Sean Doran January 26th, 2009

Right on bro!

Bill Farrar January 26th, 2009

Love you and your comments except for one. I do not wish our new president success. He wants to promote a homosexual agenda, promote abortion and destroy traditional marriage. He's also going to weaken our national security and take us much farther down the road to socialism. No matter how much I may like him, his aims to destroy what we've built under God's instruction and I cannot and will not wish him success in his agenda.

God bless you and your ministry.

Bill Farrar

Jonathan January 26th, 2009

Steve,

At least you can admit you're a right wing reactionary, and that's the first step toward recovery…

I particularly liked your interview some time ago with Frank Schaeffer, by the way. Get him back sometime to talk about Obama.

Jonathan

Dan Wilson January 26th, 2009

To piggy-back on what Bill said, . . It seems preachers and politicians are loathe to define their terms. If you mean by "success" that America prospers during his presidency, then I agree with you. The only problem is, the policies he has talked about during his campaign, has begun and seems anxious to continue will not allow our country to prosper. We have about 8 decades of evidence government controlled economies won't — even former command economies have become more free-market. Added to the social policies above, it will be tough to improve our standard of living maybe for decades.

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[…] Seen Around Blogdom #3 My favorite radio personality Steve Brown has posted something I found intriguing and appropriate on his blog in regards to last weeks big Inauguration Day—Throwing Rocks. […]

klab February 2nd, 2009

do I have to throw this rock it looks like a dimon in the rough

klab February 2nd, 2009

do I have to throw this rock it looks like a dimond in the rough

George February 7th, 2009

I really think we need to throw some rocks at congress! I might be off my rocker, and I spend a lot of time on a rocker because I'm old, but I seem to remember that legislation originates in Congress and the president can only say yea or neigh. It amazwes me how thes )(*&^%%&&*(& congressmen and Senators sit back sharing none of the blame for the current malaise. What ever happened to "congressional oversight". Whatever happened to banking committees and legislative agendas. The foolish idea that it is the White House that determines the fate of the nation can only come from someone who knows nothing of our Republicor our constitution. There's lots of blame to be sprea around and I'm gonna get a whole bucket of rocks.

i agree and I'm gonna loosen up my old pitching arm!

mikeM March 7th, 2009

I think the market would recover far more quickly if allowed to correct itself. But the costs would be far more catastrophic than any government is willing to allow. So they try to deflate the balloon rather than let it pop. Which drags out the process and puts us in a crapload of debt. But, if left to it's own, with no intervention, which, granted, may be the best way to get to the bottom of the market, it would slam down with a resounding crash, and would easily create a breakdown of our countries infrastructure. I know I know, sounds bleak, but the situation is really THAT bad. Politicians play political theater, the "good senator, bad senator" senario, and talking heads are all "this-is-rediculous-why-don't-we-let-the-market-correct-itself" but they all know what would happen. The collective debt of the American people exceeds that of our gross domestic product. Our country is insolvent. Our standard of living as we know it is over. It won't improve, because it's been an inflated bubble itself. When the economies of large nations collapse, lots of really bad things happen. If you think America is above bread lines and labor pools, bulldozed subdivisions filled with abandoned houses, emptied shopping centers and high-rises, rusting cranes and heavy machinery littering our roads and sky-lines, virtual anarchy in our metro areas with sky-rocketing crime rates with no budget to fund an adequate police force, families all over the country squating in abandoned buildings and cars, packs of former pet dogs roaming the streets, and a gallon of milk going for $45,000 dollars, WE'RE NOT. That's what would happen if foriegn investors stopped buying treasury bills. That's what would happen if "the market corrected itself". Politicians and talking heads know that. I was in Magadan on the east coast of Russia in 1996. There were half-built buildings with rusted cranes next to them that had been sitting there for 6 years. there we're at least 4 or 5 rusted commercial freighters half sunk or run a ground in the bay. I stayed in a house that had a Steel door with four locks and an interior door with another six. And the rubel was 17,000 to 1 dollar. That's what happens when monolithic economies in full swing crash. Our country and lifestyle is propped up and fragile and if foriegn investors lose confidence in our economy en mass, we would fall. And great would be that fall. (A little Revelation quip for all you scholars out there And we would take half the world's economies with us. We would find the bottom really fast. Hank Paulson said if something wasn't done, no one would talk about the Great Depression anymore, because this would be so much worse. The only institutions big enough to do damage control are governments. Either the banks and bankers and can call the shots and protect their interests (themselves and their investors, who pledge allegiance to no nation) Or the government can step in and protect it's interests (the stability of the economy and infrastructure of it's nation).So call it what you will. Socialism, Nationalization, whatever. There's no getting around it. I don't like it…anymore…than you do… So, no. I don't hope Obama fails. The stakes are too high. Just in case though, I think I'll collect stones and stash them in my deluxe cardboard box in an undisclosed location under an overpass, so I can throw them at people trying to come and take my cheese. Back off!! This is my cheese!!! Yup. That's what I'd say. Back up off my cheese.

Thomas March 7th, 2009

I like that you highlighted the distinction between the kingdom Ideal and republican/ democratic ideology. It helps as a Christian to know the difference, because in a ultimate sense, we are citizens of the new heaven and earth and for now we are just strangers in this land. I need to continue to remember that because sometimes I get a little too caught up into thinking that my humanistic political ideology of choice has all the answers, and the reality is, is that its fallen… Good post, thanks Steve!

Shawn H May 13th, 2009

I just blogged along these lines today. Great post Steve. Here a quote of mine from my blog.

"We should be Conservative in our beliefs, Liberal with our love and forgiveness and Moderate in our judgement of others." Shawn Holmes