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The Founders believed national leaders should believe in a God that will punish evil

July 11, 2012 – 10:51 am

Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)

Roger Ebert called this flick one of Allen’s best. The director, pictured with cinematographer Sven Nykvist on set, was nominated for three Academy Awards, including best director and writing. “Who else but Woody Allen could make a movie in which virtue is punished, evildoing is rewarded and there is a lot of laughter – even subversive laughter at the most shocking times?” wrote the famous reviewer.

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The founding fathers believed that it benefitted the government for it’s leaders to believe in God and with that would come the view that evil will be punished and good will be rewarded in the afterlife. John Quincy Adams said: There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of God; the second is the immortality of the human soul; and the third is a future state of rewards and punishments. Suppose it possible for a man to disbelieve either of these three articles of faith and that man will have no conscience,

This point of view is not held by many today. I noticed in Woody Allen’s film “Crimes and Misdemeanors” you can see how Allen’s agnostic worldview permits him to allow the lead character to have his mistress killed when she threatens to call the cops. Judah noted, “God is a luxery I can not afford.” Earlier in the film Judah is terrified when he thinks there is a living God that will punish him in an afterlife, but only after he convinces himself there is no God is he at peace with his decision to have this troublesome lady killed. Check out this movie on Netflix and you will see what I mean about this potential moral problem that atheists can not answer. (I have looked this question many times in my previous posts.)

David Barton is a Christian historian and he has quoted many of the founders concerning their views of the afterlife and how their views impact what is done while leading the nation:

James Iredell, a ratifier of the Constitution and a U. S. Supreme Court justice appointed by George Washington, also confirmed:

According to the modern definition [1788] of an oath, it is considered a “solemn appeal to the Supreme Being for the truth of what is said by a person who believes in the existence of a Supreme Being and in a future state of rewards and punishments according to that form which would bind his conscience most.” 9

David Barton noted in his article, “Importance of Morality and Religion in Government,”:
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John Quincy Adams

Sixth President of the United States

There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of God; the second is the immortality of the human soul; and the third is a future state of rewards and punishments. Suppose it possible for a man to disbelieve either of these three articles of faith and that man will have no conscience, he will have no other law than that of the tiger or the shark. The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.

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(Source: John Quincy Adams, Letters of John Quincy Adams to His Son on the Bible and Its Teachings (Auburn: James M. Alden, 1850), pp. 22-23.)

Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime & pure, [and] which denounces against the wicked eternal misery, and [which] insured to the good eternal happiness, are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments.

(Source: Bernard C. Steiner, The Life and Correspondence of James McHenry (Cleveland: The Burrows Brothers, 1907), p. 475. In a letter from Charles Carroll to James McHenry of November 4, 1800.)

James McHenry

Signer of the Constitution

[P]ublic utility pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures. The doctrine they preach, the obligations they impose, the punishment they threaten, the rewards they promise, the stamp and image of divinity they bear, which produces a conviction of their truths, can alone secure to society, order and peace, and to our courts of justice and constitutions of government, purity, stability and usefulness. In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions. Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.

(Source: Bernard C. Steiner, One Hundred and Ten Years of Bible Society Work in Maryland, 1810-1920 (Maryland Bible Society, 1921), p. 14.)

Benjamin Rush

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

Remember that national crimes require national punishments, and without declaring what punishment awaits this evil, you may venture to assure them that it cannot pass with impunity, unless God shall cease to be just or merciful.

(Source: Benjamin Rush, An Address to the Inhabitants of the British Settlements in America Upon Slave-Keeping (Boston: John Boyles, 1773), p. 30.)

Joseph Story

Supreme Court Justice

Indeed, the right of a society or government to [participate] in matters of religion will hardly be contested by any persons who believe that piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of the state and indispensable to the administrations of civil justice. The promulgation of the great doctrines of religion—the being, and attributes, and providence of one Almighty God; the responsibility to Him for all our actions, founded upon moral accountability; a future state of rewards and punishments; the cultivation of all the personal, social, and benevolent virtues—these never can be a matter of indifference in any well-ordered community. It is, indeed, difficult to conceive how any civilized society can well exist without them.

(Source: Joseph Story, A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1847), p. 260, §442.)
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July 11, 2012 – 10:01 am

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Tom Cruise gets another divorce today. Scientology’s moral code is based on self-preservation. End justifies the means. https://thedailyhatch.org/2012/06/29/tom …

 

The feds now spend 30K per student in Wash DC Schools why not give parents 10 K vouchers? Now taking over healthcare https://thedailyhatch.org/2012/06/29/oba …

 

I posted my letters to the President and his 12 responses Several dealt with Obamacare. Obama’s kingdom has its limits https://thedailyhatch.org/2012/06/28/rec …

 

YOUNG PEOPLE:Christian dating advice from Landry Jones and it is quite good BTW he was named after Tom Landry my hero https://thedailyhatch.org/2012/06/26/lan …

 

Milton Friedman in his film Free to Choose asked, “How can we have personal freedom without economic freedom?” Enjoy! https://thedailyhatch.org/2012/06/28/the …

 

Chris Martin left his childhood Christianity because of belief in hell but his bestselling song teaches hell exists https://thedailyhatch.org/2012/06/27/chr …

 

Chris Martin of Coldplay is still searching for purpose and meaning in life and you can see it in his songwriting. https://thedailyhatch.org/2012/06/26/chr …

 

Chris Martin of Coldplay came from Christian home & can’t shake his biblical views that he says he doesn’t believe in https://thedailyhatch.org/2012/06/25/chr …

