Pursuing Holiness

This is very cool:

Amputee vets see eye-to-eye on Segways - CNN.com
U.S. Army Sgt. Jacque Keeslar lost both legs in Iraq nearly two years ago. To get around, he relies on a wheelchair and a pair of artificial legs, which help him walk in short bursts.

Veterans at Walter Reed are using Segways that are custom designed for their injuries to get around. ... Now, thanks to a specially designed Segway, the battery-powered transporter, Keeslar says he can ditch his wheelchair and get around without people looking down on him.

Keeslar was among 30 vets who received their own modified Segways this week, courtesy of Disability Rights Advocates for Technology.

And to those who are easily offended anytime Islam is a word taken in vain, I say imagine how offended I am every time one of my friends and neighbors, such as SGT German, is blown up and burned and shot and your words, or lack of them in restraint of Islam, are used to incite more of the same against my other neighbors. Imagine how offended I am when those who believe Islam is supposed to be peaceful and benevolent, all stand by without correcting their fellow religious travelers while they blow up, shoot, burn, snipe, and celebrate the deaths of my friends and neighbors. What about our feelings? Do they count less than yours?

BLACKFIVE: I Ain't Got It All That Bad

From a comment on this article:

If you stripped sex and race from the Dem campaign you’d have two junior senators with little to distinguish them.

Indeed.

Is it possible, just maybe, that Ahmadinejad is wrong about gay people in Iran? Gay people they haven't killed yet, I mean. There's a whole bunch in Egypt, anyway:

A new Egyptian gay organization called "The Lovers" garnered 600 members in the first two weeks of its existence. ...

The organization's head said that homosexual relations are illegal in Egypt even though the gay community numbers over 100,000.

Go figure!