from the best selling author is about the political and economic life of America being hijacked by politicians. It is an interesting read. Is America about to join the third world countries across the globe in their over-borrowing spree? Welcome America! Here is part of the book: "Here is the big…
December 13, 2013 in America, Griftopia, Matt Tabbi, over-borrowing, politicians, Third World, USA.
GMA-7 Is Repackaging Imelda and Santiago!
July 8, 2012 in IMELDA MARCOS, Marcos, Murders, plunder, politicians, Primitivo Mijares, Senator Miriam Santiago.
Col. Mariano Must Have A Retinue of Rich Clientele!
"The devil can cite the Scripture for his purpose." (Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice). It was in the case of Navy Colonel Generoso Mariano, who wanted President Noynoy Aquino replaced through extra-constitutional process by quoting the near "scriptural bidding" of Rizal: "If we have had bad leaders today and in the past , it is not the…
July 18, 2011 in clowns, congress, CORAZON AQUINO, coup d'etat, deception, Jose Rizal, noynoy aquino, politicians, politics.
Looking For A Pair of Adidas Instead of "Ang Tibay" Shoes
This is an excerpt from Chapter 18, Building Ties with Thailand, the Philippines, and Brunei, of Lee Kuan Yew's Book, "From Third World To First" which I copied from the blogsite of AntiPinoy.com. AP offers this as a bible for Filipino administrators/politicians which only highlights our favorable disposition towards viewpoints that are foreign when the…
January 14, 2011 in Ambeth Ocampo, F. Sionel Jose, Lee Kuan Yew, Nick Joaquin, politicians, Teodoro Agoncillo.
'Mass', The Novel
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November 28, 2010 in Marcos, politicians, politics.
Manny Pacquiao for President!
November 14, 2010 Westland MI.– Early Sunday morning after Manny Pacquiao pummeled the oversized Mexican slugger, Antonio Margarito, at Dallas Cowboy stadium to a pulp, I brought my wife to work, a ten minute drive from the house because she had a swollen right ankle caused by stepping on a piece of rock at a mall parking lot while…
November 15, 2010 in boxing, congress, dallas cowboy stadium, entertainment, Philippine President, politicians.
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NEVADA -- Gov. Jim Gibbons is exploring the possibility of undoing a high-profile appointment made in the last days of his predecessor's administration, sources said Wednesday.
Gibbons spokesman Brent Boynton confirmed that Gibbons might make changes to former Gov. Kenny Guinn's last-minute picks for state boards and commissions.
"The governor is currently reviewing all appointments, and changes are possible," Boynton said. "There is a potential that changes will be made to appointments made by Governor Guinn."
Sources speaking on condition of anonymity said Gibbons was looking to oust Keith Munro from the state Gaming Control Board.
In a break from tradition, Guinn appointed Munro to a term that began Monday. Previous departing governors generally have allowed their successors to appoint those who will serve under the new governor.
Guinn's appointment of Munro was seen as a gesture of hostility toward Gibbons, with whom he had a frosty relationship though both governors are Republicans. Munro previously served as Guinn's chief of staff and is seen as a Guinn loyalist.
Guinn made another Gaming Control Board appointment, returning board Chairman Dennis Neilander, but that pick was not considered as controversial as Munro's.
Gibbons tried before to stop Munro from serving on the control board. After Guinn announced in November that he was appointing Munro, staff members in Gibbons' office tried unsuccessfully to get the secretary of state to not sign the appointment papers.
Munro, reached Wednesday at his control board office, was surprised to hear what apparently was going on behind his back. He signed an oath of office when Guinn announced his appointment in late December and has been at his new job, which is full-time, since Monday.
"I've heard nothing," he said. "No one has talked to me, and I would assume that they would."
Whether Gibbons legally could undo Munro's appointment was unclear Wednesday.
In appointing Munro and Neilander to terms that would start Jan. 1, Guinn relied on a 2005 attorney general's opinion that said he could appoint people to posts whose terms expired after his successor was elected but before the new governor was sworn in.
