Our troops!

http://isteve.blogspot.com/2005/11/letter-from-marines-father.html

Interesting! Click the link to read it all.

UPDATED: Email from a Marine in Ramadi: No way to tell if this email that's been going around is authentic, but it sounds realistic. [Actually, it appears to be written by the father of a Marine named Jordan after discussions with his son on leave after seven months in Ramadi.] First it discusses our weapons, then their weapons, then tactics, then strategy

1) The M-16 rifle : Thumbs down. Chronic jamming problems with the talcum powder like sand over there. The sand is everywhere. Jordan says you feel filthy 2 minutes after coming out of the shower. The M-4 carbine version is more popular because it's lighter and shorter, but it has jamming problems also. They like the ability to mount the various optical gunsights and weapons lights on the picattiny rails, but the weapon itself is not great in a desert environment. They all hate the 5.56mm (.223) round. Poor penetration on the cinderblock structure common over there and even torso hits can't be reliably counted on to put the enemy down.Fun fact: Random autopsies on dead insurgents show a high level of opiate use.2) The M243 SAW (squad assault weapon): .223 cal. Drum fed light machine gun. Big thumbs down.

What's up with this?

http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5650798

GRAND RAPIDS -- Two West Michigan post offices are the focus of a major federal investigation.
There are accusations that employees tampered with the delivery and intentionally delayed political mailings at offices in Grand Rapids and Battle Creek. Managers inside the two locations prompted the investigation.
Sources tell 24 Hour News 8 that as many as 20 employees at the Grand Rapids facility - located on Leonard Street near Walker Avenue - and about 30 more at the Battle Creek facility - on McCamly Street - have been disciplined and possibly fired.

The Amazing American voter!

Amazing to me is that in a Michigan democrat sweep, most of the "conservative" leaning initiatives were approved and the lone leftist, MEA supported proposal lost.
Michiganders voted against racial and gender quotas and voters in other states voted to increase the minimum wage. We are a people who take pride in our fairness.

In Wisconsin, the demo sweep also brought in a GOPer Atty General.

Arizona fired tough-on-immigration GOP congressmen but passed an "English as official language" law.

Voters went mostly for Demos but seven states passed laws to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman, only.

Missouri voted for pro-embryonic stem cell research politicians but rejected a bill that would increase state funding for that research.

South Dakota roundly rejected a ban on most abortions.
And Republicans told their party that the "party" is over. Act responsibly or the rest of you are "out of here!"

Sounds to me like the voters were thoughtful, knowledgeable and, while I disagree with their democrat votes, took care to split their votes when it mattered.
Impressive.

This bodes well for the future.

Unbelievable!

This guy got RE-ELECTED?

DURHAM -- District Attorney Mike Nifong won re-election Tuesday by sweeping more than twice as many precincts as challenger Lewis Cheek

http://www.heraldsun.com/durham/4-786125.html

Poster Girl

click on this touching song.
Beccy Cole: Poster Girl

http://www.beccycole.com/albums/videos/poster_girl.shtml

‘Cause I shook hands with a Digger

on the wrong side of the world.

With a wife at home who holds her breath

And brand new baby girl.

And the Digger fights for freedom

In a job that must be done

And I let go of his hand

So proud to be Australian.

Then read this article.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/11/the_only_issue_this_election_d.html

http://tinyurl.com/y3lba2

Fighting Mood!

http://tinyurl.com/yhy7ly

What a weiner boy. The Swifties gotta be shakin' in their boots.

"If you do run for president -- and I do hope you do -- fight like hell," one person at the fund-raiser told him.
"I'm in a fighting mood," Kerry responded. "We -- together -- lost to two lies: the lie about the war in Iraq, and the lie about me personally. And if you don't think that puts me in a fighting mood, you don't know John Kerry."

Will these folks ever learn?

http://www.mlive.com/news/muchronicle/index.ssf?/base/news-10/1162223199106350.xml&coll=8

Everyone who has ever visited from afar has complained, mightily, about the miserable, and memorable, traffic control getting into and, much worse, trying to get out of the AirFair. Each year it got worse.

Muskegon Events Inc. is asking the public for new ideas to "rejuvenate" the Muskegon Air Fair at two public forums at Muskegon Community College.
The first is scheduled for 6:30-8:30 p.m. Wednesday in MCC's Collegiate Hall. The second will be Nov. 9 at the same time and location.

CNN moves left?

How biased can they get and still sell advertising? Does someone at CNN think AirAmerica was making money? Maybe they think the "Fairness Doctrine" will bail them out.
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=10553
"There are people who are wondering why this is being run so close to election day," says the CNN employee. "The questions have been asked, but we haven't gotten a satisfactory answer. But as soon as we saw the Cheney segment, we knew what they were trying to do. It wasn't just about attacking Cheney. It was about building momentum for the other programming we are running. It's about counterprogramming Fox News."

Don't trust the polls!

or female, democrat grad students!



http://tinyurl.com/yayu33

Interviewers can inject bias in the results. The late Warren Mitofsky, who conducted the 2004 NEP exit poll, went back and found that the greatest difference between actual results in exit poll precincts and the reports phoned in to NEP came where the interviewers were female graduate students -- and almost all the discrepancies favored the Democrats.

