So I really like NBCs “The Office”.
They have a little online community of Office Fans who apply and get hired as virtual employees.
We’re given tasks and instructions for those tasks.
Those instructions were in part to use the internet, whatever resources available to us and get as many clicks/hits for our branch as possible.
Drumming up hits to the NBC site and promoting the show/network but also competing against the other branches and trying to win the task.
So I used a copy of the commericial referenced in the task from the show.
I uploaded it to my YouTube channel.
Three days later (not a full 72 hours) NBC got YouTube to close my account.
After almost two years, over a hundred videos and no other copyright violations, YouTube shut down my account and won’t even talk to me about restoring it.
Obviously it’s because of my beliefs.
I slipped and gave them the one chance to remove me from their very liberal site.
They took it and booted me.
Sadly.
I could always open a new account and upload all the videos again.
Resubscribe to all my old favourites and start over but I’m not sure if I want to do that.
After twenty months I’m a little miffed that they could just cut me out like that, without even a warning, reprimand or simple removal of the “offending” video.
It’s not the end of the world and who really cares anyway.
I guess we’ll see.
I’ve kept all the videos so I’ll need to upload them to my site and update all the links to my old videos you find here in my blog.
So please be patient with me while I convert everything.
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I was reading a fellow blogger’s blog and I was reminded what it’s like to have you nutters posting comments and hijacking my blog.
But I gotta say, “Thank you - y’all have been really good lately about being good.”
It’s evenly split, the emails I get from you folks.
Half hold the same world view and the other half of you come from Mars or someplace still unknown to Humanity.
I learned a LOOONG time ago that more of you crazies wanted to post your monologues and rants; spread your disinformation and perversions.
There’s no way on God’s green Earth I’m going to let you have a voice on this site, sponsored by Him.
So now you all still have passion, all of you on both sides of Eternity, to take your comments, thoughts and debates to email and I thank you.
Keep up the drive and replies and as you all know by now, I respond to EVERY SINGLE email and I even talk about a few in my Vlogs and Blogs.
Thank you again, Gentle Readers and keep those emails a-coming:
Yeah, so what?
Neither team is the Dodgers so I really don’t care.
In fact, I’m so “anti-homer” that I’m cheering Boston on simply for the pleasure of watching the Rockies get Swept!
But that’s not what I’m here to write about.
Super-fast computers normally used only during emergencies were to be staffed Monday so state employees could buy Rockies World Series tickets online.
Until word of the plan got out, that is.
“I need volunteers to help push buttons in attempting access,”David Holm, recently the acting director of the state Division of Emergency Management, said in an e-mail. “You will need to use break time, lunch time or leave time to do this and the only real perk I can offer right now is that if someone does not pay for their tickets within three days, you will get first crack at them.”
The computers in the Emergency Operations Center are normally activated during tornadoes, floods, snowstorms and fires. And some are wary about letting people use them to buy World Series tickets.
“Taxpayers did not invest in an emergency response center so that state employees could use it for their own personal advantage and buy baseball tickets,” said Chantelle Taylor, a spokeswoman for Colorado Ethics Watch.
Department of Local Affairs Director Susan Kirkpatrick initially approved the plan, saying she did so to prevent her employees from leaving work to buy tickets. She said her technology department said it would not compromise security.
Seriously?
At first I didn’t pay much attention to this news bit.
The other day I believe I even heard the President comment on it.
I’ll ask again, “Seriously?”
I mean, c’mon, why is this a big deal?
We’ve all used our computers at work for something personal.
Even if it’s something as small as checking your personal email, even on your break.
You’ve misused company resources.
Most employers accept and condone a small amount of this because they realize that if they keep you at the desk on your breaks, you’ll take shorter breaks and work more.
For the last decade I’ve taken my personal laptops to work and at most have only used the employers bandwidth.
Most have gladly encouraged this and sometimes I’ve even used my own internet connection.
That said, still, most of us have used our employers computers because they were faster, had higher speed internet connections or they were simply convienent.
So what’s the difference with what these State employees did?
I’ll tell you what, we all have jobs to do at work and if we’d all focus the attention we waste focusing on our co-workers, on our own work/job performance, we’d all be better employees.
