A Possible Flash Trailer

Reelcomix.com has posted a possible trailer for a movie based on The Flash. They were not sure if it is real or not because you would think that if such a thing really existed lots of people would be talking about. I like the trailer. I thought that it was interesting. I have to admit that I am not sure if it is real or not but I hope it is.

Cartoons and Politics

I have been recently following the blog of the name "The Black Snob". Today there were couple of political cartoons posted there today. Of course i nearly feel off onto the floor laughing. I thought they were well-done and say somethings about Palin and McCain I agree with. One of these cartoons was an interactive flash movie. It got me to thinking though: Was anyone offended? I remember how taken-a-back so many of us was when the New Yorker ran a political cartoon a few months ago depicting Barak as a Muslim and his wife Michelle as a stereotypical angry black revolutionary. Remember? If you don't I'm posting both cartoons side-by-side. Let's look at them objectively. The cartoon from the Black Snob blog was drawn by
Zina Saunders' from her Drawger gallery of political art and the one about the Obamas from the New Yorker are below.
I was offended by the New Yorker cartoon because it says things about the Obamas that are inflammatory and untrue, setting aside the fact that the cartoon was supposed to be mocking people's fears by showing how untrue they are...something that was lost on some people. Does the McCain and Palin cartoons do the same thing? I don't think so. I really do see the Republican ticket as children playing house...all the while asserting maturity and knowledge of how the world works. Failed economic and foreign policies stay failures until they are changed and I don't see the Republican ticket making any significant changes other than what the current administration is currently doing. Here is the link to the page imagining what a Sarah Palin Presidency may be like (also from the Black Snob blog).

IT Project - Inventory Compiling: Selecting Plots

In my chosen career I write software. I work for General Dynamic and I am contracted to the US Forest Service. I basically write software that analyzes data and generate reports on plants and trees in California's 18 national forests. One program I just finished recently is a draft that allows a user to select forest data by plot.A plot is segment of land on which data is recorded and then loaded into an oracle database. When I finished the program I wrote a draft of a users guide and have begun looking at various ways of delivering that users guide. I turned the document into a PDF file and loaded it into the ISSUU website to get the following document. Check it out.

Get your own - Open publication

We Have One Redeemer

I wanted to be clear that I really like GodTube. It is a way for people to post ideas and self-publish their ministries. The problem is that people can post anything; even things that aren't true. For the most part Roman Catholicism and Protestants share somethings in common. Unfortunately one doctrine that we must vehemently disagree about is the Roman Catholic dogma concerning Mary's role in redeeming humanity. I also want to be clear that there are catholics who reject Marian dogma but it's what is taught from the Pope on down. It's one of the Marian Dogmas in which Mary, the mother is Jesus, is called our "coredemptrix". This doctrine alleges that Mary herself was an active participant in saving us from our sins. Look at the following video:



I disagree with Dr. Mark Miravalle. The main problem I have with his arguments is that he bases them on the idea that saints and popes called Mary our coredemptrix. This irks me because no one can prove that anyone in the first century looked at Mary this way. No where in the New Testament is Mary put on a level anywhere near Jesus or that she was immaculately conceived herself nor of her sinless status. These were all invented later on. Look at the following scriptures:

He is
" 'the stone you builders rejected,
which has become the capstone.' Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved."
- Acts 4:11-12

This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all men—the testimony given in its proper time.
- 1 Timothy 2:3-6

But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.
- Romans 3:21-26

I have never heard of read of Roman Catholics being able to respond to how their Marian dogmas do not conflict with scripture. No where in any of these scriptures is Mary's name mentioned. Jesus is the only one that can save us from sin and death.