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This may be my last post from the Democratic People's Republic. It's been a good run, and I'm off to bigger and better things. I'm going to be making a move to greener pastures that should be better for everyone included. You'll all have one less blog to check up on, and there won't be any frustration from seeing the same dead post day after day.In short, this blog will soon be retired. But

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I am amazed at how Christians (and people in general) can get so hung up on what they are accustomed to that they completely miss the heart. For example, I go to a worship service at 6:30pm on Sunday that is comprised primarily of 20-somethings. Often times a conversation will arise where I say that I do not go to church on Sunday morning, I go to an evening service, and just about every time I

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One day, I'll have something to say. Today is not that day.

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Sorry for the delay, folks. I suppose I have some explaining to do. Well, I've been pretty beat for the last couple of weeks (actually, more like the last couple of months). I had SARS for about a week or so and didn't have enough energy to do... well, anything... let alone blog. I even fell behind on paying my bills because I've been so exhausted from work. It's funny, though, because I've

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Well, I've been feeling sick since Monday. My body was really achey and at times I found it hard to focus on my computer screen. I decided I would go to bed early and try to beat this thing before I got really sick. I went into work again on Tuesday and still felt really achey, my throat was sore, and for some reason my gums were swollen, I don't know what's up with that. Tuesday evening I

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Villa Park is really an amazing place to live. Cradled in the bosom of the Chicagoland area, Villa Park boasts quick access to I-88, 290, 294, and 355. There's not alot to do in Villa Park, but you can get the hell out real easy. I'm thinking about devoting a series of posts to the great garden village, Villa Park.This post is devoted to the greatest Mexican restaurant on the corner of St.

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I seriously need help figuring this out. I guess my first problem is I don't really understand what the hell "emergent" is. I'm pretty sure I hate it, so I'll be pretty disappointed if I find out I am.Perhaps I am only emergent in certain areas? Could that be the case?I am willing to classify myself as emergent in terms of worship style. Although, I'm not real sure my worship style is really

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Shadow is my mutt. My brother took her in to keep her from being destroyed in order to find her a good home. Ultimately, that good home ended up being HIS home. So Shadow stayed. She is a black lab of sorts. She is about the size of a lab, but she is much leaner and more muscular. She's got haunches like a greyhound and always looks like she's about to launch herself into a sprint or into

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Well... I finally had a day off, and it was delicious.I've been pretty hard to come by for the last week because I was working some pretty late hours. You see, my company recently took over inventory management and order processing for a large Foodservice brokerage. Basically, we order food from packers, put it in warehouses, then redistribute to smaller warehouses across the country so that

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Recently, Bill Bennet got into some trouble for something he said on his morning talk show. This has been turning in my head because 1) I listen to Bill in the morning, and I heard what he said "live", and 2) there is very little that gets me more pissed off than gossip, expecially hateful lies.So, I guess I will start with a quote of what has gotten him into so much trouble:"I do know that it's

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Two anecdotes and one trick for efficient living in the Kingdom:My doorbell rang on Saturday morning, much to my surprise. "Who could it be?" I pondered. Am I expecting someone? Is Dave expecting someone? I imagine not since he is out for the day. So, I made my way to the door and saw that two attractive hispanic women in their twenties were standing outside my door. I opened it and

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"We need not debate about the mere words evolution or progress: personally I prefer to call it reform. For reform implies form. It implies that we are trying to shape the world in a particular image; to make it something that we see already in our minds. Evolution is a metaphor from mere automatic unrolling. Progress is a metaphor from merely walking along a road--very likely the wrong road.

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Okay... a little bit more about those that desire to put the glory of man before the Glory of God.I've been talking a bit about western culture, especially humanistic secularism, and it's desire to create a utopian society. By this, I mean that there are a great number of people who strive to go beyond "doing what we can" and wander into "attempting what we cannot and should not do".I am going

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I continue to be reminded of my earlier post about the glory of man and the glory of God. It keeps coming up because people keep on saying things and doing things that are completely wrapped up in the glory of man at the expense of the Glory of God.I talked a little bit about Humanistic Secularism in the comments of my last post, but I will recap a bit. HS is basically the belief that man can

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"Experts" are blaming the US for causing hurricane Katrina because the pollutants we spew into the air are causing global warming and global warming is causing an increase in the number of hurricanes.Shenanigans.This is another great example of a narcisistic glorification of mankind. We mistakenly believe that through science we can end all of our problems and create a utopian society. Good

