This one goes in the “too crazy to be false category.”
If I hadn’t of seen it and read about it, I’m pretty conviced I wouldn’t have believed it.
I wonder if I should start packing my heat the next time I have a controversial sermon?
It’s not often I find myself totally, completely, at a loss for words. This did it.
Follow up: Seems like about 180 or so showed up “carrying” for this… Check it out HERE
I have to face facts; I just don’t get some “church people.” I must be the most naive’ person on the planet. I keep thinking we should be different, that our words and actions should offer some glimpse of redemption, love, peace, etc.
So imagine my dismay to see blog posts, tweets, and Facebook comments from some of my “church” contacts about the incredible mess that is SC Gov. Mark Sanford’s life right now, using descriptions like “LOL,” “Gotcha!” or “Chickens coming home to roost.”
I don’t care whether you like the man or not. I don’t care whether you agree with his political stance, or share his ideology. For that matter, I’d probably agree with you if you were thinking, “How dumb can a man be?”
But one thing all this is not is funny. You are watching and reading about a family that’s likely disintegrating in the public eye. Try telling one of his 4 kids, “LOL.”
Maybe we should try praying for them instead of laughing at them.
Check out the NY Times article about the stone age flute just found in Germany. Can you imagine our ancestors around the fire jamming while waiting for their woolly mammoth to get done? Too Cool.
I keep promising myself to post more here; to live out loud a bit, share my hopes and dreams, my rants and raves. But I’m writing so much on my church’s site that I never seem to get back over here and say “MY” stuff. (I try to keep it pretty even keeled on the church’s site: To get people thinking together without starting too many fights.)
Then last night I get home to find nothing’s up and I have an email from my host telling me “You are suspended for a terms of service violation.”
I call them to find out that lawyers from a certain, unmentioned, Las Vegas “entertainment venue” (read what you want to there, I’m not about to post their name again!) have complained about an image I’d posted and were threatening legal action against both the host and me. Turns out I’d found a Google image that I thought was public domain… (After all, it had appeared multiple times on several personal blogs so I figured someone had taken a rather nice snap shot of the aforesaid, unmentioned, entertainment venue)… that actually came from the company’s website.
The word on the street is to remember that some companies have lawyers whose jobs are to troll the Internet looking for just this. Who would have thunk it? Big Brother IS watching: Don’t forget that! to quote Meg Ryan as one of her multiple characters in the movie, Joe and the Volcano: “I have no response to that.”
Moral of the story: If you want to use an image in a post; find the worst image you can; then make sure it was taken by a 75 year-old blogger and posted on her site! (Or just resist the temptation to make that post look “pretty” with all the pictures!)
Bill Kinnon, over at Kinnon.tv just posted this video. Has me rolling on the floor laughing! Sort of… since the same thing happens to me ALL the time in my “2nd gig” over here at HandyRev.com.
And I’m willing to bet most of these folks don’t even know they’re doing what they are doing!
God, I hated writing that title. I wish it weren’t true. But when you read articles like this one in the Charlotte Observer you understand why we don’t trust most politicians…
It seems that the promises our state made regarding an “educational lottery” in 2005 can’t be kept due to economic issues. It does make me wonder; are there any “promises” – when it comes to government – that aren’t “negotiable?” I wish my car payment was that way.
By the way, State Rep. Ruth Sameulson (who I went to high school with) was absolutely right when she said, “This is exactly what the opponents to the lottery said would happen. And if they continue to bill it as an ‘education lottery,’ it’s a farce.”
This has not been a good week for political news.
Is it 1994 all over again? Did some kind of crazy time warp happen overnight?
Otherwise, what on earth is this guy doing on the NY Times website?
Haven’t we been there, done that? What is it with some folks? They just have to have a “champion” who believes in scorched earth government?
Shaking my head here.
This appears on TV:
For only $3.oo each you can cash your check at a Wal-Mart store. (Isn’t that what most of us use banks for?)
I’m wondering about how Facebook “Friends” really works. What do you do when you get a “friend request” from someone and you don’t have the first clue who they are? Someone you don’t know, never heard of, don’t know how they know you, etc.? Or what happens when you become “friends” with someone and then later read what they write and realize it was a mistake?
Maybe this is my question: Has anyone actually ever “ignored” a friend request? I’ve talked to several folks about this and haven’t yet heard of someone who has.
Or maybe this is the real question: Are Facebook “friends” about quantity? Is there a protocol I’m not aware of?
I’m just wondering. How does all this Facebook stuff REALLY work?
Don’t ever, EVER, EVER, invite a country music singer to sing the National Anthem at any live event!
Was this terrible or what?