By now, about everyone has heard about the story of Cindy Sheehan, who lost her son, Casey, in Iraq in April 2004, and her vigil in front of the President's ranch in Crawford, TX, asking for (another) meeting with the President, even thought she had a meetin with him and gave high praise to him. But now there is a change in her tune. The liberal media is lapping his up like Winne the Pooh eating honey.

She claims the the President lied to the American public over the reasons for going in and liberating Iraq. The only lie that I see is the stuff coming out from the left (cooking up the intel, forcing analysts to makeup stuff, etc.).

The most disgusting thing about this is that she is using (or abusing, depending on your views) her son's memory for political gain. Even her own family has come out adgainst her vigil. (http://www.drudgereport.com/flashcs.htm" title="http://www.drudgereport.com/flashcs.htm" target="_blank"http://www.drudgereport.com/f...)

While I feel for her loss, and I don't blame her for being upset about her son's death, it is disingenuious to Casey's memory to use it to attack the President. (Casey willingly reenlisted to stay in Iraq.)

After a while, the media will go after another anti-Bush story and Cindy will all but be forgotten.

You can find them here: http://web.wxyz.com/vote2005/primaryresul ts-detroitmayor.html" title="http://web.wxyz.com/vote2005/primaryresul ts-detroitmayor.html" target="_blank"http://web.wxyz.com/vote2005/... (WXYZ.com)

Challenger Freman Hendrix and incumbent Kwame Kilpatrick move on to the November ballot. Sharon McPhail's running mate, Benny Napoleon, has reportedly thrown his support behind Hendrix. Mayor Kilpatrick has to focus on the issues and bring attention to the accomplishes that he has done to the city of Detriot, while Hendrix has to hammer Kilpatrick on the controversies of his administration, but also give his solutions to the problems of Detroit. But, Kilpatrick is not alone in controversies: Hendrix appears to have some baggage of his own: http://wxyz.com/wxyz/ys_investigation s/article/0" title="http://wxyz.com/wxyz/ys_investigation s/article/0" target="_blank"http://wxyz.com/wxyz/ys_inves...,2132,WXYZ_15949_3974977, 00.html (WXYZ.com)

His may take some of the light off of Kilpatrick's scrutiny, but it also may not. We will just have to see.

On this day on August 1st, 1989, my younger brother was born three years after me. He is 16 years old and has no intrest in politics whatsoever.

Just thought I put that out there.

Via: Blogs4Bush (http://www.blogsforbush.com/mt/archives/004988.html" title="http://www.blogsforbush.com/mt/archives/004988.html" target="_blank"http://www.blogsforbush.com/m...), FOXNews (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0" title="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0" target="_blank"http://www.foxnews.com/story/...,2933,164357,00.html)

From FOXNews: "This post is too important to leave vacant any longer, especially during a war and a vital debate about U.N. reform. So today I've used my constitutional authority to appoint John Bolton to serve as America's ambassador to the United Nations," Bush said.

The liberals are in a foaming rage over this constitutional solution to an unconstitutional problem (filibusters). For months, the post of US ambassador to the UN has been left vacant, with the liberals preventing an up-or-down vote on President Bush's nomination to the UN. While the liberals want more documents about John Bolton's work as the Undersecretary of State, what they really want is to oppose everything Bush does while he remains in the White House for the next 4 years or so.

Americans are getting fed up with the obstruction that is taking place in both Houses of Congress. Bush did the right thing to use his constitutional powers to send Bolton to the UN to help straighten out the crooks and liars there.

Everyone in the nation (or just about everyone) knows about Detroit and, depending on your views, see it as a nice place to visit or live in or a festering Hellhole of crime and poverty. Your views depend on how you enjoyed your visit or the news reports you see/read/hear about, which leads me to the point of this post.

The August 2 primary is closing, and the current Mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, is lagging in the polls due to multiple scandals in the cash-stripped city, some of which he has leased a luxary SUV for about $25,000, which was meant for his wife and paid for a trip to the Bahamas using the city's credit card.

