stay in the shallow end

Just signed up for the vigil to honor our fallen soldiers. Here is the email I received:

This week, the number of American soldiers lost while serving in Iraq reached over 2000. While thousands of families have made the ultimate sacrifice, thousands more send their children and loved ones off to a war that seems to have no end in sight.

Today, Wednesday, October 26, 2005 at 6:30 p.m. we will gather at vigils to remember and honor our fallen soldiers and ask, “How many more?”

Thousands of us will solemnly gather together and acknowledge the sacrifices made by over 2000 American men and women in Iraq and their families and speak out against the war.

You can sign up for the Vigil for 2000 Killed in Iraq at:
http://political.moveon.org/event/iraqvigils/6530

It’s at 6:30 PM today at Albemarle County Office Building at the corner of McIntire Road and Preston Avenue. Here’s a link to get directions from Google Maps

You are cordially invited to join us at South Street tonight at 5:00 PM for an enjoyable evening of Drinking Liberally.

Look for us in the couches around the fireplace.

Free Republic is one of the 96 feeds in my RSS reader. It’s painful to read sometimes, but given that the other websites and blogs I keep track of lean so far to the left, the freepers make for a good reality check. Often times, I can take comments from FR, swap right for left, republican for democrat, etc and it looks like it came straight from Daily Kos.

But every now and then, a post comes along that I just can’t reconcile. Today that post was Should Pat DeWine (son of Sellout Senator) be defeated in June 14 Special Election?. The Sellout Senator they are referring to is Republican Senator Mike DeWine from Ohio, who is one of the seven GOP members that brokered the deal to avert the nuclear option regarding filibusters. Here’s what the author for the post had to say:

Though I do not favor visiting the sins of the father on the son, conservative primary voters who just watched DeWine the Elder throw some fine conservatives under the bus might not be as forgiving. DeWine the Younger is the favorite.

OK, so he doesn’t favor any action, but raises the issue. Unfortunately, some of the comments that followed were so digusting. Here’s three:

Yes. This is how the game must be played. There is too much at stake to play nice. These arrogant Senate “centrists” need to be taught a lesson. Nice lessons have no impact. Ugly ones do. Screw Pat DeWine.

The sins of thy fathers shall be paid for by their sons.

I sent an email to Senator DeWine yesterday and told him I was ashamed that he had abandoned the Republican party to side with Byrd and the other dwarfs.
I told him I believed his actions made one DeWine in DC to be one too many and with his son in consideration, two DeWines would be unbearable.

I’m still incredulous. It’s so Sopranos… first we’re coming after you, and then we come after your family.