Melanie Carmacho

A comedian extraordinaire, who is far underrated.

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BP Spills Coffee

The folks at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre has created a brilliant skit that is really funny and drives home BP’s incompetence.

http://www.ucbcomedy.com/videos/play/6472/bp-spills-coffee

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Letter From Priests’ Lovers Reignites Celibacy Debate

St. Peter, “The Rock of the Church” and Jesus’ handpicked successor on Earth was a married man. Most of the Apostles were also married. Pope Adrian II was one of many Popes to have been married. Prior to his reign there were many Popes, bishops, and priests who were married. In fact, at the time of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea priests had wives. The Council produced “the Creed” we recite in Mass and also produced guidelines where priests and bishops were not to seek sexual contact with their wives and the wives not to seek sexual contact with their priest husbands. As married priests died their property and wealth went not to the Church, but to the male heirs of the priests-a common practice. So, in 1018 Pope Benedict VII outlawed descendants of priests from inheritance of property. As time passed and wealth flowed a faction within the church decided to proclaim that celibacy was apostolic in origin. The Council of Trent in 1563 officially adopted celibacy for priests and it has remained unchanged since.

As a Catholic, I believe that priests are human first and vehicles of Christ second. Like we all are. Their vocation however is to serve humanity and promote the Word throughout Earth. For a priest to sacrifice a piece of their humanity-the human need for companionship and love is not what Christ desired for his church nor his apostles. The celibacy rules were created for economic wealth not for creation of spiritual wealth.  Therefore personally I am against celibate priests. I applaud the women who have come out of the shadows.

Letter From Priests’ Lovers Reignites Celibacy Debate : NPR.

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Steve Harvey-Introduces Jesus

What an introduction! What a testimony to the power of Jesus Christ.

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What those company initials stand for

Have you ever wondered what some of the most popular abbreviations for company names we all know stand for? Well this article will tell you.

What those company initials stand for – CNN.com.

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Esperanza Spalding

This young woman is an up & comer in the jazz world. I discovered her music late last year. This is her performance at The White House Evening of Poetry, Music, and Spoken Word in May, 2009.

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Go Where God Leads You

I do not believe in the randomness of life. I do not believe “things” happen “just because.” I do believe that there is a divine order to life with no room for “chance.” Everything we do, everyone we meet for good or for ill has been preordained. We are the actors in divine theater.

God has bestowed upon us the gift of “free will.” In giving us that gift He allows us to make our own decisions. God however, is the producer and director of our play of life; the divine theater.  Nothing in our lives is trivial. Everything has an intrinsic value greater than gold, greater than diamonds. Everyone we meet has been strategically placed in our lives by God for us to learn a lesson; to have an experience to stimulate us to grow and change. It is that change we have control over. We make the decisions ourselves to do good or evil in our own lives. Many times we block our own blessings that God intends for us and inadvertently create our own evil in our lives.

God, however always in His role as producer and director in the divine theater always provides a path to our redemption. He in his oblique mastery places people and events in our lives to extend a hand to us. This hand leads to our redemption and the defeat of evil in our lives. The hand of God that places us back on the path He intends for us to travel. Our duty is to simply go where God leads us to without question or reservation.

That is our challenge. We always question. We are hesitant. We become paralyzed by “what if” and “what has happened in the past.” The past prevents the future. We begin to devalue ourselves in our minds and heart. You hold value. God knows that, because He created you. We must never forget and we must acknowledge that we hold value to ourselves and to God. God’s love and His plan for us can become manifest to us in others that He directs into our lives. He may not send who we want or a person we consider “fine” or particularly articulate. He sends who he has anointed to send because they have a purity and message of heart that is just for you. Be open to hear and listen to the message. Open your heart and mind because God being the producer and director in our lives will defy our logic. He will blow our minds! The responsibility and accountability to listen is with us. Act upon His message, and Go Where God Leads You!

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24: We Do Know Jack. We ARE Jack.

If you are like me on Monday nights for the past 8 years you were glued to the Fox network’s show, 24. It was so deep for me that I screened calls during the show and I realized the week of the last episode that during that time there was only 3 persons I would actually answer my phone for during that hour. John Shore’s commentary pays homage to 24 and the main character Jack Bauer. This commentary is very unique because it draws parallels between Jack Bauer and all of us.

John Shore: 24: We Do Know Jack. We ARE Jack..

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Donnie McClurkin-Holy Holy Holy

The song title says it all. Have a great Sunday!!

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The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan on Willie Lynch

Do you know who Willie Lynch is? Have you ever read his letter/book? I believe it is imperative for every African-American person to read that piece of literature. In my view, this letter manifests each in every day in how we view and treat ourselves and each other. To read the letter and understand its hypothesis is to understand the problems our people face today, faced yesterday and will face into the future. We must change the pattern that was created thru this piece of literature and save ourselves! Minister Farrakhan in this speech from 2005 explains how the Willie Lynch documents have brought us to the brink of our own self-destruction. It is a powerful and enlightening speech.

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