Lieutenant To ???

That's right, he was Dukakis' Lieutenant Governor after all... After being a Lieutenant J.G. in Nam. Did he mention that he served in Vietnam?

Well, after attempting to get a deferment to study in France and chose the Swift Boats because that seemed like a safe enough assignment to see what was going on -- until Zumwalt changed their mission...

Living By Doctrine

Third name down. A pre-emptive strike as they say...

Three Strikes and You Win...

A tale of strikes and dirt balls.

UPDATE: Make that a slimy dirt ball...

Peters

Rocks!

But, but, but ... you don't understand the real roots of terror you fascist BusHitler thug! Oh? I don't?

UPDATE: And it was planned ahead of time, natch. Sound familiar?

Quote of the Day

From a comment on Roger Simon's vivisection of the media today.

As the fax machine contributed to the fall of the soviet Empire, the Internet will contribute to the fall of media monoliths.

With the AP now whole-heartedly joining the NYeT in a wave of Orwellian corruption, the only question seems to be just how close to 1989 we are? I hope it's a lot closer than it feels like today...

Flip Flap Flubbergasted

Nearly all in the same sentence again. I'm feeling quite confident we'll get there again soon.

More in the "it's all Rove's fault" department. UmmHmmm...

The Bush Doctrine In Plain English

Ahhh. Now you understand why they hate him so?

The Bush Doctrine:
1. We will fight for freedom. We reject moral relativism.

Freedom and fear are at war. The advance of human freedom -- the great achievement of our time, and the great hope of every time -- now depends on us. Our nation -- this generation -- will lift a dark threat of violence from our people and our future. We will rally the world to this cause by our efforts, by our courage. We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.

2. The friends of our enemies are also our enemies.

Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime.

3. We reserve the right to hit our enemies before they strike us.

The war on terror will not be won on the defensive. We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans, and confront the worst threats before they emerge. In the world we have entered, the only path to safety is the path of action. And this nation will act.

4. We will not negotiate with those who continue to support terrorism.

Every leader actually committed to peace will end incitement to violence in official media and publicly denounce homicide bombs. Every nation actually committed to peace will stop the flow of money, equipment, and recruits to terrorist groups seeking the destruction of Israel, including Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah.

FDR would be proud. The libs couldn't identify FDR in a line-up of one. (Hat tip Glenn.)

Ho Hum. Just another day at the scrupulously fact-checked MSM. Expect widespread retractions shortly. (Hat tip Glenn.)

My sentiments EXACTLY.

Could There Be A Reason?

That you can think of for a bit of a conflict here? From the introduction to the Nobel literature prize winning "The Captive Mind":

When someone is 55% right, that's very good and there's no use wrangling. And if someone is 60% right, it's wonderful, it's great luck, and let him thank God. But what's to be said about 75% right? Wise people say this is suspicious. Well, and what about 100% right? Whoever says he's 100% right is a fanatic, a thug, and the worst kind of rascal. --AN OLD JEW OF GALACIA

Versus a Mohammad quote near the start of Bin Laden's "Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders":

I have been sent with the sword between my hands to insure that no one but Allah is worshipped, Allah who put my livelihood under the shadow of my spear and who inflicts humiliation and scorn on those who disobey my orders.

Could it be the result of residue contorted into a cruel Mobius strip?

The Roots of Hate

Captured on video. You ain't gonna believe this one folks... (Hat tip McQ)

UPDATE: With the Russian school hostage crisis and all I wouldn't post this if I wasn't such a fanatic about dead parrots. Just thought you might want a clarification. Oh, and the bandwidth to the site isn't so good so you may see some pauses -- and maybe a lot of them if this gets to be as popular as I think it will...

Roundup

Foreshadowing of debates to come.

And some fire for the belly...

UPDATE: Ann weighs in on some "unsubstantiated charges".

The (insane) position three.

The World Leaders...

in the manufacture of perfume.

Kerry's Problem In A Pecan Shell

American Thinker: "So Kerry is proud of having called Vietnam Veterans and the men still fighting there drug-addled genocidal war criminals? That is how he stood up for Vietnam Veterans?".

