• Quote of the Day: Brass Ceiling

    14Nov
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    “There is no one more surprised than I—except, of course, my husband. You know what they say, `Behind every successful woman there is an astonished man.’”
    –The first U.S. Army four star female general, Ann Dunwoody, on breaking the “brass ceiling” in AP

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  • Quote of the Day

    15Sep
    Categories: Political, Quote of the Day Comments: 0

    Some people say ‘Oh Communism is not so bad.’ They don’t know. It’s horrible, except for a very few people at the top, for whom it’s very good. Right now, what’s going on in Georgia. . . That’s terrible. I can’t believe people don’t see that.
    –A lady who was formerly under Russian rule in East Germany, but escaped to America. My aunt met this lady on a train.

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  • Quote of the Day [update #4]

    09Sep
    Categories: Political, Quote of the Day Comments: 2

    You know, they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull: lipstick.
    –Sarah Palin, in her acceptance speech at the RNC

    “You can put lipstick on a pig, it’s still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It’s still gonna stink. We’ve had enough of the same old thing.”
    –Obama, at a speech in Lebanon, VA today

    You know, Obama, all that talk about “post-partisanship”? Some people are starting to think that it’s just that: talk.

    (hat tip: Dad)

    Update: The McCain campaign has an ad out on this:

    Update #2: Obama has a skillful response:
    For the record, I’m fairly up in the air about whether he meant it or not. There are good points on both sides. FWIW, when I first saw the quote, without anyone suggesting it was about Palin, I instantly thought he was talking about Palin. It was a dreadfully stupid thing to say, in any case, and he should have seen or thought how it would be taken in light of recent history. However, I cannot conclusively say he was talking about Palin. I’m all agreed that we should talk about the issues instead of what he might have meant. Once the American people start examining the issues, they will begin a mass exodus toward the McCain campaign.

    I just had a conversation tonight with a bunch of evangelicals who did not like McCain and were swooning over Obama. And they had absolutely no idea about Obama’s record. I talked to them about Obama’s record and I’m ready to talk to anyone else about Obama’s record. Conversations about whether he was calling Palin a pig or not might produce a little bump in the polls, but talking about the issues will make a landslide. Let’s focus on the issues.

    Update #3: Even Obama admits that he called McCain and his policies a pig. That’s rude enough, he should apologize.

    Update #4: I was wrong on Update #3. See this post for fuller explanation.

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  • Quote of the Day

    05Sep
    Categories: Political, Quote of the Day Comments: 0

    From John McCain’s acceptance speech:

    When I was five years old, a car pulled up in front of our house. A Navy officer rolled down the window, and shouted at my father that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor. I rarely saw my father again for four years. My grandfather came home from that same war exhausted from the burdens he had borne, and died the next day. In Vietnam, where I formed the closest friendships of my life, some of those friends never came home with me. I hate war. It is terrible beyond imagination.

    I’m running for President to keep the country I love safe, and prevent other families from risking their loved ones in war as my family has. I will draw on all my experience with the world and its leaders, and all the tools at our disposal — diplomatic, economic, military and the power of our ideals — to build the foundations for a stable and enduring peace.

    I enjoy history and consider myself a student of it. I remember Chamberlain. I know what Teddy Roosevelt said about a big stick and have seen the truth of it borne out in history. (Romans 13 says that that’s the government’s job.) That, combined with the above stance of McCain’s, is why this Mennonite supports McCain.

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  • Quote of the Day

    29Aug
    Categories: Humor, Quote of the Day Comments: 0

    “I am currently reading a romance novel I was given about a year ago. The book looks really cool, but the story is so crazy that it sends me into gales of laughter and makes me seriously wonder what the author’s problem was. This will probably be the last romance novel I read in a long time. Maybe forever. Seriously, you learn more from reading Dr. Seuss than novels like this. Much more.”
    -SuperGirlEmzel in ring tones, goat cheese, and pink fuzzies; Emily, like her mother, is a great writer; quite unlike her mother is her writing style of random hilarity

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  • Quote of the Day

    28Aug
    Categories: Political, Quote of the Day Comments: 0

    “…if [McCain's] elected, Roe versus Wade will be outlawed.”
    -Obama campaign manager, David Plouffe

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  • Quote of the Day [updated]

    26Aug
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    “Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values… that your word is your bond that you do what you say you’re gonna do…”
    -Michelle Obama, in a speech at the Democratic Convention, apparently forgetting about public financing

    I just watched her speech and it was rather cringe-inducing at many points and for myriad reasons. Go watch the whole thing and draw your own conclusions and let me know in the comments what you think.

    Update: Wow! Dennis Kucinich knows how to give a speech! I disagreed with much (actually pretty much of all) of what he said, but at the end (and throughout) I felt like getting up a joining the standing ovation! I particularly like his (unoriginal) turn of phrase “neo-con artists”.

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  • Quote of the Day

    28Jul
    Categories: Humor, Quote of the Day Comments: 0

    Student 1: Ilbint hilwe, laaken bisha. (The girl is beautiful, but ugly.)
    Student 2: Mumken? (Is that possible?) Can he say that?
    Teacher: I’m a teacher, not a psychiatrist.

    Context: The translation for hilwe said “beautiful, nice”. Our textbook was written by a non-native English speaker who doesn’t know that “nice” usually is talking about personality, not looks. The entire class was under the impression that hilwe meant beautiful on the outside and/or the inside. Apparently that was wrong. After laughing at us, the teacher gave us the word for nice.

