A: The ultimate example of the Gore effect.
Could there have been a worse week for him to be out there?
Posts Tagged ‘irony’
Q: What is the timing of Al Gore on SNL this week represent?
Posted: November 22, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/newsTags: al gore, comedy, global warming, gore effect, irony, q & a
Hey Maybe the Pope can offer something to Lutherans…
Posted: November 19, 2009 by datechguy in catholicTags: anglican communion, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, irony, Lutheran church, religion, war on God
…since it looks like the ECLA decision earlier this year has apparently split the church:
On Wednesday, an 11-member steering committee of Lutheran CORE (Coalition for Renewal), meeting in New Brighton, Minn., said it cannot remain inside the 4.7-million-member ELCA after the denomination agreed at its August churchwide assembly in Minneapolis to ordain partnered gay clergy.
That decision, CORE said in a statement, created “a biblical and theological crisis throughout the ELCA and conflict in local congregations.”
Hey the Pope can give them the Anglican treatment. Roman Catholicism offers open arms and the C of E gives their conservatives the finger:
The timing of the General Synod decision, in the same week as Pope Benedict’s generous and statesmanlike Apostolic Constitution, will concentrate minds. Many traditionalists will conclude that Anglo-Catholicism itself was eventually bound to fail: for although the Church of England embraces a great deal of Catholic liturgical practice – more so now than at any time since the Reformation – it governs itself according to Protestant principles of self-determination.
The Pope’s Ordinariate will appeal greatly to those Anglo-Catholics who now understand that their movement has been destroyed by its inherent contradictions. But what about those who were prepared to stay Anglicans if the Synod had given them the byzantine safeguards they were demanding?
So off to Rome they go, will the same thing happen to Lutherans? Perhaps not. After all the Lutherans have somewhere else to go.
I think I’ll re-visit the Lutheran blogs I visited before and see what the reaction is:
Incarnatus est quotes the story without comment.
Ichabod has a long post:
Two factors work together to leverage apostasy. One is the extreme nastiness of the Left. There is a Satanic energy in apostasy, which never hesitates to engage in the worst sins to advance their cause. In the name of love and unity, they divide and sling mud. Nothing is too low for them. Crying “slander!” when doctrinal issues are addressed publicly, they engage in backdoor campaigns against anyone in their way.
The other factor is the willingness to compromise with the Left to appease them for the moment. How enticing. Should I say something or accept the call I always wanted?
Haven’t found any other comments on the other blogs I’ve linked but we are going to see more and more of this as time goes by.
Jodie Evans the successor to Jane Fonda
Posted: November 18, 2009 by datechguy in internet/free speech, warTags: afghanistan, Eleven Eleven campaign, going kryten, history, irony, MSM
Seriously you can’t make stuff like this up:
Top Obama donor and fundraiser Jodie Evans met with the Taliban in Afghanistan on a recent trip there, according to a report by Jane Fonda of a discussion she had with Evans last month. The meeting with the Taliban took place just weeks before Evans was videotaped directly handing to President Barack Obama a package of information about her trip to Afghanistan at a high dollar fundraiser in San Francisco.
Let’s quote Fonda directly:
I sat next to Jodie who told me a little about her recent trip to Afghanistan with an American delegation that included a retired colonel, and member the State Department. While there, she met with people ranging from the brother of President Karzai, Afghan members of Parliament, activists, to warlords and members of the Taliban. Jodie is co-founder of the peace organization, Code Pink, and always willing to go to any lengths to try and find out what’s really going on.
Gee meeting with our enemies when we are at war with them. It looks like Jane hasn’t changed all that much in 40 years. I guess this is the new Vietnam after all.
The fact that I am seeing this just before going to a meeting concerning the eleven-eleven campaign breaks the irony meter and turns my stomach. Our failure to arrest Fonda for Treason 40 years ago is still paying dividends.
Just remember Evans is part of the Obama fund raising crew. Would she get away with it under President McCain?
Never forget we did this to ourselves and as always we get the government we deserve.
Update: Just to clarify my eleven-eleven meetings are all with local people about getting involved, they are not “national meetings” after all I’m just an unemployed tech guy.
Update 2: Gateway had this yesterday and I didn’t see it. Apparently neither did the MSM. (shock!)
Update 3: The president now says he’s restored America’s standing, are we standing up or bowing down. Combined with this I’m in danger or a going Kryten moment. Is Legal Insurrection right that this is his “Mission Accomplished” moment?
Update 4: Finally found an embeddable clip:
Q: What do President Barack Obama and Tim Geithner have in common
Posted: November 18, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/newsTags: history, irony, nostalgia, obama, reality
A: They were both considered “indispensable” men just about a year ago.
The president is now below 50% according to Quinnipiac. Looks to me they are both “indefensible” men now as .
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