Sick day

I broke a record, a 12-year record. And I won't tell you what. If you want to know, see Seinfeld's "The Dinner Party" episode and what happened to the black and white cookie.



I've been sick and feverish and blogging while running a temperature could be humiliating for yourself, as well as your future generations. So sorry for my absence. I'll be back next week with my senses in tact, or at least no looser than usual.

the Word: God wants us happy

Well....not quite.



Pastor Craig Groeschel, in this week's lesson in his TRUEish series, said, "God doesn't want you happy...in these three categories in your life."

Find out what they are here.

Global warming isn't real? Say it ain't so...

My toes are freezing. I'm wearing a sweater and thick socks, blankets are within my reach, as are sweaters that are so thick and fuzzy every fiber, loose hair, or string in the tri-state area is thirstily clinging to the sleeves.

It's cold outside. It's really freaking cold. The ground is covered in snow and ice here in the Heartland, a blinding white carbon copy of the rest of the world. And yesterday, amid school closings due to slick streets, AlGore (most likely shuttled there in a SUV with snow tires) testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capital Hill.
Was he humbly admitting his global warming hysteria was some Kutcher "Punked" episode gone awry? No. He was giving the earth one last dire warning of our impending doom.

"We have arrived at a moment of decision. Our home - Earth - is in grave danger. What is at risk of being destroyed is not the planet itself, of course, but the conditions that have made it hospitable for human beings."

Transport pods anyone? Let's just colonize a different planet then. What? None other has wireless internet? Geez. We're just up a creek then, aren't we?

AlGore is feeling panicky because the truth of climate change is coming out, more and more scientists are defecting, and, sorry Al, but the freezing temperatures are hard to ignore.
Since record breaking-and-making cold temperatures have been rapidly occuring, the environmental alarmists have changed their rhetoric from "global warming" to "climate change", an all inclusionary term when that thermometer just isn't cooperating.
The truth is, the earth fluxes. It always has. It goes through warming trends, then cooling trends. It was intelligently designed. And we, us meager humans, are not mini-gods capable of shifting the very climate out of balance by idling our car.

If you think that, then warm this place up. Like I said, my toes are freezing.

Here is the latest hole punched in Gore's carbon credit hotair balloon: his leading NASA scientist/global warming guru James Hansen is getting dressed down by his superior.

Retired senior NASA atmospheric scientist Dr. John S. Theon, (remember that name) former supervior of Hansen's, has a few choice and quotable words for Gore's buddy. And I, taking great pleasure, will give those quotes to you, via the EPW. In fact, the hope and change I feel right now is spreading down to my formerly frozen toes.

- “I appreciate the opportunity to add my name to those who disagree that global warming is man made,” Theon wrote to the Minority Office at the Environment and Public Works Committee on January 15, 2009. “I was, in effect, Hansen’s supervisor because I had to justify his funding, allocate his resources, and evaluate his results."

- “Hansen was never muzzled even though he violated NASA’s official agency position on climate forecasting (i.e., we did not know enough to forecast climate change or mankind’s effect on it). Hansen thus embarrassed NASA by coming out with his claims of global warming in 1988 in his testimony before Congress."

- Theon declared “climate models are useless.”

- “My own belief concerning anthropogenic climate change is that the models do not realistically simulate the climate system because there are many very important sub-grid scale processes that the models either replicate poorly or completely omit,” Theon explained. “Furthermore, some scientists have manipulated the observed data to justify their model results. In doing so, they neither explain what they have modified in the observations, nor explain how they did it. They have resisted making their work transparent so that it can be replicated independently by other scientists. This is clearly contrary to how science should be done. Thus there is no rational justification for using climate model forecasts to determine public policy"

As Chief of several NASA Headquarter's programs, Theon oversaw the research done by Hanson, as well as Roy Spencer, Joanne Simpson and several hundred others in NASA, academia, and the private sector who worked on climate research, he explained.
P.S. the man knows his stuff.

He has now joined many other current and retired NASA scientist in refuting man-made climate change. Here's a small list, just for kicks, also via the EPW:

- Aerospace engineer and physicist Dr. Michael Griffin, the former top administrator for NASA
- Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanne Simpson, the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology
- Geophysicist Dr. Phil Chapman, an astronautical engineer and former NASA astronaut
- Award-Winning NASA Astronaut/Geologist and Moonwalker, Jack Schmitt
- Award-winning NASA Astronaut and Physicist Walter Cunningham of NASA's Apollo 7
- Chemist and Nuclear Engineer Robert DeFayette, formerly with NASA's Plum Brook Reactor
- Hungarian Ferenc Miskolczi, an atmospheric physicist with 30 years of experience and a former researcher with NASA's Ames Research Center
- Climatologist Dr. John Christy
- Climatologist Dr. Roy W. Spencer
- Atmospheric Scientist Ross Hays of NASA's Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility

And let me add one more name to the list of people who don't buy any of this climate change buffoonery:
- Tara Lynn Thompson, non-Kool-aid drinker



Curtsy to Watts Up With That for the links.

Quote Them

Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (Republican from Maryland) knows his history, not through books or professors or politicians. He lived it. And during a meeting with House Republicans over the stimulus bill, Rep. Barlett gave Obama a first-hand account on how the new President is determined for history to repeat itself...in failure.

