Taking a break from my usual "serious" routine, I must evangelize my fellow hogs about the wondrous pile of code that is the Mozilla Firefox browser. Why Firefox and not Internet Explorer?
Well, I'll tell you.

• expanded popup and spyware control
  
• ease of use
  
• faster page loads
  

I've recently stumbled across a variety of blogs claiming that all religions are true - that all religions are as relevant and truthful as any other.
Well, if you think about it, you will immediately exclude that possibility.

Here are my reasons for not believing that all religions are true:

1). Truth is objective. Example: If I toss a ball in the air, than the truth is I tossed the ball in the air. That's the truth. One thing in it's opposite cannot be true at the same time.

2). Christianity states that there is only ONE God. Other religions claim the existence of MANY gods. Both claims cannot be true at the same time.

I've pretty much said all I can say about this matter. Of course there are SOME truths in EVERY religion, but that's a far cry from stating, "All religions are true."

Hey! My friend and I created this little application with C# (See Sharp).
To run this, click the link and select "Save Target As." Save it, and then run it.
Click here to view it!
NOTE: It may not work if you do not have .Net FrameWork 2.0.

Hey!
I recently discovered this grammar test.

I got 10/10. If you get anything worse than 10/10, you're a failure.

Yesterday was an interesting day, complete with large capitol buildings, angry goths/hippies, and a talking Cow. Yes, I attended the March for Life yesterday! After attending Mass at Saint Mark's, we entered the spacious bus provided for us by the nice people there. Our traveling companions included Sponsz, Brian, Stiny, and various others. So, after a long trip ripe with discussions about communism, THE MARCH, and ... Yanni? we prayed the rosary and finished up just in time to see The Capitol. So, while hanging around, we entered the legislative building and wreaked havoc. Afterwards, we saw more of our freinds and so we stayed there while more people we knew cascaded by us. Suddenly, THE MARCH started, and we followed the multitudes on their way to The very steps of the Capitol. During the multitudinous speaches, about 25-30 protesters entered the fray. Their professional-looking signs had such concilliatory, wholesome messages as "You are perverts!", "Abort Bush!", and the real crusher "Compassionite Conservatives kill Iraqi babies!" As Brian posted, during the closing prayer, and the following rather patriotic rendition of "God Bless America" they continued chanting that intelligent argument(sigh) "BULLS***!" With that final "God Bless America" or for PC's "G** Ble** America", However, THE MARCH was concluded, and the Pro-murderers tried to make themselves scarce as the Youth for Life group walked straight over and struck up a conversation (I'll give you three guesses about what). Then, voices gone, we all crawled back to the bus and drove home.
This is yearly in WA state, so come if you can next year. It's loads o' fun and you get to protest a horrible law at the same time! In Closing, thanks to all who made life interesting yesterday, and G** Ble**,

~JOE~

Today, I, along with millions of friends, took a bus to the capital. Once we arrived, we then took a look around the place. It was amazing!

Well, hundreds of people showed up from all around the state. All were pro-life, all were...um...not as cool as me (whatever).
After Joe, Sponsz, and I had located some of our friends, we went around goofing off (my favorite activity).
Hundreds of people flocked to the the capital stairs and waited to hear the speeches.
Then, out of somewhere, came around 30-40 pro-abortion people. The majority of them consisted of young goths and aging hippies. Not a pretty thing.
During some of the speeches, the pro-abortion people decided to swear at us and make a whole lotta noise. That too was disturbing.

The thing that upset me the most was this: During the Pledge of Allegiance, the abortion supporters screamed, yelled, and cussed. Wow. What a respectful thing to do, winners.
Not to mention they shouted "BullS***" during the prayers. That too, was noble.

Why all the hate? They accuse us of being hateful, but they were the ones demonstrating hatred.

More later, I don't have much time. maybe Sponsz will enlighten you on some of the details.

Update

I corrected some of my typos and spelling errors. Sorry for making myself look like a complete moron.

Abortion violates the traditional Hippocratic Oath:

"...I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor will I suggest such counsel. And in like matter I will not give a woman pessary to produce abortion..."

Unfortunately, the Hippocratic Oath was changed when it was decided that Abortion was a "Constitutional Right" (it never was) and they didn't want to deal with the morality forced upon them by a Greek (Hippocrates).

For some time now I've had this ...urge, if you will... to write a post about environmentalism and its different stupidities (I wonder--can stupidity be a noun? And pluralized, too? No? Oh well, too late). And here it is.

W'e're all going to freeze! Or is it sizzle?
It may be mostly forgotten now, but back then [1972] many climate scientists shared his [a scientist who was concerned that temperatures on Earth were dropping, and that we were on our way to another Ice Age] concern: Temperatures around the world had fallen steadily for 30 years, dropping half a degree in the Northern Hemisphere between 1945 and 1968. Pack ice was increasing. Glaciers were advancing. Growing seasons had shortened by two weeks in only a few years.

In 1975, Newsweek noted “ominous signs that weather patterns have begun to change…with serious political implications for just about every nation.” Scientists were predicting that “the resulting famines could be catastrophic.”

But it is now clear that even as Newsweek was printing its fears, temperatures already had begun to rise. Within a decade, scientists would be decrying a global warming trend that threatened to raise temperatures as much as 30 degrees in the 21st century. Such predictions implied palm trees in Montana, and they have since been revised downward. By 1995, the UN midrange estimates were about 4 degrees over the next 100 years. Although concern about warming remains, the prospect of catastrophic change seems increasingly unlikely.

