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Joe Carter, over at The Evangelical Outpost takes the ball I tossed up the other day about Kerry’s forign ‘endorsements’ and runs with it:

“According to TITLE 18 , PART I , CHAPTER 45 , Sec. 953. of the U.S. Criminal Code, commonly referred to as the “Logan Act”:

Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.”

Joe conludes what I did:

“Either he has violated the law by conducting his own private foreign policy relations or he is lying about having discussed these issues with allied leaders. Either way, Kerry owes us an explanation.”

My Way News(AP) says:

“MADRID, Spain (AP) – Voters ousted Spain’s ruling party in elections Sunday, with many saying they were shaken by bombings in Madrid and furious with the government for backing the Iraq war and making their country a target for al-Qaida.”

Idiots.

UPDATE: 0315040916— The Captain puts it very well indeed:
“It’s not too far off the mark to recall the action of the Belgians in the spring of 1940, who pulled their army out of the line of defense when they capitulated without warning their British and French allies, dealing a mortal blow to any hope of stopping the Nazi onslaught. I understand that they just took a severe blow, but when a strong nation is attacked on its own soil, especially by a numerically inferior enemy, it doesn’t close up shop and sue for peace! Any nation that reacts in that craven manner deserves to remain isolated and left to slowly decay on its own.

Way to go, Spaniards.”

Personally, I’m still a little concerned over those two Indians involved with the Spanish attack; it’s not consistant with the usual Islamofacists. Makes one wonder who would be behind it all.  Along that line, the people who won the election had so much to gain from such an attack; Might the socialists be behind this attack, I wonder?

UPDATE2: Victor Hanson has a great one today on this point

Another Update: Greatest Jeneration has a really fine take on this.

0314042007- Rochester, NY–

The Kerry saga of lies continues.

I’ve collected a few items form the past week:

* The Seattle Times reports:

“WASHINGTON – The Interior Department’s inspector general has found no basis for a claim by Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry that White House political advisers interfered in developing water policy in the Northwest”

In other words:
Kerry Lied.
Again.

* If you’ll recall, I expressed some level of question as regards the speed with which the “outrage’ hit the airwaves about the ads the president’s been running.

For a few days I was alone in my questioning of it. But now, (thank God..) people are starting on learning the truth

To listen to media whining for the last couple weeks, you ‘d think that all this was because a group of people associated with September 11th victims were so mad they got together to protest Mr. Bush, and that all that outrage was spontaneous.

Nope.

We’re now finding out that’s not true… and all it took was about 15 minutes with Google. Lookie what Bithead found!

Seems that a group calling itself “September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows” being funded by George Soros among others had this reaction all planned out, knowing full well the subject would come up.

This is not outrage… this is cynical Democrat party politics as usual, and Mr. Bush should be calling Kerry out on this one.

Oh, but hold da phone… you’ve seen NOTHING yet. This gets even better! In my searching, I find that “Peaceful Tomorrows” is listed as an official project of the Tides Center and its parent group, the Tides Foundation which is a radical leftist group I’ve mentioned before as one funded by Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Democrat candidate John Kerry. The Kerrys have poured over $4 million to the Tides Foundation between 1995-2001. Two other Heinz family foundations have poured in an additional $2 million.

They claim of course, on their site that :

“September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows has never received funding from Teresa Heinz Kerry, John Kerry, the Howard Heinz Endowment, or the Vira I. Heinz Endowment. We have no connection with the Heinz or Kerry families through Tides Foundation, the Tides Center or any other entity.”

Ah, but wait… and re read that response with some care, and you may notice that this carefully crafted rebuttal doesn’t address, much less answer the question of them getting money from TIDES, which in turn was funded by Kerry and company.

Clinton himself couldn’t wiggle better. The impression they’re trying to leave, that they got no funding whatever from Kerry…simply does not wash with the tax records. They did, in fact, get money form Tides and the other Kerry orgs, and they’re trying to cover Kerry’s butt with a bit of slight of hand.

“Tides”, and ” Peaceful Tomorrows” should be examined by the IRS, and by the FEC for federal level violations, and the Kerrys belong in jail over this one. This kind of cynical ploy at the expense of the victims of 9/11 cannot go unchallenged.