"Mr. President, I probably come at this from a slightly different perspective. I remember when FDR beat Hoover in 1932. So I remember the Great Depression very well. I don't remember any of the many government programs affecting the course of the Depression. Government programs didn't work then, I don't know why we think they would work now. Mr. President, I think our obsessive borrowing has fully mortgaged my kids and my grandkids. Now we're working on mortgaging my two great-grandkids. Mr. President, I think it's more than a little bit selfish to try to solve our economic problems which we created by burdening future generations yet to be born."

The room erupted with applause. Do not, however, take that as a sign Obama heard a word.

the ZO Master

Here's the man on the "I Pledge" video, Will Smith and spoiled celebrities like him, free-minds and free-thinkers. Enjoy.

Quote Them

"Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxis and cutting hair."

George Burns (1898-1996)
comedian



Via Patriot Post

the "I Pledge" parody

One comment is vulgar, otherwise, the parody video of the Demi/Ashton fulfills it's purpose, showing the ignorance and hubris of Hollywood.

Favorite Idiots: the Oprah Winfrey special

Because this post-inauguration Oprah show deserves a blog entry all its own.



Forest Whitaker
actor

- The light of the New Age is here.
Actually, he came over 2,000 years ago.

- We’re not used to seeing like, a President and a First Lady actually holding each other
instead of Waltzing, choosing to line dance

and kissing each other
which Presidents and First Ladies historically never do










































































and like whispering in each others’ ears....
though the Clintons did a lot of whispering

I think
there's the first mistake

it’s really important for us as a nation, for us to be able to be healed,
which will happen with some White House public nookie

for us to move forward,
toward wanting an Obama web cam

to know it’s okay to love."
because before Obama it was widely understood love was not okay.



- "It's the moments between the lines.
when Obama said nothing

I think
a repeat of the earlier mistake

when I was listening to him speak,
or not listening but lost in my own world of rainbows and moonbeams

the words were so powerful
with all those nouns and adjectives and hot air

I wanted to embrace the time
because I'm all about affection

that I had to even experience what he just said.
since simply listening is for unenlightened people

So it's the breaths between
inhales are where it's at

that I wanted so badly to sit still with,
because it's not what Obama says but what he doesn't say in between what he says

because I was overwhelmed by his inclusion of everyone."
except conservatives, Republicans, rednecks, small-town citizens, people who cling to religion or guns, anyone supporting life, anyone with a different opinion than him, and Rush Limbaugh listeners



Gayle King
Oprah's friend

- "Not only does he hear us. He feels us.
unlike Clinton liked to feel

That when I hear Barack Obama, they said, he talks to my soul.
which is the moment to repeat the Psalms

I think it’s been so long since we felt
freaked out

that about a President of the United States."
a political figure, not a spiritual one


Ali Wentworth
wife of George Stephanopoulos,

- "I took our two daughters down to the Mall. We walked, which felt like going through the Andes mountains....
or eating Andes mints, with the chocolate and mint unified

And we got caught up in this sea of optimism and excitement.
where everyone was littering but doing so with such joy

People helped me with my stroller.
which would never happen without Obama in office

Strangers were hugging and kissing.
spreading STD's and confident universal healthcare was coming

I took the Metro, and everyone was singing 'Amazing Grace' on the Metro.
far more spiritual than when Christians sing it at church

I mean, I was caught up in this – there’s no other metaphor – except a wave of hope.
or a wave of trash

And it was the most spectacular day.
with garbage left all over the nation's capital

Oprah Winfrey

- "I personally feel he makes me want to be a better person.
because...because...because...uh...something spiritual or something or other

I feel that I am a better person
because I'm addicted to feeling that about myself

and that this country is going to be a better country because of him."
another thing I can pat myself on the back about because I helped make it happen

Doris Kearns Goodwin
historian

- "When FDR first became president, and he gave his first Inaugural speech, somebody wrote in and said to him, 'I’ve had a terrible time. I’ve lost my job. The roof’s fallen off. I’ve lost my dog. My wife is mad at me. But you’re there now. Things are gonna be okay.'
because he was too lazy and stupid and a sorry excuse for a man that he couldn't fix his own roof, talk to his own wife, look for his own dog and get his own job

I think Obama has that communication skill."
to open letters from complete losers, read them, and implement them into a speech

- "I’m supposed to be mature as a presidential historian
but I'm not, (giggle, giggle), and possessed with all this hopeychange-stroller-helping-self-loving-stranger-kissing-spiritual-genuflecting-at-the-feet-of-a-man-without-a-resume-and-being-in-Oprah's-swooning-circle happy, happy, joy, joy

and not say these things, but I think it’s very exciting what’s happening."
(giggle,giggle) with me on Oprah (giggle, giggle)

El Rushbo, the Conservative Freedom-Fighter II

Obama doesn't like opinions, unless they are his own.

“You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done,” he told top GOP leaders.

I guess being the bi-partisan President is just another campaign promise broken. Or he doesn't understand the meaning of the word. Bi-Partisan does not mean the silencing the other side. It actually means listening to it.
So if he was truly bi-partisan, Obama would publicly announce he will now be a Limbaugh listener.

While we hold our breath, here's the other half of the Hannity/Limbaugh interview.

Monday Fun

Friday Fun

El Rushbo, the Conservative Freedom-Fighter

Sean Hannity interviewed Rush Limbaugh this week in a two-part series about the future of America, the new Suit-In-Chief, and why conservatism is the only thing that has ever proven to work.

This is the first half of the interview.

Ladies and Gentlemen: El Rushbo

the Word: Cultural Relativism

Ravi Zacharias talks about truth. This is the sun of my universe: truth. Every time I hear the word, I feel my pulse quicken. And I can't even explain to you the reaction, the reason, only that it appears as if truth is dissipating slowly, like warmth in the midst of a bitter Northern wind, and so I'm seeking the heat.

