Bless me Blogger for I have sinned. It's been 10 days since my last Blog.
Welcome to the Friday the 13th edition of the Morning Sickness Blog. As I write this I am babysitting the board at WMUW World Wide Web Radio. We are running THE ZONE late this Friday afternoon because of the second computer FUBAR in the last two weeks. Last week it was the power supply in the encoder (the computer that changes the analog audio into the RealPlayer digits that your computer can play). It went up like a Roman candle! It made one proud to be an American! It went BZZZZZZZT! FZZZZZZZZT! ZAP! BOOM! All with flying blue sparks, orange flames and lots of smoke. MAN it was beautiful! I gave it a standing O!
This week (today) I booted up the replacement encoder to webcast THE ZONE about a half-hour before the webcast was to begin. The computer ran just fine for about 10 minutes, when it too went fzzzzzzt, blah. Toasted a Hard Drive! So now we are running on our THIRD COMPUTER and so far we are still on the Net. Hope you are listening!
Couple of interesting things from the past week -- in case you haven't heard yet, there is a move to start an intense investigation into whether President Bush lied or exaggerated the reasons for committing American troops to the war in Iraq. Those critics (mostly Democrats) are saying that if Bush did lie, that he should be impeached. Of course the Republicans and right wing commentators are saying that this is overkill, and is totally blown out of proportion. Let's see, Clinton lied about a Blow Job in the Oval Office, and he was halfway impeached -- lets see, no one died because Monica did a hummer on old Bill. So if Bush lied about the reasons we went into Iraq, and he shouldn't be impeached for lying because that would be overkill -- we're saying that Blow Jobs are worse than Death! Does anyone see the logic in this? Blow Job -- Bad. Massive Death -- Good. OOOOOOOOO-kay.
First it was West Nile Virus, then Anthrax, then it was SARS -- now it's MONKEYPOX! IT'S OUT THERE AND IT IS LOOKING FOR YOU! BEWARE MONKEYPOX! A Pox on your Monkey. Can you get Monkey Pox from spanking your Monkey?
So did you attend Gay Days at Disney World last week? I didn't -- I'm not Gay. Normally it's really no one's business who any concenting adult decides to get between the sheets with -- but still at this time, one still has to make the distinction whether or not he/she is Gay.
Lots of rain around here this past week. In fact, if we get anymore, we'll have to gather the animals two-by-two and build a funky boat.
Interesting little scandal brewing around here -- it seems that the founder of one of the Southern Baptist Student Organizations at our sister institution Mississippi State, just got canned by the local SBC convention. It seems the lady in question had a problem with the Southern Baptist "Wives should submit to their Husbands" part of the new church doctrine. Seems that to the SBC, you have to either do everything their way, or the highway. It doesn't matter how you live, it doesn't matter how much you have served your church. And it surely doesn't matter how you have served your God -- Nope, you have to sign this little piece of paper whether you agree with it or not. Those that have a problem with any kind of doctrine, well you're out the door. NO forgiveness, NO repentance, NO acceptance as a fellow traveler on the straight and narrow and servent of the Lord -- Nope, it's all on you to sign a piece of paper.
The same crap happened to my brother-in-law. No this guy could be the poster child for the "Christian" lifestyle. He read his Bible everyday, he and my sister and nieces prayed every night. They went to church when ever it was held. They volunteered their time and resources to their church and it's outreach ministries -- in other words, what ever it takes to be a good Christian in the Southern Baptist Tradition, they did it! He even (once) tried to convert me -- then decided that his time would be better spent with others. Anyway, even though I am not in his "camp" when it comes to his religious beliefs, I respected his religion and admired how he used it to help him get through life. So the day came that his church wanted to reward him for his years of service to the church by making him a Deacon. A reasonable reward and one that to me was a long time coming. Three days before the ceremony to install him as a Deacon, one of the church ladies was getting his Bio for the speech. She asked him if he and my sister had been High School Sweethearts, or had they met in college -- he said, that they didn't know each other until years after they had graduated from college. They both had been MARRIED BEFORE! Bad answer -- you can't be divorced in the church. It doesn't matter that his wife had walked out on him and his two sons, and that my sisters last husband left her penniless and having to care for two young girls on almost no money -- oh no -- YOU CAN'T DO THAT -- THE SBC DOESN'T ALLOW IT! So not only did he not become Deacon, they relieved him of his Sunday School teaching duties and my sister of her jobs in the church! What a bunch of CRAP!
Jesus took a vow of poverty and asked all who would teach in His name to do the same. Wonder why "The Lord" always calls a Baptist preacher to a higher paying church?
(This is "Borrowed" from last weeks Time magazine:) During his life Jesus preached about:
a. the evils of being rich, and how the rich won't enter Heaven
b. the evils of Homosexuality
c. the wonders of Democracy
d. the evils of abortion
The correct answer is A! Jesus never said anything about any of the other topics, but you wouldn't know that if you listened to the elite preachers in the SBC tradition.
Okay, enough SBC slamming for now. More to come later. In all seriousness, it's not the religion that's the problem -- it's all the hypocracy! I guess it works well in that it gives some folks a reason to look down upon others.
Know why God created Realtors? So Lawyers would have someone to look down on!
What's the difference between God and a Doctor? God doesn't think He's a Doctor.
We're about to hit the second hour of jungleZone here on WMUW -- so I'd better bail for now. More later. BLOG OUT!
posted by Eric at 4:41 PM
