Author: Jonathan Blundell

I'm a husband, father of three, blogger, podcaster, author and media geek who is hoping to live a simple life and follow The Way.

KBH for Veep?

Dallasblog reports:

Given the fact that either a woman or minority will be on the Democratic ticket (or both?), Kay Bailey Hutchison might make sense as a runningmate for John McCain, says a Washington Post columnist. Colbert King, in a column today, explores V.P. options and says that while Mike Huckabee could shore up McCain’s right flank, the GOP still ends up with two white guys running against a Democratic integrated by either race, gender or both.

He notes that Hutchison brings conservative credentials on taxes, defense and foreign policy and “gun lovers adore her.”

Remember the milk

There are LOTS of online tools to help you remember what you need to do. Grocerylists.org now offers a handy printable list you can stick on your fridge to be sure you don’t leave anything behind on your weekly trips to the store.
Just print it out, hang it on the refrigerator door and mark it up before you go to the grocery store.

Still more to go…

I was looking at my Flickr stats tonight and it turns out the photo of me with Shawn Michaels is one of my top viewed. No surprise there. But I was looking at some various photos along the way and am somewhat amazed at how I’ve changed over the last 2-3 years. And there’s still more to go…

March 12, 2005
JDB and HBK

April 1, 2006
JDB and Willie

Sept 9, 2006
JDB and LJB

April 28, 2007
JDB and MML

Jan 18, 2008
JDB

THE quote of the day

Huckabee won Kansas today and is leading in Louisiana right now. He’s also only McCain by roughly 300 votes in Washington with 70% of the precincts reporting….

“I know the pundits, and I know what they say: The math doesn’t work out,” Huckabee said Saturday morning at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. “Well, I didn’t major in math, I majored in miracles. And I still believe in those, too.”

The Gospel according to Mike Huckabee

From NPR:

If you heard Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee’s victory speech on Super Tuesday, you may have noticed him speaking in what is almost a separate dialect. Some listeners have even asked us what he was talking about. So NPR headed off to the National Mall in search of people who understood Huckabee’s biblical allusions.

It proved almost as hard as getting a camel through the eye of a needle.

Seems like much of Huckabee’s Christianese may be confusing people. What about our our language and conversation. Are we using terms that others may not know?

What Jesus Meant

The popular Christian question “What would Jesus do?” is not an especially useful one, Wills notes, for Jesus did many things we would not, and should not, do. Should Christian believers today, Wills asks, “like Jesus, forbid a man from attending his own father’s funeral… or tell others to hate their parents?… Are they justified in telling others, ‘I come not imposing peace, I impose not peace but the sword’…? Or ‘I am come to throw fire on the earth’…?” Such moments in the Gospels, Wills writes, “were acts meant to show that he is not just like us, that he has higher rights and powers… [as] a divine mystery walking among men.”

– John Meachum reviewing Garry Wills’s book What Jesus Meant

“We must ask what Jesus meant by his strange words and deeds. In other words, if we focus on what Jesus said without determining what He meant in his original context, we run the risk of misquoting Jesus even when quoting His words.”

– Brian McLaren Everything Must Change