I took a lights out blogging break and broke out my camera gear instead. There is something about writing that I find addicting, but I don’t love it. I love photography. It has always been thus. So, during the break I started a small project to take photos of people using my iPhone and Nikon gear. I posted most of the work to Instagram. I also used my free time to study a few new photography techniques and focused on developing my skills. It was good for me. Real good. I invite you to look at my work http://statigr.am/mojoey.
The photo above is me. I’m much nicer than I look.
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The newest meme of the far right is that all of the polls which show Barack Obama ahead of Mitt Romney are a ploy of the liberal media and liberal elite designed, if you will, to demoralize the Christofascists and Tea Party gang enough so that they will simply stay home believing the election is already lost. It seems that accepting the reality that the vision of America being marketed by today's GOP simply is not selling well with a majority of the country is beyond their contemplation. Leading the charge against polls and reality are demagogues like Rush Limbaugh. Even some Republicans from my former GOP days seem to be slipping into this reality denying bubble. A column in The Daily Beast looks at the phenomenon. Here are excerpts:
The GOP base was in near orgasm frenzy when Mitt Romney tapped Paul Ryan to be his VP running mate. They believed that Ryan would fire up the party base and allow for a solid conservative agenda to be presented to the nation. Well, it seems that outside of those gathered around the GOP Kool-Aid dispenser, Ryan is having a far different impact than envisioned. In fact, there is some indication that in key swing states, Ryan and his proposals for Medicare are driving voters into the waiting arms of Barack Obama. Personally, I'm thrilled because I see Ryan as the antithesis of what a caring Christian ought to be in terms of supporting a safety net for those less fortunate. It may be Mitt Romney who made the infamous statement about the 47%, but Ryan seems to really, really believe exactly what Romney was dumb enough to say out loud. Here are highlights from a Washington Post piece that looks at Ryan's likely toxicity:
Earlier in the week I noted that the City of Austin, Texas was poised to take up a resolution endorsing gay marriage. As it turned out, the vote to pass the resolution was unanimous. There must be some serious spittle flying among Christofascist groups like FRC. Here are highlights from KUT News:
There was a time in Ireland when no one - at least outside of Northern Ireland - in politics would ever dare take on the Roman Catholic Church or criticizes the Church for its medieval mindset. Yet of late we've seen very harsh (and true) statements about the Church from the top of political spectrum in the Republic of Ireland. Now, former Irish president, Mary McAleese (pictured above), is criticizing the Church for its constant anti-gay venom and seeking to highlight the damage done to gays because of the Church's insistence of clinging to a literally medieval "natural law" construct which falls apart when faced with modern knowledge of sexual orientation. Here are highlights from the BBC on McAleese's statements about the Church and its toxic treatment of gays and its consequences:
I looked at this subject a little over a week ago and also posted a similar version of the piece on The Bilerico Project. Some of the comments and messages I received were less than kind and accused me of, among other things, hatred towards Christians. I also received a great deal of negativity from bisexuals who blamed the Straight Spouse Network ("SSN") for leading to unnecessary divorces of straight/bisexual couples. Not being bisexual, I cannot fully grasp what equal attraction to both genders is like, but it would in theory certainly make remaining married far more workable than a gay/straight couple situation. No two marriages are the same and the decision of remaining together ultimately comes down to what the spouses in each marriage are willing to accept. If the straight spouse demands total denial of the other spouse's sexual orientation, I frankly do not see staying married as a viable option and this type of situation certainly sets the stage for help from SSN for the straight spouse facing divorce. 
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A film titled Hangar 18 features a plot that anyone familiar with Genesis 6 and the heritage of Cain will find more than a little interesting. This post illustrates the connections and highlights a recent development in supercomputer tech that suggests similar prepping for the coming mark of the Beast. 
The numbering of the hangars and the film as 18 signals the mark of the Beast transformation. That's not the only number signaling. In the scene that immediately preceded the key dialogue two astronauts were in an elevator, descending. We were shown three numbers representing floors, 24, 23, 22. The 23 in the middle is the signal sex chromosome number. The sum of the three numbers is 69, another key signal number for the mark of the beast transformation, triple helix DNA. While the pair of astronauts were descending in the elevator, the bracketed 23 and the sum 69 signaled seed descending from heaven to earth. The scene then cuts to another where we hear the interpreted document's version of our heritage, as descended from spacemen. “We, mankind, the human race, are their children.” Obviously, one scene was intended to set us up for the next. Have you ever heard of the ancient astronaut theory promoted by such as Erich von Däniken, Giorgio A. Tsoukalos, Zecharia Sitchin, Robert K. G. Temple and David Icke. There it is.
The movie is an occult messaging device, concealing and revealing, a vehicle for mass media programming. 
Discrediting the Bible makes the whole sin and judgment “problem” vanish like a disproved myth. Since there will be no salvation issue, Beast or mark of the Beast, such a sales job as this will remove the barrier for many who would otherwise reject the genetic “upgrade” that will be offered as the “life” option that “completes their evolution.” 
Third-year Regent University law student Rebekah Kaylor grew up in Japan as the daughter of missionaries. But, when she started her degree at Regent Law, she never dreamed her studies would take her back to the country she'd grown to love.
Pate spent the summer as a policy intern for the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI) in Washington, D.C. Her primary responsibilities included scheduling meetings with Congressional staff, agencies and professionals with research or concerns about adoption care and policies. She also participated in meetings with various agencies, wrote and edited publications outlining research and legislation, and even oversaw CCAI's two youth interns.
It all started with a nudge from the Career Services Office in Regent University's School of Law. Third-year law students Anastasios Kamoutsas and Mary Hill discovered that the A21 Campaign, an international non-governmental organization dedicated to ending human trafficking around the globe, was hiring interns. One application process later, Kamoutsas was on his way to Greece and Hill found herself in Ukraine.
For the past four Memorial Days [2006, 2007, 2008, 2009], I've honored the memory of those who have died in the War in Iraq, or whatever we're calling that quagmire this year, when we talk about it at all.