New Poll Info..

And it's most certainly NOT good news for one John Kerry...

Seems The Garden State is closer than many are letting on.

How close, you ask? Try a 1 point lead for the Nuanced Nuisance over Bush if you figure Rabid Ralphie into the mix. Subtract Nader from the equation and it's a massive 2 point lead for the Botoxed Wonder From Eastern Massachusetts.

No wonder KampKerry is sending the newly stitched up Bubba to Philly later this week....and no wonder W was in south Jersey this week hammering Kerry like a nail.

Should We Be Afraid Yet?

Yep, I'm glad I left the Democratic Party when I did...because with all the shenanigans going on today with the DNC and their connected groups, I'd be ashamed to admit I was a Donk. Besides all the inventive get out the vote ideas, the infamous "handbook", and other fun things, now there's this gem:

Kerry Tactics On 11/2: Declare Victory Regardless

Yep. Screw the results, we'll just declare victory and sue anyone that says otherwise. Very dangerous tactic here, seeing that not a lot of folks are gonna take this if Kerry gets smacked down in the Electoral College.

It gets even better as this idea gets an even deeper look over at NRO's Kerry Spot.

Like I stated in the title...should we be afraid of these goobers trying to pull off something very much illegal? I'm concerned to say the least. At this rate, the Dems are doing a WONDERFUL job in possibly turning the US electoral process into something we'd have seen in places like Zimbabwe, Venezuela, or a Milosevic-run Serbia.

Somewhere, up above, our Founding Fathers must be looking down upon this and shaking their heads....

RE: THK....FYI...STFU!

Decided to play a little alphabet soup on this latest installment of Who Let The Tey-ray-zhuh Out Near The Media....

Evidently Cruella De Condiments never met a microphone or a tape recorder she didn't like...and once again, she puts her foot into her mouth yet again...thanks to a tiny interview in USA Today. (hat tip: Blogs For Bush)

Read it for yourself, but I'll pass along the money quote, so to speak....

Q: You'd be different from Laura Bush?

A: Well, you know, I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good. But I don't know that she's ever had a real job — I mean, since she's been grown up. So her experience and her validation comes from important things, but different things. And I'm older, and my validation of what I do and what I believe and my experience is a little bit bigger — because I'm older, and I've had different experiences. And it's not a criticism of her. It's just, you know, what life is about.

Yep, marrying condiment heirs and inheriting their estates after they buy the farm in an unfortunate accident is SUCH a rewarding and more fulfilling career track than getting one's Master's and working as a librarian and teacher (like Laura did). Yep, color me and the rest of the public impressed.

However, it seems that Cruella De Condiments has learned somewhat from her past transgressions....namely, she issued an apology. However, as the link states, the stated apology is missing from one site you'd think it should be running at...namely Kamp Kerry.com

Then again, I'm not shocked...it's more or less typical.

There's Something About Mary: A Slight Rant On Same Sex Marriage

And you thought I would ignore this one, seeing it could be the iceberg for the Titanic-like ship captained by the Nuanced One and The Boy Blunder.

Well, as I look back, the crack by John Edwards about the sexuality of VP Dick Cheney's daughter Mary in the VP debate was a bit low, even for a lawyer. At the time, I took the road that the VP did and let it slide. OK, I thought, it was a one shot deal. Nothing more..

Wellp, leave it to Kamp Kerry to hit bottom and bust out the mining equipment. In the last debate out in Arizona, what does John Kerry do? Parrot his moronic VP nominee in dragging out Mary. Of course the President didn't take the bait and let Kerry make a fool of himself.

Then of course, there was Mary Beth Cahill coming out after the final debate and stating that Mary Cheney and her sexuality was "fair game." That's when the warning lights went off. Also hearing reports that along Spin Alley at the final debate that the press were audibly groaning when Kerry spoke those magic words, "Mary Cheney, who is a lesbian." made me think that the Kerry Kamp had just gone ahead and had it's Kitty Dukakis Moment*.

Now, the second time around and the mistake of making it "fair game" wasn't going to win Kerry/Edwards any points. And it also gave the Cheneys a chance to fire back, as Lynne did the next day, by stating that Kerry was "not a good man". Totally entitled, IMO, seeing that Kerry and Edwards were taking shots at HER child. Going after kids in a campaign is a strict no-no last time I checked.

