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Jim Elliot
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I am very sad this morning Lynn, Navy lost to Notre Dame by a touchdown.
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Today is a national holiday in the Czech Republic – the 19th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution.
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I like velvet. It’s nice to touch and is available in alot of colors……….
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First things first today:
I’d like to announce the winner of last weekends “College Football Saturday” contest:
Travis Birkenstock!
He correctly guessed the results of 4 of 5 of the games, and was the only one to do so. He was also only one of two to correctly guess that Notre Dame would win in the tiebreaker game. (Oh, ye of little faith
).
So Travis, here is your hot off the campfire, warm, gooey, digital S’more – enjoy!
Look for this weeks contest on Friday’s “Whirled Views”.
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Are any of you familiar with the concept, “God speaks through the one?”
This being the idea that God uses prophets, and He himself speaks in a still small voice–so we need to pay attention to those lonely, quiet voices, rather than the roar of the committee when considering spiritual issues?
I’m talking about a church matter, in our situation, but I’ve been thinking about this idea for years. We’re the children/subjects of a king, not a democratically elected God.
Thanks.
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#5 – Thank you Anlir. I feel lucky – Peter L must’ve had an off-week.
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Article over at MSN today thats quite on point regarding the economic bailouts.
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/ContrarianChronicles/trillions-down-and-still-bailing.aspx
He reiterates what I’ve been saying all along. Propping up failling companies only wrecks havoc on the good ones.
The free market hasnt failed us. It was manipulated and used irresponsibly, and the more we attempt at both the worse it will get.
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Psalm 33:
The Sovereignty of the LORD in Creation and History
1 Rejoice in the LORD, O you righteous!
For praise from the upright is beautiful.
2 Praise the LORD with the harp;
Make melody to Him with an instrument of ten strings.
3 Sing to Him a new song;
Play skillfully with a shout of joy.
4 For the word of the LORD is right,
And all His work is done in truth.
5 He loves righteousness and justice;
The earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.
6 By the word of the LORD the heavens were made,
And all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.
7 He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap;[a]
He lays up the deep in storehouses.
8 Let all the earth fear the LORD;
Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him.
9 For He spoke, and it was done;
He commanded, and it stood fast.
10 The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;
He makes the plans of the peoples of no effect.
11 The counsel of the LORD stands forever,
The plans of His heart to all generations.
12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD,
The people He has chosen as His own inheritance.
13 The LORD looks from heaven;
He sees all the sons of men.
14 From the place of His dwelling He looks
On all the inhabitants of the earth;
15 He fashions their hearts individually;
He considers all their works.
16 No king is saved by the multitude of an army;
A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
17 A horse is a vain hope for safety;
Neither shall it deliver any by its great strength.
18 Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear Him,
On those who hope in His mercy,
19 To deliver their soul from death,
And to keep them alive in famine.
20 Our soul waits for the LORD;
He is our help and our shield.
21 For our heart shall rejoice in Him,
Because we have trusted in His holy name.
22 Let Your mercy, O LORD, be upon us,
Just as we hope in You.
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#7 Travis- Congrats! It was those upsets I hadn’t guessed (Wisc ove MN, MD over SC) that got me.
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Michelle, I haven’t heard of that quote, but I’m with you. Ran across a recently published book at the library recently titled “The Wisdom of Crowds”. Maybe I’m just contentious by nature, but I immediately started thinking of examples of crowds that were so off base.
Election-related: have heard criticism of the Alaska vote tally being so par. This a.m.’s paper headlines that around one-third actually voted early setting up this election to break records for voter turnout. Unfortunately, it was mostly Dems who voted early and it looks like we are going to lose a Rep. Senate seat. Many Alaskan Reps voted for the seat, not the man, and also against the Dem. candidate.
As of 8 a.m. today till nearly midnight Friday all our kids are 13. Thus we enter the “parents of teens” stage of life for the next 7 years…
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I read the news today, oh boy! Over at WSJ’s opinion journal dotcom.
It looks like Connecticut’s Sen Dodd is not only a shill for the subprime ripoff company, Countrywide. He is also a cheerleader for Hugo Chavez.
He could be the Herbert Matthews of the 21st century.
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#12 Sawgunner,
Lefties love Chavez as much as they hate Bush. Nothing new there.
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Your idiotic lefty Senate nest of socialists just gannounced they want to give give the UAW $25 Billion in 5% loans for 5 years no strings attached to get their retirement health plan payment from the Big 3 up to snuff.
This on the same day Citibank announced that they were cutting 50,000 jobs on top of the 20,000 previously announced putting them from 370,000 employees to 300,000 – way more than all the union workers at the Big 3 combined.
Now the big three are saying that they can’t make it to the Messiah crowning in January and all the auto parts supplirs are now in Washington with their hands out too.
