Texas megachurch founder Robert Morris indicted on charges of lewd acts with a child
The founder of a Texas megachurch who resigned as senior pastor last year after he admitted “inappropriate sexual behavior” in the 1980s has been indicted on five criminal counts involving a child, the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office said Wednesday.
Robert Morris, 63, who founded Gateway Church in Southlake, is charged with five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child, the attorney general’s office said in a statement.
The abuse began in December 1982 when Morris was visiting the Hominy, Oklahoma, home of the victim, the attorney general’s office alleged. He was 21 and she was 12 at the time.
It continued for four years, the office said.
Gateway Church in Southlake, which is in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, is the one of the largest megachurches in the United States.
In June, after Cindy Clemishire came forward to accuse Morris of sexually abusing her as a child, Morris said he engaged in “inappropriate sexual behavior with a young lady in a home where I was staying” in a statement to the evangelical news site The Christian Post.
Las Vegas pastor thought he was meeting 14-year-old boy for sex: police
Party affiliation: Republican
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Police and federal officials arrested a Las Vegas pastor as he prepared to meet a person he believed was a teenage boy for sex, according to documents the 8 News Now Investigators obtained Monday.
Neal Creecy, 46, faces a charge of luring or attempting to lure a child or mentally ill person with the use of computer technology to engage in sexual conduct, records said.
“we got here because the president of the United States is struggling. we got here because the president of the United States is one of the most unpopular presidents in U.S. history. we got here because he recognizes that he will lose the election and Congress will go back into the hands of the Democratic Party next November. we got here because of his failed policies. those are being exposed hour by hour, reinforced today by Walmart announcing they’ll be raising prices, because of the tax increases. because of the tariffs. we’re reminded every day by a slowing economy, growing mistrust, distrust, all across this nation, across the board, he is failing. he recognizes that, and that’s why he made a phone call to Greg Abbott, asking for five seats. he can’t win by playing by traditional sets of rules. he plays by no rules. I remind you all the time: it’s not the Rule of Law, it’s the Rule of Don — and we’re standing up to that. we’re responding to that.”
it cannot be stressed enough that it shouldn’t have to be this way. California shouldn’t have to do fuckery to counter Texas’ fuckery.
in a sanely-run country, every state’s maps would be mandated by an independent commission that would divvy everything up in a fair and non-partisan way.y’know, true representational government. none of these fucked-up amoeba-shaped districts like the one that enables the shouty half-dressed degenerate wrestling coach Jim Jordan to be reelected over and over in perpetuity, despite being one of the most-useless pantloads ever to stalk the halls of Congress.
but we don’t live in a sanely-run country. we live in the United States of the Stupidest Bullshit Ever, where every fucking thing has to be a battle.
it’s the dumbest possible way to run a country.
but this is a battle the Republican Party started — because they know their policies fucking suck, and they can’t win free and fair elections. so they’re allthe hell with playing fair, let’s just cheat our way to victory.it’s the Donny Convict way.
you want a battle? fine. go fuck yourselves. we’re going to do things the Untouchables way.
here’s another stupid hyper-partisan battle our country should not have to be fighting right now: is the current president a drooling imbecile, or what? — because fucking duh, he absolutely is.
this is an actual thing that happened yesterday: Donny phoned into one of these MAGAfied hate-radio programs, and proudly announced that he was going to personally patrol the ‘dangerous’ streets of DC that very night, like some fucked-up geriatric Batman.
I’m going to be going out tonight with the police and with the military, of course,” Trump told conservative host Todd Starnes. Trump has previously described the national capital as riddled with “crime” and “dangerous.”
here’s what happened next: Donny waddled over to the U.S. Park Police operations center and gibbered like a maniac for half an hour, about all the usual nonsense the demented old fuck obsesses over — like grass.
“one of the things will be redoing is your parks. I’m very good at grass, ’cause I have a lot of golf courses all over the place. I know more about grass than any human being I think anywhere in the world. and we’re going to be regrassing all your parks, all brand-new sprinkler systems, the best that you can buy, like Augusta. no, it’ll look like Augusta. it’ll look like, more importantly, Trump National Golf Club, that’s even better. but we’re gonna look, we’re gonna have all brand-new beautiful grass. you know like everything else, grass has a life. do you know that? grass has a life. you know, we have a life and grass has a life. and the grass here died about 40 years ago.”
what the fuck? what grass? who gives a shit about grass? where are these parks that Donny’s so horny to turn into shittier versions of his shitty golf motels? above all, why is the president of the United States wasting one second of his time on grass? doesn’t he have a real job?
oh wait — no, he doesn’t. Nosferatu McGoebbels is actually running the country, leaving Donny all the time in the world to regrass all our parks.
also, I’m pretty sure I know one guy who’s better at grass than Preznit Fuckwit.
so, how did Donny’s patrolling of the streets of DC go last night?
it never fucking happened.
after Donny’s blither-session at the Parks Police HQ, he waddled back to the White House, and that was that. Donny presumably spent the rest of his day flopped on a couch, watching himself on TV.
once again, America’s Mad King goes completely off the rails — makes a huge boast about how he’s going to personally patrol the streets, does a crazypants speech, and then disappears without doing one second of “patrolling” — and everybody just shrugs and goes ‘yeah, that happened.’
none of this is normal — and once again, we’re all numbed by the firehose of insanity.
and now here’s what might just be the dumbest imaginary battle ever, because it’s over a corporate logo.
