Senator Kerry gave the 'speech of his life' last night.

Man, it must be a real pain to be undead...

Look, Senator, you are as phony as those Hollywood folks backing your campaign. You cannot go out there and run on your legislative record, or even your record as a Lieutenant Governor. You have gone out and repeated the Vietnam mantra over and over again, even though you were only on active duty for 4 months, and caused two of your three purple hearts yourself. Oh, that's right. I'm not supposed to criticize your war record because that's a 'personal attack'. And you and your supporters attacking George Bush on his National Guard service isn't? Your people started that attack 4 years ago, Mr. Kerry.

You claim you want civility in the national election, but your staff retorts any attempts to show your record as 'mean spirited' or 'right wing conservative attack dogs'. Your supporters call us conservatives everything from 'babykillers' to 'nazis', even though I have proven your followers have far more in common to Adolf Hitler than John F Kennedy.

No, Mr. Kerry. Your party is the one who has broken civility, then you want to try and get up on a high horse and claim moral superiority.

That is not going to fly this time. I, and many others, are calling you out right now on this.

You tell your followers to stop the personal attacks, such as what happened at the New York Event with Whoopi. I want you to get up and publically denounce that event, as not fitting with the tone you want to set for the campaign. I want you to get up and tell Michael Moore in his face to knock off the snide comments about Republicans. I want you to tell people like Al Gore to stop acting like Ann Richards in 1988.

But, Mr. Kerry, you don't have the guts to do that. You believe everything these people are saying, so you won't put them back on a civil path. Then, you will claim you are not attacking George Bush and his supporters in a personal manner.

This proves one thing, Mr. Kerry...

You are a fraud.

A fraud who should never be elected as president of the United States.

On some message boards I frequent, I have seen a couple of posts about how Bush should not be advertising now.

Sorry, but you folks are absolutely wrong.

See, the reason Kerry did not want to accept the nomination until the end of August was monetary. The moment the nomination is accepted, campaign finance limits kick in. That's why Kerry's campaign is going dark for a month, because they know they cannot afford to post advertisements that will spend money needed in October.

Bush, on the other hand, gets the luxury of September 2 to accept, thereby having an extra month to use his PRIMARY donations to spend for advertising. It is a use it or lose it proposition here, so now, in August, it is a perfect time to unleash with the rest of the money he is allowed to use for the primary.

Kerry's campaign is scared of this. They know things are going to turn against their candidate, which is why they need the bump coming out of the convention. Instead, all they are getting is a bump on the head for tripping over their own feet with fiascos like the flubbed pitch and the Oompa Loompa outfit that made Kerry look like a dork. Those are the stories coming out of the convention, and not what they needed.

Kerry has a backup, though. MoveOn, Media Fund, etc. can still put out advertisements. But I think the Republican 527s are about to unleash as well, that no one has paid attention to...the most damaging is already stealing Kerry's thunder, the Swift Boat Vets. Club for Growth, and other groups too have started in, in order to dent MoveOn's compatriots.

Start watching the ads, though. If around the middle of September, the ads surrounding MoveOn's cronies start to shift to attacks against local candidates, you know Kerry's dead in the water.

Normally, I do not quote articles here, but this one is very important. It explains, in straight terms, what we are up against with the fundamentalist muslims:

