Not A Dollarshort

The Irresponsible Media.

This outraged me last week -- mainly because it was just another example of the press going overboard and reporting fear without reporting facts. Of course, being naive, I believed that there must have been just a little truth in the reporting.

"Those people must have been doing something suspicious. You don't just get pulled off a plane for being non-white? Do you?," I thought.

Well, it turns out you do.

I shouldn't feel excluded.

I've been listening to the congressional prayer vigil.

Yes, I'm Catholic.
Yes, I'm Christian.
They seem to be praying to "my" God; I shouldn't feel excluded.

But isn't there some little thing in the Constitution separating church and state? The lines have been really blurred these past few days.

Perhaps if other religions were more represented, this wouldn't seem as troublesome.

Thought-process update: I've had time to think about this post and realized what really bothered me about the prayer vigil.

It's the whole "my God is better than your God" thing that has been responsible for so much worldwide carnage.

Put it to a good use.

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Congressional leaders and White House agreed to set aside $20 billion for rescue efforts, repairs and counterterrorism work. House Appropriations Committee Chairman Bill Young said lawmakers hoped to have the spending bill on Bush's desk by Thursday.

Retaliation?

It has seemingly begun...

I've heard reports that the United States is bombing Afghanistan. Reports are mixed, and some sources say we can't be sure that America is actually responsible for the attacks.

Update: White House says that it wasn't an American attack but rather, continual civil war fighting.

Words are hard.

Ouch! Was that the sound of a straining muscle?

"I'm here in my office early in the morning because I want to be, not because I have to be. The president, it turns out, if he doesn't want to be here, he doesn't have to be here. Everybody else kind of, you know, shows up where he shows up," Bush said Wednesday.

"I love coming here. I love walking into the Oval Office in the morning. I love walking through the Rose Garden.

It's hard. I'm not a poet so I can't describe exactly what I mean."

96 down 1364 to go.

Even my 8 year-old brother-in-law is embarrassed.

Now is your chance to apologize for that Mistake of the union, a.k.a the president.

Note: You can only read about the letter now.