Of course, a much smarter campaign would have let this dog lie. Not so the MENSA members running the Kerry campaign. Shortly after Lynne Cheney struck back as only a mom could do, Elizabeth Edwards decided to jump in the fray, insinuating that the Cheneys were "ashamed" of the fact that Mary happened to be a lesbian. Naturally, by deciding to insert her foot in her mouth instead of a Twinkie, Lizzie made things a whole heck of a lot worse for the Dems.

Now, time for my 2 cents on the matter...

I could care less that Mary Cheney is a lesbian. Heck, if she's happy with a man, a woman, a sheep, a blowup doll, a hot apple pie, I DON'T CARE. it doesn't make her any less of a person in my eyes because she happens to prefer women to men..and it sure as heck doesn't make her any less in Dick and Lynne's eyes either. To them, she's their daughter and that's what's important. What she or any other person in this country does behind closed doors is their business and theirs alone, as long as nobody's being unduly forced into it or getting killed because of it.

It kinda dovetails into my views on the whole same-sex marrage thing. I'll go on the record. I'm NOT in favor of same-sex marrage. However, I am in favor of civil unions for same-sex couples with full benefits and other rights as married hetero couples that would ONLY APPLY for same-sex couples (meaning there's no way that a man and woman who lived together could get a civil union in place of a marrage). I'm NOT in favor of the Defense Of Marrage Amendment only because I'm not a fan of monkeying around with the Constitution, especially when the Defense Of Marrage Act is already on the books (and it was passed under Bubba).

However, what happened in Massachusetts (where the SC overruled the Legislature and made same-sex marrage legal) is what I and a lot of other folks have a problem with. To me, let the Legislative Branch do it's job and let's not have activist judges write laws from the bench. Handle it like the folks in Oregon are this year, with a state wide referendum on the matter. If they pass it, fine. If not, too bad. It's the WILL OF THE PEOPLE, not the WILL OF THE JUDGES last time I checked.

*--The Kitty Dukakis Moment relates back to the 1988 Presidential Debates when Dem nominee Michael Dukakis fumbled an easy question on capital punishment, saying he wouldn't have endorsed it even if someone had raped and killed his wife. Needless to say, it started The Duke on his long slide to an electoral smackdown at the hands of Bush 41.

CNNs Crossfire Becomes OpenFire

It seems things got a tad snippy on CNN's Crossfire Friday night between panelist Tucker Carlson and The Daily Show's Jon Stewart. Actually, "snippy" would be a mild understatement...more like downright nasty.

Carlson, Stewart Drop The Gloves

Yep, in the words of the WWE's Jim Ross, this one was an ol' fashioned slobberknocker....and it was still going on Monday...

"I thought that he looked ridiculous," Carlson said in an interview Monday, "and I think the tape makes that clear."

Carlson said Stewart continued lecturing the "Crossfire" crew after the show went off the air. "I wasn't offended as much as I was unimpressed," he said.

Stewart wasn't talking about the confrontation on Monday, a spokesman said. Comedy Central executive Tony Fox said there may be some regret over the vulgarity, but that Stewart has been a longtime critic of cable news networks and their political argument shows.

The comedian hasn't gone out of his way to endorse Kerry. In a public forum last week in New York, he was asked who he would vote for, and he said he'd back the Democrat.

Carlson noted that many of the great comedians kept their political opinions to themselves, not for fear of offending anyone, but because it could hurt their art.

"You're selling out," he said. "If you are a satirist or an acute social observer, and he is, and all of a sudden you suspend disbelief on someone or suck up rather than prod or poke someone, people will look at you and say, `Even if I agree with you, I don't like it,"' he said.

Fair criticisms from the bowtied one. If a comedian makes it known they stand one way or another on politics, they stand a chance of ticking off part of their fanbase. Personally, I'd rather stick with a comic that hits both sides with deadly accuracy. And yes, I'm man enough to laugh at jokes about the guy I support. Heck, some of the good Bush jokes out there are quite funny and I've laughed at some of the riffs on Bush on The Tonight Show or Late Night or The Late Show.

Anyways, what started this whole bruhaha? Here's some of the choice shots from Carlson and Stewart...

STEWART: What you do is not honest. What you do is partisan hackery...

CARLSON: You had John Kerry on your show and you sniff his throne [by throwing him softball questions], and you're accusing us of partisan hackery?

STEWART: Absolutely...You're on CNN. The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls....

CARLSON: ...There's no reason for you -- when you have this marvelous opportunity not to be the guy's butt boy, to go ahead and be his butt boy. Come on. It's embarrassing.

