Are you suffering from war-induced anxiety?
For those of us watching wall to wall coverage... time to take a break, check some of the hints that you find here.

[Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage] Girl Hurt in Speeding Shopping Cart Crash
Ok, Now it is time to outlaw shopping carts.

[When Images Compete as Fiercely as Armies (washingtonpost.com)]
Some intersting quotes in this article

This time, Rami G. Khouri, executive editor of the Daily Star in Beirut, Lebanon, notes, there are 20 Arab and American television networks in the battlefield.

"With a few notable exceptions that confirm the rule," Khouri wrote, "both [Arab and American networks] broadly provide a distorted incomplete picture of events while accurately reflecting emotional and political sentiments on both sides."

"There is also the Hezbollah-run al-Manar, based in Lebanon, which doesn't even try for objectiveness," Belden added. "Whereas al-Jazeera's tag line for war coverage is the neutral 'War in Iraq,' al-Manar's is the fiery 'War of American Aggression'."

"Apparently, the American government has forgotten that freedom of press is a double-edged sword that can be as dangerous for the big democratic powers as it is for dictatorial regimes," Ghafuri concluded, according to a translation from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service.

In "a military campaign in which images compete as fiercely as armies," noted Roula Khalaf in Wednesday's edition of the Financial Times, "pictures of Iraqis welcoming the U.S. as a liberator have yet to be seen. The images, expected and indeed promised by the U.S. and U.K., are desperately needed in part to help appease international public opinion."

Khouri's conclusion in the Daily Star: "If you're getting your news and views from either Arab or American television, it is now very clear: You're getting only half the story."

KOTV - The News On SixSecurity increased at Keystone Dam

My wife and I were talking about this. We live downstream from the dam just off of the Arkansa river (only about 5 houses and a levy seperate us from it). If the dam were to burst, the water might come into our house, the levy might not hold it. God has blessed us with watchful people.

[Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage] Fear and Foxholes: War Zone Life Tests the Nerves
A nice article about what it is like for our boys, and the reporters that are covering them.

[CNN.com - Former Sen. Moynihan dies - Mar. 26, 2003]
As many know I am no fan of the democratic party, but here is one of the few members of their group I had respect for. Sir, you are missed.

[United Press International: Faith: Spittle and self-righteousness] I can add nothing to this so I will not.

[Pizza, Soda and Hot Winter Soup for our Israeli Soldiers -- and Burgers too!!!] And not only that, but our American soliders too. Our US guys in Israel can get Pizza and Coke (or Pepsi, which ever one is kosher at the time), and you get a donation. Check it out.

[Church Saddam built prays for his ouster]
Isn't this ironic. Just as the US helped put Sadam in power during the Iraq/Iran wars, now a church in the US that was built with money from Sadam to help refuges from Iraq is praying for his ouster. The bigger irony is that I am reading it from a India web site. How come the US press is not doing anything with this story?

Where is Raed ?

Not sure how real it is, but this person claims to be blogging from Iraq. Makes for interesting reading.

CBS News | Stock Exchange Bans Arab Reporters | March 25, 2003 17:54:48
I am so sorry. Your privlidge has been revoked. Your agency continued to show the pictures after complaints were made. You made your bed. The Exchange has any right to stop you from covering from the floor. If they feel that your coverage shows you to be a security risk, than that is so. It is a privdlege not a right! I am not allowed on the floor, I am not crying out foul. Grow up people... as I said before, Al-Jazeera you made your bed, now go lie in it.

I am slowly getting back to a normal blogging pattern. I guess I am saturated with war coverage. But I have noticed that a lot of what I have been blogging on has been the war. Even the relgious articles I find seem to be war related. I hope that my few readers will tolerate it for the time being and just put up with it.
As a nation we are still fixed on this war. I feel sorry for the people who do not have cable or interent access, their coverage of the war is a few soundbites in a 30 minute broadcast.

Notes from Tape:

Stop Inviting People to Church

Part 2

Pastor Blaine Bartell

Church on The Move 180 (Youth) Minister

Tape #M1023

The most important strength you can have is spiritual strength. External strength is not as strong as the spiritual strength.

Eph 6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

Eph 6:11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

You have an enemy that wants to take you out whose name is Satan, but you have a greater power. You will have to take up your armour.

Eph 6:15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

One of the most important pieces of armour, your feet shod with the Gospel

1. Sharing the Gospel takes preperation
   
   You may not ever feel that you are to be a Billy Ghram, but you can lead people to the Gospel. You need to prepare yourself to do that. You need to have a plan.


2. God is telling us not to wait for a sinner to come to us, we go to them. That is why we have the shoes. Jesus approached sinners, why cannot we. The righteous should be as bold as a lion. We are not to be ashamed.


3. Remember that where ever you go you are walking with the testimony of Christ. You are a testimony in all actions that you do. You need to carry your integratity wherever you go. You need to be truly living so that your walk may match your talk.

BET.com - God and War: Religious Leaders Speak Out

Bishop Carlton Pearson,

Azusa Interdenominational Fellowship of Christian Churches,
Tulsa, Okla.:

"This is a religious war. Fundamentalists of whatever faith are always the warmongers. Heads of states should be sitting together with their clerics and praying and working through their differences, to agree to be disagreeable. I've been quoting Dr. King's statement that 'wars are poor chisels for carving peace for tomorrow.' It is never Christian to go to war. It should never be endorsed as an acceptable means for resolving conflict."

Rev. Pearson, I do not feel that you are a mainstream Christian or American. I tolerated and prayed for you when you spoke and said that Many would go to heaven that did not declare Jesus as their savior. Now you are saying that as a Christian I cannot support way. Please, provide Chapter and verse that says that. I cannot find it. I respect you as a man, I will not judge you as God does that, but I can not in good conscience follow any teachings that you teach. That is strong from me, as I stood in a service at your church and was delivered from anger towards my ex-wife. Your church helped me with a Divorce workshop. I was an ardent supporter of you. I think that this is probally hard on people like me who have looked to you as a spiritual leader, I am sorry that we have.

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>From: anonymous
>>Subject: "You know the world is going crazy when ...


"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy,
the best golfer is a black guy,
The Swiss hold the America's Cup,
France is accusing the US of arrogance,
and Germany doesn't want to go to war."

-Author Unknown

[BBC NEWS | Middle East | PoW footage 'breaks convention']

Footage of captured US soldiers broadcast on Iraqi television violates the Geneva Convention, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which says neither side in the conflict should show pictures of prisoners of war.

It is quite clear here that Sadam does not care about POW's much less the weapons on mass destruction that he is supposed to have. Not once on TV have I seen an Iraq POW in colation hands close enough to see his face. The page linked to here shows one face clear as day. But we are supposed to belive Sadam and his regiem cares about his people.

God, bless and protect our men, keep them from harm, help them in their effort to stay alive. Bless our men attempting to rescue them and bless our men who are out there on the front lines. Make yourself real to them, and watch over them, in Jesus name I pray, AMEN.

[ Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage - Gamblers Place Wagers on Saddam's Demise]

Offering wagers on the outcome of the war in Iraq has been scorned as distasteful by major bookmakers from London to Las Vegas, but several Web sites are giving gamblers the opportunity to put money on whether Saddam will survive.

I an not sure if this is the sickest thing that I have ever read, but I am sure that it is up on the highest level. Betting on a man dying. Of course they did it to Christ for His garments. and I am not comparing the two. It is just wrong, it is as wrong as when our POW's were paraded around for all to see. SICK

[Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage Hotel Bans U.S. Tourists in War Protest] I guess I know where I am not going to stay if I ever go to Koh Samui!