tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-146022142011-09-01T05:00:10.677-07:00A View from the Right on Networks, Theology, Politics, and any other Cotton-Pickin' Thing I Want!R&Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17119632160951054524noreply@blogger.comBlogger781100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14602214.post-1155933318196945332006-08-18T13:35:00.000-07:002006-08-18T13:38:14.546-07:00

Is this the face of the "religion of peace"? Earlier this month, President Bush caused a firestorm of criticism when he used the term "Islamic fascists". The pictures at the left would seem to indicate the term is way too much of a soft sell. I prefer Islamonazis myself. Daniel Pipes has an interesting take on the term in his article "At War with Islamic Fascists". He seems to think

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A TV show aired called "The Week That Was" when I was growing up. Last week was my "Week That Was".The early part of the week was non-descript. We were putting the finishing touches on our Whiteside install so that everything would be ready.Tuesday morning we loaded, and I mean loaded, up the truck. It had antenna, pole, camera, control unit, concrete, tools galore, some kind of electric gadget

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I have to talk about this. I just do.Earlier today, I read what may very well be the most depressing thread that I have read on the internet, at least in a while. It's at Desperate Houseflies, The Magazine. Here is the link to the actual thread.Don't get me wrong. I'm not really in favor of an amendment to the constitution banning flag desecration. It's a red herring. It plays well with the

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Sunset has to be one of my favorite times of the day. There is an almost reverent quietness that envelopes the end of the West Texas day. It's as if all of nature simply pauses and takes a deep breath.In those moments, a whiporwil ushers in the evening, a mourning dove makes his soulful cry, and fireflies dance in the dusk. It's a time of deep reflection, of wondering where one is going and

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Mostly here:In the oil patch. The above shot was taken with a wirelessly attached network camera streaming video back to my office. The amount of technology that it takes to accomplish this feat is amazing. But it works, and it works well. The proof of concept is done and worked. The prototype is done and it worked. Now it's time to plan the real deal: real-time video and instrumental monitoring

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The last few weeks have been a blur. I actually started keeping a day planner in order to keep up with things. I never do that. Who really cares, you know? But when life gets this busy, it becomes self defense. But I resist terribly - me, organized?It's kind of fun, really. Working in this hectic kind of furious fashion. From one thing to the next, not stopping, not considering, just doing.One

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It's been so freaking long, I don't know if I remember how to do this.Life caught up with me. Thanksgiving was beautiful. By far, it's my favorite holiday. I stay up all night the night before, mesquite smoking a turkey. The wood cutting, cleaning the Bar B Q, preparing the bird, everything is a ritual twenty years in the making. It might have been the best yet.For the last five years, my

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It's been a wild few days. Blogging had to take a back seat to other activities for a bit. I've barely even had time to read my favs, much less make an entry.Last week, I was reading about cessationism and reformationism. I started with Pyromaniac and worked links from there. What I got was discouraging, to say the least. Christians dissing other Christians, in the vernacular of West Texas, ain't

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Oh, good grief! Inscrutable bailed on the whole debate. I think I stressed him out. I am sooo sorry! I did not mean to do that. That's not what I am about at all.The debate, however, rages on over at Pyromaniac. Pretty interesting stuff, too. Phil states:Now, before someone parrots the standard line, let me just say I realize that's still not an exegetical argument for cessationism.Good. Now that

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I have a few moments, a precious few, in which to post an entry. I am trying to hold a conversation with prolific writers when I don't have two seconds of "alone" time in which to do so. I'm not complaining, that's just the way it is.Inscrutable answered my previous post here, and is continuing to do so. Good on him. It's good reading.As I suspected, his scriptural argument revolves around an

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This last week I stumbled upon some bloggers that believe in cessationism, i.e., they believe that the "gifts of the spirit" or charismata, have ceased. It started here and here. The first link is to a pastor, the second to a computer programer up North. I read much of the the (in)Scrutable Observer's comments on what happened to him in the Charismatic movement. I was quite touched,

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... as we rolled somberly down the highway. Dad was driving, Mom by his side. My Grandma was sitting beside me. There was no radio, no talking. Just the dull engine groan from our '62 Chevy station wagon. It was Grandma's time.Dad pulled over, just before blackness set in. Grandma got out quietly. Hugs were had. She, now in her 80's, turned and fled away. Over the rocks not far from the road. Out

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Snicker.

