Former Reagan and Bush Sr. staffer Doug Kmiec wrote an excellent blog post over at Slate discussing his support of Barack Obama. Here’s a quote:
“In various ways, Sen. Barack Obama and I may disagree on aspects of these important fundamentals, but I am convinced, based upon his public pronouncements and his personal writing, that on each of these questions he is not closed to understanding opposing points of view and, as best as it is humanly possible, he will respect and accommodate them. “
I haven’t decided my candidate yet; actually, i haven’t even picked a party. However, this ad is soo perfectly tongue-in-cheek that I have to at least check into him.
“Concerns about the bottled-water industry, and increasing corporate control of water, are growing across the country,” said Gigi Kellett, director of the “Think Outside the Bottle” campaign, which aims to encourage people to drink tap water.
San Francisco’s mayor banned city employees from using city funds to buy bottled water when tap water is available. Ann Arbor, Michigan passed a resolution banning commercially bottled water at city events and Salt Lake City, Utah asked department heads to eliminate bottled water.
Critics charge the bottled water industry adds plastic to landfills, uses too much energy by producing and shipping bottles across the world and undermines confidence in the safety and cleanliness of public water supplies, all while much of the world’s population is without access to clean water.
I love how Bush completely ignores the wishes of the House of Representatives, the organization specifically designed to communicate to him the wishes of the nation.
On Thursday afternoon, the Democratically controled House of Representatives voted 223-201 to require most U.S. troops to leave Iraq by April 1, 2008.
President Bush vowed again Thursday to veto any legislation that would estabish a timetable for troop withdrawal from Iraq.
I’m a pacifist, but I’m tempted to make an exception in this case.
The families of those killed in the Virginia Tech massacre may not be able to grieve in peace at the funerals of those they lost. An anti-gay religious group known for protesting at the funerals of American soldiers killed in Iraq is planning on appearing at services for those killed on Monday as well.
The Topeka, Kan.-based Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), which is not affiliated with any national Baptist organization, announced plans to protest at victims’ funerals only hours after 32 people were killed in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. They also may protest at other events on the Virginia Tech campus.
I was up visiting my mom and dad (in Vancouver, BC) a couple weeks ago and my mom showed me one of the books she’s reading as research for a class she’s teachings. It was Infidel, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Ms. Ali is a Somali-born woman who immigrated to Holland, receiving political asylum. She has become an outspoken critic of Islam, and wrote the screenplay for Submission, a ten-minute short film that famously led to the assasination of its director, Theo van Gogh, in 2004.
She showed us Submission on Youtube. Honestly, I can see what the fuss truly is about. Remember back a couple years ago to the outrage that the piece known as "Piss Christ" and the painting of Mary covered in elephant dung. Christians were outraged, while others just shrugged their shoulders and called it "art." The artists involved in these two works took items and ideas of great religious significance to millions of people and defaced them. Exactly like Ali and van Gogh did with Submission. Where we Westerners see a damning piece of quas-propaganda, Muslims see their religious and cultural icons blasphemed beyond belief.
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