Manic Monday

Up early today to take our heartworm puppy back to the vet for her checkup. (UPDATE: progress, but not 100%. All the adult heartworms are killed. That’s good.  But the baby ones survived today’s treatment.  There’s apparently a new breed of heartworm that is immune to the current drugs. The vet is trying another one tomorrow.  Hopefully, it will work. At least she’s off the leash and can run the backyard. )

I guess I’m getting old and set in my ways, but anything like that to take me out of my routine throws the entire day off! Then, sitting here tonight, working through bloglines looking for interesting stuff, I’m caught up realizing that we don’t have any Christmas decorations up and a trip north for our daughter’s college graduation looming in less than two weeks.  I really need to figure out a way to squeeze more hours into the day or more energy into my life.

What’s happening tonight?  Depressing reports out of Baghdad that, while violence is down, disease is up. 

It’s all hunky dory in Iraq

The surge is surging, refugees are being evicted returning from Syria and elsewhere, and President Bush has his permanent bases for as long as he wants them. Put on a happy face because all is right with the Iraqi world (nevermind those cowardly reporters who refuse to go anywhere in Baghdad without military protection). It’s all just fine and dandy over in the central front on the War on Terror, except for this itsy-bitsy concern about a cholera epidemic. [...]

There’s still more “good” news out of Iraq:

60 Minutes: Reverend Canon White says: The situation is clearly worse in Iraq now for Christians

Scott Pelley’s disturbing report on 60 Minutes shows just one angle of the carnage that continues in Iraq despite the surge — the cleansing of Iraqi Christians. Pelley interviews Andrew White, a minister who suffers from Multiple Sclerosis and runs one of the few remaining Christian churches left [...]