Fed up with being endlessly told "the American people" have turned against the war in Iraq, Republicans asked the Democrats to show what they had in their hand and vote on a resolution to withdraw the troops. By a vote of 403-3, the House of Representatives wasn't willing to bet that "the American people" want to pull out of Iraq. (This vote also marked the first time in recent history that the Democrats did not respond to getting their butts kicked by demanding a recount.) The vote is all the more shocking because of what it says about the Democrats' motives in attacking the war — as well as alerting us to three members of Congress we really need to keep an eye on. The Democrats are giving aid and comfort to the enemy for no purpose other than giving aid and comfort to the enemy. There is no plausible explanation for the Democrats' behavior other than that they long to see U.S. troops shot, humiliated, and driven from the field of battle. They fill the airwaves with treason, but when called to vote on withdrawing troops, disavow their own public statements. These people are not only traitors, they are gutless traitors.

Happy Thanksgiving to God for our Nation and Way of Life-Let's pray we don't give away the farm!

Al-Qaida Devastated by U.S. Offensive

Dietary Flip-Flops:

A. High-fat dairy food linked to low cancer risk Colorectal-disease threat less for those eating a lot of cheese --Reuters

B. Decaf coffee may raise levels of harmful cholesterol

C. Being 'fat' may not be a health risk
IAN JOHNSTON
PEOPLE who are officially classed as overweight are not necessarily putting their health at risk and going on a diet could be dangerous, according to new research.
A row has been raging after a controversial US study earlier this year found that those deemed to be overweight - because of their high weight to height ratio - actually had a lower chance of dying prematurely than people whose weight was "normal". THEN Universal Health Care in England is discriminating against heavier people and requiring un-safe weight loss before allowing hip and knee replacements. Boy! Science is SOOO reliable!!!! You'd think the anti-God crowd would be tired of all the flip-flops from their deity: Science.

Since the sexual revolution escalated forty years ago, morality in America has been in a state of rapid decline. In only four decades, we have gone from a country of traditional family values to a nation of widespread promiscuity, cohabitation, soaring divorce rates, and an explosion of sexual crime committed against women and children. How could things go so wrong so fast?
Many experts answer this question with two words: Alfred Kinsey.

The congressman at the center of the battle last week over withdrawal of troops from Iraq removed the results from his own Internet poll on the subject after online voters overwhelmingly opposed his stance.
Rep. Jack Murtha, D-Pa., posted the poll after he ignited a firestorm in the House that led to Republicans forcing a quick vote on the issue Friday.
While a revised poll page remains on the site, the link to it from his homepage has been removed, making the survey effectively invisible to the public.

CNN "explains" 'X' glitch over Cheney's face

John Kerry Finally Elected!...for something

A case study in people of lower intelligence not knowing ones limitations:
"Not-ready-for-prime-time" Al Franken schooled by Antonin Scalia at New York Event.
Wish I could have been there.
Scalia - 1, Franken - 0: Say what you will about Scalia, dude didn't get where he is because he ain't smart. 'Sokay Al, you're good enough, you're smart enough, and dammit, you've got a lot of time to practice before hitting the campaign trail.

Victory Christian Center Pastor Attacked During Services

Alabama Judge Rules Illegal Immigrant Due Workers Comp for Life

CNN's coverage of Cheney's speech today had spuratic , large X's flash on and off over the Vice President's head. So quickly, apparently, that it could barely be seen without slow mo turned on.
Cnn calls it a glitch, coincidentally ill timed as it may have been. Hmmmmmmm..........

Following sabateurios US senatorial leads: Iraqi Leaders Call for Pullout Timetable CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Leaders of Iraq's sharply divided Shiites, Kurds and Sunnis called Monday for a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S.-led forces in the country and said Iraq's opposition had a "legitimate right" of resistance. The final communique, hammered out at the end of three days of...

Truth Serum for the Donkey!!! by David Limbaugh
What do Democrat leaders really believe concerning their "Bush lied" mantra? If you were to inject the whole lot of them with truth serum and turn them loose with microphones and recording equipment, here's what you might hear.

9th Circuit Judge Sets Standard for Liberal Activism (CNSNews.com) - The "right to privacy," which liberals maintain is implied in the U.S. Constitution and which was used by the U.S. Supreme Court to legalize abortion in 1973, apparently mattered little to Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this month when he ruled on a case involving parental rights. Full Story

Hillary wants to buy more votes in the quintessential Clinton style:
From Monday's New York Post: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is the sole sponsor of a bill that would let some Puerto Rico residents who pay no federal income taxes get child-credit refunds on their Social Security and Medicare taxes. Read News on the Web

Jordan's Anti-Terror Rallies By Dr. Walid Phares 200,000 Jordanians send a powerful message to al-Qaeda – and to the rest of the world. More>

UPDATE: SONYBMG suspends copy-protection software; Technology exposed PC users to hackers... *

Hurricane Gamma by Saturday? // Track Map...
Strong Earthquake Shakes Northern Japan

New atheist challenge to 'In God We Trust' Man seeking to change Pledge ready to challenge motto on money this week


Bush Takes Fresh Shots at Iraq War Critics


No Dean Apology for Michael Steele
So far, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean has still offered no apology for derogatory racial slurs made by Democrats against Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele, a black Republican. Neither does he apoligize for false statements about the RNC Chair. Great role model dem's!

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Dean Statement on the Resounding Democratic Victories Across the Country when all that really happened is status quo. No parties changed seats, no new props were passed, eveything is quite the same as it was yestarday. If that is what the Dem's consider a great victory, I'd like to see what they consider a defeat!

The Californian Osterich keeps it's head in the sand; rejecting any fiscal reforms to a dying state.

Drug of the day: sodium amatol

Swedish High Court to Decide if Pastor Goes to Jail
by Pete Winn, associate editor
Which is more important — the right to preach from the pulpit unhindered, or the ability of gays to squelch dissent?


Politicians attempt at mind-control hits a wall.
House Mulls Splitting 9th Circuit
from staff reports
Measures would empower the president to appoint seven justices to a new appeals court.
Members of the House of Representatives are giving renewed attention to breaking up the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after last week's ruling that parents have no rights concerning what their children are taught in public school. Ruled on , no doubt, by a self-righteous robed sage who has never had children of his/her own; yet still thinks he/she has the ability to make a judgement on a matter they no nothing of.

