Politicians often fail to resolve practical problems

drawings by marguerita - The portrait that emerges all over is....dashed expectations.


"What you are seems to be unacceptable,
you look for an identity that will be acceptable. Usually this identity is found in faces you are talking to.
You make a habit of studying people, finding out the way they talk, the answers that they give and their points of view; then, in a form of self-defense, you reflect what’s on their faces and how they act because most people like to see reflections of themselves.-” Marlon Brando

The Pentagon simply put out inflated measures of progress to cover up the failures.

In one passage, for example, former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell is quoted as saying that in the months after the 2003 invasion, the Defense Department “kept inventing numbers of Iraqi security forces — the number would jump 20,000 a week! ‘We now have 80,000, we now have 100,000, we now have 120,000.’ ”Mr. Powell’s assertion that the Pentagon inflated the number of competent Iraqi security forces is backed up by Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the former commander of ground troops in Iraq, and L. Paul Bremer III, the top civilian administrator until an Iraqi government took over in June 2004.Report Spotlights Iraq Rebuilding Blunders - NYTimes.com

Dignitas Personae: Only Adam &Eve and The Holy Ghost

drawing -collage by marguerita- Notes on Technology and Sex
“There is no morally licit way”The Vatican says these techniques violate the principle that every human life — even an embryo — is sacred, and that children should be conceived only through intercourse by a married couple.
The church also objects to freezing embryos, because it exposes them to potential damage and manipulation, and raises the irresolvable problem of what to do with frozen embryos that are not implanted. There are hundreds of thousands of these in the United States alone, a fact that prompted church ethicists to use this document to reiterate the church’s opposition to in vitro fertilization.Vatican Issues Instruction on Bioethics - NYTimes.com
from the Instruction:Human/animal hybrid embryos.
The Instruction rejects attempts to create such hybrids (including the use of animal eggs in attempts at human cloning), noting that "from an ethical standpoint such procedures represent an offense against the dignity of human beings on account of the admixture of human and genetic elements capable of disrupting the specific identity of man.

" The Instruction concludes by explaining the positive vision of human progress that grounds its moral judgments against specific abuses of biotechnology.
. Through modern science and technology, the Instruction says, the human person "participates in the creative power of God and is called to transform creation" in service to "the dignity and wellbeing of all human beings and of the human person in his entirety."