What's your theological worldview?

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You scored as Reformed Evangelical You are a Reformed Evangelical. You take the Bible very seriously because it is God's Word. You most likely hold to TULIP and are sceptical about the possibilities of universal atonement or resistible grace. The most important thing the Church can do is make sure people hear how they can go to heaven when they die. Reformed Evangelical 86% Fundamentalist 71% Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan 71% Neo orthodox 61% Roman Catholic 54% Charismatic/Pentecostal 39% Emergent/Postmodern 25% Classical Liberal 21% Modern Liberal 14%

Tagged: Six Unimportant things about me

I have been tagged by Backwoods to come up with six unimportant facts about me. Hmm...

1. I collect comic books and have around 6000+ comic books. I like the oddball genres that don't get a lot of attention by most others. Like I enjoy westerns, sword and sorcery ect...

2. I am a big pet person and have had: fish, cats, dogs, lizards, birds, and mice. And that's not counting the ant farms and sea monkeys that I've had. I presently have cats and fish. The fish live in a 75 galleon aquarium that workman's comp paid for when I dislocated my ankle while working.

3. I run a fan at night and have trouble sleeping at night without it. Even if its freezing outside.

4. I played baseball through little league and pitched and one year I was 7-2 with a 2.87 era on a team that won 8 games. But the thing I wanted to do was hit a homerun. The closest I came was hitting the ball off the top of the wall once.

5. I was expected to be a girl (I believe up to the day I was born). My grandmother on my dad's side died two months before I was born and left me a girl's necklace.

6. My favorite dish is Seseme Chicken. Its the greatest food known to man.

Navy succeeds in first attempt to hit the satelite

The first opportunity for the Navy to shoot down the satellite came about 10:30 p.m. ET Wednesday. The plan included firing a missile from the USS Lake Erie in the Pacific Ocean west of Hawaii to destroy the satellite.

"A network of land-, air-, sea- and space-based sensors confirms that the U.S. military intercepted a non-functioning National Reconnaissance Office satellite which was in its final orbits before entering the Earth's atmosphere," a Department of Defense statement said.

"At approximately 10:26 p.m. EST today, a U.S. Navy AEGIS warship, the USS Lake Erie, fired a single modified tactical Standard Missile-3, hitting the satellite approximately 247 kilometers (133 nautical miles) over the Pacific Ocean as it traveled in space at more than 17,000 mph."

It was unknown whether the missile hit its precise target -- the satellite's full fuel tank. The Department of Defense said it won't know for 24 hours whether the fuel tank had been hit.

"Debris will begin to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere immediately," the department said. "Nearly all of the debris will burn up on re-entry within 24-48 hours and the remaining debris should re-enter within 40 days."

However, even if the missile didn't score a direct hit, "any kind of hit provides a much better outcome than doing nothing at all," Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

I must admit to being very surprised they were successful at hitting the satelite. I imagined it vering off and getting us into some real trouble.

Jericho: Season Two

I do hope that you are watching the second season of Jericho. So far we have had two episodes Tuesdays at 10. You can probably see the 1st of those online now. And the second one I think will be replayed on Saturday night if they repeat what they did last week.

So far...

Last Season....

There was a nuclear attack on the United States and it left the country without power. A small town named Jericho had to survive on its own. Then a neighboring town decided they wanted Jericho's supplies and they tried to invade.

Second Season
A new government based in Cheyenne arrives and stops the fighting and they start to rebuild the two towns. They are the Allied States of America. They responded to the nuclear attacks by wiping north Korea(or at least its suggested they did) and one othe country out. Now they are trying to consolidate the old United States by gaining Texas's support.

This last episode the president of the Allied States visited Jericho and announced there would be a new Constitutional convention to draw up the law of the Allied States. The mayor of Jericho has been invited

Oh and there appears that the Cheyenne government had a little something to do with the nuclear bombs that hit the US. You might want to check out this show. Its good.

Tuesdays at 10pm on CBS

McCain calls out Obama on Funding

Obama is raising as much as $1 million day, generating a big money advantage over both McCain and Democratic rival Sen. Hillary Clinton in what is expected to be the costliest U.S. presidential election ever.

Obama, an Illinois senator, pledged in February last year to accept public financing and its accompanying spending limit of an estimated $85 million in the general election race if he wins the nomination and his Republican opponent agreed to limits too.

"I committed to public financing," McCain told a news conference. "He committed to public financing. It is not more complicated than that ... I'll keep my word. I want him to keep his."