Article on Exhibit 360 in the Kitzmiller v. Dover (Pa.) School District Intelligent Design trial

Starting Wednesday, a major national television ad campaign will begin that features Iraqi Kurds thanking the United States for liberating them from Saddam Hussein.This is the message that has not been reported by the old-line media: the people of Iraq are happy that Saddam is gone and they want to say "Thank You" to America.The Kurdish region of Iraq is in the northern portion of that nation. Iraqi Kurdistan has been operating with a democracy for more than 10 years (their safety provided by 10-years of air cover by U.S. and British jets in the "No Fly Zone" in Iraq).Please - go watch these ads. The first one, "Thank You America" is the ad you will be seeing beginning on the Fox News Channel (running nationwide). And make sure you show this to everyone you know. Each time I've seen this ad I've been nearly brought to tears, seeing these people survive the murderous regime of Saddam Hussein and showing such warm and sincere appreciation for the United States.Go watch the ad right now:http://www.TheOtherIraq.com

Andy Rooney: The Word 'Negro' is a Perfectly Good Word
Will he suffer the fate of Jimmy "The Greek"?
No. He is a media insider and Christian basher so he will be given another pass like other media insiders.

Carter condemns abortion culture
While Mr. Carter has previously expressed ambivalence about abortion, his statements yesterday were "astonishing," said Robert Knight, director of the Culture and Family Institute at Concerned Women for America. "He has long professed to be an evangelical Christian and yet he had embraced virtually all the liberal political agenda," said Mr. Knight. "Maybe with Jimmy Carter saying things he never uttered before, more liberals will rethink their worship of abortion as the high holy sacrament of liberalism."

Dean Seals 'Embarrassing' Papers - We must conduct an investigation! The seriousness of the charges! The seriousness of the charges!

A week after Leakgate Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald announced that his investigation had been unable to establish that Valerie Plame was a "covert" CIA agent at the time she was "outed" by columnist Robert Novak, the press continues to refer to her using the bogus term.


"Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed" skewers a variety of well-known liberals and their philosophy in cartoon fashion, and features a villain who bears an uncanny resemblance to Hillary taxing and regulating a child's lemonade stand. (more)

French Muslim rioting spreads Hundreds of cars torched as unrest enters 2nd week --Associated Press
Just 20 minutes from Paris, it's 'war' French Muslims blame police for widespread rioting --The Australian
Disabled woman set ablaze Youths douse her with gasoline amid rioting in France

Resident shoots, kills armed intruder Slain university student apparently looking for cocaine, was carrying gun --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Homeowner shoots burglar 2nd visit to house met with gunfire – blood trail found by police --KTBS-TV, Shreveport, Louisiana
SPECIAL OFFERWhen it's time to shoot back Get 'Armed Response,' the guide to firearms, self-defense --ShopNetDaily

Day Eight: Now that the mainstreamers can't keep the knowledge that Paris is being burned by Muslims from coming to light. I can't help but ponder the irony.
Riots have now continued for eight days in and around Paris. Thursday night, November 3, Muslim rioters burned 315 cars. In the previous week, they torched 177 vehicles and burned numerous businesses, a post office, and two schools. They have rampaged through twenty towns and shot at police and firemen. In an episode that summed up the failure of France’s efforts to create a domestic, domesticated Islam, when moderate Muslim leader Dalil Boubakeur, head of the Paris mosque, tried to restore calm, his car was pelted with stones and he had to rush away. (more)

Was this REALLY what Rosa Parks wanted to see at her memorial? More likely a publicity stunt for her upcoming run.




















GUEST HIGHLIGHTS AT WHITE HOUSE DINNER FOR PRINCE CHARLES AND DUTCHESS: Miss Jenna Bush/ Mr. Henry Hager (Guest); Tom Brokaw; Michael Beschloss, Historian; Mary Cheney, Ms. Heather Poe (Guest); Kelsey Grammer; Nancy Reagan, Mr. Merv Griffin (Guest); Condoleezza Rice, Mr. Gene A. Washington, Director of Football Operations, National Football League (Guest); R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., Editor in Chief, The American Spectator...Medallions of Buffalo Tenderloin, Roasted Corn, Wild Rice Pancakes, Glazed Parsnips and Young Carrots; Mint Romaine Lettuce with Blood Orange Vinaigrette, Vermont Camembert Cheese and Spiced Walnuts; Petits Fours Cake, Chartreuse Ice Cream, Red and Green Grape Sauce...

In 3 of 4 cases, Supreme Court nominee Alito voted on the side of abortion rights.
Writing backed privacy, gay rights...

Angry Ex Glues Man's Penis, Testicles, and Buttocks...

Michael Moore owns Halliburton!

Activists terrorize ex-'gay' conference -"tolerance and choice" at it's best. Yes, homosexuals won't tolerate others knowing that there is a choice.

As far as secret CIA prisons....Good!! I want to know everything I can about people bent on killing my wife and kids. More power to them.

Top PC Peeves for 2005...Telling Time: Microsoft Windows XP and Internet Explorer tell me how long it will take to download large files, such as those holding software and videos. This is helpful. Even with broadband, the connection is usually slow enough for me to get a time estimate.

Unfortunately, the estimate means nothing. First the dialog box tells me 99 minutes, then it suddenly drops to 9 minutes, then 6 minutes, then it's back up to 9 minutes again, then 30 seconds, then 60 seconds, and then, unbelievably, 2 minutes.


Riots Plague Paris Suburbs for Sixth Night...Unrest was triggered by the deaths of two teenagers electrocuted in a power substation where they hid to escape police. A third was injured. Officials have said police were not pursuing the boys, aged 15 and 17. Ahhhh... the french.

Judge Removed From DeLay's Criminal Case (finally, something right for a change).

Detroit Residents Pay Respects to Parks A good American hero.

50 CENT SLAMS KANYE'S 'BUSH IS RACIST' COMMENT (perhaps he fears that crying wolf might hurt the struggle...smart).

Case in point: Clarence Thomasnot a real black? Paper arguing for court 'diversity'wants asterisk by his name

DESPITE THE HISTRIONIC RHETORIC EMANATING FROM THE LEGAL LEFT on the apocalyptic consequences of his confirmation to the Supreme Court, Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. – in addition to being an eminently qualified Originalist jurist – has another attractive attribute: a history of favoring the rights of minorities. In his 15 years on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, Alito has compiled a reputation for safeguarding the rights of blacks, religious minorities, and persecuted women that would be the envy of any left-winger. Yet the "right" to kill babies remains eminent in their(lib's) hearts.

ALITO MOM: 'OF COURSE HE'S AGAINST ABORTION'... It used to be common sense, a basic in-your-heart instinct. Alas, there's no common sense that can't be over-come with a little "training"(brain-washing, re-defining terms, coleege professorshiping)

MoveOn.org Petition

Canada discovers H5 avian flu virus in wild birdsOct 31 4:08 PM US/Eastern First Mad-Cow, now this? Man! Those Canadians are battin' a thousand.

It's a day late for Halloween, but The Burr in the Burgh features some interesting thoughts on the alleged evidence of the supernatural at the end of this car commercial.

