I am from Houston, I love Houston, but, the Houston Chronicle has pretty much always been a liberal, left of center, newspaper, everyone knows that, and I guess that is ok, as long as everyone knows it, but, when I went to start reading what the world was saying about Beck’s rally this morning, I was almost floored when I found this article by Kathleen McKinley, My Thoughts On The Restoring Honor Rally, please take the time to read it, she wrote what I was going to write! I am going to keep an eye on her! ( see what the media had to say)

So, since she already wrote what I was going to, I will move on to an “I told ya so” kind of thing, if you will look at the picture of the crowded mall, you will notice that it is FULL! A few days before the rally, Glenn Beck pointed out what it meant if there were X people in certain areas, and from tho looks of this photo, there were people everywhere people could be! All I can say is, wow! I knew a lot of folks would show up, but dang, I thought that most would be like me and watch it on TV or the internet, in fact, here is a screen-shot I took during the live “Ustream” feed on Facebook, which had about 200,000 viewers while I was watching.

This one was towards the end, after all of the preachers, rabbis, and all had come up on the stage, which was pretty impressive on its own. I mean think about it, he had someone from pretty much every known religion (that believes in one God) on the planet up on that stage, to show unity, and that no matter which group you belong to, getting back to God was the way to restore our own individual honor, which, in turn, would restore the honor of our country.

For those that are not, “believers”, after all of this, you should be, and in fact, if you attended or watched this rally, you had church! Since the Word of God never returns void, this was a spiritual explosion! No, not like a fire-cracker, but a giant blast of God Power, that no doubt will get the far left screaming in pain! I don’t believe that there has ever been a TV preacher of any kind ever get this many people to attend the same meeting at the same time, Glory be to God, Beck had Church!

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The clock was ticking, and Bush was at the end of his presidency and the liberals were beginning to start talking about Hillary, the Republicans were in disarray and the future was a bit bleak for them. Then, the new kid, someone who no one knew anything about, Barack Obama hit the seen, and suddenly, everything was different, that housing bubble was bursting, and the issues were changing, and the economy was getting ready to take a serious dive, but, what was it, that pushed it over the edge? FEAR!

Yes, it was fear, but fear of what? Was it fear that the liberals were about to take over? Was it fear that life as it had been was about to change? Was it fear, that the artificially over-priced housing market was about to reset, as it should? Or maybe, the final straw was that those that had a clue, could see that Obama was going to be elected, and that he, the most liberal senator, quite probably would do things that would cause our country to look completely different when he took over? Was it that some people, actually listened to the things that Obama said, and could see through his lies? I contend that it was all of the above, and then some, it was the fear of the unknown!

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I had been hoping that this wonder app would some day happen, and now I find out it has been around for quite some time, hmm, maybe I do need a fancy new phone that does more than go ringy dingy? Download it here! Oh, and it is FREE!

Here are a few screen-shots.

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“Do you know how to recognize that you are dumber than everybody? It is when you feel like you are smarter than everybody! Always remember, there is something to be learned from anybody, wisdom comes from learning from everyone, and everything, not from a book, it comes from life,  and every day of life is a gift!”

Notice the word feel is underlined, and that the word think is not used, this is because we often feel things before we get a chance to think about them. When someone says something like, “what came first, the chicken or the egg?”, my first response is to feel, “what, are you stupid? that is an easy one!, when God created everything, he made a rooster and a chicken, they then made the eggs!” but, if I think about it, I have to remember, that some people do not believe in God, and if you take God out of the picture, it is hard to get answers to a lot of things!

Anyway, this is not an article just, about God, although it could be. When you here someone say something, and the first thing that happens is that you get that “what, are you stupid?”  feeling, think about what you heard, then, break it down as to what could have brought them to say whatever it was they said. I have to say, when it is something that is coming from one of those uppity, over-educated, college professor types, that have never spent a day in the real world, it is usually because of what I said before, about God, since they don’t teach anything about God in school anymore, how can a person, who has never been outside of school know Him?

Back to the topic, when SFC Jones, or whoever it was back then told me this, it was not because I was opinionated, but because I was a “smart-ass” and when called that, I would always respond with, “it’s better than being a dumb-ass!” which is what brought about the lesson in humility,  but, being a young hard-head, it took a while to sink in. Hmm, yep, it took life to teach me.

So, next time you are listening to a speech, from some Law School professor, who has never had a “real” job, and you get that “what, are you stupid?” feeling, just remember this lesson in humility, God is the one in charge, and no matter how smart you think you are, knowledge, without wisdom, is empty, like a gas can without gas, and, if you try to take God out of the picture, everything is empty!

If you should ever be the one that everybody is mocking, and laughing at, because they say that you have no knowledge, because you didn’t go to a big fancy school, remember, you can always get knowledge, but wisdom, that is a gift!

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I think this is something we need to actually think about and not just take for granted, because this freedom, can be taken away! I know, we all just use the day to party, and to clear or minds from work and lifes little problems, but, what if it were to be taken away? When our founding fathers declared our independance, this was a major event and totally pissed off the King!

When the United States was first getting started, there were no parties, no barbecues, and the only fireworks came from cannons. This is a sacred day, that marks a sacred event, the Declaration of Independence, from a tyrant government and king, and, remembering that, we need to make sure that we keep our freedom, and don’t let another tyrant government and king take over! Thanks God for our troops that are dying to defend our way of life, and trying to, at the same time, share freedom with others that have never known it. While we may have our petty little problems, and differences about politics, religeon, or whatever, today is the day that freedom was born, let us never let our freedom be taken away, and celebrate the day, remembering what it is all about, and just how fragile it is.

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I know that there are tons of new features, but where are they? I have been playing with WP 3.0 since it was available for any kind of testing, using the WordPress Beta Tester plugin, set to the “cutting edge” option, and yes, I am aware of the new “menu” feature, but, I am not sure how this is helpful, If a special menu is needed, I build it. I understand that it now works for unlimited sites, I guess this is a BuddyPress or WPMU thing, it does nothing for me, I only have like 30 sites!  Oh, the now bolder “ENTER TITLE HERE” line when adding a new page or post is kinda neat, if you didn’t know where to put the title before because it was a bit hard to see, the white areas just blended in and new users had a tough time, so, this is a plus, but, where are all of the new goodies?

Ok, I am being a bit sarcastic here, yes, there are too many new things for me to list, but, most are not readily visible to the naked eye, these are the things that will help theme and plugin developers to add even more goodies, that can be seen, so, if you are new to WordPress, hang on to your shorts, this is going to get good! Watch the video, or read more here. Just so you can get a grasp on how fast the download process started, I just happened to be upgrading a plugin, and saw that 3.0 was available, when I looked to see how many had downloaded it, it was at only about 10,000, I got this screen-shot about 30 minutes later!

This video is fantastic, from WordCamp San Francisco, Matt Mullenweg is really a funny guy, the story of WordPress and the whole 3.0 release is very interesting too.