I ordered the DVD and it was worth it.
There is not enough time to get the DVD before the election, but you can watch it here at no charge. You can make a contribution, and I urge you to do so since the producers have made it available to everyone.
Send the link to your family and friends and urge them to watch it.
There is a very important message from those that suffered in Vietnam while John Kerry was lying during testimony.
Honor those vets and watch it.
Then vote!
DR
10/28/2004
Why I Am Voting For George W. Bush
There are a myriad of reasons that my vote will be cast next week for George W. Bush for President of the United States of America.
And there are many more reasons why I will NOT be voting for John Kerry:
We do have a right in this country called freedom of speech, and I am in favor of everyone’s right to this freedom – even if I don’t always agree with them. But, one thing I have never done – nor any of my friends has ever done – nor any of us have ever contemplated doing – was meeting with the enemy while a war is still being fought against them.
Or protesting against a war by throwing medals over the fence that surrounds the White House, especially while my comrades-in-arms are still fighting the war I just left.
Or invoking the name of the enemy while a war is still being fought. Or taking that enemies demands for ending the war, including leaving our POWs in enemy camps.
My grandfather served in WWI. He returned home and went back to his life, didn’t mention the war very often. But one thing he did NOT do was speak falsely about his comrades-in-arms or testify against them – especially while some were still suffering in POW camps.
I don't see a flag burning, medal throwing, communist loving history with George W. Bush.
I look at George W. Bush and I see America. Sure, he is not perfect. Who is? Sure, when I look at him I am reminded of the words in Amazing Grace "...that saved a wretch like me!I once was lost, but now am found;Was blind, but now I see."
But, for all his faults, GW is someone that is committed to preserving the American way of life...his first priority.
George W. Bush has stood tall, looked the enemies of the United States of America in the eye and told them "No Way." Not under his watch. You won't see George Bush bowing at the altar of the United Nations. The UN, that is filled with countries that hate the U.S. and want us to fall. GW won't cut and run. He will finish the fight the terrorists picked with the United States on September 11, 2001.
That is the reason the terrorists, North Korea, Iran, all the enemies of the U.S. are AGAINST George W. Bush for re-election.
And that is precisely why I will vote FOR him.
DR
And there are many more reasons why I will NOT be voting for John Kerry:
We do have a right in this country called freedom of speech, and I am in favor of everyone’s right to this freedom – even if I don’t always agree with them. But, one thing I have never done – nor any of my friends has ever done – nor any of us have ever contemplated doing – was meeting with the enemy while a war is still being fought against them.
Or protesting against a war by throwing medals over the fence that surrounds the White House, especially while my comrades-in-arms are still fighting the war I just left.
Or invoking the name of the enemy while a war is still being fought. Or taking that enemies demands for ending the war, including leaving our POWs in enemy camps.
My grandfather served in WWI. He returned home and went back to his life, didn’t mention the war very often. But one thing he did NOT do was speak falsely about his comrades-in-arms or testify against them – especially while some were still suffering in POW camps.
I don't see a flag burning, medal throwing, communist loving history with George W. Bush.
I look at George W. Bush and I see America. Sure, he is not perfect. Who is? Sure, when I look at him I am reminded of the words in Amazing Grace "...that saved a wretch like me!I once was lost, but now am found;Was blind, but now I see."
But, for all his faults, GW is someone that is committed to preserving the American way of life...his first priority.
George W. Bush has stood tall, looked the enemies of the United States of America in the eye and told them "No Way." Not under his watch. You won't see George Bush bowing at the altar of the United Nations. The UN, that is filled with countries that hate the U.S. and want us to fall. GW won't cut and run. He will finish the fight the terrorists picked with the United States on September 11, 2001.
That is the reason the terrorists, North Korea, Iran, all the enemies of the U.S. are AGAINST George W. Bush for re-election.
And that is precisely why I will vote FOR him.
DR
10/27/2004
Just IN: Russia Tied to Iraq's Missing Arms
This is critical, so I am reprinting the entire article here.............
The Washington Times is reporting tonight:
Russian special forces troops moved many of Saddam Hussein's weapons and related goods out of Iraq and into Syria in the weeks before the March 2003 U.S. military operation, The Washington Times has learned.
John A. Shaw, the deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, said in an interview that he believes the Russian troops, working with Iraqi intelligence, "almost certainly" removed the high-explosive material that went missing from the Al-Qaqaa facility, south of Baghdad.
"The Russians brought in, just before the war got started, a whole series of military units," Mr. Shaw said. "Their main job was to shred all evidence of any of the contractual arrangements they had with the Iraqis. The others were transportation units."
Mr. Shaw, who was in charge of cataloguing the tons of conventional arms provided to Iraq by foreign suppliers, said he recently obtained reliable information on the arms-dispersal program from two European intelligence services that have detailed knowledge of the Russian-Iraqi weapons collaboration.
Most of Saddam's most powerful arms were systematically separated from other arms like mortars, bombs and rockets, and sent to Syria and Lebanon, and possibly to Iran, he said.
The Russian involvement in helping disperse Saddam's weapons, including some 380 tons of RDX and HMX is still being investigated, Mr. Shaw said.
The RDX and HMX, which are used to manufacture high-explosive and nuclear weapons, are probably of Russian origin, he said.
Pentagon spokesman Larry DiRita could not be reached for comment.
The disappearance of the material was reported in a letter Oct. 10 from the Iraqi government to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Disclosure of the missing explosives Monday in a New York Times story was used by the Democratic presidential campaign of Sen. John Kerry, who accused the Bush administration of failing to secure the material. Al-Qaqaa, a known Iraqi weapons site, was monitored closely, Mr. Shaw said.
"That was such a pivotal location, Number 1, that the mere fact of [special explosives] disappearing was impossible," Mr. Shaw said. "And Number 2, if the stuff disappeared, it had to have gone before we got there."
The Pentagon disclosed yesterday that the Al-Qaqaa facility was defended by Fedayeen Saddam, Special Republican Guard and other Iraqi military units during the conflict. U.S. forces defeated the defenders around April 3 and found the gates to the facility open, the Pentagon said in a statement yesterday.
A military unit in charge of searching for weapons, the Army's 75th Exploitation Task Force, then inspected Al-Qaqaa on May 8, May 11 and May 27, 2003, and found no high explosives that had been monitored in the past by the IAEA.
The Pentagon said there was no evidence of large-scale movement of explosives from the facility after April 6.
"The movement of 377 tons of heavy ordnance would have required dozens of heavy trucks and equipment moving along the same roadways as U.S. combat divisions occupied continually for weeks prior to and subsequent to the 3rd Infantry Division's arrival at the facility," the statement said.
The statement also said that the material may have been removed from the site by Saddam's regime.
According to the Pentagon, U.N. arms inspectors sealed the explosives at Al-Qaqaa in January 2003 and revisited the site in March and noted that the seals were not broken.
It is not known if the inspectors saw the explosives in March. The U.N. team left the country before the U.S.-led invasion began March 20, 2003.
A second defense official said documents on the Russian support to Iraq reveal that Saddam's government paid the Kremlin for the special forces to provide security for Iraq's Russian arms and to conduct counterintelligence activities designed to prevent U.S. and Western intelligence services from learning about the arms pipeline through Syria.
The Russian arms-removal program was initiated after Yevgeny Primakov, the former Russian intelligence chief, could not convince Saddam to give in to U.S. and Western demands, this official said.
A small portion of Iraq's 650,000 tons to 1 million tons of conventional arms that were found after the war were looted after the U.S.-led invasion, Mr. Shaw said. Russia was Iraq's largest foreign supplier of weaponry, he said.
However, the most important and useful arms and explosives appear to have been separated and moved out as part of carefully designed program. "The organized effort was done in advance of the conflict," Mr. Shaw said.
The Russian forces were tasked with moving special arms out of the country.
Mr. Shaw said foreign intelligence officials believe the Russians worked with Saddam's Mukhabarat intelligence service to separate out special weapons, including high explosives and other arms and related technology, from standard conventional arms spread out in some 200 arms depots.
The Russian weapons were then sent out of the country to Syria, and possibly Lebanon in Russian trucks, Mr. Shaw said.
Mr. Shaw said he believes that the withdrawal of Russian-made weapons and explosives from Iraq was part of plan by Saddam to set up a "redoubt" in Syria that could be used as a base for launching pro-Saddam insurgency operations in Iraq.
The Russian units were dispatched beginning in January 2003 and by March had destroyed hundreds of pages of documents on Russian arms supplies to Iraq while dispersing arms to Syria, the second official said.
Besides their own weapons, the Russians were supplying Saddam with arms made in Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria and other Eastern European nations, he said.
"Whatever was not buried was put on lorries and sent to the Syrian border," the defense official said.
Documents reviewed by the official included itineraries of military units involved in the truck shipments to Syria. The materials outlined in the documents included missile components, MiG jet parts, tank parts and chemicals used to make chemical weapons, the official said.
The director of the Iraqi government front company known as the Al Bashair Trading Co. fled to Syria, where he is in charge of monitoring arms holdings and funding Iraqi insurgent activities, the official said.
Also, an Arabic-language report obtained by U.S. intelligence disclosed the extent of Russian armaments. The 26-page report was written by Abdul Tawab Mullah al Huwaysh, Saddam's minister of military industrialization, who was captured by U.S. forces May 2, 2003.
The Russian "spetsnaz" or special-operations forces were under the GRU military intelligence service and organized large commercial truck convoys for the weapons removal, the official said.
Regarding the explosives, the new Iraqi government reported that 194.7 metric tons of HMX, or high-melting-point explosive, and 141.2 metric tons of RDX, or rapid-detonation explosive, and 5.8 metric tons of PETN, or pentaerythritol tetranitrate, were missing.
The material is used in nuclear weapons and also in making military "plastic" high explosive.
Defense officials said the Russians can provide information on what happened to the Iraqi weapons and explosives that were transported out of the country. Officials believe the Russians also can explain what happened to Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs.
The Washington Times is reporting tonight:
Russian special forces troops moved many of Saddam Hussein's weapons and related goods out of Iraq and into Syria in the weeks before the March 2003 U.S. military operation, The Washington Times has learned.
John A. Shaw, the deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, said in an interview that he believes the Russian troops, working with Iraqi intelligence, "almost certainly" removed the high-explosive material that went missing from the Al-Qaqaa facility, south of Baghdad.
"The Russians brought in, just before the war got started, a whole series of military units," Mr. Shaw said. "Their main job was to shred all evidence of any of the contractual arrangements they had with the Iraqis. The others were transportation units."
Mr. Shaw, who was in charge of cataloguing the tons of conventional arms provided to Iraq by foreign suppliers, said he recently obtained reliable information on the arms-dispersal program from two European intelligence services that have detailed knowledge of the Russian-Iraqi weapons collaboration.
Most of Saddam's most powerful arms were systematically separated from other arms like mortars, bombs and rockets, and sent to Syria and Lebanon, and possibly to Iran, he said.
The Russian involvement in helping disperse Saddam's weapons, including some 380 tons of RDX and HMX is still being investigated, Mr. Shaw said.
The RDX and HMX, which are used to manufacture high-explosive and nuclear weapons, are probably of Russian origin, he said.
Pentagon spokesman Larry DiRita could not be reached for comment.
The disappearance of the material was reported in a letter Oct. 10 from the Iraqi government to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Disclosure of the missing explosives Monday in a New York Times story was used by the Democratic presidential campaign of Sen. John Kerry, who accused the Bush administration of failing to secure the material. Al-Qaqaa, a known Iraqi weapons site, was monitored closely, Mr. Shaw said.
"That was such a pivotal location, Number 1, that the mere fact of [special explosives] disappearing was impossible," Mr. Shaw said. "And Number 2, if the stuff disappeared, it had to have gone before we got there."
The Pentagon disclosed yesterday that the Al-Qaqaa facility was defended by Fedayeen Saddam, Special Republican Guard and other Iraqi military units during the conflict. U.S. forces defeated the defenders around April 3 and found the gates to the facility open, the Pentagon said in a statement yesterday.
A military unit in charge of searching for weapons, the Army's 75th Exploitation Task Force, then inspected Al-Qaqaa on May 8, May 11 and May 27, 2003, and found no high explosives that had been monitored in the past by the IAEA.
The Pentagon said there was no evidence of large-scale movement of explosives from the facility after April 6.
"The movement of 377 tons of heavy ordnance would have required dozens of heavy trucks and equipment moving along the same roadways as U.S. combat divisions occupied continually for weeks prior to and subsequent to the 3rd Infantry Division's arrival at the facility," the statement said.
The statement also said that the material may have been removed from the site by Saddam's regime.
According to the Pentagon, U.N. arms inspectors sealed the explosives at Al-Qaqaa in January 2003 and revisited the site in March and noted that the seals were not broken.
It is not known if the inspectors saw the explosives in March. The U.N. team left the country before the U.S.-led invasion began March 20, 2003.
A second defense official said documents on the Russian support to Iraq reveal that Saddam's government paid the Kremlin for the special forces to provide security for Iraq's Russian arms and to conduct counterintelligence activities designed to prevent U.S. and Western intelligence services from learning about the arms pipeline through Syria.
The Russian arms-removal program was initiated after Yevgeny Primakov, the former Russian intelligence chief, could not convince Saddam to give in to U.S. and Western demands, this official said.
A small portion of Iraq's 650,000 tons to 1 million tons of conventional arms that were found after the war were looted after the U.S.-led invasion, Mr. Shaw said. Russia was Iraq's largest foreign supplier of weaponry, he said.
However, the most important and useful arms and explosives appear to have been separated and moved out as part of carefully designed program. "The organized effort was done in advance of the conflict," Mr. Shaw said.
The Russian forces were tasked with moving special arms out of the country.
Mr. Shaw said foreign intelligence officials believe the Russians worked with Saddam's Mukhabarat intelligence service to separate out special weapons, including high explosives and other arms and related technology, from standard conventional arms spread out in some 200 arms depots.
The Russian weapons were then sent out of the country to Syria, and possibly Lebanon in Russian trucks, Mr. Shaw said.
Mr. Shaw said he believes that the withdrawal of Russian-made weapons and explosives from Iraq was part of plan by Saddam to set up a "redoubt" in Syria that could be used as a base for launching pro-Saddam insurgency operations in Iraq.
The Russian units were dispatched beginning in January 2003 and by March had destroyed hundreds of pages of documents on Russian arms supplies to Iraq while dispersing arms to Syria, the second official said.
Besides their own weapons, the Russians were supplying Saddam with arms made in Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria and other Eastern European nations, he said.
"Whatever was not buried was put on lorries and sent to the Syrian border," the defense official said.
Documents reviewed by the official included itineraries of military units involved in the truck shipments to Syria. The materials outlined in the documents included missile components, MiG jet parts, tank parts and chemicals used to make chemical weapons, the official said.
The director of the Iraqi government front company known as the Al Bashair Trading Co. fled to Syria, where he is in charge of monitoring arms holdings and funding Iraqi insurgent activities, the official said.