As he has scored back-to-back wins in nominating contests, Obama has refused to recommit while moving steadily ahead of Clinton in the race to become the Democratic presidential nominee in the election.

Considering he also vowed to not run for president when he ran for the Senate, you really can't believe anything that comes out of his mouth. Good talker and he really doesn't care what he says as long as it sounds good at the moment.

Obama does it again

Comes and drives off Clinton again from the networks this time. Last time it was McCain. That is just a classless move and its a shame the sheep of this country are falling into line for his eloquent voice that says nothing. Except Change change change change. No explanation to what we're going to change to. Just change. Don't define it. Don't add any substance. Just call for change. And the mindless sheep fall into place.

US Recognizes independent Kosovo

The United States officially recognized Kosovo -- the Balkan state which split from Serbia on Sunday -- as an independent nation on Monday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in a written statement.

"We congratulate the people of Kosovo on this historic occasion," Rice said. "President Bush has responded affirmatively to a request from Kosovo to establish diplomatic relations between our two countries."

I wonder what the response would be from the US if Vermont declares its independence next week. They are a bit of a secedist bunch up there after all. And what would Britain do if Wales or Scotland says we're independent tomorrow?

Local PCUSA church looks to be checking out the EPC

While driving home from the seminary tonight I noticed on their marque outside that they have a meeting to discuss the EPC. I know that they were members of the Confessing Church movement inside the PCUSA.

The Archbishop of Canterbury Called to quit

Last week the Archbishop made the ludicrous suggestion that Sharia law should be allowed in parts of Britain. If they did that, they might as well split up the British Isles right now. It would be a return to the Feudal system of old which were in control when the Dark Ages occurred. And it would be a new dark age with the always civilized hand cutting, heading cutting, and other wonderful Muslim punishments.

He should be called to resign. And if he doesn't he should be forced out. He is an ignorant bafoon who embarrasses his church every time he opens his mouth.

Intelligent Design Professor Loses Appeal for Tenure

The Iowa Board of Regents rejected on Thursday an appeal by a professor who said he was wrongfully denied tenure by Iowa State University because of his views supporting intelligent design.

While ISU officials have maintained that their decision last spring on Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez 's bid for tenure had nothing to do with intelligent design, e-mails exchanged by ISU faculty – who voted against his tenure and statements in Gonzalez’s tenure file – suggest otherwise.

Gonzalez, assistant professor of astronomy and physics, has written papers on intelligent design and has asserted his views in a book which was published in 2004. He is also a senior fellow at Discovery Institute, the nation's leading think tank on intelligent design.

Isn't it grand the freedom of academia to question all truths? Everything is up for study and debate. Wait a minute...

Can the Media's pro Obama bias be any plainer

The title of the article: Obama leads Clinton by only 2 delegates

Obama won 796 delegates in Tuesday's contests, to 794 for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, according to an analysis of voting results by The Associated Press.

Note that they are talking about the voting on Tuesday.

But the overall totals are:

Clinton has 1,055 delegates, including separately chosen party and elected officials known as superdelegates. Obama has 998.

Think the title is a bit misleading? I do. Media lovefests always turn me off and this is making me hope Clinton beats Obama for the nomination. This is a complete 180 for me since I originally hoped Clinton wouldn't win a state. And I especially want him to disappear since he never says anything when he speaks with that eloquent voice.

3:10 to Yuma

This is the best western since The Outlaw Josey Wales which happens to be one of my favorite movies. Russell Crowe and Christian Bale did a masterful job and anyone that likes westerns or a good story should check it out. I typically don't care for remakes but I liked how it deviated from the story of the original movie and made its own story. The additions were perfect.

Best movie I've seen in years.

(Warning: I love westerns)

Update: Also warning of Violence and Strong Language. So no kids.

Women being beheaded in Iraq

The images in the Basra police file are nauseating: Page after page of women killed in brutal fashion -- some strangled to death, their faces disfigured; others beheaded. All bear signs of torture.

The women are killed, police say, because they failed to wear a headscarf or because they ignored other "rules" that secretive fundamentalist groups want to enforce.

"Fear, fear is always there," says 30-year-old Safana, an artist and university professor.

"We don't know who to be afraid of. Maybe it's a friend or a student you teach. There is no break, no security. I don't know who to be afraid of."

Her fear is justified. Iraq's second-largest city, Basra, is a stronghold of conservative Shia groups. As many as 133 women were killed in Basra last year -- 79 for violation of "Islamic teachings" and 47 for so-called honor killings, according to IRIN, the news branch of the U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

One glance through the police file is enough to understand the consequences. Basra's police chief, Gen. Abdul Jalil Khalaf, flips through the file, pointing to one unsolved case after another. Watch Khalaf show evidence of the brutality »

"I think so far, we have been unable to tackle this problem properly," he says. "There are many motives for these crimes and parties involved in killing women, by strangling, beheading, chopping off their hands, legs, heads."

