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Do Pop Culture And Trends Influence An Election?
The simple answer to whether pop culture, trends and morality influence the outcome of an election is, yes! This raises other questions like why and how; that is not so simple to answer.
In days past a presidential candidate made appeals to labor unions, military personnel, farmers, industrialists and quite a long list of common people. Today candidates are courting voters from the gays, the MTV generation, abortion proponents and a melee of other emerging social groups.
We think this says a lot about those who want to govern but to be honest it says even more about the governed. When the people get what they want it can be as deadly as when a dictator gets what they want depending on the social climate of the day.
Uncounted numbers of folks watched as the new millennium came in and even though many were unbelievers they watched to see if the predictions of the over zealous doomsayers and widely known prognosticators were correct.
When no global catastrophes ensued and Christ didn’t return on a cloud with the armies of heaven they didn’t just relax, they got going again with a vengeance. Now real social changes won’t be interfered with by some higher power or the God of creation interfering.
After the events of 9/11 the country seemed a little more humble. Commentators and news people were talking about New Yorkers who now actually looked you right in the when they talked with you. A lot less cursing was heard in everyday conversation and random acts of kindness were occurring more frequently. What happened to all that?
When Moses gave the people the Ten Commandments and the hygienic, ceremonial and moral laws they spent years finding ways to circumvent or misapply them. By the time the Savior appeared they had perverted the laws so severely that Christ spent most of his time with the Pharisees rebuking them for their twisted representation of Moses laws.
Forget waiting for the close of a millennium the ancient Israelites couldn’t wait a few days. While Moses was off getting the Ten Commandments the people decided it was taking too long and perhaps Moses was dead after all. (Exodus 32) They commissioned Aaron the high priest to make them a golden calf to worship.
The only reason history repeats itself is because while knowledge may be increased human nature stays the same. Concerning the second coming of Christ both Jesus and his apostles warned that people would choose a golden calf every time when the promises looked as if they would never be fulfilled.
Jesus said “But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Mt. 24: 37-39
The apostle Peter speaking about the prevailing attitude of folks just before the second coming said “Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking
Seek and ye shall be found
Among the many gadgets and tools that Google has gifted us with is Google Insights, which lets you “compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, and time frames.” Or, as blogger Andrew Chen explains it, “Basically you put in keywords and it give you pretty charts.” One of the things you can do with Insights is get a feel for the relative popularity of a site by state or nation based on how often it’s searched for (a stat that often tracks actu
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The cloud is falling, the cloud is falling!
The crowd in the cloud is going through another rough patch (see “Scars from the madding cloud” and “Cloudburst spoils Amazon?s weekend“). Apple’s MobileMe service was down for a few hours yesterday, and access continues to be sketchy for some, representing the most unfortunate kind of consistency over the past month (see “Jobs declares MobileMe launch insanely grating“). Google found itself apologizing this morning for a widespread Gmail outage yester
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“Self-professed experts will tell you that requirements gathering is the most critical part of the project, because if you get it wrong, then all the rest of your work goes towards building the wrong thing. This is sooooort of true, in a skewed way, but it’s not the complete picture.“The problem with this view is that requirements gathering basically never works. How many times have you seen a focus group gather requirements from customers, then the product team builds the prod
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Off Topic
Mathway, a step-by-step math problem solver that shows its work, and an excellent Large Hadron Collider rap from the geeks at CERN.
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Analyst says Kindle’s smoking
With Amazon remaining mum about sales of the Kindle, its e-book reader, we’re left with the pronouncements of seers trying to divine what they can from what clues the market may offer. Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney gave us his reading of the smoke signals today, and for what it’s worth, he’s more bullish than ever. Mahaney doubled his earlier projections for Kindle sales, now anticipating that Amazon will move 378,000 units this year, 934,000 next year, and 4.4 million in 2010
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Georgian president’s Web site takes refuge in the other Georgia
You can pretty much count on any modern war having a cyberfront these days, and that now seems to be the case in the conflict between Russia and Georgia. Authorities in Georgia, along with independent Net monitoring groups, reported a variety of attacks on official Georgian government sites starting late last week that have left them intermittently slogging or down. The perpetrators, who are apparently using networks of compromised computers to launch the attacks, haven’t been pinned down,
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Apple puts up impressive numbers in synchronized selling
Large chunks of the consumer economy may be in the doldrums, but you wouldn’t know it looking at the one-month sales figures for Apple’s iPhone and its new App Store. You may recall Apple reporting 1 million iPhone 3Gs sold during its first three days on the market. Now, 30 days in, analyst Michael Cote of the Cote Collaborative estimates that number is up to 3 million and climbing steadily. “They are seeing unprecedented demand,” said Cote. On the down side, however, ane
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Off Topic
The art of smoke, and the Flat Earth Society (no joke).
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“On Saturday, Mr. Stelter?s wonderful article in The New York Times on how people were working around the blackout on the Olympic ceremony began as a post on Twitter seeking consumer experiences, then jumped onto his blog, TV Decoder, caught the attention of editors who wanted it expanded for the newspaper and ended up on Page One, jammed with insight and with plenty of examples from real human experience. How much more powerful is that networked intelligence than a reporter with a phone
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App Pull update: Nothing to see here, folks
That mysterious reference deep inside the iPod 2.0 operating system to an application blacklist that got some people all worked up yesterday? An Apple source tells Daring Fireball’s Jon Gruber that it’s specifically designed to prevent unauthorized applications from accessing the iPhone’s location-aware features and doing anything that would compromise privacy. It’s not a master kill switch. You may now return to your usual state of wary hypervigilance.
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after their own lusts, And saying, where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were…” (2 Peter 3:3, 4)
It is said that we don’t draw to ourselves what we want but in reality we draw what we are. What the people become and what they want requires a leader who is on the same page. It has become apparent that America is calling for a leader for the times. But what times are these?
God and his prophets are not hindered by the acceptable delineations of time. To God and his prophets the past, present and future are all in the same lump. God knows it all and he reveals it to his own. They must let it be known to the people whether it is believed or not. That prophecy is pre-written history is the rule of the prophet.
Sad as it may be the future does not get better and better for our country or the world. People will continue to call for leaders that conform to both the status quo and the trends of the day. They will get what they want.
In the eighth chapter of Isaiah Samuel the prophet is found warning the people that their choice to have a king rule over them like the surrounding nations will bring them great grief. God had given them all they needed to live and victory over their enemies but they wanted a king. They chose one who was head and shoulders above the rest. He had the best appearance and the finest rhetoric of the bunch…enter Saul!
It was the Rubicon that sealed Israel’s fate for years to come. God told Samuel to give the people what they wanted because they were not rejecting the prophet; they were rejecting Him.
Today in America we have candidates who claim to have a connection with God but on closer examination they may be merely connected to a religion. The difference is vast. As Jesus said when discernment is barely enough to see what they really stand for; then we can all become fruit inspectors. “Ye shall know them by their fruits…” (Mt 7:16)
The fruit of ignoring the business of abortion is the death of millions of innocent children. The fruit of allowing gay and lesbian agendas to be put on a scale with race or creed is flirting with impending judgment.
No harping no preaching just this reminder to all of America…” There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” Proverbs 14:12
Election time in the United States is one of the most exciting things about America. Other nations may get stuck with leaders they don’t want or elections that are rigged but we have a pretty good system here. It behooves us to make our choices wisely and circumspectly for the future of our own.
No one can tell us who to vote for and endorsements or criticism notwithstanding voting will always be a matter of the conscience. Choose wisely America!
Rev Bresciani is an author and columnist for several online sites and magazines. His articles are now read throughout the world. For more articles, news, movie reviews and more visit The Website for Insight at http://www.americanprophet.org
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