By: George Conger.

The Anglican Communion has been broken and it is an “illusion” to believe things can ever be the same again, the archbishops of the Gafcon movement said last week following their first organizational meeting in London.

The leaders of the conservative wing of the Anglican Communion, representing more than half of the Church’s active members, on Aug 29 released a statement affirming the aims of the movement --- now known as the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FCA) --- and restated its commitment to the reform and renewal of the Communion.

However, they disagreed sharply with the course taken by Archbishop Rowan Williams in avoiding a full and frank airing of the issues, with one insider telling The Church of England Newspaper the Anglican Communion’s sex wars had taken on a Dickensian quality, and like “Jarndyce and Jarndyce” was still dragging its “dreary length before the court, perennially hopeless.”

The Primate of Nigeria, Archbishop Peter Akinola, the Primate of Uganda, Archbishop Henry Orombi, the Primate of Rwanda, Archbishop Emmanuel Kolini, the Primate of Kenya, Archbishop Benjamin Nzimbi, and the Primate of the Southern Cone, Presiding Bishop Gregory Venables (pictured) --- later joined by the Primate of Tanzania, Archbishop Valentino Mokiwa, also offered a critique of suggestions made by the Windsor Continuation Group (WCG) that another committee such as a “Pastoral Forum” might successfully address the issues dividing the church.

While applauding the aims of the “Windsor Process” and the intent of its supporters, the premise underlying the WCG’s argument was flawed, the FCA archbishops said. The WCG had argued that unless all parties agreed to moratoriums on gay bishops and blessings, as well as cross-border incursions “the Communion is likely to fracture.”

However, the “Communion fractured in 2003, when our fellowship was ‘torn at its deepest level’,” by the consecration of Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire.

The response to the Robinson ordination had been a series of hapless committees that pour forth jejune words and useless empty phrases that achieve nothing. We are “continually offered the same strategies which mean further delay and unlikely results. Indeed, delay itself seems to be a strategy employed by some in order to resolve the issue through weariness,” they said.

Sadly, the archbishops observed, there were now three realities that “must be faced,” and are “past the time when they can be reversed.”

“First, some Anglicans have sanctified sinful practices and will continue to do so whatever others may think.” Second, those “affected by this disobedience have rightly withdrawn fellowship while wishing to remain authentic Anglicans. So-called ‘border-crossing’ is another way of describing the provision of recognition and care for those who have been faithful to the teachings of Holy Scripture.”

And, third: “there is widespread impaired and broken sacramental communion amongst Anglicans,” the archbishops said, noting that the “hope that we may somehow return to the state of affairs before 2003 is an illusion.”

The way forward for the communion lay not through committees but through spiritual revival, the archbishops said. “We believe that the Jerusalem Declaration provides for a viable way of helping to deal with the crisis in the Anglican Communion brought about through the disobedience to Scripture by some in North America and elsewhere.”

The Aug 29 communiqué stated the primates had created a Secretariat and an Advisory Board, “which will work with them on fulfilling the aims of the movement.”

The FCA “isn’t a new church, nor is it an alternative power [bloc]” within the Anglican Communion Bishop Venables told CEN. “It is about the survival of Biblical values within the communion.”

“What is being worked out” in the formation of the FCA “is the Gospel. Gafcon [FCA] is a proclamation of the ‘truth’,” he said.

Anglicanism “need not be unclear. We are seeking to say what God says,” Bishop Venables explained.

Archbishop Orombi told CEN “Gafcon is a movement of hope for the Anglican Communion members who love Jesus and live in obedience to his Word. We are full of passion for Gafcon’s future,” he said.

The simple answer is: you send payment to the seller, as quickly as possible. The quicker you pay, the more your seller will like you, and the sooner your item will arrive. But how you go about it? That all depends on how you plan to pay.

PayPal.

PayPal is one of the most popular options for paying on eBay, to the point where eBay decided to buy the company. It allows instant electronic payment across the Internet. Money goes instantly from your credit or debit card to the seller's PayPal account, where they can either use it for Internet purchases or transfer it out to their bank.

eBay offer incentives for using PayPal, and almost all sellers now accept it. Its instant nature makes sellers very happy, and means that they can have your item packed and sent and leave you some positive feedback within a few hours of the auction ending. When paying by PayPal, you will be covered by PayPal's own insurances and guarantees, as well as any that your card might have.

Cheques and Money Orders.

