Beyond Belief
Years
ago I had a segment on this site called "Letting off Steam" which was
later called "Purely Political" and many readers from other countries
liked it very much. They expressed surprise and appreciation for an American who
was willing to criticize, severely, her own government. Well, hindsight can
indeed be very illuminating and looking back I'm glad I wrote it as I saw it.
The obscenity of the Clinton impeachment, for example, seems almost
inconceivable now. To think that we were mesmerized and paralyzed by something
as thoroughly unimportant as...sexual activity. It still seems surreal.
Contrasting that fiasco with what took shape in the George W. Bush
administration, such as 9/11 and the War in Iraq, I am more embarrassed than
ever that our Congress could have wasted their time on Clinton's sex life
instead of, oh, say, checking into national security for example. The old bumper
sticker still rings true: "No One Died When Clinton Lied." Amen. I now
resume that segment, called "Beyond Belief" and I will update it
whenever the notion strikes my fancy!
2010
2009
March 1, 2009
On October 16 in Casper, Wyoming, Topeka minister Fred Phelps and 17 of his rabid followers staged a vocal protest outside the funeral of Matthew Shepard, the gay Wyoming college student who was savagely beaten to death….
2008
November 5, 2008
August 25, 2008
“First, I want to thank Jesus Christ, my personal Savior, for making all of this possible.” Exact quote. This is from an American woman....
Obama’s Triumph in the Summer of 2008
July 30, 2008
So, Barack Obama made a triumphant tour of the Middle East and Europe and…everyone’s pissed off. John McCain doesn’t know….
“I Will Never Surrender in Iraq!”
July 01, 2008
Senator McCain, just who are you claiming you will never surrender to?
The Iraqi people? No, that can't be because we supposedly are not at war with the Iraqi people,
though we have killed over a hundred thousand of them, which sure sounds like war to me. Will those who favor troop withdrawal instead be surrendering to the Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri
al-Maliki? No, that doesn't work either, because. . . .
June 22, 2008
I cannot believe he’s gone. I cannot believe how much I miss him. . . .
May 26, 2008
On May 15, 2008, the California Supreme Court ruled that the state's ban on gay marriage violated constitutional rights and all hell broke loose. Their decision though is so chock-full of common sense that . . . .
