R.I.P. Patrick

R.I.P. Patrick Swayze

I was a huge fan of Swayze growing up with classic movies like Roadhouse, Red Dawn and Point Break. Hell even the ladies loved him from Ghost and Dirty Dancing. He will be missed, but his movies luckily are here to stay. One of my favorite movies of his is the very underrated 11:14. If you've never seen this I highly recommend it.

Coward Corner

Jamie's back with some strong opinions on whats currently happening. What do you think?

Political corner - The Shepherd

I try to stay out of politics but now my hand is being forced I’m pretty pissed off and have to say something. Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin just resigned from office. Media is spinning it that she is getting ready for her presidential bid. Every time Mike Huckabee is on a talk show they spin him as the front runner for the next election. Newt Gingrich is getting the same treatment. What crystal ball are they looking at to see that these 3 will be running for president in over 3 years? They're using basic brainwashing techniques. If they can spin these 3 for the next 3 years as the front runners then when the time comes the sheep will follow them and they will be nominated. Last republican election Ron Paul won all the internet votes,, wonder why? Cause people on the internet research and take time to study. They liked what he had to say from his weekly comments to his videos. The media on the other hand ridiculed and made fun of him. With lack of money
and media full steam against him he dropped out. Is anyone surprised at what Obama is doing? If you are you did not read his website. His website told of his socialism views and what he would do in office. With the media driving that he would be the first black president and how he would change things the sheep followed the Shepherd.
Research for yourself and do not let the Media Shepherd, herd you into their pen. Let the people choose not the Media.

Thank You Miss California!
Thank you for looking hot and speaking your mind on the subject of Gay Marriage. Heres a great article about the issue: click here


Listen to this dipshit's response

What He Could Have Done.

Vuze formerly known as Azureus

I get asked all the time what is a good BitTorrent client to use for music and video files and also what programs are good for converting video to ipod or Ps3 and 360. There are dozens of ways to do this but now with their newest version of Vuze, this is by far the easiest way for the average person to do this. Not too long ago Vuze put in a built in search engine to help find the best torrents out there, but now they have one upped themselves and also added the ability to convert the downloaded files or any files to convert automatically to Itunes or to put in in correct format to be streamed by the 360 or PS3. I tried it out recently and converted files to play on my ipod touch and it worked flawlessly. I cant recommend this product enough. What are you waiting for?

I friggin love this cover!!! Props to the New York Post for trying to be funny. The criticism Ive heard is "what are the kiddies going to think when they see this?" Pefect opportunity for parents/guardians to tell the kiddies what ahole means and what this particular ahole did to make the cover.

Initial Thoughts some of the Academy Award Nominations
Ill give my full reaction to the awards after Ive seen all the movies right before the award ceremony.

I have yet to watch Frost/Nixon or The Reader but Slumdog is far superior to Benjamin Button and Milk.
Best Picture
*The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
*Frost/Nixon
*Milk
*The Reader
*Slumdog Millionaire

Best Director
*David Fincher (Benjamin Button)
*Ron Howard (Frost/Nixon)
*Gus Van Sant (Milk)
*Stephen Daldry (The Reader)
*Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)
If you go by who deserves it for the movie then it should probably be Danny Boyle. A lot of times these are actually lifetime achievement awards and if you look at it that way then Fincher deserves it. Along with Wook Park he's still probably the best director on the planet. I still dont understand how he didnt get nominated for Fight Club or Zodiac which are both far superior movies?

Best Actor
*Richard Jenkins(The Visitor)
*Frank Langella(Frost/Nixon)
*Sean Penn(Milk)
*Brad Pitt(Benjamin Button)
*Mickey Rourke(The Wrestler)
Penn did an awesome job but Mickey Rourke was phenomenal. Pitt shouldnt even have been nominated.

Best Visual Effects
*Iron Man
*The Dark Knight
*The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Wow what a tough category. They all have their own different strengths. First gut reaction I would probably root for Benjamin Button. I couldnt argue with no matter who won.

