Happy Blogday to Me!

Apparently today marks the first anniversary of my blog. Thank you, Irrational Woman for reminding me.

And to all my fellow bloggers, WRITE THIS DAY DOWN! TODAY IS SACRED!

Have a nice day!

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Foley Shouldn't Be the Only One Resigning

I made the fatal mistake of going to the ABC News site that was responsible for bringing the Foley scandal to light, and read some of the instant messages that he sent a teenage page. I cannot put into words how shocked and disgusted I am. Every Congressman - especially Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) and Rep. John M. Shimkus (R-Ill.) - that was aware of what Foley was doing and did not take action should be forced to resign. There was no way they could justify how aggressively he pursued these children. How Hastert could claim that the IMs were "ambiguous" with a straight face is deplorable.

I am not particularly comfortable with providing a link to the site that has some of the IMs, which would have been shocking even if Foley had sent them to an adult, but I am willing to provide a home address. You are welcome to search for them on your own:

http://abcnews.go.com/

GOP's Christmas Gift for Democrats: a House

The Foley scandal is a bittersweet mix of disgust and amusing irony. The disgust factor is obvious: he was actively pursuing teenagers for the purpose of engaging in acts with a minor (translation: he's a pedophile). In the case of the 16-year-old that he had a crush on, from the time frame that Foley had sent these emails, his interest in the boy began when the kid was at least 15. It is bad enough that key GOP members were aware that Foley was under the assumption that the job title "page" was code-talk for "teenage sex buffet," and they gave him a warning, but what is even worse is that the FBI was made aware of his actions in July 2005 - he has apparently been chasing pages for three years - and did nothing.

The amusing irony is that this is the same group that raised so much hell about Clinton consorting with a woman of legal age to the point of wanting to kick him out of office. Perhaps if Lewinsky was 16 or under, Clinton's affair would have been more acceptable.

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Where the Hell Have I Been?

I acknowledge that my hiatus from my blog warrants an explanation. I felt that I was not meeting the standards that I set for myself as a graduate student, so I put myself on punishment with the hope of improving academic discipline...it didn't work.

And now we will return to our regularly scheduled programming...

El Diablo Estaba Aquí

I have to admit that I wasn't expecting much in terms of meaningful dialogue at the UN shindig; I basically see it as a roast for President Bush and the concept of the United Nations en général, only that the comments are not in jest. Still, I suppose that I will have to give Chavez an honorable mention for his comment, courtesy of the LA Times:

"'Yesterday, the devil came here. Right here.' He crossed himself. 'Right here. And it smells of sulfur still today.'"

Who needs "Reality" TV when you've got the news?

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Radicals and the Moral High Ground

I know I am a little behind on responding to the Pope's speech and the reaction that followed, but I wanted to think about it for a bit before I said anything, because I wanted to be fair to both sides, but now I have to ask: do "radicals" ever embrace the concept of moral high ground?

I am not just talking about Islamic radicals...I mean radicals period. Take the Army of God (not Hezbollah, the one in the U.S. that bombs abortion clinics, etc.) for example. How is it possible to justify a cause that claims to save lives through murder? I could name several more groups that lost the moral high ground by choosing violence, including the Black Panthers, but I hope the point has been made. In the case of the Pope's quote of a historic figure's comments, didn't anyone realize that by burning churches and killing a nun that they were reinforcing the very quote that they were disputing?

I guess the question that I am asking is: has the radical's cause degenerated into rebelling for the sake of rebelling?

Remembering 9/11

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For my amusement

For your amusement

undergroundreporter.blogspot.com

Hey, it's a start...

A tip I submitted is going to be featured in the June issue of Cooking Light Magazine! They are going to send me a knife block!

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Iran Amok

The Post leads today with a mention that the Bush administration has officially lost its collective mind and is seriously entertaining the idea of a military strike against Iran. Even though this possibility has been circling through cyberspace for quite some time, I honestly tried to give the administration the benefit of the doubt and claim that even they would not be that ambitious, but I suppose old habits die hard...even at the tune of 2000+ American soldiers and endless numbers of Iraqi citizens.

I am against impeaching Bush, because that would make Cheney officially president, however, Congress has other powers over the president that they have failed to exercise, and it is high time they stepped up to the plate and started issuing out some checks on the Oval Office...they could start by canceling some of the ones they have signed to fund his campaigns.

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Republi-damned

I was just sent a "news alert" that Tom Delay would not be seeking reelection. Given the gravity of problems he would have to address such as, oh, an indictment I fail to see why I should be surprised. What I am surprised about is that he did not resign from his position earlier and spare the Republican party a little face sooner.