“sparking some ire” is really underplaying what actually happened: the worst fucking people on the planet completely lost their shit.
“In college, I worked at @CrackerBarrel in Tallahassee. I even gave my life to Christ in their parking lot. Their logo was iconic and their unique restaurants were a fixture of American culture. No one asked for this woke rebrand. It’s time to Make Cracker Barrel Great Again.”
dude gave his life to Christ in a Cracker Barrel parking lot.
bro, you might want to ask Christ for it back — because you desperately need to get a life, if this is the kind of nonsense you’re getting all worked up over.
also, Byron — are you sure that was Christ? are you sure you didn’t get mugged by a junkie? because I’ve seen a lot of skeevy longhaired dudes in parking lots in my life — and none of them turned out to be Jesus.
here’s the new logo, and yeah, it sucks. it’s charmless and sterile, but so what?
They believe someone like me—a progressive trans woman—is cheering on the new logo change, which I find very confusing. I’m genuinely confused.
Tragically, I am something of an expert on anti-woke propaganda—which is an incredibly sad and pathetic area of expertise—and my hand to god, I honestly don’t know why rightwing influencers think I should be happy about the logo change.
Cracker Barrel shed almost $100 million in market value after its stock plunged Thursday following the release of a new logo. The new design eliminates a longstanding drawing of an overall-clad man leaning against a barrel, in favor of a cleaner logo featuring just the chain’s name.
Christ in a Cracker Barrel, how incomprehensibly idiotic is that?
free clue for MAGA: normal people don’t obsess over shit this stupid. normal people don’t see everything as an ideological battle to be fought tooth and nail. normal people don’t glue their identities to a corporate logo. corporations don’t give a fuck about you. just like Dear Leader. he doesn’t give a fuck about you, either.
look, MAGA — if you hate the new Cracker Barrel logo, maybe you’ll like this one better.
because seriously, the only thing you need to know about this whole made up controversy over a fucking corporate logo is that Donny’s name is on every page of the Epstein Files.
this is going to be my closing message for the foreseeable future:
practice self-care. do what you need to do to keep sane. if that means you need to disengage with my daily posts for a while, I get it. this community of ours will still be here when you return.
to all the people who have signed on in the days since the election, welcome aboard. settle in as we all try to deal with the shitfuckery that’s ahead of us.
we are all in this together, and we are all here for each other.
Gavin Newsom and his social media team are humiliating the living shit out of Republicans right now — and Republicans have no one to blame but themselves.
don’t feed the troll.’
it’s the first thing most of us learn on the internet. if someone is deliberately trying to wind you up, just to provoke response, don’t engage. don’t give them the pleasure of a reply. it’s what they want. it’s how they win. just walk away.
perhaps the Esteemed Senator Fidel Cancun should stick to his day job as an obscure podcaster.
it’s been over a week since Team Newsom started tweeting in the crazypants ALL CAPS style of Mad King Donny. imagine for a moment what would have happened if the Republican response had been silence. Newsom’s joke would have been funny for a couple of days, and then the world would have moved on to the next shiny object.
“I mean, even poor Kid Rock — these guys, they’ve gotten a little precious, haven’t they? the folks at Fox are like, ‘oh, this is so unbecoming of a governor. oh, oh.’ and meanwhile, they sit there reading his tweets every single day. are they really that out of touch? it’s jaw-dropping how precious and concerned the New York Post has suddenly gotten. how the Wall Street Journal board is like, ‘oh no, we can’t have this.’ I mean, what I hope is that we’re exposing it all. I hope we’re entertaining some people.”
the governor asks, ‘are they really that out of touch?’
the answer is clear: oh fucking yes, they are.
Fox News has done as much as anyone to keep this story alive. they just keep bringing on an endless series of tiresome scolds to explain why it’s perfectly okay for Dear Leader to tweet like a coked-up squirrel, but it’s not okay for Gavin Newsom to mimic it.
this idea that Gavin Newsom is somehow going to mimic Donald Trump’s style — that ignores the fundamental genius of President Trump’s political success that he is authentic. don’t be a crazy person. be authentic.”
that’s rich, getting lessons in authenticity from JD Vance.
this is the automaton whose idea of human interaction is to lurch mechanically into a donut shop and be all ‘hello fellow life-form, for what time period have you been commercing confections, HA HA that’s great.’