Just worry about what we’re doing and not what our co-workers are doing or not doing.
In the Christian Faith we are instructed to pull the log out of our own eyes so that we can see much more clearly and be able to help pull that speck of dust out of our Brother’s eyes.
Applied to the workplace, we all need to make sure our work ethics are pure before we start pointing our fingers at this State employee who was simply doing what nearly every Rocky fan in Colorado was doing at their jobs.
My own Office Manager had two of my co-workers helping him log in to get tickets.
The three of them spent the whole 3 hours, two days in a row, trying to get tickets!
In fact, I believe our OWNER even told him to do it.
So c’mon people!
I mean, seriously, what’s the real issue here?
I think they were just jealous that these people had access to super computers and would have been more likely to get tickets.
Envy is not a pretty colour.
And they were painted with it from head to toe.
Hey David Holm and Susan Kirkpatrick:
Next time you need help, let me know and I’ll make certain the press knows that a member of “The Public” who pay taxes to purchase those computers, supports and has given permission to use them.
This Chantelle Taylor lady needs to focus on more important State ethics violations like using public funds to murder babies and supporting homosexual perversions.
Good luck to the Red Sox.
I hope you win and garner your second title in the last eighty years (the first was in 2004).
You deserve it.
Really?
Did they have to do this?
A Naked Nude Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama?
And of course throw in a porn star Rudy Giuliani!
What do y’all think?
Did they go too far?
I’ve no respect for these people personally but as potential Presidents, as Presidential Candidates I respect their positions, is this crossing a line?
One day the sun rose in the East.
A homosexual wizard waved his wand and tipped it into a pool of slime.
The slime oozed out of the pond and onto land.
It bubbled and grew and became a man.
Later that day the sun set in the West.
The only “actual events” that are based on fact and truth here are obvious to all.
Well… Almost all!
That’s how religions such as evolution and homosexuality work.
R.I.N.O. Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney had the nerve to say that Christians support him.
He actually named Focus on the Family, saying that they and other Christian groups like them believe the same, have the same foundation and support him.
You can guess that Focus spoke up and reminded Americans that there is a HUGE GULF between the beliefs of Christians and mormons.
I don’t need to illustrate those differences here as they are as blatant and vast as the differences between Christians, catholics, protestants and moslums.
Anywho, Focus used the opportunity to remind us that there are no candidates who represent Social Conservatives (Christians, Republicans and Americans) in this Country and we may have to back a Third Party Candidate.
In the past, supporting a Third Party Candidate was the kiss of death.
It was a waste of votes and many Americans were forced to vote either Republican or Democrat and had to choose the “lesser of the two evils.”
Today, it’s possible that a Third Party vote may very well win the election.
Christians, Americans we all have a hope and a prayer of being represented in the White House.
It’s happened before that a Third Party President was elected to Office.
Let’s pray that if we don’t get a Candidate from the Republican Party, we can get one through a Third Party.
I had a civilian friend utter the phrase “Chain of Command” today.
Not so unusual but the guy loves sports analogies and when he brought up the Chain he got my attention.
I wanted to remind him that chains are only as strong as their weakest links.
In the Military the Chain of Command is Holy.
And doing everything possible to keep the links strong and healthy is paramount.
Weak links are quickly replaced and the Chain kept intact.
When not replaced by those in Command the weak links are “fixed” by the rest of the Chain.
We’ve all heard the stories of Officers in Vietnam and other theatres of combat in wars throught history being “lost” to friendly fire.
I wanted to remind my friend who brought up this analogy but I don’t believe any Quaterbacks or Coaches ever had to fear friendly fire or assasinations because of their poor decisions.
I supposed I’ll have to lean on the old adage:
“Give him enough rope and he’ll hang himself.”
I’ll let the Chain of Command take care of itself!
Are you kidding me?
Al Gore is awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for increasing awareness of man’s contribution to climate change.
If a passive agressive person threatens a loved one to stay in a relationship by promising to kill himself if she leaves, you don’t encourage that behaviour by sticking around.
If a terrorist holds hostages and threatens to kill them unless you give into his demands, you don’t encourage him by paying attention.