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I barely even scratched the blogosphere this week. Shoot, I barely even kept up with the news! I managed to win a book over at realgem, but that may have been last week, now that I think about it. Now, what would I want to read from the UK? Hmmm, something about "squatting", I think.If I get the gist of it, "sqatting" is loosely like being homeless. I can relate, at least a little. I lived in a

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I wanna hold your hand ...I was reading in a Reader's Digest that we were given a gift subscription to, a story about the formation of the Beatles. Wow, so long ago, and, if I close my eyes, yesterday.I was nine. My youngest brother was now nine days old. Number nine, number nine ....My mom was freshly home from the hospital. They kept the ladies longer in those days, and it had been a difficult

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I started a song a few weeks ago, inspired, no doubt by the road. It's about sitting in a truck stop, over a cold cup of coffee and an inattentive waitress. The sounds of the big rigs outside slowly moving to and fro accompany the sometimes acrid smell of truckstop cooking. Watching the years pass....And the truckers outside my window rolling by...they seem so unconcerned....And the travlers with

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This last weekend was pretty nice. As usual, I spent Saturday with my daughter. I took her to the toy store to play for at least an hour and a half. Now this is tough for me, because I'm not crazy about being in crowds, but it was fun watching her play. Then, we went next door to the big department store and bought her a Kelly doll and some more Legos (hey, better prices, you know?). Finally, it

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I was thinking back on this weekend and decided I needed to blog it into my memory.Saturday is "daddy / daughter" day at my house. That means mom goes off to work and dad stays home with daughter. Except on this day, I had a church leadership meeting at 8 AM. So, mom stayed home with daughter and I did the hour and a half up at the church. Some meetings can be contentious but this one was quite

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A number of years ago, I'm going to put it in the 1994-1995 time frame, I was looking into fractals. I think I was using a program (free) called fractint, which basically produced fractal images using integer arithmetic (for speed I would imagine).On the day I'm thinking about, I was looking into a special sub-system of fractal math called L-Systems. L-Systems were first introduced by a guy named

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... instead of blogging. I was over at Sparkle's blog earlier in the week and just got totally bummed by one of the commentors (Tony, a troll?). I was reading and it's as if the words turned into acid in my eyeballs. He was so condescending, arrogant, and haughty that I turned off to politics for a bit.I wandered over to the Quantum Blog to look at gadgets for a while. I love gadgets, but I can

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My blogging has been light the last little while. I've had company at the house. Friends, actually he is an old friend and she is a new friend, that evacuated from Orange, Texas in front of Hurricane Rita.Normally when friends visit, they stay a couple of days, cook out, consume some adult beverages, talk a little politics and a little shop, and just generally visit. And we did all of that. But

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Controversy over at Sparkle's blog prompted me to look into this mess with Tom Delay a bit deeper. Here is the text of the indictment:IN THE NAME AND BY AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:THE GRAND JURY OF THE COUNTY OF TRAVIS, STATE OF TEXAS, duly selected, organized, sworn, and charged as such at the April term, A.D., 2005, of the 147th Judicial District Court of said county, in said court at said

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The federal government has taken a lot of heat of its perceived slow response to Katrina emergency. Many do not have a clear understanding of Federal vs. State vs. Local jurisdictions in these cases. It is clearly the responsibility of State and Local governments to handle emergencies. Calling in the Feds when overwhelmed is always an option.Buried by the left in criticism, "W" is suggesting that

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Today, Cindy Sheehan got busted. Here's a pic, garnered from Townhall.Com. Is it just me, but does she seem to be enjoying herself? And that cop on the left ... where is his right hand exactly? Is this a photo op or playtime?Moonbats. You gotta love 'em.

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A friend of ours just got back from spending two weeks working the shelters in Dallas where the evacuees from Katrina were being housed. She's a nurse (and our bass player, a good one too - she was missed!). She got up this morning and told a little of what transpired. She was pretty emotional.When I first asked her how it was in Dallas, she said "crazy, terrible, wonderful, a blessing, and sooo

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...He and his new wife evacuated Orange, Texas on Wedensday. Now, I thought Orange was near Houston ... not so. Orange is right between Beaumont and Lake Charles. In other words, ground zero. They're currently staying in his folks house in Nachogdoches where it is still pretty windy and very rainy. They have no power. He doesn't know if they have a house left. They'll be headed this way on Monday

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They Stayed!The images above depict the fires burning in downtown Galveston and Pasadena (suberb of Houston), respectively, as Rita made landfall last night. Look at the photos ... There are firefighters fighting the fires! They stayed, braved the storm and did their jobs!I am constantly and consistently amazed by the bravery and "can do" attitude of firefighters. Way to go, guys.

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Call this number if you need assistance.

