http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/11/05/1652984.aspx

A little awkward, considering this just came out: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1034855.html

http://www.sojo.net/blog/godspolitics/?p=3293

Voting as Damage Control
by Shane Claiborne 10-30-2008

Every day I am asked how I will be voting.

Principled Christian non-voters and secular anarchists have written to urge a public statement on voting abstinence. Good folks in both parties and plenty of journalists are frustrated that we won’t answer with a simple endorsement. That just seems too easy. Jesus was far too slick to get boxed into any political camp.

http://www.sojo.net/blog/godspolitics/?p=3196

Joe the Pastor
by Jim Wallis 10-24-2008

Something to think about when looking at candidates and their immigration policies...

http://www.sojo.net/blog/godspolitics/?p=3068

Seeing Immigration Through Biblical Spectacles
by Rich Nathan 10-20-2008

This is an article by a Palestinian journalist, on McCain's recent comments in response to a woman who referred to Obama as an Arab...first link is a video of the incident, second link is her article...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c-Ijky95dc

http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=14267

Anyone have an idea about where to watch the debate tonight? I was thinking, if we're gonna be at church, I could bring a little TV with me, and we could order some pizza or somethin...anyone got other ideas?

(Political Animal) PALIN AND RUSSIA, PART V.... It started like a harmless joke, didn't it? Sarah Palin is from Alaska, Alaska is near Russia, and since Republican rhetoric has become breathtakingly ridiculous lately, some of us joked that Republicans might think the proximity between the state and the country counts as foreign policy experience. It was meant as satire. No one really expected Republicans to make the argument.

And yet, he we are. On ABC's "World News Tonight," none other than John McCain became the latest Republican to make the connection.

Don Miller (author of Blue Like Jazz) just closed the first night of the Democratic Convention with a benediction....Try to find it, I'm sure it'll be all over youtube by the morning...It was amazing....but for now, here's an interview that he did with Christianity Today....

http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctliveblog/archives/2008/08/donald_mil...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWX5u69hmzY&feature=user

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/08/comparing-obama-and-mc...

Question: Does evil exist and if it does, do we ignore it, do we negotiate with it, do we contain it or do we defeat it?

Obama's answer:

This article is about Obama's tire gauge solution:
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1829354,00.html?imw=Y

And this article is about McCain trying to portray Obama as the Antichrist:
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1830590,00.html?cnn=yes

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/juneweb-only/127-11.0.html

Obama to expand Bush's faith-based programs

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jqqqF79sCN4HSE6uVrPQVBQpYZVwD91L2DFO0

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1814206,00.html

!!!!!!!

Some of these Christian leaders are being denied the right to take part in communion at their churches just because they openly support Obama's nomination to the presidency!!!

http://www.matthew25network.com/splash/index.php

Amazing...

Reporter: "How often does Obama go to church?"

Wright: "About as often as you do."

There was truth in Wright's outing of Obama as a less-than-regular churchgoer. This is no surprise: Ask the other two candidates for proof of their Sunday attendance and you'll see what I mean. Celebrities in general and politicians in particular might have a better (if still theologically poor) excuse than many of us for not worshiping corporately.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/24668980#24668021

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/24668980#24657289

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/24668980#24672012

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/24668980#24663233

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/24668980#24658072

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/24668980#24673635

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/24668980#24666439

How do you know if Barack Obama is unhappy with what you're saying— or not saying?

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4823197&affil=wlne

I think there's some truth to the modern version.. read on..

The Ant
>> Two Different Versions! Two Different Morals!
>> OLD VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!

>> -------------------------------------------

>> MODERN VERSION:

'An Evangelical Manifesto' criticizes politics of faith

* Story Highlights
* Document from conservative Christian leaders to be released Wednesday
* Drafters say evangelicals have often expressed "truth without love"
* Among the signers are Os Guiness and Richard Mouw
* High-profile leaders such as Richard Land, James Dobson not among signers

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/politics/2008/04/30/blitzer.paulson.int...

Listen to the end.

The Pinocchio Test
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/04/a_holiday_from_gas_p...

The advocates of a "gas tax holiday" are exaggerating the benefits to consumers from their proposal. If the Illinois experience is a guide, there is likely to be some reduction in the price of gas, but it would fall well short of the size of the tax reduction. In order to pay for the tax cut, the government would have to cut back on highway construction and maintenance or find some other way of plugging the shortfall in revenues to the Highway Trust Fund.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/24357535#24352502

By Mallory Simon
CNN

(CNN) -- James Karl Buck helped free himself from an Egyptian jail with a one-word blog post from his cell phone.

Buck, a graduate student from the University of California-Berkeley, was in Mahalla, Egypt, covering an anti-government protest when he and his translator, Mohammed Maree, were arrested April 10.

On his way to the police station, Buck took out his cell phone and sent a message to his friends and contacts using the micro-blogging site Twitter.

The message only had one word. "Arrested."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR94yjZrYR4

Clinging to dream of Palestine village

By Martin Asser
BBC News, Iqrit, Israel

According to our Israeli road atlas, Route 899 runs from the sea along the Lebanese border to the town of Sasa, and along the way passes an "archaeological ruin" called Iqrit.

The three-dot symbol on the map is one of hundreds of such locations throughout this historically rich land - but this is no biblical or Roman-era relic.

April 14, 2008
Cairo Journal
A City Where You Can’t Hear Yourself Scream

By MICHAEL SLACKMAN

CAIRO — Egyptians in this capital city say it is harder and harder to be heard and to have a voice, but they are not talking politics. Well, not only politics.

What they are talking about, or rather yelling about, is noise, the incredible background noise of a city crammed with 18 million people, and millions of drivers who always have one hand on the horn and a rules-free way of thinking.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1729524,00.html

Each of us lives a life of contradictory truths. We are not one thing or another. Barack Obama's mother was at least a dozen things. S. Ann Soetoro was a teen mother who later got a Ph.D. in anthropology; a white woman from the Midwest who was more comfortable in Indonesia; a natural-born mother obsessed with her work; a romantic pragmatist, if such a thing is possible.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/23857641#23846975

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/23857641#23851229

Guys, if you haven't heard already we're inviting you to our house on Sat 3/29 from 8-9pm to celebrate Earth Hour (you can stay afterwards of course :). We will be dimming the lights, lighting candles, eating organic food, and 'commiting' any other earth-friendly acts that you can come up with :) I will buy organic chocolate and Jimmy K will be buying organic fruits. if you can think of any other thing please bring it with you, we will probably need more food.

See you then!

El fazee3 Tanious

US vessel 'shoots at Suez boat'

The ship was reportedly carrying used military equipment
A US container ship approaching the Suez Canal has opened fire on a small Egyptian motorboat, killing one man and wounding two others, reports say.
The Global Patriot, carrying used US military equipment, was in the Gulf of Suez when it was approached by a motorboat selling local merchandise.

Its crew apparently fired after the boat failed to heed warnings to stop when asked, the US navy said.

It added that it was in contact with Egypt through the US embassy in Cairo.

CNN offers 11,000 pages of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s public schedule for her eight years as first lady.
You can search by page #, date, month and year and see what she did.

http://politics.nytimes.com/clinton-schedules/

here you go...Obama and his lying mama:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPG_FOjgB-s - Nice....no comment! :) :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXAQ3BHTbjs - Rezko

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LtbLEKHsi0&feature=related - Canada and Nafta Scandal

In light of all the discussions we've been having on global warming, social justice, and other topics regarding Christian view of these topics, I thought this would be interesting to share:

ONLY 10 DAYS UNTIL EARTH HOUR

Why have Christians always leaned towards the Republican party? Should they?