Also, an Arabic-language report obtained by U.S. intelligence disclosed the extent of Russian armaments. The 26-page report was written by Abdul Tawab Mullah al Huwaysh, Saddam's minister of military industrialization, who was captured by U.S. forces May 2, 2003.
The Russian "spetsnaz" or special-operations forces were under the GRU military intelligence service and organized large commercial truck convoys for the weapons removal, the official said.
Regarding the explosives, the new Iraqi government reported that 194.7 metric tons of HMX, or high-melting-point explosive, and 141.2 metric tons of RDX, or rapid-detonation explosive, and 5.8 metric tons of PETN, or pentaerythritol tetranitrate, were missing.
The material is used in nuclear weapons and also in making military "plastic" high explosive.
Defense officials said the Russians can provide information on what happened to the Iraqi weapons and explosives that were transported out of the country. Officials believe the Russians also can explain what happened to Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs.
Dee Dee Meyers: Did You Know That John Kerry Was In Vietnam?
Dee Dee Myers, former press secretary to President Clinton, was on MSNBC tonight - trying to shore up the fatal Kerry campaign.
Give it up Dee Dee!
Kerry is terminal.
None of your party line rhetoric is going to turn this around...go home...rest...wash your mouth out with soap...you know you want to
DR
Give it up Dee Dee!
Kerry is terminal.
None of your party line rhetoric is going to turn this around...go home...rest...wash your mouth out with soap...you know you want to
DR
New Arizona poll: Bush 50 Kerry 45
Phoenix Business Journal reports that a new poll by Rasmussen Reports gives President Bush a 50 percent to 45 percent lead over Democratic Sen. John Kerry in Arizona.
That mirrors an Arizona State University poll this week that also had Bush up by five points over Kerry.
Recent surveys have shown Bush leading in Arizona by between five and 11 points.
Bush carried Arizona by six percentage points over Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election.
Rasmussen also released new polls on Wednesday showing Bush with narrow leads over Kerry in Nevada and New Mexico.
The Southwest has become a top battleground in the Kerry-Bush race though New Mexico and Nevada are considered more in play than Arizona.
DR
That mirrors an Arizona State University poll this week that also had Bush up by five points over Kerry.
Recent surveys have shown Bush leading in Arizona by between five and 11 points.
Bush carried Arizona by six percentage points over Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election.
Rasmussen also released new polls on Wednesday showing Bush with narrow leads over Kerry in Nevada and New Mexico.
The Southwest has become a top battleground in the Kerry-Bush race though New Mexico and Nevada are considered more in play than Arizona.
DR
To Kerry And Company - Thanks For Supporting Our Point!
All of the screaming about 'missing explosives' inside Iraq from the Liberal Left - Kerry & Company in particular - WTF???
Up to now, I have only heard the Libs emphatically stating that Saddam posed no threat!
You can't have it both ways, Kerry & Co.
So what is this all about???
The blame game - that's what it is.
Fire off as many accusations as quickly as you can - doesn't matter if they are truthful or not - with less than a week to go before election day, hit 'em with as many as you can and see what sticks....
But think about it....
... the U.N. Inspectors were supposed to be watching Saddam - and now we find out that these explosives disappeared before the troops arrived - all of this outcry is only supporting President Bush's argument that for all of their 'hard work', U.N. inspectors were never going to be able to control Saddam's thirst for weapons.
Thank you John F'n Kerry...you just solidified the argument that we have been making all along...
DR
Up to now, I have only heard the Libs emphatically stating that Saddam posed no threat!
You can't have it both ways, Kerry & Co.
So what is this all about???
The blame game - that's what it is.
Fire off as many accusations as quickly as you can - doesn't matter if they are truthful or not - with less than a week to go before election day, hit 'em with as many as you can and see what sticks....
But think about it....
... the U.N. Inspectors were supposed to be watching Saddam - and now we find out that these explosives disappeared before the troops arrived - all of this outcry is only supporting President Bush's argument that for all of their 'hard work', U.N. inspectors were never going to be able to control Saddam's thirst for weapons.
Thank you John F'n Kerry...you just solidified the argument that we have been making all along...
DR
10/26/2004
Bush 65% - Kerry 33%
Since 1956, Weekly Reader students in grades 1-12 have correctly picked the president making the Weekly Reader poll one of the most accurate predictors of presidential outcomes in history.
Hundreds of thousands of students participated in this year's poll through classroom elections nationwide. President Bush had a commanding lead over Senator Kerry, capturing more than 60% of the votes.
USAToday reports: Most political junkies won't give it the time of day, but the Weekly Reader presidential poll of schoolchildren has pegged every winner since 1956.
This year's winner? George W. Bush — in a landslide.
Most polls of adults put Bush and Democratic Sen. John Kerry neck-and-neck. But this one wasn't even close: Bush got 65% of kids' votes, while Kerry got just over 33%, says Weekly Reader editor Mia Toschi.
She says Bush's emphasis on terrorism and security won votes. That sentiment was echoed by Patty Spiers, a second-grade teacher in Tarpon Springs, Fla., who says the GOP's security message resonated with her 7-year-olds. "From what I heard from my children, the kids who are for Bush, their parents say, 'Well, Bush will keep us safe.' " The wee Kerry voters tell her, "We'll get better health insurance."
Polling experts say kids' political views often reflect those of their parents. "You would expect the results of a poll of children to look just like the poll of adults," says Cary Funk of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.
Voting was open to kids in first through 12th grade. Students could vote in class, via the Internet or by dialing an 800 number. Toschi says 327,707 kids in all 50 states cast ballots.
But even a sample size of more than a quarter-million students is "irrelevant," says Frank Newport of the Gallup Poll. He says polls must be truly random to be accurate.
Other kids' polls have picked Bush — one by children's publisher Scholastic sees a 52% victory. Channel One, the in-school TV network, gave 55%.
7 more days until 4 more years........
DR
Hundreds of thousands of students participated in this year's poll through classroom elections nationwide. President Bush had a commanding lead over Senator Kerry, capturing more than 60% of the votes.
USAToday reports: Most political junkies won't give it the time of day, but the Weekly Reader presidential poll of schoolchildren has pegged every winner since 1956.
This year's winner? George W. Bush — in a landslide.
Most polls of adults put Bush and Democratic Sen. John Kerry neck-and-neck. But this one wasn't even close: Bush got 65% of kids' votes, while Kerry got just over 33%, says Weekly Reader editor Mia Toschi.
She says Bush's emphasis on terrorism and security won votes. That sentiment was echoed by Patty Spiers, a second-grade teacher in Tarpon Springs, Fla., who says the GOP's security message resonated with her 7-year-olds. "From what I heard from my children, the kids who are for Bush, their parents say, 'Well, Bush will keep us safe.' " The wee Kerry voters tell her, "We'll get better health insurance."
Polling experts say kids' political views often reflect those of their parents. "You would expect the results of a poll of children to look just like the poll of adults," says Cary Funk of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.
Voting was open to kids in first through 12th grade. Students could vote in class, via the Internet or by dialing an 800 number. Toschi says 327,707 kids in all 50 states cast ballots.
But even a sample size of more than a quarter-million students is "irrelevant," says Frank Newport of the Gallup Poll. He says polls must be truly random to be accurate.
Other kids' polls have picked Bush — one by children's publisher Scholastic sees a 52% victory. Channel One, the in-school TV network, gave 55%.
7 more days until 4 more years........
DR
LO Drinking Game
The Galvin Opinion has a new way to spend an evening: The Lawrence O'Donnell Drinking Game.
O'Donnell, as you know, has gone over the edge.
Check it out.
DR
O'Donnell, as you know, has gone over the edge.
Check it out.
DR
Can You Change My Mind? I Doubt It - Can I Change Yours?
Jordan, fellow blogger, visited and left a comment that warranted a much more detailed response than I am able to leave in the comments section. I am going to respond here:
Jordan: Not that I can change your vote but I have some questions or points I would like to make to you.
Jordan: The whole basis of the war was Weapons of Mass destruction. UN inspectors didn't find any, pre war, but Bush insisted they had them. As of today no WMD's have been discovered, so that leads me to conclude the war was started on false pretenses.
DR: You know, Jordan, even the U.N. inspectors acknowledged that Saddam had the potential for making for WMD. The “news” about the missing explosives is a clear example of what Saddam Hussein was able to do because he had SO MUCH time to prepare for the attack. While the liberals were insisting on getting a blessing from the U.N. to protect our nation, Saddam was moving WMD out of his country, probably to Syria. President Bush did not move against Iraq under false pretenses. He was using what is commonly known as a preemptive strike to avoid another terrorist attack from a country that was known to harbor terrorists. Al Zarqawi, the evil terrorist that kidnaps and decapitates innocents, has lived in Iraq for years. Are you prepared to say that while Saddam allowed him sanctuary in Iraq, Saddam wasn’t aware of his terrorist activities? Saddam was – at best starving his people – at worst torturing and killing them – stealing money from the Oil for Food Program and using it to buy weapons towards a WMD end.
Jordan: Next, we have the capture of Saddam Hussein. Sure it may be good to get him off the "streets" but what about Osama? It seems W forgot about him. He was the leader of 911 not Hussein, who as the 9/11 commision concluded, had no links to Al-qaida. If Bush had spent the billions of dollars on hunting Bin Laden rather than going to war with Iraq I am certain he would have been captured and Bush procliamed hero of the day.
DR: Jordan, OBL is dead. DEAD.
Jordan: And you mention that John Kerry is a liar. What about Dick Chenney? Saying he had never before met John Edwards till the night of the debate, when the two had met at a Senate luncheon (or some function to that effect).
DR: The Vice President was stating that he never met John Edwards on the Senate floor. Cheney was stressing the fact that while John Edwards aspires to be VP, he doesn’t show it in his service in the Senate. Here is the transcript for that portion of the debate:
Cheney: The reason they keep trying to attack Halliburton is because they want to obscure their own record.
And Senator, frankly, you have a record in the Senate that's not very distinguished. You've missed 33 out of 36 meetings in the Judiciary Committee, almost 70 percent of the meetings of the Intelligence Committee.
You've missed a lot of key votes: on tax policy, on energy, on Medicare reform.
Your hometown newspaper has taken to calling you "Senator Gone." You've got one of the worst attendance records in the United States Senate.
Now, in my capacity as vice president, I am the president of Senate, the presiding officer. I'm up in the Senate most Tuesdays when they're in session.
The first time I ever met you was when you walked on the stage tonight.
DR: Put into context, Vice President Cheney's comment makes sense.
Jordan: And Halliburton. They were awarded govenment contrcats in Iraq they they didn't even have to place bids on, and coincidentally enough vice president Dick Chenney is the former CEO of Halliburton. If you think he had no bearing on them getting the contracts you are sadly mistaken.
DR: Halliburton was awarded the contract because they were the only company doing that kind of work. Why put out bids if no one else is qualified or able to apply? Halliburton was awarded the cleanup contract in Kosovo for the same reason – by the Clinton administration – and we didn’t hear an outcry over that. Why not? Cheney resigned from Halliburton, by the way. Anything he receives is much, much lower than he would have received if he stayed on – dividends he earned while he was with them, no new money.
Jordan: So those are just a few of the points why I feel George W. Bush doesn't deserve another term in the White House. Thanks for taking time to read my comments.
DR: Jordan, WAKE UP! From your website it doesn’t look like you are able to vote here in the U.S., but maybe someone reading this will give it a second thought.
John Kerry’s non-record for the last 20+ years should be a good indicator of someone that likes to talk, talk, talk….but does nothing to follow up that talk.
President Bush is the ONLY choice for this election. I may not agree with him on every issue, but as I said in an earlier post –
Without security for a nation, for its citizens and the residing commerce that sustains those citizens, there is nothing left to consider.
All of the arguments that are left on the table quickly disappear:
Health coverage is a moot point if terrorists are running amok and not allowing hospitals to operate (Afghanistan).
Social Security is a non sequitur if the citizens don’t live into old age, rather lie decomposing in mass graves (Iraq).
Tax relief or restructuring become meaningless if there is no infrastructure in place (Haiti).
President Bush – yes, cowboy fashion – will stand tall and fight for Americans.
DR
Jordan: Not that I can change your vote but I have some questions or points I would like to make to you.
Jordan: The whole basis of the war was Weapons of Mass destruction. UN inspectors didn't find any, pre war, but Bush insisted they had them. As of today no WMD's have been discovered, so that leads me to conclude the war was started on false pretenses.
DR: You know, Jordan, even the U.N. inspectors acknowledged that Saddam had the potential for making for WMD. The “news” about the missing explosives is a clear example of what Saddam Hussein was able to do because he had SO MUCH time to prepare for the attack. While the liberals were insisting on getting a blessing from the U.N. to protect our nation, Saddam was moving WMD out of his country, probably to Syria. President Bush did not move against Iraq under false pretenses. He was using what is commonly known as a preemptive strike to avoid another terrorist attack from a country that was known to harbor terrorists. Al Zarqawi, the evil terrorist that kidnaps and decapitates innocents, has lived in Iraq for years. Are you prepared to say that while Saddam allowed him sanctuary in Iraq, Saddam wasn’t aware of his terrorist activities? Saddam was – at best starving his people – at worst torturing and killing them – stealing money from the Oil for Food Program and using it to buy weapons towards a WMD end.
Jordan: Next, we have the capture of Saddam Hussein. Sure it may be good to get him off the "streets" but what about Osama? It seems W forgot about him. He was the leader of 911 not Hussein, who as the 9/11 commision concluded, had no links to Al-qaida. If Bush had spent the billions of dollars on hunting Bin Laden rather than going to war with Iraq I am certain he would have been captured and Bush procliamed hero of the day.
DR: Jordan, OBL is dead. DEAD.
Jordan: And you mention that John Kerry is a liar. What about Dick Chenney? Saying he had never before met John Edwards till the night of the debate, when the two had met at a Senate luncheon (or some function to that effect).
DR: The Vice President was stating that he never met John Edwards on the Senate floor. Cheney was stressing the fact that while John Edwards aspires to be VP, he doesn’t show it in his service in the Senate. Here is the transcript for that portion of the debate:
Cheney: The reason they keep trying to attack Halliburton is because they want to obscure their own record.
And Senator, frankly, you have a record in the Senate that's not very distinguished. You've missed 33 out of 36 meetings in the Judiciary Committee, almost 70 percent of the meetings of the Intelligence Committee.
You've missed a lot of key votes: on tax policy, on energy, on Medicare reform.
Your hometown newspaper has taken to calling you "Senator Gone." You've got one of the worst attendance records in the United States Senate.
Now, in my capacity as vice president, I am the president of Senate, the presiding officer. I'm up in the Senate most Tuesdays when they're in session.
The first time I ever met you was when you walked on the stage tonight.
DR: Put into context, Vice President Cheney's comment makes sense.
