I'm going to list some of the reasons I am not only going to vote against Kerry (despite my numerous problems with President Bush's policies), but encourage as many people as possible to vote against him. I'm relying on the words of those who are much better writers that I. "That isn't enough. Based on everything I know about him now, I cannot in good conscience consider voting for him. I would rather vote for a candidate with known policies with which I disagree than for a candidate wh...

I'm not happy about President Bush, but unless something changes with the Kerry campaign, I'll be voting for him this Fall. Glenn Reynolds managed to touch some of the reason why. He's the Anti-Bush. But that's not a policy statement. He can't do everything that Bush didn't do, and the policies that I know he wants to undo, I don't want undone. (Tax cuts, and "internationalization" of the Iraq effort. The UN is being proven again and again as a corrupt, inept, club for dictators; an...

Seymour Hersh is the man who brough the prisoner abuse scandal to the front pages of most major newspapers, and the TVs of America. He is the prime mover for the scandal. But who is he? Check the linked post for more info. (I hope my readers have figured out some of my views by now...)

As should be obvious by perusing my archives, I would rather have President Bush win in November than Senator Kerry (or Nader, for that matter). So I am immensly cheered whenever Senator Kerry makes a verbal misstep or otherwise stumbles in public (witness his recent dissembling about the ownership of the family SUV in Montana, the kerfuffle surrounding his Vietnam service etc). However, on the other hand, President Bush doesn't seem to be doing all that well himself. Admittedly, I'm spend...

I don't have much to add to this.

I'm on a linking frenzy today. I have an uncontrollable urge to say "heh". Seriously folks - I'm beginning to think that we are seeing the opening of the Bush Rope Store - 6 foot lengths, easy financing, oak tree thrown in free. And the Dem's are queuing up.

What I want to know, is why this administration DID NOTHING when I lost my job ... in 1999!

I have a lapel button that someone bought me as a gift a while back that says, "If guns are outlawed, can we use swords?" Apparently, in Australia, that option too is being shut down. I can hear people say "Oh, but it's a sword, what purpose does it have for someone to own?" Well, my wife owns one sword right now, and wants to get a second, and the reason she wants them is as works of art. I own a couple myself, for the same reason. But banning legal ownership swords because a few people hav...

It sounds out there - the Saudis are raising oil prices and pulling out of the US currency markets to torpedo President Bush's re-election chances. But this is the kind of "conspiracy" theory that works. It isn't complex, it doesn't have a single point of failure, and doesn't require people to act out of character. I've been wondering why gasoline prices have been slowly drifting up over the past year, even though the Iraqi oil production has been rising. As far as I know, Venezuela (the ...

I'm reading through my blogs, as I do of a morning before going to work, and I see on Citizen Smash's blog a link to a Reuters' story about the failing health and possible demise of Yasser Arafat - at various times Palestinian head of Government, strongman, and terrorist; in parallel and in series. And I think to myself, "this is at least as much the end of an era as the fall of the Berlin Wall". I venture that there is nobody in Palestine who can take up the mantle of Yasser...

I plan on expanding on this later, but I just watched Kerry's consession speech, and I realized that whatever else he may be, this man deserves my respect. Possibly in another time, with another world situation, he might even deserve my vote. But he managed to be graceful in defeat; which in politics is important.

It didn't occur to me when I was there, but I was ID checked at the polls (sort of); I had to sing the register. This obviously doesn't prevent people from regsitering multiple times, but it does reduce the chance of someone voting in my name

Just got back from my polling place - it had only one machine when in previous years it had 2... and turnout was up. Go Vote!

Christopher Hitchens provides yet more proof of the potential WMD threat in Iraq. Subtitle (Saddam Hussein didn't have nuclear weapons - yet)

Bush used the potential of Iraqi WMDs to invade Iraq so that we would have Iran (a country that there is not question anymore about being inimical to the USA and attempting to acquire WMD) caught in a two-front vise. So that we would have battle-hardened troops on the border of Iran. He took advantage of Saddam's intransigence. This compares to the undeclared war FDR had going in the North Atlantic between the US Navy and the Nazi Kriegsmarine. FDR had to drag the US kicking and screaming ...