Bailey's Buddy

I have spent the entire day ( well since noon anyway) doing "stuff" to get ready for the Lodge meeting tomorrow night. It seems as if I have been interrupted by phone calls, e-mails and dogs wanting to go outside. I also had to get the monthly reports for Arcadia and Specialis Procer Lodge ready to send in. I had hoped to go to the Opera at the movie theater tonight but that was not to be.

Jon came over and took Max for a walk. When he got back I took him to Battle's Bar B Que for supper. I had Beef and he had Ham. It was good. And it was good to spend some time with Jon. He is here now and since he is using the Word program I can't. I have it on my computer and it is on his also and when we are in proximity to one another his cancels mine out and it won't work, so I have to wait until he is done so I am taking this opportunity to blog. I really don't have much to blog about. I am really upset with the situation between Israel and the Palestinians but I won't blog about that because everybody seems to be able to do so.

I look at the people in the political spots (both outgoing and incoming) do some really stupid things. Harry Reid is showing very poor leadership as is Nancy P. It seems that egos are more important to them than moving the country forward. I am still upset with Mr. Obama for asking Rick Warren to the Inauguration for the Invocation. The more I read about him the more I think it was an abysmally poor choice on Mr. Obama's part. Read this:

Rick Warren, update
by Tengrain
From the redoubtable Max Blumenthal:

Team Obama likes to cite Warren’s work on AIDS in Africa to combat criticism about the controversial pastor. But how does burning condoms in the name of Jesus save lives?

…But since the Warren inauguration controversy erupted, the nature of work against AIDS in Africa has gone unexamined. Warren has not been particularly forthcoming to those who have attempted to look into it. His website contains scant information about the results of his program. However, an investigation into Warren’s involvement in Africa reveals a web of alliances with right-wing clergymen who have sidelined science-based approaches to combating AIDS in favor of abstinence-only education. More disturbingly, Warren’s allies have rolled back key elements of one of the continent’s most successful initiative, the so-called ABC program in Uganda. Stephen Lewis, the United Nations’ special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, told the New York Times their activism is “resulting in great damage and undoubtedly will cause significant numbers of infections which should never have occurred.”

Warren’s man in Uganda is a charismatic pastor named Martin Ssempa. The head of the Makerere Community Church, a rapidly growing congregation, Ssempe enjoys close ties to his country’s First Lady, Janet Museveni, and is a favorite of the Bush White House. In the capitol of Kampala, Ssempa is known for his boisterous crusading. Ssempa’s stunts have included burning condoms in the name of Jesus and arranging the publication of names of homosexuals in cooperative local newspapers while lobbying for criminal penalties to imprison them.

It goes on for quite a while, and the evidence piles up that Rick Warren is truly a monster in Tommy Bahama shirts.

It just gets worse and worse and I am still standing by my resolution not to watch the Inauguration. (I will watch the other coverage of the day, however.) I also think that Bush and Cheny should NOT get a pass from the crimes they have committed during the past 8 years and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. But it won't happen.

I got a new Bluetooth to use with my phone tonight. This one is a little larger than the one I lost so i hope it will not disappear. I really like the bluetooth. I use it when I am driving and also when I am at other places. It is convenient and allows me to have both hands free. -

I love Keith Oberman. And Rachael Maddow. And you. Thanks for stopping by. Hugs, j-bear