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2014-10-31T20:51:00.001-05:00

Get a Special Look at Marvel's "Avengers: Age of Ultron"

2014-10-31T20:50:00.003-05:00

Пореченков в донецком аэропорту

2014-10-31T20:50:00.001-05:00

The Colbert Report: Gamergate - Anita Sarkeesian

2014-10-31T20:49:00.003-05:00

Sam Smith/Ed Sheeran - Stay With Me (Manchester Albert Hall 29/10/14)

2014-10-31T20:49:00.001-05:00

Microsoft Band: Live Healthier

2014-10-31T20:48:00.001-05:00

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 Final Trailer – “Burn”

2014-10-31T20:47:00.001-05:00

Daniel Radcliffe Raps Blackalicious' "Alphabet Aerobics"

2014-10-31T20:24:00.001-05:00

T-Pain: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

2014-10-31T20:23:00.001-05:00

Iraqi Pershmerga arrive in Kobani to fight ISIL!

2014-10-31T20:11:00.000-05:00

Ohio Governor Kasich pretends that oppenent doesn't exist - The video Kasich tries to suppress!

2014-10-31T20:09:00.003-05:00

Halloween 2014 Light Show. Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody. Thomas Halloween Ho...

2014-10-31T18:57:00.001-05:00

4 Psychological Terms That You're Using Incorrectly

2014-10-31T18:35:00.001-05:00

Get a Special Look at Marvel's "Avengers: Age of Ultron"

2014-10-29T16:38:00.001-05:00

Epic, can't wait to see this movie! -

Minority Report like FBI computer system is now a reality and out in the wild!

2014-09-15T17:28:00.001-05:00

Minority Report was a sci-fi thriller that showed how future law enforcement would possible use precognition software to arrest people for future crimes and track citizens pretty much anywhere in the US or the world even, with a vast network of high tech cameras watching your every move.

It seems life has immitated art once again:

The FBI's Next Generation Identification (NGI) system is now fully operational, after more than three years of development. The bureau announced today that development on the project is complete, and it would be rolling out new features for ongoing criminal notifications as well as a controversial facial recognition feature called the Interstate Photo System, or IPS. IPS will serve as "an image-searching capability of photographs associated with criminal identities," according to the release.

The facial recognition system has come under fire from privacy groups for mixing traditional mug shot photos with non-criminal faces pulled from employment records and background check databases. The system is expected to collect as many as 52 million faces in total.

My only questions are these.
Who is watching the watchers and guaranteeing that the data and images collected are used properly and not abused for malicious purposes. (NSA)
And isn't the idea of being tracked from point A, to point B, to point C, not a democratic society ideal, but something more likened to Communists, Warlords or Dictaitors?
The possibilities and implications for abuse are just overwhelming and too numerious.

Google bring the Android One ultra-cheap smartphone to the developing world!

2014-09-15T16:48:00.001-05:00

Google bridges the gap Android wise between the west, and the rest of the developing world...

Google has unveiled the first smartphones to run on its Android One platform, a standard designed to help push affordable smartphones in the developing world.

Android One devices will ship with support for more languages, including Hindi, and feature more local publications in Google Play Newsstand. Google is also making a special version of YouTube available which will allow Indian users to download videos and re-watch them multiple times without incurring excessive data charges. The first phones are expected to retail for 6399 rupees ($105).

I have to say that I am very impressed, and even though I'm sure profit motives are partially behind this push to reach into the mulit-million strong untapped market, many in the developing world will get to enjoy their first android phone expereince with a phone that actually has pretty good specs.

The initiative kicks off in India, where Micromax, Spice, and Karbonn are all selling phones with 4.5-inch screens, 1GB of RAM, 5-megapixel main and 2-megapixel front cameras,1.3GHz quad-core MediaTek processors, dual-SIM slots, microSD expandable storage, and FM radios.

The future smartphone wise is very bright for those in developing nations , and those users will even get to enjoy the much anticipated Android L operating system experience.
I'm very happy to see this push regardless the motivation, as knowledge truly is power, and those in these regions will now get a chance to view media and cultures they have been previously shut out from.

