What To Believe

On the question of what source of information to believe about stories of Blackwater and DynCorp operations in Pakistan, the following is interesting. "As the saying goes, never believe anything until is has been offically denied".

Michelle Obama"s staff issue.

I recently received a chain e-mail from GOPers in the family claiming that MO had a staff of 24 personal assistants while Laura Bush had only one. I went to "Factcheck.org" for another view. They said; "Michelle Obama's staff was actually no different than that of her predecessor, Laura Bush" MO staff costs $ 1.6 million, while the LB staff cost $ 1.4 million. The chain e-mail was from "TheLastCrusade.org" and posted on "CanadaFreePress", noted by factcheck as a "conservative web site".

Sarah Palin and God

On 1/11/10 it was reported in The Virginian Pilot paper that Sarah Palin said that McCain chose her for his running mate because it was "God's plan". I always thought religious teaching was that God did not play a role in the affairs of man; thus if a war occurs, or a child dies, or a earthquake hits Haiti it was not God's doing. If Palin can say that her being chosen for a role in political affairs was because God wanted it, then does she also believe that other events were also "God's plan"? Was Hurricane Katrina God's doing? Was the Holocaust part of God's plan? Why doesn't someone call her on this? Does she believe that things happen because of some master plan by God?