J's Cafe Nette

Archive for September 15th, 2007

Weekends are usually so busy for all of us, so wouldn’t it be wonderful to be able to get back to nature and a bit of quiet at a whim?

This, animated video’s creator must have had that same thing in mind. (FYI-Papiroflexia is Spanish for Origami)

Here’s to all of us having a few of those quiet moments each and every day, even if it’s just in our imagination.

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This was the original post put up on this blog. Since some changes have been made I am reposting the purpose statement with the update included.

This is the first post for J’s Cafe Nette .

The intent of this blog is to talk about current events, which will naturally involve talking about politics.

We will have a conservative Republican (me) and a liberal Democrat (a user name as yet to be chosen) along with a very fair-minded conservative Republican, Sue.

The intent is to have debate without fights on this blog. We want you to feel at home here and understand some debates will get strong, but we don’t want it to get into a name-calling contest.

We will refer to elected officials by their real names or title and last name. We may refer to them by their last name only, but we will not be using common slurs for any of our elected officials.

It is my hope that conservatives as well as liberals and those in between can come together and find some common ground.

Just as I don’t believe all Republicans are good I don’t believe all Democrats are bad. If our elected officials in Washington cannot act as the adults they are supposed to be, then let us show them how it is done on the grassroots level.

There will be no swearing of any kind on this site and there will be no dirty jokes or postings of photos that make someone look unflattering.

I will also be mixing in some posts having to do with faith and invite you to join in those discussions as well.

I had a blog that was strictly a faith blog and abandoned it because I was too heavily involved with a strictly political blog. I found I wasn’t happy with talking about just politics and circumstances arose that made my exit happen.

As more posts get added, I pray the items you now see at the bottom of this post will move to the sidebar where they are supposed to be.

I wish to thank kimsch of Musing Minds and Schratwieser Consulting for doing such an excellent job of getting this blog set up.

With that I bid you a very warm welcome to J’s Cafe Nette.

Update 9/14/07 Although we started out with good intentions in March, hoping to show Republicans and Democrats could reach some sort of consensus to make our country better by working together, it just didn’t work out.

We found ourselves bickering and throwing political jabs at one another, so I decided the best solution would be to get our one Democratic blogger his own blog, which is under the umbrella of this blog.

Guss at Guss’ Coffee House has his own blog to address issues of interest to Democrats/liberals.

Although it is under the umbrella of this blog, it is totally written and managed by Guss, and I have nothing to do with the writing on that blog. My only role over there is to help him with coding issues he may have.

Our goal is still to present both sides of the story, but to do it on separate sites.

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Commedian Kathy Griffin won a Creative Arts Emmy for her cable show, “My Life on the D-List.” I’ve never seen it, but that isn’t the point. (J mentioned this in an earlier post.) During her taped acceptance speech, she said:

“A lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus … Suck it, J*sus. This award is my god now.”

She said backstage that she hoped she offended someone, because “I didn’t want to win the Emmy for nothing.”

Well, how charming.

The speech drew fire from a leading Roman Catholic group, the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, which condemned Griffin’s remarks as “obscene and blasphemous.”

“It is a sure bet that if Griffin had said, ‘Suck it, Muhammad,’ there would have been a very different reaction,” Catholic League president Bill Donohue said in a statement posted on the group’s Web site. He called on TV academy president Dick Askin to denounce Griffin’s “hate speech” and on Griffin to apologize.

An edited version of the Creative Arts Emmys is set to air on cable television’s E! Entertainment Network on Saturday, the night before the live Fox network broadcast of the main Primetime Emmy Awards.

Griffin’s defense? “Am I the only Catholic left with a sense of humor?”

Really. “Suck it, J*sus.” That’s supposed to be funny? Where’s the joke?

Let’s pretend for a minute that Griffin is a Catholic who believes wholeheartedly in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Would she seriously think that saying “suck it, J*sus” would constitute a joke?

When she dies and mets the Lord, will she say, “Hey, J*sus, you had nothing to do with my success, so suck it”?

Yeah, right. I’ll tell you what will really happen. No, in fact, Isaiah will tell you. Here’s a man who was one of God’s most prominent prophets, a man who worshiped the Lord and turned his back on sin as best as he humanly could. In those days, no one was closer to God than Isaiah. But when he was brought face to face with the Lord (Isaiah 6:1-5):

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were seraphs, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they were calling to one another:

“Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty;
the whole earth is full of his glory.”

At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.

“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty.”

As powerful a servant of God as Isaiah was, he believed himself “ruined” to merely be in God’s awesome presence. Do you think someone would truly have the temerity to say, “suck it!”?

(Yes, of course, I know, athiests believe we bad ol’ Christians tell such stories of the afterlife to frighten our children. Well … boo!)

Instead of condemning Kathy Griffin for her stupid “joke,” or come out swinging with cries of “blashemy!” as the Catholic League did, I wonder if someone in Hollywood-land or elsewhee in the public eye has tried witnessing to her. Share Jesus’s good news of salvation, forgiveness and God’s grace that we don’t deserve yet is freely given.

Sadly, probably not. Tinsletown is a hedonistic place that continually assaults Christ and the cross; yet remember, even Lot was declared righteous in Sodom.

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