"HOW DARE YOU RUN AN EMERGENCY ALERT DURING THE RED SOX GAME?! BASES LOADED!"

Me: Ma'am, I'm sorry for the inconvenience, we have no control over the emergency alerts.

Customer: "CAN'T THEY DO IT AT NIGHT! I'M TRYING TO WATCH THE GAME! BASES ARE LOADED!!!"

Me: Again, Ma'am, unfortunately the emergency alert will broadcast during an emergency situation, we have no control over when that will happen.

Customer: "WELL YOU BETTER GET SOME CONTROL OVER IT!" click.

I don't have big hair!

I just saw this commercial on VH1.

Bumpits

We fucking did it.

YES WE DID.

This is our time.

I can thank my most recent employer for firing me and giving me the chance of a lifetime to volunteer for this campaign for the last two weeks. I've put a lot of time and energy into it, and it was more than worth it.

Thank you everyone for getting out to vote, making phone calls, sending text messages, and getting people involved.

I got to meet the first female US senator from NH twice, and I stood back to let someone else have a turn. Shawna wouldn't let that happen. She knew I wanted my picture taken and shoved me to the front of the crowd to make it happen.

Carol Shea-Porter and Paul Hodes will be sure to keep Congress in line.

And equally if not most excitingly - WE DID IT! We were FIRED UP! We were READY TO GO! And YES WE DID!!! I was so exhausted last night that I went to bed before all the numbers were counted. I turned my phone volume and vibrate off - because I wanted to sleep as long as I needed to. And I saw it light up from Shawna calling me to tell me we won. I got up and watched McCain concede and set a recording for everything else. YES WE DID.

Words can only try to express the joy I'm feeling.

Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you believe in marriage between any people who wish to marry, be it a man and woman, man and man, woman and woman, man and woman and woman, whatever; and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.

Mark Wahlberg talks to Animals
http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/mark-wahlberg-talks-to-animals/727504/

Mary Poppins explains Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious
http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/mary-poppins/727503/

Senator Palin opens SNL
http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/gov-palin-cold-open/773761/

SNL Backstage
http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/backstage-gov-palin-visits/773882/

Palin Rap
http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/update-palin-rap/773781/

Crazy McCain Lady
http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/update-crazy-mccain-lady-we-liked-it/768741/

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Jen

I love the Hunger Site and all of its affiliates - and you can shop and donate more towards the causes....this is one of the advertisements today...Pee-Pee Teepee!

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http://www.guitarpraise.com/

JAM WITH THE BAND!

Strap on the guitar and play along with your favorite bands—tobyMac, Relient K, Flyleaf, Newsboys —and more. SHRED the riffs…THUMP the bass…BLAST that solid Christian Rock!

Digital Praise team, God bless you guys for coming up with a Christian version of guitar hero. I'm the youth minister at the First Baptist Church of Fulton in Alabama. This game is going to be huge! With all of the anti-God, seductive, dark songs out there, especially in guitar hero, I was overwhelmed with excitement to hear of Guitar Praise. I'm trying to teach these youth The Word, how to boldly share Jesus with people, and how to live holy lives in the midst of opposition from the world. Thank you so much for this incredible opportunity to put into their hands a fun yet Christ centered game that edifies our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! Looking forward to hearing from you. Only By His Grace,

- Russell Wright
First Baptist Church
Grove Hill, Alabama

Reviews for Guitar Praise:

What Others Are Saying

 

"We are REALLY excited about Guitar Praise. My kids have begged me to get them Guitar Hero and I just couldn't bare the thought of some of the lyrics they would be embedding into their minds. Guitar Praise has music that they are familiar with and love already, as well as lyrics that they can memorize and think on that are full of truth! I am pre-buying and putting this back for Christmas, but I don't know if I can wait that long to give it to them!!! I have never been more excited and felt so good about a gift purchase for my kids!!! Thank you for making it easier for parents to say 'no' to wordly games by offering a great alternative!!!"

-Catie Myers

"When I first read about this game, I was excited. This is just
what my son and I have been waiting for. My 8 year old was
always amazed by Guitar Hero, but I would never buy it because
of the songs that were included in those titles. Almost all of
the music we listen to is Christian, and the set list for Guitar
Praise looks top notch."

-Troy Bishop


 "Interesting concept w/ Guitar Praise. As a GHIII owner/player, I think it has potential. Obviously the naysayers are going to immediately brand it as a knock-off, but parents wanting an alternative to Guitar Hero might consider something like this. I must congratulate you on the eclectic song list – from Nate Sallie to The Crucified (awesome band)? That’s quite a wide range."

-Josh Dieckmann


 "I am the children’s pastor of the Riveroak Church of God and I am very excited to hear about your new product Guitar Praise. I have advised the other parents that the guitar hero system has graphics and lyrics that are not suitable for our children. But a lot of my kids do have them and spend many hours a day playing it. I have noticed them singing songs from guitar hero word for word when mom says “oh they are not paying attention, its harmless”. I have an 8 year old son myself and I haven’t purchased the guitar hero for this very fact, I was very close to letting him have the new Aero Smith Version of Guitar Hero, but now I feel I must wait... We have an awesome children’s choir and music class room, I would love to have this system at the church to keep the children excited about being at church and over what we are bringing in that is very cutting edge."
  
