Justin Taylor jumps the shark

Actually I am mostly doing this post to get this title at the end of this meta.

It will be worth it.

Hither and thither 5/29/09

And now my weekly ministry, to give you a chuckle or a "Hunh!" or two:

• True, dat — English is weird.
• And now our occasional Lego segment: gadgets based on the Lego design. Some are pretty cool, in fact.

• Whoa, dude. Is this an iceberg, or a special effect? (Answer: iceberg.)

• Thomas Sowell posted some random thoughts. This was one I rather loved: "When my sister's children were teenagers, she told them that, if they got into trouble and ended up in jail, to remember that they had a right to make one phone call. She added: 'Don't waste that call phoning me.' We will never know whether they would have followed her advice, since none of them was ever in jail."
  
• Thoughts on the preceding: have you ever noticed how many appalling young criminals have their mothers and other family in the media, blaming everyone but their darling criminal child, doing everything they can to spare their kid (who is 15, 25, 35, 45) the consequences of his actions? Ever think to yourself, "Causation — solved!"?
• All that to say this:

Do not withhold discipline from a child;
if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
14 If you strike him with the rod,
you will save his soul from Sheol.
(Proverbs 23:13-14)

• What happens when Gummis go bad? Now we know.

• Who says Hollywood doesn't have a sense of humor? So, they're re-re-re-re-remaking the tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, right? Obviously, they'll need a great actor. Someone with vivid range. Like... oh, I don't know. Maybe... Keanu Reeves? Yep, apparently that's right. A man whose range runs the entire gamut from A to A. Whew. My parakeet Peanuts could do a better job, I'm thinking. And he's been dead for 41 years.
• Pastor John Kane points me to this must-have (made in China):

• Does age bring wisdom? Not necessarily. Sometimes — particularly if you are (or have been) a beautiful media superstar, it makes you really, really stupid.
  
• Consumer Alert: if you're tempted by a "Snuggie," you may want to watch this. (Warning: if you're offended by the sight of naked mannikin hiney, or a use of the synonym for "hiney" that starts with "b"... you know, sometimes I wonder if all my warnings are really necessary. Anyway. Be warned.)
• Reason #5397 Why We Homeschool: mandatory perversion-approval indoctrination. The irony hits me every time, as it did 15+ years ago when ours were still in government indoctrination camps. They can't teach how to read. They can't teach spelling. They can't teach basic math skills. They can't teach history. But boy oh boy, self-image and amorality? All over that!
  
• Really Dumb Idea Title Alert: How to Start Barefoot Hiking. I have hiked a lot, and I know this is a Bad Idea. Thinking of one of my particular favorite spots, a trout-brimming lake a bit off the trail, I can think of one "up" side. If I were to get lost, SAR could easily follow the trail of blood across the sharp granite boulders.
  
• General Colin Powell says that what the GOP really needs is more weak-spined, unprincipled, back-stabbing turncoats. Now, if I told you what I really think about that, I think you'd be offended; let's just say that advice from folks who take thirty pieces of silver as to how the objects of their betrayal could be more popular is of limited worth.
  
• Lego Double-Header! Yet more love for our Lego-loving readers (or readers with Lego-loving kids), some movie posters redone in Lego.

• Plus, of course, these:
  

Remarkable Bible study resource page: Precept Austin

Trying to find online resources for a friend, I stumbled upon the P-R-E-C-E-P-T A-U-S-T-I-N web site. That's not a pretty site name. Plus, graphically, it's as retro as my web site (which is saying something).

But yikes! What a goldmine of resources! I think you'll want to bookmark it

There are verse by verse resources across the board for every book of the Bible; Bible dictionaries, maps, and more besides. It's really remarkable what he's found, and what I had no idea is online.

At first it might seem to be overwhelmingly dispensational (which is a good thing), but look closer: the webmaster's cast quite a wide net among Bible-believers. Walvoord and Ice and McGee — and Spurgeon and Gill and Flavel and Waltke. Just a really great clearing-house of free tools.

Enjoy.

For fellow iPhone-waiters

Wired has a collection of rumors about the next iPhone, which is rumored to be announced in June and released in July. It includes sources, and ranking of likelihood. One rumor getting some traction is that AT&T's upgrades indicate a major improvement in iPhone's hardware.

"The Hunt for Gollum"

If you are a fan of the Lord of the Rings movies, be sure to check out The Hunt for Gollum.

