Archive for August, 2009

Preaching Politics

Obama: We are doing God’s work Obama had a conference call with over 1000 Jewish and Christian leaders, asking them to preach to their congregations in support of his health care reform policy. Andrea Tantaros wrote an article today in which she says the “selectively faithful Obama” has set up a whole program – this [...]

August 21, 2009   Posted in: christian culture, politics, worship and the church  No Comments

Pro-life stats

New Poll Shows Majority Now Pro-Life This is an old story now, but I ran across it in my drafts and thought I should go ahead and write it up. It’s hard to get too excited about polls.  Everything depends on how the questions were asked, when, to whom, etc.  So, while a poll may [...]

August 21, 2009   Posted in: politics  No Comments

Cash for a Clunker

The real clunker here of course, is the government program.  It’s just a bad idea, but of course since the first Billion dollars went so fast, the congress decided that they needed to spend more on it.  Typical.  There must be a dozen reasons this program is a bad idea, but I’ll stick to just [...]

August 7, 2009   Posted in: what are you drunk?  No Comments

“Spooky”

St Louis 12, NY Mets 7 If you follow the link, you’ll see the whole write-up of the game on ESPN.com.  But the best part is the link to the SportsCenter Highlight of the Night which shows Albert’s stats with the bases loaded.  As one of the guys said, Albert is just “spooky” with the [...]

August 5, 2009   Posted in: Sports, St. Louis Cardinals  No Comments

Bush League

Furious Fielder Bush league is what we used to call anything that was cheap, cheesy, below what we considered good gamesmanship (it predates by a longshot both of the Bush presidencies, if you were wondering). The first baseman hiding the ball in his glove and waiting for the runner at first base to step off [...]

August 5, 2009   Posted in: Sports, St. Louis Cardinals  No Comments