Democrats close Senate over SOUR GRAPES because Rove NOT indicted,
Frist: 'From now on …I can't trust Senator Reid'

Oh, and remeber kids....according to our saviors on the left, we're all still innocent until indicted (the new plan from the democrats' to fix the Al Gore loss at the polls). Nice to know they still have some ideas!

The same day that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared at a conference in Tehran entitled “The World without Zionism” that Israel should be destroyed, an Islamic Jihad suicide attacker murdered at least five people in the Israeli city of Hadera. No doubt Ahmadinejad had this kind of thing in mind when he stated that “there is no doubt that the new wave (of attacks) in Palestine will wipe off this stigma (Israel) from the face of the Islamic world”: if he condemns attacks against civilian non-combatants, he has kept it to himself.
Imagine if George W. Bush had announced that he intended to wipe Iraq, or any other nation, off the map: the domestic and international outcry that would follow would effectively end his presidency.

Finally! A School District That's, At Least, Consistant!
Student ghosts unmasked in Newton
Primary school cancels Halloween celebration

Abbas Must Act

When will the Dem's Search and Destroy mentality cease, and real concern for the nation return? Not only do they hypocritically pursue tactics that they claimed and had temper-tantrums over during the Clinton administration, they have NO new ideas only the same ole "right to choose to kill a baby but not to choose which party our union dues supports" maentality.

Dems Criticize GOP Over Energy Prices not helpful.....at all.

title: Congress Clashes Over Digital TV Conversion Deadline
written by: Naitze Teng
date: October 27, 2005

The Senate Commerce Committee approved legislation last week requiring television stations to switch their broadcasts from analog to digital by April 7, 2009. Current law stipulates that the transition be made by December 31, 2006 or once 85 percent of households have adopted digital television, whichever comes later. While the April 2009 deadline seems to delay the move to digital, the New York Times reports that less than half of homes now actually have digital signals so it could force the transition to happen sooner.

Still others are pushing for the conversion to happen even sooner given recent national disasters like Katrina and 9-11. Senator John McCain wants the conversion to happen by 2007, thereby freeing the analog spectrum for emergency officials. Of course television manufacturers would also like to see a closer deadline in order to drive sales up. The House Energy and Commerce Committee for one just approved a measure that goes against the Senate Committee’s decision, requiring television stations to end analog broadcasts by December 31, 2008.

For any advancement to take place, House and Senate need to resolve their differences. Both agree that not enough households have adopted digital television so far, but present very different solutions. The Senate bill proposes making three billion dollars in subsidies available to consumers purchasing conversion boxes to make their analog sets useable. The House sets aside substantially less for the same purpose; only $990 million which deterrents say just isn’t enough considering even households that currently have one digital television might also have multiple analog sets.

Pushing back the transition date just delays the inevitable. If given more time odds are lagging consumers will sit on it – they need a more pressing reason like losing the ability to watch television to compel them to get a new set.


"We are witnessing the criminalization of conservative politics."

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 - Lawyers in the C.I.A. leak case said Thursday that they expected I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, to be indicted on Friday, charged with making false statements to the grand jury.

Karl Rove, President Bush's senior adviser and deputy chief of staff, will not be charged on Friday, but will remain under investigation, people briefed officially about the case said. As a result, they said, the special counsel in the case, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, was likely to extend the term of the federal grand jury beyond its scheduled expiration on Friday.

Like a school marm indulging a teacher’s pet, Miss Miers just gave George Bush permission to retake the final exam he booted badly. She has given him a second chance to succeed where Nixon, Ford, Reagan and his father all failed: (More)

What's Narnia?

On Letterman, Al Franken Jokes About Execution for Treason of Rove, Libby and Bush (Updated Sunday night with video. Excerpt #1: Real or Windows Media and MP3 audio. Excerpt #2: Real or Windows Media and MP3 audio.)

Start filling the balloons and hoisting the confetti. It's almost here, and you can just see the saliva dripping.
Iraq war foes ready for 2,000th military death

QUEEN OF THE OCCULT, ANNE RICE FINDS CHRIST: 'I PROMISED THAT FROM NOW ON I WOULD WRITE ONLY FOR THE LORD'...

Greenland ice cap thickens slightly
So much for global warming!

Now we know why so many journalists were hot under the collar when President Bush declared: "You're either with us or against us in the fight against terror." .......

Dems Complain About DeLay's Smiling Mug Shot

Guess they were hoping for Nick Nolte?

Do they really care if he may or may not have engaged in a practice that their own politicians invented and perfected, or are they so smug that they just want to hang him because he's a Republican and to liberals the ends justify the means?

DeLay's smile says it all: Keep mug off attack ads

Patient wants to live, but old 'living will' mandates death

fascinating. So, next time you think that the US is the evil empire, just remember this:
U.S. ARMY DESERTER DESCRIBES 40 YEARS IN NORTH KOREA HELLThu Oct 20 2005 14:43:07 ET

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'Babies for sale' on Chinese eBay

God and morality. Freedom and the pursuit of happiness. Any whiners having never been to a third world country ought to hush their mouth until they have some personal perspective.

Murder Rate Hits 40-Year Low
Crime in the United States 2004 (pdf)

Limbaugh praises kids` liberal-bashing book'Help! Mom! There are Liberals Under My Bed' shoots up book lists

Terror groupstarget SharonQassam rockets aimed at ranch,'every Jew' must leave 'Palestine' (neighborly way to move into your new digs!)

Illegal alien charged in hurricane-bus deaths Driver accused of criminally negligent homicide in demise of 23 passengers

A former president of the New Orleans City Council and member of the Orleans Levee Board blames corruption "down to the bone" and "unbelievable ineptness" for the loss of life and injuries during and after Hurricane Katrina. The Republican politician also fears the worst for her city if local officials are allowed to manage the federally funded rebuilding efforts.

This weekend's Iraqi election may have been a pivotal victory in the War on Terror. More>

Target Corporation will continue to ban the Salvation Army from their 1,351 stores this Christmas season. The Army will not be allowed to place their red kettles in front of Target stores. Despite increased need caused by the hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Target continues to bar the Salvation Army. Many observers feel that the ban by Target is a result of pressure put on the company by homosexual groups. Homosexual activists have targeted the Salvation Army for years because of the Army's refusal to recognize their lifestyle. Target is a supporter of various homosexual causes. While Target contributes to homosexual groups, the company publicly states that they will not contribute to any religious groups. For Target, homosexual organizations are worthy of financial support, Christian and Jewish organizations are not.

Bono, U2 in Fund-Raiser for Senator Rick Santorum

Robertson: Disasters
point to 2nd Coming
Evangelist observes quakes, hurricanes 'starting to hit with amazing regularity'

⁷"Teacher," they asked, "when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that they are about to take place?"

⁸He replied: "Watch out that you are not deceived. For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am he,' and, 'The time is near.' Do not follow them. ⁹When you hear of wars and revolutions, do not be frightened. These things must happen first, but the end will not come right away."