A Crusade We Must Win

The word “crusade” long ago became anathema to the politically correct. Nevertheless, America’s most successful wars were crusades fought against demonstrably evil foes to right blatant wrongs. The American Civil War, World Wars I and II and the Cold War (World War III) truly were crusades. So is World War IV.
Most Americans remain blithely oblivious to the true nature of this war. Indeed, a sizeable number think the fighting in Iraq constitutes a war distinct from the global war with al Qaeda, affiliated terrorist groups and supportive regimes like Iran. The Michael Moores among the liberal elite believe the War on Terror is a case of America the behemoth bullying Arabs to get petroleum. More extreme nutcases blather about a Bush cabal making war to spread Christianity throughout the Islamic world.
The United States is at war globally against an enemy determined to destroy Western Civilization based on institutions grounded in Judeo-Christian concepts like human dignity and political, economic and religious freedom. Victory demands a winning strategy. Clearly defined policy goals define and determine strategy. It is vital to know who we fight, why, and the strategic objectives.
In his 2002 State of the Union Address, President George W. Bush made Iran part of an Axis of Evil with North Korea and Saddam’s Iraq. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright immediately dubbed Bush’s remarks “a big mistake.” Europeans winced, congressional liberals blanched and the intellectual elite scoffed.
Then, earlier this month, the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence confirmed Bush’s earlier characterization of Iran. It seems President Bush knew the enemy all along.
Iran also knows its enemies: the United States (the Great Satan) and Israel (the Little Satan). A quarter century ago, in November 1979, Iran went to war with the United States when the mullahs dispatched militant students to take over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. In 1982, Iran established Hizbullah in Lebanon which has since attacked Israel from camps along the border and with terrorists dispatched from the Palestinian West Bank. Additionally, Iranian Intelligence directs Hizbullah cells in Europe, South America, Asia, Canada and the United States.
Under the alias “Islamic Jihad,” Hizbullah bombed the U.S. Embassy in Beirut in April 1983 and in October of that year sent a truck bomb into the Beirut U.S. Marine barracks, killing 220 Marines, 18 Navy and three U.S. Army personnel.
The following April, Islamic Jihad-cum-Hizbullah terrorists planted a bomb in a disco in Torrejon, Spain, killing eighteen U.S. soldiers. Shifting its attacks back to the Little Satan, over the next decade Hizbullah fired rockets from southern Lebanon into Israel, killing Israelis.
Today Hizbullah joins with Hamas and Yasir Arafat’s Fatah and the Al Aksa Martyr’s Brigades to send suicide bombers into Israel while Hizbullah jihadists battle American and Coalition forces in Iraq.
Iran is a formidable enemy. In June the Iranian government of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei sponsored a conference in Tehran at which mullahs called for an “Army of Martyrs” — Islamic kamikazes — to attack U.S. interests around the world. The conference concluded with a Revolutionary Guard official declaring, “If Muslims create fear in the heathen world, this fear is sacred.” The following Friday, calls went out from mosques across Iran urging volunteers for the Army of Martyrs. Jihad is a crusade by another name.
With the United Nations on Tehran’s case, the only reasonable hope for preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons rests with the Israeli Air Force. Absent an Israeli preemptive strike, when the mullahs get the bomb they will expand Iran’s two-front war from attacks on Israel and on coalition forces in Iraq. They will intimidate and then destabilize moderate and pro-Western Arab regimes, especially those which host American bases. Meanwhile, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will make good his promise “to harm America around the world” by unleashing Iran’s Army of Martyrs.
Regime change in Iraq is a key to this strategic paradigm. If the United States hangs tough to consummate President Bush’s visionary strategy for Iraqi democratization, the mullahs in Iran will come under increasing pressure. Despite Iran’s terrorism and ongoing war with Israel and the United States, Ayatollah Khamenei’s dictatorship is failing. His regime violates human rights massively, the economy is in shambles, drug use and street crime are rampant. Families and interests close to the regime enrich themselves while others suffer.
The mullahs know President Bush will stand firm and that if a democratic regime takes hold in Iraq they could be in trouble from internal elements yearning for democratic reform. That is why, at Iran’s behest, Hizbullah will increase its attacks in Iraq, ratcheting up the body count prior to the November elections.
Terrorist attacks against Israel will continue in hopes of prompting those Israeli counter-attacks sure to bring U.N. condemnations and elicit whining from squishy American liberal groups quick to condemn Israel but reluctant to speak out against Iranian and Palestinian terrorism.
Political correctness notwithstanding, World War IV is a crusade we must win.
Dr. Earl H. Tilford, appearing for the first time in The Jewish Press, is professor of History at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania. After retiring from the U.S. Air Force he served as professor of military history at the U.S. Air Force Air Command and Staff College and director of research at the U.S. Army`s Strategic Studies Institute. He has authored three books on the Vietnam War, co-edited a book on Operation Desert Storm and lectured throughout the U.S. and abroad.

I am irritated today.

I attempted to join, and be a part of, the Townhall.com meetup days. Meetup.com hosts the boards in order to get these things together.

Of course, I discover not only is the head of Nebraskans for Kerry a member, as is his son,  a member but another supposed 'conservative' member is planning on voting for Ralph Nader.

Obviously, this is not something I will continue to participate in, with these spies, traitors, and quislings sitting in on meetings, lying to people in order to disrupt things.

The Bush campaign went 'dark' this week, because they thought all the focus was going to be on the Democratic National Convention and John Kerry, so no reason to spend money on a losing cause.

Of course, the Kerry campaign has now responded...by making their candidate look like an absolute idiot in the past three days.

It started with 'the pitch', or I should say, the inability to pitch. It has now cascaded into 'BunnyGate' and as one website has put it "I was for taking those NASA photos before I was against it."

The only thing that would be worse for the Kerry campaign is to have Willie Horton show up and give a speech at the convention, at this point.

