Mainstream Media Will be Wondering What Happened

What will we have learned after the election? Prepare for endless reasons and excuses for why the dems lost so embarassingly. And, make no mistake, it will be an embarrassing defeat for them. The obvious excuse from the left will be that Kerry was a weak candidate and Edwards was extraordinarily weak. It will be extrapolated that the dems were unable to successfully get their message out when in reality, the message of their left wing progressive liberalism rang through loud and clear; which, in fact is/was the reason they will have been so handily defeated.

A myriad of other irrelevant excuses will be argued and sooner or later the point will be realized that the Traditional media (read MSM, Old Media, Lamestream Media, ABC,CBS,NBC,CNN,NYT,WAPO,MACPAPER, or however you may contemptuously refer to them) fell way short in selling their liberal agenda to mainstream America. O' they did a superb sales job; it's just that America didn't buy it. That will make two humiliating defeats for the price of one!

The dems and the MSM...No longer the predominant force in America! That's the way we will be sizing things up shortly after the election.

Many have been observing that the U.S. has been swerving toward the right since Ronald Reagan and that the trend is continuing. There would have to be some qualifiers to that statement. It's my belief that society, in general has swerved way to the left and politicos reflect that move or mood.

Think about it. There are dyed in the wool conservatives, of which I am one, but the mainstream 'conservatives' these days (like President Bush, for example), are more like the liberals of JFK's day. And today's liberals have become socialists. That's why they have to run dishonest races. They can't reveal who they really are and what they really believe in.

But I endlessly digress...My main point was to feature the above linked article to reinforce the importance of the New Media in this election cycle. The internet, Fox News and Talk Radio are the New Media and they now predominate the diffusion of information.

It's a new era! Finally!

Hanoi John's October surprise

Here are two essential reads for the weekend. Do you think the MSM will pick up on them? Kerry's October surprise:

"While John Kerry is running around claiming President George Bush and our troops overseas failed the American people by not guarding an explosives dump without explosives in it, documents have been uncovered at Texas Tech University that show Kerry was following Vietnam War protest guidelines from North Vietnamese communists in the early 1970s."

Art Moore's piece at WorldNetDaily corroborates the above story.

It NEEDS To Be a Close Race

For eons now, we've been hearing that the race is 'dead even'. I've never believed that to which both of my readers can attest. This 'dead even' race is essential to the media for a couple of reasons, maybe more:

• Their guy is losing, has always been losing, is a loser, will always be a loser, and he will be losing this next Tuesday.
• It's imperative to be able to report on a 'real' race. If the polls on either one of the candidates were totally out of whack, what would they have to keep their job interesting?
• Not that the pollsters are trumping up their numbers, but all polls can be skewed.
• The vast majority of Americans just aren't impressed with John Kerry. They don't like him. They don't believe him. They don't want his wife to be First Lady.
• The appearance of a close race keeps the media in an 'essential' realm. If the race is not close, what are they to report on day in and day out.

It's not a close race. President Bush is going to be handily re-elected because we are at war and America doesn't want a Vietnam war protester as our commander in chief. Nor is America ready for the most liberal senator from Massachusetts to be called 'Mr. President'. Nor does America want Theresa to be our First Lady. The reasons he will not be elected president next Tuesday are nearly infinite.

Need I go on?

O'Connor Praises International Law

Justice O'Connor has once again asserted her stated opinion that international law is an essential consideration for U.S. judges.

"WASHINGTON -- Judges would be negligent if they disregarded the growing role of international law in U.S. courts, asserted Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in a speech today at Georgetown Law School.
It was the second time O'Connor has made a point of affirming the place of international law in U.S. courts. "

How scary is this...That a member of OUR SUPREME COURT is willing to absolutely toss out OUR constitution in lieu of international law! Hello...Ms. O'Connor?....Hello...Is anybody home???!

The IRS Giveth, The IRS Taketh Away!

So let's say you attend a conservative little church in which all of your brethren (now there's a term that must rankle the secular left wing!) are unabashedly to the right of Rush Limbaugh. Deacon Smith is asked to give the closing prayer after the final hymn and in so doing asks God to please pave the way for brother George W. Bush's re-election. If Deacon Smith is wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove, he surely would have noticed whether or not a whistleblower was in attendance who might report them to the IRS for breaking the law. Breaking the law? What law?

Do you mean to tell me that you thought you had the freedom to preach whatever you wanted to preach in your own little church? Well, not if you're registered with the IRS as a tax exempt organization. If your church is tax exempt, then your church is beholden to the almighty IRS. Period! And you better not be praying for the re-election of President Bush!

(Well, truthfully, this only applies to conservative, predominantly white churches. If you attend a predominantly black church and plan to vote for John Kerry, then pray your hearts out, because this law isn't applicable to your congregation!)

Time for a Little Review

Timely and thought provoking quotations from the late, great Ronaldus Magnus:

"Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose." - Ronald Reagan

"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan

"Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong." - Ronald Reagan

"I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandment's would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress." - Ronald
Reagan

"The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination." - Ronald Reagan

"Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."- Ronald Reagan

"If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

"The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program." - Ronald Reagan

"I've laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything that happens: no matter what time it is, wake me even if it's in the middle of
a Cabinet meeting." - Ronald Reagan

"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first." - Ronald Reagan

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." - Ronald Reagan

"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards. If you disgrace yourself you can always write a book." - Ronald Reagan

"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to the problem; government is the problem." - Ronald Reagan

Sort of makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, huh!

