Walking the dog...

Now this is so kewl I had to pop it up at the ol' blog here...

If you don't see God when you look at this then you need your eyes checked!

Full story here... and image source, along with tons of other images, located here...

The David Zucker Albright Ad

This is too good to be missed... but at the youtube website, you have to sign in and and verify you're old enough to have a sense of humor. I think you can see it here with no problem, though... :>

Hizzbollah is on the ropes

Here is an interesting take on the current state of affairs in the Levant...

Hizballah Is On The Ropes

The Clock Ticks for Hizballah as Assad Loves His Palaces More Than Nasrallah

By Steve Schippert

Amid the relentless images of the dead extracted from a building in Qana, amid the fiery anger those images generated – from Lebanon to Europe and from Egypt to Indonesia - and amid deafening global cries for an immediate ceasefire, a curiously contradictory picture is emerging from the battlefields of Hizballistan: Hizballah is on the ropes, running short of resources and desperate for a ceasefire for its very survival. (read more...)

Baptismal font

Another shot of the interior of the Cathedral.

Crucis

This is from the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in Sacramento, Ca. It's a new addition to the Cathedral, added as part of the recent renovation.

Gun rights is a human rights issue

If you need some convincing of this, please take a look at the article by Dave Kopel located here, entitled "Gun Bans and Genocide: The Disarming Facts". Kopel does an excellent job of describing how the government in Darfur is using gun control to expedite genocide. Here's the first paragraph... and don't forget to go read the whole article:

Gun Bans and Genocide: The Disarming Facts

By Dave Kopel

The international gun prohibition lobbies and their United Nations allies insist that there is no personal right of self-defense—that people should be forced to rely exclusively on the government protection. The prohibitionists also insist that there is no human right for people to possess the means of self-defense, such as firearms. But what are people supposed to do when the government itself starts killing people? The genocide in Darfur, Sudan, is the direct result of the types of gun laws which the United Nations is trying to impose all over the world. Millions of people have already died because of such laws, and millions more will die unless the U.N. is stopped. (more...)

Florida crime rate down to lowest level since '71

Okay, here's why it's a bad idea to deny our right to own guns...

Bush: Florida crime rate down to lowest level since '71

By BRENT KALLESTAD Associated Press Writer

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. —
Florida's crime rate dropped for the 14th straight year in 2005 to its lowest mark since 1971 because of tougher laws, increased financial support from the Legislature and law-abiding citizens with guns, Gov. Jeb Bush said Tuesday. (read more...)

Bomb blasts in Kashmir and Mumbai

This is very strange. Nary a peep in the news and hardly on blogs at all... what's up with this???

Christians Condemn India Bomb Attacks as 'Mindless Violence'

By Michelle Vu
Christian Post Reporter

Wed, Jul. 12, 2006 Posted: 08:31:54 AM EST

Indian Christian groups are speaking out against the series of bomb blasts considered one of the worst terrorist attacks in the country in recent years, condemning the act as ‘‘mindless violence.’’ (read more...)

France yanks Chirac's pants down...

The Scream (or The Cry) 1893; Edvard Munch

Seems like President Jacques Chirac of France is busy these days listening to little voices in his head. I don't want to be one to speculate, but I suspect some of those voices might be speaking English...

Soldiers of fortune go free as judge denounces Chirac over island coup

From Adam Sage in Paris

COVERT attempts by President Chirac to exert influence over Africa were exposed by a French court yesterday, when it denounced his secret services for conniving with a band of mercenaries in a coup in the tiny Comoros Islands. (Read the rest here...)

My guess is you won't hear much about it in the NYTimes, but I could be wrong. Thanks to the goddess of the blogsphere, Alexandra at All Things Beautiful for posting this... She has some excellent commentary there.