This campaign is definately turning into 'Bush vs Dukakis II: The Lt. Governor Strikes Out'. I expect the victory margin at this point to exactly mimic Bush-Dukakis, as long as Bush does the right thing and pulls out Willie for a reappearance.

This is a warning to delegates attending the Republican National Convention at the end of August:

While the Democrats cannot stand being insulted by Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, you will be expected to kowtow to the fat buddha of socialism, Michael Moore, as he attempts to make you look stupid and ignorant as he reports for USA Today.

Yes, I know what tactic Moore is planning on using, and that is the same technique he used on Bill O'Reilly. Unfortunately, like O'Reilly, if you are not ready for it, you are going to be made to look like an idiot. Moore constantly badgered with one question, that O'Reilly kept ducking, asking O'Reilly if he would sacrifice his child to get rid of Saddam.

O'Reilly never would answer the question straight out, thus putting the 'no spin' reporter into a tailspin of monumental proportions.

Here is the response to give Moore: "If it means removing a ideological follower of Adolf Hitler, a man who killed thousands of women and children, who tortured people for just looking funny at him, then the sacrifice of one life, even my own child, to accomplish that task is worth the pain and suffering it would cause me."

Moore's response to this will be something about a recruiting office, and your reply should be on the lines of: "My child is a sentient being that can make up their own mind about joining the military. Is it not what your side advocates, the 'freedom of choice'? Why don't you join, Michael, since this is tearing you up so much? You could use the exercise."

I expect you won't be bothered by Mr. Moore for the rest of the convention.

I have to give kudos to Liz@freerepublic.com on these:

OFFICIAL 2004 DNC CONVENTION PROGRAM - Tuesday
6:00pm - Opening flag burning ceremony.
6:30pm - Trubute to Kerry by his butler.
6:40pm - Ted Kennedy proposes a toast.
7:00pm - Tribute theme and infomercial for Heinz Foods.
7:10pm - Collect offerings for Sandy Berger Defense Fund.
7:20pm - Ted Kennedy proposes a toast
7:25pm - Tribute theme to Florida.
7:45pm - Anti-war rally no. 2. (Moderated by Michael Moore)
8:00pm - John Kerry presents one side of the issues
8:25pm - Ted Kennedy proposes a toast.
8:30pm - Using a voting machine workshop.
9:00pm - Gay marriage ceremony.
9:30pm - Slim-Fast Snack Break
10:00pm - Flag burning ceremony no. 2.
10:15pm - Re-enactment of Kerry's fake medal toss.
10:30pm - Cameo by Dean 'Yeeearrrrrrrg!'
10:40pm - Ted Kennedy proposes a toast.
10:50pm - Pledge of allegiance to the U.N.
11:00pm - Double gay marriage ceremony.
11:15pm - Maximizing Welfare workshop.
11:20pm - John Kerry presents the other side of the issues
11:30pm - 'Free Saddam' pep rally.
11:59pm - Ted Kennedy proposes a toast.
12:00am - Nomination of Democrat candidate.
12:01am - Ted Kennedy proposes a toast
12:03am - Ted Kennedy drives girls home..........
1:00 AM Ensemble Booing of Boy Scouts
1:30 AM Fellating the Hyphenate Vote
2:00 AM Interns Demonstrate a lewinsky.
2:00 AM Carville Spin Workshop
2:20 AM Al Gore Dials for Dollars
2:30 AM Kumbaya moment with Jesse Jackson
3:00 AM Raffle for free partial-birth abortion.
3:30 AM Address by Ssndy Berger on protecting national security
4:00 AM Live video feed: Osama endorsement

I don't know how many of you remember, have heard of, or have participated in what's called Model United Nations. This is a program, sponsored by the UN, where students take the role of various countries in the world and act like they are actually in the United Nations.

I have participated 4 times in my life in Model United Nations. The first time was back in 1985. Back then, I was the delegate from...Iraq.

Yes, Iraq. Since then, I've also played the delegate from Japan, and Luxembourg twice. Every time I have played, the issue of terrorism has come up...and I stopped going in 1990. During this time, I heavily researched terrorism, terrorist acts, and terrorist organizations. Moreso than a certain group currently holding a convention in Boston ever has, it is obvious from the speeches last night. At least, moreso than former President Carter.

I bring this up because President Carter is the main reason we are in the situation we are today with Osama Bin Laden. It was under President Carter that we started propping up the Saudi government's oppression of their own people. We started selling them F-15 jets, to offset and counterbalance our sales of the F-14 to the Shah of Iran, who was supposedly our ally at the time. Carter's policy of not getting involved doomed the Shah, causing Iran to fall to the fundamentalist movement.