The video is only four minutes and worth the time. I don't know anything about the minister but he's got my attention. Here are a few quotes piquing my interest:

- "I am convinced whatever message God has for this generation, they are determined to change it and come up with the opposite."

- "Intent is prior to content. And the question is: Does this generation really want the truth?"

- "Political expediency stalks the landscape today. How in the name of reason can any sensible human being say, 'I personally believe it is wrong, but politically it is the right thing to do."

Several years ago, on an evening when the darkness seemed thicker, heavier than usual and the weight of it dripped from my hair and dragged down my shoulders, I made a request to God, as well as a promise to accept the culmination of that request.
Driving in my car, alone like I'd never felt and facing a trial of half-truths and misconceptions, I distinctly remember turning the corner toward my closet of a home in the middle of a dilapidated neighborhood where joy remained barricaded on the outside.
This was the end of a tiring day, the end of a tiresome journey, the end of a future so real I had already written the check and never expected it to bounce. I had been lied to so many times, so repetitively over many years and many subjects, I was chocking on the plastic content of it all.

So I asked God, "Tell me the truth. In everything. I want it. I only want the truth. I'm sick to death of lies, from anyone or anything. I want to know, 'What is truth?' And if truth turns my world completely upside down so that up is below and down is above, help me through it, give me truth, as much as I can stand."

I restate that request often, sometimes every week, sometimes every day. It isn't easy, but it's life. Truth, even if it makes me an outsider or unpopular or hated or mocked, I want it. And I have every intention of sharing.

Quote Them

Via the Patriot Post:

"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."

James Madison

Go Joe!

Truth in media. When it happens, it deserves notice.
Via Newsbusters contributor Scott Whitlock:

"Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough on Thursday aggressively clashed with his liberal co-anchor Mika Brzezinski and Washington Post editorial writer Jonathan Capehart about Guantanamo Bay and the definitions of torture.


After Capehart asserted, "I do think there's a way to protect America without violating everything that we stand for and everything that we are," a clearly agitated Scarborough shot back, "That is bull!"

The MSNBC host continued, "What you are doing and, Mika, what you are doing and the rabid left, not you all, but the rabid left has done for the past seven years, is just say, 'We are going to apply new standards to the Geneva Convention.'"

An undeterred Capehart retorted, "How about following the Geneva Convention?"

This prompted Scarborough to lecture, "Oh, guess what, Jonathan? We are! Al Qaeda terrorists that don't wear uniforms. How about reading the Geneva Convention! Because, terrorists that try and blow up civilians are not protected under the Geneva Convention."

Scarborough also launched into Brzezinski for claiming that ex-President Bush saddled Barack Obama with a "mess" in the form of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

A very annoyed Scarborough corrected, "Osama bin Laden created the situation when he took down the Twin Towers!

After his co-host reiterated, "He [Bush] created this situation which challenges every facet of our Constitution and what our country stands by,"

Scarborough extrapolated, "I want you to find me the Nazi prisoner that was read the Miranda rights on the beaches of Normandy! This is lunacy!" He then attacked, "You're blaming George Bush for protecting America!"

I don't usually publish entire blog pieces, but this was too good and I couldn't find the video. Thank you Joe Scarborough for telling the truth. I don't expect everyone to agree with my political opinions, but I do expect everyone to be honest.

Don't use propaganda, lies, hype, ignorance, and nonsense to base your view on. Use facts. I can't argue with that, I can only disagree.

Favorite Idiots

Robert B. Reich
concerning the upcoming federally-funded infrastructure jobs (aka New New Deal)

I am concerned, as I’m sure many of you are, that these jobs not simply go to high-skilled people who are already professionals
but instead give federal stimulus money to slackers, failures, the lazy, the whiny, the sleepy, dopey, grumpy

or to white male construction workers. …
who should be punished and discriminated against because of their skin color, which isn't racist at all

I have nothing against white male construction workers.
I love them, love them with my whole heart openly, but, I hope they starve or just die off

I’m just saying that there are a lot of other people who have needs as well.
and those other people, those with more skin pigmentation, are more important, which isn't racist at all

… Criteria can be set so that the money does go to others,
not the island people on Lost, who cannot get stimulus money because so many of them are white, which isn't racist at all

the long term unemployed minorities,
which isn't racist at all

women,
unless they are white, which isn't racist at all

people who are not necessarily construction workers or high-skilled professionals.
so that the infrastructure work collapses and we can somehow blame that on Bush

...................................



Rev. Joseph Lowry
delivering the Inaugural Benediction prayer

.. help us work for that day when black will not be asked to give back,
but can sit on pillows being fanned and fed grapes

when brown can stick around,
or pound the ground they found making a sound like clowning around

when yellow will be mellow,
and drink only Mellow Yellow

when the red man can get ahead, man,
because if you're not the lead dog, the scenery never changes

and when white will embrace what is right."
instead of hurting all the other colors in the crayon box, which isn't racist at all

..............................................



Dem. Rep. Jack Murtha
on offering to take the Guantanamo Bay prisoners into his Pennsylvania district
(a little history: this is the same guy who called his constituents racists and rednecks and was then reelected during the last cycle)

"I don't have a federal prison. I have a minimum security prison.
Potato, po'tato; tomato, to'mato

For sure I'd take them.
terrorists know how to party, they like to get down

I mean they're no more dangerous in a prison in my district than they are in Guantanamo."
where they are guarded by an entire military force and separated by an ocean from American citizens and not given American Constitutional rights

............................................