Having watched the interview of Kerry on The Daily Show, I'd have to agree with Carlson. Those were some softies that Jon was tossing to the Nuanced One. Then again, it was no different than what the NY Times or ABC has done in the past.

After that, well it went downhill in a hurry....I won't parse anymore from the CNN transcript, just read for yourself..and be warned as Stewart did cross the line a bit in his description of Carlson (think nickname for Richard Nixon and do the math)...

New Dem Push: Crack The Vote™

More fun Dem Get Out The Vote Tricks....

Seems out in the Toledo, Ohio area, they have a new tactic...

Get Voters Registered, Get Crack In Return

Under normal circumstances, this would be funnier than anything I've seen in ages. However, seeing that Ohio is a battleground state, I'm more sickened than anything.

In the rush to get new voters on the rolls for the upcoming election, a representative of the NAACP Voter Fund paid off a volunteer to with crack cocaine to get new voter registration cards filled out. In itself, this would be bad enough. However, nobody ever said a guy on crack was the smartest tool in the ol' shed. Out of 130 completed forms, 124 were phonies.

Some of the names registered by this loon...
Mary Poppins
Jeffrey Dahlmer
Michael Jordan
Dick Tracy
Brett Favre
Janet Jackson
George Foreman

Now, there's always a cosmic chance that there could be a few folks in the greater Toledo area with those names, but those chances are about the same as me hitting Powerball.

Not to sound too alarmist, but I have a feeling that this is only the tip of the iceberg. The next 2 weeks and beyond are NOT going to be fun times.

Jimmy Carter....An Idiot In 1980, An Idiot in 2004

Once again, America's Most Worthless President Ever™ missed a wonderful opportunity to keep his yap closed as he appeared on Chrissy Matthews' hour-long schmoozefest called "Hardball" on MSNBC last night (NOTE: seeing I do work with the parent company, I'll keep my personal views on how I feel about MSNBC to myself, but I'll still let it be known that I think Chris Matthews is a big loser who's head is firmly wedged up his hind quarters.)

This time Jimmah gives us a history lesson..and seeing I'm a history major (I have the sheepskin to prove it), this was news to me. Thanks to the transcript from last night's show, I was able to catch this (seeing that like 90% of America, my TV was squarely flipping inbetween the Sox-Yanks and 'Stros-Redbirds..).(hat tip to LGF)

MATTHEWS: Let me ask you the question about—this is going to cause some trouble with people—but as an historian now and studying the Revolutionary War as it was fought out in the South in those last years of the War, insurgency against a powerful British force, do you see any parallels between the fighting that we did on our side and the fighting that is going on in Iraq today?

Wow, Fat Crissy starts it off by framing a question about the entire Iraq situation which makes the Jihadi Scum look like an "insurgency". Hmmm...where oh where have I heard this steaming pile of manure before? Oh yah, wasn't it Michigan Fats who called the Jihadis "minutemen" a while back? Yep, that al-Zarqawi. He's a regular Thomas Frickin Jefferson. And that al-Sadr. I see parallels between him and the likes of a Sam Adams. Oh yah. *author is rolling eyes at this point*

Of course, any NORMAL ex-President would avoid this question like the frickin' plague. Not the Man From Plains. Nosiree. Well, here's the answer...

CARTER: Well, one parallel is that the Revolutionary War, more than any other war up until recently, has been the most bloody war we’ve fought. I think another parallel is that in some ways the Revolutionary War could have been avoided. It was an unnecessary war.

Wow. First, the Revolution was the most bloodiest war in our history. Wellp, Jimbo, too bad the numbers have it well against you. There was this tiny dust-up in years 1861 to 1865 that kinda trumps this. Kinda has some special meaning to me, seeing I went to college in SE Pennsylvania about 30 min. due east of a little town called Gettysburg. I seem to remember something about a 3 day battle there back around July 1863 that saw a lot of Americans die. Oh yah, I also seem to remember that I was about a 90 min. drive from a little town in Maryland called Sharpsburg...there's a little creek there, called Antietam. Think there was a battle fought there in 1862 that has the same name. Also seem to remember that it was the bloodiest day in American history ever, seeing the butcher's bill from that little conflict was higher than all the casulties in any previous war fought by the US COMBINED. Oh yah, one last thing...I seem to remember from my studies that in the battle of Cold Harbor (just outside of Richmond), the Union Army lost more men than the Continental Army did in 6 years of war vs. the British in a MATTER OF MINUTES.

