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“1 - Go to wikipedia and hit random. The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band. 2 - Go to quotationspage.com and hit random. The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album. … 3 - Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days” Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover. 4 - Use photoshop or similar (picnik.com is a free online photo editor) to put it all together. 5 - Post it with this text in the caption”

-A beautifully crafted song by Brandon Flowers-

Jakerno: Joel Levi - Middle of Everywhere

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Joel Levi’s new EP, Middle of Everywhere, takes two kind of approaches: raw and intricate. It’s packed with fresh songs, while also cementing some live titles such as ‘Wrecking Ball’, to record. “I like that its got a more raw, live sounding feel to it. A lot like on the previous recording of…

A great song from a great local Artist - The Middle of Everywhere

     Strange occurrences happen everyday and we can usually explain them away with a bit of common sense or brief speculation, but today something strange happened to me around 5:00 AM, and I cannot explain it.

     Early this morning, I was dreaming as most of us do. I cannot remember the specifics of my dream, I think I was over in Africa, but Africa was europe, and someone stole the love of my life. Dreams make so much sense. But this post is not about my dream, it is about what happened when I woke up.

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I’m going to make this a quick post. It’s something that needs to be said aloud. As I’ve said before, I am not bias, at least I try not to be. I take all of the facts, lay them out and make an objective opinion. However, I will tell you that I watch Fox News, and that is the only news network that I watch. Why? Because Fox News, for the most part, is fair and balanced.

I have watched Fox News over the weekend on the Arizona shooting and I have purposely watched to see if they have been true to their promise of being “fair and balanced,” and in my unbiased, objective opinion, I have to say that they truly have been fair and balanced. They have not at all given their opinions about the matter. They have only relayed the facts when they have been given them.

MSNBC however, and honestly this is expected in such a slanted network as it is, has come out openly to blame Sarah Palin, The TEA party, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and republicans for the shooting in Arizona.

They have tried to make this out to be political, when they have absolutely no evidence to support that claim. They’ve pointed out the angry rhetoric by the TEA party, and let me insert my opinion here. It is not wrong or unethical to be angry by something, and to voice your concerns about it, that is what the Right Wing’s have been doing, I know, because I have been apart of it. And once again, in my objective view, we have done that in a peaceful manner, and the leaders of the Right movements have said time and time again for us to act in peace, so if someone did act in violence, in which they may have, it was not by fault of the TEA party or the Right, it was by that one individual, and that individual alone.

We have come to a point in our history in which we have to blame an occurance on someone other than the person responsible. It is never anymore the individual’s responsibility, therefore we blame everyone else, in most cases, it is the republicans. We mutter agitations that “the anger needs to stop,” but why don’t we start teaching people personal responsibility, when has that thought occured within the last decade so? And just a note here, the shooter was a liberal, not a republican, stick that in your pipe and smoke it for a while.

Anyway, these are my opinions and observatons, I do not believe anyone on the Right Wing is to blame for this, seeing as that they continually inspire peaceful action among those who follow them, however, I will leave you with a video of a far leftest who does not observe this notion. Her name is Francis Fox Piven, and I believe if we start to see violence like this erupting in the times to come, it will always be on that one person because he made that choice by himself, but it may be inspired by thoughts like these. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9eDmw_2tJA

Farewell

By now, many of you have heard of the shooting in Tucson Arizona that left 6 dead and 13 wounded. This occured at a town hall meeting called “congress on your corner,” which was conducted by the congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head, and although in critical condition, doctors are cautiously optimistic about her recovery.

Among those who were killed, was 76 year old Dorwinn Stoddard, a retired construction worker. When the gunman started shooting, Dorwinn covered his wife and was killed in the process, his wife survived. Also 76-year-old Dorothy Morris and 79-year-old Phyllis Scheck, an aide of Giffords Gabe Zimmerman, federal judge John Roll, and in what was maybe the most emotional, a 9-year old girl named Christina Taylor Green, who was shot in the chest and later pronounced dead. Christina’s neighbor invited her along and thought she might be interested in knowing how her government works.

The shooter, 22-year old Jared Loughner, is in police custody. It is not yet known of his motivation for the mass violence that occured, although police have found a note in his home that indicates it was premeditated. Loughner will appear in court tomorrow, January 7th, 2011.

This tragedy certainly has echoed in the hearts of many Americans, especially for those who live in the local Tucson area. It is never easy to move on after such a catastrophic event. I believe that all anyone can do right now is to keep those who were involved in this terrible tragedy in in their thoughts and prayers and to continue to hope, because as it is said,

          “Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
      But when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.”

Continue to recieve updates at TheBlaze.com, and also check my twitter http://twitter.com/#!/ocsmalltown

Luke 16:1-15

1. The Principles

-The only money we have is the Masters money.

•  Haggai 2:8; Psalm 24:1; Job 41:11

-We won’t have it long, so use it now.

• Psalm 49:16-17

-Reduce debts to debts of gratitude

• “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.” -Jim Elliot

2. The Payoff

-It pays off in a heavenly welcome

• Luke 12:20-21; Matthew 19:29

-It pays off with true riches of our own.

• Matthew 19:29
• “The only antidote for materialism is giving.”

-It pays off in individual devotion to God.

• Matthew 6:19-21
• “God cannot have first place in our life if He has the last place in our checkbook.”
• “Money is an exact index to a man’s true character.” - Richard Halverson

I do.

It’s actually pathetically simple if you think about it for more than two minutes. We have been in this economic crisis before, but in fact, much worse.

Jimmy Carter was one of America’s most lamentable presidents. The oil crisis was not his fault, but the way that he dealt with it was asinine. During his presidency their was both high unemployment and high inflation, which economists tell us is impossible, you either have one or the other. Jimmy achieved the impossible. This came to be known as Stagflation. Besides this, he demanded (his words, not mine) the people of America to cut down on their energy at home.

America was at a crossroads.

Before I go on I think it is imperative that you understand something about me. I am not bias, I simple look at the facts and then form my opinion.

In 1980, at the end of Carter’s term, A man from California bacame our fortieth president. His name was Ronald Reagan.

Ronald Reagan had a solution to this economic problem and this solution not only saved the economy, it caused it to bloom.

What was the solution?

Reaganomics 101:

1. Reduce government spending.

2. Reduce income and capital gains marginal tax rates.

3. Reduce government regulations.

4. Control the money supply to reduce inflation.

How does it work?

(Did you know, experts say that with todays government regulations on businesses, Bill Gates would not have been able to create “The Microsoftware Company.) So the government lowers taxes and removes all unnecessary regulations. This makes it entirely easier for entrepreneurs to create businesses. Therefore, their is more business, as a result, their are more jobs. This truly is returning to free-market principles.

The economy will prosper.

So, with the government recieving more money and spending less, they have more to put toward the 14.3 trillion dollar debt. And since the government would be controlling the money supply, inflation would be lowered.

So why won’t today’s government impliment this strategy? because if you noticed, it gives the power to the people. The government wants to be the answer, but they will never be. The only thing that will save our country is God and it’s people.

-know your part in this-