Rod Marinelli Press Conference
When I first saw this clip I thought it was funny as hell. I think the reporter had the right to ask any fucking question he wants as long as he gets a straight answer which Rod Marinelli was obviously not going to give. I fucking loved the last question he asked. It was a funny joke and I couldnt disagree any more than Howie, Jimmy, Michael and Terry's take on it all. Rod Marinelli is obviously probably not a good coach or good motivator from everything Ive seen from him. The Detroit Lions are a group of Nfl professional players so theres no fucking excuse why they couldnt have at least won one single game. Im glad Rob Parker stood up and tried to get to the serious questions and pull no punches. I wish we had more of that in the media. Heres the clip for everyone who hasnt seen it yet.

9-11 Tribute
Its been 7 years since that horrible day. I still remember driving to work and hearing about it on the radio. At the time I almost thought it was a hoax. It took me probably a day for it to sink in. I remember right after that Bush had the highest rating any president has ever had and now he's an the all time low for any president. I think its still way too soon to judge how our involvement with this war is going to affect things in the long run. Despite your opinion on what has happened since then we can all agree that it was a tragic event and there was a lot of brave men and women that lost their lives trying to help people out of the buildings.
Heres the awesome Testament 911 tribute song The Evil Has Landed.

Lyrics
The sky began to fall ripping opening a path up to heaven
Time slowed to a crawl early morning September eleventh
Steel crumbling frames the scales of justice are decimated
Hate ignites the flames New York city incinerated
See the flames on the river could this be judgement day
Time to stand and deliver when evil flies our way...our way

Towers got hit a steel bird with wings of destruction
As the building split a skyline has been deconstucted
So many people killed two thousand nine hundred and seventy four
Innocent blood spilled extremist plotting a holy war
see the flames on the river terrorism sealed our fate
Praying hands of a killer reciting a sermon of hate
Will you please reconsider if this is our judgement day
Time to stand and deliver when evil flies our way...flies our way

We will pick up the pieces we never cast the first stone
Through all the bereavement we will rebuild our home

the sky began to fall ripping opening a path up to heaven
Time slowed to a crawl early morning September eleventh
See the flames on the river terrorism sealed our fate
Praying hands of a killer reciting a sermon of hate
Will you please reconsider if this is our judgement day
Time to stand and deliver when evi;l flies our way...flies our way

Postal clip
This is not meant to offend anyone but I think it does point out the ridiculousness of the actions taken that day

Michael Phelps

What an amazing achievement. That dude is a living freak of nature. 8 gold medals, 7 world records and one olympic record. 2 amazing all time races that was won by a total of .08 seconds. I was lucky enough to watch all of them as it happened.

Now its time for him to take some much needed r & r

No Tony say it aint true!
Tony Jaa pulled a Dave Chapelle and walked off the set of Ong Bak 2 all stressed out before it was finished. There is all kind of rumors flying around on what actually happened. Please Tony dont throw your career away when you have so much ahead of you. Heres the article about what happened.
http://www.kungfucinema.com/?p=2594

Heres another cool article on who are the next upcoming martial arts stars to take over for Jackie and Jet Li. To read that click here.

Jason Whitlock Just Gets It
Very few people in the media "get" race issues or are bold and intelligent enough to talk about. Well Fox Sports writer Jason Whitlock just gets it. Another wonderful article from this sports writer. http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/8283820/Imus-talk-brings-ratings,-but-misses-point

