Finally - The Burn Bush Craze Is Waning

Saw this linked on a blog that previously posted a preponderance of anti Bush material. Good to see the love spread around.

Perfect Storm?

John Paul Jackson is associated with the Elijah List people. I am cautious about these people because of what I see as “dominionist”* leanings (and then there is the whole Todd Bentley thing among others) but they are Christian and I do believe people can hear from God. Everything supernatural is not from God and we can make stuff up on our own. Yes, there is a strangeness to these people and they wear it with pride. I do not believe strangeness in and of itself either validates or discredits a ministry or word. But we in the Church who have been paying attention to God stuff over the years understand that what Mr. Jackson is saying in general is what has been said for many years. The prophecies in the Old Testament took forever to come to pass and people tired of hearing it and quit believing it would come to pass. I fall into that category with what Mr. Jackson is saying. Some part of me believes what he is saying but I have been hearing it for 30 years in some form or other.

Let’s be honest. We are seeing things develop across our global landscape that scream apocalypse. We may be wise to factor in Mr. Jackson’s information into our decision making. If nothing else, it makes for interesting conversation. Don't we all hope the "Glory of God" part happens? Give me some of that! Whether or not you sign up for "seer" training I will leave up to you. I'll pass on training and just wing it as usual.

Video Link

*Dominionist Definition: Christians will take over planet earth (re-establish Adam’s legal ownership) and then Jesus will return for that bride who is no longer spotted and wrinkled. [BHNSD Big Huge Nut Shell Dictionary]

Here is a more complete account:

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Integrity In The Workplace

If you have not ordered on line from B&H Photo, you may wish to check it out. Presumably the owners are Jewish and they abstain from conducting business on the Sabbath. This alone does not prove integrity but I find it interesting that reviews of B&H are always top notch and my personal experience with them corresponds. Who in today's commercial (dog eating dog) world abstains from doing business on any day of the week? Hats off to them, I say. Yes, their prices are usually terrific as well.
B&H Link

"It ain't [America] no more, OK?"

The current "protests" are interesting. Conservatives normally make poor protesters. Their heart is not in it for the long run. They have too much to do. They are more interested in earning a living and not upsetting the status quo (assuming said status quo is now or has some reasonable chance of working out). But I suppose conservatives could be pressed into a situation where the status quo is so dysfunctional that even the "silent majority" can no longer tolerate it. We are early in the current people's revolution and the Bolsheviks have only just begun their bloodless coup d’état. The jury is still out on the public's true outrage.

I admire the pleasant but firm manner of the police officer. There is some question as to whether the officer is creating new law (do we really want our officers making things up). One wonders if he really did have instruction to suppress all signs with pictures or if he simply and personally objected to this particular picture. Then we must wonder if pictures can legally be suppressed. And are school grounds and churches really different from other geographic locations when it comes to protesting as some bystander stated? Who was that masked man? This is an interesting exchange on so many levels. And then there is the Freudian slip, "It ain't (America) no more, OK."

The entertainment value of these new protests is truly worth the price of admission.

Change Excel 2007 Save As

Burned again by an .xlsx file, I am going to tell you how to change the default save in Excel 2007. This can be found elsewhere but not as clearly presented (that I found).

Open a worksheet. Left click this button in the upper left corner. This is were Microshaft has hidden the standard commands.

Now left click the “options” box on the bottom.

Left click “Save”

Now select the *.xls and click OK. Your new workbooks should default save as *.xls. (Word and Power Point should be similar – what are the chances?)

Where the heck are people getting Office 2007? I can't believe they are actually paying for it. I receive xlsx files from the most unlikely people.

Here is a link but more than you need to know.

Edit: It occurs to me that many users do not know what a file extension is. I can't remember when Windows started defaulting to not showing the file extensions but many users don't even know extensions exist or why. Go to Folder Options in Control Panel and uncheck the box as shown below. This is only so you can know what is going on. I always have file extensions showing.

Qaddafi Son: 'Obvious' Lockerbie Bomber's Release Tied to Oil - Europe | Map | News - FOXNews.com

Cute together, no?

Qaddafi Son: 'Obvious' Lockerbie Bomber's Release Tied to Oil - Europe | Map | News - FOXNews.com: "As questions swirl whether British Prime Minister Gordon Brown paid a dictator's ransom when he released the Lockerbie bomber last week, the Libyan strongman's son said it was 'obvious' that efforts to free the convicted killer were tied to lucrative contracts with the oil-rich state."

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Observations:
Gordon Brown is a liberal. Don't liberals hate oil and global warming? Don't they hug trees and sneer at economic advancement? Whoops ... I guess they make deals with the devil for oil. A George Bush in Ralph Nader clothing?

"Look into my eyes when you're talkin' to me." (Can you tilt your head a little?)

Possible tags: hypocrisy, deception, cute-photo-op, chestfullofmedalsthirdworldtinhorndictator

US Debt Clock

BigHugeThing? You tell me. It would seem so.