This is payment the old-fashioned way, and will lead to a long wait to your item. You need to post the cheque or money order, then the seller has to take it to the bank and get it cleared, and only then do they send the item. The only reason to use this method is if either you or the seller distrusts electronic payment methods. If you're willing to go to the trouble with these sellers, though, you might get an item very cheaply, as most buyers just can't be bothered.

When you pay by cheque or money order, make sure to print the eBay order confirmation page (it will be emailed to you) and put it in the envelope with your payment. Underline or circle key information like your mailing address and the item number. Finally, remember to be patient: keep in contact with the seller, as it really can take a month or two before everything falls into place and your item turns up.

Money Transfers and Bank Deposits.

Some sellers may ask you to pay them using a wire service like Western Union, or simply give you a bank account number and ask you to pay money into it. Unless you really trust the seller, this is generally a bad idea - these methods are hard to trace and you're unlikely to get any money back if anything goes wrong. Paying in cash, it hardly needs to be said, is an even worse idea.

It's all a lot to take in, isn't it? I'm sure by now you've got a few questions, which is why the next email will be a little eBay buyer's FAQ. Let's hope we can solve any problems you might have.

Charley James –

“So Sambo beat the bitch!”

This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described Barack Obama’s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party presidential nomination.

Besides insulting Obama with a Step-N’-Fetch-It, “darkie musical” swipe, people who know her say she refers regularly to Alaska’s Aboriginal people as “Arctic Arabs” – how efficient, lumping two apparently undesirable groups into one ugly description – as well as the more colourful “mukluks” along with the totally unimaginative “f**king Eskimo’s,” according to a number of Alaskans and Wasillians interviewed for this article.

But being openly racist is only the tip of the Palin iceberg. According to Alaskans interviewed for this article, she is also vindictive and mean. We’re talking Rove mean and Nixon vindictive.

No wonder the vast sea of white, cheering faces at the Republican Convention went wild for Sarah: They adore the type, it’s in their genetic code. So much for McCain’s pledge of a “high road” campaign; Palin is incapable of being part of one.

Read the rest at: http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09/05/alaskans-speak-in-a-frightened-whisper-palin-is-%e2%80%9cracist-sexist-vindictive-and-mean%e2%80%9d/

This was part one....

This is part two....

People have been complaining about my poor language usage. I ask again, POOR LANGUAGE USAGE?!? Damn! I am Brazilian, folks! You know what language we speak here? Double damn! You should be amazed at how well I can describe my thoughts and ideas in English given this scenario! I have never left the country or ever lived among people speaking English. In a way, I am a miracle worker! So don't complain about my writing skills. I know they can improve, and I am improving them, but don't accuse me of being lame because I am not. If you could read in Portuguese you would then realize my true potential as a writer, but wait! Oh, noes! You can't read in Portuguese! See the point I am trying to make here? I want to share what I write with you. Being it well-written or not, the intention is pure and sincere. You people tend to be so demanding!

So yeah. I am releasing one last book before I part on another journey. It's called "POR UM ABRAÇO SEU" (For one of your hugs) and it is the last short story I wrote before this annoying writer's block. I am very proud of it. It's in Portuguese, really, and it shall remain like this. But you English-speaking people will have the chance to complain about my last book in English, THE HARBINGER, that shall come out in a month or so (if I don't run into yet another problem along the way... it's been almost a year now!).

I have been reading the manuscripts for HARBINGER volume 2. It's great. Really. That good. I haven't finished it, though, which is a shame. There's still volume 3 and 4 to write. I don't know if I'll ever achieve it. But I'll try to finish volume 2 by this year's nanowrimo. Perhaps even start volume 3. Luckily in next year's nanowrimo I can finish v3 and start v4 or something like that. Who knows? I hope I can write something by then, but then again.. bleh.

Thank you all people who have supported me all the way here. I wonder why people hate my books. They must hate it, right, for no one buys them!

Go figure.
Check it out, this is the cover for my last Portuguese book:

It will have 9 illustrations by one-of-a-kind artist Rafael Ferreira (who was working with me on "O ALENTO" (currently canceled because of my w's block)). They will come between each chapter, showing personal details of the main characters of the story (10). They are all furry/anthropomorphic characters. The story takes place in Bom Jesus too, the starting point of THE HARBINGER, even though the two stories are not connected, as in POR UM ABRAÇO SEU there are no hints of human existence, while in THE HARBINGER the protagonist is a human.