* Then of course, there’s the under-the-breath comments from Kerry.

The fact is that this is decidedly not news. The reason it’s not news is it was not unexpected.

As vile as his comments are, everyone already knew he feels that way, and has been talking that way behind the scenes for four years. These comments were bound to come out eventually. At east now, his vile sludge is out in the open, and can be dealt with by the voters.

I suspect it will be. Even the Democrats are running for the exists for the most part.

And is it just me, or did it strike you that some of Dean rubbed off on him? I mean they meet and he gets taped mouthing this crap… not unlike Dean.

* Everything I Know Is Wrong quotes The Captain who makes a valid point about Kerry’s claim of encouragement from (unspecified) foreign leaders. assuming he’s not lying, that is….:

” If Kerry really is in clandestine communication with foreign leaders and discussing changes in American foreign policy under his proposed administration, then he is interfering with the foreign policy of the current administration, which may be an actionable offense, depending on the circumstances.”

This kind of thing is why he’s in my hot blogroll…

I’d add to this, if he IS talking to them, are they backing these wishes with MONEY… such as the Chinese…

Even today, he’s getting called on it; Colin Powell on Fox News Sunday today quietly suggested Kerry ‘fess up on wh it is he’s been talking to. Of course, he won’t.

* Some interesting reports from London’s TELEGRAPH, with an interview of Stepehn Gardner, who is openly questioning Kerry’s ‘Vietnam hero’ status. Gardner, you see was THERE, and saw Kerry’s actions for himself. Says the TELGRAPH”

“The testimony of Steven Gardner, a gunner’s mate on the first patrol boat commanded by Mr Kerry in the Mekong delta, contradicts accounts of the senator’s military career that depict him as a brave and aggressive lieutenant who won three Purple Hearts and which are a key element of his campaign against George Bush.

“He absolutely did not want to engage the enemy when I was with him,” Mr Gardner said in an interview with the Boston Globe, which contacted him about the presidential candidate. “He wouldn’t go in there and search. That is why I have a negative viewpoint of John Kerry.

“His initial patterns of behaviour when I met him and served under him were of somebody who ran from the enemy, rather than engaged it.”

And finally, comes word from the RNC that Steve Schmidt, A Bush campaign spokesman, suggests:

“After calling Republicans crooks and liars, running 17 negative ads over 15,000 times and spending $6.3 million attacking the president, John Kerry is calling for a civil debate on the issues… John Kerry should finish the debate with himself.”

Can’t say it better, myself.

Well, let’see. Last weekend, we went out and got my wife a new SUV.
This weekend, as if in response, my beloved Astro threw up. It’s in the shop right now.

YahooAP says: “Spain Announces Five Arrests in Bombings ”

MADRID, Spain – Spain’s interior minister Saturday announced the arrest of five suspects in the Madrid bombings, including three Moroccans.

I wonder if this will end up casuing the EU to start taking this stuff seriously.

The Seattle Times reports:

“WASHINGTON – The Interior Department’s inspector general has found no basis for a claim by Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry that White House political advisers interfered in developing water policy in the Northwest”

In other words:
Kerry Lied.
Again.

Everything I Know Is Wrong makes note of a post making the rounds of Blogdom:

“Back during the time of the terrorist bombing in Bali you publicized someone’s idea (I forgot whose) to send flowers to the Australian consulate/embassy to express sympathy and support. I’m sorry to say that now we should do the same for the Spanish. Would you mind helping to publicize the message?
Done. Here’s the Spanish Embassy’s address: 2375 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. – Washington, D.C. 20037.
The Embassy phone number, which you’ll need to enter for Internet orders (I used 1800flowers.com) is 202.452.0100.”

Thom Galvin has some good links to local coverage on the Madrid atatcks.

AP reports:

“SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – The California Supreme Court on Thursday ordered an immediate halt to gay marriages in San Francisco, delivering a victory to conservatives who have fought for a month to block the ceremonies. Meanwhile, Massachusetts lawmakers reconvened Thursday to consider a ban on gay marriage. They gave preliminary approval to a proposal that would ban gay marriage but allow civil unions.”

