Bat Zion in Duncanville Justifies ‘Going Out to Eat After Sabbath Services’

Bat Zion in Duncanville, a Dallas suburb, attracts hundreds and hundreds of people in their yearly Passover service. They are also a watered-down, compromised Messianic congregation that encourages participants and congregants to go out to eat at restaurants after their Sabbath services. It is watered-down and compromised because the Torah (“instruction”) manual says we are not to work, nor buy nor sell on the Sabbath day. There are loopholes and exceptions to this: nurses/doctors/police officers/firemen/military all work to “save lives” and that is a noble line of employment, Sabbath or no Sabbath. So, Yahweh is going to look at “doing good” on the Sabbath as not a yoke of bondage, but a mark of someone who is dedicated to fulfilling the spirit of the Torah.

Going out to Chili’s or other restaurants on the Sabbath, before dark, is not. That’s not to say I haven’t broken those commandments. I’m guilty of breaking the Sabbath laws too. It’s a sign to the entire world that we are “set apart” (holy means “set apart”) and called by Yahweh and through his son Yeshua to keep his commandments. How much of an example (again, guilty of doing this in the past myself) is it to the world — or to our own Messianic, Torah-observant “movement” — when we’re at shopping malls, sporting events, or restaurants on the Sabbath Day? It could also have to do with the fact that sinister organizations — while their intentions may in fact be noble — have a “co-opt” strategy (think: Jews for Jesus) to appear Messianic on the surface, but after a bit, “it’s okay to keep Christmas, or Easter, or eat pork, etc.” This is a tactic of a very real enemy who wants to divide and conquer Yahweh’s chosen people. How else do you describe the Noahide Laws, those man-made un-biblical rules that Gentiles are not to keep the Sabbath or Holy Days? Or the rabbi-created calendars, instead of following what Moses taught (i.e., Rosh HaShanah is set by the sighting of the new moon, not the sighting of what rabbis from generations have pre-set dates upon), what about that? It’s a watered-down, Churchianity Lite Mixed with Messianic Decorations that comprises Bat Zion.

Leaders of these flocks — and the Southern Baptist Convention and the Assemblies of God also have faux Messianic congregations and synagogues in well-intentioned but vain attempts at yanking the rug out from under Jewish believers into coming into the Churchianity fold — have a duty to teach correctly, and allowing your congregation members to eat pork (as Baruch HaShem in Dallas has done, for example), or go out to eat after Sabbath services is not only a slap in the face to the true Torah commandments of Yeshua himself, but it is a false teaching, being perpetuated by false teachers. Luckily, we are under grace, so any commandments we break are easily forgiven by the shed blood of our Messiah. However, just like many rabbis in Israel that definitely know who Yeshua is and won’t tell their congregations about him for fear of losing their numbers, money or prestige, they will stand accountable for what they taught — or allowed — and what they did not.

Bat Zion allowing its members to go out to eat on Shabbat after the services is no different than a Sunday Churchianity practice of going out to eat on the “Christian Sabbath.” (no such thing as a “Christian Sabbath.”) It’s not just incorrect to allow or teach it, it is a false teaching, making, by definition, Bat Zion part of a false system no different than the Rome-decreed movement that many people are now coming out from. (aside: the Seventh Day Sabbath is from Friday night to Saturday night; Genesis teaches how to set Yahweh’s calendar, days, nights, etc.)

So, what is the solution? Read the Torah and what it says. Does it allow going out to eat, buying and selling on Saturday afternoons? No, it doesn’t, because even if believers were being bought the things, others have to work to provide it (again, there are exceptions, like doing good on the Sabbath.) These are not bondage requirements. The Sabbath was set apart, and the people chosen to keep it are to be lights and lamps to the rest of the world. This column was designed and written with the intent of being a light inside the growing Messianic movement.

Joey G. Dauben
Publisher
The Ellis County Observer

 

Original Article: http://www.elliscountyobserver.com/?p=35019

Senior Citizen’s Taxes Could Rise in CHISD Election

JOEY G. DAUBEN
The Suburban
joeygdauben@gmail.com

CEDAR HILL — A war of wording has erupted over the school district’s two-pronged effort at getting voters to approve a $53.5 million bond package and a 13-cent property tax increase, both slated for the Nov. 8 ballot. Early voting begins Oct. 24 and ends Nov. 3.

