The Phenomenally Bad Judgment Award goes, once again, to Rick Warren.
More on the bad judgment front – What happens if NY and CA go bust? Remember the Cloward-Piven strategy? Something to think about, especially given that it’s been painfully obvious for some time that (absent some radical changes in fiscal behavior) this is inevitable.
The strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis. The “Cloward-Piven Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.
Cloward and Piven were inspired by radical organizer [and Hillary Clinton mentor] Saul Alinsky:
“Make the enemy live up to their (sic) own book of rules,” Alinsky wrote in his 1989 book Rules for Radicals. When pressed to honor every word of every law and statute, every Judeo-Christian moral tenet, and every implicit promise of the liberal social contract, human agencies inevitably fall short. The system’s failure to “live up” to its rule book can then be used to discredit it altogether, and to replace the capitalist “rule book” with a socialist one. (Courtesy Discover the Networks.org)
h/t Instapundit
And in the growing crisis (boy, was I tempted to put scare quotes somewhere in there, given how manufactured it all is, but just because it’s manufactured doesn’t mean it’s not real…) bailoutmania continues apace. I received a copy of Atlas Shrugged for Christmas. I’ve read it many times and loved it, but didn’t have my own copy. It’s amazing how prescient Rand was. Scarily so. One thing that’s nice – well, not so much for a friend of mine who owns Exxon-Mobil stock, and for the millions of 401k holders with oil stocks – is that we’re spending a billion less A DAY on gasoline. So does Big Oil get a bailout, or what? We were all set to tax those “obscene,” “windfall” profits – shouldn’t government intervention go both ways?
People in Alaska apparently have nothing better to do than make snowmen. Humongous snowmen. And lots of little snowmen protesters which picket City Hall.
But I guess they’d better make them while there’s still snow – check out the Twelve Days of Global Warming. 
I’d take it all a bit more seriously if I didn’t recall so many other hysterical predictions – including being advised as a child to enjoy my summers, because when I was older, we wouldn’t HAVE summers anymore – it would be cold all year round.
Steven Seagall needs a night light.
The bible advises us to be more like Christ, but I don’t think this is quite what that means. But I guess it’s a lot more convenient to wear a toga and a crown of thorns than, say, turn off the boob tube and spend more time volunteering, make different lifestyle choices so you can give more money to those who need it, or if that’s too much to start with – give up a good parking space at the mall, pay the toll of a few cars behind you when you pay yours, buy an extra bag of food at McDonalds to give to a homeless person, shovel your neighbor’s sidewalk when you do yours, etc. Yes, stuff like this DOES get on my last nerve. We don’t need gimmicks. We need people to GROW UP in the faith and start making choices based on biblical principles. We need meat, not milk Christians – Hebrews 5:12.
Well, enough of my grousing. Remember that war we lost in Iraq? The murder rate is down to pre-war levels (it’s been safer than New Orleans for months) and Christmas is now a holiday.
And the same guy who admitted he doesn’t support the troops came right out and admitted that liberals don’t love America the same way conservatives do:
But I’ve come to believe conservatives are right. They do love America more. Sure, we liberals claim that our love is deeper because we seek to improve the United States by pointing out its flaws. But calling your wife fat isn’t love. True love is the blind belief that your child is the smartest, cutest, most charming person in the world, one you would gladly die for. I’m more in “like” with my country.
Mind you, it’s a criticism, not a confession – we’re idiots, or something… Whatever. I don’t think America is perfect, but I don’t have to wait until America is perfect in order to love her. There are a lot of other countries I’d like to visit, but no other place I’d want to live. Except one -
They did not receive the things God had promised, but from a long way off they saw them and welcomed them, and admitted openly that they were foreigners and refugees on earth. Those who say such things make it clear that they are looking for a country of their own. They did not keep thinking about the country they had left; if they had, they would have had the chance to return. Instead, it was a better country they longed for, the heavenly country. And so God is not ashamed for them to call him their God, because he has prepared a city for them.
(Hebrews 11:13-16)
