Filed under: Movies & TV
Ousted Iraqi despot Saddam Hussein was hanged inside one of his former torture centres in the final act of a brutal 30-year tragedy that left the stage strewn with tens of thousands of corpses.
Officials who witnessed the execution said the 69-year-old former strongman remained defiant to the last, railing against his Iranian and American enemies and praising the rebels who have pushed Iraq to the brink of civil war.
A grainy video showing his corpse draped in a white shroud was shown on private television after the state network broadcast a clip of masked hangmen placing a noose around his neck, cutting away just before his execution.
Filed under: Randomness
Hey guys,
Sorry i haven’t been bloggin as much, been super busy cuz of the holidays. Here’s a picture i found of the “Jesus Couch”, which I heard about on the radio. I guess some guy in Las Vegas found this on his couch on Christmas Eve and its been on the news.
Filed under: Randomness
Well, its Christmas time again. Time for fun and that sort of stuff…lol. If you are bored at all this holiday, all day on Christmas Arrested Development will be playing!! Happy Holidays!
Filed under: Sandals
This week’s message was about Unwrapping the Names of Jesus, so we started out with…Jesus. Even simply the name of Jesus brings power, to angels, to Christians, and even to people who don’t believe. The name of Jesus inflicts so much emotion and contradiction between one’s heart and mind. His name specifies what he does, he saves. What does he save? He save us in the mist of any situation, from our sins, from corruption, how life currently is, and from pain and suffering. Just came to help us not worry and allow us to put all our problems on him (Matthew 11:28-29). He wants us to only worry about loving people, loving Him, and loving ourselves, which we have the hardest time doing. We also live in a society that accepts God, but rejects Jesus. God says to reject Jesus…is to reject God. (Acts 4:11-12). We have such a problem with even sometimes admitting we are a Christian. Yet in the midst of the Christmas season, it’s hard not to think about Jesus. We go around saying it’s not about receiving and Santa Clause, but about a baby. Unfortunately the problem with saying it’s about a baby, we tend to look at Jesus as something we can control and manipulate. What Christmas really is about is not a baby, but a risen king. A king that saves us from how our life is currently (Isaiah 11:6-9), even Isaiah tells us yes a baby is coming, but He is a king that will even rule the animals. He is will be on the throne and ill take away all pain and suffering (Revelation 7:17). So in this Christmas season, remember it’s not about a baby…it’s about the risen King.
I also want to briefly talk about what happened Sunday morning (my own opinions). In the middle of the 9 am service. Pastor Matt totally stops the service and looks at a lady, whose kid is being loud. “Um. Are you OK? You know ma’am we have lots of wonderful people who would be more than happy to watch your child?” To which she responded, “No” then gave the child a rattle. A tad bit distracting, even to Pastor Matt. I thought it was kind of funny, but I have ADD. So there’s a big comment forum going on in Carlos’ Blog, so if you’re interested…check it out. LoL. Merry Christmas!
Filed under: Movies & TV
After hearing from Carlos’ blog about this movie, I was a little interested. About a few weeks later my friend Jake, received this movie at our gift exchange. On Tuesday he suggested we watch it, and I’m like sweet! Let’s do it! All I have to say is….wow…lol. Such a cheesy movie….if you have time to waste and want a good laugh, check it out. The whole movie is about how the Martian’s want to steal Santa Clause to have on Mars. This movie had horrible acting; Santa was oblivious to everything that was dangerous to him and seemed to be drunk or on drugs (sad to say), the kids had more common sense than he did. All the shots of aircrafts in the air trying to stop the Martian’s were all random filmed shots of airplanes that had no connection to the story whatsoever. Their weapons had no effect to them at all, it just made a popping sound and it “froze” people. Then my favorite “tong” (I think if I remember right), a huge robot that Santa turned into a toy by just talking to it…so random. Lol. Ironically I was telling my dad that I saw this movie, and he told me that he used to watch it when he was a kid! Now that’s scary lol.
