Showing posts with label Brooks McCabe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brooks McCabe. Show all posts

17 February, 2011

St. Albans Barber Shop And Public Policy Think Tank Finds Brooks McCabe and Obama In Biblical Prophecy

is Senator Brooks McCabe a tool of the Anti-Christ? Would merged city-county government help usher in One World Government and the reign of The Anti-Christ as prophesied in The Book of Revelation? Yes and yes according to the patrons of the St. Albans barber shop where I got a haircut this past Friday.

I live in a town where The Mark of The Beast, The Anti-Christ and One World Government are never far from the minds and the lips of many of its residents and can pop up in day-to-day conversation at almost any time if certain precipitating conditions are present. For example, when the cashier at the St. Albans Kroger asks a shopper for his or her Kroger Plus card it's not unusual for this innocent request to get employees and customers talking about a "cashless society" and how we're all being softened up for a mark on our foreheads or our hands without which we can neither buy nor sell. A software engineer routinely sends me updates about how close we are to being surgically fitted with government mandated  RFID devices.

The mere sight or mention of President Obama is another precipitating condition that gets people talking and speculating about "End Times". To many of the people in St. Albans, figuring out if Obama is The Anti-Christ or what part he plays in the fulfillment of prophetic Scripture is better than Sudoku.

On the day when the barber shop in which I was waiting for a haircut erupted in speculation that Brooks McCabe might be in league with Satan and that merged city-county government might have an ignominious and nefarious place  in biblical prophecy, there were at least three precipitating conditions present: (1) The guy in the barber chair was complaining about government abuse. (2) Much of the brown-skinned, Muslim world was in revolt against their governments. (3) President Obama was on TV making a speech about the fall of Egypt's Mubarak.

The mere sight of President Obama was making the guy who came in after me visibly twitchy. Every once in a while he groaned or muttered curse words in a stage whisper.

"Merged government just moves us one step closer to One World Government" said the guy in the barber chair.

The guy who came in behind me nodded his head in agreement.

"So by your reasoning" I said, "we also moved one step closer to One World Government when the 13 colonies merged to become the United States."

The guy who came in behind me grunted but never looked at me. Had he been Egyptian he would have removed a shoe and held it in the air like the Egyptian revolutionaries did to show their contempt for Mubarak.

The guy in the barber chair got a familiar far away look in his eye that told me he was experiencing cognitive dissonance - he was trying to reconcile two contradictory, mutually exclusive thoughts. On one hand, the guy in the barber chair believed Peter Marshall, David Manuel, Glenn Beck and David Barton, that God Almighty guided Christopher Columbus, The Pilgrims and the Puritans to the New World where He also led them to form the nation that would become the beacon of light to the world. Never mind that the US was formed 150 years later, not by Puritans and Pilgrims but by Deists and skeptics.

On the other hand, the guy in the barber chair also believed that government - especially Big Government - is of the Devil. So Big Government is bad - except when it's the US government which was a work of God but is now led by a man who may be a candidate for Anti-Christ.

Anyway, that's how a barber shop think tank decided that Brooks McCabe may be a tool of Satan and merged government may help usher in One World, Anti-Christ led government.

16 February, 2010

Tell Your Elected Leaders You Want The Proposed South Charleston Tech Park

Higginbotham At Large is not young enough or cool enough to belong to Generation Charleston but I attended their Monday night public forum about the proposed “Tech Park”.

Let me cut to the chase: I agree with Senator Brooks McCabe, Charleston Area Alliance, Matric CEO, Keith Pauley and others that the state of West Virginia should accept The Dow Chemical Company offer of 258 acres of land and facilities and turn it into a commercialization / pilot plant facility where inventors and developers from all over the region can bring their inventions from pure research stage to the ready-for-market stage.

Getting this Tech Park project done is a perfect example of the kind of thing government should be doing for its citizens.

Thanks to Matt Ballard at Charleston Area Alliance, I am able to post a list of elected officials and their contact info below. Make some calls and write some emails and tell your elected leaders that you don’t want this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be squandered. Tell them that many of the brilliant minds who worked at the old Carbide / Dow facility back in its salad days are still here in the Kanawha Valley and many of them are ready to help. Tell them that there are already 300 jobs at the proposed tech park and experts think there could be as many as 2500 jobs with an average salary in 6 figures at this park in just a few years.

Phone Number

Email Address

Governor

Governor Joe Manchin, III

(304) 558-2000

Governor@WVGov.org

Kanawha County Delegation

Senator Dan Foster

(304) 357-7866

Daniel.foster@camc.org

Senator Brooks McCabe

(304) 357-7990

brooks.mccabe@wvsenate.gov

Senator Corey Palumbo

(304) 357-7854

corey.palumbo@wvsenate.gov

Senator Eric Wells

(304) 340-3287

erik.wells@wvsenate.gov

Delegate:

Delegate Tim Armstead

(304) 340-3240

armstead@mail.wv.net.edu

Delegate Bonnie Brown

(304) 340-3106

bonnie.brown@wvhouse.gov

Delegate Nancy Peoples Guthrie

(304) 340-3156

nancy.gurthie@wvhouse.gov

Delegate Barbara Hatfield

(304) 340-3140

hatfield@mail.wvnet.edu

Delegate Marl Hunt

(304) 340-3392

mhunt@markahunt.com

Delegate Patrick Lane

(304) 340-3275

Delegate Mesha Poore

(304) 340-3248

mesha.poore@wvhouse.gov

Delegate Doug Skaff

(304) 340-3362

doug.skaff@wvhouse.gov

Delegate Sharon Spencer

(304) 340-3218

delspencer@aol.com

Delegate Ron Walters

(304) 340-3194

ronwalte@mail.wvnet.edu

Delegate Danny Wells

(304) 340-3287

Commissioners:

Commissioner - Kent Carper

(304) 357-0101

rachellemorrison@kanawha.us

Commissioner - David Hardy

(304) 720-4248

djhardy@agmtlaw.com

Commissioner - Henry Shores

(304) 357-0101

Mayors:

Charleston Mayor - Mayor Danny Jones

(304) 348-8000

mayorjones@cityofcharleston.org

South Charleston - Mayor Frank Mullens

(304) 744-5301

Senator Robert C. Byrd

Senator Jay Rockefeller

(304) 347-5372

Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito

(304) 925-5964