Dobson/Obama Feud

I think Jeffrey Weiss of the Dallas Morning News summed it up best:

So here’s the round by round so far. James Dobson of Focus on the Family disses Barack Obama’s theology. Jim Wallis of Sojourners disses Dobson’s theology. Then Will Hall of the of Southern Baptist Press backs Dobson.

Then Obama disses Dobson. “”I think you’ll see that he was just making stuff up, maybe for his own purposes.”

And the Rev. Kirbyjohn Caldwell, an Obama supporter, announces the creation of a website called “James Dobson Doesn’t Speak for Me” that compares statements by Obama and Dobson. (It’s really very good. Direct quotes offered side by side. I recommend the lick, no matter what you POV is on the matter…)

And oh, here‘s a good idea: Rabbi Brad Hirschfield decides to critique the back-and-forth in the name of civility. (Rabbi, if I were you, I might have let this particular sectarian scrum pass me by…)

Are we done rasslin’ with this one yet? Here’s the simple truth: Obama and Dobson have very different understandings of Christianity. The “truth” is not going to be settled in this world unless Something Happens.

As a matter of politics and public policy, the only question I really want to see Obama answer on this topic is: How do your religious views inform how you would govern as president? But that’s just me.

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World’s First ‘Building In Motion’ Set For Dubai

Italian architect Dr. David Fisher announced on Tuesday the launch of a revolutionary skyscraper in Dubai dubbed as the “world’s first building in motion,” an 80-story tower with revolving floors that give it an ever-shifting shape.

The spinning floors, hung like rings around an immobile cement core, would offer residents a constantly changing view of the Persian Gulf and the Dubai’s futuristic skyline.

At a news conference in New York, Rotating Tower Dubai Development Ltd headed by the Dynamic Group, revealed the design and floor plans of the rotating building.

The one planned for Dubai will rise 1,380 feet into the air. Sales of individual apartments will begin in September, with asking prices of around $3,000 per square foot. The smallest, at 1,330 square feet, would cost about $4 million and the largest, a 12,900-square-foot villa, $38.7 million.

Fisher also said a second Dynamic Tower planned for Moscow is now in the advanced design phase, with preassembling of the units to start soon and completion scheduled for 2010. The Moscow tower, which will have 70 floors and be 1,310 feet tall, will be located in the Moscow City area, the new prestigious part of the Russian capital.

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The puppy born without front legs who’s now using model aeroplane wheels to get around

This tiny puppy may have been born without front legs but there’s no way that is holding her back.

Hope, the appropriately named two-legged Maltese puppy gets around by using a specially-designed device which features wheels from a model aeroplane.

The energetic pup uses her hind legs to boost her body forward onto her chest and operate the wheeled prosthetic limbs.

Full Daily Mail Article

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