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I've been listening to the KRBC TV folks talk about covering hurricanes and severe weather. I've been watching videos of horrible looking experiences. I've been through it.Then, I had to get something out of the car. Oh, my goodness! How beautiful it is outside. The starry sky is as big as West Texas. The crickets are chirping away in their symphony of night time. Sometimes I feel like I'm in the

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KRBC TV Showed various webcams in Houston. Nobody home. The lights were on, but nobody was home except for the occasional forlorn police car. Way to go evacuating South Texas, ya'll!It's amazing that a storm almost as large as the Gulf of Mexico, headed straight for us, won't bring us even a drop of rain. Such is West Texas.Rita is about to make landfall.

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Texas' tenth best whips Missouri's 1st best: AHS 33 to 14!Coach Warren reminds me of the old Dallas Cowboys; by the fourth quarter, the 2nd string is put in ... and they score too!Rita: CAT 3, 120 mph sustained, eye still 44 miles SE Sabine Pass. Winds averaging 60 mph in the region, although some cities reporting much less. Eye may be East of Port Arthur, into Lake Charles. The heaviest rainfall

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About 10 minutes to go ... Abilene High 26, Rochurst MO 7!

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Abilene High 20, Rockhurst, MO 0 (halftime)

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... in deep East Texas. They're pretty worried about the amount of rain they're going to get. She said their town is completely full of people. People everywhere. People with NO gasoline. She's got a doctor's appointment in Houston pretty soon. Don't think she's gonna make it.My prayer to God has been to weaken the storm. It has gone from one of the most powerful storms ever recorded to a CAT 3.

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Right Wing Sparkle made it out of Houston! It took here a looooong time, though (seems there was a bit of a traffic jam).

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Huricane Rita is due to make land fall in the next 4 - 6 hours. I would be remiss if I didn't post what I know of the event.My brother and fam are still MIA, although I imagine they are in the Austin area with my brother's in-laws ... I hope. My wife's cousin was in constant contact yesterday from I10 where he was pretty much stuck. He was making less than 10 miles per hour of progess. His fam

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One other thing in 1993 I forgot: The Waco Massacre. That really, really ticked me off. And a lot of other people as well.I have this uncanny knack for turning on the television and witnessing disasters. Which is weird, because I pretty much don't watch TV, and never have that much. I never, ever watch daytime TV, except to witness disasters. I saw both of the space shuttle disasters live. I saw

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I don't remember 1991. Other than being numb for a whole year, I have very little recollection of it. I only remember that my wife and I traveled in one car for that and several more years. It was quite a hassle.At the beginning of 1992 I got fired from the university. There's really no other way to put that, even though the university might not want to put it in those harsh a terms. I worked for

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I've maintained a certain amount of anonymity in the blogosphere. I live in a small town, go to a small church. I thought if I did a blog, I might just let it all hang out. But I haven't. Maybe being "myself" is not quite as wild as it once was.But Dave Bones tagged me, which I bet means that he wants me to further explain the "patriot movement" of the 1990's. I'm not sure I can. I take it I'm

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I took a little time off the blogosphere last weekend.I ...1. Mowed (3 acres, a lot of work)2. Played Legos with my daughter3. Slept4. Went to Church5. Practiced with the band6. Played more Legos and slept some moreIt was a pretty nice weekend. There were hundreds of comments over at Sparkle's place about abortion, evolution, and such. It took hours just to read them.I'll post meaningful stuff

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The moonbats and trolls over at Sparkle's place are constantly yammering about how a disaster was declared before Katrina struck the Gulf Coast. I never really saw much about this, and really doubted the validity until today. The following is posted on the White House web site:http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/20050827-1.htmlThe document attests to the fact that a state of emergency

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I've never been a great big Texas A & M fan. They're just so doggone:What do you call an Aggie five years after he's graduated?Boss.You know? Anyway I got this in e-mail. I only edited for blog formatting: Subject: Relief Efforts at Texas A&MAny Aggie of any age who believes the Spirit of Texas A&M is waning should have been at Reed Arena over the past three days.Under an agreement with local

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3D Lego Design Software! It not only lets you design virtual Lego models, but allows you to upload the model, and find out how much it costs to buy and build. Very cool. My daughter will love it ... as soon as I figure it out. Oh, by the way it's free!Via one of the links on Golden Eagle's Golden Odyssey blog.

