Around and Around...

A sight case of ennui today or, in my case, plain old dullness of the mind. Therefore, some references to the sharper end of the spectrum.

Wear Red on Fridays from SondraK. This is a brilliant concept for us to join with our defenders and to organize and publicize our support for them.

SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, WE LIVE IN THE LAND OF THE FREE,
BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE.
FOR US, THEIR BLOOD RUNS RED!! GOD BLESS AMERICA. Tomorrow is Friday.

From Merri, posting at Beth's, reflections on parental responsibility in light of the latest action in Idaho by the ACLU and Planned Parenthood against the state's proposed abortion law.

"I should be able to help my child work through life-altering events such as pregnancy - it is my obligation and responsibility as a parent to teach my children right from wrong, to share my beliefs and other life lessons and to help them weigh all sides when making decisions that will impact them the rest of their lives."

Fausta, at The Bad Hair Blog, has an informative and intriguing post on the Iraqi kidnapping industry and possible connections to the Romanian Secret Police, Syria and endemic Middle East corruption relating to the recent release of hostages Douglas Wood of Australia, and French journalist Florence Aubenas.

Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom highlights the absolute loopiness of Professor Emeritus at Texas A&M and former Bush cabinet member Morgan Reynolds' contention that the collapse of the World Trade Center on 09/11/01 was caused by a "controlled demolition". Naturally this could not be done without the complicity of the administration and faulty engineering analysis. And this time it isn't Karl Rove. Go see the answer. Also many great comments.
Moonbattery at it's "best", but not even this fool can keep me from being a proud Aggie.

And this from Lois Charbonneau at Rooters:

U.S. says Iran has not come clean about nuke work

"It is evident that Iran has not come clean about its past or present nuclear activities," U.S. ambassador Jackie Sanders said in the written text of a speech to the governing board of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
In a speech to the board, IAEA deputy chief Pierre Goldschmidt said Tehran had admitted to misleading the IAEA about secret experiments in 1998 to create plutonium -- which has few uses apart from fueling atomic weapons -- five years later than Iran had previously acknowledged.

Sanders said: "Iran has also been caught, yet again, misleading the IAEA about its past plutonium separation experiments, claiming until confronted with scientific proof to the contrary that it stopped its undeclared reprocessing experiments in 1993.."

Chorus: "When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn.