He won't win it, but he will be one of the finalists invited to New York to see Darren McFadden, the running back from Arkansas, receive the trophy.
At least, that's how it will play out according to EA Sports' NCAA 2008 video game. According to a simulated season on the game, Sam Keller's Heisman run will be part of a season in which Nebraska gets beat 34-17 by LSU in the National Championship game. Before you dismiss these bold predictions, you might consider that the game predicted TCU's upset of Oklahoma (in Norman, no less) in 2006, Boise State's BCS Bowl appearance in 2007, and Florida State and Miami both finishing the '07 season outside of the Top 25.
You can read the rest of the results here.
Larry Kudlow reports that the federal government has spent $127 billion on the recovery effort from Hurricane Katrina in the two years since the natural disaster. That nearly matches the state's $141 billion GDP, and, to quote Kudlow, it "ain't even fixed!"
From the article:
You might be asking, Where in the hell did all this money go? Well, the White House fact sheet says $24 billion has been used to build houses and schools, repair damaged infrastructure, and provide victims with a place to live. But isn’t everyone complaining about the lack of housing?
Perhaps all this money should’ve been directly deposited in the bank accounts of the 300,000 people living in New Orleans. All divvied up, that $127 billion would come to $425,000 per person! After thanking Uncle Sam for their sudden windfall, residents could head to Southern California and buy homes that are now on sale thanks to the sub-prime mortgage crisis and bid up the sagging house prices in the state.
Four hundred and twenty five thousand dollars per person?!? Good night, nurse. I'm liable to think that kind of money could take a guy from one of John Edwards' two Americas right into the other one.
So, considering that blindly throwing money into New Orleans hasn't been all that effective, what should have been done instead?
Right from the start, New Orleans should have been turned into a tax-free enterprise zone. No income taxes, no corporate taxes, no capital-gains taxes. The only tax would have been a sales tax paid on direct transactions. A tax-free New Orleans would have attracted tens of billions of dollars in business and real-estate investment. This in turn would have helped rebuild the cities, schools, and hospitals. Private-sector entrepreneurs would have succeeded where big-government bureaucrats and regulators have so abysmally failed.
Instead, we have a $127 billion example of how liberal government and "compassionate conservatism" simply don't work. The best way to take care of people is to help them take care of themselves.
By the way, I'm still wondering where the ATM cards are for the Nebraskans who suffered through last New Year's ice storm.
The depth chart for the Nevada game has been released at huskers.com.
Some commentary and reader comments here.
Stay tuned for my pregame prediction in the next day or two.
Consider yourself warned…
I just started reading A Full Quiver, by Rick and Jan Hess. The subtitle is "Family Planning and the Lordship of Christ," and the focus, as I understand it so far, is on thinking about children the way God thinks about them, rather than how the World thinks about them. As I progress through the book, you can expect some of my thoughts and observations to make their way into blog format.
As you anxiously await further musings on this topic, consider the following questions from the book:
Would you rather win one million dollars in the lottery or have another child?
–or–
Would you rather win ten thousand dollars in the lottery or have another child?
–or–
How much would God have to pay you to convince you to have another child?!?
For me, these questions were helpful in "diagnosing" my perspective on children. Though it wasn't in the book, one more question dawned on me that really cleared things up:
If you already have children (or a child), which of them would you be willing to sell back to God for one million dollars?
If that question is preposterous and offensive, then why are we OK with the idea of forfeiting "not-yet-conceived children," or even going to extreme measures in order to eliminate the possibility of having more kids? If we have a "Children are a blessing, but…" mindset, where can we logically draw a line between enough and too many? If God calls children a blessing, and it is God's business to decide how and when to give this blessing, it seems biblically inconsistent that we would take the reins on this issue and decide to limit the number of blessings we are willing to receive.
If we can't trust God to manage the number of children he decides to bless us with, what can we trust him to be in control of?
More on this later…
From the Tominthebox News Network:
Search Continues for "Accepting Jesus into Your Heart"
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Looks like I'm not the only one trying to answer the question, "What is the gospel?"
Maybe if they brushed up on their reformed theology every once in awhile they wouldn't be a fourth-string church.
From Crummy Church Signs, HT: Pyromaniacs
You know you're in a PCA church when four kids show up to your 1st grade Sunday School class and two of them are named Knox and J. Calvin (Yes, the J stands for John).