¹⁰Then he said to them: "Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. ¹¹There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.

Luke 21

Why Do Intellectuals Oppose Capitalism?

a very astute read

Want good kids?
One of my clinical supervisors told me, "Most family dynamics are very hard to change. But that's OK, because if you get the families you work with to just eat dinner together regularly, this by itself will do more good than anything else and you will have helped immensely." (read more)

Cindy, is this more like what you would like to see? Here, at home?
Israel ordered ground forces to the Gaza border Saturday and threatened a “crushing” response after Israeli towns were hit by the first major Hamas rocket barrage from the coastal territory since Israel's pullout two weeks earlier.

Estimates are that the Promise Keepers' rally filled the Washington D.C. mall with more than a million people in 1997!
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I have a Dream" speech on August 28, 1963 before a crowd of 250,000+.
No one knows how many people were at Woodstock in 1969. The estimates are 500,000+. Don't look for me here. I try to avoid crowds!
Estimates are that the Promise Keepers' rally filled the Washington D.C. mall with more than a million people in 1997!

Sheehan was scheduled to appear at noon on the front lawn of the Capitol. It couldn't be called a rally; just a handful of Washington supporters showed up on the lawn to join dozens of journalists. The real stars were the TV crews; 15 cameras were set up in a semi-circle in front of a bank of microphones where Sheehan would speak.
But noon came and went, with no Sheehan. A young man named Ryan Fletcher, from an organization called the Mintwood Media Collective, paced around, a cell phone to his ear, getting updates from the three buses in which Sheehan and her supporters were riding. Less well-known than Fenton Communications, which advised Sheehan last month during her protest near the president's ranch in Crawford, Texas, Mintwood describes itself as "a worker-owned and operated public relations firm born in the aftermath of the mobilization against the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington DC, April 16th and 17th, 2000." During that protest, Mintwood boasts, it came up with "a comprehensive media strategy that succeeded in placing stories on the front pages of major newspapers, on local and national television and radio, and Internet information sites worldwide." It promises to do the same for clients today.

Murderous marchThursday, September 22, 2005
by Gary Bauer, co-chair, Stand for Israel
The disturbing images coming out of Gaza, now completely devoid of any Jews, should be a wake-up call to the “international community” as well as our own government. First, Palestinian mobs burned and sacked synagogues all over the Gaza Strip while Palestinian police stood by passively. Then, Palestinian gunrunners poured into Gaza from Egypt, bringing with them a flood of new weapons including assault rifles, hand grenades and anti-tank missiles.
Then, a few days ago, Act III of the Gaza horror story took place. Ten thousand gunmen, representing the notorious terror group Hamas, staged the largest armed demonstration in the history of Gaza. The “army” of terrorists cheered radical speakers who called for the complete destruction of Israel, the occupation of Jerusalem and death to all Jews. Incredibly, as of now Hamas will be permitted to take part in the upcoming Palestinian parliamentary elections, and some observers believe they could actually win or at least do very well. They already control many city governments in Gaza.

What Google's Latest Wi-Fi and VOIP Moves Really Mean
Now we know why eBay bought Skype. It was a defensive move, to counter Google's upcoming telecommunications network. That's right, Google's building out a free Wi-Fi network that will enable it to take on telcos and wireless phone providers. Will Google take it to T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon and Orange worldwide? Or is this just a series of "experiments" that Google will eventually back away from? Our analysis goes behind the headlines to help you figure out what the search giant is really up to. Required reading for anyone concerned about the digital world.

Not Again!


Climate Change on Mars: It's Bush's Fault!!!!!!!!

Leahy to Back Roberts for Chief Justice WOW

Clinton Says Authoritarianism Growing Under Putin Just gotta open his big fat mouth.

Two members of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee have resigned after admitting they obtained..........

China Names Condom for Bill Clinton

Democratic political consultant Donna Brazile managed Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign, but she stands solidly behind his opponent when it comes to the reconstruction of the Hurricane Katrina-ravaged areas.

"I am not a Republican. I did not vote for George Bush – in fact, I worked pretty hard against him in 2000 and 2004,” the New Orleans native writes in a column carried by several newspapers.

"But after watching him speak from the heart, I could not have been prouder of the president and the plan he outlined to empower those who lost everything and to rebuild the Gulf Coast.”

As radical environmentalists continue to blame the ferocity of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation on President Bush’s ecological policies, a mainstream Louisiana media outlet inadvertently disclosed a shocking fact: Environmentalist activists were responsible for spiking a plan that may have saved New Orleans.

Global warming: Prevent or adapt?New study shows that living with climate change will be less costly and more beneficial than trying to stop it.
These are great!
Groundbreaking website launched for college students.

Unfamiliar with UN protocol,Bush writes to Condi at the UN Security Council Meeting: "I think I may need a bathroom break..."

Condi to Bush:"I told you you should have gone back at the House!"

Funny one. Thanks Jay Leno for a good joke.





Why We Should

Work Well With Others

More oddities: Woman falling on bubbles

Nagin Exits Louisiana
Tuesday, September 13, 2005 08:07:07 AM
By Sher Zieve - Fox News and the Dallas Morning News report that New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has left the state of Louisiana. Moving to Dallas, TX he has purchased a home in that city and has enrolled his daughter in a Dallas school. ( Read Article )

KENNEDY NOW (TO JOHN ROBERTS - 2005): "Judges are appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and it is our duty to ask questions on great issues that matter to the American people and speak for them. Judge Roberts, I hope you will respond fully and candidly to such questions, not just to earn our approval, but to prove to the American people that you have earned the right to a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land."

KENNEDY THEN (TO THURGOOD MARSHALL - 1967): "We have to respect that any nominee to the Supreme Court would have to defer any comments on any matters which are either before the court or very likely to appear before the court."

New Orleans Refused Amtrak Transport Offer

Environmental Group Fought New Orleans Levee Project

Smog over China. Kyoto(pdf)? In China? NO WAY!! We can't have that! Only bring the US back to horse-and-buggy days, that's ALL the world needs.

1999 Hurricane Swamped Clinton's FEMA

Orphaned Kids site for Hurricane Katrina can be found here


Don't blame only feds
Crime rate, inept pols leveled New Orleans before the storm.

WSJ: Gov. Blanco and Mayor Nagin failed their constituents...

CNN USAToday Gallup Poll:
Respondents also disagreed widely on who is to blame for the problems in the city following the hurricane -- 13 percent said Bush, 18 percent said federal agencies, 25 percent blamed state or local officials and 38 percent said no one is to blame. And 63 percent said they do not believe anyone at federal agencies responsible for handling emergencies should be fired as a result

HOWARD DEAN SAYS 'RACE' PLAYED ROLE IN KATRINA DEATHS...
(he also said women were better off in Sadman Hussein's regime!)
If race really were a motive for Bush, and Bush actually wanted minorities to suffer, he never would have placed a call to Louisiana Governor begging that they call for an evacuation. He would have let their inept, tentative leadership sit back and let hundreds of thousands be killed. Instead, he kicked their behinds into gear!

