Has anyone else found it interesting, that recent votes, universal healtcare for instance, that the push was for the "children", yet these same folks refuse to enact legislation to actually protect the children - anti-preditor laws, Jessica Laws, etc.? And to add insult to injury, they stand for eliminating chidren at the start with pro-abortion talk. Nice to know that they have such specific "feelings" for the children.

There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V

The price of oil topping over $90 a barrel has proved one thing: What the oil companies said back in 2004 and 2005, about how oil reaching $70 a barrel was the reason that gas was over $3 a gallon, was total BS. They are now finally having to admit that it was speculation driving oil and gasoline prices all along, and that supply and demand issues were not.

in our family - we started that summer of 2006. I live in a small city and fairly near the downtown areas - I walk when I can - it's good exercise for me, fun for the kiddos, and saves the gasoline for use later.  If my husband can pick up something for us on the way home from work, he will.

We've gone from over $200.00 a month for family gas usage to $50.00 a month.

Forget Iran... I'm wondering when the ever inquisitive MSM is going to get around to addressing the new 800lb gorilla in the room - what were the Syrians up to? The Iranians have been far more blatant in their nuclear program, and far more threatening to Israel, yet Israel talks a lot about attacking... does a lot of sabre rattling, but that's it. Then out of the blue, the Israelis go winging into Syria and level a site that no one really knew existed until then. The question that has to be asked is what could the Syrians have been doing at that site that was deemed to be so grave a danger to the Israelis that they attacked it?

The current conventional wisdom in the media is that the North Koreans had supplied some reactor technology and that the Syrians were trying to build a reactor. Does anyone else read that as total BS? Everything remotely connected to North Korean nuclear technology gets tracked by a wide array of intelligence organs, so how is it they could support the building of a reactor without anyone noticing? Also, the Iranians are much further along with their reactor, and the Israelis haven't attacked them.

I'm thinking the attack had nothing to do with a North Korean reactor, and everything to do with all the WMD technology, weapons, and equipment that Iraq had before we invaded and didn't have after. There have been plenty of reports that these weapons were shipped to Syria, and I think it's a safe bet they were being worked on at that site.

Wait, it’s not so bad. And her argument is worth a thought, even if we disagree with her (which I do). Plame has been writing pieces for the Huffington Post, and she had one the other day about the CIA. Her argument is that the CIA and other intelligence agencies have become politicized.

• Stifle your laughter – yes, we all know that Plame herself is a prominent Democrat partisan, and was before her outing, and if anyone was politicizing the CIA, it was the career liberals who infest the place. But let’s postpone that for the sake of argument.

Plame suggests that we remove intelligence agencies from executive control, and allow them to operate as independent units, like the Federal Reserve – all of the authority, but none of the politics. Like any proposal, it has pros and cons.

• The good side, of course, is that partisan administrations couldn’t exploit the CIA or FBI for their private use. The Clintons wouldn’t be able to dredge up tax returns, etc.
• The bad side, of course, is that although politics means pressure, it’s also how a democracy executes its final authority. Even the Supreme Court, with all its independence and authority, still works under the political process of nomination and confirmation. The Supreme Court is certainly more important than the CIA, and if the Court can live within the political process, the CIA can as well.  

The intelligence community is a bureaucracy. Bureaucracies behave in predictable ways. For instance, bureaucrats are people who make careers in their field. Most of the time, they are experts, and we should listen to them. After all, that’s why we have them – we want a resource of experts, and that’s why we set up agencies in the first place. But that expertise also works against them. Bureaucrats see the world through their expertise, and that tends to sharpen their vision by making it narrower. They lose the big picture. And soon, you wind up seeing only what your training has taught you to look for. You become vulnerable to what you don’t expect (remember 9/11).

Now, here’s the point to worry about. I doubt Plame is alone. I’m certain that there are plenty of CIA staffers who feel exactly the same way she does. And let’s face it, the major problems of the Bush administration have come because of a huge disconnect between the administration and its own bureaucracies. Think of Katrina and FEMA. Think of 9/11 and the intelligence failures. Notice that the big management success is the recent surge in Iraq, because for the first time, the administration is finally coordinating the State department with the Pentagon into a unified effort.

Plame wants to unhook the bureaucracies from political administration – but that disconnect has been the problem all along. Look for this to come up again.

Did you guys see this?:

http://www.eveningsun.com/ci_7277523?source=most_viewed

It is a father suing Fred Phelps and his church for their actions at his sons funeral following a duty in Irag.  Fred has the ability, through free-speech, to say what he wants, but the father also has the freedom to sue the no good son of b*&ch for emotional distress.  I love it.  I have seen him (Phelps) in Topeka, Wichita and Kansas City making an ass out of himself, and even sadder the kids in his 'church' spew his hatred.  Great example to follow....<sarc> 

WND- Libs believe in burning the flag and urinating on crucifixes: Touch a Quran at Guantanamo and...?

...Ahmadinejad was cheered by college students a few weeks ago – at least until he expressed eservations about sodomy. (On the basis of Ahmadinejad's claims, instead of looking for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, how about we start looking for gays in Iran?)

Conservative speakers are constantly being physically attacked on college campuses – including Bill Kristol, Pat Buchanan, David Horowitz and me, among others. Fortunately, the attackers are Democrats, so they throw like girls and generally end up with their noses bloodied by pretty college coeds. But that doesn't make it right. ...

Remember those jumping for joy in Texas upon the decision in favor of the terrorists, the blog today which highlights libs who condemn Blackwater, or the congress people defining our military as guilty before going to trial?

Think again what the crosses and flags represent.

How many soldiers were wearing crosses when killed? How many were near our flag?

JDW

Sen Clinton: Founder of Media Matters

Here's a little history lesson for today. There was an article in our local paper on the 100th Infantry Division. I am sort of a military history buff but had never heard of them. They call themselves "Sons of Bitche" from the campaign they found around Bitche, France.

I know alot about the current active divsions history and some that have been disbanded like the 30th "Old Hickory." My grandfather fought with them in France. The 100th ID is interesting.

Here's a link to those "Sons of Bitche." It wouldn't be PC to call an Army division something like that today. If it was I'd call my old bunch, 2/7th Cav 1st CAV (Garry Owen), Ass Kicking Bastards.

You hear a lot about what the 101st Airborne (The Puking Buzzards) did at Bastonge but nothing about the 100th. What those Sons of Bitche did was just as important as to what the rest of the division did.

Southern by birth, Tarheel by the grace of God!

Do you think we're heading to war with Iran?

Yes!

And the only way to stop this imminent war that would be supported by the leftist demedia is for Columbia University President Lee Bollinger to grow some fuzz on the old kiwi's and lead Code Pinko to the Iranian embassy in DC.

Once there, Bollinger's deranged mob can then take the Iranian Embassy workers hostage and hold them until Iran elects a new President that is not a socialist religious bigot with a 7th century mentality.

Hey, it worked with Carter.

Speaking of Iran, did anyone see the digital short on the season premier of SNL that had Ahmadinejad in it?

http://youtube.com/w...

More than 60 pro-life leaders from across the country called on Congress Thursday to suspend over $300 million in annual taxpayer funding to the nation's biggest abortion provider while one of its local affiliates faces 107 criminal counts in Kansas.

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:-)

But this is a great video....kid friendly if you're so inclined.  Betcha can't watch it just once!

Snowball....the dancing parrot.

I laughed so hard when I saw this, and have probably played it twenty times at least!

Enjoy. 

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive