Another Rough Man Goes To Ride...a Salute to Greyhawk.

Greyhawk from Mudville Gazette has left for Iraq. One day I spent a couple of hours reading his archives. I just couldn't stop. Not only is he a gifted writer, a man's man, but he touches our soul with the knowledge of a warrior's life. God be with you Greyhawk.
I wrote the following in a post sometime back regarding the protestors at the RNC, but it reflects what I feel about all those in the military in general.

"Our soldiers today are fighting a fight never seen or imagined before. They are our protectors, the ones who let us sleep in peace at night. They are the ones who let us leave our kids at school without worry, let us get on buses without fear, let us dream, work, learn, and live. Everyday since 9-11 that we have not been attacked is a tribute to their work. Honor is too small a word for these patriots. They give us much and ask so little. But what they do ask is to at least not smear their good name, not paint them as demented. This is the heart of the anger at Kerry by these vets. They were strong and true when it wasn't easy to be so. They endured much. Kerry spit in their faces. He took his medals and purple hearts and denounced them then, and now proudly holds them up for honor now. A betrayal of the highest order. Here we are facing the greatest threat to freedom ever. The men who seek to destroy us, want those that they don't murder to live without even the taste of freedom, to never be able to decide who is our leader, to never be able to voice dessent or concern, to never be able to listen to music, or dance, or wear what we wish, or worship as we see fit. Do the protestors not see the danger we face? Do they not see all that could be lost?"

Rough Men go to the wall for freedom, some don't come back. We honor you. We salute you.
Greyhawk, come back....and you write...YOU WRITE!!

Life...

My 7 year old was looking through the JC Penny Holiday catalog the other day. He shows me those small motorcycles that are all the rage now and says he wants Santa to bring him one for Christmas.
"Honey, those are small, but they are for grownups or much older kids. They are much too dangerous. Santa is not gonna bring you one."
He looks down at the catalog for a moment and looks up at me and says (very sweetly) "Mom, you know.... you really don't have much say in what Santa brings me."
I laughed so hard, I got him to laughing and then the dog jumps on us. And luckily I didn't have to explain why I was laughing.

I think we have kids so we can believe in everything again.
And I'm not talking Santa, here, either.

Know The Facts.

There were 39 combat related killings in Iraq during the month of January.....In the fair city of Detroit there were35 murders in the month of January.That's just one American city, about as deadly as the entire war torn country of Iraq.
When some claim President Bush shouldn't have started this war, state the following ...
FDR...led us into World War II.Germany never attacked us: Japan did.>From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost,an average of 112,500 per year.
Truman...finished that war and started one in Korea,North Korea never attacked us.>From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost,an average of 18,334 per year.
John F. Kennedy...started the Vietnam conflict in 1962.Vietnam never attacked us.
Johnson...turned Vietnam into a quagmire.>From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost,an average of 5,800 per year.
Clinton...went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent,Bosnia never attacked us.He was offered Osama bin Laden's head on a platter three times by Sudan and did nothing.Osama has attacked us on multiple occasions.
In the two years since terrorists attacked us President Bush has liberated two countries, crushed the Taliban, crippled al-Qaida, put nuclear inspectors in Libya, Iran and North Korea with out firing a shot, and captured a terrorist who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people.
The Democrats are complaining about how long the war is taking, but...It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno to take theBranch Davidian compound. That was a 51 day operation.
We've been looking for evidence of chemical weapons in Iraq for less time than it took Hillary Clinton to find the Rose Law Firm billing records.
It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and the Marines to destroy the Medina Republican Guard than it took Ted Kennedy to call the police after his Oldsmobile sank at Chappaquiddick.
It took less time to take Iraq than it took to count the votes in Florida!!!!
Our Commander-In-Chief is doing a GREAT JOB! The Military morale is high! The biased media hopes we are too ignorant to realize the facts.

Hat tip to my friend Buffalo Brown for this.

Love Is A Battlefield...

