MooPig welcomes you to the *Jim Bakker* School of Donations and Re-attributions: which MooPig affectionately calls the: *Two Strikes Culprit [kk] Radical Accounting Method**
[SOURCE-- CAMPAIGN FINANCE FRAUD: OBAMA'S LATEST RUSE, DEFLECT/RUN]
Review by Pat Darnell
Anyone within the sound of this blog, might want to consider going door to door in your neighborhood with a bucket. For instructions read this Campaign Finance...
The timing is excellent as it seems ripe pickings for election 2008 voters are ready, willing, and able to separate themselves from large amounts of cash. All you give them is a picture of the *brick*** or simply a Lego block, shown above, no receipt required. Don't forget to say thank you.
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*To quote "Jim Bakker began the PTL (Praise The Lord) ministry in Fort Mill, South Carolina back in 1974. Affectionately named Heritage USA, he built the ministry from the ground up, and would eventually have a 500 room luxury hotel, its own cable TV show, an amusement park, and an amphitheater. The PTL claimed in 1987 to have 13 million subscribers and assets of $175 million including Heritage USA, a 2,300-acre Christian theme park theme park, which was home to PTL and his cable show, called the Inspirational Network." Various people from various directions became distracted by the money going through Heritage. Jim was selling lifetime memberships for $1000 a pop. This got you a 3 day stay every year at PTL. Unfortunately, they sold more memberships than they built rooms... this was a red flag for some, coupled with the large numbers coming in, and people began to watch... namely, the IRS, FCC
**Jim Bakker, evangelist / convict -- "Between 1984 and 1987, the Bakkers received annual salaries of $200,000 each and Jim awarded himself over $4,000,000 in bonuses. Their assets at that time included a $600,000 house in Palm Springs, four condominiums in California, and a Rolls Royce.
In their success, [as evangelists] the Bakkers took conspicuous consumption to an unusual level for a non-profit organization. For example TRUE or FALSE --
- PTL once spent $100,000 for a private jet to fly the Bakkers' clothing across the country.
- It also once spent $100 for cinnamon rolls because the Bakkers wanted the smell of them in their hotel room.
- According to Frances FitzGerald in an April 1987 New Yorker article, "They epitomized the excesses of the 1980s; the greed, the love of glitz, and the shamelessness; which in their case was so pure as to almost amount to a kind of innocence." [SOURCE]
***Their [Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's] PTL television ministry was a money-generating colossus centered on a wild, unscripted talk show with ratings higher than Johnny Carson's. But a virtual community wasn't enough for this duo - they'd gone on to build a brick and mortar town and name it Heritage, U.S.A.
October 2004, Fort Mill South Carolina. This was a really cool and unexpected walk through. I had heard about the park off and on for a few years prior to visiting. I try to keep a running tab of some of these abandoned parks in the back of my head, just in case I might some day be in the area. I was headed to North Carolina with a good friend of mine to see the Sponge Bob Square Pants NASCAR race...The giant unfinished hotel (often confused as the condo's) was looming over us everywhere we went. You could see large sections of brick falling off, and birds flying in and out of the open windows. The PTL ended before the hotel was finished right around 1987 ...[SOURCE]
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