Goodbye iPod, your 13 yrs on Earth were appreciated!!!

The Washington Post reminds us today that the iPod as we knew it, is no more.

It came in with a simple promise, a hefty price tag and a man with something white sticking in his ears bopping around his apartment. Soon, it would transform music as we know it, inspire a business model built around pocket change and turn a struggling computer maker into the most valuable company in the world.

Yet the death Tuesday of the iconic iPod just before its 13th birthday went unacknowledged by that company and by a Silicon Valley crowd that wildly applauded the unveiling of a new phone and a smartwatch — products that stood on the slim, metal shoulders of its predecessor. Instead of an announcement, there was only the sad implication of a redirected online page, sending visitors not to information about the iPod Classic but rather to Apple’s home page.

I verified this, and it's true. Not even here in the Australian store, you can find an iPod.

For the divise that took Apple out of dire straits, this is a very unceremoniously farewell.

Well, long live the iPod, the gadget that got me hooked to everything Apple, as it was meant to do.

Dinesh D'Souza accused of adultery

I don't like these types of news, since a good friend of mine, was accused of rape by a young girl, that turned out to be false. But if we stay quite about this, then we are blamed by our enemies of turning a blind eye.

So, here it's the news from Huffington Post.

NEW YORK — A conservative scholar behind a high-grossing documentary that condemns President Barack Obama is under investigation by the evangelical college he leads over a report he took a woman who is not his wife to an event on Christian values. 

The King's College board announced the review on Tuesday, the day the conservative Christian newsmagazine WORLD reported event organizers had confronted Dinesh D'Souza about sharing a hotel room with a woman he introduced as his fiancee. D'Souza filed for divorce from his wife, Dixie D'Souza, a few days after the conference, California court records show.

I have had another friend, who made a similar mistake. But in D'Souza's case, he was separated, however, still not divorced. So this may had been a terrible lapse of judgment.

In a brief telephone interview with The Associated Press, Dinesh D'Souza, who became president of The King's College in 2010, said he and his wife have been "living in a state of separation for two years." He denied sharing the hotel room with the other woman. 

"Obviously, I wouldn't have introduced her as my fiancee if I thought we were doing anything improper," D'Souza said, adding they have called off their engagement. 

The college, which was located in the Empire State Building before moving this year to lower Manhattan, aims to shape young Christians as future leaders in all sectors of society.

 Well, this shows that no matter how good a debater you are, we are not beyond temptation, or acting stupid. He has filed for divorce, and may even get divorced soon, but this is a strong hit against the apologetics community. But this is also a warning shot, that being a good apologists does not mean you are a saint.

I pray for D'Souza and those who are hurting because of this incident. May there be grace and repentance of all the ones involved.

A new, sick way to get drunk. Through your butt

Guess what? In order to get drunk faster, people are not taking it through the mouth, but through their butts!! The Washington Post reports.

Early Saturday morning, an unresponsive University of Tennessee student was dropped off at a medical center with a blood alcohol content that local police say was “well over .40,” the point at which death can occur. How did the 20-year-old student get that dangerously drunk?
Campus police went to the student’s fraternity house, Pi Kappa Alpha (aka Pike), to find out. They found at least three males passed out — and this scene, as described by a Knoxville police spokesman in a Monday statement that was obtained by The Post: “Upon extensive questioning it is believed that members of the fraternity were utilizing rubber tubing inserted into their rectums as a conduit for alcohol as the abundance of capillaries and blood vessels present greatly heightens the level and speed of the alcohol entering the blood stream as it bypasses the filtering by the liver.”

A new way of getting drunk? Wait and see a lot of people dying out of this new, and sick way of getting drunk.

And what's the name of this new way of getting wasted?

The act of getting wasted in that way is also referred to as “butt chugging,” “alcohol enema” and, well, “completely idiotic.” 

And to top it all, the father is mad, not at his son for almost getting killed by doing such a stupid thing, but he is mad a the reporting of the incident:

The student’s father is irate that news of his son’s trip to the hospital has made headlines and told the student newspaper, the Daily Beacon, that there “are significant errors that have been reported and we will correct them.” The father did not elaborate on what those errors were, but told the paper that his son is back in class and “livid with the defamation of his character.” 

So he is more worried about his character, than his life. Total crazy dad.

Buying the blood of a past president. Weirdest news today.

I have heard of pigs fly, but never of someone selling a person's blood!!!!

The Washington Post tells us about this weird news item:

How much is a drop of presidential blood worth?An on-line auction site is hoping to find out by selling a vial that it claims was used to draw President Ronald Reagan’s blood while he was recovering from the gunshot wound that nearly killed him in 1981. To top it off, the auction site says, “dried blood residue” is clearly visible inside the vial.

I wonder why they call it "presidential blood", as if would be a different blood type from the rest of us.

The auction drew the immediate scorn of doctors who treated the president, and the director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation threatened legal action to stop the sale, calling the auction a “craven act.” 

I wouldn't call it a "craven act", more like, "macabre act".

So far, the auction has garnered bids that have topped about $8,000 and ends Thursday. The site, PFC Auctions, is based on the island of Guernsey, an autonomous British protectorate, in the English Channel.

Hopefully they don't get much more than that, but there are always weirdos spending their money on stupid things, while millions go hungry every night.

Some tips for pastors regarding wedding from an unexpected source

I like the Huffington Post, but I don't take much clues from it. They have published an article that has to do with checking out those performing the wedding ceremony.

Dr. Jim West, has inverted the article, and has put the two individuals getting married on the spot. This is mainly geared to people like me, who has to perform weddings. But I think this is spot on for even the bride and groom, if they are truly interested in their future.

If you ever wonder how to deal with couples that approach you to perform their marriage ceremony, here you have some good tips. Take them or leave them, if you wish:

1. Be sure they're legit. People who have been married half a dozen times are poor candidates. As are those who have been shacking up for a decade. If the couple isn't willing to place God at the center of their life together, then you should have no part in it.2. Ask God for suggestions. Don't marry a couple just because they want you to. Nothing in Scripture requires you to perform wedding ceremonies and these days most of the time they are as much a joke as the marriage which they preface. You DON'T HAVE TO MARRY ANYONE.3. Take a meeting. If the couple refuses counseling, send them to the Episcopalians. They don't care who they marry. And if the bride turns into a Bridezilla, just tell them that they'll have to go elsewhere. There's no call to subject yourself to the absurd abuse of a hate-filled manipulative foul mouthed Bridezilla.4. Check out the scripts. If their self-written vows are imbecilic, show them the door.5. Ask the couple to read out loud. If they can't manage that they surely should not be married.6. Ask what the couple will wear. If the bride is sporting a white dress and her four children are in train behind her, tell her that you aren't interested in mocking the notion of marital purity and tell her to wear red or black.  And if the groom is wearing a duty t-shirt and hunting shorts it's a good sign he's not taking any of it seriously or reverently.7. Ask if you can customize the ceremony. If they don't want God mentioned, or if they have no use for God, show them the door.8. Check your gut. If you aren't comfortable with the folks in front of you, don't take part in joining them in marriage.Remember, Pastor, weddings are a favor you grant a couple with whom you have a spiritual relationship. Random strangers and unmitigated pagans have as much right to claim a favor from you as someone at the mall has the right to demand you give them a ride to the liquor store.  Tell them that there's a Justice of the Peace and he's happy to marry anything.