I fouind a fun game to play online

I know what you are thinking. And no it is not War Craft III. It is called line rider and it is really fun and simple. Maybe you have heard of it.
Check it out. http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/40255643/

I have a religion class

My teacher is a nice guy. You know toughs well meaning good people that are doing there best. He is a huge cougar football fan. He loves God and his job. He is your regular blue blooded Mormon. He is different from me and I think he is an asset for the church.
Last Thursday I felt really uncomfortable sitting in his class. There was a power point presentation that didn't sit right. Before he showed us what he prepared he had a disclaimer. He said that he was not trying to say God let this terrible thing happen. He said it was a wake up call. So for 10 minutes in silence he showed us these images mingled with scripture.

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I don't know what to do with this. I am trying hard to give the guy the benefit of the doubt. It seems to me that he is saying "nine one one", happened because God let it happen. Its like when people say "Now I'm not a racist but _______." Now I'm not one to gossip but ______." His implication is so strong in the text and images. He implies that we should fear God and do what is right before something like this happens again. The text by itself is good advice. But the choice of images seems random. There are problems with the USA. People should be better than they are. We would be a better nation if we came together and loved each other. Fear is a motivator but it only lasts so long. It doesn't promote true change. It happens on a personal level. It happens when a person chooses to change and is committed to that choice. Said person may have made the choice out of fear but it is the commitment and the choice to keep it is what keeps the change.

I think my teachers points are valid. But, they should have nothing to do with 911. I think he used it as a tool to appeal to emotion. I felt like he was trying to manipulate me. Maybe his plan worked. I think most of the people in the room were moved. I guess I might be stony ground. I am too old and jaded. I am past feeling. I wonder why he didn't use the katrina incident. I think you could make the same points. Maybe because last General conference our leaders said the recent natural disasters where not God punishing the wicked.

Steven Groo utah film maker

Tribute to Utah

The next few posts are brought to you by Steven Groo. He is a local film maker with a passion for film and aqua type music. I dare say he is the Trent Harris of Provo. Steven is such a prolific film maker. I am impressed by his fearlessness to tackle tuff issues like braking up, sailing, and space travel. Unlike most local artists, Steven and his crew confront the ills of our socioty. They are willing to admit that there are people out there drinking and wearing short skirts.
I love that there is someone here in the area that has a real passion for something. I hope he has all the success in the world.
Here you are, a tour of Utah.

Save Me-Nickleback

This one is my favorite. He sings both parts.

Salior Song

I am not sure what to say.

Major Tom

This one is kind of sweet. they come back to there wives in safty.

Boys of Summer Music Video

I was a boy of summer once.

Hypnotized

I'm in a trans as well.

Here is something right up my ally

Jared, knowing my politicalness and interest in the difference between "The Right" and "The Left", sent me this image in an email. I wonder if it is an accurate portrayal of the two sides. Keeping in mind that this is speaking in generalities, I would be interested in peoples opinion about this diagram.
I wonder if it reads differently to both sides. My first reaction was that it was accurate. I kept thinking "Do conservatives think the world is basically hostile? I think the world is basically good". I think this image brings up some interesting points. Thanks Jared!

You can read about the artist and get a better look here. http://thediagram.com/5_1/mers.html

Scared fat kid

I must let you see this one.

Just a quick one. More Soccer

School is just starting so the posts might be minimal. I haven't had a math class for 12 years. I need to focus. Anyway, I found this really cool map of england yesterday. It has all the UK football teams and there location. So if you where wondering where Reading is, well now you can find out. You can just go here http://footballclubs.dyndns.org/?co=england&league=1

Mixing Latter-day saints with politics

Today I took a cyber walk down memory lane. There was a site I used to frequent that is a Mormon myspace. I think we all know the site to which I refer. Within this site there are discussion forums. The one I would frequent was the political one. Because I haven't been there for months I was not ready for what I was about to read. Here is the beginning thread.

"Global Warming Unstoppable for up to 100 Years, even if humans disappeared.
Better hurry and pass some international laws, eh? Actually, many scientists say it looks unstoppable for about 300 years due to the lag time, meaning that it's too late to correct. Just for fun, let's assume this is true. Should we focus more on coping or fighting a lost cause in prevention?
Or.... do those urging global legislation have another motive entirely?"

"Rationalguy" links to a National Geographic page that explains there are some models that predicts polar ice caps melting for hundreds of years after today. That is if we stopped all emitions today. A gloomy picture to be sure. Near the end he makes an implication, by asking the question, "Should we focus more on coping or fighting a lost cause in prevention?". He implies that we shouldn't waist our time cutting down pollution because it is hopeless. Okay so my mind is half blown. I forgot people think like this.

Let me tell you how the other half was blown. This next post huffed and puffed and said, "I think the end of the world will come before then anyway so it might not be anything to worrry about." What I was about to say was "what about after toughs few hundred years?" But the young scholar "Banndor" pulled the rug right out from under my idealistic crocs, with me in them. Well check mate! All I could say was "this is a joke, right? ... You guys are joking."
Remember in the early years of the Internet when you could trust a person’s self-chosen title, you know the good old days. Well Rationalguy you really muffed this one. Maybe you ment Nationalguy.

Dear Nationalguy,
I can understand why you are resistant to change. It hurts. Change makes you do new things. New things cost time and money. But, arguing with progress could cost more time and money in the long run. Lets have some hope in humanity. Even after reading your post I still have hope. Well honestly I have a little less hope because I am reminded that there are people really short sighted.