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Well... I'm pretty pissed off, because professor Plum is not going to be resurrected to greatness. I stripped down the bike to the carburetor so I could soak it in chem-dip and clean it out real good with a toothbrush. When I opened them up I found that 3 of the 4 diaphrams were torn and needed to be replaced. How much is a diaphram? $50 - $120 if you can find it.I also discovered that the gas

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I have been thinking alot about putting the Glory of God in front of the glory of man, and the implications of erring.I have briefly posted about this before, but there is so much that can be said on the matter that I am overwhelmed. It really deserves 200 pages and a chapter for each element. But I won't do that here. In a nutshell, I believe that the reason people question God's goodness is

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"If the full range of options available to women concerning reproductive health are compromised, then women’s moral agency and ability to make decisions consistent with their faith are compromised. Furthermore, poor women should have equal access to full reproductive health services, including abortion and information on family planning."This paragraph was taken from the UCC website. For those

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I am now the proud owner of a 1983 Honda Nighthawk 550 (that's a motorcycle) with 10,000 miles. I deliberated for days over whether or not to purchase a motorcycle, and then this little beauty came along and I couldn't resist. More than anything, the price was right: $0. That's right, folks, free. I even have a bill of sale that says I purchased it for free.Right now we call the motorcycle

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Here's the conclusion, "Why I hate multiculturalism".As discussed previously, culture is the expression of a set of shared values or beliefs. If that is the case, then what is more important, the values that are shared, or the way that those values are expressed? Multiculturalism mistakenly puts the expression in front of the values. Consider the Black Chorus at the U of I. How is it that a

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I have Part III planned, "Why I hate multiculturalism", and I'm having a hard time deciphering between my hatred of certain cultures, and my hatred of multiculturalism. It's a fine line, I suppose.So, here are some things about culture that I hate. If we recall from my last post, culture is the expression of values. Cultures exist in order to protect these values, but often times a cultures

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What is culture?This is the General's definition: Culture is the expression of the shared values and beliefs of a particular group through behavior, art, traditions, activities, speech, and laws. Culture is NOT the same thing as race, and multiple cultures can exist within a particular race, religion, gender, or whatever else.Here's what I love about culture: it allows for the diverse expression

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I've come to a decision, I'm going to get a leather jacket lined with wolf fur from the wolf that I will shoot in Germany with the gun I will buy.And I'm also going to have 10 kids... any takers?edit 1:All potential applicants must have broad hips.edit 2:There's really no reason that this isn't its own post, other than the fact that I didn't want to put up 2 on the same day. At any rate, I find

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As promised, I am going to rip on the National Council of Churches. But first, C.S. Lewis, "Mere Christianity":People say, "The Church ought to give us a lead." That is true if they mean it in the right way, but false if they mean it in the wrong way. By the Church they ought to mean the whole body of practising Christians. And when they say that the Chruch should give us alead, they ought to

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I decided that the United Church of Christ needs to change it's name, but I'm not sure what it should change it to. I'm open to suggestions.Our esteemed colleague, Pepperdeaf, discussed the tendency to politicize faith, and how Christians on the right need to be wary of allowing their politics interfere with their faith. Well, when it comes to putting politics in front of faith, nobody does it

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Well, we have another amazing verdict by the Supreme Court this past week. In probably the most unsettling decision of the past 20 years, the High (probably on medicinal marijuana) Court further stretched the constitution so that the government can sieze anyone's land and redistribute it pretty much however they see fit as long as that government can prove that it is being redistributed for

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I had an epiphany. I believe that our culture is adhering more and more strictly to Buddhism's Non-Harm: "Don't do to another as you would not want them to do to you." Unfortunately, with no other guiding morals or principles, this "non-harm" lends tolerance to virtually any sort of perverse or immoral behavior.Everything is tolerable as long as you aren't hurting someone else, and if you are

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In the debate over abortion Christians will often quote Psalms and Jeremiah where the Word states that God knew us before we were born and had a plan for our lives as he "knit" us together in our mother's womb. These arguments are used to show that God values the unborn child and we are not to destroy what God values haphazardly. Very rarely do I hear anyone mention the words of the law in