Jordan: And Halliburton. They were awarded govenment contrcats in Iraq they they didn't even have to place bids on, and coincidentally enough vice president Dick Chenney is the former CEO of Halliburton. If you think he had no bearing on them getting the contracts you are sadly mistaken.
DR: Halliburton was awarded the contract because they were the only company doing that kind of work. Why put out bids if no one else is qualified or able to apply? Halliburton was awarded the cleanup contract in Kosovo for the same reason – by the Clinton administration – and we didn’t hear an outcry over that. Why not? Cheney resigned from Halliburton, by the way. Anything he receives is much, much lower than he would have received if he stayed on – dividends he earned while he was with them, no new money.
Jordan: So those are just a few of the points why I feel George W. Bush doesn't deserve another term in the White House. Thanks for taking time to read my comments.
DR: Jordan, WAKE UP! From your website it doesn’t look like you are able to vote here in the U.S., but maybe someone reading this will give it a second thought.
John Kerry’s non-record for the last 20+ years should be a good indicator of someone that likes to talk, talk, talk….but does nothing to follow up that talk.
President Bush is the ONLY choice for this election. I may not agree with him on every issue, but as I said in an earlier post –
Without security for a nation, for its citizens and the residing commerce that sustains those citizens, there is nothing left to consider.
All of the arguments that are left on the table quickly disappear:
Health coverage is a moot point if terrorists are running amok and not allowing hospitals to operate (Afghanistan).
Social Security is a non sequitur if the citizens don’t live into old age, rather lie decomposing in mass graves (Iraq).
Tax relief or restructuring become meaningless if there is no infrastructure in place (Haiti).
President Bush – yes, cowboy fashion – will stand tall and fight for Americans.
DR
Kerry Concedes Colorado?
John Kerry has canceled television ads and a final trip to Colorado, stating "Right now, you have to question the return on the investment, and we did."
Meanwhile, Bush is rolling out new commercials focusing on himself rather than attacking Kerry.
Stay the course!
DR
Meanwhile, Bush is rolling out new commercials focusing on himself rather than attacking Kerry.
Stay the course!
DR
CBSNEWS PLANNED BUSH MISSING EXPLOSIVES STORY FOR ELECTION EVE
Matt Drudge is reporting that news of missing explosives in Iraq -- first reported in April 2003 -- was being resurrected for a 60 MINUTES election eve broadcast designed to knock the Bush administration into a crises mode...
Drudge is also reporting that "In an election week rush:
**ABCNEWS Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 4 Times
**CBSNEWS Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 7 Times
**MSNBC Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 37 Times
**CNN Mentioned The Iraq Explosives Depot At Least 50 Times"
BUT
NBCNEWS reported: The 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives were already missing back in April 10, 2003 -- when U.S. troops arrived at the installation south of Baghdad!
An NBCNEWS crew embedded with troops moved in to secure the Al-Qaqaa weapons facility on April 10, 2003, one day after the liberation of Iraq. According to NBCNEWS, the HMX and RDX explosives were already missing when the American troops arrived.
"The U.S. Army was at the site one day after the liberation and the weapons were already gone," a top Republican blasted from Washington late Monday.
Stay the course.
DR
Hate Mongering Left is Trying To Soften Us Up For The Kill
According to David Horowitz at FrontPage, the group, "Church Folks for A Better America," ran a political ad counseling defeatism in Iraq in the New York Times, and is the same one:
who counseled defeat in Indo-China, aided the torturers of American POWS in North Vietnam, and fronted for the Soviet dictatorship’s "nuclear freeze" campaign. (If successful, this campaign would have consolidated a Soviet missile advantage and prolonged the Cold War.) Robert Edgar was a leader of the campaign to force Elian Gonzalez into the clutches of Fidel Castro, a sadistic dictator who has made his nation an island prison.
It has been said that this week will be the worst for the rhetoric coming from the left - they are going to pull out all of the stops in their last effort to win back the presidency.
Forget the truth. Forget that we are fighting a war. Forget that their words are solace for our enemies while our troops remain in harms way.
Horowitz's words should resonate with you and warn you not to fall prey to the vicious tactics of the Socialist Left:
By destroying the tradition of bipartisanship in war, by betraying a war policy they signed onto, and by conducting a scorched earth campaign against their own commander-in-chief, the Democratic Party has opened the public square to a political zoo of America hating radicals. Personified in such figures as Noam Chomsky and Michael Moore, their agenda is exactly the same as it was during the Cold War and the war in Vietnam: to demoralize our troops, to sap the will of our citizenry, to weaken our ability to stay the course and resist, and to soften us up for the kill.
Stay the course. We are winning with the truth...and they know it.
DR
who counseled defeat in Indo-China, aided the torturers of American POWS in North Vietnam, and fronted for the Soviet dictatorship’s "nuclear freeze" campaign. (If successful, this campaign would have consolidated a Soviet missile advantage and prolonged the Cold War.) Robert Edgar was a leader of the campaign to force Elian Gonzalez into the clutches of Fidel Castro, a sadistic dictator who has made his nation an island prison.
It has been said that this week will be the worst for the rhetoric coming from the left - they are going to pull out all of the stops in their last effort to win back the presidency.
Forget the truth. Forget that we are fighting a war. Forget that their words are solace for our enemies while our troops remain in harms way.
Horowitz's words should resonate with you and warn you not to fall prey to the vicious tactics of the Socialist Left:
By destroying the tradition of bipartisanship in war, by betraying a war policy they signed onto, and by conducting a scorched earth campaign against their own commander-in-chief, the Democratic Party has opened the public square to a political zoo of America hating radicals. Personified in such figures as Noam Chomsky and Michael Moore, their agenda is exactly the same as it was during the Cold War and the war in Vietnam: to demoralize our troops, to sap the will of our citizenry, to weaken our ability to stay the course and resist, and to soften us up for the kill.
Stay the course. We are winning with the truth...and they know it.
DR
10/25/2004
Arizona Republication Headquarters Intimidation
This message comes from the Arizona Republican Party:
Throughout our state there has been systematic destruction and defacing of our Bush Cheney campaign signs. Two offices have had attempted break-ins, one of our offices was burglarized, and just last week one office had a bomb threat and our Flagstaff office was vandalized.
The Arizona Republican Party will not be intimidated by the Democrats and their allies.
Please report any criminal or suspicious activity immediately to your local law enforcement authorities or to Republican Headquarters at (602) 957-7770.
Amazing...sad that it has to come to this...but, the more the goons act out...the stronger our resolve to win!
DR
Throughout our state there has been systematic destruction and defacing of our Bush Cheney campaign signs. Two offices have had attempted break-ins, one of our offices was burglarized, and just last week one office had a bomb threat and our Flagstaff office was vandalized.
The Arizona Republican Party will not be intimidated by the Democrats and their allies.
Please report any criminal or suspicious activity immediately to your local law enforcement authorities or to Republican Headquarters at (602) 957-7770.
Amazing...sad that it has to come to this...but, the more the goons act out...the stronger our resolve to win!
DR
Kerry: Not One to Let The Truth Get In the Way
I realize that if I keep updating you on the Kerry Lies series, I will be forced to start another blog dedicated to just that in order not to dominate this one.
The following is all the way from Scotland. Thanks to Hugh Hewitt for the tip.
Scotsman.com News reports:
SENATOR John Kerry’s efforts to portray himself as "just a regular American guy" suffered a blow this weekend when he comprehensively messed up the scoreline at a game featuring his beloved Boston Red Sox.
Twice on Sunday, the Democrat said he was basking in the glory of Boston’s 10-9 win on Saturday night. The problem was, the Red Sox won 11-9.
"Ten-nine, the Sox did fabulous," Mr Kerry said with a big smile as he ducked into church on Sunday morning in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Inside, the minister asked worshippers to clap "if the Lord has done anything wonderful in your life this week", to which Mr Kerry applauded.
"I had a special reason to clap," Mr Kerry explained. "The Red Sox won 10-9."
Mr Kerry’s spokesman, David Wade, said the senator got the score wrong because 10-9 was the last update he got during his late-night flight to Florida.
The problem is, the score never was 10-9. The Sox won on a two-run homer, meaning they went from nine runs to 11. Regardless, Mr Kerry’s adviser, Mike McCurry, explained to reporters: "The senator had bad intelligence last night."
However, the confusion struck again within hours of his team’s second game.
Landing in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the Democratic candidate bounded off the plane wearing his Red Sox cap to exclaim: "Seven-one Red Sox!"
The Red Sox were winning 6-1 at the time. They went on to win 6-2.
What to do? What to do?
You simply are gonna have to muzzle him. Just like Tereza'
That really is your only option, McAuliffe.
DR
The following is all the way from Scotland. Thanks to Hugh Hewitt for the tip.
Scotsman.com News reports:
SENATOR John Kerry’s efforts to portray himself as "just a regular American guy" suffered a blow this weekend when he comprehensively messed up the scoreline at a game featuring his beloved Boston Red Sox.
Twice on Sunday, the Democrat said he was basking in the glory of Boston’s 10-9 win on Saturday night. The problem was, the Red Sox won 11-9.
"Ten-nine, the Sox did fabulous," Mr Kerry said with a big smile as he ducked into church on Sunday morning in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Inside, the minister asked worshippers to clap "if the Lord has done anything wonderful in your life this week", to which Mr Kerry applauded.
"I had a special reason to clap," Mr Kerry explained. "The Red Sox won 10-9."
Mr Kerry’s spokesman, David Wade, said the senator got the score wrong because 10-9 was the last update he got during his late-night flight to Florida.
The problem is, the score never was 10-9. The Sox won on a two-run homer, meaning they went from nine runs to 11. Regardless, Mr Kerry’s adviser, Mike McCurry, explained to reporters: "The senator had bad intelligence last night."
However, the confusion struck again within hours of his team’s second game.
Landing in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the Democratic candidate bounded off the plane wearing his Red Sox cap to exclaim: "Seven-one Red Sox!"
The Red Sox were winning 6-1 at the time. They went on to win 6-2.
What to do? What to do?
You simply are gonna have to muzzle him. Just like Tereza'
That really is your only option, McAuliffe.
DR
What Is It With This Guy? Kerry Lies, Part CXXIV
N.M. GOVERNOR DETAILS HIS STATE'S SUCCESS STORY Published on October 26, 1986 Author(s): Peter J. Howe, Globe Staff
New Mexico's governor, who holds the highest elected post of any Hispanic nationwide, and the head of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination were given awards for political excellence last night by the Massachusetts Latino Democratic Committee.
More than 250 people--including Gov. Dukakis, US Sen. John Kerry and an array of state Cabinet members--attended the banquet at the World Trade Center in South Boston honoring Gov. Toney Anaya and Alex Rodriguez.
Nice stuff, huh?
Only problem is, what the New Mexico governor relates to us directly flies in the face of the other...next...latest...newest...best known... lie that John Kerry is telling. (your pick on the descriptor)
According to this from ESPN.COM:
ESPN: We've got to ask you some Red Sox questions. Do you believe in the curse?
Kerry: Do I believe in it? No, but it certainly makes a powerful argument from time to time. I mean, I don't believe in curses, but I do think that we've been under a cloud here and there. I was 30 yards away from Billy Buckner in that famous Shea Stadium game in '86. So I've been there in the heartbreaks. And I was screaming at the television set when Grady did not pull Pedro out.
uh huh.
Michael Goldfarb at the Weekly Standard notes:
On October 25, 1986, the Boston Red Sox were facing off against the New York Mets in the sixth game of the World Series.........Unlike Kerry's disputed presence in Cambodia on December 25, 1969, his claim to have been a witness to one of the most infamous moments in Red Sox history should not have raised suspicion. But after claiming his favorite Red Sox player of all time was Eddie Yost, who never played a single game for the club, the research arm of Football Fans For Truth vigorously worked to verify Kerry's account of the event.
I can just hear Kerry now...."Mommie said 'inconsistency'... no...'incoherence'...no...'incongruity'...no...well, hell! I know it was one of those "i" words"
DR
New Mexico's governor, who holds the highest elected post of any Hispanic nationwide, and the head of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination were given awards for political excellence last night by the Massachusetts Latino Democratic Committee.
More than 250 people--including Gov. Dukakis, US Sen. John Kerry and an array of state Cabinet members--attended the banquet at the World Trade Center in South Boston honoring Gov. Toney Anaya and Alex Rodriguez.
Nice stuff, huh?
Only problem is, what the New Mexico governor relates to us directly flies in the face of the other...next...latest...newest...best known... lie that John Kerry is telling. (your pick on the descriptor)
According to this from ESPN.COM:
ESPN: We've got to ask you some Red Sox questions. Do you believe in the curse?
Kerry: Do I believe in it? No, but it certainly makes a powerful argument from time to time. I mean, I don't believe in curses, but I do think that we've been under a cloud here and there. I was 30 yards away from Billy Buckner in that famous Shea Stadium game in '86. So I've been there in the heartbreaks. And I was screaming at the television set when Grady did not pull Pedro out.
uh huh.
Michael Goldfarb at the Weekly Standard notes:
On October 25, 1986, the Boston Red Sox were facing off against the New York Mets in the sixth game of the World Series.........Unlike Kerry's disputed presence in Cambodia on December 25, 1969, his claim to have been a witness to one of the most infamous moments in Red Sox history should not have raised suspicion. But after claiming his favorite Red Sox player of all time was Eddie Yost, who never played a single game for the club, the research arm of Football Fans For Truth vigorously worked to verify Kerry's account of the event.
I can just hear Kerry now...."Mommie said 'inconsistency'... no...'incoherence'...no...'incongruity'...no...well, hell! I know it was one of those "i" words"
DR
Elizabeth Edwards' Threat
After reading with disbelief this morning on Matt Drudge, I have been mulling this over all day long and there really is only one conclusion you can come to after listening to ole' Lizzie Edwards on tape - she obviously was repeating what she has been hearing behind closed doors:
The Kerry-Edwards camp plans on inciting riots if they don't win the election.
THEY ARE THREATENING RIOTS IF THEY DON'T WIN!
What else can you deduce after hearing this:
Supporter: Kerry's going to take PA.
Liz Edwards: I know that.
Supporter: I'm just worried there's going to be riots afterwards.
Liz Edwards: Uh.....well...not if we win.
don't believe me? Listen to this.
It's frustrating, I know.
So I went to my old fall-back insult generator from little Frothing Puppy for words to express my indignation. Puppy is related to the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler (a fellow VRWC member).
Now, grant you, most...no ALL...of them are not printable here - but if you are as frustrated as I am...click on over to the Frothing Puppy...
HE will make you smile.
DR
The Kerry-Edwards camp plans on inciting riots if they don't win the election.
THEY ARE THREATENING RIOTS IF THEY DON'T WIN!
What else can you deduce after hearing this:
Supporter: Kerry's going to take PA.
Liz Edwards: I know that.
Supporter: I'm just worried there's going to be riots afterwards.