Sometime between teaching my son to drive and throwing my daughter's Britney Spear's CD away, ("why mom???!!", "Uh.. lets see, when she is not dressing like a prostitute, she looks like white trash. She sings a haunting melody about masturbation and she is so stupid she couldn't get a clue from JLo to NEVER marry one of her dancers!") I realized that I am a mom of teenagers. When did that happen? Wasn't I just 17 a few years ago?? I feel like I have been thrown down a time tunnel. In my daughter's whines I hear something familiar, something I know I have heard before. Then it hits me. ITS ME! Is this some sort of cosmic revenge? I have to relive my own overdramatic totally unreasonable emotions? Yes I do. And I can't even complain to my Mom, she just giggles uncrontrollably.
When my daughter was almost 13 I asked her, "please don't be a bratty teenager, please stay the sweet little angel you are now, don't change!" She hugged me tightly and said, "Of course I won't Mom!!".......LIAR!!! After 2 yrs of slammed doors, tears, and proclamations of how I am ruining her life, I asked her "Is my sweet little girl EVER coming back? Huh? Is She? I want to know, because I really really miss her!" My daughter rolls her eyes in disgust, clearly wondering how she lives with such stupidity.
Sometimes when we are arguing a little voice in my head says
" Whats wrong with a coed pajama party??? Oh, let her wear the skimpy halter top, you had one just like it!! When did you lose your sense of fun, your sense of adventure??" Hmmm.... I'm pretty sure I lost it when I saw "American Pie."
The other day a convertible pulls up with her friends ready to go. I rush outside and tell them to turn down the music so they can hear the traffic, buckle their seat belts, don't even think about drinking, and for God's sake button the top buttons of their shirts! My daughter closes her eyes hoping I will disappear in a puff of smoke. What she doesn't know is that I would give anything to hop in that car with them, turn up the music, have a beer, and remember what it was like to be young and carefree without the worry of motherhood. At the moment, this job sucks. First, its never fun anymore. Second, I am ALWAYS the bad guy, and third, I can't even get drunk. ( Ok, I know I CAN, I just don't think I should) Maintaining my wise and "lets always do the right thing" attitude is wearing me out.
It could just be my situation, but girls are alot harder. People tell me that they return to sanity around 22 or so. Good, just old to enough to pay for my stay in the mental ward. Where I will probably sit in small room with a telephone by my bed muttering "Why hasn't she called? Where is she? She is dead in a ditch! I know it!!"
Luckily my 3 boys seem to stroll through life happy and content. My oldest was born 30, I think. He has just always gotten it. He goes with the flow and obeys the rules (with the normal exceptions). The other two are young, still in that "Gosh, my mommy is so terrific!" stage that is the best part of being a Mom.
So, I guess I have the best and the worst parts of being a Mom going on. If anyone has suggestons on how to handle the worst not requiring medication, I would appreciate it. Right now I think I will crank up my old LP of Pat Benatar, "Love is a battlefield." That girl rocked, didn't she?

TONIGHT! RATHER ADMITS MISTAKE ON CBS!!

"Good evening, I'm Dan Rather. We start off tonight admitting a mistake. Yes, the documents are forgeries. But those pajama clad brownshirts blogging their HATE, did not have anything to do with exposing this uhh...mistake. We already had experts on the job testing the paper, fonts, EVERYTHNG! I swear its true! I, as a responsible journalist simply reported the story as I saw it at the time. In fact if we hadn't had all those computer nazis taking up all the time of the experts we would have had the truth out alot sooner. The real story tonight is that not only is the content of the memos true, a CBS pyschic has gotten in touch with late Jerry Killian and he has confirmed all that we suspected and more. Bush not only went AWOL in 1973, but was discovered 6 months later passed out from a cocaine binge in a Las Vegas motel singing "My baloney has a first name..." And finally, We have discovered that Karl Rove was behind the forgeries. James Carville overheard him at the RNC bragging about it. I hope this restores my credibility, as it should."

