The Holy Week Break - Repent Your Sins And Sin Again?!

For some a 4 day weekend - the long weekend. For others a time to renew the faith and repent for our sins.

Our faith calls for that.

The thing is we repent our sins and then we go out and sin again and again and again. As if repenting our sins allow us to start anew and sin again.

Politicians will show their faith by going to church and pray deeply as a sign of contrition yet come Monday they will be back to stealing from the country again. As if nothing happened.

What's this? A revolving door for sinning? Enter a sinner exit free to sin again? That's not right?

Yes GOD is ever loving and ever forgiving but there has to be a point where he says to himself "I can't take it anymore!" and we will feel his wrath like Sodom and Gomorrah.

You know, Sodom and Gomorrah the two cities along with Admah and Zeboim that were destroyed by "brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven" for the sins of their inhabitants.

At the time GOD had had enough. In Christianity and Islam, their names have become synonymous with impenitent sin, and their fall with a proverbial manifestation of GOD's wrath.

At least here we do repent our sins. BUT how long do you think before GOD gets tired of this whole charade?

You don't want to find out and neither do I. So why do we go through all this play bullshit then.

If you're serious then repent and don't do anything sinful again. And for those who say it's impossible I say Jesus did it.

(In observance of the Holy Weekend I will not be posting until Monday)

And The Midnight Appointments Continue

Well that shouldn't be the case according to the Supreme Court. In a statement by court spokesperson Midas Marques, the Supreme Court said that Malacañang cannot use their recent decision allowing President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to appoint the next Chief Justice to justify the recent spree of so-called midnight appointments.

A little to late for that now I would say. Arroyo’s flurry of recent appointments, which were disclosed last week, drew criticisms that these were midnight appointments - and of course it doesn't help that Malacañang would not say when each appointment was signed.

Very fishy indeed. If they wanted to clear matters up they should outright say that these appointments were made prior to the ban or something to that effect. Of course whether the people believe them or not is another thing entirely.

And look she appointed her college classmate Cynthia Carreon as head of the Tourism Promotions Board. She sure made a lot of last minute appointments, changing our Ambassador to Germany who only learned she was being replaced when she got an award from the president.

Wow, did not even have the decency to tell them they were being replaced until the last minute and during an awards ceremony at that. What a slap in the face.

Deputy presidential spokesperson Gary Olivar said that the appointments made “over an extended period of time” were all legal and was only now being reported.

Well if they were only now being reported then doesn't it go without saying that they were only now being made. I don't think the replacement of an ambassador to a major European country and the sacking and replacement of a lot of people at the same time will not constitute news if they were indeed made the time frame they said it was made.

If nothing else show proof so it will all come to rest.

Of course it will not remove the fact that it is all highly questionable. But then again since they are presidential appointees the incoming new president should just replace them all as is usually the norm.

Oh wait, what am I saying, there will not be any new president because we will be having a failed election. My bad I forgot about that - DUH!

A Gasoline Powered Alarm Clock Is Energy Efficient - Really?!

At least that's according to the U.S. federal "Energy Star" program. You know that government label certifying that a consumer product is energy efficient.

The labels help guide consumers buy a product in return for tax credits and rebates - an incentive if you will.

So how come a gasoline powered alarm clock?

It was a test by U.S. government investigators to see if the energy program was vulnerable to fraud and abuse.

Sorry to say but to energy certify 15 out of 20 phony products equates to a failing grade.

I mean come on, wasn't there at least one person in the program who questioned the fact that it was a gasoline powered alarm clock.

I mean think about it for a moment - A GASOLINE POWERED ALARM CLOCK THAT'S 1 1/2 FEET HIGH AND 15 INCHES WIDE. I don't know about you that is a warning sign right there. And I don't see gasoline power as either effective or clean.

What it comes down to is that the Energy Star program does not verify manufacturer's claims. Well isn't that obvious.

Apparently the automated review system didn't catch on to the deception.

So it was a machine that was handling all this and not a human being? Ah well. And because they thought the energy efficiency information was plausible no one thought to read the product description information or to verify the claims.

Hopefully this becomes an eye opener for the Energy Star program. It is such a good program to be marred by such inadequacies.