Filed under: Comics
I am a huge fan of comics. I have been probably all my life and still i love reading them. Michelle on the other hand, rather read a book, but then u miss all the cool pictures! I used to read more comics, unfortunately i don’t have time to so these are my two favorites at the moment because I haven’t followed any of the Marvel “Civil War”. So what I like to do is review the comic.
Ultimate X-men #77.
For those who don’t follow comics here’s a brief overview. The “Ultimate” is a new twist on all the old Comic series. It was a hope to “re-invent” the old heroes into modern day times. This means they changed basically ALL the storylines. Currently in this issue, Cable has entered into the scene to kill the professor. In the last comic it basically told us that Cable is wolverine in the future (as apposed to Cable being a person made with Cyclops and Jean Grey’s clone). So Cable is unable to reach the professor and kidnaps Jean Grey. Then Bishop (historically a mutant from the future, but this version is old) came into the scene, trying to stop Cable.
So bishop leads a team to find Cable to get jean grey back. Unfortunately there are some slight casualties in doing so; Rogue (who is losing the power of former Gambit) has returned to having her own power loses her arm (not to fear she steals wolverines power…not a surprise) from being attacked by Cable’s team (Grizzly, Hammer, Kane, and Domino).
Cable realizes he is under attack and prepares to go after the professor, which ironically is going after cable because of a twist (common for the Ultimate timeline), Professor Xavier is in love with Jean…
Good times.
Filed under: Readings
Book: Velvet Elvis
Author: Rob Bell
Movement One: Jump
Faith. All of us have it. Christians have it. Muslims have it. Even Atheists have it. Everyone no matter who they are have some sort of faith. Whether its having faith in God or themselves, they have faith in something. The real question isn’t whether people have faith or not, but what do they have put their faith in.
Rob Bell brings up an interesting point. Many people today say that Christians are very “closed minded”. This is what he writes,
“What is fascinating to me is that at the center of the Christian faith is the assumption that this life isn’t all there is. That there is more to life than the material. That existence is not limited to what we can see, touch, measure, taste, hear, and observe. One of the central assertions of the Christian worldview is that there is ‘more’. Those who oppose this insist that this is all there is, that only what we can measure and observe and see with our eyes is real. There is nothing else.”
Which Perspective is more “closed-minded”?
Which Perspective is more “open”?
Everyone follows somebody. Even in all the decisions we make every day (how we treat people, what to do with our lives, what friends we talk to, ect). These decisions come from somewhere (Parents, teachers, mentors, scientists, ect.). We are influenced by so many things in culture. People get all our ideas, worldviews, and even religion from all over the world. Everyone is following someone. Everybody has faith in something and somebody.
We are all believers.
Filed under: Randomness
I’m sitting here sick, and while my night quil kicks in, I decided to blog. I have to warn you guys I get kind of weird when I’m on meds…lol. I sound like a druggy. So I was sitting here noticing that I own two bobble heads (which I’m not a big fan of and the only reason I have them because they are freaking rad), and I notice that they are both Jack. Jack Sparrow and Jack (from Jack in the Box). I thought it quite ironic, also I thought it would be ironic if we were all made of iron…ok medicine is kicking in. Later guys!
Filed under: Life
Well last night, me and Michelle went to the Mission Inn. It was really awesome there last night, because surprisingly there were a lot of things to do. I had planned on seeing if we could “explore” the mission inn. Unfortunately, it had a ton of police guarding everything. I knew that there were going to be lights and stuff, but there was a ton of people who came last night. So we set off to see what was going on in our city. So we started walking and saw two different choirs singing Christmas songs to people. I think one of them was Riverside Christian High School, because I recognized the lady who was in charge. Farther down the road we saw an ice skating ring! Apparently it’s cold enough for one, because there were a lot of people on it. Next we noticed that there were a lot of people righting in horse drawn carriages. So apparently you can rent them to walk around the mission inn, it was pretty sweet. Expensive…but sweet. We walked some more and saw a lot of the shops and stuff downtown. It was a lot of fun, if you guys ever have a chance go down there during Christmas time.
