SENATORS ADVOCATE ABANDONING THE TROOPS: Another VietNam?

Do they never learn? Congress took over running the war in VietNam and we got our asses kicked, left guys behind to be tortured and die, and lost all credibility. Politicians ran the Korean war, and the result was VietNam, and virtually every debacle since then. Every time the politicians get involved in military matters, American soldiers and civilians pay in blood and bone.

I believe it’s time the politicians went to the front lines. Every one of the guys who vote to leave our boys exposed without the increased support of the additional troops they need to guard their backs, has to be sent to the front lines for a month or two, to see how it feels to be out there on the sharp edge, without enough of our guys to make sure nobody gets cut off, kidnapped, tortured and murdered. We lost enough good guys like that in VietNam. We are strong enough that we don't have to abandon any troop to the kind of thing at least one of our senators suffered. Right, McCain?

The voters didn’t send a lot of ex-military types to Congress so you old politicos could screw up the military effort in Irag. When Democrats “took back the hill” with veterans, it was because we wanted the war run and won by people who knew the hell what they are doing, and we wanted the support in Congress to ensure that the military had the tools to do the job.

If you didn’t get the message, you will at the next election. We don’t want our troops left high and dry in Iraq. We want the job done. We want the terrorists denied a standing place. We want them kept busy. BUT, we don’t want to lose a single one of our guys and gals if we can help it – and we can help it with adequate troops and adequate support and adequate supplies.

And that’s your responsibility, gentlemen and ladies of Congress. You don’t have the know-how to run a war. You don’t have Constitutional authority to run a war. So far you have shown little ability to run a country or to do anything except squabble among yourselves like a lot of ill-disciplined and mean-spirited kindergarteners.

Right now, all you seem to be concerned with is maneuvering to win the next election, that is to gather personal power. Enough already. The country and all of our lives, as well as the life of each and every troop abroad, are at risk while you play power games. Get real, fast, or you will suffer the consequences. If case you have forgotten, DC is the best, greatest, central target, and you guys are the center of the eye – even if you are the biggest bunch of boondogglers in the history of this country. If they take you all out, they’ll think they’ve done something.

And what you are advocating is shameful: leaving our troops exposed to take a hit. That is only a recent tradition, only since politicians got involved in controlling the military. Prior to that, our honor required that we cover every man, woman and child. We defend our own, just as Roosevelt sent the marines to bring out an American citizen from some sheik in the desert. Crazy? Maybe. But the world honored and respected us. You blame each president in turn for the world’s bad opinion of America. I don’t think so. It’s not George Bush who shows yellow these days. Or self-interest. Or stupidity. Or pride. Ignorance. Hubris. The hero of Chappaquidick floats a plan and the senate jumps on board? Low blow? Reality. A man who leaves the troops once continues to advocate leaving the troops, and it’s just wrong. If you can’t see that, try going without your security for the duration of this war on terror.

Yes, every senator who advocates leaving the troops without the additional support needed to ensure their safety must also agree to go “naked,” without his or her own security, during the war on terror, for himself or herself and family. Walk the talk. Put your life where your vote is, Senators.

If you can’t do that, then you might as well put a big red “T” on your forehead. We’ll see it there, anyway.

JIM CROW IS ALIVE AND WELL IN THE US

ODE TO JIM CROW JUSTICE

Justice ain’t here or there or anywhere
the clique of lawyers and judges make their beds
link their heads
store up wealth
and make new laws
to hem in the lowly
lowing cows,
the hoi polloi
the us
that them can feel better than
those elite up there
so high above
the rest of us.

We don’t stand a chance.

They make the rules
make the evidence
control the game
and all the players
decide who wins
who loses:
It’s their yard.

Jim Crow, he rules the roost,
calls the tune.

Those black robes mean more
than solemn,
hide more than truth;
They are the symbol of the darkness
that seeps from the top down
and the bottom up
and squeezes the hope out of freedom’s light
with not even a fiddler playing mad music
while the fires die out with a whimper
and the gavels beat truth down
into artful language and “common law”
designed to suit the high dollar client
who pays the political bills.

But if we are not a nation of laws
Laws for all of us,
then all of us,
the we that makes the “US,”
are lost.

