Middle America's Worldview

I came across two great sites for freebies.


Right March is a conservative talk show. I never heard of or this, till today. I am currently listening to the Intelligent Design discussion (downloaded the mp3).

It speaks of Ben Steins movie Expelled; No intelligence allowed. I will have to try to see this movie, after listening to the show about it.

The other site is a page from Biblical Archeology. BAR Extras provides additional information from the current monthly magazine. The slideshow of Jezebel was interesting.

Seems the family is finally getting over all this crud.

I am having to head out to Philly on Sunday and will be gone for four days.
I will get to see the new building at Corporate. Suppose to have new security, ect. So a new badge will be given, ect. I am kindof looking forward to seeing the group again, up there.

I am still reading "Hostage of the Devil". I should finish it up next week.

Not much, other than work-eat-sleep. I am just glad we are all seem to be getting over this flu.

And you wonder why the average American isn't fed up with politics.

America, by the inaction of the U.S. House of Representatives, has been weakened substantially in fighting terrorism.

As I reported last week, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) and her left-wing allies decided to leave Washington without voting on the bipartisan Senate bill that would have extended key provisions of the Protect America Act, a bill that is essential for America's ability to quickly and deftly track terrorist communications overseas.

This abdication of responsibility by such a high-ranking member of our government has been the most amazing anti-national security action by Congress in decades.

This is not a partisan analysis.

The vote in the House Democratic caucus reportedly had some 20 moderate votes opposed to leaving without voting on the Senate bipartisan anti-terrorism bill.

Sen. Jay Rockefeller (W.Va.), the Democratic chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has said this failure to act has weakened our ability to intercept and stop terrorists.

Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell (a career military officer) and Atty. Gen. Michael Mukasey, in a letter to Rep. Silvestre Reyes (Tex.), the Democratic chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, stated plainly, "We have lost intelligence information this past week as a direct result of the uncertainty created by Congress' failure to act." (View the complete letter at PowerlineBlog.)

I urge you to call your representative today and demand that they pass the Senate bipartisan Protect America Act bill (which got a filibuster-proof 68 votes in the Senate) immediately. Every day that passes is a day that America is more vulnerable.

I actually had a 3 day weekend. I wasn't aware of it, till last Thursday.

So the plan was to do some shopping (getting things acquired, ect), spend some time with my honey and kiddos. Maybe, watch a couple of movies, ect.

Unfortunately, my wife was sick the first part of the weekend, starting with not feeling well Thursday night to fever and aches Friday. By Sunday morning, she was really tired, but felt somewhat better. Then Sunday afternoon/evening, my son came down with it.

With him, if he gets sick, a new onslaught of issues can arise. So Sunday evening, I had my wife and son in the same bed, as I stayed on the couch. I checked them around midnight Sunday, before I crashed. Unfortunately, it seemed they were up at 12:30, 2:30, ect. Sigh.

So as I sit here, about to hit my week of work, I think back on my oh so fast 3 day weekend. It wasn't really as we planned it would be.

Why am I coughing? Maybe this coffee will quench the tickle in my throat.

This is an awesome free 1 hour 20 minute video online.

The HOPE

The Hope is the the whole story, creation through Christ.



The HOPE is a dramatic motion picture presentation of God’s redemptive story as revealed in 36 Biblical events from Creation through the Second Coming of Christ. It includes some of the most beautiful cinematic presentations of the Bible ever filmed. With a high priority on quality, The HOPE was produced on 35mm film (same as hollywood movies). It contains numerous digital effects. Nearly 4 years in the making, The HOPE was produced by mature and respected Christians who have produced effective evangelism films for over 20 years - used of God to lead thousands to Christ.

I had the chance to watch Untraceable last night with my brother. It was just the guys out, kindof thing. We had intended to watch "I am Legend", but it no longer was showing.

Anyway, the movie was actually pretty good. There were some political undertones in it. Specifically referring to net neutrality and online freedom. There is also reference to NSA unable(or unwilling) to assist the FBI, due to the wall between federal and domestic.

The basic premis is someone creating a website to ask others (the online viewers) to join in the murder. The more online viewers the faster the murder takes place. Needless to say, the time speeds up as news of the site grows online.

I won't provide any spoilers, but let's say the structure of the story is typical.

1)Two main characters (the hero ((main female character)) and the killer)
2)Mystery of who can it be
3)The mental game of will
4)It ends well

I will say, at least this movie had a pretty good storyline. It did provide the "why" in the end.

I recall at the end of the movie, my statement to my brother was "That's messed up".

I would recommened the movie.

Trying to catch up from the weekend, rolling over into the week.

Since no on-call for me this weekend, we went to the new church again. I was really impressed with the message. We went to the earlier church (8:40 a.m.) to check out the format. The songs were much more upbeat than what I am use to hearing. Yet, not too hard for my wife(wink). It's interesting when you have something to actually compare to. Most people are unwilling to change, to have the experience of contrast.

I noticed the pasture "taught" rather than "preach". Yes, there is a difference. Rather than on the pulpit to speak about Christ and the bible, he provided background and history to capture the era of time on the why. This, to me, makes a vast difference in the message. I once mentioned to our TeamKids (church on Wednesday nights), you guys are taught to do this, but "why do you do this?"

This is the failing of the church, in my opinion. Rather than simply saying you need God, often it's not defined as to why you need God. Think of it this way. If someone would say to you, you need this medicine. You would obviously ask, "why?" Which reply would you rather have. The reply of "because its' good for you" or the explanation of symptoms and diseases and the medicine would save your life?

This is the difference in teaching and preaching. Teaching provides the background and understanding. Preaching simply conveys you need to do this.

This site Newseum (the interactive museum of news) shows all the front pages in the papers around the world.

You can check out what the titles of each newspaper is per day. I think it's an interesting idea. I haven't checked the full site out. However, if you want to gleam the headlines of the major papers, this is a fast way to roam.

I think we can all attest the lack of sleep wrecks havoc on our thinking skills.

Sleep has been called temporary death, but there's so much that goes on
during that time of repose. While visiting that other world one might walk,
talk, grind teeth, and sometimes dream.

Your brain is more active while you're asleep than when watching television.
And that's even when you don't walk or talk in sleep. No wonder our
language is rife in sleep-related idioms. You can sleep in, on, out, around,
with, and over. You can lose sleep over things.

You can go without food for a while but you can't cheat on sleep. It demands
its dues. According to a report, you would be 25% less alert on just an
hour's loss of sleep.

Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.

I been waiting for it, and it will be here May 16th! Sweet.

Superbowl Commercial for it.



Official Trailer

Voz Me is a interesting online app to allow you to "hear" your articles.

You might have noticed the new addition I placed on my blog earlier this week.




Its a freeware that allows you to post the html on your blog (wordpress or blogger). The audio is in mp3 format, and you can listen to it via java, or download the file.

I had my wife listen to it, and she says it sounds weird.