Monday, September 22, 2008

September 22, 2008

Kopp Disclosure
(John 3:19-21)

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I love to laugh
Ha Ha Ha Ha
Loud and long and clear
I love to laugh
He He He He
It's getting worse every year
The more I laugh
Ha Ha Ha Ha
The more I fill with glee
And the more the glee
He He He He
The more I'm a merrier me

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I do.

I am.

While I can be more of the Amadeus, American Beauty, Apocalypse Now, Chariots of Fire, The Mission, and Platoon type in a continuing quest to unravel the subtle incarnations of original sin, I'd rather spend the day with Mary Poppins and Ed Wynn.

Maybe that's why I like SP so much.

She's a lot more fun than JB, BHO, or JM.

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Speaking of the first female President, go to http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1766638341 to find out why the dark side hates her so much.

Yeah, I told you to go there in the last KD; but it's like I tell my preaching students, "If it's not worth preaching twice, it ain't worth preaching once; and if it's worth preaching once, it's worth preaching twice."

Redundant for the resistant.

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A really smart guy who's an engineer who I really like but can't be around as much as I'd prefer because I'm always spending time with people in crises or who are hacked off about the franchise, particular congregation, a colleague, or me wrote, "Lately, several media types, intellectuals, and Hollywood stars, upset by SP's community organizer remarks, have said, 'Jesus was a community organizer and Pontius Pilate was a Governor.'"

He continued, "While this serves to annoy cultural conservatives on many levels, there is one possible retort to the Barak as Messiah crowd. Using your best
Texas Senator LB imitation of his belittling of Indiana Senator and then VP DQ, Christians could say, 'I know Jesus. Jesus is a friend of mine. Senator BHO is no Jesus.'"

Whoa!

Quoting the emperor of the dark side for my friends on the way left, "I can feel your anger."

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One of America's leading evangelists before spending so much time in the White House with WJC and HRC likes to say, "There's nothing I like more than hearing someone who is supposedly so smart say such stupid things."

I've been thinking like that a lot as I listen to the partisans.

A Republican tried to persuade me that JM's inconsistent record shouldn't concern me.

A Democrat tried to persuade me that BHO's good grades in college and law school mean he's more than vacuously eloquent.

Whoa!

Hit me with your best shots!

Yo! Ed Wynn! Start singing, dude!

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But don't you dare pick on SP!

She's hot!

And she's the only one of the final four with any executive leadership.

But who cares about facts when you can feel good about someone who hasn't done anything?

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Go to that link and you'll know why she is hated so much.

Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

He! He! He! He!

If you read Matthew 5:10-12; 10:16ff. for some context after the last KD, you can now turn your attention to Ephesians 6:10-20 for the spirit(s) behind the hatred.

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I'm not laughing.

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A note from the right coast: "Closing Yankee Stadium is like moving the Masters from Augusta. Sad night for you."

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Here's an exchange caught in cyberspace.

Jonathan Edwards: "The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which God is also magnified and highly exalted."

The Russian Wolfhound in the dog pound in Lady and the Tramp: "Miserable creature always looks for more miserable creature. And when he finds him, he is happy."

I don't know if that's more about mainline denominations or Election 2008.

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Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

He! He! He! He!

Reinhold Niebuhr: "Humor is concerned with the immediate incongruities of life and faith with the ultimate ones...Laughter is our reaction to immediate incongruities...Laughter is a sane and healthful response to the innocent foibles of men; and even to some which are not innocent...We also prove by the laughter that we do not take the annoyance too seriously...People with a sense of humor do not take themselves too seriously...All of us ought to be ready to laugh at ourselves because all of us are a little funny in our foibles, conceits and pretensions...The ability to laugh at oneself is the prelude to the sense of contrition. Laughter is a vestibule to the temple of confession."

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Cave Canem comes to mind and may come to print if a publisher overlooks my previous sales.

Regardless, I was asked for the book's theme.

It's simple: "God is so good despite me being so awful!"

Let me put it another way: "God is always right! I'm not!"

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Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

He! He! He! He!

Psalm 2.

Oops.

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Maybe you better stop picking on...

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Blessings and Love!

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