Wii Sales Pass Xbox 360, PS3 Distant 3rd

Here’s a neat chart from GameDaily showing some data on the hardware wars. Looks like the Wii is taking no prisoners… those trend lines are nasty strong.

I wonder if that takes into consideration how many 360s have been sent back to Microsoft due to the red rings of death? [via Kotaku]

Former Eagle Working to Help Blacks in Philly

I know I post a lot of negative news on here. I’m honestly trying to post less but it just seems the world around us is just so screwed up. So anyway, here’s a positive piece of news from the FRC about a former NFL player working to improve things in his hometown of Philly.

Rev. Herb Lusk is a big man with an even bigger heart. The former Philadelphia Eagle has spent his retirement from football transforming Pennsylvania-and the nation-for Christ. As pastor of Greater Exodus Baptist Church, Herb has been a tremendous friend to me and a powerful ally in the movement for faith, family, and freedom. This week, he and his People for People organization are taking that outreach to a new level by opening the Hope Center for pregnant women.

In a city where half of all black babies are aborted, Herb is praying his clinic will empower women to make positive decisions about their pregnancies. “When I began to consider that the African-American population alone has declined in the past three years across the nation, I realized that we’re not procreating our own race; and that is a direct result of abortion…”

Just minutes from the local Planned Parenthood clinic, Hope Center offers pregnant women something the abortion industry does not-the truth. With free counseling, resources, and parenting classes, the Hope Center will give women the support they need to make an informed decision. While Americans are bracing for the most pro-abortion president in history, Herb is committed to changing hearts where it matters most-at the local level. Rev. Lusk’s work is an important reminder to us all that no matter who is in the White House, the efforts to protect the unborn go on. Congratulations, Herb, for inspiring all of us to keep hope alive.

Dojo Info 11/13/08

1. Watch 15 Minutes of Left 4 Dead
   Man! This game is going to be simply frightening!
2. Harmonix: Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero World Tour Not Competing
   What kind(s) of drugs is Mr. Teasdale taking? This is a Marketing 101 prime example of products competing, uh, yeah.
3. Your 20 Free Rock Band Songs *Are* Coming, Eventually
   They better, or they’ll suffer the wrath of (dramatic music) “Paladin!!” Or, maybe they’ll just take their own sweet time with it. Update: They’re here! Phooey on me for taking too long to post this Dojo Info.
4. Pollsters Inflated Obama Lead
   Are polls inaccurate? Of course. Are they purposefully misleading? It wouldn’t surprise me.
5. Picking up where an angel left off
   People like Debbie O’Daniels are heroes; not self-absorbed, teenage pop stars. Where did we lose our sense of goodness? If anyone finds it, share it with the rest of us.
6. Final Chapter For Circuit City?
   You can only ignore good customer service for so long. Some years back I had to complain to the store manager about the poor service I received and their response was so pitiful, I rarely gave them any business after that. Wow. I hope capitalism doesn’t completely disappear given our trend towards socialism.
7. Democratic legislators ask state Supreme Court to void Prop. 8
   Right. And after this fails to reverse the will of the people the gay lobby will turn to their friends in the Courts. It matters not what our democracy determines, only what they want… which is really strange when you see the data that shows their relationships are far more ‘short-term’ than hetero relationships. I guess it’s not marriage they want after all but an attempt to have their behavior officially stamped as legitimate by society.
8. The 50 Best Rock & Roll Video Games of All Time
   Rolling Stone falls further into irrelevancy with this list. *yawn*

Bravest Frenchman in the History of the World

Mr. Robert climbing another building shouldn’t surprise anyone. But man, watching that video and seeing no safety lines, gives me the Willies.

Paulus Exhibits Why Rules Need a Changin’

The sad part is that Coach K teaches this stuff, and their trademark flop of course, all day long.

Post Admits to Obama Bias, World Says ‘No Doy’

From the FRC comes this startling completely expected report that there’s bias as the Washington Post. To be fair, I should say it’s surprising to hear them admit it.

