Google is Anti-Christ!

How interesting that on the day so much of the world is celebrating the resurrection of Jesus.,
whom Ceasar's proconsul Pilate had put to death,
Google is celebrating the birthday of Cesar.
Cesar Chavez.

For years I've used google.com/ig as my start page.
They're discontinuing it soon but I've had enough of the leftist sentiment there.
Today I switched to ighome.com.
It lets me import my google apps, but I can choose an alternate search engine.
I chose Bing.
At least their start page had Easter Eggs today,
not a socialist labor leader.

It's a start.

Happy Resurrection Day!

"And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins."
1 Corinthians 15:17

Around the world, the Risen Christ is still being seen by many.
Muslims are seeing him in their dreams and answering His call.
I see Him in His Word and answer His call.

Meeting the Risen Christ is one of the most dangerous acts known to man.
It makes a demand on you.
A demand to surrender.

Surrender to His love and His will for your life.
It's still hard for me to type those words.
But I know He wills only good for me.
Why else would He have died for me?
And for you?

Success!

This is a reprint of a comment I made over at Z's:

I was once flying back to Germany (I was returning to my unit) via London  on a 747 and there must have been 12 people at most on the plane. 
When the movie was over, I looked around the cabin and saw an older guy with a redhead on his shoulder and he smiled. I smiled back and got up to talk to him.
I asked him where he was going and he said he was taking his wife to Ireland to visit her family.
I asked what he did for a living and he said "groceries".
I laughed and said, "You must be Abner A. Wolff!" (I had worked in a grocery store and he was a big distributor). He smiled and said that Abner was his chief competitor.
I said, "It must be nice to be successful." and he asked me, "What is success?".
I replied, "To have money and be able to do the things you want to do, like take your wife to Ireland."
He asked if I'd heard of a brand of frozen seafood and I said yes (you have, also).
He told me he knew the guy who founded the company.
He was a shrimp boat captain who was not catching enough shrimp to meet his fuel bills. 10,000 pounds would have been a good catch, but no one was getting more than 2,000.
He was also an alcoholic, and one night in the bar he bellowed "I'm the best ### shrimper in the keys and there's not enough shrimp to make a living!".
A guy overheard him and told him that if he was the best shrimper in the keys, bring his haul to pier such and such and he'd get x dollars a pound. That was a high dollar for shrimp.
He went out the next day, and only got about 2,000 pounds again, but on the way back he radio'd his fellow shrimpers and told them to meet him at pier so and so and he'd give them a little under x dollars a pound.
That night in the bar he drunkenly bellowed that he was the best shrimper in the keys and there wasn't enough shrimp to make a living. The buyer was with him and told him he wasn't the best shrimper in the keys. This almost led to a fight, until his new friend told him we was the best shrimp BUYER in the keys.
They went into a partnership, bought a commercial freezer and started a company, and after a while the captain bought out his partner and went on to grow the company to the firm it is today. 
I said, "That's some story. So he ended up a success."

My fellow passenger told me:
"He's on his third marriage, he's in therapy and he's still an alcoholic. Is that success?"

That story had a profound effect on me. I don't know if the teller was a Christian and he was ministering to me along witnessing lines or just sharing some wisdom from his life.
To this day, almost 40 years later, I remember it (and I never got the tellers name).
But it helped me realize winning isn't everything.

"What profiteth it a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?"

Annual Good Friday Post

I posted this a couple years ago. Updated.
I want to share a cool thing with you.
If you're not a Christian, please read anyway, because it never hurts to have a little information about what those whackos around you believe.
A few people know that Psalm 22 is a description of the crucifixion of Jesus that was written hundreds of years before the event.
David saw it in a vision and it shakes him up so much that he starts out with:
My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?
Many Christians have been taught that, as He was crucified, Jesus was crying this out out to His Father in heaven, because the Father could not bear to look on Jesus, our scapegoat.
That He was separated from the Father.
That Jesus was a curse (and the Father could not be in fellowship with Jesus because it would violate His holiness) because Jesus was carrying the penalty of the sins of the world.
Give me a break.
<< 1 Corinthians 12:3 >> Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed.
Jesus and the Father had this worked out since before the universe was created, and at the last minute The All-Powerful Ruler of More than the Universe flinches?
No.
If the Father and the Son (who with the Spirit are referred to as the "Godhead" in perfect unity) ever separated, I believe the universe would crumble.
As you read the gospels, particularly John's, you see that the Pharisees (some of them, like Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea, were good guys, by the way) were asking Jesus for a sign that he was the Messiah. He continually answered them that when they saw Him lifted up, that would be their sign.
Here He is, lifted up in front of them. He's surrounded by "strong bulls" (prison slang for guards), and the crowd is taunting Him. It's the scene predicted in Psalm 22 .
Then He quotes the first verse.
And they know the rest.
Can you imagine the look on their face when they get it?
Do you get it?

