Extreme Muslims need to chill out!

Take a pill and swallow it. Why are we catering to the uneducated extremists who don't like what the pope said? All they teach is violence if someone offends them. All they want is the death of all Americans and non muslims everywhere. What kind of life is that? I remember reading an article about a husband who was so proud of his pregnant wife. After she gave birth, she was going to be a suicide bomber. Her culture said she couldn't harm the baby so she had to wait. Good God! What is this world coming to? Why are people so willing to do this in the name of their faith? Don't they realize that they have no real enemies and violence is stupid?

New House

We're moving into a new house! I'm so excited. And nervous. And a whole bunch of other feelings too. But the deal is done. The house has been marked "Sold" and we're going to have no trouble getting financing. It's a bittersweet thing. I feel better now that we have potential buyers/renters of our current home. But if that doesn't work out, it'll be on the market for months. I'll miss the house too. Lots of memories, but mostly not good ones. Lots of storage space, but not big rooms. Our new house has the same amount of land, but the house is bigger. The only drawback is we're not on city water/sewer, but I'll manage. Our realtor is already talking about us calling him in 1o years when we're ready to move again! I am not for that. The only thing I wanted that wasn't available was the 4th bedroom. But we have a den. And I'll miss our laundry room space, but we'll manage. There's only 2 of us right now anyway. But it doesn't matter the size of the house, I'll still have my dog and cat following at my feet wherever I am!

I'm voting Democrat this time

I have seen and read a lot over the past year or so and I am tired of Republicans. I am tired of all politicians in general, but Republicans are the worst. I am for the people. I am for helping our fellow people. I know that some people will abuse any system you give them, but rich Republicans have abandoned the common man. I have read recently that having experience and know-how was trumped in rebuilding Iraq to Bush loyalty. You had to be loyal to the administration and their beliefs or you didn't get the job. What a bunch of crap. And you can't sue them like you can sue any other employer who would try the same garbage. It doesn't matter that the current Bush administration lied to us about WMDs, or everything else, I guess people can put up with that as long as his views on gay marriage and abortion are in line with theirs. I look at it this way - stay out of another person's life; it's not your business. I can live with people who have abortions and same sex marriages. God can deal with them; it isn't my place to judge. However, lying about WMDs and our troops are dying over there, is untolerable. That country is so screwed up over there that if we were to pull out now, it would be a disaster. Terrorists would run in and take over and kill everyone who didn't agree with them. So we should stay. But how we got there is the biggest lie. I support our troops the best that I can and I believe others should too. They were given an order and they went. When was the last time you followed an order? But oh no, Christians can apparently handle being lied to as long as we don't allow gay marriage or abortion. While I didn't like what Bill Clinton did, like he's an angel yeah right, we did well under his administration. And Republicans keep taking away our rights as free people all in the name of 9/11. We can't even carry lip gloss on a plane anymore, our phones are tapped, and all this without approval. Bush is power hungry and needs to be removed from office. I don't care if the war is still going on in November. I'm voting Democrat.