And we know it:
there’s the pity;
that knowing,
we still can find no answer
to stop Jim Crow.
Time’s wheel turns;
Crows hang high in the farmer’s field.
Pray God freedom lives to see
the turn of the wheel.

This Ode is reprinted with permission of the author and publisher, on the occasion of the submission of Shelby S v Conroe Independent School District to the Supreme Court for review. This case is a clear and compelling example of Jim Crow justice, in that the hearing officer announced his decision prior to hearing any evidence, then carefully discarded any and all evidence which disproved his pre-determined ruling, including the sworn confession of a Registered Nurse that she had falsified school documents including a doctor's orders, backdating them to falsify evidence for the school district. The hearing officer's declamation that the parent had "scripted" a doctor's interaction with the school is in direct conflict with all of the sworn testimony and evidence in the record, including that introduced from the school's records. His opinion could not be based on a matter of witness credibility/reliability, or document reliability, since all of the witnesses except two were school employees and agents, and all of the documents were from the school files. He stated his ruling was based on a case that says a school has the right to evaluate a child for eligibility, and carefully ignored the facts proven in the case, that the school district had just fully evaluated the child with an FIE, found her eligible based on that doctor's evaluation they wanted to discard, and then refused to implement the child's medical specialist's prescription into her individual school plan, before denying her access to school. He carefully failed to list the applicable dates, the school's recanting of their original allegations, and the complete material facts in the case.

What the school was doing, with the hearing officer's assistance, was conspiring to deny the child and her parents their federal and state civil rights, and cobbling up a defense to the federal Americans with Disabilities suit filed by the parent after the school had denied the child access to class with her healthcaregiver, required by her physician because the child was subject to sudden cardiac arrest, and the school refused to provide a trained caregiver. The school declared that they had the right to get a doctor of their own to write a prescription they liked better, presumably without a trained caregiver, since they believed the child did not require assistance in the class to prevent cardiac arrest. The school was asserting that they had the right to control the child's healthcare at school, because she was receiving an education under IDEA. The hearing officer agreed, saying the school had an absolute right under a case called ANDRESS.

When the parent appealed to federal court, JIM CROW was still on guard. The school district filed a summary judgment, and it was granted. The 5th Circuit, on appeal, agreed again. The school has an absolute right; the parent has none - and the subject is medical control of a handicapped child. They said if the parent didn't like it, "pull her out of school." In other words, "let them eat ca-ca-cake!"

Although IDEA says that a parent has the right to have the hearing officer's case facts reviewed in federal court, JIM CROW says different. Summary judgment precludes a review, and the parent's due process rights were voided by this process.

Therefore, the parent is taking the case to the Supreme Court. Now we will see how high JIM CROW flies.

DOES JIM CROW NEST IN THE SUPREME COURT? Or will the Supreme Court review this travesty of justice? Will we see feathers fly? or just a few more crows?

WE ARE WINNING IN IRAQ!

Newsflash for all you slow thinkers out there: we are winning in Iraq. Our presence alone in Iraq, and in Afghanistan, denies the terrorists a safe staging ground for their activities. Our presence alone in Iraq, and in Afghanistan, denies the terrorists a safe haven to run to, to retreat to, after sorties against us. Our presence alone in IRAQ, and in AFGHANISTAN, denies the terrorists free access to weapons, money, troops, and support, and that, my slow-thinking friends, is why they and their fifth columnists here in America and elsewhere are working so hard to get us OUT OF IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN.

It’s because we’re winning, just by being there. Like the dog in the manger, our presence alone keeps them out.

You have to learn to think logically and realistically to figure out what’s really going on. You can’t trust the press – you should have learned that by now. We all know the liberal press is too wrapped up in their agenda, that is to crucify George W. Bush and steamroller the Republican party, to bother giving us the straight story on anything.

The terrorists have made it perfectly clear that they want us OUT of Iraq and Afghanistan. They’re getting plenty of support from liberals here at home. So the terrorists and their buddies – apparently including large numbers of elected Democrats – want us out of Iraq and Afghanistan. To any person with average or above intelligence, this should be a strong signal that we should stay where? In Iraq and Afghanistan. If it ain’t working for the terrorists, it must be working for us, right? Right.