 

Sad truth that Arkansas is tied for 15th with Delaware for highest income tax rates in USA. People earning 33M pay it https://thedailyhatch.org/2012/06/24/bra …

 

President Obama answers my letter about abortion being paid for by Obamacare on 6-15-12 with form letter email https://thedailyhatch.org/2012/06/22/fee …

 

Ark Times Bloggers tell me Obamacare doesn’t force catholic institutions to provide free abortions. Are they right? https://thedailyhatch.org/2012/06/21/res …

 

 

95 yr Louis Zamperini a great American war hero did a great job with Leno last nite. Christ helped him overcome PTSD. https://thedailyhatch.org/2012/06/08/lou …

 

I wish Bob Welch had been exposed to the Christian alternative to suicide. I wrote about him on my blog today. https://thedailyhatch.org/2012/06/08/bob …

 

Rep Charlie Collins’ article today in Ark Dem Gaz was outstanding. I shared some of his thoughts on my blog today. https://thedailyhatch.org/2012/06/07/cha …

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“Woody Wednesday” The heart wants what it wants”

July 11, 2012 – 9:42 am

I read this on www.crosswalk.com which is one of my favorite websites.

Life Lessons from Woody Allen

I confess I am a huge film buff. But I’ve never really been a Woody Allen fan, even though most film critics consider him to be one of the most gifted and influential filmmakers of our time. Of course, some of my film savvy friends who are aficionados of Allen’s work have been recommending some of his more interesting films. Although often very dark, many of him movies have some interesting worldview themes.

Woody Allen’s personal life has certainly been checkered with controversy. Last week Chuck Colson discussed Allen’s life and work and recent interview in the Washington Post:

“The heart wants what it wants.”

You may remember those words. They’re the excuse Woody Allen offered in 1992 for leaving his longtime lover to run off with her daughter. Even many of Allen’s fans were repulsed by the affair and by Allen’s cavalier attitude…

So Allen’s heart got what it wanted. According to the unwritten laws of our culture–and according to the philosophy he expressed in that infamous sentence–he ought to be happy.

Only he’s not, according to a new interview in the Washington Post. Interviewer David Segal quips that Allen’s worldview “is so bereft of meaning, so godless and absurd, that the only proper response is to curl up on a sofa and howl for your mommy.”

Not the kind of talk you would expect from one of the most successful men in film. By any secular standard Allen should be on top of the world. Apparently this is not the case. According to Colson:

As Allen confesses, movies were only a “means” for him to live the kind of lifestyle he wanted, but now that he has it, he has to keep making movies to distract himself from it. Like the writer of Ecclesiastes, who “withheld not [his] heart from any joy,” Woody Allen apparently has concluded that “all is vanity…”

Read the entire commentary on BreakPoint:  When the Heart Gets What it Wants

Read the Washington Post interview with Woody Allen: Cloud in the Silver Lining

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Agnostic Allen notes, “The people who successfully delude themselves seem happier than the people who can’t” (Woody Wednesday Part 5)

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Woody Allen is a hot subject for evangelicals

July 11, 2012 – 8:24 am

God Is A Luxury I Can’t Afford – From Crimes And Misdemeanors

Published on Feb 29, 2012 by

Woody Allen uses eye, seeing and vision symbolism throughout Crimes & Misdemeanors. Judah (Martin Landau) is a wealthy ophthalmologist. Rabbi Ben (Sam Waterson), one of Judah’s real patients, is going blind. This clip is an exploration of a dichotomy between a “kingdom of Heaven” with absolutes and objectivity and the “real world” with relativity and subjectivity. Judah is on the horns of a dilemma. Judah’s mistress, Dolores, has created a crisis by threatening to publicly expose his affair with her and his financial improprieties. In the middle of the night in a violent thunderstorm, symbolic of the crisis and dilemma, Judah has an imagined conversation with one of his real patients, Rabbi Ben. The imagined conversation is about Judah’s mobster brother Jack’s (Jerry Orbach) proposed murder of Judah’s mistress of several years, Dolores, through the services of the mobster brother. Judah sees only two world views, a “kingdom of Heaven” view represented by Rabbi Ben and the “real world” view represented by mobster brother Jack. Judah’s dilemma is which world view to embrace to resolve his crisis. Judah complains: “I managed to keep free of the real world, but suddenly it’s found me.” When faced with Rabbi Ben’s “kingodom of Heaven” view that God sees all, Judah proclaims: “God is a luxury I can’t afford.” They all exhibit deficits when it comes to “seeing” what is around them and other perspectives. Judah think’s Rabbi Ben’s perspective is “blind” to the real world. Judah imagines Rabbi Ben arguing back that, although Judah is blind to God, God is not blind and sees Judah for what he is, a murderer. In the end, Judah embraces mobster brother Jack’s “real world” view and calls Jack to give the go-ahead for the already planned murder of Dolores.

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Anyone who has read my blog knows that I am an evangelical and I love Woody Allen movies. Here is an article on this subject and it concludes comments by Chuck Colson and Richard Land. I have been a big fan of both of these men and have heard them speak in person in the past.

Posted at 09:58 PM ET, 10/24/2011 TheWashingtonPost

Woody Allen and evangelicals: A surprisingly romantic pair


Director Woody Allen looks on during the shooting of his movie “The Bop Decameron” in downtown Rome July 25, 2011. (REMO CASILLI – REUTERS) Earlier this year I was sitting at a cafeteria lunch table with evangelical icon Chuck Colson and some of his close faith advisors when the conversation took a turn I hadn’t predicted: Colson started talking about Woody Allen.

