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Archae

(46,337 posts)
Tue Dec 23, 2014, 02:10 PM Dec 2014

Remember Jim Bakker?

My friends and I used to watch him and his wife's TV show, and just laugh, they were so stupid.

And the scandal really cracked us up.



Well, Jim and Tammy divorced, Tammy died of cancer.

Jim?

He's selling "desserts" for after "doomsday."

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Remember Jim Bakker? (Original Post) Archae Dec 2014 OP
She deserved better. n/t irisblue Dec 2014 #1
once the huckster... nt ProdigalJunkMail Dec 2014 #2
He was doing time at FCI Jesup when I used to go there for work NightWatcher Dec 2014 #3
I met him as a child VanillaRhapsody Dec 2014 #4
So... 2naSalit Dec 2014 #5
But ice cream sandwiches DON'T melt.... Whiskeytide Dec 2014 #7
Tammy Faye narnian60 Dec 2014 #6
She was a grifter who married one asshole, then a second- money money money snooper2 Dec 2014 #9
He makes my soul cold. randome Dec 2014 #8
Grifters gonna grift. hifiguy Dec 2014 #10
Michael Milken did more harm to more people TexasProgresive Dec 2014 #11
Being a member of the Bush Crime Family hifiguy Dec 2014 #14
My dad watches Jim Bakker every day and really does believe that because the US has liberal_at_heart Dec 2014 #12
great post nt arely staircase Dec 2014 #13

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
3. He was doing time at FCI Jesup when I used to go there for work
Tue Dec 23, 2014, 02:23 PM
Dec 2014

It's a very minimum federal correctional institution. If your tennis ball goes over the the painted white line, the guard will let you go get it.

 

VanillaRhapsody

(21,115 posts)
4. I met him as a child
Tue Dec 23, 2014, 02:24 PM
Dec 2014

My siblings were on their childrens show before they got national recognition....and even as a child I could tell he was a grifter based on how hr treated kids when the camera was off....

2naSalit

(86,650 posts)
5. So...
Tue Dec 23, 2014, 02:25 PM
Dec 2014

according to this, there will be no grid/power but we should be sure to have our dessert because after an event like the rapture or whatever it is he's predicting, makes it all better. So buy your ice cream sandwiches now because when there's no refrigeration, you might have a hard time jumping into your Hummer and finding some at the ice cream shop. He doesn't mention how these are to be stored until the end times happen or how one should eat all that ice cream in less than a day when the power goes out...

That someone pays these people to peddle this swill (the products and the ideology) just makes me cringe.

Whiskeytide

(4,461 posts)
7. But ice cream sandwiches DON'T melt....
Tue Dec 23, 2014, 02:38 PM
Dec 2014

... that's the beauty of his plan!!! The PERFECT post apocalypse/Rapture food!! Nothing but non-believers and cockroaches eating ice cream sandwiches!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/25/walmart-ice-cream-sandwiches_n_5621240.html


 

snooper2

(30,151 posts)
9. She was a grifter who married one asshole, then a second- money money money
Tue Dec 23, 2014, 02:57 PM
Dec 2014

Her probably only redeeming quality was she wasn't anti-gay and in her later years actually tried to help the cause-

But she was still a grifter

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
8. He makes my soul cold.
Tue Dec 23, 2014, 02:39 PM
Dec 2014

[hr][font color="blue"][center]I'm always right. When I'm wrong I admit it.
So then I'm right about being wrong.
[/center][/font][hr]

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
10. Grifters gonna grift.
Tue Dec 23, 2014, 03:22 PM
Dec 2014

Oddly enough, the only person who came out of that scandal with any dignity left was Jessica Hahn.

TexasProgresive

(12,157 posts)
11. Michael Milken did more harm to more people
Tue Dec 23, 2014, 04:26 PM
Dec 2014

was sentenced to 10 years reduced to 2 serving 22 months. Ivan Boesky sentenced to 3 1/2 years served 2 years. Jim Bakker sentenced him to 45 years served <5years. How was this fair?

And what about Marvin Bush-he got nothing.

liberal_at_heart

(12,081 posts)
12. My dad watches Jim Bakker every day and really does believe that because the US has
Tue Dec 23, 2014, 04:38 PM
Dec 2014

turned its back on God, God will punish the US, and there will be a catastrophe of some sort. My dad cannot afford the stuff that Jim Bakker sells so he just buys water, canned food, beans and rice from the store and stores them in the house. I stop on this show as I'm clicking through the channels sometimes so I can know what my dad is watching, and one day I saw this guy selling airplane neck pillows for missionary trips. This guy must be making millions off these poor souls.

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