Cam Edwards has picked up my post on the electoral college editorial in the Times and has dedicated a good portion of his show to it as well as making it the poll of the day.

Well, I'm back. I was hoping to have some pics and other info up already, but alas, i don't. I went kayaking yesterday (Roosevelt Island to the Chain Bridge Falls) and got a bad sunburn instead.

Anyway, while on vacation I had the pleasure of seeing AC/DC's shot on Behind the Music. Very good program and Malcom Young statement concerning the death of Bonn Scott (They were more concerned with protecting his parents from the media than their own future because "Their just nice people") was more down to earth than the usual drivel VH1 spews out on its program.

Since I am back, and the web page continues to be black, and all the dead skin on my shoulders (which is red right now) will eventually be black, I thought AC/DC would be a fitting tune. Plus. they are one of my alltime favs.

Back in Black
(Young - Young - Johnson)

Back in black, I hit the sack
I been too long, I'm glad to be back
Yes I'm, let loose from the noose
That's kept me hanging about
I keep looking at the sky cause it's gettin' me high
Forget the hearse cause I'll never die
I got nine lives cat's eyes
Using every one of them and runnin' wild


'Cause I'm back
Yes I'm back, well I'm back
Yes I'm back
Well I'm back back
Well I'm back in black
Yes I'm back in black


Back in the back of a Cadillac
Number one with a bullet I'm a power pack
Yes I'm, In a bang with the gang
They gotta catch me if they want me to hang
'Cause I'm back on the track and I'm beatin' the flack
Nobody's gonna get me on another rap
So look at me now I'm just makin' my play
Don't try to push your luck just get out of my way


'Cause I'm back
Yes I'm back, well I'm back
Yes I'm back
Well I'm back back
Well I'm back in black
Yes I'm back in black


Well I'm back, yes I'm back
Well I'm back, yes I'm back
Well I'm back back
Well I'm back in black
Yes I'm back in black


Well I'm back (I'm back)
Back (I'm back), back (I'm back)
Back (I'm back), back (I'm back)
Back, back in black
Yes I'm back in black
Outta sight

I posted this way way way way back in January after the South Carolina debate.

If someone knows how I can get an audio track of the debate, I have a great anti Kerry flash commercial I'd love to make.

Here's what I said then.Read this exchange.
Its from the South Carolina Debate.
Is this really the guy the Democrats are going to nominate?

What does he call the airplanes flying into the WTC and Pentagon. Even Howard Dean isn't this clueless. Joe Lieberman should take this and RUN RUN RUN. God Help The Democratic Party.

BROKAW: We're back on stage at the Peace Center for Performing Arts in Greenville, South Carolina, with the seven presidential candidates contesting for the Democratic presidential nomination. South Carolina's primary is next Tuesday.

Senator Kerry, let me ask you a question. Robert Kagan, who writes about these issues a great deal from the Carnegie Institute for Peace, has written recently that Europeans believe that the Bush administration has exaggerated the threat of terrorism, and the Bush administration believes that the Europeans simply don't get it.

Who is right?

KERRY: I think it's somewhere in between. I think that there has been an exaggeration and there has been a refocusing...

BROKAW: Where has the exaggeration been in the threat on terrorism?

KERRY: Well, 45 minutes deployment of weapons of mass destruction, number one.

Aerial vehicles to be able to deliver materials of mass destruction, number two.

I mean, I -- nuclear weapons, number three.

I could run a long list of clear misleading, clear exaggeration. The linkage to Al Qaida, number four.

That said, they are really misleading all of America, Tom, in a profound way. The war on terror is less -- it is occasionally military, and it will be, and it will continue to be for a long time. And we will need the best-trained and the most well-equipped and the most capable military, such as we have today.

But it's primarily an intelligence and law enforcement operation that requires cooperation around the world -- the very thing this administration is worst at. And most importantly, the war on terror is also an engagement in the Middle East economically, socially, culturally, in a way that we haven't embraced, because otherwise we're inviting a clash of civilizations.

Of course, this just reminds me again why I feel so strongly about my prediction here.

If you've got that audio, send it over. Thanks.

Seems Kerry On Iraq has surpassed the opening day numbers for Michael Moore's slanderous flick.

Check it out.

One of the nifty new features blogger has introduced (in addition to the gmail accounts) is the Blogger Browser. If you look at the top right hand corner of my page, you will notice where it has a little static bar and button for the NEXT BLOG. If you hit it, it takes you to a random blogger page that was updated that day.

Well, I just hit it and came to James Powers art gallery. Since my wife is an artist (but unwilling to share her work online, so far) and her art was the source of our introduction (and, together with Lynyrd Skynyrd, one of the reasons I became intrigued by her) I always try to promote other artists.