Lets take a look at Edwards

If you have ever wondered why your medical premiums are so high, look no further than lawyers like John Edwards. Heres why.

The first story I read about John Edwards told me all I needed to know about him. He made his millions off large jury awards from Celebral Palsy medical malpractice cases. Although studies have shown that doctor negligence is not the cause of CP, Edward's skills as a lawyer always brought in millions. But that is not what bothered me the most about Edwards. It was the fact that he has NEVER represented a family who had a child with CP who DIED in the birthing process. You see when the child is dead you don't have a child in a wheelchair to parade in front of a jury. Why take a case you might lose, when you have it in the bag with a child to show. We are a compassionate people, we are also a visual people. Show us someone in need of help, and we give it. Edwards banks on that.

During the trials that Edwards has been a part of, he often spoke touchingly of the unborn child in distress in their mother's womb. Yet when the time came to vote for the "Unborn Victims of Violence Act," his compassion was nowhere to be seen. When Laci Peterson's mother wrote a heartfelt letter encouraging congress to vote for the passage of this act, she made it clear that there were two victims that were pulled from the water that day. Laci and her son, Conner. It seems when the "unborn victim" will not make you millions and you will have to answer to the abortion rights lobby, compassion goes out the window.

Not that you heard anything about that at the DNC convention. Edwards spoke on such controversial issues as opposing "negative attacks." He supports a "public school system that works for all our children." Oh, and a "safe place to go after school." And really taking it to the edge he said " the color of your skin should never control your destiny." Who knew I would agree with Edwards? Wait....Who wouldn't agree with that?

The "2 Americas" theme he tried was nothing short of class warfare. Amusing, being that he is in the America of the filthy rich. I am sure he sees himself as one of those democrats who are there to help the little people. The fact that he makes millions off of them isn't really important, is it?

What is important is that John Edwards is the perfect politician. Hes goodlooking, charming, and youthful. He has a sad story in his past, and he "made good." He knows how to spin and charm with the best of them. After he is done you feel good, you agree with everything he said, but your not sure exactly what he did say.
John Edwards isn't dumb and he isn't going away. He will be here long after we have filed Kerry under "defeated candidates for president." He is laying his case out and will be back to give his final summation. You can count on that.

The Iraq and Al-Qaida connection...now shutup...

September 11 Commission report (p. 61)

With the Sudanese regime acting as intermediary, Bin Ladin himself met with senior Iraqi intelligence officer in Khartoum in late 1994 or early 1995. Bin Ladin is said to have asked for space to establish training camps, as well as assistance in procuring weapons, but there is no evidence that Iraq responded to this request . . . [but] the ensuing years saw additional efforts to establish connections.

September 11 Commission report (p. 66)

In March 1998, after Bin Ladin's public fatwa against the United States, two al Qaeda members reportedly went to Iraq to meet with Iraqi intelligence. In July, an Iraqi delegation traveled to Afghanistan to meet first with the Taliban and then with Bin Ladin. Sources reported that one, or perhaps both, of these meetings was apparently arranged through Bin Ladin's Egyptian deputy, Zawahiri, who had ties of his own to the Iraqis.

September 11 Commission report (p. 66)

Similar meetings between Iraqi officials and Bin Ladin or his aides may have occurred in 1999 during a period of some reported strains with the Taliban. According to the reporting, Iraqi officials offered Bin Ladin a safe haven in Iraq. Bin Ladin declined, apparently judging that his circumstances in Afghanistan remained more favorable than the Iraqi alternative. The reports describe friendly contacts and indicate some common themes in both sides' hatred of the United States. But to date we have seen no evidence that these or the earlier contacts ever developed into a collaborative operational relationship. Nor have we seen evidence indicating that Iraq cooperated with al Qaeda in developing or carrying out any attacks against the United States. Bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee Report (Conclusion 92, p. 345) The Central Intelligence Agency's examination of contacts, training, safehaven and operational cooperation as indicators of a possible Iraq-al Qaida relationship was a reasonable and objective approach to the question. Bipartisan Senate