The fundamentalists were oppressed in Saudi lands, and saw Iran as a great victory. They figured that if one fundamentalist group could take over a powerful nation, then they could pull off the same in Saudi Arabia.

Instead of pulling out our embassy staff until things chilled out, Carter ordered them to stay put. Thus, when the embassy was taken over by the radical students, and then Carter's ineffectiveness in either negotiating a release or freeing them with the abortive military action, it showed the United States was just a paper tiger. We could be pushed around by the fundamentalists. This again emboldened the fundamentalists in Saudi Arabia.

Then, when the Soviet Union was being defeated in Afghanistan, it was President Carter who first ordered the aid to the mujahadin. This aid kept expanding as the Soviets sank into their own quagmire. The fundamentalists saw a way to get funds, by fighting the Soviets, but stashing away the cash for later use. President Reagan expanded the program even farther, on the philosophy of the 'enemy of my enemy is my friend', which was a mistake. This is when Osama Bin Laden moved to Afghanistan, to build up his anti-Saudi forces by using the money given to him by the same people still propping up his true enemy, the Saudi government.

Throughout this time, however, and up to today, terrorist organizations worked together. The Japanese Red Army, on the behest of the PLO, hijacked 2 Israeli passenger jets. The IRA was getting training in PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine) camps in Yemen. Splinter groups formed, like Black September. Then, Iran and Syria joined in the mix, creating 'Islamic Jihad' and Hezbollah, to act in their interests.

Meanwhile, the Taliban was organizing in Afghanistan, in order to perform what the fundamentalists did in Iran. After the Soviets left, the Taliban used their saved cash to get the equipment to take over the country, despite opposition of the majority of the mujahadin groups. Osama used the Taliban as a cover for his own operations, now becoming a major terrorist threat against those who helped the Saudi government - primarily, the United States.

My point here is this: the vast majority of our problems in the Middle East were caused by President Carter's administration. So when he gets up in front of the French Party (as Ann Coulter calls them) and claims the United States has lost the 'trust' of the world, well...he was the one that started the problems in the first place.

The schedule of the Democratic National Convention tonight:

6:00pm - Opening flag burning ceremony.
6:05pm - Pledge of Allegiance to the United Nations
6:10pm - Secular words by Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton
6:30pm - Anti-war concert by Barbra Streisand.
6:45pm - Ted Kennedy proposes a toast.
7:00pm - Tribute theme to France. (Surrender To Me)
7:10pm - Collect offerings for al-Zawahri defense fund.
7:30pm - Tribute theme to Germany. (Deutchland Uber Alles)
7:45pm - Anti-war rally moderated by Michael Moore.
8:25pm - Ted Kennedy proposes a toast.
8:30pm - Terrorist appeasement workshop.
9:00pm - Gay marriage ceremony for male and female couples.
9:30pm - CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN urge defeat of President Bush.
10:00pm - Posting the Iraqi Colors by Sean Penn and Tim Robbins
10:10pm - Reenactment of Kerry's fake medal toss.
10:20pm - Cameo by Dean 'Yeeearrrrrrrg!'
10:30pm - Abortion demonstration by N.A.R.A.L.
10:40pm - Ted Kennedy proposes a toast.
10:50pm - Special thanks to the New York Times & Washington Post.
11:00pm - Multiple gay marriage ceremony for threesomes and groups.
11:15PM - Maximizing Welfare workshop.
11:30pm - Saddam Legal Defense Fund pep rally.
11:50PM - Ted Kennedy proposes a toast.
12:00pm - Nomination of Democratic candidate.

NEW: 5:00am -Ted Kennedy Will Conduct a Swimming Class.

Time to get ready for the four day media lovefest of the Democrats and their convention.

In some ways, I am really glad the normal network news programs are not covering more than an hour a day of the convention. It gives them less time to praise Kerry and indoctrinate the sheep that watch the coverage. If you are planning on watching the convention, either for curiosity sake or because you need to raise your blood pressure, I would boycott the networks entirely and watch CSPAN, who does not interrupt things with moronic interviews, rear-kissing, or anything other than their biased call-in show before and after the convention and during breaks.

The news media is going to portray this convention as a 'positive' convention. We all know this is a farce - the only reason Kerry is getting the poll numbers he is, is because it is all about hating Bush. Just like how the modern Democrats hide the fact their party has turned into the Socialist party, the Democrats are going to try and hide the fact their entire agenda is 'beat Bush' and not anything positive for America or Americans.