All of you should be calling your congress people right now saying the only way you are willing to bail out the union retirement plan is if they make your retirement whole too. Are union workers better than you or just better socialists and Marxists and in the Messiah Party? OF corse not. Tell these idiots to go srew someone else for a cchange becsue you ahve had enough og this stealing from you to give to their cronies.
Ypo are gettting raped again by these 3 card Monty professional congressmen and women. When will you ever learn?
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To Lynn Vincent, and WMB staff
I’d like the WMB staff to be aware of this article from One News Now about an incident at Pepperdine University, in which a student group was denied permission to put up posters. A “telling” look at the signs of our times, and what is “allowable” vs disapproved of.
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Blog/Default.aspx?id=323320
(Lawrence of Eurabia.)
I hope WMB members will also want to read it. But I don’t know if you have to join One News Now in order to see it. And since it’s a blog entry, I don’t know if the url will remain the same over time.
One News Now is a news service issued by the American Family Association, a free daily e-mail looking at the news from a Christian (or at least a conservative) slant.
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Here’s a poll for everyone.
By the way, this is not an underhanded way to ask for advice; it’s simply a survey to see what everyone would do in a situation.
Here’s the question:
If you were taking an online college course and there was an explicitly stated policy that says “tests are not open book tests..students caught cheating will be punished,” but there is no way that you can be caught, would you cheat (by looking at the textbook) on a test?
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Interesting article Marilee. The point is, “multiculturalism” really means a culture that is not, indeed may be contrary to, western cultural values.
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Rio, I would say I wouldn’t look at the book. However, if it’s a required course, and I was struggeling, I’m sure the temptation would be so great, I really don’t know.
OTOH. It would be a dumb professor who would give a closed book test in an online course.
1. He has to know that a certain amount of students would open the book. This puts the others at a comparative disadvantage.
2. He would have to put a trick question on the test to sort out those who consulted the book. (Asking a question that everyone should miss because it wasn’t in the lecture. However, on-line this wouldn’t work, because you have to assume every student has read the book.)
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I have had many years of college level work and only remember three test questions specifically. They were such good questions that it didn’t matter how many books you had. You had to know the subject.
1. Was Queen Elizabeth (I) a Protestant or Catholic?
2. Discuss the legacy of the Greek and Roman empires.
3. Describe Job’s God.
I struggled with all three at the time. I could ace the first two now, but question #3 would still give me a problem.
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Chas – I think Queen Elizabeth I was Protestant, wasn’t she? Her sister, who preceeded her as queen, was a Catholic who had many Protestants killed, & was known as Bloody Mary.
Am I correct?
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Chas, Can we look in the book?
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Most interesting test question I ever heard of: Why? A friend taking a graduate level course had that question as his final. It was an essay test, and that was all there was to it. He wrote a one word answer to the one word question: Because. He got an ‘A’ for the test.
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Powerline featured an awesome video today:
How Obama Got Elected
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2008/11/022090.php
Interviews with highly-enlightened Obama voters at the polls.
http://www.HowObamaGotElected.com
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Peter L – Another good answer might have been “Why not?”
My dad went through a bitter time in high school. (Long story, but part of it was his “wicked step-mother” being very unfair.)
Out of spite one day, Dad intentionally answered every question of a test (multiple choice) wrong.
He got an A anyway, because the teacher knew he had to know the right answers to pick the wrong ones.
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Because obviously interviewing a relative handful of Obama voters, while interesting, is hardly scientific proof of anything, we also commissioned a Zogby telephone poll which asked the very same questions (as well as a few others) with similarly amazing results.
Zogby Poll
512 Obama Voters 11/13/08-11/15/08 MOE +/- 4.4 points
97.1% High School Graduate or higher, 55% College Graduates
Results to 12 simple Multiple Choice Questions
57.4% could NOT correctly say which party controls congress (50/50 shot just by guessing)
81.8% could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism (25% chance by guessing)
82.6% could NOT correctly say that Barack Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off the ballot (25% chance by guessing)
88.4% could NOT correctly say that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry and make energy rates skyrocket (25% chance by guessing)
56.1% could NOT correctly say Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground (25% chance by guessing).
And yet…..
Only 13.7% failed to identify Sarah Palin as the person on which their party spent $150,000 in clothes
Only 6.2% failed to identify Palin as the one with a pregnant teenage daughter
And 86.9 % thought that Palin said that she could see Russia from her “house,” even though that was Tina Fey who said that!!
Only 2.4% got at least 11 correct.
Only .5% got all of them correct. (And we “gave” one answer that was technically not Palin, but actually Tina Fey)
http://www.HowObamaGotElected.com
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Rio,
I would not look at the book. I feel strongly compelled to follow rules, regardless of whether I will be caught. It’s not even a matter of cheating being wrong, I’m just a rules-follower – as long as the rule is not actually wrong itself.
Of course, I have very rarely taken a course, online or otherwise, that I had so much trouble with that I would not have thought I could do well enough without the book, if that was how the test was designed.
