Indeed!  I made it to the Friendly Confines last year, not sure I'll get there this year.  

Ah, the signs of Spring (training).  Men young and old will dream dreams ... of baseball.

We should all hope for an improving economy.  But a few months of marginally positive numbers won't get us much below 8%.  Still out there is the volatility of Europe, not to mention the overriding fact that future economic growth is going to run smack into an ever increasing debt and deficit that has exploded these last few years. 

An improving economy is not based solely on one unemployment number, despite what some would like to believe. 

Sweet.  And of course, it strikes me that we may have had this discussion once.  My dad was a nav as well - we spent six years at Grand Forks (with the 46th) in the early 80's.  Yeah, nothing like those Dakota winters.

I know it's in fun, but staying home makes no sense to me.  There are conservatives on the ballot at local, state and federal levels.  We shoot ourselves in the foot if we fail to push conservatives into office wherever we can.

Snow Bird, I may be mistaken, but is that a B-52 in your profile pic?

Nice to know there's another Cubs fan here besides me.  I can just hear the popping of the mitts now.  The sounds of spring, no matter what the groundhog said.

Finding ways to make the scriptures accessible to various people groups with unique cultures is one thing; altering the text to recast the nature of its Author to be more palatable to that culture is a different matter.

Creating a new translation based on cultural appeasement rather than on scholarly discovery seems to me to be misguided.  Why not create an edition based on an existing translation that provides additional tools or content to explain such matters, like many of the tailored study Bibles out there.  I just can't imagine that this one as proposed will fly off the shelves in your average bookstore, Muslim or otherwise.

Besides, a more effective witness to the power of the Gospel would not come from a new translation, but through a person willing to invest the time and risk to build the relationship necessary to gain the trust of his audience.

Yep.  We had a movie quote thread started by EJ in the member feed last night.  http://ricochet.com/member-feed/Public-Service-Reminder.  Will only cost you $3.67 a month to see it. 

Romney Works to Dispel "Robotic" Image 

Helmet! So, at last we meet for the first time for the last time. 

See, there's two sides to every Schwartz.

My years are not advancing as fast as you might think.

Aaron, Brian:  Thanks for sharing.  I very much value your insight on threads like these. 

Phil?!  Phil Connors?!

That must mean HP/Palm/WebOS smartphone users are home on Friday nights? 

This may not be "the" most important election, but I submit it is one of many opportunities to move the compass a few degrees at a time toward a liberty-based worldview.  If we fail to treat this election (and all elections) as critical to the nation's future, we might as well sit back and pop some popcorn.

Seismic change may be a ways off, I agree.  But elections offer those with a liberty-based ideology to broadcast that worldview, in the hopes that such ideas will take root somehow in an attention-deficit electorate.

The fiscal danger is real.  The arguments need to be made now, and soundly.  And to be sure, decisions need to be made wisely in order to create the environment for the spread of liberty-centered thinking.