TIPS ON PUMPING GAS
We all know how expensive gas is now. Heres some useful tips I found on what can be done to maximixe your gas.
>> I don't know what you guys are paying for gasoline.... but here in California we are also paying higher, up to $3.50 per gallon. But my line of work is in petroleum for about 31 years now, so here are some tricks to get more of your money's worth for every gallon.
Only buy or fill up your car or truck in the early morning when the ground temperature is still cold. Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground. The colder the ground the more dense the gasoline, when it gets warmer gasoline expands, so buying in the afternoon or in the evening....your gallon is not exactly a gallon. In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and the temperature of the gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products plays an important role. A 1-degree rise in temperature is a big deal for this business. But the service stations do not have temperature compensation at the pumps.
When you're filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to a fast mode. If you look you will see that the trigger has three (3)stages: low, middle, and high. In slow mode you should be pumping on low speed, thereby minimizing the vapors that are created while you are pumping. All hoses at the pump have a vapor return. If you are pumping on the fast rate, some other liquid that goes to your tank becomes vapor. Those vapors are being sucked up and back into the underground storage tank so you're getting less worth for your money.
One of the most important tips is to fill up when your gas tank is HALF FULL or HALF EMPTY. The reason for this is, the more gas you have in your tank the less air occupying its empty space. Gasoline evaporates faster than you can imagine. Gasoline storage tanks have an internal floating roof. This roof serves as zero clearance between the gas and the atmosphere, so it minimizes the evaporation. Unlike service stations, here where I work, every truck that we load is temperature compensated so that every gallon is actually the exact amount.
Another reminder, if there is a gasoline truck pumping into the storage tanks when you stop to buy gas, DO NOT fill up--most likely the gasoline is being stirred up as the gas is being delivered, and you might pick up some of the dirt that normally settles on the bottom. Hope this will help you get the most value for your money.

Easter Time
Now is one of the few times I get really serious on this site. I like to jack around and talk about music, movies and everything else nonsensical in this world but I also admit theres much more to life than this. Jesus died for all of our sins. Whether you accept it or not is up to you. Heres a good article I found on this subject.

"Why Did Jesus Die?"

A former agnostic wrestles with some of Christianity's most basic issues

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By Alan Scholes

"It's fun to debate with Christians because there are so many contradictions in the Bible." That was my feeling during my years as an agnostic high school and college student. I never called myself an atheist. I felt that anyone who said, "I'm sure that God doesn't exist." was being arrogant. How could anyone know whether or not God existed? So I considered myself to be an open-minded agnostic. I loved to argue with religious people--partly because I just liked to argue (with anyone) and partly because they seemed like sitting ducks. I liked to bait them about the problems that I saw in the Bible. But, you know, it was as I found out more about these "problem areas" that I learned what the Bible is all about.

As I read the story of Adam and Eve for a course on the bible as literature, I noticed something for the first time. Of course I had heard the story before when I would attend church, but I had never read the actual account in Genesis carefully. I saw that in chapter two God commands Adam, "But, from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you shall surely die."

When I looked at Genesis chapter five, I found that Adam lived many years after eating from the forbidden tree and even had several children. I wondered, "Was God just bullying them with idle threats or did the writer of Genesis make a little mistake and misquote God?" I was amazed that anyone in their right mind could believe that the Bible was "God's Word" when it had such a glaring contradiction in the opening chapters. This continued to bother me for nearly two years, but there was something else that bothered me even more.

I had often heard my religious friends say, "Jesus died for our sins" or "Jesus died to save the world." I could see how the good example of Jesus' actions might possibly influence some men and women to live better lives, but it was inconceivable to me that anything done by one man nearly 2,000 years ago could have a direct effect on how we live in the 20th century. And I certainly couldn't see how Jesus' death no matter how noble or unselfish, could possibly make up for all the evil in the world.

In my opinion, if God existed, He would either have a loving and forgiving nature or He would not. If He wasn't inclined to forgive men's shortcomings, I didn't see how Jesus' death could change His mind, and if God was a forgiving sort, I couldn't see why He would need a human sacrifice to prove it.

At the time I never guessed that the answer to the problem in Genesis held a clue to understanding why Jesus had to die. I began to comprehend as I was listening to a lecture by a man named Hal Lindsey (who later wrote the best seller, The Late Great Planet Earth). He said that when God declared that Adam would die the same day, He was not referring to physical death, but rather to spiritual death.

Three Dimensions

He went on to explain that God had originally created man in three distinct parts or dimensions. The first is the physical body, which contains the give senses. Our body is not who we are. It's the physical house we live in.