Of course, the Democrat spin machine is already churning out that a crew member of Kerry's boat...did you know he was in Vietnam?...was going to speak about veteran's issues today. Wait a sec, isn't the appointed spokesman for Vets issues on the Democrats side Senator Max Cleland? Where is he? Well, he's not one of the 'beautiful people' that Kerry's team has selected to put out in front to show just how handsome their supporters are. Instead, we get Ron Reagan, who has always been a liberal and gay rights activist, and people like Ben Affleck, the Hollywood elitists. But, both of them, and others on the slate, are photogenic. This is why Michael Moore, George Soros, people like Max Cleland, etc. are not speaking.

So, you are getting a phony picture of the Democrats, from the phonies in the news media.

But then, that is par for the course. Do you hear anything from the media about who the largest corporate donors are to the DNC? They are, in no particular order: Viacom (who owns CBS), Time Warner (who owns CNN), General Electric (who owns NBC), and Disney (who owns ABC). Seeing this, of course they are going to give the most favorable coverage to the Democrats. In addition, all four companies livelyhood is dependent on actors, actresses, etc. Gee...the Hollywood elitists, who are supporting Kerry.

Do not be surprised by the biased coverage. The media is not only following their political biases, but also kowtowing to those who control the purse strings.

Subject: John Kerry's Resume`
JOB APPLICATION
NAME: John Kerry
RESIDENCE: 7 mansions, including Washington, DC, worth multi-millions.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: Law Enforcement. I voted to cut every law enforcement, CIA and defense bill in my career as a US Senator. I ordered Boston to remove a fire hydrant Which I considered unsightly, in front of my mansion, thereby endangering my neighbors in the event of fire.
MILITARY: I used three minor injuries to get an early discharge from the military and service in Vietnam (as documented by the attending doctor). I then returned to the US, joined Jane Fonda in protesting the war, and insulted returning Vietnam vets, claiming they committed atrocities and were baby killers. I threw my medals, ribbons, or something away in protest. Or did I? My book; Vietnam Veterans Against the War: The New Soldier shows how I truly feel about the military. I deplore the military!
COLLEGE: I graduated from Yale University with a low C average. Unlike my counterpart George Bush, I have no higher education and did not get admitted to Harvard nor graduate with an M.B.A
PAST WORK EXPERIENCE: I ran for U.S. Congress and have been there ever since. I have no real world experience except that of a giggilo, by marrying rich women and running HJ Heinz vicariously through my wife Teresa.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS: As a US Senator I set the record for the most liberal voting record, exceeding even Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton. I have consistently failed to support our military and CIA by voting against budgets, thus gutting our country's ability to defend itself. Although I voted for the Iraq War, now I am against it and refuse to admit that I voted for it. I voted for every liberal piece of legislation. I have no plan to help this country But I intend to raise taxes significantly if I am elected.
My wealth so far exceeds that of my counterpart, George Bush, that he will never catch up. I make no or little charitable contributions and have never agreed to pay any voluntary excess taxes in MA, despite family wealth in excess of $ 700 million.
I (we) own 28 manufacturing plants (Heinz) outside of the U.S. in places like Asia, Mexico and Europe. We can make more profit from the cheaper cost of labor in those Countries, although I Blame George Bush for sending all of the jobs out of Country.
Although I claim to be in favor of alternative energy sources, Ted Kennedy and I oppose windmills off Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard as it might spoil our view of the ocean as we cruise on our yachts.
RECORDS AND REFERENCES:
None.
PERSONAL
I ride a Serotta Bike.
My Gulfstream V Jet I call The Flying Squirrel.
I call my $850,000 42-foot Hinckley twin diesel yacht the "Scarmouche".
I am fascinated by rap and hip-hop and feel it reflects our real culture.
I own several "Large" SUVs including one parked at my Nantucket summer mansion, though I am against large polluting inefficient vehicles and blame George Bush for the energy problems.
PLEASE CONSIDER MY EXPERIENCE WHEN VOTING IN 2004.

Well, the do-nothing 9/11 Commission has come out with its do-nothing/offend no one report. Luckily, they were able to complete their findings without having to look down Sandy Berger's pants for more documents. Not like anyone with a clue couldn't figure out exactly what the report was going to conclude.

Only one part of the report, though, am I going to dispute here, and that's declaring a war on terror. The report seems to imply that such a declaration is 'too broad' in scope.

Well, that's because those creating the report are stuck on the conventional meaning of the word 'war'.

The war on terror has been going on for years. Anyone remember Black September? The Munich Olympics, where Israeli athletes were killed by terrorists? That was 1972, but attacks were happening before then. Black September, though, thrust terrorism into the modern media, even as most media attention was focused over on Vietnam.