America’s Mad King is authentic? oh please. there’s nothing authentic about the guy with a fake tan, fake teeth, fake hair, fake golf scores, fake SAT scores, fake bone spurs, lifts in his shoes, a girdle around his waist, and god knows what the fuck else is going on under those shapeless clothes.
on and on goes the endless parade of Fox News bobbleheads. who even knew that Kellyanne Conway was still a thing?
look at Gavin Newsom. now he’s busy trolling on social media, and it’s cringe … because Donald Trump is one of one. only he can do what he’s done with social media.”
fact check: fuck no, it’s not true that only Dear Leader can tweet like Dear Leader. Donny’s dumb-ass ALL CAPS style is so easily-mockable that even a map company can do it.
that’s why all this shit is so fucking hilarious. that’s why the very second anyone tweets out bombastic all-caps nonsense, you know exactly who’s being parodied.
look, MAGA: the reason it’s so easy to mock Dear Leader is because he’s done ninety-five percent of the job for us. he’s already a joke.
Donny Convict is a buffoon. he walks like a buffoon, talks like a buffoon, and tarts himself up like a buffoon.
that’s why you can stick an orange wig on a muppet and everyone immediately knows who’s being made fun of.
it’s not our fault that the guy you worship is a clown. that was your choice.
“The all caps tweets from Newsom’s team are very weird and not at all funny but I know some dweeb is sitting in they/thems office cackling to themselves thinking they’re a world class comedian.”
“it’s quite embarrassing, actually. I mean, Gavin Newsom, I mean have you seen what he’s doing online, and [hugh sigh] just take a deep breath.”
shut the fuck up, Morning Joe. you’re of no use to anyone.
you know what’s “quite embarrassing”? that stunt that happened about ten minutes after Donny was elected last November, when Morning Joe and Any Time Of Day Mika slunk down to Motel-a-Lago to grovel at Dear Leader’s feet.
‘oh, please don’t be mean to us, we promise to say only nice things about you.’
so again, Joe: shut. the. fuck. up. you’re not fit to shine Gavin Newsom’s shoes. we’ll give you a call if we ever need tips on kow-towing to a tinpot fascist.
even Donny himself can’t let this story die. he was at it again last night — and, of course, Gavin Newsom had the perfect one-word response.
maybe Donny should sit the whole Newsom thing out, and go back to denying ever meeting his dead pedo bestie.
speaking of which: the only thing you really need to know about all this ginned-up wingnut outrage over Gavin Newsom’s tweets is that Donny Convict’s name is on every page of the Epstein Files.
and now, it’s time for your Hero of the Day.
one has to wonder why Couchfuck McGee even bothers to go out in public any more. no matter where on the planet he goes, he’s met with angry, shouting crowds. yesterday, for some inexplicable reason, JD got it into his vapid head to stroll into Washington DC’s Union Station, and — well, here’s your hero.
“oh look, it’s Couchfucker. you gonna fuck a couch, buddy? GO FUCK A COUCH, JD VANCE, GO FUCK A COUCH!”
thank you to the approximately two hundred thousand people who messaged me to let me know it happened. you’re all doing the lord’s work.
this is going to be my closing message for the foreseeable future:
practice self-care. do what you need to do to keep sane. if that means you need to disengage with my daily posts for a while, I get it. this community of ours will still be here when you return.
to all the people who have signed on in the days since the election, welcome aboard. settle in as we all try to deal with the shitfuckery that’s ahead of us.
we are all in this together, and we are all here for each other.
It’s not new news that big tech companies have been looking at nuclear for powering their datacenter, but Google is making some news in my home state. Here is Amanda Peterson Corio, the company’s Global Head of Data Center Energy:
Today we announced the first deployment of Kairos Power’s advanced nuclear reactor — the Hermes 2 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee — through a new power purchase agreement (PPA) between Kairos Power and Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Marking the first purchase of electricity from an advanced GEN IV reactor by a U.S. utility, this agreement will enable 50 megawatts (MW) of nuclear energy on TVA’s grid that powers our data centers in Montgomery County, Tennessee and Jackson County, Alabama.
Last October, we began a long-term collaboration with Kairos Power to unlock up to 500 MW of nuclear power for the U.S. electricity system through multiple deployments of their small modular reactor. With this next step, we are creating a three-party solution where energy customers, utilities, and technology developers work together to advance new technologies that can help meet the world’s growing energy needs with reliable, affordable capacity.
TVA will buy power from the Kairos plant starting in 2030.
