Moving, Part 2

We're still moving. So it's not a real post...another fluffy one.

I was at a birthday party today for a 4 year old boy in the family (another reason why there aren't any as many good posts this week). There was a Veggie Tales albums playing for ambiance.

I kept hearing all the little tips of pithy advice, such as "Do the right thing so God knows you love him" and "You can never never be separated from God's love." It was alternately soothing and irritating.

I don't know how I feel about religious teaching that young. I see both sides of the issue. Whattya think?

Moving, Part 1

By the time this posts, I'll already be moved and mostly settled in. But it still means no real post. Why?

Because of the fact I write my posts up on Saturday. And I was busy unpacking/resting, instead of my usual routine.

I do want to post a thought though...what makes us gravitate towards the neighborhoods we do? What makes you, when driving through a different part of town, think to yourself "What a nice place to live!"

I've been giving it a lot of thought, and I think what's nice about this particular place we moved to is the fact drugs aren't openly sold in the parking lots. That says a lot, about many things, right there.

Monica Goodling Says It All With Her Actions

I'm a little behind the times...but this is important stuff.

The situation in the Justice Dept under Ashcroft and Gonzales...pretty much tells me everything I need in order to be disgusted with the Administration and how it's perverted our country's laws and systems.

Here's the Wikipedia entry on Monica Goodling, a conservative Christian woman who faithfully served the Republican Party and George W. Bush for several years. The part of her job we have come to worry about the most is the personnel management she did for the Justice Department.

The first time her name hit public consciousness was during the US Attorney firing scandal. I could go on for hours on that issue, but suffice it to say Ms Goodling was a key player in many of those dismissals, and in the aftermath of trying to control the public reaction. In fact, she refused to testify without immunity when Congress tried to simply get an explanation from the Justice Dept.

With good cause, apparantly. A report on Monica Goodling's hiring practices released on July 28th by the Justice Dept confirmed she had violated federal law by making decisions based on the political affialiations of applicants wives and rumors of lesbianism, among others. It's good have priorities straight.

So yes. Apparantly, ones ability to actually uphold the law took a very back seat to supporting the Republican Party in general and the President in specific. Way to keep the rule of law paramount and the premier, way to uphold the Constitution.

Though really...do we expect that out of Bush anymore?