Two weeks late and 18 pages short...

The Washington Post gives us this brief report, on page A18, that has rocked Blair's government and should have rocked our government, however...

Apparently the "mainstream liberal media" doesn't think it's very noteworthy that proof has come out about our President ordering our intelligence agencies to fix their analysis to support going to war against Iraq.

As the article states:

Seven months before the invasion of Iraq, the head of British foreign intelligence reported to Prime Minister Tony Blair that President Bush wanted to topple Saddam Hussein by military action and warned that in Washington intelligence was "being fixed around the policy," according to notes of a July 23, 2002, meeting with Blair at No. 10 Downing Street.

But let's save our outrage for where it really belongs: Paula Abdul.

"A Misunderstanding"

Things are definitely heating up in the Bible Belt. Let's be perfectly clear, the only "misunderstanding" here was the pastor misunderstanding that he could lose his tax exempt status with such blatant politicking.

Happy Mother's Day

Perhaps a little known fact: the original call for a Mother's Day celebration in America came from Julia Ward Howe, a suffragette, abolitionist, peace activist and Unitarian, who wrote her Mother's Day Proclamation in 1870:

Arise then...women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts!
Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!
Say firmly:"We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage,
For caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We, the women of one country,
Will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."

From the voice of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with
Our own. It says: "Disarm! Disarm!
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."
Blood does not wipe our dishonor,
Nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil at the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace...
Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
But of God -In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
That a general congress of women without limit of nationality,
May be appointed and held at someplace deemed most convenient
And the earliest period consistent with its objects,
To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
The amicable settlement of international questions,
The great and general interests of peace.

Homeland Insecurity

I'm almost speechless.

Well, ok, not completely. But let's take stock, shall we:

• 15 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 were from Saudi Arabia
• Osama Bin Laden is from Saudi Arabia
• Whabbism, the sect of radical Islam most practiced by terrorists, is from Saudi Arabia

So for a president that is supposedly "cracking down on terrorism", why is he making it easier for potential terrorists to gain entrance to this country?