Bingo

This is why, the comments being made by McCain that are SO OUT OF LINE, need to be CALLED OUT by our media. Suggesting that Obama would like to lose a war to win a campaign is hate speech for some folks, and suggests treason to all of us. And that is true DESPITE some people's inability to understand the criminality of our current President.

Terrorism in Tennessee

A very sad, tortured man committed this hate crime and I believe that he will be tortured further since he did not die. I hope to see that the Rush Limbaughs, Bill O'Reillys and Sean Hannitys who encourage hatred toward liberals will be held accountable as well--they owe us sincere apologies and a change in their behavior. If this isn't a wake-up call to ALL of us that we need to tone down our rhetoric toward those who hold different opinions to us (mea culpa) I don't know what is. I also believe that if this man is not tried on terrorism charges, then our government is sanctioning fascism in this country. I believe that anyone who takes a gun and shoots down innocent civilians should be tried as a terrorist.

This was an abomination to our liberty and our freedom of religion.

America's thirst for the violent and morbid...

We saw X-files last night and I was hoping for aliens, but I got spiritual pedophiles, horrifying stalkers of and imprisonment of women, morbid body part scenarios, and a few depressing stories thrown in, including a dying child and already dead child (the last narrative was completely over the top!). I'm not saying it was a bad movie, it held together as a story, but it was horrifying, disgusting and cruel. I seem to remember the X-files being spooky, creepy and FUN. Not f-ing depressing and gruesome. I left thinking that Chris Carter must have been influenced by CSI, which I can't stomach either (and may actually be worse, I don't know). And before the movie we got the History channel's advertisement for CGI graphics of dinosaurs killing each other like we've never seen, complete with blood squirting on to the screen for us. Ugh!

I have a three year old and a baby boy, and right now I'm learning how much affection means for their health, and for us, actually. Hugs actually change our brain chemistry to make us feel good about ourselves. I just don't understand the lust for violence, gore and horror in our entertainment. Sex, yes, more love and beauty please.

Peace.

The Fog of Time

Oil. It's in our faces. Why can't we believe our eyes? I've been very affected by Greg Palast's article. It explains everything.

We are not in Iraq to GET their oil, we are in Iraq to STOP the flow of that oil.

Mega profits for Exxon-Mobil and the Saudis, OPEC.

The CABAL of oil executives in the White House.

It's a no-brainer.

During the "Gulf War," I told a very good friend that that war was about the oil and not about protecting people, she said, "Is that so bad?"

Complacency is rampant...

I've Been Hard On Hillary, about that glass ceiling...

I just browsed Hillary's photo album, it appears she's still raising money and is possibly passing the baton to Chelsea, our hedge fund guru.

I think both women demonstrate that women in this country can DO anything. But WHO are they? And what do they BELIEVE? I don't know anything about Chelsea. But I've learned more than I ever wanted to know about Hillary's morality...that the ends justify the means.

The most moving image was of a woman who reminded me of my own 70 year old mother. She had Hillary buttons all over her hat, and I thought, wow, I can't see my mom doing that for Hillary, but maybe some other woman or candidate; and I felt sad that this unknown woman is probably disappointed right now. But I honestly think that we already had cracks in that ceiling when that woman (and millions of others) taught her daughter, or niece or neighbor that girls and women can DO anything in this country. I think that glass ceiling will be broken when both women and men aren't required to DO and PROVE everything, especially based on gender, and we're all accepted for who we are, loving human beings who love others. And I'm a feminist mother of sons.

Hey, I love Hillary.

Cheers.

Um, we're STOPPING Iraq's oil flow on purpose...

And does Saudi Arabia rule the world? My husband told me Tony Blair capitulated to them on war planes for oil. Where are our heroes? The British people and Americans would not have capitulated to Saudi Arabia's threats...

Jews and Obama

Obama's AIPAC speech

Obama does express his love for Israel (in both words and money) and for a two-state solution, and AGAINST expanding settlements, and for SOCIAL JUSTICE and TO HEAL THE WORLD. He is the one, the guy that really wants peace in the Middle East. Sure, I would have liked him to rail against extra-judicial killings, but as a Brit I wonder if this is that much different from how we less formally treat Britain--they even had a terrorism problem once...

I'm blogging this because I'm so irritated by things I'm reading and things I know about people. We know a Jewish guy who thinks Obama is an angry, black-power anti-Jew and I keep reading atheists' (I think) comments who think Obama is beholden to Israel and American Jews. How can they be talking about the same guy? It's crazy!

I think he wants peace for the United States, and our ALLIES. That just doesn't agree with some people, I guess.

FYI, I'm Jewish.