Sunday, October 31, 2004
The Last Few Days
As we head into the home stretch, I’m curious, has any noticed that Kerry has been showing commercials hightlighting his endorsements from various news outlets?
Maybe I’m not as aware as others, politically, but with only two days to go, shouldn’t you be hammering home why people should vote for you? I could care less that the local left leaning newsrag has endorsed you. Ideologically speaking, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel is on par with the New York Times, so it would’ve been SHOCKING if they endorsed Bush.
Don’t know if this is strictly a Milwaukee area Kerry/Edwards ad, but nonetheless, it’s not exactly highlighting the reason(s) why should vote for you Senator.
Then again, I’m a one issue voter (War on Terror) and I shrug off the idea the economy stinks (it doesn’t), healthcare is in a crisis (it’s not) and that we should be respected by France and Germany(Meh).
Saddam had nothing to do with terrorists?
Not according to the evidence. Written by Deroy Murdock, a Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, it’s an interesting way to prove all of those Saddam apologists (by their own definitions) lied, while people - including several thousand Americans - died.
Using Saddam’s own words, unimpeachable sources, captures of live video, translations of captured documents, and even photocopies of the checks Saddam sent to the families of some homocide bombers, he lays out the case, step-by-step, in stark chronological order. This evidence is solid enough to argue the case in court, and is tight enough to get a conviction for (at the very least) violations of several UN sanctions that were an integral part of the Cease-Fire after the first Gulf War.
No, I’m not a lawyer. But this isn’t just an opinion.
“I conclude that plaintiffs have shown, albeit barely, by evidence satisfactory to the court that Iraq provided material support to bin Laden and al Qaeda.”
---- U.S. District Court Judge Harold Baer, Jr., a Clinton appointee
Go. RTWT.
Found thanks to Bill at INDC Journal, a very smart fellow indeed.
Saturday, October 30, 2004
John Kerry, War Hero?
Found here.
I make no comment on the truth of this, but why else would his “official” discharge be dated several years after he was already discharged (as part of a review board set up after Jimmy Carter had ordered such review as a part of his General Amnesty to Vietnam-era draft dodgers in 1977)? Why would his medals have required a re-issue? (I still have mine sitting here on my desk.)
If he were Honorably Discharged (which simply requires keeping out of trouble for the duration), why would he need the review in the first place?
Finally, why has Kerry not authorized the full release of all of his military and medical records, which would require nothing more than the signing of his name to an SF-180? Let’s ask Kerry what he has to hide, shall we?
Friday, October 29, 2004
Went to see Bush tonight….
...but I’m tired. So, as a way to get an easy out, I’ll ask you to give me questions to answer in my Drumwaster Report. Post your questions in the Comments section, and I’ll answer the first 10.
The More Things Change…
The more they stay the same…
I have a plan...
“This is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time”
Ever wonder what a Kerry presidency would be like? You’re looking right at it. Neville II. Simple as that. This is what I’m going to vote against this upcoming Tuesday. John Kerry wants us to abandon Iraq...and as soon as it happens, the terrorists will win.
The latest John Kerry commercial talks about the 1,000 soldiers who have died in Iraq. Pathetic. Just pathetic. This man has his Vietnam complex shoved so far up his you know what, he can’t walk two steps without taking his underwear out of his crack. Is this not precisely what the Viet-F’ing-Cong did? They used the deaths of American troops in Vietnam as some political ploy back home and now, we’ve got the man who wishes to be President, doing the same thing with OUR troops! This man is blowing my mind each and every day with his constant rigmarole.
The man still cannot answer whether or not if he were President, that Saddam would still be in power. He waffles worse than Clinton.
I believe in this election, there is only candidate to vote for. Sure, some loons think one issue (gay marriage) should trump our entire civilization’s greatest cause. (Fighting terrorists head on). I cannot turn my back on Bush and I hope a lot of people feel the same way.
Election News And Notes
PA Govenor, Ed Rendell, decides to ask for a week extension :
HARRISBURG, Pa.—Under pressure from military voters and Republicans, Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell said Friday that he will ask a federal judge to extend the deadline for counting overseas ballots by one week.
Rendell told a news conference in Philadelphia that Republicans could produce only one voter—out of 26,000 overseas military and civilian voters—who failed to get the absentee ballot he requested.
Nonetheless, “Even if it’s just one or two votes, their votes should be counted,” Rendell said.
