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This morning I checked my email and had 100 messages, two of which were legitimate and the rest all spam. Fortunately, I have a good spam filter and just glance at them to see if I see a name I recognize then select all and delete.
Now comes this story of a 27 year [...]

OK, I looked for this article in the NY Times and Washington Post but the only place I could find it was here, which is actually a NY Post story on the Fox web site. I quit reading the NY Post a while back because they changed formats and seemed to be more [...]

I’ve been following the story of the man with drug resistant tuberculosis for the past few days and it is a very troubling story.
The man wanted to get married in Greece, saw his doctor for something and was told he had TB. He says he was advised not to go on the trip [...]

Last night I went to Google.com and saw a heading for maps. I clicked on it and put in my address. Not only did I find directions to my house if anyone wanted them, but I found an aerial shot of the entire neighborhood. If I zoomed in I could see my [...]

So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
Trouble no one about his religion; respect others in their view, and
demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life,
beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its
purpose in the service of your people. Prepare [...]

If the Congressional Black Caucus is disappointed, that’s to bad.
Democratic presidential candidates Bill Richardson and Chris Dodd will not participate in a Democratic debate co-sponsored by Fox News Channel this fall, joining their three top rivals in bypassing the event.
Their decisions, acknowledged by campaign aides Wednesday, is sure to disappoint the Congressional Black Caucus, whose [...]

Is it time?
Spc. David Williams, 22, of Boston, Mass., had two note cards in his pocket Wednesday afternoon as he waited for Sen. Joseph Lieberman. Williams serves in the 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg, N.C., the first of the five “surge” brigades to arrive in Iraq, and he was chosen to join the Independent [...]

I wanted to take this time to talk about something I’m seeing as a disturbing trend.
We have had some great discussions with Andrew and John about Christianity. I have told them what I believe and have tried my best to answer the questions they have of me. They have both been very polite [...]

According to Politico, Fred Thompson intends to announce his candidacy for President of the United States during the July 4 holiday.
Fred Dalton Thompson is planning to enter the presidential race over the Fourth of July holiday, announcing that week that he has already raised several million dollars and is being backed by insiders from [...]

MSNBC is reporting Valerie Plame really was covert when Robert Novak published her name.
We now know that because Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has an attachment to his memorandum to the court supporting his recommendation that I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Vice President Cheney’s former top aide, spend 2-1/2 to 3 years in prison for obstructing the CIA [...]

Many people who consider themselves Pro-Life automatically assume that their natural political alignment is with the Republicans. Many Republicans candidates apply the Pro-Life tag to themselves, and hope voters don’t look too close. Conservative Pro-Lifers also automatically assume that Democrats are the pro-abortion party. But as recent history tells us, it’s all part of The [...]

Now this is something to worry about. The Al Qaeda are a bunch of idiots compared to these people.
Russia tested new missiles Tuesday that a Kremlin official boasted could penetrate any defense system, and President Vladimir Putin warned that U.S. plans for an anti-missile shield in Europe would turn the region into a “powder keg.”
First [...]

Is it true? I don’t know. Does it have any importance? I don’t know that either.
It’s just an interesting story I found in the New Yorker.
The West Wing of the White House tends to have a funereal stillness, even in the best of times, which these are not. The President’s aides walk [...]

For the video go here.
This traitor, Adam Gadahn, tells us if we don’t leave all Islamic lands, free all Muslims from U.S. prisons and end support for Israel we will see worse than 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq or Virginia Tech.
What a wonderful religion of peace he represents.

Here is something to think about. 
 Where do you stand? 
 Personally I think it’s a nonstarter.
“God either exists or He doesn’t. Based on the testimony, both general revelation (nature) and special revelation (Scriptures/Bible), it is safe to assume that God does in fact exist. It is abundantly fair to conceive, that there is at least 50% chance [...]

I couldn’t stop laughing while posting this.
                                                         
Poland’s conservative government took its drive to curb what it sees as homosexual propaganda to the small screen on Monday, taking aim at Tinky Winky and the other Teletubbies.
Ewa Sowinska, government-appointed children rights watchdog, told a local magazine published on Monday she was concerned the popular BBC children’s [...]

