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Senator Barack Obama For President

Possible titles for our Barack Obama book:

  • Should Barack Obama Be President?
  • Barack Obama Will Be President
  • Barack Obama Isn’t Qualified to Be President

Popular Living By the Book revised edition coming in ‘07

Living By the Book, a top Moody Publishing title by Dr. Howard Hendricks and son Bill Hendricks, has influenced thousands of Christians and church leaders, creating a new need for a revised edition coming in Spring 2007.

An exciting opportunity for me came about as I have been asked to provide some editing for the project, a book that personally impacted me greatly during my first year at Dallas Seminary (www.dts.edu). The idea that I can help on a book written by one of my favorite profs, "Prof" himself, is an honor and joy. I’ll let you know more as the release nears in ‘07.

In others news, keep me in your prayers  I continue work on my coauthored book on the Middle East situation. I’m hoping for a tremendous impact on this new title with Harvest House in February 2007.

Lastly, go ahead and pre-order a copy of Dr. Gary Chapman’s The Five Languages of Apology. I did the discussion guide for it and found it an insightful and highly applicable book. It comes out in September and you won’t want to miss it.

Washington DC & the mideast

An orthographic, fisheye-like view of Washington DC and the Middle East.

Singapore is not resilient

Enterprise Resilience Management Blog: Singapore’s Resilient Strategy

No one can doubt that Singapore’s economic miracle has become permanent. Its resilient strategy is positioning Singapore for an emerging future rather than trying to get the country to cling to its successful past. It jump started its strategy by importing world-class scientists, building world-class facilities, and ensuring that its standards are as high as any around the globe. It’s a great lesson in resiliency.

Unfortunately for Singapore, it is a classic example of a single point of failure. I respect Steve D. & Enterra, but in the proliferated 21st Century, resilient assets must be distributed assets. Singapore, by definition, isn’t.

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The New Middle East?

The ‘New Middle East’ Bush Is Resisting

The Arab people do not respect the ruling regimes, perceiving them to be autocratic, corrupt and inept. They are, at best, ambivalent about the fanatical Islamists of the bin Laden variety. More mainstream Islamists with broad support, developed civic dispositions and services to provide are the most likely actors in building a new Middle East. In fact, they are already doing so through the Justice and Development Party in Turkey, the similarly named PJD in Morocco, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Hamas in Palestine and, yes, Hezbollah in Lebanon.

These groups, parties and movements are not inimical to democracy. They have accepted electoral systems and practiced electoral politics, probably too well for Washington’s taste. Whether we like it or not, these are the facts. The rest of the Western world must come to grips with the new reality, even if the U.S. president and his secretary of state continue to reject the new offspring of their own policies.

Fair enough.

Zookeeper has a Gregory Peck moment

Tiger killed after escaping holding area at Tampa zoo

TAMPA – A 14-year-old endangered tiger was fatally shot when it threatened to enter a public area at Lowry Park Zoo after escaping its holding cell by a latch left unlocked, zoo officials said.

Enshala, a Sumatran tiger, was being secured shortly before the zoo’s closing about 4:45 p.m. Tuesday when she slipped through an open door and in to a construction area, said Lex Salisbury, the zoo’s president and chief executive officer.

Zoo veterinarian David Murphy shot a tranquilizer dart at the animal, but she became agitated and lurched at Murphy and a 7-foot wall separating the area from the public, officials said. That prompted Salisbury to shoot the tiger with a 12-gauge shot gun. When the animal continued moving, Salisbury fired three more shots, killing the tiger.

“I feel sick to my stomach that I had to do it,” Salisbury said. “I’ve known this cat since it was born. And it’s the last thing I would want to have to do.”

Shades of To Kill A Mockingbird. I’m glad the man responsible had the cojones to do the job.

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rectangular cartogram of world population

Rectangular cartogram of world population by Bettina Speckmann at Technische Universteit Eindhoven.

proved world oil reserves

Per 2005 CIA World Factbook.

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Online Glacier Database

Online Glacier Photograph Database

Muir Glacier, Alaska

A terrific resource.

Personally, though, I think it is far more important that we concentrate on the global change between our ears: homo sapiens has a mixed record at accepting and adapting to inevitable change.

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