Then there is always past history to go by. Remember the old moral: those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them. In Korea, we cut and run at the 38th Parallel [Didn’t want to make too many people mad, so MacArthur was told to stop there] leaving North and South Korea –which led directly to the VietNam War, where we cut and run, leaving our allies to be butchered in the American Compound as we helicoptered the last few out. And now we’re dealing with Iraq and Afghanistan, which can be traced back to that debacle where America lost what standing we had in the world with our lost honor, because you can’t cut and run and take your honor with you. Honor doesn’t “cut and run.”

The terrorists knew they could get away with whatever they chose to do because they saw that we’d always caved in, cut and run, and that we’d never held anybody accountable for years. We allowed our friends and our enemies to extort money from us; we tried to buy everybody off; we blustered and beg and whined. Right up until the day George W. Bush said, “You’re either for us or against us, and we’re coming after you if you’re against us,” and then he did it. We did it.

And now the Democrats, and the terrorists, want us to “cut and run” again. No. Never again. We, the people of this country, want you who represent us to clearly understand that we are true blue, and we won’t stain. You’d better not, either. To paraphrase John Paul Jones, “Damn the terrorists and their friends, full speed ahead!”

We’re winning in Iraq and Afghanistan. We’re winning! As long as we’re there, the terrorists cannot use Iraq and Afghanistan for safe havens and staging grounds for attacks against us, so we’re defeating them and their goals for those countries. We’re there for the long haul, but no matter how you spin it, we’re winning in Iraq!

DEMOCRATS STRANDED ON MORAL HIGH GROUND

Some senators keep talking about “taking the moral high ground” when it comes to dealing with terrorists, and refusing to act on the President’s legislation. It’s as though they think most of us can’t be trusted to do the right thing.

May I remind you that the English called themselves taking “the moral high ground” during the Revolutionary War, when they persisted in marching in formation to battle, because that’s the way it had always been done, while Americans, lesser armed and outnumbered, fought in skirmish lines from behind trees and mowed ‘em down?

We don’t have to fight stupid, just because we always have.

The decision to draw the line at the 38th parallel, instead of going all the way in Korea, was probably the worst one we made, and it led right here, demonstrably. Right here. Go back and figure it out. We were concerned with the world’s opinion – and the press – and politics. Screw them all and the horses they rode in on!

Get to the bottom line. The shortest distance between two points. What’s the goal, the real goal? Keeping Americans free and safe at home. Not winning a world-wide popularity contest. And definitely not selling more air time, more newspapers, more ads.

Because that’s what the media is all about, my boys.

The moral high ground ain’t worth spit, when you’re cut off without ammunition, and you have no supply lines, and the barbarians are at the gate.

Like now.

So get real. Write us a new bill, defining terrorists and how to deal with them. Keep the Geneva Conventions for real wars, God send we should never have another one, and forget about world opinion for once and do your job, the one you swore to do, remember? You put one hand on a book, raised the other, and mouthed some words? These are the ones:

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.

Unfortunately, some of those “domestic” enemies of the Constitution now appear to be some of you elected senators and representatives, who seem more concerned with world opinion than with implementing the protections we need to assure that there will never be another 9/11 incident on American soil.

The putative explanation for your failure to act is that you are concerned about what these other countries, like Iran, will do if we change the Geneva Conventions. We already know. They do not recognize the Geneva Conventions in actuality. Iran ordered the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers, and bankrolls terrorists in that area. Ipso facto: no Geneva Convention. Just expediency.

However, if that is truly the reason, and the Democrats are not just concerned with electioneering, powermongering and balking President Bush, [$100,000 on the nose on that one] there is absolutely no reason they can’t get a new bill such as the one I described out within a few days. I could write it myself in a few hours, so they have no excuse.

Put up or shut up, guys. Either you’re for us, or you’re agin us - and the election is just around the corner.

See you at the polls.

DEMOCRATS STILL DON’T GET IT! and some Republicans lack common sense. . .

Big debate over how we treat captured terrorists. Democrats very concerned about how foreign nations view American policies, and a few idiot Republicans self-righteously taking the high road, going to earn the world’s good opinion.

“Gee, mom, everybody else does it.” If everybody else jumped off Brooklyn Bridge, would you do it, too?

Where are your heads? Never mind. We’ve got a pretty good idea.

