So, I uh…. “fixed” something and it broke everything else…. 
Actually I was trying to add a new feature and it corrupted a bunch of files… Should teach me to test more!
There is a lot not working right now, but I will get the site up and running smoothly over the next couple of days.
Valerie asked me to put up this flame war starter kit funny video that some friends sent us (Kristi and Eric)… Well except for the loony liberals. Enjoy the video!
If you’ve got any flame bate or funny videos to share put a link to it in the comments.
Censoring of Stu provided by ValerieToldStuNotToGetInTrouble.Com and the NSA.
Update: Should have remembered to provide a link to the creators of the video – https://americantees.com/bs_removal_kit or bsRemoval.Com (takes you to the first link). Oh and I love the ending “legalese”…
Not to long ago I put up some youtube video’s from scenes of the movie “Little Shop of Horrors”. Little did I know that Houston’s Museum of Natural Science was feeling the attention that Seymour felt when the Audrey II began to bloom. Houston’s museum is home to Lois, the Corpse Flower:
After weeks of playing hard to get, Lois, the corpse flower, has finally started blooming for an entire city of suitors eager to see her true colors — and not-so-sweet scent.
The 5-foot-tall Lois has courted thousands of visitors this month at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, romancing the public with her mysterious story as a special flower with a knockout smell of rotting flesh.
The museum’s Cockrell Butterfly Center has sometimes stayed opened round the clock for curious onlookers teased by one of the largest flowers in the world, one whose bloom is so rare that only 28 other bloomings have been observed in the U.S.
According to some reports, the flower is in full bloom. They have a twitter and facebook page if your interested in following Lois.
So…she may not look like the Audrey II, but you have to admit that there is a good chance that the person who wrote the original Little Shop of Horror story must have known about this species of flower.
Thanks to Kristi for sending the story.
Gotta love the politicians. It’s okay for them to spout off that new laws and legislation is good for the country yet they never seem to practice what they preach:
The Boston Herald reports (Massachusetts Democratic Senator John) Kerry saved almost $440,000 in sales tax when he bought the $7 million ship in Rhode Island instead of Massachusetts. He keeps another $70,000 a year by mooring the swanky 76-footer in Newport and avoiding his state’s luxury tax.
What’s good for the goose isn’t good for the gander, I guess.
“Happy Birthday, Mr. President”…..
The Sun Times reports a real estate mogul is throwing the dinner for President Obama’s 49th birthday on August 4. But an invite also requires a $30,000 donation to the Democratic National Committee.
I wonder what would happen if this same real estate mogul would have given the money to the failing charter schools in DC? Would any democrat show up?
‘But…but…I only said nice things about you………waaaaaaaa……..’
MSNBC anchor Ed Schultz had some criticism for the White House while speaking to the Netroots Nation conference in Las Vegas.
The Seattle Post Intelligencer reports Schultz complained to the gathering, “I busted my ass for Obama. He doesn’t come on Ed. He goes to Bret Baier on Fox News in my time slot.”
Talking Points Memo adds Schultz said that MSNBC, “did a hell of a job fighting for health care.”
I wonder if he will keep lying for the White House or start telling the truth now that he knows he won’t get his back scratched?
All information in this post from the Political Grapevine.
Reading 1
In those days, the LORD said: "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great,
and their sin so grave,
that I must go down and see whether or not their actions
fully correspond to the cry against them that comes to me.
I mean to find out."
While Abraham’s visitors walked on farther toward Sodom,
the LORD remained standing before Abraham.
Then Abraham drew nearer and said:
"Will you sweep away the innocent with the guilty?
Suppose there were fifty innocent people in the city;
would you wipe out the place, rather than spare it
for the sake of the fifty innocent people within it?
Far be it from you to do such a thing,
to make the innocent die with the guilty
so that the innocent and the guilty would be treated alike!
Should not the judge of all the world act with justice?"
The LORD replied,
"If I find fifty innocent people in the city of Sodom,
I will spare the whole place for their sake."
Abraham spoke up again:
"See how I am presuming to speak to my Lord,
though I am but dust and ashes!
What if there are five less than fifty innocent people?
Will you destroy the whole city because of those five?"
He answered, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there."
But Abraham persisted, saying "What if only forty are found there?"
He replied, "I will forbear doing it for the sake of the forty."
Then Abraham said, "Let not my Lord grow impatient if I go on.
What if only thirty are found there?"
He replied, "I will forbear doing it if I can find but thirty there."
Still Abraham went on,
"Since I have thus dared to speak to my Lord,
what if there are no more than twenty?"
The LORD answered, "I will not destroy it, for the sake of the twenty."
But he still persisted:
"Please, let not my Lord grow angry if I speak up this last time.
What if there are at least ten there?"
He replied, "For the sake of those ten, I will not destroy it."
Reading 2
Brothers and sisters:
You were buried with him in baptism,
in which you were also raised with him
through faith in the power of God,
who raised him from the dead.
And even when you were dead
in transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh,
he brought you to life along with him,
having forgiven us all our transgressions;
obliterating the bond against us, with its legal claims,
which was opposed to us,
he also removed it from our midst, nailing it to the cross.
Gospel
Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he had finished,
one of his disciples said to him,
"Lord, teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples."
He said to them, "When you pray, say:
Father, hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come.
Give us each day our daily bread
and forgive us our sins
for we ourselves forgive everyone in debt to us,
and do not subject us to the final test."
And he said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend
to whom he goes at midnight and says,
‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,
for a friend of mine has arrived at my house from a journey
and I have nothing to offer him,’
and he says in reply from within,
‘Do not bother me; the door has already been locked
and my children and I are already in bed.