Aside from the $53.5 million for school repairs, renovations, technology and security upgrades, a 13-cent property tax is being requested to fill the coffers for teacher salaries that were cut due to the current economic climate, according to Cedar Hill ISD and the citizen-led bond committee that proposed the measures.

Opposition to the CHISD bond referendum has originated from local Tea Party activists as well as senior citizens, which is unusual because much of the information presented to the public alleges that seniors taxes are frozen.

“Contrary to what weeks of Cedar Hill ISD mailings, their [political action committee] mailings, the CHISD Web site says, the CHISD [chief financial officer], as of October 17, 2011, has admitted some seniors 65 [and older] may have a tax increase if the CHISD [tax hike] and bonds pass,” said Uri Johnson, a senior citizen who is spearheading opposition in the election. “The CHISD has conceded there may be some seniors 65 [and older] whose taxes will increase if [the tax hike and bond] passes, but not beyond their tax ceiling. They have agreed to modify their Web site to reflect this fact and the next PAC mailing will have some corrections. There was no mention of a time when these two events might occur. They stated no one thought of the fact some 65 [and older] seniors might have taxes below their ceiling and this they thought was an honest mistake. Only the CHISD knows what their corrections will say.”

As of this article, none of the corrections to the CHISD Web site have taken place. VoteForCedarHillKids.org, the pro-bond package Web site for the political action committee working to pass the bond and tax increase, has an emphatic “the rates for taxpayers 65 years of age and older WILL NOT BE AFFECTED BY THIS ELECTION” banner at the bottom of their Web site.

Johnson, who is teaming up with Tea Party activist Chris Rasster on the opposition to CHISD’s election, said the information from CHISD and the PAC is misleading.

“Those who estimated taxes that are below their ceiling will have a tax increase,” Johnson said. That’s if “CHISD gets its way. For the past two years I have been levied (actual tax bill on the Dallas County Tax Assessor/Collector Web site) a school tax that is $180 and $220 lower than my ceiling. The estimated difference on the [Dallas Central Appraisal District] for this year is $40. I am not quite certain why the estimated tax for 2011 is higher than the levied for the past two years.”

The state Comptroller’s Web site details how one’s school taxes can go below the ceiling, but never exceed the ceiling.

Duncanville City Council’s Reformers Have 4-3 Majority

DUNCANVILLE — The old, rich white guys who run ran the city for so long are now finding out what it’s like to be on the losing side of votes. Ahhh, the spirit of former District 3 Councilman Paul Ford lives on in the form of this voting bloc:

The Anti-Establishment Votes

• District 1 Councilman Don Freeman
• District 3 Councilwoman Leslie Thomas
• District 5 Councilwoman Johnette Jameson
• At-Large Councilwoman Janet Harris

The Establishment Votes

1. District 2 Councilman Scott Cannon
2. District 4 Councilman Grady Smithey
3. Mayor David Green

Everyone is all up in arms that a 4-3 vote fired the city’s economic development coordinator, and there are threats of taking an alleged Open Meetings Act violation to DA Craig Watkins‘ office. Here’s the Focus Daily News (the official state-run media outlet for the city) article on the issue: http://focusdailynews.com/duncanville-city-council-to-address-possibble-open-meetings-violation-tonig-p5150-1.htm. They would never report on all of the stuff these rich, old white guys have been costing this city for years and years and years.

Source: http://www.duncanville.com/city_council.shtm#_Duncanville City Council Members

The Duncanville Voice Web (DuncanvilleVoice.com) site is another pipe organ for the out-of-power Establishment. It’s now starting to look like a productive city with the good ‘ol boys looking further south — like Ellis County — for which to invade. Don’t look now, boys and girls, but I’ll be working on some articles for The Suburban again very, very soon.

Who’s Behind DuncanvilleVoice.com?

