Justified

I know that it is not polite ettiquet to blow your own horn. But I can not help doing that this morning.

I am justified.

Last year (or was it longer) on SpentCasings I dressed VanHollen, and was flayed alive for my "bad taste."

But then this morning I discovered these.

I realized that that is only just a small part of her ensemble, and yes, those boots truely are hideous, and not what I envisioned, but it goes to show, that what goes around in fashion, comes back with a vengenance. And apparently someone thinks that they are fashionable.

So again, I can not help but go: HA!

downhere

So last year, I discovered this band "downhere" (that's how they write it). You'll remember the post I did with two of their videos: The More and A Better Way. It was actually those two songs that led me to buying their album Wide-Eyed and Mystified and it was the tracks that they WERE NOT playing on the radio that got me hooked on downhere. They are my current favorite ACC band. (It used to be BarlowGirl but then they released "How Can We Be Silent" which is just an homage to loudness and lacks the sincerity and fun of their earlier work) I love musicians who sound just as good live as they do on their CDs, it says to me that they have actual talent, and not just a great producer/engineer. And that's downhere.


For example: there's a group in the playlist at the bottom of the page called Wavorly, I love their song Praise and Adore, inspired by one of C.S. Lewis' books, but when I went over to youtube to check them out, I felt sorry for them, firstly because they couldn't cary a tune in a bucket, and secondly because the front man was covered in ink, and not only did he have both ears pierced, but he had those hole producing barrels in his lobes. Now, I don't care if he wants to do that, but the deapth of his relationship with Christ was exposed. Shallow.

That is not the impression I get from downhere. Obviously I don't know them, but their song writing indicates to me a group of men who want to be more, and who want to encourage others to be more, through tracks like Surrender and Great Are You and From Protest to Praise and The Real Jesus.

I said all of this to say that in the course of looking for songs for my playlist, I went to their websight last night and discovered that they had produced another album, Ending is Beginning. I had company over last night so I wasn't able to spend any time there, so I went back there this morning and found the link to Jeremy Theissen's blog, and it was there that I got the imbed above for their new top 5 single, I Am Here.

Hope you enjoy.

Marching Orders

It is vitally important that we maintain our objectivity.

Mr. Obama, at this writing, is still the President Elect. And it is the Office of the President that deserves respect. I think that it might be a little extreme to wonder if he has to actually kill a child on live TV before his true nature will be fully revealed and people will see him for the monster that many believe him to be. Even where he a monster and he DID do something like that, his acolytes would make excuses for him: "Oh, the child must really be the spawn of Satan, who, by the way, we don't believe in." "Oh, he is going to resurrect him in three days, because, after all he is the M-"

All banter aside, we have to respect the office. We don't have to respect the man. However, the Office demands that we behave deferentially towards the Office Holder.

Confused yet?

Many people are calling Obama the "President-Elect." I do not. I did not Elect him to that office. So, until he becomes President, and I heard today that the fight to prevent that is continuing, I shall be referring to him as The One, Obama, Mr. Obama, or Senator Obama. I know, it sounds like I'm in denial. I am not. I have heard that "respect is not earned, it is given." I do not agree with this philosophy. I agree with the Marines: "Respect: never given, always earned." Honor, on the other hand, IS given. Honor is that thing that makes you say, "Yes Ma'am, No Sir, Your Honor, Officer So-and-so" etc. Some confuse it with good manners. Good manners is not smacking at the dinner table. Respect is deep seated trust. I respect knives, because if used properly they will render great service, if they are misused, they will cut me to the bone. I respect certain men and women because they have proven themselves to be worthy of my respect. Experience is the final authority of who is and is not the recipient of my respect.

So it should come as no surprise that I have no respect for Mr. Obama. I am not even willing to concede that he "fought an excellent fight." That implies that there was some sort of level playing field, which, anyone who is intellectually honest will admit was not the case. But, as it stands now, he is going to be the President of the United States of America, and that does call for a small measure (not much though) of restraint on our parts.

It is ironic that we, the conservative, God fearing patriots are castigated as "intolerant." When in fact it is the liberal, God hating, Country hating people who are intolerant of us, because we don't smoke, drink, or carry on, and it reflects poorly on them. "You can't judge me!" is their rallying cry. "Who are you?" is our response "I've never thought about you before. Can't judge you, huh? Wanna bet?" It is also ironic that the people who claim exemption from judgement are themselves obsessed, compulsive judges.