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I discovered dave bones over at Right Wing Sparkle's place. He comments a lot. Dave bones (obviously not his real name which will not be revealed here) is a film maker. He's made a short called "Preachers Of Hate", about Abu Hamza, or rather a couple of guys around him.The film resonates with me. Probably not in ways that Bones intended. Probably not in ways that Hamza or any of the others would

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Via Right Wing Sparkle, here is a perspective worth reading. It is extremely well written, albeit a bit reductionist for my taste. It's still a very good article.

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A blogger named Mikey Camel (aka, Lazy) pointed out that the spelling BLONDE was the feminine for BLOND. He was right! So, I am changing the title to spell it correctly.The blond term comes from my attributing my "mental hiccups" to "blond moments". Case in point:On Easter Sunday I was singing a special with S. It was a beautiful arrangement of Great is Thy Faithfullness. After practicing for a

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The correct link to the timeline is here. Sorry about that. I've got so many blog pages open it's getting a little confusing.

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Things are looking a little better on the Gulf Coast. Most of the folks are out of downtown New Orleans now. The National Guard has regained control of the city.I've been listening to a show on American Family Radio (AFR) about Gulfport / Biloxi. They managed to get their station in Biloxi back on the air this weekend. That's very important, because communication in the Gulf Coast region is

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I found this picture over at Junk Yard Blog. None of them are deep enough in the water to not start. Look at the picture! Are you telling me that all of those people had endure what they had to endure in the New Orleans Superdome because of a city government's utter incompetence? That makes me sick!

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Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist passed away this evening, Sept 3, 2005. He was 80 years old. He was arguably the best chief justice to come along in generations.Well done, sir.

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Last weekend I was picking stickers from a spot in my yard. My five year old daughter was outside with me, and she askedWhy Does God Send Stickers?Why indeed. Why does God send Hurricanes? Why suffering, etc, etc.My wife works on Saturdays, so I am again here hangin' out with my daughter. Everything seems so normal. TCU was playing Oklahoma on TV, my daughter is taking a bath, it's 90 degrees

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I've noticed quite a few moonbats attempting to blame GW and the administration for the chaos in New Orleans. A good article in the New York Sun about who really is to blame is here.

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I've been looking over some of the coverage on Katrina today. It appears that the New Orleans Superdome has turned into an embarrasing catastrophe ... one that didn't have to happen. People (animals, really) are shooting at the folks attempting to deliver food and water. Busses are being hijacked. It's freaking awful.I'm going to give money. Probably to the Red Cross.My brother lives in Houston.

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The blogosphere has been brutal the last few days. It's not like reality, when a crisis in one form or another happens to you or your friends. But the last few days have been so grim for so many, that I'm calling it a kind of "hyper reality".It started when Captain Chuck got blown apart by an IED in Iraq. I was following his blog directly from the action in Iraq, when bam! We here from his wife

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... That original template didn't work too well. I had possibilities, but only if I did a lot of customizing. This one just starts off better.It's not that I haven't been on the blogs, but I've been reading. Mainly on post modernism and the Intelligent Design vs. Evolution debate. I'll post on both soon.Until then ...

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It's been almost a week since I've posted!I work at a college, so the first week of school is really, really hectic ... My only excuse.I think I am going to change the appearance of the blog ... I don't like it right now.Let's see, what can we do? ...

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Post modern thought contends that truth cannot be known outside of one's culture and experiences. So-called "hard" post moderns contend that objective truth is neither obtainable nor desirable.How does this assertion affect Christianity?Very negatively, I would think. The first approximately 3 centuries of the Church's existence was defined by severe and constant persecution. I wonder if those

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Don'tcha just hate it when a housefly manages to get into your car? It buzzes around, pestering you incessantly until you finally have to swat it ... or at it. It's actually rather dangerous to swat at flies when you're driving 60 mph. I usually roll the windows down and attempt to coax the little booger out the window. "Here little fly, it's just open air, you won't die ... really you won't."For

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KeePass. It's an encrypted database where you can store all of your userid / passwords. It allows you to define a global hot key that will paste the userid / password key sequence into a target program. That is cool.When you work with networks, everything has a userid and password. You can't make them all the same, so I'm forever getting lost. A month ago I had to completely re-set up a router

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... Why is it that I read left-wing blogs? I read a lot of blogs. Some are for fun. Others are personal journals. Most are about politics and/or religion. I tried out the left-wing political blogs. I couldn't stand them. They're geared mostly to Bush hating and are mostly incomprehensible and intellectually bankrupt. But the left leaning Christian blogs fascinate me. I don't really understand

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... we'll get broad band internet here at home. The Konfabulator, discussed below, requires Win XP SP1 ... I built our home machines just before the SP1 disks came out. It would take, oh, about three months to download SP1 on our pathetic SBC dialup connection. Until now, there's been no real penalty for not having it, but no Konfabulator! That's just wrong. It just is.