See you.

P.S.: Even though I will be selling POR UM ABRAÇO SEU, you can also read it for free here. I post one chapter and one illustration per week. Stay tuned!

AP article summarizing and fact-checking the Republican attacks on Obama and Biden (hint: a lot of the time the Republicans are lying.)

Factcheck.Org report on McCain's acceptance speech at the RNC.  An excerpt:

McCain attacked Obama for voting for "corporate welfare" for oil companies. In fact, the bill Obama voted for raised taxes on oil companies by $300 million over 11 years while providing $5.8 billion in subsidies for renewable energy, energy efficiency and alternative fuels.

Economic analysis of the differences in how family incomes have grown under Democratic and Republican administrations.  (hint: we've done better in terms of GNP growth and lessening income inequality during Democratic administrations.)

Editorial from the New York Times, John McCain's Energy Follies.  An exceprt:

"And while his acceptance speech promised “the most ambitious national project in decades,” including efforts to improve energy efficiency, increasing oil production remains the centerpiece of his strategy.

These positions divert public attention from an unavoidable truth: a nation that uses one-quarter of the world’s oil while owning only 3 percent of its reserves cannot drill its way to happiness or self-sufficiency. And they trivialize the very hard work that lies ahead."

That whole "drill, baby, drill" thing makes a nice political slogan, but isn't going to serve us in the long term.  Here is an interesting article in the Economist about Amory Lovins, an "energy visionary" who has long argued for focusing efforts on increasing efficieny over increasing supplies. (Thanks to Kevin for the link!)

And an unashamedly liberal review of why Sarah Palin makes my bloid boil, from her "smug and nasty" speech delivery at the RNC to her lies to the refusal to talk to the media.  Update:  A report that Palin has agreed to an interview with Charlie Gibson this week.

And finally, an articulate and thoughtful statement from Gloria Steinem on why Palin is the "wrong woman, wrong message", even managing to find a few rays of hope in this mess:

Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time. A loss in November could cause the centrist majority of Republicans to take back their party, which was the first to support the Equal Rights Amendment and should be the last to want to invite government into the wombs of women.

And American women, who suffer more because of having two full-time jobs than from any other single injustice, finally have support on a national stage from male leaders who know that women can't be equal outside the home until men are equal in it. Barack Obama and Joe Biden are campaigning on their belief that men should be, can be and want to be at home for their children.

At last week's national convention, Republicans fought to turn a perceived weakness of their vice-presidential nominee — a lack of experience — into a signature strength, saying Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin had more executive experience than both members of the Democratic ticket combined.

Six years of her executive experience came as mayor of Wasilla, a city north of Anchorage that had about 5,000 residents when she took over. As much of Palin's hometown rallies with pride around her, 1,400 miles away — in a National Archives warehouse in Seattle — three boxes of documents help capture the quality of her mayoral experience.

These records, from a federal wrongful-termination lawsuit, include the minutiae of municipal governance, with memos to administrators and personnel records stamped "confidential." The documents, combined with accounts from her hometown newspaper, show how Palin's first year as mayor could easily have been her last.

Read more at http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008163431_palin070.html

So, there's the question. How do I answer it? The thing is, I don't know. I haven't known for a while, and while I have a major plan laid out for the future, the numerous smaller details of said plan are beginning to overwhelm. Take, for instance, my chosen profession: Journalism. It's a wide field of work, ranging from the traditional print to the imagery of video and digital photographs. So, since I've chosen it, I should have a clear picture of where I want to fit in that field, right?

Not so much.

While I enjoy writing, I've begun to wonder if I want to employ those skills in the media. My concentration for my Journalism major is Print, so why did I pick it? Was it because I thought the writing part would be fun, or just easy? Granted, I did think that it would be less stressful than my other choices, but I'm finding that same choice is now working against me. I have begun to dislike writing in general now that I'm forced to do it. Am I having a withdrawal? Is it because I've always viewed writing as a hobby, or something fun to do in my spare time? I think it may be true, or at least have some element of play within the issue at large.

I think that one of my major problems is my lack of experience. "Wait, you're a senior in college and you don't have any experience?" Some of you might be wondering that right about now, and the answer is, "Yes." I have no real experience. Why? Well, I guess you could call it lack of initiative, or the textbook mentality that tells me that as long as you read the book and go to class, you'll be ok. It's painful to say it, but both reasons are true. "Well, why don't you fix it?" Don't worry, I'm getting to that.

