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This is the fourth piece in our series about Barack Obama's questionable campaign financing methods and his ties to racist, anti-Catholic, and anti-Semitic hate groups. Circulation as a viral E-mail is encouraged. If you want to use the images, though, please download and copy them instead of linking, as linking uses our bandwidth. Barack and Michelle Obama's Racist and Anti-American Church Key talking point: Jeremiah Wright is merely a symptom of the Trinity United Church of Christ's racism and hatred of America. The people who directed the church sanctioned the publication of Wright's hate speech plus a guest piece from...

With athletic grace, Ojai's "Pastie Lady," a self-described social artist and environmental activist... Moss may face a misdemeanor charge for taking off her clothes, down to pasties and G-string, outside the city's Catholic church on Easter Sunday, as parishioners were leaving morning Mass. "She took that opportunity to make her statement, and she appeared nude to most people," said Ojai Police Chief Bruce Norris. "We got several calls." Moss now says that going to the church was "poor judgment on my behalf." She chose Easter Mass, she said, because "there are so many bad people who are hurting and destroying...

Suppose that a political candidate of the Caucasian persuasion belonged to a church whose minister (call him JimCrow White for the sake of argument) consorted openly with the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, and arranged an award for the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. The same minister proclaimed that the Black people in New Orleans got a wake-up call with Hurricane Katrina. This minister’s replacement then welcomed a guest speaker who proclaimed from the pulpit, with the church’s tax exempt resources, that “There were a whole lot of Black people crying” because the candidate’s African-American opponent...

A source close to the Obama campaign tells The Brody File that Barack Obama and Michelle Obama approached Trinity United Church Pastor Otis Moss III a couple months ago to discuss whether Obama should remain with the church. This person tells me that Senator Obama asked pastor Moss how the controversy was affecting the church and the discussion focused in on what would be best for the church and best for Obama. The initial conversation took place after the Jeremiah Wright sermons became widespread public knowledge but before Jeremiah Wright's speech to the National Press Club. Reverend Moss knew about...

Barack Obama has finally distanced himself from Rev. Jeremiah Wright after a 20-year relationship, but the pastor who is replacing Wright at Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ is likely to be just as controversial. New Trinity pastor Otis Moss has called Biblical patriarch Abraham a “pimp” and made other statements many would consider offensive. After Obama called Wright’s comments “divisive and destructive,” a questioner noted that Rev. Moss has defended Wright and asked if Obama would continue attending the church.

Otis Moss III----All my life I have been inspired by the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and my father, a King adviser, Dr. Otis Moss Jr. The prophetic brilliance of Dr. King to speak about democracy and the divine in the same breath to this day sends a chill up my spine. I have asked my parents often: “How did you handle the pressure?” “Did you realize you were in the middle of the delivery room as America, with deep labor pains, gave birth to democracy?” My parents usually replied with smiles and southern humility before adding, “We...

"The lepers lived in a ghetto leper colony. The lepers were segregated from everybody else." "They go into the enemy's camp. They find food. They find shelter. They find gold. They find silver. They even find some drink in the enemy's camp. They find gin and juice in the enemy's camp." "Even though they were trying to destroy you, they end up blessing this small congregation of people with a skin condition." 4/6/08: Barack Obama's incoming Senior Pastor Otis Moss III delivers Hour of Power sermon, "We Have Nothing To Lose," at Trinity United Church of Christ.

Biography The Rev. OTIS MOSS III is the newly appointed pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. Otis recently moved to Chicago from Augusta, Georgia, where he was pastor of Tabernacle Church. He was a Ford Foundation Scholar and All-American Track and Field athlete at Morehouse College, before earning a Master of Divinity degree from Yale University. [Biographical information is correct as of the broadcast date noted above.] Watch the Video Sermon Watch the Video Interview Download Audio.mp3 Please right-click the link to display your browser's "save as" options. _________________ "The People Who Could Fly" There is a...

