1 About two years ago, and with the advice of the Commissar, I stopped reading "A Family in Baghdad" as it was making me crazy... Having my first born son in the Navy, I would read this blog and just couldn't believe their views. Clearly, this family was part of the Baathist elite and, after reading the mother's lament about how nice it was when she had a "black" nanny to take care of the children while the family was in Amman (it seems they owned a 2nd home in Jordan) I just couldn't stand it anymore. Once our troops arrived, she started bitching about trash in the streets, broken sidewalks and the break down of the wounderful public services her neighborhood enjoyed (like 24/hr electric supply at the expense of the rest of the nation). The kicker came when she posted pictures of her family in their living room, dressed in their "Sunday best" and I thought to myself that their home is better than the vast majority of U.S. homes. Talk about finery. I emailed her about the trash and suggested that she organize a neighborhood committee to pick up trash and place it in a "bombed out" crater if no other alternative was available. After all, if this problem faced my community, that is probably what we would do... No good! The idea that the "neighbors" should do something themselves about the situation was completely out of the question (whose trash is it, anyway?) Meanwhile, her son was doing some kind of Iraqi war dead thing and raving about the evil occupiers. I have come to find out that he is currently living in the Bay area of CA... and still carrying on about the evil U.S. gov't. If we are so evil, what are they doing here and, don't the people that hand out visas read blogs??? Feh, what the hell is the matter with our State Dept that we allow these kind of scum into our country?

2 I saw that and I wanted to reach into the TV and slap that guy. come on Jim i kept thinking slap him! slap him silly!