Random notes.

I Just watched an interview with Ty Hensley, brother of Jack Hensley the man just beheaded by the demented sick pieces of trash in Iraq. A moving interview. At the end the brother starts to cry. Reporter John Scott was holding back tears as well. If you want to help Hensley's family ( he leaves behind a 13 yr old daughter. He was working in the middle east to provide college funds for her.) go here.

I am serious, who are these people??? A returning solider is beaten up by moonbats at a concert for wearing an Iraqi freedom T-shirt. Geeze! Full story here. via McGhee.

Have you seen the ACLU commercials where a bunch of "diverse" people say we don't need the Patriot Act to be "safe and free." No mention of how we do that though. Sorta like Kerry's insistence that he can get more of the international community on board for the war on terror. How? Guess he will get back to us on that.

This from The Washington Times--The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has estimated that Saddam's ousted regime stole some $10.1 billion from the U.N.-administered program between 1997 and 2003, pocketing some of the money and doling the rest out in bribes and kickbacks to those helping Iraq evade economic sanctions.
This is the interesting part---
Mr. Barton and fellow Republican Reps. Fred Upton of Michigan and George P. Radanovich of California toured a secure repository at an undisclosed site in Baghdad containing what they said were huge numbers of notebooks detailing oil-for-food deals.

Could this be why the UN was so reluctant to help us in Iraq?? Seems like UN had to know that this fraud and scandal would be revealed if Saddam was taken down. Forget about the food for the people when you can pocket a cool million or two. The UN has as much credibility in my eyes as CBS does.

Deal Hudson, publisher of Crisis magazine (a Catholic publication) will resign under pressure from it's columnists. You may remember that Hudson was a top Bush political advisor on outreach to Catholics until a story came out on Aug 19th in Catholic Reporter about his sexual liaison with an 18 yr old student in 1994 that cost him his tenured professorship at Fordham University. He was asked to resign from the Bush campaign.
As disturbing as this story is. It is refreshing to see accountability instead of excuses. It seems to me that we, as Republicans, come down pretty hard on those we think have betrayed a trust or have been hypocritical.
(you may note that the only difference between this and Clinton's indiscretion is about 3 yrs in the age of the girl)
We don't expect people in authority to be perfect, but we do expect them to be decent.

These are some quotes from the LONG awaited press conference with Kerry yesterday ...."he did not and will not offer the leadership in order to do what we need to do to protect our troops, to be successful and win the war on terror in an effective way," Mr. Kerry said.
Mr. Kerry insisted that he has "a plan to make America safer" and persuade reluctant allies, such as France, Germany and Russia, to help support Iraq's fledgling democracy. You have to engage, I said, in a summit; that you ought to pull those people to the table and come out with a unified agreement as to what you're going to do to send a message to those wavering Iraqis who are sitting on the fence, unsure of which way this may go," Mr. Kerry said.
Does it seem to you that Kerry uses the words "protect, effective, safer, unified, and engage" all the time, but with no clear answer to HOW we do these things. Its all well and good to say "I will make it all better." but you need to tell us how your going to do that. And using a 4 point vague plan with no details, doesn't cut it.
Heres the best part--
"The vote for authorization is interpreted by a lot of people as a vote to go to war," Mr. Kerry said.
Really??? why in the world would a vote of authorization to go to war be interpreted as a vote TO GO TO WAR????? I can see the misunderstanding, can't you???

Question of the day--Why was Kerry not asked about the Lockhart connection to the Burkett/CBS document scandal???? Is there any excuse for this?

Amusing quote of the day-"Down With Negativity"

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