Society & Culture

http://paulmatzko.edublogs.org/2009/07/17/the-latino-evangelical-left/

During the 2008 presidential campaign, religion and politics wonks made much ado about very little over the emergence of the Evangelical Left. Certainly the white evangelical left exists (ie Tony Campolo), but despite all the hype over evangelical enchantment with Obama, the evangelical left did not have a break out year in 2008.

Here is a link to the article, quite interesting:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/13/facebook.racial.threat/index.html

It will be interesting the “television coverage” any of the networks give this story. This certainly reinforces the theory of “interlopers” who pretend to be one thing but turn out to be another in order to discredit the person or group they are opposing.



At the end of June, financier and swindler Bernie Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in federal prison. He had defrauded thousands of people of over $65 billion. Although many of his victims were relatively well-heeled, plenty of poor-to-middling investors lost their life savings. These bare facts reveal a tragedy, but one that is not particularly unique except for its record-breaking scale. A quick google news search shows that another dozen ponzi schemes have popped up in the news in just the past 24 hours.

Well,

Two new-ish Google updates.

1) Google OS

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-chrome-operating-system…

2) Google Apps are no longer beta. This, IMO, is nothing more than a marketing move.

See www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/07/03/palin-opts-run-second-term-alaska-g… the story .

Max McLean has produced some excellent reading of the Scriptures and famous sermons at: http://www.listenersbible.com. They are now offering the reading of historic US documents. The CD may be purchased, or the mp3s downloaded at no charge for the holiday season.

Here is their announcement:

Strengthen your understanding of America’s heritage and share with your children and grandchildren, lest we forget.

• The Declaration of Independence (1776)