In detail.

It turned out Colson and some others at the table, who help him craft theological writings and classes, are hard-core fans of Allen, and were easily able to recite bits of dialogue. A debate launched about the religious subtexts of various Allen films and what were the moviemaker’s own theological conclusions.

It was only when my regular chats with Southern Baptist leader Richard Land began turning to Allen that I got curious — what’s the deal with evangelicals and Woody Allen?

It turned out that I was clueless to a fascination that now makes perfect sense, since Allen marries two things core to modern-day evangelicals: popular culture and religion. Think “Crimes and Misdemeanors” and the symbolism of the rabbi going blind; think “Match Point” and questions raised about the apparent randomness of life.

Many of Allen’s films wrestle in a complex way with core moral themes, such as the nature of forgiveness, what to do with sin, whether life can have any meaning without God. And he does this as an agnostic.

Land is also a huge Allen fan and can rattle off an amazing amout of dialogue. You can’t get the guy off the phone once he starts talking Woody.

This evangelical-Allen thing reappeared the other day when some friends on Facebook started zapping around an amazing piece of vintage talk-show footage — Allen interviewing evangelical leader Billy Graham (it’s in two parts).

I haven’t been able to determine what show Allen was hosting (he declined to be interviewed), but it looks to be the 1960s, with a wise-guy, 30-something Allen engaging the handsome, older preacher about sex, drugs and life after death.

Allen: “If you come to one of my movies or something, I’ll go to one of your revival meetings.”

Graham: “Well now that is a deal.”

Allen: “You could probably convert me because I’m such a pushover. I have no convictions in any direction and if you make it appealing and promise me some sort of wonderful afterlife with a white robe and wings I would go for it.”

Graham: “I can’t promise you a white robe and wings, but I can promise you a very interesting, thrilling life.”

Allen: “One wing, maybe?”The off-camera audience is cracking up the entire time, and both men are smiling and relaxed through the 10-minute interview even as they clearly aren’t seriously entertaining the other’s views. It’s entertainment, but it’s also sweet, particularly on Graham’s part, which results in a piece of footage that manages to be both deep and silly (this is not easy to pull off).  

The primary feeling I had watching the video was one of nostalgia for a time when the subject of religion wasn’t so firmly planted at the center of a culture war, when people of totally different convictions about matters of life and death and morality could agree to disagree. It seemed almost romantic.

It seems impossible to imagine. Can anyone think of a comparable exchange today? I considered The Daily Show but even that seems too slick.

In the interview Allen is dorky and giggly – he almost seems like a teenager embarassed to ask about dating.

Could he have sex before marriage, he asks Graham, to ensure that his betrothed isn’t “an absolute yo-yo?” Graham turns fatherly, but not dogmatic; “that won’t happen to you,” he assures Allen.

Graham’s framing of the role of faith is decidedly secular, perhaps aimed at Allen’s audience. The purpose of the religious doctrine and rules is because God wants you to have “the best of life .. happiness and fulfillment.” The ban on sex outside a committed marriage, he says, is to protect your psychological self, to keep your body free from disease.

I asked Land to look at the videos and he commented that the wise-cracking Woody of the 1960s seemed to have “less swagger in his agnosticism” than the Woody who created the characters of “Crimes and Misdemeanors” in the 1980s, with their agonizing over mortality and purpose.

“I find Woody over the years, and of course this is true of people as they get older, there is more resignation,” he said. “There is a light touch and a confidence in his earlier movies — I’m not dead, I won’t die for a long time so I have a long time to figure this all out. Some of his more recent movies, you can see he’s aware of his own mortality.”

Land is sure he sees an Allen less confident.

“He asks all the right questions, he just doesn’t have the right answers,” Land said with a chuckle.

In trying to find the source of the clip I stumbled on a 2010 interview with Allen in which he seems to reference the Graham chat and shows that he hasn’t changed his mind a bit. He still has no faith in any higher power and says Graham is “delusional.”

Speaking of characters in his new movie, Allen says “sooner or later, reality sets in in a crushing way. As it does and will with everybody, including Billy Graham. But it’s nice if you can delude yourself for as long as possible.”

It’s hard for me to imagine a talk being the two men being as light-hearted today.

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Arkansas series record against Alabama in football

July 11, 2012 – 8:21 am

Here is what I got off of rollbamaroll.com:

Alabama and Arkansas are odd rivals, teams whose respective conference affiliations kept them for meeting on the gridiron for most of their long histories but who have met on an annual basis since the expansion of the SEC in 1992 made them divisional foes.

It’s a rivalry without a backstory except for two memorable games played for the highest stakes — the 1962 and 1980 Sugar Bowls. Winning that first gave the Crimson Tide its first national title under Coach Paul W. Bryant and winning the second earned Alabama its last under his tenure.

The 1962 Sugar Bowll matched Coach Bryant against the Razorbacks’ own legendary head coach, Frank Broyles (who Alabama fans will also recognize for his color commentary work for ABC broadcast of the 1979 Sugar Bowl).

Alabama rolled undefeated into New Orleans’ Tulane Stadium with one of the most successful defenses the program had ever seen. The Tide had given up a total of 22 points over ten games prompting Coach Bryant to quip, “they played like it was a sin to give up a point.”

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Alabama had been named the champions prior to the contest and were favored against the two-loss Hogs who were the Southwest Conference co-champions that season. Despite the differing perceptions of the two teams the game turned into a defensive battle.