But he's a hero (and self-admitted war criminal) and supports the troops? As previously noted, you can't say stuff like this without being nuttier than a pecan plantation...

UPDATE: What Kerry ignores.

Cambodia Back On? Most Excellent!

Check this out:

I love this from an interview in the September issue of GQ:

"[John Kerry]: I can't say. To me Vietnam is an old place, an old memory. It is old history, it's gone, it's past. The less I have to talk about it, frankly, the happier I am." [Yeah right -- ed.]

The interview took place on July 4th. That's before Kerry "reported for duty" at the Dem. convention.

On another issue, this morning I heard Del Sandusky interviewed on a radio program. He specifically said that they "touched ground" in Cambodia. Which means it had to be in February or March '69. I suspect that careful questioning of him would destroy that claim.

Sandusky also said a number of disingenuous things in the interview that make me think he's deliberately lying, not simply mistaken in his memories. He claimed not to even know most of the people who appear in the SBVFT ads, and that for Larry Thurlow to say he served with John Kerry is, "like me saying I served with Wm. Westmoreland".

Yet, John Kerry, in Tour of Duty, has Thurlow and his boats practically side by side. Since Sandusky was at the helm of Kerry's boat, that makes either Kerry or Sandusky a liar.

So fine, I'll go so far as to buy it. I repeat: It doesn't matter -- Kerry is toast even if he was in Cambodia... When I talk to my very, very liberal Mom who lived through WWII I am constantly amazed at how little she remembers of it. I'm also quite amazed how little the libs remember of the history around the Vietnam War. (Yes, follow that link!)

A different drummer?

Crossing the Rubicon?

Rantburg has it nailed (shameless steal follows):

New Chapter for the Vagina Monologues
Ok, somebody finally said it in public:
Russian Planes Exploded From Toilets
Evidence Supports Prior Reports of Al Qaeda Women Smuggling Explosives Internally?

What makes this especially ominous is this report from six months ago, claiming that Al Qaeda was training female bombers to smuggle explosives inside their vaginas. The plan was to extract the explosives and then assemble the bomb in the toilet, of course.

I have no idea how this country will react to this, if this is the new tactic. As I mentioned when I first noted this story (CAUTION: contains very indelicate language), we’re either going to have to subject women to highly, HIGHLY intrusive body-searches or else we’re just going to have to allow Al Qaeda to blow up airplanes whenever they feel like it.

If this is the new tactic, it seems to me that this will be the Rubicon as regards racial profiling. Non-Muslim women are not going to put up with being told that they must subject themselves to unscheduled gynecological exams just to be "fair" to all women. And, as humiliating and intrusive as such searches might be, I don’t see how we can do anything else but subject only Muslim women (or primarily Muslim women) to this admitted indignity.

Perhaps there’s a technological solution. But that too has its problems; I don’t know if many women will gladly accept dangerous X-raying of their wombs just to board an airplane.

...

And remember the "male version" that Annie Jacobsen witnessed? Annie is already on the case...

UPDATE: You really need to read Annie's most recent update. Here's how it ends:

In Part Five of this series, I interviewed fellow flight 327 passenger Billie Jo Rodriguez. Rodriguez gave me the startling news that one of the Syrian men spent about 10 minutes in the lavatory and then came out of the lavatory reeking of toilet chemicals. As I have previously stated, multiple government agencies (including FBI, JTTF, FAMS and LAPD) met the plane in Los Angeles to question the men. But because the men didn't immediately match up against names on the government's no-fly lists, they were let go.

Here is another detail that I have only recently discovered. I now know that the 14 Syrians aboard my flight 327 were questioned by the FBI for between 20 and 30 minutes after landing. (Initially, I was told they were held and questioned for approximately two hours.) How can our agencies possibly gather intelligence on 14 men in only 20 minutes? Even if they had done some of the legwork before the plane landed, they couldn't possibly conduct a thorough investigation in such short time. And again, I'll ask why none of the other passengers were questioned? Had the FBI ascertained Billie Jo Rodriguez' information about one of the Syrian men emerging from a bathroom smelling like toilet chemicals (after nearly knocking another passenger over so as to get inside first) -- those men may not have been out the door and on their way to their musical gig after just 20 minutes.