Munro was named to the board position previously held by Bobby Siller, who did not seek reappointment. Siller's term expired at midnight on Dec. 31.
Gibbons was sworn in at the stroke of midnight because of security concerns, according to a 2:33 a.m. Jan. 1 press release from his staff. The chief justice of the Supreme Court came to Gibbons' home to administer the oath.
Gibbons began stating his oath about a minute before midnight. His chief of staff, Mike Dayton, said Gibbons completed the oath at 12 seconds after midnight. Dayton came up with the time by checking a clock placed on a coffee table in the room.
Gibbons' midnight oath might invalidate Guinn's appointments on a technicality, according to the basis of the 2005 attorney general's opinion.
In the 2005 opinion, then-Attorney General Brian Sandoval cited an appointment former Gov. Mike O'Callaghan made to a position that became vacant at midnight on Dec. 31, 1978. That appointment was valid because "Governor Robert List was not sworn in until 10:00 a.m. on January 1, 1979," the opinion said.
Between midnight and 10 a.m., O'Callaghan was still considered governor, and the board position was vacant.
The fact that the two circumstances occurred simultaneously made O'Callaghan's appointment legal, the attorney general said.
Thus, if no time lapse between the end of one governor's term and the start of another's occurred, then the previous governor's appointments possibly would not count.
The flip-side argument is that the control board appointments by Guinn took effect at exactly midnight, while Gibbons did not become governor for another 12 seconds. Also, he started the oath before 2007 began.
The review of the legality of any gubernatorial appointments normally would include an analysis by the state attorney general. Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto, a Democrat, has not been asked for such an analysis.
Boynton said Gibbons' statement that fears of terrorism, intensified by the recent execution of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, were the reason for the midnight oath was true.
The ability to reverse Guinn's last-minute appointments "was not the intent" of the oath's timing, Boynton said. He said he did not know what legal reasoning would allow Gibbons to undo appointments made by Guinn.
Munro said he had been under the impression that Gibbons planned to keep him.
"We (Munro and Guinn) met with then-Governor-elect Gibbons during the transition, and he never expressed any wish to change my position," Munro said. "Mike Dayton congratulated me on my appointment. ... We worked with them on the transition. We extended the courtesy of allowing them to move into the governor's office early," on Friday.
Munro, a lawyer who formerly served in the attorney general's office and as Guinn's chief counsel, said Guinn thought the 2005 attorney general's opinion allowed him to make appointments.
"The Legislature set a time frame to allow the outgoing governor to appoint to this position if he saw cause to do so, and I believe Governor Guinn saw cause," Munro said.
Munro said he had been a registered Republican but changed his registration to nonpartisan after Guinn named him to the gaming board so as not to be seen as having partisan motives.
"The governor should have a lot bigger issues to worry about than little old me," he said.


Paramount has released the full press kit for director M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender which includes are over 30 images and 11 movie posters (domestic and international). While some of the images have been previously released over the past six months, there are a lot of new ones. So if you've been counting the days till The Last Airbender gets released, hit the jump to check out the images. The film stars Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Dev Patel, Jackson Rathbone, Shaun Toub, Aasif Mandvi and Cliff Curtis.


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The e-commerce giant is taking over the full 122,000-square-foot space and some employees have already begun working there, sources said. WeWork, which has the address of 950 Sixth Avenue on the eastern side of the 11-story, 354,000-square-foot building, signed a lease there late last year.
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Sitt Asset Management and more than 80 investors own the property, which has been facing a flurry of troubles – a family ownership dispute, a defaulted senior mortgage and the long-delayed sale of the leasehold. Paramount Group, which has a preferred-equity position in the building, has held off on its plans to take control of the leasehold, even as foreclosure looms.
SL Green Realty, which owns the $250 million leasehold mortgage, was expected to begin foreclosure proceedings in October. Sources said the real estate investment trust is still planning that move.