Doug Giles' Kerry Cartoons

Doug Giles, the refreshingly irreverant Christian minister whose weekly column apprears at Townhall.com is also an accomplished political cartoonist. Check out some of his 'toons at his website and while you're there you might want to read one or more of his columns. If you've never read him, he's like reading Ann Coulter with an attitude.

Kerry Meltdown--Today's Essential Reading

Start here:HughHewitt.com!

Unequally Yoked

A Lake Worth Fla. guy needs to learn some debating skills... Either that, or he needs to start dating girls in his own party. The best thing would probably be that everyone stay away from this dude. Semper fidelis and all that, but get real! Put the knife away, dude!

"WEST PALM BEACH -- An 18-year-old Marine recruit remained in jail on Wednesday, charged with threatening to stab his girlfriend over her choice for president, news partner NewsChannel 5 reported in its noon broadcast.

The enlistee, Steven Scott Soper, of Lake Worth, became enraged Tuesday night when his 18-year-old girlfriend said she was leaving him -- and voting for John Kerry for president."

Yes, someone voting for Kerry is enough to send someone over the edge, but, in most cases, counting to ten and walking away from what could become a difficult situation, is probably the best thing to do.

Headlines You Won't See About Arafat

Michelle Malkin references some articles the MSM probably won't see fit to mention when covering Arafat's 'colorful' life. Essential reading to counter the inevitable sympathetic eulogies. Go there!

Another Reason to Yank Your Kids from Gov't Schools

NewsMax is covering a story about a Milwaukee school that is using students to 'get out the vote'. Regardless of whose vote they are trying to co-opt, students need to be learning how to read and think, not coercing people to vote for the dems. Isn't this disturbing to the parents, or do they think this to be a good 'civics' lesson. How about pulling the money plug for this kind of partisan behavior! It's way past time to boycott gov't indoctrination centers in addition to CBS and the NY Times.

"Latest reason why Johnny can't read: Instead of getting an education, children in Democrat-controlled Milwaukee's Democrat-controlled failed government school monopoly are being exploited to get out the vote for John Kerry.

The pro-Kerry educrats are allowing a left-wing outfit that calls itself Wisconsin Citizen Action Fund to pluck pupils from the classroom to go door to door in black neighborhoods that vote overwhelmingly Democrat and urge residents to go to the polls.

The students, ranging in age from 11 to 18, also use phone banks to call homes and urge people to vote," the Associated Press reported today.

The aptly named Larry Marx, co-executive director of Wisconsin Citizen Action, denied partisanship ... Even though the outfit openly supports Kerry."

Pete Du Pont: 'Why Bush Will Win'

Pete Du Pont's piece in today's OpinionJournal lists the reasons President Bush will likely win:

"President Bush is not going to win because of Mr. Kerry's style or Boston blue blood, as out of sync with most Americans as they may be. He is going to win because he believes in things, while Mr. Kerry is a candidate of concern, consensus and compromise."

Check it out.

'October Surprise' Backfires

CNS News, a New Media outlet, exposes the 'players' in the latest 'screw the president' scam. Read it here in its entirety:

Media Watchdog: 'October Surprise' Blows Up in Faces of NY Times, CBS News
By Melanie Hunter
CNSNews.com Deputy Managing Editor
October 26, 2004

(CNSNews.com) - A media watchdog group Tuesday said 'what amounted to an 'October surprise'' by the New York Times and CBS News blew up in their faces.

The Times was first to report Monday what it considered to be new information that 380 tons of explosives were missing from an Iraqi military facility that was supposed to be under U.S. military control. But an NBC News report later noted the explosives were already gone before troops arrived at the Al-Qaqaa installation in April 2003.

CBS News' '60 Minutes' was planning to hold the story until Halloween, two days before Election Day, according to the Drudge Report Tuesday. 'Our plan was to run the story on October 31, but it became clear that it wouldn't hold...' Jeff Fager, executive producer of the Sunday '60 Minutes,' reportedly said in a statement.

'Both the New York Times and CBS have repeatedly shown they have chosen sides against President Bush in this election and, once again, they have been caught with Halloween eggs on their faces,' said Media Research Center President Brent Bozell in a statement.

'Once again it's the Times, once again it's CBS, once again it's 60 Minutes, and once again they have proven that they cannot be believed when it comes to election coverage or anything else,' Bozell said.

'The Times, CBS News, and 60 Minutes especially, have proven beyond all doubt that they are nothing more than extensions of the Democratic National Committee and they have no credibility whatsoever. In fact, episodes such as this and the Rathergate fiasco prove they may be even more partisan than the Democratic Party itself," he added.

Media War...My Media Can Beat Up Your Media!

It's getting fun! The NY Times and CBS (see DRUDGE) are desperate in their attempt to come up with an October surprise to hurt President Bush out of office. Rush is all over it and no doubt others will be as well. The bloggers of note are on it and will once again forcefully back the MSM into an indefensible corner. Internal investigations will, no doubt, be instituted, although we never seem to hear results from investigations already in progress. To its credit NBC blew the whistle on the NYTimes story that the missing weapons were actually missing before our troops got to the storage facility.

