Random

• Nine people from Christiana Agape, a small Phoenix, Arizona church, were detained and reportedly deported after Yavapai County Sheriff's officers were called to the Prescott area campground by other campers. The church was having a retreat. ~ Source

• Seth Godin: ...The best bloggers make money, but mostly as a side effect, not as a direct result of setting out to use a blog to make a profit. It's just too long a ramp up time, too frustrating and too uncertain to be the best path to make a living.

Nonsense! I'm making 48¢ a week through the advertising on my Crazy4Citrus.com blog. What does that Seth guy know, anyway?

• 7 Ways to keep church hoppers from staying ~ Link

• More on Clyde Cook ~ Link

• Congo Cookbook -- recipes from Africa ~ Link

• The collapse of the housing bubble in the United States is mutating into a global phenomenon, with real estate prices swooning from the Irish countryside and the Spanish coast to Baltic seaports and even parts of northern India... ~ Source

Another reason to keep the US economy healthy -- when the US sneezes everyone catches a cold -- or so they say.