Tom Brokaw
"I just want to say one thing.
because I like to hear myself talking

Eh, having been in the South in the sixties
which makes me an expert on the South nearly 50 years later

and Los Angeles and Watts and northern urban areas,
all places my expert opinion still applies

umm, uh, when we were evolving as a country.
although I had already evolved as a person

I'm thinking of all the bigots and the rednecks
who I expertly judged then and now

and all the people that I met along the way,
who didn't expect to be publicly flogged decades later

and I'm saying to them, "Take this."
because I've evolved into a playground bully

$1 Trillion patty-cake game

Job creation?
Ahhh now fellas, how is that important? The Messiah and his loyal, trustworthy, law-abiding, tax-paying, compassionate, tolerant Democrat followers want to spend $1 trillion dollars in a stimulus bill. That's all you need to know.



Republican Dave Camp, ranking member of the Ways and Means Republicans, asked a Congressional staffer from the Joint Committee on Taxation two questions about the $1 Trillion Dollar stimulus bill:
- How many jobs will it create?
- What will be the economic impact?

No answers for either.

But what Camp doesn't understand is that the bill will build community, just like the $170 million inauguration celebration.
This is Hope, Day 2. Just go with it.

the last Great President

Time Magazine photographers Brooks Kraft and Christopher Morris followed former President George W. Bush for eight years. They have put together a five-minute photo essay of the President with a few comments about his personality. It's an honorable and accurate depiction of our 43rd President. Check out the video here.


Thank you President Bush for keeping us safe from the evil that wishes for and only satisfied with our death. You always did what was right and necessary, even when it wasn't popular. We thank you for your great service, for enduring the criticizing, and for holding strong to be a President who did not take action for public opinion or political gain but for what was necessary.

You were the hero we needed, our own Dark Knight.

I'll miss you.

The day after

Time to get those Obamacons volunteering with a trash bag and picking up after themselves.

Oh those messy socialists.

I Pledge...to laugh at this video

I love this video. Without hidden cameras, an investigative report, or idiot-sniffing dogs, a group of celebrity boobs made themselves look like celebrity boobs.

Please make more.

MySpace Celebrity and Katalyst present The Presidential Pledge


Here are a few of my favorite pledges:

I Pledge....

Jenna Elfman: "to always find the humor in everything."
Like this video.

Eva Longoria Parker: "to plant 500 trees this year to help our planet."
One summer I planted 250 trees with my parents. It took days to plant them, weeks and months of watering, and hours upon hours of pulled muscles, blistered hands, and various sunburn lines. This chick is clueless. This will totally crew up her manicure.

Jason Bateman: "For the environment, I pledge to flush only after a deuce, never a single."
I think your maid needs a raise. That is going to be one nasty toilet. Perhaps your pledge should include cleaning it.

P.Diddy: "I pledge to turn the lights off because I use to leave the lights on. But we want to conserve energy so I'm gonna turn the lights off, you turn the lights off."
Uh...most people learned to turn off the lights around age seven because it's expensive otherwise.

Demi Moore: "to free one million people from slavery in the next five years."
President George W. Bush freed 50 million people in less than seven years. This doesn't impress me. And my guess is...she hasn't a clue how to fulfill that pledge.

These are nothing more than New Year's resolutions of the self-righteous. If they really wanted to roll up their sleeves and help, they didn't have to wait until the election of Barack Obama. They could have responded when former President Bush asked for pledges of service . (thanks D at Deceiver.com for the link).

Following the terrorist attacks of September 11th, in his 2002 State of the Union Address, the President called on every American to dedicate at least two years or 4,000 hours over the course of his or her lifetime to volunteer service. He also created the USA Freedom Corps within the White House and charged it with expanding volunteer service opportunities across the country and around the world.

Four million more Americans - a record number - answered that call and volunteered.

People who honestly want to help their fellow man and serve their community don't need to agree with the President to do so, nor do they need to make a video about how fantastic they plan on being.
They just do it.

These celebrities are just modern day Pharisees. Or as I like to call them, boobs.

P.S. The chanting at the end of the video is creepy.

the ZO Master

Lincoln. King. Obama?

And the winner is...

I didn't write this. I didn't even find it. I pulled it from another blogger who also didn't write it but found it. And I, like him, wish I had written it.

The election of The Suit was a victory for whom?

Obama’s Victory

A victory for the hysterical Oprah Winfrey, the mad racist preacher Jeremiah Wright, the mainstream media who abandoned any sense of objectivity long ago, Europeans who despise America largely because they depend on her, comics who claim to be dangerous and fearless but would not dare attack genuinely powerful special interest groups.

A victory for Obama-worshippers everywhere. A victory for the cult of the cult. A man who has done little with his life but has written about his achievements as if he had found the cure for cancer in between winning a marathon and building a nuclear reactor with his teeth.

Victory for style over substance, hyperbole over history, rabble-raising over reality.

A victory for Hollywood, the most dysfunctional community in the world. Victory for Streisand, Spielberg, Soros and Sarandon.

Victory for those who prefer welfare to will and interference to independence. For those who settle for group think and herd mentality rather than those who fight for individual initiative and the right to be out of step with meager political fashion.

