Bubba and the Boys pick the Wrong BMer

I was directed to this video by A Welsh View . I'm not sure if it's real or not. If it isn't it should be.

Cult or Religion ?

(In the two years since Jeffs has been a fugitive from justice, he has built three compounds from scratch in Colorado, South Dakota and Texas, the latter including a huge white temple.)

You tell me, the Las Vegas Sun reports: Warren Jeffs was captured in Las Vegas today. He was wanted by authorites on charges of polygamy 80 or so wives and according to the SanAntonio Current 'It's also possible that he has raped dozens of children. Jeffs is wanted for sex with a minor, conspiracy to have sex with a minor and rape as an accomplice (of a minor).' You just know he is going to quote scripture at his trial. Jeff's of course is a Mormon and don't kid yourself one of the four books they use to dictate doctrine is the good old King James bible. Religion, the true root of all evil.

Is Canada Facing a Quagmire in Afghanistan?

Likely not in the classic sense of the U.S. rut in Viet Nam (1950? - 1975 ) or the U.S.S.R. when they took on the Afghan rebels (1978 - 1982). But, if we're truly under the direction of the United States in this effort to tame the untameable there may be reason to take pause. Afghanistan is currently on the political back burner in the U.S. however, a case can certainly be made for the need to continue the policing of the country by NATO and coalition forces. The next president of the United States will undoubtedly still have both files on his desk when he first takes his seat in the oval office. The current Canadian government is striving to prove itself to the U.S. as a true ally and Canadian soldiers are paying the price for this reconciliation. To be fair, I felt a limited strike in Afghanistan to close the terrorist training bases and track down and capture Osama Bin Laden was more than justified but this turned out to be a rehearsal for the Iraqui invasion. Nothing short of regime change would suffice.

History tells us this region is best left alone. The British found out in the 1800s and Rudyard Kipling states it best in his poem "The Young British Soldier "

'When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.'

Things in Afghanistan haven't changed much since 1839 and we may as well learn from history now, sooner than later we will have to leave this land to the people who live there.

Time for Sensible Profiling Perhaps

According to news reports , passengers are becoming increasingly alarmed by fellow passengers based on their prejudice:

British holidaymakers staged an unprecedented mutiny - refusing to allow their flight to take off until two men they feared were terrorists were forcibly removed.

The extraordinary scenes happened after some of the 150 passengers on a Malaga-Manchester flight overheard two men of Asian appearance apparently talking Arabic.

Passengers told cabin crew they feared for their safety and demanded police action.

In my opinion, this sort of irrationality can be resolved if airport screeners around the world were allowed to use sensible profiling and in depth screening of passengers. This of course will only work in conjunction with a concerted effort to assure the flying public that such efforts are being made and safety is thereby assured.

Are You Pretty Enough?

Remembering the Laci Peterson case and with the return to the U.S. of John Karr the 41 year old school teacher who has confessed to the kidnap murder of 6 year old JonBenet Ramsey in Colorado Christmas of 1996, I once again question the conscience and morality of the average U.S. citizen. It seems the only victims worthy of media interest are white, beautiful and at the very least middle to upper middle class.

What Of the Faceless Victims?

I confess I haven't broken down the statistics but I'm certain the week JonBenet disappeared there were hundreds of black, Hispanic and poor white children abused, kidnapped and/or murdered in the United States. The simple fact the FBI in its 1996 Uniform Crime Reports , lists a shocking 19,645 occurrences of Murders and Nonnegligent Manslaughter that year must give one pause. How many of these murder victims do you remember? How many of these murders were reported on CNN? Ask yourself, was there anything particularly outstanding about the murder of JonBenet other than her status and its occurrence during Christmas. Such holidays seem to bring as much aggression and depression to the surface as joy to the world. If anything the statistics for that week would have been considerably higher than other times of the year. When time permits I intend to explore the statistics in more detail in a future post.

Media Must Make Money

How many of the disenfranchised victims made it to the front page? Very few I suspect and none got the overwhelming T.V. coverage that a 6 year old beauty princess did. Don't even get me started on the horrid exploitation of these little girls by their twisted parents projecting some displaced narcissism on their children.

Face the Problem

What is the matter with the good Christian people of the God Blessed America that they care more about one blond blue eyed victim than the large number of daily victims of poverty, drugs and sexual deviancy. Concentrating on the inherent sickness of a society caused by it's social blinders surely is more important than solving a ten year old murder mystery.

I admire the tabloid This Week With George Stephanopoulos for closing every episode with a listing of U.S. service men and women who lost their lives that week. It brings the tragedy of the war in Iraq to the attention of the American citizen in a graphic sense. What a tremendous value it would be for CNN to end each segment with a listing of those Americans murdered that day (approximately 60) name, age, gender and city.

In all sincerity, my heart goes out to those who loved and cherished JonBenet. No child should ever experience such a death in this world, and no loved one should ever be faced with this sort of wrenching loss.

Writely Revitalizes BLOG

Well! I am impressed. Writely, the new Google offering that is attempting to allow on-line collaboration using a word processor, much like the excel offering Google presented not long ago, WORKS. Yes it does, and most importantly it makes BLOG posting so much more simple. Alright, watch this blog, I'll now be using it much more due to this incredibly simple means of posting. Try it, you'll like it.