DUNCANVILLE — The political establishment is pissed that their apple carts are being turned over by fresh city council blood. They launched DuncanvilleVoice.com to take advantage of the beauty of social media. The Suburban newspaper in Duncanville is a unique paper: it’s a community paper not afraid to torch the powers that be (full disclosure: I’m an every-so-often freelancer for them.) The crooked arrangement that had the city’s economic development director making six-figures while being related to the good ‘ol boys was disrupted when the new city council voted to fire him. Paul Ford started this movement of late. The former District 3 councilman’s spirit lives on with the new council. Flashback:

YouTube | Anti-Cedar Hill ISD Tax-and-Debt Video

CEDAR HILL — YouTube video coming against the bond package and property tax hike:

Can I get one of my editors to copy/paste the embed code of the video to this thread? Thanks.

Cedar Hill Mayor Rob Franke: Please Vote for Higher School Property Taxes and More Debt

CEDAR HILL — Mayor Rob Franke‘s plea to voters in his city — much of it overlaps with the school district boundaries — in mass-mailed personalized letters seeks “FOR” votes in the Cedar Hill ISD’s massive tax-and-debt referendum on the Nov. 8 ballot. I tried to get former Cedar Hill councilman Wade Emmert, now the chairman of the Dallas County GOP, to weigh-in on this election as either his current title or individually, and he wouldn’t do it. Sly politician that Wade Emmert.

Mayor Rob Franke

Background on the CHISD bond election — including their massive amounts of misinformation and deliberately deceptive “facts” and figures — can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Cedar-Hill-Cable/117465571695636

Freedom of the Press Group’s Dallas County Newspapers

Freedom of the Press Group’s newest additions to the Best Southwest:

The Cedar Hill Cable
The DeSoto Disclosure
The Duncanville Dispatch
The Hutchins Horizon
The Lancaster Ledger

Huge Scandal Rocks DeSoto Police Department, Midlothian IRS Task Force

Haunting words from yours truly (Joey G. Dauben) on Nov. 4, 2008:

“Watch. This arrangement [IRS Task Force] will bite us all in the ass.”

I told you so, I told you so, I told you so…back when Midlothian’s police department (led by ex-DeSoto assistant Chief Carl Smith) hooked up with DeSoto’s police department (Smith’s friend Mike Brodnax is chief) and several others to form a federally deputized Internal Revenue Service money laundering task force to be run out of the scandal-plagued old Midlothian First Baptist Church building (that’s a separate story altogether, one that comes with a separate FBI investigation), I opposed it on the grounds that Ellis County didn’t need to be anywhere near the scandal-plagued, corruption-heavy DeSoto PD or the federal government: especially when local police officers would be federally deputized under the IRS and Treasury Department (terrorism task forces I can deal with and understand.)
I also questioned the make-up of this task force between several horrible police officers, namely Lt. Paul Pothen. (check the Flashback Links below)

So here’s the big scandal to rock the IRS Task Force that is coming true:

— Richard Arledge was literally a millionaire car salesman and note financier in Richardson, Texas;
— Arledge sold a car, a brand-new Corvette convertible, to some men who put $15,000 down on the vehicle; 
— This same Corvette is later seized by the DeSoto Police Department; Arledge’s companies, Richard Arledge Suzuki & Expressway Financial, are the lien holders on the car;
— Arledge approaches DeSoto PD about getting the car back due to the men — later to be found as drug dealers — paying $15,000 down on the car and Arledge’s company still holding the note; Lt. Paul Pothen tells him that in order to get the car back, Arledge would have to pay $15,000;
— Arledge doesn’t like this, so he calls DeSoto PD and lodges a complaint against Pothen (in the private sector, this would amount to extortion)
— The day of the Corvette being seized, DeSoto PD and the IRS Task Force out of Midlothian show up to execute a search warrant, guns drawn and numbering about 60 officers in all, seizing everything from files, documents and records from Arledge’s companies;
— It’s a fact that Arledge’s companies — mainly the dealership — marketed and advertised in Southern Dallas County. DeSoto PD and the Task Force, plus lawyers for the government, say Arledge should have known he was selling cars to drug dealers;
— DeSoto PD/Midlothian IRS Task Force agents end up seizing documents pertaining to “10 or 12 deals,” when Arledge has done about 5,000 car deals;
— Employees of Arledge’s are indicted; Arledge is indicted as well; two employees accept probation plea bargains from federal prosecutors; Arledge and two others are fighting in a Nov. 15 federal court trial the charges; they refuse to accept deals, even though Arledge could face 30 years in prison
— Midlothian’s IRS Task Force sent undercover agents (a man and a woman) to buy cars from Arledge; they ultimately paid $75,000 for a BMW, but wanted Arledge to just take the money without filing a required IRS form, an “8300.” Arledge refused, and it later came out that both of these BMW buyers were undercover and wearing wires; the audio exists and proves that after five times trying to get Arledge to sign over a car without the Form 8300, the form was in fact filed (it’s federal law to file Form 8300 when one accepts $10,000 or more in a cash transaction);
— Midlothian’s IRS Task Force seized $1.7 million in cash and cars from Arledge’s businesses the day of the original raid; there has been approximately $1.6 million sent back to Arledge’s lender to date; Arledge could receive only a $33,000 payment in return due to this entire case being blown wide open;
— Big down payments on vehicles were nothing new to Arledge; all customers filled out the same credit applications and other financial instruments to obtain vehicles