Here you will find the candidates and their positions (via Detroit Free Press):

Sharon McPhail: http://www.freep.com/news/politics/mcphail -bar122e_20050722.htm" title="http://www.freep.com/news/politics/mcphail -bar122e_20050722.htm" target="_blank"http://www.freep.com/news/pol...

Freman Hendrix: http://www.freep.com/news/politics/hendrix -bar121e_20050721.htm" title="http://www.freep.com/news/politics/hendrix -bar121e_20050721.htm" target="_blank"http://www.freep.com/news/pol...

Hansen Clarke: http://www.freep.com/news/politics/clarke- issues20e_20050720.htm" title="http://www.freep.com/news/politics/clarke- issues20e_20050720.htm" target="_blank"http://www.freep.com/news/pol...

Kwame Kilpatrick: http://www.freep.com/news/politics/kilp-ba r119e_20050719.htm" title="http://www.freep.com/news/politics/kilp-ba r119e_20050719.htm" target="_blank"http://www.freep.com/news/pol...

Now, for the record, I do not live in Detroit, I live in Flat Rock, close to Monroe County, but I see the commercials for the mayoral race, so I decided to comment on it.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0" title="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0" target="_blank"http://www.foxnews.com/story/...,2933,163629,00.html (FOXNews.com)

For the first time in 2.5 years, a spaceshuttle has gone to space. Discovery is making its second "Return to Flight" launch in its history, the first one after the Challenger tragedy in the late 80's. It was nice to see the shuttle launch off with that huge-ass flame coming out of its engines like that.

Godspeed to the crew of Discovery, the International Space Station, and all of the people who will go up in the future.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0" title="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0" target="_blank"http://www.foxnews.com/story/...,2933,163466,00.html (FOXNews.com)

It appears that the person who was shot last Friday was not connected to the terrorist atrocities of 7/7 and the failed attack on the 21st. If anything has come out of this is that it shows that the police force is on edge since there are 4 people out there that wanted to blow themselves up but didn't. The police force wants to prevent another attack on innocient civilians, but with 4 terrorist-wannabes out there, they cannot take any chances. The person who was shot perked the suspicion of the police because he left a house under survallence and was wearing a heavy, padded coat in July, not the best time for winter clothing. He also failed to heed police orders and ran towards a subway car, thus the police feared that he could be a homicide bomber and did what they had to do to prevent another tragedy like 7/7.

Via FOXNews.com: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0" title="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0" target="_blank"http://www.foxnews.com/story/...,2933,163412,00.html

CAIRO, Egypt — At least two large explosions rocked the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik at the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula early Saturday, killing at least 25 people and injuring 110, police said.

From what I have read here at the website, it appears to be a terror attack, but we need more info before we can say for sure if this is a terror attack.

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0" title="http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0" target="_blank"http://www.sky.com/skynews/ar...,,30000-1189833,00.html (Sky News)

Thankfully, only one person was slightly injured. The bombs did not explode, only the detonators. Some witnesses said they saw a man run from one of the trains after the detonator went off.

This all comes two weeks to the day since terrorists massacred over 50 civilians on July 7th. This time the bombers screwed up. Not only are they alive, but there were witnesses that may have saw them and it is only a matter of time before they are caught. The bombs themselves will help out greatly, since they can trace the explosives to see if they are the same as the bombs on 7/7.

One of the things that has changed since the 7/7 attack is that there are armed police officers out there, since the main police forces are armed only with batons and "stab-proof" vests.

Again, thankfully, no one was seriously injured, and only one slightly injured.

From FOXNews.com: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0" title="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0" target="_blank"http://www.foxnews.com/story/...,2933,163031,00.html

Some facts about his life:
Harvard Graduate; US Appeals Court for DC Circuit; principal deputy solicitor general, U.S. Justice Department, 1989-93 (Bush 41); lawyer of  Hogan & Hartson, Washington, D.C. from 1986-89 and 1993-2003; associate counsel to President Reagan, 1982-86; and was a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice William H. Rehnquist when he was an associate justice in 1980-81.