The bigger question should be: if these 300 tons of weapons of 'inconsequential' destruction were moved or stolen, could there not be missing weapons of mass destruction? For now that question is irrelevant, because it doesn't serve the MSM's agenda of removing President Bush from office.

Not a time to be weary of dirty politics. It's time to stay sharp and alert to the machinations of desperation.

Kerry Plays the 'God' Card

In an overt effort to romance the 'religious' vote, John Kerry shamelessly invoked God by telling anyone who would hear him how important religion is to him. Anyone out there convinced? Anyone see a pattern? It's pathetic when someone who is set on impressing someone has to be the one touting his real or imagined qualities. If you're a hero you don't have to tell others. If you're religious, you don't have to tell others. If you have integrity, you don't have to tell others. And if you have none of these characteristics, it's not worth a tinker's damn to tell people about your supposed virtues. You either have them or you don't. To be sure, some will be fooled, but certainly not a majority!

Kerry Lies about Security Council Meeting

Red State - Collaborative Republicanism for the Masses makes the case that John Kerry lied about meeting with the Security Council of the UN. The Washington Times corroborates the story, but you will be hard put to find it anywhere in the MSM.

The New Media continues to cover and uncover real and pertinent news on an hourly basis. The MSM is being left in their partisan dust.

Important Questions to Ponder!

Hugh Hewitt asks some great questions to which we all know the answers. That Bill Clinton is stumping for John Kerry brings these pertinent questions to mind. Heh heh! Here are the questions:

Who is Marc Rich endorsing?

Who is Webb Hubbell endorsing?

Who is Monica Lewinsky endorsing?

Who is Johnny Chung endorsing?

Who is Susan McDougall endorsing?

Who is Jim Guy Tucker endorsing?

Who is Roger Clinton endorsing?

Who are Harry and Linda Bloodworth Thomasson endorsing?

Who is Mike Espy endorsing?

Who is Hazel O'Leary endorsing?

Who is Craig Livingstone endorsing?

Who is Bernie Nussbaum endorsing?

Who is Patsy Thomasson endorsing?

Who is Ira Magaziner endorsing?

Who are James and Mochtar Riady endorsing?


Bring one, bring all. Let the good times roll.

Known by Your Friends, Associates and Endorsements

Ben Johnson's piece in FrontPageMagazine.com is essential reading. If we are known by our friends then it can be easily deduced that the candidates can be known by those who endorse them. It's well known that the dems have the support of such loveable luminaries as Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell, but you might not know which countries are supporting them. In this piece, the Axis of Evil Endorsements, he lists the endorsements for Kerry and Bush. It should tell you all you need to know about each candidate! Would you really want to vote for the candidate who has the support of our enemies?

Be sure to read the entire piece, but he sums up saying:

"In all, it appears those nations most opposed to the War on Terrorism - including the remaining two members of the Axis of Evil - endorse the foreign policies of the Left, which they see embodied in the person of John Kerry. On the other hand, those nations historically friendly to the United States back President George W. Bush. It is significant that those nations under the greatest terrorist threat - Russia, the Philippines, Israel and (if one counts nuclear threats from North Korea) Japan - all favor the aggressive policy of taking the war to the terrorists pursued by the Bush administration. If we do not wish to share their peril, we would do well to heed their advice to reject the discredited, defeatist foreign policies of the Left."

Timely Word of the Day

"LEGERDEMAIN "

Definition: trickery

Example: When the competitor realized that he could not win the tournament honestly, he resorted to LEGERDEMAIN.

Synonyms: chicanery, wile

(courtesy of My Way and Kaplan)

Appalling, (but never surprising) Leftist Behavior

I guess we better start keeping a list of the desperate dems and their anti-social behavior as they try to win over as many undecideds as possible in the days leading up to 'litigation', er, election day. The dems...Always looking to build a better, more cohesive, ever more united America!

Early voting in Palm Beach is proving to be somewhat harrowing if you happen to be voting republican. Check out the article!

Another Bush/Cheney headquarters robbed and vandalized. Those pesky protesters!

Flagstaff Bush/Cheney headquarters robbed and vandalized. Ho hum.

Isn't this special!

"On November 2, the entire civilised world will be praying, praying Bush loses. And Sod's law dictates he'll probably win, thereby disproving the existence of God once and for all. The world will endure four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed, with no benevolent deity to watch over and save us. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr - where are you now that we need you?"

This should win them over:

"Littleton teenager Aaron Oster-Beal woke up one morning last week to find the family's Kerry-Edwards yard sign on the porch covered with a rude surprise - a pile of dog excrement."

Who Wins if Bush Loses?

An excellent opinion piece by George Moore today in the Telegraph on several levels. Moore points out one of the big problems critics have is Bush's relationship with God and how it is unjustly equated with the 'godly' fanatacism of the radical islamo-facists:

One of the criticisms thrown at George W Bush is that he is a menace because he believes that God is telling him what to do. A moral equivalence is set up, in which Osama bin Laden and Bush are presented as two sides of a fundamentalist coin. On Wednesday, a television programme tried to equate the Muslim Brotherhood, which advocates the violent destruction of all societies that do not conform to sharia law, with the American neo-conservative intellectuals who taught that people should revive their interest in Plato and the civilisation of the ancient Greeks. This is about as accurate as saying that the Nazi party and the Labour Party are the same, because both arose from the discontents of the working classes.

