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01/07 :  A New Kind of Political Organization

   As many of you are aware, I am politically active. I have worked on a couple of local campaigns; I have been a candidate for office; I have written some letters to the Sun; I run the AlachuaVoterGuide.com website. Each of these has been an educational experience. But now I want to put what I have learned to use in the service of my community. I am starting a non-partisan group with the aim of educating Christians about political participation. I don't care if you are Democrat or Republican, Conservative or Liberal. I only care that you take your Christianity with you when you get involved, instead of leaving it at the door when you enter the secular realm.

Is this possible? Yes. We will not always agree on everything, but we can make sure we agree that after the campaigns are over, that we are still neighbors. And both major parties NEED us to bring the integrity and good will that is largely missing from the political process. We cannot continue to stay out of the process, and we cannot let the process change US. We will be tested and tempted, but we are able to overcome.

I have often told this early Bible parable to tell Christians why they cannot stand back and let others step up to lead:

We must stop whining and complaining while doing NOTHING. And we must stop jumping in at the last minute, long after we have failed to engage the system, to protest the situation we have allowed to develop.

This group is just forming. If you want to be a part of it, use the contact form on this website. It's the top tab that says, Contact Us.

Thanks,
Don marsh

13/06 :  This site will be moving...

  

Photo by RBerteig

You may have noticed that there are frequent annoying problems over the years with this site: that "critical database error" page that we have all seen. It has been due to using this open source website system on Windows Servers. I have tried to get my hosting company to help me move it all back to Linux Servers, but they have been difficult about it. So, since it is easier to get a whole new hosting company to move it for me so they can have my business, that is what I am doing. It will probably happen this weekend. Everything may be a screwed up mess for a couple of days. I hope it will not be more than that...

08/06 :  Donnie, having a bit of fun at his pastor's expense...

   My son and his friend, Ricky, do an Elton John send up for (the Reverend) Arty Hart's birthday.
The song's lyrics are subtitled because the sound is not too good. :)

29/05 :  Get Your Pool Enclosure Rescreened

  

I was working at a house where they were getting their screening replaced. A lot of branches and other objects had put holes in it over the years, so it was time to have a do over! I saw this guy in action, and I had to take a video, which I posted on YouTube, and embedded below. Their company is called Screen Doctors, and you can reach them at 352-339-3789.

26/05 :  Cow Farts to the Rescue

  

We at Marsh Window Cleaning are concerned with the plight of our nation and its present gasoline crisis. Therefore, we are pleased to bring this comforting news to our customers: there is oil in them thar cows!

This from the North Star Writers Group website:

May 26, 2008

Bacteria Into Oil? How Farting Cows May Have Solved America’s Energy Woes

Could bacteria end our oil woes? A farmer in Georgia thinks so, and the Pentagon is paying attention. And it can’t happen a moment too soon.

Last week, House Democrats ridiculously voted to sue OPEC for high oil prices (with the support of my useless Republican congressman, Vern Ehlers). Meanwhile, global warming types propose gas and carbon taxes of $300 billion a year or more, and want to turn over regulatory control of American industry to the United Nations.

These activists scoff when President Bush insists that the answers to these issues will come from new technologies. But one of the most potentially impactful new technologies may be coming sooner than anyone realizes.

The folks at Bell Plantations in Tifton, Georgia are developing a way to convert bacteria into hydrocarbons. By genetically manipulating the bacteria, they believe they can produce different molecular chains to produce the basis for gasoline, diesel, propane and a variety of other hydrocarbon fuels.

Read the rest...