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Don’t get me wrong; I’m sorry she died. I’m especially sorry for her children. I’m extra especially sorry for her youngest two, who are too young to lose their mom, especially considering all the personal pain they have had over the past few years with the public breakup of their parents’ marriage. I have often thought about those two young children, and can only imagine what was said to them by their peers at school, what they have overheard, or ...read more It was the talk of the week. Do you think being patted down when going through security at the airport is or is not an invasion of your civil liberties? To be honest, I don’t understand the question. Ten percent of America’s working population is out of work. We are fighting so many wars that I can’t even think about it without great sadness. We have 50,000 troops in South Korea, a tiny little country that shouldn’t have anything more than ...read more I have watched Matt Lauer’s interview with President Bush twice now, and it’s no secret that I think he and his administration committed crimes against the reputation of my country, so let’s just say I wasn’t looking for the good in it. But I was surprised at how easy George made it for me. I liked GWB in the interview last night, and I no longer think he’s an evil person. But I am correct in my original assessment that he ...read more I kept rereading the news pieces after they caught the Russian spies wondering at the twenty years we followed them. Twenty years is a long time. A really long time. But I’m a believing American, and I still remember that all the grown up smart people in our neighborhood where I grew up built bomb shelters to protect their valuable children from the bombs that were surely arriving any day Fed Ex from east of Berlin. We were the only ...read more So, here is the 411 on what happened. Al Snyder’s son died in Iraq in May 2006. Members of the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church picketed his son Matthew’s funeral, with signs reading things like “Thank God for Dead Gay Soldiers.” So, the young man’s father went to court and got a $5,000,000 settlement. The church appealed the settlement based on their right to free speech and won. So, the long and the short of it is that Matthew’s father was ordered ...read more Hmmm. “Why would she ever go here?” Dear Whomever (is it the Pres, a Senator, or Congressperson?), Look, Canada’s health care bill is ten pages long. Literally, it’s ten pages. I have googled our new health care bill and alas, it’s thousands of pages long. And, I can’t get a straight answer to the following three simple, straight forward questions. What would it cost me to get my own health care should I choose to leave my company? Will I be able to choose ...read more Ok, come on. An earthquake in Chicago? Thirty six inches of snow in Washington DC? More snow there than in Colorado? This has to mean something, but what? They shut the Federal Government down yesterday, ostensibly because of the snow. A friend was there and told me. “The Federal Government is closed today, and maybe tomorrow.” It’s almost like the Federal Government is a person, or a place, or what? I decided it was a good idea. The Federal Government needs ...read more I’ve been out of the loop a bit recently. I’ve been traveling and busy at work and away from the fray of politics, media, and especially Haiti. At a dinner last night, there was talk about the missionaries from the good ole US of A who went into Haiti, took 100 children and were “going to the Dominican Republic with them to set up an orphanage.” They had no paperwork for the kids, no proof the kids were orphans, and ...read more |
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Pat Robertson and Haiti
I understand that I’m an opinionated person who sometimes can’t see another point of view. I think we are all held hostage by the movie running in our heads about what we think about this and that. It doesn’t offer commercial interruptions from others who might hold a different point of view. I try very hard to “seek to understand, rather than to be understood,” and rarely get there. But then there are times when I am actually baffled by ...read more