September 11 Intelligence Committee Report (Conclusion 93, p. 346)

The Central Intelligence Agency reasonably assessed that there were likely several instances of contacts between Iraq and al-Qaida throughout the 1990s, but that these contacts did not add up to an established formal relationship. Bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee Report (Conclusion 94, p. 346) The Central Intelligence Agency reasonably and objectively assessed in Iraqi Support for Terrorism that the most problematic area of contact between Iraq and al-Qaida were the reports of training in the use of non-conventional weapons, specifically chemical and biological weapons.

Bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee Report (Conclusion 95, p. 347)

The Central Intelligence Agency's assessment on safehaven--that al-Qaida or associated operatives were present in Baghdad and in northeastern Iraq in an area under Kurdish control--was reasonable.

In additon I will add this from National Review Online and stolen from the Big Dog's house site:

Friday, September 10, 2004

Iraq and Terrorism
W. Thomas Smith Jr. writes:"Reflecting on the attacks of September 11, 2001, Navy SEAL Lt. Commander Mark Divine told National Review Online: "There are enormous numbers of foreign fighters in Iraq right now. Whether some of those fighters were there before September 11, 2001, or as a call to arms later, will be argued by both [Democrats and Republicans] until they are blue in the face. What I can tell you is that there is tremendous evidence to suggest there were terrorist training camps in Iraq before 9/11."
"Divine should know. Having just returned from Iraq, where he's been tasked with observing the work of U.S. special-operations forces, he says, "There is no doubt in my mind — or the minds of other SEALs — that the war in Iraq is part of our overall response to what happened in our country, three years ago."

The forgery saga continues...

One wonders if CBS is scrambling to find 30 yr old paper and an old xerox machine.

Lets break this down, shall we?
1) 2 of the most respected documents experts in the country say they are pretty sure they are forged with what they see now.
2) The Globe says the document expert Dr. Bouffard is changing his mind about the documents from when he said he was 90% sure the documents were forgeries.
3) Then Dr. Bouffard says,,,,uuhh, no I'm not.
4) Then the "source" that Rather used, Gen. Hodges says that CBS lied to him about the documents telling him they were handwritten and then misquoted him. ( and oh was he ticked!)
5) Jerry Killian's wife and son say they believe the documents are forged, that Lt Col. Killian never used typewriters or kept personal files.
6) The military officer Gen.Staudt mentioned in the document as pressuring Hodges actually retired a year 1/2 earlier than the date on the document. (He has refused to speak to the press)
7) Miltiary personel are saying the acronym "OETR" on the document does not stand for "Officer Efficiency Training Report" and is not a report at all, but an office at the Air force Institute of Technology. The correct acronym would have been "OER" well known and often used report for, among other things, evaluating a promotion. The idea that an officer would get these two confused is absurd.
8) An officer in Bush's guard unit points out that the date mandated to take his physical is not correct. The date was always based on one's birthday.
9) Eugene Hussey, a certified forensic document examiner in Washington State, studied Jerry Killian's signature on the documents compared to Mr. Killian's actual signature, and concluded (in a limited opinion, meaning he would have to have the original documents to have a full opinion) that they are forged.

Yet Old Dan just wants us to trust him. Riiight. CBS says the documents are a first generation copy. Lets get real here and test the paper, shall we?
What is CBS waiting for? Wouldn't a test put all this to rest? Come on, are they afraid or what?

Ohhh, I forgot to mention the problems with the typography, but the leftys aren't gonna believe any of that anyway. Will they believe the above mentioned people perhaps, especially since Dr. Bouffard is a Kerry supporter and Gen. Hodges was a Howard Dean supporter ? .......nah

UPDATE: Have to include this because its the one thing I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere, and it seems important to me.

