Fuel Prices Will Still Rise - Wanna Bet?

Bush releases oil from petroleum reserve

AUG. 31 3:25 P.M. ET The Bush administration agreed Wednesday to release oil from emergency stockpiles to help Gulf Coast refiners hobbled by a loss of shipments due to Hurricane Katrina. The administration also moved to temporarily ease some pollution standards on gasoline and diesel fuel to avert shortages.

Coulter Dumped

WorldNetDaily: Ann Coulter gets dumped
Although not a real fan I do find it interesting when a conservative columnist is dumped based on their opinions or style yet liberal columnist are free to spew any gibberish unless they are caught in a 'BIG' lie -- then some still are not dumped.

In a column announcing a wide range of changes in the paper's opinion pages yesterday, Editor and Publisher David Stoeffler revealed that the paper was making the change.
'Many readers find her shrill, bombastic, and mean-spirited,' the new executive at the paper wrote. 'And those are the words used by readers who identified themselves as conservatives.'

Blogger Commentary - La Shawn Barber

A nation of outlaws - The Washington Times
LaShawn Barber had a good piece in the Washington Times Sunday -- well worth the read.

In return for our allegiance to the United States, we certainly don't get the protection we're entitled to. Illegal immigration costs American taxpayers billions of dollars every year. In California alone the cost is $10.5 billion annually. The price for the rest of the country, especially border states, is staggeringly incomprehensible. Illegal immigration is also a public safety risk because aliens undergo no medical screening before entering. As a result, diseases once eradicated or virtually eradicated have resurged. Where is the so-called protection we're entitled to?

Sheenhan Meets Sheen

Well "whoopee do", Cindy meets Martin -- Martin Sheen you know another 'actor' that thinks he knows more then you or I... Well she did meet someone that 'portrays' a President and believes himself more important -- by the way, wasn't Martin Sheen suppose leave the country?
FOXNews.com - Martin Sheen Visits 'Camp Casey'

CRAWFORD, Texas -Cindy Sheehan hasn't achieved a meeting with the president during her three-week war protest, but she met a man who plays one on TV.
Martin Sheen, who portrays the president on NBC's 'The West Wing,' visited Sheehan's makeshift campsite Sunday.
'At least you've got the acting president of the United States,' Sheen said as the crowd of more than 300 people cheered. 'I think you know what I do for a living, but this is what I do to stay alive.'
Sheehan arrived in President Bush's adopted hometown Aug. 6 and promised to stay until she could question Bush about the war that has claimed more than 1,870 U.S. soldiers' lives - including her son Casey. Bush's vacation ends Friday.
She was among a group of grieving families who met President Bush about two months after her son died last year, before she became a vocal opponent of the war. Bush has said she has the right to protest and he sympathizes with her, but his aides have said there are no plans to change his schedule to meet with her again.

Alternate Charity Idea

Samaritan's Purse is one charity organization that you might considering donating to if you are so inclined.

Remembering Those in New Orleans!

Katrina Rips Gulf Coast With Wind, Floods

NEW ORLEANS - Hurricane Katrina plowed into the Gulf Coast at daybreak Monday with shrieking, 145-mph winds and blinding rain, submerging entire neighborhoods up to the rooflines in New Orleans, hurling boats onto land and sending water pouring into Mississippi's strip of beachfront casinos.

We need to remember the residents effected by this storm... If possible please make a donation -- although I have stated I do not support the Red Cross (dating back twenty years) all that matters is that what you donate gets to those that need it and used for the intended purpose...

A Picture of Political Correctness

(via Dissecting Leftism}

The Lengths They Go - Astonishing

Girl's story of dad was a hoax, paper says
Just despicable!

CARBONDALE, Ill. - For two years, Carbondale residents have been riveted by the writing of a little girl imploring her father in Iraq: 'Don't die, OK?'
Only now are they learning there was never any danger of that.
The Daily Egyptian, Southern Illinois University's student-run newspaper, today will admit to its readers that the saga - of a little girl's published letters to her father serving in Iraq - was apparently an elaborate hoax perpetrated by a woman who claimed to be the girl's aunt.
In fact, the newspaper will report today, the man identified as the girl's father was never in Iraq, and it was the woman who apparently wrote the letters and regular columns that were published under the little girl's name - and even impersonated the girl in telephone interviews.

(Hat tip Michelle Malkin)

Nimrods Protest War

Anti-War Protests Target Wounded at Army Hospital
Now the "anti-war" movement has escalated from protested using the dead to using the wounded. Like I have said before -- the protest and protesters are the only similarity between Iraq and Vietnam. Take a look at these wonderful examples of humanity in this video. My only question -- where will these nimrods go when Walter Read closes?

Washington (CNSNews.com) - The Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., the current home of hundreds of wounded veterans from the war in Iraq, has been the target of weekly anti-war demonstrations since March. The protesters hold signs that read 'Maimed for Lies' and 'Enlist here and die for Halliburton.'

The anti-war demonstrators, who obtain their protest permits from the Washington, D.C., police department, position themselves directly in front of the main entrance to the Army Medical Center, which is located in northwest D.C., about five miles from the White House.

