Go Google Yourself
According to this study:Googling oneself is more popular:
In a report Sunday, the Pew Internet and American Life Project said 47 percent of U.S. adult Internet users have looked for information about themselves through Google or another search engine.So, on that note, I decided to google me and got these results:
That is more than twice the 22 percent of users who did in 2002, but Pew senior research specialist Mary Madden was surprised the growth wasn't higher.
Let me know if you google you and what you find."Kansas Bob" yielded about 11,500
kanasbob returned about 4,700
BobLastname about 6470 and
"Bob Lastname" about 278,000
TM: Finally a Good Use
I despise text messaging.. well.. maybe that was a bit too strong.. but I really don't like it. So when I read these headlines..
Alltel feature turns voicemail to text..I thought.. finally.. there could be a good reason to receive a text message!
Top Viral Videos
Time Magazine recently announced the Top 10 Viral Videos for 2007.. those videos that people downloaded over and over again. Here they are listed in my own rank order.. best ones first.. well.. after the first few I didn't like them too much..
Vote Different ..great Obama commercialLet me know which ones you would put at the top of your list.
Iran So Far ..funny SNL digital short with Andy, Adam and Fred
The Landlord ..with Will Ferrel
Thriller ..odd dance sequence with Philippine prison dancers
Can't Tase This ..MC Hammer remix with tasered UF student
Dan Rather ..on the roof.. no scarf.. not coat
Clark and Michael ..the series preview
Miss Teen USA 2007 ..South Carolina contestant answers a question
Daft Hands ..lame video
Leave Brittany Alone! ..bad language warning.. Time's #1 ..she's a he!
Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison (1983-1901) was the twenty-third President of the United States, serving one term from 1889 to 1893. He had previously served as a senator from Indiana. His administration is best known for a series of legislation including the McKinley Tariff and federal spending that reached one billion dollars. Democrats attacked the "Billion Dollar Congress" and defeated the GOP in the 1890 mid-term elections, as well as defeating Harrison's bid for reelection in 1892. A few of his quotes:
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.He is to date the only president from Indiana.
I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.
Great lives never go out; they go on.
The bud of victory is always in the truth.
After the heavy blow of the death of my wife, I do not think that I could have stood re-election.
Favorite TV Commercial
I like the PC vs Mac commercials better.
What is your favorite commercial?
Midwest Without Power
Update from Milly: It’s warm and cozy in the house tonight. We’ve replaced some of the food that had to be tossed. All is good in our home.
Please remember Milly and other people who live in Oklahoma (like my friends Jerry and Marvale), Kansas and Missouri as they are trying to get by with out electricity as they recover from the after effects of the recent ice storm.
Please remember Milly and other people who live in Oklahoma (like my friends Jerry and Marvale), Kansas and Missouri as they are trying to get by with out electricity as they recover from the after effects of the recent ice storm.
Welcome Home Soldiers
My son experienced this kind of airport reception several times as he returned from Iraqi duty over the last four years. He should be in the states by Christmas.. hard to find words to say thank you to him, his comrades in battle and to our Father. This one minute video commercial says it pretty well.. even for a beer maker :)
Moderate KB
Hattip to Casey the Fightin Fundy and QuizFarm.Okay.. it says Conservative.. but Moderate is listed on top.. and I do prefer Moderate even though I am a Conservative.. just don't want to be labeled Conservative.
What about you? Let me know if you take the test and how you scored.
Global Political Agenda
This week Chuck Baldwin wrote an article titled
Christian Right Just Doesn't Get It.
Below are a few excerpts from it:
In 1980 and 1984, I joined my friends in the Christian Right in helping Ronald Reagan achieve two landslide victories. In fact, as the Executive Director for the Florida Moral Majority, I helped my friend, the late Jerry Falwell, register more than 50,000 evangelical voters during those years.
In 2000 and 2004, my wife and I could not in good conscience vote for G.W. Bush, so we cast an independent ballot those two elections. However, there is no question that, to a great extent, it was the Christian Right's almost universal support for George W. Bush that gave him two terms in the White House.
Unfortunately, it has been the Christian Right's blind support for President Bush in particular and the Republican Party in general that has precipitated a glaring and perhaps fatal defect: the Christian Right cannot, or will not, honestly face the real danger confronting these United States. The reason for this blindness is due, in part, to political partisanship or personal aggrandizement. Regardless, the Christian Right is currently devoid of genuine sagacity. On the whole, they fail to understand the issues that are critical to our nation's--and their own--survival.