U.S. counterterrorism authorities have been engaged for months in a shadow war with a computer hacker extraordinaire who is using cutting-edge technology to help al Qaeda and other jihad groups with their vast Internet operations

why is no one talking about all the prisoners Bush is wrongly releaing from Guantanamo?

Katrina donors:

Kuwait 400 mil in oil 100 mil in cash
S.A. 255 Mil
Aust 10 mil
China 5 mil
India 5
Japan 1 Million!
Bangladesh 1 Million
Canada 2 helicopters!
France, Germany, Italy: tents, tarps, and kitchen utensils
UK nothing

Case and Point

OK, I was wrong. I've completely changed my mind. The hurricane thing should have been completely a federal issue and not in any way local or state. I came to this point of view after witnessing New Orleans Police officers looting WalMart (Don't believe me? Watch this!). Clearly they are unequiped to handle this like any other state would have. Hell, had such a disaster happened in CA, the lib's would be calling for Arnie's resignation/recall right? Don't lie. You know it's true. It's only a state or local thing if there's a Republican in charge.

THE POLICE
City to Offer Free Trips to Las Vegas for Officers
By JOSEPH B. TREASTER and CHRISTOPHER DREW
Published: September 5, 2005
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 4 - A day after two police suicides and the abrupt resignations or desertions of up to 200 police officers, defiant city officials on Sunday began offering five-day vacations - and even trips to Las Vegas - to the police, firefighters and city emergency workers and their families.

TRIBES
If you read nothing else this year - yes, I said this year - read this. Trust me, please. Read it.

Jason Smith has the timeline, and the analysis. It’s must-read for all you crackhead liberals who have nothing to do but blame the GOP and Bush. Go see who’s whining and who’s working.

Here Comes The Flood

When the night shows
the signals grow on radios
All the strange things
they come and go, as early warnings
Stranded starfish have no place to hide
still waiting for the swollen Easter tide
There's no point in direction we cannot
even choose a side.

I took the old track
the hollow shoulder, across the waters
On the tall cliffs
they were getting older, sons and daughters
The jaded underworld was riding high
Waves of steel hurled metal at the sky
and as the nail sunk in the cloud, the rain
was warm and soaked the crowd.

Lord, here comes the flood
We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood
If again the seas are silent
in any still alive
It'll be those who gave their island to survive
Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry.

When the flood calls
You have no home, you have no walls
In the thunder crash
You're a thousand minds, within a flash
Don't be afraid to cry at what you see
The actors gone, there's only you and me
And if we break before the dawn, they'll
use up what we used to be.

Lord, here comes the flood
We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood
If again the seas are silent
in any still alive
It'll be those who gave their island to survive
Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry.

-Peter Gabriel

An explanation of natural law and natural rights. Most of the old literature on natural law and natural rights, notably the writings of John Locke, has become incomprehensible because we no longer have the background knowledge of natural law that those writers assumed. This article makes the concept of natural law intelligible to modern people.
Natural law and natural rights follow from the nature of man and the world. We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state.

Was the Founding of America rooted in the Christian heritage and natural law? Or, is it a product of the Enlightenment, infused with the idea of the perfectibility of man, and therefore inimical to the Christian conception of reality and to world view that natural law implies? Was the Founding fatally flawed in its origins? If so, are present day evils simply a logical working-out of this fatal flaw? Or do current maladies result from a fundamentally sound proposition gone awry? The answers to these questions determine whether America is founded on basic principles that are true or just — ones which we can unqualifiedly support — or whether republic is based on ideas that are false and unavoidably lead corporate and individual evil. If the United States is, as I believe it is, founded on the highest moral principles of any government that ever existed, then we owe her and the principles on which she was founded our grateful support. If, on the other hand, America is founded on principles that are malign, then we are actually complicitous in anything we do to advance America's two hundred-year-old experiment in democracy.
So, where does the truth lie? There is no denying that the Enlightenment influenced the Founders, but does a partial influence make American political origins solely a product of the Enlightenment? To answer this and other questions we have asked, we must grapple with yet another: How much of the Constitution is derived from concepts of the Enlightenment and how much implies the Christian world view and a respect for natural law? A close reading of the Constitution lends any fair-minded reader to the inescapable conclusion: divorced from natural law and Christian principles, the Constitution would be utterly incomprehensible — a philosophical mish-mash devoid of cogent argument, compelling moral vision, or unifying principles.
However, the proof for this thesis is somewhat indirect because there are no Christian principles per se embedded in the Constitution: rather, the Constitution is embedded in Christianity. The Constitution does not declare principles, it provides for their implementation. It considers the principles on which America is founded so self-evident it does not even name much less defend them. In its short Preamble the Constitution briefly mentions, without defining, justice, general welfare and the blessings of liberty, clearly indicating that these are commonly accepted ends.

The Christian idea of government was understood completely by the framers of the Constitution. In the preamble to the Constitution they stated their full intent: "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
Because our government derives its power, its form and its very existence from Christianity and the laws of God, the modern attempt to secularize society and divorce government from Christianity spells destruction.

Steadman, a brit band I've been lestening to and enjoying since I saw a live "Sim" concert in There, has recently opened there library to downlaod or stream. These guys have some really good songs and I recommend a listen.
(hint: start with the Revive album)

If you depend on the Government for all of your needs,you are going to be sorely dissapointed

