I've refrained from political commentary for most of this month, because most of it was consumed with either preparing for, being in, or recovering from Thailand. And, frankly, I wouldn't have had it any other way. Besides that, nothing going on in the news has really made me feel like I have anything to say.

It seems like every other news story right now has to do with homosexuality of some sort or another, whether it be about gay marraige or gay soldiers in Iraq, or recruiting gay ex-military types to translate Arabic, etc., etc. I wouldn't notice it all that much except that I really don't want to have to explain all this to my 8-yr-old who doesn't miss a thing. It's hard to have the news on, even if he's in the other room, out of fear of what's going to come up. Very annoying.

And the whole immigration thing, I don't even want to talk about. I can't understand it. It seems that Congress wants to ram it through the system, even though the great majority of their constitutents on both sides of the aisle are opposed to it. Why would they do this? Do they think that they are safe since this is a non-election year? Whether we vote in November or not, things are already well underway for the '08 election. Just ask Fred Thompson, who apparently is running, but has yet to make it official. Supposedly this is coming next week, but I'm tired of holding my breath. I'm curious if his ratings will go up even higher once he officially announces, or if it is artifically inflated due to speculation right now and will just even out. Hopefully we'll see very soon.

McCain is freaking out, though. He recently said anyone who thinks he's dropping out of the race is smoking something. You have to love that. It must be eating him alive that he is losing in the polls to a man who isn't even officially on the ballot. I feel sorry for Senator McCain actually. But I couldn't vote for him. He's too much of a ticking time bomb, and I would hate for him to be anywhere near the nuclear football if that short fuse of his eventually runs out.

Anyway, where was I? Immigration. I think this bill is going to eventually fail. Senator Pelosi doesn't want it to be seen as a Democrat bill, so she's not even going to bring it forth unless she thinks she has the votes. They want this seen as a Republican Congress/President Bush bill, because they know how unpopular it is. The Republican base is getting pretty ticked off at the leadership telling them that they don't know what they are talking about. The problem here is that Republicans don't vote for Republicans that tick them off and misrepresent them. Hence, the election results of 2006. We try to punish our leaders when they screw up by voting them out of office, which I totally understand the emotion behind, but I can't understand why voting in the opposition is supposed to be a better solution.

Meanwhile, Israel is a complete disaster. They are virtually surrounded by a pack of angry wolves, and the saliva is flowing. In a recent interview with The Jerusalem Post, John Bolton made the case that diplomacy with Iran is a complete disaster. In the past four years, while we have been trying to "talk things through" with the crazy people, they've figured out how to convert uranium from solid to gas, and now enrichment to weapons grade. They're not being subtle about their intentions. And yet we seem to be doing nothing to stop them.

July looks like the perfect set-up for another Israeli war, and this time they're facing more than just Hezbollah. Will they finish it if it gets started this time? Most Americans are completely clueless to the kind of danger that we are in. All we care about is who is going to interview Paris Hilton when she gets out of jail. WHY DO WE CARE???? I just don't get this.

So, apparently I was storing some stuff up. Thanks for letting me ramble. It's a good thing Blogger doesn't charge by the word, huh?