-Theresa Johnson

"We have both Dance Praise and now the Guitar Praise games.  The end of last school year I had a junior high small group that brought another guitar controller game into church and I was uneasy about some of the song choices that were available.  My prayers were answered last month when I found out Digital Praise was releasing Guitar Praise which allows me to further help students be introduced to great Christian musicians while keeping the experience spiritually uplifting, exciting and current with the activities they are already engaged in.  Oh yeah, now I get to play too!

- Rob Gieraltowski, Director for Junior High
St John's Lutheran Church

Digital Praise team, God bless you guys for coming up with a Christian version of guitar hero. I'm the youth minister at the First Baptist Church of Fulton in Alabama. This game is going to be huge! With all of the anti-God, seductive, dark songs out there, especially in guitar hero, I was overwhelmed with excitement to hear of Guitar Praise.  I'm trying to teach these youth The Word, how to boldly share Jesus with people, and how to live holy lives in the midst of opposition from the world. Thank you so much for this incredible opportunity to put into their hands a fun yet Christ centered game that edifies our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! Looking forward to hearing from you. Only By His Grace,

- Russell Wright

First Baptist Church

Grove Hill, Alabama 

Happy Talk like a Pirate Day!

Eve Ensler, the American playwright, performer, feminist and activist best known for "The Vagina Monologues," wrote the following about Sarah Palin

Drill, Drill, Drill
I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a particular thing for Polar Bears. Maybe it's their snowy whiteness or their bigness or the fact that they live in the arctic or that I have never seen one in person or touched one. Maybe it is the fact that they live so comfortably on ice. Whatever it is, I need the polar bears.

I don't like raging at women. I am a Feminist and have spent my life trying to build community, help empower women and stop violence against them. It is hard to write about Sarah Palin. This is why the Sarah Palin choice was all the more insidious and cynical. The people who made this choice count on the goodness and solidarity of Feminists.

But everything Sarah Palin believes in and practices is antithetical to Feminism which for me is part of one story -- connected to saving the earth, ending racism, empowering women, giving young girls options, opening our minds, deepening tolerance, and ending violence and war.

I believe that the McCain/Palin ticket is one of the most dangerous choices of my lifetime, and should this country chose those candidates the fall-out may be so great, the destruction so vast in so many areas that America may never recover. But what is equally disturbing is the impact that duo would have on the rest of the world. Unfortunately, this is not a joke. In my lifetime I have seen the clownish, the inept, the bizarre be elected to the presidency with regularity.

Sarah Palin does not believe in evolution. I take this as a metaphor. In her world and the world of Fundamentalists nothing changes or gets better or evolves. She does not believe in global warming. The melting of the arctic, the storms that are destroying our cities, the pollution and rise of cancers, are all part of God's plan. She is fighting to take the polar bears off the endangered species list. The earth, in Palin's view, is here to be taken and plundered. The wolves and the bears are here to be shot and plundered. The oil is here to be taken and plundered. Iraq is here to be taken and plundered. As she said herself of the Iraqi war, "It was a task from God."

Sarah Palin does not believe in abortion. She does not believe women who are raped and incested and ripped open against their will should have a right to determine whether they have their rapist's baby or not.

She obviously does not believe in sex education or birth control. I imagine her daughter was practicing abstinence and we know how many babies that makes.

Sarah Palin does not much believe in thinking. From what I gather she has tried to ban books from the library, has a tendency to dispense with people who think independently. She cannot tolerate an environment of ambiguity and difference. This is a woman who could and might very well be the next president of the United States. She would govern one of the most diverse populations on the earth.

Sarah believes in guns. She has her own custom Austrian hunting rifle. She has been known to kill 40 caribou at a clip. She has shot hundreds of wolves from the air.

Sarah believes in God. That is of course her right, her private right. But when God and Guns come together in the public sector, when war is declared in God's name, when the rights of women are denied in his name, that is the end of separation of church and state and the undoing of everything America has ever tried to be.

I write to my sisters. I write because I believe we hold this election in our hands. This vote is a vote that will determine the future not just of the U.S., but of the planet. It will determine whether we create policies to save the earth or make it forever uninhabitable for humans. It will determine whether we move towards dialogue and diplomacy in the world or whether we escalate violence through invasion, undermining and attack. It will determine whether we go for oil, strip mining, coal burning or invest our money in alternatives that will free us from dependency and destruction. It will determine if money gets spent on education and healthcare or whether we build more and more methods of killing. It will determine whether America is a free open tolerant society or a closed place of fear, fundamentalism and aggression.

If the Polar Bears don't move you to go and do everything in your power to get Obama elected then consider the chant that filled the hall after Palin spoke at the RNC, "Drill Drill Drill." I think of teeth when I think of drills. I think of rape. I think of destruction. I think of domination. I think of military exercises that force mindless repetition, emptying the brain of analysis, doubt, ambiguity or dissent. I think of pain.

Do we want a future of drilling? More holes in the ozone, in the floor of the sea, more holes in our thinking, in the trust between nations and peoples, more holes in the fabric of this precious thing we call life?

Eve Ensler
September 5, 2008

From From CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby