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The new Los Lonely Boys album dropped today. Be sure and check it out. The Garza brothers from Texas have put together a great sophomore album after their self titled debut record.
They truly beat the sophomore curse with Sacred.
With the addition of horns and a B3 organ on several of the tracks it adds another dimension to the harmony and music from the brothers from San Angelo.
Pick up a copy from Amazon or order from the link to the right from iTunes and download it straight to your computer and iPod.
From Amazon.com:

Anyone entranced by the Garzas’ debut will be thrilled by this classy followup that tightens some of the loose ends but displays additional confidence resulting from two years of nearly nonstop road work. The band spotlights its Tex-Mex roots on the accordion-driven “Texican Style,” where near-perfect vocal harmonies drive an irresistible bluesy shuffle. Most encouraging is that Los Lonely Boys haven’t succumbed to commercial pressure since their surprise hit debut. Rather, they have refined and organically expanded their approach, and crafted another classy, committed, radio-friendly Americana gem that meshes blues, Mexican, and soul with a spicy topping of hot-sauce musicianship.

Guys, if you’re looking to go out with the guys tonight be sure you have the proper paperwork filed.
And ladies, there’s paperwork for you too.

Joe Barton, R-Ennis, and five other GOP congressmen from Texas voted against the Voter Rights Act. Capital Annex gives a rundown of what this vote and votes for/against the ammendments mean:

It should give Republicans no small amout of amusement that Chet Edwards (D-Waco)—the Congressman for the President’s home in Crawford, deemed as “liberal” and “out of touch” and unworthy of being the Congressman for the President’s home congressional district by Republicans—was actually in harmony with the President’s wishes on this—as did every other Democrat from this state.
It was the Texas Republicans who were against their president, the mainstream, and convention when they cast their “yes” votes for those four amendments and when six of their colleagues cast “no” votes on final passage.
Mark yesterday, July 13, 2006 on your calanders and in your memories: it is the day the Republican Congressmen from Texas lost their credibility and sailed so far out of the mainstream they ended up in the middle of the ocean.

It’s things like this that make me wonder why I’m registered as a Republican.

Momentum Seek Week

Dan put together a montage of video clips from this past week at Enounter’s youth camp. Check it out.

Men and Women 2

Here’s the second installment to the Men and Women Encounter Man on the Street

A company out of New York, Voltaic has released a new line of backpacks and messenger bags that use solar pannels on the bags to charge things like cell phones and Mp3 players. According to the company the panels will not charge a laptop, but you can use a car adapter to charge most other small electronics. Not bad for someone always on the road.

The Voltaic Messenger is reinforced and padded to carry and protect a laptop. It has large zipped pockets for documents, and multiple small pockets for electronic devices. Ideal for use in town or as a travel bag.
Features:
Adjustable padded laptop sleeve, for laptops with up to a 15″ screen (14″ x 10″ x 2″)
The solar panels provide protection for fragile items inside the front pocket
Oversized nylon zips for extra strength
Padded adjustable shoulder strap
Will fit the optional phone / MP3 pouch
Wire channels throughout the bag
Electronics:
The electronics are the same as the other three Voltaicâ„¢ solar bags. Note: It is not designed to charge laptops, it will however charge cell phones, sat phones, PDAs, GPSs, iPods, cameras etc.
Includes a 2,200mAh Li-Ion battery pack with 3 voltage settings to store solar power
When not in the sun, the battery can be charged using the AC travel charger or DC car charger
Comes with 11 standard adaptors including a car charger socket and USB adaptor so you can always use a standard charger for your device
Includes adaptor plugs in universal sizes and for common cell phones, which eliminate the need to use a car charger for common devices
The three solar panels are tough, light weight, waterproof, and generate up to 4 watts of power.

Now if I could just get pannels for my loft somewhere to power everything else in my loft we’d be doing good.