North Korean Stalinists

My God, after reading the horrific accounts of ultra-barbaric brutality by North Korean prison guards on their captives, many of whom did nothing more than act human, not criminal, I must blog about it.

I urge anyone reading this sentence to go to the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea's website. This report will, if not shock you, make you very angry that God does not drop these sub-animals into hell right now!!! Pig-In-Chief Kim Jong-Il should be the first one on the spit.

I'm sorry. God doesn't use spits, because that would imply that at some point you're "done." In hell, you're never done.

You can read a biography of "him" (it) at Wikipedia. Thank God we can publically call him out on his unspeakable crimes against humanity. How long, O Lord, must we endure this political black-hole that is North Korea? How long, O God, before You avenge your people? Come, Lord Jesus.

There are so many ills in this world. But the ill I am addressing in this post is one I am most concerned with. I know Iran, Iraq, China, and a host of other repressive regimes exist today in spite of our best human-rights rhetoric, political activism, diplomacy and engagement efforts. But please, God, satisfy our desire for vengeance and justice just this once.

Please?

Three Cheers For Senator Lieberman!!!

Hooray for Senator Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., for telling it like it is in his questioning of General David Petraeus and US Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker.

Senator Lieberman aptly noted in his opening statement that there are those in our government leadership who, like the proverbial monkey, "see no success in Iraq, hear no success in Iraq, and will speak of no success in Iraq." In this simple statement, he summed up the willful ignorance by the hard-left liberals of the facts and conditions superbly laid out by Mssrs. Crocker and Petraeus in their testimony.

Bravo as well to General Petraeus' superlative responses to Senator Hillary Clinton's usual hot air-filled comments and questions designed to stir up confusion (divide-and-conquer tactic) about the real conditions and progress made in Iraq. My hat is off to, my prayers go up for, and my thankful heart goes out to the two men whom God has raised up for such a time as this.

LONG TIME, NO BLOG

This is the Blog About Nothing, so I'll be brief. It seems that it has been a long time (in blog years) since I posted any comments. Over three months is an eternity when you're dealing with New Media in the Information Age, where Everything is capitalized and Nothing is said.

But I digress. You want content. You got it. Content, content, content. Boy, that's the name of the game in the blogosphere, I tell ya. That's it right there. Without it, whaddya got? Nothin'. Big, fat ZERO. Nada. Zippity Doodah.

So far, I haven't typed ANYTHING worth reading. Yessiree. Intelligent political rhetoric at its cyber-finest. Get it right here...

Townhall.com

IS THIS THE BLOG "ABOUT NOTHING?"

Yes, it's another "boring" blog entry from.. yours truly. With nothing to say, I amaze and amuse myself with long-winded diatribes about NOTHING!!! One wonders, can a nobody have something to say? The answer is obvious: No!!!

I've just burned a whole paragraph of cyberspace real estate and I'm just getting started. Don't worry, I'm almost done.

Almost?

Let's try Verdana. It may be easier to read.

ARIAL FONT

With a title like that, how can you pass up a good read like this?

I've found it!!! I've found the right font for my blog: Arial "Largest" (not bold). You see, I've been searching high and low--not really, just up and down--for the right font and point-size for my new blog template. You like? I do. The search is over. Now all I have to do is italicize, underline, and embolden for emphasis.

Okay, I've decided to downsize to "Large." This might be a little more readable, in my opinion. Let's see...

If I embolden it, then what?

I actually prefer bold. But then what will I do if I want to emphasize something? I know. I'll...highlight it!!! Come on. I can't highlight everything like that, can I? Sure. Why not?

How about gray letter?

PLACE TITLE HERE

I've always preferred Arial font. I'll see how it looks published...

KNOWLEDGE WORK IS NEVER DONE

The definition of knowledge worker can be a nebulous one. I applaud the advent of personal computing and especially the Internet because they enable the average person to selectively educate and enlighten him- or herself. Of course, blogging can be an integral part of that process.

In this blog entry, we shall explore the intricacies, the ins and outs, of blogging and knowledge work. I do the latter and sometimes the former in my spare time because I have what most people call a "real" job. It takes a certain amount of attention and devotion to this task in order to produce anything worthy of someone else's perusal and pleasure.

Enjoyment is usually found with the "worker" rather than the observer. I say this because I generally work alone. That is, I am not in some office, hunting and pecking my way to a deadline. Instead, I am at home working at my own pace, saying what I want to whoever will read it.

This is freedom. Earlier today, I was studying online some books by Gary North and others on FreeBooks.com using his Deja Vu reader to view them. It was very enlightening, challenging to my views (however unformed they may be), and rewarding. I encourage anyone to go there (www.freebooks.com) if you feel the world is hopeless.

Well, dear reader, you and I have come to the end of another award-winning blog entry. I never know whether to call them "posts" or "entries," or for that matter, whether to use quotation marks or italics. In any event, BFN...;)

WHAT'S A BLOG FOR

Well now that I've changed templates, I just have to post another entry on my blog, mainly because I want to see how the changes look.

I know you're thinking, who cares?

I'm trying not to sound like Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye, which I read while in college. It was a very depressing read, one which I don't recommend unless you are researching good books for a bad day. After all, what's a blog for?

WHY BLOG

You know, the reason someone blogs is so that they can communicate with the outside world, using only their ten fingers and a PC. I say using ten fingers because that is exactly what I am trying to do--practice typing. It truly is a blessing to be able to do this, since I am the "they" of whom I speak.

Well, when in doubt, start a new paragraph.

NEW POST, NEW FONT

OKAY, THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOG.
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

Well, I think I have indeed found the font I want to use for this and future posts. The only problem is, for emphasis I will have to use some other creative method of highlighting text, since all of it will be in bold print!!!