Within two minutes you will be amazed, because this is a fan-made movie. That is, it was done by motivated, skilled, dedicated fans, not by a big-money studio. As such, it really is a remarkable achievement. The production values, the sets, the costumes, the makeup, the music, the camera-work, and even the CGI, are all incredibly impressive. For a fan-made movie, it's a marvel.

Now that "for a fan-made movie" is not meant as a note of condescension. It is simply an expectation-setter, so that you give it a fair view.

The actors are for the most part adequate or better. The gent who plays Gandalf (Patrick O'Connor) is quite good. I'd like to have seen a lot more of him, and less of....

Unfortunately the weak link is the man who plays Aragorn. He mostly looks the part (though I was too conscious of his eyelashes in some shots; what was up with that?). He has a good physical presence, does the very impressive action scenes quite well.

But he is almost completely expressionless. Either he has few skills as an actor, or he comes from the Old School that the best way to depict fantasy is to affect an ethereal trance. His expression almost never changes at all, unless you count an unfortunate tendency to let his mouth hang open.

(Oh dear. After writing this I go to the cast page and find that the actor is Adrian Webster, and he is described as "a strong actor with a thoughtful gaze." Oh, so that's thoughtful, not unnervingly vacant. Well, decide for yourself.)

Though I've read the books many, many times, I'm not a Tolkien scholar. But I do think they added a brief bit of ancestor-worship that is not in keeping with Tolkien, right towards the start.

It is about 40 minutes, and it's time well-spent. The fight-scenes are intense, and a couple of the deaths are a bit violent and lingering, so you might preview it before showing it to your younger, more tender 'uns. I'd probably rate it PG-13. But if you're at all an LOTR fan, it's definitely worth watching.

Big Announcement Watch thread

A bit earlier, I put up this "status" on Facebook:

Dan Phillips thinks nobody will believe him, though it's true: he really truly should finally be making his big announcement Tuesday, on Pyro

Then came the unhinged predictions of the unpronounceable Gil Sebenste:

Have we seen the last of DJP on Pyro? Or, the last "hither and thither", just as it was gaining steam?

Maybe he's gonna announce he's running to replace Ahhhnold.

Thankfully, it's not going to be him going to a local congregation where he would rebuke and bless the socks off of them simultaneously, and then we never hear from him again. That would truly be the end of the world and the start of Armageddon. I can relax now.

At that point, I realized it could be more fun here.

Now, I could do this on Pyro. But it's not my day today, and I'd feel ookie.

So — feel free to post predictions here.

Then tomorrow the real fun (for me, at least) should start.

Star Trek lens flares

Whew! I'm not the only one who noticed — and was really irritated by — the ridiculous lens-flares in the new Star Trek.

As I told you, I loved the movie. But the constant, incongruous, distracting lens flares were the one big visual minus. There was even a lens flare as Spock climbed up a hillside! I mean — dude, what flared? A Vulcan lizard's eyeball?

Anyway, turns out there are a number of articles sharing my pain. This gent felt it was constant, blinding and idiotic. Search "star trek" and flares in Google, you'll get lots of other hits.

Probably the most hopeful title is J.J. Abrams Admits Star Trek Lens Flares Are "Ridiculous." True dat, amigo. But he sas it was his way to indicate that the future is that bright, to hint that something fantastic was happening just off-camera, and to keep it from being a sterile, all-CGI vista.

Some clever geek has applied the technique to the classic TV series:

Memorial Day: Kevin DeYoung's thoughts, plus one

Kevin DeYoung posts on Why Memorial Day is Worth Remembering (h-t-Justin). DeYoung gives five good reasons, and it's worth a read.

I'd just add a sixth reason: as Christians, we must never forget that our freedom in Christ is not free. It costs us nothing; it cost Jesus everything He had to give. Jesus "loosed us from our sins by His blood" (Revelation 1:5). He gave His soul, His life, His shed blood, to pay the price to set us free (Matthew 20:28).

The freedom purchased for us Americans by our soldiers is of infinitely less value, that is true. They were not spotless and pure as Jesus was, also true. Not all died completely voluntarily as Jesus did, also true.

However, that I can homeschool my kids and worship publicly where I choose; that I still have some degree of freedom to criticize the current administration;that my native language is American English instead of German or Japanese or King Georgian English or Arabic — this freedom is not mine for free. Other men died that my family and I might be assured this freedom.

It's worth a day to recognize that fact, and pray for our living troops that more of them not be honored by it next year.

