The man is pictured here:

http://mattsanchez.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/06/11/sheik.jpg

Sanchez uses his blog to attack the “liberal media” for exaggerating the violence in Iraq, yet when he’s touched by the violence — or rather when people he exploited to promote rose-colored neocon spin are touched by violence, he almost forgets to mention it.

So far he hasn’t bothered to update his blog to let people know the sheiks that he blogged about on June 11 were killed by a suicide bomber.

His Live Leak video is posted here:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=540_1182967071

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NEW YORK (AP) – Poor residents will be rewarded for good behavior – like $300 for doing well on school tests, $150 for holding a job and $200 for visiting the doctor – under an experimental anti-poverty program that city officials detailed Monday.

The rewards have been used in other countries, including Brazil and Mexico, and have drawn widespread praise for changing behavior among the poor. Mayor Michael Bloomberg traveled to Mexico this spring to study the healthy lifestyle payments, also known as conditional cash transfers.

In New York, the two-year pilot program with about 14,000 participants will use private funds Bloomberg has raised because he did not want to spend government money on something that is highly experimental. More than $43 million has been raised toward the $53 million goal, Deputy Mayor Linda Gibbs said.

The theory behind cash rewards is that poor people are trapped in a cycle of repeated setbacks that keep them from climbing out of poverty. A person who doesn’t keep up with his vaccinations and doctor’s visits, for example, may get sick more often and struggle to stay employed.

I don’t know if I would call what happened after hurrican Katrina a triumph for private charites. If anything it shows the need for a well run government agency to help dissaster recovery. It is telling that after all this time the ninth ward is still not rebuilt and people are still living in trailers. stuff like that happens in the third world, and leaving disaster relief to private charites will help the US to resemble a third world nation in no time.

As far as volunteering with charities, I worked at a samaritan shelter for a while and spent two summers as a wrangler at a Y camp while in high school. Plus I worked on a habitat for humanity house. In each of those cases I noticed that it is about 50% people who want to help or are there for other reasons and about 50% people who are there to preach. Although at the Y camp it was probably more like a third, with one third their because they liked the mountains and the activities they got to do, a third that needed a summer job and it was all they could find and a third that wanted to preach.

Now I volunteer at a local animal shelter and with an alpine rescue group, in both cases I notice that the group is much more focused on the goal at hand because they are not trying to manipulate people into believing in something, they really are just trying to serve someone, ultmately they are much more honest about what they are trying to do and why they are there; and I think it is much more satisfying for the volunteer and the recipient than a christian charity where they pretend they want to help and all they want you to do is believe in some diety.

I have always admired your hipness, I think that is why the cool kids like Lieberman and Mccain used to come on your show. In their world you are the coolest.