The indictments and allegations made by Midlothian’s IRS Task Force and DeSoto PD of money laundering came after Arledge made a complaint about Lt. Paul Pothen for what amounts to blatant extortion.

And once again, I told you so. I told you so. I told you so.

“Watch. This arrangement [IRS Task Force] will bite us all in the ass.”
                                                                                                         — Joey G. Dauben
                                                                                                            (Nov. 4, 2008)

Flashback Links:
— BestSouthwestBlog.com’s Paul Pothen, Roy Orr, Richard Rozier, Ellis County Press archives: http://bestsouthwest.blogspot.com/2009/03/fred-orr-texas-constittion-outdated.html

— Lt. Paul Pothen found passed out drunk outside bar; left loaded gun inside bar: http://eco2.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/midlothians-irs-task-force-lt-found-drunk/

— Why ex-Midlothian City Councilman Ken Chambers voted against the IRS Task Force:
http://eco2.wordpress.com/2008/11/02/midlothian-why-chambers-voted-against-the-irs-task-force/

— Midlothian PD has become an extension of DeSoto PD: http://eco2.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/political-real-estate-roy-orrs-boys/

— YouTube videos of the IRS task force being discussed and/or approved: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh5-UW7RD-0

City of Duncanville Loses EEOC Sexual Harassment Case

The city of Duncanville recently hired a new public works director to replace the one (Earl Grody) accused of groping, slapping and sexually harassing a former co-worker, Debra Carlson (who is now the Libertarian Party nominee for Dallas County judge, by the way.)

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is a federal agency, and Carlson was subjected to massive levels of harassment that ultimately led to — though for an unrelated matter — the firing of the offending public works director (Grody.)

From the Nov. 19, 2009 blog post:

Duncanville Service Center Should Be the Real ‘Cherry Pit’

Earl Grody was recently fired from the City of Duncanville for reportedly wrecking another city-owned vehicle, but count it as a measure that was meant to unload a huge liability.

Duncanville was nailed with a federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint by former Duncanville Service Center (water/sewer/etc department) employee Debra Carlson after she complained – repeatedly, to no avail – to higher-ups with the City of Duncanville.

Wonder if that’s why City Manager Kent Cagle is looking for employment elsewhere?

Carlson filed all sorts of allegations against the city. In the Personal Harm section of the Texas Workforce Commission Civil Rights Division complaint form, she states:

• I have been invited to join Earl Grody and his wife at Swingers parties.
• Earl Grody grabbed my hair pulling my head up and down, mimicking oral sex. Earl Grody stated “this is how he steers his women.”
• I was repeatedly questioned about my sexual preference.
• I was physically slapped on the butt.
• I was physically held up against a wall and Earl Grody grinded his butt up against me.

Carlson also alleged that every time a Duncanville Service Center employee would see a woman in public (they did this while driving around to and from projects in the city), they would always comment on how they would be “sluts,” and “whores,” and “I wonder if her dad taught her the facts of life.”

