Today in Washington D.C. the congress adjourned for their regularly scheduled 5 week recess. When the Democrats adjourned without voting on high gas prices, the Republicans protested by refusing to leave the house floor.
At the risk of getting all political on you and telling you my take on this whole thing (I think it’s awesome), I’ll just highlight one of the coolest parts of this whole story that may just make you want to sign up for a twitter account (totally free by the way).
After adjourning, all of the lights went dim, the microphones were turned off and so were the TV cameras which capture every minute of the goings on of Congress while they are in session. With the blackout, there was no way for Republicans to get the word out about their protest so Peter Hoekstra, a senior republican member of the House Intelligence Committee used Twitter to update the media and others about what was going on.
That’s right, a protest that is almost entirely word of mouth was lead by Twitter. Awesome. Maybe cooler is that the Congressmen and women who remained invited tourists to come down onto the House floor and sit in Democratic congressmen’s chairs (totally not allowed while congress is in session).
There are a lot of reasons for this protest, again, which I’m not going to get into, you can read the article. I just think it’s pretty awesome that politicians who I normally think are pretty ok with not getting stuff done would actually protest. And to think that one of the primary ways of letting the world know about it happened via twitter. Awesome!
Dana showed me a couple of these and I’ve got to tell you, I think they’re hilarious. So as I’ve been killing time before band practice tonight I decided to peruse the hilarity that is “Will it Blend?”
When I found this one I had to share it.
When the boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Chuck Norris.
So the other day, Jenn and I were making turkey burgers and fries. Not too shabby of a dinner if I do say so myself. I had the burgers on the grill, just about ready to come off when I went to the oven to pull out the fries.
I put on my trusty oven mitt, opened the door, grabbed the pan and when I pulled the pan up, it hit the lip of the oven and my reaction made me brush my arm against the pan.
Initially it didn’t hurt too much, but you can see that it left quite a mark.
I recently wrote about this cat that has found himself a home (a temporary home) on our porch. “Scardy Cat” or “Skurd” for short has been mooching off of us for a week now and so we thought it was time to introduce him to Micah and Eirca’s house, and more so, their dog Cooper.
Cooper, according to their vet, should be pretty good with cats, and since Skurd is pretty mellow, we thought maybe they’d get along. They didn’t.
My name is Paul Haugen and I am the Music Director at Clovis Hills Community Church. This is me; no pretense, no show, just who I am, quirks and all. This is the Open Door.