Some people have said that the first step is the hardest to take. I tend to disagree. It's easy to take the first step. It's an entirely different situation to figure out where you want to go after you've taken the first step, or even realize why you took that step to begin with. As for me, I think I'm struggling with the former. I know I want to be involved in Journalism. I want to be like the men and women on the news, reporting their news to the masses. But what medium to use? I have based my goals off of the people I saw on television and I turned to print. Aha! I think I may have found a key to my struggle.

Why am I writing when I want to be on television?!

It's true that I'll need to be able to write in the appropriate formats to make it as a capable newsman, but I think I'm focusing on the wrong point in the distance. Where one man goes on to write for a major newspaper, another goes on to become a weatherman for the local channels. So what should my course of action be?

I need to talk with my advisor.

I have several interests that I need to explore, but at this point in time I need to buckle down and get something done. I'm in my senior year of college. I need to have something in my portfolio by the time I graduate. It may not be the best looking, but all the same it needs to be there. I want to get more involved with video and photography, so maybe I'll invest some work into that and get something together. Foremost, however, will be to wrestle with the bear that is my current assignment: writing.

I suppose that the fact I have written this post should say something about my ability to write. Perhaps I have already have what I need to put together the required effort to achieve or exceed the standard. Only time will tell now. I need to go do some homework...

Wait a minute, I did buy NetShare when it was first made available. I actually am making this post through NetShare.

Note to AT&T: Let this happen!

Amigos y Amigas, Buenos dias! Magandang umaga! Good morning!

The title of this briefer may come as a shock to all those who pretend to know Adam Smith and, more so, for those who revere Mr. Smith as a cult Icon. Just to clarify to everyone, being a political economist and ‘economic sociologist’, I hold Smith personally in high esteem as an intellectual, and this briefer is not meant to flaunt irreverence on this gentleman. Smith’s place in economic history is already granite rock, no matter if laissez faire or physiocracy has become obsolete before World War II yet.

The thing is, fact of all facts, contemporary thinkers such as those guys from the ‘Chicago school’, led by Nobel notable J. Friedman (weren’t there Nobel winners who were demented, nay demonic in mindset? E.g biologist Watson, who claimed that Blacks are genetically inferior in mental intelligence). The revival of laissez faire, as one can see, was responsible for flawed policy regimes that led to the series of short cycle crisis since the early 70s yet, and which is now leading finally to the Great Depression that will mark the death blow to liberal capitalism that is now on its terminal phase. From this point of time onwards, there can be no more return to laissez faire without bringing back humanity to a catastrophic Dark Age reminiscent of that demonic age of the Medieval Era when sanity fled humanity for nigh 200 year at least.

I used to be a Fellow of the Independent Review circle here in Manila, a circle of eminent and illustrious intellectuals and business leaders (I was the only humble fellow here in the 1990s).  Unfortunately, this group disbanded in 2002, due perhaps to methodological differences (I was active only till 2001 when I left for the USA for about a year). Entry to this group was by invitation, and that was how I got wind up of it: a female student of mine at the De La Salle University (DLSU Manila) had some of my articles (readings in class) read by his father, the Undersecretary Butch Valdez (Dept of Education) who in turn extended the invitation to the Independent Review circle thru her daughter.

Within the circle, it was Butch Valdez, the eminent Principal of the Valdez & Co that is one of the Philippines’ top auditing firms, who studied with intensity the physiocratic paradigm. He came across various readings about the life and works of Adam Smith, and wrote series of articles in the Independent Review (a journal-type magazine) in ‘97 and ‘98. Being among DLSU’s privileged coterie of most brilliant alumni, Valdez’s most revealing inquiry—Smith’s being a paid intellectual for the slave traders—did come as a shock to me, though it doesn’t shock me anymore that intellectuals do prostitute themselves before high paying clients (Antonio Gramsi and Edward Said devoted kilometric pages about intellectuals, both the ‘organic’ and the ‘autonomous’ types).

The research findings of Mr. Valdez concerning Mr. Smith can be summed up as follows:

·         Previous to the years before the ascent to eminence of Smith, slave trade and the British East India Co or BEIC were among the accepted economic modalities. Needless to say, the BEIC was engaged in the trading of slaves. [Actually, my research went beyond that, as the same BEIC was also engaged in the DRUG TRADE, in the opium trade, and had an army of its own separate yet from the King’s army.]