Such a professional organization. Classy, Duncanville. Classy.

In Carlson’s pre-employment interview with Duncanville, she alleged three supervisors of warning her of the sexual harassment nature that would ensue should she get the job. Those three who told her she’d have to get used to the sexual atmosphere and “putting up with sexual language and hazing” were: Ryan Shelley; Mike Meyers and Grody.

Greg Weaver, the city’s personnel director, told Carlson while questioning her on her sexual harassment claims that, “we know, we know that part of your job was going to entail…[this type of treatment.]”

Grody later admitted to doing all of the things alleged and apologized.

I’ll let Carlson get on here and post more of the details. Talk about an amazing case. While still living in New Hampshire and visiting for the May city/school elections, I met up with Carlson for the first time and discussed this entire ordeal with her.

Begs the question of where’s ex-District 3 Councilman Paul Ford to bring this up to the city council when you need him? Man…

See Also: City of Duncanville reportedly deleting emails and documents in related case

Flashback:

New information today regarding the City of Duncanville and City employee Earl Grody, water foreman for City of Duncanville, Joel Daugherty, superintendent of Water, Waste Water and I&I department at the City Service Center, located at 330 Shady Trail, Duncanville, along with various others, have been named in charges filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, aka EEOC. The EEOC is the Federal Agency that investigates and looks into claims that employers have discriminated against their employees because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age or disability. The charges filed against the City of Duncanville include charges of sexual harassment including a sexually hostile work environment, discrimination, and retaliation. It is unlawful for an employer to discriminate against former or present employees because they have made a charge, testified, assisted or participated in any manner in an investigation, proceeding, or hearing under this law or because they opposed any practice made unlawful by the statutes. The City of Duncanville will have to be held accountable sooner of later for their actions and for whom they put in charge of their city. It looks like it’s going to be sooner than later!

he City Of Duncanville has “conveniently” released from employment the main person involved in the charges against the City who allowed this type of behavior to go unchecked and allowed. Originally the perpetrator of the most offensive behavior, Earl Grody, was to be fired for being involved in apparently a 4th incident in which he had a driving accident involving a city vehicle in less than 6 years. That’s a vehicular accident approximately once every 18 months or so. His last vehicle accident involved him totaling a city vehicle by colliding with a PARKED CAR!! Sources state that when informed of his pending termination he requested to be allowed to resign without cause. So that of course means that he is able to have a favorable termination, keep his retirement, etc.. I know the City of Duncanville realized the liability Mr. Grody represented to them and welcomed the opportunity to relieve them of that liability. Regardless, the City of Duncanville along with Mr. Grody, Mr. Joel Daugherty along with City Officials who not only knew of the discrimination and harrassment but condoned it will not got through this that easily. Just because Mr. Grody is no longer an employee that does not relieve any of the parties involved of their responsibility to follow and implement Federal Law. Updates to follow……….

Dalton Lott, Parkland Defend Breaking Open Meetings Act, Premature Birth Actions

Is this the same Dalton Lott who is the political equivalent to Tony Soprano in Duncanville (the chair of Pro-Dunc PAC)? The same Dalton Lott who oversees Parkland Hospital’s quality and risk management committee, the very body that was featured in the Dallas Morning News Metro section today?

Parkland, a taxpayer-funded abyss of a hospital, is apparently not meeting World Health Organization standards of keeping premature babies warm enough after they are delivered via C-sections (I refuse to acknowledge the offensive term, “preemies” that the DMN refers to these living human beings as.)

Not that I’m a fan of subscribing to a world body known for implementing the actual AIDS virus in African nations or promoting the widespread use of lethal doses of poison in children’s vaccines, or better yet, hyping up the very-real BS of the H1N1 fear-mongering.

But the open meetings violations are extremely clear, judging by the questions these Parkland executives and busybodies were asking in haste towards the DMN reporters. How arrogant! The public agenda, according to the DMN, never listed an executive session item, but after some scrutiny over the premature birth temperature issue, Parkland’s board went behind closed doors for almost four hours.

If this Dalton Lott is the very Dalton Lott I think it is, he is helping assist Parkland in violating the Open Meetings Act.