Prayers for stepson Robert

You may or may not know that my stepson Robert is in the Navy. We knew he and his ship (USS Stennis) had been deployed to the Middle East but were not sure when he would arrive. Well, I heard on Fox news this afternoon that the Stennis is in the Persian Gulf and they are part of the demonstration of airpower that is going on. While some readers may not care for the war, and I respect that, he is after all a human being who needs support. Please keep him in your prayers in the next few days as I am fairly sure that he will need it. If he does not, I know his mom and I will.

What was she watching??

Super Bowl Ads of Cartoonish Violence, Perhaps Reflecting Toll of War - New York Times:

"No commercial that appeared last night during Super Bowl XLI directly addressed Iraq, unlike a patriotic spot for Budweiser beer that ran during the game two years ago. But the ongoing war seemed to linger just below the surface of many of this year’s commercials."

I am not sure if I was watching the same game that this watcher was. Seems like some people will drag the war into anything. It is articles like this that mix things that do not belong together that really need to be stopped by the press if they want to maintain their objectivity.

Ignorance gone to seed

From FoxNews. com

An American GI assigned to one of the harshest posts in Iraq had a simple request last week for a Wisconsin mattress company: send some floor mats to help ease the hardship of sleeping on the cold, bug-infested ground.

What he got, instead, was a swift kick from the company's Web site, which not only refused the request but added insult to injury with the admonition, "If you were sensible, you and your troops would pull out of Iraq."

I guess I know which store I will not want to mail order mattress from!