Who said the mainstream media is liberal?

I thought this was telling http://www.getreligion.org/?p=24471

With all the hoopla surrounding Glenn Beck, I decided to start watching him the past few weeks. I hadn't seen him since his days on CNN. I have to admit, he's pretty scary. I'll give his detractors a little credit to calling him a demagogue, but pretty much most of what he says is fact so I can't give them any credit for calling him the "Misinformer of the Year." Watching him creates a big fear in me though. One, if what he implies about various Washington people is correct, then I fear for his life. Two, similarly, if what he says is correct and they don't take option one, I fear they will try to discredit him via his Mormonism...hopefully, neither occurs.

Best of 2009

Last year I didn't find as many songs as usual. My list for the year only includes 89 songs, that is a bit anemic for me. Anyway, here is the list of songs I got this year. I'm sure there are a few that came out in previous years, but I didn't get them until this year. If you don't know every single one of them, where have you been all year....? =)

(click links to see videos)
Funnest to sing together with kids = Handlebars - Flobots
Best lyrics = The Good Left Undone - Rise Against
Favorite Techno = Feel Your Love - Kim Sozzi
Favorite song not on the list because I couldn't find it = Crush Me

Song	Artist
1, 2, 3, 4	Plain White T's
3 Rounds And A Sound	Blind Pilot
Already Gone	Kelly Clarkson
Angel On My Shoulder	Kaskade
Another Day (James Doman Remix Extended)	Sophia May
Audience Of One	Rise Against
Battlefield	Jordin Sparks
Beat It	Fall Out Boy Ft. John Mayer
Boom Boom Pow (Clean)	Black Eyed Peas
Call My Name (Thomas Gold Remix)	Morgan Page
Chemistry (Radio Version)	Velvet
Crimewave (Crystal Castles Vs. Health Remix)	Crystal Castles
Day 'N' Nite	Kid Cudi
Day 'N' Nite (Crookers Remix)	Kid Cudi
Dead And Gone (Clean)	T.I. Ft. Justin Timberlake
Do You Remember	Jack Johnson
Don't Trust Me (P.O. Clean Edit)	3oh!3
Echo	Gorilla Zoe
Electric Feel	MGMT
Evacuate The Dance Floor	Cascada feat. Carlprit
Feel Your Love (Original Mix)	Kim Sozzi
Feel Your Love (Original Mix)	Kim Sozzi
Fireflies	Owl City
Forever (Radio Edit)	Milk Inc
Friends and Love	Nicholas Hooper
Genesis	Justice
Go On, Say It	Blind Pilot
Good Morning Planetarium	Falling Up
Handlebars	Flobots
Heartless	Kanye West
Heartless (Cover)	The Fray
Hot (Club Mix)	Inna
Hot (Radio_Edit)	Inna
I Buried A Bone	Blind Pilot
I Did It For Love	BoA
I Got It	Gorilla Zoe Ft. Big Block
I Gotta Feeling	The Black Eyed Peas
I Hope They Get To Me In Time	Darius Rucker
If Today Was Your Last Day	Nickelback
If You Knew	Chris Lake Ft. Nastala
I'm Not Over	Carolina Liar
Imagination (Kaskade Club Remix)	Jes
Infinity 2008	Guru Josh Project
Infinity 2008 (Klaas Remix)	Guru Josh Project
Keep Hope Alive	Crystal Method
Kids	MGMT
Kiss Me Back	Kim Sozzi
Let The Feelings Go ( Radio Edit DRM )	Anna Grace
Lollipop (Instrumental)	Lil Wayne
Love Drunk	Boys Like Girls
Love Story	Taylor Swift
Major Tom	Shiny Toy Guns
Modern Times (Chriss Ortega Mix)	Steve Forest Ft. Marcus Pearson
My Flow So Tight	Jump Smokers
Nothing Better	The Postal Service
On The Wing	Owl City
One Day	Matisyahu
One Red Thread	Blind Pilot
Open Ur Mind	Jason Nevins
Oviedo	Blind Pilot
Paint Or Pollen	Blind Pilot
Paper Planes	M.I.A.
Papparazzi	Lady GaGa
Party In The USA	Miley Cirus
Poor Boy	Blind Pilot
Rehab	Rihanna
Right Now (Na Na Na)	Akon
Shake It	Metro Station
She Wolf	Shakira
She Wolf	Shakira
Shooting Star	David Rush
Smooth Criminal	Buzz Cuts
Smooth Criminal (Acoustic)	Michael Jackson
Smooth Criminal (Dance Remix)	Michael Jackson
Step One Two	Kaskade
Strawberry Avalanche	Owl City
Sugar	Flo Rida Ft. Wynter
Take Me On The Floor	The Veronicas
The Bitter End	Blind Pilot
The Fear	Lily Allen
The Motions	Matthew West
The Story I Heard	Blind Pilot
Things I Cannot Recall	Blind Pilot
Two Towns From Me	Blind Pilot
Vanished	Crystal Castles
White Horse (Whelan & DiScala Club Mix)	Sarah Mcleod
Who We Are	Ryan Calhoun
Wildcat	Ratatat

Somethings not right here...

I saw this originally mentioned on a BCC post, but didn't think it was going to get much traction. I'm starting to see it posted in a lot of other places. What is wrong with this?




Well, besides the obvious such as not allowing LDS women into his meetings, or even restricting the attendance at all. I can't put my finger on it exactly, but something definitely bugs...

Tired of Sunday School?

Be honest, sometimes Sunday School can be boring. I blame this more on the audience than the teacher frequently. I know that Marisa and I feel like we have to "pull ourselves back" from making too many comments. Yet, at he same time we feel obliged to comment more to feel the void. Then, when comments are given, they are too bland. From what Marisa says, this happens especially in Relief Society. Too often the comments are about others and not often enough about ourselves. Applying the scriptures, to ourselves, HONESTLY and openly is a sure fire way to bring in the spirit. For another take on the whole correlation processes, its intents, positives and potential negatives, read this interesting article from the blog By Common Consent.

BTW, for those of you that are entirely against the correlation department, try to come up with a program that can be dispursed across the entire world, in many languages, for all doctrinal experience levels, for all teaching experience levels, applicable to ages 12-120, prepare and organize it in a reasonable amount of time by a reasonable amount of people, and in a way that will keep both local influences and speculative ideas from being taught as doctrinal.

First post of the decade

Where are we headed...? Hopefully, not down the road to socialism.



Here is a sweet clip showing the famous socialist proving grounds of Detroit. All though I believe that some socialists truly have the good of mankind as their end result, you can't deny two things in my opinion: 1-power can't go very far with humans before becoming corrupt, 2-due to human nature, socialist policies kill motivation and drive.