Now that the election is over, the Washington Post would like to get something off its chest. In an article today that read more like a confession, Post ombudsman Deborah Howell confirmed what most Americans already took for granted-the paper’s 12 months of campaign bias. Her piece, “An Obama Tilt in Campaign Coverage,” put the editorial board on the hot seat through head-to-head comparisons of the amount of coverage and kind of coverage each presidential candidate received. “…[R]eaders have been consistently critical of the lack of probing issues coverage and what they saw as a tilt toward Democrat Barack Obama,” Howell writes. “My surveys, which ended on Election Day, show that they are right on both counts.” Conceding that the paper was “deficient in stories that reported more than the two candidates trading jabs,” she admits, “Obama deserved tougher scrutiny than he got, especially of his undergraduate years, his start in Chicago, his relationship[s]… The Post did nothing on Obama’s acknowledged drug use as a teenager.” She goes on to list the following:

• The op-ed page ran far more laudatory opinion pieces on Obama, 32, than on Sen. John McCain, 13.
• There were far more negative pieces about McCain, 58, than there were about Obama, 32.
• Stories about Obama in the news pages, 946, outnumbered those devoted to McCain, 786.
• Obama was on the front page 176 times, McCain 144 times.
• Only 13% of the stories from June 9 to November 2 were about issues, and 66% of the remaining articles were about Obama compared to 53% on McCain.
• “Some readers thought the Post went over Palin with a fine-tooth comb and neglected Biden. They are right.”

It’s rare for the mainstream media to own up to its shortcomings, but my question is not whether there was prejudice, but what the Post plans to do about it. The damage to this election cycle has already been done. Can we count on the paper to objectify its coverage in the days and months to come? On bias, it’s like the Post marketers say, “If you don’t get it, then you don’t get it.”

Understanding The Internet Is Fun

If all teaching were done like this, I’d still be in school. 8^)

Unknown Tomorrow

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown tomorrow to a known God.”
-Corrie Ten Boom

Main Polls Overinflate Obama Lead

Are polls inaccurate? Of course. Are they purposefully misleading? It wouldn’t surprise me. Here’s some after election data for you: Pollsters Inflated Obama Lead.

As of noon Wednesday, Obama had won 63 million votes — 52 percent of the vote — compared with McCain’s 46 percent and 55.8 million. This amounts to a 6-point difference between the two candidates.

Right. We know that already. So, which polls are the best?

Two polls emerged as the most accurate: The Pew Research and Rasmussen Reports, which showed the race precisely at 52 percent to 46 percent.

Ahh… the ones that CBS, ABC and the rest regularly leave out. I see.

But poll predictions of Gallup, Reuters/Zogby, ABC/Washington Post, and CBS all had Obama winning by between 9 and 11 points.

So were they just poor pollsters are is there some underlying deceit in those organizations?

BTW, for those who claim that Fox is the polar opposite of the mainstream media, they had Obama winning by 7 points. Not a single poll had Obama winning by less than 5 points.

Obama Wins Election

Falling asleep, these lyrics came to my mind:

Be careful what you wish for,
‘Cause you just might get it all.

What do you think?

Election Day in America

Given the non-stop media barrage, I’ll be glad when this election is over. Not because I’ll be happy with the outcome, mind you, but because I won’t have to watch the endless stream of hateful ads and obvious liberal bias in the media. They can’t even disguise their slants any more.

Then you have the doofus academic elites doing pathetic pranks; acting more like students than professors.

In his blog post, Busse said “yanking out the signs and running like a scared rabbit back to my idling car was one of the single-most exhilarating and empowering political acts that I have ever done.”

How enlightened. This kind of behavior isn’t limited to one side of the aisle.

Democrats are criticizing a 38-year-old man who parked a trailer load of manure across the street from Whitehall’s Democratic campaign office to protest presidential hopeful Barack Obama.

Just plain silly.

No, the saddest part of things, at least to me, is that our culture is becoming increasingly secular. More and more people don’t see God as relevant to our lives. Our obsession with celebrity, our constant striving for more money, our unhealthy addiction to the pleasures of this world… all of this will ultimately leave us empty.

Instead, we should all be working towards the day, when at the end of our lives, we’ve built a relationship with the One who can lead us on to the next life.

Obama Courts All for Political Gain

This doesn’t surprise me in the least: Obama-Farrakhan Ties Are Close, Ex-Farrakhan Aide Says

“Remember that for years, if you were a politician in Chicago, you had to have some type of relationship with Louis Farrakhan. You had to. If you didn’t, you would be ostracized out of black Chicago,” said Dr. Vibert White Jr., who spent most of his adult life as a member and ultimately top officer of the Nation of Islam.