This and That

I hope everyone had a safe and happy Holiday Season. It's been busy around here with the holidays, Santa, New Year's and getting the kids back to school. I'm not been able to be online as much as I would like, but hopefully things are settling down (looking around fearfully) and I can be online a bit more now.

A lot has happened in the past couple of weeks in politics as well as around the world. It's a shame that 2009 had to start out with a war in the Middle East. I understand Israel's desire to stop the rockets coming from Gaza. I also fear for the innocents in the line of fire in Gaza. My hope is that there will soon be peace in the region; a lasting peace for everyone. I know. I'm an optimist.

It looks like we will have Mr. Burris in the Senate soon. I really have questions about the man's good judgement but I see no way that Reid will be able to keep him out of the Senate. It may take a few days or weeks, but they will eventually have to let Mr. Burris in. Blago got the last laugh here. Let's hope he does his laughing from jail soon.

Mr. Warren is still on track to spit in LGBT people's faces pray for our souls on January 20. I never figured that Obama would go back on his invitation. I still hope that those who will be there that day will turn their backs to him during the prayer in silent protest of Warren's homophobic deeds. I know I will be turning the TV off during that time. Joe. My. God. has a good post about Warren's Real AIDS work in Africa. You might want to check it out.

Soapblox was hacked sometime last night and it has affected several very good blogs including one of my favorites, Pam's House Blend. Her site is back up right now, but things are still not right. Pam is concerned that she may lose several years of posts since they are all stored on the Soapblox server. The owners of Soapblox are talking about just letting everything go. It sounds like a real mess! You can read more about it at Daily Kos.

Finally I saw Keith Olbermann give Ann Coulter a big smackdown last night on his show. It was so good that I thought I would let you have a peek at it too, just in case you missed it. Enjoy!

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