Listen up, fellas. Look into the nearest mirror and repeat after me: “My job is to take care of America and the American people.”

Next: “The American people don’t care what those foreign nations think. They just want to be safe.”

Next: “The American people know the difference between soldiers in uniform and terrorists who capture and torture their prisoners, then dump them beside the road.”

Next: “The American people know that our side needs interrogation ability to keep us safe at home, and that Congress is keeping us from getting it.”

Next: “There’s an election coming up. And after that, there’s another one, and another one.”

Next: “I’d better start paying attention to what the American people think.”

Common sense tells us that we don’t want to mess with the international laws that keep our uniformed military safe if captured. However, there’s nothing in the world to keep us from writing new legislation, defining terrorists and what we can do when we capture them, and grandfathering in the ones we already have. We can certainly define the threat to America, and why we have to do what we have to do. We can detail the atrocities these terrorist commit, and their goals and aims that put them outside the normal bounds, and the fact that they belong to no country, no government, no uniformed service, and answer to no leader, with no rules. We can limit ourselves and require that they do the same, but recognize that they may not. We can also state that they are not citizens of America or any other particular country, and have declared Jihad, and are thus subject to the rules of their own Jihad, and are not, when captured, granted the rights of citizenship in the country they would destroy.

This solves the problem by documenting the class which they themselves have created for themselves. It is they who have removed themselves from civilization, not we have have removed them. They created their own special class of rights, within Jihad – which does not authorize the peculiar brand of torture which they employ. They blaspheme their own religion; and we sully freedom when we offer its benefits to those who are undeserving of it.

It’s time all of you stopped thinking of your political gain and started thinking of what is best for the people you represent. America was more respected when Roosevelt sent the marines after that American than it was before 9/11, and it is more respected today. If you want to know what caused the “poor opinion” of America held by many in the world, you have only to look to the media, and to the shenanigans they report, to their negative stories, to the leaks from your ranks, to the disrespect you show to the President, to the country, and to us, to find out why there is so much negative opinon.

And another thing, didn’t your mother ever tell you you can’t buy friends? Bring our money home. All of those creeps in Cuba, taking our money and throwing stones, should convince you that we’ve done enough. Bring our money home. Pass an act defining the terrorists, terrorism, and giving our interrogators what the President says they need. Do your jobs.

Death of a Film Maker

Wow! Far out! Just saw this great new script.
Action like you wouldn’t believe. Terror! The hair stood up all over my body.

See there’s this filmmaker – he makes this rad film about the death of a president, but it’s a live President. Just a film, you know, just talking – didn’t mean anything by it – the guy’s just out to make a buck, you know.

BUT. He makes these guys really mad. I mean like frothing at the mouth. You see, they like this President, and they think he’s like keeping the world safe for democracy or something, and they think this guy might like stir up trouble for the Pres.

SO they decide to take out this film maker.

Really. I kid you not!

Man, it’s a great script!
They track this guy like all over.
And like they decide it’s not enough just to kill him.

No. They want to like make a statement first.

So they decide to do a film too of all their action like while they’re tracking and all. Like while they’re setting up and freaking the guy out and all?

Oh, so cool man. Like rad, you know?

Great action. Like you know those really great vid games. Like HOT action and you would not believe everything that happens to this guy. Like they decide to totally freak him and everybody else out first. Before they kill him, I mean.

And boy what they do to him.

Bet this one wins a prize.

Cut and Run: See the bully Democrats show YELLOW!

We cut and run in Korea, and we got Vietnam.
We cut and run in Vietnam, and has anyone forgotten the results of that debacle?
We cut and run in Somalia – and we got Osama Binladin and 9/11.
Now the Democrats want us to cut and run from Iraq.
Right.

Anybody’d think these Democrats never had any experience with school bullies.
Well, maybe they were always on the bully side, hmm? Or maybe they just want us to think that they know nothing about the mechanics of bullydom. Then again, maybe they are so focused on their goal, to get control, to corral that political power, that they just don’t care about anything else, including national security – and our personal safety.