Although this should have been done long ago, I’m proud of you Mr. president.
President Bush on Tuesday ordered U.S. sanctions tightened against Sudan’s government for its refusal to stop the violence in the Darfur region.
In brief remarks, Bush followed through on a threat made six weeks ago to pursue tougher action against a government that [...]

There is no excuse for this. These people should be caught and punished severely.
Vandals burned dozens of small American flags that decorated veterans’ graves for Memorial Day and replaced many of them with hand-drawn swastikas, authorities said Monday.
Forty-six flag standards were found empty and another 33 flags were in charred tatters Sunday in the cemetery, [...]

When Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee was first published in the early 70s I read the book. As a human being it broke my heart, but as an Indian human being it tore my heart to read what happened to the American Indians during the settling of the West.
Over the week-end HBO showed [...]

The US and Iranian ambassadors to Iraq met for four hours yesterday in the Green Zone, talking about ways to make Iraq safer.
The United States and Iran broke a 27-year diplomatic freeze yesterday with a four-hour meeting on Iraqi security. The American envoy said there was broad policy agreement but that Iran must stop [...]

People in Venezuela are rioting because Dictator President Hugo Chavez has taken the last free television station with nationwide coverage off the air and replaced it with State television.
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan police fired tear gas and plastic bullets Monday into a crowd of thousands protesting a decision by President Hugo Chavez [...]

China’s former drug regulator has been sentenced to death for taking bribes and allowing substandard medicines to be approved, causing the deaths of at least 10 people and the contamination of pet foods and toothpaste whose ingredients or products have been exported by China.
BEIJING (AP) - China’s former top drug regulator was sentenced to [...]

I just read this short story on CNN.com and it has touched me in a very personal way.
Amid the sounds of mortar and machine-gun fire, a father and son both serving in Iraq were reunited in Baghdad after spending more than a decade apart.
Army Master Sgt. William McGraw and his son, Pfc. Logan McGraw, [...]

Cindy Sheehan, the mother whose son Casey’s death in Iraq caused her to be a peace activist, has given up her public fight against the war. See here and here.
She says her son’s death was in vain, she has lost her marriage, her health and her savings for her cause and now [...]

Taps
Day is done,
gone the sun,
From the hills,
from the lake,
From the skies.
All is well,
safely rest,
God is nigh.
Go to sleep,
peaceful sleep,
May the soldier
or sailor,
God keep.
On the land
or the deep,
Safe in sleep.
Love, good night,
Must thou go,
When the day,
And the night
Need thee so?
All is well.
Speedeth all
To their rest.
Fades the light;
And afar
Goeth day,
And the stars
Shineth bright,
Fare thee well;
Day has gone,
Night [...]

Some of the world’s biggest gas peddlers are encouraging their workers to pump the pedal.Exxon Mobil, BP and ConocoPhillips are among the Houston-area employers trying to make it easier for employees to bike to work.Workers already have enough excuses: potholes, impatient drivers and the Houston heat.
But some businesses are easing the commute for those who [...]

There is no disrespect shown here so don’t go off on a tangent calling me anti American.
This is just another story from Iraq. Maybe we should listen to the troops. Even when they disagree with the policy of the administration.
BAGHDAD — Staff Sgt. David Safstrom does not regret his previous tours in Iraq, not [...]

How could one not admire a man like Michael Yon. He has sacrificed so much to send to us real time information and photographs from Iraq. His tribute to Memorial Day was touching and yet fact filled (the good and the bad) as always.

A Memorial Day Message

Memorial Day weekend is upon us. I [...]

Endangered, hunted, smuggled and now abandoned, 5,000 of the world’s rarest animals have been found drifting in a deserted boat near the coast of China.
The pangolins, Asian giant turtles and lizards were crushed inside crates on a rickety wooden vessel that had lost engine power off Qingzhou island in the southern province of Guangdong. Most [...]