Left homeless after his life and career were ruined by drugs and alcohol, Ted Williams has been offered a job by the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers and is being pursued by NFL Films for possible work. He and his compelling tale became an online sensation after The Columbus Dispatch posted a clip of Williams demonstrating his voice-over skills by the side of the road. The man has a great voice.
“This has been totally, totally amazing,” Williams said Wednesday, his voice choking with emotion. “I’m just so thankful. I’m getting a second chance. Amazing.”
The Cavaliers offered the 53-year-old a two-year contract, including living expenses, for a job that could include announcing work at the team’s arena. In court records, his address is listed as “Streets of Columbus.”
“I can’t believe what’s going on,” said Williams, a father of nine, adding he feels like Susan Boyle, the Scottish singing sensation who became an overnight star. “God gave me a million-dollar voice, and I just hope I can do right by him.”
Religion News Blog news on a cult that I believe drive the religious nature of the murderous drug cartels:
(Reuters) – Mexican police have arrested the leader of Mexico’s “Saint Death” cult and accused him of kidnapping and posing as a member of the feared Zetas drug cartel.
David Romo, considered the high priest of a cult with millions of followers across the Americas, was presented to the media on Tuesday in the Mexican capital after being arrested in late December along with eight others including a minor.
Romo, 42, is accused of helping to kidnap two elderly people and depositing the ransom payment in his bank account, Mexico City’s attorney general’s office said.
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The Zetas are one of Mexico’s most violent drug gangs that are fighting rivals and security forces across the country in a four-year-long battle that has killed more than 30,000 people.
On his MSNBC show this evening, Schultz asserted that corporations donate 1000 times more money to political campaigns than unions do. Or as Ed said, in his inimitably muddled manner,: “unions contribute 1/10th of 1% of their money that corporations put into campaigns. Now think about that: 1/10th of 1%. You got the corporate money over here you’ve got the organized labor money over here.”
How off is Ed? The National Review’s Rich Lowry has documented that in the last election cycle, three unions alone kicked in $170 million to Dem coffers. So corporations would have had to contribute . . . $170 BILLION to match Ed’s alleged 1000:1 pace just for those contributions, ignoring the donations that all other unions made!
I love eschatological studies and guessing. I am of the mind-set that many items raised in Revelation is a first century man trying to describe 21st-century technology. While as Christians this application to Scriptures subjective, I subjectively hold vehemently to this view. I think helicopters are described, modern travel, internet type technology, and the like. I will never set a date or say “such-and-such” is a sure sign of some Scripture in regards to this end-time time. There are some major events in my minds eye that have either happened or need to solidify more in the future: the Roman Empire in some form reunifying (something I think has happened but may need to happen more?); Israel coming back to its homeland; and the building of the third temple in order for sacrifices to begin after its forced stopping in 70 A.D. Other things I see are travel and the internet being fulfilled:
But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase. Daniel 12:4 (Source)
Television and internet capabilities prophecied about seem to be close to fruition in regards to the world being able to watch the Two Witnesses and see their dead bodies:
For three and a half days some from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb… Revelation 11:9 (Source)
While TV was always in the back of my mind, this i-Phone app got me rekindled as to the possibilities of the entire world seeing and reacting to a single three day event. Here is a FoxNews report on it:
This type of stuff is exciting to me. While I am a believer in the rapture, I wouldn’t hedge my bets on my time-table but rather leave time and date to the Big Guy. Stocking up on food and preparing for a persecuted church is by no means crazy nor alarmist. For those who understand that God works in history, sometimes dealing corporately with man as a whole, and knowing there are persons persecuted and killed during this time (Rev 6:9-10 – These souls may be new converts to the faith, they may not be) – C’ingYA is not a stupid proposition. I also like to think that America plays an important roll in protecting Israel (Rev 12:14). Thus, solidifying our lasting mostly intact through the hardest of times, however, I am one of the first to acknowledge there is very symbolic language used in Revelations and admit that I may again be wrong. Something my wife would say happens more than I like to admit! Here is the ending portion from a section in my book (pages 7-10) that comments on the liberality of the varying views in regards to eschatology:
You see, it was not until I heard true debate on the topic of whether or not history was guided by an ill intentioned cabal or not that I even considered revising my position. This debate allowed me time to deliberate and meditate on the issue causing a healthier picture of history to immerge based on all — or at least more — of the historical information available. Pride, selfishness, shoddy thinking, presuppositions, (in other words — our nature), will get in the way of us coming to conclusions in our life that could have saved us time, energy, feelings hurt, friends and family lost, as well as faith destroyed… ours – or others around us. Another point worth mentioning is during this time of formulation, deliberation, and reformulation — I was still saved in the fullest sense of the word. Jesus and His sacrificial covering of my sins were not affected by my peripheral eschatological viewpoints; no matter how disjointed it made my life. My unhealthy view of history and my subsequent forcing of Biblical passages to fit that unhealthy view did not affect the person and deity of Christ.
While I do not think this is on the scale Revelation’s hints at, not to mention that larger fish deaths have happened in the past, it is worthy to note that a small happening like this has gained a large audience. If these bowl judgments are what I think they are, Kirk Cameron will be the furthest thing from the un-believers mind. Another aspect i find connective is that most New Age cults have a belief that the earth will go through a cleansing period, some even going so far as to believe that those holding up the next stage of spiritual evolution will be removed. Again, this stuff is fun, but I wish to counsel the believer in being watchful. We have a model for this in story form from our Savior, The Watchful Servant.
UPDATE:Incredible story about a homeless man, Ted Williams, in Ohio with an unlikely gift. In a true act of Christ, a man stops by to talk to the man and learns he is trying desperately to get his life back on track. Because of this man’s help, Ted has now been given multiple job offers from around the world and including Cleveland Cavaliers! Not only did the Cavs offer him a job, they are also offered him a house paid by Quicken Loans. God bless Mr. Williams. I’m sure we’ll be seeing more of him for sometime to come! Matthew 25: 45 And he will answer, ‘I assure you, when you refused to help the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were refusing to help me.’
If this is sewage back-up, take note then of the guy trying to move the ejected object from in front of his car when it goes off again.
Traffic Camera Catches Explosive Storm Sewer Flooding. Footage from MN DOT traffic camera video from 35th Street and Interstate 35W of the storm sewer during heavy rain. The heavy rain trapped air in the drain system causing it to push the water back up the storm sewer system and exploding straight up in the air like a geysers.
Libertarian Republican has this update on California and its role in limiting business, jobs, and freedom.
New Regs: Ban on Trans-Fats; Mandatory Food Hand-outs at Farmers Markets; strict “Green” Building Codes; Prison sentence for Parents who school kids at Home; Rapists, Murderers, Child Molesters set free if they have a “disability.”
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■AB 97 bans the use of trans-fats in food facilities.
■AB 537 will make food stamps an acceptable form of payment at farmers markets through an EBT process.
■SB 1317 allows the state to slap parents with a $2,000 fine if their K-8 child misses more than 10 percent of the school year without a valid excuse. It also allows the state to punish parents with up to a year in prison for the misdemeanor.
■AB 715 makes a change to the California Green Building Standards code. The change will require new California buildings to be energy efficient.
■SB 1399 allows California to medically parole state prison inmates with physical incapacitating conditions and ultimately shifts some of the cost of care to the federal government.
Liberals seem to be at a loss in regards to what are freedoms worth mandating. They outlaw clove cigarettes but SB 1449 makes the possession of up to one ounce of marijuana an infraction with a penalty of a $100 fine.