Hither and thither 5/22/09

Well, ladies and gents, I've a real mixed bag for you today. Chuckles, groans, and tears. Do me a favor — if you like, and always with good manners — and spread the word about this feature?

So, let's dig in!

• Hunh. Vegetarian ice cream. Who knew? But I'd really miss all those little chunks of meat I'm used to chewing on, in my Rocky Road - Medium Rare.
• After putting you all through this, I think we'd all be pretty torqued if THIS happened.
• If you liked the recent Star Trek movie (as I did), and are at least a little geeky, you will enjoy this.
• Honey, I Ate the Neanderthal? Ah, the joys of making up the past!
  
• Pity my family and me. We live in California, which seldom votes our way. But last Tuesday it did for a switch, shooting down a slate full of lame measures. But pity us again, because we live in a town (Sacramento) that doesn't have an actual newspaper. Just the worthless Sacramento Bee, which I think receives its copy directly from DNC headquarters and prints it unedited. The Bee didn't like what voters did last Tuesday, and they exploded — then they flipped. Sister La Shawn has the goods, including a link to the editorial they hastily pulled.
• Wow. This recession is really hitting everybody. And, er, everything.

• On a sad and serious note, reader Angie Birney points us to a particularly ugly effect of the recession: rise in abortions. One nearly despairs to read Hell's death-dealing "logic": "It sucks that it comes down to money... But if we can't even support ourselves, it wouldn't be good for a baby." So kill the baby — for its own good. You see, it's actually a loving thing. Not at all about amoral selfishness and materialism. Got it. (And as I always ask at this point: why not throw in the 2yo and the 12yo at the same time? Don't want them to have to do without their PlayStation, right?)
• Now, look. I wrote that, as-is, no editing. Then I saw this. I warn you, it is nauseating and chilling. But here's something almost more chilling: our insane, Christless culture will hear the woman in the previous bullet with sympathetic nods, and our President will make sure that anyone can do the same as she for the same reason, or none at all. Yet it will regard the woman in this bullet-item as a monster. "I'll retire to Bedlam," I often say? I think I already have.
  
• Homosexual "marriage" advocates hate the progression argument (i.e. if we call two men committing serial perversion "marriage," then there is no reason not to call anything and everything "marriage). As I've often said, the reason they hate it is that it is unanswerable. And now, it will surprise none of us to learn, we have yet more ready proof.
• On the subject of "proof," here's more proof that Colin Powell is a... an... not a deep thinker. Speaking of two men who do have thought-out, principled, and definable ideologies (Limbaugh and Cheney), Powell said, "I may be out of their version of the Republican Party." Ah. Uh-huh. So... that would be the version that does vote for Republicans for President? That doesn't vote for hard-left socialist anti-child candidates because of their skin-color? That version? Well, then, cool.
• Back to the other. I didn't make this up... I couldn't make this up. Pretty girl thinks she's a man trapped in a woman's body, attracted to women. Gets herself mutilated. Pretends she's a man. Then finds... she's a "gay" man. Attracted, IOW, to men. Which would have been normal for her... as a woman. Which she was. Sigh. Stay tuned for more adventures in What Happens When Society Won't Just Say "God Made You A Woman, Let's Deal With That."
  
• Carlo Rose wants us all to know that happiness is being old, male, and Republican. (Though he adds, "Of course we know where true happiness comes from....")
• Beloved son-in-law Kermit Allen points us to some serious Trekkie gear. (My dear wife is still thinking about the hanging Enterprise lamp.)

• Mark Driscoll has written a really good, solid response to Newsweak's "End of Christian America" article. He distinguishes between Christian America and Christendom America, and argues that the drop of false professions will be both clarifying, and an opportunity for distinctly Christian, Gospel-centered ministry. In all that, I think he's right.
  
• Oh my. I don't think I'd like this.

• Science: coffee is "a good beverage choice." Yay. But before we move on, a serious thought. Remember when Science told us coffee was a bad beverage choice? Old enough to have observed the back and forth about wine, cigarettes, various foods and behaviors? Very fluid, Science, eh? Well, except about macro-evolution and a 230945-billion year old earth (or whatever the figure is today). That is certain and sure and will never change. Got that?
• On a similar note: how long have there been Komodo dragons? Long time. How long have they been available to scientists for study? Long time. Have you ever heard that they kill by bacteria in their saliva? Yeppers, me too. Wrong! Now a Scientist tells us that that line is a "scientific fairy tale." Turns out they actually have venom that assists in the kill. Oh, BTW, the bigger surprise to me is the mention in passing that iguanas have venom. Huh? I've had iguanas, and I am pretty sure they've bitten me... and I don't think I died. Unless it takes like forty years to take full effect. (Hmm... wonder if it makes your hair fall out....)
  
