FROGLEGS

That is a pretty big miracle for me. It seems like everytime I come over here, i get a cold after about 3 or 4 days. It must be the cold. I bought new jacket before coming over and it seems to be doing the trick.

The 24-7 meetings on Tues. n Wed. were productive. Lots of decisions made in a small amount of time which is pretty amazing considering our usual modus operandi.

Went to see the grand finale to the Lord of the Rings saga on Wed. night with a load of friends. Seeing it with friends was really wicked. I will conserve my opinions about the movie until a later date. I will limit my comments to saying: It was good, my favourite bits were left out, but I enjoyed it none-the-less.

Now I am up in East London with Phil & Emma Togwell. Tomorrow I am off to do Christmas shopping. Everyone says that I am suicidal for heading out tomorrow, but it has to be done sometime. I hate shopping.

I am heading to England this week. I got a new warmer jacket and a scarf that should help to keep me well while I am there. We went out to have some nice salad and fresh food before I head of to the land of processed everything.

Things haven’t exactly gone off according to plan… The plane that will take me to London was 3 hours late leaving London because of technical difficulties… Which means that I’ll be getting in to London around 1AM and then getting in to bed about 2.30AM. Then up tomorrow for a day of meetings for 10AM… Whoopie!

This was a bit bizarre. I was just checking out the slices on Relevant Magazine’s website and ran across a bizarre story about a very disturbing tagline on sheriff’s cars in a certain county in California.

I was pretty shocked when I followed the link to find that it was a story on the website of the main TV news show in MY hometown! Check it out. How red faced am I?

After a really busy week, (sorry, i haven’t done a think on the blog for a week now) we have a visitor this weekend. Kenny, a friend of ours from Barcelona who is currently living in Madrid, was supposed to come down with a University class. We were gonna hang out and talk about the possibility of a 24-7 Mission Team going to the Youth Forum in Barcelona next summer, but the trip got cancelled. In the end, he decided to come down anyway and just chill with us for the weekend.

He is a really cool young guy that I have known for a long time. Son of missionaries that has now launched out to find his own way through faith, love and life. A great example to his generation in many ways and a nifty friend.

You can check his blog if you want in Spanish or a reduced form in English

I don’t usually get politcal on my blog, but this is sooo disturbing…

The Secret Resignation Letters:

Fact: Since the president declared ‘Mission accomplished’ in Iraq, the number of violent deaths in Baghdad has increased 114 percent.

Fact: The $87 billion President Bush has appropriated to fund the war in Iraq could instead have been used to pay the salaries of 1.2 million school teachers for a year, the college education of 1.5 million students, or built 900,000 affordable homes.

Fact: When Donald Rumsfeld was considering a run for the White House in 1998, an article about him in the Chicago Tribune listed “helping to re-open US relations with Iraq” when he served as Ronald Reagan’s special envoy to the Middle East as one of his career achievements. According to the State Department, while Rumsfeld was opening relations with Iraq, Saddam Hussein was actively using chemical weapons to systematically murder thousands of Kurds.

Fact: Since the start of the U.S. war in Iraq, 511 soldiers have been killed and 2,424 have been wounded.

The first drafts are obviously fiction, but the final drafts n facts are disturbing enough. All is not well in the US of A or in Iraq. Anyone even remember Afgahnistan? And where were thos WMD in Iraq? What was Sadaam’s connection with Al Qaeda? Bush n Co. have lost me somewhere along the way…

“We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace. We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the dischords of war. Somehow, we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race, which no one can win, to a positive contest to harness humanity’s creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all the nations of the world. In short, we must shift the arms race into a peace race. If we have a will and determination to mount such a peace offensive, we will unlock hitherto tightly sealed doors of hope and transform our imminent cosmic elegy into a psalm of creative fulfillment.”