Based on what I have read from the above site shows me that he is a well-qualified nominee. While some are disappointed that President Bush didn't nominate a female or a minority, pretty much everyone (for now) agrees that he is qualified to the post as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. On FOXNews.com's Voice Your Opinion http://www.foxnews.com/story/0" title="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0" target="_blank"http://www.foxnews.com/story/...,2933,162975,00.html, there is a fair mix of responses from both the left and the right.

Now, while the person nominated to replace a woman is a male, President Bush does not have to nominate a woman to replace a woman, even thought women consists of a little more than half of the US population. Bush wanted someone well qualified and will uphold the Constitution and NOT legislate from the bench, and John Roberts is who he chose. Only time will tell if Roberts will uphold the conservative values and ideals.

I support Judge Roberts for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and I hope that the Democrats will give Roberts a dignified and fair hearing.

Well, that surprised a lot of us. Everyone expected Edith Clement to be the nominee. It was reported that John Roberts was the nominee earlier, but i waited to make sure it is official.

Now, based on what I have heard about him, Judge Roberts is a well qualified nominee for the position of associate justice vacated by Sandra Day O'Connor. He has served as the clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquest in the 1980's, associate council to President Ronald Reagan, and has argued several cases before the Supreme Court.

Also, he is a conservative, which is what Bush wanted. It may upset the liberals in the Senate, but I think that Roberts' nomination will be a somewhat smooth one. Hopefully, he will received a dignified confirmation in the Senate, like the other Supreme Court nominees.

Bush to announce his pick tonight: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0" title="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0" target="_blank"http://www.foxnews.com/story/...,2933,162923,00.html (FOXNews)

One of the people on his short list, and is said to be the leading contender, is Judge Edith Clement from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in New Orleans. I haven't heard much about her, so I will research her. 

At 9PM tonight is the announcement. Watch for reactions here and at http://www.blogsforbush.com/" title="http://www.blogsforbush.com/" target="_blank"http://www.blogsforbush.com/ (Blogs4Bush).

An interesting article on RightWingNews @ [url=]http://www.rightwingnews.com/...[/url] (Had some issues with the original link, just scroll down to The Evidence Presented So Far Suggests Karl Rove Has Done Nothing Wrong In The Valerie Plame Case)

My take on this is that, based on the information that I have read and heard, Karl Rove, White House advisor to President Bush, did nothing wrong. He told the reporter, Matt Cooper, not to go to far into this because Wilson's wife "works in the CIA". Now, there has been a lot of debate over whether Rove outed Mrs. Plame during this short conversation. Now, again, based on what I have read/heard, Rove did not outed Mrs. Plame.

Now the MSM is in a lather over this. The Democrats have called for Rove to be fired, or for Rove to resign, which none of the above will happen UNLESS the special prosecutor in the case indicted him and Rove was found guilty in a court of law. If he is guilty, then he should resign or for Bush to fire him.

Now, one thing to keep in mind is this: Rove was originally approached by Cooper about welfare reform, but then Cooper asked about the Joe Wilson investigating the Niger/yellowcake report.

Is this a political lynching or a criminal investigation? I'd say both: the left with the lynching and the right, as well as some on the left, with the investigation. The left has been druming this "felony committed" line for a while. They are hoping that they are right, but it may just blow up in their face, like Russian Roulette; pulling the trigger while hoping that the chamber is empty.

If Karl Rove is found guilty in a court of law, then I would be calling for his resignation/unemployment, along with the rest of the left and the right; but until then, he should stay on until the investigation is over.

Questions, comments, complains, observations? Post them in the comments section.

This was done after the bombings in London that killed over 50 people. We are major partners in the War on Terror. Simple, and gets the point across.

Attacks Kill at Least 33: http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0" title="http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0" target="_blank"http://www.sky.com/skynews/ar...,,30000-1188265,00.html (SkyNews)

British Prime Minister Tony Blair called the attacks "barbaric". His response:
"It's important ... that those engaged in terrorism realize that our determination to defend our values and our way of life is greater than their determination to cause death and destruction to innocent people and a desire to impose extremism on the world,"
"Whatever they do, it is our determination that they will never succeed destroying what we hold dear in this country and in other civilizations in the world."

