I have been "Ad Surfing," let me explain: Go find a blogging place like blogger.com and on the main page go and open 10 or so blogs. When they are open click open all the google ads in bars. There are some really cool things out there. Think about all the fun ads you can see.

Some are really good. Some are really bad.

What you see will be different then what I see, I think. Makes you wonder how much it costs to put these ads on there.


Tags: Google, adsense, Web Surfing, boredom

I do not mean to be harsh, okay maybe not that harsh... okay maybe a little harsh, but Cindy Sheehan can you just put a sock in it and be quiet.

I really feel sorry for your loss. I feel even worse for your son who served with valor as you drag his name and memory though the dirt and the mud.

So today during the President's State of the Union address you try to protest in the gallery. Please give it a rest. I am sure on the Today Show or some other such outlet you will be up there sobbing that your free speech rights were snubbed. But you broke the law.

I will give you points for protesting without cameras present... but the press was still there covering your blathering.

You do not rest and over at the White House you say, "You're evicted! Get out of our house!" I am just wondering who is he evicted by? Not the people of the United States of America.

Cindy, do us all a favor, get over it and... go home and... shut up and... get a job. Please.

Tags: Politics, Sheehan, POTUS

Judge Alito is now a Justice and crybaby Kerry has proven himself to be a divider of the people.

Alito is in by a few votes. This is not really news but noteworthy. SCOTUS blog has some fun trivia on confirmation (http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/archives/2006/01/confirmation_tr.html)

More noteworthy is John Kerry who has shown himself out of touch and wanting to do a filabuster on Alito. Grow up Kerry, you lost the election.


Tags: Alito, Kerry, SCOTUS

Well first it was Apple iTunes publishing Lost, Desperate Housewives, Battlestar and others. Now iTunes has Law and Order, Adam 12 and much more. There are more promises of more and newer TV shows.

The comes CES this week, now FOX, Google and Yahoo are jumping on the bandwagon.

For those who love TV this should be a good thing esp. with the $1.00 shows coming from FOX. I hope 24 is on the list. If course most of these will not work on the Macintosh.

Those who have not seen Battlestar Galactica you really need to see the show. BSG is perhaps the best Television show out there. The scripts are great and characters are great. There is one more coming out this season on Jan 13.

What does Messiah have to do with a prostitute? In 1 Cor, the talmadium asks that question. A further expansion could be... what does Messiah have to do with...

... drunken office parties.

... lewd behavior at parties,

or perhaps even... shall I dare say... maybe...

... a sale on the latest ‘R’ rated porn DVD movie tripe that has been released from the MPAA and major studios?

... a recent video game exploring sex and violence? Oh yes! Let us celebrate the Prince of Peace by shooting up people and have wild sex with whoever is near by!

Or maybe what does Messiah have to do with:

... latest rapper singing, “I want to sex you up!”
... or a girl with more of herself falling out of her clothes on a CD then music?
The answer is simple... Messiah has nothing to do with this (other then waning to redeem those who have fallen away. Paul gives us that information.... NEVER!

My only question that is begged to be asked... why would I want my Lord’s name (okay title) tossed to the dogs and used as scorn and ridicule? Think about it for a minute... many people feel very depressed at Christmas then any other time of the year. Many people have bad emotions with Christmas. Competition in Christmas lights is sick. Greed goes through the roof. Give me this, give me that, I want this... people at Wal-Mart on Black Friday were fighting over stuff and junk that will pass away so quickly. Where did Yeshua or Saul say anything about this being good?


If we say that we are Messiah followers we should not be of the world. There must be stand taken for King Messiah and having the anti-fruit of the spirit should not be associated with Jesus. We need to remember King Messiah in the way He told us to remember Him., not in some other format.


1Cor. 6:15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Messiah himself? Shall I then take the members of Messiah and unite them with a prostitute? Never!

Oi Vey! I can here it now "GENTLEMEN START YOUR SPENDING!!!!!!!"

Well here we go. Politicians getting all excited over the possibility of spending large sums of your hard earned money (story here). The state of Louisiana is asking for stacks of cash to be sent there way in light of Katrina.


First, do not get me wrong, I am sympathetic to those who lost everything. I feel bad that six people died in the Superdome. I do regret that any of this had to take place. But the shear unmitigated gaul of the greedy swamp rats is beyond belief. The swamp rats who shall not remain nameless are Vitter and Landrieu are sitting like greedy little rats waiting to pounce on the stacks of money and SPEND SPEND SPEND!!!!! According to the Washington Post, the swamp rats want more then 16 times the amount to spend on levies then is needed. Let greed reign


The real question I think that must remain, is it worth it? Should New Orleans even be rebuilt? I am of the opinion... do not rebuild. Why you may ask. Well for starters most people have ended up somewhere else in the United States. Let them stay there. Or even have the government spend money to send them elsewhere free of charge. Cover the debts on people who did not have insurance. Pay them 20K each (that is per person including kids) and let them decide where to live. The government should clean up New Orleans and let stay fallow for at least 10 years.


Let’s be real here... will the wacky environmentalists ever allow New Orleans to be rebuilt and rebuilt the way it should be? I think not.

A really interesting thing happened last month that skipped by most people. Even /. missed the event till a month later. Man has created in his own image, hence Imago Homo. This is an event... the kind that give us some of the really scary sci-fi stories... kinda like I, Robot, or perhaps better yet Blade Runner. Even still the Matrix movies if you can get over the violence, make sure you watch the animatrix

Man has created in his own image. A robot has been made that has life like movements and even fools people. The robot talks (not in English) and behaves like a normal person. Of course the power pack is limiting device right now and will be for a long time to come.

