1. Jesus appeared to him in the form of the president of U.S. Steel, who told him to gather “key men”—prominent businessmen and political leaders—to beat back the unions in His name. Instead of ministering to the down-and-out, Jesus wanted believers to tend to the “up-and-out”—members of America’s elite who lacked intimacy with Jesus. Free-market capitalism is divinely ordained, and unions and regulations are a form of blasphemy.
The Washington-based group counts many prominent politicians, mostly conservative Republicans, among its flock... there are Family “prayer cells” in many federal agencies, including the Pentagon and the Justice Department.
2. Marquez was the first in his brigade to kill someone after an Iraq tour. In 2006, he used a stun gun to shock a drug dealer in Widefield, Colo., in a dispute over a marijuana sale, then shot and killed him...
"If I was just a guy off the street, I might have hesitated to shoot," Marquez told The Gazette in the Bent County Correctional Facility, where he is serving a 30-year prison term. "But after Iraq, it was just natural."
The Army trains soldiers to be that way, said Kenneth Eastridge, an infantry specialist serving 10 years for accessory to murder.
"The Army pounds it into your head until it is instinct: Kill everybody, kill everybody," he said. "And you do. Then they just think you can just come home and turn it off."
3. BMEzine's Shannon Larratt has given us exclusive photos of "FK", otherwise known as The Indestructible Man. Due to an abnormally well-developed immune system, he is able to push the limits of "if it feels good, do it" farther than most. "Obviously it hurts, but this sort of pain excites me greatly."
4. Sanchez, 33, apparently ate the child's brain and some other body parts before stabbing herself, McManus said. "It's too heinous for me to describe it any further," McManus told reporters.
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