To pray for the safety and security of Gustav victims without moving our feet to help clear debris, or at the least lifting our wallets to help afford the cleanup, is to speak love of neighbor and practice indifference.
To pray for the life of an unborn baby without lifting our hearts and hands to help change diapers is to speak love and practice hate.

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How we love abortion doctors is how we love God.
How we love Osama Bin Laden is how we love God.
How we love believers of other faiths is how we love God.
How we love murderers, rapists and thieves is how we love God.

For how we love the least of these is how we love God.

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Stephanie and Emily at Union Grove UMC’s Picnic and water fight. I think Emily won.

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return !!((($a > $b) | ($a >= $b)) | (($a < $b) | ($a =< $b)) | (($a == $b) | ($a != $b)))

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Points to whomever can tell me what that does. (I promise it works)

Click the link to see what it does…

My boss showed this to me as an “interview question” over lunch today. It is elegant and Zazen code. Ponies for Blewis. It’s his answer to the prompt: Develop a function that accepts three parameters: $a = Int, $b = int, $c = string containing a logical operand. It needs to return a boolean True or False. That’s some of the coolest, densest code I’ve ever seen.

Of course you could do it with the tertiary operator (which is how I answered the question, btw) but Blewis’ code above is far far faster.

Hopefully here in the next few weeks I’ll be able to publish my one-liner javascript that uses Haptic data to determine if a web request is really a human being or a bot (making captcha’s unnecessary) Until then, enjoy drawing the truth table for the above line.

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Found via Naked Pastor’s blog.

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it takes faith

From http://alternative.victas.uca.org.au/index.php/2008/06/27/it-takes-faith/

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Democrats dream of what has never been and wonder why not?

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The incident happen in an exchange with the FOX News anchor. When asked her opinion of the recent scandal surrounding some comments made by Sen. Hillary Clinton, which Trotta described by saying that, “some are reading [it] as a suggestion that somebody knock off Osama.” Hemmer quickly corrected Trotta, having noticed that she had said “Osama” when she meant “Obama.” At this point, Trotta said, “Obama. Well…both if we could!” Trotta then laughed gleefully.

Well. They reported. I’ve decided that their FCC license should be suspended. I don’t care who you support politically, joking about someone’s death is inappropriate.

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In a world where some invoke the name of God to justify acts of terror, and murder, and hate we need your message that God is love…

Sadly, President Bush, you are too blindsided by power to see that you are one of those invoking the name of God to justify the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. What is worse, is that you equate God, with the idol of power. Your continual grab of power in the name of god has left a tsunami sized wake of blood and bodies strewn across not just the middle east, but across the homes and hearts of all those who have lost a loved one in your senseless war.

Ps: Tell your wife it’s exceedingly rude to wear white next to the Pope. (Uniforms don’t count, the cook gets a papal exemption.)

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I’d like to open one here in Durham. Supplies for the interstellar traveller. If only I could find a way to afford it…

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While I find my support for political candidates to be tedious at best, I cannot help but react powerfully to Senator Clinton’s recent comments regarding Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

“He would not have been my pastor[.] You don’t choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend.”

This is exactly the fundamental assumption of the American Project, that religious instruction and conformity is at the discretion of the individual, rather than the revealed community of God and it’s leaders.

We don’t get to choose our families, true. But our pastors, and our leaders, are as much our families as those tied to us by bloodlines. If there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither Black nor White, Methodist or Pentecostal.

Clinton speaks for change, yet the change she advocates is a change that doesn’t challenge the fundamental assumptions of the american project. Others, while still involved in the seductive siren of politics, are at least arguing for a change that upsets the american apple cart.

Besides, even if saying “God Damn America” is un-american, what makes us think that America is beyond God’s wrath? ugh.

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Found via [EditorialCartoonists]

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Which is, by my definition, the best review of alt rock music I’ve ever read.

It’s amazing to me that ipods, with a shorter history than Nirvana->Puddle of Mud, have only gotten better. After all, the first ipods were tiny in storage, and large in size. Now we have ipod shuffles that are as big as the original ipods. And yet we have fewer and fewer things to put on them due to the impending march of De-Evolution in music. Plah.

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On behalf of President Bush, thank you for your correspondence.
We appreciate hearing your views and welcome your suggestions.
Due to the large volume of e-mail received, the White House cannot respond to every message.
Thank you again for taking the time to write.

Plah. Wish there was a snowflakes chance in hell that Bush read it / comprehended it.

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