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A Demented Take On The Bible, Illustrated With Legos

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The Reverend Brendan Powell Smith tells stories from the Bible using Legos for illustrations. His great web site, focuses on "the hot parts" of The Bible (like the seduction of Lot, Gomorrah, Jacob and Esau, Onan, Jezebel, etc.) He fully illustrates parts of The Bible that tend to be ignored by Christians, such as a drunk and naked Noah cursing his son. This site is a
a must see! Click here to go to his web site. Some of his Lego creations appear in books for sale at Amazon.com. He has downloads of his mujsic. Support this visionary!
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Another Mandelbrot Fractal

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Poem: The Revelations Sermon At The First Church Of The Mojo Apocalypse

Seven seals, seven vials
Seven lamps of fire
Seven sickles for seven angels

The last trumpet
Blows reveille and taps
For the coming and going

Over the hills and far away
The Piper is piping
Us home.
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President Bush's Polling Numbers Continue To Nosedive

A new ABC News/Washington Post poll shows 52 percent of Americans disapprove of the job President Bush is doing . He has hit a new low, friends, but I don't think he's hit rock bottom yet!

POTUS's approval rating is now a full twenty points lower than Bill Clinton’s was on the day he was impeached. Heh-heh.

Click on the title to link to the MSNBC article, and on the link in the first paragraph to go to the actual poll data from ABC news.
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Painting: Gomorrah

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Painting: Mosaic

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Tracking All This Is That "Customers"

Over the last two weeks, the number of people coming to this site has quadrupled. The counter tracking system shows most of the new traffic coming from Google Images. This blog must have made the cut somehow, because now the majority of traffic comes from there. There has also been a huge spike of people coming from Google France. . .same deal. . .this site is now being crawled by both Google Images and Google France.

Most of the hits are on the Presidents paintings and the Heroes and Villains series. A large number of hits are on an optical illusion I didn't create (rotating wheels). I reprinted it on the blog, and dozens of people a day come to look at it, and grab it. /jack
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Tempest In A Teapot: "The G.O.P. Is A White Christian Party"

I'm not sure why Republicans are outraged over Dr. Dean's (a/k/a The Democratic Party Chair) statement yesterday on the makeup of the G.O.P.:

"The Republicans are not very friendly to different kinds of people."
"They're a pretty monolithic party."
"They all behave the same and they look the same."
"It's pretty much a white, Christian party."

The G.O.P. may not like to advertise some of these facts, but they are facts. You Elephants can't have it both ways; you can't beat down and disenfranchise people you hope to vote for you. Over the last year, there has been evidence of Republican support among women and minorities slipping even further. Duh.

Click on the title for more info and an audio clip of Dr. Dean's remarks.
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Bush Media Consultant Joins McCain Presidential Election Team

BY G. ROBERT HILLMAN

The Dallas Morning News

WASHINGTON - (KRT) - Mark McKinnon, the Austin political consultant who oversaw the advertising for President Bush in the 2000 and 2004 campaigns, has committed to help Sen. John McCain in a second presidential bid.

McKinnon - one of the president's closest friends and confidants and a frequent mountain biking companion - met with the Arizona Republican over lunch this spring in the Senate dining room to discuss his support, said a GOP activist familiar with the meeting.

At this point, McCain, who lost to Bush in a bitter 2000 Republican primary, is in the early but unmistakable stages of laying the groundwork for another campaign. And McKinnon has indicated he would review his options, should Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice or the president's brother, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, run in 2008.

Click on the title to link to the complete article.
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New York City: Shangra La?

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It's no longer easy to be murdered in New York City. When I lived there, it still topped the list, just behind Detroit and another hotspot or two.

The city released its 2004 crime index numbers yesterday, and crime is down 4 percent from last year. According to the city, New York ranks 221st out of 240 cities nationwide in the crime index.

Selected Murder Rates

NYC: 7 per 100,000 people
Los Angeles: 13.5 per 100,000 people
Chicago: 14.5 per 100,000 people
Philadelphia: 22.1 per 100,000 people
Detroit: 41.5 per 100,000 people

Seattle: 4.5 per 100,000 people

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Poem: Your Wooden Leg

Run
If you still can.
Drag that wooden leg
Behind you, but keep up,
Jogging after your pipe-dream.

Think bullet-proof,
Shun the ghosts,
And always remember
The way back
And the door out.
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