One of the neat things about the World Wide Web is that, well, you can access web sites around the world. There’s a small but growing number of readers logging on to Resonance from outside the United States. If you’re one of them, I invite you to check out Resonance’s International Edition.
I was surprised to see in the the December site statistics that the highest number of foreign domain visitors came from Greece. So if you happen to be a Greek visitor, “Γειάσου,” or whatever “hello” is. Resonance will undoubtedly be focusing more on Greece as the Olympics draw nigh.
It’s interesting reading foreign blogs, but unfortunately not everyone is free to do so. I only recently learned that many Internet users have access to Blogspot sites blocked by the “the Great Firewall of China.” But as far as I know, Resonance is available in China. I welcome this audience of 1 billion potential Resonance readers [minus those who don’t know English, minus those without the Internet, minus those who don’t care . . . which leaves approximately one or two]. Come back again.

If you’re thinking about supporting a Republican in the next election, which I do NOT recommend, consider voting for a “real Republican.”
“Don’t give George W. Bush four more years to lead America to ruin.”
He’s got a campaign blog . . . on Blogspot. There’s some fiscal disipline! He should probably update it a little more often though.

Making a watch list, checking it twice:

Six cases of mistaken identity were behind the pre-Christmas grounding of six Air France flights between Paris and Los Angeles over terrorism fears, a police official said Friday.
. . .
Pierre Debue, director of the French border police, said U.S. officials have asked France to check out a few suspicious names on passenger lists nearly every day since Christmas Eve.
One turned out to be a 5-year-old child, and another was a prominent Egyptian scientist, he said. The Wall Street Journal said two other suspected “terrorists” turned out to be an elderly Chinese woman and a Welsh insurance agent.

It’s easy to fault what looks like a mistaken identity, but let’s take the high road: we may have just nabbed a rising 5-year-old star in the Young Al Qaeda Executive Training Program.
Way to go guys!

Any Knoxville-area readers see any Y-12 keys lying around? They’re missing 200 of them.
UPDATE: Only 40 of the keys were to sensitive areas. Okay, no problem after all.

Another revelation:

Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson said Friday he believes God has told him President Bush will be re-elected in a “blowout” in November.
“I think George Bush is going to win in a walk,” Robertson said on his “700 Club” program on the Virginia Beach-based Christian Broadcasting Network, which he founded. “I really believe I’m hearing from the Lord it’s going to be like a blowout election in 2004. It’s shaping up that way.”
Robertson told viewers he spent several days in prayer at the end of 2003.
“The Lord has just blessed him,” Robertson said of Bush.

We’re lucky to have this former Republican presidential candidate to convey this unfiltered message from God, aren’t we? But wait, Robertson has more:

“I mean, he could make terrible mistakes and comes out of it. It doesn’t make any difference what he does, good or bad, God picks him up because he’s a man of prayer and God’s blessing him.”

Huh? It doesn’t make an difference what he does, good or bad? From what I’ve seen, most hardcore Republicans like Robertson, have a blind allegiance toward Bush. But hopefully God–and a majority of voters–are a little more discriminating in their assessments.