"If you compare the documents that CBS produced with the documents we know to be authentic, that did come from Bush's National Guard unit, none of those documents use proportionate spacing." via The Washington Post

So we are left wondering....Why didn't anyone else or even Killian himself use this proportionate spacing IBM machine to type ANY OTHER documents from that time period?

And to lighten the mood, this is hilarious.

Note to Dan Rather: I'm not a guy and I don't wear jamies unless I am sleeping. Yeah...so...get used to the "new media" oh annointed one.

UPDATE: Fox news reported this morning that Dan Rather called Gen. Hodges Fri. night after the story broke and Hodges said he went through the documents with Rather pointing out why he thought they were forgeries. Rather told him that the documents had been authenticated.

Lets get real here. CBS needs to give the documents to a objective 3rd party NOW. It is clear that the investigative team of CBS is either corrupt or have the investigative skills of the Scooby Do gang. Except the Scooby Do gang reveal the answer at the end.

Never.....

9-11

There was fear flooding our souls
making it hard to breathe.

There was shock as the buildings fell
making us pray.

There was disbelief on how it all happened
making us sad.

There was anger toward those who hurt us
making us determined.

For a moment, we were one
For a moment, we were not Republicans or Democrats, Black, white, Asian, or Hispanic.
For a moment, we were first...... Americans.

I wish I could take that moment and fill the air with it now.
I wish I could make us all remember what it was like to help each other, cry for one another, and hold each other up.

This is how we could honor those who died.

Perhaps we can't agree, but we can be kind.
And we can be.........better.

God Bless those who still feel the pain of loss, may you feel the breeze of comfort and know that we still pray for you.


"I say to our enemies: We are coming. God may have mercy on you, but we won't."--Sen. John McCain (R-Az)

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty."-John F. Kennedy

"These terrorists....we have seen their kind before. They're the heirs of all the murderous ideaologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing human life to serve their radical vision, by abandoning every value except the will to power, they follow in the path of fascism, Nazism and totalitarianism. And they will follow that path all the way to where it ends in history's unmarked grave of discarded lies."-President George W. Bush

This just keeps looking worse.

Democrats, read this and weep... looks bad.
Update: and keeps looking worse.. and worse.

Basically Dr. Bouffard is saying the Globe misrepresented him and he hasn't changed his mind about the documents.
So I guess all the lefty's need to change the link to the Globe.
Anyway, after learning that there may have been a Selectric machine available at the time of the documents, he says , "But the more information we get and the more my colleagues look at this, we're more convinced that there are significant differences between the type of the IBM (composer) that was available and the questionable document."

You gotta laugh at LFG's take on this...about Killian's "magic typewriter" LOL!!!

The leftys refuse to believe 250 military men from all poltical persuasions, yet they believe Dan Rather...*sigh*

UPDATE: CBS can't get a break...tsk, tsk....

"Retired Maj. General Hodges, Killian's supervisor at the Grd, tells ABC News that he feels CBS misled him about the documents they uncovered. According to Hodges, CBS told him the documents were "handwritten" and after CBS read him excerpts he said, "well if he wrote them that's what he felt."
Hodges also said he did not see the documents in the 70's and he cannot authenticate the documents or the contents. His personal belief is that the documents have been "computer generated" and are a "fraud".
CBS responds: ""We believed Col. Hodges the first time we spoke with him. We believe the documents to be genuine. We stand by our story and will continue to report on it." via ABC News.

Ok, this was funny...

Kerry speaking today on the Brady Bill said that when he was hunting he never used assault weapons or a "ewwshee." I swear thats exactly how he pronounced it. umm. you know... an uzi. LOL!!!

Everyone needs to consider the facts of the "forgery."

