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I am going to fast from blogging for Lent so I can spend more time with my grandfather who has had a heart attack and may not be with us for too much longer.

 blessings,

dlw

ps, there is a blog called the Kruse Kronicle that has an interesting post on Theology and Economics that I’d like to encourage others to consider. 

And, according to a World Bank study, the cause isn’t the scarcity of food, but rather poor early nursing problems. 

Nutritionists at the bank say programs should emphasize changing how mothers behave, for example, encouraging them to breast-feed exclusively for the first six months of life and seek quick treatment for their children’s illnesses, rather than directly providing food.

Providing school-age children with nutrition education, iron supplements and deworming medicines are better ways to improve nutrition than simply providing them with meals, the report also says.

The lead author of the report, Meera Shekar, said feeding programs are costly and vulnerable to corruption, with publicly provided food given to better-off people rather than to the poor.

Advocates of feeding programs reply that food can be a magnet that draws mothers and children to centers where nutrition counseling is offered and that nutritious food provided early enough in life can also help. 

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I realized recently that I was getting too caught up with this whole President Bush thing and that I needed to let it go and not think that it’s my job to disrepute him in the minds of others. 

I am glad to point to two different threads that show people who come from red state cultures, are scholars of the Bible, and are calling for a distinct Purple Politics.  Read more

One Spirit. One Will. Zero Poverty.

One Spirit. It’s a movement.

I am a big fan of Bread for the World and would urge others to get on board with the movement. 

dlw

TPM Muckraker has proof on video that our president George W Bush was briefed on the possibility that Hurricane Katrina could breach the levees of New Orleans, the day before it hit. 

This goes against his statement made on Sept 1st that he didn’t think anyone anticipated the breach happening. 

It may just be politics to Bush, but he seems to dichotomize his morality where one can do all sorts of machiavellian stuff to get and keep power in politics.  Ask John McCain about the politics Bush/Rove et al. did to keep him from getting the Republican nomination in 2000. 

dlw

My friend Matt at A Pilgrim’s digression does a good job probing what is revealed about President George W Bush in his recent interviews with ABC News’s Elizabeth Vargas.  He rightfully condemns the US for relying too much on our ideologies than an openness to learning about the facts of our situation and characterizes Bush as particularly relying on 

“the vision thing” his father so much disdained, but in his case, I think seeing visions of a peaceful, democratic Iraq is more a sign of madness than of the clarity of his insight.

 dlw

Kudos to the Brad Blog, GK begins, “The man was lost and then he was found and now he’s more lost than ever — and he’s taking us into the darkness with him. It’s time to remove him.”…and ends, “The U.S. Constitution provides a simple ultimate way to hold him to account for war crimes and the failure to attend to the country’s defense. Impeach him and let the Senate hear the evidence.”

You know things are bad when a Minnesotan is leading the charge for domestic regime-change.

dlw

ps, one can gauge the seriousness of antipathy towards Bush by googling, Bush Impeachment, and then Clinton Impeachment.  I got 7.8 million entries for Bush and only 4.4 million for Clinton, with Cheney Impeachment being only at 1.85 million and dlw Impeachment only at 450.  That last one is bound to go up, though…

dlw

Jamie Arpin-Ricci tells the story of St Patrick and presents the Gospel message based on themes from his life. 

It’s a beautiful story of how Christianity helped a young spoiled wealthy man cope with the suffering and trauma of being held in captivity and how it changed his life, as well as the course of civilization. 

dlw