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Understand Obama’s health care plan with LEGO videos

I spotted this amusing video over at the Heritage Foundation.

And here’s one about Obama’s crazy spending and the ballooning debt:

And one more about the jobs lost after passing Obama’s 800 billion dollar spending bill:

By the way, I hope you all listened to those 4 podcasts about Stephen C. Meyer and his argument from DNA. They’re good!

Venezuela nationalizes Spanish-owned bank

More communism from Obama’s communist buddy.

Excerpt:

President Hugo Chavez’s government assumed control of Venezuela’s third-largest bank on Friday – making the state the largest player in the nation’s banking system.

The purchase of the Spanish-owned Banco de Venezuela gives Chavez’s socialist government control over more than one-fifth of bank deposits as he tightens his grip over the economy.

The acquisition will “strengthen the public banking system,” which favors sectors including agriculture, energy, housing and tourism, Finance Minister Ali Rodriguez said in a statement.

…Combined with other state banks, the government will now control about 21 percent of deposits and 16 percent of loans, a payroll of 15,000 employees and 651 bank branches.

…Like the rest of the economy, Venezuela’s banking sector is already highly regulated, with the government dictating interest rates and commissions.

Under Chavez, Venezuela has nationalized major players in the steel, electricity and other sectors, including four major oil projects, since 2007.

The Venezuelan consulting firm Ecoanalitica calculates those nationalizations have cost Chavez’s government some $23 billion.

Things are so much more efficient when no one owns anything except the state bureaucrats. Look how well the Soviet Union did.

How do we stop the mass exodus of men from the church?

Pastor Kreitsauce wrote a post a while back discussing the exodus of men from the church.

Here are the numbers fro the web site Church for Men:

  • American churches on average display an incredible gender gap- 69% women and 31% men. That translates to about 13 million more women attending than men.
  • 1 in 4 “churched” women will attend the Sunday service without their husbands, while 80% of attendees at the midweek services are women.
  • Over 70% of boys raised in church will drop out by the end of their college years.
  • At Christian colleges, the ratio of female to male students is 2 to 1.

Kreitsauce writes:

Men seem to enjoy theology, philosophy, politics, ethics, and science more than women do. They love debate, contest, competition, adventure, challenges, danger, risk, and achievement in a unique way. It isn’t that these are “men’s areas”, but there is something different in how men are wired that gives them an affinity for these things. As John Eldridge’s book Wild at Heart observes, our self-worth is intimately connected to these things. Men don’t feel complete unless they are accomplishing, building, and standing on something larger than themselves. As Christian comedian Jeff Allen has said, men need something worth dying for to make them truly come to life.

So what’s a church to do?

Click through and read his solutions. I agree with his solution, and this is what I do in my own life!