I cannot get up to give you anything.’
I tell you,
if he does not get up to give the visitor the loaves
because of their friendship,
he will get up to give him whatever he needs
because of his persistence.
"And I tell you, ask and you will receive;
seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
For everyone who asks, receives;
and the one who seeks, finds;
and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
What father among you would hand his son a snake
when he asks for a fish?
Or hand him a scorpion when he asks for an egg?
If you then, who are wicked,
know how to give good gifts to your children,
how much more will the Father in heaven
give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?"
A picture is worth a thousand words…. or maybe 10 thousand pounds crashing into a boat. Yeah, that’s a real story…
So lets have fun and have a caption contest…
Mine: “Right Whale meets Wrong Boat”… Or “I have a Whale of Tale to tell”…
Recently I put up a video of Shirley Sherrod and a speech she gave to a group of NAACP members this year. In it she describes not helping a white farmer. This outraged the NAACP, who for some reason did not defend her with the “unedited” tape before they released a statement condemning her. I keep putting the word unedited in quotation marks because the video is indeed edited. The most obvious is 21 minutes into the tape and it is during her story about not helping the white man, but I digress.
The beginning of the speech she talks about her father being killed by white men. Considering the location, Georgia I think, and the time frame it would not be unusual that his murder would indeed be because of racial discrimination. This must have affected her greatly.
Her story does indeed go on to say that she did eventually help the white farmer and he did not loose his land. She only did this after she found out that the white lawyer, whom the bankrupt farmer had to pay, refused to allow the white farmer from filing bankruptcy and his farm was in foreclosure. She knew that the white farmer would have to pay “one of his own” and he would not of had to pay her for help. If she were Catholic, I would say Catholic guilt overcame her and she saw her wrongdoings. 
But whatever religion she is – she did feel guilt and she did see the error of her ways.
In the end she does help the farmer and he does not lose his farm. According to what I have read, she is still friends with the farmer and his family.
So, this story does have a happy ending and I will admit that I reported on the story too early and made judgments too quickly. I apologize for that. Once the NAACP condemned what she said, I figured their was nothing more to the story. One of the reasons I didn’t write more on her resignation in my update on that post is because I was in shock that it happened so fast, however, this again affirmed my accusations. I didn’t post the story in hopes that she would lose her job though, but to show the hypocrisy of the NAACP.
I do feel that my objective of hypocrisy was in fact accomplished. Her story of screwing over the white farmer begins around 17 minutes of the “unedited” video. Listen to the audience and their reaction. When she claims the farmer, who had to go to her for help, was trying to act superior to her the members of the NAACP audience agree with her. It is their reactions to this section of the story and a couple other sections that really got me upset. Considering it was obvious that she was going to tell that she was in the wrong, they still made noises of approval.
Anywho, here is the “unedited” video:
If you don’t want to watch the whole video – like I said above the story of the white farmer begins around 17 minutes into the speech with something that got the audience rallied up that was edited out just after 21 minutes. I encourage you to at least listen to the last minute or so of her speech. She makes an excellent point.
The media said it and I believed them. He did make the ultimate Christian movie, he said his faith was strong and discussed going to “Mass” every week. However, he isn’t a Roman Catholic. Wow. I’m in shock.
Mel Gibson is not a Roman Catholic. In America and in most western cultures when the word Catholic is used most people assume Roman Catholic. I am guilty of this, and I believe that many of the media have made the wrong assumptions as well. Something else that is interesting; his viewpoints do not represent anything within Catholicism. When I first heard he wasn’t a Roman Catholic, I didn’t think anything about it. A Catholic is a Catholic right? We all believe in the major points of the teachings of Christ and follow the laws set forth by the Holy See. Well, not Mel Gibson’s religion.
He was raised a traditionalist Catholic. I thought this meant that his Church did not recognize the second Vatican and simply did things the “old” way. This is true for some traditionalist, but not all. I didn’t know that.
Here is an article that explains things:
In fact, Mel Gibson is in some respects the opposite of a Catholic, since one of the themes of his fake Catholicism is that the Pope isn’t the Pope. Admittedly, Mel’s own theology tends to morph like a shape-shifting lizard, depending on how hung over he is, but in so far as he’s anything he’s a sedevacantist like his father, Hutton Gibson.
Sedevacantists regard the Second Vatican Council as so obviously evil that it must have been the work of Satan, and therefore the Pope who called it and his successors aren’t really Popes. Gibson Senior once reportedly described John Paul II as “Garrulous Karolus the Koran kisser” and has put about the notion that the last real Pope was secretly elected at the 1958 conclave but forced to resign in favour of anti-pope John XIII. But then old man Gibson never met a conspiracy theory he didn’t like; hence his well-documented Holocaust and 9/11 revisionism.
This is par for the course on the loopy pseudo-Catholic Right. You can find creepy historical revisionists in the Society of St Pius X, which sort of recognises Pope Benedict XVI and these days is only semi-schismatic – but the moment you join one of those sects that regards the SSPX as happy-clappy, then you’re instantly presented with your own DIY conspiracy theory kit. (Includes Jews, Masons, homosexuals, Illuminati, Marxists, Nazis: feel free to slot together in any configuration so long as you blame them for 9/11. And remember to stash your rifle under the pew when you attend “Mass”.)
I looked up Sedevacantists. They are recognized under the term traditionalist Catholic however the Holy See does not recognize them as part of the Roman Catholic Church. Sedevacantist is Latin for sede vacante which translates as “while the chair [of Peter] is vacant”.
The author of the article linked above makes an excellent point concerning Sedevacantists:
Not to be rude, but it all sounds rather Protestant to me.
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