What's going on in people's minds that they have this 'moral equivalance' of terrorists and President Bush? Is that rational?

Moore goes on to delineate the winners of a Bush defeat:

But some rather more fearsome people gain too, such as the man who said of Americans in a document discovered earlier this year "…these are the biggest cowards of the lot, and we ask God to allow us to kill, and detain them, so that we can exchange them with our arrested sheikhs and brothers". He is Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and it is probably he who killed Ken Bigley. Such men believe they have already changed the government in Spain; they will claim at once that they have done the same in the United States. They will be right.

So if Bush loses, who else stands to lose:

And who loses? Iraqis about to have real elections of their own for the first time, Afghans who have already voted with more than expected success, Iranians trying to assert their own democracy against its clerical corruptions. And us. What one can see in each twist of the Iraq story - don't send the US Marines into Fallujah, don't send the Black Watch to help the Americans, do give in to Ken Bigley's kidnappers - is exactly what is meant by defeatism, an actual longing to lose. Whatever you think of the war, why would you want that?

Is this a war we can afford to lose by electing John Kerry? If there is one thing Sen. Kerry has not flip-flopped on, it's the way in which he would conduct this war. He will give the UN unprecedented authority to fight our battles; which would spell a sure defeat for America and a sure victory for international terrorism.

Moore concludes his piece:

John Howard, who joined in the war, won again in Australia this month. I think that Tony Blair will do the same. And I suspect, though it is close, that George W Bush will win, too. Like them or not, all three have put themselves on the right side of a battle that has to be won.

A Perfect Match--Clinton and the UN

You knew this was coming! Now it's official.

"WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Former U.S. President Bill Clinton has set his sights on becoming U.N. secretary-general. A Clinton insider and a senior U.N. source have told United Press International the 56-year-old former president would like to be named leader of the world body when Kofi Annan's term ends early in 2006."

Clinton as UN sec/gen while Hillary is in the Whitehouse. The mind farely boggles at the Biblical proportions of this nightmarish scenario.

My Wife Used to Have a "Real" Job

Twenty some odd years ago my wife had a real job. It was with Ma Bell. She was in management and it was a great job with great benefits. When our kids came along we had to decide if she was going to continue working the real job or quit and stay home to take care of the kiddos. It was a big decision, because her real job paid well, had good bennies and it had the blessing of the general public. Staying at home with the kids did not. It was a huge decision for us because I ran a microscopic business and being self-employed, my benefits were non-existant and sometimes my income was as well. As foolish, free thinking, God-fearing, independant simple folk; after much prayer and maybe some counsel, we opted for 'mama' to stay home and rear our kids in the very best way we could. To most folks, this decision didn't make sense.

As it turned out, she ended up home educating our son and daughter before home schooling was anywhere near being acceptable. In fact, she was home schooling our kids before we even knew what 'home schooling' was. But that's a long story for another time.

Through it all, it was never a real job. Her only pay was the satisfaction that our son received a full academic scholership to the University of Texas at Arlington School of Engineering because of her devotion to their educational enrichment. That our daughter received top honors while matriculating at a local junior college and went on to receive a generous transfer academic scholarship to Southern Methodist Universtiy only vindicated our decision for her to quit her real job.

My wife's real job twenty years ago was a good one. We are thankful for it. But my wife's REAL, real job of devoting her life to our kids' education and edification was the one that gave her REAL satisfaction, regardless of the fact it was pro bono, sans a paycheck, provided no health care insurance, had no 401K retirement program or stock purchasing benefits. Furthermore, it was not an acceptable choice among 'mainstream' feminists.

Our payoff over the last twenty some years of her hard labor of love is the product of her dedicated devotion: our wonderful son and daughter who continue to succeed in their educational and life's pursuits.

She loved every minute of not having a real job, and she excelled in it! Our kids are living proof!

Quote of the Day

"If you pull the lever for these folks (the dems), you're asking to be condescended to."

Hugh Hewitt said it on his radio show while commenting on Theresa Heinz Kerry's comments about Laura Bush never having a real job. Librarians, school teachers, and full time moms are not real jobs in the minds of the oligarchic elitists.

She apologized for forgetting that the First Lady was once a teacher and librarian. Yes, those are real jobs. Motherhood is not!

A Vote for Kerry is a Vote for Soros, Rather and Michael Moore

Dennis Prager gives compelling reasons for not voting for John Kerry in his column today: Why I cannot vote for John Kerry:

"4. John Kerry represents the Party of Michael Moore. This America-hating Marxist was given a place of honor at the Democratic Party Convention in Boston, seated next to Jimmy Carter, a former Democratic president who said that Moore's Goebbels-like propaganda film 'Fahrenheit 9/11' was one of his two favorite films.

5. A vote for John Kerry is a vote for Michael Moore, the ACLU, Ted Kennedy, trial lawyers, George Soros, the leftist academics who morally confuse generations of young Americans, and for Dan Rather, CBS News, and nearly the entire news complex that daily presents a proctologist's view of America. A vote for John Kerry is a vote for Jesse Jackson, whom Kerry has named a top adviser; and for Al Sharpton, with whom Kerry campaigns; for Sean Penn and his Hollywood world; and for the passionately pro-Kerry MTV, the greatest destroyer of young people's minds and souls in American history. And a vote for John Kerry is a vote for the countries that have abandoned us and against the countries that are helping us."