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Here are two brief things I want to teach the world (especially Christians):1) You are not the center of God's plan2) There is no reason to feel guilty for being *fill in the blank* (options include: a man, a woman, born in America, wealthy, saved, handsome, smart, talented, etc.)Here are the reasons why such doctrines are deceptive and can lead to distruction."If God were good, bad things

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Surf Google for news about the World Trade Center Memorial and the International Freedom Center.The WTCM is going to be sweet. I've seen the proposed design and I think it is going to be beautiful and sombering.There is controversy over ground zero, however, because a museum has been proposed to occupy the WTC grounds called the International Freedom Center. The IFC (not inter-fraternity

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I want to talk about the American family. What happened to it? I am also seeing alot of people marrying much later in life, and fewer children coming from these marriages. There seems something crooked about this that I can't totally put my finger on. To make things easier, I have broken Christian culture into two categories: swords and plowshares. Some of you are probably already on top of

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I answered a question that arose much more when I was in high school: should Christians listen to secular music. Is some secular music "sinful", etc.?All art, whether it be written, painted, or sung, is only good if it brings glory to God. If the worldview being portrayed is screwed up, it is bad art. That doesn't mean it shouldn't be read, examined, or listened to, but it must be done so

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I am reading G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy (which I highly recommend), and I came to some insights about Relativism. I am often times very confused with Relativism because it seems to me a very inconsistent and impossible worldview. I am noticing more and more, however, that is fairly consistent albeit terribly flawed and deceitful.I guess I will start with G.K."A man was meant to be doubtful

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You may have heard that a spokesman for Amnesty International called Guantanamo Bay an American "Gulag". If you are not familiar with the term, "Gulag" is a nickname for a program adopted by the USSR whereby criminals and enemies of the state (read Christians) were systematically rounded up and put in work camps in Siberia. I think now is a very good time to point out that Communist

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Alright, folks, you should all know that my birthday is this Saturday, and I want to take the guess work out of what you are going to buy me, so here is a short list of acceptable presents:One of these guysAnd then you can check out my amazon wishlist for additional ideas.Seriously, though, if someone bought me the Voltron Action figure I would NOT be disappointed.

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My thought of the day is this:Anti-militarism seems to be increasing, recruitment is dropping, and colleges and universities are increasingly hostile to military recruiters (which in my opinion should be grounds for waving federal/state funding to that particular institution). Well, as much as some may hate the U.S. military, we sure as hell can't do without it.I was struck today with the

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Well, I had a bit of a hard drive failure a couple weeks ago on my Mac. I was more surprised than upset, that doesn't very often happen to Macs. I was very disappointed that all my digital photos were gone until I realized I still had them on my old computer. I thought, "Well, I could burn CDs of all my music and photos and whatever else, or I could try to set up a network." i have set up

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This just in: the Iraq War is over. Actually, it was over a long time ago. If you define the Iraq War as the insertion of American troops for the purpose of toppling Sadaam Hussein's tyrannical regime and destroying his supporters, that war has been fought and won. Since we don't seem to be fighting anyone in uniform, and none of the terrorists have proclaimed their desire to restore a

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You remember the I agree with Mark T-shirts at the University of Illinois? I want to make, "I agree with Ben" T-shirts. Of course I'm talking about Pope Ben-edict.I agree with him on alot of subjects, but the most controversial is that of communion. Let me explain the controversy and my support of him in this controversy.The Catholic church uses the authority God has given it to discipline

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How can I begin? Where should I begin? There's so many options. Let me see...A group of Christians were arrested for hate crimes in Philadelphia because they were singing hymns during a gay "coming out" parade.The State took over the school system, then it completely removed values from education. It removed prayer, it removed the right to free speech by censoring teachers, it rewrote history

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Well, if you haven't caught the news this morning let me catch you up.Newsweek ran an article about interrogation tactics at Guantanamo Bay sometime last week or the week before. The article described a number of things, among them a description of interrogaters flushing the Koran down the toilet in front of prisoners. The article was not well received by the international muslim community, and

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I read a couple chapters out of Jim Wallis' book "God's Politics" tonight, and I have some thoughts. I have posted once before about Jim Wallis and an article printed in an enewsletter for Sojourners. I do not find it at all surprising that he is responsible for both printings. In fact, I find it quite reasonable that the same underlying worldview is responsible for both. Fair warning: the

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Hey everybody... I'm back in the greater Chicagoland area. I'm living with the parents for now, waiting for my brothers roommate to move out so I can move in with my bro and his dogs (which is great because sometimes I will say something funny like, "I'm living with my bro and his (technical plural term for female dogs)").I had a thought the other day, maybe you all can relate. Have you ever

