What If The Church….

…could make a food pantry experience, not feel like a food pantry

…could build entire housing complexes and give them away

…would provide free bus passes to people in the community who didn’t own cars

…could provide transportation for elderly people to go to the doctors

…could teach single moms a skilled trade for free, so they can get a better job

…could be the center of the community

What would it look like for a church to serve it’s community

What could be accomplished?

There Is A War On For Your Mind

I picked up the CD and I have been surprised with the lyrics. very Socially and Politically worded. They take on issues like 911, Katrina, racism, corporate greed, authoritative governments, and etc.. It’s good stuff.

This is the intro to the CD, “There Is A War On For Your Mind“. It sets the tone for the whole CD. I have to admit their lyrics through out the whole album are brilliant.

There’s a war going on for your mind
Media mavens mount surgical strikes from trapper keeper collages and online magazine racks
Cover girl cutouts throw up pop-up ads
Infecting victims with silicone shrapnel
Worldwide passenger pigeons deploy paratroopers
Now it’s raining pornography
Lovers take shelter
Post-production debutantes pursue you in nascar chariots
They construct ransom letters from biblical passages and bleed mascara into holy water supplies

There’s a war going on for your mind
Industry insiders slang test tube babies to corporate crackheads
They flash logos and blast ghettos
Their embroidered neckties say “stop snitchin’”
Conscious rappers and whistleblowers get stitches made of acupuncture needles and marionette strings

There is a war going on for your mind
Professional wrestlers and vice presidents want you to believe them
The desert sky is their bluescreen
They superimpose explosions
They shout at you
“pay no attention to the men behind the barbed curtain
Nor the craters beneath the draped flags
Those hoods are there for your protection
And meteors these days are the size of corpses

There’s a war going on for your mind
We are the insurgents

Topics of Conversation

I had a good friend over Saturday night, for some good conversation. Here’s some of the topics we laid out:

New Age Movement
Spirituality
United Nations
Fasting
N.A.S.A.
Phil Schneider
Environmentalism
David Foreman
Canopy Theory

Nothing off limits, just lots of discussion. It’s one of those nights when you know your done when your head feels like it might explode.

Not for the meek!

New Music // Flobots

I just got turned on to these guys, and I am digging this song, big time.

Smart progressive lyrics!

lyrics

I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
No handlebars

I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
No handlebars

Look at me, look at me
hands in the air like it’s good to be
ALIVE
and I’m a famous rapper
even when the paths’re all crookedy
I can show you how to do-si-do
I can show you how to scratch a record
I can take apart the remote control
And I can almost put it back together
I can tie a knot in a cherry stem
I can tell you about Leif Ericson
I know all the words to “De Colores”
And “I’m Proud to be an American”
Me and my friend saw a platypus
Me and my friend made a comic book
And guess how long it took
I can do anything that I want cuz, look:

I can keep rhythm with no metronome
No metronome
No metronome

I can see your face on the telephone
On the telephone
On the telephone

Look at me
Look at me
Just called to say that it’s good to be
ALIVE
In such a small world
All curled up with a book to read
I can make money open up a thrift store
I can make a living off a magazine
I can design an engine sixty four
Miles to a gallon of gasoline
I can make new antibiotics
I can make computers survive aquatic conditions
I know how to run a business
And I can make you wanna buy a product
Movers shakers and producers
Me and my friends understand the future
I see the strings that control the systems
I can do anything with no assistance
I can lead a nation with a microphone
With a microphone
With a microphone
I can split the atoms of a molecule
Of a molecule
Of a molecule

Look at me
Look at me
Driving and I won’t stop
And it feels so good to be
Alive and on top
My reach is global
My tower secure
My cause is noble
My power is pure
I can hand out a million vaccinations
Or let’em all die in exasperation
Have’em all grilled leavin lacerations
Have’em all killed by assassination
I can make anybody go to prison
Just because I don’t like’em and
I can do anything with no permission
I have it all under my command
I can guide a missile by satellite
By satellite
By satellite
and I can hit a target through a telescope
Through a telescope
Through a telescope
and I can end the planet in a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust

I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handle bars
No handlebars

I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
No handlebars

I Hate Raccoons!

These are the raccoons that are driving me crazy! If you can’t see them, click on the picture.

They live in our fake chimney, and every night you can hear them climbing up and down the wood. It’s imposable to sleep. It sounds like someone is trying to saw the wall down.

