I was brainstorming a bit about the schedule for this blog, and here's what I came up with:
- Tuesdays: These will be my personal days, where I rant about whatever's been going on in my life, or I talk about interesting stuff that happened to me today, or I just tell jokes, or whatever. I'll think of something.
- Thursdays: These will be more serious days, when I address things I have seen in the news that concern me or just make me laugh, be it from cynicism or just plain awesomeness.
- Saturday/Sunday: On one of these two days (probably subject to study time or other responsibilities) I will post a Biblical sort-of-devotional deal, where I give my opinions on subjects that I choose. Eventually, I hope to be able to choose subjects that you guys give me, but until then, I'll just pick the material myself.
As today is a Thursday, that makes it a News Day. And of course, being an Okie boy at heart, the one big news story of today is the family of tornadoes that seem to be hell-bent on tearing the dickens out of the Midwest. All up and down Tornado Alley, we've been getting smacked by the wind, and it's got quite the powerful smack. Anyone reading this who doesn't know what a tornado is (though since most of you are probably from Oklahoma anyway), imagine a hurricane, except smaller and more concentrated. This is good in some cases, except that you can fit more tornadoes in a state than you can hurricanes. Tornadoes are also much faster than hurricanes, and more powerful; and when you've got an F5 tornado barreling through your town, chances are there won't be much of your town left, as seen in Joplin, Missouri. Please keep the people of Joplin in your prayers, as well as everyone in Tornado Alley right now. We're getting hammered.
In other news, apparently Oprah, on her final show of the same name, gave a shout-out not only to her studio workers, but to God, claiming that Jesus was the reason her show has been on the air for an astounding 25 years. Now, I have to say--huh? Since when has Oprah been a Christian? Last I heard, she was denying that Jesus is the only means of salvation! It's kind of hard to be a Christian and believe that your Savior didn't really save you! Now, does this mean Oprah's not a Christian, or she's the Anti-Christ, or she's just trying to throw us off her trail? Is this just a publicity stunt, a way to appease her critics? Or maybe she's figured out that she was mistaken, and this is a sincere attempt to make up for her spiritual blunders in past years? Either way, it's not for me to judge. I do, however, find it interesting that, in the case that this is a sincere turn-about for her, she announced the most important change of her life at the end of her career, possibly to avoid flack from many of her New Age philosopher fans.
Finally, China has officially stated that they have a cyber-SWAT team. This unit of hackers known as the Blue Army is supposed to protect China against "cyber invasion". For all the rest of us who don't speak tyrannical dictator, that means these guys are a calling card for any country China has a grudge against and a way of keeping any tech-savvy rebels there may be in line. U.S. owes China big in debt but won't give any money back? A simple virus will nestle itself in the Treasury records and divert money to Big Red every so often. Japan gets mouthy about injustices from the Chinese government inflicted onto the Chinese civilians? Next day, a WikiLeaks style website is launched about how Japan's been doing the same thing for hundreds of years. I'm just saying--if you give a person more power, nine times out of ten he'll use it for himself.
Anyway, that's all I have for today, folks. Remember to eat your veggies!
Until next time,
--CommanderSnowball
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