You might want to read the entire piece. What I find almost unbelievable is President Carter's behavior in this election cycle. Not that I ever gave him much credibility, but to list propagandist Michael Moore,'s mockumentary as one of his two favorite films? That's just over the top. How embarrassing for him and his family. What are these people thinking? They are supposed to be above the fray...So enlightened...So intellectual. But they are coming off as abject fools. The Apostle Paul wrote in Romans 1:22 an apt description of today's elitists..."Professing to be wise they became fools."

The Problem With Kerry and What's at Stake

Dennis Prager nailed it today on his radio program. That is, the problem of a Kerry presidency. The answer is on our coinage. Three essential things are on most coins that define the greatness of America; E Pluribus Unum, Liberty, and In God We Trust. The leftist philosophy is anti-thetical to all of these American hallmarks, and make no mistake, Kerry is a leftist!

E Pluribus Unum: Out of many, one. Our country's motto which defines us as a nation. People have been welcomed and are being welcomed here from every imaginable nation and socio-economic group. You can be from anywhere and become an American. The left is composed of a multitude of disparate groups. 'Group rights' are more important than individual rights. The PC concept of diversity singles out peoples' differences and never intended that we should be united or embrace a larger 'American' culture. They disdain our 'American' culture. Their preferred motto would be, "Out of one, many."

Liberty: Home of the brave, land of the free. Leftists are afraid of real liberty. They try to stifle it at every turn. The PC movement is one of curbing free speech and imposing their own brand of speech and conduct. There are many places in the US (usually institutions of 'higher learning') where free speech is forbidden. Freedoms delineated in our Constitution are downplayed or denied while imagined 'rights', such as abortion, are deemed sacrosanct and untouchable.

In God We Trust: God was declared dead by the elitists years ago and now the leftists are madly removing every vestige of God and His pesky Ten Commandments from every conceivable public place. They are so offensive, you know! No one needs to be reminded of that 'horrific decalogue', besides, with God being dead and all, they are irrelevant!

President Kerry couldn't, all by himself, do away with our uniquely American trilogy. But he and his leftist constituency would gain much momentum to achieve their socialist goals for America if Sen. Kerry is elected president.

Did I say, 'President Kerry'? We just can't let that happen!

Voting Begins in Texas and Other States...Vote Early and Often!

Without the ballyhoo and madness expected in some states, early voting begins in Texas tomorrow (Monday, October 18, 2004). In the tradition of leftists all across the fruited plain, my conservative, God-fearing family plan to vote early and often in an effort to once and for all remove all socialists from office. We plan to pre-emptively claim fraud in our precinct even tho' there may not be any. Why shouldn't we...That's what they are doing! It's only in keeping with diversity and tolerance and making sure we comply with the behavior of the leftists. Call it 'party parity'! If they are planning to win at all costs, then it stands that we should too. What's good for the goose is good for the other goose, right? We are planning on voting in as many precincts as possible. That's what many on the left are doing...why shouldn't we? And how can they stop us? We are native Americans and we have a right to vote wherever we damn well please, don't we? Who dares to stop us?!

Therein lies the most serious problem! As God-fearing, conservative folk, we are a law-abiding lot. Unfortunately, our opponents are not. That would be DISparity as opposed to PARITY!

And who is it that is going to be monitoring our elections? 6000 attorneys hired by the Kerry campaign, ready to pounce on any questionable action, and an international conservative (NOT) delegation to oversee every chad, pregnant or otherwise. Has there ever been a perfect election? No, and there never will be, but since 2000, thanks to algore and the trial attorneys, we may never have another 'normal' election day in this country. The only 'normal' election without hitches would be one wherein the socialist democrats were rightly elected without a recount. But since they cannot win on their merits, they must stoop to fraud and litigation.

The only other way to avoid litigation is to win whoppingly! A landslide by Bush is the only alternative to massive litigation. That may be possible, but it isn't likely. Only the socialist democrats want to revisit the month of November in 2000.

Woe be unto America!

The Salt of the Earth

For Christians who object to participating in their civic right and duty to vote, consider these comments from Dr. James Dobson in the current edition (October, 2004) of Focus on the Family newsletter:

"Recent studies indicate that half of the Christians in America are not even registered to vote, and of those that are, only half will go to the polls. In terms of numbers, 39 million Christians did not vote in 2002, and 24 million will not be able to vote in 2004 because they aren't registered. What a sad commentary! In our apparent unwillingness to bring our beliefs and values to bear upon the world around us, we run the risk of losing our ability to act as salt and light. I am reminded of Christ's words during the Sermon on the Mount: "Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves..."Mark 9:50a, NIV)."

The goals of most professing Christians is to set a good example to everyone by living a good and decent life, whereby our light shines brightly to those living near and around us. In fact, the metaphor goes, that, like salt, society should actually enjoy having us around because we would, should and do make good neighbors. Who wants to live next door to a murderer or thief or someone who might put the make on your wife and kids? In other words, Christians participate in spreading the gospel by living exemplary lives (although we all fall woefully short of our expectations).

So why would some refuse to vote when such issues as abortion, homosexual marriage, national sovereingty, higher taxes, the removal of every vestige of God in the public square and a multitude of other important issues are at stake? We are a country of laws and we, as citizens of this country have a God-given right and opportunity to participate in determining which laws may or may not be passed.