Of course, there is a question of what the Governor is asking for and what the GOP wants…
GOP state Sen. John Pippy, an Army reserve captain who served in Iraq, criticized Rendell’s proposal, saying the governor asked for—and received—a nearly three-week extension for counting absentee ballots in the April primary and should support a two-week extension now.
Rendell is planning on only asking for a week, the state GOP want the deadline extended by two. Personally, and this might tick a few people off, since the DOD got on top of this quick by sending out federal ballots for federal offices (i.e. President, Senator, US Representative), I don’t think the deadline should be extended at all. I say this for purely selfish reasons, I want this election over ASAFP! If the DOD had not proposed an eminently plausible solution to this problem then I would think differently.
And remember I’m ex-military, so consider the source here.
In other news, in a sure sign that he is getting desperate, John Kerry has resurrected the Halliburton issue:
After days of trying to make political hay over lost Iraqi explosives, the Democratic ticket turned Friday to an FBI probe of Halliburton as evidence of Bush administration special favors to special interests.
I question the timing of the Kerry announcement....
From the same article; it seems Arnold is even bigger than anyone originally thought…
President Bush was campaigning in actor-politician Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, seats a family of five in comfort and style!
News about the economy I hear you say? Happy to oblige:
WASHINGTON (AP)—The economy grew at a 3.7 percent annual rate in the third quarter—a pace slightly better than in the spring but not as strong as many analysts expected. Friday’s government report was the last broad snapshot of economic activity before Election Day and provided political ammunition for both sides.
Predicting economic growth is akin to predicting when you are going to roll a pass in craps, there are always variables in play that make any solid predictions difficult. That said, most analysts predicted the economy would grow by 4.3 percent, so they were only off by 6/10ths of a percentage point. Damn that pesky economy! I blame Bush.
Taking a break from campaigning in Schwarzenegger, President Bush peers out of the Oval Office window looking for, apparently, which way the winds are blowing so he can gauge what John Kerry’s position is on Iraq this week…
Is it November 2nd yet?
Thursday, October 28, 2004
Draft Em’!…?
Remember how John Kerry wanted to increase the size of the military by two divisions and double our special forces? It got me to thinking, talking with a friend of mine....how in the world is that 2nd part possible?
Aren’t our special forces, the BEST of the BEST? It’s not like they just bring everyone in and rubberstamp them ready for duty. Very few soldiers have what it takes to be in the special forces, do they not?
Then again, I shouldn’t assume he actually has a viable, outside of saying he has a plan, to double the forces. This is a man who has done nothing but denigrate and demoralize our troops, and that was back in his Vietnam days. Today, he’s calling them dullards for not protecting 300 tons, no wait, 3 tons of explosives...that were gone before we got into Iraq.
Oh….it hurts….
...the laughter. My stomach...oh....geez…
Run Her Down—She’s Just A Republican
Stepping into the fetid swamp that is the Democratic Underground, John Hawkins (doing it so I don’t have to) brings us the DU thread of the day, which is dedicated to the man who nearly ran down US Representative Katherine Harris.
skypilot: “I hope he had a big maniacal smile on his face. Imagine it from Katherine’s point of view. Everyone around you scattering and a big siver Caddy hurling towards you with a broadly smiling driver behind the wheel. I’ll have that image in my head all day.”
Well it is important to keep a positive mental attitude when committing a crime! “I’m good enough. I’m smart enough...”
slor: “I hope he voted already. No point in losing that vote due to poorly planned heroic behavior!”
Of course the most important thing is hoping that this idiot had already voted. Not that he committed aggravated assault.
mitchum: “The car would have needed the Super Deluxe Wash. considering all of the makeup. Better luck next time.”
Well keeping your car clean, especially after using it to commit a crime, is important!
HawkeyeX: “Hell, someone give that man the Congressional Medal of Honor for assaulting the woman who is single-handling responsible for the entire destruction of the United States for the last four years. Hell, he should be hailed as a hero. (While we’re at it, throw a Purple Heart for having to touch the slime of a woman) Instead, let that woman rot in jail for 100 million years.”
By all means, let us give this man this nation’s highest military decoration for committing a crime! Let us give this man a Purple Heart for committing an act of violence against a woman! Let us hail this man as a hero and lay rose petals at his feet when he walks! And of course Katherine Harris should go to jail for 100 million years! Why? Well because she is Katherine Harris, that’s why!
Generic Other: “Let’s BAIL the guy out! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”
So he can get another shot!
Artemis Bunyon: “He should have floored it. And he shouldn’t have swerved.”
