Just one of those days down on the farm!

Okay I am putting out a warning that there is code in this player which will dim the rest of your desktop (@ 35 seconds) as you watch the clip, fyi. If I knew how to disable the code I would; sorry, but at least I warned you as soon as I found out.



To find out more about Stage 6 or Gopher Broke and Blur Studios click on these previous links.

New Poll Please Vote

Which topic should I address next:
Clotheslines In Your Backyard
Doing Away With Township Government
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Results:
I forgot to post the results: It was a two for two tie!
To view the first part Clotheslines In Back Yard - Im All For It!
The second part will be up on Monday, Tuesday at the latest, I hope. It is a really complex issue.

To those whom voted: Thank you!

From the London Gay Men's Chorus: Coming Out @ Christmas

I know that I am breaking my usual rule about putting anything up until the actual Christmas Liturgical Season but this was too funny and awesome not to post it. Although it did prove a perfect opportunity to announce the Christmas concerts of our own combined queer chorus.



To find out more about our own combined GLBTIQAS chorus,
please visit The Chorus of Fort Wayne website.

Upcoming Events of The Chorus of Fort Wayne include:

Christmas Concerts
on Friday 14th of December 7:00 p.m.
on Sunday 16th of December 3:00 p.m.
@ Forest Park United Methodist Church
2100 Kentucky Avenue Fort Wayne, Indiana 46805
( @ one block south of State Boulevard
and one block west of Crescent Avenue)
A free will offering will be accepted.

To read another article about The Chorus of Fort Wayne see
the corresponding post on The Reign And Rook 3rd Edition.

Hat tip for the video forward to Michael Anderson-Vaughn @ A Touch Of Pink

From the London Gay Men's Chorus: Coming Out @ Christmas

I know that I am breaking my usual rule about putting anything up until the actual Christmas Liturgical Season but this was too funny not to post it.





Hat tip to Mikey Vawn @ A Touch Of Pink

I-35 Loredo to Duluth: "A highway will be there, called the holy way;"

I have been asked by a concerned reader to comment on the following video from Pat Robertson's CBN/700Club. The Video is courteously posted on You Tube by Right Wing Watch.



Besides this video being a warning of a Fred Phelps style invasion in cities across the country, it smacks of proselytizing and general abuse of someone's individual constitutional right to freedom of association, by this swarm of prayer warriors. The fact that they are using Scriptural numerology to base their claim, (come on people this is ridiculous) is no different then the methods of divination used by the people they are targeting. This video also illustrates the reason why priests and ministers everywhere have issue with "jail house conversion syndrome". Not forgetting to mention the fact that this video clip was really nothing more than an anti homosexual propaganda piece covered in the guise of a news story about the power of prayer - watch the timer/counter. However since I was asked kindly by a reader of mine to respond in context I will now that I have given my analysis on the intent of the video clip.

First of all Scripture prophecy can be interpreted in anyway that an individual wants to interpret it, as witnessed in this clip, by taking a passage of scripture (in this case Isaiah 35:8a) completely out of its original context. So the usual way to debunk the prophetic vision or application of prophecy is to bring the context of the passage back into the conversation. In other words, "At least use the whole damn sentence, Nimrods!". The second is to apply the historical context of the passage back into the conversation. The third is to realize that the prophecy has already been fulfilled at least once if not twice. Finally know that, the chapter and verse marks, are not an inerrant/infallible part of the Scriptures.

The markings of chapter were added much later for easy reference in the early 1200's and the mark of the verses was made obvious with the introduction of the Douay~Rheims amongst other English Translation of the Latin Vulgate three centuries past. The Scripture's themselves have changed several times over the last two thousand five hundred and some odd years of history with each new version of the BIBLE. Before this time frame of the reconstruction of Jerusalem and rededication of Temple the Scriptures as we know them were primarily an oral tradition and not regarded inerrant or infallible.

[To Be Continued...]

This little light of mine. I'm gonna let it shine!

Hat tip to John Good @ Left In Aboite