About the Vice President accidentally shooting that poor guy.

It was an accident, it happened, he took responsibility for it, what more do these people want?

People are concerned that the VP is too secretive. Granted, if this were an issue of National Security I would agree, but this was a private, personal accident. He did not shoot the President of another country, he shot his close friend, and in a private setting on top of that.

Some people need lives.If the VP is hiding something important let me know, but I doubt a hunting accident where no one got killed will expose a weakness to Al Quida.

I LIKE XM RADIO!

Yesterday, we got XM radio. AWESOME!

I love the variety of music, the news channels and the sports.

RIght now I am listening to Fox news. We got rid of cable a few months ago and I am going through Cable news withdrawl. This will keep me going for a while.

Good Christian Music.

First of all, I am quite aware how ambiguous the term Christian music is. But we all know Christian music when we hear it so... eh.

I am going to just ramble on about some of my favorite Christian music, feel free to leave your own comments and lists if you want, even strangers.

I love Stavesacre, they are just so original, I have never heard anything quite like them. I guess the best way to describe them is hard rock, but that description just doesn't quite fit. There is just so much more emotion to their music, it is powerful.

Further Seems Forever has to be my favorite Christian Emo Band. Again very powerful, but in a completely different way. Hide Nothing is probably their best album. I like that with the new album their faith is more evident.

I have also been listening to a lot of Flyleaf lately, again, powerful, emotional, honest. Perhaps I am in somewhat of an "Emotion" Kick lately concerning music.

Yes I know, a waste of space, but.... it's my blog.

My thoughts on Star Wars.

See, I told you some of my posts would be inane.

First of all, I would like to say that I think that Star Wars is one of the greatest pieces of Pop Fiction ever. I am a huge fan, even to the point that I read the books, in fact after I write this post, I will be heading upstairs to work on Zahn's "The Last Command", the third book in the GREAT Thrawn Trilogy.

But I must say something. Nerds everywhere will hate me for it but... it must be said.

The plotlines are inconsistent.

Granted, Fandom and George Lucas have done a pretty decent job trying to paste everything together, but when you turn one movie into six movies, hundreds of books and magazines, and almost a hundred videogames, you are going to mix something up somewhere.

1) The Clone Wars in the Fiction written before the Prequel Trilogy (PT) is nothing like the Clone Wars George Lucas presents in the PT. In the Thrawn Trilogy for example, the Clone Wars were speculated to have been between the Light and Dark Jedi, and the referenced Clones were the Cloned Jedi themselves. For example a main antagonist is Joruus C'boath, a clone of the dark Jedi Jorus C'boath who was set on the Planet Wayland to watch over a hidden arsenal of the Emporers'.

(Correction. Ironically, after reading last night, I found that I had misinterpreted the Clone Wars as portrayed in Zahn's Fiction. While there are Cloned Jedi involved the war does involve Clone soldiers, and it is a political war as in the PT. Oops, now I look like a fool. Of course anyone who cares that much really wouldn't insult me anyway. IT is just fiction after all)

2) R2D2 just rocks more in the PT than in the OT. Who knew he could fly? And why didn't he get up off his butt and Save Luke at Tatooine? Let's see, throw a lightsaber and let him fend for himself, or throw him the lightsaber and kick some butt too... hmm....

3) THERE IS NO MENTION OF THE SITH IN THE OT! The Prequel Trilogy goes into great detail to paint Palpatine and Anakin/Vader as the last and most powerful Sith Lords, however, in the OT they are simply referred to as Jedi who fell to the dark side. Both Yoda and Obi-Wan know who and what the Sith are in the PT, but by the time of the Rebellion, they have forgotten altogether?


Do you know what this proves?

I need to get a life.

Oh, my XAnga hath been abandoned, Woe, Woe Woe to them!

I know I said I would try to keep both blogs running, but I have not even posted once on my Xanga since I set this thing up. Blogger is just so much better, in many ways than xanga.

I feel more creative. Not only can I mess with the visual layout more than I can with the Xanga, but I feel more like I am Creating with this, actually writing instead of just playing blog.

I know that there is no reason i could not write like this on Xanga, but for some reason it just feels more condusive to more serious writing than an online journal.

I dunno.

Hatred is not a Christian Virtue

I don't know if anyone even reads this thing at this point, in fact I would bet that no one but I have at this point (If I'm wrong, leave a comment and correct me), but there is something I would like to get off of my Chest.

Christians are not to hate.

I know it sounds obvious, but think about it. How many "Christian" groups out there put forward a message of hate, supposedly in the name of God?

For Example, there is a whole Church website out there called "God hates Fags." run by a man who hates homosexuals. Granted, I believe that homosexuality is a sin. But I believe that not only is it unChristian, but indeed antiChristian, to hate homosexuals.

In Reality, the message of Christ was not "You are all sinners and I hate you, here is a ticket to hell", but "I love you so much that I am willing to die for you. Pleaseturn from the sin that is destroying you and share in the Life that only I can bring you."

Everyone, including Christians, are sinners. We are all in the same boat. If you have told a lie, if you have cheated on your taxes or said a hurtful thing about a friend, you are just as sinful, and just as deserving of Hell as Murderers, Adulterers and Hatemongers. Hell is for sinners, of which we all are.

The difference is this. Those who are covered in the Blood, are cleansed of our sins. He paid the price so that we do not have to. He gave us a Way out.

So, remember, God is not a God of hate, but of Love. He does not approve of your sin, but He wants to save you from it, not hate you for it.