Liz Edwards: Uh.....well...not if we win.
don't believe me? Listen to this.
It's frustrating, I know.
So I went to my old fall-back insult generator from little Frothing Puppy for words to express my indignation. Puppy is related to the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler (a fellow VRWC member).
Now, grant you, most...no ALL...of them are not printable here - but if you are as frustrated as I am...click on over to the Frothing Puppy...
HE will make you smile.
DR
So - You Want Government Funded Health Care?
Mark Steyn's No Time For Kerry's Europhile Delusions drives home the deadly outcome of government funded health care and reminds us of one key reason we are suffering from flu shot shortage today:
...if there's four words I never want to hear again, it's "prescription drugs from Canada." I'm Canadian, so I know a thing or two about prescription drugs from Canada. Specifically speaking, I know they're American; the only thing Canadian about them is the label in French and English. How can politicians from both parties think that Americans can get cheaper drugs simply by outsourcing (as John Kerry would say) their distribution through a Canadian mailing address? U.S. pharmaceutical companies put up with Ottawa's price controls because it's a peripheral market. But, if you attempt to extend the price controls from the peripheral market of 30 million people to the primary market of 300 million people, all that's going to happen is that after approximately a week and a half there aren't going to be any drugs in Canada, cheap or otherwise -- just as the Clinton administration's intervention into the flu-shot market resulted in American companies getting out of the vaccine business entirely.
So this is no time to vote for Europhile delusions. The Continental health and welfare systems John Kerry so admires are, in fact, part of the reason those societies are dying. As for Canada, yes, under socialized health care, prescription drugs are cheaper, medical treatment's cheaper, life is cheaper. After much stonewalling, the Province of Quebec's Health Department announced this week that in the last year some 600 Quebecers had died from C. difficile, a bacterium acquired in hospital. In other words, if, say, Bill Clinton had gone for his heart bypass to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, he would have had the surgery, woken up the next day swimming in diarrhea and then died. It's a bacterium caused by inattention to hygiene -- by unionized, unsackable cleaners who don't clean properly; by harassed overstretched hospital staff who don't bother washing their hands as often as they should. So 600 people have been killed by the filthy squalor of disease-ridden government hospitals. That's the official number. Unofficially, if you're over 65, the hospitals will save face and attribute your death at their hands to "old age" or some such and then "lose" the relevant medical records. Quebec's health system is a lot less healthy than, for example, Iraq's.
One thousand Americans are killed in 18 months in Iraq, and it's a quagmire. One thousand Quebecers are killed by insufficient hand-washing in their filthy, decrepit health care system, and kindly progressive Americans can't wait to bring it south of the border. If one has to die for a cause, bringing liberty to the Middle East is a nobler venture and a better bet than government health care.
Steyn never minces words...which is probably one of the reasons his column is a must read for me.
DR
***Note - just received a link to this video from Save American Medicine.com Emergency Reform.
...if there's four words I never want to hear again, it's "prescription drugs from Canada." I'm Canadian, so I know a thing or two about prescription drugs from Canada. Specifically speaking, I know they're American; the only thing Canadian about them is the label in French and English. How can politicians from both parties think that Americans can get cheaper drugs simply by outsourcing (as John Kerry would say) their distribution through a Canadian mailing address? U.S. pharmaceutical companies put up with Ottawa's price controls because it's a peripheral market. But, if you attempt to extend the price controls from the peripheral market of 30 million people to the primary market of 300 million people, all that's going to happen is that after approximately a week and a half there aren't going to be any drugs in Canada, cheap or otherwise -- just as the Clinton administration's intervention into the flu-shot market resulted in American companies getting out of the vaccine business entirely.
So this is no time to vote for Europhile delusions. The Continental health and welfare systems John Kerry so admires are, in fact, part of the reason those societies are dying. As for Canada, yes, under socialized health care, prescription drugs are cheaper, medical treatment's cheaper, life is cheaper. After much stonewalling, the Province of Quebec's Health Department announced this week that in the last year some 600 Quebecers had died from C. difficile, a bacterium acquired in hospital. In other words, if, say, Bill Clinton had gone for his heart bypass to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, he would have had the surgery, woken up the next day swimming in diarrhea and then died. It's a bacterium caused by inattention to hygiene -- by unionized, unsackable cleaners who don't clean properly; by harassed overstretched hospital staff who don't bother washing their hands as often as they should. So 600 people have been killed by the filthy squalor of disease-ridden government hospitals. That's the official number. Unofficially, if you're over 65, the hospitals will save face and attribute your death at their hands to "old age" or some such and then "lose" the relevant medical records. Quebec's health system is a lot less healthy than, for example, Iraq's.
One thousand Americans are killed in 18 months in Iraq, and it's a quagmire. One thousand Quebecers are killed by insufficient hand-washing in their filthy, decrepit health care system, and kindly progressive Americans can't wait to bring it south of the border. If one has to die for a cause, bringing liberty to the Middle East is a nobler venture and a better bet than government health care.
Steyn never minces words...which is probably one of the reasons his column is a must read for me.
DR
***Note - just received a link to this video from Save American Medicine.com Emergency Reform.
Poor John Kerry...
He throws away someone else's medals.
He drives someone else's SUV.
He marries someone else's wife.
And he inherits someone else's money....
I think we should all vote for him to go be president of someone else's country.
He drives someone else's SUV.
He marries someone else's wife.
And he inherits someone else's money....
I think we should all vote for him to go be president of someone else's country.
THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH A LITTLE INDECISION....
AS LONG AS YOUR JOB DOESN'T INVOLVE ANY RESPONSIBILITY
Ohio Butterfly Ballot Designed to Confuse Bush Voters?
Ohio Cuyahoga County Butterfly Ballot
Talon News is reporting that Ohio's Butterfly Ballot "Appears" To Give Advantage to Kerry-Edwards Ticket...
I say it is DESIGNED to have voters casting a ballot for the Bush-Cheney ticket to punch the wrong hole. GOPUSA reports:
The official ballot for Cuyahoga County, Ohio lists the Democratic ticket first since the word "Democratic" is first alphabetically. An arrow points to an adjacent blue box located directly across from the Kerry-Edwards ticket.
However, the Republican ticket consisting of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney is listed at the bottom of the ballot since "Republican" is listed last alphabetically among the names of the political parties.
But the controversy arises over the location of the punch card box for the Republican ticket. The matching red box is not directly across from the Bush-Cheney ticket name, but rather it is located near the top and above the Democratic ticket.
Instead, there is a green box located directly across from the Republican ticket that may fool voters who do not notice that is not the correct place to cast a vote for the Bush-Cheney ticket.
This apparent flaw in the ballot of the most populous of the 88 counties in Ohio could literally swing the election to Kerry-Edwards in what is expected to be a tight race.
DR
The "Integrity" Candidate - Kerry's Lies RoundUp
Here are just a few of the reports on the mis-statements, inconsistencies and flat out LIES that have left the lips of John Kerry:
The Kerry equation: G + I(L) = P. Translation: gullibility plus ignorance times lies equals the presidency
Kerry Lies On Social Security, Flu Vaccine And The Draft
The Top Ten John Kerry Lies
The John Kerry Lies and Lunacies That Refuse To End
John Kerry More Big Lies And Threats Of Riots (this author even calls John Kerry "Joseph Stalin #2" stating that if Leftists were to run the country (and left to their own devices), it would be the end of the United States as a sovereign nation. )
John Kerry's Big Lie at FrontPage
Black Voters Disenfranchised? Another Lie From a Corrupt John Kerry
The Florida Lie - Rich Lowry writes about the return of the paranoid urban legend
John Kerry's Desperate Lies talks about the conspiracy against TRUTH by the Democratic National Committee and the liberal establishment media.
DR
The Kerry equation: G + I(L) = P. Translation: gullibility plus ignorance times lies equals the presidency
Kerry Lies On Social Security, Flu Vaccine And The Draft
The Top Ten John Kerry Lies
The John Kerry Lies and Lunacies That Refuse To End
John Kerry More Big Lies And Threats Of Riots (this author even calls John Kerry "Joseph Stalin #2" stating that if Leftists were to run the country (and left to their own devices), it would be the end of the United States as a sovereign nation. )
John Kerry's Big Lie at FrontPage
Black Voters Disenfranchised? Another Lie From a Corrupt John Kerry
The Florida Lie - Rich Lowry writes about the return of the paranoid urban legend
John Kerry's Desperate Lies talks about the conspiracy against TRUTH by the Democratic National Committee and the liberal establishment media.
DR
Mathew Manweller: Election Determines Fate of Nation
Found this excellent article published in the Ellensburg WA Daily Record on Oct. 6, 2004.
I can’t add anything to improve a word of what Manweller wrote:
In that this will be my last column before the presidential election, there will be no sarcasm, no attempts at witty repartee. The topic is too serious, and the stakes are too high.
This November we will vote in the only election during our lifetime that will truly matter. Because America is at a once-in-a-generation crossroads, more than an election hangs in the balance. Down one path lies retreat, abdication and a reign of ambivalence.
Down the other lies a nation that is aware of it's past and accepts the daunting obligation its future demands. If we choose poorly, the consequences will echo through the next 50 years of history. If we, in a spasm of frustration, turn out the current occupant of the White House, the message to the world and ourselves will be two-fold. First, we will reject the notion that America can do big things. Once a nation that tamed a frontier, stood down the Nazis and stood upon the moon, we will announce to the world that bringing democracy to the Middle East is too big of a task for us. But more significantly, we will signal to future presidents that as voters, we are unwilling to tackle difficult challenges, preferring caution to boldness, embracing the mediocrity that has characterized other civilizations.
The defeat of President Bush will send a chilling message to future presidents who may need to make difficult, yet unpopular decisions. America has always been a nation that rises to the demands of history regardless of the costs or appeal. If we turn away from that legacy, we turn away from whom we are.
Second, we inform every terrorist organization on the globe that the lesson of Somalia was well-learned. In Somalia we showed terrorists that you don't need to defeat America on the battlefield when you can defeat them in the newsroom. They learned that a wounded America can become a defeated America. Twenty-four-hour news stations and daily tracing polls will do the heavy lifting, turning a cut into a fatal blow. Except that Iraq is Somalia times 10. The election of John Kerry will serve notice to every terrorist in every cave that the soft underbelly of American power is the timidity of American voters. Terrorists will know that a steady stream of grisly photos for CNN is all you need to break the will of the American people. Our own self-doubt will take it from there. Bin Laden will recognize that he can topple any American administration without setting foot on the homeland.
It is said that America's W.W.II generation is its 'greatest generation'. But my greatest fear is that it will become known as America's 'last generation.' Born in the bleakness of the Great depression and hardened in the fire of W.W. II, they may be the last American generation that understands the meaning of duty, honor and sacrifice. It is difficult to admit, but I know these terms are spoken with only hollow detachment by many (but not all) in my generation. Too many citizens today mistake 'living in America' as 'being an American.' But America has always been more of an idea than a place. When you sign on, you do more than buy real estate. You accept a set of values and responsibilities.
This November, my generation, which has been absent too long, must grasp the obligation that comes with being an American, or fade into the oblivion they may deserve. I believe that 100 years from now historians will look back at the election of 2004 and see it as the decisive election of our century. Depending on the outcome, they will describe it as the moment America joined the ranks of ordinary nations; or they will describe it as the moment the prodigal sons and daughters of the greatest generation accepted their burden as caretakers of the City on the Hill."
Mathew Manweller is a Central Washington University political science professor. He can be contacted at manwellerm@cwu.edu
DR
I can’t add anything to improve a word of what Manweller wrote:
In that this will be my last column before the presidential election, there will be no sarcasm, no attempts at witty repartee. The topic is too serious, and the stakes are too high.
This November we will vote in the only election during our lifetime that will truly matter. Because America is at a once-in-a-generation crossroads, more than an election hangs in the balance. Down one path lies retreat, abdication and a reign of ambivalence.
Down the other lies a nation that is aware of it's past and accepts the daunting obligation its future demands. If we choose poorly, the consequences will echo through the next 50 years of history. If we, in a spasm of frustration, turn out the current occupant of the White House, the message to the world and ourselves will be two-fold. First, we will reject the notion that America can do big things. Once a nation that tamed a frontier, stood down the Nazis and stood upon the moon, we will announce to the world that bringing democracy to the Middle East is too big of a task for us. But more significantly, we will signal to future presidents that as voters, we are unwilling to tackle difficult challenges, preferring caution to boldness, embracing the mediocrity that has characterized other civilizations.
The defeat of President Bush will send a chilling message to future presidents who may need to make difficult, yet unpopular decisions. America has always been a nation that rises to the demands of history regardless of the costs or appeal. If we turn away from that legacy, we turn away from whom we are.
Second, we inform every terrorist organization on the globe that the lesson of Somalia was well-learned. In Somalia we showed terrorists that you don't need to defeat America on the battlefield when you can defeat them in the newsroom. They learned that a wounded America can become a defeated America. Twenty-four-hour news stations and daily tracing polls will do the heavy lifting, turning a cut into a fatal blow. Except that Iraq is Somalia times 10. The election of John Kerry will serve notice to every terrorist in every cave that the soft underbelly of American power is the timidity of American voters. Terrorists will know that a steady stream of grisly photos for CNN is all you need to break the will of the American people. Our own self-doubt will take it from there. Bin Laden will recognize that he can topple any American administration without setting foot on the homeland.
It is said that America's W.W.II generation is its 'greatest generation'. But my greatest fear is that it will become known as America's 'last generation.' Born in the bleakness of the Great depression and hardened in the fire of W.W. II, they may be the last American generation that understands the meaning of duty, honor and sacrifice. It is difficult to admit, but I know these terms are spoken with only hollow detachment by many (but not all) in my generation. Too many citizens today mistake 'living in America' as 'being an American.' But America has always been more of an idea than a place. When you sign on, you do more than buy real estate. You accept a set of values and responsibilities.
This November, my generation, which has been absent too long, must grasp the obligation that comes with being an American, or fade into the oblivion they may deserve. I believe that 100 years from now historians will look back at the election of 2004 and see it as the decisive election of our century. Depending on the outcome, they will describe it as the moment America joined the ranks of ordinary nations; or they will describe it as the moment the prodigal sons and daughters of the greatest generation accepted their burden as caretakers of the City on the Hill."
Mathew Manweller is a Central Washington University political science professor. He can be contacted at manwellerm@cwu.edu
DR
Stolon Honor - The Movie Kerry Doesn't Want You To See
Sinclair Broadcasting has been taking a lot of heat for their intent to air Stolen Honor on all 62 of their television stations.
Now you can see the movie for yourself at the Stolen Honor website for only $4.99 - or you can order the DVD. After you see this movie you will understand why Kerry the Traitor doesn’t want you to see it.
There is also another blogger that posted the movie online that you can watch for free, but I urge you to make a donation at the Stolen Honor website if this the route you choose.