The Crimson Tide took six plays to score their first touchdown which turned out to be the difference as both squads could only eke out a single field goal after that. The final score was 10-3 and Coach Bryant confessed to having “had nine heart attacks out there” due to the intensity of the contest.

“We knew when we went into the game that we were going to have trouble grinding out yardage against this team.” Broyles said after the game. “But, we never thought it would be this hard.”

Just less than two decades later, the two teams met again in the Superdome under dramatically different circumstances. Alabama – the defending national champions – were ranked No. 2 in the land and Arkansas was No. 6 as the pair squared off in the 1980 Sugar Bowl.

Alabama had blasted its way through the regular season undefeated but 1979 had proved to be tumultuous for the Razorbacks who came into New Orleans with a 10-2 record. The Hogs had upended then No. 2 Texas in Little Rock but then saw the SWC title escape them when they fell to No. 6 Houston in Fayetteville. Redemption was not in the cards for Arkansas on New Year’s Day 1980.

The Crimson Tide blasted the Razorbacks 24-9 behind a powerful running attack that earned Bama back Major Ogilve the Sugar Bowl MVP. With previously unbeaten and untied No. 1 Ohio State falling to the USC Trojans in the Rose Bowl earlier in the day, Alabama earned its 11th national championship.

After the Sugar Bowl victory, Alabama defensive lineman Byron Braggs famously quipped: “The only feeling better than playing for the national title in New Orleans on January 1 is being in Tuscaloosa on January 2 to celebrate winning it.”

Between the two legendary meetings stood one highly controversial one that didn’t transpire. After the end of the 1964 regular season the undefeated Crimson Tide were tapped as national champion by both the Associated Press and UPI “coaches poll” ahead of also-undefeated No. 2 Arkansas.

But Alabama was upended by No. 5 Texas in the Orange Bowl – a team Arkansas had bested during the season. (Arkansas topped No. 7 Nebraska in the Cotton Bowl) Since there were no further polls, Alabama retained the national championship.

The Football Writers of America in a post-bowl recognized the Razorbacks as the national champion in their separate post bowl award, The Grantland Rice trophy. Due to the controversy, the AP began the practice of selecting its national champion after the bowl games the following season.

Ironically, the first “regular season” game between the teams also had championship implications as the razorback defeat was part of Alabama’s undefeated run through 1992 which earned the Crimson Tide a berth in the Sugar Bowl against No. 1 Miami.

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Alabama vs Arkansas Historical Record
Season W/L Score Date Location Game Info/Poll Rank
1961‡† W 10 – 3  Jan. 1, 1962 New Orleans Sugar Bowl Alabama (1) Arkansas (9)
1979‡† W 24 – 9 Jan. 1, 1980 New Orleans Sugar Bowl Alabama (2) Arkansas (6)
1992‡† W 38 – 11 Sept. 12 Little Rock, AR   Alabama (9)
1993 W 43 – 3 Sept. 18 Tuscaloosa, AL   Alabama (2)
Forfeited by the NCAA
1994 W 13 – 6 Sep. 17 Fayetteville, AR   Alabama (12)
1995 L 19 – 20 Sept. 16 Tuscaloosa, AL   Alabama (13)
1996 W 17 – 7 Sept. 21 Little Rock, AR   Alabama (13)
Alabama’s 1,000th game
1997 L 16 -17 Sept. 20 Tuscaloosa, AL   Alabama (11)
1998 L 6 – 42 Sept. 26 Fayetteville, AR   Alabama (22)
1999† W 35 – 28 Sept. 25 Tuscaloosa, AL   Alabama (14)
2000 L 21 – 28 Sept. 23 Fayetteville, AR    
2001 W 31 – 10 Sept. 22 Tuscaloosa, AL    
2002 W 30 -12 Sept. 28 Fayetteville, AR   Alabama (9)
2003 L 31 – 34 Sept. 27 Tuscaloosa, AL   2OT
2004 L 10 – 27 Sept. 25 Fayetteville, AR    
2005 W 24 – 13 Sept. 24 Tuscaloosa, AL   Alabama (20)
Vacated by the NCAA
2006 L 23 – 24 Sept. 23 Fayetteville, AR   2OT
2007 W 41 – 38 Sept. 15 Tuscaloosa, AL   Arkansas (16)
Vacated by the NCAA
2008 W 49 – 14 Sept. 20 Fayetteville, AR   Alabama (9)
2009‡† W 35 – 7 Sept. 26 Tuscaloosa, AL   Alabama (3)

‡ National Champion, † SEC Champion

Source: The University of Alabama 2010 Football Media Guide

The Alabama vs Arkansas Record Book
Record Alabama Arkansas
Most Points 49 (2008) 42 (1998)
Fewest Points 6 (1998) 3 (2 times)
Most 1st Down 24 (2 times) 28 (2003)
Fewest 1st Down 7 (1998) 7 (1962)
Most Yards Rush 328 (2008) 301 (2007)
Fewest Yards Rush 104 (1998) 64 (1999)
Most Yards Pass 327 (2007) 316 (1999)
Fewest Yards Pass 20 (1962) 49 (1993)
Most Total Plays 81 (1992) 88 (2003)
Fewest Total Plays 50 (2008) 48 (1962)
Most Yds Tot Off 552 (2002) 491 (2003)
Fewest Yds Tot Off 152 (1998) 151 (1993)
Most Yards Rush 170
(R Hudson, 2004)		 198
(C Cobbs, 1998)
Most Yards Pass 327
(JP Wilson, 07)		 316
(C Stoerner, 99)
Most Receptions 9
(M Caddell, 2007)		 7
(4 times)
Most Yards Rec 172
(DJ Hall, 2007)		 104
(A Eubanks, 1997)