Nice, a win, win in my book....

Insulting, but funny!

2014-09-14T22:26:00.005-05:00

I'm a religious guy, and I found this funny!

2014-09-14T22:25:00.003-05:00

Dueling Grumpy Cats!

2014-09-14T22:24:00.000-05:00

A little "Calling it a Night", mood music! - Sam Smith - "Stay With Me"

2014-09-14T22:07:00.001-05:00

Nightly News in a Minute!

2014-09-14T21:59:00.001-05:00

Hillary and Bill Clinton in Iowa, "We are Back!", just not officially running for president yet. Unofficially, game on!

Powerful, "Hurricane Odile", looming for a direct hit on Mexico's resorts region!

Team USA slam dunks home a epic win, with a rout of Serbia, winning the Basketball World Cup Championship!

White House, we are ready to arm Syrian rebels like yesterday, Congress, please vote, so we can spend more money we don't have!

Scottish aid worker David Haines beheaded by ISIS, brother Mike Haines mourns, condemns continued evil and vile acts of murder and violence!

The Queen of England, "Think very carefully about the future!", Kind of sounds like a thin veiled threat aimed squarely at the Scottish people voting for independence!

The "Real Truth" about Kanye West's wheelchair rant? Does this guy like to cause his own pain? Seriously?

YouTube video of the Kanye West wheelchair incident!

You are living under a rock if you haven't noticed Hillary Clinton is the Queen Incarnate or President-Elect frontrunner if she chooses to run!

2014-09-14T20:55:00.000-05:00

Hillary is once again putting her name and face out in the public's eye. The (non) candidate (cough, cough) was welcomed to a mixed reception of DNC loyalists.

Bill and Hillary Clinton were the keynote speakers at the final Harkin Steak Fry on the hot-air balloon grounds outside Indianola, south of Des Moines. The event served as an emotional commemoration of Harkin's 40 years in Congress and a rallying cry for Democrats in the 2014 midterm elections.

Hillary Clinton has not been in Iowa since her 2008 caucus loss to now-President Barack Obama. Harkin dubbed the Clintons the "comeback couple," though he has not said if he would endorse Clinton if she runs, saying he wants her to make her decision first.

Clinton played coy on her 2016 plans, telling the crowd, "I am thinking about it." She concluded by saying, "It's really great to be back, let's not let another seven years go by."

Politically-wise, I really wish she would come out in the open and say what is really on her mind.

She's going to run, and the whole world expects this.

She's a Clinton, a political mastermind, a pitbull that stood face to face with moronic tools on Congress who tried to embarrass her in well-staged, choreographed congressional inquiries, and she held her ground and embarrassed every Congressional RNC windbag that tried to come after her.

I think those like Karl Rove forget whom they are dealing with.

This woman smoothed the road for Bill Clinton's 1st and 2nd presidential races and electoral stints, even with a president-elect who could not keep his penis in his pants or stay away from Big Macs at McDonald's.

At one point, she had to do the political equivalent of the Hail Mary in saving Bill's legacy and ass, and she did it with the precision of a razor-sharp brain surgeon, quickly shutting down the whole Lewinsky debacle.

For every low blow or quick punch you sneak in, she has 5 lined up for the return blow, knocking you out, from her colleagues and closest allies.

She is very well-networked, and she has reach and influence expanding beyond our naturalized borders thanks to her stint as the "Secretary of State," or "President for dummies, foreign policy dry run" as I like to call it.

I truly believe it's not "will she run," but "when will she finally make the 'official' announcement," pushing her deep into the presidential race mode 24/7, and her losing the freedoms she enjoys as a private citizen doing high-priced speeches and helping lesser knowns, saving their political asses.

On a personal level, I don't have a horse in this race as I am a non-affiliated, independent voter that both sides will spend millions to woo, but at the end of the day, she is a Clinton, and that alone speaks volumes over what I could ever say.

I'm pretty confident that the term President-Elect Hillary Clinton could be spoken in the very near future, and I honestly feel very sorry for the sacrificial lamb the RNC totes out to be mangled and utterly destroyed.