See what I mean? In any event, this is my font, and I'm stickin' widdit.

AND THE BLOG GOES ON

Today, I am trying "large Times" font. How about bold? That's even better. Now I must come up with a title for today's post. Blogging must be fun--not boring or monotonous, repetitive, on and on and on...

There are a number of points I can make right now. But I will defer to my "better angels," as CH Spurgeon called them. I could call this blog Wannablog, because I only blog when I feel like it, about things I want to blog about, without any regularity or perceptible disciplined rigor.

For my next point, I will indicate that I am currently listening to William Lane Craig on his website, ReasonableFaith.org, which is a premier Christian apologetics resource. Wow! I found it while visiting Ravi Zacharias' website, RZIM.org.

And finally, go to either of these fine websites for an uncompromising defense of the historic Christian faith. You will be persuaded if not converted, and follow Christ all the way to Heaven.

WHAT? ANOTHER POST?

Well, dear readers and friends, it looks like another day in the blogosphere, and I'm sitting here pecking out another blogpost for your enjoyment and perusal. What, you say, another blogpost?

Before I go any further, let me just say that I am delighted to be able to sit here and plod my way through, hoping to find something profound to say while edifying both myself and you. How's that for selflishness turned on its head?

As I was saying, this entry is all about YOU.

BLOG TO SELF

My blog looks like a watered-down, diluted, repetitive, boring, monotonous, lengthy diatribe not even worth looking at. I just get on this thing and type to myself. That's all. What next? Talking to myself? Not me. No way. Nope.

This whole blog thing is a fluke, a way for us dupes to get on the internet and earn those advertising gurus their respective stripes by visiting site after site of miserable ad-clogged bandwidth. What a life!

Now for a positive spin on things. I could blog about what I know of God. I recommend Stephen Charnock's "The Existence and Attributes of God."

Another "lost soul" has posted a blog entry. I mean cyberspacially lost, not spiritually lost!

A MIGHTY GIANT IN THE FAITH HAS FALLEN

Well, the Reverend Dr. Dennis James Kennedy has passed on to Glory, and the Internet is fertile with his legacy (witness CoralRidge.org, etc.). I have been listening for a few hours--mainly because I was sick and stayed home today-- to Dr. Kennedy and his ministry media at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church's website (www.coralridge.org).  

A BLOG POST TO STAND ON

The thing about blogging is, if you try to say something noteworthy or profound, you end up with writer's block--or worse, nothing at all to say.

I blog for the sheer joy of it-- not because of any accolades (real or imagined) that I may garner; not because of a vast readership (one: me); but because I can!

There you have it, a blog post to rival that of Hugh Hewitt! Not.

WHY BUY BOOKS?

I was wondering why we buy books, when the Internet is so much more convenient. We can browse page after page of text and graphics instantly. Why waste precious money? I heard one radio commentator say his bookcase was a "shrine" to old media (i.e., books, etc.)

Well, whenever I say, "Well," that usually means I am about to engage in some thoughtful summarizing or speculation. Actually, it just means I'm tired of pursuing that line of thought and would like to move on to something else, especially since I have nothing else to do at the moment. But I digress.

Books have a certain appeal that reaches a tangible need in our lives, that of physical interaction with the universe (solid matter). Book Technology, per se, is almost "as old as the hills, and twice as dusty." They possess a lasting, enduring quality of life all to themselves, a product of human and machine (witness Gutenburg's press).

Another appealing aspect of books is their legacy. Authors live and die, but their words still speak. In the Bible's book of Hebrews, chapter eleven, verse four says, "And through his [Abel's] faith, though he died, he still speaks." This speaks primarily of God's people leaving a legacy of faith, as well as of good works (see James 2:14-26). 

In books we may find a legacy of good works encapsulated in a good testimony. Of course, no one except God is perfect. But for now we have His Book (the Bible) and those of others who have followed Him faithfully. We may also witness the testimony of unbelievers who did not follow Christ, both in the Bible and outside of it, as a warning to us who do not wish to repeat their demise.

As I said earlier, I can wind up this discussion by saying, "Well," and summarizing my comments with a cliche such as, "Read any good books lately?"

A PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE WASTE OF CYBERSPACE

Q. How would you like to waste a whole bunch of precious bandwidth--and feed your ego--all at the same time?

Well, now you can!

Just go start a blog somewhere and blam! You'll be typing nonsense with the rest of us blogheads.

Q. How can I dedicate so much free time to such a self-serving activity as blogging?

It's simple: you can!

Here is an unsolicited link to Live365.com. Try listening to a plethora of radio genres and see what "free" will get you!

Back to what I was blogging about. With so much creative freedom, and a healthy dose of caffeine and chocolate, THE SKY'S THE LIMIT!!! Why, you can type yourself into such a fit of delusional grandeur that you'll wonder why no media moguls have yet discovered your otherwise-hidden talent for pointless prose.

Ah, but there's the rub! Without a point, perhaps you need to visit sites like WorldMag.com or WorldNet Daily (wnd.com).

That's all for now.

APOLOGY

I have to apologize to my readers for misleading them. I stated in the previous two entries' titles, "San Diego."  Well, actually I was still in Arizona when I snapped these photos. But they were taken on the way to San Diego!!!

Never fear. I plan to post some REAL photos of San Diego in an upcoming post.

ANOTHER SCENE FROM SAN DIEGO

Blogger.com is messing with me. Every time I try to insert a new photo image into the article, it sticks it on top, NOT WHERE I WANT IT!!!

Okay, here is another picture, Lord willing.

LESSON NUMBER ONE: Blogger puts it at the top of the page...always!

Now here is an experiment. I will keep typing until I feel sufficiently far away from the above image to safely insert another one. Nope. Not feelin' it.

NEXT POST!!!