Thanks to SondraK for this heads up
DR
Now you can see the movie for yourself at the Stolen Honor website for only $4.99 - or you can order the DVD. After you see this movie you will understand why Kerry the Traitor doesn’t want you to see it.
There is also another blogger that posted the movie online that you can watch for free, but I urge you to make a donation at the Stolen Honor website if this the route you choose.
Thanks to SondraK for this heads up
DR
Kerry's Latest Whopper!
Joel Mowbray over at the Washington Times has this:
U.N. ambassadors from several nations are disputing assertions by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry that he met for hours with all members of the U.N. Security Council just a week before voting in October 2002 to authorize the use of force in Iraq.
Mowbray notes several occasions where John Kerry has stated publicly:
I went to meet with the members of the Security Council in the week before we voted. I went to New York. I talked to all of them...
Only problem is - the meeting never took place! ...and now people are coming forward to dispute Kerry's lie.
Kerry made the same assertion during a speech to a Unity Conference of minority journalists in August 2004.
Kerry also said this - I met with members of the Security Council - during a speech on the Senate floor October 9, 2002.
While it is becoming more and more apparent that Kerry supporters are choosing to ignore or - worse - accept the fact that he is a pathological liar, the fact remains that Kerry so pointedly told the world about some of his mother's final words to him: "integrity, integrity, integrity" - and in the next breath says "George Bush doesn't let the truth get in the way."
No, Kerry! YOU are the falsifier of reports in order to get Purple Hearts; YOU are the prevaricator telling lies about your fellow soldiers; YOU are the phony warrior with the 20 year anti-war record.
Well, if the guy is gonna lie about flying a jet - upside down, no less - that guy will lie about anything.
I don't know why you are so surprised....
DR
U.N. ambassadors from several nations are disputing assertions by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry that he met for hours with all members of the U.N. Security Council just a week before voting in October 2002 to authorize the use of force in Iraq.
Mowbray notes several occasions where John Kerry has stated publicly:
I went to meet with the members of the Security Council in the week before we voted. I went to New York. I talked to all of them...
Only problem is - the meeting never took place! ...and now people are coming forward to dispute Kerry's lie.
Kerry made the same assertion during a speech to a Unity Conference of minority journalists in August 2004.
Kerry also said this - I met with members of the Security Council - during a speech on the Senate floor October 9, 2002.
While it is becoming more and more apparent that Kerry supporters are choosing to ignore or - worse - accept the fact that he is a pathological liar, the fact remains that Kerry so pointedly told the world about some of his mother's final words to him: "integrity, integrity, integrity" - and in the next breath says "George Bush doesn't let the truth get in the way."
No, Kerry! YOU are the falsifier of reports in order to get Purple Hearts; YOU are the prevaricator telling lies about your fellow soldiers; YOU are the phony warrior with the 20 year anti-war record.
Well, if the guy is gonna lie about flying a jet - upside down, no less - that guy will lie about anything.
I don't know why you are so surprised....
DR
It Is GOOD To Be Home....
....how quickly we forget the days of dial up internet access...and I don't want to be reminded again anytime soon!
I sit down to my PC and it feels like saying hello to an old friend...a FAST old friend...~g
DR
I sit down to my PC and it feels like saying hello to an old friend...a FAST old friend...~g
DR
10/22/2004
Nannygate - Stonewalling Can't Make This Go Away
Fellow blogger The Galvin Opinion gave me a heads-up that this blogspot was mentioned today in NewsMax.
Geeze...I am...speechless...
But, the important thing is this - the issue I raised last week about Heinz-Kerry's possible problem with Nannygate-ish issues is finally coming to light!
NewsMax is reporting this:
Does John Kerry, whose billionaire wife, Teresa, employs a small army of housekeepers, gardeners, cooks, chauffeurs, butlers and other hired help at her five estates around the country, have a Nannygate problem?
Two calls this week to the Kerry campaign press office asking if Mrs. Heinz has paid Social Security taxes on her domestic staff have so far gone unreturned.
I think it is important to get to the bottom of this - and quickly. If there is nothing to hide, why is THK being so coy about releasing only the first two pages of her tax return?
If there are no problems with her servants - how they are being paid and BY WHOM - then tell us....but the problem on page 2 of her tax return is a first clue, say I.
NewsMax goes on:
Some say, however, that even the small bit of information revealed in the Kerry campaign's two-page tax document dump last Friday show telltale signs that the Heinz Kerrys do indeed have a Nannygate problem.
The Internet blog site "Desert Rat Ramblings" noted, for instance:
"Lines 55 and 59 on [Teresa's] Form 1040 are Social Security and Medicare taxes paid to Household employees, ie: nannies; housekeepers; gardeners; etc. ... What Heinz-Kerry is claiming on her tax return for Household 'wages' extrapolates to approximately $7,500 - $8,000/year.
"$8,000 a year paid to household staff from a billionaire?"
Aside from Social Security taxes, questions about whether the would-be first couple obtained the proper I-9 immigration forms from their employees, and maintained proper W-2 records, have also gone unanswered.
Only a press corps that was actively working for a Kerry win would have let these questions fester till the last two weeks of the campaign.
Absent more thorough media scrutiny - or the Kerry campaign's decision to be more forthcoming about Teresa's finances - the American public would be right to conclude that something is being covered-up.
Inquiring minds want to know......
DR
Geeze...I am...speechless...
But, the important thing is this - the issue I raised last week about Heinz-Kerry's possible problem with Nannygate-ish issues is finally coming to light!
NewsMax is reporting this:
Does John Kerry, whose billionaire wife, Teresa, employs a small army of housekeepers, gardeners, cooks, chauffeurs, butlers and other hired help at her five estates around the country, have a Nannygate problem?
Two calls this week to the Kerry campaign press office asking if Mrs. Heinz has paid Social Security taxes on her domestic staff have so far gone unreturned.
I think it is important to get to the bottom of this - and quickly. If there is nothing to hide, why is THK being so coy about releasing only the first two pages of her tax return?
If there are no problems with her servants - how they are being paid and BY WHOM - then tell us....but the problem on page 2 of her tax return is a first clue, say I.
NewsMax goes on:
Some say, however, that even the small bit of information revealed in the Kerry campaign's two-page tax document dump last Friday show telltale signs that the Heinz Kerrys do indeed have a Nannygate problem.
The Internet blog site "Desert Rat Ramblings" noted, for instance:
"Lines 55 and 59 on [Teresa's] Form 1040 are Social Security and Medicare taxes paid to Household employees, ie: nannies; housekeepers; gardeners; etc. ... What Heinz-Kerry is claiming on her tax return for Household 'wages' extrapolates to approximately $7,500 - $8,000/year.
"$8,000 a year paid to household staff from a billionaire?"
Aside from Social Security taxes, questions about whether the would-be first couple obtained the proper I-9 immigration forms from their employees, and maintained proper W-2 records, have also gone unanswered.
Only a press corps that was actively working for a Kerry win would have let these questions fester till the last two weeks of the campaign.
Absent more thorough media scrutiny - or the Kerry campaign's decision to be more forthcoming about Teresa's finances - the American public would be right to conclude that something is being covered-up.
Inquiring minds want to know......
DR
Want To Know What 'Hell' Is?
being stuck at a meeting in a hotel that only has dial up connection..... aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhh
unfortunately, that is the way things are going to be until Sunday night, late...i will just have to pace myself and get caught up when I return...don't let too much happen until then...or, if it does, make sure no one lets anything slip through the cracks...
DR
unfortunately, that is the way things are going to be until Sunday night, late...i will just have to pace myself and get caught up when I return...don't let too much happen until then...or, if it does, make sure no one lets anything slip through the cracks...
DR
10/21/2004
Talk About a Walking Contradiction
Despite the fact that Dick Cheney would fit into the government's definition of those most vulnerable to a looming influenza epidemic as he has a long history of heart disease
the Kerry campaign issued a highly critical statement yesterday over the fact that Cheney received a flu shot: "Once again, the Bush administration proves that it is the 'do as we say, not as we do' White House," the campaign said in a statement issued in Pittsburgh where Kerry was campaigning.
"The very week that (health) secretary (Tommy) Thompson is telling Americans to keep calm, Dick Cheney, John Snow and Bill Frist getting flu shots."
"It is unfortunate that the Bush administration failed to do the work necessary to ensure that all Americans, including those most at risk, had been able to get shots as well."
Only problem with that criticism is THIS:
Senator Hillary Clinton said the former president, hubby BillClinton, has received a flu shot.
Not a word...not a PEEP...out of the Kerry campaign about THAT ONE!
DR
credit Matt Drudge for the lead
the Kerry campaign issued a highly critical statement yesterday over the fact that Cheney received a flu shot: "Once again, the Bush administration proves that it is the 'do as we say, not as we do' White House," the campaign said in a statement issued in Pittsburgh where Kerry was campaigning.
"The very week that (health) secretary (Tommy) Thompson is telling Americans to keep calm, Dick Cheney, John Snow and Bill Frist getting flu shots."
"It is unfortunate that the Bush administration failed to do the work necessary to ensure that all Americans, including those most at risk, had been able to get shots as well."
Only problem with that criticism is THIS:
Senator Hillary Clinton said the former president, hubby BillClinton, has received a flu shot.
Not a word...not a PEEP...out of the Kerry campaign about THAT ONE!
DR
credit Matt Drudge for the lead
10/20/2004
Slam Kerry
this is your chance.....Slap the Candidate gives you the opportunity to slap Kerry
Go for it!
DR
Thanks to Desert Cat for this lead...
Go for it!
DR
Thanks to Desert Cat for this lead...
Ron-ny Reagan on Scarborough Country
you know, I have cautioned people about personal attacks.......
....but don't you think - with all his zillions - that Ron-ny Reagan could at least get his friggin' teeth fixed if he is going to subject us to looking at his close-ups on TV?
I mean - C'MON!!
The other night as I was channel surfing, I happened to see Ron-ny on Animal Planet - he was one of the commenters on some kind of dog show.
I actually think he did better that night than tonight in Joe Scarborough's absence.
But, now that I think about it, maybe that was because the camera was focused on the little doggies when the judge was....well....looking at their butts......
maybe that's the difference!
DR
....but don't you think - with all his zillions - that Ron-ny Reagan could at least get his friggin' teeth fixed if he is going to subject us to looking at his close-ups on TV?
I mean - C'MON!!
The other night as I was channel surfing, I happened to see Ron-ny on Animal Planet - he was one of the commenters on some kind of dog show.
I actually think he did better that night than tonight in Joe Scarborough's absence.
But, now that I think about it, maybe that was because the camera was focused on the little doggies when the judge was....well....looking at their butts......
maybe that's the difference!
DR
The Bitch Factor
Mary Landrieu, Democratic Senator from Louisiana, was just turned loose on FoxNews after Sean Hannity's interview with Vice President Dick Cheney.
Can't talk about issues.
Can't answer the question.
Talk over the conservative.
It is clear that Landrieu read the 'DNC talking points' from cover to cover.
What a bitch.
Landrieu tried her best to defend the johns' attacks on Dick Cheney's daughter. But it didn't wash.
How can you translate John Kerry saying "...I think if you were to talk to Dick Cheney's daughter, who is a lesbian" into what Landrieu tried to paint as John Kerry honoring the "love" that Dick Cheney has for his daughter???
When she was running for election in 2002, Landrieu had tried to win by depicting herself as a moderate Democrat who supports this popular President 70 percent of the time - until Bush endorsed her opponent.
Or, maybe tonight was pay-back time for that? Is that what it was Landrieu? Or are the American people just seeing the true Landrieu without all the smoke and mirrors?
If you still don't believe me, ask her opponent in 2002, Suzanne Haik Terrell
Can't talk about issues.
Can't answer the question.
Talk over the conservative.
It is clear that Landrieu read the 'DNC talking points' from cover to cover.
What a bitch.
Landrieu tried her best to defend the johns' attacks on Dick Cheney's daughter. But it didn't wash.
How can you translate John Kerry saying "...I think if you were to talk to Dick Cheney's daughter, who is a lesbian" into what Landrieu tried to paint as John Kerry honoring the "love" that Dick Cheney has for his daughter???
When she was running for election in 2002, Landrieu had tried to win by depicting herself as a moderate Democrat who supports this popular President 70 percent of the time - until Bush endorsed her opponent.
Or, maybe tonight was pay-back time for that? Is that what it was Landrieu? Or are the American people just seeing the true Landrieu without all the smoke and mirrors?
If you still don't believe me, ask her opponent in 2002, Suzanne Haik Terrell
Bush Supporter Zombies Try to Make Kerry Liberal Eat Meat
This just in:
The 2004 election is turning out to be a real nightmare for liberals -- literally.
According to political dream researcher Kelly Bulkeley , liberals are becoming more and more agitated in their dreams as election day nears.
...one left-leaning college student participating in Bulkeley's research reported having a nightmare where bright red "zombie Bush supporters" pushed her around and tried to feed her "some kind of processed meats"
Oh, the STRESS....those damn Bushies!
Another participant, a Bush-hating Baby Boomer, dreamed he was trying to get to the Democratic convention in Boston but couldn't find a parking spot.
oh ya, that's the stuff MY nightmares are made of...heh
Bulkeley says dreams reflect emotions that remain unexpressed in our waking hours, and he concludes that Democrats are experiencing a lot of anxiety about possibly losing the race.
He's been studying election-year dreams from both liberals and conservatives since 1992 and says the nightmares in this year's crop are more dark and bleak.
hmmmm...dark and bleak...
dark.........and........bleak
the end is near...and they know it...
DR
The 2004 election is turning out to be a real nightmare for liberals -- literally.
According to political dream researcher Kelly Bulkeley , liberals are becoming more and more agitated in their dreams as election day nears.
...one left-leaning college student participating in Bulkeley's research reported having a nightmare where bright red "zombie Bush supporters" pushed her around and tried to feed her "some kind of processed meats"
Oh, the STRESS....those damn Bushies!
Another participant, a Bush-hating Baby Boomer, dreamed he was trying to get to the Democratic convention in Boston but couldn't find a parking spot.
oh ya, that's the stuff MY nightmares are made of...heh
Bulkeley says dreams reflect emotions that remain unexpressed in our waking hours, and he concludes that Democrats are experiencing a lot of anxiety about possibly losing the race.
He's been studying election-year dreams from both liberals and conservatives since 1992 and says the nightmares in this year's crop are more dark and bleak.
hmmmm...dark and bleak...
dark.........and........bleak
the end is near...and they know it...
DR
Tell It To The Judge...Or...Just Make Something Up...
A judge in California recently told juror-candidates that if they were embarrassed to admit that they couldn't be fair, just to make up another excuse, and he'd let them go....