• Not whimsical nor funny: serious public safety reminder. I know a number of my readers are gun-users. A couple of holidays approach. Remember: guns are ALWAYS loaded. Tragedies do not only happen to ignorant drunks. Think how many brief mistakes and goofs you make every day. But those ones don't kill you or anyone. This one could. I love my readers and their families, and want you all to stick around.
  
• Just...hunh. Well, "Hunh," and "I wonder what thought-process led to this."

• Well, I'll be. Heteropaternal superfecundation. Who knew? Notice too, that the one was conceived the same time she conceived one with her "partner." Unless her husband and she are in business together, I take it that she wasn't married to Father #1, either. Leading me to wonder: when he got the news, did he heartbrokenly exclaim, "Oh my gosh, who could have expected her to have immoral sex with a guy while she was having immoral sex with a guy"?
• Surreal News-story Sentence Alert: "The man was angry that [Chuck E.] Cheese had allegedly pinned his child against a video game machine while trying to escape a swarm of children who were hopped up on skee-ball and pizza." So he ripped off his mask and punched him.
  
• Frank Turk is going to kick himself for not having thought of this. (h-t — if you can believe it — Challies.)
• Lynda Chan, our sister in the frosty north, alerts us to a big heat wave in Iceland. Surf's up, and it's time to hit the crowded beaches, enjoying a balmy 68°F!
• Is this an Iceland doggie in the "heat wave"?

• Heavy, Dripping Irony Alert: La Shawn observes, " As pro-infanticide Barack Obama talked around his support for abortion, you can hear a baby crying in the audience." (More about the avidly pro-abort "Christian" being honored by "Roman Catholics" while patronizing them with meaningless verbage here.)
• Don't you wish Dick Cheney were twenty years younger and in better health?

• Hugh Hewitt and Mark Steyn have an adult discussion of O's speech.
  
• Golly, I hate it when this happens!

• And then there are these:
  

Great news for Logos users: update to the Truth Is Still Truth site

I had always found the Truth Is Still Truth site a bit hard to navigate, and the update tool tricky to use.

Well, check out the Libronix PBB files page now. The books and series are laid out all nice and neat on the left. Excellent!

Also, you can get the latest (12/2008) version of the PBB Updater here.

Pray for Melissa Elliott

We all appreciate the contributions of David Elliott, under the screen name threegirldad. Now I'd like to ask you all to pray for his wife Melissa. With his permission, I share her story to date as David told me (with minor edits(:

My wife suffered a "minor" stroke on 04/30 or 05/01. It wasn't obvious at first, because the only symptom was stuttering (no slurred speech or paralysis). I took her to the ER on 05/02, and she was immediately taken to have a CT scan.

The scan showed a spot on the brain. Multiple subsequent scans failed to detect anything other than a small pool of blood.

After a couple of days in Intensive Care, and a couple of days in a regular room, she was discharged and transferred to a local Rehabilitation clinic to start therapy. It went well for a couple of days, and then took a very bad turn. Her condition deteriorated overnight, and we were taken back to the hospital for another scan.

The size of the bleed had increased by about 15 percent (meaning that she had suffered a second stroke), and the area now showed swelling. She was immediately readmitted to Neurology Intensive Care.

After 3 more days of different kinds of scans, a neurosurgeon diagnosed a tumor on 05/11. She had surgery on 05/13, and it was successful (the surgeon was able to remove the entire mass cleanly).

Unfortunately, we now know that it was malignant, but we don't know much else. Even though this is a very large hospital with a lot of expertise dealing with cancer, the type of cancer she had isn't familiar to them. They have forwarded information and tissue samples to Mayo Clinic for further analysis.

For now, she is recovering well. But -- we won't know what lies ahead as far as treatment until the official report comes back. We have no idea how long that will take at this point. On top of whatever cancer treatment she will need, she has a long road of physical and speech therapy ahead of her.

