[Cleveland Leader]

Peekaboo Pole Dancing, the company behind Carmen Electra’s pole dancing kit, announced a few weeks ago that they were seeking a partner to license a pole dancing game for the Nintendo Wii. Since then people around the world have been asking the same question: “Why?”

MTV caught up with the Peekaboo people, and spoke with a company rep who said:

“Peekaboo will be all about fun and fitness for a new generation. Peekaboo wants to make the fitness benefits of aerobic pole dancing accessible to millions of Wii users. The goal is to encourage men and women of all shapes and sizes to improve their pole dancing skills while having fun, toning up and burning calories. Ultimately Peekaboo and AT New Media want to do for pole dancing what ‘Guitar Hero‘ did for rock n roll!”

As for the pole peripheral development, the game’s ESRB rating and how the game would actually work (we imagine you’d need hands on the pole as well as on controllers), he declined to disclose those details. Kay did claim that the company is already in talks with developers and publishers for the Wii title, though they “will still entertain other third parties.”

Peekaboo also said that they were looking for a mobile phone partner to bring a similar game to mobile devices.

Source here.

[From me]

What’s next?  How about just Wii for prostitution?  Why not a game to teach the art of strip tease?  Why not just virtual sex?  Even unbelievers should see the dangers of something this stupid.  But I doubt it.

What do you think?

I’ll admit up front that I’ve been guilty of resorting to name calling when I couldn’t come up with something of substance to say. I was wrong. I’ve become a better learner by just closing my mouth & listening.

This weekend I “googled,” yahooed,” & “technoratied” the military ministry, my parents & “God’s basic training” & was amazed at the trash that was on many blogs & chat rooms. It seems that very few were interested in the truth. These sites were Atheists, seperatists & yes some Christian ones. I responded with the facts on a dozen or so.

Well most of them couldn’t handle the facts so they resorted to profanity, Bush bashing, military bashing & name calling?  Of course this type of behavior isn’t limited to any group.  Christians are guilty of this too.  You see it in politics daily.  If you can’t win an argument or you have nothing worth saying call someone a:

• Liberal
• Right-winger
• war monger
• moderate
• fundamentalist
• fundy
• etc….

So the lesson I learned is this- if you don’t have solid facts or substance call people names & add a few profanity ladened  adjectives  That way no one can figure out that you have nothing of substance to back your claims.

What do you think?

[Orlando Sentinal]

A successful coach was fired this week, which isn’t unheard of. The unusual part was who showed him the door:

God.

The Almighty apparently wasn’t pleased with Casey Weldon. I believe in God, but I have hard time believing He wanted Weldon fired. Weldon was a star at FSU, the 1991 Heisman runner-up, a Tampa Bay Buccaneer and a certified local legend. He started as a third-grader at Tallahassee North Florida Christian and returned there two years ago. He had never coached, but the Eagles went 23-5 and went to two straight state championship games. Weldon was sitting in his office Wednesday with Alabama Coach Nick Saban, who was checking on a recruit. Weldon was called to the administrative office. He returned a few minutes later and told Saban he’d been fired.

Here’s the explanation from NFC president Randy Ray:

“As with all our decisions we try to be led by the Lord we serve. Sometimes that leadership is popular and embraced by everyone and other times not. In any case we must be true to our mission and follow God’s leadership.”

Read about it here.

[From me]

The school may have very good reasons for firing this coach. But as the author of the article points out–why blame it on God? Why not just say, “we are going in another direction.” All this does is make Coach Weldon to look like he is out of God’s will. There will be rumors because of the vagueness.

I was guilty of breaking up with a girl using the same line. I was wrong. We should not blame God for our own decisions. I think God takes the blame for way too much. I’m interested as to what our non-believers think about this kind of reasoning?

What do you think?

[Yahoo News]

When a man dressed in black and wearing crosses said to charge his groceries to St. Rocco’s Roman Catholic Church, clerks at a West Pittston store obliged.  St. Rocco’s has a tab at the Gerritys Supermarket. And Officer Joe Campbell says the man “played the part,” with his black clothing and a white strip of cardboard around his neck.

But his grocery orders began to stray from the necessities. Energy drinks and cigarettes crept in, and store officials became suspicious.

Read about it here.

[From me]

Sounds like a SNL skit.

[From KSNT]

A jury in Baltimore is ordering Topeka’s Westboro Baptist Church to pay 11 million dollars to the father of a marine who was killed in Iraq.

“Matt and all of the military kept me going through all of this, “said Albert Snyder who sued the church after members demonstrated last year at the funeral of his son, Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder. He hopes Wednesdays ruling sets a precedent for the future.

“I hope it’s enough to deter them from doing this to other families and that was my goal the entire time,” said Snyder.

Wednesday the jury awarded 2.9 million dollars in compensatory damages, 6 million in punitive damages and another two million dollars for causing emotional distress.

The Phelps plan to appeal.

Read about it here.

[From me]

I’m grateful we have freedom of speech here in the US.  But a “minister” of the “Gospel” should be telling “Good News” not spewing hate.  I was able to meet Shirley Phelps-Roper of Westboro last summer.  You can watch my interview with her here.  It is sad.

Jesus told the woman caught in adultery to go and sin no more.  Many of these people whose funerals are being protested are not even involved in sinful lifestyles.  EVEN if they were, a funeral is NO TIME to be throwing stones.  I have participated in several funerals where the eternal condition of the person was in question.  Those were depressing services to say the least.  But the last thing in the world I would ever do is point out their sins after death.  Funerals are times to give comfort to people and give them hope.

Phelps and his crew should be pointing people to Jesus not scaring them away.

What do you think?