Other weird news:
Super-Sized Burial Caskets
yep - that's right - now you can go to the mortuary and say "Super Size IT!" States the manufacturer "Since Americans are getting bigger, families of the deceased are asking for additional choices that the normal sized caskets don't provide."
next thing you know, they'll make remote control sex toys...oh wait! they already have:
....a new computer gadget enables someone to apply direct physical stimulation sexually to another person over the Internet, thus advancing "cybersex" far beyond its previous limitation of mere words and pictures....And you thought long distance relationships were so 'hard'....
that's all for now...and you can't say I wasn't objective.....
Other weird news:
Super-Sized Burial Caskets
yep - that's right - now you can go to the mortuary and say "Super Size IT!" States the manufacturer "Since Americans are getting bigger, families of the deceased are asking for additional choices that the normal sized caskets don't provide."
next thing you know, they'll make remote control sex toys...oh wait! they already have:
....a new computer gadget enables someone to apply direct physical stimulation sexually to another person over the Internet, thus advancing "cybersex" far beyond its previous limitation of mere words and pictures....And you thought long distance relationships were so 'hard'....
that's all for now...and you can't say I wasn't objective.....
"I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective"
Who said that? I'll tell you - Peter Jennings.
That's right. The Peter Jennings ABC news anchor that millions tune in every night to get their daily 'news.'
Only now, old Pete is letting us know that it hasn't been objective news reporting he's been doing all these years...oooooohhh.....noooooooo....
Why, that would be just a 'notion' wouldn't it? Us? Us expect Them to be objective?
BWAAAAAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
now you know.
That's right. The Peter Jennings ABC news anchor that millions tune in every night to get their daily 'news.'
Only now, old Pete is letting us know that it hasn't been objective news reporting he's been doing all these years...oooooohhh.....noooooooo....
Why, that would be just a 'notion' wouldn't it? Us? Us expect Them to be objective?
BWAAAAAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
now you know.
American Voters Predict a Bush Win
According to Bill Sammon at the Washington Times today:
New polls by Gallup, Fox and ABC News have Mr. Bush ahead by eight, seven and five points, respectively. However, those same polls show the president leading by margins of 20, 17 and 23 on the question of who respondents expect to win the election.
New polls by Gallup, Fox and ABC News have Mr. Bush ahead by eight, seven and five points, respectively. However, those same polls show the president leading by margins of 20, 17 and 23 on the question of who respondents expect to win the election.
General Tommy Franks on Tora Bora
"I can tell you that the senator's understanding of events doesn't square with reality."
With those words, General Tommy Franks captures the essence of John Kerry.
Fellow AZ blogger, Desert Tusk, did a great catch on posting this article.
DR
With those words, General Tommy Franks captures the essence of John Kerry.
Fellow AZ blogger, Desert Tusk, did a great catch on posting this article.
DR
10/19/2004
George Soros - The Devil You Say?
Don’t you just hate when you are suddenly awakened from a deep sleep with a nagging thought that absolutely refuses to be pushed aside and allow you to drift back to sleep?
Woke this morning with two words rolling around in my head – George Soros - and it appears that I am not the only one.
Who, exactly, is this guy? And, more specifically, what does he REALLY want?
The Democrats have sold their souls to the devil. Really. Their fervor and four year wet dream of taking back the White House has led to them uniting with – at best – a shady and questionable character; worst case, a dangerous criminal that will stop at nothing to get his twisted way.
After doing a little research this morning, I am left with these links for you to read. And read them all because it is important that the volume be turned up on this subject:
FrontPage reports today: Long term, if Soros has his way, the United States won’t even remain territorially intact. He funds both the National Council of La Raza and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, two groups that want to essentially eliminate America’s borders. In a much hailed 1997 speech to the National Council of La Raza, former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo said that he “proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders and that Mexican migrants are an important – a very important – part of this.” As FrontPage Magazine reported earlier this year, OSI has likewise contributed $65,000 to the Malcolm X Grassroots movement, which wants to establish an all-black homeland in the Southeastern United States, from South Carolina to Louisiana. It would be communist, of course.
In May 2003, George Soros criticized US efforts to exempt U.S. citizens from prosecution before the new international criminal court.
George Soros, a Hungarian born Jew and self-proclaimed atheist also created the Project on Death in America to generate debate about the dying process and "alleviate unnecessary suffering." He is the Angel of Death. In the 1990s, Soros provided $15 million as start-up capital for Project Death in America, a grant-giving group that funds campaigns for euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide.
My question: who would decide when and who to ‘legally off?’
George Soros, a proponent of drug legalization, stated "I'll tell you what I would do if it were up to me. I would establish a strictly controlled distribution network through which I would make most drugs, excluding the most dangerous ones like crack, legally available."
Soros's money comes from impovershment of the poor countries against whose currencies he speculates, and from deadly mind-destroying, terrorism-funding drugs.
George Soros is 71 years old, travels on an American passport, and presents himself as a philosopher-businessman philanthropist. He is, in reality, an operative for certain international financial/political interests, involved in drugs, dirty money, and irregular warfare (ranging from stockjobbing to media control) to subvert nations, and cause destruction. As of the 1990s, he had become persona non grata in many parts of the world. He is under criminal investigation in several nations-particularly Italy. In 1993, the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Banking Committee called for an investigation, after the blatant episode of Soros's having made $1-2 billion in September 1992, off European currency manipulation. But Soros is still at large, and presented in the United States as just a "public figure."
Critics point out that Soros plays the currency markets through Quantum Fund, his privately-owned investment fund registered in Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles, a Caribbean tax haven which has repeatedly been cited by the International Task Force on Money Laundering of the OECD as one of the world's most important centers for laundering the illegal proceeds of the Latin American drug trade. By operating from Curaçao, Soros not only avoids paying taxes but also hides the nature of his investors and what he does with their money.
Soros has been called a self-hating Jewish anti-Semite.
Former National Review contributor and ex-House Republican staffer Phil Brennan called Soros a "socialist billionaire".
Lowell Ponte of David Horowitz's Frontpage called Soros a "Billionaire for the Left".
Scott Shore of IntellectualConservative.com called him a "Soft Money Marxist."
I rest my case.
DR
Woke this morning with two words rolling around in my head – George Soros - and it appears that I am not the only one.
Who, exactly, is this guy? And, more specifically, what does he REALLY want?
The Democrats have sold their souls to the devil. Really. Their fervor and four year wet dream of taking back the White House has led to them uniting with – at best – a shady and questionable character; worst case, a dangerous criminal that will stop at nothing to get his twisted way.
After doing a little research this morning, I am left with these links for you to read. And read them all because it is important that the volume be turned up on this subject:
FrontPage reports today: Long term, if Soros has his way, the United States won’t even remain territorially intact. He funds both the National Council of La Raza and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, two groups that want to essentially eliminate America’s borders. In a much hailed 1997 speech to the National Council of La Raza, former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo said that he “proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders and that Mexican migrants are an important – a very important – part of this.” As FrontPage Magazine reported earlier this year, OSI has likewise contributed $65,000 to the Malcolm X Grassroots movement, which wants to establish an all-black homeland in the Southeastern United States, from South Carolina to Louisiana. It would be communist, of course.
In May 2003, George Soros criticized US efforts to exempt U.S. citizens from prosecution before the new international criminal court.
George Soros, a Hungarian born Jew and self-proclaimed atheist also created the Project on Death in America to generate debate about the dying process and "alleviate unnecessary suffering." He is the Angel of Death. In the 1990s, Soros provided $15 million as start-up capital for Project Death in America, a grant-giving group that funds campaigns for euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide.
My question: who would decide when and who to ‘legally off?’
George Soros, a proponent of drug legalization, stated "I'll tell you what I would do if it were up to me. I would establish a strictly controlled distribution network through which I would make most drugs, excluding the most dangerous ones like crack, legally available."
Soros's money comes from impovershment of the poor countries against whose currencies he speculates, and from deadly mind-destroying, terrorism-funding drugs.
George Soros is 71 years old, travels on an American passport, and presents himself as a philosopher-businessman philanthropist. He is, in reality, an operative for certain international financial/political interests, involved in drugs, dirty money, and irregular warfare (ranging from stockjobbing to media control) to subvert nations, and cause destruction. As of the 1990s, he had become persona non grata in many parts of the world. He is under criminal investigation in several nations-particularly Italy. In 1993, the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Banking Committee called for an investigation, after the blatant episode of Soros's having made $1-2 billion in September 1992, off European currency manipulation. But Soros is still at large, and presented in the United States as just a "public figure."
Critics point out that Soros plays the currency markets through Quantum Fund, his privately-owned investment fund registered in Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles, a Caribbean tax haven which has repeatedly been cited by the International Task Force on Money Laundering of the OECD as one of the world's most important centers for laundering the illegal proceeds of the Latin American drug trade. By operating from Curaçao, Soros not only avoids paying taxes but also hides the nature of his investors and what he does with their money.
Soros has been called a self-hating Jewish anti-Semite.
Former National Review contributor and ex-House Republican staffer Phil Brennan called Soros a "socialist billionaire".
Lowell Ponte of David Horowitz's Frontpage called Soros a "Billionaire for the Left".
Scott Shore of IntellectualConservative.com called him a "Soft Money Marxist."
I rest my case.
DR
It's Weird, Man...
When I first started blogging it was for a very personal reason: I needed an outlet for all of the built up ‘stuff’ that I needed to release every now and then.
My family – and friends – had already reached the saturation point by being recipients of my email blasts whenever I found something particularly egregious that I felt I needed to get out to the ‘world.’
Then one day, I found the blogosphere. A latecomer, I know, but for me it was salvation. I could post anything that was on my mind (well, within reason, dude) and from that point forward I didn’t have to worry about it any more…it was ‘out there.’
But something changed. And I don’t want any of you thinking that I have gone squishy or anything, but there is a real community ‘here’ that I never knew existed.
Links. Comments. Trackbacks.
All of a sudden I am not this lone voice in the wilderness…there really IS someone – out there - that understands what I am trying to accomplish when I fire up the PC at night and try to rid myself of the nagging thoughts that have been building throughout the day.
A lifeline? Who knows. All I know is this – my latest ‘de-stressing method’ is also fast becoming my newest addiction.
DR
My family – and friends – had already reached the saturation point by being recipients of my email blasts whenever I found something particularly egregious that I felt I needed to get out to the ‘world.’
Then one day, I found the blogosphere. A latecomer, I know, but for me it was salvation. I could post anything that was on my mind (well, within reason, dude) and from that point forward I didn’t have to worry about it any more…it was ‘out there.’
But something changed. And I don’t want any of you thinking that I have gone squishy or anything, but there is a real community ‘here’ that I never knew existed.
Links. Comments. Trackbacks.
All of a sudden I am not this lone voice in the wilderness…there really IS someone – out there - that understands what I am trying to accomplish when I fire up the PC at night and try to rid myself of the nagging thoughts that have been building throughout the day.
A lifeline? Who knows. All I know is this – my latest ‘de-stressing method’ is also fast becoming my newest addiction.
DR
10/18/2004
Kerry Said to be Excommunicated from Catholic Church
A consultant to the Vatican has said Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has incurred the penalty of excommunication from the Catholic Church
“The U.N. Does So Much Good, Why Besmirch It With This One Wrong-doing and Pursue an Investigation?”
That unbelievable statement was attributed to an ‘unnamed’ source from a ‘large’ publication (I am assuming a newspaper).
WTF???
THAT is the reason none of the networks, other than FoxNews , is following up on the story about corruption and – worse…WORSE… - the eventual non-support of the U.S. (which equates to SUPPORT FOR SADDAM HUSSEIN) in enforcement of the U.N. sanctions that went ignored by not only Saddam Hussein but all of the countries that had their hands in the Oil For Food (OFF) cookie jar?
I point you to the UN role in the Congo Crisis between 1960 and 1964. "Not every nation was pleased by what the United Nations had done. Russia, France and Belgium refused to pay their part of the $400 million that was needed to pay for the cost of the Congo operation. This nearly pushed the United Nations to bankruptcy."
And this: Supporters were also wary of the fact that the United Nations had taken sides in an effort to bring peace to the Congo.
Sound familiar? Kofi Annan-ish????
I ask you to read this about the UN failure in Southern Morocco. In the conclusion of this report: UN has failed to resolve the conflict between the Polisario and Morocco.
Finally, I turn your focus on this letter from Garner Ted Armstrong. His closing statement captures a common sentiment:
Truth, justice and fairness are not to be found in the UN building in New York. Instead, it quickly became a hollow sounding board for Communist propaganda, and has now proved itself an inept, irrelevant body of pusillanimous appeasers.
This, fellow American citizens, is the core of the UN we are dealing with today.
For anyone in the press - or media - to try to whitewash the criminal activities of UN officials and/or participating countries is criminal in and of itself.
DR
WTF???
THAT is the reason none of the networks, other than FoxNews , is following up on the story about corruption and – worse…WORSE… - the eventual non-support of the U.S. (which equates to SUPPORT FOR SADDAM HUSSEIN) in enforcement of the U.N. sanctions that went ignored by not only Saddam Hussein but all of the countries that had their hands in the Oil For Food (OFF) cookie jar?
I point you to the UN role in the Congo Crisis between 1960 and 1964. "Not every nation was pleased by what the United Nations had done. Russia, France and Belgium refused to pay their part of the $400 million that was needed to pay for the cost of the Congo operation. This nearly pushed the United Nations to bankruptcy."
And this: Supporters were also wary of the fact that the United Nations had taken sides in an effort to bring peace to the Congo.
Sound familiar? Kofi Annan-ish????
I ask you to read this about the UN failure in Southern Morocco. In the conclusion of this report: UN has failed to resolve the conflict between the Polisario and Morocco.
Finally, I turn your focus on this letter from Garner Ted Armstrong. His closing statement captures a common sentiment:
Truth, justice and fairness are not to be found in the UN building in New York. Instead, it quickly became a hollow sounding board for Communist propaganda, and has now proved itself an inept, irrelevant body of pusillanimous appeasers.
This, fellow American citizens, is the core of the UN we are dealing with today.
For anyone in the press - or media - to try to whitewash the criminal activities of UN officials and/or participating countries is criminal in and of itself.
DR
Hewitt's Vox Blogoli IV
The Question posed by Hugh Hewitt: "In 250 words or less, why vote for Bush and what's wrong with Kerry?"
While there have been many thoughts expressed in response to this provocative question, my only resonating response is this: national security.
Without security for a nation, for its citizens and the residing commerce that sustains those citizens, there is nothing left to consider.
All of the arguments that are left on the table quickly disappear: Health coverage is a moot point if terrorists are running amok and not allowing hospitals to operate (Afghanistan).
Social Security is a non sequitur if the citizens don’t live into old age, rather lie decomposing in mass graves (Iraq).
Tax relief or restructuring become meaningless if there is no infrastructure in place (Haiti).
The answer: George W. Bush.
John Kerry’s only response to all of the above is sound bites.
I have watched and listened to John Kerry when he isn’t scripted and it has been a disaster. Always. Disaster.
One look at Kerry’s 20+ year Senate record speaks volumes. There is nothing there.
I don’t want a studio production running this country. I want a leader.
