Sixty Years On
On May 8, 1945 the War in Europe ended and there was a brief period of peace in that area as the effort turned to Asia and continuing action against Japan. There really was light at the end of the tunnel, but it didn’t last long. The united effort to end the threat to most of the world soon collapsed as nations left cooperation behind and were soon at each other’s throats.
Update: Why isn’t there some kind or type of official recognition of the 60th anniversity of V-E Day in the US? Would a ceremony at the World War II Memorial been too much to expect? We are running out of World War II veterans, and it would have been nice to recognise their service.
May 8, 2005 Comments Off on Sixty Years On
Happy Mother’s Day
To everyone who functions as a Mother, take the day off and annoy your kids, especially those that “don’t call” or live in an alternate universe and haven’t seen the sales. Even small children need to be inculcated with guilt early and often.
May 8, 2005 Comments Off on Happy Mother’s Day
They Don’t Let Up
Robert at Interstate 4 Jamming reports that a staffer at the local Catholic diocese called the office of Judge Ronald Alvarez, the judge in the case about the 13-year-old in foster care seeking an abortion, to find out if he were a Catholic, and if so, what his parish was. Apparently this person intended to have a talk with the judge’s priest about denying communion to the judge for “enabling” the girl to obtain an abortion.
The judge says that while he is Catholic, he stopped going to church three years ago because of the issue of abuse by priests. As a juvenile court judge Mr. Alvarez would know more about abuse than anyone should.
I wonder if it occurs to these people, and the Baptists that asked Judge Greer to leave, that they are making their candidates less electable. John Kennedy had to come out and say that he wouldn’t govern based on the dictates of the Vatican. When these people emphasize their insistence on ideological purity and conformance to religion over the laws, they make people leery of supporting candidates of their sect.
It’s not as if we didn’t already have enough extraneous garbage in our political campaigns, now we have to listen to candidates compare their “orthodoxy” or lack of it to get elected.
May 8, 2005 Comments Off on They Don’t Let Up