Victory for a man who is no friend of freedom. He and his people have already stated that media has to be controlled so as to be balanced, without realizing the extraordinary irony within that statement. Like most liberal zealots, the Obama worshippers constantly speak of Fox and Limbaugh, when the vast bulk of television stations and newspapers are drastically liberal and anti-conservative. Senior Democrat Chuck Schumer said that just as pornography should be censored, so should talk radio. In other words, one of the few free and open means of popular expression may well be cornered and beaten by bullies who even in triumph cannot tolerate any criticism and opposition.

A victory for those who believe the state is better qualified to raise children than the family, for those who prefer teachers’ unions to teaching and for those who are naively convinced that if the West is sufficiently weak towards its enemies, war and terror will dissolve as quickly as the tears on the face of a leftist celebrity.

A victory for social democracy even after most of Europe has come to the painful conclusion that social democracy leads to mediocrity, failure, unemployment, inflation, higher taxes and economic stagnation. A victory for intrusive lawyers, banal sentimentalists, social extremists and urban snobs

Congratulations, America!

Curtsy to Dan Gifford at Big Hollywood.

Is Obama Bush's 3rd Term?

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c

Changefest '09 - Obama's Inaugural Speech

Barack Obama Interview
John McCain Interview

Sarah Palin Video
Funny Election Video

Quote Them

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."

Thomas Paine

the Word: will the real Hope please stand up

Not today.
I'm not going to say anything.
I'm letting the celebrities and pundits and talking heads slobber over every inch of this Inauguration day.

There are days to speak. Days to listen. Then, there are days to observe, quietly and with God as your only company. And...maybe a glass of wine. Or two.

Today there is hope. There truly is. And it has absolutely nothing to do with Washington D.C. or Oprah or a man some want to crown King.
But hope, real hope, is alive.
It was yesterday, the day before, eight years before, thousands of years earlier, and every moment from then until the end. Hope came with one man, who will never die. And there is where hope resides.

So tomorrow, definitely tomorrow, my comments and sarcasm and observations will return. But today, I think you need something more.

A friend sent me this:


Psalm 37


9 Before long the crooks will be bankrupt;God-investors will soon own the store.

11 Down-to-earth people will move in and take over,relishing a huge bonanza.

13 But God isn't losing any sleep; to him they're a joke with no punch line.

18 God keeps track of the decent folk;what they do won't soon be forgotten.

19 In hard times, they'll hold their heads high;when the shelves are bare, they'll be full.

21 Wicked borrows and never returns;Righteous gives and gives.
28 God loves this kind of thing,never turns away from his friends.
Live this way and you've got it made,
but bad eggs will be tossed out.

35 I saw Wicked bloated like a toad,croaking pretentious nonsense.

36 The next time I looked there was nothing—a punctured bladder, vapid and limp.

37 Keep your eye on the healthy soul,scrutinize the straight life;
There's a future
in strenuous wholeness.

40 God-strengthened, we're delivered from evil—when we run to him, he saves us.

the Word: Truish

"Truth is not just a what but a who."

Pastor Craig Groeschel
referring to John 14:6:

"Jesus answered, 'I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

This month, LiveChurch.TV is talking about truth, a word that makes my blood pump, not in a heart attack way.
I crave truth more than chocolate or companionship or even Vitamin C, which I'm very fond of.

The first sermon covers two of Satan's Greatest Weapons:

1. Relativism: assumption that there is no such thing as absolute truth.
2. Subjectivism: I, the subject, have the right to determine what is right and wrong without submitting my judgment to any authority outside myself.

I've been so excited about this series that I dreamed Saturday night I was too late to church and missed it.
Denied.
Except..all the sermons are also online so who the heck knows why I dreamed that. It was also the same night I dreamed about meeting Rush Limbaugh and buying a little bed and breakfast in Alaska from a nice, if not chatty, older couple.

Moving on...
The first sermon was, by no means, a disappointment. If interested, check it out here.

Hookers for Jesus

Natalie Dylan, a 22-year-old, is selling her virginity. So far, the highest reported bid is $3.7 Million from a 39-year-old Aussie.
Today, Glenn Beck interviewed her on his radio show. Here's an excerpt.

DYLAN: But I'm not putting more importance on money than family or love. To me this is just a one-time business encounter.

GLENN: All right. So you're -- no offense intended here. You're just a prostitute for a day?

DYLAN: Yeah, absolutely. You know, there's no way around it. It's sex for money.

GLENN: So you have no problem with being a prostitute?

DYLAN: You know, honestly it's never something I anticipated going into when I was younger, but I never remember having a negative judgment about women who were in prostitution or men for that matter. You know, I'm not compromising my own morals. I would never do that, you know. I've said before hitmen, they make a lot of money but I'm not going to go around shooting someone or hurting someone just for financial gain. I would never do that because that obviously is a huge moral dilemma to me.

GLENN: But morals are all relative?

DYLAN: Exactly.

GLENN: So if somebody --

DYLAN: That's what a lot of people don't understand about me. I would never compromise any of my morals for all the money in the world.

GLENN: Right, but your morals just don't include prostitution?

DYLAN: Exactly.

Instead of hearing my opinion on this girl's decision (or her skewed view of morality) to put a price tag on her body, here is Annie Lobert, the founder of Hookers for Jesus, and her courageous testimony.



And this is an incredible news report on Annie's story.



Just so this 22-year-old "virgin for sale" doesn't inspire women to do this horrific thing, I grabbed a few statistics off HookersforJesus.net to bring the reality home.

