Testing the waters?

I know some of you don't like it when I post about political matters, but oh well...

As I've said previously on my blog, Fred Thompson is my boy when it comes to the 2008 presidential election. He's the man. However, I don't know how I feel about the way he is raising money for the presidential race. Right now, he's officially using a "testing the waters" clause of the FEC, however, it seems clear that he is actually campaigning and will enter the race. He just hasn't made it official yet, because, quite frankly, there's no real reason to. Everyone is polling him and treating him as if he is already in the race. This allows him to not have to post the $$$ that he has raised, and where it came from, during this entire quarter, because he isn't "officially" a candidate. This doesn't seem fair to me, particularly to the other Republican candidates.

Am I being nitpicky?

new project

So I've got a new project for my faithful readers (all 7 of you.) Pick a song that you really like (it can be your favorite song but it doesn't have to be just one that you really like) and explain why you like it. Oh baby...obviously I'll start

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ok I'm gonna go with "That's Love" by Brad Paisley. (shoutout to JJ Leach.) The reason I like it (other then the sweet guitar riffs) is because 1) it's super catchy. As much as people say "the words are what count the words are what count!" there's a reason we don't get together on Sundays and just speak the words of worship songs. Melodies, tunes have to be catchy (or used to have to be catchy, apparently people who like Gwen Stefani didn't get the memo.) 2) the words are clever. I'm not gonna copy and paste the song. Go listen it yourself. 3) It's relevant to me personally. I was debating w/ someone about whether it's EVER ok to lie (hence the shoutout.) I was saying that there are times where you can lie. JJ was saying it's never ok to lie. Hence the punchline of the song "That's not a lie, that's love" is especially relevant to me :-).

sinfulness of sin

Hey. This is basically a glorified link. Since I'm terrible at linking, just click on the pyromaniacs link over to the right and then the "25 Things I've learned" (or something like that) list that Dan Phillips wrote. Especially the couple in a row he wrote about the deadliness and pervasiveness of sin (pretty early on in the list.) Very good and very powerful if you read the Scriptures he links to.

When they stay off the topic of the Gifts, the pyro's are generally very good. (sorry of plugging the pyro's, Joe :-)

In times like these...

We lift up our eyes above the trouble
In our land and together we stand
To declare You as King
In times like these we choose to praise You
For it's you, it's YOU WHO REALLY MATTERS!
and you are worthy of our praise

And we will say that you are good
And all the miracles you've done have brought us joy
For we are changed and all the hope we have
We place in YOU right now
Father, we declare that we love you
We declare our everlasting love for you
Father, we declare that we love you
We declare our everlasting love for you

Fred Thompson

So Fred Thompson is probably going to officially announce that he's running for president on July 4th. This is the best news related to the presidential race in a long time. Thompson describes himself as a Federalists, not a Republican. Basically this simply means that he believes we've gotten away from the orginal idea of what the federal government should look like. Now it spends money like banchee, gives money to the poor (church's job) controls tons of aspects of people's lives, is way too big and way too out of control. He's convervative, definitely more so then Guiliani and McCain. Basically he's the man. Two hilarious stories about him.

1) go to http://youtube.com/results?search_query=Fred+Thompson+Michael+Moore and click on the first video. This was Fred Thompson's response to Michael Moore challenging him to a debate about Health care. Thompson wrote an article about how bad Cuba's health care system is in the long run shortly after Michael Moore's documentary about how it was better then the US's health care. This is Thompson's response to Moore's challenge. It's a classic.

2) A female journalists for a Tennessee newspaper said that Thompson looked like Work from Star Trek (go to Google and click on the images link then type in Worf to see what he looks like.) Her comment was something to the effect of "why is he on TV all the time? Why do people think he looks good? He looks like Worf from Star Trek for crying out loud!" So Thompson mailed her a huge picture or Worf and signed it: "in the immortal words of Sawyer Brown: some girls don't like boys like me. Ah, but some girls do."

Anyone who's conservative, funny, a decent politician and especially quotes famous country songs at oppurtune times deserves to be president in my book.