I saw this story on CNN when it broke last night at 1:30 when I was trying to fall asleep to war coverage. (I know… I’m a freak.) It’s pretty amazing and I hope Pfc Jessica Lynch can meet this man when the war ends.

I also saw a pretty interesting thing on the “Today” show yesterday. A Marine was standing on a tank leading street songs with Iraqi children. It was definitely the lighter side of things although it was disturbing to see the children repeating his “Bring it on down! W00T! W00T!”

On politics, the Estrada filibuster is holding firm. I’ve written my senators and yelled at them for trying to end the filibuster. According to CNN, “Republicans have accused Democrats of treating Estrada unfairly because he is a conservative Hispanic.” Ummm…. no? I’m conservative and I’d love to see a Hispanic sitting in a high judicial position as much as anyone in the Latino community would — I’d like to see all branches of the government reflect the actual ethnic make-up of the USA. However, he is refusing to answer questions about where he stands on a lot of issues that are important to me, and I can’t support the nomination of someone to a position like that if I don’t know that my rights as a woman are going to be respected. (Oh yes… anyone calling me a “rabid feminist” had better be female, because I will dopeslap the first male who says that to me. Capeche?) I’d like to know that Estrada isn’t going to side with logging companies to clearcut forests and I’d like to know that Estrada isn’t going to shoot down any abortion cases that go in front of him. (For those who want to call me a butcher because I happen to believe that it is MY body and MY right, I supported the Indiana legislation to have a waiting period between counselling before the abortion and the procedure itself.) I mean, I would not support nominations to the courts by any president who will not compel their nominees to answer questions about where they stand whether it was Bush or Clinton.