One Utah

To the reader: I wonder if anyone else had seen of heard other suggestions about this? - Cliff
By Reuven Koret - July 31, 2006
It was to be a perfect Hollywood ending for Hezbollah. Just as the Israeli bombing of the village of Qana in 1996 brought a premature end to Israel’s Operation “Grapes of Wrath,” […]

A personal view by Elisha Haas
July 27 2006 - When one tries to understand the news coming from Israel in recent weeks one cannot avoid many questions. Why is Israel attacked now while so many territorial concessions where made recently and many more are promised? When so many peace plans are implemented? Why is the […]

Dear Friends,
Watching CNN today, I expected to hear the the attached speech, perhaps I missed it, so I send it myself, but I hope that this is the spirit in Jerusalem today.
Regards, Elisha Haas, concerned Israeli citizen.
Sunday July, 30 2006
Follows is a speech that was not delivered yesterday by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
Text […]

I am pleased to report that we reached our $10,000 goal this morning when a hat was passed around at Democratic State Party campaign training. We should be proud to hold the distinction of being the first and only state in the Union to have reached our target through grassroots fundraising. All of the other […]

Greetings from Northern Israel. We are all safe but very frustrated.
It appears that the Hizbollahs are very deeply entrenched in south Lebanon, having built underground bases up to a depth of 120 feet! The Air Force cannot do much about these, and only ground forces may be able to dislodge them.
We hate to think what […]

Paul Rolly’s column in today’s Tribune reports that American Legion officials are blaming a lower than expected turnout for the Legion’s meeting in Salt Lake City upon Mayor Rocky Anderson’s opposition to the war in Iraq. Might it just be that even members of the American Legion are beginning to be disheartened by the President’s […]

It is easy to look at the turmoil in the Middle-East and cast the blame upon the Muslim extremists. On the face of it, they are the instigators and vilians of the story. They kidnap Israeli soldiers, kill others, hurl unprovoked rockets at Israeli cities, and deny Israel’s very right to exist.
Yet on honest consideration, […]

A bipartisan NPR survey shows a nation that rejects “moral values” pandering — and is very angry at Bush. - By Joe Conason
July 28, 2006 | For Democrats, who have suffered repeated Election Day disappointments since the dawn of the new millennium, predictions of victory are only another reason to be wary. […]

Last year, following the withdrawal of Israel from the Gaza Strip, I felt a small bit of hope for the prospects of peace in the Middle-East. It was a small step only—indeed, little but a shuffle. But even if they were only inching along, it seemed to me a step in the right direction; the […]

I was embarrased, to say the least, to get a phone call from Ed Firmage today telling me about the Paul Rolly column (permalink) in which I am accused of ripping off a website. It is particulary ironic given that Paul’s column today contained no less than three corrections.
Now he’s got one more to make.

Nobody […]

Thak you Orrin for that clarification, because my eighty-year old mom was really offended by that comment. You see, she doesn’t like the FACT that Bush betrayed us and knowingly mislead the world about the Niger yellow cake and the so called chemical weapons laboratories in trailers.
Mom is especially upset about all […]

I couldn’t resist this excerpt from today’s blog exchange on KSL.com
Mayor Rocky Anderson is signing his name to an advertisement supporting same-sex marriage
Same sex marriage
by Ellen G. (#44515) @ 7:49am - Tue Jul 25th, 2006
I don’t know how you can support same sex marriage Rocky. It clearly states in the bible that marriage is […]

Stolen directly from here.
Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) is the nation’s most prominent global warming denier. He famously declared that global warming is “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.” Now, he’s taken the argument a step further. In an interview with Tulsa World, Inhofe compared people who believed global warming was a problem […]

I caught a disturbing article in the SLTrib and on KSL yesterday. The gist of it goes like this. Autistic boy lives in neighborhood. Same autistic boy is 13 years old but has the mental capacity of a 4 year old. Very same autistic boy tends to wander around […]

For the past 3 days I have been pondering a thoughtful post Called “Sacrament Meeting” by Rob Miller of the Utah Amicus, which can be read in entirety, here.
And I quote:
For far too long the LDS pulpit has been used by members of the Republican Party to marginalize members of the Utah Democratic Party. In […]

Dear World, I understand that you are upset by us, here in Israel. Indeed, it appears that you are quite upset, even angry. (Outraged?)
Indeed, every few years you seem to become upset by us. Today, it is the “brutal repression of the Palestinians”; yesterday it was Lebanon; before that it was the bombing of the […]

But mostly for Mark to spoke to us here.
Mark,
I appreciate and value your thoughtfulness and honesty.
I am struck by your comment “Not wanting such thoughts (same sex attraction) and destructive behavior to control your life is a valid choice”.
When you say “destructive behavior,” are you talking about having a relationship with another man in a […]

Several commentators have recently expressed profound pessimism about the possibility of addressing the challenges posed by catastrophic climate change. Some have argued that current technology is insufficient to address the problem, and that we can only hope for an as-yet unknown technological panacea to effectively combat global warming.
Our experience in Salt Lake City shows that […]

The following represents the first of I hope many posts from my cousin who lives outside Haifa, Israel in a nieghborhood not unlike mine, in a modest home, not unlike mine. Since Sunday Hezbollah has launced over 2000 rockets into the area. - Cliff

For once, it seems that the Western World, through the G8 […]