BRENDA: 30th birthday. Now, one year more beautiful and sweet.
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MARSHA: Spent a long weekend here and is now homeward bound to the south where her city has had 8 days of temperatures over 100 and is expected to have the ninth today. Safe driving!
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ALICE: asks for help with this topic: BLACKWATER
"I'd be interested in thoughts and comments from your
blog viewers, about Blackwater, the private military
training group which is one of the large "private"
contracters in Iraq. It's founder is Eric Prince from
western Michigan who is married to a daughter of Dick
DeVos. From my understanding its headquarters are in
one of the Carolinas ... "
If any of you knows about this matter, let us know.
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DIG S: Tells us about Congressman Bill Sali of Idaho, a bigot in bigot's clothing, who is parading his bigotry for the sake of the voters back home, who are presumably all 'Christians' like (ahem) himself:
""We have not only a Hindu prayer being offered in the Senate, we have a Muslim member of the House of Representatives now, Keith Ellison from Minnesota. Those are changes -- and they are not what was envisioned by the Founding Fathers," asserts Congressman (R) Bill Sali.
Sali says America was built on Christian principles that were derived from scripture. He also says the only way the United States has been allowed to exist in a world that is so hostile to Christian principles is through "the protective hand of God."
"You know, the Lord can cause the rain to fall on the just and the unjust alike," says the Idaho Republican.
According to Congressman Sali, the only way the U.S. can continue to survive is under that protective hand of God. He states when a Hindu prayer is offered, "that's a different god" and that it "creates problems for the longevity of this country."
One wonders how a bonehead like this imagines that God has given him such a deposit of wisdom that he can proclaim religiosity for all the rest of the world. And here, the rest of us thought he was just another tin-pot politician, but it turns out he's even worse than that.
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JIM and his wife: Are expecting their second child. Congratulations!
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2 comments:
I am happy to report that the Muslim Congressman represents my district. So far, I haven't felt that my religious beliefs are threatened by his membership in Congress.
Alice: This is a highly polarized and politicized debate, so you might want to keep that in mind with every source (i.e., some of them are more interested in an agenda than in facts). That said, there is of course the Blackwater book, wikipedia has some info, and blackwaterblogger.com has posts on specific issues. There is a ton of non-Blackwater-specific stuff (e.g., Singer, Pelton, etc. books), if you want to look beyond Blackwater itself.
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