The second part of man is the soul. This is the real you and me. It contains the mind (the non-physical source of thoughts which activates the physical brain), the emotions, the will and the conscience or moral reasoning power. The Bible teaches that the soul is non-physical and indestructible (it will exist in some state forever).

There is a third part of man called the spirit. I had always thought that the terms "soul" and "spirit" were just two names for the same thing, but Lindsey explained that the spirit is a sort of "non-physical eyesight" with which Adam could experience the non-physical world and personally "see" God and have fellowship with Him. Adam could look through his physical eyes at Eve and see and experience her. In the same way he could "look" through his spirit and directly perceive and experience God. Both were equally real and intimate.

Now this made a lot of sense to me. As a student of psychology, I had already decided that there must be a non-physical part of man. Even Freud, who was a confirmed atheist, was forced into an explanation of human behavior that involved non-physical elements. (No one has ever operated on a human brain and found a physical id, ego or superego!) I began to see how Adam's spiritual sense perception could have "died" and yet he still could be alive physically.

As I studied further, I discovered that the biblical concept of "death" does not mean "ceasing to exist," but rather means "separation." In the bible, physical death is the separation of the soul from the body. With the soul gone, the body ceases to function and begins to decay. Spiritual death means the separation of the spirit from God. With the spirit cut off from God, a man would still be able to function physically, but could no longer directly experience God.

I began to see that this Hebrew concept of spiritual death described me exactly. I had read and heard a great deal about God and had spent many hours thinking about the idea of God, but I certainly had never directly perceived or experienced Him.

Free to Choose

At this time I began to see the answer to something else that had bothered me. I had always said: "If God created man and man has an evil side to him, then why should God blame man for acting the way He made him?" (In the long run it seemed as though evil were God's fault, not man's).

But as I studied further, I saw that God had created man with freedom to respond to God's love and love Him back. For love to be real, a person has to be free to choose to love (and free to choose not to). For example, I want my wife to freely choose to love me, not to be forced into it.

If God had told Adam, "Here, do anything you ant. There is nothing you can do that would be wrong," then there would have been no way for Adam to express his love and obedience toward God. If nothing was forbidden, then Adam couldn't choose to obey God since there would be no possible way to disobey.

So God gave Adam a choice. He said, "Don't eat from this tree." The moment God said that, the tree became "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil." I think the tree was a neutral object from God's point of view. He could just as easily have said, "Don't touch that stick" or "don't pick up that rock." Then we would have had the "stick" or the "rock" of the knowledge of good and evil." Until this time Adam had never personally chosen good or evil. If Adam had chosen to obey, he would have gained a personal knowledge of God. As it was, he chose to disobey and gained an experience of evil.

In choosing to disobey God, Adam died spiritually. In turning away from God's command, Adam's intimate fellowship with God was broken - his "spiritual eyes" went dead and he could no longer experience God.

I had read in the New Testament that "the wages of sin is death." I now realized that "wages" are not a gift or a punishment. They are simply what we deserve, the natural result of our work. On payday you don't go to your boss, get down on your knees and say, "Oh, please, be kind and generous and give me my paycheck." You expect to be paid. It is the natural result of doing your work.

Natural Result

In the same way, spiritual death is not a punishment from God, but rather the natural result of man's free choice to separate himself from God and His will. Adam unplugged himself from God spiritually and the result was that he was cut off from God permanently. Adam had poked out his own spiritual eyes and there was nothing he could do to restore them.

Even God Himself couldn't restore Adam's spirit without nullifying his free will. (That would be like a parent who says, "You're free to choose whether or not you want to go to the party tonight, but if you choose to go, I'm going to lock you in your room.") In order for Adam to be free, God had to honor his choice of disobedience and spiritual death.

When Adam disobeyed God, something even more startling happened. Not only was Adam eternally cut off from God, but apparently there was such a profound change in Adam that he passed on this spiritual death to all of his offspring.