So last night I went out with my flash light, broom, and potatoes. Don’t judge me yet. I threw potatoes at the mother, which she didn’t like, and she growled at me, which I didn’t know raccoons did. Then when I ran out of potatoes I threw some rocks, while I’m standing outside at 1am in my pajamas holding a flash light pointed at the roof!

Then I walked around the corner and saw these two babies clinging on the side. So repeat potatoes and rocks, swing the broom around, a little trash talk and I go inside excepting a peace night of sleep.

That lasted about an hour, I was forced to sleep on the couch, in my own house.

That’s why I hate Raccoons.

Qoute // Voting

“Voting isn’t about dragging social issues into the booth,

it’s about voting for your freedoms or against them.”

- paraphrase from washington, your fired!

Quote // Based On Fear

“People are quick to condemn things

they don’t understand.

I suppose it’s easier then learning

about something new”

If Global Warming Is Real…

If Man Made Global Warming is real what are we to do with The Oregon Petition. 19,000 American scientists that claim global warming hypothesis was not based on sound science. or the founder of the weather channel wanting to sue Al Gore for fraud. or Gore being busted for using fake video in Inconvenient Truth.

Maybe just Maybe it comes to money, that going green is Big Business and will bring in extra income.

Isn’t it convenient that Gore founded a company called Generation Investment Management . A firm that invests money in solar, wind and other projects that reduce energy consumption around the globe…basically Gore buys “carbon offsets” from his own company.

I think people need a healthy amount of skepticism. Don’t get me wrong I’m all for people being more concerned about the environment, and stressing we should conserve and even recycle as much as we can.

It’s the fanatically extreme push that the media is going to, to make Environmentalism the new “religion”. They stand up as saviors of the environment when really they’re just cashing in.

Killing Polar Bears With Carbon Dioxide?

From the AP news article, Polar Bears are listed on the endangered Species List. For all of you who are about to sigh with relief, lets discuss why this is a bad decision.

Just because they show you a picture of a Polar Bear Cub stranded on a floating sheet of ice doesn’t mean they are endangered. After all Polar Bears have been tracked swimming up to 62 miles continuously.

They show you those pictures to get you to stop thinking with the left side of your brain that handles logically thinking, and to engage the right side of your brain that does all the emotional thinking.

This is important because it’s the first time that the Endangered Species Act has been used to protect a species threatened by the impacts of global warming. This is a very dangerous president to set because there is concern that this decision could be used to regulate carbon dioxide in the future.

There is studies from the National Center for Policy Analysis, published in “Environment News” in 2007 that shows polar Bear population have risen since the 1970s from 5,000 to about 25,000 at present.

Dr. Mitchell Taylor, Polar Bear Biologist, says there is no need to worry that 11 out of the 13 populations of polar bears are thriving in the arctic and that slightly warming conditions benefits the bears by providing a better habit to find food.

And the Climate Science: Climate Change and Its Impacts study found that wind patterns have more of an effect of the habit then global warming.

So then why all the hype about polar bears going extinct. The US placing them on the Endangered Species List seems to contradict these stories here and here and here and here and here

And why is the US government setting policy instead of Biologist and Scientist?

By placing the Polar Bear on the Endangered Species List, Government now how has action to do 2 things. 1 regulate Carbon dioxide which could lead to things like carbon taxes. 2 prevents the US from drilling for oil in the arctic, which keeps gas prices high.

So the question has to be asked, who benefits more from Polar Bears being endangered: The Polars Bears or the Government?

Who Says Comic Books Are Good For Nothing!

So a couple of weeks ago was free Comic Book Day at your local Comic store. Tammy found out about it and we made a trip with the kids. Jack had been bugging me for a while about going anyways, he had some money burning a hole in his pockets.

We got Transformers, Sonic, Tiny Titian’s, and some others for free. And while we were there we picked up an Iron Man for $3. Abby didn’t care so much for the comic store, when she was offered free comics, she kind of rolled her eyes, flipped her hair and said “Nooo”.

So jack is all pumped up on adrenaline when he open his Iron Man comic a calender fall outs. You have to understand Jack he digs calendars and the news and the weather all that kind of stuff. He notices that they have Mothers Day marked on the calendar. So when he get home he gets Abby and Emmy together to make mom some presents for Mothers Days that in 2 weeks.

So Last Sunday the kids gave Tammy her presents, they were all excited and Jack was all proud that no one had to tell him it was Mothers Day because he saw it on his Calendar!