The Federal Government's resposibility is for the nation as a whole. To expect a 24 hour Mobilization of the entire Government to assist inthe area is a complete and utter pipe dream. Instant and immediateevacuation and assistance is the purview of the Local and StateGovernments, more the Local. This is why we have the government we dohave.Yet, I listened to a recorded broadcast of Mayor Nagin's tirade on alocal radio station, and was disgusted. To hear this man, on who'sshoulders rested the responsibility, have the sheer gall to insult anddemand a quicker response from the federal government was sickening.Where was he before the Hurricane hit? My wife and I are avid newswatchers. We saw the Govenor of Louisiana ordering an evacuation. Yet, I didn't see Mayor Nagin reiterating that order? If I missed it,My apologises, he may have came on while I was at work. I didn't seethe New Orleans School Buses or Metro transportation moving peoplebefore the storm hit.No, he ranted and railed that since his community was black, theydidn't recieve the notice from the President.Where are the Libertarians in this fight? You have a man who insiststhat the Federal Government must be responsible for every city, townand village in the USA and you say nothing? I had assumed you werethe party who wanted to keep the Federal out of the State and Local. In the final analysis, we must find it wasn't the Federal Government,nor the State Government, who was lax in their service to the peopleof New Orleans. Thier own Mayor and Parish Governments betrayed them. For years we have known the levies weren't going to sustain a majorhurricane (Lvl 4 and 5). Yet no money, Local money, was placed intoreinforcing them. The Army Corps of Engineers has said the Leveeswere in poor condition. Apparently the Cost/risk ratio didn't justifymaintaining them. The Mayor and City Council of New Orleans gambledwith the lives of New Orleans residents and lost. They convincedthemselves that a Major Hurricane wouldn't hit them and didn't see thepoint in spending the necessary Millions to maintain them. Like everycasino, in Mother Nature's Casino, the House ALWAYS wins and NewOrleans has lost everything.I work with a man from New Orleans orginally and he was furious at theFederal Government for not upgrading the Levies. Who's responsibilitywas it? Not at the federal level.People, nothing in life is free. There is a balance to everything,good or bad. If we want a government that is largely locallygoverned, then we have to assume the responsibilty and burdens forgoverning ourselves. We can't accept the good, and then when it all hit's the fan blame the federal government.

Other presidents also have taken aim at the Corps' budget. President Carters' first veto came against a big water projects bill passed by a Democratic-dominated Congress. And
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President Clinton squeezed the Corps budget as well. Doing so frees money for other White House priorities.

February 17, 1995
An Army Corps of Engineers "hit list" of recommended budget cuts would eliminate new flood-control programs in some of the nation's most flood-prone spots - where recent disasters have left thousands homeless and cost the federal government millions in emergency aid.
Clinton administration officials argue that the flood-control efforts are local projects, not national, and should be paid for by local taxes.
Nationwide, the administration proposes cutting 98 new projects in 35 states and Puerto Rico, for an estimated savings of $29 million in 1996.
Corps officials freely conceded the cuts, which represent only a small portion of savings the corps ultimately must make, may be penny-wise and pound-foolish. But they said they were forced to eliminate some services the corps has historically provided to taxpayers to meet the administration's budget-cutting goals.
July 22, 1999
In passing a $20.2 billion spending bill this week for water and energy projects, the House Appropriations Committee approved some significant increases in financing for several New Orleans area flood control and navigational projects.
The spending bill is expected on the House floor within the next two weeks.
For the New Orleans District of the Army Corps of Engineers, the panel allocated $106 million for construction projects, about $16 million more than proposed by President Clinton.
The bill would provide $47 million for "southeast Louisiana flood control projects," $16 million for "Lake Pontchartrain and vicinity hurricane protection," $15.9 million for the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal Lock on the Industrial Canal in New Orleans and $2 million for "West Bank hurricane protection -- from New Orleans to Venice."
Most of the projects received significant increases over what the Clinton administration had proposed. The exception: general flood control projects for southeast Louisiana, which remained at the $47 million suggested by Clinton. Local officials had hoped for double that amount.
February 8, 2000
For the metropolitan New Orleans area, Clinton's budget was seen as a mixed bag by local lawmakers and government officials. For instance, while Clinton called for $1.5 billion to be spent at Avondale Industries to continue building LPD-17 landing craft, his budget calls for significantly less than what Congress appropriated last year for Lake Pontchartrain and vicinity hurricane protection and for West Bank flood control projects.
September 29, 2000
The House approved Thursday a $23.6 billion measure for water and energy programs, with sizable increases for several New Orleans area flood-control projects. The Senate will vote Monday, but it may be a while before the bill is enacted.
President Clinton is promising to veto the annual appropriation for the Energy Department and Army Corps of Engineers
Can you believe it? The President didn’t foresee the levees breaking!
(President Clinton, that is.)

Quesetion: Knowing that we will all pay more, should the Insurance companies actuarial tables factor in the cost of liver transplants for alcoholics and lung cancer treatment for smokers when trying to decide what our health insurance premiums should be?

How about insurance costs for our houses because of those who dwell near an earthquake fault?

How about our tax dollars? Should we all pay more in taxes because of others reckless decisions? How about those who willingly live behind a giant wall that seperates their city from the Gulf of Mexico which looms yards above their homes?

To say that somehow, it should be the taxpayers responsibility to pay more taxes, and drain funds away from other necessarry programs just so others can dangle off a cliff in perfect safety is just stupid.

Private citizens have choices. They can live at the bttom of a big bowl, or not. They can donate money to the victims at the bottom of a half full bowl if they want.

But alas, the Blaim Bush First crowd lives on.

Experts: Global Warming Didn’t Cause Katrina

U.S. Companies Give Millions to Katrina Relief Efforts, but where are the other, more generous countries? My, they haven't responded with any self congratulatory aid.. At least not nearly as much as the US has. Sounds like the tables have turned. Oh wait, I didn't give them enough time to respond. Hmmmm, that sounds familir too! Oh yes, it's similar to the accusations leveled against Bush early in the Tsunami Relief funding.

Census: Uninsured Can Afford It

Countering the commonly held notion that Americans who don’t have health insurance can’t afford it, the Census Bureau reports that nearly one-third of those without insurance live in households with an annual income of $50,000 or more.

Giuliani: I'm Considering Presidential Run

Hillary Clinton: Bush Should Prevent Fuel Price Gouging that way, when prices go up, she can claim that Bush didn't do anything or enough. Set it up....KNOCK IT DOWN tactic.

Sadly, the Southern Decadence events are obviously cancelled due to the weather.

US places 12th in aiding world's poor, report says

The report says Denmark is #1 with 89 cents per person each day in government aid, compare to the United States spent 15 cents per person each day in government aid to poor nations.

What the report doesn't say is that the United States is not a socialist government, and that while Denmark citizens spent 1 cent per person each day in private giving, US citizens gave (freely and without compulsion) 15 TIMES THAT NUMBER!

The unmitigated gall someone has for trying to GUILT we Americans into giving up our freedom in exchange for a system of government that would do our charitable giving through a tax and spend ideology (that we all know is the least efficient way to get things done). Keoto accord? Same idea. Screw them. We shot our wad on Tsunami relief and will probably suffer in New Orleans for it.

And do you think Denmark will pull through with their vast war chest of government generosity for our citizens (who gave until it hurt when others suffered, i.e. Tsunami Relief)? Hell no. Unfortunately for us, we have no way of convincing the rest of the insane world that our private dollars are just as valid as our tax dollars.

Bush, 'global warming'
to blame for hurricane?
RFK Jr., others suggest climate change responsible for intensity of disaster
Cindy Sheehan says Bush to blame for disaster in the gulf states
Such lunacy leaves no credability for past or future statements.

We must at all times remember, what intellectuals habitually forget, that people matter more than concepts and must come first. The worst of all despotisms is the heartless tyranny of ideas.

