Would You Like More Foley With That?

The still unfolding drama surrounding Mark Foley's sexuality and preference for young boys is a fair enough target for the media. A party that touts itself as the pillar of morality and as the center of American "values" (whatever that means) is deserving of the mockery it is now receiving.

Jesus warned his followers, "Do not judge, lest you be judged" -

For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, Let me take the speck out of your eye when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye."
Matthew 7:2-5

There is something delightfully amusing about watching the American hizballah be whacked with the same yardstick they have wielded like nuns in Sunday school for the past six years.

As with so many stories that dominate the headlines, however, one must wonder what stories are being ignored by the media to dedicate so much attention to this guy. With each day comes more speculation of who knew what when, a new denial, the Republican spin that Foley was really a Democrat or the guys were really 18. But does it matter?

The truly devout will continue to worship at the Republican altar regardless of whether yet another of their corrupt heroes, who they worship at a level of idolatry that would make Hitler jealous, falls from grace. The Catholic Church did not collapse upon revelations far more egregious than those getting peddled on the front page of all the rags that pass themselves off as newspapers in this country.

I can't help but be suspicious when the media obsess over nonsense like Jon Benet Ramsey, Lacey Paterson, Natalee Holloway or Mark Foley. These are second-rate soap operas that hold the attention of only the most depraved among us.

So, while you weren't looking, the real news whisks by unnoticed and without the attention it deserves.

It turns out Iraq is entering into Saddam-era oil deals with China. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L27480542.htm

There is no discussion about why the murderer terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, who bombed a Cuban airliner is not being sent to Gitmo.
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/octubre/vier6/42posada-i.html

Soon, America's military children will be parented by cardboard cut-outs.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1890286,00.html