Citing High Casualty Count, Obama Calls for Withdrawl from Kansas.

Leave it to a Democrat to exaggerate numbers to make a point.

RICHMOND, Va. - Barack Obama, caught up in the fervor of a campaign speech, drastically overstated the Kansas tornadoes death toll, saying 10,000 had died.

The death toll was 12.

“In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed,” the Democratic presidential candidate said Tuesday in a speech to 500 people packed into a sweltering Richmond art studio for a fundraiser.

Acknowledging his blunder later:

“There are going to be times when I get tired,” he said. “There are going to be times when I get weary. There are going to be times when I make mistakes.”

Obama spokesman Bill Burton said later that the senator meant to say “at least 10,” instead of 10,000.

The Buttafuoco Legacy

Joey Buttafuoco was released from jail this weekend after serving a three-month sentence for a parole violation. The CNN headline says Buttafuoco "paid his debt to society". The first thing that came to my mind was can he ever really make up for the countless SNL skits, woeful made-for-TV movies and cliche stand-up gags he is responsible for inspiring?

Just a thought.

Daddy Dearest?

Alec Baldwin berated his 11-year old daughter in a voice mail left for her after she missed a planned call. Among other things, he called her a "rude, thoughtless pig" who had "humiliated him for the last time".

Real classy there Alec. Not only did this little incident expose the mean, arrogant snot you are behind the Hollywood facade, but also the lack of intelligence you displayed by being recorded saying such things in the first place.

Take a few cues from your brother Stephen. Get yourself straightened out.

The Tragedy at Virginia Tech

I join anyone with any shred of humanity in passing along deepest condolences and prayers for the faculty, staff, students and family of those senselessly murdered on the morning of April 16th.
As far as commentary on the tragedy it seems there is little more that can be said. News organizations, psychologists and other experts will dissect the life of the shooter for weeks and months to come in hope of understanding why someone would do such a thing.
On his blog "Consumed", Owen Strachan discusses the responsibility of Christians to reach out to the hurting, the lonely and the ignored who could become the next Cho Seung-Hui, Dylan Klebold, Eric Harris or Michael Carneal.

Fellow believers, remember the story of Cho Seung-Hui. Remember him. In one sense, you will never see him. He is dead. But in another sense, you will surely see him. He will have a different face, a different look, and a different mask, but his distress is in most everyone around you. You will not see it, but it will be there. Reach out, brothers and sisters. Speak out. Share the gospel. Proclaim the truth. Minister to the sick. Love the unloved.

Banish the storm.

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Now what?

Don Imus has been fired by CBS. Is this the end of the matter? Imus was wrong, reckless and irresponsible with his words and deserved some level of consequence but I have to wonder if his critics ever thought they would achieve the result they desired. Is justice served now that Imus is, for at least now off the air? CBS pulled the plug, effectively ending the matter and removing themselves from scrutiny or repercussion.

Will accountability be pursued further than Imus? Where is the story now? The headlines, the outrage?

For your consideration...

In his most recent blog post Chase Abner addresses an anti-abortion protest held on the campus of Southern Illinois University earlier this week. Chase is serving as the interim Director of Baptist Collegiate Ministries at SIU. He includes a letter he wrote to the campus daily newspaper, The Daily Egyptian. The letter does not appear in the online version of the paper, and I would be surprised if it comes out at all. Seems that the last thing a paper like the DE would want is a rational Christian response ruining their article.

One of my favorite movie quotes.

This is from "Secondhand Lions" starring Michael Caine, Haley Joel Osment and the always awesome Robert Duvall. This speech by Duvall to Osment highlights one of several reasons why this is one of my choice movies.

"Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love... true love never dies. You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn't matter if it's true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in."

Think you are having a bad day?

A piano delivery gone awry in England makes a very expensive pile of kindling.

My first job after leaving active duty was delivering office furniture. On several occasions the delivery conditions were less than ideal and more than once a piece of furniture met a tragic ending. When it happened, it was a sick feeling.

If a picture says a thousand words, I would imagine most of this picture's would be four-letter in nature.