4,000 Lives = Bad Decision to Go to War?

It is interesting to compare how many American lives were lost in various wars fought by the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_casualties_of_war

The liberal media makes a big deal about the 4,000 lives lost. Yes, every one of those lives is of great value. But to suggest that because we have lost 4,000 lives we should therefore not have gone to war against Iraq is crazy. Some in the media have made that argument. Solely using that criteria would essentially turn you into a pacifistic nation. And nations that don’t go to war aren’t nations for very long.

Furthermore, over 20,000 people die each year from the flu.  That is five times the number of soldiers that have given their lives in Iraq.

Over 40,000 die each year in car crashes.  That is ten times the number of soldiers that have given their lives in Iraq.

We can choose to fight the enemy on his turf or let the enemy bring the war to our own homes.  Personally, I prefer the former.  We can also choose to have soldiers defend us and go to war for our country or we can choose to have them stay at home and instead allow our mothers, wives and children to be innocently slaughtered when the enemy brings the war to our country.

It is cheap and easy to complain and criticize the war in Iraq.  Freedom is never free.

Do You Know the Presidents?

  1. George Washington, 1789-1797
  2. John Adams, 1797-1801
  3. Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809
  4. James Madison, 1809-1817
  5. James Monroe, 1817-1825
  6. John Quincy Adams, 1825-1829
  7. Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837
  8. Martin Van Buren, 1837-1841
  9. William Henry Harrison, 1841
  10. John Tyler, 1841-1845
  11. James Knox Polk, 1845-1849
  12. Zachary Taylor, 1849-1850
  13. Millard Fillmore, 1850-1853
  14. Franklin Pierce, 1853-1857
  15. James Buchanan, 1857-1861
  16. Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865
  17. Andrew Johnson, 1865-1869
  18. Ulysses Simpson Grant, 1869-1877
  19. Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 1877-1881
  20. James Abram Garfield, 1881
  21. Chester Alan Arthur, 1881-1885
  22. Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889
  23. Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893
  24. Grover Cleveland, 1893-1897
  25. William McKinley, 1897-1901
  26. Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909
  27. William Howard Taft, 1909-1913
  28. Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921
  29. Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1921-1923
  30. Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929
  31. Herbert Clark Hoover, 1929-1933
  32. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933-1945
  33. Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953
  34. Dwight David Eisenhower 1953-1961
  35. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-1963
  36. Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-1969
  37. Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969-1974
  38. Gerald Rudolph Ford, 1974-1977
  39. James Earl Carter, Jr., 1977-1981
  40. Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1981-1989
  41. George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989-1993
  42. William Jefferson Clinton, 1993-2001
  43. George Walker Bush, 2001-2009
  44. Barack Hussein Obama, 2009-

List of Presidents

Logging and Filing Trillian IM Messages in Windows Vista

Trillian normally writes its log (which is a record of your IM conversations) under Program Files->Trillian->Users->Default.  Unfortunately, it doesn’t have permission to do so in Windows Vista.  So, in order to actually keep a record you simply need to change the location of where Trillian writes the log.

To do this, open up Trillian.  Go to the drop-down box at the top titled “Trillian” and select “Trillian Preferences.”  Then choose “Activity History.”  Look for “Save History To” and click the “Browse” icon.  Change the location to a place that is easy for you to access.  Perhaps making a new folder in Documents labeled Trillian and choosing that as the location for your logs to be written.

Future Perdition and Eternal Salvation

“It is a serious thing…to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare.  All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or the other of these destinations.  It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics…

It is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit–immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.”

–CS Lewis The Weight of Glory

This definitely puts things in perspective!