WeWork declined to comment, and Amazon and Avison Young could not be reached.
WeWork struck a similar deal earlier this year with IBM, which signed for an entire WeWork building at 88 University Place.
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Richmond is now in unfamiliar territory.
A key plank behind Richmond's resurgence over recent years has been its 'fab four' — a quartet of A-grade players that have not only delivered on the field consistently, but also remained durable.
On Thursday night, that freakish trend among the four players ended when superstar defender Alex Rance went down with a knee injury, leaving the club fearing the worst outcome.
Dustin Martin might be the star midfielder and Brownlow Medallist, Trent Cotchin the inspirational captain and Jack Riewoldt the elusive Coleman medallist.
But according to the majority of AFL pundits that watched Richmond's win over Carlton on Thursday night, Rance is the club's most important player.
And now, some experts are questioning whether Rance's ACL rupture — which was confirmed on Friday morning — will derail the Tigers' bid for a second flag in three seasons.
In particular, Essendon premiership player Adam Ramanauskas fears there's a potential case of no Rance, no Richmond flag in 2019.
"If he has done (his ACL), I find it hard to say Richmond can win the premiership this year," Ramanauskas told ABC Grandstand post-game.
While the Tigers are well stocked from a key defensive viewpoint, none of the players have the same balance, strength and almost offensive arrogance as Rance does.
For a key defender, Rance's intercepting ability is elite, highlighted by the fact that 63 per cent of his possessions last year were won via intercepts — the third-highest percentage of any key defender to play at least 10 AFL games, according to Champion Data.
"To sit here live and watch him … his anticipation, when to leave his opponent, when to stay on his opponent is amazing — and he's got the athleticism to back it up," triple premiership Lion Jonathan Brown told Fox Footy.
Melbourne great Garry Lyon said Rance's blow was particularly tough for the Tigers this season after the influx of rule changes introduced.
"Early, we saw signs with this six-six-six (rule) that the one-on-one type of players are going to be even more dominant. And I reckon Rance was set for a more dominant year than he'd had before — and he'd been All-Australian full-back for the last five years," Lyon told Fox Footy.
So we've established Rance is irreplaceable.
But, as Ramanauskas questioned, will his absence be so costly that the Tigers can't win the flag?
In terms of curtailing the opposition's best forwards every week, the Tigers should be fine.
Coincidentally, St Kilda legend Nick Riewoldt argued on Thursday morning that Dylan Grimes was just as irreplaceable as Rance.
Writing for foxfooty.com.au, Riewoldt said Grimes was one of the best lockdown defenders in the competition, adding his name "would be one of the first magnets up every week because he is just so reliable in that space".
"To be able to put him on a player and take them out of a contest is so important for them," Riewoldt wrote.
As well as Astbury and Broad, Nick Vlastuin is also an excellent intercept player, averaging 8.1 intercepts per game last year. And Vlastuin, as Roos pointed out on Fox Footy on Thursday night, has the ability to play above his height (187cm) if needed, while Noah Balta could also drift back.
For a pure like-for-like, the Tigers are confident young defender Ryan Garthwaite is ready for an elongated stint in the AFL side.
So on paper, the Tigers have the bodies and the ability to win the ball back off the opposition, as well as a coach and game style that inspired them to premiership success two seasons ago.
That's why Brown isn't ruling them out of premiership contention in 2019.
"They can (still win the flag). They'll take inspiration from the West Coast Eagles last year who lost three of their main players," he said.
"They just need to work out how they can cover Rance and what that looks like. Is it Garthwaite that comes in? Or is it Vlastuin who plays a taller way?
"We saw when Buddy left Hawthorn, we didn't think Hawthorn would win (a flag) again — and they won. We saw when Gary Ablett left Geelong, same thing," Roos said.
"You've got to adjust. You've got Grimes and Astbury that now have to play tall — and they have over the last three to four years and released Rance as the floating defender at times.