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I was given an offer yesterday for a new job in Arlington Heights. I will probably take it. I am currently waiting for them to respond to my request for them to "get their heads out of their asses and give me more money." Chances are they will say "No", and I will still accept the job. I will take the job because it will be really good experience working with some good people, and it is

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So Chrysler has a very poor design for their headlights. The bulb is inside a headlight casing, and the casing is attached to an assembly. In order to replace a bulb you have to unscrew the casing from the assembly and pull it out, once it is out you unscrew the bulb from the back, replace the bulb, screw it back in, and reattach the casing. It SOUNDS simple enough since only 2 bolts separate

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Every time I watch an "Amazing Police Video" on Fox I always say to myself, "Man, that was awesome, but what I really want to see is..."I even remember watching a documentary by this Anarchist about the G-8 summit in Seattle. Holy crap was that the greatest documentary ever filmed. The director was trying to portray cops as evil, peaceful protesters as naive, and himself and his fellow looters

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This marks the second time I have heard or read a discussion concerning the question, "should women fight?" I probably would have resisted the urge to comment, but twice in the same month begs some form of response (though, no one ever directed any comments towards me). Regardless, I will respond.Now, there are many concerns and issues that surround the idea of the "female warrior", the "amazon

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Warning: if you are asian, and applying for college or graduate school, do not inform the school of your ethnicity.Myth: Quotas help minorities.Fact: Depends on which minority.If you aren't into reading articles I link to, I will give you a synopsis:Since Asians, on average, have higher GPAs and higher test scores than Blacks, whites, and hispanics, they are hurt by quotas. How? Simple. If 3%

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I read an interesting article on a paper that Pope John Paul II wrote about public policy. I mention it, not because I am going to cite it or talk about it, rather it was an inspiration for the following thoughts.The Welfare State Sucks:It values the state more than people. It takes the responsibility away from people and puts it on a heartless, godless institution. It does not care about

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There's something liberating about putting in two weeks notice at a job. Well, I guess I put in a month notice, but it's still liberating."Hey, Matt, do you mind...""No!""But I just need you to..""Hell, no!""Could you follow up with...""I do what I want!"My time at the shoe store has been good and bad. I have learned some things, certainly. I have a few more skills, like computer-hacking

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Been a while since my last post. I haven't had the time. I almost said, "I've been busy", but that's another phrase I'm trying to remove from my vernacular. Truth is, I've been doing alot of other stuff that takes priority.At any rate, I just finished the Abolition of Man and I figured I'd give you all a synopsis of the last chapter in particular and some of my own thoughts.For millenia

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I got off the phone with my dad earlier tonight. Some time ago he told me a former co-worker of his was bemoaning the fact that he couldn't find good help. "When are one of Houseward's kids going to graduate so we can hire them?" He said. Little did he know that two had graduated and found work, and I was the only one remaining.Fast forward to today. They are looking for help in production

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Got the job.

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I'm back in the 'burbs for an interview.I made it home in 2 hours, 5 minutes - 142 Miles. I was cruising around 80 in the left lane (65 posted), and I saw a cop pulled some guy over going the other way. I slowed down to 75. I saw in my rear view that someone was slowly catching up to me, I thought I might move to the right lane, but there were cars there, and I knew I would have to slow down

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Well, I just got a call from a bank I applied at and they want to interview me next Wednesday. I have to talk to my boss today to take some PTO for the interview. That will be awkward. Especially since I just got put in charge of a bunch of stuff now that our Ecomm guy is leaving. There's alot of ins and outs and what have yous, but I will definitely do the interview. Even if I don't want

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Well, it looks like my job completely turned upside-down on me this morning. The guy that does all of our work on E-comm has left to do design work for a pretty big firm out east that had him sign a non-disclosure agreement because they don't want anyone knowing that a guy in the middle of Illinois is designing for them. Big shots. At any rate, I give big props to the man for facing insecurity

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My dad is a West Point grad, two years below Coach K when he was still the point guard whose name nobody could pronounce, when Bobby Knight was head coach. His senior year my dad roomed with the captain of the basketball team, who had nothing bad to say about Bobby Knight except for this:The civilian dress code for away games included quarter shoes (standard dress shoes, like wing tips), but my