His only crime was that he missed!
The_Casual_Observer: “I feel sorry for the guy. Harris certainly isn’t worth the trouble he has caused himself. The all around low value of people like harris normally keeps them safe and guarantees a long life.”
Katherine Harris is a woman of no consequence! Misogyny runs rampant at the DU it seems.
henslee: “He can’t get off with comm. service. Running her down is comm. service”
Running down Republicans (especially if the Republican is a woman) is a community service!
The Politics of High Explosives
From the AP:
An armed group claimed in a video Thursday to have obtained a large amount of explosives missing from a munitions depot facility in Iraq and threatened to use them against foreign troops.
A group calling itself Al-Islam’s Army Brigades, Al-Karar Brigade, said it had coordinated with officers and soldiers of “the American intelligence” to obtain a “huge amount of the explosives that were in the al-Qaqaa facility.”
Ok, so they first threaten to use the explosives against foreign troops, then claim they obtained those explosives with the help of soliders of “the American intelligence”. Their claim that soliders would give them explosives to be used against themselves is laughable.
That being said, here’s the key graf:
The claim couldn’t be independently verified. The speaker was surrounded by masked, armed men standing in front of a black banner with the group’s name on it in the tape obtained by Associated Press Television News.
I seem to remember during my journalism classes in high school that in order for a story to be credible the reporter (or other person gathering the facts) needed, at the very least, two independent and credible sources for the story to be considered verified. Here the AP admits outright it couldn’t independently verify the group’s claims.
So, that begs the question, just why did they, the AP, go ahead with the article?
The disappearance of the explosives has become a huge campaign issue in the U.S. presidential election.
And there is your answer.
Seriously, if Bush wins come Election Day I am going to be more than a little surprised.
What’s Worse?
The fact the Red Sox won the World Series (in one of the most boring WS I’ve seen) and their fans can no longer use “The Curse” if anything goes wrong for them...or
The fact that John Kerry can gloat over this with that goofy smile of his.
Maybe the latter isn’t so bad, since more pictures of Lurch smiling and gloating will turn off people. Maybe…
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Get Dead Old Man
In a perfect world, Yassar Arafat would die a bloody death, not a peaceful one.
For all the havoc the Godfather of terrorism has let loose upon the world, it would be truly ironic for him to just drift off into the arms of Allah in his sleep. The hell with it, bomb his compound now....end it right now.
From The ‘What Would We Do Without Experts’ Department
Comes this:
“Girls Who Take Pride in Promiscuity Face Dangers, Experts Say”
In related news, the sky is blue and water is wet.
Via TBOTW
Get the word out!!
One of our regular visitors, Calliope, has been stricken with a mother’s worst nightmare. Her daughter has been abducted.
Lee has all the details. He has a picture of her and a link to a PDF file with all details.
He also has a picture of the scumbag who is accused of the deed.
Spread the word far and wide, folks. This one affects someone we all know. If you see either of them, call the cops instantly.
Pre-Challenge
Remember a few months back, John Kerry said they would begin to “pre-challenge” votes in Florida? I, like most people, believed he meant on Election Day. Well it now appears that surmise was in error:
Led by the Florida Democratic Party, the People for the American Way, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and the AFL-CIO, the lawsuits target, among others, Florida Secretary of State Glenda Hood, who was appointed by Republican Gov. Jeb Bush, President Bush’s brother.
The suits say Republican officials refused to count provisional ballots, improperly disqualified incomplete voter registrations, established overly restrictive rules to disproportionately hurt minority voters and actively sought to disenfranchise blacks.
One suit challenges a ruling by Mrs. Hood to throw out forms on which new voters had failed to check a box indicating whether they were U.S. citizens, and another argued that although only 17 percent of the voters in Broward County and 20 percent in Miami-Dade County were black, more than a third of the voter-registration forms that were determined to be incomplete and invalid in both counties involved black voters.
Reasonable people can debate the merits of whether or not the other forms should have been disqualified or not, but surely we can all agree on the following point; if you are too incompetent to check a damn box on a registration form saying you are a citizen of the United States, then you shouldn’t be voting. Period.
What you’re seeing is an attempt, through lawsuits and through intimidation, by Democrats to convert their allies’ registration fraud into voter fraud on Election Day. What you’re going to see is an attempt by them, regardless of what the outcome is, to say: ‘It’s unfair. We’re going to sue.’
I hate to say this, but it looks like the repeat of the 2000 Election debacle is getting underway early this year.