"When I came to Basra a year ago," he says, "two women were killed in front of their kids. Their blood was flowing in front of their kids, they were crying. Another woman was killed in front of her 6-year-old son, another in front of her 11-year-old child, and yet another who was pregnant."

The killers enforcing their own version of Islamic justice are rarely caught, while women live in fear.

Boldly splattered in red paint just outside the main downtown market, a chilling sign reads: "We warn against not wearing a headscarf and wearing makeup. Those who do not abide by this will be punished. God is our witness, we have notified you."

The attacks on the women of Basra have intensified since British forces withdrew to their base at the airport back in September, police say. Iraqi security forces took over after British troops pulled back, but are heavily infiltrated by militias.

And tracking the perpetrators of these crimes is nearly impossible, Khalaf says, adding that he doesn't have control of the thousands of policemen and officers.
"We're trying to trace crimes carried out by an anonymous enemy," he says.

Amnesty International has raised concern about the increasing violence toward women in Iraq, saying abductions, rapes and "honor killings" are on the rise.

"Politically active women, those who did not follow a strict dress code, and women [who are] human rights defenders were increasingly at risk of abuses, including by armed groups and religious extremists," Amnesty said in a 2007 report.

How much worse will it be when the US withdraws like many want? And each death is on the US's head since Saddam Hussein controlled these militants by his brutal rule.

Bill Clinton's Role

Doesn't appear that he will have an official position. Which was the only good thing that could come from a HIllary Clinton presidency because I liked Bill Clinton. I know for some that's blasphemy. Too bad.

Obama shows his class tonight

When he decides to come out while another candidate is speaking so the cameras split on the news channels. I guess it would have killed him to allow McCain to finish his speech for the networks before he came out.

Party of tomorrow eh? I guess its the party of rudeness.

Butter vs. Margarine

I got this in one of those pass this email on to as many people as you know things.

Pass The Butter
~ ~ ~ ~ This is interesting ~ ~ ~ ~

Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get their money back. It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow coloring and sold it to people to use in place of butter. How do you like it?

They have come out with some clever new flavorings. Do you know the difference between margarine and butter?

Read on to the end...gets very interesting!

Both have the same amount of calories
Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams compared to 5 grams.
Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the as me amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.
Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods.
Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few only because they are added.
Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of other foods.

Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less then 100 years.

And now, for Margarine..
Very high in Trans fatty acids
Triple risk of coronary heart disease.
Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)
Increases the risk of cancers up to five fold.
Lowers quality of breast milk.
Decreases immune response.
Decreases insulin response.
And here's the most disturbing fact....

HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING!

Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC.
This fact alone was enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the substance).

You can try this yourself: Purchase a tub of margarine and leave it in your garage or shaded Area. Within a couple of days you will note a couple of things: * no flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should tell you something)

* it does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value; nothing will grow on it Even those teeny weeny microorganisms will not a find a home to grow. Why? Because it is nearly plastic. Would you melt your Tupperw are and spread that on your toast?

The Greed of the NFL knows no bounds

For years, as many as 200 members of Immanuel Bible Church and their friends have gathered in the church's fellowship hall to watch the Super Bowl on its six-foot screen. The party featured hard hitting on the TV, plenty of food -- and prayer.

But this year, Immanuel's Super Bowl party is no more. After a crackdown by the National Football League on big-screen Super Bowl gatherings by churches, the Springfield church has sacked its event. Instead, church members will host parties in their homes.

Immanuel is among a number of churches in the Washington area and elsewhere that have been forced to use a new playbook to satisfy the NFL, which said that airing games at churches on large-screen TV sets violates the NFL copyright.

Ministers are not happy.

"There is a part of me that says, 'Gee, doesn't the NFL have enough money already?'" said Steve Holley, Immanuel's executive pastor. He pointed out that bars are still allowed to air the game on big-screens TV sets. "It just doesn't make sense."

So the league is cracking down on churches that show the game with their big screens. Isnt that a great idea?

The NFL points to the disclaimer at the end of the game which they say is well known.

Plus the NFL is thinking of getting out of the collective bargaining agreement with the players for some reason. Its given the NFL the most prosperity of any league. But apparently they want more prosperity.

I hope it backfires and their popularity falls to the level of the NHL.