so as this gonzalez thing gets to be a bigger and bigger deal (as i hope it will), let's sit back and reflect. i think we can all agree on the fact that john ashcroft was a less than ideal attorney general . . . he had a blatent disrespect for our civil liberties - a very bad quality for the top law enforcement office in the country. i know that i, and probably all of you, thought ashcroft was the worst the bush crew could come up with - and he was certainly a great bad guy - but we should have known better. leave it up to bush inc to find someone even worse, someone who didn't just have a disregard for our bill of rights, but had the gall to defend people who took part in disrespecting human beings themselves. gonzalez wrote the legal briefs on getting around the geneva conventions, he justified abu ghraid. he is almost as evil as the devil. abu ghraib not only had a terrible effect on the people directly involved it had an incalcuable effect on the war and our soldiers over there in general. how many insurrengents or terrorists got recruited through those images? how has that bush policy made us any safer? just something to think about . . .

also - i just want to take a moment and thank everyone out there for being who you are and a part of my life. i think it's good to remember every now and then just how lucky we really are to be on this globe.