So, in that spirit, check out Jame's work. Purchase some if your so inclined as well.

You could also do worse than to check out Sarah Hemphel's site too! But she's on the blog roll, so you should have been to her bog at least, already.

If you look to the left, you will notice that there are only 14 days, a mere two weeks, until the expiration of the so called assault weapons ban.



Check out AWBsunset.com. and the NRA's Clinton Gun Ban page for more information on how this giant waste of time and resources ever became law and why its expiration is a good thing.

Reuters, that bastion of journalistic credibility, really has its head ALL THE WAY up the New York Time's ass.

The United States should abolish its electoral college because it creates the possibility that the president will be a candidate who loses the popular vote, the New York Times said on Sunday.

. . .

The paper, one of the most respected in the United States, said "there should be a bipartisan movement for direct election of the president."

Aaah, yes, the echo chamber that is mainstream journalism. You could be mistaken for thinking most journalists never got off the pot.

So, what exactly does the New York Times, "one of the most respected [papers] in the United States" say.

The majority does not rule and every vote is not equal - those are reasons enough for scrapping the system.

But that argument only works when it supports the New York Times favored result. In many cases, most notably cocnerning affirmative action, abortion, makeup of the Supreme Court, and the nation's gun laws, the New York Times loves the fact that a simple majority does not win.

We are hearing far more this year about the issue of storing hazardous waste at Yucca Mountain, an important one for Nevada's 2.2 million residents, than about securing ports against terrorism, a vital concern for 19.2 million New Yorkers.

Well, this is a just plain ignorant statement. We are hearing plenty about the war on terrorism, though admittadly not enough. As far as Yucca Mountain goes, the decision on where to store nuclear waste is of vital importance to EVERY American interested in a robust energy market and don't forget, for all the Climate Change weanies out there, Nukes are by far the cleanest source of energy. Of course, we need a place to store this waste. The Times, like most of their elitist east coast liberal brethern can do without the west of its people. Hence the call to just stick it to them, and not allow them to debate the issue.

A few years ago, this page was moved by these concerns to support the Electoral College. But we were wrong. The small states are already significantly overrepresented in the Senate, which more than looks out for their interests. And there is no interest higher than making every vote count.

Ooh, we see. Yes, thats right. When it benefits Bill Clinton, the Times supports it. When it hurts John Kerry the Times calls for its abolishment. We have a word for this here in Virginia.

HYPOCRITE

Geesh, their almost as bad as Alan Keyes

At least we can all rest well at night knowing that, by virtue of their living in New York, the New York Times actually has less pull in the National Political Landscape than say, the Las Vegas Review Journal or its great columnist Vin Suprynowicz.

Apparantly, I am the top referrer for nminusone.

I've never heard of it, but somehow, I am linking to it. Check it out, its a pretty amusing blog, and the music is . . . . shall we say . . . . unique.

I'm Back!

But I'm not going to be posting tonite. Rather, I've got some sleep to catch up on, laundry to wash, crown molding to put up, and guns to shoot.

Look for a recap of the week tomorrow and Monday.

Highlights - The wonderful King and Prince Hotel (where we stay every year and will keep returning), the great people at Southeastern Adventure Outfitters, and some new gun porn - the Ruger Mark II in .22lr.

The lack of knowledge about the issues and major players by media heads on both sides is simply astonishing.
Last night for instance, every channel had a Kerry Campaign representative talking about how the so called coordination of the Swift Boat Vets was handled by the same group of people who launched the whisper campaign against John McCain and that Bush intended to do the same thing to Kerry.

Throughout these discussions, on Fox, CNN, MSNBC, Headlines News, CNBC and the network newscasts, images and sounds from the latest video were played, with most focusing on the comments of Paul Galanti. Not one single talking head mentioned that Paul Galanti was a leader of McCain's presidential campaign.

I've always thought (indeed, its one of the reasons I started blogging) that TV journalists and commentators are for the most part brainless fools and if they can go on the air and talk about something they obviously have not done even a 30 second google search on, then I can too. Last night, it was confirmed.

Well, I just can't stay away from this blogging thing - I had to comment on this latest ad.


The Swift Boat Veterans just released a devastating new ad focusing on Kerry's Congressional Statements concerning Vietnam.

This one is going to be nearly impossible for Kerry to spin away.

Paul Galanti - one of the POWs highlighted in the ad, discusses how they "took torture to avoid saying" what Kerry stated. Galanti continues that John Kerry's testimony "demoralized" the POWs.

What is so powerful about this ad, is that Galanti, who was a resident of the Hanoi Hilton, with John McCain, from June 17, 1966 until February 12, 1973 is NOT a Bush supporter. Indeed, he was named to the Virginia Department of Veterans Affairs by Governor Mark Warner (a democrat) and was the Virginia Chair of John McCain's Presidential campaign.

