No matter what, it wasn’t murder.

In a scene from the movie, MUNICH, by Steven Spielberg, Israelis have planted a phone bomb in a terrorist’s room. The bomb is to be remotely activated when the terrorist answers their phone call. They think he is alone, and so are surprised when his little daughter answers the call.

Who could be blamed if the terrorist’s little daughter was killed?

You would have preferred locusts?

God did not remain silent…
Pope Benedict visited Auschwitz last Sunday, and said:
"In a place like this, words fail; in the end, there can be only a dread silence, a silence which itself is a heartfelt cry to God: Why, Lord, did you remain silent? How could you tolerate all this?"

With all due respect, sir...

“…having developed a desire to live a more peaceful, humane existence.”

Kevin Benderman, a soldier, said those words after refusing to return to Iraq. He was arrested, and court-martialed.
His wife said this, before a Cynthia McKinney congressional briefing:

There oughta be a… wait, there really is a law!

And this is it:

274A UNLAWFUL EMPLOYMENT OF ALIENS
SEC. 274A. [8 U.S.C. 1324a]
(a) MAKING EMPLOYMENT OF UNAUTHORIZED ALIENS UNLAWFUL.-
(1) IN GENERAL.-It is unlawful for a person or other entity-
(A) to hire, or to recruit or refer for a fee, for employment in the United States an alien knowing the alien is an unauthorized alien (as defined in subsection (h)(3)) with respect to such employment, or

Bush v. Gore- W, Bush v. Kerry- W, Bush v. Utopia- ?

My, how we ignore reality.
In utopia, there are no terrorists, gas costs what it did when you were a kid no matter when you were a kid, and our nation’s borders expand like stretch pants at the Ryan’s buffet.

But the reality just won’t go away.

Dixie Chicks, clucking, and bravery…

This is the clucking chronology:

In a concert in London, England, this week, Maines told the crowd: "Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas."

But later, back home-

My goodness… was this the best you could find?

Is it worth $40,000 and a few minutes each day?

Perhaps you should interview the 65 year old woman. Perhaps her children.

This is the example the Chronicle used in their series on Leaving Augusta. This family moved from a very nice area in Columbia County to what I thought was one of the safer areas in Richmond County.

da Christians, da codes, and da Madonnas

What created Madonna and the da Vinci code?
Well, Christianity.
A Christian society is an orderly society.
A Madonna concert is a model of order. She may be hanging from a cross, mocking Christianity, but her ‘fans’ are sitting (mostly) in numbered assigned seats, the closeness of which is determined by their ability to pay. They don’t shoot each other, beat each other (mostly), and don’t rape, burn, or pillage. Madonna is thus given the freedom from fear and violence to be as much of an artist as her talent and crassness bestow. Christianity and Christian standards are her rabbits.

Boiled frogs and victory

If a frog is thrown directly into boiling water, it will almost certainly jump out and save its life. But if a frog is put into cold water and heat applied gradually, the poor creature will boil to death largely unaware.
(someone on the web apparently tried to prove this- the frog jumped out)

In the ‘60s The Monkees had a song called “Zor and Zam,” with the line, “They Gave a War and Nobody Came.”

What if we won a war and nobody knew?

Hey Al, start digging…

Great victories in history
1916 Georgia Tech 222 Cumberland College 0
1940 Chicago Bears 73 Washington Redskins 0
1998 U.S. Senate 98 Kyoto 0
During the Clinton presidency…

Remember that next time you read a news report like this:
During Clinton's administration, the global Kyoto Protocol to curb the release of greenhouse gases was created but the Bush administration has rejected it on grounds it will hurt the U.S. economy.

Hey, Al Gore, Columbus would be proud…

Christopher Columbus and his men were starving on an island in the Caribbean. The natives, whom they depended on for food, had grown tired of being treated harshly by the sailors, and cut off the food supply. The sailors wanted to simply fight and steal food, but Columbus knew the value of ignorance.
He also knew (from science) that there was going to be a lunar eclipse the night of February 29, 1504. He met with the native leader, and told him the gods were angry that Columbus and his men were not getting enough food. They would show their anger by removing the moon from the sky. Hopefully, the natives laughed.

The chicken, the egg, the Georgia Constitution, and Zell Miller

Zell did appoint her…

but, the question certainly seemed easy enough…

Senate Resolution No. 595
Resolution Act No. 841
Ga. L. 2004, p. 1111

( ) YES
( ) NO

Shall the Constitution be amended so as to provide that this state shall recognize as marriage only the union of man and woman?"

There are some good movies in Augusta…

If Rocky fought Rocky, who would win?
“Akeelah and the Bee” answers…
It is a simply wonderful movie.
84% overall critical approval at rottentomatoes.com

Did the charge of those brave passengers that September day end in a cornfield in Pennsylvania?
No, that charge continues in Afghanistan and Iraq, and in the hearts of Americans.
“United 93” is a rare Hollywood movie that lets the event make the moral judgment.

“Bring me the head of Opie Taylor!”

Hey, Ron Howard, Christianity really is a religion of peace…
Otherwise there might be riots and calls for your throat. Now that would be a great title for a movie- “Bring me the head of Opie Taylor!”
We can’t wait for “The Happy Days of Mohammed.” Surely your quest for artistic freedom and money will lead to make that movie.
If you really believe what you say… and you said:
“I fully respect and understand any audience member’s choice not to see a movie. But to deny other people who may find value in the story the right to see it, that’s kind of militant. I don’t advocate militancy in enforcing or defending belief systems because I think that leads to oppression, violence and hatred.”

Visas? We don’t need no stinkin’ visas.

"The Nearer They Get to Their Treasure, the Farther They Get From the Law!", from a movie poster for “Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” in 1948.

