"What Could Possibly Go Wrong?"

"Let me get this straight—we’ve got a health care plan passed by a Congress that hasn’t read it but exempts themselves from it, signed by a president that hasn’t read it and smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn’t pay his taxes... and financed by a country that’s broke. What could possibly go wrong?”

~ Kim Coghlan, Life in a Shoe

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Persevero,

A Tough Interview

"When President Obama gives TV interviews, the treatment he gets is typically soft, if not reverential. This is not because of the interviewers' respect for the presidency--they were much tougher on George W. Bush--but because of ideological and personal sympathy for the man who now holds the office. Yesterday was an exception--perhaps the first time Obama has ever faced a tough interview. The interviewer was Bret Baier of Fox News Channel, and the president was clearly unprepared, coming across as petulant and evasive.

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"If the rest of the so-called adversary press had been doing its job for the past few years, Obama might not be in the political trouble he is. Then again, he might not have withstood the scrutiny and become president either."

~ excerpted from OpinionJournal.com's "Best of the Web"

written by the editor, James Taranto

wHaT's wRoNG wITH tHe WoRLd?

That's a serious question that deserves a serious answer.

Unfortunately, it often doesn't get one.

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My family and I recently listened to an excellent sermon by Dr. George Grant, pastor of Parish Presbyterian Church in Tenessee. The text was Matthew 9:1-35. The topic was - you guessed it - "What's Wrong With The World?". Here's an excerpt...

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"In 1910, the Times of London asked a number of the most prominent authors of the day to write essays answering the question 'What's wrong with the world?'. So, all of these erudite men began to trot out their long essays detailing the woes of this poor, fallen world, and outlining their answers to the dilemma, what men and nations and governments must do in order to solve all of these woes. "What's wrong with the world?" G.K. Chesterton's answer was witty, profound, and deeply insightful:

                Dear Sirs,
                      
                       I am.

                          Sincerely Yours,
                          G.K. Chesterton

That's a grasp of the gospel and of the truth of the fallen nature of man that most of us fail to fully encounter in ourselves or in others."

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Had you been confronted with this question, what would your answer have been?

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As depraved sinners, we have a propensity to reach for the magnifying glass instead of the mirror. We don't want to look at our own ugliness. We'd rather point out ugliness in someone else. And in the process of focusing on everbody else's cess pool, we lose all sense of our own.

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So, the next time someone asks you, "What's wrong with the world?", you can smile and respond with,

 "I am. You are. We are."

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Persevero,

   

Been There, Done That...