Filed under: Sandals
Well tonight’s Sandals party was pretty fun. We had a white elephant gift party/ball thingy. It started off, supposed to be at Citrus Park, but noooo the ranger lady was too lazy to open it for us, so we ended up at drew and becka’s house. I think we ended up having like 60 to 70 people show up, which was amazing. Also that means there were a TON of presents.
I took some pictures of some of favorite presents that people gave. First off Tom gave away Sarah! lol.
Then Michelle got a castle park orange cone.
Here’s one of my personal favorites, a picture of PRD in a stocking.
My gift i gave was an old record i found, that was Peter, Paul, and Mary. The gift I got a was Blockbuster gift card and popcorn! yummy. All in all, it was great!
Filed under: Randomness
Dont use Lightsabers, your kids will to!
lol this is funny check it out.
Filed under: School
Anyone else overwhelmed with stress? I know I am…Finals Suck. My school even opens our TSU (Student Union) all night long…well apparently the school says they do. I saw this sign yesterday and it made me laugh. All night study! Closed between 2 A.M. to 3 A.M., apparently the cleaning people didn’t get the memo on students studying all night long. So they have to close it for an hour.
Filed under: School
So I’m at school today and I’m walking down the stairs of the Parking Structure. I notice something on the corner of my eye moving, so I peak over the corner and I saw a possum. Yes a possum! He was chilling on a ledge by the hand rails. I looked at him and he was watching me to. I wanted to be his friend…but then I remember I don’t want rabies. So I took a picture of him looking at me and went on with my day.
Filed under: Running
It’s official. 4 years ago today a good friend of mine pasted away, Grant Nunnally. It really only seems like yesterday, when we ran all together as a team joking around. You were apart of our Cross-country family and you are still missed. I’ll see you again someday brother.
Filed under: Life
Well, this Friday I had an awesome day with Michelle. It started off with going to school (not so fun), but this let us go to Disneyland to meet up with my parents to do some family pictures. So we drove into the parking lot and to our surprise, we got THE closest spot. It was amazing. We then go down to get on the tram, and there was just enough space for us to get on the tram without waiting for the next one. Walking in, Michelle noticed a “Toys for Tots” booth, which had Marines out front of it, supporting the organization. She wanted to go buy some toys to donate to the organization. So I agreed, (a little eerie, because normally I don’t just donate to stuff because I’m lame) and we went into California adventure. I found a pirate puzzle! It rocked let me tell you. lol. And then Michelle picked out a Stitch version of ‘Trouble’ (I think that’s the name of it). I then was amazed because I remembered that I was able to buy the stuff with 10% off because of my new Premium pass. Sweetness! So we go back and donate the toys and they give us a cool little pin.
I felt good about giving the stuff away, and found another reason that I love Michelle, which is that she really helps me care about people. Later we met up with my parents and took our pictures, and decided to go get some chili bowls in Disneyland. We get in line for a place on Main Street and order our food, giving them our name for the order. What was weird is it wasn’t a sit down restaurant, it was one of those places you find a seat as fast as you can before they are all taken. A lady walks up to us and calls my dad name, telling us that they have a seat for us. We were all looking at each other thinking…what?? Walking over to some secluded tables, I saw a table that had a table cloth with nice napkins and forks, and the table said ‘reserved’. I began thinking; I wonder who reserved the table? Sure enough, it was reserved for us… and yeah it was crazy, because apparently they randomly picked us and gave us a waiter serving us for a restaurant that doesn’t give that kind of service.
It was so awesome. I have no idea why we were picked; it could have been a coincidence…or God looking out for us, because we decided to donate some toys for some kid in need. I’ll let you decide.