Whoops -- The Little Show may Have Backfired

After weeks of being used by anti-war activist Cindy has guest as Bush supporters rally in Crawford. This little show maybe backfiring on the "anti" crowd, but all I can say is both sides of this demonstration have more time then I do.

CRAWFORD - President Bush's supporters poured into Crawford Saturday by the thousands, for the first time outnumbering war protesters led by Cindy Sheehan, who began a vigil here three weeks ago, demanding a personal meeting with the vacationing president to talk about her son's death in Iraq.

Scenes From Crawford

Cindy is not the only voice in Crawford, Texas -- Take a Look!

Walter Reed -- Done?

Still busy with the new job -- at least till next week when I intend to start some regular posting. I had to post something about Walter Reed Medical Center Closing -- I mean where are the advocates of preserving history? How important has Walter Reed been in medical history? Nope if only for the shear "history factor" this is a bad decision, IMO.

WASHINGTON - Siding with the Pentagon, the base-closing commission voted Thursday to shut down the Army's historic Walter Reed hospital and move about 20,000 defense workers miles away from their offices just outside the nation's capital.

Lite Blogging

I will not be blogging regularly for awhile. I was offered and have begun a new job requiring me to concentrate many hours daily for awhile. When I get my legs under me on this new endeavor I will begin regular blogging again... Thanks for your patients.

Do Chemicals Count as WMD(s)?

Since an Iraqi chemical stash was uncovered, I have a few questions. Do chemicals count as WMD(s)? When did these make it into Iraq? Were these chemicals there before our invasion, and if yes and chemicals do count as WMD(s), does this mean WMD(s) did indeed exist? If they did exist does this revelation and the "Able Danger" revelation render the 9/11 Commission a large waste of time? Sure there is some facetiousness there but it is food for thought.

BAGHDAD, Aug. 13 -- U.S. troops raiding a warehouse in the northern city of Mosul uncovered a suspected chemical weapons factory containing 1,500 gallons of chemicals believed destined for attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces and civilians, military officials said Saturday.
Monday's early morning raid found 11 precursor agents, 'some of them quite dangerous by themselves,' a military spokesman, Lt. Col. Steven A. Boylan, said in Baghdad.

Social Security 70 Today

Happy 70th Birthday, Social Security
Being as today is the seventieth year for social security maybe we can renew the quest to fix it... Notice the upper right corner of this website and the "Nodometer"...

Seventy years ago today, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the law that created the Social Security system, but this year's great debate over the program's future has all but left behind President Bush's goal of maintaining the system's solvency through the baby boom's retirement.

and The Games Continue

U.S.-S.Korea war games prelude to war: N.Korea army
Like the old "marching cadence" we used to sing -- "here we go again same old ....... again". Half a century and still playing.

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's military said on Saturday war games by South Korea and United States were a prelude to a U.S. military attack and a tactic to compel it to accept U.S. terms in six-party talks on its nuclear program.

Not Cool!

Ex-Klansman out on bond in civil rights case
This is not cool - the man was found guilty and just as I would say with any other "guilty" individual, he should be in prison until the appeal. Age gives him no special privileges.

Mississippi Judge Marcus Gordon granted Killen's release on $600,000 bond. A Neshoba County Sheriff's official said Killen was released after relatives and friends posted the bond.

New York Times Finally Reports!

On the Air America scandal... I am shocked.
Bronx Boys Club's Finances Investigated - New York Times

Heads Rolling at Air America

With more heads rolling at Air America, I guess we are supposed to still believe -- "there was nothing to the scandal", RIGHT!

Sources told the New York Post that acting executive director Lorraine Corva will be leaving her job Aug. 26, and that assistant executive director Jeff Aulenback also quit, effective immediately.

Previous post - here, here, here, and here.

Able Danger - Update

Well now, Thursday, August 11, 2005; 1:01 PM, the Washington Post has a story about this. The "Post" is reporting on the discrepancy of a Tuesday statement that 9/11 Commission didn't know but now on Thursday they did know... Like I said earlier this will be interesting.

Also, about 11:45am I heard a radio report on this story; however, it was a Fox Radio feed. Can it be ignored any longer? What did Sandy Berger remove?

Now shortly after the Washington Post story was release we have a USA Today releasing one... Amazing how that works!

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Sept. 11 commission knew military intelligence officials had identified lead hijacker Mohamed Atta as a member of al-Qaeda who might be part of U.S.-based terror cell more than a year before the terror attacks but decided not to include that in its final report, a spokesman acknowledged Thursday.
[...]
a classified military intelligence unit called "Able Danger" identified Atta and three other hijackers in 1999 as potential members of a terrorist cell in Brooklyn, N.Y. Weldon said Pentagon lawyers rejected the unit's recommendation that the information be turned over to the FBI in 2000.

Hmm, identified in 1999 and rejected the recommendation to turn information over to FBI in 2000 -- who was in charge then? Why was this over looked during the 9/11 commission? What did Sandy Berger remove?