In the physical realm we know that some damage (such as radiation) can be so profound that a genetic mutation takes place and every generation after that is affected. Something like "spiritual mutation" took place when Adam sinned, and everyone since that time has been born physically and soulishly" alive but spiritually dead - cut off from God.

My first thought was, "This seems unfair. That means I have to suffer for something Adam did thousands of years ago." But I soon realize that there were many times when I had consciously chosen to do things that I knew were wrong. If I hadn't inherited spiritual death, I would have cut myself off from God through my own choices! And I saw that God couldn't just forgive or overlook man's sin - to do so would take away his freedom and make him less than human.

But I still didn't se how Jesus' death could be the solution to man's problem of spiritual death. One thing in particular bothered me about Jesus. According to my Christian friends, Jesus was supposed to be God's perfect Son. In fact, they said He was God Himself in human form.

And yet in two difference places it is recorded that on the cross Jesus cried, "My God, My God, why has Thou forsaken me?" This was the most obvious problem of all. It seemed that Jesus Himself lost faith at the very end. How could we believe Jesus to be the perfect Son of god when He Himself seems to have denied it with His dying breath?

Spiritual Death

This proved to be the key which helped me to finally understand the Christian faith. I learned that Jesus not only died physically on the cross--He died spiritually. While Jesus hung there, God the Father reached back in time and took the spiritual death that had been generated by Adam and those who came after him and placed it on Jesus Christ. Then (because He created time and lives outside of it) God looked forward in time and took all the spiritual death generated by you and me and all the other men and women who will be born until the end of time and put that death on Jesus too.

Now I could see why Jesus cried, "My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken Me?" He was experiencing to the fullest the spiritual death generated by countless men and women throughout the ages. He literally experienced spiritual hell on the cross as He was cut off from God, even though He committed no sin and was not deserving of death. He actually died spiritually in our place.

One thing, continued to puzzle me. I could see how Jesus, if He lived a perfect life and therefore was never unplugged from God, could die spiritually for one other man's sin (and it seemed logical that He would have to stay dead eternally). But I couldn't understand how Jesus as one man could possibly die and stay dead for only a few days - the Bible says He was resurrected three days later - and still manage to pay off several billion eternities of separation from God.

I found the answer while I was a student at San Francisco State College. I asked a math major who lived in my dorm about this, and he replied, "You've forgotten that Jesus, though Hew was in human form, was actually the infinite God. If He had suffered spiritual death for even 10 minutes, He would have generated more than enough death to pay for the 100 billion eternities of separation from God. Remember He was giving up infinite life, and infinity multiplied times anything still equals infinity." Or as he wrote down for me:

Jesus yielding infinite life

x 10 minutes=

infinite eternities of spiritual death

Free Gift

But I was still confused about this: Why, if Jesus' death paid for all the spiritual death for all the ages, do men still experience separation from God? Then I realized that God still can't violate our free will without making us subhuman. God has gone to great trouble and sacrifice to provide forgiveness for us and to restore us to fellowship with Himself. Forgiveness and a new spirit are free gifts that He offers us. If we refuse His gift, we will continue to experience spiritual death, and when our physical life ends, we will be cut off eternally from God and His love.

Those who accept Christ's death as payment for their spiritual death are given new "spiritual eyes". They are again complete in body, soul and spirit. For the man who has this new nature within him, physical death is no threat. When the soul sheds the physical body, the man himself continues to grow and have fellowship with God through His spirit.

Recently I was discussing some of these things with a student named George. I asked him, "Have you ever wondered about any of these things?" He said, "Yes, in fact, I was sent to a religious grade school and high school, and took many courses in Christian teaching. I often asked my teachers about things that didn't make sense to me, like how Jesus could die for the whole world. They would always put me off or say, "We're going to discuss that next month," and I never tot my questions answered. Today is the first time I've really understood how Jesus' death could affect me personally."