AGE FACTORS

• Average age of entry: 14-16 yrs
• Average mean age: 31
• Average years in prostitution: 11
• Percent younger than age 18 at entry: 42 percent

VIOLENCE IN PROSTITUTION

• Threatened with a weapon: 78 percent
• Physically assaulted: 82 percent
• Raped: 82 percent

• Raped more than five times: 73 percent
• Current or past homelessness: 84 percent
• As a child, was hit or beaten by a caregiver until injured or bruised: 49 percent
• Sexually abused as a child: 65-95 percent

PROSTITUTION AND PORNOGRAPHY

• Upset by an attempt to make them do what had been seen in pornography: 32 percent
• Pornography made of her in prostitution: 49 percent

DRUGS AND ALCOHOL USAGE

• Drugs: 75 percent
• Alcohol: 26 percent

HOW DO PROSTITUTES RESPOND WHEN ASKED WHAT THEY NEED?

• Would you leave prostitution: 87 percent
• Need home or safe place: 78 percent
• Need job training: 73 percent
• Need health care: 58 percent

Favorite Idiots

Bill Ayers
"I don't know why I was turned back
(I'm a terrorist, so what),"

Ayers said in an interview this morning from Chicago.
"I got off the plane like everyone else
(since it didn't ram itself into a skyscraper)

and I was asked to come over to the other side.
(despite my innocent face)

The border guards reviewed some stuff
(like my tendency to bomb buildings and kill people)

and said I wasn't going to be allowed into Canada.
(and check out their building structures)

To me it seems quite bureaucratic
(the border patrol actually patrolling their borders)

and not at all interesting ...
(like a bomb exploding, that's VERY interesting)

If it were me I would have let me in.
(Because I let me do whatever me wants to do)

I couldn't possibly be a threat to Canada."
(I save all my hate for America)

Dr James Hansen
NASA scientist and global warming quack

"We cannot afford to put off change any longer,"
(or hope, or hopey change, or changey hope)

said Hansen. "We have to get on a new path
(like the yellow brick road)

within this new administration
(returning to Washington from the Clinton years)

We have only four years left
(even though AlGore gave us five years before total earth destruction, but we haven't synchronized our watches)

for Obama to set an example to the rest of the world.
(which isn't a lot of time to design a cape and spandex pantsuit)

America must take the lead."
(as soon as the record cold lowers, the massive snows melt, and the roads clear of ice)




President-elect Barack Obama

During a Presidential debate:

“We will kill bin Laden.
(with my superhuman eloquence)

We will crush al Qaeda.
(with my immortal coolness)

That has to be our biggest national security priority,”
(second only to the $170 million inauguration event I'm planning)
Obama said during the presidential debate on October 7.

After the election:

“My preference obviously would be to capture or kill him,”
(my friend Ayers has some explosives background)

he said. “But if we have so tightened the noose that he’s in a cave somewhere
(like the Bush Administration has done since 2004, confirmed by Cofer Black chief al-Qaeda hunter at the CIA...in 2004)

and can’t even communicate with his operatives
(also stopped since 2004)

then we will meet our goal of protecting America.”
(that happened back in 2004)

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Quote Me

Faith is the moment, however long, between the question and the answer.

Noteworthy: for whatever reason

$2 Million per person
- A town of 194 people wants to open a "renewable energy museum and information dissemination center" and be the "poster child for rural America" for renewable energy. The supposedly money-saving use of clean energy will only take $375 million. That's all. Just $375 million.

At first glance, the town of Edwardsville, Ala., with a population of 194 people, might raise a few eyebrows with its bid to receive $375 million from the economic stimulus package being assembled by Barack Obama and lawmakers in Congress.
...
That comes out to nearly $2 million per Edwardsville resident...

So how are the people in Edwardsville faring economically?

At 28.7 percent, the town's poverty level was nearly equal to that of Nepal and more than twice the national average, according to the 2000 census.

The town has a poverty level equal to Nepal but want stimulus money so they can buy, among other things,
solar powered lights for $3,479,200
solar panels on town hall for $77,000
solar powered recharging stations for electric golf carts (yes, that's right, a town in severe poverty needs to recharge their golf carts) for $620,000



Missed it by that much
- Democrat Rep. Eric Massa wanted to make a statement about hydrogen fuel cell cars. And he made it.
Massa decided to drive the environmentally-friendly car to his swearing in ceremony for the 29th Congressional District in Washington, D.C. Except...well...it didn't work out so well.

The problem is the car can go about 150 to 200 miles without a refill, and the trip from Corning to Washington, D.C. is 282 miles. And there are no hydrogen refilling stations along the way. As a result, Massa had to switch to another GM hydrogen fuel cell vehicle that was standing by in Harrisburg.

So it took two prototype vehicles to get him there. Two. What happened to them after his important and relevant statement?

After the trip, both cars were towed back to their original locations by two Chevrolet Tahoe hybrid SUVs.

SUV's hauled one prototype back to the GM plant near Rochester, the other one was hauled to Washington, D.C. So it took four vehicles, two of them huge SUV's, to make his statement about conserving energy.
That is a statement, all right.



Out with the Constitution
- Rep. Jose Serrano (D-N.Y.) has an idea. Ding! A lightbulb is flickering and sputtering in his brain. Repeal the 22nd Amendment! Perfect. Just get rid of Presidential term limits with The One taking office. Maybe he can run the office forever!
He hasn't even taken office yet, not run one successful term, heck, the man is having a hard time just getting his cabinet confirmed. Who knew all his friends were crooks, tax cheats, and socialists? I'm sure he's surprised too.
Serrano tried this back in 2003 too, hoping for a forever Clinton era.
If Serrano succeeds, this would be open to all previous Presidents. So...Carter in 2012?



