The GOP in 2008

Moby has some interesting thoughts on the current Republican Party in America.
Granted he’s definitely not a Republican…

sitting in my hotel room in london and i just finished watching bush’s final
state of the union address.
eh. to be honest it was kind of a non-event.
no nutty comments about steroids or trips to mars.
no new members in the axis-of-e-vil.
he just seemed sort of out of touch and a bit lost and sort of
desperate in a ‘uh oh, i don’t want to leave
office with a 25% approval rating’ kind of way.
it got me thinking about the state of the republican right in 2008.
and how fractured it is.
to make a big sweeping generalization, there are 4 big components
to the republican right(let’s use simpsons examples)-
1-the flanderses(aka-cultural evangelical conservatives)
2-mr burns and kent brockman(rich guys who don’t like taxes)
3-cletus and brandene(ignorant hicks who believe that barack obama lives in baghdad with wmd’s)
4-grampa simpson(scared and angry people over 70)

Moby suggests that the “flanderses like mike huckabee, mr burns likes mitt romney, cletus and brandene don’t know who they like but they know they don’t like hillary cos she wants to kill christmas, and grampa simpson likes john mccain cos he’s over 70 and doesn’t take sass from the young people.”

Wonder which Simpson character is a fan of Ron Paul?

A fairly broad paint brush of the GOP but probably not too far off. Thoughts?

This just in…

Here are some of the latest rumors circling the web today…

  • MacBook Air includes secret filter to block all references to Ron Paul
  • Blood was digitally removed from There Will Be Blood
  • Patton Oswalt has signed a two-year contract with the Baltimore Ravens
  • ABC announced George Lucas‘s Matrix Babies coming this fall
  • Report links Alvin, Simon to performance-enhancing helium
  • The Dinobots will be voiced by the Wu Tang Clan
  • They shot that tiger because it knew Tom Cruise was gay
  • Islanders on “Lost” to adopt adorable, wisecracking orphan cousin
  • No new Garfield movie until 2011
  • B.A. Baracus played in new A-Team movie by Marcus Carl Franklin, Ben Whishaw, Heath Ledger, Christian Bale, Richard Gere, and Cate Blanchett
  • New Radiohead video available only as an animated GIF
  • Hillary Clinton thinks Batman Forever got everything right
  • Peter Parker is going to start failing Chemistry so kids can better relate to the character
  • iPhone tells Diane Sawyer of Jobs’s “inappropriate touching”
  • There are too many pop culture references in Internet lists

Now granted, these are just rumors – but don’t say I didn’t tell you so.

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10 horrible group icebreakers for your church group

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Aaron shared this list with his group the other night and with our community group leaders…

These are the 10 worst ice breaker ideas so please never try these in your small groups! 😛

10. Share the worst sin you’ve ever committed.

9. If you were God, who would you punish first?

8. Which person in this group do you think needs to find Jesus the most?

7. Which people at your church do you wish would find a different church, and why?

6. If you could erase any verse out of the Bible, which one would it be?

5. Share the juiciest piece of gossip you know so we can pray about it.

4. If you could have anything from your neighbor’s house, what would it be?

3. What’s your favorite of The 10 Commandments to break?

2. If you could change anything about your spouse, what would it be?

1. If you could commit any sin and get away with it, what would it be?