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I stumbled over the coolest "gadget" today. It's called the Konfabulator. It allows you to build desktop "widgets" that do cool stuff that you normally use javascript for. Folsks, this is AWESOME!I don't really use my desktop (at least not at work). Except for icons, it's wasted screen real estate. These widgets occupy a small amount of space on the screen and do really useful stuff. Within

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I've been chasing spammers today. I came in and found226.70-84-227.reverse.theplanet.com attached to port 4805 on my machine. The actual IP is 70.84.227.226 and is the same clown or clowns that crashed the gatekeeper here a while back.See these guys send out Net Send commands that hammer port 1026 on a range of addresses. Our Video Gatekeeper has a little task that monitors the gatekeeper

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... I just haven't been here for almost a week. Ooops!Blogging, at least in the comment section where communities hang out, is a bit like the e-mail lists where I used to hang out almost a decade ago. Similar also to the forums I used in my programming life. Groups of people meet and, well, they type a lot. It's kind of fun, ok, it's a hoot.Of all things, I actually found someone that I know over

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Read it here.

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Be patient. I've been commenting over at Desperate Houseflies about almost the same subject as I'm about to blog on here, namely gay marriage and equal rights for homosexuals. So please be patient while I do my research.To keep you interested, here is what I have found to be the most exciting blog on the net, so far.

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Man, I can't believe I haven't blogged since Monday. I've had networks crashing, T1 circuits down, computers refusing to function no matter how much effort I put into them. It's been typical, but I just didn't have time for the fun stuff.We buried a friend on Tuesday. He was 48. It makes you really stop and think when someone so young passes on. He did the strangest thing I've ever seen at a

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Yesterday was a great day. The service was filled with healing, repentence, and good news. People overwhelmingly affirmed the pastor. Hooray!The music, was, to say the least, a rush. I usually sing the male lead part, since my voice, shall we say, carries. The lead = melody as best as I can figure out. Anyway, when I got there, the "girls" were already practicing ... now, I wasn't late, they were

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I read back over my post from yesterday. I degenerated a bit into a rant, which I did not intend to do. As you can probably tell, I have pretty strong feelings about the abortion issue. I'll stay away from that subject in this post.What I want to do is take the tenets of the Christian Alliance for Progress one at a time. Today's subject will be economic justice. Click the link to read their

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I haven't been in the blogosphere all that long. When I first started, I had no idea how to find the blogs that I wanted to read. I was frustrated at first, so I began clicking the "Next Blog" button on Blogger. I waded through a lot of advertisements, junk, and even porn. But little by little, I began to find some stuff I wanted to read.My life has tended toward the political, so I naturally

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Thanks to In My Humble Opinion for the following:There's No Place Like 127.0.0.1and this:SELECT * FROM users WHERE clue > 0.I'm still gigglin' ...

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I did a support call this morning that went something like this:Her: This computer has gone wacky!Me: What's wrong with it?Her: It's the lab computer. At first it wouldn't transport, but then I called companyname tech support and they said the primary DVI wasn't working but she got the secondary DVI working and now I can transmit. But I did a trace and it was several milimeters off. I called tech

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I read an article in the UK about one Abu Abdullah. This man spues hatred and contempt for anyone that is not his brand of muslim. Read it here.As much as my faith demands that I be kind and loving to all, I tend to think that these kind of vermin are born in the pits of hell and need to be escorted back there as quickly as possible.

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W's new Supreme Court Nominee John Roberts' wife is an ex-Vice President of Feminists for Life. You can read stories by women who've had abortions here.I heard an interview with VP Dick Cheney on Limbaugh's show earlier today. It was interesting and informative. My gut tells me Roberts is a good guy. Ann Coulter thinks he's a David Souter style blank slate, but I really doubt it. She's just upset

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I just read an article about the church that I highly recommend as very interesting reading:The Emerging Church

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Have you ever noticed that gripers and complainers rarely ever offer solutions to a problem? Rather, they whine and cry like babies in need of a diaper change. They hurt my head.True leadership is about visioning. It's about uniting opposing sides in hopes of achieving a common goal. It's about diplomacy and humility. It's about a hundred, maybe a thousand different things, but it decidedly is

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I've been reading blogs for a little over a month now, and it's time to get started with my own blog. I'll be writing about politics, computers, theology, and who knows what else.So here we go!

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