As of today (05/20), she is back at the Rehabilitation Center, her pain is now well controlled and diminishing, and she is looking forward to resuming therapy tomorrow. She has only a small amount of muscle control on her right side, and very little strength. Doctors and therapists still believe that she has a good chance of recovering fully given enough time, which is very encouraging. We don't expect to know about the exact nature of the tumor for at least a week.

Melissa is only 45, and their two living girls are 11 and 9; their third daughter passed away 15 years ago last Monday through post-surgery complications.

Let's join in praying for Melissa, and for the Elliott family.

UPDATE: there is a way you can keep tabs on Melissa's progress, and pass messages of encouragement to her. Make a free account at CarePages. Melissa's nickname is "Germ_Lady," because she teaches microbiology.

Famous movies rewritten for Twitter

I don't understand, and plan never to join, Twitter. But THIS is pretty funny.

Some examples:

• Star Wars eps 4-6: "Young boy abducted by old man, falls in love with sister, refuses family business, kills father, dances with little bears."
• Titanic: "Ship hits iceberg, sinks."
• The Great Escape: "Merry band of WWII POWs plan escape from prison. They all get caught." (So true. I was so disappointed in that movie! Title should be, "The Great Escape, And How There Wasn't Any")
• Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith: "Insufferable child grows up, marries his babysitter, betrays his mentor, gets sliced and diced and a new outfit. Noooooooo!!!"

I wonder whether we can't come up with our own. Here are my efforts:

• The Happening: There wasn't one. Trust me on this.
• The Day the Earth Stood Still: Keanu Reeves on mood-flatteners —preaching. For. Two. Hours. Think about it.
• Shaun of the Dead. Overnight, almost everyone turns into a zombie. Hilarity ensues.
• The Four Seasons. Boring, self-absorbed people talk. That's about it.
• The Sunshine Boys. Two hateful old men act like hateful old men act.
• Lawrence of Arabia. Sand. Lots of it. In slow-motion. Repeat. [That's how I think my dear wife would write it; I actually really like the movie]
• Star Trek: the Motion Picture: Two hours slow motion pan of Enterprise, a few minutes of action, the end. [See previous]
• The Hired Hand. Slowly, a rusty and bent needle penetrates your skull, inches through, exits other side. Credits roll.

I'm sure there are more. You can top these. I'll update if inspiration strikes me later and you don't beat me to it.

UPDATES:

• Everyone you cared about in the first movie dies horribly at the start of this sequel, with one exception — and she dies horribly at the end
• Nice man tries to kill himself to save family, so God sends an incompetent angel, who lucks out
• Nasty old man sees four ghosts and turns nice

Atheists: on top of everything else, boring

That's the argument of (hope you're sitting down) LA Times Opinion writer Charlotte Allen. Her catchy title is Atheists: No God, no reason, just whining.

I don't get that the writer is coming from a specifically Christian worldview, but that doesn't stop her from lobbing some very effective critiques at "the new atheists."

She starts by confessing that she "can't stand atheists -- but it's not because they don't believe in God. It's because they're crashing bores." In fact, she calls them "such excruciating snoozes." She does note more contentful critiques, such as the (very on-target) note that "new" atheists indulge "in a philosophically primitive opposition of faith and reason that assumes that if science can't prove something, it doesn't exist."

But Allen says that her problem is with atheists' "tiresome -- and way old -- insistence that they are being oppressed and their fixation with the fine points of Christianity." She lampoons the chest-beating assertiosn, the lame jabs, the tired (and tiring) paint-thin mockeries.

She thinks atheists might not be the objects of such public disdain "if they stopped beating the drum until the hide splits on their second-favorite topic: How stupid people are who believe in God." She gives as an example this statement by one of atheism's poorer reps, Richard Dawkins, who says of theists:

"They feel uneducated, which they are; often rather stupid, which they are; inferior, which they are; and paranoid about pointy-headed intellectuals from the East Coast looking down on them, which, with some justification, they do."

All righty, then.


Allen also brings some effective fire on the attempted moral arguments atheists try to lodge, as well as their anger at God for "failing to create a world more to their liking."

My additions: as to the former, tens of thousands of words can't raise the argument above "Assuming that the Bible isn't true... the Bible isn't true!!!"

And the latter is just Genesis 3:5 all over again. And again. And again. And again....

Sometimes I imagine a junior demon saying to Satan, "Boss, you really have to get another sales-pitch!"

To which the first demon retorts, "Why? It works every time!"

Don't love rap; do love creativity; so — "Let the Beat Build," Nyle

Keeping with my (tenuous) tradition of starting the week off on a lighter note....

