conjectural navel gazing; jesus in lint form

other ramblings

Okay...maybe I won't go back to bed.

On Sept. 17, 1862, Union forces hurled back a Confederate invasion of Maryland in the Civil War Battle of Antietam. During the battle, 23,100 were killed, wounded or captured, making it the bloodiest day in United States military history.

Okay, so we Southerners obsess about the Recent Unpleasantness...still, maybe we should all try to remember just how massive the Civil War was.

Here is a link to an Op Ed piece I found interesting. I love spin. But I have also been wondering this as well. Hmm...

A new report on Iraq's illicit weapons program is expected to conclude that Saddam Hussein's government had a clear intent to produce nuclear, chemical and biological weapons if United Nations sanctions were lifted, government officials said Thursday. But, like earlier reports, it finds no evidence that Iraq had begun any large-scale program for weapons production by the time of the American invasion last year, the officials said. -NY Times

Oy. Rocket Science still troubles me, but this was pretty obvious. We need a special committee to tell us these things?! Wuf.

President Bush, who has said Iraq posed a threat to the world whether or not it possessed illicit weapons, will probably draw attention to the conclusion that Mr. Hussein sought to acquire illicit weapons. His political opponent, Senator John Kerry, who has accused Mr. Bush of misleading the country into war, will probably highlight the conclusion that Iraq had not begun a large-scale production program.

Who knew?!

And here is something from Mrtin Buber. I like Buber.

Once they told Rabbi Pinhas of the great misery among the needy. He listened, sunk in grief. Then he raised his head. �Let us draw God into the world,� he cried, �and all need will be quenched.� God�s grace consists precisely in this, that he wants to let himself be won by humanity, that he places himself, so to speak, into human hands. God wants to come to his world, but he wants to come to it through men and women. This is the mystery of our existence, the superhuman chance of humankind. - Bruderhof Communities passed this on to me.

Posted by tripp at September 17, 2004 05:53 AM