Hey! I created some cool animated gifs with Animation Shop. My idea is that anyone who visits BlogHogger and likes it can put images on their site that say: "Are You A HOG? ~BlogHogger.blogspot.com" or something along those lines.

Here are two I've recently created:




Here is the code. Paste it on your sidebar: <img src="http://bloghogger.blogspot.com/ruahog.gif" width=265 height=265/>



Here's the code for #2: <img src="http://img124.exs.cx/img124/7065/ruahog27ml.gif" width="265"
height="245" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us" />

You may alter the size as you see fit.

Yes, we almost have the seventh member of BlogHogger up and posting! His name is Derek and is a conservative Christian (hmm, Kinda like everyone here!).

I do not personally know him, but I think James does.

Check out Derek's blog here.

Hey all! I checked out their homepage and this is the first little bit of text I came across:

"Straight up—Bush and his people aren’t just ordinary Republicans. And they’re not ordinary Christians either. They are Christian Fascists—dangerous fanatics who aim to make the U.S. a religious dictatorship and to force this upon the world. If they get their way—and they are very far along the road to getting it—society will be plunged into a high-tech Dark Ages...."

I was just thinking, wouldn't it be interesting if I, along with some of my friends, created a webpage refuting as many of the anti-Catholic statments as we could?
Just a thought...

After I checked this, I was laughing so hard, I almost cried out my guts.
To tell you the truth, I have never seen anything that demonizes the Catholic priesthood to this extent. It's very sad.
While reading the articles, I managed to refute a number of their claims (i.e, the claim that the Church teaches that priests are infallible).

One of the paragraphs states, "How Satanic that the Romish priest is called "another Christ" by brainwashed papists such as Mother Teresa."

Sad, sad, sad, sad, sad,...etc

After reading it, read this.

Because I didn't want to wait until the end of the month, I've decided to get over with it and post the new template.

I would really like your honest opinion. Some feedback would be great, you know.
Do you approve of the colors? If you don't, give me some ideas and I'll take them into consideration.
I personally like it. Don't be afraid of offending me, just give me your opinion.
Thanks.

When asked to comment on the recent Tsunami disaster in Indonesia, Michael Moore stated*, "It's all Bush's fault. If he increased National Security before hand, none of this would have happened!"

But in fact, the tsunami is Moore's fault. In the last 5 years, Michael Moore has let off a tremendous amount of hot air, thus resulting in a massive Tsunami.


*It's a joke, guys, Moore never really said that ;)

Whew! I just can't leave the stupid template alone! In other words, I'm planning on having a new design up by the end of the month...or before hand.

I'm thinking of a more simplistic look. Simple colors, simple structure. It'll make BlogHogger look a tad bit professional.

It seems that Pete has infected me with the U2 bug. For the past 12 hours or so I've been repeatedly getting their song "Vertigo," stuck in my head, and I like it stuck there. In fact, I'm listening to it right now on our computer's Media Guide. Just goes to show how much I like it. :)

Anyway, one thing I particularly like about U2 is that they can write lyrics that are very...mystical; kinda poetic, so that you have to dig to figure out their meaning (my other favorite group, Dave Matthews Band, also shares this skill). There's this really great site called SongMeanings.net, on which users can comment on their favorite songs, and they will very often say what they think the song's lyrics mean. I was researching "Vertigo" on this site, and the users had a slew of things to say about it. One of my favorite interpretations of the lyrics was the following one, written by a user whose name was "Fen," I think. Anyhoo, here's his (or her) interpretation:

I find it hard to believe that people can, in such a short time say this song has no depth. I will admit it has taken me years to fully appreciate Bono's lyrics but I think I'm getting the hang of it.

I think this song is about the alure and draw of temptation on ones life. Temptation is a meaningless concept to someone that does believe in God but I clearly think that Bono has been driven in his life to find his place in the world that God created for us.

The meaning of this song clicked for me in the bridge, "All this can be yours..." which is a close paraphrase of Matthew 4:9 when Christ is being tempted by satan in the wilderness. All he was asked to do is to bow down and worship satan and everything that they saw would be given to him. But of course... Satan was speaking to the creator so, not much of a deal huh??

Verse 1, "and though your soul it can't be bought your mind can wander" What an image of fighting with what you know to be RIGHT and moral and what you feel will be more fun.

Verse 2, beautiful image of the night sky and the heat of a wild club with many things that a 40 something married man may want to partake in but he decides to step back and ask for the check and head out... the girl with the red nail polish and the guilt inducing imagry of a crucifix hanging around her neck.

and of course the bridge... as mentioned above.

BUT the last verse. when the lights go down the grace and love of God give him something "I can feel"

and

"your love is teaching me how to KNEEL"... in prayer

I think it is an honest struggle to understand the world that we live in as a believer that longs to honor the All Mighty and yet enjoy the world.

The VERTIGO is the not the just the fear of heights but the fear of the FALL, the fall from grace and maybe even the fall into sin.

Of course that's just my opinion.

There are many other interpretations of the lyrics, and they're all pretty interesting. You can see both those and the song's lyrics here.

HAPPY STINKIN' NEW YEAR!!!!

YEAHHH!!!! (I'm not excited, to tell you the truth)

;)