Source: The University of Alabama Football Record Book

Arkansas & The Alabama Record Book
Record Place Year Statistic Holder
Most Consecutive Rushes 1st 1994 15 Sherman Williams
Most Pass Yds in QB Debut 1st 2002 285 (12 cpl, 24, att, 0 int) Brodie Croyle
Most Tackles 1st 2003 25 DeMeco Ryans
Yards per Rush (min 10 att) 1st 2008 16.2 (10 att, 162 yd, 2 td) Glen Coffee
Longest Field Goals 2nd 1998 55 yds (no tee) Ryan Pflungner
Most Pass TD in QB Debut 2nd (tie) 2002 2 Brodie Croyle
Most TD Passes 3rd (tie) 2007 4 John Parker Wilson
Highest Compl % (min 20) 4th (tie) 2006 80% (16 of 20) John Parker Wilson
Most TD Passes 4th (tie) 1993 3 Jay Barker
Most TD Passes 4th (tie) 2003 3 Brodie Croyle
Most TD Passes 4th (tie) 2006 3 John Parker Wilson
Most TD Passes 4th (tie) 2009 3 Greg McElroy
Total Touchdowns 4th (tie) 2007 4 John Parker Wilson
Longest TD Rush 4th (tie) 2008 87 yds Glen Coffee
Yards per Catch 5th 2007 28.7 (6 for 172 yd) DJ Hall
Most Pass Attempts 6th (tie) 2007 45 (24 cpl, 327 yd) John Parker Wilson
Most Points in a Loss 9th 2003 31 team
Longest Punts 10th 2005 72 yds Jeremy Schatz
Yards per Catch 10th 2006 24 (6 for 144 yd) DJ Hall
Longest Scoring Pass Play 10th 2006 78 yards John Parker Wilson to DJ Hall
Most Yards Passing 10th 2007 327 (24 of 45) John Parker Wilson
Yards per Rush (min 10 att) 12th 2002 10.8 (11 att, 119 yd, 1 td) Shaud Williams
Most Receptions 12th (tie) 2007 9 (91 yds) Matt Caddell
Longest TD Rush 16th (tie) 2003 80 Shaud Williams
Longest TD Rush 16th (tie) 2002 80 Shaud Williams

Source: The University of Alabama Football Record Book

Arkansas & The Alabama Bowl Record Book
Record Place Year/Bowl Statistic Holder
Fewest Rush 1st Downs 1st (tie) 1962 Sugar Bowl 0 team
Fewest Pass Attempts 1st (tie) 1980 Sugar Bowl 7 Steadman Shealy
Worst Punt Average 2nd 1962 Sugar Bowl 23.0  
Most QB Sacks 2nd 1980 Sugar Bowl 5 (30 yards) team
Most Rushing TDs 2nd (tie) 1980 Sugar Bowl 3 Major Ogilvie
Fewest Pass Yards 3rd 1962 Sugar Bowl 20 yards Pat Trammell
Most Yards Rushing 3rd 1980 Sugar Bowl 284 yards team
Most Fumbles Lost 3rd (tie) 1962 Sugar Bowl 3 team
Most Interceptions 4th (tie) 1962 Sugar Bowl 3 (20 yards) team
Most Rush 1st Downs 4th (tie) 1980 Sugar Bowl 14 team
Fewest Pass Attempts 5th 1962 Sugar Bowl 10 Pat Trammell
Most Int Return Yards 5th 1980 Sugar Bowl 52 yards team
Fewest Pass Completions 5th (tie) 1962 Sugar Bowl 4 Pat Trammell
Fewest Pass Completions 5th (tie) 1980 Sugar Bowl 4 Steadman Shealy
Fewest Pass 1st Downs 7th 1980 Sugar Bowl 3 team
Fewest First Downs 9th 1962 Sugar Bowl 12 team

Source: The University of Alabama Football Record Book

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Discussion of Woody Allen’s 1989 movie “Crimes and Misdemeanors” (Part 1)

July 11, 2012 – 7:39 am

Crimes and Misdemeanors: A Discussion: Part 1

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Part 1 of 3: ‘What Does Judah Believe?’
A discussion of Woody Allen’s 1989 movie, perhaps his finest.
By Anton Scamvougeras.

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antons@mail.ubc.ca

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Today I am starting a discusssion of the movie “Crimes and Misdemeanors” by Woody Allen. This 1989 movie was Allen’s best in my view.

DISCUSSING FILMS AND SPIRITUAL MATTERS
By Everette Hatcher III

“Existential subjects to me are still the only subjects worth dealing with. I don’t think that one can aim more deeply than at the so-called existential themes, the spiritual themes.” WOODY ALLEN

Evangelical Chuck Colson has observed that it used to be true that most Americans knew the Bible. Evangelists could simply call on them to repent and return. But today, most people lack understanding of biblical terms or concepts. Colson recommends that we first attempt to find common ground to engage people’s attention. That then may open a door to discuss spiritual matters.