As for the Revolutionary War being avoidable, well the Continental Congress tried that. Something about the Olive Branch Petition they sent off to Westminster to King George III and his government. However, the King and Parliament kinda scoffed at that. Oops. Then again, if the Crown had just let a few reps from the Colonies represent themselves over at Parliament, I don't think the folks here would have had too much of a problem with the taxes the Crown kinda forced on the Colonists. Still, things happened the way they did, and ya know what, it turned out pretty darn well. I'm happy enough to live in a country where Jimmy Carter can say something like this and I have the right to call him a blithering idiot.

So, in closing, I'll say this, when it comes to historians, I'll take my chances with the likes of Victor Davis Hansen, a Stephen Ambrose, or a John Keegan. I sure as heck wouldn't take my chances on a man that was a miserable failure as the leader of the free world (Remember, who was on watch when the Mad Mullahs took over Iran? Who was it that had the comments about "malaise" again? I rest my case.)

Yet Another Abject Apology

Sorry folks...

I know I haven't posted in ages. Work, my weekend activities (as in working at the local Victory HQ trying to ensure that the President can make a move in the numbers here in the deep blue state of Connecticut), and the Playoffs have cut into my time. Sadly, the Factory took the brunt of it.

Seeing there's 14 days to go, I'll make darn sure I'm on top of things down the stretch...

Yep, It Can Sure Happen Here Too....

Needless to say the War On Terror hit home today....not in the way I'd have expected though.

Leader Of Waterbury Mosque's House Raided By Feds (linkage: Waterbury Republican-American)

Yep, seems the fella in charge of Waterbury's mosque did some charity work...and well, read on and see who this charity might have links to....

A leading figure in Greater Waterbury's faith community reacted with outrage Thursday to the news that federal agents raided a local Muslim leader's Wolcott home, apparently as part of a terrorism investigation.

Majeed Sharif, president of the United Muslim Mosque in Waterbury, was not arrested and it is unclear what, if anything, was seized from his home Wednesday. Sharif has ties to an international Muslim charity headquartered in the Sudan that the Treasury Department accused Wednesday of funneling money to Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, Hamas and the Taliban.

Like I said...nice to see things like that on the top fold of the local paper. For the record, the Feds also hit the HQ of this charity, the Islamic American Relief Agency, in Columbia, Missouri.

The story in the local paper goes on to detail comments from one of the leaders in the interfaith groups in the area...who also happens to be the reverend over at the local Methodist church. Seeing we all live in a pretty small town, I really shouldn't be too critical of this spokesperson, but this one comment kinda rankled me a bit....

"Those of us who really try to work for more understanding, this sets us back, and racial profiling of any dimension sets us back as people of faith," [the Reverend] said. "I understand they were not harassed, but agents came into their house; they probably will go to the mosque looking through papers. It's really, it's an invasion."

Sorry, Reverend. When your pal Sharif there is listed on IARA paperwork as a representative and there's a good chance this group JUST MIGHT HAVE funnelled money to folks that want us kinda dead, it is NOT racial profiling. It's more like trying to keep the likes of AQ, OBL, and Hamas from getting more cash to buy something that would be used against us (think explosive and not very healthy for the surrounding area).

Dunno, but when it comes to the jihadis, I kind of subscribe to the "Darth Sidious Rule"...known as..."Wipe them out.....all of them." Harsh? Yep. Then again, unlike some politicians, having some of the jihadis park an airplane or two into some rather recognizable buildings is hardly a nuisance....it's more like a death wish on their part.

More Abject Apologies From Your Humble Correspondant

Sorry about the lack of posts over the last few days....seems work has been deciding to medieval on my hind quarters as of late. However, it's the weekend. Two days off to do some needed work on my little niche here in the 'Sphere.

Plenty of good stuff coming up....

DNC, Kamp Kerry Seething Over Stolen Honor

There's an old saying...karma has a nasty way of sneaking up and planting it's foot squarely in your lower pelvic regions if you're not careful.

Stolen Honor To Hit Airwaves; Donks Attempting To Supress

Seems the Donks got their karmic kick to the cubes as the Sinclair Broadcast Group is planning to show the documentary "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal", which details John Kerry's 1971 Senate testimony (you know, the one where he accused US troops in 'Nam of every atrocity in the book, and inventing a few new ones along the way...which is remarkable in itself, seeing it was one of the few times Kerry was ever in the Senate chamber, but I digress). Sinclair runs about 62 TV stations across the country (including some in vital states like Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania) and is asking their stations to show the documentary and a discussion panel afterwords.