This from the Sun Times:

"Ardolino's expert, Philip D. Bouffard, is a nationally recognized forensic authority in typewriter and electronic typefaces.
Bouffard has the largest collection of full letter impact typewriter specimens in a private collection today. Having worked at NCR and a forensic laboratory for more than 30 years, Bouffard still works with entities such as the State of Ohio on Medicare fraud cases.
Bouffard said the CBS documents appear to have been copied about 10 times in the state he saw them. Nevertheless, he states, "All the documents have been created on the same printer. And the proportional spacing and the common characteristics of numbers like 4 and 7 and letters like lower case c and upper case G are beyond the capabilities of any of the typewriter impact specimens I have in my collection. The centering of headings is also beyond the capabilities of any typewriter I know of."
His conclusion: "It is remotely possible there is some typewriter that has the capability to do all this ... but it is more likely these documents were generated in the common Times New Roman font and printed out on a computer printer that did not exist at the time they were supposedly created."
Bouffard is a registered Democrat planning to vote for Kerry.
In a related story, the Associated Press has reported that the son of Killian, Gary Killian, has questioned the authenticity of the documents as well and said they didn't come from his family."

The liberals are just gonna have to consider this as maybe a viscious lie. If this were the Republicans, I would want to know and I would be very angry. I know politics is mean, and getting meaner. But this, if true, is beyond the pale.
We must start requiring honesty our of our own parties. We cannot keep going down this road. I know liberals will say "what about the swiftboat ads?" They may have been brutal, I admit. And really not relevant imo, but the fact that they were of all different political persuasions convinced me that the Bush campaign didn't have anything to do with it and there has been no proof that they did. Bush making it clear that he honored Kerry's service and even going so far as to say Kerry served more honorably because he was in harms way showed real class to me.
I haven't heard Kerry say anything demeaning about Bush's service either. Correct me if I am wrong.
If it is proven that the Kerry Campaign had anything to do with this, democrats should be angry and let them know. I would hope we Republicans would do the same.

UPDATE:
Dan Rather went on CNN and said that he knows the Jerry Killian documents to be authentic, and knows that they are not forgeries. Therefore, he said, there will be no retraction, no correction, and -- apparently -- no investigation.

So we are just suppose to TRUST Dan Rather??? Come on!! If he has any integrity left he will put this all out on the table and let the truth be told. If he is right, then he should be confident in it being looked into. As long as he holds out, he looks like a liar.

This is an interesting article on the role of the bloggers in this story.. here.

Oh that Teresa..

Teresa Heinz Kerry says "only an idiot" would fail to support her husband's health care plan.
When asked about the school lunch programs, she went on to say "Let them eat cake!" ;-)

My 1st Personal Smear Award.

This is John Edward speaking of Cheney's statement that we could be attacked again if we make the wrong choice on election day....

"The statement by the Vice President of the United State is intended to divide us." (You mean as in "2 Americas????") Edwards said "It was calculated to divide us on a issue of safety and security for the American people. It is wrong and its un-american." (Associated Press)

And then we here from Gore....

"Former Vice President Al Gore has compared George Bush's Christian faith with fundamentalist Islam. saying it emphasizes "vengence" and "brimstone." (WorldNetDaily)

So What Cheney says is wrong, but Gore slamming Bush's personal faith is fine.
One is based on politics and the understanding of the war. One is a PERSONAL attack on one's religion and faith. Which is worse???
Gore wins the "personal smear" award for today.

And I give a sickening example...

Could my post this morning have been more timely?????

Regarding "newly discovered" papers on Bush's guard service....

"Three independent topography experts told CNS News.com they were suspicious of the documents from 1972 and 1973 because they were typed using a proportional font, not common at that time, and they used a superscript font feature found only in today's Microsoft Word program."


If this is true then the whole journalistic world should be ashamed... check it out. and here and here.

UPDATE: Please go to www.powerlineblog.com for the latest on the forged documents. Now the signature is now in question, even the son of the Lt. Col. Jerry Killian ( who died in 84 ) is doubting the authenticity of his father's document according to the AP. Sandra Ramsey Lines, a document expert and fellow at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences says after looking at the copy of the document says "I am virtually certain these were computer- generated"

Read about another expert here

News, Spin, or a Lie??