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My mom called this one years ago.When nicotine became a drug that can be regulated by the FDA my mom was not happy. Why? Nicotine is bad. The government should be in charge of bad things, right? Well, her reasoning was that people know what nicotine does, and it's their responsibility to, well, act responsibly. Her concern, which is an increasingly valid one, is that this opened the door for

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"Justice Antonin Scalia, in his Roper dissent, tossed a grenade at the American Psychological Association on grounds of double standards. In an abortion case before the Supreme Court in 1990, the APA said a "rich body of research" showed that by age 14 or 15 people are mature enough to choose abortion because they have "abilities similar to adults in reasoning about moral dilemmas." But the APA's

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In February the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics cancelled a SoulEssence halftime performance because the songs they planned to sing, "Lift Every Voice", and "Thank You, Lord", were deemed too controversial. They thought the spectators might take offense to the religious overtones.One of the performers was quoted in the DI, and I found her comments very strange. She said she had never

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I strongly dislike Urbana. I wish Champaign could merge with Urbana, take over the government, and send all the Hippies and College professors into the cornfields. Urbana is crappy. Don't believe me? Go shopping at Lincoln Square Mall. I bring this up alot because LSM sucks that bad. It's within walking distance of campus, but there isn't a single freaking thing in that mall a college

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Dear old fraternity, all my life through, I'll love and cherish the mem'ry of you.I know exactly who to blame/congratulate/kick in the ass for this article. What a great time of life. Deep sigh.

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It's so incredibly important to be a skeptical reader. Well, perhaps skeptical is the wrong word. I'm sure Oneway could give me the perfectly appropriate word.I read an article sent to me by T-Rae, and I was quite pleased with the events that were being described, but I was quite dissappointed with the way the news was being reported. I am not going to make any over-arching accusations that

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I was reminded of another funny McDonald's story...I was standing in line, and another cashier steps up to a vacant register and points at me. I acknowledged his point with my full attention. Without saying anything, he made a hand guesture to "move to your left", then with both hands he waved me into the counter like he was directing a 747. Once I was at the counter, he looked me dead in the

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Well, I made the terrible mistake of getting my McDonald's "here" instead of "To go" today. This woman sitting next to me struck up conversation with me, talking about how she missed her bus. "Yeah, sucks," was more or less my reply.I really wasn't in the mood for chit-chat, but I was polite to her. She worked at McDonalds, I came to find out, and had gotten off work only to miss the bus. She

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Well, there's definitely been enough nerding for one day. We have a file-sharing network at my place and while I had no problems accessing everyone else's files, I couldn't access my own from their PCs (remember I use a Mac). It turns out that in order to access the files in my user account, they have to use my password, which I don't want them to necessarily have. So, I downloaded SharePoints

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No, I will not be recommending that we eat children, although I do see alot of similarities between the underlying value system and argumentation that Swift uses to validate eating children and that of those who are pro-abortion (ie they are a burden to their mothers, lives of poverty aren't worth living, etc., etc.). I digress.I, however, have a much more modest proposal. Take ever dollar,

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I'll try to make this brief. Aside from Antoni Scalia, our Supreme Court blows. Here is a link to the opinions and dissents of our justices.In short, appealing to foreign governments, treaties, constitutions, or judgments is a GROSS dereliction of the duty of the Supreme court. Furthermore, to lean on national consensus is a tremendous load of crap. The Supreme Court does NOT represent the

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Alright, interesting move. I'll see your "there is no social security emergency" and "it's a nefarious corporate conspiracy to get the money out of the hands of the poor and into the corporations", with "the payer to payee ratio has been shrinking and will soon turn over", and "regardless it puts power in the hands of the people and insures a more secure investment since the privatized moneys

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I wasn't intending on posting on this subject again, but I was listening to Dr. Tony Evans and he said something that really caught my attention, and I had to do it.Paraphrase:God expects us to tithe (give 10% of our income to the church we belong to), and encourages us to give an offering (money above and beyond the tithe), and promises to bless us in relation to the offering.Dr. Evans expects

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This is the General... making a General Announcement. That's when I, the General, make an announcement.My post is largely a mix of political opinion and humor. There has been a little heat lately, here and elsewhere. When the discussion lends itself to politics, or religion, or anything else for that matter, I encourage you to post differing opinions, no matter how rediculous or extreme they