It will be amazing and explosive political theater to watch, and I will enjoy my seat from the sidelines, taking it all in.

Again, I repeat this: she's a Clinton, enough said.

Do you really know what is going on? Do you really care? (Op-ed)

2014-09-14T19:52:00.001-05:00

I really love the meaning of this quote and meme. There are so many important things going on this world that people don't either care to educate themselves about or speak up when they see something unethical or illegal going on. It's this lack of care or lack of using energy for things like activism and supporting an important cause that those with evil intentions feed off.

If the populace is going to keep happily living in the shadows, there is no need for those who purposely do nefarious things to ever worry about accountability or being outed in the public.

Quite simply, by lack of action, the masses are giving their seal of approval, supporting things they most likely wouldn't if they had all of the facts in front of them and knew how the deeds would be effecting them, be it short term or long term, good or bad.

One of my favorite REM songs kind of sums it up: "It's The End Of The World As We Know It." The lyrics kind of summarize what I'm saying here.

People are either scared, told that if they speak up or out they will be labelled terrorists in this post 9-11 era, or they are so involved in their vices -- alcohol, sex, tv, drugs, and technology -- that their attention is diverted from the crimes going on around them, that they don't even notice a travesty happening right in front of their noses.

It's by design, I believe.

If you are entranced in this digital age --Facebook, text messaging, YouTube, your favorite TV shows; all at the minimalist ground level -- you aren't being observant about your civil liberties, privacy, or the things in your bedroom that no one should legislate or have intimate knowledge of which are being violated, legislated, or actively being spied on (NSA).

I learned one thing a long time ago, that still rings true even today: perception is not always reality.

What if the perception you have has always been forcefed since birth, so the reality you believe that is real is just a forced reality that does not exist, but you are in too deeply conscious-wise to tell the difference?

Basically, what you read in the papers, what you see on the evening news, even what is tought in your pre-approved history books (remember, the victors always write history!) is almost all a complete mirage or mental pre-conditioning to breed a civil and controllable society.

You have this false notion that everything is hunky dory or just about as good as it will ever be, so you pretty much never question anything and by design, you are extremely controllable and subservient.

I tend to subscribe to the above theory.

Think about it; certain segments in our society growing up match up perfectly here.

You go to a public school, and the goal of the entire system is conformity and establishing the class system.

You are taught to be quiet and do your work, but stay with the flow and do your expected work.

You quickly are a part of the social circles; the wealthy, the athletes, the geeks, the goths, and the reclusive people (the loners) start to form.

You go to college or straight into the work force and those divisions and classifications further cement themselves.

You go to college, you get student loans, and you are stuck with $80,000 in student loans; debt that hangs over your head like a 100 pound weight.

You have to make every payment regardless of other needs, or the system designed to help you get into and pay for college will destroy you and your credit. No filing bankruptcy, no getting away from it; they practically come after you.

If you go the straight-to-work route, you are stuck in a menial food service/sales job or a factory job where you are living paycheck to paycheck, barely making ends meet, and the fact you need the job(s) to survive is held over your head like a guillotine. Fairness, decency, and even a living wage are denied to you, Joe Q. Public, with the thought by management that there are 10

other Joes there who are unemployed who would love your job.

You have an innate fear of being homeless, of losing your vehicle(s) you cannot really afford and the house that you are not upside down on because of several vulturous refinances of your loan by banks who are slowly killing you financially like a cancer, simply because of their greed.

It's all stacked up against you.

Remember, he who controls your debt, the ability to put you in debt or a moment of living crisis, controls you.

Please, repeat after me: I love my country, and I'm free?

What I'm saying is this: since birth, you have no way to really win in this life, and it is all done by design. Unless you went to school with a chauffeur dropping you off to a school system that is very private, only the world's best-off attend, you never had a chance.

It was that way on purpose, and it will always be that way.

You will always tread water in one way or another, while those with so much will laugh and mock you from their golden perches way above you, enjoying the sight of you struggling but never getting ahead.

You will be the butt of their jokes, the memes they pass around on their invite-only Facebook-like networks for them and their über-wealthy friends.

