Has he stood firm against the manimals?

I didn't get a chance to see or hear the State of the Union address this year, but I do want to know. He gave a stirring declaration of principle and courage in his 2006 address: that he would not tolerate man-animal hybrids. I have looked in vain for some evidence of action after this. The man is a lame duck, I understand. He's had reverses. But can't he think of his legacy?

This is not the first time I've expressed my concerns. And still the White House is silent.

Treachery, or mere incompetence? Please tell me he said something reassuring tonight.

EMusic downloads!

Thank you everyone who gave me advice. I was getting tired of my own. Downloads were:

Amon Düül 2 - Yeti, via ortho_bob

Burial - Self-titled, via ortho_bob

Crippled Pilgrims - via obnoxicant

Graeme Downs - Hammers and Anvils via planetdracula

[ Yin Xiang . Liu San Jie ] Zhi . Le (Music Of Impression Sanjie Liu) - via planetdracula

Sharevari (Instrumental) from an 80s disco comp

The King of the Fairies (trad. arr) from some Irish comp

How shall we sing the Lord's song in a foreign land?

25 After you have had children and grandchildren and have lived in the land a long time—if you then become corrupt and make any kind of idol, doing evil in the eyes of the LORD your God and provoking him to anger, 26 I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live there long but will certainly be destroyed. -- Deuteronomy 4:25-26

Did God give O.C. woman backstage pass to 'American Idol'?

Leesa Bellesi threw her hands up in the air and prayed: "Here I am Lord, send me to the backstage of 'American Idol.' "

She was watching Season 5 of the ultra-popular television show in her Laguna Beach home at the time.

It was her calling, she thought, "to minister to the needs of the people on that show."

Several weeks later, out of the blue, a pretty girl named Katharine McPhee walked into Lake Avenue Church in Pasadena where Leesa's husband, Denny, founder of Coast Hills Community Church in Aliso Viejo, was serving as the interim teaching pastor. Katharine asked Leesa and Denny to pray for her – as she was about to go into seclusion for "American Idol."

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Just when I thought Orange County Religion couldn't get any worse, they ratchet up into another level of awful!