Chuck Colson on Obama’s Misguided Pragmatism
January 30, 2009
The more things change, the more they stay the same. What I’ve said before many times is already proving to be true: Barack Obama? Just another politician.
Like Mailing a Letter to the Fire Department
January 29, 2009
That’s Thomas Sowell’s take on this inane “stimulus plan”.
All You Need to Know about the “Stimulus Plan”
January 29, 2009
Too Little, Too Late
January 28, 2009
Finally, the Republicans grow a backbone.
So the immoral “stimulus plan” passes the House. Now, we can only hope that the Senate Republicans filibuster. On the heels of Bush’s rush to socialism, Obama one-ups him with this fiasco. Ready for the nanny state? Wow…right before our eyes, the country as we know it is going down the tubes.
It’s Hypie Time Again!!!
January 28, 2009
Yes, that’s right, boys and girls, time for our latest recipient of a Hypie! For those of you who are new or who need your memories refreshed, it frosts me when I get an advertisement in the mail–or see one online, or in a magazine, or…you get the picture–where some ministry is over-the-top in promising results that it cannot/will not produce. It’s overhype, and while I hate that in general, I find it particularly bothersome among Christians, who are supposed to be tellers of the truth.
As I’ve said before, the all-time Hypie goes to PromiseKeepers, an otherwise great ministry, for its promotional ads done in conjunction with its February 2003 Pastors Conference in Phoenix. The slogan they used–and I actually contacted PK and told them they weren’t telling the truth, and that was a factor in my non-attendance–was, “This will forever change what it means to be a pastor in America”.
No, it won’t. And it didn’t. And anybody with a brain and a pulse knew PK was fudging from the get-go.
And so, a couple years back, I began awarding the Hypie Award to any Christian ministry–and it might be a great ministry, by the way; I in no way mean to denigrate the ministry itself, so keep those cards and letters to yourself–that employed overhype in attempting to sell its product. Thus, without further ado, I present today’s Hypie Award to…drumroll, please…Yugo Ministries of San Dimas, California (wasn’t that where Bill and Ted hung out? Hmmm…). And by the way, the award has nothing to do with being named for the many Yugoslavian-made commiecars rusting in auto graveyards around the world. No, I give it for the mailer I got for their youth ministry, which involves taking teams of teenagers to Mexico for a week (“You provide: Your Youth, some $$, and One Week in Mexico. YUGO supplies: Pre-field & on-Field Logistics, Poverty and Spiritually Hungry Mexican People”). By the way, that’s the literal quote, with the mis-capitalizations and all. Hope they can get a better graphic designer, or at least one who can handle some of the basic rules of English (and there’s more to come).
But here’s the kicker, which I’ll reproduce as best I can below:
“R U Developing Revolutionary Christian Youth?”
Your Youth Before Yugo
Luke Warm (sic) Faith
Tentative & Uncertain
Is a Follower
Unwilling to Share
Lead (sic) by peers
Your Youth After YUGO
On Fire Faith
Confident in Beliefs
Now Leads Others
Has Strong Testimony
World Changers
There is so much to pick apart here, if I wanted to be real snarky, but I’ll be gentle and say: let me get this straight: if I can just bundle up my adolescents and ship ‘em off to Mexico, they’ll return completely-different people?
And that preposterous proposition, my friends, richly deserves a Hypie. Enjoy, YUGO!
And That’s How the Fight Started
January 28, 2009
One year, a husband decided to buy his mother-in-law a
Cemetery plot as a Christmas gift. The next year, he didn’t
buy her a gift. When she asked him why, he replied,
“Well, you still haven’t used the gift I bought you last year!”
And that’s how the fight started.
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My wife walked into the den & asked “What’s on the TV?”
I replied “Dust”
And that’s how the fight started.
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A woman is looking in the bedroom mirror.
She is not happy with what she sees and says to her husband
‘I feel horrible; I look old, fat and ugly. I really
need you to pay me a compliment.
The husband replies, ‘Your eyesight’s dang near perfect.’
And that’s how the fight started.
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My wife was hinting about what she wanted for our
upcoming anniversary.
She said, ‘I want something shiny that goes from 0
to 200 in about 3 seconds.
I bought her a scale.
And that’s how the fight started.
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I asked my wife, ‘Where do you want to go for our anniversary?’
It warmed my heart to see her face melt in sweet appreciation.
‘Somewhere I haven’t been in a long time!’ she said.
So I suggested, ‘How about the kitchen?’
And that’s how the fight started.
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I tried to talk my wife into buying a case of Miller Light
for $14.95. Instead, she bought a jar of cold cream
for $7.95. I told her the beer would make her look
better at night than the cold cream.
And that’s how the fight started.
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I took my wife to a restaurant. The waiter, for some
reason, took my order first.
‘I’ll have the strip steak, medium rare, please.’
He said, ‘Aren’t you worried about the mad cow?’
‘Nah, she can order for herself.’
And that’s how the fight started
Why Bother Talking Smack…
January 28, 2009
Congrats, Arizona, on your historic trip to the Super Bowl. Word: don’t get yer hopes too high…
This phrase comes from the 1978 "Jonestown massacre" in which most members of the Peoples Temple cult, blindly following their leader Jim Jones, committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
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