Now, to Sinclair's credit, they did invite the Nuanced Nuisance to this little broadcast. Seems to me this could be a golden opportunity to put the whole 'Nam thing out of the park permanently. However, in a very typical moment of stupidity all too common to the Kerry campaign this year, they turned it down and instead went on the offensive (and "offensive" is the key word), as evidenced by the words from the appointed hacks in charge.

Head Donkmeister Terry "Soon to be nominated as Employee Of The Month at a Little Rock Hardee's" McAulliffe seethed as only he can, basically saying that because of some contributions to the RNC, Sinclair's in the GOPs back pocket. They could well be, Terry. Then again, how many of the MSM do you jackasses have again? Let's see...ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, 95% of the papers. I think one or two networks or papers not toeing the line could be acceptable. However, seeing that your idea of freedom of the press matches up with the likes of what one saw back when the Iron Curtain was up, I'll take your comments with a big ol' grain of salt.

But it gets even better. On Dayside with Linda Vester on FNC today, Kamp Kerry Spinmeister-du-jour Chad Clanton took things a step further, stating "they (Sinclair) better hope we don't win." Yep, going from complaints to outright threats is ALWAYS a great way to win over folks to your side of the arguement, Chad.

Of course, when in doubt, censor 'em. Seeing the DNC has also filed a complaint to the FEC about this and have gotten 18 of their senators (including such lovely luminaries as Dianne Feinstein, Teddy Kennedy, and Pat "Dick Cheney's Bestest Buddy" Leahy among others) to sign off on a letter to the FCC as well, it seems the Dems are in full whine mode.

My question is this...why such a stink about this? I seem to remember when Michigan Fats's fever dream that was F 9/11 came out, most of us on this side of the fence just decided to refute the claims in that very poor propaganda film with stone cold facts. Yet when someone comes forth with something actually truthful and on the record, out come the Lawyer Brigades to shut it down as being "illegal".

Like I said in a previous post...and these jokers are calling GOPers "Nazis"?

UPDATE (10/15/04): Well, it seems the FCC isn't going to get involved in this...meaning Sinclair has the OK to go ahead and air the documentary. Tough noogies, Donks. Also, remember how Michigan Fats was planning on a big PPV event for his seethe-fest? Well, it seems iNDEMAND (run by the big 3 cable companies: Cox, TimeWarner, & Comcast) pulled the rug out from under him...and we here feel OH SO BAD....
iNDEMAND to Moore: Not So Fast, Fatso. (hat tip: LGF)

Nuisances Great And Small

Something major occured thanks to the NY Times. In an attempted puff piece on John Kerry in the Magazine section, well...let's just say it wasn't one of his wisest decisions...

''We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance,'' Kerry said. ''As a former law-enforcement person, I know we're never going to end prostitution. We're never going to end illegal gambling. But we're going to reduce it, organized crime, to a level where it isn't on the rise. It isn't threatening people's lives every day, and fundamentally, it's something that you continue to fight, but it's not threatening the fabric of your life.''

Now, I could come up with a pithy and exacting retort to this, but someone beat me to the punch...namely former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani, who plays Aaron Boone to John Kerry's Tim Wakefield.

Business In The Fever Swamps Is About To Pick Up

The nuttiness on the other side of the aisle might be about to get even crazier than we could have thought

Fight for the Heart & Soul of Democrat Party (source: San Francisco Chronicle)

Influential figures on the party’s left wing are planning a long-term campaign to move the Democrats to the left, just as right-wing activists took over the Republican Party and moved it to the right over the past 30 years.

If the left’s campaign is successful, it could transform the political landscape of the United States, changing the terms of debate and bringing dramatically different policies on local, national and international issues.

Yep, the Michael Moore/Howlin' Howie Dean wing is looking to have themselves a regular Beer Hall Putsch (or in this case, more like a Coffee Bar Putsch) in the Democratic Party....then again, with the way things have been going with the Dems this year, it'd be confirming something we all knew...

Then again, the left wing of the party had control back in 1972 (George McGovern) and in 1988 (Michael Dukakis)...and suffered two of the biggest election night losses in history. That also saw the Democratic Leadership Council get some say into getting a more mainstream candidate elected (namely Bill Clinton)

But this other excerpt might also shed some light on some other things too....

Now, leftist Democrats are planning to challenge the centrists’ control. The leftists argue that many Democrats, especially the party establishment in Washington, have become too much like Republicans and too afraid to stand up to right-wingers like George W. Bush.

