Al adjusts one of his 12 satellite dishes at his home. Note the astro-turf covered steps

So you’ve probably heard about Clark, TX renaming the town name to Dish, TX.

Well, Dish Network should have taken a trip to Al Jessup’s house in Beckley, WV.

Since 1998, the Beckley resident has amassed a collection of 12 dishes around his home. He said he first just began subscribing to Direct TV and Dish Network, but he later learned that by purchasing special satellite receivers he could receive “free to air” programming from several different satellites swirling the globe.

Over the years, the 54-year-old disabled former ice cream salesman collected more and more dishes so he could pick up more and more “free to air” channels.

The last time he counted, he received more than 5,000 channels. He has stopped counting since. In his home, Jessup has three television sets, and only one gets the plethora of stations. The other two, he said, just receive his programming from his Direct TV and Dish Network subscriptions.

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Administrators at the University of Miami ordered the student who blogged a raunchy rap song recorded by members of the football team to leave campus housing for the remainder of the semester.

The order for student Kyle Munzenrieder came in a hand-delivered letter on Monday afternoon from UM Dean of Students William Sandler, Jr.

Munzenrieder was told he had to turn in his room key and vacate his room by 5 p.m.

The chain of events leading to Munzenrieder getting booted out of campus housing began last week when he blogged a nine-minute song — featuring current UM football players — on the Internet.

Munzenrieder’s blog, which included a link to the song, got picked up by ESPN.com. The group called itself ”The Seventh Floor Crew,” referring to team members who lived in Mahoney Residential College (campus housing), according to Munzenrieder’s blog.

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan waits for the next copy of her book to sign after the release of her new book.

Supporters of U.S. President George W. Bush drive through town in their pick-up truck in Crawford, Texas, November 26, 2005.

Thousands of pilgrims are pouring into the dense jungle of southern Nepal to worship a 15-year-old boy who has been hailed as a new Buddha.

Devotees claim that Ram Bomjon, who is silently meditating beneath a tree, has not eaten or drunk anything since he sat down at his chosen spot six months ago.

Witnesses say they have seen light emanating from the teenager’s forehead.

The fervour increased last week when a snake is said to have bitten Ram, and a curtain was drawn around him.

After five days it was opened and he spoke. “Tell the people not to call me a Buddha. I don’t have the Buddha’s energy. I am at the level of rinpoche [lesser divinity].

“A snake bit me but I do not need treatment. I need six years of deep meditation.”

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One of Tulsa’s best-known ministers, Billy Joe Daugherty, was attacked Sunday while giving the altar call.

“I had been preaching on praise and Thanksgiving in every situation,” he says. “And this guy walked forward. I thought he was coming to receive the Lord, but he had another plan.”

He sure did. As the music played, without warning, the man punched Daugherty in the face. And, before he could land a knockout blow, he was yanked away.

With blood pouring down his face, Daugherty kept on preaching and forgiving.

KTUL’s Story with video of attack…

Billy Joe’s video with black eye now shows attack

I always thought that the Garden of Eden was located somewhere around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

Not so says the Mormons…
Joseph Smith claimed by revelation that the Garden of Eden was in western Missouri. This would throw off the entire first part of Genesis. Noah would have left in the ark from Missouri and sailed to some location in the Middle East.

LDS Apostle John A. Widtsoe explained:
“Latter-day Saints know, through modern revelation, that the Garden of Eden was on the North American continent and that Adam and Eve began their conquest of the earth in the upper part of what is now the state of Missouri.”

Joseph Smith declared this new understanding of Genesis and the location of Eden during a trip through Missouri in 1831. Historian Fawn Brodie commented:
Shortly after his arrival Joseph rowed up the Grand River to Lyman Wight’s ferry to explore land on the north bank in Daviess County [Missouri]. On a high bluff overlooking the river someone in the party discovered the ruins of what seemed to be an altar and excitedly led the prophet to it. After examining it Joseph stood silent, his eyes sweeping over the prairie that rolled away beneath him….The glory of the scene made Joseph heady as with new wine. ‘This is the valley of God in which Adam blessed his children,’ he said,

More info on this by Utah Lighthouse™ Ministry
A Christian non-profit organization providing humanitarian outreach to the Community, and printing critical research and documentation on the LDS Church.

The ugliest dog was featured here on Festville a few months back.

Well, Sam died on Friday, November 18 just short of his 15th birthday, said his owner, Susie Lockheed.

At the time of his death, Sam was scheduled to be filmed for a Discovery Channel series on the world’s ugliest species.

Lockheed said she had Sam euthanized after a veterinarian told her Sam’s heart was failing.

Jason & Brandi Jones from Muskogee, OK.
They obviously need no further introduction.

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AOL is tanking no doubt. Long live nomoreaolcds.com. I have 45 AOL cds I’ve collected to send off to these guys. They have collected 379,647 so far.

From lightreading.com:

“As of September 30, the AOL service totaled 20.1 million U.S. members, a decline of 678,000 from the prior quarter and 2.6 million from the year-ago quarter. In Europe, the AOL service had 6.1 million members, a decrease of 98,000 from the previous quarter and a decline of 170,000 from last year’s quarter.

For a business of any size to lose 678,000 customers in three months — that’s more than 300 subscribers an hour — you have to be doing something wrong. Maybe everything.”

No doubt it would be more than 300 an hour but people can’t figure out how to close their account or get talked into staying by a smooth-talking account retention specialist.

I know I’ve been wondering what Dennis Rodman has been up to lately.

Well, he has a new book out: I Should Be Dead By Now.

Yesterday, he had a dramatic entrance at a NYC book signing. Arriving in a hearse, actually in the coffin.