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Archive for February, 2006

The Idolatry of Truth Podcast

Friday, February 17th, 2006

My The Idolatry of Truth post has gotten a lot of attention due to its being linked on an anti-emerging church site, Slice of Laodicea. I’ve responded both on the Slice site and on the blog here through the comments, but I felt that a response in my own voice was appropriate. Please listen to [...]

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Henry Gale – Lost – One of Them

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

Life on the Rocks – We’re off to see the Wizard… Lost has me hooked. The article I link to above, mucho good stuff about where the show might be going. But might be is the right way to say it, as J.J. and company is doing a phenomenal job of throwing people off the [...]

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Why I Keep Talking About It

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

Politics and religion are supposed to be the two subjects you never talk about in a social setting. My dad and I have been going round and round about the wiretaps and other activities of our president. And I had this thought about why I still hold many Republican values, but I’m neither a Republican [...]

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Love Monkey Cancelled

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

Once again, the networks find a way to kill a great show. CBS is content with its almost exclusively crime drama prime-time schedule, and they kill a great show after just three weeks. Love Monkey lagged in ratings because it was going up in a difficult time slot (the 10 PM slot usually reserved for [...]

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Comments not registering on home page

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

Update: Everything is working now. I was using “SpamKarma 2″ to stop comment spam, but it doesn’t play well with WordPress 2.0. It just does not work right. I am now using Akismet, which comes with WordPress 2.0. Hopefully it will work as well as SpamKarma 2 did on WordPress 1.5.1. ——————— For some reason, [...]

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Thoughtfully considering where we’ve come from brings understanding of where we are today. For me, that means remembering the Church of God Reformation Movement. Here’s some selected quotes from the History of the Church of God which I find incredibly relevant for today: On October 1, 1881, a group of about thirty people met together [...]

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iTunes TV Shows

Saturday, February 11th, 2006

Confession: I love TV. I limit myself quite a bit, because it would be easy for me to get obsessive. Right now, I really only watch three shows consistently: Lost, Invasion, and Supernatural. Lost is available on iTunes, and since I don’t have TiVo, it makes it very convenient for me if I miss an [...]

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This clip is just about 30 seconds long. Please take the time to watch our President state his position on wiretapping two years after his authorization for warrantless wiretapping. Then, consider going to Google Video and searching for “Bush wiretap.” Then click, “Put on site” and then cut and paste the code into your blogs [...]

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Think Progress » Bush Caught on Tape: “A Wiretap Requires A Court Order. Nothing Has Changed.” For those of you who still may think my position about Bush’s wiretapping being illegal, perhaps you should read his own words from a campaign speech, 2 years after he authorized warrantless wiretaps. Did he forget about his sweeping [...]

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Propagation Complete

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

I think. Well, it doesn’t appear I’m getting any hits on the old server, so please feel free to comment with full knowledge your comment won’t go away Which actually, if you can read this, I guarantee you it won’t go away because this post is only on the new server! I’m excited about the [...]

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