Trinity's Rev. Otis Moss - a profile

SACRAMENTO, CA (CNS) - Rosalind Moss, an author who is an Eternal Word Television Network TV host and one of the network's radio hosts, announced Feb. 13 that she is starting a new community of sisters in the Archdiocese of St. Louis with the permission of Archbishop Raymond L. Burke. The new group will be called the Daughters of Mary, Mother of Israel's Hope, she told an audience of more than 200 at the Catholic Breakfast Club of Sacramento. Moss, 65, said she hopes to move to St. Louis within a few months, intends to fulfill as many of her...

"British model Kate Moss films musician Pete Doherty on the Park stage at the 2007 Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Pilton, England Sunday June 24, 2007 at the largest musical festival in Europe."

What's making the mini crop circles? Snails? Millipedes? A mysterious circular pattern on moss-covered logs has scientists scratching their heads. Last winter, researchers in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park discovered the symmetrical bull's-eye pattern on patches of liverwort (a close relative of moss) growing on pine trees that had died and fallen on the ground. At this point, biologists aren't sure what causes the circles. Some have suggested snails, while others have speculated millipedes. "Immediately, we thought of snails," said Keith Langdon, chief biologist with the Smokies. "But snails graze in a zigzag pattern. We can't find records of...

Quarterback Tom Brady has yet to publicly comment on the Patriots' acquisition of receiver Randy Moss, but his actions speak volumes. As part of the whirlwind process that brought Moss to New England, Brady provided a key assist. Because the Patriots had to acquire the original terms of Moss's contract as part of the trade with the Raiders, the team needed to clear salary cap space to absorb the $9.75 million figure that Moss was scheduled to earn. Enter Brady, who agreed to restructure his present contract that runs through 2010 to create the space. That allowed the Patriots to...

Wearin' of the green? Packers have interest in Moss, but receiver would bring lots of baggage By BOB McGINN bmcginn@journalsentinel.com Posted: Feb. 27, 2007 Indianapolis - The Oakland Raiders are trying to dump Randy Moss and the Green Bay Packers definitely are interested if the former all-pro wide receiver would agree to a restructured contact in order to play with a better team and Brett Favre. Sources close to the situation said the Packers had explored trading for Moss, the temperamental former Minnesota Viking who once pretended to moon the crowd at Lambeau Field. The two teams have had preliminary...

NEW YORK: Supermodel Kate Moss is offending Muslims in New York but she doesn't even know about it. According to pagesix.com, a huge poster for a Calvin Klein ad shows a topless Moss in different poses, one in which she is holding onto a shirtless man, is popped up right across Madina Masjid Mosqueon on East 11th Street. It is offending devout Muslims who go there five times a day for prayer. The site animalnewyork.com says: “It is only a matter of time before some action is taken, and we are dying to see what a hastily spray-painted burqa looks...

The story did not simply specify that there were unprotected areas of the body perceptively protected by existing body armor, but it highlighted those areas in both content and a color graphic, which illustrated in red exactly where bullets and shrapnel had previously struck and killed Marines. Certainly, any terrorist training camp where the bad guys are learning how best to kill American soldiers could make use of such a graphic.

WORLD EXCLUSIVE Kate on coke at Mandela's Kate Moss ... snorted cocaine from dirty floor       By CLODAGH HARTLEY in Port Elizabeth, S AfricaTODAY The Sun blows the lid on the sleazy drug-fuelled world that held Kate Moss in a vice-like grip for TEN YEARS. The picture on Page One of  The Sun newspaper shows her in a hotel with cocaine chopped into four lines on the table. The supermodel, 32, is holding a rolled-up tube ready to snort the killer drug in another night of wild partying. We can reveal ‘Cocaine Kate’ even took it at the home...

ATLANTA — Vikings wide receiver Kelly Campbell was arrested on weapons and drug charges Thursday near the Georgia Dome. Campbell, 24, is charged with possession of marijuana and theft by receiving stolen property involving a Smith & Wesson handgun, police records show. An Atlanta police officer stopped Campbell at 2:15 p.m. EST after watching the SUV he was driving cross the center line on Fair Street to pass three or four cars, and drive in the wrong lane for 500 feet, the police report said. When the officer walked over to Campbell's driver's side window, he said, he smelled a...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Randy Moss has become known as much for his distracting antics as he has for his electrifying touchdown catches during his seven-year career. Sounds like Al Davis' kind of player. Dante DiTrapano, Moss' agent, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the Minnesota Vikings and Oakland Raiders had ``come to an agreement on Randy playing for Oakland next year.'' ADVERTISEMENT Davis, the longtime renegade owner of the Raiders, has always taken a certain pride in acquiring talented players with troubled backgrounds. And Moss is just the latest to join the Silver and Black. DiTrapano said Moss was...