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Alright, so I now receive e-mails from Sojourners Magazine, and I went on there site to investigate a book I heard about, and I saw an opportunity to send an e-mail to policy-makers concerning President Bushes latest budget plan. The following are Sojourners suggestions, followed by my modifications. My question is this, as a Christian, should I send this e-mail. Or is it mean-spirited to do

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There seemed to be some problems with the link, so I fixed them.I am posting this article because I found it informing and vindicating. Vindicating because a couple years ago I had a conversation with a friend in which we were discussing racial terminology. I find the current nomenclature used in politics today inadequate and insulting. African American... Asian American... how about just "

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Dr. James Dobson has been mocked and misquoted in the news recently. It's really laughable that the media still denies a left-leaning media bias. It is infinitely clear that you can say whatever you want about conservatives, Republicans, and Christians without fear of reproval, but you can't so much as blink at an African American or Homosexual without being labeled a homophobe and a

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There are few things in life more awkward than silly, pretty girls flirting with Christian guys in a bar. It's hilarious because as soon as they walk up, the conversation is over and they have failed their purpose. It's an exercise in futility as both parties try to make the conversation less awkward by making it as short and as casual as possible. When the girl doesn't get the hint that the

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M.C. Hammer was right, you really do have to pray just to make it today.Divorce rate among Americans: 1 out of 2Divorce rate among American Christians: 1 out of 2 (about)Divorce rate among American Christians that pray together: 1 out of 1100I heard it on Moody, it must be true.Matt

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It looks like I may be doing some freelance illustrating. Tesdall's dad, Jim, is putting together a quarterly journal (the first issue appearing March 21st), and he was looking for an illustrator. That'd be me.Hopefully, this will be a good opportunity to make a little extra cash, build up a portfolio, and in general do what I love.

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Out of no where we brought in a replacement for the other House. Febus has joined the fun at 1901. We have applied to officially charter our house as a YMCA facility since we've been operating as one for the last semester.Here's the real reason I'm blogging right now: 13 computers. That's right, people, 13. Including myself there are 5 people that live in our house, and we have a grand total

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How Teeftastic is this?!Hmmm, Teefaliscious!

JohnT.noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9748031.post-1109044606630492782005-02-21T21:54:00.000-06:002005-02-21T21:56:46.633-06:00

Congratulations, everyone. We have the unprecedented arrival of one Teeftastic into the world of blogs. The world will certainly be a better place.http://teeftastic.blogspot.comOneway, (or anyone else) how do you insert links into the text. You seem to do it with the greatest of ease and style, and I am ever striving to be more like you.

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So I was perusing thefacebook today, as I am known to do from time to time when I am exceedingly bored and not motivated enough to do anything semi-productive. I noticed an aquaintance of mine at the esteemed Calvin College had changed his picture. Not a real big deal except that his last picture was of him puking in a sink surrounded by what I believe to be Bud Light Bottles. Pretty standard

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Since I switched to the mac I have been confronted with a single aggravation: shortcut keys. I've done alot of data entry in my day, so I've gotten pretty accustomed to Windows shortcuts, and it can be pretty upsetting when you press Home expecting to go to the beginning of a line or word, and nothing happens, or you jump to the beginning of a document.So, for the last hour I've been on a

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I read an article recently about a Marine officer that was chastised for *gasp* enjoying his job. Somewhat callously he remarked that he found honor in his job protecting freedom, and actually enjoyed the thrill of battle against those that would take it from us. At some point he said something to the affect of: he enjoyed shooting the bad guys. The fact that he was chastised for it reminded

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Mark Sidarous requested I post about Barnaby Jones.Barnaby Jones is my mom's dog. He was the last of a litter of mutts my mom saw in Michigan and couldn't resist taking him. He's kind of a surrogate grandchild since none of the her children have made any headway whatsoever in producing a suitable object to her grandmotherly affections.He seems to be a mix between a lab and a coonhound. He

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Now I may be biased, since I was raised on Sesame Street. Actually, let me take that back. I was raised in the park, then games, and I can recall watching Sesame Street for a few years after I got a TV when I was 5. Which is funny, because in the skit we did today Mavis declared that they didn't have a TV until John was 6; well, my sister was in junior high when we got our first TV, my brother

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First off, you all need to hit up townhall.com before you check my blog, because 50% of the time my comments are based on some article I read there.This is no exception.I'm going to draw a parallel between scholarships, grants, and medicare. Basically, this article I read outlined how increasing the money that the government allocates towards scholarships does NOT make a college education more