In the short run, the left-wingers are working hard to elect Kerry, even though they regard him as representing the party’s cautious center. In the primaries, most of the left preferred Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor, whose populist, anti-war candidacy threatened to wrest the nomination from Kerry, to the horror of the party establishment.

The left is uniting behind Kerry out of a widely shared conviction that a second Bush term would be an unmitigated, perhaps irreversible, disaster. “Four more years of George Bush would destroy the country,” Dean said in announcing last summer that he would campaign hard for Kerry.

Yep, you read that right...the LLLs think Kerry is a centrist. If he's a centrist, then I'm the new #5 starter for the Minnesota Twins. Guess according to these nutjobs, I should go work on my cutter, seeing I'm gonna be needing it come Spring Training...

About The Lack Of Posts This Weekend...

I know, I know...

I was a very bad blogger and haven't posted since early Friday morning (a migraine headache, baseball playoffs, a Victory HQ opening, and a suitable application of Star Wars Battlefront have a lot to do with it) and a lot of stuff has gone down since. Might as well give my quick takes on the 3 biggest events since I posted last...

--First, Presidential Debate #2 went down in St. Louis. I caught it on replay early Saturday once my headache went away...and well, if anyone says John Kerry won, I want whatever it is they were smoking because it has to be some real primo stuff. Sorry, but President Bush ripped Kerry apart on issues you'd expect a Democrat to do well on. Plus, working the Senator on his lackluster record (a theme started by VP Cheney in the debate with the Breck Girl on Tuesday) hit home and won some points. However, Kerry didn't help himself with that crack about how the only folks that would be affected by his tax plan would be himself, the President, and moderator Charles Gibson. Yep, I'd have to say we all read between the lines on that one and have determined it went over about as well as a fart in church. Wednesday's final debate at Arizona State should be interesting. If Bush can keep it up, it might be time to turn out the lights on the other side of the aisle.

--Second, there's this matter of an election in Australia. Our friends in the Land Down Under went to the polls on Saturday and had a choice to make between staying the course (with PM John Howard) or turning inward (with Labour candidate Mark Latham, who had stated that he would pull the troops out of Iraq if elected PM). The Aussies made their voices known and gave PM Howard a clear mandate to continue on as PM, giving him his 4th term in that post. It's the first referendum on the Big Three (PM Howard, President Bush, and British PM Tony Blair) and so far we're 1-0. In the Aussie campaign, the press was favoring Latham and Labour, while most of the polls had it a neck and neck race. In the end, PM Howard won with slightly over 52% of the vote. Anyways, nice to see our most steadfast allies are going to remain that way (despite the best efforts of John Kerry's sister....yep, love those LLLs trying to influence elections outside of the US). So, in celebration, I downed a Foster's and fired up some AC/DC. Thanks, Mates!

--Finally, Australia wasn't the only country holding elections Saturday as the Afgani people went to the polls. For the most part, it looks like things went off without a hitch. Nice to see the people there choosing their leaders with a paper ballot instead of an AK-47.

Good news stories like these do take the sting off the Twins losing to the Yanks this weekend....

Jihadis Rear Ugly Heads In Egypt

As you may note in my sidebar, I do support our friends in Israel and I'm proud to do so...

And they sure do need our support right now...especially after the horrifying and disgusting incidents in Egypt as the Jihadis decided to level a few popular vaction spots as the High Holy Days come to an end.

Normally, there'd be a link there to the main story, but seeing the Egyptians weren't exactly too quick on letting the Israelis come in and help in the rescue and recovery efforts (seeing the incidents took place right near the border and all), it's going to be quite a while until we know all the facts on this one. From what I've picked up, it seems that it could be either Hamas or AQ on this one and that it's looking more and more like the 'splodeydopes used a truck..eerily reminicient of the tactics in Kenya and Tanzania back in '98. Either way, it's not good and the toll's not gonna be small either.

Here's where you can get the latest info...and I'll go with the folks that have pens and pads on the ground, so to speak...
Jerusalem Post
Ha'aretz
Israel National News

Also, if you can do it, might wanna think about sliding a few sheckels to the Magen David Adom (aka: Israel's answer to the Red Cross).

And seeing that the Defenders of the Sons & Daughters Of Abraham™ (aka: the IDF and IAF) will probably be opening an industrial sized can of Kosher WhupAss very shortly, it might be also worth it to send 'em a pizza or two to show thanks for doing their part in ridding the known world of Jihadi Scumbags.