George W. Bush isn’t perfect. He is human. But he is the only one I see on the national stage right now that is willing to stare the terrorists in the eye and say "Do you feel lucky, punk?"
DR
While there have been many thoughts expressed in response to this provocative question, my only resonating response is this: national security.
Without security for a nation, for its citizens and the residing commerce that sustains those citizens, there is nothing left to consider.
All of the arguments that are left on the table quickly disappear: Health coverage is a moot point if terrorists are running amok and not allowing hospitals to operate (Afghanistan).
Social Security is a non sequitur if the citizens don’t live into old age, rather lie decomposing in mass graves (Iraq).
Tax relief or restructuring become meaningless if there is no infrastructure in place (Haiti).
The answer: George W. Bush.
John Kerry’s only response to all of the above is sound bites.
I have watched and listened to John Kerry when he isn’t scripted and it has been a disaster. Always. Disaster.
One look at Kerry’s 20+ year Senate record speaks volumes. There is nothing there.
I don’t want a studio production running this country. I want a leader.
George W. Bush isn’t perfect. He is human. But he is the only one I see on the national stage right now that is willing to stare the terrorists in the eye and say "Do you feel lucky, punk?"
DR
Why Vote For Bush and What’s Wrong with Kerry?
Hugh Hewitt has a new challenge out for bloggers: "In 250 words or less, why vote for Bush and what's wrong with Kerry?" Hewitt states I hope that this collection of links will make it easier for Bush voters to persuade the undecideds in their life by either providing succinct persuasive arguments, or by pointing them to a clearing house of such arguments.
What a challenge. 250 words or less? I might have to sleep on that one. But, in the meantime, any of you that are inclined to send Hugh Hewitt an email with a link to your blog, go for it. His email address is hugh@hughhewitt.com
The thread will run through next Sunday, so we are bound to see a vast variation of the same theme…something that will be a very powerful tool for supporting George Bush’s re-election.
Happy blogging!
DR
What a challenge. 250 words or less? I might have to sleep on that one. But, in the meantime, any of you that are inclined to send Hugh Hewitt an email with a link to your blog, go for it. His email address is hugh@hughhewitt.com
The thread will run through next Sunday, so we are bound to see a vast variation of the same theme…something that will be a very powerful tool for supporting George Bush’s re-election.
Happy blogging!
DR
I Was Not Amused
Heard many comments about Jon Stewart's "brutal" attack last Friday while a guest on CNN's Crossfire - especially the interaction between Stewart and Tucker Carlson.
I was not impressed.
Stewart came off as a surly interloper with a message: vote for Kerry.
Oh, come on! Don't act surprised! Stewart's act was not even thinly disguised as an attempt to chide the 'Bush supporters' for taking their position while trying to send the message that it is THEY who - in Stewart's words - 'are hurting America.'
THIS after we have had to suffer through Michael Moore and F-911; Barbra Streisand and her mumbo-jumbo gibberish; Sean Penn and his visit to Saddam's Iraq; the Dixie Chick's BS; Madonna's anti-Bush moans; Linda Rondstadt freaking out onstage; Tim Robbin's fanatical rants; Susan Sarandon's anti-troops screed.......
THIS after we have been forced to listen to Al Gore; Al Sharpton; Howard Dean; Dick Gephardt; John Kerry; Terry McAuliffe; Hillary Clinton; Nancy Pelosi; John Edwards.......Dan Rather; CBS; ABC; CNN....AND MORE.....all scream, rant, tirade, preach, and exaggerate claims about President Bush???
We are to believe that Tucker Carlson and his ilk are to blame for the hateful rhetoric that has been brewing since the 2000 election?
We are supposed to think that Terry McAuliffe's Goon Squad, that is now mobilized to REALLY steal an election, is the fault of Republicans?
We are to believe that Jon Stewart thinks that we are stupid enough to buy his rehearsed pablum about the 'evil Vast Right Wing Conspiracy' while they are registering 6,000+ felons in Colorado?
Tucker Carlson is right.
According to the article: Carlson noted that many of the great comedians kept their political opinions to themselves, not for fear of offending anyone, but because it could hurt their art.
"You're selling out," he said. "If you are a satirist or an acute social observer, and he (Stewart) is, and all of a sudden you suspend disbelief on someone or suck up rather than prod or poke someone, people will look at you and say, 'Even if I agree with you, I don't like it,'" he said.
Which is what most of Hollywood has overlooked throughout this entire saga: we don't care what your political belief is - we are here for the performance. Entertain us; scare us; mystify us - your art is our diversion.
And, believe me, diversion is what we need most right now...and what is most lacking right now.
DR
I was not impressed.
Stewart came off as a surly interloper with a message: vote for Kerry.
Oh, come on! Don't act surprised! Stewart's act was not even thinly disguised as an attempt to chide the 'Bush supporters' for taking their position while trying to send the message that it is THEY who - in Stewart's words - 'are hurting America.'
THIS after we have had to suffer through Michael Moore and F-911; Barbra Streisand and her mumbo-jumbo gibberish; Sean Penn and his visit to Saddam's Iraq; the Dixie Chick's BS; Madonna's anti-Bush moans; Linda Rondstadt freaking out onstage; Tim Robbin's fanatical rants; Susan Sarandon's anti-troops screed.......
THIS after we have been forced to listen to Al Gore; Al Sharpton; Howard Dean; Dick Gephardt; John Kerry; Terry McAuliffe; Hillary Clinton; Nancy Pelosi; John Edwards.......Dan Rather; CBS; ABC; CNN....AND MORE.....all scream, rant, tirade, preach, and exaggerate claims about President Bush???
We are to believe that Tucker Carlson and his ilk are to blame for the hateful rhetoric that has been brewing since the 2000 election?
We are supposed to think that Terry McAuliffe's Goon Squad, that is now mobilized to REALLY steal an election, is the fault of Republicans?
We are to believe that Jon Stewart thinks that we are stupid enough to buy his rehearsed pablum about the 'evil Vast Right Wing Conspiracy' while they are registering 6,000+ felons in Colorado?
Tucker Carlson is right.
According to the article: Carlson noted that many of the great comedians kept their political opinions to themselves, not for fear of offending anyone, but because it could hurt their art.
"You're selling out," he said. "If you are a satirist or an acute social observer, and he (Stewart) is, and all of a sudden you suspend disbelief on someone or suck up rather than prod or poke someone, people will look at you and say, 'Even if I agree with you, I don't like it,'" he said.
Which is what most of Hollywood has overlooked throughout this entire saga: we don't care what your political belief is - we are here for the performance. Entertain us; scare us; mystify us - your art is our diversion.
And, believe me, diversion is what we need most right now...and what is most lacking right now.
DR
YEAH!!
Finally, a company that has the balls to stick to company policy...
According to this source, The Washington bureau chief for Sinclair Broadcast Group said he was fired Monday after he criticized the company's plans to produce a news program based on a documentary critical of John Kerry's Vietnam-era anti-war activities.
Sinclair in a statement late Monday said that "we are disappointed that Jon's political views caused him to violate company policy and speak to the press about company business."
What part of 'don't violate company policy' do you not understand, sucka?
According to this source, The Washington bureau chief for Sinclair Broadcast Group said he was fired Monday after he criticized the company's plans to produce a news program based on a documentary critical of John Kerry's Vietnam-era anti-war activities.
Sinclair in a statement late Monday said that "we are disappointed that Jon's political views caused him to violate company policy and speak to the press about company business."
What part of 'don't violate company policy' do you not understand, sucka?
You're SO Vain...
...you probably think this song is about you.....
and don't think for a second that Mr. Breck isn't aware that the camera is 'on' at all times...what a poodle
and don't think for a second that Mr. Breck isn't aware that the camera is 'on' at all times...what a poodle
Hmmm...HMMMM...
That's all I can say about this article right now.
The headline is Duelfer: 'A lot of material left Iraq and went to Syria'
Isn't that what President Bush has been saying all along???
hmmmm....
The headline is Duelfer: 'A lot of material left Iraq and went to Syria'
Isn't that what President Bush has been saying all along???
hmmmm....
10/17/2004
It's Already Starting
Matt Drudge reports tonight that DNC/KERRY BALLOT COLLECTION CALLED 'UNLAWFUL'
The DNC Kerry/Edwards manual states: "In Florida, it is legal to handle ballots. This means it is possible for the campaign to canvass base neighborhoods, pick up completed ballots and deliver them to Early Vote locations. We will incorporate these deliveries into our Early Vote canvassing program."
But Florida State election law - as detailed at: http://election.dos.state.fl.us/absenteevoting.shtml - is in sharp contrast and conflicts with the Dem plan. "
A designee may pick up an absentee ballot for a voter on election day or 4 days before election day. A designee may only pick up two absentee ballots per election, other than his or her own ballot or ballots for members of his or her immediate family. Designees must have written authorization from the voter, present a picture I.D. and sign an affidavit. Candidates may pick up absentee ballots only for members of their immediate family."
It is very clear - the McAuliffe Goon Squad is determined to have this election end in a quagmire no matter the cost - time, money - not to mention the effect all of this will have on our nation or on our troops that are still in harms way.
Hugh Hewitt said it best "If it's not close they can't cheat".
DR
The DNC Kerry/Edwards manual states: "In Florida, it is legal to handle ballots. This means it is possible for the campaign to canvass base neighborhoods, pick up completed ballots and deliver them to Early Vote locations. We will incorporate these deliveries into our Early Vote canvassing program."
But Florida State election law - as detailed at: http://election.dos.state.fl.us/absenteevoting.shtml - is in sharp contrast and conflicts with the Dem plan. "
A designee may pick up an absentee ballot for a voter on election day or 4 days before election day. A designee may only pick up two absentee ballots per election, other than his or her own ballot or ballots for members of his or her immediate family. Designees must have written authorization from the voter, present a picture I.D. and sign an affidavit. Candidates may pick up absentee ballots only for members of their immediate family."
It is very clear - the McAuliffe Goon Squad is determined to have this election end in a quagmire no matter the cost - time, money - not to mention the effect all of this will have on our nation or on our troops that are still in harms way.
Hugh Hewitt said it best "If it's not close they can't cheat".
DR
A Change Is Blowin' In the Wind...
Hugh Hewitt had a weekend symposium and invited bloggers to respond to the following:
How deep a hole have John Kerry, Mary Beth Cahill and the Edwards dug for themselves? How lasting the damage?
Hewitt reports that 225 bloggers submitted links (yours truly was among the honored to be linked from his website - Thanks Hugh).
In his closing report, Hewitt comments: The very fine analysis among some of the very new bloggers tells me not only is the self-inflicted political damage done to the Democratic ticket extreme, the explosion in blogging popularity is expanding and deepening. The technology has finally caught up with the talent. A year from now, I expect N.Z.Bear's ecosystem and rankings by traffic to have changed dramatically. Given that the talent is overwhelmingly on the side of the center-right, and that MSM is tilted way left, every further expansion in participation in and readership for the blogosphere is a huge structural advance for center-right politics and economics.
It is interesting to note - when looking at the latest polls - what I believe is reaction to the gaffe that Kerry committed last week. Hugh Hewitt identified it. Bloggers identified it. But, as Hewitt notes, most of the MSM chose to either ignore it or follow Elizabeth Edward's lead down the 'road of shame.'
Say what you will, when it comes to core values the American people are still very strong in their beliefs. AND the American people are - for the most part - optimists!
Forget the many years we have been subjected to political-correct-ed-ness and sometimes outright intimidation by the PC left. The pendulum has begun its swing back - and I say it is about time.
Thank goodness for the internet offering an alternative route for information output and access. It has given a voice to an obviously very large segment of the population that have been 'silent' for too long.
DR
How deep a hole have John Kerry, Mary Beth Cahill and the Edwards dug for themselves? How lasting the damage?
Hewitt reports that 225 bloggers submitted links (yours truly was among the honored to be linked from his website - Thanks Hugh).
In his closing report, Hewitt comments: The very fine analysis among some of the very new bloggers tells me not only is the self-inflicted political damage done to the Democratic ticket extreme, the explosion in blogging popularity is expanding and deepening. The technology has finally caught up with the talent. A year from now, I expect N.Z.Bear's ecosystem and rankings by traffic to have changed dramatically. Given that the talent is overwhelmingly on the side of the center-right, and that MSM is tilted way left, every further expansion in participation in and readership for the blogosphere is a huge structural advance for center-right politics and economics.
It is interesting to note - when looking at the latest polls - what I believe is reaction to the gaffe that Kerry committed last week. Hugh Hewitt identified it. Bloggers identified it. But, as Hewitt notes, most of the MSM chose to either ignore it or follow Elizabeth Edward's lead down the 'road of shame.'
Say what you will, when it comes to core values the American people are still very strong in their beliefs. AND the American people are - for the most part - optimists!
Forget the many years we have been subjected to political-correct-ed-ness and sometimes outright intimidation by the PC left. The pendulum has begun its swing back - and I say it is about time.
Thank goodness for the internet offering an alternative route for information output and access. It has given a voice to an obviously very large segment of the population that have been 'silent' for too long.
DR
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At Least Eight of the 19 September 11 Hijackers Were Actually Registered To Vote in The U.S.
This news to me!
I haven't read this book - Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy by John Fund, who is a member of the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board and writes the paper’s daily “Political Diary”, but I intend to.
The U.S. has the sloppiest election systems of any industrialized nation, so sloppy that at least eight of the 19 hijackers who attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were actually able to register to vote in either Virginia or Florida while they made their deadly preparations for 9/11.
I haven't read this book - Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy by John Fund, who is a member of the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board and writes the paper’s daily “Political Diary”, but I intend to.
The U.S. has the sloppiest election systems of any industrialized nation, so sloppy that at least eight of the 19 hijackers who attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were actually able to register to vote in either Virginia or Florida while they made their deadly preparations for 9/11.
Mark Steyn: Democrats are the Sept. 10 party
Mark Steyn's very powerful piece Backward-Thinking Kerry Unfit To Lead U.S. really puts everything in perspective regarding John Kerry's take on the 'nuisance of terrorism'.
Quoting Kerry in last Sunday's New York Times Magazine interview: ''We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance. As a former law enforcement person, I know we're never going to end prostitution. We're never going to end illegal gambling. But we're going to reduce it, organized crime, to a level where it isn't on the rise.''
So the senator has now made what was hitherto just a cheap crack from his opponents into formal policy: The Democrats are the Sept. 10 party.
Steyn reminds us of then Defense Secretary Bill Cohen's words after the U.S.S. Cole attack in 2000 when 17 US sailors were killed - the attack ''was not sufficiently provocative'' to warrant a response.
This is exactly what John Kerry is telling this nation today - attacks such as the U.S.S. Cole are relegated to nuisance category and not worthy of our attention or response.
Which is what led the terrorists down the path to 9/11.
I give you more of Steyn's article to consider:
... while you can make an argument for a ''managerial'' approach to terrorism, the analogy with prostitution sounds more like an undeclared surrender...