Woody Allen’s 1989 movie, CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS , is an excellent icebreaker concerning the need of God while making decisions in the area of personal morality. In this film, Allen attacks his own atheistic view of morality. Martin Landau plays a Jewish eye doctor named Judah Rosenthal raised by a religious father who always told him, “The eyes of God are always upon you.” However, Judah later concludes that God doesn’t exist. He has his mistress (played in the film by Anjelica Huston) murdered because she continually threatened to blow the whistle on his past questionable, probably illegal, business activities. She also attempted to break up Judah ‘s respectable marriage by going public with their two-year affair. Judah struggles with his conscience throughout the remainder of the movie. He continues to be haunted by his father’s words: “The eyes of God are always upon you.” This is a very scary phrase to a young boy, Judah observes. He often wondered how penetrating God’s eyes are.

Later in the film, Judah reflects on the conversation his religious father had with Judah ‘s unbelieving Aunt May at the dinner table many years ago:

“Come on Sol, open your eyes. Six million Jews burned to death by the Nazis, and they got away with it because might makes right,” says aunt May

Sol replies, “May, how did they get away with it?”

Judah asks, “If a man kills, then what?”

Sol responds to his son, “Then in one way or another he will be punished.”

Aunt May comments, “I say if he can do it and get away with it and he chooses not to be bothered by the ethics, then he is home free.”

Judah ‘s final conclusion was that might did make right. He observed that one day, because of this conclusion, he woke up and the cloud of guilt was gone. He was, as his aunt said, “home free.”

Woody Allen has exposed a weakness in his own humanistic view that God is not necessary as a basis for good ethics. There must be an enforcement factor in order to convince Judah not to resort to murder. Otherwise, it is fully to Judah ‘s advantage to remove this troublesome woman from his life.

The Bible tells us, “{God} has also set eternity in the hearts of men…” (Ecclesiastes 3:11 NIV). The secularist calls this an illusion, but the Bible tells us that the idea that we will survive the grave was planted in everyone’s heart by God Himself. Romans 1:19-21 tells us that God has instilled a conscience in everyone that points each of them to Him and tells them what is right and wrong (also Romans 2:14 -15).

It’s no wonder, then, that one of Allen’s fellow humanists would comment, “Certain moral truths — such as do not kill, do not steal, and do not lie — do have a special status of being not just ‘mere opinion’ but bulwarks of humanitarian action. I have no intention of saying, ‘I think Hitler was wrong.’ Hitler WAS wrong.” (Gloria Leitner, “A Perspective on Belief,” THE HUMANIST, May/June 1997, pp. 38-39)

Here Leitner is reasoning from her God-given conscience and not from humanist philosophy. It wasn’t long before she received criticism. Humanist Abigail Ann Martin responded, “Neither am I an advocate of Hitler; however, by whose criteria is he evil?” (THE HUMANIST, September/October 1997, p. 2)

The secularist can only give incomplete answers to these questions: How could you have convinced Judah not to kill? On what basis could you convince Judah it was wrong for him to murder?

As Christians, we would agree with Judah ‘s father that “The eyes of God are always upon us.” Proverbs 5:21 asserts, “For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and He ponders all his paths.” Revelation 20:12 states, “…And the dead were judged (sentenced) by what they had done (their whole way of feeling and acting, their aims and endeavors) in accordance with what was recorded in the books” (Amplified Version). The Bible is revealed truth from God. It is the basis for our morality. Judah inherited the Jewish ethical values of the Ten Commandments from his father, but, through years of life as a skeptic, his standards had been lowered. Finally, we discover that Judah ‘s secular version of morality does not resemble his father’s biblically-based morality.

Woody Allen’s CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS forces unbelievers to grapple with the logical conclusions of a purely secular morality. It opens a door for Christians to find common ground with those whom they attempt to share Christ; we all have to deal with personal morality issues. However, the secularist has no basis for asserting that Judah is wrong.

Larry King actually mentioned on his show, LARRY KING LIVE, that Chuck Colson had discussed the movie CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS with him. Colson asked King if life was just a Darwinian struggle where the ruthless come out on top. Colson continued, “When we do wrong, is that our only choice? Either live tormented by guilt, or else kill our conscience and live like beasts?” (BREAKPOINT COMMENTARY, “Finding Common Ground,” September 14, 1993)

Later, Colson noted that discussing the movie CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS with King presented the perfect opportunity to tell him about Christ’s atoning work on the cross. Colson believes the Lord is working on Larry King. How about your neighbors? Is there a way you can use a movie to find common ground with your lost friends and then talk to them about spiritual matters?

(Caution: CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS is rated PG-13. It does include some adult themes.)

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Federal Spending Is Growing Faster Than Federal Revenue

July 11, 2012 – 12:17 am

Federal Spending Is Growing Faster Than Federal Revenue

Everyone wants to know more about the budget and here is some key information with a chart from the Heritage Foundation and a video from the Cato Institute.

Since 1965, spending has risen constantly. Federal revenues have dropped recently due to the economic recession, but spending has reached a record high.

INFLATION-ADJUSTED TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS (2010)

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Federal Spending Is Growing Faster Than Federal Revenue

Source: White House Office of Management and Budget.

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The Dark Knight Rises (2012) HD Exclusive Featurette – Making of the film

July 10, 2012 – 7:51 am

From Yahoo News:

Can’t wait two more weeks until the final installment of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy hits theaters?

You’re in luck. Warner Bros. has released a 13-minute extended sneak-peek for The Dark Knight Rises, featuring interviews with the cast, a behind the scenes look at the movie-making process and scenes from the flick set to hit theaters July 20.

“Chris [Nolan] was able to amp up the stakes for this last movie,” says Dark Knight star Anne Hathaway, “and really take it to places that I don’t think anyone’s expecting.”

