CITIZEN ALERT v2.256MONEY FOR IRAQ

The President is planning on asking for another $50 billion from Congress to continue his war in Iraq. Okay, DEMS, here's your chance AGAIN to take control and end this thing before he leaves office. The cost of the war in Iraq now exceeds $3 billion a week according to MSNBC. The military leaders in charge are saying they once again need more time, more time. How far is this going to go? How many 20 years old can you throw at a fire before it goes out or you just call it a day?

CITIZEN ALERT v2.255COMING BACK

Sorry, CITIZEN ALERT has been away for awhile. I've been moving, so I'm slowly getting back to my regular schedule and will start posting again.

A lot has happened since my last post, so I'm not going to even try to catch up. Rove is gone and today Alberto Gonzalez resigned. The rats are deserting this sinking ship of an adminstration.

The one thing this week that I don't think anyone is attacking at least from the DEMS side is this article I read, I believe, on MSNBC that Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-al-Maliki lashed out at all the DEMS for calling for his replacement. It was Democrat this and Democrat that. Bill Kristol from the PNAC and Tony Blankley from the McLaughlin Group both have stated that he needed to be replaced, so with those two big REPUB mouth pieces on the march you can't tell me that the REPUBS are feeling the exact same way.

And what message would we be sending if we were to replace an elected foreign official that WE, a country on the other side of the world, didn't think was keeping our best interests in mind.

CITIZEN ALERT v2.254DICK CHENEY IS RIGHT!!

The must see video of the year!

CITIZEN ALERT v2.253THANKS!

I hadn't even noticed but CITIZEN ALERT celebrated its 1 year anniversary on August 2nd! Thanks to everyone around the globe that has stopped by to read and comment. I'll keep blogging and you keep reading.

CITIZEN ALERT v2.252SADLY, MY HOMETOWN

This in the news today from my hometown of Arlington, TX.

ARLINGTON, Texas - A megachurch canceled a memorial service for a Navy veteran 24 hours before it was to start because the deceased was gay.

Officials at the nondenominational High Point Church knew that Cecil Howard Sinclair was gay when they offered to host his service, said his sister, Kathleen Wright. But after his obituary listed his life partner as one of his survivors, she said, it was called off.

"It's a slap in the face. It's like, 'Oh, we're sorry he died, but he's gay so we can't help you,'" she said Friday.

Wright said High Point offered to hold the service for Sinclair because their brother is a janitor there. Sinclair, who served in the first Gulf War, died Monday at age 46 from an infection after surgery to prepare him for a heart transplant.

The church's pastor, the Rev. Gary Simons, said no one knew Sinclair, who was not a church member, was gay until the day before the Thursday service, when staff members putting together his video tribute saw pictures of men "engaging in clear affection, kissing and embracing."

Simons said the church believes homosexuality is a sin, and it would have appeared to endorse that lifestyle if the service had been held there.

"We did decline to host the service — not based on hatred, not based on discrimination, but based on principle," Simons told The Associated Press. "Had we known it on the day they first spoke about it — yes, we would have declined then. It's not that we didn't love the family." (WHAT?)

Simons said the decision had nothing to do with the obituary. He said the church offered to pay for another site for the service, made the video and provided food for more than 100 relatives and friends.

"Even though we could not condone that lifestyle, we went above and beyond for the family through many acts of love and kindness," Simons said.

Wright called the church's claim about the pictures "a bold-faced lie." She said she provided numerous family pictures of Sinclair, including some with his partner, but said none showed men kissing or hugging.

The 5,000-member High Point Church was founded in 2000 by Simons and his wife, April, whose brother is Joel Osteen, well-known pastor of the 38,000-member Lakewood Church in Houston. Now High Point meets in a 432,000-square-foot facility in Arlington, near Dallas.

Wright said relatives declined the church's offer to hold the service at a community center because they felt it was an inappropriate venue. It ultimately was held at a funeral home, but the cancellation still lingered in some minds, she said.

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CITIZEN ALERT v2.251QUOTE OF THE DAY

From Noah Webster, the guy that brought you the Webster's Dictionary...

America sees the absurdities—she sees the kingdoms of Europe, disturbed by wrangling sectaries, or their commerce, population and improvements of every kind cramped and retarded, because the human mind like the body is fettered 'and bound fast by the chords of policy and superstition': She laughs at their folly and shuns their errors: She founds her empire upon the idea of universal toleration: She admits all religions into her bosom—She secures the sacred rights of every individual; and (astonishing absurdity to Europeans!) she sees a thousand discordant opinions live in the strictest harmony ... it will finally raise her to a pitch of greatness and lustre, before which the glory of ancient Greece and Rome shall dwindle to a point, and the splendor of modern Empires fade into obscurity. - Noah Webster

CITIZEN ALERT v2.250MY PRINTER SAID "KILL"

Hey your Color Laser Jet printer is actually spying on you! Check out this very interesting article from Yahoo's tech News:

http://tech.yahoo.com/blog/null/35239

It's only color laser jets, no ink jets, or black and white lasers.