{"id":5725,"date":"2010-10-23T02:23:40","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T06:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/?p=5725"},"modified":"2010-10-23T02:32:44","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T06:32:44","slug":"of-witchcraft-aqua-buddhas-and-skull-and-bones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/2010\/10\/23\/of-witchcraft-aqua-buddhas-and-skull-and-bones\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Witchcraft, Aqua Buddhas and Skull and Bones"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some desperate politicians have been digging up stories of basically harmless high school or college pranks with which to smear their opponents. <\/em><\/p>\n

Christine O’Donnell joked about associating with highschoolers exploring witchcraft, a fad of its time that could be considered similar to the vampire craze today, and Rand Paul was accused of participating in what seemed like it could have been a fraternity hazing prank. But other than that context, what bearing do these incidents have on anything happening today?<\/p>\n

This reminded us of some of the most prominent people in history and their associations with odd groups. Indeed one of these groups or ‘secret societies’ as it is known, is called the “Skull and Bones”. Both John Kerry and George W. Bush belonged.<\/p>\n

Says a CBS News<\/a> report…<\/p>\n

“Skull and Bones, with all its ritual and macabre relics, was founded in 1832 as a new world version of secret student societies that were common in Germany at the time. Since then, it has chosen or “tapped” only 15 senior students a year who become patriarchs when they graduate — lifetime members of the ultimate old boys’ club.’<\/p>\n

\u201cSkull and Bones is so tiny. That’s what makes this staggering,\u201d says Robbins. \u201cThere are only 15 people a year, which means there are about 800 living members at any one time.\u201d<\/p>\n

But a lot of Bonesmen have gone on to positions of great power, which Robbins says is the main purpose of this secret society: to get as many members as possible into positions of power.”<\/p>\n

Some of those rituals include lying naked in a coffin. Other rituals are described in further detail in the CBS News<\/a> report.<\/p>\n

The list of “Bonesmen” in government is too long to post here but after reading about its bizarre history and practices and intention to create lasting influences upon its members that would follow them all their lives<\/a>, the idea that Christine O’Donnell and Rand Paul were playacting for a comedy show or goofing around with a fraternity prank seems trivial and hardly important<\/p>\n

More Info on Skull and Bones<\/a, Member Lists<\/a>, and More Members<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some desperate politicians have been digging up stories of basically harmless high school or college pranks with which to smear their opponents. Christine O’Donnell joked about associating with highschoolers exploring witchcraft, a fad of its time that could be considered similar to the vampire craze today, and Rand Paul was accused of participating in what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5725"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5731,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725\/revisions\/5731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}