The Drone Dares To Dream

Hey, guys, the main page is acting all wonky on Firefox. It looks like the page isn’t coming up all the way, and there are no links on the left. The other pages seem OK, and it’s working all right on IE as far as I can tell.

Thanks Larry.

Of course, you know which left I was referring to, right?

Bush reminds me of a Science Fiction story I saw on TV some months ago. The world has been destroyed in a nuclear war, with the U.S. population reduced to 800 people in a sealed environment. One of them is the President who started the war by miscalculating how far it would go. But he has retreated into the past as the only way to forget what he did and to escape taking responsibility. The survivors are so angry with him that they have a psychiatrist “treat” his amnesia in order to bring him back into the present. He’s forced to accept the horrific extent of his irresponsibility. But each time this happens he responds by retreating into the past again, before he was President. So another psychiatrist painstakingly “treats” him again, and again, and again. But they’re not treating him, they’re torturing him–his mind instinctively blanks out to shield him from the pain of remembering.

I think Bush is like that. He HAS to believe what he says because it would be too painful to face the facts. With Cheney I don’t think he cares, in fact he revels in “going to the Dark Side.”

Frank,
Good one, as usual. The drool, I’m ashamed to say hits far oo close to home. Very funny.

All,
It’s a light dusting of snow here in SE Michigan.
The rain and moderately warm temp early yesterday melted the previous residue of our last snowfall. Anybody else partial to seeing cardinals in the snow?
Merry Christmas and Happy Hannukah.

U.S. Jews and Muslims seek paths to harmony
Mon Dec 24, 2007 10:35am EST
By Michael Conlon, Religion Writer - Analysis

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Muslims and Jews, a tiny slice of the U.S. population, are looking for new ways to get along that could set a worldwide example for two ancient but often alienated faiths, religious leaders and experts say.

“I’ve encountered (among Muslims) a more centrist, a more moderate voice that is looking to the Jewish community to help project that voice … to the greater world,” said Rabbi Marc Schneier of New York, speaking of a national summit of imams and rabbis he helped organize earlier this year.

He also cited a recent incident in a New York subway “where four young Jews were being verbally and physically assaulted on a train for wishing the passengers a happy Hanukkah, and the only individual to come to their rescue was a young Muslim man,” Hassan Askari, of Bangladeshi heritage, who was beaten.

“That is a very, very powerful example” of what can happen. The challenge is to try to strengthen Jewish-Muslim cooperation and have it serve as a paradigm for communities around the world,” added Schneier, who founded the New York Synagogue in Manhattan and also the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding.

cont’d
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1431156020071224