Al-Qaeda, Al-Zarqwai (it is a SEPARATE organization), Hezbollah, PLO, PLA, PFLP, PFLP-GC, are all terrorist organizations with muslim backgrounds. The Basque Separatists, the Quebec Separatists, Irish Republican Army,  the communists in Peru, the communists in Sri Lanka, the Japanese Red Army, etc. are all not, yet there are ties between them and the muslim groups. They have been documented, but the mainstream media ignores them.

All of the Muslim groups, and some of the others like Earth First here in the US, have either publically declared war against America or else have implied it. To declare war back, and to treat the issue as a war rather than just individual crimes, is the only logical thing to do. Declaring it a crime has not worked in any sort of deterrence, that's for sure. By declaring it a war, it allows the US to legally use the military against terror targets. This scares some people, as it does mean the military could be used inside the US borders to get after a terrorist cell. However, the world has changed. Things are heating up all over, and if we in America do not wish to have happen to us that which happened to Rome and the Ostrogoths, the results of which plunged the known world into a Dark Age, then we must act.

What fustrates me the most is the fact liberals keep uttering the old mantra 'Can't we all just get along?' They keep asking it, even after the terrorists have responded 'No.' They think they can win wars with words, and not deeds. Neville Chamberlain learned the hard way that was a mistake when dealing with a fanatic. There is no compromise. Either follow us, or die. That's the only two options, not 'peaceful co-existence', and until America wakes up and realizes this, more World Trade Centers are in our future.

Poor Linda Ronstadt...she learned something very valuable the other day, but it won't penetrate her thick skull.
 
People are tired of the hate.
 
This is the one thing that will doom the Democrats in November the most. Kerry is not FOR anything. It is all Hate Bush. Get rid of Bush. Anyone but Bush.
 
No one has won a national election without having at least one program or belief. Kerry has nothing.
 
In addition, the Ronstadt incident just shows another side of the current Democratic Party, one that has abandoned its principles. Instead, they have adopted the philosophy of Plato's Republic.
 
In the Republic, Plato lays out a society. The Elite/Intellectuals are the ones in charge. They make all the decisions from their position of enlightenment. Next on the tier is the military, which protects the populace from harm. This incorporates both normal military and police forces. Lastly is everyone else, whose job it is to support the tiers above them.
 
Hollywood and Elitists that run the Democrats see themselves in that first tier. Only they should make the decisions, because only they have the intelligence to do so. The masses, tier three, have absolutely no say in the government because they are too ignorant. Hm...sound familiar?
 
Someone else followed the same model as the Democrats currently are doing. That person created an elite group to surround himself with, built up his military to 'protect' his country, and the rest of the citizens were tasked with supporting both his elites and the military. That person, of course, was named Adolf Hitler. He admitted in an interview that Plato's Republic was his inspirational model for Nazi Germany.
 
Once again, the Democrats are following the path towards Nazism...

You have to just love the misreporting by the media...
 
The media is liking to tout just how well John Kerry is doing raising funds. Most of the time, they are saying just how great Kerry is doing compared to George W Bush...in 2000.
 
Okay, let's look at the REAL numbers:
 
Kerry has raised $148.5 million. Yes, this is better than George W Bush in 2000, but...
Bush has raised $214.7 million. You NEVER hear the media talking about that. Bush also has more cash on hand than Kerry, and has far less debt. This is not a good sign for Kerry, as it means Bush has the funds to keep going when Kerry runs short.
 
The media is always trying to tie Bush to special interest groups.
 
However, this is where Kerry has the numbers. The Joint Victory Campaign, ACT NOW, Media Fund, and Democratic Governor's Association total more than $69 million. The nearest Republican campaigns - the Republican Governors Association and the Club for Growth - total $25 million.
 
Stephen Bing, Peter Lewis, and our friend in socialism George Soros contributed $23.6 million...3 people control one third of the cash influx...hm. Talk about being beholden to special interests. (The AFL-CIO, Service Employees International Union, American Federation of State/City/Municipal Employees, John Harris, Andrew Rappaport, and Sierra Club also had fund transfers to the Democrats in the millions). As a comparison, Ralph Nader has only gained $1 million in contributions, total.
 
Where is Haliburton? Not even in the top 10. So, how can the liberal claptrap continue to claim Bush is beholden to Haliburton? Is, then, Kerry a puppet of George Soros?
 
Onto the senate: The three largest money candidates for Senate are all Democrats - Marson Blair Hull in Illinois, Chuckie Schumer in New York, and Tommie Daschle in South Dakota. Arlen Spector in Pennsylvania has recorded the highest amount of any Republican. Hull has garnered more contributions than Gephardt, Lieberman, Sharpton, and Kucinich, even. Including Bush and Kerry, Hillary only comes in at 22.
 
