Mezzamorphis

Believe me, it’s not what you think.

Guy really likes Star Wars.

So, we now have President-elect Barack Obama. Congratulations to Senator Obama, Senator Biden, and all those who voted for and supported him. I disagree with many of his positions, but it is quite a thing to know that the country has elected the first black president in history.

Liberals, be warned. You now have every major seat of power in the United States. You have captured the presidency, and have majorities in the US House and Senate. Be careful what you wish for. Four years or eight years from now, you might experience the same turnaround that has happened in the last two years. Unlike President Bush you do have a mandate from the American people, of that there can be no question. Treat that mandate well.

Senator McCain, you are a fine and honorable man who I was happy to support. I wish you had been given the opporunity to serve our country as president, but it was not to be. I can say that I’m sure we haven’t seen the last of Governor Palin.

As I posted earlier, God is sovereign. His hand is on this election, and His hand will continue to be on us. I may disagree with what has happened, but God is in control. My finite mind can’t see what is to come. The one thing that I can do is pray for our leaders and I ask each of you to do the same.

In the immortal words of the great Kent Brockman, I for one welcome our new liberal overlords.

1 The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD,
Like the rivers of water;
He turns it wherever He wishes.

Whatever happens, God is sovereign. What he has decreed will happen will come to pass. We can not see the big picture, nor can we always know the reason.

Well worth watching. He’s quite funny and dead on.

Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit wrote this today about someone pulling Joe the Plumber’s driver’s license or license plate information from the Ohio state system.

I think there is some truth behind this, but I also think it could have been done somewhat innocently. I work for a software company that deals with the Texas version of Ohio’s LEADS system. We’ve heard stories of people innocently doing a drivers license search on a name from the FBI’s Most Wanted that comes up on the TV or a license plate search on a car that is in the President’s motorcade. In either case, they had calls within a few minutes from federal agencies wanting to know why they did it. It could be that a bored rookie emergency dispatcher was watching the debate and decided to put Joe the Plumber’s name through the system to see what might come up.

It’s just a thought. It could very well be thuggish, but it could also be quite innocent.

UPDATE: Look, I’m not saying this is the most likely scenario. I’m just saying it’s another way of looking at it. I’ve posted before about what they did to Joe the Plubmer was wrong. I don’t agree with what happened.

I often disagree with Orson Scott Card, but I think he’s right on here.

But right now, you are consenting to or actively promoting a big fat lie — that the housing crisis should somehow be blamed on Bush, McCain, and the Republicans.  You have trained the American people to blame everything bad — even bad weather — on Bush, and they are responding as you have taught them to.

If you had any personal honor, each reporter and editor would be insisting on telling the truth — even if it hurts the election chances of your favorite candidate.

Because that’s what honorable people do.  Honest people tell the truth even when they don’t like the probable consequences.  That’s what honesty means .  That’s how trust is earned.

Good stuff.

I have to agree with Iowahawk on this (caution: profanity). What the media has done to Joe the Plumber is reprehensible. Joe merely had the guts to ask Obama a question, and now the media has done more investigating into a guy who isn’t even a candidate than they have into an actual candidate.

I am Joe. I prefer Wal-Mart to Target. I grew up on a farm in small town Kansas. My dad had more cattle in the pasture across the road from our house than I had kids in my school. I work on my own car, browse the aisles at Home Depot, and am the father to my children. I cling to my religion (yes, it’s religion, not a relationship). Nearly my entire family is made of the same kind of people. I’m not perfect, but then I’ve never pretended to be. I’m sure if the media wanted to dig up dirt on me, they could.

As I noted in a previous post, I’m working my way through Systematic Theology by Wayne Grudem. It’s a pretty large book, weighing in at 1167 pages, not including the index or appendices. It’s a 57 chapter treatise covering a great portion of the various theological ideas in evangelical Christianity.

At the end of each chapter, Grudem supplies a few questions about the chapter. What I’m planning on doing is writing out the questions and then making my attempt at answering them. Some sections will involve multiple posts, because a single one would be too large. I would like to turn this into something of a conversation on the basic tenets of theology. I may be interpreting something wrong, or I might not have thought everything through. I welcome input on this and look forward to where it might be heading.

To keep with this weekend’s Darth Vader theme…

Even a Dark Lord can put his feelings to song.