People with good sense know that if you run from a bully he just follows you home. Give him your lunch money and he comes back the next day. If you want to be left alone, you have to beat the $#*% out of him, preferably with the biggest stick you can find. You have to convince him that you are meaner than he is, and that you won’t ever quit fighting him, that you carry a rattlesnake in your pocket, that you know where he sleeps, and that you intend to put spiders, snakes, and scorpions in his blankets, in his lunch box, in his shoes, and down his shirt. You have to convince him that he has no safe place, and if he ever bothers you again, you’ll set him on fire, literally – and you have to show him you mean it. I speak from experience.

Bullies are terrorists. Terrorists are bullies. Anybody who can’t understand where George W Bush is coming from has a few loose screws—or is extremely inexperienced or naïve in the ways of the world or has an agenda that doesn’t fit with the needs of the American public to be safe and secure.

Anybody who can’t look at our past history and what’s currently happening and rightfully judge the success of the Presidential mission is a fool or a knave. It’s very clear that we have had no terrorist activity on our soil since President Bush saddled up the troops and led them out on patrol – the American posse has kept us safe here at home. That’s what he said he’d do, and he has done it.

But the Democrats are very unhappy with that. It has kept the Republicans in power. So the Democrats have done everything they can to shake that, including working against the safety and security of the American people by actually conducting treasonous activities in the name of political expediency: they want to get back in power.

The media are helping them.

What bothers me is where do these jokers think they can hide once they've removed all of our protections? Do they really believe they will have earned some kind of gratitude from the terrorists for making it easy to roll over this country? Do they think they'll get some kind of reward? Exactly why is it the Democrats are so strong against the telephone monitoring program? If you remember, when President Bush was so hot to trace those who made a killing on the stock market on 9/11, the Democrats blocked that, too.

Talk about being sold down the river -- If we the people assist the Democrats to take back the House and Senate, we are working against ourselves. More fools, we, for helping these skunks to destroy our safety and security so they can gain political power.

The Democrats and the national media need a dose of reality, and the American voters are just the folks to give it to them. Cry "wolf," all you want, guys. We see the writing on the wall, and it's clear that while the terrorist are raising cain elsewhere, they are not pulling our chain. President Bush laid down the gauntlet. He told them plainly, just as did Churchill: "we will fight you wherever you are, whoever you are, and we will defeat you, whatever it takes. We will never quit."

The leaders of foreign nations got a stern lesson in our defeat of Saddam; the terrorists' determination to drive us out of Iraq with the help of the Democrats and the national media is a good indication of how successful the tactic has been. They chip away at us in the area of public opinion, with the aid and comfort of yellow dog Americans.

But President Bush is fully aware that he has the support of the solid core of the American public, those of us who rely on him to hold the line and keep us safe, regardless of the media blitz and the Democrat's demonization of Republicans. We are not in agreement with the illegal immigration policies advocated first by the Democrats -- and we want the Mexican border closed and the illegal immigrants shipped out, with all of the Federal laws enforced -- but we support the President's stand on Iraq. We infinitely prefer to have the war on terror fought on foreign soil.

So all of you voters go out there and let the Democrats hear you loud and clear: keep the House and Senate Republican so we can be assured that the war on terrorism will be fought not in the streets of Washington, DC, New York, Boston, and points west, but on the terrorists' own soil. Let's keep America free.

SUV Bashing - Democrats Bad Sports

Still raving about SUVs. Alice in Wonderland through the Looking Glass, where are your heads? Not where your bodies are, obviously. . .The people who are dissing SUVs are riding around in BMWs, Caddies, Lincolns, and the ever present limousines. So let’s take a close look at their rides, shall we?

Just as an example, the popular 2006 Cadillac XLR-V gets 15 miles to the gallon in the city, but uses premium unleaded fuel, while most of the despised SUVs use regular unleaded fuel or the more environmental friendly E85 and get just one mile per gallon less, at 14 mpg. The 2006 BMW M5 is even less environmentally friendly: it gets only 12 mpg using that premium unleaded fuel.

And what about those limousines that our politicos and the west coast mavens so love to cruise around in while they rave about the damage done by SUVs????? Hmmm. . .well, those babies get a whopping 5 - 9 miles to the gallon. And how often do you see them just humming along at the curb, waiting for their exalted personages to return to those glorious nests?