What does this conclude? The party beholden to special interests sure isn't the Republicans, for one. It shows Haliburton is not the player people claim it is. It shows that though Kerry is doing well in donations, Bush is still doing better though the media is not reporting that side of the story.
 
 
 
 

Loretta Helen West was born on September 16, 1938 to Raymond and Helen Hough of Treynor. She grew up in the small house the Houghs lived in on the farm of Bill Orr outside of Treynor. When she was old enough, she started babysitting the neighbor kids and her sister, Janet, and took this as a great responsibility, which carried on later in life.
 
Loretta attended Treynor High School. She graduated in 1957 as the class valedictorian. After high school, she moved into an apartment with a friend from school and started working at Council Bluffs Bank.
 
During this time, she was asked to go on a double date by one of her friends. She reluctantly went along, and her date was a young man from Missouri, Everett. After that first date, Loretta fell in love with Everett, and they were married on September 22, 1961.
 
Everett and Loretta moved to Omaha, first to a small house in north Omaha, and then decided to build a house in West Omaha. Starting up in a cornfield, the house was built in what is now Montclair. In the meantime, Loretta came to the Bank of Millard, and became their proofer. Back before the time of computers, Loretta was in charge of balancing the books of the tellers at night; sometimes having to stay very late to make sure all money was accounted for at the bank.
 
This all changed in February of 1968. Loretta had contacted the Nebraska Children’s Home, in order to adopt, and on February 10, 1968, Loretta and Everett adopted a one-month-old little boy, David. Loretta quit her job at the Bank of Millard, in order to care for her son full time.
 
Through the 1970s and 1980s, Loretta did just that, making a loving home for her husband and her son. Though some of David’s friends saw her as strict, he knew she was just protecting him from the world.
 
Loretta’s world was about to start to unravel, however. While cleaning the house in 1994, she got her leg caught between the chair and the sofa, falling and breaking her hip. It was at that time, after medical analysis, it was determined Loretta had osteoporosis.
 
Between 1994 and 2004, Loretta had three hip surgeries, and went from being 5’2” in height to 4’8”, due to compression fractures of her spine. She was in constant pain, something she had never been able to tolerate well.
 
In April of 2004, she had fallen and broken her good hip. Due to this, she was spending time in a nursing home rehabilitation center until June 17th. On that day, she suffered a brain hemorrhage, and on Wednesday, June 23rd at 8:00pm, she left this world to be reunited once again with her parents.
 
Loretta is survived by her loving husband of 43 years, Everett Leroy West; her son, David; and her sister, Janet Morgan. Any and all who knew her will miss her love.

I got this from a friend of mine:
 
Perhaps someone can explain this more clearly! Same facts but opposite conclusions. Here's a set of thoughts comparing the overseas messes of the past decade or so and placing them in a somewhat clearer, but still confusing, light. I'm trying to get all this political stuff straightened out in my head so I'll know how to vote come November.
 
Right now, we have one guy saying one thing. Then the other guy says something else. Who to believe. Lemme see, have I got this straight?
 
Clinton awards Halliburton no-bid contract in Yugoslavia - good...
Bush awards Halliburton no-bid contract in Iraq - bad...
 
Clinton spends 77 billion on war in Serbia - good...
Bush spends 87 billion in Iraq - bad...
 
Clinton imposes regime change in Serbia - good...
Bush imposes regime change in Iraq - bad...
 
Clinton bombs Christian Serbs on behalf of Muslim Albanian terrorists -good...
Bush liberates 25 million from a genocidal dictator - bad...
 
Clinton invades Haiti and attacks Serbia without UN approval,congressional support or  public backing - good
Bush invades Iraq with UN approval andoverwhelming congressional support - bad
 
Clinton bombs Chinese embassy, some empty mud huts in Afghanistan, and apharmaceutical plant in Sudan  - good...
Bush bombs terrorist camps - bad...
 
Clinton commits many felonies while in office - good...
Bush lands on aircraft carrier in jumpsuit - bad...
 
Clinton says there are mass graves in Serbia - good...
Bush and entire world says WMD in Iraq - bad...
 
No mass graves found in Serbia - good...
No WMD found Iraq - bad...
 
Stock market crashes in 2000 under Clinton - good...
Recession under Bush - bad...
 
Clinton refuses to take custody of Bin Laden - good...
World Trade Centers fall under Bush - bad...
 
