It's too damn early

I was exhausted last night. I went to bed at 9:30 and fell asleep when my head hit the pillow. I slept through the night. Then, this morning for some reason, was wide awake at 4:00am. The house is dead quiet, except for the occasional cat that strolls by demanding that I drop everything and pay attention to them. I have it figured out that the average cat nap is about 24 minutes. They seem to come by pretty much on time. I wonder if that has some cosmic significance. Cats are very perceptive. Perhaps they are connected to the real cosmic clock. Maybe we aren't on a 24 hour clock. Maybe something major is happening every 24 minutes that we are unaware of. It's as if they wake up every 24 minutes so they don't miss it... whatever "it" is.

I came across this in the news. It's the Patriot Act starting to effect our lives. We are going to see more and more of this as time goes on, thanks to John Ashcroft, et. al.

LAS VEGAS (AP)--Rebecca Foster couldn't believe it when a bank cited the USA Patriot Act and asked her and fellow homeowners association board members for their Social Security and driver's license numbers.

"They said they had to check us against a terrorist list,'' said Foster, a grandmother whose five-member board oversees a Las Vegas community. "That seemed kind of preposterous. None of us are terrorists.''

A week earlier, the FBI in Las Vegas acknowledged agents used Patriot Act authorization instead of the grand jury to investigate a striptease club owner and several elected officials. .....

"It protects the lives and liberties of Americans, rather than detracting from them,'' said spokeswoman Monica Goodling from Washington, D.C. "It is simply an update of the laws that was needed to help close gaping loopholes in our ability to fight modern-day terror.''

You just keep telling yourself that honey. But someday, your information will come back to haunt you when you least expect it. And so it goes.

General Clark Promotion Moves Toward Vote

I suppose if you wait long enough on any controversy, it will just go away. The U.S. Senate has just proven this. The promotion of General Robert Clark has been approved.

Gen. Clark's promotion was being held up and reconsidered because of the atmosphere of hate and homophobia that existed under his watch at Fort Campbell, KY. That atmosphere was the cause of the murder of Pfc. Barry Winchell, who was bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat by two other soldiers. General Clark knew about the harassment and did nothing to stop it.

Now, he's being promoted. Thank you U.S. Senate for showing us that hate and intolerance are alive and well in our government. Thank you President Bush for your nomination of General Clark and showing that you are so genuine in your value for human life.

Other mentions I've made of General Robert Clark:
April 6, 2003 | May 18, 2003 | June 18, 2003 | June 19, 2003