Here we are again with the blushing bride!

The Party Girls together again!

Congrats to Ashley and Josh on their marriage!

I'm a Racist!

Perception if a funny thing. Because perception is so personal, each one of us takes things differently based on past experiences or what we think we deserve. Today I was labeled as a racist because of a comment that was perceived differently then was intended. What has the world come to when a person cannot express themselves without a another person being offended? When did political correctness begin to control our lives? As a federal employee, I have to be so careful and anticipate how someone may perceive anything and everything I may say, do, or write. How am I to do this and still perform my job? I don't know! I also want to know what happened to the concept of going to the person who "wronged" you and discussing it? Why does everyone and their equal opportunity representative have to become involved? Now time and money (your tax money) is being spent (wasted) on patching someone's pride. Here are some things that I have perceived: A woman doesn't like that another, fairly attractive woman who happens to be twice her age is a higher grade then her and therefore is making more money. Oh did I happen to mention that one is a white woman and then other is of Mexican decent (but I thought we were all Americans, silly me). We also have a person without the guts to tell me I offended her to my face, but has no problem telling her Hispanic friends (in Spanish no less) and any other person who might listen. Although she may be my parent's age, her maturity level has not risen above a high schooler's. So what can I do but be the bigger person and apologize? I will also watch my tongue as I rise up through the ranks with my masters degree and she struggles through her freshman chemistry class, again.

Interesting Questions Raised

This essay in The Australian, raises some very important questions:

Why are so many Westerners, living in mature democracies, ready to march
against the toppling of a despot in Iraq but unwilling to take to the
streets in
support of the democratic movement in the Middle East?
Is it
because many of
those who will be marching in support of Saddam Hussein this
month are the
remnants of totalitarian groups in the West plus a variety of
misinformed
idealists and others blinded by anti-Americanism? Or is it
because they secretly
believe that the Arabs do not deserve anything better
than Saddam Hussein?

I wonder what these, as he calls "useful idiots", have to say?

Religious Leaders on the Left Finally Take a Stand

Several religious leaders from the left-leaning denominations (Episcopal, Presbyterian Church U.S.A, United Methodist Church, etc.) are complaining that Bush's new budget goes against the biblical teachings of Jesus. This coming from leaders that condone homosexuality and abortion. This is why I'm Baptist!

Movement in the Middle East

The Lebanese are making their requests known: They want Syria out!