I need some counsel





First, I need to address some questions. I would like for the zebras to have some sort of penalty system for themselves, like a bad call, be penalized with a loss of one paycheck, a bad call that costs the game loss of four paychecks. They should be held to some sort of accountability! Another gripe before I post about what I intended, there was a play in the first half of the Michigan vs. Iowa game this weekend where it looked as though our UofM player juggled the ball but gained control of the ball before falling out of bounds. ABC let us watch the play multiple times before Michigan hiked the ball again and it was apparent it should have been reviewed! What is more, the very next play we catch the ball for what could have been a touchdown but our players foot lands out of bounds, it wasn't even remotely close, and the crappy thing is, the stupid refs decide to review that play! If this would have cost us the game I would be a lot more heated about it but seriously, if the play is close, REVIEW IT! Earlier in the football season, I forget what game it was, there was a play where they didn't know if it was a fumble or not, one official said fumble, one said it wasn't, so the refs on the field did the right thing and huddled about it and made a call, it was the incorrect call, but at least they attempted to do the right thing and huddle up about it. Now I remember it was Maryland vs. West Virginia. The ref in the booth didn't review it!!! This is outrageous! If two refs on the field are in obvious disagreement about it you have to stinking review it upstairs, that should be automatic! Well, enough on that and back to my real blog.



As some of you got the e-mail, I recently got the free download of Derek Webb’s cd entitled, “Mockingbird”. I really don’t know how to react to it. I will tell you that it’s sound is so good I can’t get it out of my rotation. I bought two new cd’s but in the recent days the only cd’s that I really have a desire to listen to is “The Gadsby Project” and “Mockingbird”. I have no qualms with any songs on the former, it’s the latter that I am concerned with. Some of his lyrics just don’t sit well with me. At times he just seems to push passivism too much. One of the lyrics is, “I will protest the sword if it’s not wielded well, cause my enemies are men like me.” And, “Peace by way of war is like purity by way of fornication, it’s like telling someone murder is wrong and then showing them by way of execution.” It just seems so wrong to think that a nation should not wage war against peoples that are going to give their lives to hurt us. With these few lyrics he ruins the entire cd for me. There are multiple good songs on the cd but throughout the whole thing I can’t stop myself from thinking of what bent he is making with his lyrics. The cd as a whole sounds wonderful, even the song that I cited has a beautiful sound to it and is very appealing. In reading the http://consumedblog.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_consumedblog_archive.html
blog, which I highly recommend, I’ve never met the fella but in the three months that I’ve been reading his blogs he’s been very thought provoking, plus he’s a basketball fan, although if he’s a Dukie, IU, or UT fan than I remove my endorsement of him if he’s one of those he is evil and bad for society. But in one of his series of posts a few months ago he addressed Christians and the arts and stated that we should do them and do them very well, of which I agree, but I don’t have one artistic bone in my body except to know when I hear good music and “Mockingbird” contains some good music, every song is very good. Just like I immediately recognized when my father played Stevie Wonder, Earth, Wind, and Fire, and had me skating to LL Cool J’s “I’m Bad” that these are some good tunes and later I heard “Licensed to ill” and immediately recognized why they sold multiple millions of copies of that one cd, likewise, “Mockingbird” and “The Gadsby Project” should be selling millions of copies for they produce wonderful tunes. I wouldn’t recommend “Mockingbird” as a gift to someone who is easily swayed in their beliefs because the way he packages his music it’s very seductive and could easily mislead the young in the faith. I would highly recommend giving “The Gadsby Project” to any of your friends, it’s been my favorite, besides Stevie, ever since I owned it. Finally, I’ll refer you to another bloggers post way back when, he titled it, “Can I have my broadband width back” I don’t remember what he spoke of in that post but it had some interesting things to say about “Mockingbird”. If anyone can offer any counsel to me on how I should view this cd it is surely welcome! Thanks for visiting, come back soon, and don’t be a stranger!