Clinton says Saddam has nukes - good...
Bush says Saddam has nukes - bad...
 
Clinton calls for regime change in Iraq - good...
Bush imposes regime change in Iraq - bad...
 
Terrorist training in Afghanistan under Clinton - good...
Bush destroys training camps in Afghanistan - bad...
 
Serbs who committed atrocities still free - good...
Saddam in custody - bad...
 
Ah, it's so confusing! 
 

I have joined Blogs for Bush, a listing of the various blogs out there on the Internet that support the reelection of George W Bush as president.
 
I was for GWB before he ran the first time. I am still for him, and nothing the liberal media does will persuade me otherwise. I do not want a closet nazi running this country.
 
Wait, you may say. The Left always says the conservatives are nazis. What do you mean by this?
 
National Socialism, aka Nazis, had three basic tenets to their philosophy as expoused by Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf:

1. Government should control all key industries, through either direct control or regulation
2. Government should protect all state goods from foreign competition
3. Jews control the banks, and thus the economy and are therefore against us

Now, look at George W Bush. Does he believe in ANY of those three? Nope. Therefore, he cannot be a Nazi.
 
However, look at John Kerry and his supporters. Gee, well...they want #1 and #2, and the organization MoveOn.org has put together protests where signs were stating #3.
 
Therefore, rationally, you must conclude that Kerry's supporters, at a minimum, and most likely Kerry himself agree with those three statements. This then means Kerry qualifies as a Nazi under the TRUE definition of the term. And since he now has a Josef Goebbels figure next to him in Michael Moore, a lunatic Herman Goering figure in Wesley Clark, a pretty boy Rudolf Hess spokesman in John Edwards...seeing the trend here, folks? He's even got a lapdog foreign leader in Jacques Chirac, like Hitler had with Benito Mussolini.
 
So, I am not afraid in calling Kerry a nazi, because he is one. His supporters calling conservatives such is a way to deflect any sort of scrutiny towards their own beliefs.

On April 28, 2004, my mother, Loretta West, fell and broke her hip. She has had osteoporosis for the past 10 years, and this was her third hip break during that time. During that time, she also had shrunk in size from 5'2" to 4'7". She was always in constant pain because of her fractures, but I never could have guessed what was going to happen next...
 
After getting a pin in her hip, she was sent to Montclair Nursing Home to rehabilitate. She did not like being there, but she coped, actually becoming more friendly with those that ate with her than I had seen her be in years. She was getting better, her leg stronger so she could walk with the walker.
 
I went to eat with her on Mother's Day at the Nursing Home, and we got along fine. Memorial Day weekend, my dad decided to go visit some relatives, so I visited mom more, helping to put her to bed at night.
 
Mom was going to get to go home on June 25th...
 
But that didn't happen...
 
On June 16th, at night, she seemed a little bit out of it. I took her to supper, like I always did, and then left. She just didn't seem right to me, but she was smiling and talking to everyone like normal. Dad called me that night with the same concerns, but we really didn't think nothing of it. In hindsight, we could have saved her life...
 
June 17th, in the morning, she had a seizure, and was taken to the hospital. She had a second seizure on the way in. However, she was still coherent...but not after the third one that she had in the emergency room. She went into a vegitative state, because the blood thinner medicine, Cumadin, that she was perscribed had caused a spontaneous hemmorhage in her brain. She never recovered, and got progressively worse. On Tuesday, June 22, dad and I made the fateful decision to follow mom's living will wishes.
 
On Wednesday, June 23rd, at 8:00 pm, Loretta Helen West left this world for a better place.
 
I've cried and cried. I was very close to my mother. I loved her dearly, and losing her has hit me very, very hard. As an only child, all I have left is my dad. I'm not married, don't even have a girlfriend because I am too shy and geeky. Except for a few other close relatives, I have had no one to lean on during this time except dad.
 
I'm crying right now as I write this. It has hurt so much.
 
I will post mom's eulogy I wrote in the next day or so, as well as her obituary.
 
I still cannot believe she is gone from my life.

Once again, I have not been posting much on this blog, but there is a reason for this. I'll be putting three posts together in short order after this one, one to explain my lack of updates, then a couple of rants that I need to get off my chest.

Foreign Leaders that are endorsing John Kerry:

Juan-Bertrande Aristide - Haiti

Kim Chong-Il - North Korea

Hugo Chavez Frias - Venezuela

Fidel Castro - Cuba

Jacque Chirac - France

Robert Mugabe - Zimbabwe

Yasser Arafat - PLO

Osama Bin Laden - Al Qaida

Now, do we seriously WANT these jokers to be determining our foreign policy?