The Minnesota Vikings have reached an agreement in principle to trade Pro Bowl receiver Randy Moss to the Oakland Raiders, a source close to the situation told SI.com on Wednesday. The deal involving Moss cannot be consummated until March 2, the first day of the league's new financial year. But a source of the trade talks between the Raiders and Vikings said a trade is "likely" and that compensation has been agreed to. The Vikings will receive Oakland's first-round pick this year (No. 7) and an unidentified veteran player -- possibly linebacker Napoleon Harris -- and a 2006 draft pick....

The St. Paul Pioneer Press is reporting that the Vikings will send All-Pro wideout Randy Moss to the Raiders in exchange for linebacker Napolean Harris, the seventh overall pick in the upcoming draft, and another late-round pick. The trade can't be officially made until March 2, but Moss' agent, Dante DiTrapano, informed the paper that the deal is completed. "In speaking with Moss, although he has a lot of ties to Minnesota and did not particularly want to be traded, he's very excited with the possibility of playing for Al Davis and being a part of the Raider tradition," DiTrapano...

According to local newspapers, Randy Moss is leaving for the Oakland Raiders. As a Packers fan, I say "Good Ridaance"! Opinions anyone?

Sorry, FReepers who are Viking fans. I don't have a dog in the hunt, but I rooted against Randy Moss. For Eagle fans, congrats. They played quite a game. MIDI - BLUE MOON - scroll down to the MIDI (long intro) No moon....Randy did not score a point The Vikes' fans will not annoint In disguise he left that joint No moon...it really was a poor show The Eagle fans were aglow I heard them chant "Randy blows" And when the Vikings had planned a fake field goal What was he doing? No one can know He really blew it...

MIDI - EVERYONE'S GONE TO THE MOON - scroll to alphabetical section Although he's wealthy, he's a thug...lower than pimps out selling drugs Eagle fans, he will be there soon...time to shoot Randy a moon Those who are lowlifes cannot change...brain cells you cannot rearrange Eagle fans, he will be there soon...time to shoot Randy a moon Lucky at birth...how he can run....does he have class? he has none Ten thousand dollars was the fine...somewhere it's time to draw the line Eagle fans, he will be there soon...time to shoot Randy a moon Time to shoot Randy a moon...everyone...

Minnesota Viking Randy Moss reacted to the $10,000 fine imposed by the NFL for his simulated mooning incident during their game with the Green Bay Packers last Sunday. Moss was quoted as saying, "It ain't nothing but 10 grand. What's 10 grand to me?" When asked Thursday if Moss had written the check yet, Moss responded, "When you're rich you don't write checks." When asked how he would pay the fine, Moss replied, "Straight cash, homey." Dante DiTrapana, Moss's agent, said he would appeal the fine. The $10,000 is a small penalty against Moss's $5.75 million salary this season.

The Randy Moss incident – VU won’t get caught up in the 300th “whatever-Gate” reference the rest of the local and national media want to apply to it – has truly taken on a life of its own. On Wednesday, the Vikings released a statement from owner Red McCombs asking that FOX play-by-play announcer Joe Buck be removed from Sunday’s Vikings-Eagles broadcast, citing that Buck’s comments about Moss’ faux-mooning of Packers fans in the north end zone “suggested a prejudice that surpassed objective reporting.” FOX, the same network that brought us such must-see programming as “pseudo-celebrity” boxing matches between Greg...

