Is this how we conduct our just war:
Survivors say furious Marines rampaged through a quiet street, bursting into homes and gunning down Iraqi civilians -Â Â including children, women and an old man in a wheelchair. Their account appears to match details emerging from a military investigation into the 24 Iraqi civilians killed under disputed circumstances the morning of Nov 19.
Shame on us. This shames us all.
Wow. In a very realist move, the United States is suggesting that it is willing to have diplomatic talks with Iran. The US has not had diplomatic relations with Iran since 1979. Now Bush’s administration is realizing that they simply have no other options. We are bogged down in Iraq and our credibility on the world stage is suspect. While I don’t often agree with Bush, I am happy to see this responsible move. I hope for our sake that we will be able to talk with Iran. I fear that because of our actions in the Middle East, such talks may be useless.
I am transferring all of my settings to a new laptop and I thought I would give my old blog a try. The new laptop is fully compatible with the blog, as it is a computer than can run an operating system! I also finally caught up on some of my old e-mail and found a WordPress Comment that stirred my interest. It seems like someone claiming to be Dell Schanze aka “SuperDell,” posted a comment in an old post. While this may be a prank, I have a feeling that this was actually a post by the right wing lunatic himself. My assumption is that a poor and miserable Dell may be spending his extended unemployment searching Technorati for comments about is sorry ass. I hope you had fun Dell, but we all think you are nuts, and a poor excuse for a business person.
Today George added a friend from the Fox family to his administration. Tony Snow will be the new press secretary. For those of you keeping track, George W. Bush’s approval rating are at an all time low! 32 Percent approval. Maybe things aren’t going well in Iraq? Oh yeah, and how much more am I going to pay for gas?
Tom Delay is gone. If the election were held today the Democrats would re-take the house. The rule of the corrupt, lieing, and immoral Republicans seems to be coming to an end.
I went to my caucus meeting last night and I was very surprised by the turnout and enthusiasm. My house legislative district is District 50, which is primarily compromised of South Jordan. While, unfortunately, not all precincts within District 50 had members attending, my particular precinct had many attendees. A South Jordan local, Christian Burridge, will be challenging the infamous Chris Cannon in the third district. Many members of his neighborhood were at the meeting in support of Burridge’s candidacy.
As always, I was very happy to know that I am not on some political island in my community. I was happy I attended.
Today I plan on attending my local Democratic Precinct Caucus meeting in South Jordan, UT. It appears as if the Republican in my legislative district, Marilyn Newbold, is running unopposed. That really makes me mad. If I had two more years under my belt I could run in my district. Nevertheless, I will go to my meeting and support the local party.
Every election year I get this very good feeling. I see a good list of good democratic candidates, and I get the feel goods about election time. And then again and again the people of Utah go to the polls and re-elect the same jerks that continually ruin the state. Let’s make the difference this year. If BYU students can vote for Democrats, so can you!
Dick Cheney, our asshole vice president, shot a man today. Aparently Dick was hunting and he wasn’t practicing good hunter saftey. I guess guns and asshole don’t mix well.
With a new year also comes a new legislative session. This year on Utah’s capital hill we can expect the big Republican “tax cuts!” Yeaaaah! Oh and don’t forget, Chris Buttars and friends will completely squander anything gay or secular. God Bless Utah!
Sweet! A Democratic legislature in Maryland is now forcing Wal-Mart to spend 8 percent of its revenue on health care. This is a good thing for low income families who are employed by Wal-Mart. It is no secret that a very large health care provider for Wal-Mart employees is Medicaid. This bill will force Wal-Mart to pay it’s fair share of health care costs. This is also good for the middle class in Maryland who will no longer be required to pay (via taxes) health care costs that Wal-Mart refuses to pay to it working poor employees.
Hats off to the Democratic legislature in Maryland. I will lobby our Utah legislature on the same issue.