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  • Quote of the Day

    19Jul
    Categories: Humor, Photos, Quote of the Day, Traffic Report Comments: 2

    Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, because you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. -Unknown, via justme’s sig

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  • Quote of the Day

    14Jul
    Categories: Humor, Quote of the Day Comments: 0

    Dorcas’ Quote of the Day:

    Quote of the Day:
    JoNell the nephew’s wife and I are looking at an ad for the new Kit movie.
    Me, to JoNell: Were you into American Girls?
    Matt, interrupting: I’ve been into American girls since I was 14.

    That QOTD (btw, you should read the entire post that goes with the QOTD: it’s great!) reminded me of a conversation I had the other day with a 24 year old Jordanian Muslim guy at Petra:

    Jordanian: I want to find a beautiful American girl. Can you help me?
    Me (laughing): Sorry, but I’m not sure I can–I haven’t found one of my own yet!

    We think such a question is hilarious, but in Eastern culture with arranged marriages, asking someone to help you find a wife is a normal thing.

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  • Quote of the Day

    12Jul
    Categories: Humor, Quote of the Day Comments: 0

    “There’s only one thing a man can do when in a spiritual and existential funk: buy some new suits.”
    -A man I overheard in the rugged mountainous desert of Petra

  • Quote of the Day

    11Jul
    Categories: Humor, Quote of the Day Comments: 4

    “We’re going swimming tomorrow, enchilada.”
    -One of my fellow American english teachers in Nazareth, meaning to say “Insh’Allah” (if God wills)

  • Quote of the Day: Jesse Jackson

    31Dec
    Categories: Political, Quote of the Day Comments: 0

    “If in my low moments in word, deed, or attitude, through some error of temper, taste, or tone, I have caused anyone discomfort, created pain, or revived someone’s fears, that was not my truest self. If there were occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head, so limited in its finitude, not to my heart, which is boundless in its love for the entire human family.”
    –Jesse Jackson, “apologizing” in 1984 for anti-Semitic comments
    “Apologizing in Public” by Marvin Olasky in WORLD Magazine

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  • Candidate in Profile: Mike Huckabee

    21Nov
    Categories: Christianity, Political, Quote of the Day Comments: 0

    Below is a reprinted portion of my latest (not yet published) Newslines column for Sword and Trumpet.

    Mike Huckabee, a former Southern Baptist minister, is a freshly resurgent candidate for the GOP nomination after being endorsed by a slew of prominent evangelicals. While he still lags in the polls (with RCP poll averages putting him at 5th nationwide and 2nd in Iowa), Newt Gingrich predicts that he will catch on with primary voters and calls him “the most interesting dark horse candidate”. Huckabee is the former governor of Arkansas and was named by TIME as one of the top five governors in the U.S.

    He is strongly pro-life and has said that claiming to hate abortion but yet support allowing it is like hating slavery but allowing it.

    He balanced the budget in AR and supports cutting spending to balance the U.S. budget. He supports the Fair Tax which would eliminate all federal taxes and impose a federal sales tax, thus taxing consumption (thus discouraging the rampant, wasteful consumerism of America) and not taxing production (which will encourage production). It will also eliminate the waste of an entire industry based around tax preparation and tax loopholes. AR welfare rolls have declined by half under his leadership.

    He has a very Christian attitude on race issues that balances racial sensitivity (he has rightfully condemned some conservative anti-illegal immigrant campaigning as racially based) and fairness—it shows in that he had an unprecedented (for a Republican candidate) 48% of the black vote.

    He has said that there are two worldviews: man-centered and God-centered. He believes in the inerrancy of Scripture and thus believes that homosexuality is sin. He says that he is for legislating morality—to say that anyone (including liberals) does otherwise is logically inconsistent. All legislation is legislating morality. He has said that the Ten Commandments are the basis for appropriate behavior. He believes that God created marriage as between one man and one woman for life. He said that the purpose of marriage is a loving relationship, not happiness. He thinks many of society’s problems would be solved by further involvement from fathers in their children’s lives. He strongly opposes divorce and sees it as a big detriment to society.

    He says that people are naturally selfish and only God or punishment can prevent it. He supports allowing prayers in government institutions, school vouchers for Christian schools, and displaying the Ten Commandments in schools. He doesn’t believe in evolution. He received an astounding 51% of the onsite votes at the Washington Values Voters Summit.

    On the environment, he said that the “the earth is the Lord’s” and that we are merely its caretakers.

    He believes in free trade as a good way to boost jobs. He believes free-market forces will boost innovation and cut prices.

    He is a strong conservative on states’ rights, second amendment rights, and health care. He rightfully bucks radical conservatives on immigration and believes on enforcement of current laws, but having a permissive immigration policy.

    Quote of the Day

    “Even if we lose elections, we should not lose our honor, and that is more important than [electoral gains for] the Republican Party.”
    –Mike Huckabee

    Amen!

    Sources: Christian Post, OnTheIssues.org, Wikipedia, RealClearPolitics.com

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  • Quote of the Day

    15Nov
    Categories: Political, Quote of the Day Comments: 0

    “When it takes two weeks and six different positions to answer one question on immigration, it’s easier to understand why the Clinton campaign would rather plant their questions than answer them.”
    –Barack Obama’s spokesman Bill Burton, as Hillary flip-flops yet again on the question of drivers licenses for illegal aliens (shortly after being caught planting questioners with soft-ball questions)

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