That huge fence along the US-Mexico border to keep out illegal imports immigrants is facing some scrutiny in Congress again.
Carlos Mencia says the US will need to use illegal immigrants just to get the fence built, but now lawmakers are concerned that the fence will be built with imported steel as well.
Something that makes the Chinese very happy and patriotic Americans not so much.
From NPR
Month: October 2007
Brownback may pull out today
Sen. Sam Brownback may pull out of the presidential race today, sighting a lack of funds as reason why.
Here’s to hoping he endorses Mike Huckabee or someone else he really believes in, rather than just simply endorsing a top tier candidate because they’re “top tier.” I’d even be happy if he endorsed Ron Paul, as long as he did it for the right reasons.
Huck-a-Mania
Whatcha gonna do brother when Huck-a-Mania runs wild over you?!
You’ve gotta see this blog post….
THE ONLY POLLSTER that really matters is Scott Rasmussen of Rasmussen Reports. In addition to his unrivaled track record, Rasmussen is also the only pollster who is currently screening for likely voters. So when Rasmussen says something, we ought to pay attention.
Yesterday, Rasmussen released a poll of the Iowa Republican Caucus. Given its surprising results, I’m surprised it hasn’t received more attention. Romney’s winning with 25 percent; no big shakes there. Fred’s in second at 19 percent; again, nothing earth shattering. But here comes the bombshell: Mike Huckabee checks in at 18 percent, a stunningly strong third place showing and within shouting distance of the frontrunners….
Huckabee is the most natural campaigner in the bunch. Unlike one member of the top tier, there’s no danger that he’ll doze off in mid-sentence. Unlike other members of the top-tier, Huckabee’s a social conservative’s dream. You want someone rock-ribbed on the social issues? Huckabee’s your guy. He doesn’t even believe in evolution. His taxing and spending in Arkansas may not be every conservative’s ideal, but Huckabee probably has fewer policy skeletons in his closet than anyone else in the field.
Oh and Gov. McDreamy announced his endorsement for Rudy this week. Looks like typical politics in action.
The txting church
Over the last year or so text messaging has become more prevalent than ever. Luckily I have an unlimited txting plan for my cell phone, because it seems I rarely use any minutes on my monthly plan (thanks to free calls to other AT&T users) but I do lots of txt messaging.
I’ve even become known as the go-to-guy when a prayer requests needs to be shared. I take advantage of text messages first and then normally send a follow-up email with more information.
Brian sent me a link to a story from MondayMorningInsight.com that I apparently overlooked, “How Will The Church Use Text Messaging?”
We’ve been discussing over e-mail the last couple weeks some ways that our church could possibly use text messaging to more effectively communicate with our partners. We’ve had several ideas, including feedback during the services. But I think some of that may take more hardware and software than we’re ready to pay for. But their may be other areas, services we can offer that we haven’t seen yet or tackled.
It could be something as “simple” as using twitter to track what Brian or other leadership folks do during the day, or it could be as complex as responding to the message and then showing the responses on the screen during our Sunday morning Service – kind of like VH1’s Pop-Up Video.
Any ideas? Do you see your church utilizing txt messages? If so, how?
The Wiki Tree
I don’t know how many of you looked at our new Wikipedia site yesterday… I haven’t worried with stats since I’m visiting it a lot and making additions, changes and such but I’ve run into a dilemma. I’m trying to map out our family tree (The Blundell/Scherbarth portion of it for now) and I’m not sure of the layout.
The way it is now (as of this posting) made sense to begin with, but it might be a bit more confusing now. As it is I show up under Heading 1 and 2. But maybe that’s how it should be. Feel free to add your thoughts by clicking on the discussion page, or leaving your comments here.