How quickly we forget!

http://freealabamastan.blogspot.com/2006/10/dick-armey-right-and-wrong.html

Dick Armey is correct in saying that Republicans in Congress have never recovered from Bob Dole's betrayal in the 1995 government-shutdown debacle -- except that he never mentions Dole:
A few months before the victory on welfare, we lost the battle over the federal government shutdown of 1995, when we were outmaneuvered by Clinton, a masterful political operator. After that fight, too many Republicans apparently concluded that America wanted bigger government. This misreading was the first step on the road away from the Reagan legacy.
We emerged as a wounded party; we stopped trusting the public; and we internalized the wrong lesson. Right. And the GOP then nominated Bob Dole as their presidential candidate in 1996, confirming that the Republican Party wasn't serious about limited government. Bob Dole never met a tax increase he didn't like or a farm subsidy he didn't co-sponsor.

Only 2 years now!

http://www.forbes.com/home/forbes/2006/1113/138.html?partner=msnbc

Interesting that this was sent to me by the McCain organization. They're sending out Mitt-dirt too.

Gotta start doing our homework!

There have been white-shoe clients. ........But there have also been plenty of scuffed-shoe customers. Giuliani Partners and its units have repeatedly become entangled in petty deals that seem unworthy of someone with national aspirations.

Geeze, I wonder why he was terminated? Yeah, right..

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20061029/D8L2JF500.html
Hypocrites!!!!!!
Gallaudet Rejects Incoming President
Email this StoryOct 29, 6:21 PM (ET)
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The board of trustees of the nation's premier school for the deaf voted Sunday to terminate the appointment of the incoming president, who had been the subject of protests, the board announced.
The vote at Gallaudet University came after a daylong closed-door meeting that followed a month of protests by students and faculty members. Jane Fernandes, the school's former provost, had been selected in May to take office in January.
"Although undoubtedly there will be some members of the community who have differing views on the meaning of this decision, we believe that it is a necessity at this point," the board said in a written statement.
"It has certainly been a difficult and trying time for our Gallaudet community," the statement said. "Now is the time for healing."

Is this why Holly-libs DON'T move to Canada?

http://www.macleans.ca/culture/books/article.jsp?content=20061030_135244_135244
And here's one that gave me a worse headache the more I thought about it. An Ottawa panhandler says he may have to abandon his prime panhandling real estate on a downtown street corner because he's being shaken down by officials from the panhandlers' union. But then we're told that these guys are fakes from a phony panhandlers' union, not the real panhandlers' union. Did I read that right? There's apparently a real panhandlers' union which exists to protect workers' rights? Er, hang on, non-workers' rights. If the union-negotiated non-work contracts aren't honoured, the members will presumably walk off the job and stand around on the sidewalk. No, wait, they'll walk off the sidewalk . . . No, let's try again. When you think about it, the fake panhandlers' union, panhandling genuine panhandlers and doing nothing in return for the dues they raise, is surely truer to the spirit of the mandate.

EURO=the end

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1061-2421880,00.html
the greatest political blunder of the past decade. That dubious honour will probably belong to an event most people still regard as a triumph: the creation of the euro.

This is war!

http://www.suntimes.com/news/steyn/114966,CST-EDT-steyn29.article
as Democrats say, ''all about the future of our children,'' then our children will want to know why our generation saw what was happening and didn't do anything about it. They will despise us as we despise the political class of the 1930s.

Another reasson to hate the Cowboys

The rest of us gotta pay extra for that!

http://lucianne.com/threads2.asp?artnum=304110
Cowboys coach claims familyfound dead rat in McDonald's saladAssociated Press, by Staff
Original Article
Posted By:Photoonist, 10/27/2006 4:49:57 PM
Dallas - Dallas Cowboys assistant coach Todd Haley is suing a suburban McDonald's, claiming his wife and the family's live-in baby sitter found a dead rat in a salad they took home and began to eat. The lawsuit filed Thursday in state district court seeks $1.7 million in damages, /snip/ According to the lawsuit, Christine Haley and Kelley had eaten part of the salad purchased June 5 at a McDonald's in Southlake before the rat was discovered.

Bummer for Michigan

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116182939406804241.html?mod=opinion&ojcontent=otep
Michigan's Messy DeVos
By SHIKHA DALMIAOctober 26, 2006; Page A18
DETROIT -- Besides the Tigers, the main thing on the minds of Michigan residents is the state's tanking economy. So when the state's most prominent Republican businessman entered the gubernatorial fray promising to turn things around, it should have been a home run. Instead, 10 days before the election, Dick DeVos has lost his 15-point summer lead over Jennifer Granholm, the Democratic incumbent, and is now trailing by more than eight points in most polls. The fault is not in his stars but in himself: At a time when Michigan needs economic leadership, he has so far shown little charisma, creativity -- or courage of convictions.

Liberal "news"

http://beta.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6795275
Doesn't the fact that they could find only 100 malcontents say volumes about the overwhelming support for the war within the military? Not newsie enough?
"More than 100 U.S. service members have signed a rare appeal urgingCongress to support the 'prompt withdrawal' of all American troops and bases from Iraq, organizers said yesterday. 'Staying in Iraq will notwork and is not worth the price. It is time for U.S. troops to comehome,' reads the statement of a small grass-roots group of active-dutymilitary personnel and reservists that says it aims to give U.S.military members a voice in Iraq war policy. ... The unusual appeal --the first of its kind in the Iraq war, organizers say -- makes use ofa legal protection afforded by the Military Whistle-Blower ProtectionAct, which provides that members of the military, acting in theircapacity as citizens, can send a protected communication to Congresswithout reprisal." (10/25/06)

Will we fight for our own freedoms?

Who would have thought centuries after the Enlightenment thatsophisticated Europeans - in fear of radical Islamists - would be afraidto write a novel, put on an opera, draw a cartoon, film a documentary or have their pope discuss comparative theology?

This is socialism!

Remember this if you're tempted to vote Democrat.

http://knuttz.net/hosted_pages/Russian-Roads-20061011