My, my, my. Do we need to rethink our position, or do we need to step out of our limousines and start riding bicycles in order to put our money where our mouths are? Or do we just go on shooting off our silly mouths and hope that nobody with any sense notices what idiots we are, or what hypocrites we have turned out to be? It’s ok for us to spend our money on our pleasure and safety, because we are “special,” but when somebody out in the hinterlands wants to protect their kids, that is simply not allowed. Right?

Anything to support our democratic pontiffs, and their desire to gather power at any cost. Why should you have to think, and make reasonable decisions about things that matter? After all, you’re special. Right?

MEDIA BASHING AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' - Bush, Democrats, Republicans, Impartial Advocates?

I think somebody should do a research project with the media as the subjects. Something along the general lines of determining whether the average IQ of that group rises above that of a stone. . .

Media question put to President Bush re world opinion: did he think his decisions on Iraq had anything to do with the world’s negative opinion of the US?

I think the world’s “negative” opinion of the US, if indeed it exists, which is highly questionable, given the huge number of people in the world benefiting from the US’s largess and actual physical protection, is a direct result of the actions and intent of the media.

Can I be plainer? For years, the media has gotten on its hobby horse and either directly badmouthed the US, its leaders, its customs, its people, its actions, etc., or showcased any fools who wanted to do so for their own personal agendas, without the least consideration for the imperatives in their contract with America – a written contract with the Feds, by the way, that compels them to be “disinterested, impartial reporters of the news.” They are supposed to represent us, and our right to know.

If you contrast today’s media with that of WWII, you will see a striking difference. Today we have a group of “celebrities,” who think that their position in the public eye gives them a right to impose their views on the rest of us – a cloak of righteous invincibility which allows them to toss away any evidence in support of any opposite view and justify it with remarks like those of one of the studio heads when he tried to excuse General ______’s persecutors with the line that “they believed [their false story] so strongly that they just ignored all of the [factual] evidence against it.” Right. As though that was a reasonable remark.

Excuse me while I pick my head up off the floor.

Can you imagine a DA explaining police action to a judge like that? “Uh, your honor, uh, the reason the officers didn’t take the fingerprints off the weapon and compare them to the guy's holding the gun was because they are so sure the wife did it.” “And we are not admitting eyewitness testimony because we want to hang this other guy, and they all say he didn’t do it, see? “

Because the “press” has long since left the building, so to speak, that is – left the impartial standards of reporting far behind, and above them, because I think no one could dispute that they have sunk far below the truth, below ethical standards, below impartiality, and below the factual line of giving the public the amount of actual data, real information necessary to make informed decisions about really important factors in our daily lives – and instead of doing their job have engaged in an incestuous love affair with themselves, their "consultants," their talking heads, their "informants," etc., they have completely lost touch with reality.

The media has created an artificial Red Queen Looking Glass world in which the facts as they create and opine them determine the path of the world, and they are the guiding lights, perhaps the saviours? So they keep steering off course, and the more they disrupt the system, the worse it gets. The major networks, the news networks, and every night the same stories, the same talking heads, the same group – an in-group – all with the same vested interests, all part of the same self-perpetuating system that’s careening like a crazed Rim world, trying to block communication between those of us in the real world and the President, for example. . .

Control is the issue, of course. Control information and you control the populance. Filter information, and keep people upset and on edge. Focus their anxieties and fears, and herd them like sheep.

Isn’t the parallel clear? Henny Penny and Doggy Loggy and who are the others? Can’t you hear what they’re saying?

The sky is falling, the sky is falling. . .

Thank God for the internet, and for those of us who live in the real world. Hey, guys! GUYS! We’re mad as hell, and we ain’t gonna take it any more!

This is an enforcement issue. We the people call for enforcement of the federal laws governing the networks. Maybe a nice big class action suit. What about the Federal Trade Commission - how could they all have the same news on every night without some kind of collusion . . . What about diversity? There's too many media people on TV. . .hmmm.

Bush, Press Corps, Polls, Time Tables, and Truth

Well, the Washington press corp has once again surpassed itself. I would not have believed it had I not seen it.

Wait. I’ve done them a disservice, if that is possible. It is just barely possible that some cretanous puppetmaster is writing those inane questions and compelling them to make such glorious fools of themselves, on pain of losing their positions. That’s probably true. After all, we all have to eat.

