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Pretty funny ad from Audi with great insight into the green movement (greens, you know you'd be pretty happy if you could have someone arrested for having incandescent light bulbs, isn't that why you pushed Congress to make them illegal?):

Here's the context from their website:

As part of the lead up to their third consecutive Super Bowl ad, Audi has created a fictional Green Police unit that are caricatures of today's "green movement". The Green Police are a humorous group of individuals that have joined forces in an effort to collectively help guide consumers to make the right decision when it comes to the environment. They're not here to judge, merely to guide these decisions.

Not here to judge? The guy is arrested for choosing plastic (btw, I cringe every time they give me paper bags at Whole Foods because we were hectored for years about the amount of trees we were killing for our bags -- I'm still traumatized by it :-)!

When I first saw this ad during the Super Bowl I couldn't believe that anyone trying to woo the green movement (aren't they the target audience?) would actually put out an ad depicting the greens in such a negative light (yeah, Americans like their freedoms and would not be too happy getting arrested for the setting on their hot tub).

BTW, if you want to watch the Super Bowll ads and rate them, you can do so on Hulu. My favorite ad of the night:

Second favorite is a toss up between these two Doritos ads:

And of course who wouldn't like the E*Trade baby and the Google ad -- though, the ad seems to be generating negative ratings (maybe the Bing and Yahoo people :-) When I first checked it had almost 100% positive rating and now (at the time of this post) it's at 80%.

No wonder CBS didn't have a problem with this ad:

Brilliant move by Focus on the Family, the pro-aborts had a cow over the ad and now look like extremists since the ad doesn't even mention abortion plus the ad was the buzz for weeks. Everyone knows the subtext of the ad, they didn't need to include it (which probably would have gotten it rejected by CBS).

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Here's the Focus on the Family ad with Tim Tebow. It's the ad that's running during the pre-game show (there's a second ad that runs during the game). Pretty benign, doesn't mention abortion at all:

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I thought it was pretty civil and both of them made some pretty good points.

Though, I thought Stewart was insulting to the typical Fox viewer when he states that it's hard to see the distinction between the opinion shows and the straight news shows. I can't see anyone make the mistake between the O'Reilly Factor and the news.

But I thought this was pretty funny:

"They have taken reasonable concerns about this president and this economy and turned it into a full-fledged panic attack about the next coming of Chairman Mao," Stewart said.

As I wait for the results of my blood test, I find comfort from this Psalm:

ESV Psalm 130:1 Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord!
2 O Lord, hear my voice!
Let your ears be attentive
to the voice of my pleas for mercy!

3 If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,
O Lord, who could stand?
4 But with you there is forgiveness,
that you may be feared.

5 I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,
and in his word I hope;
6 my soul waits for the Lord
more than watchmen for the morning,
more than watchmen for the morning.

7 O Israel, hope in the Lord!
For with the Lord there is steadfast love,
and with him is plentiful redemption.
8 And he will redeem Israel
from all his iniquities.

I feel blessed that I don't have to do this alone, that God is with me providing me with comfort, moving the hearts of his people to pray for me (I've been told by more than one person that they wake up in the middle of the night and will be thinking about me and will pray for me), moving their hearts to call me and over me comfort and love. It is clear to me that the Lord is providing for my needs and strength to make it through this valley of the shadow of darkness.

Matt Chandler has an interesting perspective on this:

Like Chandler, God has been "good and beautiful and so near" to me. I feel his presence throughout the day and see him in the good that has come out of the past year and in the strength I need to get up each more instead of giving up.

BTW, I thought AP did a great job of incorporating Chandler's faith in their report of his brain tumor :

Chandler is trying to suffer well. He would never ask for such a trial, but in some ways he welcomes this cancer. He says he feels grateful that God has counted him worthy to endure it. He has always preached that God will bring both joy and suffering but is only recently learning to experience the latter.

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Chandler says learning he had brain cancer was "kind of like getting punched in the gut. You take the shot, you try not to vomit, then you get back to doing what you do, believing what you believe.

"We never felt -- still have not felt -- betrayed by the Lord or abandoned by the Lord. I can honestly say, we haven't asked the question, 'Why?' or wondered, 'Why me, why not somebody else?' We just haven't gotten to that place. I'm not saying we won't get there. I'm just saying it hasn't happened yet."

Later, Chandler clarified that. There was one moment when he looked at a Christmas card, saw a picture of a man who chronically cheated on his wife and thought, "Why not that guy?"

Chandler confessed to Lauren that his thoughts were wicked and wrong.

I never wondered why me since I know the Scripture has already answered that question:

ESV Philippians 1:29 For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake

ESV Romans 8:17 and if children, then heirs--heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.

Clearly, I'm suffering for the sake of Jesus. How can I complain when he's also granted me faith and eternal life?

For telling the audience at the end of the ad to "Go to Hell." They'll be able to run it by changing the tagline to "Hell awaits." Here's the original: Hmmm...the games seems a little more active than Dante's Inferno...

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