Forrest running his mouth
- Tom Hanks has a new definition for being Un-American. It isn't about the loss of a person's right to life, right to speak, right to own property or possessions that cannot be confiscated by the government. It isn't even about the right to defend yourself from tyranny or worship and hold religious beliefs without persecution.
Nope, it's the right of gay marriage.

“The truth is this [show, "Big Love,"] takes place in Utah, the truth is these people are some bizarre offshoot of the Mormon Church, and the truth is a lot of Mormons gave a lot of money to the church to make Prop-8 happen,” he told Tarts. “There are a lot of people who feel that is un-American, and I am one of them. I do not like to see any discrimination codified on any piece of paper, any of the 50 states in America, but here’s what happens now. A little bit of light can be shed, and people can see who’s responsible, and that can motivate the next go around of our self correcting Constitution, and hopefully we can move forward instead of backwards. So let’s have faith in not only the American, but Californian, constitutional process.”

People can see who is responsible? Like using Google maps to pinpoint the homes and businesses of Proposition 8 supporters in San Francisco? So they can be bullied and threatened and harassed or even harmed? So protesters of the vote (the vote, by the way, IS American and should be honored, like conservatives are honoring the vote of Obama) will be intimidated and never voice or financially support their convictions again? So opposition to whatever Hanks deems American can be silenced? Is that the kind of American he means?

Prop 8 Maps is a project that uses Google Maps and the public list of donors who contributed money to Proposition 8 in San Francisco to provide a map pinpointing the addressees of the donors throughout San Francisco.
...
The purpose of Prop 8 Maps appears to be to out people who contributed money to the passage of Prop 8 and to provide an easy way to locate them. Thus, people who supported Prop 8 with money can be subject to harassment, demonstrations, and perhaps worse. The theory is that they will think twice before doing it again.

The people identifying the Proposition 8 supporters prefer not to be identified. I like to call that hypocrisy, because that is what it is called.

Naturally the people behind Prop 8 Maps prefer to remain anonymous

Proposition 8 defends the definition of marriage. It does not, in any way, limit civil partnerships, civil unions, the rights of gay couples to live their lives in whatever manner they choose. It simply maintains and confirms marriage. And the attackers are stepping on the liberties and rights and freedoms of individuals who honor the reason, purpose, and holy union of one man and one woman.
It is Hanks and those with him who are disrespecting and threatening the rights of the voters who supported marriage.
And, speaking of them, who are the people who support marriage? Here ya go:



That list includes Republicans, Independents, moderate Democrats, White Protestants, Black Protestants, Catholics, and Hispanics. So basically, Mr. Hanks, everyone except liberal Democrats.

the Word: Burning Kincade paintings

Mark Driscoll again. But this has been on my mind. Now I want to put it on yours.

Republican leader on Stimulus: "Oh. My. God."

Prayer would be good about now.

the cost of Leadership

I will not, not ever, not for a moment, take away from any of the lives lost during the Iraq War. I will, however, will constantly, will repeatedly, will without compunction, put it into perspective amidst the liberal and elites harping on the evil Bush years.

Here's a graph from Gateway Pundit that speaks for itself. See the full post here.



Do we really want to demonize the War in Iraq, and with it, President George W. Bush?

If so, I'll leave you with this, a video.
I warn you. It's graphic. It's disturbing. And it's something anyone doubting the necessity of ridding the world of Saddam Hussein needs to see. In fact, it's something everyone should see just to appreciate the peace and safety we've enjoyed in this country, a fact that is now in question.

This is a report from the 1988 chemical attack on Halabja, an attack Hussein fired upon his own civilian people.


See the rest of Gateway Pundits report here.
And as Gateway so succinctly puts it, the media would rather talk about the hazing at Gitmo than the 50 million people protected and freed by the outgoing administration and the U.S. Military.

the ZO Master

If you haven't watched him before, watch him now. The man speaks truth. Soak it up.

Redford's Righteous Review

I must have the oldies in my head this week. I've got the song, "At Last," playing now.

A coalition of black ministers are speaking out against Robert Redford at the Sundance Film Festival for his extreme environmental stance, saying his elitist view is out of touch and causing harm to poor families who need affordable energy to heat their homes, etc.

God bless 'em. I love to hear good, common sense. Go here to see the video.

Hey Big Spender

You can't let a deficit nearing $1 trillion bring you down. Sometimes, you just need to throw some cash around. And if you don't have any, print it.

Obama knows how to shake off those economic blues. He's starting with his inauguration party, a $150 million event (more than three times the cost of Bush's event). That includes a few paper party hats and noise makers so you have to look at what you're getting, not what your spending.

During Bush's $42.3 million dollar inaugural event, the mainstream media didn't understand this wasteful spending. Of course, that was before the collapse of Wall Street, the failure of Freddie and Fannie, the mortgage bubble bursting, the banking bailouts, the rising unemployment costs, the Big 3 automakers near bankruptcy, and months of excessively expensive fuel. With all that happening, all that economic gloom, doesn't Obama deserve to kick up his heels a bit?

And here I kept thinking the incoming administration, talking heads, and mainstream media were talking about an "economic crisis." But I think they were saying "economic prices," as in, "How much is that doggy in the window? Never mind. Just buy it."

Here's what the AP said about Bush in '05:

President Bush’s second inauguration will cost tens of millions of dollars — $40 million alone in private donations for the balls, parade and other invitation-only parties. With that kind of money, what could you buy?

