I love it!  Sharing it with my friends now.

But this is a really masterful cover of one of the great creepy songs by (by Marilyn Manson):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPw1i9dAJiQ

I use these two to help kick start my work day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=897zysJHE74

Silly and Offensive and Sophmoric, but it makes me laugh

And I do like some classic Laura Branigan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8-pP4VboBk&feature=related

I know this is not everyone's cup of tea, but I do like this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=897zysJHE74

I like Sir Mix A Lot/ And I cannot lie

God's gonna get you for that LaRoche!

Hii Yah!

My understanding is that this fellow's Russian mother makes the best Egg Nog outside of Kronos.

Goodness only knows that my better thoughts tend to be longer than 140 characters, and are usually intended for readers who do not limit their reading to 140 characters.

If I had wanted to express myself in 140 characters or less, I would be writing headlines for Variety - and frankly I stand in awe of the people who wrote the best of those headlines ... in as much awe as I stand of songwriters like Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Barry Manilow and Burt Bacharach.  Artistry and skill must be given proper props.

And most Twitterers are not in the league of any of the people I have just paid tribute to.  Not in what they say nor in their reading comprehension skills - which include applying context when it is readily available in the dresser drawer of any Econo Lodge or Motel 6 you care to name.

I think that Twitter, with it's limit of 140 characters, is not the place to quote from a book as complex a Job.

Leather?  Corinthian Leather?

I actually don't want to continue the conversation.  But asking people of Faith if they think Islam is equal to Christianity, then questioning the validity of the question, and the answers, based on a combination of high-falutin' intellectual concepts and examples of individual Christians (and crowds of them - let's face it G.K. Chesterton was right about Christianity being a wonderful religion that too few Christians practice) betraying the faith without recognizing that the Faith has been often betrayed - and  suggesting some kind of equivalency between that and Moslem Extremists ...

... suggests to me that the people asking the question do not have sufficient respect for Religion to be able to open their mouths and say word one about it

Be facile about matters of no consequence.  Like why your iPod is better than my Droid.  Not that I will respond.

Because:  Non disputandem de gustibus.  & Tempus fugit.

I could have written in English, of course, but I decided, what the hell, why not be as facile as the intellectuals I do not respect ... just for now, and only for a short time.

Christianity started out better than Islam did, and remains better than Islam is.  It started out better than Hinduism did, and remains better than Hinduism is now.  It improved on Judaism in a way that Judaism cannot hope to improve upon itself and remain Judaism.

I was asked if Islam is equal to Christianity.  I was not asked if individual Moslems behave better than individual Christians.  And it really does not matter how many individual Moslems behave better than individual Christians on any given day in any given place.  Islam is simply not even near to being the equal of Christianity, and cannot become the equal of Christianity without becoming so different from what Islam is right now so as to become no longer recognizable as Islam.  There are sects within Islam which have tried the path and are not recognized as being Islam by many Moslems as a result.

And no, the Word of God is crystal clear in the parts that count the most.  It is not I who would be wrong in those instances, but God.  And God is not wrong.

You and Floppy are a tad too sophisticated for your own good.  Sorry.

Frozen,

If I did not believe that I am obliged to tell Jews and Hindus and Moslems  that Jesus Christ is The Way, The Truth, & The Light, and that they are lost and dead without Him, I would be a piss-poor Christian.

And if I did not believe that my Faith is in fact the True Faith, and better than all the others, and the other faiths are Incomplete at best and wholly inadequate when they are not downright Idolatrous,  I could not say that I have any Faith at all.

Be a Lukewarm Mormon.  Join the Lukewarm Catholics and the Reformed Jews (I knew a reformed Jewish Rabbi who presided over services on Friday evening, partying for the coming of the Messiah, and joined with Methodists on Sunday to kinda-sorta celebrate His coming 2000 years ago on Sunday) in basically being NEITHER FISH NOR FOWL NOR GOOD ENGLISH BEEF.

You may be a decent an Enlightened person but you lack any understanding of what it means to be a Christian

Taking on Union Thugs was not hard enough for Steven Crowder?

Wow!

If he doesn't watch out this guy is going to beat him to death with his acoustic guitar:

Christianity preaches submission to God's will.  But it does not force it.  Being apart from God and dead with Sin is held as reason enough to want to submit to God's will.  There' s no need for some dude with a scimitar ready to chop your head off to reinforce the message.

Christians who brought Coercion to Religion betrayed Christ.  Moslems who did so honored the Prophet and Allah.

I hope you go, and I hope the food is good enough to eat at their expense so you don't have to stop at a restaurant on the way home.

It's a wedding.  Go, raise your glass when someone toasts and say "Mazel Tov" or "L'Chaim" just like everyone else, then duck out.

You are a busy person, after all.  Too busy to do much more than show up at the wedding ... and so on.

Trying not to laugh was not the issue for me.  Trying not to find Mr. O'Hare and feeding him his own eyeballs was.