I am also struck with the evidence of all the conservatives that rioted on election night. How our *cough* candidate ran out to the podium and screamed "Every vote must be counted! And then if we don't win, we're going to take our battle to the courts!" Oh, wait a minute that didn't happened this year. That was AlGore in 2000. Oops. My bad.

As I said earlier. We must keep our chins up, and our noses down. As Bible believing, God fearing Christians our confidence can not be in Government. As Patriots we must continue to fight the good fight in what ever capacity we can. And remember, this was one of the lowest voter turn-out election in years. Obama did win with 3 mil plus votes, which looks like a lot of votes, but he actually only won by 2%. That's right. Obama only got 52% of the vote. THAT makes me sick. All the people, Christians included, who abstained from voting are just as guilty as those Republicans and "christians" who voted for Obama.

We do have a civic duty. If we do nothing else, than we are commanded to pray for those in authority. So let's pray for The One's salvation and the salvation of his entire family.

And to keep you optimistic, you have to read this: Here Are Your Assignments. It will lighten your spirits.

Fools Get What Fools Deserve . . .Eventually

And we must suffer needlessly with them. But NOT inactively.

It is a good thing that I do not make my living as a political prognosticator. Today, I would be out of a job.

Why did I make the prediction that McCain-Palin would pull it off? Because I believed that common sense and logic would prevail. I had not even begun to understand how far the ideology of IMAGE had metastasized.

Sprite had the greatest overlooked advertising campaign of the 90's: "Image is Nothing . . ."

And when it comes to nothing, no one does it better than Mr. President-Elect Obama.

Two weeks before the election I was feeling good. For the first time I was certain that M-P would win. It was not a sudden epiphanous revelation, but the slow growing warmth of a building fire. I was keeping up with the world on NRO; I was paying attention to the sudden appearance of all of The One's previously suppressed ideas. How he used to sit at the knee of a Communist in Hawaii; how he sought out an unrepentant domestic terrorist to befriend in Chicago; how he had financial dealings with a convicted slum lord whose wife sold him a slice of land from her vacant lot, against local statute, so that a house could never be built on it; how he attended the church services of a black racist for twenty years; how he told Joe the Plumber that he just wanted to spread the wealth around; how he exposed the true reason for becoming the great constitutional scholar he is lauded to be of which there is no evidence: to undermine our founding, binding document; and how he seeks to bankrupt our domestic industries. Ironic that he has stated that he will tax companies that move jobs over-seas and yet he proposes to make it impossible to create jobs here.

I saw all of this information. I thought about it logically. I deduced that there was nothing in the man that qualified him to be CEO of the greatest enterprise in the world. And after encountering others of my opinion I thought: "Ah, there WILL be enough of us, to drag that old grey haired mule across the line ahead of the great black hype."

But I had forgotten that Logic can never win in a conflict with Unchecked Emotion.

The only way that it can prevail in such a fight, is to turn and walk away, or slap the offender silly, in hopes that it will rouse them from their hypnotic stupor. But as they say "I wouldn't hold my breath."

My buddy said that he was going to vote for Obama because he appeared smart. Because he proposed international policies to "repair" our status in the world. What proof was he able to provide of the the alleged intelligence? Sure, he could read a TelePrompter with exceptional skill, but when speaking off of the cuff, he makes Bush seem like a poet laureate. What happened to the papers that all Professors are required to write? Where's his Doctoral thesis? What proof do we have of any real, original intelligence? And our standing in the world? Do Frenchmen spit in your face when you go to the hypermarche? Do Mexicans put their dirty thumbs in your bean soup at the local Hacienda de Tamale? What about what the French President said here last year? Not to mention what he just recently had to say about The messiah. And really, does the bad opinion of someone you don't know three thousand miles away really have any effect on your day-to-day life?

Apparently it does. Even though it doesn't.

So we see that a majority of the nation has ushered in a man who is not qualified to manage a MacWendyKing on Image and Emotion alone.

You've made your bed, now you must lie in it.

Having been wrong before does not prevent me from making another prediction: I believe that the Presidency of Obama will rally the masses from their stupor. When the going gets tough, the tough move to the newly seceded Alaska, under the firm and good direction of President Palin.