For those of you who don’t know, I work part time. It’s all that Social Security allows me to do. I work 8 hours on Tuesday, Friday and Saturday to get my 24 hours a week in.
Well, between rocket launches and the now formed Epic club, I have wanted Saturdays off for a long time. Up until now, my boss has been reluctant to change my schedule. During this weeks discussion, an idea came to us to have me work 4 six hour days instead of 3 eight hour days. This would work me Tuesday to Friday, getting off at 5pm instead of 7. Once the other driver and I take everyone home, there is no one at the center after then anyway, and this would allow me to get off at such a time to make my evening wargaming appointments.
I am unsure about this schedule, it is a change and I’m not sure how well I can handle it. I would still be driving only three days a week as one day several group homes already fill the Center up, and I would just be and extra pair of hands to help out.
You know me and change, I am allergic to it, but this gives me access to Saturdays to do a lot of fun stuff that I have had to take time off to do for a while now. And I still get Mondays off to do weekly daytime appointments.
What do y’all think? You have faith in me to handle this?

Well, well, well. Another blow to Liberalism, and the Liberals are rendered speechless. Naysayers tight-lipped since success of Iraq vote.
As befits Liberals, they stood on the side of the Terrorists, against freedom and democracy. As with every other time, they got their nose caught in the door.
Liberals don’t seem to understand that people everywhere want to be free to make their own choices. Liberals think that what the US is doing is ‘eeevil’ and wrong, forcing freedom and democracy on people who aren’t ready for it. Well, let me tell you the people of Iraq have been waiting for this past Sunday for well over 20 years, even before Saddam came to power.
Never before has a liberal (small ‘l’) democracy existed in an Islamic state before. If we can get this grand experiment to work, it will domino to the other states of the Middle East and a new day will dawn in the world.
But of course Liberals don’t want that. They are so against the use of US force to bring about needed change that they would rather see Saddam in power, executing his own people by the thousands than see a free Iraq.
And it really stumps me to wonder why they would want such a thing. Can someone please explain it to me?

I have wanted to comment on Ward Churchill’s essay/speech that has caused quite a controversy. He calls the 9/11 terrorists “Combat teams,” and he calls the WTC the “Little Eichmanns.” I haven’t commented upon this because I wanted to see the original essay before commenting. Well, I found it here and I want you to read it. Nay, I command you to read it, because it is glaring in its inconsistencies and lack of congruency with the real world.
One glaring point is he likes bashing the US for all of the deaths and infrastructure damage caused by the US in Iraq. What he doesn’t mention is Hussein’s original aggressiveness that started the chain reaction. Or should we have just idly sat by after he captured Kuwait and threatened to do the same with Saudi Arabia?
Saddam Hussein is a man who deserves to be put down like a rabid dog. He started a 10 year war with Iran, he invaded Kuwait, he has used chemical weapons both on the battlefield and on his own civilians. He was executing people by the hundreds every day, but yet Saddam gets a pass for all of his inhumanity from Mr. Churchill.
Mr. Churchill is so fixated on the actions of the US that he doesn’t look at what precipitated those actions. One thing I will give him, he slams Clinton right there along with Bush 41 and 43. He even compares Madeline Albright to Jabba the Hutt.
Churchill sees us as the cause of all of this, instead of the one who finishes the fight. We didn’t start this, the roots of all of this go back to the founding of the Nation of Islam itself. It has always expanded at the point of a sword. Islams lack of willingness to let other people worship God as they want will be their undoing unless they learn to live and let live.
Christians used to be like this as well, we used to torture Muslims to get them to accept Jesus. I make no bones about it, it was a Christian (actually a catholic) who said, “Kill them all. God will recognize His own.” But then we went through the Reformation and things changed.
Islam needs to go through a similar process if it is to survive, because as long as radical Islam commits atrocities like this, the very existence of the religion is in danger of being wiped out.
We didn’t start this fight, but we will finish it one way or the other.