I don't think the emails were the problem

"ABC News reported Friday that Foley also engaged in a series of sexually explicit instant messages with current and former male pages. In one message, ABC said, Foley wrote to one page: "Do I make you a little horny?"

In another message, Foley wrote, "You in your boxers, too? ... Well, strip down and get relaxed."

Foley, as chairman of the Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus, had introduced legislation in July to protect children from exploitation by adults over the Internet. He also sponsored other legislation designed to protect minors from abuse and neglect.

"We track library books better than we do sexual predators," Foley has said.

And he once accused the Supreme Court of "siding with pedophiles over children."

Foley was a member of the Republican leadership, serving as a deputy whip. He also was a member of the House Ways and Means Committee."

ABC to air biased 9/11 docu-drama

This is an email forwarded from actforchange.com - I post this because the three of you that might read this might care.

"Tell ABC to Cancel Their Inaccurate and Slanted Sept. 11th Program
http://act.actforchange.com/cgi-bin7/DM/y/epid0NihYD0Ubj0BMZC0Ez

On September 10th and 11th, ABC is planning to air a "docu-drama"
called "Path to 9/11," which is being billed as "an objective telling
of the events of 9/11." In fact, the film was written by an unabashed
conservative who twists the facts to blame President Clinton.

Tell ABC to cancel this show. Click here:
http://act.actforchange.com/cgi-bin7/DM/y/epid0NihYD0Ubj0BMZC0Ez

ABC's new six-hour film was apparently screened in advance ONLY to
conservative bloggers and journalists -- and received extensive praise
from none other than Rush Limbaugh. The film is apparently also
riddled with factual errors and distortions; former counterterrorism
czar Richard Clarke has completely refuted one of the key scenes in
the show.

It's simply stunning to think that as this fall's election approaches,
a major television network would devote six hours of prime-time
programming to air such a slanted and inaccurate program.

Tell ABC -- this type of inaccurate and slanted program does not
belong on primetime television, and they should cancel this show.
Click here:
http://act.actforchange.com/cgi-bin7/DM/y/epid0NihYD0Ubj0BMZC0Ez

*** Want to increase your impact? Share this message with everyone you
know who's interested in unbiased reporting on the tragic events of
Sept. 11th, 2001. ***

THANK YOU for working to build a better world.

Will Easton
Manager, ActForChange.com
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sorry

English is so lacking, at times. My last remaining grandparent died Wednesday night after a short illness, and I've been hearing people say "I'm sorry" for the last week, over and over and over again. I appreciate the sentiment, but I've always felt that 'sorry' really should be saved for instances of contrition and guilt. Saying sorry as sympathy somehow doesn't convey it in the right way. In German you say "Es tut mir leid," which transliterates as 'it does me sorrow.' Somehow I like this better. I also realize I'm railing at windmills here, but isn't there a better way?

So all this sorry is making me shut down a bit. I get to spend three days flying on small planes to podunk Southern cities and back for the funeral, but at least I get to see a side of the family that I never do. It's probably the last time that I will see the small northern Louisiana town that the great-grandfather after whom I'm named helped to found.

But today it's my 35th birthday. Christ on a pogo stick.