Mayor of London Ken Livingstone:
"I want to say one thing, specifically to the world today — this was not a terrorist attack against the mighty and the powerful, it was not aimed at presidents or prime ministers, it was aimed at ordinary, working-class Londoners, black and white, Muslim and Christian ... young and old … that isn't an ideology, it isn't even a perverted fate, it is an indiscriminate attempt at mass murder."
"They seek to divide London, they seek Londoners to turn against each other ... this city of London is the greatest in the world because everybody lives side by side in harmony. Londoners will not be divided by this cowardly attack."

His words to the terrorists:
"I know that you personally do not fear to give your own life in exchange to taking others ... but I know you do fear you may fail in your long-term objective to destroy our free society ... in the days that follow, look at our airports, look at our seaports and look at our railway stations ... you will see that people from the rest of Britain, people from around the world, will arrive in London to become Londoners, to fulfill their dream and achieve their potential … whatever you do, however many you kill, you will fail."

The G8 issued statement, read by PM Blair:
"Those responsible have no respect for human life. We are united in our resolve to confront and defeat this terrorism that is not an attack on one nation but on all nations and on civilized people everywhere. We will not allow violence to change our societies or our values, nor will we allow it to stop the work of this summit,"
"The terrorists will not succeed. Today's bombings will not weaken in any way our resolve to uphold the most deeply held principles of our societies and to defeat those who would impose their fanaticism and extremism on all of us. We shall prevail and they shall not."

The NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer called the attacks "appaulling".
"I know I speak on behalf of all NATO allies when I express our sympathy for and solidarity with the British people. There can be no justification for such heinous crimes, I condemn in the strongest terms these attacks, which underline the need for the international community and members of the alliance to remain united in the fight against terrorism."

(Quotes from: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0" title="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0" target="_blank"http://www.foxnews.com/story/...,2933,161768,00.html)

This terrorist attack will united the people of the United Kingdom against terrorism. This attack came on the heels of the announcement of London holding the 2012 Olympic games, but that is a coincidence of timing. My thoughts and prayers go out to the people of London and the United Kingdom. The Queen has ordered the British flag to be lowered to half-staff to honor the victims of this massacre.

More updates will come as they come in.

Via: http://www.blogsforbush.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/4813" title="http://www.blogsforbush.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/4813" target="_blank"http://www.blogsforbush.com/m... Blogs 4 Bush

Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor had gave her letter of resignation to President George Bush today. Justice O'Connor has been a loyal public servant for the past 24 years since she was nominated by late President Ronald Reagan, becoming the first female to serve as Justice of the Supreme Court.

She has been the critical swing vote, mainly siding with the majority, thus the reason you see a lot of 5 to 4 decisions; thus, this will be a critical issue with both the left and the right; the left will want someone who will keep with Roe v. Wade; the right will want someone who will oppose abortion. Expect a fierce fight over the President's nomination. I hope that the President will choose someone who leans to the right on some issues, like abortion and capital punishment, but won't be afraid to choose sides.

Hopefully this wouldn't be too fierce of a fight and that there won't be a smear campaign against that nominee.

In a time where judges now legislate from the bench, instead of intrepreting laws, comes another outrage as a Superior Court judge upheld Wahington's fraud-filled election, saying, well, screw you all. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0" title="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0" target="_blank"http://www.foxnews.com/story/...,2933,158714,00.html
He acknowledged that there was fraud, that there was 1,400 felons that voted illegally, 19 people who shouldn't have voted because they were dead, six voted twice, and hundreds of provisional ballots were counted without verifying voters registration, but did nothing about it. He could have had those thrown out. Whether that actually will change the outcome is beyond me.

This has been a travisty in democracy, and I fear that this sets a precident that you can commit fraud and get away with it.

Well, as you can see, I have added some stuff here on my blog.

On the left sidebar, you see the counter (which I have had for a while), and an Amber Alert ticker above it.