·         Physiocracy, which bannered ‘free enterprise’, was especially important for the BEIC and related monopolistic imperial groups since the paradigm promoted ‘free trade’ as well. Laissez faire was in a clash with mercantilism’s dirigist policy regime, remember, as it was also opposed to mercantilism’s promotion of industrialism even as laissez faire championed agriculturalism and the ulterior interests of the landlord class. Needless to say, physiocracy championed the cause of the gentry or big planter landlord and was scornful of the industrial class (in the Philippines there is nary a disjunction between ‘landlord’ and ‘industrial’ interests anyway, they are in conjunct.)

·         At that historic juncture when the British Empire was expanding and eclipsing its power, the BEIC desired to optimize its profits from out of diverse trading engagements, most of all for optimizing the slave trade. It need not belabored that slaves were tied up to colonial plantations, and plantation economy was the only modality permitted by the British Monarchy as the definitive economic formation for the ‘4^th world’ peripheries (colonies). The BEIC engagements’ optimization can best be done by procuring the services of intellectual mercenaries who could articulate in sophistical vogue the very doctrinal expectations of the Lords of the BEIC Hierarchy  (a ‘Committee of 300’, per my research findings).

·         It was precisely at that juncture of expanded slave trade when the BEIC’s talent scouts eyed the services of a Scottish gentleman, named Adam Smith, who could fit into the mental Pied Piper prototype for BEIC enslavement pursuits.  It would be no wise to contend that Smith was a mental robot or ‘Manchurian Candidate’ controlled by overlords behind the scenes, for Smith was a man of his own mind, and up to the last instance he was indeed that ‘organic intellectual’ for the slave traders. He just couldn’t qualify as ‘independent intellectual’ though, for Smith was, in the yardsticks of the autonomous intellectuals, a ‘prostituted intellectual’ or ‘intellectual prostitute’.

The rest was history. Both the erudite and simpleton among the schooled populations of Earth know what Smith’s economic doctrine is all about. And many folks today are aware that the neo-liberal policy regime of the moment was a rehash of the same Smithian physiocracy.

I do wish that I could converse with Antonio Gramsci face-to-face today and request this noblesse thinker whether the term ‘intellectual prostitute’ is appropriate an inference for Adam Smith. I might have erred in judgement. Mr. Smith was a willing party to the enslavement, plunder and looting by the British oligarchs, and this ‘willing party to’ aspect may cancel out my inference altogether. Sous rapture, to quote Jacques Derrida.

At any rate, I have shared my notes, and thanks to the gentleman Butch Valdez for his inquiries shared to our circle. Thanks to Gramsci and Said too for their recondite peregrinations about intellectuals. Fellows, I hereby leave the inferential option to you, to decide whether Smith was indeed ‘intellectual prostitute’. Have a nice day!

[Writ 21 August 2008, Quezon City, MetroManila.]

ANCHORAGE — Gov. Sarah Palin used state funds in June when she traveled from Juneau to Wasilla to speak to graduating evangelical students and urge them to fan out through Alaska "to make sure God’s will be done here."

State records show that Palin submitted a travel authorization for a quick round-trip visit to attend the June 8 graduation of the Master's Commission program at the Wasilla Assembly of God, the church where she was baptized at age 12. The only other item on the agenda for that trip was a "One Lord Sunday" service involving a network of Mat-Su Christian churches earlier that morning at the Wasilla sports complex.

The records show Palin flew from Juneau to Anchorage on Saturday, June 7. She returned to Juneau that Monday afternoon. The plane tickets cost the state $519.50, and she claimed an additional $120 for meals and other expenses.

Palin couldn't be reached for comment Friday as she campaigned for vice president. Her spokeswoman at the McCain campaign said she wouldn't grant an interview.

But Palin's spokeswoman in the governor's office, Sharon Leighow, said the state paid for the trip because Palin was invited to the events as the governor, not as a private citizen.

"I know for a fact she gave remarks at the Wasilla Assembly of God as governor of Alaska to the graduates of this particular program," Leighow said.

In her eight-minute remarks, delivered without notes except when she read a brief scripture passage, she melded the issues of governance with a call to bringing Alaskans to God.

"What I need to do is strike a deal with you guys as you go out throughout Alaska — I can do my part in doing things like working really, really hard to get a natural gas pipeline." Palin said. "Pray about that also. I think God's will has to be done, in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that. But I can do my job there, in developing our natural resources, and doing things like getting the roads paved, making sure our troopers have their cop cars and their uniforms and their guns, and making sure our public schools are funded.

