Probably the only thing worse than "holy rollers" are these so-called financial planners preaching the gospel of mutual funds. Of course this maybe a little more of a northern twist on that old time religion.
I had the unpleasant experience to attend a mutual fund revival meeting led by a really hell fire and damnation preacher called sister Ammy a few years ago. It was shall we say a moving spirtual experience. Ammy started out by telling her flock the truth about the American banking system. How that evil cabal of the "gvrnmnt" and the bankers didn't have enough money in their banks to cover the loans that they had made and if anything happened why you couldn't get your money out of them. I mean what would you do if the banks were all closed for six months, she intoned. But, don't worry sister Ammy had the answer, the saving grace of mutual funds.
During the study session after the sermon I couldn't resist asking sister Ammy a question. If the federal reserve raised reserve requirements high enough to cover all outstanding loans, would not this be the same as a massive hike in interest rates and no doubt cause the economy to crash and burn and along with it your mutual funds. Sister Ammy went balasitic---a heretic! She then threatened to have her son a" big shot attorney " for a defense contractor sue me.
Sincerely, Tom
J Cullen wrote:
> I can see how somebody might think the New York Times is liberal. But the
> Dallas Morning News? Only somebody who was raised on perhaps the Oklahoma
> City Daily Oklahoman might consider the Dallas Morning News to be liberal.
> However, they do employ black columnists, which might be what your
> colleague considers a liberal manifestation.
>
> I agree with you that people get their information from churches to a much
> greater degree than some of us might think, and at some point a preacher
> might have pointed out some article in the Dallas Morning News as proof
> that even that newspaper was soiled with liberal taint.
>
> I just don't understand how such people could read very far into the New
> Testament without throwing it down in disgust at its liberal teachings.
>
> -- Jim Cullen
>
> John K. Taber wrote:
> >
> >My cubicle mate is quiet and unprepossessing. He is a pleasure to
> >watch at work because of his great skill. He is usually heads
> >down but once in a while he comes up for fellowship.
> >
> >In the course of conversation I mentioned that I have been
> >finding more and more inaccuracies in the NY Times. He
> >said "It's a, uhh, Yankee newspaper." as I watched him pick
> >his words so as not to insult me (he suspects I'm a "lib'rul").
> >I said it's a conservative newspaper, and 100% Republican.
> >He became visibly upset, and forcefully denied that the
> >NY Times was either conservative or Republican.
> >
> >Now, I know he never reads the NY Times, so how would he
> >know? I don't think he reads even the local Dallas Morning News
> >except for ads, and he believes that the DMN is "lib'rul" too.
> >Perhaps he gets his ideas from Rush Limbaugh. He takes lunch late
> >on purpose so that he can listen to Limbaugh on his car radio, who
> >is on air at 1:00pm Dallas time.
> >
> >"But David" I protested "You don't read the NY Times. I do.
> >So how can you say that?" He is polite and does not like to
> >argue so there was no answer. Then the thought occurred to
> >me that his misimpression of the NY Times must be left over from
> >the 60s and civil rights and integration. So I said "You must
> >be thinking of the NY Times's support for civil rights and
> >integration back in the 60s." I lived in Houston at the time
> >and I remember very well the vitriol that the "lib'rul media"
> >was treated with in those times.
> >
> >He became even more visibly upset. He cut off the conversation
> >abruptly with the excuse that he had work to do.
> >
> >I think I had hit home. These weird ideas have something to do
> >with race and civil rights. Limbaugh does not give him his
> >ideas, but confirms his feelings, or he wouldn't listen to him.
> >
> >Once, somebody told him the media is "lib'rul" and he clings
> >to the notion. Who was that somebody? I'm now working on the
> >suspicion that it was the Southern churches. Basically,
> >throughout the South, it is the fundamentalist churches --
> >the Baptists, Church of Christ, and much worse that inform
> >folks, not the papers nor even TV. Gingrich's ascendancy
> >is based on the alliance between the Republicans and the Southern
> >churches. Or so I guess.
> >
> >I'm waiting for the chance to test my guess on David.
> >
> >--
> >Those are my principles, and if you don't like them, I have others.
> > --Groucho Marx
>
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