On the right, there is a Guestmap, where you can see where some people are from (as far as country/state/providence) , and a mini poll question.

All this, except the Amber Alert ticker, comes from Bravenet. If you want the Amber Alert ticker on your site, you can find it here: http://www.codeamber.org/idkits.html?tck" title="http://www.codeamber.org/idkits.html?tck" target="_blank"http://www.codeamber.org/idki...

All of these are free. Hope you all enjoy these features.

I just finished watching A&E's original movie, The Faith of My Father's, a movie chornalcling John McCain's days as a POW in Vietnam. This movie showed what real torture is: multiple beatings, hanging by your wrists, inhumane living conditions. But this not only showed McCain's POW days; they also showed the times when he is in the Naval Academy in Anapolis, the treatment there, and other aspects of his life. It starts from when he was shot down to when he was finally released.

To me, this movie shows who the real war criminals were; the Vietnamese Communists who ran both the government and the prison that McCain was kept in. If any of those hippies had been in what McCain was in, they would have changed their minds, unless they were still on the pot, so there is no help there.

But what happened to the Vietnam war vetrans after they returned from conflict is just as inhumane; the throwing of shit, the degergation of the troops by using words such as "baby killer" and "war criminals" (which pretty much described the NVA and the VC), and other instances, like "Hanoi" Jane Fonda appearing on Vietnamese AA guns to demoralize our brave men and women in 'Nam. It disgusts me to no end.

Would I recommend this movie? Yes, I would, but I would suggest that young children not be present during its viewing, there are a few graphic scenes and some cursing.

Item 1, Newsweek:
Well, by now everyone knows about the Newsweek fiasco. Newsweek used only one source to authenticate the story, as opposed to multiple sources. Whether Newsweek is intended for the riots to happen or not is up for dicussion. I doubt that they wanted the riots to happen. Now that the story has been discredited, this may get some news organizations to better look into their sources and verify the stories further. Did Newsweek intend to make President Bush look bad? Maybe, maybe not. But this is another major blow to the MSM, as far as their credibility is concerned. Too many organizations are getting politics injected into newscasts, whether liberal or conservative.

Newsweek has lost a lot of credibility and trust over this, and it will be a Hell of a long time before they can regain the trust with the general public.

Item 2, Saddam's Whitey-tighties:
Have you seen the images of Saddam Hussein in his skivvies?

When I first saw this on Friday morning, I was lucky to have finished my breakfast. The Butcher of "Sag"dad? Seeing Saddam in his underwear is like seeing Rosie O'Donald in the nude. Ugh.

What happened here is that the tabloid, the Sun I believe, somehow got a hold of these images from someone inside the US military. The military has rightfully condemned this action and has called for an investigation into who had the images. From some of the angles that I have seen the pictures of him, it looks like they may have came from a security camera.

One way or another, who ever released these needs to answer for their actions.

Item 3, Judicial Fillibusters:
Sometime this week, there will be a showdown on Captiol Hill over the judicial nominees of George Bush. While the Democrats allowed a vast majority of Bush's nominees to receive an up-or-down vote, they have blocked 10 of the President's choices from an up-or-down vote.

Now, back when the Republicans were the minority during the Clinton-era, they rarely blocked nominees. We gave them yea or nay votes. Now that we are in power, the liberals have obstruct almost everything Bush has set out to do. The fillibuster should not be used to block nominees, no matter how bad Congresspeople think of them.

I support changing the Senate rules to ban judicial fillibusters. That is all that is needed. If the Democrats follow their threat of shutting down the government, they will pay dearly for it. It would be political suicide.

Well, that is all for today. Hopefully, after May 27 (last day of school for seniors), I would be able to post more.

My request is this: I would want some liberal blogs to add to my blog roll. Of course, I will have the final say in which makes it onto the list. One thing that I will ask is this: I do not want any conspiracy blogs that talks about Karl Rove theories and insult the President on a lot of issues (like calling him a war criminal, a liar, Chimpy, Hitler, etc). It does not go with rational thought.

So, if you know a liberal blogs that fall under these criteria, leave their address in the comments section and I will check them out.