I visit both conservative and liberal sites. I read the articles posted by those on the right and the left to prove thier points and one thing has struck me and its not good. Anyone can pretty much find an article from a "reputable news source" to back whatever they wish to say. Who can we trust now with "just the facts?" This bothers me alot.

Take the recent AP story about the "boos" that occurred when Bush wished Clinton well, and was proven totally false and later taken off the AP wire. We aren't just talking spin here, we are talking a LIE. I am sure the left can come up with their own as well. And thats the problem. Legitimate news should be just the facts. But now it seems that what we refer to as mainstream news has their own agenda and sometimes not only spin the news their way, but make up things as well. This is disturbing and wrong. It seems to have gotten worse in the last few years.

I think this is why. With the advent of talk radio, the internet, and Fox news, the conservative side was out there in a much more public way reaching a wider audience than ever before. The mainstream media, use to spinning things to the left because that is the belief base of 90% of journalists, were not happy with this and have chosen to spin things as they see it. Recently I think there has been an effort in the mainstream media to offer a more fair balance in order to compete with Fox news. This has caused the liberals to insist on bias in the media. They have been so used to things being spun in their direction, that any spin to the right is considered bias. I say "welcome to our world." This is what conservatives lived with for DECADES.

I truly don't feel I can trust what I read anymore. Conspiracy theorists are given the same credit as respected pundits. Leftwingers read their news sites and totally believe what is there, rightwingers do the same. Leftys read Freepers comments and think all conservatives are like that. Rightwingers read rants from Michael Moore and think all liberals are like that. And we wonder why we are so divided in this country? This is just wrong. We all have our indivual beliefs, almost none of us have exactly the same way of thinking or believing, which is one of the great things about America.

Another example of misinformation that appalled me. When the swiftboat ads came out the Kerry campaign immediately announced that it was backed by the Bush campaign and was nothing but disgruntled Republicans. The President said he had nothing to do with it and went on to praise Kerry's service. Since I didn't hear different I assumed that the ads were put on by partisan men. Only recently did I find out that John O'Neil is a independent and voted for Gore in 2000 and that the 250 men involved are of all political persuasions. This is kinda important to know when evaluating the truth of something. The press just let that part of the story slide. Yes, I know a wealthy Republican gave them funds to make the ads, but who else would do that? I mean come on! I am sure there are the same kind of examples on the left. But my point is that the press needs to start doing its job and giving us the FACTS and not leave out vital information just because it makes a better story.

The democrats kept complaining about the speakers at the convention not representing the "real" Republican party. I guess they were talking about me because I don't believe in most things that Rudy or Arnold believe, but I have found that most conservative bloggers do. Yet the democrats put Republicans in one box and anyone who doesn't fit that box isn't really a Republican. Sad, really.

The civil discourse on the net is truly awful. Just look at the comments on my blog to see how most seem to want to act like 5th graders and call names and make childish remarks instead of having a real debate about the issues. One commenter remarked that adults need to be in charge. Well, maybe adults need to be on the internet and act like adults as well.

Continuing the conversation from the "This will haunt me" post...

I will not accept any copy and pasting of entire articles. Its seems Anonymous's posting of a article in my "This will haunt me" post caused no more comments to be posted. Or it could have been just something I did. I am new at this, so forgive me. I thought when mark said there would be no more room, that we would run out of posting comments space. I tried to delete some of the comments to make room, but that didn't seem to work either. A more experienced blogger tells me there should be plenty of room and that I am not suppose to delete comments unless they are offensive, so I apologize to whoever's post I deleted trying to make room. I hope you will continue to post here. Rest assured I won't delete any more.
I want to respond to Anonymous's article. I will copy and past a part of it here. If you want to read the whole article go to that post.

"Muslim radicals are feeding on anger over the war in Iraq in order to regroup and revitalize. raising the threat of more anti-U.S. terrorism around the world.
They are defiant. They are angry. More and more people are angry," said Abu Mujahed, a militant whose name is a nom de guerre.
He said new recruits are being found by way of internet chat rooms that deal with the war in Iraq and "American Aggression."

