Christian Living and General Topics

Excel to Access to MySQL, oh my!

Posting is light, because I’m busy enjoying my new dual monitor setup. I’ve actually got three monitors on this setup, because I still have a walkstation setup so I’m not stuck in a chair all day. The walkstation monitor is just a split of the right side monitor, which my husband recently scavenged from a dismantled system at work. I love free. And even though the extra monitor had Mafia Wars on it when I took the pic, I’ve actually been working hard today doing some very tedious database work. Which I’m now going to get back to… until my husband gets home with the sushi, and then it’s dinner and a movie in our home theater. While we have a modest house – 3 bedroom, 2 bath in a middle class ‘burb – we have spent considerable time arranging things just the way we like. Life is good.

The Prodigal Son

A George Morrison sermon on my favorite parable, the prodigal son, is below the fold.  At times I’ve been the prodigal and at times the bitter, legalistic elder brother, focused on what I “deserve.”  Of the two, I like the younger brother better.  Whatever else you can say about him, he’s an honest sinner and no “whited sepulchre.”

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You Never RSVP’d

Gotta love JibJab… [Read more...]

WaPo Says Gubmint Cheese Could Have Saved Jon And Kate’s Marriage

There is apparently no argument so ridiculous that the left will pass it up on their quest for socialized health care. This one is really remarkable in it’s willful stupidity:

Poor Jon and Kate. Their marriage is over, their show on hiatus, their domestic ordeal entering a new phase of acrimony. Possibly nothing could have saved this marriage, but one thing would have made it less fragile: a mandate for health insurance to cover in vitro fertilization.

Hey, you know what could have saved that marriage without costing taxpayers a nickel? Kate not talking to her husband like he’s an idiot, and Jon keeping his pants zipped.  [Read more...]

You’re kidding, right?

Lately my response to the news is along the lines of, “You’re kidding, right?” I feel as though I’ve tumbled into an alternate universe where Spock has a groovy-looking goatee. (Can we get some agonizers implanted in members of Congress? Pretty please?)  Consider these stories:

Couple accused of assault with a deadly snack food. We thought Cheetos were just a tasty snack that clogged your arteries and made you fat.  Little did we all know they were useful weapons when committing domestic assault. And if you live in a trailer park, they come with an extra +2 attack bonus and do an extra +2d6 damage.

From the Just Making Stuff Up Department, Obamacare will now cost a mere $1,000,000,000,000 instead of $1,600,000,000,000.  Your tax dollars at work! Unfortunately, this is medieval medicine – prepare to be bled. [Read more...]

Error establishing a database connection

If you’re having trouble connecting, please bear with me. My server can’t handle so many connections, so when it’s maxed out with too many people trying to connect (to this site and to my client’s sites) you get the dreaded “Error establishing a database connection” message. Sorry about that – just try again later.

I was already shutting this server down as part of my efforts to close my business (I’m going Galt, and I have additional personal reasons for closing it.) So I need to get going and get this site moved. I’m working on that now. So please bear with me, the transition should be complete tomorrow.  Thanks!

Can men and women be friends?

Another one bites the dust.  Governor Sanford of South Carolina had an affair with a married mother of two.   I really do not understand why politicians find it impossible to keep it zipped…  or do most men cheat, but we only hear about the politicians?  But here’s the part that particularly interested me:

“I have developed a relationship with what started as a dear dear friend from Argentina. It began very innocently as I expect many of these things do, just casual email back and forth,” Sanford said. “But here recently this last year developed into something much more.”

Few people wake up one day and say, “Hey, I think I’ll destroy my marriage, trash my integrity, and break my spouse’s heart today.”  They drift into it.  What baffles me is how otherwise intelligent people fail to take steps to protect themselves from it.  [Read more...]

John Piper Explains Bible Arcing

Nope, not the nifty gold box that killed the Nazis in the Indiana Jones movie. Bible arcing is a method of bible study and analysis that has been around for a long time – John Piper started doing it in the 60s – and now can be done electronically.  Piper explains What is “arcing” and why is it important? including screen shots of the electronic tool provided at BibleArc.com.

Politics, News & the RoP™

Way to go, Governor Jindal!

I was just thinking this morning that something Louisiana sorely lacks is poorly educated people in the workforce. Now, after Katrina we did bring in – with President Bush’s assistance – about 100,000 illegal aliens to help repopulate the Gulf Coast, with more than 30,000 in the New Orleans area. But I think conservatives will agree that it’s a bad idea to import poorly educated people when we can create them ourselves, here at home. Governor Jindal is doing his part. [Read more...]

All we want are the facts.