-Ravi Zacharias

PR Machine Behind Cindy Sheehan?
Earlier this month, MoveOn helped organize anti-war vigils in support of Cindy Sheehan.
Current Democratic National Party Chair Howard Dean's organization Democracy for America is also involved, as is the more radical anti-war group Code Pink organized by San Francisco's Medea Benjamin.
Money donated through these groups and others is helping to pay for Gold Star families whose children have been killed in Iraq to attend anti-Bush protests.
This week Simi Valley California Gold Star wife Melanie House flew to Idaho for a protest and then flew to Crawford.
ABC7's Mark Matthews: "Can you tell us if you're getting help in airfare to come down here?"
Melanie House: "What difference does that make?"

Brits happy to ditch civil liberties

Top CIA, Military Men Agree with Pat Robertson
Stephanopoulos Urged Foreign Assassination
The one-time top Clinton aide said that, far from violating international principles, assassinating Saddam would be the moral thing to do, arguing, "What's unlawful - and unpopular with the allies - is not necessarily immoral."

Specter Plans Hearings on Able Danger Claims

Illegal Immigrants Throw Rocks at Border Patrol Chopper... Fire back!

Times at it again!
Professor says reason he quit Bush team not reported correctly

Cindy Sheehan calls insurgents "Freedom Fighters!" Now I know she's insane. These guys we're fighting in Iraq aren't even Iraqi! Try Syrian, Saudi, Iranian, etc...

Anti-War Protests Target Wounded at Army Hospital If they WANT to start something, they should accept the reprecussions as their own fault. They don't want peace, they just want to make disturbances, but the acid isn't as strong as in the Sixties. See the video.

The French are Sore Losers:
Armstrong: Cheating Remarks 'Preposterous'

If you're a doctor, you're sued if you do, and sued if you dont:
As doctors warn more patients that they should lose weight, the advice has backfired on one doctor with a woman filing a complaint with the state saying he was hurtful, not helpful. Obese Woman Angry That Doctor Advised Weight Loss
If she suffered a serious illness because this doctor spaired her feelings, showed "sensitiviy" and didn't broach the subject of her obesity, guess what she would have done? YES! Sued him. She'd have sued either way. What a piece of work.

Skin Cells Converted to Stem Cells
Scientists' Work Could Clear Moral Hurdle to Embryonic Research
By Rick WeissWashington Post Staff WriterMonday, August 22, 2005

You Don't Speak For Me, Cindy! Tour is on it's way

More liberalism run amuck:
Clinton Lawyers Fretted Over bin Laden's Comfort
The CIA's former bin Laden desk chief revealed Thursday night that Clinton administration lawyers warned counterterrorism agents that Osama bin Laden had to be kept as comfortable as possible if they captured him during planned raids into Afghanistan."The lawyers were more concerned with bin Laden`s safety and his comfort than they were with the officers charged with capturing him," former bin Laden desk chief Michael Scheuer told MSNBC's "Hardball."
"We had to build an ergonomically designed chair to put him in, [for] special comfort in terms of how he was shackled into the chair," Scheuer explained. "They even worried about what kind of tape to gag him with so it wouldn't irritate his beard."
"The lawyers are the bane of the intelligence community," the former CIA man lamented.

Senate Eyes Able Danger Hearings
The Senate is considering holding hearings into claims that an elite military intelligence unit had identified lead 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta two years before the attacks but was ordered not to alert law enforcement by Clinton administration lawyers at the Pentagon.

Archaeology trumps the "it's just stories" theory again: Third-generation Iraqi looks after Abraham's birthplace

Medical News:
Range of Jobs Tied to Degenerative Brain Disease

Researchers Looking at Alzheimer's Vaccine

Climate change sceptics bet $10,000 on cooler world Russian pair challenge UK expert over global warming

Rasmussen Poll: Sheehan 35% Favorable 38% Unfavorable...

And, WHAT? People still believe sanctions can work, AMINISTERED BY THE OIL FOR FOOD SCANDAL JERKS!? And on a country SWIMMING IN OIL?! 58% Support Economic Sanctions for Iran omg! Can an Iranian nuke in Times Square persuade them? I'm not sure anymore.

A Very interesting article on U2's frontman Bono. It's just some snippet's from the book Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas (Riverhead Books). It's really very interesting and enlightening as to Bono's spiritual thoughts (click here for the article)

It's been fifteen days and the UN still stands.

What's Cindy been up to?

"Maybe instead of just using those [boxes] at the gates to limit carry-on bags to certain sizes, the airlines need to have a people-sizer with a sign asking, 'Do you fit into this?'"

-Dave Grotto, of the American Dietetic Association, told the Chicago Tribune concerning recent airline revisions of estimated average passenger weight.


New Mexico Declares State of Emergency on Illegals

YET

Israel Wants $2 Billion From U.S. for Pullout

Outsiders Fuel Resistance in Jewish Settlement

Oregon's Innovative Meth Bill Becomes Law

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Gov. Ted Kulongoski on Tuesday signed legislation that will make Oregon the first state to require prescriptions for cold and allergy medications that can be converted into methamphetamine.

'Loch Ness Monster'
surfaces in Scotland
TV show uses 440-pound animatronic model
to see if people would really believe sighting
--The Scotsman

Socialized Medicing lovers:
Man dies after canceled surgery
Day later, nurse phones widow to give her new date for operation
--London Times

Pentagon Cites Many Successes of US Troops in Iraq

What are we to make of Mrs. Sheehan’s demand for a second meeting with President Bush? She claims she wants an explanation of why her son died, but she acknowledges that her mind is already made up. I have had enough with this mother of all mourners. But I will let her hang herself with her very own words, words that read like something right out of a Moscow-approved Communist Party USA propaganda pamphlet. This is an excerpt of a speech she gave Monday, as transcribed on the Web site of an outfit called Veterans for Peace, describing how she conceived of her protest (quoting verbatim):
"I’m gonna tell them, "You get that evil maniac [the president] out here, cuz a Gold Star Mother, somebody who’s blood is on his hands, has some questions for him."
And I’m gonna say, "OK, listen here, George. #1, you quit, and I demand, every time you get out there and say you’re going to continue the killing in Iraq to honor the fallen heroes by continuing the mission; you say, except Casey Sheehan.’ "
"And you say except for all the members of Goldstar Families for Peace’ cuz we think not one drop of blood should be spilled in our families’ names. You quit doing that. You don’t have my permission."
And I’m gonna say, "And you tell me, what the noble cause is that my son died for." And if he even starts to say freedom and democracy’ I’m gonna say, bullshit.
You tell me the truth. You tell me that my son died for oil. You tell me that my son died to make your friends rich. You tell me my son died to spread the cancer of Pax Americana, imperialism in the Middle East. You tell me that, you don’t tell me my son died for freedom and democracy.
Cuz, we’re not freer. You’re taking away our freedoms. The Iraqi people aren’t freer, they’re much worse off than before you meddled in their country.
You get America out of Iraq, you get Israel out of Palestine
(massive round of applause)
And if you think I won’t say bullshit to the President, I say move on, cuz I’ll say what’s on my mind."

