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Posted in Uncategorized on January 28, 2009| 1 Comment »
The End (of Analog) Is Near!
Posted in Uncategorized on January 14, 2009| 2 Comments »
Think I’ll stand on the street corner with a sign that says, ‘The End is Near!” If I hear one more announcement about digital TV and ordering a convertor box, I’m going to go postal!
If I were a visitor from another planet, I would think that the highest priority among humans is to make sure they don’t lose a television signal for a microsecond. That broadcasting in digital is the pinnacle of truth, that receiving the signals in colorful plasma is the ecstacy of human experience, that a hand around a black rectangular box which controls the oracle is the power of one’s very destiny, and that the idea of it’s loss is a thought more untenable than an apocalyptic event.
Would it be sacrilegious to stand with a cross and a sign that says “Get Converted over to DTV before the analog world ends!”
Now that is a thought! Maybe the end of television would indeed be the end of the world for so many of us. What could be more tragically final than no TV? There was an survey done a few years back which determined that the majority of Americans would rather spend six months in hell than six months without a TV. Which makes me wonder, how much relief could one get in hell by having a TV to watch? I’d rather be in hell with a TV than in my comfortable living room without one? Oh my Gog and Magog! What was I thinking!!!!?????
Meet me at the corner of First and Church. We gotta help get the message out. The end of the analog world is near.
Hurricane Katrina (Karina)
Posted in Uncategorized on October 14, 2008| 1 Comment »
Hurricane Karina Hits Nueva Orleans
Lamar Howell, Dissociated Press
When Hurricane Karina slammed the coast of Nueva Orleans, 10,000 Mexicans were ordered by Governor Café to go to the Megadome. The curious residents of Colonia Novena filled trucks and vans and poured into the giant soccer stadium.
Teri Eberto, chief of Homeland Security for Nueva Orleans predicted a miserable night for the evacuees as satellite imagery showed two gaping holes in the Megadome roof. On Tuesday morning, new satellite imagery showed blue tarps covering one hole and the other was already being patched with plywood. A roofing crew had been assembled and had worked through the night in repairs.
“I left my apartment with my buddies. We took too much tortillas and all the meat in the frigerador,” said Jorge Garcia. “We not afraid of getting wet, so many of us rode the back of the truck to the estadium.”
Besides the two holes in the roof, there were numerous leaks in the stadium plumbing. A news eight helicopter flying overhead saw blue plumes coming from several sights. Apparently some of the Mexican workers had butane tanks in their trucks and the materials necessary to fix the leaks.
Wednesday afternoon a US rescue helicopter landed outside the Dome. According to CNB News, what the rescue team found startled them. They found the electricity working. The generators which had stopped working the first day were up and running again, according to CNB news.. Apparently the men had siphoned gas from their trucks to fuel the generators.
The US National Guard found work crews everywhere. One team had dug a huge trench on one end of the Megadome.property. Fires were burning trash in the pit. The Mexicans had also made numerous outside latrines, complete with curtains suspended with plastic pipe.. The team also found hoses rigged up throughout the compound which were bringing in fresh water. Investigators later realized that these hoses were bringing in water from a water tower in the Colonia Novena nearly two miles away.
Mechanics had set up impromptu shops and were working on cars. A reporter from Noticias Nacional asked one of the mechanics what he was doing.
“I putting liff kits on the trucks. Is possible we gotta to drive in water.”
Helicopters had earlier seen what appeared to be distress signs being waved from the stranded evacuees. Upon closer inspection, they found that the signs were advertisements for tacos stands and other food and services being offered.
The fourth day, Governor Café arrived at the dome by helicopter. She inspected the dome, had a meal, and congratulated the people for their work. She told the people they should leave the dome and stay with families and friends until the flooding was under control and power had been restored to the city.
The Mexicans were hesitant to leave. However when the governor mentioned needing workers to rebuild the city, their attitudes changed and they started packing.
