Parliament Elections Saturday

I'll admit life is a little precarious these days and I'll share with you why. What got things going was the Koran burning discussions here in America, that really gets the extremists motivated/empowered to get the people riled up. Imagine if there was an "organized" groups of Muslims over in this part of the world gathering to burn Bibles? I'm guessing we'd all get riled up too, but not to these levels (I hope anyway). Now, we've got riled up folks just before national level of election for the Parliament (our Congress). One of the primary goals of the Taliban and Al'Quaida is to stop democracy and thus empowerment of the Afghan people. Disrupting elections would definitely put a damper on both democracy and empowerment and large violent protests would definitely serve that purpose. The gatherings against yesterday's Koran burnings resulted in the death of 6 Afghan protestors from Afghan police bullets, interestingly, just 3 days before the elections. I was out at the Ministry when this happend and fortunately was able to scurry back to an international community secured compound before the roads shut down. Not sure if the roads will be shut down today or not, but my gut tells me to hunker down today. I'm trusting my gut.

Lots of funny and inquiring comments about yesterday's food blog. I will address a few of those:
Mary: Yes, the DFAC/chow hall is quite large... if I had to guess I'd say over 8,000 square feet
Kt: Yes, there is peanut butter but I'm trying hard to ignore it... thanks for reminding me as I head out for breakfast to start off my day
CT: Yes, they have grits and sometimes both regular and cheese. Haven't tried them yet, but if they have them today I'll do a tasting and get back to you.

Today's blog hug goes out to my dearest friends Kt and Bruce Brown who are celebrating their 5th Anniversary at Bloomsbury. Sounds like you had a most interesting(?) anniversary celebration.