The Dark Knight Rises (2012) HD Exclusive Featurette – Making of the film

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Plot: Eight years after Batman took the fall for Two Face’s crimes, a new terrorist leader, Bane, overwhelms Gotham’s finest, and the Dark Knight resurfaces to protect a city that has branded him an enemy.

Director: Christopher Nolan
Writers: Jonathan Nolan (screenplay), Christopher Nolan (screenplay)
Stars: Christian Bale, Michael Caine and Gary Oldman

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Top football stadiums in the country (Part 16)

July 10, 2012 – 7:47 am

Arkansas v. Tennessee 2011

Power Ranking All 124 College Football Stadiums  

By Alex Callos

(Featured Columnist) on April 19, 2012 

When it comes to college football stadiums, for some teams, it is simply not fair. Home-field advantage is a big thing in college football, and some teams have it way more than others.

There are 124 FBS college football teams, and when it comes to the stadiums they play in, they are obviously not all created equal.

There is a monumental difference from the top teams on the list to the bottom teams on the list. Either way, here it is: a complete ranking of the college football stadiums 1-124.

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Below you will see that Tennessee’s stadium is ranked #15. I can’t get out of my mine the 1998 game between #10 Arkansas and #1 Tennessee. Both teams wee undefeated at the time.

Wikipedia reported:

Tennessee fell behind 21-3 in the first half, but capped off a season-saving comeback with a Travis Henry touchdown run in the final seconds.

Henry had 197 yards rushing and the deciding touchdown. The key play of the game and possibly the season occurred in the 4th quarter. Arkansas was nursing a 24-22 lead late in the game and was attempting to run out the clock. DT Billy Ratliff pushed Arkansas G Brandon Burlsworth into QB Clint Stoerner, causing him to stumble and fumble. Ratliff recovered the ball and allowed Tennessee the chance to drive the field and score the game winning touchdown.

Tennessee Volunteers vs. Arkansas Razorbacks
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Arkansas Tennessee
(8–0) (8–0)
24 28
Head coach: 
Houston Nutt		 Head coach: 
Phillip Fulmer
AP   Coaches   BCS  
10   10   10  
AP   Coaches   BCS  
1   1   1  
  1 2 3 4</th> Total
Arkansas 7 14 3 0</td><td>24</td>
Tennessee 0 10 10 8</td><td>28</td>
 
Date November 14, 1998
Stadium Neyland Stadium
Location Knoxville, TN
Kickoff 3:30 PM
Attendance  ????
TV coverage
Network CBS.jpg

15. Neyland Stadium: Tennessee Volunteers

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There are only three stadiums in the country that seat more people than Neyland Stadium, and outside of the Big Ten, this is the largest stadium in the country.

With a capacity of 102,037, this stadium was built in 1921. The atmosphere here is great; just not as loud as might be expected out of 100,000-plus fans.

Be prepared to sing along to “Rocky Top,” the fight song of the Volunteers. There is beauty around the stadium on the banks of the Tennessee River as well.

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Memorable moments of The Tennessee Volunteers from 1940-2000s with commentary by the legendary John Ward.
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The Pregame Showcase

Initiated in 1989, the Pregame Showcase is a public lecture series featuring entertaining and informative 45-minute presentations by faculty from the College of Arts and Sciences. Held two hours before kickoff in the University Center Ballroom (Room 213) at every home football game, the Pregame Showcase is free and open to the public. Complimentary refreshments and door prizes are provided. The carefully timed presentations allow football fans to enjoy the lecture and still get to the stadium before kickoff.

[edit] The Vol Walk

Head Coach Johnny Majors came up with the idea for the Vol Walk after a 1988 game at Auburn when he saw the historic Tiger Walk take place. Prior to each home game, the Vols will file out of the Neyland-Thompson Sports Complex, down past the Tennessee Volunteers Wall of Fame, and make their way down Peyton Manning Pass and onto Phillip Fulmer Way. Thousands of fans line the street to shake the players’ hands as they walk into Neyland Stadium. Through rain, snow, sleet, or shine, the Vol faithful are always out in full force to root on the Vols as they prepare for battle. The fans are pumped up with Rocky Top played by The Pride of the Southland Band.

[edit] The “T”

The Pride of the Southland opening the famous T.

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5 min video of the open of a football game

The “T” appears in two places in Vol tradition. Coach Doug Dickey added the block letter T onto the side of the helmets in his first season in 1964. A rounded T came in 1968. Johnny Majors modified the stripe to a thicker stripe in 1977.

The Volunteers also run through another “T.” This T is formed by the Pride of the Southland marching band with its base at the entrance to the Tennessee locker room in the North endzone. The team used to make a left turn inside the T and run toward their former bench on the east sideline. When Coach Dickey brought this tradition to Tennessee in 1965, the Vols locker room was underneath the East stands. The Vols would run through that T and turn back to return to their sideline. The locker room change was made in 1983. It was announced on January 24, 2010 that the Vols would switch their sideline from the east sideline to the west sideline for all home games. This resulted in the Vols making a right out of the T instead of a left. This change took effect with Tennessee’s first home game of the 2010 season against UT-Martin.

[edit] Checkerboard end zones

Checkboard orange and white end zones are unique to Neyland Stadium.

Tennessee first sported the famous checkerboard design in the mid sixties. They brought the design back in 1989. This tradition was also started by Dickey in 1964, and remained until artificial turf was installed at Neyland Stadium.

