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1. Too Much to Ask...
2. The Contrast in Theology and Life
3. Noonan on the Presidents "Rubble"
4. The Beta-Male President
5. Type without a Brain
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Too Much to Ask...

Here's a fun little video that has Nancy Pelosi, then Minority Leader, complaining how she couldn't even read a bill before voting on it and how disgraceful that was. I guess she learned something from her years in the minority -- how to ignore them once she was in the majority. It goes both ways, which is just normal politics. However, the frustrating thing is that she can't be honest enough to admit it. Enjoy:

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The Contrast in Theology and Life

I quote in full a recent post from Christ is Deeper Still:

Fred Sanders reflects on the death of Paul Tillich -- liberal theologian, serial adulterer -- here. Sanders recounts:

After his death, [Tillich's wife Hannah] returns home and opens his locked drawers. “All the girls’ photos fell out, letters and poems, passionate appeal and disgust. Beside the drawers, which were supposed to contain his spiritual harvest, the books he had written and the unpublished manuscripts all lay in unprotected confusion. I was tempted to place between the sacred pages of his highly esteemed lifework those obscene signs of the real life . . . ."

If there could be placed between the sacred pages of our theological lifework the obscene signs of the real life, would there be much difference between Paul Tillich and us, really?

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Noonan on the Presidents "Rubble"

In a wonderfully-written article by Peggy Noonan (I've always liked her style), she explains why it's time for the President to "own" his lot in life. The take-away quote for me, however, is:

"...It is never a good sign when the president gets folksy, dropping his g's, because he is by nature not a folksy g-dropper but a coolly calibrating intellectual who is always trying to guess, as most politicians do, what normal people think. When Mr. Obama gets folksy he isn't narrowing his distance from his audience but underlining it. He shouldn't do this. "

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The Beta-Male President

This is an interesting analysis of President Obama's approach to global issues/leaders from the American Thinker. Author Greg Lewis uses the dog-meet-dog metaphor to help explain the logic in Obama's interactions on the world stage. It is very well thought-out and written. It is well worth the read, and fairly persuasive over all. Although it is the most logical conclusion to the argument, I did not expect the very last line of his piece:

"It's the height of folly to think that other nations won't be doing everything they can to make President Obama their bitch."

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Type without a Brain

I haven't posted a "funny comment" post in a while, but this one made me laugh out loud. It was at Hot Air on a post related to SNL's lame attempt to mock Obama for winning the Nobel Peace Prize. The commenter is quoting some else's comment and then giving his reply (and I did LOL):

I think it’s funny how Limbaugh thought that Bush should get the Peace Prize.

LOL

Spathi on October 11, 2009 at 4:26 PM

I think it’s funny how you can type without a brain.

LOL.

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