We need to stop arguing about policy and focus on stating facts. Jeff at Protein Wisdom has amply illustrated how foolish it is for us to continue playing the left’s rhetorical games, where objective facts and truth are first under the bus. We spent the entire Bush administration listening -and for the most part, not arguing with – “selected, not elected.” This, in spite of the fact that Gore’s legal team was pushing for an unequal recount (and did Al Franken ever learn that lesson; unfortunately, Coleman did not) and that after the election, the media recounted and concluded Bush had won. It doesn’t matter. Google “bush won the 2000 election media recount” and find myriad left-leaning websites complaining that the media recount was unfair; Gore really won yet the media is spinning for Bush. Because that’s what the press does – spin for the GOP. Riiiiight. [Read more...]

John Galt Was Unavailable For Comment

I don’t flatter myself that my going Galt is having a huge impact but, hey, every little bit counts. Whether this phenomenon is more purposeful, as in my case, or simply a bunch of people reacting naturally to bad government policies, federal tax receipts are taking a nosedive: June Federal Receipts: The Dive Continues, As Does Media Near Silence. Near media silence. Imagine that! Is it possble that the stimulus is ::gasp:: not working?!  Unemployment is approching double what it was during the Bush administration? The deuce you say! [Read more...]

Critically Important News

Cap and tax liveblog: Democrats limit debate, stampede toward national energy tax

Over at Michelle Malkin’s, a Cap and tax liveblog: Democrats limit debate, stampede toward national energy tax. This is going to be very bad if it passes. Aside from the catastrophic financial repercusssions that even President Obama admits will occur, this new way of ramming through serious, impactful legislation without reading or discussing it is frightening. This is a serious breakdown of our system of governance; it places us, at least legislatively, among the ranks of 3rd world countries with Potemkin representative governments.

President Obama knows this is a massive tax – and it will certainly affect the working poor the most.  Video below the fold, but here’s the money quote:

“Under my plan of a cap and trade system electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Businesses would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that cost onto consumers.” [Read more...]

For pity’s sake, just own it, already.

Gabriel Malor at Ace of Spades HQ follows up on today’s Presidential Presser.  The condensed version – contrary to what President Obama claims

1. Cap and trade will raise everyone’s energy prices.
2. Healthcare is NOT the primary driver of all deficits, or even the Obama budget deficit.
3. He’s weaseled around several positions on Iran, for the most part hanging the protesters out to dry.
4. Being a “former smoker” requires one to, you know, actually stop smoking entirely.

I mean, really, all politicians lie and we certainly expect that.  Which is a sad statement in and of itself.  And lies 1 and 2 make perfect sense in that he wants those laws passed so he’s telling the lies he needs to tell in order to make that happen.  #3 makes sense in that he doesn’t want to support the protesters but he knows how bad that looks (hence his current position change) so he’s engaging in the usual revisionist history.  Fair enough; nothing to see here, move along, people.  But lying about being a former smoker?  That’s just juvenile.  And I mean juvenile.  I literally did that when I was 16.  For pity’s sake, just own it, man.   Just say something like, “I smoke, I like to smoke, and I intend to carry on smoking,” or “It’s a filthy habit and I need to quit, but quitting is hard and I’m not ready to do it yet.”

Muslim group can’t roam freely and give out literature at Christian festival

A judge has blocked Muslims from roaming around and handing literature out at the upcoming Peter and Paul Day festival which honors the martyrdom of saints Peter and Paul for their faith. I think it’s the right thing to do – crowd control problems that could occur if someone tells the attending Christians that the faith Peter and Paul died for could be wrong.  They will rightfully be offended and could start breaking some heads. [Read more...]

Obama Children Were Campaign Props!!1!

Keith Olbermann – wait, let me explain. No, there is too much – let me sum up. Outside the far left and people who oppose the far left, most people don’t know who Mr. Olbermann is, so a brief explanation is in order. He’s a left-wing news commentator given to unhinged screeds on MSNBC, which is a channel that attempts to compete with Fox News. But I’ll give credit where it’s due: Olbermann has dominated in the far-left and people-who-enjoy-rubbernecking-at-accidents niche markets for years. Newsbusters sometimes features His Unhingedness, so you may have read about him there, or on this website featuring his hypocrisy and lies.

Well, it turns out that Olby, who has a raging case of Palin Derangement Syndrome, has once again beclowned himself, and is leading the leftist crowd in asserting that Sarah Palin shamelessly used her family as campaign props, and therefore the Palin family deserves whatever they get. In contrast (they claim) the Obamas zealously protected their children from the public eye, and consequently remains off limits. [Read more...]