New Look!

Hello everyone, and welcome to the new and improved version of Bridging Adversity! I figured out how to variegate the colors of my blog and changed them to better suite my taste. Hope you like it!

In other news, I picked up "House" yesterday and I've been tearing through it! I'm almost halfway finished with it already, and it's a pretty long book, at 400 pages. I won't spoil anything yet in case any of you want to read it, but...wow. I haven't read anything this exciting in a while, and I'm almost positive I'll be telling Mr. Perkis to order some copies, although the writing really is a little edgy and won't appeal to everyone.

And speaking of an appeal to everyone, look at this:

"I simply want to call attention to one dimension of the event, the allotment of time given to the candidates. Perhaps someone can tell me why Mitt Romney, the newest favorite of the Republican Party establishment and elite since Giuliani made his strategic error, got 22 minutes to present his positions and Mike Huckabee, the new whipping boy of the same group, only got 11 minutes?"

http://www.mikehuckabee.com/?FuseAction=Newsroom.Article&ID=152

I happen to think that this is very unfair. Mike Huckabee, a candidate for the Republican nominee for President, isn't being given as much time as the other people to speak at debates. The article (which was originally written on a Catholic web page, by the way) goes on to say that this is because he is too religious and is therefore not taken seriously as a candidate for President. I am personally and deeply offended by this and think that Mike Huckabee should be getting as much time to speak as anyone else. For a man to be discriminated against on the basis of his religion is a terrible thing, and I will be praying that Mike Huckabee has the strength to go on against this adversity.

I would also like to comment on the fact that this article is from Catholic.org. I am not a Catholic, but this plainly proves that Catholics and Protestants have things in common, like a desire for the righteous and fair treatment of all candidates in the election, for one. This is, in my humble opinion, a great way of bridging all of the adversity and hardship the Catholics and Protestants have had to show that we can all work together sharing in common our love for Christ and for justice. I support this article and I hope you do too: spread it and get the word out there!

I'm still a little worked up about this though, because Mike Huckabee is my favorite candidate, as you know, and so this could be bad news. Maybe a little "House" will cheer me up!

- Dirk