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GM failure: The shockwave
If General Motors declares bankruptcy, industry watchers say, the entire domestic auto industry could be badly hurt.
This is another tick closer on my “How near are we to the Greater Depression” clock, but it’s also a bit of personal poignancy.
About 45 years ago I was attending community college in Los Angeles after flunking out of college. I was passing a calculus class with a B or so. I helped a another student with his homework. I did nothing remarkable.
A few weeks later I got a phone call from a man who told me he was X’s dad. “I’m so grateful for your helping my son. I’m the night shift superintendant at the Chevrolet plant in Van Nuys [part of San Fernando Valley section of LA]. If you need a summer job at the plant, go down and apply and tell them I said they should hire you.”
I did and they did and I spent my summer putting bolts on Chevy bumpers. It was good money for tedious work. Usually, the fired people without manual dexterity (like me) pretty quickly, but they kept me on the job until I could keep up with the “line.”
Near the end of the summer, the night superintendant approached me and said, “General Motors has its own university, General Motors Institute.” [Which they did at the time, though no longer.] “I can get you into it. It would mean a great future for you.”
For various reasons, I turned the offer down. In three months I retire from a very different life and raggedy career. I am not especially prescient about predicting the future, but I have no regret about not pursuing a career with GM. GM, once very mighty, now looks like burned toast.
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Hey, let’s “gay” the thread. In fact, let’s “gay” the military.
<b<Admirals, generals: Repeal ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’
More than 100 retired generals and admirals called Monday for repeal of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays so they can serve openly, according to a statement obtained by The Associated Press.
By BRIAN WITTE
Associated Press Writer
ANNAPOLIS, Md. —
More than 100 retired generals and admirals called Monday for repeal of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays so they can serve openly, according to a statement obtained by The Associated Press.
The move by the military veterans confronts the incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama with a thorny political and cultural issue that dogged former President Bill Clinton early in his administration.
“As is the case with Great Britain, Israel, and other nations that allow gays and lesbians to serve openly, our service members are professionals who are able to work together effectively despite differences in race, gender, religion, and sexuality,” the officers wrote.
That Israeli military, so “gay,” don’t you know?
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The so-called liberal bias of the media continues to be a meme here so I found it interesting to read of Dan Rather’s lawsuit. Legal rules of discovery etc have allowed him to access CBS records and they outline how careful CBS is to satisfy the Republican party. In a second case, Georgia’s (the country) reputation continues to suffer.Amnesty International has released a report critical of Georgian actions prior to the Russian invasion. It seems the ‘victim’ wasn’t nearly as innocent as we were led to believe.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/business/media/17rather.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2&sq=dan%20rather&st=nyt&scp=2
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/georgias-rearguard-action-in-face-of-amnesty-report-1023110.html
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Meanwhile French filmmakers have produced a documentary “proving” that the French had Osama in their sights but were told to back off as Osama was more useful to the American gov’t alive. The French gov’t denies the story.
http://www.juancole.com/2008/11/afghan-article-says-us-bin-ladin-hunt.html
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Wow…
I’m over at Salon reading a few columns and ran across a video of pieced together clips of Peter Schiff from Euro Pacific Capital. He predicts our present economic crunch exactly right, and stands his ground in the face of outright scorn from Art Laffer, Ben Stein, Charles Payne, Tom Adjons (sp?) Mike Normans, and some gal named Tracy something or other. They are all dead wrong and Schiff nailed it dead center over two years ago.
http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/11/17/peter_schiff/index.html
Take a look.
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So I decided that Schiff is worth listening to, and found this article over at (puke) Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/15/AR2008101503166.html
He’s saying that the government bailouts are only going to increase the problem.
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Memo to David L (post 23): expertly done! I viewed the 2 links. Actually I may have seen the 2nd link on tonight’s Hannity / Colmes on Fox News network.
Just goes to show exactly how flippin stupid Obama supporters can be……
1 – 20 – 2013 Obama’s Last day
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Marilee – #15 I appreciate folks like you who are concerned with the dumbing down of America’s youth by the politically-correct establishment of todays institutes of higher learning. Thank you so much for that link to the Pepperdine U. poster scandal. I hope now the rest of those who read the article will understand just how INtollerant liberals are and how far they will go to supress the expression of challenging ideas. Nicely done, Marilee. Obvious to me you are a bright light in the midst of an ideological darkness. I really don’t know much about you, but am interested in knowing your political background….
What is your thought on the following quote by the late Bill Buckley? Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.” –William F. Buckley Jr.
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Donna, looking in the book won’t help.
Karen, I don’t know what I answered then, but if I were to answer now, I would say, “She was neither, she was a politician.” Then, without sorting out her actions to prove one or the other, show that she accomidated both, which is what politicians do.
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Jon would have a field day with that question, wouldn’t he?
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