Man is making in his own image. Rights are just around the corner.

Pop culture is always an odd thing what makes one thing good and another one fail. What makes something good one season and fail the next ( Joan of Arcadia)? Or what makes something have staying power of many years ( Star Trek and Star War s)? I think it depends on how the item in question touches our lives and says, like great literature, touches the human condition. To this end Desperate Housewives has a chance of doing what drama has a real problem doing, touch in a real way the true human condition.
After being encouraged to watch Desperate Housewives by a friend, I watched the whole first season with my wife. Desperate Housewives does what no other show has done in a very long time. Ask the questions out loud that no person dares to ask.
In one form or another we all at one point or another we all live our lives in quiet desperation. The problem is that we usually live it quietly and in our own minds in the conversation of our wills, desires, hopes, and dreams.
While many would gladly condemn Desperate Housewives as to risque it is not as bad a soaps and many other shows. Yes, a woman had an affair with teen, yet look at all that had transpired out of that. Choices had to be made. Ultimately friends are what mattered to the characters, friends to help in times of need, in times of sorrow, in times of choices and in times of desperation.
Side note:
One person stuck out in my mind greatly ( summary of episode 19). The pastor at the church where Bree and Rex go to church. The pastor (Methodist as I recall) was called in to have dinner and ‘counsel’ the son )Andrew) who has become gay. The scriptwriters did a great job in portraying this man of God. He is not hypocritical, not overbearing, not a hate monger and all the other things we have come to expect from television script writers. He keeps his word when the Bree’s son is plotting evil. He does exactly what one, as a former pastor, would expect a good pastor to do. Many many kudos to the scriptwriters.

And The Winner Is... (and comments on the abortion issue)

20 July 2005

Lat night POTUS announced (transcript here) the nominee for the high Court. John G. Roberts (also here)seems to be as bland as they come. Mr. Roberts has done more law work then judging. There does not seem to be much of a record as a judge. The question is... will he follow the US Constitution.

The big question, how will he vote on Row v. Wade. First, let’s clear the air about R v. W, this case IS NOT (and I mean NOT) the law of the land. In 1992, the Justices rewrote the rules on abortion. in a case called Planned Parenthood v. Casey. This is the law of the land even though Roe is still the flash point. Many Christians who want abortion to be gone just want it gone. Would it surprise you if I was of another opinion?

Abortion as a ‘right’ must be overturned for one legal reason and one legal reason only: the Federal government has no place in enforcing abortion law one way or the other. It is not their area of responsibility under the Constitution of the United States of America. Abortion should and must fall under the realm of the states. Let the states be the ones to make the call.

So back to abortion. What should the argument be? The only question is what is IT? Is IT a fetus, a bunch of materials thrown together? Or is IT, a human being made in the image of God (imago dei)?

So what are the differences between the pre-born child (or fetus) and the post born child of say 2 months?

S. L. E. D. (I read this somewhere sorry can’t give credit)

SIZE - Does the size make a difference? Is a person who is 4’ 5” tall any less of a person the over 7’ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ? (BTW good read on that link.)

LEVEL OF DEVELOPMENT - is a 6 year old child any less of a person then an adult in their prime? I think not.

ENVIRONMENT - Does a person become less of a person just because their environment changes? When my daughter flys fron MSP to Ronald Regean Airport does she become a different person? If a person is swimming are they less of person then when they were on dry land?

DEPENDANCY - An in womb child is more dependent on the mom for life then is say a 13 year old. However, what about those people who are kidney machines, those who must take insulin or are on heart lung machine... are they any less of a person then those who are not? I think not.

So what is IT?

As usual the traditional media has a hard time with Christians and what we do. The New York Times is by no means an exception. John Leland writes an article on the largest congregation in America. Lakewood Church in Houston started in 1959. The writer points out at how church buildings are changing with the lack of traditional images. Joel Osteen, the pastor, is a telegenic and media savvy pastor.
In the article there are always mentions of money such as the $95 million dollar building in the old Compaq Center, where the Basketball’s Houston Rockets used to play. Mr. Leland correctly questions why the money was not used for the poor or other such items. To which he adds a quote that may be out of context, “"My philosophy," he said, "is that that $95 million will be nothing compared to what we'll do when we have 100,000 people." On the subject of tithing: “Church members said they had experienced small miracles as a result of attending Lakewood, and especially as a result of tithing, which Mr. Osteen tells them will bring even greater rewards.” On the other side Mr. Leland tells the reader that the main message is a positive philosophy of well-being and good health. The article focuses money, health and Christianity light.
On the flip side let’s be blunt. Everything from Lakewood and Lakewood people screams health and wealth gospel. People named and claimed items in the article. Friends, God is not a fairy godmother. I think it was Oswald Chambers who said, If we worship something other then the true GOD we are worshipping an idol. In this case if we are placing our faith in a characteristic that does not belong to God... we are idol worshippers.
Other Notes:
• An excellent book on the topic of Mega-Churches is Os Gusiness’s book Dining With The Devil.
• CNN had a similar story however they mentioned little on money other then an offering taken.
• Friends, Jesus is not going to ask how many people were in your congregation. Did you do the things he said to do? “Do you love your wife, with all you’ve got inside of you, are you laying down your life? What about the others, are you living as servant to your sisters and your brothers? Do you make the poor man beg for a bone? Do the widow and the orphan cry alone?” - Don Francisco, Steeple Song
• Best and saddest quote: "Did it feel like church?" he said. "Yes, in a bigger, more extravagant way. No more little storefronts - this is the new face of church."