God Got Himself a Lawyer

I posted a week or so ago about Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers' lawsuit of God for "terrorizing" humanity with threats of death, destruction, and eternal discomfort. I jokingly suggested that God needed a cheap lawyer to represent him.

Low and behold, my call has been answered. Eric Perkins, an attorney from Texas, has answered the challenging lawsuit with a responding defense. He said was an exercise akin to "What Would Jesus Do" because he just wondered what he thought God would say in his defense. His legal filing rejects Chamber's claims that God should be brought under jurisdiction in Davis County because he is omnipresent. Perkins contends that God cannot be held under authority by any human court any more that the wind, rain, or sun could. He also stated that God cannot be blamed for "terroristic" actions because mankind has brought calamity on themselves by ignoring clearly posted warnings.

A second defense brief appeared on the court's desk, but no one knows where it came from. It seemed to just "drop out of heaven" and it claims to be filed by God and has Michael the Arch angle as the witness.

Only in America.

I love Google - one more reason why

OK, I admit it. I love Google...

Picassa. Blogger. Gmail. Maps. Google. It all rocks...

I just found a new Google applications that I like and you need to try. It is called iGoogle. I didn't know what those little orange "feed" buttons were on web pages until I started using iGoogle as my home page. Now, when I open my browser, I can look quickly through my favorite blogs and see who has updated their pages (and who is a slacker). I also have a leadership quote of the day, the CNN news headlines, local weather, and to do list.

Also, Blogger also came out with a nifty waste of time. It is called Play and can be found at: play.blogger.com -- it is a random slide show of the latest images uploaded to Blogger. It is strangely mesmerizing. I liked it best with the speed turned all the way up to just let the images blur by... Be warned, though, even with Google's robust algorithms, an occasional inappropriate picture can get in the loop.

God Seeks Good Lawyer at Resonable Price

Ernie Chambers, a member of the Nebraska House of Representatives, is suing God. He filed his injunction in the District court of Douglas County, Nebraska, on September 14, 2007.

In an effort to protect the people of Nebraska's right to frivolous lawsuits, Representative Chambers is calling God out on the carpet because he "has made and continues to make terroristic threats of grave harm to innumerable persons" and "directly and proximately has caused, inter alia, fearsome floods, egregious earthquakes, horrendous hurricanes, terrifying tornados, pestilential plagues, ferocious famines, devastating drouths [sic], genocidal wars, birth defects, and the like."

Chambers, ironically an avowed agnostic, has no problem suing a God he is not sure is there and does not live on earth. God claims to exist and to be omnipresent - therefore if he exists, he is personally present in Douglas County.

Chambers bases his accusation on the fact that God "has made admissions against Defendant's own interests to various, hand-picked chroniclers of yore regarding the making of terroristic threats and the causing of calamitous catastrophes resulting in widespread death, destruction, and terrorization [sic] of millions and millions of earth's inhabitants...without mercy or distinction." Further, Chambers claims that God has "directed said chroniclers to assemble and disseminate in written form, said admissions, throughout the earth in order to inspire fear, dread, anxiety, terror and uncertainty, in order to coerce obedience to Defendant's will."

In response to this public challenge, God said nothing.

An unauthorized insider, though, responded to this legal challenge by saying, "What can I say? I can see where someone would say God is a terrorist, especially when you only look at the parts of the story where he is killing people and stuff. I mean, what kind of God would terrorize his own Son and kill him? Sure Jesus rose again on the third day, but I am sure those three days were hell."

A Geo Metro and Asnwered Prayer

I blogged earlier about my truck dying in a puddle. That left us with only one car, which doesn't work real well when you have two adults with schedules and three kids, each in a different school. We were able to make it work for about a month and a half, but it was becoming clear that we needed a car number two if we were going to be able to live the life God has called us to.

So, we started praying. What -- I wasn't praying before? Well, yes I was....but it wasn't until we got to this point that I really just came to God and asked him to provide us what we needed to do what he was calling us to do.

It was pretty incredible. The next day my Mom sent us a gift that covered the cost of an engine from a wrecking yard and a 1997 Geo Metro off Craigslist (and, yes, for less than any running car should sell for). The Metro was pretty rough, but a couple hours and a little more money and it should be road worthy until the truck is back on its tires and under its own power. My kids call my new car the bubble car...so that makes me the boy in the bubble.

It's Moors, you idiot! Moops -- it says Moops!

Some Rambling 9/11 Reflections

I was standing at the front door of our school when news came to me about the first plane hitting the World Trade Center. I have to admit, I was a bit baffled. I had seen pictures of the building, but having grown up on the West Coast and then relocating to the midwest, I had never had the experience of standing downtown Manhatten and staring up at those incredible towers...so I have to admit I didn't have a strong reaction when I heard.

Then news came of the second plane. I had a strange feeling that something significant was happening (Duh) and that I better pay attention.

I pulled a TV into my office and watched as the towers collapsed. I heard the rumors of the pentagon being hit and for the first time in my life I felt the vulnerability of, "We are under attack." We put the school on high alert for the next six months (as if a small Christian school buried in the southern burbs of St. Louis would make a good target) and everyone (I mean everyone) flew flags.

It was suddenly popular to be patriotic. The flag, previously the property of country-western loving guys in large pickup trucks, was reclaimed by latte-drinking, Volvo-driving Americans.

I remember being so impressed with President Bush. He commanded our attention and our respect. He was strong and we felt stronger because of it. He told us we were going to go kick the Talliban's asses and we were ready and eager and ready. Sometimes the best defense is to show the world a strong offense.

Then we went into Iraq. I was supportive of the war. I believed our president and Colin Powell when they told us there was absolute evidence of WMD...but I was also nervous. I remember saying to my wife during Powell's momentous press conference, "I trust them, but if they are wrong, both Bush and Blair should be impeached."

Now we hear about the surge, and how it is helping (though everyone has already admitted there is no way a miliary solution will be the solution)...

Evolution says that all you need to produce life and order is the building blocks of life and time. The statistical odds may be astronomical, but given enough time, they say, even the impossible can happen. All you need is lots and lots of time.

I have no doubt our president rejects evolutionary theory. I am sure he is a creationist -- and every creationist knows you need not just time and building the building blocks: you also need intelligent design.

That is the problem. I see requests for more and more time, but hear very little in the way of an intelligent design.

50 Worst Cars of All Time?

Time Magazine published an article about the 50 worst cars every built. I was surprised by some of their choices (and disagree with some)...but if you like cars, this is an interesting browse.

I agree that the 1961 Corvair needed engineering improvements, but the rear engine set up was not a flaw as the article says. If rear engine cars were inherantly flawed, how has the Porsche retained its place as a leader in performance cars? Secondly, I was not thrilled with the inclusion of cars just because they are politcally incorrect (like the Ford Explorer and Expedition).

http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/1,28757,1658545,00.html