If your a college football fan.
The giggle of the week, You just have to click through and look.
Excuse me while I compose myself….
The Best Big 12 Related Costume You’ll See Today – Nebraska Football
Choosing the Lesser of Two Evils?
Truth Observed: Dr. Del Tackett
Another installment from Dr. Tackett. This one a response to some comments. The main comment is;
“selecting the lesser of two evils just gives you evil”
The whole response is worth a read. Here are the main points:
Dr. Webster based much of his statements about voting on this scripture, “He who rules over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.” 2 Sam 23:3 (NKJ)
In regard to the above comment he says this:
this is a recipe for eternal inactivity, for there are deep faults present in every human creature.
Instead, the command lays out a standard for us to pursue: just men who will rule in the fear of God. Our responsibility is to determine which of those before us will best do this. If you do not think either is very good, then do your homework, vote for the best, and then get busy to train and raise up the kind of men that will eventually give you a better choice. We have neglected this vital “preparation” part of our responsibility and somehow have thought that it is someone else’s job to magically make this happen.
This has been my main argument for years. People don’t get involved until a week before the election when you are left with the choices someone else has made. If you don’t vote you have no business complaining about the state of government. If you wait until a week before the election to get “involved” you have no business complaining about the candidates on the ballot.
Thanks for the post Dr. Tackett.
Choosing the Lesser of Two Evils?: Truth Observed, Dr. Del Tackett
Another great thought from Thomas Sowell
A Perfect Storm by Thomas Sowell on National Review Online,
Once the election is over, the glittering generalities of rhetoric and style will mean nothing. Everything will depend on performance in facing huge challenges, domestic and foreign.
Performance is where Barack Obama has nothing to show for his political career, either in Illinois or in Washington.
Policies that he proposes under the banner of “change” are almost all policies that have been tried repeatedly in other countries — and failed repeatedly in other countries.
Politicians telling businesses how to operate? That’s been tried in countries around the world, especially during the second half of the 20th century. It has failed so often and so badly that even socialist and communist governments were freeing up their markets by the end of the century.
The economies of China and India began their take-off into high rates of growth when they got rid of precisely the kinds of policies that Obama is advocating for the United States under the magic mantra of “change.”
Putting restrictions on international trade in order to save jobs at home? That was tried here with the Hawley-Smoot tariff during the Great Depression.
Unemployment was 9 percent when that tariff was passed to save jobs, but unemployment went up instead of down, and reached 25 percent before the decade was over.
Higher taxes to “spread the well around,” as Obama puts it? The idea of redistributing wealth has turned into the reality of redistributing poverty, in countries where wealth has fled and the production of new wealth has been stifled by a lack of incentives.
Economic disasters, however, may pale by comparison with the catastrophe of Iran with nuclear weapons. Glib rhetoric about Iran being “a small country,” as Obama called it, will be a bitter irony for Americans who will have to live in the shadow of a nuclear threat that cannot be deterred, as that of the Soviet Union could be, by the threat of a nuclear counter-attack.
A Perfect Storm by Thomas Sowell on National Review Online
Praying without condition
Tozer Devotional :: The Alliance
A.W. Tozer is one of my favorite authors. At his heart he is a worshiper and I almost always connect with his thoughts. This one comes from his online devotional. It has an RSS feed so I get it every morning in my Google Reader. Here is the money quote:
Many of us spoil our prayers by being too “dainty” with the Lord (as some old writer called it). We ask with the tacit understanding that the cost must be reasonable. After all, there is a limit to everything, and we do not want to be fanatical! We want the answer to be something added, not something taken away. We want nothing radical or out of the ordinary, and we want God to accommodate us at our convenience. Thus we attach a rider to every prayer, making it impossible for God to answer it.
Click through and be challenged.
Tozer Devotional :: The Alliance
It’s impossible to just tax the rich.
Thomas Sowell : Taxing Times
Another great article by one of our most articulate conservatives. Ask yourself the question; who owns the company I work for? and where would I work if that person or persons decided it wasn’t worth the risk anymore.
Chief Justice John Marshall said it all in one sentence: “The power to tax is the power to destroy.”
It is not the money that is taxed away that is destroyed. What is destroyed is the wealth that does not get produced in the first place,
Thomas Sowell : Taxing Times – Townhall.com
Political Wisdom from Dr. Noah Webster:
Defining Politics : Truth Observed
Another installment from Del’s blog. This one has a couple of money quotes, the first from Dr. Webster himself:
“The science of government; that part of ethics which consists in the regulation and government of a nation or state, for the preservation of its safety, peace and prosperity…and the protection of its citizens in their rights, with the preservation and improvement of their morals.”
