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Just testing a new service called Twitter Feed, that allows you to have blog posts fed through Twitter.  The 140 character limit does apply!

If They Can’t Get What They Want Above Board…

Fox News reported today that House Democrats are considering an insurance tax to help pay for their health care “overhaul plan.”  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is quoted as saying that a tax on high-cost health insurance plans is under consideration – as the Democrats search for internal consensus before taking it to the House floor this fall.

Basically, this would mean that any single policy costing $8,000 or more, or a family policy costing more than $21,000 would fall under the tax.

So, here we go: if the liberals can’t get what they want by convincing people that their cockamamie plan is worthwhile, they’ll just go underground and tax the insurance companies into oblivion.

Same tactics, different day.  When is America going to have another “throw the bums out” election?  It’s time.

What to Do About Nothing

A Perennial Problem

So we’re going through the annual audit of the membership rolls at my church and the perennial discussion comes up of which inactive members should be removed and who should be left on.

It’s a regular type of thing. A story that’s heard in many locales is one of “Bob,” who was confirmed in 1963, left for college in 1968, and hasn’t darkened the door of a church since (it’s 2009 now). But, no one wants risk the wrath of his mother (who’s a faithful, pillar of the church who also gives generously of her money to the church’s work). So, “Bob” is left on… year after year after year. His commitment to the church is literally nothing… no time, no service, no support of the church’s budget.

The question for me is, “What exactly is church membership supposed to mean?”

The House That Gossip Built

After hearing about the whole “mess” that Jon & Kate Gosselin’s marriage is in for the last few days — goodness knows how many bucks have been made thus far on the supposed scandal — I find a voice inside of me screaming louder and louder, “ENOUGH ALREADY!”

Ok, folks:  time for one of those annoying “life” questions that hopefully pull a few of us back from the mire of self-absorption.  Maybe, because Jon & Kate Plus Eight has their ‘private’ lives on public display in millions of homes, they have brought this upon themselves.  But, shouldn’t we be asking ourselves, “What business is it of ours if they’re having trouble?”

Reality: Gotta Love It

Ah, yes.  The election’s over.

Ah, yes.  The inauguration has come and gone.

Ah, yes.  The honeymoon seems to be over — at least for the centrists who actually believed that now-President Obama was actually going to pursue, or get away with truly bipartisan governing.

Ah, yes.  President “I’m getting all of the troops home faster than you can say ’surge’” Obama seems to be discovering that it’s not quite as simple as bringing the troops home “just like that.” Now that we’ve destabilised the region, we’re going to have to work on restabilising it before we can go home.  Unless we just leave a mess.

The cynic in me enjoys the return to painful reality that follows every election, when all of the lies, unreachable ideals and pretending that humanity’s better side will prevail if only we elect a certain person.