Orwellian Terminology

5000 years of male/female marriage and all of a sudden, it's a marriage if two of the same sex want it so?

A marriage is a joining together.
Men and women were designed for that.
Men and men weren't, and neither were women and women.
It's not hate to point to common sense.

Or biological reality.
But no, we're expected to say black is white and round is square.
Or Arbeit Macht Frei.

Is this thing on?

Just checking in.
12 hour days and commenting on others blogs leaves me little time for this.
Not giving up.
I'm just thrilled there's been such a response to a post I did a while back.
Too bad they're all bots.
Actually I hope they're bots.
Wouldn't it be sad if they weren't?

“Oye Como Va”

Happy St. Patrick's Day.

Today is St. Patrick's Day.
How did a day celebrating the Englishman who became a Christian missionary and returned to the land of the heathens who had enslaved him as a boy to deliver the Gospel to them, which they received with gladness,
Turn into a day of drunken stupidity for so many?
May you have a blessed St. Patrick's Day.
Google his story, I'm off to church.

What would George do?

Do you believe that George Washington would have ever agreed to a law limiting the number of musket balls or powder you could carry?
Why can a criminal carry, with no fear of being stopped, a pistol with a greater capacity than I am?
If three thugs with guns try to rob or harm me or my family, why should I be limited to seven bullets?
Will the American people continue to support the idiots in office that want to strip them of the ability to protect themselves, yet tell them to pee or puke on their attackers, blow a whistle, shout loudly and wait for the police?
Will they?

Today I was a part of something stupid.

Last Christmas we started a new facility to support auto manufacturing.
I took the position of interim maintenance manager / automation engineer.
Circumstances forced us to begin over Christmas, rather than wait for March so we needed to staff up quick.
I interviewed a few maintenance candidates.
They are hard to get, there's quite a demand.
I had a choice between two guys.
One a currently employed maintenance guy who wanted to get out of where he worked and the other an unemployed eight year Army veteran who had some electrical experience, but no industrial maintenance.
I had to sell my choice of the vet to upper management, although my direct report supported me, and he would be responsible for the facility, similar to a plant manager.
I argued that the one guy had a job,  but the other was a vet and didn't, and deserved one.

He started the next Monday.

He learned everything I taught him.
I could talk him through problem solving over the phone while I was busy at the old plant.
At times he got on my nerves with his eagerness :)

One day he was a few minutes late, yet still early enough to start up the plant.
His wife had swapped the alarm back to weekend mode on a Saturday he worked.

Another day he was late because of a traffic stop.

Today we let him go because he was a 90 day probationer with two tardies.
My boss and I argued for him to no avail.
Here we're having a hard time getting a good maintenance guy and we let this guy get away.

I told him to give my phone number to anyone he interviews with, and he's getting a glowing letter of recommendation from myself and my boss.

It won't appear as a termination because he'll still work for his current employer, the temp agency we got him through, so he'll be eligible for unemployment.

I helped him carry his tools out to his car and my boss, the HR Mgr and myself said we'd hold him and his family in prayer. The four of us are believing Christians.

He held out his hand, but I gave him a hug.

We both have suffered loss.

Please pray for Vern. I pray he gets a better job and closer to home.

Oz: The Great and Powerful

I want to go on record as saying that I have seen no greater movie than "Oz: The Great and Powerful".

1. The opening credits were cleverly done, reminiscent of the period.
2. The opening in B&W, is reminiscent of the 1938 film.
3. It's so very cleverly written. The characterization is wonderful.
4. It's a story of good vs evil, it extols basic goodness and redemption.
5. The production values are wonderful, and yet the continuity of set design with the 1938 movie is remarkable.
6. Bruce Campbell was the head Winkie Guard (oh yee oh).
7. The audience clapped a long time.
8. I'm looking forward to seeing it again, as is my son who I watched it with (along with Scherie and our grandson).

I overheard a guy tell his son that the sequel is already planned.
I didn't get the opportunity to tell him they already filmed it in 1938.

Why would you allow yourself to be disarmed?

The following black screen is a non-youtube video:
Bang your mouse on it and it will play.

Busy, Update

Today, I got the robots to work together.

The large robot is pulling a part out of the Injection Molding Machine.
The little robot is trimming excess plastic off.
The flame is to burn off any "Angel Hairs" off the edges.
It takes a while for the flame sensor to realize the flame is lit.
I'll start it earlier.

UPDATE: Management said "remove the videos!".

They think the competition might benefit.

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