If you are a Christian and fret about crumbling societal ills and the on-going culture war, you can do something positive about it! You must do something about it! You need to become an active Christian soldier by simply participating in the voting process. Society NEEDS your participation!

The Exploding Elephant in the Living Room

There's an ongoing story being covered at WorldNetDaily that no one else is touching. World Net Daily isn't exactly the Weekly World News so why hasn't this story gotten legs? Here's why: in order for it to be true, it would have had to involve a conspiracy and conspiracies are not an acceptable method of explanation. Conspiracies spell the death nell of credibility, so let's not call it conspiracy. Who wants to be called a whacked out conspiracy buff?

Maybe the term 'cover-up' would be more acceptable. Yeah, let's just call it a 'cover-up' and now go ahead and read the plausible reportage. Then ask yourself why Sandy Berger was stuffing data into his pants and maybe more importantly, why isn't his document theft being prosecuted.

But, whatever you do, don't refer to this story as a conspiracy.

Here Comes the Draft!

The draft is coming! Just like Sen. Kerry has been saying! But it won't be under the Bush administration. Fact is that if Kerry is elected, people will be leaving the military in droves and the draft will HAVE to be reinstitued. As it is now, with President Bush as commander in chief, the military is quite content, thank you, to keep things status quo. Check out the following article. The military loves Bush! However, they're not so crazy about Kerry! As is almost always the case, what the Left accuses others of doing, they are, or will be (in this case) guilty of doing themselves. What a pitiful lot the dems have become!

Poll: GI Families Favor Bush over Kerry
By WILL LESTER
The Associated Press
10/15/2004, 2:06 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP)

When asked whom they would trust as commander in chief, people in military service and their families chose President Bush over Sen. John Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran, by almost a 3-to-1 margin.
Bush, who served in the Texas Air National Guard, was more trusted by 69 percent while 24 percent said they trusted Kerry more, according to the National Annenberg Election Survey released Friday.
Among all Americans, Bush has a narrower advantage on trust to be commander in chief, 50-41.
The military sample was far more likely to be Republican than Democratic, which could help explain the more favorable view of the president. Four in 10, 43 percent, of the military sample said they were Republicans, while 19 percent said Democrats and 27 percent independents.
Those in the military and their families have a more favorable view of Bush than Americans generally, and they take a more optimistic view about Iraq, the economy and the nation's direction.
A majority in the military sample, 64 percent, said the country is on the right track. Among Americans generally, 55 percent said the country is headed in the wrong direction.
The National Annenberg Election Survey found that seven in 10, 69 percent, had a favorable view of Bush. Only three in 10, 29 percent, had a favorable view of Kerry.
The Annenberg poll, which does not report head-to-head preferences, did not ask the military respondents whom they support for president. The report cited a 1948 law that prohibits polling members of the military about their voting intent.
The poll of 655 in the active military and their families was taken Sept. 22-Oct. 5 and has a margin of error plus or minus 2 percentage points."

Today's Must Reads

Today's George Will column brings to attention that the next president will most likely be making some very important judicial appointments. The matter went undiscussed in the debates.

"Wednesday, (the last debate) as in the rest of the campaign, the presidential power to shape the federal judiciary received remarkably little attention. Any president who serves two terms likely will replace half that judiciary; Bush already has replaced one-quarter. But he is about to become the second president (Carter was the first) to serve a full term without filling a Supreme Court vacancy. It has been 10 years since a new justice (Breyer) was confirmed; not since 1812-1823, when the court had only seven members, has it gone that long unchanged. Bush's second term could be dominated by nomination battles: Chief Justice Rehnquist just turned 80 and the average age of the nine justices is 70.

Liberalism, having lost its ability to advance by persuasion, increasingly relies on litigation. In its flight from arenas of representation, liberalism has used the judiciary as its legislature. Hence the exultation of Ron Brown, then Democratic Party chairman, addressing an American Bar Association forum immediately after the 1992 election: 'My friends, I'm here to tell you that the lawyers won.'"

Check out the entire piece.

Here's a good Dennis Prager piece written last month explaining why the left thinks 'legally' and the right thinks 'morally'. If you haven't read this column, you might want to as it compliments the above George Will piece.

Another must read is Krauthammer's piece, Anything to get elected. By now you know that the Kerry/Edwards ticket is in the market for a large circus tent in which to hold their faith healing campaigns. Krauthammer's own paralysis lends to the pathos in this 'shame on you' piece:

"WASHINGTON -- After the second presidential debate, in which John Kerry used the word ``plan' 24 times, I said on television that Kerry has a plan for everything except curing psoriasis. I should have known there is no parodying Kerry's pandering. It turned out days later that the Kerry campaign has a plan -- nay, a promise -- to cure paralysis. What is the plan? Vote for Kerry.
I'm not making this up. I couldn't. This is John Edwards on Monday at a rally in Newton, Iowa: ``If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk, get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.''
In my 25 years in Washington, I have never seen a more loathsome display of demagoguery. Hope is good. False hope is bad. Deliberately raising for personal gain false hope in the catastrophically afflicted is despicable."

And then there is William F. Buckley's piece on Kerry's 'outing' comments about Mary Cheney. What was Kerry's intended purpose? Buckley speculates about the ramifications in his inimitable way:

"This will require magnanimity, savoir faire, and intense concentration. The objective: to opine on whether it was correct for Senator Kerry to make references to Mary Cheney as a lesbian. "

Just read it!