Kerry fails to back up foreign ‘endorsements’ – The Washington Times: Nation/Politics:

“Sen. John Kerry refuses to provide any information to support his assertion earlier this week that he has met with foreign leaders who beseeched him to prevail over President Bush in November’s election. “

Another lie, Johnboy?

Or if you’re telling the truth, is this communication with these leaders criminal activity?

Byron York has an interesting write-up on Susan Lindauer:

“Susan Lindauer, the former Democratic congressional aide charged with spying for Iraq, was arrested several months after meeting with an FBI agent who posed as a Libyan intelligence agent looking to recruit support for Iraqi groups attacking U.S. forces in the aftermath of the war.”

Am I supposed to be shocked that this peacenick/Democrat (ala John Kerry), was working for the sworn enemy of the United States? The similarity of the politics between this woman and Kerry is remarkable.

Is it logical NOT to wonder, if they’re working for the same people…. that is to say, our enemies?

If you’ll recall, I expressed some level of question as regards the speed with which the “outrage’ hit the airwaves about the ads the president’s been running.

For a few days I was alone in my questioning of it. But now, (thank God..) people are starting on learning the truth

To listen to media whining for the last couple weeks, you ‘d think that all this was because a group of people associated with September 11th victims were so mad they got together to protest Mr. Bush, and that all that outrage was spontaneous.

Nope.

We’re now finding out that’s not true… and all it took was about 15 minutes with Google. Lookie what Bithead found!

Seems that a group calling itself “September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows” being funded by George Soros among others had this reaction all planned out, knowing full well the subject would come up.

This is not outrage… this is cynical Democrat party politics as usual, and Mr. Bush should be calling Kerry out on this one.

Oh, but hold da phone… you’ve seen NOTHING yet. This gets even better! In my searching, I find that “Peaceful Tomorrows” is listed as an official project of the Tides Center and its parent group, the Tides Foundation which is a radical leftist group I’ve mentioned before as one funded by Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Democrat candidate John Kerry. The Kerrys have poured over $4 million to the Tides Foundation between 1995-2001. Two other Heinz family foundations have poured in an additional $2 million.

They claim of course, on their site that :

“September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows has never received funding from Teresa Heinz Kerry, John Kerry, the Howard Heinz Endowment, or the Vira I. Heinz Endowment. We have no connection with the Heinz or Kerry families through Tides Foundation, the Tides Center or any other entity.”

Ah, but wait… and re read that response with some care, and you may notice that this carefully crafted rebuttal doesn’t adddress, much less answer the question of them getting money from TIDES, which in turn was funded by Kerry and company.

Clinton himself couldn’t wiggle better. The impression they’re trying to leave, that they got no funding whatever from Kerry…simply does not wash with the tax records. They did, in fact, get money form Tides and the other Kerry orgs, and they’re trying to cover Kerry’s butt with a bit of slight of hand.

“Tides”, and ” Peaceful Tomorrows” should be examined by the IRS, and by the FEC for federal level violations, and the Kerrys belong in jail over this one. This kind of cynical ploy at the expense of the victims of 9/11 cannot go unchallanged.

A London based Arabic paper is reporting the existance of a letter from BinLaden claiming the bombings in Spain as the work of his group.

I had left the story alone, thikning the original ETA (Basque Speratists Movement) attribution muddy at best. This furtyer muddies the waters. This strike me as rather like the IRA, where the bomb goes off, and everydody, and I mean everybody, including Little Jimmy the paperboy ’cause of the size of the tip for his paperboy services last Christmas, claims responsiblity for the bombing in the name of their cause.

This one’s gonna take time to sort out.

Either way, one wonders if the EU is going to start taking the WOT more seriously, now.

OK, I guess I oughta to be commenting on the under-the breath comments by Kerry yesterday.

The fact is that this is decidedly not news. The reason it’s not news is it was not unexpected.

As vile as his comments are, everyone already knew he feels that way, and has been talking that way behind the scenes for four years. These comments were bound to come out eventually. At east now, his vile sludge is out in the open, and can be dealt with by the voters.

I suspect it will be. Even the Democrats are running for the exists for the most part. (See my story from yesterday regarding the low voter trunouts for Democrats)

And is it just me, or did it strike you that some of Dean rubbed off on him? I mean they meet and he gets taped mouthing this crap… not unlike Dean.

Weird.
Or, is it?