::conversation outside the bubble

Please keep my friend Brian and his family in your prayers. He was a healthy guy and a few weeks ago was struck what looks like a disease called CJD. It appears its un-treatable and also fatal. He is in intensive care in Milwaukee now. The family posted a blog here to keep people updated:

http://brianwillmsupdate.blogspot.com/

He is running under almost the same policies as the failed Bush administration ran. Except he likes to spend even more money we dont have. Where are all the protests at now to bring our troops home? Both sides repubs and dems are so utterly screwed up.

I am in the technology industry, and for the most part embrace technology. But something is utterly disturbing about this:

CNET STORY

I have to believe that outsiders of Christianity and mainline church have to wonder what in the world spending millions and millions of dollars has to do with teaching people about Jesus. Jesus himself seemed to be more about the poor, the widowed, the fatherless, and the orphan. And less and less about the rich and the Pharisees and Sadducees.

I know from personal account how many outsiders look at things like this, especially in a economy like we have today. It usually goes something like “Well at least I see where my tithe money goes to”

Somehow, I dont think this is what Jesus had in mind.

Its been quite a layoff this time for me. Putting in massive hours at my main work. Playing Mr Mom full time with my wife trying to finish up nursing school. And plenty of other web site side work as well. I figured it was time for a change in look too upon my re-entering the blog world. I hope to stay a bit more current in the coming months, but we shall see.

One link I’d like to keep everyone aware of is the couple from our house church (The Fringe Network) which are leaving for Africa this November for at minimum 18 months. I have just helped them launch their web site here: www.feedlesideng.com – I encourage you to visit and read their story.

Thats all for now. Hope to have more posts soon!

Our fearless “Change” leader has been in Washington over 100 days now, and frankly I cant tell if he is running the country or GW still? Huge federal bail outs, the biggest spending increase ever, and not one foreign policy change yet. I just dont get why anyone thinks because someone is a good orator they make a good leader. On a similar note, as Obama and his cronies seem stuck on getting Bush and his team tried for crimes, check out the below:

My 2009 picks for this years NCAA Tourney.

CLICK HERE

Working in the computer/web industry has its fair share of customer service battles. The latest comes from a web registration company called Hover. If you go to their web site, they have absolutely no customer support info other than an email address. About 72 hours later I received a response saying someone would look at. I had a web site I worked on registered through another company which Hover bought. I couldnt get any info on it and the domain expired. How was I to get it renewed and hopefully transferred to a better company? I searched Google over and over and finally found the old company which Hover bought phone number. WHen I dialed it went to Tucows which I guess is the parent company of Hover. They were able to get me a number of which I dialed and spent 30 minutes on hold until someone answered. They did help me out, and needless to say I will be transferring the domain from them. I see stories all over the web about how people are so mad at this Hover for their customer support and lack of publishing a phone number. So I thought since this site is searched by Google and others, why not post it here and hopefully it starts showing up in search engines. So here it is for those who are looking for it!

866.731.6556

Another great video and great read on the so called change president. Looks like more of the same to me.
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/14434

As the nation seemed to think the second coming of Jesus himself was upon us this past Tuesday, I watched from a hospital bed as I was dealing with horrible chest pain and was forced to watch things like a national TV reporter delcaring, “He just drank some water, now is sitting down to eat lunch”. While no fan of Barak Obama and certainly no fan of the right who is trying to crucify him as this insider muslim who is a “wicked and evil democrat”, I do admire the history he made with the racial barrier he broke. However, as is typical the news media and his beloved followers have made it go too far. Hes not God folks, and He’s not the answer to America’s problems. His first two main acts were to force Bush to bail out more CEOs in the auto industry, signed the first 700 Billion dollar bail out of CEOs on Wall Street, and now wants to throw another 800 Billion at the economy? I see the same I saw in GW there. Spend and print more money without cause.

No one has the guts to stand up to the greed and money hungry lobbyists in this country it appears. Let the auto industry fail and let Toyota and Honda (who now make more cars in the US than Ford or Chevy does) take over.

As far as his speech, as I have always said, he is a great orator, and writes most of his own speeches. It was a solid speech but still fill with rhetoric that wont be lived up to in the end. Was that really Aretha Franklin? Wow she was beyond horrid. I see Rick Warren took time off from their latest sermon in a can series and and let the opening prayer, which was solid. But man something about that guy just makes me think Joel Osteen. And the closing prayer guy, was he a rapper or a minister?

I think the Christian nation for bashing Obama is wrong, but I also think those that idolize the guy are just as wrong. The fact is his policies wreak of all that the constitution is not. I see more federal hand outs and less true cuts in things like the 45% tax I just saw out of my bonus this year.

Overall Im glad its over, and honestly hope for failure not because he is black, white, republican, democrat, christian, muslim. But because this country will never move forward without moving back to what the founding fathers set up. Limited govt, limited taxes, and less federal intervention. No war or empire building and bring not just Iraq troops home, but all bases should be shuttered and brought home.

I think the true hero of the week, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, was the one who was overlooked the most. People acted like Obama was more important than him. I just dont get it. We shall see what the next year brings, but I have a feeling it wont be pretty.