what are Blogs for?

one of my youth told me today that blogs are meant to be personal, for a group of friends. he was questioning the blog I have started for the youth group and if it was right for a youth group to have a blog. So I ask the question what is a blog for?

2005 Plymouth PC rummage sale

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alot of stuff, alot of volunteers and ,many of bargin hunters led to another successful rummage sale. it was great to see old friends, meet church members, work with other church members. looking forward to this annual tradtion next year.

life at church crazy lately

Things at work have been crazy lately for a number of resasons, first there has been constant activity during the day the last two weeks leading up to the rummage sale. it is amazing how much stuff people have to sell and how much of it sold on Sat. despite the rain. then Cal one of our pastors lost his 94 year old mother last week, Susan our other pastor moved last week and both of our administrative assistants have been busy with high school graduation/open house stuff as their daughters graduate tommorow night. congrats to the class of 2005.

RSS

since my last post I have discover RSS, for those who are not familar with RSS. it is Really Simple Syndication or a way to keep track or updates/headlines from blogs and websites. For example I used to go to certain websites each day like startribune.com to check out the latest news in the twin cities, now I get the headlines from startribune sent to me each day via RSS.hopefully RSS will help me to have more sources for blog entries.

Walmart movie

From Robert Greenwald who brought us Outfoxed the true story of fox news, comes walmart the movie a look at the cost of those low prices. look for this to be released in November.

Twins ballpark proposal

I get upset when I hear our elected officals trying to do everything they can to kill the Twins proposal. While it may not be the best proposal, it is now or never and we need to embrace it and look foward to watching the Twins in a "ballpark". I am sick of the arugments people make against public support of stadiums for pro-teams. Why can't these owners pay for the whole thing themselves, do you hear that when we give corporations like Northwest Airlines(who is stoping serving pretzels and maybe in the future beverages to save money) bailouts? While it might be nice to take this stance if we don't do it, another city will. Should't we spend this money on things like education and poverty? Consider the tax revenue not only from the money spent at the stadium and at businesses around it, but also the income tax the players pay to the state. so indirectly the stadium does help fund these things. The need for a referendum on this proposal, look at the NWA example and Excelsior Henderson (who is no longer in busines) and all the failed referendums for education. plus this is not a property tax increse its a sales tax that is so small you will not even notice it.

one last thing is when there is talk about the Twins or Vikings leaving, people ask if the twin cities want to become a cold Omaha? Is Omaha that bad of a place to live?