Pre-Emptive Fraud?

A 66 page Democratic Voting Law Guide is suggesting pre-emptive action at the polls by registering complaints before the fact:

"If no signs of intimidation techniques have emerged yet, launch a 'pre-emptive strike' (particularly well-suited to states in which these techniques have been tried in the past," the manual says.

Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie said such language crosses the line by instructing Democrats "to make charges they know to be false and to manipulate the media into printing and repeating the false charges in newspapers around the country."

A close race makes it easier for the dems to cry foul and the legion of attorneys are readying their cases of protestations way before there is even a need. Every objection will be attempted.

As Hugh Hewitt's book, If It's Not Close, They Can't Cheat suggests, these tactics would be ineffectual if the election was something of a landslide.

Bush is a Nuisance

To Kerry, that is. The President gave his best performance tonite, in my opinion. Kerry may have a plan, but no one knows what it is. Bush was and is presidential. Time to get on with the campaign. Look for ever increasing desperation and vitriole on the left. Maybe one or two October surprises from the right. Should be an interesting 3 weeks.

Rules Don't Apply to the Dems

Michelle Malkin's piece, Democrats gone wild! delineates some of the tactics the dems are resorting to in their desperation for power. They are cornered, be careful!

"Liberals promise to do 'whatever it takes' -- 'by any means necessary' -- to win this election. If it were conservatives mouthing those slogans as shattered glass was flying and lawns were smoking, Karl Rove would be under federal investigation. Jimmy Carter would be requesting U.N. assistance. And The New York Times would be calling for a National Day of Reconciliation.

A single act of hate is a danger to the Republic, except when it's fomented by bug-eyed, rock-throwing, lighter-wielding Kerry/Edwards supporters just exercising their 'free speech.'"

Union Thugs....Ya Gotta Love 'Em! NOT!!!

Union thugs are doing what they do best; intimidating, breaking, ransacking and causing considerable damage. This time to local Bush-Cheney campaign headquarters in Orlando, FL. No big deal. It would only be a big deal if the dems' HQ was targeted. Ho hum!

We may be about to experience an election unlike any we've seen in a while. The Florida recount in 2000 raised passions and blood pressure and featured some demonstrations on both sides, but there was no violence. This year, lots of groups are jostling with each other to monitor the elections in battleground states. For its part, the AFL-CIO has promised to dispatch thousands of election monitors to battleground states to watch for any hint of trouble at polling places. From the initial reports, they may be the ones for have to be watched as potential troublemakers."

Last week, in Orlando, Fla., approximately 60 union protestors stormed and ransacked the local Bush-Cheney headquarters causing considerable damage and injuring one campaign staffer, who suffered a broken wrist.

Maybe I'm prejudiced. I grew up fully aware of the mafioso tactics (my heartfelt apologies to the mafia) of the union thugs in Washington State. My dad was a large contractor who continually battled the fascist unions. He was never intimidated by their threatening mein. Dad was John Wayne and the union thugs were Liberty Valance. Losers!

Labels? We Don't Need No Stinking Labels!!!

John don't call me a liberal Kerry, recoiled like a vampire seeing a cross when Pres. Bush called him the "L" word in the debate Friday night. How dare he!

"During the Presidential debate last Friday evening in St. Louis, Senator Kerry, after being referred to as a Liberal several times by President Bush, strongly asserted that he doesn't like labels. Now, of course, this is somewhat disingenuous inasmuch as Mr. Kerry and his minions have been labeling our President as a liar, a warmonger, a draft dodger, a deserter, and a semi-functional illiterate for about fifteen months. As such, it's not that the Junior Senator from Massachusetts doesn't like labels. He just doesn't like them being applied to him."

What is it with libs that they can't handle the moniker? Conservatives don't have a problem with the "C" word. We really don't even mind being maligned as "right wingers." We quite proudly claim to be members of the "vast right wing conspiracy." So what gives with the libs? What are they ashamed of or embarrassed about?

Surely they're not trying to misrepresent what they are all about...are they?

Happy Columbus Day

The Columbus Navigation Homepage is a good starting point if you wish to know more about the man, the day and its history. In the Northeast it was a big holiday the last time I was in Cape Cod (21 years ago today). I hope it still is.

The most pertinent piece about this day is Joseph Farah's piece: Columbus Day; more relevant than ever. Check it out!

My daughter's university (Southern Methodist) is off today, but they can't see fit to call the day what it is...it would offend some, and heaven forbid if ever anyone is offended. To SMU and other PC institutions, it's just a 'fall holiday'. How quaint!

On the other hand, my son's university, the University of Texas at Arlington isn't taking the day off to celebrate the day regardless of who may be offended for not celebrating it.

There are other sites online that eschew this day and wish to transform it because they see Columbus and what came of his little discovery as antithetical to everything right and good. I'm not going to link them to both of my loyal readers; you will just have to google them on your own.

This Really IS Rich!!!!!

This is a must read! It's time to evict the U.N.

Quote of the Day

"The threat is great, the battle is hard, therefore we should do nothing. We might lose!

From Raymond S. Kraft's piece, The Death of Liberalism.

Anyone Surprised?

The Old Media isn't really even trying to hide the fact they are supporting the Kerry-Edwards ticket. Check out this New York Post piece.