Associated Press NEW YORK -- Randy Moss is almost sure to be fined for pretending to moon fans in Green Bay during a playoff win, according to NFL rules. The league is looking into the star receiver's antics in the Minnesota Vikings' 31-17 win over the Packers on Sunday and will announce its ruling later this week. When asked for a reaction to the touchdown celebration Sunday night, an NFL spokesman told ESPN's Chris Mortensen: "Randy Moss can expect to be hearing from us." When asked by AP whether the oft-fined Moss would be penalized again, a league spokesman recited...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Randy Moss spent the night in jail facing a possible felony charge after being arrested for allegedly pushing a traffic agent a half-block with his car. The arrest could keep the Minnesota Vikings' star receiver out of the team's game Sunday against the Seattle Seahawks. The 27-year-old agent stepped in front of Moss' car to stop him from making an illegal turn in downtown Minneapolis, and Moss used his car to slowly push the officer along the street, stopping when she fell to the ground, police spokeswoman Cyndi Barrington said Tuesday. Barrington said Amy Zaccardi is a...

The TV pundits were all over Mossyesterday. First for walking off the field last week and then for the fake mooning. I think the pundits spent too much time on Moss so I wonder why.The it occured to me, they realized that the Vikes were going to played their beloved Eagles and their prince McNabb.So, they hyped it up in an attempt to distract the Vikes so that they wouldn't focus on whipping the Eagles butts.

GREEN BAY, Wis. - Randy Moss broke such new ground with a disgusting gesture after his game-clinching touchdown catch Sunday that Fox television refused to replay it - until the postgame show. The star receiver shot a fake moon at the Lambeau Field crowd, pretending to drop his pants, then rubbed himself on the padded goal post. It made previous controversial celebrations by NFL receivers Terrell Owens and Joe Horn look like harmless child's play.

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) - Randy Moss could miss a game for the first time in his NFL career, but the Minnesota Vikings won't decide before Friday whether he'll be forced out by a strained right hamstring. Coach Mike Tice described the injury as more than mild, but Moss could be able to play a limited role in next weekend's home game against the Tennessee Titans.

WASHINGTON - Two strange new species of worms, without eyes or stomachs or even mouths, have been discovered living on the bones of dead whales in California's Monterey Bay. "Who knows what we can learn here," researcher Robert Vrijenhoek said. "There are many things left to discover in this world. Some we find by accident ... and some we find because we look in places that few people have explored before, as in much of our work in the deep oceans." In this case, it was a bit of both because the unexpected discovery was made about 9,400 feet below...

Defending civil rights and protecting affirmative action policies are important because these issues affect the country's future, a spokeswoman for Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun, D-Illinois, says. "Civil Rights Under Fire" is the topic for a speech to be given by Moseley-Braun on campus tonight. The speech will focus on affirmative action as a way for people to fulfill their job potentials, Susan Lindauer, spokeswoman for Moseley-Braun, said. Lindauer said Moseley-Braun defends affirmative action policies because these policies help women and minorities get more jobs and education. She said the senator will speak about women and minorities, who benefit most from these...

GOP bashes Moss for tax hike By Blake Fontenay fontenay@gomemphis.com July 9, 2003 A day after providing a critical swing vote for a 25-cent property tax rate increase, Shelby County Commissioner Tom Moss continued taking hits from his political party's leaders. Moss, a Republican, joined the commission's six Democrats in supporting the increase on the second of three required readings Monday. The six other Republican commissioners opposed it. That fact has some prominent Republicans already predicting that Moss will draw an opponent from within his party if he runs for re-election. Meanwhile, Moss found himself answering conflict-of-interest questions from local...

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- Minnesota Vikings receiver Randy Moss apologized to his team, family and friends Thursday -- but not to the woman he's accused of pushing with his car while trying to make a turn. Moss spent a night in jail after the Tuesday night episode, which resulted in two misdemeanors but no felony charges. Moss will start Sunday's game against Seattle, and his agent said the team will fine him, although the amount hasn't yet been determined. "I'm sorry for what I've caused and what I brought on everyone who really cares about me or this team," Moss...

<p>Police spokeswoman Cyndi Barrington said Moss was in custody and his Lexus was impounded after the incident on a downtown street about 6 p.m. An assault charge was being considered, Barrington said.</p> <p>The traffic officer tried to stop Moss from making an illegal turn, and Moss used his car to slowly push the officer along the street, Barrington said.</p>