Ahhh...for the GOOD OL' DAYS!!!!!!

Friday, Aug. 12, 2005 9:47 a.m. EDT 9/11 Commission Covered Up Gorelick Warning A 1995 memo from a top terrorism prosecutor warning that a directive by Clinton administration Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick "could cost lives" is being concealed by the 9/11 Commission. Compounding the cover-up, Gorelick herself was a prominent member of the Commission and refused to recuse herself from parts of the 9/11 investigation that covered the now notorious "wall" she erected that prevented intelligence and law enforcement agencies from cooperating in the war on terror.

NARAL Scrapping Controversial Anti-Roberts Ad

FAMILY OF FALLEN SOLDIER PLEADS: PLEASE STOP, CINDY!
Thu Aug 11 2005 12:56:21 ET

The family of American soldier Casey Sheehan, who was killed in Iraq on April 4, 2004, has broken its silence and spoken out against his mother Cindy Sheehan's anti-war vigil against George Bush held outside the president's Crawford, Texas ranch.

The following email was received by the DRUDGE REPORT from Casey's aunt and godmother:

Our family has been so distressed by the recent activities of Cindy we are breaking our silence and we have collectively written a statement for release. Feel free to distribute it as you wish.

Thanks, Cherie

In response to questions regarding the Cindy Sheehan/Crawford Texas issue: Sheehan Family Statement:

The Sheehan Family lost our beloved Casey in the Iraq War and we have been silently, respectfully grieving. We do not agree with the political motivations and publicity tactics of Cindy Sheehan. She now appears to be promoting her own personal agenda and notoriety at the the expense of her son's good name and reputation. The rest of the Sheehan Family supports the troops, our country, and our President, silently, with prayer and respect.

Sincerely,

Casey Sheehan's grandparents, aunts, uncles and numerous cousins.

To the terrorists:

"Once freedom has exploded in the soul of man,
the gods no longer have any power over him"

Jean-Paul SARTRE
Existentialism is a Humanism (1945)

To the protesters (their supporters):

"If merely 'feeling good' could decide,
drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience".

William JAMES
Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. ~Aesop

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It's okay for Home Depot to buy my digitized credit-card receipts, says the privacy "community," to see whether I would be a soft touch for a riding mower. But if government agents want to see who has purchased explosive-level quantities of fertilizer, they should go store to store, checking credit-card receipts. Data-mining opponents would deny terror investigators a technology in common use in the commercial sector, simply because they think government should be kept inefficient to limit its power...Remember: data mining would only speed government access to records to which it is already legally entitled.

Critics blasted the failure to "connect the dots" before September 11, and that failure was certainly a major factor. But the ACLU and its allies are working to ensure that the government can never effectively connect the dots. The ACLU needs to be stopped before more Americans are killed.

Now booking $100M trip to the moon (and back?)

The Intelligent Design Bogeyman

Faith Versus The Constitution: A False Conflict
Then why wasn't it a conflict with Ted Kennedy's Catholicism?

It's been ten full days since Bolton has had the job and the UN is still standing!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How come all the vandals are always LIBERALS?
Air Force officer keys
cars with Bush stickers
Suspect admits to painting, gouging vehicles at airport

Feds hit revenue record in July
$142 billion in taxes collected last month
--Associated Press

McAuliffe: Hillary May Drop Out

Former Democratic Party chairman Terry McAuliffe is reportedly predicting that 2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will drop out of her 2006 Senate reelection race if a challenger like Jeanine Pirro forces her to spend campaign cash earmarked for her presidential race.

"I had a conversation with Terry McAuliffe during the Republican convention," former top Clinton campaign advisor Dick Morris told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" Wednesday night.

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"And I said, 'Do you think Hillary runs for re-election to the Senate if she has a tough race?'"

According to Morris, McAuliffe replied: "No, why should she squander $30 million getting reelected to a job she doesn't want?"

A must read for ALL thinkers:
Phillip Johnson's Assault Upon Faith-Based Darwinism A modern monkey trial isn't what Phillip Johnson expected when he wrote a critique of evolution that launched intelligent design -- or was it?By Justin Berton
..."The very persons who insist upon keeping religion and science separate are eager to use their science as a basis for pronouncements about religion," he wrote...
...biologists have become so invested in the Darwinian worldview that they have ceased looking for contradictory evidence. "As the creation myth of scientific naturalism, Darwinism plays an indispensable ideological role in the war against fundamentalism," he wrote. "For that reason, scientific organizations are devoted to protecting Darwinism rather than testing it, and the rules of scientific investigation have been shaped to help them succeed."
Johnson regards scientists as today's reigning priesthood -- a monklike discipline that controls our culture's story of creation and protects its orthodoxy as ruling paradigms have done for centuries. "They are jealous of their power," he says. "They will do anything to protect it. If that means labeling someone like me as a Bible-thumper, then that's what they'll do. They'll say, 'You don't agree with evolution, therefore you believe in the Bible's account! You read Genesis literally!' Of course, that's the stereotype they want to preserve." ..
..."Part of what bothered me about the left ... was quite consistent with what bothered me later about Darwinism. It's the dogmatism, the insistence that everybody believe as they did." ..
..He eventually concluded that the naturalist's greatest accomplishment had been to deliver what the rationalists most wanted: a world without God...
..."And the desire was to be able to explain life without recourse to a Creator or any sort of outside force. The only test Darwin had to pass is that it is more plausible than any other explanation. The Creator is disqualified from the outset because the Creator would be something outside of science, and unobserved."
...It is often believed in intellectual circles, especially in the Darwinist circle, the people I'm debating, that the world is divided into two people: the people who have faith and the people who just reason. But this is a completely false idea about the world. Everybody reasons and everybody has faith." ...
...'The critics are religiously motivated and they believe in God and they're throwing their religion at us and they shouldn't be doing that, and they should keep that out of science,'" he says. "But being religious or antireligious is the same thing: It's a position about religion and God, and it goes beyond the evidence and into very confident assertions that are based more on personal convictions than they are scientific testing." ...
If they thought they had good evidence for something, and then they saw it in the Bible, they'd begin to doubt. ...
Perhaps Johnson's nonreligious critics have trouble taking him at his word because they don't understand the extent to which he believes that open intellectual inquiry will ultimately lead people to Christianity. Johnson believes this fundamentally: "We don't have to fear freedom of thought, because good thinking done in the right way will eventually lead back to the church, to the truth -- the truth that sets people free, even if it goes through a couple of detours on the way."