Kerry supporter, George Soros is working with UN organizations to ban personal ownership of firearms. Why is it these people are so fearful of law abiding, sovereign citizens packing heat?

America's mainstream churches are facing problems of shrinking attendance. See John Leo's piece, When Churches Head Left. Hmmm, how 'bout that! Sort of like what's happening in the democrat party, the Old Media, the UN and every other instution which succumbs to leftist thinking. Wonder when people will start to 'get it'?

The sordid truth about the UN Oil for Food program reveals that France, Russia and China had the biggest stake in the corruption.

Between them, France and Russia received 45 per cent of the vouchers, with China coming third. In late 2002 and early 2003, France, Russia and China led the anti-war movement at the UN. In France, the vouchers were given to a number of politicians with close links to Mr Chirac, while in Russia they were paid directly to Mr Putin's private office, providing him with his own ready-made slush fund.

The Bully Syndrome

Every school I ever went to had a bully or a handful of bullies. That was in the '60's and I suppose they would be called gang members today. Who knows! Whatever the nomenclature, their methodology is the same. What has changed is how society deals with them.

Used to be that a bully could be stopped in his tracks whenever a would-be victim decided he wasn't about to be 'bullied' by some lowlife intimidating thug-in-training. Almost always, when confronted with a sharp blow to the nose, the once determined bully ran off crying never to be feared again.

Not so, today. In this climate of zero tolerance in gov't indoctrination centers, er, schools, bullies still participate in their stealth intimidation tactics. How, you might ask? Well, they are thugs-in-training, and, as such, don't abide by the rules. They do what they do under the radar screen. It is only when someone decides he isn't going to take it any longer, stands up to the bully and punches his lights out that all administrative hell breaks loose. Only then do the egalitarian zero tolerance rule mongers outrageously come forward in righteous indignation, aghast of the violence perpetrated by the victim of repeated harassment. So, because of moronic, politically correct, zero tolerance rules, the defender is punished as severely, if not moreso, than the bully who was in fact the real problem all along. Common sense is tossed out the window because, 'zero' tolerance (of, in this case, violence) means both sides are treated 'equally'.

What I call the 'bully syndrome' isn't just something that occurs in politically correct gov't schools...You see it in many different walks of life.

Take politics, for example. (Since I have no pretense of political correctness, I don't have to cite instances wherein both parties are equally guilty. I'm not fair and balanced like Fox News. I'm as biased as Dan Rather and his wagon circling buddies in the once mainstream media. I admit to my biases whereas they do not.) The dems, as even most casual observers of politicos, pundits and the media rightly observe, are out and out dirty fighters...Much like bullies. Rules? What rules? They only apply to the republicans. The dems will do whatever it takes to win...The end justifies the means, regardless of rules. But when the republicans begin to show aggressive behavior and actually fight back, then desperate screams of protest from the left cry 'fowl' and 'unfair' and 'vicious' and 'mean spirited'. Much like the stereotypical badguys in the World Federation of Wrestling who get away with 'murder' behind the oblivious referee's back. When the 'good guy' makes a legitimate move, the bad guy cries fowl and protests, achingly and theatrically to the inept ref (editorial note: the above wrestling metaphor is not made from first hand knowledge of the wrestling business...rather, from 2nd and 3rd hand anecdotal accounts;>).

The Bully Syndrome is alive and well in Iraq, Israel, the UN and wherever else there is good versus evil. Therein lies the problem in this ever increasing secular world; good versus evil. The secular world does not and, in fact, cannot differentiate between good and evil. To do so would mean that God does, in fact, exist as does evil. That is not acceptable in today's secular world. It is 'offensive and hurtful' to claim that one's actions may be evil or that one religion is right and another one is wrong or that one lifestyle is wrong while another is right. Not only is it 'hurtful', it is considered a hate crime in Canada and many other 'enlightened' secular nations to be 'judgmental' of any behavior different from your own. Therefore, traditional standards have become marginalized and all beliefs and lifestyles are now acceptable (Christians and Jews excepted). Egalitarianism reigns supreme.

The bully now has special rights. His behavior is not only acceptable, it is preferred; and if you wish to confront him or stop his reign of terror, it is YOU who will be vilified as being intolerant, bigoted, biased, racist, homophobic and basically a hateful individual. You see, diversity isn't really all inclusive. It's only inclusive of those who are in step with the acceptable politically correct agenda. Political correctness, and its bastard child, diversity were conceived to 'level the playing field' and make life fair and just for all (supposedly). Quite the opposite is true! Political correctness, just like the bully in the school yard, is abusive, intimidating, intolerant and dictatorial in its demands. It abhors free speech as well as free thought and strives to oppose those freedoms at every turn.

How do you fight this insidious trend? Treat it like the bully. Confront it. Oppose it. Expose its hypocrisies and mock it whenever possible. The PC crowd loses when the light of truth exposes its duplicity. There needs to be more light!

Back in The Saddle

After spending a physically and spiritually rejuvenating week in the gorgeous Hill Country of Texas between Kerrville and Fredricksburg celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles (without the aid of a laptop or internet connection or decent cable news), I am back home, rested and eager to get on with life with higher ideals and greater aspirations. Maybe those goals will be reflected in this venue.

It's great to get away for a week or so, but coming home is always special!