If any deviant displays this sort of anti-social behaviour you don’t reward him for this behaviour by reacting at all, let alone rewarding his behaviour.
Al Gore claims to have created the internet and then goes on to release a really great science fiction/fantasy flick that liberals the world over regard as Holy.
Now they’ve rewarded his behaviour with the Nobel Peace Prize.
I’m not easily embarassed but this ranks up there as embarassing Americans to reward one of us for something so silly.
Congratulations, Al Gore.
While I consider being a father, being the Vice President of the U.S. and being an American far greater than winning this Nobel, I’m sure this Nobel is wonderful in your eyes so congratulations, Mr. Veep.
P.S.
Could you fix the internet for us, please?
It’s full of porn, bugs and pedophiles.
And no, I’m not referring to your old buddy Clinton!
A long time ago I was listening to a radio show that played an excerpt from a sermon.
The speaker said that Jesus wasn’t the only Way to Heaven.
Of course he didn’t say those exact words but the hems and haws and all the flourish it’s as much what he didn’t say as what he did.
While I don’t remember his exact words and of course I can’t find the transcripts and quotes I do remember that this speaker said that there were more than one way and that Jesus wasn’t the only Way.
That speaker was Joel Olsteen, son of pastor John Olsteen and pastor of the Houston, Texas Lakewood mega-Church.
His father, John, was a former Southern Baptist who converted to Charismatic.
Relevant only because Joel served with his father for seventeen years and has emulated his theology.
What does it mean when the world starts to like you and your theology?
In 2006, Barbara Walters named Joel as one of the year’s ten most fascinating people.
In the same year he was voted the most influential Christian in America by The Church Report Magazine.
My mother loves him so in an effort to figure out whether I’d simply misunderstood his sermon or maybe he simply misspoke or was confused, I did a ton of digging.
I’d read his past sermons, listen to his current and read posts, blogs and papers written about him by those who’ve both attended his mega-church and were once his followers.
I pointed out that he and his father were/are Charismatics because in my own personal experience with these beleifs, I found them to point away from Christ.
But it doesn’t matter whether they call themselvescatholics, charismatics, mormons, protestants or any number of “Christian” sects/denominations.
These religions will teach just enough of the Word to smack of the truth but you will find in them things that you will not find taught in the Bible other than to warn us of false gospels.
In Joel’s case, his message smacks of truth becuse it is peppered with the Word of God which is true.
But when you hear him and read what he’s said you’ll find that rather than the truth spackled with lies, what he teaches is more of a Christian religion.
It’s a gospel that appeals to the world; that they find friendly, loving and accepting.
The world hates the Word of God.
I remember when I fought against the Word, I told Christians that they had misunderstood the Bible and what God was really saying.
I preached the sme religion that the world still preaches but now I know the truth of God.
I’ve been exposed to the Good News.
We (Christians/Believers) love that the Pope, Joel and the rest preach the Word of God and give the lost a chance to be exposed to Jesus.
And that is a good thing.
What makes it difficult and a “bad’ thing is that the Jesus these people sometimes end up leading them to is not the JEsus of the Bible.
Not our Creator.
Some teach of a god/jesus who loves sins such as homosexuality and adultery.
Others teach of a god/jesus who is not perfect and whose work one The Cross was not complete; that man needs to add to them and that man’s works can garner or lose his salvation.
There are many religions out there who call themselves Christianity and there are many pastors who claim to be teaching the Word of God.
But God tells us that we will know His voice as the flock knows the voice of their shepherd from the crowd of voices of the world.
I considered posting the links to some of the sites that do a great job of quoting transcripts and showing the contradiction between what Joel teaches and the Word of God.
But I’ve learned that some simply have blind faith.
Those of us who recognize the voice of our Shepherd can easily hear that Joel is not repeating that voice.
But those who believe in the message Joel preaches will not hear the voice of God and His reason.
It will be better that those people actually desire to find the truth; actually want to take the time to research and figure out whether their beliefs are in God or in a slightly different message.
The Word of God calls them an Apostate Church and not of The Body (Ekklesia/Church).
As much as you hear the phrase “blind Faith”, it really isn’t.
Believers are educated and have an answer.
Joel’s answer, “…ummm, I don’t know. My message is…” is not the answer.
