This video is making the rounds on Facebook and MySpace. It is a very impressive presentation from a small group of young Christian guys who are clearly fed up with the glaring inconsistency among people who profess to be Born Again Christians and yet go forth to present images and information on their social networking pages that belie same.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv-VjfLXh8U

If you are not a Christian and have been turned off by the hypocrisy that you witness on Facebook and MySpace pages from friends who proclaim Christianity you have every reason to be confused. All I can suggest to you is do not rely upon witness testimony. Rely solely upon the Bible. Get a copy and read it, perhaps starting in the Gospel of John. Locate a church in your community that is Gospel-centered and then seek the fellowship of those who, at the very least, seem to be set apart. It may be a challenge but it will bring eternal rewards.

The Addison Independent online story confirms Democratic gubernatorial candidate Doug Racine’s decision to call for a primary election recount today.  While not a surprise, this does call the question as to what the political impact shall be.

With no unity around a Democratic candidate, there were more than a few people with proverbial checkbooks open on Wednesday ready to start to restore the Democratic race’s cash but were faced with an unanswerable question, “To whom shall I write this check?”  The flurry of excitement that the morning after an election engenders was a missed opportunity for the Democrats. While they will have their day of unity at some point within the next two weeks, you have to wonder how they can catch up to the Dubie/Scott ticket.

Unopposed in the primary, GOP candidate and sitting Lieutenant Governor Brian Dubie, holds the enviable position of flush cash reserves and no clear opposition from the Democrats out in the trenches in the near-term.

Washington County’s State Senator Phil Scott defeated Mark Snelling, the son of former Governor Richard Snelling and brings to the ticket a lot of attention from people who assumed that the Snelling brand would offset Scott’s central Vermont strength with statewide support.  In a settled race, this point would likely have little shelf life, but not this year.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr8KrF8vNPM

Airbag replacement: thousands. Grandmother’s response: priceless.

Or, Bullwinkle, “Yuppie with horn versus senior with handbag equals airbag and giggles.”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbg0ZYoXdyU

The first of the list of seven requirements is that a prospective missionary “must be totally, absolutely, and completely convinced of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.”

Evangelical young people have been systematically indoctrinated with the notion that being cool is infinitely more important than being doctrinally sound or morally upright. Relevant Magazine is one of the chief culprits in that campaign.

Johnson raises some great points in his blog article, not the least of which is it’s article’s title, “Chasing Cool and Becoming Lukewarm.”

I’m listening R.W. (Bob) Glenn’s five-part sermon series on the cultural mandate of the Bible called What is a Biblical Christian? It’s such a fat subject I am going to need to listen to them again (explained away, to some extent, by my fat head).  There is so much in Glenn’s series that could help explain “the chase” Phil Johnson describes that so many professed Christians, lost in the world and of it, are living in a land of legalism.

If you’d like to also like to hear Phil Johnson’s amazingly gifted preaching of God’s Word, please check out this link at GraceLife Pupit.

The battle is on between religious freedom and land use laws around the country. The Oklahoman reports in NewsOK that here in Vermont a couple of Roman Catholics wish to maintain an illuminated cross of substantial size, twenty four feet, at a chapel they built for their very large family and the general public.  State and local authorities say “no.”

Vermont is a state that is replete with tested paradoxes that illuminate the following:

• a liberalism that can be anything but tolerant if provoked
• a natural beauty that trumps property rights any day of the week
• a minimalist set of gun laws defyingly amidst very low crime, and
• a tolerance for every possible belief except those considered to be Christian.

This restriction on religious expression in Vermont is not an isolated story in the news ether.  A Greek Orthodox church, destroyed by terrorism on 9/11 at Ground Zero, remains unbuilt, buried under governmental red tape.  Meanwhile, a battle rages in that same neighborhood regarding a governmentally fast-tracked victory mosque.

My Biblical Christian view is one that clearly departs from that of the Vermont plaintiffs’ pertaining to that of “divinely inspired Dozule crosses.”  My viewpoint difference does nothing to diminish my interest in fairness, even within the paradox called Vermont.

Here’s the mysterious (AP) photo of the White House covered by a huge tarp (8/15/10).

President Obama backslid Friday night on the Ground Zero mosque when he said,

“I was not commenting and I will not comment on the wisdom of making a decision to put a mosque there….”

Gee, I wonder why. The de-facto victory mosque, to be named after the location of a prior victory location in Europe, is going to be a burden to the Obama administration and his party. President Obama does have a bully pulpit; the question is, who is the bully’s target?

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Coca-Cola lawyers: “…no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking vitaminwater was a healthy beverage.”

Check out this article by Mike Adams, editor of NaturalNews.com - Vitaminwater revealed as non-healthy beverage by Coca-Cola’s own lawyers.

Every once in awhile, courts do the right thing.  And lawyers can surprise us with the truth.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCSUKIhjevo

It would be interesting to see how Homer Simpson would do with the ‘Good Person’ quiz. Perhaps as  bad as I did!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVWzXuN_J2w

Blonde tries to buy food… at a library. Second time is the charm.

Dear Mr. Costello:

Adult materials associated with SEARS.com? Are you kidding me?

Every single appliance in our kitchen is SEARS since 2000. Plus washer, dryer, two lawn tractors, two snowblowers, tools. Never again if you do not avert this path and make it clear to the public that that is your intention.

Yes, I support American Family Association (AFA) but I am not sending you a pre-written letter, but my own.

Please stop it, Mr. Costello and man-up. Exercise your authority and your conscience.

Sincerely,

Bill O’Neill

Perhaps a name change is in order at SEARS?  How about Sears & ‘Woe-buck’?  World Net Daily is reporting that SEARS’ online catalog has definitely ‘flipped the switch’ and has decidedly shifted to it’s anticipated and purposefully raw direction in marketing.

The poster images are graphic: four couples with arms and legs intertwined who appear to be wearing nothing but each other and some foamy waves lapping at their ankles.

The poster image is highlighted by the theme: “Safe sex is hot sex.”

Another reveals two topless women embracing, wearing only the skimpiest of shorts, a model who appears to be wearing some water and a small sponge, and a group of women wearing revealing lingerie.