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As you all probably know, Linds is going in for surgery on Friday morning, so remember to keep her in your prayers. Pray that the Healer would do what science and medecine cannot, and that He would not only direct the hands of the doctors, but that he would strengthen Lindsay's body and give her greater ability, mobility, and health than the doctors could have imagined. Pray also that the

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This post inspired by: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/mikeadams/ma20050208.shtml Oh, Mike Adams, you so crazy! (I wonder... every now and then people google themselves, and I wonder if Mike Adams or Thomas Sowell will ever stumble into the Democratic Peoples Republic or Hifidelity since we mention there names semi-frequently?) So what is art? How do we define something as abstract and as

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This is long, and I really don't care if you don't read all of it. I wrote this because I wanted to write it. I don't expect anyone to have the patience to read it. I suggest you do, though, because it will be thought provoking, and maybe a little outrageous. I recently read an article concerning evangelism and humanitarian aid. There has been some controversy over Christians *gasp*

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When there were several patients rights bills on the table Bush was heavily criticized for protecting 'big business' and 'insurance companies' by limitting the punitive damages one could sue for in medical malpractice suit. We need to make up our minds here. What is more important? Quality health care for a greater number of people? Or greater rights to seek damages if something goes wrong?

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So my pops calls me today and he says: I was in the hallway and I ran into a woman I used to work with in foods (Quaker Oats, he works in Gatorade now), her husband used to work with us also, but now he works for some food distributor in Arlington Heights, and she said, "What a coincidence, my husband and I were just talking about you and he was saying, 'When are one of Houseward's kids going to

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First off, I'd like to wish everyone a Happy Singles Appreciation Month. I know we're all excited for Single Appreciation Day (February 14th), and I hope that you are getting prepared in your own special day. So between now and the 14th,I want everyone to find a single and say, "I appreciate you." And don't forget the verse of the month: " I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the

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Now, I'm really tempted to post about the last chapter I read in The Silmarillion, but I know TJ wants to read it, and I won't spoil anything. I will say this, however: Turin Turambar is the darkest, gravest, baddest, and yet most pitiful character Tolkien ever conceived. Without giving anything away, the guy weilds a black sword and wears a dwarf-mask which are described to be like tribal

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So I watched the Fellowship last night and I was reminded, for some reason, of the claims that I have heard here and there that either Tolkien himself is racist, or the Lord of the Rings has racist themes. Now, I see no reason to try to defend Tolkien or LOTR against such wild allegations because to the casual reader they are remarkably unfounded. I am intrigued however, by the mindset that is

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My Mac mini has left Anchorage, Alaska, and was received somewhere in Canada. I have instructed them to take whatever detours are necessary to avoid bringing my Apple through Quebec.

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"The Silence of Adam" is the authorative work on Godly manhood. I would highly recommend copping this book online somewhere, because it's not new enough or bubble-gum-Christianity-popular-enough to still be on shelves at Christian book stores. Even though it's a 'man' book, I would even recommend it to women because some of the stuff is just universally awesome, and it's also a good insight as to

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I'm going to include a brief quote from yet another Sowell article and then the link to the full article. I think it wise to read the quote because I think it reveals his heart in the issue, whereas he comes off a little callous at the beginning of the article. The thing about Sowell is that he is not very prone to sympathy or emotion, but he is committed to determining "what can be done" using

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I was thinking about Sowell's article on gay-marriage 'rights' and I had an idea. (http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20041231.shtml) Now, if a couple, gay or straight, are not married and want to adopt, there are legal procedures that can be underwent in order to obtain legal guardianship for both parties, or at least legal guardianship for one party and a will can be constructed

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From "The Silence of Adam" - Larry Crabb & Co. "Our view of spiritual manhood has more to do with continuing to function in spite of difficulties than with successfully overcoming them. We believe that God's Spirit is less interested in telling us how to get our lives together, and more concerned with stirring - in the middle of our ongoing difficulties - our passion for Christ. Rather than

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Here's a gem from Thomas Sowell in 2003: "China, incidentally, has nuclear missiles that can reach American cities, thanks to American technology which they obtained when Bill Clinton over-ruled the objections of our military and intelligence officials, and allowed that technology to be exported. China also now controls the canal that Americans built in Panama, which Jimmy Carter gave away

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