This past week has went by pretty quick. I had to work Monday, but I got off Tuesday for the Forth. I drove the family to watch fireworks. It was a pretty good 30-minute show. I didn’t get home until around 11 (and I didn’t fall asleep until 12). I’ve been reading a new book I got call, “The Burning Heart Contract” by Becky Tirabassi. It’s very good so far, although I’m not too fond of the 21-day reading (I like a sit-down and read it all, kind of book). It’s been challenging though, as the book is about committing a certain set of time each day for the rest of your life to prayer and reading the Bible. I recommend it highly … remember though, it may cost you.
I’ve got another month-and-a-half left until the fall semester starts. I’m sort of ready for it to start.
Over the past three or four days I’ve got “invitations” for MySpace … being sent to an e-mail address I don’t use publically that much. It doesn’t even show you who it is, either. After the fourth one or so, I decided to tell them to block my e-mail address. Hopefully I won’t get anymore spam from them. I met several people through the site when I was a member. Facebook is great, I’ve only met one person through it though (and she was from one of my classes). It’s just hard to meet new people. When at school, people have the phone stuck in their ears most of the time. It makes me wonder how people did 15 years ago when there weren’t any cell phones.
“Prayer in the Darkness” was pretty good. There’s already another one scheduled for the 22nd of this month. I should have called the sign up sheet a “Commitment Sheet”. I may do that, actually.
I’ve been getting sick of politics here lately.  There’s several African Americans on the GOP ticket this year (more than any other year, for any party, I should add). This is a great thing. Slowly, but surely, this group of voters are finally seeing who wants the best for them. The sad thing is, many of their leaders (ie: NAACP) want to keep them poverty stricken. However, there are an increasing number of up-and-coming black leaders that are making considerable headway, and quite frankly, their sick of the garbage the DNC has thrown at them. The DNC knows this and is terrified.
The next part of politics is the democrats have succeeded in keeping DeLay on the ballot. In other words, the GOP can’t replace him with another candidate. Anyone with a brain (which seems increasingly hard to find in the world of politics), will tell you this is both unfair and dishonest business. They’ve already trashed his good reputation with things that have yet to be proven. He’s not even living in Texas anymore. I’m hoping the Texans have a brain and do the right thing — vote straight ticket Republican.
Finally, the fact that government secrets have a “right” to be leaked. If we’re attacked again, it won’t be anyone’s fault but the leakers and media. The leakers are, by all means, committing treason (read definition number 2). The media is relaying this information to the terrorists (and those who are pretty violent towards the US who are living in the US), committing espionage. The US Department of Defense Dictionary states:
The act of obtaining, delivering, transmitting, communicating, or receiving information about the national defense with an intent, or reason to believe, that the information may be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation. Espionage is a violation of 18 United States Code 792-798 and Article 106, Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Unfortunately, there’s little chance that anything will be done about any of these incidents. It’s sad that in America you can get away with this type of stuff.
Finally there’s the people out there that are sad that Ken Lay died in his home before getting to go to prison. There’s people that wish he “suffered” in prison. People need to learn that vengeance is the Lord’s. Unless we were the jury or the judge, we have no right (what so ever) to judge what should, or should not, happen to this guy. Those that lost money, they need to understand the art of forgiveness. Life isn’t fair. Things blow up and don’t go our way — those are the times we’ve got to learn to forgive and keep going. However, if everyone did this, there wouldn’t be a need for News networks, governments, or anything else. And politically correctness wouldn’t be a part of that society.
I wasn’t wanting to get too political, but I suppose I did. I’m tired of watching the news and seeing smooth talking liars leading good people down a dark, deadly path.