In “Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” the riches were found in the mountains of Mexico. That treasure was only shared three ways, with disastrous results. The “Treasures of the United States” are being shared an extra eleven million ways.

At least he got to play one on TV…

Al Gore just isn’t funny. I guess September 11 would just be another April Fool’s day if he had been elected. This is what he said, on Saturday Night Live, pretending he won in 2000:
"In 2001 when I came into office, our national security was the most important issue. The threat of terrorism was real.
Who knew that six years later, Afghanistan would be the most popular Spring Break destination? Or that Six Flags Tehran is the fastest growing amusement park in the Middle East?"

Thanks for cleaning up your mess… sort of

So, why did you call it “white flight”?

” a 34 percent increase” in black population?
Sounds like it’s crime, intimidation, and fear flight to me.
And not a flight so much as a “pursuit of happiness.”

"The one thing I look at overall is my children's education, and that's where Richmond County loses," he said.

How can you exploit racial conflict from that?

The media also sprinkles

A very nice older woman I know has a sign on her guest bathroom wall, directed at men-

If you sprinkle when you tinkle
be a sweetie wipe the seatie…

The Columbia County school system should put that sign in their rest rooms, and add:

And if on the floor your stream should drop,
zip it up and get a mop.

The media has been sprinkling a lot lately. They reported a story about six retired generals that didn’t like the way the war was being conducted.

The truth, and all that…

The sun did not shine
Our freedoms went away
Cause Sally couldn’t speak
With al-Qaeda that day

She’s friends with al-Qaeda
She calls them a lot
Cause they do the work
Of oil and Allah

It’s nobody’s business
Not even that mouse
George Bush is his name
And his spies damn spies!
Death to the infidels!
Oops… sorry, praise be to All… Dr. Suess

So all we could do is just

PETA, and connections

PETA thinks this is how a house rat should be treated, after using one of their special traps (from their website):

When a rat is captured, a towel should be placed over the trap to keep the animal calm. Then the captured rat should be transported and released at a designated release site or in a wooded area close by. (In urban areas, rats can also be euthanized by barbiturate injection by a veterinarian or a qualified animal-shelter technician.) After you've released the animals, reset the traps and continue to keep them baited.

Schrenko and new planets

When astronomers discover a new planet, the often do it without actually seeing the planet.
They see light from farther stars bending or warping in space, and know something must be causing it.
That thing is most likely a new planet.

Well, Ms. Schrenko took bribes from software companies. Teachers would have used this software not based on its ability to help educate, but the amount of the bribe.

Terrorists lie - Bush should spy

Start with something everyone can agree on-
The government should monitor terrorist communications anywhere in the world.
Then focus on the disagreement, the thing that troubles Feingold, Kerry, Pelosi, and the gang-

Sometimes the terrorists called American citizens while those citizens were on American soil.

Start the argument here:

“The President authorized an illegal program to spy on American citizens on American soil.” (Sen. Feingold, Congressional Record, 3/13/06, p. S2011)

Clean Air costs money - about $3 per gallon

So now the government is thinking about giving us money to buy gas?
This is the last stanza of a top 10 song from around 1970, called Welfare Cadillac. The lyrics were about a Tobacco Road type of (white) family getting welfare. It has since been considered racist, and hasn’t played publicly in decades.

But things are still gonna get better yet
At least that's what I understand
They tell me this new President

Picking on Pamela, again

Pamela Anderson recently said, in opinionjournal.com:

“King Kong is my hero. He's big, muscular, sensitive, a terrific actor--and he's not real… I've vowed never to be involved with a production that uses live apes because I don't want to be a part of this cruelty... It's not like there's a shortage of struggling starlets willing to embarrass themselves if it means getting on TV”

Playing God, or Caesar?

From Peggy Noonan in opinionjournal.com, on the death penalty:

”It is the expression of a certitude, of a shared national conviction, about the value of a human life. It says the deliberate and planned taking of a human life is so serious, such a wound to justice, such a tearing at the human fabric, that there is only one price that is justly paid for it, and that is the forfeiting of the life of the perpetrator. It is society's way of saying that murder is serious, dreadfully serious, the most serious of all human transgressions.”

The Sudan is just too hard…

Too be fair, the award was just given AT the UN, not BY the UN.

Geena Davis isn’t a doctor, no, wait, President, but she plays one on TV. For that, she got an award from something called The White House Project, at the UN.

Davis said, "... whatever I can do to make change happen quicker in the fake world, I promise to do."

She got a real award for playing a fake president. Badly.

Augusta, Iraq, and the newspaper

No doubt, Iraq is a very dangerous place.
Is Augusta? These are just a few things from this weeks Augusta Chronicle.

A 35-year-old woman who lives in the 2400 block of Lisbon Drive told police someone fired multiple gunshots at her home and 2001 Pontiac Grand Am at about 3:15 a.m.

An Augusta man was assaulted Tuesday morning on Gordon Highway and suffered a cut after trying to grab a knife from his assailant, a Richmond County sheriff's report states.

Pamela Anderson's DNA

Pamela Anderson has been thinking about DNA, and what it means to be human. She wrote this in opinionjournal.com:

“Chimpanzees are our closest living relatives, with at least 95% of the same DNA. We're closer to them than they are to gorillas, so when I see chimpanzees being used as on-screen comedians, dressed up in silly costumes to sell credit cards, I think, Is this any way to treat a relative?

The movie “United 93” and the meaning of “is”…

Finally, someone in Hollywood made a wonderful movie that didn’t say anything bad, or imply anything bad, about America and average Americans. The movie does not judge. It does not criticize. It simply chronicles the events of that September day.
The events of that September day judge and criticize quite well on their own.

“United 93” got a 91% approval rating from the critics at rottentomatoes.com, very unusual for any movie.