Update

Sorry that this blog's been on hiatus for a while. I've been really busy and the last thing I've wanted to do lately was type anymore on a computer.

Recent News:

• I got engaged!!! Which is awesome. I think the day couldn't have gone more perfect. We had a picnic planned at Forest Park near the Grand Basin (pictured on the right). Where we had wine and cheese and sandwhiches. After a while we walked over to the water and down the stairs where I got on one knee and asked Jen to marry me. She said yes (thank God). About a half hour later we went to the boathouse at Forest Park where a bunch of our family and friends met us. Perfect Day!!!
  
• We've set a date, it's next April 14th!!!
• I've been extra swamped at work as our business continues to grow. (Which is really a good thing)
• My house is for sale, but hasn't sold yet. If you know anyone who needs a house in O'Fallon, MO drop me a comment and I'll give you the address.
  

That's about it. All of which is big news. Eventually I will get back to posting on this site.

Oh yeah, one thing I saw that bothered me. I got an email from GOPUSA that mentioned something I thought was important. The US has found 500 WMDs in Iraq and no-one seems to care or mention it in the mainstream media. All of these have been chemical weapons, but still after all the complaints, you'd think they would pick it up.

God's Winning (of course)

Just thought this was funny.




Also, notice that St. Louis is the city to search for God the 3rd most often in the states. Good job StL.

Music Update

I've been really busy lately, which means unfortunately I haven't had time to update the design of this blog...

Anyway, I've been busy buying a lot of 'tunes to work out to' off of itunes over the last week. I'm really impressed with two albums I've bought in the last few days:

• Wolfmother's debut is like a cross between Zeppelin, Jethro Tull and Black Sabbath. Other than the weirdness of the lyrics (kinda similar to some Zeppelin tunes) it's pretty sweet 'modern' classic rock.
  
• The new RHCP Stadium Arcadium is pretty awesome. This has always been one of my favorite bands and this is a great double disk.
  

Site Template & Cindy Sheehan

I ended up losing my site template by accident so all links are currently off. As soon as I have the free time I'll update the template and add some outbound links back up. As you probably have noticed I also haven't posted in a while. Nothing major going on lately. I've been to 4 Cardinals games and have some good pics (especially from the home opener at new busch) I'll have to post them soon.

Random Rant:
I came across something about Cindy Sheehan that upset me. Apparently she hasn't even bothered to put a tombstone or grave marker up on Casey's grave yet. This is true and rather annoying. While's she's off exploiting the memory of her deceased son and criticizing our country with Marxists, she can't even add a friggin grave marker on his grave. I'm glad I haven't caught any coverage of her in a while, I can't stand her.

Another thing that upsets me is Joey Buttafucco and Amy Fischer. I was at my mom's last night for dinner and Entertainment Tonight (or one of the other similar shows, access hollywood, etc.) was on and they had a 5 minute special with Amy and Joey meeting up and promised more coverage tomorrow. DOES ANYONE REALLY CARE???? Why do these freaking dirtbags rate as entertainment news? I've never understood why the entertainment media suddenly makes 'average' citizens lives /problems / deaths news stories worthy of several 'news' cycles.

Two other random citizens whose stories became front page / acess hollywood news from off the top of my head, Lacey Peterson and Natalee Holloway. I don't know them, they are not celebrities, I'm upset about what happened to them, but unfortunately murders happen pretty often in this country. Why were their tragic deaths the most talked about news during the time it happened? I don't know...

Media coverage in general is so annoying. Do I care what crazy Tom Cruise is doing these days? I'm probably in the minority when it comes to this stuff, but I could care less what any of these celebrities do with their personal time. Do I care how Nick or Jessica are getting along or how their divorce is going?

(my rant is winding down now)
Speaking of Hollywood, one more point... Why can't Hollywood make a good original screenplay? (Please don't suggest Brokeback Mountain). Everything is a remake and in a lot of cases these days, the remakes are of crappy originals... The only movies that I have really enjoyed lately are movies that are made from comic books (x-men, spiderman, etc...) or from books (narnia, bourne identity & supremacy). Good Will Hunting was a good screenplay, Rounders was a great screenplay, A Bronx Tale, Platoon, Godfather, etc... Where have these movies gone? If you have seen one great movie please let me know what is was and why you liked it.
I'll start it off, the last movie I saw and loved was Walk the Line.

Cya,
Felone

Why I like Ben Stein

Ben Stein wrote this article almost a year ago, but it's just as relevant today:

Lately, there has been much gnashing of teeth in the media and on liberal talk radio about Protestant preachers urging their megaflocks to get involved in the fight against abortion on demand. There has also been a good amount of muttering about Republicans using churches to promote the vote--up or down--on a few of President Bush's nominees to the federal bench. And of course, there is ever more screaming about what secret plans the new Pope might have for controlling American Catholics in their views on abortion and homosexuality.

All of this, it is darkly hinted, is a violation of the Constitutional bans on the Establishment of a religion, a new and sinister development in political life, and a threat to the Republic.

What foolishness. Who was was leading the marchers heading towards the Pettus Bridge in ( or near ) Selma, Alabama forty years ago during the heyday of the Civil Rights movement? Ministers and nuns in clerical garb. Who was there in Birmingham? Again, men and women of the cloth. What was the greatest political/moral figure of the twentieth century in America? A Protestant minister, Martin Luther King, Jr.

Who was leading us from the pulpit, sounding out fury at the seemingly endless Vietnam war? The Reverend William Sloan Coffin, a minister of the Gospel. Who was at all of the anti-war marches? Ministers and priests and rabbis. No one was complaining about that, for some reason.

Who thundered against slavery and urged on the Civil War? Henry Ward Beecher and other men of faith in the north.

This is what has always been going on in political life in America. The political is the moral. And the moral is the political.

Men and women of faith have always been involved in political/moral issues as long as there has been politics and as long as there has been religion. (Think of Moses urging the politically explosive issue of freeing the children of Israel from bondage, or of Jesus telling followers it was fine to pay taxes to Caesar.)

The only new thing is that now it's conservatives marching for life and preaching for life, not ministers marching for civil rights or disarmament. But surely men and women of the cloth are not just allowed but commanded to assert their moral beliefs on issues of supreme importance. Men and women who wear the cloth do not check their first amendment rights and their moral duties when they take their vows. They never have, and they never will. And we are far better for it.