If this weren't so sad it would be amusing. Do you not see how pathetic it is that you would post an article that mostly quoted terrorists or what terrorists told someone else. What do you think the terrorists are gonna say? "Oh, we are being beaten badly by Bush. He is right and we are wrong. No more torturing and killing for us!!" It says all I need to know about you that you would use terrorist's quotes to further your side of the argument. The last quote from the one eyed mullah who dominated Afgahnistan for 7 yrs, says "There are two camps in the world today, one is Islam, which is a religion of peace, and the other symbol is Bush, a symbol of terror and hatred."

Yeah, you gotta love the peaceful shooting of kids in the back and flying planes into a building of innocent people.

The Real Kerry, forget Vietnam.

A Few thoughts:

Kerry promises to remove our troops from Iraq in 4 years. We all know how patient the enemy is. Is it wise to give them a end point to count on? Kerry also complains about the money spent on the war that could better be spent on healthcare, education, ect... So hes basically proving Zell Miller's point that the democrats don't take this war on terror seriously enough. John McCain said it better than I ever could:
"It is a fight between a just regard for human dignity and malevolent force
that defiles an honorable religion by disputing God's love for every soul on earth. It's a fight between right and wong, good and evil." And he went on to say; "Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war." and to re-emphasize my point in my previous post, "This will haunt me" McCain said: "Freedom is our birthright and its defense is always our first responsibility. All other responsibilities come second."

On a side note about education, It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that money is NOT the problem with education. We throw money at it and throw money at it, and still parochial schools do much better without anywhere near as much money. Get a clue! Its about disipline, hard work, high expectations, and parental involvement.

Kerry (on advice from Clinton) no longer wants to discuss Vietnam. (good idea). So lets discuss his voting record in the Senate, which tells so much about the man NOW... www.rightvoices.com/archives/2004/08/26/kerrys-voting-record/

From "the wondering file":
Wonder if the "sock scandel" is going anywhere. Remember when former white house official Sandy Berger stuffed national security documents in his socks? The investigation is ongoing. Seems strange it would take so long. He admits to doing it. From what I have read they know which documents he took, except for a few personal notes they don't have copies of. Lets get this show on the road. Something is up here. Lets not let this one just die on the vine. A guy like that doesn't do something stupid like that for just anything.

I never thought I would agree with China.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has intensified its battle against Internet and mobile phone pornography by threatening distributors with life in prison, Xinhua news agency said.

Porn is a maggot infested wound in our society. Adults that enjoy this perversion don't seem to care that it is only a click away from our kids. Another person I never thought I would agree with is Clinton, who signed a bill 6 yrs ago designed to protect children from Internet porn called "The Children's Online Protection Act. , but our activists judges put a stop to that as well.
As a parent of teens I have seen what these kids have access to. And it is wrong and disgusting. We are not talking pictures of nude women. We are talking visuals of any kind of sex you care to name. We are contributing to damage to our children's future sexuality as long as we allow this garbage to go on.
Contrary to what the judges say commercial internet and filtering software is NOT adequate. I should know. We have tried every one out there and pornographers still find a way to get through.
The protection act describes what is harmful to children as this:

"Depicts, describes, or represents, in a patently offensive way with respect to what is suitable for minors, an actual or simulated sexual act or sexual contact, actual or simulated normal or perverted sexual acts, or a lewd exhibition of the genitals; and taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value as to minors."

The act basically requires porn websites to not advertise toward children and requires certain identification that you are an adult, such as credit cards and pin and passwords, verification through the mail, ect. There are other methods as well.

The thing is I don't care what they require as long as children don't have access to it. The ones enjoy porn don't want to have to give out their personal information online. WELL TOO BAD!!! If you don't want anyone to know then get your butt in your car and go to a porn place.
Why should the internet put your perverted needs above the protection of our children?

I am so sick of free speech being used when it is clearly harmful to our kids.