THE MCJ

When such BOLD FRANK UNEQUIVOCAL statements, don't you think you need to be wearing either Gospel armor or at the very least your CJ-AI superhero outfit and be making these statements from a secret MCJ Bunker at an undisclosed location (ala Osama Bin Laden et al). Also, did you check with your attorney beforehand?

Thank you for speaking the truth-in-love, CJ!

P.S. How about inviting the Mad Potter over to this MCJ blogpost and commenting here on the thread?

Whitestone, the truth remains a valid defense to libel.

Are you washed in the Blood of the Lamb?

I also had the synch problem, but I get that a lot with Youtube videos. I just pretend I'm watching a martial arts flick.

Love the Windsor chair in the background. A man after my own tastes. One question: how do I cut and paste audio text into the little submission box on the comments page?

I'm not sure I agree the term lapdogs is right. Lapdogs always seem to make huge volumes of noise. While there is, of course, the ME! ME! ME! (one, two, three, oops) ME! (four) bishop of NH, the rest tend to keep their heads down and remain as silent as possible. Not really lapdog fare, IMHO.

Now, if you were to say, "Servile, spineless, sinuous sycophants," well, you might be getting warm. Or just simply, weasles.

You get partial credit. Since I'm still on dial-up at home, I copied this on to one of those Flash drives you gave me and uploaded it over the library's broadband connection.

No but you can put up a link to it.

Very nice. A little on the neat side, maybe. ;-)

You mean you weren't expecting a fat old guy who ought to get off his ass and get a haircut? ;-)

I've got pretty much nothing to say about the content other than "Right on," so I'll just comment briefly on the technical issues instead.

I had the same audio/video sync problem that others were describing. But I noticed that it doesn't start midway through the video. Rather, it goes ever so slowly out of sync throughout the video. At the start, Christopher's mouth movements sync up perfectly with his words. By the middle, the sound is starting to lag by a fraction of a second, just enough that one gets a dubbed-over feeling from the video without being able to pin it down. And by the end of the two-minute video, the sound is lagging the video by about half a second -- one can see Chris's mouth shape the word "ruthless" while the sound is saying "particularly", around the 1:48 mark. It was distracting enough that I had to stop looking at Chris's face as he spoke and just pretend I was listening to a podcast.

My best guess is the webcam or the video-encoding software. At any rate, I hope that knowing the nature of the encoding problem (audio and video *slowly* slipping out of sync, with video leading and audio trailing) will help somebody in determining the cause.

Good experiment. Good talk. I had thought, though, that you'd look more like your southpark avatar from the Press the Meat Meet the Press series.

Apropos to this discussion, Chris Johnson has the first installment of MCJ TV. Chris definitely has the gift of word-smithery. He talks about how KJS forced the diocese of Va to break off negotiations and begin litigation. Chris then continues...

Mrs Schori admitted to forcing the Virginia to cease negotiations and start litigation. "Add to this, the edifying spectacle of the house of bishops, with the honorable exception of Central Florida's John Howe, rolling over and playing dead for all this, like the pusillanimous lap dogs that they are."

"Now, I understand this two things: One is that we worship a God and they pretend to worship a vague, infinitely malleable philosophical concept. And I also now that people come to this decision at different times and for different reasons..."

"Are they called by God to stay in that organization and witness to the truth or is God trying to tell them that it is time to move on?"

These are rough, hard words. But the above calling the HoB to repentance by Dan Ennis and silence by those who should be speaking out are sharper and harder still.

Great voice, and you've already been identified with international sex symbol Depardieu. Watch out.

As others have said, it is nice to put a face to an online associate. Also, your voice and pacing are definitely broadcast quality and the sincerity of your expression says volumes. There was no palpable anger in your facial expression, just a deep sadness at the wreck that ++Jefferts Schori and crew - especially the House of Jellyfish - are making of my once-beloved Episcopal Church.

Ya done good, my man!

I mocked you mildly above, but seriously, you did well. Your piece was done well and moving. The points you made were well made.

My church went to the heretics and all I got was a lousy t-shirt

I was wondering whether SFIF would create blogpost for Christopher Johnson's Youtube video, but I then realized that his video violates their written policy for commenters. Per Greg Griffith at SFIF: "Therefore, I'd like to see no more ... Charges that anyone who stays in the Episcopal Church is wasting their time, a heretic by association, etc. ... Our unofficial policy on staying or leaving is this: Go where God calls you, and go with our blessings, but don't belittle someone who has received different orders."

Based on Greg Griffith's commenting policy, I would think that Christopher Johnson's video might offend an Institutionalist (aka Communion Conservative) for they might think he is belittling them and their decision to remain in TEc.

One exception, though, which has already been noted: get thee to a barber. Just went myself this weekend.

Reminded me of a zinger I heard once on King of the Hill. When someone pointed out to Hank that Jesus (allegedly) had long hair, Hank replied: "He wouldn't have if he'd been my son."

Well, there's this issue as to whether the authentication in the message matches the one in the sealed authenticator envelope. And if it doesn't match, it doesn't do any good to talk about the orders that you got, now does it?

"DHT hormone causes over 90% of hair loss cases. DHT damages hair follicles, until it no longer produces visible hair. ProAnagen™ shampoo, conditioner and topical solution are potent products to block damaging effects of DHT that causes hair loss and thinning hair."

This leads me to ask... ummmmm, aaaaah, weeeeelll, uhhhhh, have you used this ProAnagen product personally? Will you say something like:

(A) You shoulda saw me before I started using ProAnagen!

(B) I've tried it and so far... I don't see much progress.

(C) I better buy some and give it a try!

Heh, heh, heh. Just joshing and playing with you CJ!

Nope. Ain't tried it, ain't gonna. I figure if it's going, it's going. Part of the process, my man. ;-)