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Around here, Ronnie Floyd is a big religious fish in a small pond. I got a tip from a friend about the church’s website, went looking and found something amusing. Whether you’re a friend of Floyd or not, something like this is always funny.
When I clicked on “What We Believe,” this is what I got as of 5:19 pm on March 8:
What he believes doesn’t exist? You’ve got to love the accidental perfection there.
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There are two reasons you are seeing this post: 1. WordPress.com suspended my account for no reason, but were happy to get it back up again. No telling how long it had been down. Can’t risk that happening again. And 2. My old website was built for totally aesthetic purposes, which basically meant I never bothered to update it because it was a pain to do so. Hence the totally new design and current porting.
I will add a lot of the old blogs I’d posted (that thankfully I’d posted elsewhere and not just at WordPress) but maybe not all of them, so stay tuned. I’ll also be adding a lot more content than I originally had. Hope you find something you consider groovy.
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OK. Ordinarily I just ignore little things like this but I have been laughing so hard I can’t help myself.
For you non-wrestling fans out there, last night Matt Hardy “turned” on his brother Jeff and hit him in the head with a steel chair. The flood of people yelling at Matt on his MySpace page about it is not what I found so hilarious. I figure some of them were probably playing it up, and for the ones who don’t understand that wrestling revolves around written storylines, well, they have the luck of true suspended disbelief.
What made me laugh so hard was my attempt at trying to get through most of the messages, out of sheer morbid curiosity alone. Usually I wouldn’t point out stuff that makes all wrestling fans look like complete idiots but this really applies to a large portion of the current population. For them and everyone else that posts messages of a similar ilk, I just have a few suggestions. For your future happiness, people!
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When I first started working part time for my current company, they were using Siteground. At the time, I thought Siteground was the worst host ever. They went down a lot, and if you renew an SSL certificate they will apply your money to someone you’ve never heard of, then give you the runaround for days before finally giving you a refund. They have no clue how to actually apply your money to your product. It’s like the people who work there don’t even know they work there. The company then switched to Mosso. As bad as Siteground was, Mosso was worse, though they knew where to apply payments (hefty payments). Thankfully, I’ve now moved to a totally new host and will never have to worry about Mosso again.
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I was on my way back from the airport after sending my mother and her other primary caregiver off on a cruise when I turned on the radio. I thought of one very important fact and then came up with some more on the way home. Here they are:
1. Bonnie Tyler’s “Holding Out For A Hero” is the real reason cruise control was created. You try hitting the highway and turning on that song, during an election year especially, and attempt to get by without cruise control. It can’t be done.
2. If you accidentally drive over a dead skunk, the smell stays with you five times longer.
3. Sarah Palin’s favorite word is “also.” I would love for someone to go over the Vice Presidential debate and count the number of times she says it. You might get a migraine but the final number would amuse me.
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This is in response to the CBSNews.com article here: In IRS Protest, Pastors Back Candidates. Apparently, a group of churches made political statements in an effort to protest the IRS rule that tax exempt churches can’t intervene in politics.
I totally agree with the pastors who want to be able to speak. Free speech is pretty nifty after all. However, they should have to pay the same price of admission that I do, and no longer be tax exempt. Some of these churches could pay for whole communities with the tax dollars they haven’t paid through the years. Many an evangelist has made quite the lifestyle using this rule.
So it’s that simple. If you want to be involved in government, you should really be involved in government and help out your country by paying taxes. Otherwise, you can tell your friends your opinion outside of church events like a lot of us do, and maybe spend church time helping people who are in need now. You know, the homeless, the sick, the dying? Those people Jesus wanted to help?
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 I have to admit something. I, a hardcore wrestling fanatic, have skipped TNA Impact for the last several weeks. Part of that is because I enjoy the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, but the main reason is because there’s nothing on TNA that I have to see. I’ll pop in and watch one or two matches if I hear they’re good, but otherwise I don’t miss it at all.
The Why is simple. There’s no reason why I need to invest any time in it. The World Championship doesn’t mean anything, the World Champion means even less, big matches can’t end in a way that makes any sense and I’m all Gimmick Matched Out.
I don’t like that. I like to enjoy wrestling. I like to tune in to a great television show that inspires me to suspend disbelief and invest in a character. That’s why I like The Golden Girls – I like the characters and care what happens to them. That should be the goal of any show.
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Sometimes a story just jumps out at me, not so much for the overall purpose but for the contributions of the people they interview.
Right now there’s a story on CNN.com (Link) about a billboard a guy put up depicting the smoldering Twin Towers and the phrase “Don’t Vote For A Democrat.” Argue all you want about whether or not the guy is exploiting dead people to sell a song on his website, but there is a part that caught me in particular. This is from the article:
Mike Meehan, a St. Cloud, Florida, businessman who paid to post the billboards in the Orlando area, said former President Clinton should have put a stop to Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda before 9/11. He said a Republican president would have done so.
“I believe 9/11 could have been prevented if we’d had a Republican president at the time,” Meehan said Wednesday on CNN’s “American Morning.”
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I attempted to go see Pat Benatar at the AMP in Northwest Arkansas Saturday and got to enjoy some of the storms that the folks at Rocklahoma suffered through earlier in the day. I got to see how AMP management deals with storms and was thoroughly unimpressed.
Local meteorologists had been predicting storms to cover pretty much the entire day. There were dark clouds in the area several hours before the event. The show was supposed to start around 7, with the headliner going on between 7:30 and 8. When we got there, a sign said Pat would be on at 8:15. Fine. I figured since there were still well over 1,000 tickets available for the small venue ten minutes before we left the house that maybe they were stalling for more people, but I couldn’t say.
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Posted on May 30, 2008 in Rants | Comments: zero
I was just going along on my merry digital way when I came across this from CBSNews.com:
“The Vatican insisted Friday that it is properly following Christian tradition by excluding females from the priesthood. And it issued a new warning that women taking part in ordinations will be excommunicated.” (Link)
Now maybe I just don’t understand. I just have a hard time figuring out why women would want anything to do with organized Catholic/Christian religions to begin with. A belief system that uses allegory to help people along the way of finding a divine sense within themselves and opening themselves up to understanding that the world is about more than just one person, I can buy that. I totally support it. But a religion organized to strip away the spirituality behind the stories, and that puts immense effort (and takes great delight) in making a hierarchy among human beings to ensure the dominance of only one part of the living spectrum, I don’t see any use in that. As a woman, I have absolutely no desire to have anything to do with a group of men bound and determined to eliminate the female side of the spiritual whole and to subjugate women perpetually.
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