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Another sure sign that you're in a PCA church is when 3 of those same four kids are home-schooled.
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I don't have a musical bone in my body, so I was absolutely amazed when Amanda pointed out that Esther was playing the piano with just a chord sheet and no "real" music. Of course, Ann never seems to have any music when she plays the violin, either. Incredible. Simply incredible.
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Another benefit of sitting closer to the front than we usually do was that I was able to notice that the Jesus on the wall at the front of the church looks an awful lot like Kirk Douglas.
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This probably makes me an evil and wicked person, but I'm learning that the younger kids are, the less I like them.
Did you know that first graders barely know how to read? Yeah, me neither. I'll take a room full of hormone-drenched high schoolers wrestling with the sovereignty of God and the free will of man over a bunch of illiterate first graders any day.
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All Creatures of Our God and King is one fine hymn.
And all ye men of tender heart,
Forgiving others, take your part,
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Ye who long pain and sorrow bear,
Praise God, and on Him cast your care,
O praise Him, O praise Him,
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
That St. Francis of Assisi sure knew how to write 'em. 1225 A.D. was a banner year for hymns, if you ask me.
Following the Derek Webb interview podcast I mentioned the other day, the folks over at the 9marks blog are concerned that Derek "is stating the gospel differently than Reformed theologians have been stating it for a long time. Is this a 'different gospel'?"
The following is what Derek said in response to the question, "What is the Gospel?"
What a great question. I guess I’d probably…my instinct is to say that it's Jesus coming, living, dying, and being resurrected and his inaugurating the already and the not yet of all things being restored to himself…and that happening by way of himself…the being made right of all things…that process both beginning and being a reality in the lives and hearts of believers and yet a day coming when it will be more fully realized. But the good news, the gospel, the speaking of the good news, I would say is the news of his kingdom coming the inaugurating of his kingdom coming…that’s my instinct.
The gist of the comments on the post, and two follow up articles (1, 2) is that Derek's answer here is critically deficient in that it does not directly address the issues of sin, repentance, penal substitution, and so on. Some have even labeled Derek's remarks as being–gasp–emergent. I've already weighed in a couple of times, but I feel like this is an interesting enough question to explore it a little further over here.
First of all, the gospel that Derek is defining here is categorically different than what most people mean by "the gospel" in most churches today. We have come to understand the gospel as something transactional where God does something for us, we do something for him, and then we "get saved." The whole deal is understood from a "What's in it for me?" perspective. When we talk about sharing the gospel, what we often mean is taking someone down the Romans Road1 or explaining The Four Spiritual Laws to them, and then asking them if they want to accept Jesus into their heart. The whole deal is man-centered from start to finish.
Now, I don't mean to say that we should completely discard this understanding of the gospel. Continue reading this post »
You can hang a six-foot tall, anatomically correct, chocolate sculpture of Jesus in a hotel lobby during Holy Week. You can photograph a crucifix submerged in your own urine and receive everything from federal funds to "visual arts competition" awards. You have a constitutional right to burn the American flag and compare the president to Hitler. Such expressions are clearly protected by the First Amendment right to freedom of speech. Turns out, this freedom covers all speech unless it is negative or critical toward Islam.
We already knew it was a bad idea to draw a bunch of cartoons about The Prophet, but in a recent case of sharia law coming to a campus near you, a Pace University student has been charged with two felonies, criminal mischief and aggravated harassment, for placing a copy of the Koran (or is it Quran, or Qu'ran? Depends on who you ask, I guess) in a toilet.
You probably remember back in 2005 when a "detainee" (i.e. terrorist) at Gitmo alleged (i.e. lied:"(Turns out, it was the Muslim detainees who were flushing the pages down the toilets, trying to clog them and create a disturbance. May these infidels never receive their 72 virgins upon entering heaven! Details here.)":) about interrogators ripping pages out of a Koran and flushing them down a toilet? Well, in response to this unsubstantiated allegation, adherents to this "religion of peace" protested around the world, killing dozens of people to protect the honor of their holy book.
So, in order to avoid future peaceful protests by these peace-loving Muslims, the folks over at HamNation are offering the following video on proper bathroom etiquette:
I gotta go… I think the hate crime police are on their way.
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