■ 200 armored Humvees with the best armor for troops in Iraq.

■ Vaccinations and preventive health care for 22 million children in regions devastated by the tsunami.

■ A down payment on the nation’s deficit, which hit a record-breaking $412 billion last year....

The questions have come from Bush supporters and opponents: Do we need to spend this money on what seems so extravagant?

The Messiah makes extravagance fun. The "everyone will need to sacrifice" guy was literally talking about everyone else.

Spend, spend, and if you get bored, spend some more. We'll worry about the deficit after the hangover is gone.

The Word: God's rights

My roommate listens to Joyce Meyer every day. She climbs into her car, plugs in a ministry CD, and listens to 20 minutes of encouragement all the way to work and 20 minutes all the way back.
Then she comes home and tells me about it.

I don't do that. I plug in to scripture during Sunday service, sporadically throughout the week, and when something crosses my path. And I have to say, IT ISN'T ENOUGH.

These days, I need it 24/7. If I could liquefy scripture, I'd be attached to an IV. With YouTube, I can skip the needle.

So as I find ministry shorts, I"ll be posting them. Let me just say this in advance, posting a video does not mean I support or endorse the minister. There are ministers I like, ministers I don't. And I won't get into that. The videos are MESSAGES I like. Nothing more.

Here's today's snack: Pastor Mark Driscoll from Mars Hill Church in Seattle. This is his "Ask Anything" service where those in attendance text questions and he answers them on the spot. And the questions are without limits. Awesome.

Case of the Mondays

Today is my birthday.
Uh huh. Yeah and all that.

Anyway, I'm a firm believer in taking every day off possible. So I'm gone today, planning on spending the entire day with family and being extravagant, which means window shopping with no credit limit.

However, since I've officially ended my blogging vacation, I couldn't leave you without at least one Monday laugh from my favorite political cartoonist, Gary Varvel. And, of course, it's at Obama's expense.

See you tomorrow!

Friday Fun

There's genius everywhere.



Have a great weekend!

Favorite Idiots

I want to be just like these people. I want to dress like them and walk and talk like them and think like them.
Hollywood celebrities are beautiful and special and smart and free-thinkers. They read good too. And have super big memorization skills.
Every time they open their plumped up mouth, I'm stupefied with reverence.

Jamie Lee Curtis
"What this crisis is going to do is bring us into financial alignment.
(Like a celestial eclipse that shadows the world with irrecoverable debt.)
Families may have to live together again! What a concept.
(People are happier when 12 of them are squeezed into a 800 sq. ft living space.)
Grandparents will live with their grown children and help raise their grandchildren -- even at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
(And she'll look down below from her multi-million dollar home and smile in righteous approval.)
Neighbors are going to meal share and carpool and child care for each other and maybe even rent out parts of homes to other families.
(Because poor people like to live on top of each other and share their bathroom with strangers.)
Less meat, more beans. Might be better for you anyway.
(And if you can't digest beans, you'll die of starvation but finally, truly be happy.)
Less indoor gym workouts and more walking, more park time, more family outdoor time."
(That 30 mile walk to work everyday will give you time to digest all those beans.)





























photo courtesy of ContactMusic.com
Richard Gere
"I grew up in a time like a lot of people here. It was Vietnam, and we instinctively, innately, felt we could change the world. (by smoking pot and having unprotected sex with strangers)
There was no doubt about it, and we did. (spread STDs)
We changed he world, and then something happened.
(2 million innocent civilians were killed in Cambodia, hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese were imprisoned, tortured and killed, and both countries were and are still ruled by Communism thanks to anti-war protestors and the early American pullout. Change? Yes we can)
It all became selfish...
(something he knows a little about)
and rancid...and silly... and stupid,
(he can verify this)
and we ended up with the last eight years that we’ve had in this country, which is almost over.
(Selfish and silly for eight years? Oh, come, come now. You've been that way for longer than that.)
We have a few days left, but with this new administration, I think we can recapture that innate instinctive feeling that we really can genuinely care for and love each other...everywhere on the planet.
(Because everyone in Hollywood loves each other)
Everywhere, and no one is outside of that embrace.
(sounds sweaty)
Nobody. Everyone gets it. We don't hold it back from the bad guys
(even while they decapitate us)
...the guys with the wrong color.
(what is a 'wrong color'? pea green?)
The guys that live in the wrong places.
(like rednecks in the south)
Everybody gets that.
(Gere's last big embrace prompted a few lawsuits and a warrant for his arrest)







Charles Barkley
"I was going to drive around the corner and get [oral sex]," the basketball Hall of Famer told police in Scottsdale, Ariz., a police report said.
(This is why honesty doesn't work for liberals)
He said the woman had performed the sex act for him last week and "it was the best one he had ever had," the report said.
(Gentlemen sleep off their binge drinking and have their lawyers issue statements about DUI arrests)



















Anne Hathaway
There to accept an award for her role in 'Rachel Getting Married,' Hathaway talked to E! about what she expects from a President Obama in 2009.
"I expect him to explain that choice of Rick Warren," Anne said.
(never question the Messiah)
"I don't get it.
(She was hoping for Rev. Jeremiah @#%@ Wright)
All my friends and I were trying to figure it out, but we just can't.
(How coincidental, my friends feel that way about you.)
So I'd love that.
(Life is not about getting what you want, it's all about sacrifice and beans.)
But other than that, I expect nothing but the best."
(This isn't going to be Anne's year.)