Sorry, but I had to pop in for one more post before I depart.

One of the little known facts of government that has ALWAYS driven me crazy is the cost of regulations.

In 2003 the Treasury Department reported that federal discretionary spending was $825 billion (Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2005 page 150, 2000, U.S. Government Printing Office) and in 2003 the total of all individual income taxes paid was $794 billion. (Treasury Department Gross Tax Collections: Amount Collected by Quarter and Fiscal Year, 1987-2003) and the total of all corporate income taxes paid in 2003 was $197 billion (W. Crain, T. Hopkins, The Impact of Regulatory Costs on Small Firms). According to the Crain and Hopkins study, commissioned by the U.S. Small Business Adminsitration, the annual cost of ALL federal regulations is presently estimated at about $843 billion with the impact of environmental regulations (many of which have dubious benefits) costing $132 billion.

Why do I mention these very troubling number, indicative of a gluttonous federal government?

Because in the last few days both the New York Times and Washington Post have run major articles on President Bush's failure to enact enough regulation, with the Post's Howard Kurtz giving the subject an additional treatment on Tuesday.

To see what the biased media elite's are talking about, check out this graphic from the New York Times and the cost of new regulations.


Now, for months, many liberatarians have complained about the increased size of government under Bush. Democrats, correctly, criticized him for months on this issue, and the average listener may have been led to believe this was a problem they the Democrats intended (at least in their talking points) to correct, if only we elected John Kerry.

I just never imagined their suggested correction would be to keep growing the size of government.

This has all led Virginia Postrel to ask a very important question, that I absolutly concur with:

Why on earth would a libertarian vote for Goerge Bush?

I hope this clarifies the answer.

That would be Ta Ta For Now. I'm leaving tomorrow for greener, warmer, and, wetter pastures.

Seeing as I will be doing this for the next week

And be hanging out in places like this

And this

Its easy to understand why I might not be updating the blog.

Have no fear though, because I will be returning just in time for the Republican Convention and lots more blogging fun.

In the meantime, keep digging up the Kerry dirt. We've got to defeat this scumbag.

Check out my post the other day about John Kerry's hunting records. There's lots of updated information.

Better than Botox?

Looks like the Germans are one giant step closer to joining the ranks of Phil Donohue and the French.

Its disgusting, really.

I supposed they will just offer their testicles up on a platter soon.

No word on Mr. McGreevey. Looks like he's still on vacation and still a democrat.

Kerry just finished his speach to the Veterans of Foreign War, a group he roundly criticized back in the 70s, but whose support he now desperatly wants.

While he hit on a number of issues that should have recieved overwhelming support from the VFW their support of him was tepid at best - and the light applause you heard was more akin to manners than actual support.

Of course, I was hoping the VFW would riot and chant and send Kerry back to the mansion, but alas, these Veterans have more class, and respect for the office Kerry seeks, than to engage in that behaviour (even if Kerry doesn't deserve the slightest bit of respect).

The whinning of liberals and special interst groups never ceases to amaze or annoy me. I'm gonna take a break though and let Dr. Z weigh in on the current Jeff Garcia is gay controversy.

First of all I really got a kick out of all those dimwits who protested that T.O. referred to gays as vermin, crawling things, rats, etc., because of his analogy, "If it looks like a rat and smells like a rat ... " Folks, I am no Owens apologist, as you will read further on, but when you use the analogy form, it is not meant to be taken literally. Honest. It would be as if Owens would have said, "Where there's smoke, there's fire," and the Firefighters of America would have protested vigorously at being called gay. "Never be surprised at the stupidity that abounds in our country," an old high school teacher once told me, but I can't help it. I'm constantly surprised.

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.

For too long we'veheard too much about how superior some are, how their destiny demands respect, howtheir work ethics and morals rise above the competition and will allow them to once again stroll towards victory.

Well, oh how the mighty have fallen, and I'm not talking about the thugs on the U.S. Olympic Basketball team.

Rather, it looks like Pete Carroll's much lauded USC team has gotten itself into an old fashion NebraskMiamiBamaFloridaStateOklahomaColorado type of sex scandal.

At least one member of the top-ranked Southern California football team is under investigation for sexual assault, the Los Angeles Police Department said Tuesday.

The assault allegedly occurred Monday morning, according to Officer Esther Reyes, a police spokeswoman.

"[Tuesday] the rape special section of LAPD's robbery division began conducting an investigation into the allegation of a sexual assault that may involve a member or members of the USC football team," Reyes said.

Hmm, I wonder if the holier than thou powers to be at USC will do the right thing?

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