P.S.
Dear Banndor,
Not even you know when the end of the world is. I know your level 12 Wizard "Banndor" scored high far-seeing points when playing Dungeons and Dragons. Banndor, you aren't a wizard you are a guy that wishes he were someone else.

my fired artworks

This is what I did this summer. I spent a lot of time in the ceramics studio. My corner of the room is shown to yours and my left. Cassian and I would trade insults and make objects. Despite his claims, I actually made thies things. The pink vessle with a blue bird was the last piece cass ... I mean I made. By the way the bird comes off. There are before photos at Draw With Friends. The first ones I did are the big white ones. I think they are really simple and pritty.
The white rabbit object is a "Jack be nibble" character I changed a bit. I put mustashes above there lips and wepons in there mits.

Midwife Crisis again

I know I have put the link to this up in the past. but I just learned how to imbed the youtube window in my blog. If you have seen this already disregard.

This made me LOL all over myself

Cache showed this little clip to me two nights ago. Maybe you have seen this clip. I hope you like it. I present to you "grape lady falls".

Who killed the electric car?

Ruel and I with Steve and Sarah stamps, car-pooled up to see the documentary "Who Killed the Electric Car?" The movie as really interesting. It wasn't one of toughs balanced stories. It told one side of the story but I still think it is worth seeing. It was frustrating to see that right now we have the technology. In fact 1997 we had the technology. The fact is, we as a country do not want an electric car. a car that puts out no emotions is not a reason to by a car for most consumers.

Some people keep telling me "let the market dictate". I say we don't need a dictator. We need a balance of power. The market has many wonderful assets. But if it where not for some federal laws there would be no seat belts in cars, our cars would still get 12 miles to the gallon. this point was brought up in the movie. We have swung too far. it seems that there is no reigning in powerful corporations. In fact they get a tax break.


There is hope, but we need to make some long sighted desitions.
This is Jimmy Carter's 10 plinciples.

1. We can have an effective and comprehensive energy policy only if the government takes responsibility for it and if the people understand the seriousness of the challenge and are willing to make sacrifices.

2. Healthy economic growth must continue. Only by saving energy can we maintain our standard of living and keep our people at work. An effective conservation program will create hundreds of thousands of new jobs.

3. We must protect the environment. Our energy problems have the same cause as our environmental problems —wasteful use of resources. Conservation helps us solve both at once.

4. We must reduce our vulnerability to potentially devastating embargoes. We can protect ourselves from uncertain supplies by reducing our demand for oil, making the most of our abundant resources such as coal, and developing a strategic petroleum reserve.

5. We must be fair. Our solutions must ask equal sacrifices from every region, every class of people, every interest group. Industry will have to do its part to conserve, just as the consumers will. The energy producers deserve fair treatment, but we will not let the oil companies profiteer.

6. Reduce the demand through conservation. Our emphasis on conservation is a clear difference between this plan and others which merely encouraged crash production efforts. Conservation is the quickest, cheapest, most practical source of energy. Conservation is the only way we can buy a barrel of oil for a few dollars. It costs about $13 to waste it.
He called #6 the cornerstone of the policy

7. Prices should generally reflect the true replacement costs of energy. We are only cheating ourselves if we make energy artificially cheap and use more than we can really afford.

8. Government policies must be predictable and certain. Both consumers and producers need policies they can count on so they can plan ahead. This is one reason I am working with the Congress to create a new Department of Energy, to replace more than 50 different agencies that now have some control over energy.

9. We must conserve the fuels that are scarcest and make the most of those that are more plentiful. We can't continue to use oil and gas for 75 percent of our consumption when they make up seven percent of our domestic reserves. We need to shift to plentiful coal while taking care to protect the environment, and to apply stricter safety standards to nuclear energy.

10. We must start now to develop the new, unconventional sources of energy we will rely on in the next century.

I thought I would shack the hive a bit

C-SPAN aired this conference in LA. It is about the 911 Conspiracy. I call it a conspiracy because there is a relatively small group of people that believe 911 was a self-inflicted wound. But there is a very large group that thinks the 911-commition report has left some things out. They think there is something going on. I number myself with the latter group.
I will give you 2 clips. The first one is Prof. Jones of BYU speaking on his experience with the theory that the WTC was a demolition.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=F5kBkOX-qgg

The second clip is of an author that brings up some interesting points.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FxxpqsOP3SI


By the way I hate how the host sounds. He sounds like the radio political voices I hate. I think the BYU prof. has the strongest argument.

Here i go again, I am turning greener

Here is a really cool show on the discovery channel. It is a really short clip. I think you will like it. It is about the energy crisis and foreign policy.
http://dsc.discovery.com/beyond/?bclid=82224665

The World Cup

I want to joint the rest of the world. The craziness has taken me. I have seen every gave so far of the world cup. the USA look like clowns compaired to the rest of the world.
I saw this Vid. of Ronaldino
He plays for the Brazilians. They are favored to win it all. Just like they did in 2004.

England has a great reputation of beening crazy fans. They do not have a manopoly on craziness. They get Pop stars to make songs for the team. The likes of New Oreder and The lightning seeds have made songs for teams of the past.

Here is a Vid. of England Football. The song is by The Lightning Seeds. It is called "Footballs Coming Home"

Ruel and I have made two characters. Passander and Mustashe are the names of the two friends. They are just trying to get byl ike you and I. Mustashe might be heard saying "I wish it was the 70's, I was handsome in the 70's".