Here is the second from Del:
The third from William Bradford:
Make sure you click through and read the whole thing,
Political Wisdom from Dr. Noah Webster: Defining Politics : Truth Observed
My heart is broken,
I have been reading the Fat Cyclist blog for a long time. I started reading when he and his friends built a teeter totter for their mountain bikes in the back yard. Eldon Nelson is the author and though I have not met him he is the kind of guy you just want to hang out with. He loves life, doesn’t take himself too seriously, and cares deeply for his family and friends.
A few months ago we found out his wife Susan has cancer. As I read the post I could feel the love he has for his wife and children and my heart went out to them. I felt like a trusted friend as he shared the internal struggle of how much to tell us because, after all, it’s a cycling blog.
A few days ago I rejoiced with him when they received a good report from the Dr. then over the weekend things took a turn for the worse. Eldon is telling us the final chapter of Susan’s life has been written. My heart is crushed today. I don’t know where they stand spiritually Eldon has tried to keep things light and humorous except for a few serious posts. I read a lot of blogs and today Dean Barnett passed away. Dean was a great thinker, light hearted, and gracious. I will lift up the Barnett family as well but the Nelson family is different. I don’t know why.
What I do know is my friends are full of faith and people of prayer. Not the type who are casual in their time with God but passionate and take God at His word. So I’m posting a link to the Fat Cyclist blog so you can read Eldon’s latest post and stand in the gap for this family. I want to do more but I don’t know what to do. I want to fix it but I know that’s out of my hands. No pressure. If something stirs in you go read the post and stand with them in prayer.
Bless you all.
Winter Riding
I am sick of politics, though I am hopeful, I am discouraged today at the ignorance, I mean that not in the pejorative sense, of the American public. So I’m going to change the subject.
I don’t really know if anyone reads this blog and if anyone does I really don’t know why. Today I am going to do an experiment. I’m going to ask a question,
Here it is:
It’s about 58 and sunny today and since my work hours have changed to 6:00 am to 3:00 pm I get home around 3:45 with plenty of time to ride outside. I hate riding indoors and can’t seem to make myself. I would love to get a computrainer but I don’t have $1,000 and I’m not convinced if I bought one I would use it. Did I mention I hate riding indoors? I did? Sorry.
I don’t really have the gear for winter riding. I have one very light pair of full finger gloves, one pair of very cheap tights with no chamois, one long sleeved jersey, a very light jacket, good headcover, a pair of shoes full of holes, ventilation not worn out. 
Do you ride in the cold?
Where do I start accumulating gear?
Should I buy tights or leg warmers?
Where should I spend my money? I’m thinking shoes but not sure.
So there it is. let me know what you think. even if your not a cyclist I would love to hear your thoughts.
Political Wisdom from Dr. Noah Webster:
Remedy for Political Evils : Truth Observed
Del has posted the third in his series Political Wisdom from Dr. Noah Webster.
The money quote:
I am convinced, noting the truth about the nature of man, that once the citizenry loses its self-governing ethic, it will increasingly act in more and more selfish ways. This leads to seeking and electing men to office who will promise them not only more and more “spoils” from the public treasury, but demand officials and laws that grant increasing freedom to act as they wish without punishment or condemnation.
Be sure to click through and read the whole thing,
Political Wisdom from Dr. Noah Webster: Remedy for Political Evils : Truth Observed
The Wreck of the Annenberg by Andrew J. Coulson on National Review Online
I find it incredible that the left consistently ignore facts and realities when those facts and realities run counter to their theory. Andrew Coulson at NRO points out one of those situations regarding the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. It’s one example of how the left has operated in my lifetime. here’s the money quote:
Perhaps the greatest tragedy of the Annenberg Challenge is that years after its failure, many of those who led it at the national and regional level — including Senator Obama — still actively reject the lessons it should have taught them, and indeed that should have already been apparent before it even began. Senator Obama’s platform calls for a “blue ribbon panel” to identify “successful programs and innovations across the country that should be scaled” but he explicitly rejects the very market forces essential to the scaling-up process.
The truth is irrelevant because it does not support the theory. Amazing to me.
The Wreck of the Annenberg by Andrew J. Coulson on National Review Online
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