Thursday, April 20, 2006

Fortune Cookie

Two days ago I ate Chinese food for lunch. My favorite part of Chinese food is the fortune cookie. That day mine read "Face facts with dignity." It's trite but true. Most of us could use a little more practice in how we deal with facts, especially the unpleasant and painful ones.

I can think of so many people who don't know how to deal with facts. The MSM, the Bush equals Hitler crowd, Fred Phelps and his "church," and many members of Congress. I know I haven't always faced fact with dignity.

However, I can also think of people who do face facts with dignity. In fact, two of them blog at Iraq the Model. Read their post entitled "Kill us, but you won't enslave us," and then send them your condolences.

The more I think about it the more I realize how many problems would be solved, or at least minimized if people faced the facts with dignity. None of us like to lose, be wrong, or hear unpleasant news, but how we deal with these things is a measure of who we are; and apparently a fortune cookie gets it right when many of us don't. Scary.

Where are the Feminist?

An Iranian woman named Nazanin has be sentenced to death for murder. The man she killed was one of the men attempting to rape her and her niece. Because she defended herself she is to be killed. Here is a petition to sing on her behalf.

This story begs the question, "Where are the feminist?" No outcry from NARAL or NOW, or the MSM for that matter. This is not new news either. You'd think that the self-proclaimed defenders of a woman's right to say what happens to her body would be all over this. Just one more indication that today's advocates of "women's rights" don't care about women as much as they care about their agenda.

Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Watching History

A few days ago Abdul Rhaman was released from prison and left Afghanistan for Italy, which offered him asylum. Here are the details.

Unfortunately, the grounds for his release were not religious freedom and human rights. That fight will and must come another day if Afghanistan is truly going to become free nation. It's not going to be pretty either, but I wouldn't give up on Afghanistan. The idea of religious freedom is only a few centuries old in the West.

Realistically, Afghanistan may have a democratically elected government, but they are not a democracy as we think of one. However, the ground work has been laid. I don't envy Karzai who must deal with the medieval minded in his country while trying to move it forward and not look like a puppet. Watching history unfold is amazing. Nerve racking, but amazing.

Update on Hunger Strike III

Guillermos FariƱas Hernandez has ended his hunger strike. Here are the details. I'm glad he will live to protest another day.

Hat tip: Babalu blog.