Then I asked him, "Would you like to thank Christ for taking your spiritual death and ask Him to come into your life?" George said, "Yes, I really would," so right there on a concrete bench i the midst of the campus, George bowed his head and asked Christ into his life. As well as I can remember, what he said was this: "Lord Jesus, thank you for taking the spiritual death that I deserve. Come into my life and give me back a spirit so I can really know You. Give me the strength to obey You every day. Amen."

At that moment George began the most vital and dynamic experience life can offer - knowing God Himself. You can have that same experience.

HD Dvd vs Blu Ray
I guess the war is almost officially over. Hd Dvd is on life support and the plug will be pulled any day now. Earlier this week Netflix announced they will support Blu Ray only and Best Buy said they are going to promote Blu Ray over Hd dvd and will have it prominently displayed at all stores. This sux cuz everything I read said Hd dvd was extremely cheaper to produce and the quality of the codec was equal or better.

Please Do Not Vote!
Yes you heard that right. We've been bombarded with go vote messages all during the Super Bowl, on tv and websites that you need your voice to be heard so please go vote. I say vote only if you know what the hell you are talking about. If you are a dumbass, uninformed, or just some left wing liberal who just wants to oppose anything conservative please stay home and watch tv or play some Madden, just do anything but please stay away from the voters box. Please leave America to the more intelligent or at least informed people of the nation.

Heathcliff Andrew Ledger
Damn shame another fine actor died. In most cases its sad to hear when someone in the entertainment industry dies but usually within minutes I forget about it. There have been a few exceptions where it hit me hard like Dimebag Darrell, Brandon Lee or Chris Farley but none for awhile. Well now I can add Heath to that list. Ive always liked him as an actor every since I first saw him in 10 Things I Hate About You. It seemed like with every film he was growing and growing as an actor. Probably my favorite role of his was as Skip in the underrated Lords of Dogtown. Ive heard a lot of great things about his performance as the Joker in The Dark Knight so hopefully that will be a great swansong for the actor. Just another reminder life is short, live it to the fullest and get your shit straight with God.

RIP Russell Craig Lloyd

This past week on tuesday January 8th my dad passed away. He had a heart condition for the past few years, so I knew it was probably gonna be soon. There was a few years where we werent on speaking terms but fortunately over the past few years I did manage to get a lot closer to my father. After a serious incident he had around this past Thanksgiving I talked to him for a few hours on the phone. He admitted he knew the time was probably close but he was joyful that he had completely straightened out his life and made peace with God. He had a huge influence on my character and helped me become who I am today. He was not a strict disciplinarian but when I messed up I definitely faced the consequences I deserved. He had a great sense of humor and never took anything truly minor very seriously. He taught me to have faith no matter what obstacles I will face in life. I never saw him once treat a stranger with disrespect, and he was geniunely kind to all his friends. I will always miss him but I find solace knowing someday I'll meet up with him again once I leave this temporary earthly body.

Roger Clemens and steroids
Ill be the first to admit I hate professional baseball. Yeah its cool to play t ball and baseball growing up as a kid but as far as college and professional ball it bores me to tears. Even though Roger is a Texas boy like me, I dont give a damn either way about him. I normally wouldnt write about this stuff but after I saw his 60 minutes interview and this taped conversation I cant take anymore of his lies. Anyone who's convinced that he's completely innocent and is telling the whole truth is an idiot. In his 60 minutes interview you could tell in his eyes and voice he was lying. Even when he was asked if he would do a lie detector test he hesitated and said something about them not being accurate. On this phone conversation with the guy who ratted him out he never asks the guy "why did you lie?" or "why wont you just come out and tell the truth that you lied?". The answer is simple. He knows he did do it and he just tried to be crafty and squirrel his way around it. The whole thing just smells too damn much like tuna, salmon and catfish.
Fucking fishy!

Merry Christmas Yall!
This is a funny picture but not meant at all to disrespect. I like to have fun on this site but to be seriously I wanna wish everyone a Merry Christmas and just remember if you dont believe in the savior Jesus Christ its not too late to discover the The Way, The Truth and The Life.