As of press time, no one from the FBI, the JTTF or the DHL or any other government agency has contacted me, Billie Jo Rodriguez or any of the other passengers on flight 327. Maybe the Russians will. The war on terrorism is a global war. It knows no boundaries. Whether you're on a Russian TU-134 or a Boeing 757, the enemy is the same.

And you were wondering why defense isn't enough?

Sad Spanish Saga Segues

Some more on getting the Spanish out of Spain. (Remember this?)

Time to separate student assessment from teaching?

FRENCH FILE FLUFFING

Hey Sully, remember when I promised to kill you last?

UPDATE: Standing in the way of global Islamic theocracy...

MUST. READ. NOW. BOTH. LINKS.

A chronological debunking of our newest Riefenstahl. And I don't mean the big fat one...

Marxist Cogitation

Let's look some more at that 1971 Senate Committee appearance:

Senator, I will say this. I think that politically, historically, the one thing that people try to do, that society is structured on as a whole, is an attempt to satisfy their felt needs, and you can satisfy those needs with almost any kind of political structure, giving it one name or the other. In this name it is democratic; in other it is communism; in others it is benevolent dictatorship. As long as those needs are satisfied, that structure will exist.

But when you start to neglect those needs, people will start to demand a new structure, and that, to me, is the only threat that this country faces now, because we are not responding to the needs and we are not responding to them because we work on these old cold-war precepts and because we have not woken up to realizing what is happening in the United States of America.

Yes, this gives one great hope -- hope that he loses big time.

Round-up Time

Batman swats down Robin.

What the loyal opposition looks like. And Hitch too, of course.

Deconstructing hubris.

Life isn't fair for the Islamofascist allies. But then Vichy France was no cakewake either...

McCain finally swings the guns around in the right direction and ... fails to condemn the second Swift Boat ad and ... it's not going to be pretty...

He Voted For It Before He Voted Against It (Part 7,457)

This is just beautiful -- two Kerry "nanonuances" in one article. First the expected one:

As the presumptive Democratic nominee, Kerry was ready with the bravado appropriate for a challenger who knows that every answer carries magnified importance in the state that put President Bush into office by just 537 votes.

''I'm pretty tough on Castro, because I think he's running one of the last vestiges of a Stalinist secret police government in the world,'' Kerry told WPLG-ABC 10 reporter Michael Putney in an interview to be aired at 11:30 this morning.

Then, reaching back eight years to one of the more significant efforts to toughen sanctions on the communist island, Kerry volunteered: ``And I voted for the Helms-Burton legislation to be tough on companies that deal with him.''

It seemed the correct answer in a year in which Democratic strategists think they can make a play for at least a portion of the important Cuban-American vote -- as they did in 1996 when more than three in 10 backed President Clinton's reelection after he signed the sanctions measure written by Sen. Jesse Helms and Rep. Dan Burton.

There is only one problem: Kerry voted against it.

Asked Friday to explain the discrepancy, Kerry aides said the senator cast one of the 22 nays that day in 1996 because he disagreed with some of the final technical aspects. But, said spokesman David Wade, Kerry supported the legislation in its purer form -- and voted for it months earlier.

And then the coup-de-grace:

But there are also constant reminders that Kerry struggles with the complexities of Cuba. Asked in the Herald interview last year about sending Elián back to Cuba, Kerry was blunt: ``I didn't agree with that.''

But when he was asked to elaborate, Kerry acknowledged that he agreed the boy should have been with his father.

So what didn't he agree with?

''I didn't like the way they did it. I thought the process was butchered,'' he said.

I would write more on this but only expletives come to mind.

A hearty laugh for Googlers at the expense of tiny-brained Kerry apologists.

The Manchurian Candidate

Filleted nicely in "Fahrenheit 1971". And well done too...