Republican candidates have learned how to "talk the language." They know that Christians are basically compassionate and trusting people, and therefore prone to being gullible and easily manipulated. They know that Christians have short memories and are desperate to be accepted at the king's table (largely a result of the church-growth movement and mega-church mentality).
Republicans such as Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, Mike Huckabee, and even Rudy Giuliani are all currently receiving fractured support from the Christian Right. However, you can mark this down: the Christian Right (with few exceptions) will eventually coalesce around whoever wins the Republican nomination--no matter who it is. You see, it's all about political partisanship. Principles are only something we talk about during off-election years.
All the pro-life, pro-family, traditional-values, conservative talk is just that: talk. Republicans use conservative rhetoric the same way Democrats use liberal rhetoric. Neither party believes what they are telling their constituents. They merely say what constituents want to hear in order to get elected; after which, they set about to do what their elitist, globalist manipulators tell them to do.
Accordingly, no matter which party wields power in Washington, D.C., nothing much changes. Oh, there might be a little variance here or there, but the overall agenda of the globalists is undeterred. And the Christian Right just doesn't get it. They don't see it. They have swallowed the partisan line all the way to the gullet.
Have you wondered why Mike Huckabee is suddenly getting so much favorable attention from the mainstream media (who themselves are controlled by this gaggle of global elite)? To find the answer as to why a professing pro-life, conservative Christian would suddenly become the darling of the media, look no further than the fact that just a couple of months ago, Mr. Huckabee appeared before the globalist-minded Council on Foreign Relations. (Read his speech here.) And when he did, it became abundantly clear that Huckabee was a man globalists could trust. By the way, as you read Huckabee's speech, you will find that he is George W. Bush on steroids!
This also explains why independent-minded candidates such as Ron Paul are forever cast in terms such as "fringe," or "extremist," or "nutty." The same CFR elite that controls the Washington political establishment also controls the New York media and financial establishments. And they hate outsiders! Of course, outsiders are those who do not share the globalist, utopian, New World Order machinations of the CFR.
A vote for just about every major presidential candidate from either party is a vote for more of the same thing. Of the Presidential candidates in serious contention, Ron Paul, and Ron Paul alone, stands for change. Ron Paul, alone, would truly obey his oath to the Constitution and would work to restore freedom and liberty to the American people. Ron Paul, alone, would kick the globalist elite out of power in Washington, D.C., and restore this country to constitutional governance.
I am usually pretty skeptical about conspiracy theories around the Council on Foreign Relations or the Illuminati.. but this article has got me to thinking. It does frustrate me about how:
Christian Right Just Doesn't Get It.
Below are a few excerpts from it:
In 1980 and 1984, I joined my friends in the Christian Right in helping Ronald Reagan achieve two landslide victories. In fact, as the Executive Director for the Florida Moral Majority, I helped my friend, the late Jerry Falwell, register more than 50,000 evangelical voters during those years.
In 2000 and 2004, my wife and I could not in good conscience vote for G.W. Bush, so we cast an independent ballot those two elections. However, there is no question that, to a great extent, it was the Christian Right's almost universal support for George W. Bush that gave him two terms in the White House.
Unfortunately, it has been the Christian Right's blind support for President Bush in particular and the Republican Party in general that has precipitated a glaring and perhaps fatal defect: the Christian Right cannot, or will not, honestly face the real danger confronting these United States. The reason for this blindness is due, in part, to political partisanship or personal aggrandizement. Regardless, the Christian Right is currently devoid of genuine sagacity. On the whole, they fail to understand the issues that are critical to our nation's--and their own--survival.
Republican candidates have learned how to "talk the language." They know that Christians are basically compassionate and trusting people, and therefore prone to being gullible and easily manipulated. They know that Christians have short memories and are desperate to be accepted at the king's table (largely a result of the church-growth movement and mega-church mentality).
Republicans such as Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, Mike Huckabee, and even Rudy Giuliani are all currently receiving fractured support from the Christian Right. However, you can mark this down: the Christian Right (with few exceptions) will eventually coalesce around whoever wins the Republican nomination--no matter who it is. You see, it's all about political partisanship. Principles are only something we talk about during off-election years.
