There he goes again. Blowing hard.

What is Mit Romney talking about? Does he not read the newspapers? Is he not watching CNBC? Has Mit been hiding away in Kat Man Do again?

The economy is getting better much to Mit’s wanting to trash the economic news of the upswing. Sure it could be better but it’s on its way. It’s there! In the papers! On CNBC!

Employment going up. More cars coming from America. More cars being exported. I know. I read it in USA Today. It’s in black and white print. Available at most newsstands. Papers baring witness to an improving economy.

Unemployment is going down. Many people are going back to work. Read it! It’s there at your finger tips. Plain and simple. Things are getting better.

However, Mit Romney’s definition of getting better includes more tax cuts for the rich. Less and less benefits for the middle class and the working poor. Mit wants to rid America of Social Security and Medicare. Mit wants to spend less and less money on education. Less and less money on health care. It is so plain and simple that Mit Romney wants to wreck the middle class again with more tax cuts for the very wealthy and send jobs overseas. It’s there! In the newspapers! Mit is for the most part anti-American progress. Anti-small business. And for sure, anti-made in America.

Mit Romney wants to run America like Goldman Sachs. Just give me all your money and we’ll get back with you. Shutting down businesses to “save money.” More like put more money in the bank accounts of the filthy rich. Good luck Mr. and Mrs. Middle America is what Mit is saying.

So what does Mit and his Wall Street cronies don’t understand. America wants progress and prosperity. Not bankruptcy. Bankruptcy like George W Bush left us with.

Mit Romney wants to return to the bad years after September 11. Many tax cuts for the rich, two huge costly and unpaid for wars. A collapsed housing market. And a crashed economy.

Mit!! America does not want your brand of class divide. The 99-percent wants you and your buds to pay up. Share your enormous profits with those who have nothing. The haves need to help the have nots. It’s the Golden Rule put into action. Do it! I know you will eventually like it. Helping others to help themselves.

But in the mean time shut up and help us out. Get your hands dirty. Pitch in and let’s work together. Here! Read the Wall Street Journal and read the Bloomberg News. Things are getting better. Obama’s policies are working. God bless Obama and America.

One or the other. Will it be politics or religion?

Evangelicals seek social change By Tom Krattenmaker Judging from the Republican presidential race and news media story lines, it's the same old, same old in 2012: GOP candidates courting the evangelicals. Analysts offering their latest conjecture about whether "the evangelical vote" will swing to Candidate X or Y. Evangelical kingmakers gathering on a ranch in Texas to anoint the official evangelical choice to defeat the despised Democrat. But not far below the surface, change is afoot in the ranks of a once-reliable GOP voting bloc and around that term, "evangelical. As has been widely reported, more evangelicals are breaking formation and tackling social problems such as poverty and human trafficking that weren't on the evangelical political agenda a decade or two ago. Even more seismic, though, is a challenge being mounted against the notion that electoral politics is the way to do God's work in America's public life. In a refreshing departure from the culture war mind-set that has come to characterize this and other recent elections, some of evangelicalism's leading thinkers and spokespeople are trumpeting an important insight: Christians too fixated on politics are bound to end up frustrated and tarnished. And politics is not the only way to create positive change. Politics played like sports It's good to find so many Americans interested in elections. But while following the big contests of recent years -- the bruising rhetoric, the breathless 24/7 news media and Internet coverage, the "just win" mentality -- one gets the sense that it's often not the right kind of interest. Many of us seem to engage in politics the same way we follow sports: What strategy will it take for my team to stick it to the opponent on Sunday? Who's moving up and who's moving down in the playoff race? Who's dissing whom on Twitter? Seeing many of Christianity's most ardent and visible followers caught up in the mean-spirited, truth-demolishing aspects of this is one of the more discomforting features of today's politics. What a relief it is to see a growing community of evangelical thinkers and leaders restoring sanity and taking corrective action to free their faith from politics' damaging grip. Consider Jonathan Merritt. A one-time GOP precinct leader and the son of a Baptist pastor from Georgia, Merritt, 29, has become one of the most persuasive articulators and exemplars of a revised form of evangelical engagement with politics. Despite the impression one gets from the political rhetoric of late -- a "war" on Christians, a "war" on women, a "war" on contraception (and a "war," evidently, on measured language) -- Merritt is convinced that the culture wars' days are numbered. Merritt, author of the forthcoming book A Faith of Our Own: Following Jesus beyond the Culture Wars, put it this way in an e-mail exchange with me: "Americans are tired of the incivility and the partisan divisiveness on both sides. Regardless of how much longer the culture wars are going to continue, Christians need to transcend the polemical, partisan, power-hungry battles that stymie the common good. If my intuition is wrong and the culture wars continue to rage on, my hope and prayer is that Christians will take a higher road as they seek to be faithful in the public square. A new kind of thinking When it comes to evangelical engagement with politics, Merritt's prescribed stance might be described as one foot in, one foot out. Politics is a responsibility of all citizens and too important to leave alone, argues Merritt, now an independent. Yet he calls on his fellow Jesus followers to stay out of the ideological trenches and avoid being reduced to partisan hacks. Christians cannot join the ranks of the politically apathetic," he says. But we aren't forced to choose a human-formed party with a systemized divide-and-conquer agenda, either. We can stand in the gap and claim loyalty only to Jesus. Leave it to the Christian in his 20s to capture something all of us would do well to realize -- young, old, religious, agnostic, conservative, or liberal. As recently conceded by Louise Trubek, a fighter for women's reproductive rights, "Maybe it is time to recognize that law alone is not enough to effect social change. Indeed it is time, just as it's time to recognize that politics alone are unlikely to forge the positive social transformation that political actors claim to want. Political victories often prove temporary at best. Any sugar high we get from "our side" winning ought to be tempered by the sure knowledge that a galvanized opposition is mobilizing for the counterpunch even as we celebrate. Unless elections and laws are reflective of deeper social change, they are built on foundations of sand, likely to be washed away by the next shift in the fickle tides of public opinion. Better to expend energy moving hearts and changing minds than plotting tactics for short-term wins. Merritt is right. It's not all about politics. And "the gap" is a great place for sincere Christians to stand, as well as common-good advocates of any (or no) religious persuasion. Not that you'll see much evidence of it in the latest news from the campaign trail, but there seems to be more of a crowd forming in that gap that Merritt describes. May it grow. Tom Krattenmaker is a Portland-based writer specializing in religion in public life and a member of USA TODAY's Board of Contributors. He is finishing a book on the emerging new faces of evangelicalism in politics and culture.

The wireless, wireless classroom?

USA Today has an article today about Facebook. Facebook? Yes. College students are spending too much “Classroom time” studying Facebook. Studying Facebook instead of listening to the professor.

Of course some of the suggestions in the article is to take advantage of Facebook and Twitter by sending classroom messages to the students. Fight fire with fire. Put current movie photos on Facebook with captions that support the classroom subject. Maybe a photo of George Clooney from the Defendant with a caption. Caption saying, “You know girls, World War II was started by the Japanese when they bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.” Or, a scene photo from Toy Story 2 showing Mr. Potato Head saying, “French Fries are high in carbohydrates, salt, and vegetable oil.”

My suggestions is to place Mobil jamming devices all over campus. Certainly there would be those crying freedom of expression or unfair usage of electronics. Unfair usage of electronics? Is this the kettle calling the pot black? Yes. You know what I mean. I have no problem with either banning wireless devices or Jam them out of usage. You texters, get a life.