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 ...

Glenn Reynolds finds them, and pulls out the gems. I link to them, and add my comments. I must call attention to one thing here though. DW came to me this morning and said the UN inspectors looking for WMD in Iraq have concluded that Iraq had none. To which my response was "That's not the point of the war." And now I find out the rest of the story: "Although they found no evidence that Saddam had made any WMD since 1992, they found documents which showed the "guiding theme" of his regim...

I draw your attention to the following articles ( part 1 and part 2 ). Written by one of the many people who are more eloquent that I, they cut to heart of why I still support President Bush and will be voting for him on 2 November. September 11th, 2001. The second of two days where I can remember where I was when I heard the news (the first was the Challenger disaster). What I particularly remember is standing in the doorway between the tech bay and the imaging room in my place of em...

This is a quick note jotted off in haste - I'll be updating it later. But the link goees to a story about a NJ teacher who is in hot water for posting a picture of President GW Bush in a display of other presidents. More to follow when I have time

Was it legal for the presenter to give it to him? Was it legal for him to accept? And does he still have it, transporting it in violation of several federal laws? Mind you, I'm not a big supporter of the laws in question - as the commentor on the site says, these laws have dubious relationships with the 2nd Amendment. But still... how is a senator any different from me if my father decides to give me a shotgun of his, when we reside in different states? Edit: Apparently there is an except...

This Drudge Report makes an interesting snark about the gun-toting image that Senator Kerry is trying to project. For those of you who are wary of Drudge's accuracy, the facts he is basing this on are easily checkec (and perhaps why Senator Kerry is not running on his record?) UPDATE: Instapundit has this to say on the subject

We now have an example of criminals using alternate means to commit violence in what should be a violence-free paradise now that guns are extremely difficult to get ahold of. And, no doubt, we'll hear that no-one "needs" to have a crossbow; and they can be banned "to protect the people" or other such nonsense. Feh.Updated to correct spelling

I've been somewhat busy these last couple of weeks. I started a new job the second week of July. I'm working as phone-based technical support for a major CDMA cellular carrier. I'm supporting the carrier's data products as a second/third level support tech. Basically, if you are using data services over the CDMA system (or CDPD; an analog data system), and the first level technicians can't solve your problem with the resources they have, they escalate to us. I generally dela with around 15 ca...

This post , on a blog I follow just so I don't have a one-sided view of the world, disturbs me. From the first line we have cognitive dissonance: "I've written and re-written a post about Fahrenheit 9/11, and I just have to admit that I'm irreconcilably ambivalent and can't resolve the issue it presents. Moore is dishonest and grossly manipulative, but I applauded anyway, because, simply, he hates Bush and so do I." Now, I have no idea who Unfogged is; what his or her persona...

This article from Slate is very interesting. "As you may already know, one of America's two political parties is extremely religious. Sixty-one percent of this party's voters say they pray daily or more often. An astounding 92 percent of them believe in life after death. And there's a hard-core subgroup in this party of super-religious Christian zealots. Very conservative on gay marriage, half of the members of this subgroup believe Bush uses too little religious rhetoric, and 51...

Who is taking sides?Well, other than me

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...)