Today on my way to school I saw a lady driving an SUV with hand-painted flowers all over it. Do the flowers change an SUV from environmentally unfriendly to friendly? Maybe we could paint flowers on the oil drilling equipment and then the wackos wouldn't mind us drilling in Alaska.

Two thoughts:

1) Hugh Hewitt read an article from an Italian lady. She discussed having lived through World War II and being in the Italian resistance. She talked about the many American and other lives that were lost in freeing Italy from Mussolini. She talked about being a war correspondent and how much she abhors guns and war. But she talked about how necessary this war with Iraq is. I was unable to hear the end of the article and I did not catch her name, but I will try to find out and link to it.


Contrast that with:

2) Michael Medved interviewed this 27 year old girl who is trying to organize a group of people to go to Iraq to act as human shields. She attended college at an exclusive private college. She has probably been pampered all her life. Suddenly she has this epiphany that she can do some good in the world by going to Iraq to save lives by laying down and waiting for a bomb to drop on her. Toward the end of the interview it became clear that she probably won't ever make it to Iraq. At one point she said something anti-war/violence and in the same breath talked about how we saved the world from Hitler, Mussolini and Hirihito (sp?).

Two viewpoints. One experienced in oppression, war, death, and violence but sees the need for conflict with Iraq. The other only experienced in editing and trying to find some cause worth living or dying for. I would rather follow the woman who knows what is important than the one who is trying to find it.

In today's society, young people have nothing to believe in. They have no cause to follow. Religion has been meticulously cleansed from their lives. They have no foundation and it is interesting to see what they grasp at in their need for a moral/spiritual base. People think that my choice to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ are foolish and outdated. Even if these teachings were nothing more than fables (not that I doubt them for a minute) wouldn't it be better than taking up the cause of lying in front of a bomb to protect a dictator who has murdered tens of thousands of his own people, which people want him killed so they can have some freedom and liberty?

Here is an article that on the whole Iraq/war on terror/Islam thing by Lee Harris. I haven't read the whole thing yet but he gets into the idea that, sure attacking Iraq would be a kind of a new thing, but as the world changes around us, sometimes we need to change to fit into it. America has never had to deal with terrorism in the way that Israel has and maybe we will have to change many things about how we live our lives to deal with it. Mostly I am just linking the article so I can go back and finish reading it later.

More good news for the day, I am going home. It is almost 10:00 at night, and I have been at school far too long today. Despite my earlier comment, I may have had some success today, but I will have to wait until tomorrow to elvauate my results further. Also of note for the day, the doctor was worried about dec and his small stature. Initial tests suggested a potential problem with nutrient absorption but today's checkup looked good. He had gained two pounds in the last couple weeks and the doc is less concerned now. I feel bad that I didn't get to see my cute boys much today. I love my family.

Even if my science sucks today (well really it is not just today, but particularly today) it has still been a good day. Elizabeth Smart has been found and is alive. I am so glad for her and her family.

If the MOAB (Massive Ordnance Air Blast or Mother of all Bombs) doesn't bring 'em to their knees, we might have to break out the big guns.

Will actors and actresses ever realize how irrelevant they really are? Don't they know that they are merely eye candy and that nobody really cares what they think or what they have to say. Unfortunately they think that their opinion in politics really matters and then they go opening their mouths. It is getting harder and harder to find a bearable movie when the actors and actresses keep adding themselves to my blacklist. It really is too bad. I used to like Ethan Hawke even though he hasn't made a decent movie for quite some time. I even considered naming my next son Ethan (not really in honor of him, but I did like the name). Then he has to go and open his mouth and make me aware of how stupid he is. Who will be the next idiot to step up and show their ignorance.

All of my thoughts about the US and the UN neatly wrapped up in one article with lots of links, and all I had to do was read it. Sure saved me some time. I am all for first walking out of the UN and then sending them packing to find another home. I do disagree with the author of the USS Clueless article on one thing (I couldn't seem to find his/her name on a quick check, sorry). The two-bit nations, like France, that decided to try and keep the UN going after a US and friends walkout shouldn't have too much trouble finding and paying for a new home since there wouldn't be enough left to fill more than a 2-bedroom apartment.

Up with the US, down with the UN.

On my way into work today I saw a lady with a sign posted in her rear window. It said, "inspections work, war won't." I certainly don't want war with Iraq, but I am not so ignorant as to believe that the inspections are working any more now than they have been for the last 12 years. Talk about wearing your ignorance on your sleeve (or rear window as the case may be). To underscore the fact that inspections are failing miserably, despite the fact that Saddam would pretend he is cooperating by destroying a few of his proscribed missiles, the story came out today in the New York Times that new missiles have been found that are designed to carry chemical and biological weapons. If inspections and sanctions were really working, these missiles would not have been "found" but would have been brought forward and destroyed by Saddam himself. The very fact that no smoking gun had been found is evidence that inspections aren't working, because it means that Saddam has his weapons of mass destruction hidden such that they have not been found. I find it incredible that people are so deluded by the anti-war movement retoric that they would just accept it without any logical thought. Is it really a desire for peace or are they just so anti-President Bush that they would lie to themselves to oppose him?