...And, as Kerry says, we've been here before: in the '90s. Back then, every so often al-Qaida blew up some military housing, a ship, couple of embassies, etc., and the Bill Clinton team shrugged it off as a nuisance. No matter how flamboyantly Osama bin Laden sashayed down the sidewalk in his fishnets and mini-skirt he couldn't catch the administration's eye.
So Osama tried again, on Sept. 11, 2001. And this time, like the escort ads in the Boston Yellow Pages, he was very provocative. And that's the point: Even if you take the Kerry Doctrine as seriously as the New York Times does, the nuance of nuisance depends largely on the terrorists. When all they could do was kill a few dozen here, a few hundred there, they were a ''nuisance'' to Clinton, Cohen, Kerry and Co.; when they came up with a plan that killed thousands, they became something more than a nuisance. But that change in status was determined largely by them. The Kerry Doctrine leaves it in their hands. And, in this kind of conflict, if you're not on the offensive, you're losing...
....So, for all that Bush is accused of being ''stubborn,'' it's Kerry who refuses to change. He reckons that Americans are worn out by the wild ride of the Bush years and really do long to ''get back to where they were'' -- back to Sept. 10, to the summer of shark attacks and missing congressional interns. All that going back to Sept. 10 means is that you'll have to learn the lessons of the morning after all over again: I do believe that, if clueless, complacent Kerry won, more Americans -- and Britons and Canadians and Australians and Europeans -- will die in terrorist ''nuisances.''
Steyn finishes with this:
But he won't win. Because enough Americans understand that going back to where we were means a return to polite fictions and dangerous illusions. That world is broken and you can't put that world back together.
I hope he's right. I hope that Americans DO understand exactly what is at stake and take that understanding with them into the voting booth on November 2nd.
DR
Quoting Kerry in last Sunday's New York Times Magazine interview: ''We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance. As a former law enforcement person, I know we're never going to end prostitution. We're never going to end illegal gambling. But we're going to reduce it, organized crime, to a level where it isn't on the rise.''
So the senator has now made what was hitherto just a cheap crack from his opponents into formal policy: The Democrats are the Sept. 10 party.
Steyn reminds us of then Defense Secretary Bill Cohen's words after the U.S.S. Cole attack in 2000 when 17 US sailors were killed - the attack ''was not sufficiently provocative'' to warrant a response.
This is exactly what John Kerry is telling this nation today - attacks such as the U.S.S. Cole are relegated to nuisance category and not worthy of our attention or response.
Which is what led the terrorists down the path to 9/11.
I give you more of Steyn's article to consider:
... while you can make an argument for a ''managerial'' approach to terrorism, the analogy with prostitution sounds more like an undeclared surrender...
...And, as Kerry says, we've been here before: in the '90s. Back then, every so often al-Qaida blew up some military housing, a ship, couple of embassies, etc., and the Bill Clinton team shrugged it off as a nuisance. No matter how flamboyantly Osama bin Laden sashayed down the sidewalk in his fishnets and mini-skirt he couldn't catch the administration's eye.
So Osama tried again, on Sept. 11, 2001. And this time, like the escort ads in the Boston Yellow Pages, he was very provocative. And that's the point: Even if you take the Kerry Doctrine as seriously as the New York Times does, the nuance of nuisance depends largely on the terrorists. When all they could do was kill a few dozen here, a few hundred there, they were a ''nuisance'' to Clinton, Cohen, Kerry and Co.; when they came up with a plan that killed thousands, they became something more than a nuisance. But that change in status was determined largely by them. The Kerry Doctrine leaves it in their hands. And, in this kind of conflict, if you're not on the offensive, you're losing...
....So, for all that Bush is accused of being ''stubborn,'' it's Kerry who refuses to change. He reckons that Americans are worn out by the wild ride of the Bush years and really do long to ''get back to where they were'' -- back to Sept. 10, to the summer of shark attacks and missing congressional interns. All that going back to Sept. 10 means is that you'll have to learn the lessons of the morning after all over again: I do believe that, if clueless, complacent Kerry won, more Americans -- and Britons and Canadians and Australians and Europeans -- will die in terrorist ''nuisances.''
Steyn finishes with this:
But he won't win. Because enough Americans understand that going back to where we were means a return to polite fictions and dangerous illusions. That world is broken and you can't put that world back together.
I hope he's right. I hope that Americans DO understand exactly what is at stake and take that understanding with them into the voting booth on November 2nd.
DR
10/16/2004
Heinz Kerry A New Nannygate?
Teresa Heinz (Kerry - she omitted this part on the return) released the first two pages of her tax return. The New York Times ran this article on it. I don't agree with some of their observations, such as One line in the Form 1040 that was released indicated she had a job for which $2,230 in taxes were withheld from her paycheck, but gave no details. The withheld taxes are probably from her investment income.
BUT
The interesting part I discovered resides on lines 55 and 59. Household employment taxes.
Remember Linda Chavez? And something called "Nannygate?"
Lines 55 and 59 on Form 1040 are Social Security and Medicare taxes paid to Household employees, ie: nannies; housekeepers; gardners; etc.
By my calculation, what Heinz-Kerry is claiming on her tax return for Household 'wages' extrapolates to approximately $7,500 - $8,000/year.
$8,000 a year paid to household staff from a billionaire??
What is going on here? If, THK did indeed pay someone $8k/year for taking care of her 'household' - does that pass the minimum wage test???
Minimum wage? HA! That would factor out to about $3.92/hour!!!!!
And, if THK is not the only source of income for these employees - who's paying them? Surely not her non-profit or 527 buddies?
I am only speaking to the very limited information we have access to regarding THK's tax returns, but this is something that deserves careful scrutiny.
BUT
The interesting part I discovered resides on lines 55 and 59. Household employment taxes.
Remember Linda Chavez? And something called "Nannygate?"
Lines 55 and 59 on Form 1040 are Social Security and Medicare taxes paid to Household employees, ie: nannies; housekeepers; gardners; etc.
By my calculation, what Heinz-Kerry is claiming on her tax return for Household 'wages' extrapolates to approximately $7,500 - $8,000/year.
$8,000 a year paid to household staff from a billionaire??
What is going on here? If, THK did indeed pay someone $8k/year for taking care of her 'household' - does that pass the minimum wage test???
Minimum wage? HA! That would factor out to about $3.92/hour!!!!!
And, if THK is not the only source of income for these employees - who's paying them? Surely not her non-profit or 527 buddies?
I am only speaking to the very limited information we have access to regarding THK's tax returns, but this is something that deserves careful scrutiny.
Oh, Did I Mention That Dick Cheney's Daughter...
There is a growing controversy over first Edwards, then Kerry mentioning Dick Cheney’s daughter’s sexual orientation.
If either of them were sincere – to quote the johns – in trying to ‘honor’ the love the Cheney’s have for daughter Mary, neither of the statements would have found their way to the debates.
It is becoming more evident that the Kerry campaign is devoid of human emotions…at least, it is absent the ones that you and I experience.
There are plenty of openly gay democrats that could have been mentioned in her place: McGreevey of New Jersey; Barney Franks; or Dick Gephardt’s daughter for that matter, if they were that intent on focusing on a child of a politician.
In fact, re-reading the transcript of both debates really is a jolt because it is crystal clear that both candidates weren’t really addressing the question, rather they were looking for an opportune time to get the subject of Dick Cheney’s daughter before the constituency.
No, this doesn’t pass the smell test folks.
The clear objective was to get the American public’s attention focused on Dick Cheney’s family and a blatant attempt to put a wedge between them and conservative voters.
Couple all of that with Elizabeth Edward’s dimwitted statement to ABC about Lynne Cheney’s ‘shame’ and you have what we apparently are witnessing now: the beginning of a meltdown.
Burn, baby, burn…when the embers are stoked by your own hand, I say lose the fire extinguishers…it is time to put this mess out of its misery.
If either of them were sincere – to quote the johns – in trying to ‘honor’ the love the Cheney’s have for daughter Mary, neither of the statements would have found their way to the debates.
It is becoming more evident that the Kerry campaign is devoid of human emotions…at least, it is absent the ones that you and I experience.
There are plenty of openly gay democrats that could have been mentioned in her place: McGreevey of New Jersey; Barney Franks; or Dick Gephardt’s daughter for that matter, if they were that intent on focusing on a child of a politician.
In fact, re-reading the transcript of both debates really is a jolt because it is crystal clear that both candidates weren’t really addressing the question, rather they were looking for an opportune time to get the subject of Dick Cheney’s daughter before the constituency.
No, this doesn’t pass the smell test folks.
The clear objective was to get the American public’s attention focused on Dick Cheney’s family and a blatant attempt to put a wedge between them and conservative voters.
Couple all of that with Elizabeth Edward’s dimwitted statement to ABC about Lynne Cheney’s ‘shame’ and you have what we apparently are witnessing now: the beginning of a meltdown.
Burn, baby, burn…when the embers are stoked by your own hand, I say lose the fire extinguishers…it is time to put this mess out of its misery.
Intimidation Tactics Employed by Kerry Supporters
Fellow AZ blogger Blogspirator reports vandalism at his house....
Statement by John O'Neill on "Nightline" Appearance
I don't know if you caught John O'Neill on Nightline, but Ted Koppel and ABC have a lot explaining to do as far as I am concerned.
John O'Neill has issued a statement about the questionable actions of ABC:
While I have a tremendous amount of respect for Ted Koppel and ABC News I was appalled to learn that ABC News would go to the lengths of traveling to Vietnam to interview three Viet Cong communists in yet a third attempt by ABC to corroborate John Kerry’s version of the events that took place on February 28th, 1969.
I would only ask the American people: "Who do you trust more, three members of a communist regime that tortured and killed our American troops or a group of more than 280 highly decorated American veterans, who proudly served their country and are now responsible members of their respective communities?"
The number of veterans who support John Kerry’s accounts of his military service would not fill one Swift Boat. But instead of sitting down to interview some of the 280 plus members of our Swift Boat organization, ABC News chose to travel to Vietnam taking extraordinary and highly suspect steps to find someone to corroborate John Kerry's story.
ABC News Nightline has now dedicated three separate programs to this one incident while ignoring John Kerry's now discredited Senate testimony that he spent Christmas in Cambodia, his receiving a purple heart after all three of the officers required to approve such an issuance rejected his application, or his constantly changing account of the circumstances surrounding his remaining medal, a bronze star.
Further, one has to wonder why ABC News will not address the serious questions as to why John Kerry only received an honorable discharge through the act of then President Carter, seven years after his discharge, and had to have all of his military citations reissued, on the same day, when he became a United States Senator in 1985. And, finally, why has Nightline found it of no interest to permit any POWs to come on their program to explain why they believe John Kerry betrayed their nation, caused them to be incarcerated for an additional two years and caused them tremendous additional hardship and suffering.
-- John O'Neill
John O'Neill has issued a statement about the questionable actions of ABC:
While I have a tremendous amount of respect for Ted Koppel and ABC News I was appalled to learn that ABC News would go to the lengths of traveling to Vietnam to interview three Viet Cong communists in yet a third attempt by ABC to corroborate John Kerry’s version of the events that took place on February 28th, 1969.
I would only ask the American people: "Who do you trust more, three members of a communist regime that tortured and killed our American troops or a group of more than 280 highly decorated American veterans, who proudly served their country and are now responsible members of their respective communities?"
The number of veterans who support John Kerry’s accounts of his military service would not fill one Swift Boat. But instead of sitting down to interview some of the 280 plus members of our Swift Boat organization, ABC News chose to travel to Vietnam taking extraordinary and highly suspect steps to find someone to corroborate John Kerry's story.
ABC News Nightline has now dedicated three separate programs to this one incident while ignoring John Kerry's now discredited Senate testimony that he spent Christmas in Cambodia, his receiving a purple heart after all three of the officers required to approve such an issuance rejected his application, or his constantly changing account of the circumstances surrounding his remaining medal, a bronze star.
Further, one has to wonder why ABC News will not address the serious questions as to why John Kerry only received an honorable discharge through the act of then President Carter, seven years after his discharge, and had to have all of his military citations reissued, on the same day, when he became a United States Senator in 1985. And, finally, why has Nightline found it of no interest to permit any POWs to come on their program to explain why they believe John Kerry betrayed their nation, caused them to be incarcerated for an additional two years and caused them tremendous additional hardship and suffering.
-- John O'Neill
10/15/2004
Swift Boat Veterans Have a Story to Tell
I was SO MOVED by the latest Swift Boat Vets ads, that I am going to link to them here tonight and not post anything else.
You might not see these on television because the main stream (old) media doesn't WANT you to see them. Go to the SBV site and forward a copy to everyone you know.
This is powerful stuff.
Swift Boat Vets "Why"
Swift Boat Vets "They Served"
You need to get this information out.
Desert Rat
You might not see these on television because the main stream (old) media doesn't WANT you to see them. Go to the SBV site and forward a copy to everyone you know.
This is powerful stuff.
Swift Boat Vets "Why"
Swift Boat Vets "They Served"
You need to get this information out.
Desert Rat
Krauthammer: There Is Absolutely Nothing Edwards Won't Say To Get Elected
The Washington Post ran this piece today by Charles Krauthammer on Edwards claim "If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk, get up out of that wheelchair and walk again."
Krauthammer, a Pulitzer Prize author and a doctor by training, is paralyzed and wheel-chair bound, so he knows of what he speaks.
In my 25 years in Washington, I have never seen a more loathsome display of demagoguery. Hope is good. False hope is bad. Deliberately, for personal gain, raising false hope in the catastrophically afflicted is despicable.
Krauthammer defuses the "Kerry will make them walk again" lies and finishes in his usual style: Politicians have long promised a chicken in every pot. It is part of the game. It is one thing to promise ethanol subsidies here, dairy price controls there. But to exploit the desperate hopes of desperate people with the promise of Christ-like cures is beyond the pale.
There is no apologizing for Edwards's remark. It is too revealing. There is absolutely nothing the man will not say to get elected
Krauthammer, a Pulitzer Prize author and a doctor by training, is paralyzed and wheel-chair bound, so he knows of what he speaks.
In my 25 years in Washington, I have never seen a more loathsome display of demagoguery. Hope is good. False hope is bad. Deliberately, for personal gain, raising false hope in the catastrophically afflicted is despicable.
Krauthammer defuses the "Kerry will make them walk again" lies and finishes in his usual style: Politicians have long promised a chicken in every pot. It is part of the game. It is one thing to promise ethanol subsidies here, dairy price controls there. But to exploit the desperate hopes of desperate people with the promise of Christ-like cures is beyond the pale.
There is no apologizing for Edwards's remark. It is too revealing. There is absolutely nothing the man will not say to get elected
Irreverent Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter has a great column Fall fashion preview: Cowboy boots in, flip-flops out- I read it and forgot to link to it - but Cactus Road did a great follow up so read his stuff, too.
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