Sometimes it’s all right not to turn the other cheek
A great article..
Turning the Other Cheek
You Can Run, But You Can’t Hide
Saddam in custody of the 4th Infantry Division.
WOOT!
Oy
One of my favorite discussion forums has dropped into an annual argument about gun control and abortion.
*sigh*
But I won’t back down, so that’s just the way things have to be.
NYT: The Smoking Gun
On Thursday afternoon, William Bastone, the editor of the Smoking Gun Web site, stood in a private dining room on the second floor of Planet Hollywood in New York, listing people who hate him and his organization.
“P. Diddy, he hates us,” Mr. Bastone said. “Catherine Zeta-Jones. Her lawyers call up all the time. Courtney Love, she hates us.” Mr. Bastone paused, then added with a weary smile: “Pretty much everybody hates us.”
That pretty much makes sense. The Web site, which Mr. Bastone founded in 1997 with Daniel Green, publishes legal papers, internal corporate memos, government correspondence and other hard-to-find documents about the famous and wealthy, the divorcing, the drunk, the incarcerated, the accidentally topless in short, people who pay $6,000 for shower curtains or whose sexual exploits are circulated on the Internet. [New York Times
I am Joseph, Your Brother
“I hope that before my name falls from the Eucharist prayer in the silence of death, you will know well who I am.
You will know because we will work and play together, fast and pray together, mourn and rejoice together, despair and hope together, disupte and be reconciled together.
You will know me as a friend, fellow priest, and bishop. You will know also that I love you.
For I am Joseph, your Brother.”
– Cardinal Joseph Bernardin – 1928 – 1996
Sixty Two Years
Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941 – a date which will live in infamy – the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
The United States was at peace with that nation and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with the government and its emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific.
Indeed, one hour after Japanese air squadrons had commenced bombing in Oahu, the Japanese ambassador to the United States and his colleagues delivered to the Secretary of State a formal reply to a recent American message. While this reply stated that it seemed useless to continue the existing diplomatic negotiations, it contained no threat or hint of war or armed attack.
It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago. During the intervening time, the Japanese government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.
The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian islands has caused severe damage to American naval and military forces. Very many American lives have been lost. In addition, American ships have been reported torpedoed on the high seas between San Francisco and Honolulu.
Navy Beats Army 34-6
Navy and Army made football history Saturday: good history for the Midshipmen, bad for the Cadets.
In the 104th meeting of the service academies, Navy, a three-touchdown favorite, wore down Army and won easily, 34-6. Navy (8-4) earned the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy (the Air Force Academy is also involved in the competition) for the first time since 1981 and is headed for the Houston Bowl on Dec. 30. Army became the first N.C.A.A. football team to finish a season 0-13. [New York Times]