My final thought is this:

There is no American dream; the often famed story of that guy who was another "rags to riches story," who went from being penniless to an overnight millionaire.

This is the real, cold, harsh world, and that shit just doesn't happen here.

"By the sweat of your brow will you have food to eat until you return to the ground from which you were made. For you were made from dust, and to dust you will return." - Genesis 3:19.

The above bible verse sums it up nicely.

You were poor, made from dust, and you will return to the ground poor, as dust once again. Never really had a chance, and when gone, you or your lineage moving forward won't either.

And like I said before, this is all by design.

You're welcome....

We are coming back, with a fresh new focus on many different and exciting topics!

2014-08-31T11:17:00.000-05:00

We will be relaunching this blog as a multi-topic blog that focuses on opeds, political news, and trending topics.

We are extremely busy in our home lives with too much on our plates sometimes, please bear with us and we'll make this the best experience possible for our readership.

Monday the 1st is th projected date for our hard launch.

If times permits, one of us with push new content starting tonight.

Thanks for reading and your patience,

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Dennis Williams, a homeless friend, used and abused by a bad church!

2014-08-07T21:11:00.003-05:00

A decent guy in my opinion and a guy possibly set up for a crime he did not commit was most likely used and abused by our former church, and then sent back to prison by the very same people that used him as a pawn in their evil schemes.

I first met Dennis during a cold early March drive to a food bank in New Albany, Graceland Baptist.
He was wearing a heavy coat, very quite and reserved as many homeless people I have met are and was a man kind of quiet and to himself.

As I later became more involved in church activities, and volunteer work, I got to meet and see Dennis more and more.

He wasn't a bad guy in my mind, just a guy who had made a ton of bad choices and no one really gave him a chance to get back on his feet.

He lived under a bridge by the #4 Clarksville exit of I65 and never really came around people other than hanging out at McDonald's, helping with church tasks going to Exit O stops for food or hanging around with me when I'd run places.

His biggest problem is the fact I think he tried to be a people please and please everyone. He was the atypical homeless guy, afraid to tick off those who were helping him, for they might cut him off or not help him get to the things he needed.

I guess he did a hard, long job search and people would use his criminal status against him. He would tell me over and over again about people being rude or abrasive telling him they don't hire his type there.

I guess his therapy group leader at his court ordered therapy would attack and threaten him and he'd hold the line and give it back.

The threat of sending him back to prison did nothing against a guy like Dennis who had been in the rotten system for 10 years. He would say, over an over again, that he'd rather go back than wear the stupid bracelet and deal with the constant harassment that comes along with it.

After I had came out of the hospital, I had heard that Dennis was now in prison, to serve out the remainder of his term.

I don't know 100% for sure, but I bet this is how his screw job unfolded.
They (Blair Birge or others involved) offered him help with staying out, maybe a guarantee and food, something of value or money in turn for his false testimonies.
He took there deal as he is a homeless guy with nothing often and it sounded like a win, win.

He was an active participant in the 3-4 deliberate false DCS complaints, backing up their already made up and evil lies, meant to hurt me and my family.

When they thought they had delivered the death blow and our world was going to end, so sad it didn't, they sent him packing to prison.
Who is going to believe the tales of a guy in prison trying to tell people how a supposedly great church put a loving family through Hell on purpose for speaking out?

I don't fault Dennis in all of this.
I fault Blair Birge

, any pastors or elders at the Southeast Indiana Campus,

a satellite church of Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, who had a hand in this evil scheme.

(http://www.southeastchristian.org/ , they worship Neo-conservative Republican Jesus there.)

I liken their motivations and lack of Christian values to the actions of the Pharisee's, scholars/ elders and Sudacee's who tried time and time again to lure Jesus into a trap with false witness and lies.

God knows my heart, the father of the victims family, the heart of my wife and our desire and willingness to serve and walk with the Lord.
We aren't going to stop being disciples or helping others because of the works of evil men, no, just the opposite, we are going to pick it up another notch.

We are going to warn the masses though about the hidden dangers of huge mega churches and what certain Hell does ensue if you do the right thing and speak out.