befuddled fridays

In my constant (and successful) search for ways to procrastinate, I decided to do a weekly blog entry titled "befuddled friday" as a way to sound off about stuff: current events, news etc that just has me befuddled. Not confused per se but more akin to what Arsenio Hall used to term "things that make you go hm."

So here's the first:

Does anyone find it interesting that in the same week President Bush vetoed a bill to expand stem cell research because of his purported moral stance in favor of human life (as if the human lives that could be preserved by doing stem cell research don't matter), at least 250 more people have died in Iraq and at least that many have been killed and are continuing to be killed in Lebanon by Israeli soldiers but our government won't call for a cease-fire (eventhough the UN has)? Is anyone other than me a little befuddled? Or do only some lives count?