The checkerboard was bordered in orange from 1989 until natural grass replaced the artificial turf in 1994. The return of natural grass brought with it the return of the green (or grass colored) border that exists today

14. Memorial Stadium: Nebraska Cornhuskers

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Be prepared to enter a sea of red in this 81,067-seat facility. Like many other stadiums, it is nearly 100 years old and was built in 1923.

The stadium has continued to grow due to upgrades, and be sure to arrive early, because what goes on outside the stadium before the game is spectacular.

There are people all over tailgating in the parking lots.

Once inside, the stadium is so big that the press box is six stories up from the field.

This place is loud from start to finish.

 

13. Rose Bowl: UCLA Bruins

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Located in Pasadena, California, the Rose Bowl Stadium is not only home to perhaps the most storied bowl of all-time, but it is also home to the UCLA Bruins.

It opened its doors in 1922 and seats 91,136 people.

Depending on the day, this place can get loud for the right game. There are plenty of chants going around the stadium, including the “U-C-L-A” chant that can be heard at times during the game.

The band and student section are also entertaining throughout.

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James Gattuso of Heritage Foundation critical of auto bailout

July 10, 2012 – 7:45 am

Bankruptcy, Not a Bailout, Is a Better Option for Automakers

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James Gattuso, Senior Research Fellow in Regulatory Policy at The Heritage Foundation, explains why Congress should not bail out automakers.

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Why does our government feel the need to bail out industries. If we had not bailed out  GM then Ford would have benefitted and we would not suffered at all in the number of jobs in the USA making cars.

Amy Payne

June 13, 2012 at 9:02 am

President Obama told the United Auto Workers (UAW) in February not to listen to critics of the auto bailout who said union members “made out like bandits—that saving the auto industry was just about paying back the unions.” “Really?” Obama said. “I mean, even by the standards of this town [Washington], that’s a load of you-know-what.”

New research from Heritage labor economist James Sherk proves that it was, in fact, a load of truth.

The Treasury Department estimates that taxpayers will lose $23 billion on the auto bailout. Sherk and co-author Todd Zywicki find that none of these losses came from saving jobs, but instead went to prop up the compensation of some of the most highly paid workers in America. They write:

We estimate that the Administration redistributed $26.5 billion more to the UAW than it would have received had it been treated as it usually would in bankruptcy proceedings. Taxpayers lost between $20 billion and $23 billion on the auto programs. Thus, the entire loss to the taxpayers from the auto bailout comes from the funds diverted to the UAW.

The Obama campaign is touting the bailout in Michigan this week, crowing about saved-or-created jobs. What the bailout actually saved was the UAW’s heavily padded compensation packages; what it created was a massive taxpayer loss.

The UAW was a significant factor in the automakers’ decline: It had raised Detroit’s labor costs 50 percent to 80 percent above other automakers, such as Toyota and Nissan. In 2006, General Motors paid its unionized workers $70.51 an hour in wages and benefits. Chrysler paid $75.86 an hour. Added to mistakes by management, these labor costs were a major reason the automakers went bankrupt.

However, through the bailout, the Obama Administration insulated the UAW from most of the sacrifices unions usually make in a bankruptcy—at taxpayer expense.

GM and Chrysler owed billions to a trust fund they had created to provide UAW members with gold-plated retiree health benefits. In bankruptcy, these funds should have been paid proportional to other unsecured creditors. Instead, while the Administration paid other creditors only a fraction of what they were owed, it gave the UAW trust fund assets worth tens of billions—including partial ownership of both companies. The U.S. Treasury should have received these assets.

Bankruptcy law also enables reorganizing companies to improve their post-bankruptcy situation by renegotiating union contracts to competitive rates.

If the UAW had been treated normally under bankruptcy law, the automakers’ average labor costs would have fallen to the same levels as the foreign-based carmakers, approximately $47 an hour. While this is still 40 percent higher compensation than the average manufacturing worker, it would have reduced UAW members’ standard of living. And the Administration wouldn’t allow that. So while the UAW accepted huge pay cuts for new hires, the Administration kept the pay structure of existing UAW members at GM intact.

Even Stephen Rattner, President Obama’s “car czar,” has admitted that “We should have asked the UAW to do a bit more. We did not ask any UAW member to take a cut in their pay.”

As a result, even after the reorganization, GM still has higher labor costs ($56 an hour) than any of its foreign-based competitors.

The average American worker—whose taxes paid for the bailout—earns $30.15 an hour in wages and benefits. Few Americans have the ability, as UAW workers do, to retire in their mid-50s before they can collect Social Security. Fewer still receive retirement health benefits in addition to Medicare, as UAW workers do. Yet their tax dollars went to subsidize UAW pay and benefits.

Had the government treated the UAW in the manner required by bankruptcy law, taxpayers would have broken even. The program would have amounted to bankruptcy financing instead of an outright bailout. The Administration could have kept the automakers running without losing a dime.

Instead, more than $26 billion went out the door and into the UAW’s pockets. Let’s put that in perspective: The amount of the subsidy given directly to the UAW was bigger than the budget of the entire State Department. It was bigger than all U.S. foreign aid spending. It was 50 percent more than NASA’s budget.

None of that money kept factories running. Instead, it sustained the above-average compensation of members of an influential union, sparing them from most of the sacrifices typically made in bankruptcy—a bankruptcy they contributed to. President Obama engaged in special interest spending at its worst.

The Administration did not bail out GM and Chrysler. It bailed out the United Auto Workers.

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