At Popper’s House Ministry Thrift, located near Five Points West in Birmingham, pride goes before destruction. Also, credit cards are welcome.

Kendall Guy, an Oakland pastor (left), and Rocky Twyman pray for lower gas prices after filling Guy’s car. Chronicle photo by Paul Chinn

Rocky Twyman - a community organizer, church choir director and public relations consultant from the Washington, D.C., suburbs - staged a pray-in at a San Francisco Chevron station on Friday, asking God for cheaper gas. He did the same thing in the nation’s Capitol on Wednesday, with volunteers from a soup kitchen joining in.

“Our leaders don’t seem to be able to do anything about it. The prices keep soaring and soaring.”

To solve the problem, Twyman isn’t begging the Lord for any specific act of intervention. He is not asking God to make OPEC pump more oil. Nor is he praying for all the speculative investors to be purged from the New York Mercantile Exchange, where crude oil is traded.

Instead, he says anyone who wants to follow his example should keep it simple.

“God, deliver us from these high gas prices,” Twyman said. “That’s all they have to say.”

Twyman, 59, has a history of taking on interesting causes, some whimsical, some deadly serious. Three years ago, he led a petition drive to have Oprah Winfrey nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. It didn’t work, obviously, but he says he had a great time with it.

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At Tuesday’s Birmingham City Council meeting, Mayor Larry Langford proclaimed Friday, April 25, a “day of prayer in sackcloth and ashes” in Birmingham. Larry has ordered 2,000 burlap sacks for the event.

Birmingham Weekly writes:

To many Christians, sackcloth and ashes symbolize humility and repentance, but the mayor’s decree came dressed with the usual accoutrements - printed on fine, invitation-stock paper and wrapped in a bright silver folder, adorned by the magic hat logo Langford commissioned for the city last year.

1. There’s a conflict between the comparisons (”The City of Birmingham like the City of Nineveh” vs. “pails in comparison to Nineveh”) in the first sentence.
2. He misspelled “pales”
3. Birmingham is not the 4th most violent city per capital.
4. He misspelled “per capita”
5. He is inconsistent with capitalizing the name of the Lord.

Is Birmingham worse than Nineveh? Well in the book of Jonah, the Bible never really tells of the particulars of Nineveh’s sin…at least from what I can tell.

The mayor puts himself parallel with the King of Nineveh (Jonah 3:7) who, wearing sackcloth and ashes, joined his citizens in prayer. The question that remains is will Larry do as the King did and remove his robe / suit and put on the sackcloth and ash.

Update photo:

More than likely, you’ve never heard of the Gregory News Network. He does a daily 10 minute show on youtube and it covers a variety of issues such as earthquakes, tornadoes or even being harassed by a security guard.

That was the first version. Here’s a link to the second version.

He is really top notch with his daily show. He lives in Van Nys, CA. He claims to be a celebrity and is “semi-famous”.

This is an example of quality video. Wishing you a “Happy New Year” on March 23. Frequent taking on and off of the glasses.

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/5000earthquakes

Official website: http://www.quakemed.freeservers.com/

Groom and groomsmen: Classic red shirt and tennis shoes for the groom. I think the ring bearer and the smoker should swap ties.


Bride and bridesmaids.

Groom and his bride. Nice flops. Nice backdrop of the weeds.

Close up of the couple…silk flowers and all.

That’s what I’m talking about!

Back in front of the garage doors for the “fun” photo.

You might think she’s grabbing his butt, but she might just be pulling him up for the kiss.

Awesomeness!

Photo via Milford Cubicle

Why does #3 have to USA? Why can’t it be Canada or Israel or Work?

The greater question is: What is Newswatch Magazine? And why would someone ever order a magazine after seeing a 800 number on the back of a 18 wheeler?

It is a magazine put out by David J Smith and the Church of God Evangelistic Association. The association is really the name of his church. The church is located in Waxahachie, TX.

What’s even better is that “Newswatch Magazine” is written across the pulpit. I also enjoy the bookcases behind the stage. Very nice. Instead of using lights from the ceiling to give Mr. Smith proper lighting for filming, they just went with lights on tripods as if it’s a photo shoot. And really it would be a nice Olan Mills backdrop. The bookcases with the ships on top.

If you check out other parts of their website, you’ll find photos of alleged POW camps in America (hinting at a war in America), some Russian trucks that showed up in America, and the best yet…possible UN vehicles!

They write: “These images were just sent to us showing many solid white vehicles that the words “UN” could easily be painted on the sides of them. This was taken in Bastrop, Texas.”

http://www.newswatchmagazine.org

Yvonne me lallas (lover’s concerto)

Dude with the glasses…there’s your lover’s concerto right there.

Sven Erics

I’m pretty sure I saw the guy that is the 2nd from left running the ferris wheel at some fair.

Christers

After a closer look, it appears these hippies are wearing green native american indian leggings. They would have no chance vs the Creek Nation.

Oijwinds

What percentage of this band is male?

Cool Candys

It’s nice to see that the only member of the band who has a shirt that fits is on the back right covered up. He must have ordered all mediums.

I’m looking forward to eating there soon! I mean son!