"But really, all of that stuff doesn’t do any good if the people of Alaska's hearts isn't right with God. And that's going to be your job," she said. "As I'm doing my job, let's strike this deal. Your job is going to be: to be out there, reaching the people, (the) hurting people throughout Alaska, and we can work together to make sure God's will be done here."

Palin's talk was recorded by the church and posted on its Web site. It has since been removed, but the video has been copied to multiple sites on the Internet as Americans attempt to learn more about her since her surprise pick by John McCain as his running mate Aug. 29.

Palin herself no longer regularly attends the Wasilla Assembly of God. She now attends other nondenominational, evangelical churches in Wasilla and Juneau. Palin told the graduates her remarks were off the cuff because she wasn't sure she could attend.

"I didn't prepare anything thinking that no, our schedule wouldn't allow me to be here," Palin said. But Leighow said the graduation was one of two purposes for the trip.

According to a six-minute promotional video by the Wasilla Assembly of God, the master's commission program is a live-in, year-long educational program for young adults. The church's description shows there’s nothing secular about it.

"The Master's Commission program is something that's going to take a young person and lead them for the rest of their lives in passionate journey for Jesus," the video says. The instruction is "designed to take students in from around the nation and through that, we’re able to shape and mold disciples of the lord Jesus Christ."

The program isn't just inward looking — the graduates are expected take the message to people around the state.

"We seek him in the morning with worship, with live worship, with intimate worship, to know him face-to-face," the video says. "The first part in the morning is to know God, and then from that afternoon you go out and make him known."

In words similar to Palin's, the video stresses the program's ties to Alaska:

"God has a destiny for the state of Alaska, and we know that master's commission is one of the keys that God is going to use to unlock his glory for that state," a speaker says.

In an e-mail exchange on Friday, Palin's spokeswoman Leighow defended the use of state money by Palin to travel to Wasilla and participate in the event. Attending religious events is common for elected officials, she said. There was no violation of the constitutional separation of church and state in Palin's appearance and remarks, she said.

"Public officials travel and speak to a religious group as part of their official duties," Leighow said. "Virtually every day there is a state or federal public official who speaks to members of the faith community. The governor can speak to secular audiences as well as faith-based audiences, and Republicans and Democrats routinely do this."

Leighow compared Palin's urging on of the young evangelical students to her attending the 2007 installation of Rabbi Michael Oblath at Congregation Beth Sholom in Anchorage.

"What's the difference?" Leighow said.

I have a ton of ideas for The Blue Museum that I would like to put into action but so little time! If you are the praying type, please remember this ministry in your prayers. It's still very much in the toddler stage, but we do have a core group of faithful members! I'm praying about starting a series based on the book and film "Lord, Save Us from Your Followers." Don't worry,it's not as bad as it sounds. Also, there have been ideas tossed between a few members and myself of starting a mini podcast show. I'd also like to get "The Signal" newsletter back up. It's been asked about by a couple members in our church. We'll see. These things cannot be done without God's guidance and the green light from Pastor.

Anyway, no matter how old you are or what stage of life you're in, we would love to see you there.

Courtesy,
eugene

Our central location and optimal transport links allow you to reach all parts of the city with ease. The main railway station, the Gewandhaus and the opera house are just 200 metres away, while the exhibition grounds lie at a distance of 6 kilometres.

From the HuffPo:

On July 20, 2008, the pastor of Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin's home church, Larry Kroon, delivered a sermon called "Sin Is Personal To God." Kroon, the senior pastor of the non-denominational Wasilla Bible Church in Wasilla, Alaska, used the book of Zephanaiah as his reference point for discussing "that great day of the Lord when God will finally bring closure to human history... a day of wrath." According to Kroon, "all things and all people" are going to bear the brunt of God's "intense anger." "There's anger with God," he proclaimed. "He takes sin personal."

Kroon placed Zephaniah in a modern context, warning that the sinful habits of Americans would invite the wrath of God. "And if Zephaniah were here today," Kroon bellowed, "he'd be saying, 'Listen, [God] is gonna deal with all the inhabitants of the earth. He is gonna strike out His hand against, yes, Wasilla; and Alaska; and the United States of America. There's no exceptions here -- there's none. It's all.'"

Text of sermon, audio here:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/palins-pastor-god-is-gonn_b_124417.html

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