Guilt’s Dialog With Forgiveness
Posted in Uncategorized on October 12, 2008| 1 Comment »
GUILT’S DIALOG WITH FORGIVENESS
Should I lobotomize my brain
Cloroxidize my heart
Ipecac my shame
To get a brand new start?
Should I drown some witch’s curse
Climb in a time machine
Set on full reverse
To get me back to clean?
No! Have you gone insane?
Nothing cleans the crud
Or takes away the stains
That is, nothing but the blood
Should I flagellate my back?
Scale mountains on my knees
Cry full Death Valley’s cracks
Will that insure God’s pleased?
Should I wear the letters A
through Z upon my chest?
Or walk the streets and say
Unclean, I’m leprous at best?
No! Have you gone completely nuts?
Nothing pays the price
Or clears you knotted guts
That is, nothing but our Christ
Newt Gingrich on Sarah Palin’s qualifications
Posted in Patriotic, Uncategorized on September 26, 2008| 1 Comment »
The last part of this video has the part about Sarah Palin. It’s worth listening to!
How The Church Made Jello
Posted in Streams of Consciousness, Uncategorized on July 19, 2008| 3 Comments »
Something insidious must have put us to sleep
Droned on and on till we unknowingly fell somnambulant
Surely it came with a humming
A vibration
A disturbance less than a tremor
I know—it was stealth!
A clandestine break-in upon consciousness
Some miscreant, bent on capturing alertness
The first to fall was the sexton in the bell tower
Drowsed by watching the rope swinging in the warm breeze
Next the parson dozed
And the parishioners slumbered
Prayers, which began as a stirred and stirring cacophony
Cooled into responsive reading,
Then chilled into a liturgy
and finally, jelled into contemplation
The loud, jarring, white-water oomph of dissonant heart cries
Slowed into a hallowed swirl of codified praise
And stopped in a wide sea of whispered calm
The doors of the church creaked shut
As the walls began to close in
We feverishly colored the windows with
Wan pleasantries
Pale wishes, and
Pastel memories
Oh, bordered with lead
We all synchronized our watches
Pressed the alarms switch off
And climbed into safe, sterile body bubbles
From a voice recorder came
a Psalmodic instruction:
“When the craft reaches heaven
The suspended-animation chambers
Will automatically decompress”
Lord of the Bees
Posted in Revelation, Science Challenges, Uncategorized on June 8, 2008| 3 Comments »
LORD OF THE BEES
J Lamar Howell
“Out of the eater came something to eat; out of the strong came something sweet” Judges 14:14
Anyone who has a love for poetry will appreciate the use of imagery in the two-line riddle from the Book of Judges. Samson was teasing the men invited to his wedding. He told them they would be rewarded with a new wardrobe if they could answer the above riddle.”
He was referring to something he experienced earlier. He had killed an attacking lion and left it to dry up in the desert. When he returned to that place, he discovered that bees had built a hive in the carcass. He scooped up some of the honey and ate it. Thus the source of his difficult riddle.
The story of Samson getting honey from the carcass of a lion may seem implausible to some people. A surprising fact is that in the 18th century scientists classified a new genus of honeybee called Trigona, which includes three species. Then in 1982, it was discovered that these are the only known bees which do not rely on plant products for food. They feed on rotten meat rather than pollen or nectar. [Roubik, D.W. 1982. Obligate necrophagy in a social bee. Science 217: 1059-1060.] (more…)
Jericho
Posted in Uncategorized on March 15, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Jesus’ Teaching on Giving
Posted in Uncategorized on February 20, 2008| 1 Comment »
D ‘t et r eft a d w w at r r g t a d s d g
on l you l h n kno h you i h h n i oin .
Free Speech
Posted in Uncategorized on November 21, 2007| 1 Comment »
In church recently I stood with other veterans to be recognized and thanked on Veteran’s day. I was wondering where the American flag was when suddenly it appeared on the screen, projected. The American flag is a symbol. A projection of the American flag from computer graphics is a symbol of a symbol. (more…)
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