Goin' to the Missippi Mudd

Do you remember the song that most of us learned at girl scout camp...
"Well the sun goes down and the moon comes up, people gather round and we all begin to shout. Hey, hey uncle dud, it's a treat to put your feet in the mississippi mud, it's a treat to stick you feet in the mississippi mud...mud, mud, mud, mud, mud...mississippi mud, yeah!"

Anyone? Anyone? Well I'm taking 26 others down tomorrow to clean up the mississippi mud and I'm not sure how much of a treat it will be...a privelage yes, a treat? Hard to say. I'll let you know later.

I just saw "Lord of War". Good movie but hard on the moralistic senses. It's about a gun runner, Nicolas Cage, who buys arms from defunct countries and sells them to debased dictators, making a nice living in the process. The movie does a great job of exposing the systemic problem of the old adage, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The PS at the end of the movie lists the 5 largest gun supliers as the US, Russia, Israel, China and one other, which I forget. All 5 also hold perminant seats on the UN Security counsel. Doesn't Sudan have a seat on the Security counsel as well? Totally disturbing to say the least.

What's my response? Where do I start? A friend of a friend is an aid worker in North Africa was carjacked, potentially raped and stuffed in the trunk only to be found later. What in the world... Lord Jesus, forgive us our SINS. Come Lord Jesus, Come!