All the pro-life, pro-family, traditional-values, conservative talk is just that: talk. Republicans use conservative rhetoric the same way Democrats use liberal rhetoric. Neither party believes what they are telling their constituents. They merely say what constituents want to hear in order to get elected; after which, they set about to do what their elitist, globalist manipulators tell them to do.
Accordingly, no matter which party wields power in Washington, D.C., nothing much changes. Oh, there might be a little variance here or there, but the overall agenda of the globalists is undeterred. And the Christian Right just doesn't get it. They don't see it. They have swallowed the partisan line all the way to the gullet.
Have you wondered why Mike Huckabee is suddenly getting so much favorable attention from the mainstream media (who themselves are controlled by this gaggle of global elite)? To find the answer as to why a professing pro-life, conservative Christian would suddenly become the darling of the media, look no further than the fact that just a couple of months ago, Mr. Huckabee appeared before the globalist-minded Council on Foreign Relations. (Read his speech here.) And when he did, it became abundantly clear that Huckabee was a man globalists could trust. By the way, as you read Huckabee's speech, you will find that he is George W. Bush on steroids!
This also explains why independent-minded candidates such as Ron Paul are forever cast in terms such as "fringe," or "extremist," or "nutty." The same CFR elite that controls the Washington political establishment also controls the New York media and financial establishments. And they hate outsiders! Of course, outsiders are those who do not share the globalist, utopian, New World Order machinations of the CFR.
A vote for just about every major presidential candidate from either party is a vote for more of the same thing. Of the Presidential candidates in serious contention, Ron Paul, and Ron Paul alone, stands for change. Ron Paul, alone, would truly obey his oath to the Constitution and would work to restore freedom and liberty to the American people. Ron Paul, alone, would kick the globalist elite out of power in Washington, D.C., and restore this country to constitutional governance.
I am usually pretty skeptical about conspiracy theories around the Council on Foreign Relations or the Illuminati.. but this article has got me to thinking. It does frustrate me about how:
How about you? Do you embrace globalism? Have you ever thought that globalism might be just another word for Babylon the Great.. right out of the book of Revelation?:little changes when Democrats or Republicans are in power
:much power lobbyists have.. especially foreign ones
:many foreign companies own once American owned corporations
:much we have given away in trade agreements
:many of our high tech jobs have, and are being, outsourced
:much money we are spending in Iraq:our borders seem to stay open to illegal aliens
You might be emerging if..
Barbara linked to this post with the same name as this post. You need to check it out.. if just to see the great pics.. here is a teaser:You use these words in a positive way:
Missional, Liquid/Aqua, Ancient-Future, Post ____, Jesus, Community, Derrida, Liturgy, Global, Creed, Experience, Social Justice, Conversation, Spiritual, Ritual, Beauty, Art, Blog, Ooze, Journey, Discussion, Open, Random, Culture, TechnologyYou use these words in a negative way:
Foundationalism, Absolute Truth, Church Growth, D.A. Carson, Calvinism, Modernism, Fundamentalist, Bush, Seeker Sensitive, Preaching, Pulpit, Doctrine, Innerancy, Power, Enlightenment, Rationalism, Meta-narratives, Universal, JudgementalDepending on your sense of humor, you're a tad irritated with this post.
Media Perspective on Us
I really liked what Cameron said on his blog:
"I could care less what religion Romney is, AND I will not sacrifice principle just to beat Hillary."I am not.. and I know that many of you are not.. part of the vast right wing Evangelical masses that the media like to talk about.. the one that won't vote for a Mormon or Hillary. I absolutely hate.. I know.. strong words.. how the media/press have figured us out and dismissed so many of us sincere followers of Jesus. They do not know us as well as they think they do.. hope we surprise them next year.
Inspiring Pauline Jacobi
DYERSBURG, Tenn. - A 92-year old grandmother from Dyersburg talked a would-be robber out of taking her money, by praying with him.Pauline Jacobi just finished putting her groceries in her car, when a man got into her passenger seat.
That man told Jacobi he had a gun, and he would shoot her if she didn't give him all her money.
The spunky 92-year old said no, and then she started talking with the would-be robber.
"I said Jesus is in this car and he goes with me everywhere I go. He just looked around and the tears just began coming down his eyes," Jacobi said.
Jacobi talked with the man for several more minutes. Then he said he was going to go home and pray.
The grandmother then willing gave him all the money she had on her, which was $10.
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