And the talking heads are no better. Did you hear those comments about the gesture made by Iraq’s prime minister on meeting and shaking hands with the president? I nearly fell off my chair. They shouldn’t be allowed to do that to an old lady like me. I could have been killed!

The man turns to face the cameras and checks his tie and the national press of the United States turns that simple gesture, that I would be willing to lay money each and every one of them has done countless times before facing the cameras, into some kind of mystic pass. The fact that the president’s tie was a little off center after his hurried rush to greet the Prime Minister probably cued the check. One has to remember that the Iraqis are a more formal people than we. Plus, they deal more with permanent print media, and are accustomed to formal poses. But the Pompous Press and their talking heads have to have something to say – they should come with instructions, like those Christmas presents Grandma sends the kids: “First, remove foot from mouth. . .”

And the Washington press corps are so busy spinning anti-Am when they deal with President Bush that they neglect to ask the questions that we the people would like to have answered. Instead, some stupid bimbo gets up and asks what message the President is sending about the prime minister when he failed to notify him in plenty of time to let the terrorists set up their anti-aircraft guns. . .Well, that wasn’t exactly what she said, but that was exactly what she meant.

Now we all know that the Demoncrats would love nothing more than to have Mr. Bush shot down, literally, by anybody and they are doing their level best to see that it happens. If the country goes down with him, hey – as long as they getelected, what do they care????

But I think she went just a little too far. The press is letting the hoi polloi see that they think we’re stupid, that we won’t notice even the most obvious attempt to paint us in the most negative possible light. Because the President is us, after all. Do you think they’re so stupid they don’t know that? That when they dis the President, they’re dis-ing the country, and us, to the whole world????

And who gave them the right, or even the position? Who are these “masked men”??

Another one of them got up and quoted “the polls.” President Bush threw them right back at her. We all know about the polls. You can make the polls say anything you want to, just by the way you write the questions. Anybody who thinks the Democrats are going to take the next election, especially by giving away this country, better try doing an honest poll. One where you ask straight out and get a straight answer.

Bubba comes by and sits on my front porch quite often. He’s taught me how to sing a song I really like, about beer and horses and raising your glasses against evil forces. He says the boys down at the bar sing it every night. They all really like Bush, and what he’s doing with the military. They don’t like the yellow dog politicians, media, and the Hollywood hypocrites. Bubba makes one word out of that one: hollywoodhypocrites. Bubba says there are always fair-weather friends, and we don’t need ‘em. We especially don’t need ‘em running the country.

Then we have people like Congressman Paul, who seems not to have all his ducks in a row, or perhaps just not to have all his ducks. . .He doesn’t get the difference between “intervening” in a foreign war, and pursuing the terrorists who invaded our country so avidly abroad that they have no time to wage war here on American soil. Or maybe he’s just trying to position himself as a VP candidate.

The Democrats say violence is at an all-time high – untrue! And what violence there is, it ain’t here, brethren!

For those of you who don’t get it, that’s what’s important to us!

And for all those of you who are so concerned with time tables, please be advised that we know the reasons you are so concerned with time tables: you want to work them into your private agendas – your re-election plans, your ratings, your own personal interests, which we know are not particularly connected with our interest in America’s and our personal security. If you’re interested in our point of view.

Just for the record, our take on the time table for leaving Iraq is pure and simple: we get out when the job is done.

Those of us who live in the real world know that many things take their own time. We who know that we are not God, unlike a group of senators and congressmen who shall be nameless democrats, mostly, we hope, for generations hereafter as a result of their determination to focus on their own personal goals to the exclusion of their country’s good--we know that some things are worth waiting for. Freedom from terrorism here in America is worth waiting for, no matter how long it takes.

Bubba and I watched President Bush up there taking questions, and it reminded us of the Lion King, with all the jackals sniffing around. . .traitors and backstabbers are thick on the ground in DC and the national media, according to Bubba, and I agree, but G. W. is a Man. He has what it takes to draw hard lines, and to make ‘em stick.

What the President needs to know, and the rest of you need to remember, is that he’s got quite a majority posse all over the mainland. And we are gathering rope, and looking for trees. We are planning on doing more than raising our glasses and singing: we’re taking names, and we’ll be voting our principles--and your lack of ‘em.

[Thanks to Toby Keith for Beer for My Horses]