What is remarkable about the following video is that it is a student production, done on a budget of $2000 — and everything you see was recorded live and in one continuous shot. (One shot — though it was the thirtieth take.)

Nyle "Let The Beat Build" from Nyle on Vimeo.

I've looked for lyrics online unsuccessfully. It's apparently a cover for another "song" you (seriously) should not Google, which does have filthy lyrics. But this one does not, as far as I can make out the words (this site agrees that it is profanity-free).

(If you like, read more about the artist and his plans, and the making of the video here — but that article does have some rude language.)

So. There are (I'm told) Christian rappers, even theologically reformed Christian rappers. Come on now, confess it, be honest. Are there any of you who listen to and like some particular Christian rappers? Who? Link?

Obama at Notre Dame: a prediction

The most single-mindedly pro-abortion president ever is about to speak and be honored at a Roman Catholic institution, and reportedly will touch on abortion.

Non-prophetic prediction: whatever he says on the subject will be condescending, misleading, and/or an outright lie.

Now we'll see how I do.

Hither and thither 5/15/09 —

Finally, this week is a bit slimmer than some. But have fun! I did! Actually, turns out I found a good bit. Enjoy, amigos.

• Let's start on a happy note. You know, before we get to Obama and all. I like to say that this site has readers on all the continents except (so far) Antarctica, though we don't hear from all of them. It's always fun to get a word from an unexpected location, so this week I was delighted to get an email from regular reader Linda Chan, from Iceland. Lynda has a really fun web site called Little House on the Fjord, and I encourage you to click around. She has a rascally-good sense of humor. Particularly check out Things Learned by Raising Boys. Plus, I think her It Came from the Kitchen page rivals Phil's Strange things I have eaten page. Enjoy!
• As the weather heats up, I give you... a car pool!

• I think you lot will enjoy the list of most frequently misremembered movie lines. If you feel luck. Do ya, punk?
• Here are eight reasons why this is the dumbest generation. They hit a few good points, but miss a major indicator. You know what it is. Obama.
  
• I found one! I actually found a state that has occasional flickers of sanity! Cherish the fleeting moment, readers.
• I knew it! Turns out coffee is a health food!
  
• On the other hand, Brit reader Pastor Gary Benfold gives us another peek at where we're heading, thanks to Britain, where government-funded functionaries call those who see homosexuality as immoral "retarded homophobes." Nice.
  
• Well, lookie here! A Star Trek quiz! They're interesting and well-documented (though #3 is painful). I got enough of them wrong to feel like I still might have a life, but enough of them right to make that a bit iffy.
  
• Republicans may pay the price for Bush's communication disinterest for a long, long time. I've argued several times that W made a crucial miscalculation. He focused on his job and being noble and above-it-all — in other words, the consummate anti-Clinton — thus allowing domestic enemies to frame and control the game. W thought doing well would win out over image. He was wrong. Thus people still imagine that Clinton was a great president, and Bush a bad one. What Bush didn't see is that this would hurt his party and thus the country.
• HSAT, this makes a good point — though we see now that W's failure to defend himself has put the country at risk.

• Some very clever images — but be warned: some are also disturbing, and one in particularly poor taste.

• A timely reminder that it is always important to pay attention to the signs.
  
• Beloved reader Susan provides further evidence illustrating why they're not called "Intellect Pageants."
  
• For you IT type brainiacs, here's a list of pretty sweet-looking little utilities. One is that Taskbar Shuffle that I told you about earlier.
• And now these:
  

• And one final "What th--?"

Obama haiku

A reader at FreeRepublic solicited Obama haikus, and got them. NOTE, though: some of the entries on this thread are offensive and in horrible taste. In fact, I'd say just stay with the ones I'm bringing over; I link mainly for attribution.

Here are some of the better entries, in my opinion. I solicit yours.

President With Cult
Country of Birth We Know Not
Please Keep Your Koolaid

Words, what are they, now?
Electronic thoughts on screen
The prompter in chief!

Choose death is mantra
Introduce despair kill dreams
Attack from within

Umm...er..um..umm...hope
err...um...and...umm...errr..uh..."Change"
Teleprompter speaks

hero to the press
a reader not a leader
pray he’s gone in 4

What is yours is his
To feed the greed of others
Envy masked as hope

Air Force One goes fast
Terrorizes his voters
They’ll be back for more

Clinton retreads all.
Change has never before looked
So much like the past