This Time I Think the Americans are Serious. Bush is Not Like Clinton.

From the road, outside Watkins Glenn, NY–

Sorry for these short blurbs. Between dialup over cell lines (sloooooowwwwwwww) and all the activities myself and our freinds have planned, I’ve been keeping busy. I’m finding that my batch download to the Palm pilot is working well, however. Still, we move on tommrow into Central PA, and I dfoubt my system will be able to access much from there… so you may not hear from me ’till Saturday. Of note in my reading tonight…

According to an article in the London Sunday Telegraph (reprinted in the Washington TIMES) reports second hand a phrase that says it all about Bill Clinton….

“This time I think the Americans are serious. Bush is not like Clinton. I think this is the end.”
– — Uday Hussein, Saddam’s son.

From the road, outside Watkins Glenn, NY–

The more I listen to Bob Graham being critical of the President, the more I am strcuk with the concept that these Democrats have nothing to run on. Consdier; If Bush failed, where was Graham, who is on the oversight comittee, and who, for that reason sees the same intel dispatches the president does.

From the road, outside Watkins Glenn, NY–

Word reached me today of Bob Hope’s passing. I suppose I ought to be sad, and in a way I am, since this is the first time in my life there hasn’t been a Bob Hope. Yet, I’m not; How many people get to live as full and as long a life has Hope did? All I can do is pass on my respects to the family, which I am sure they’re getting in great volumes, anyway.

From the road, outside Watkins Glenn, NY–

Has anyone noticed that both the far left and the far right are attacking W on one thing or another? A very positive sign, that. Consider the effort expended by the Clintons and their minions to ‘triangulate’ the center. Bush managed it by simple common sense.All Bush has to do to win in 2004, is to make sure the image of his opposition as fringe elements isn’t dimmed by the press who always works to mainstream the far left, and we’ll have W for four more years.

From the road, outside Watkins Glenn, NY–

Matt Druge is reporting that Annie’s got a new book deal… 3 million is the reported figure.

Just before I left I watched her speaking to on C-Span, where she was basicly hitting them out of the park.  Gotta love it.

A Nevada assemblyman who mentioned that African-Americans are being served by an AIDS-awareness program which targets minorities is being
called a racist for stating the obvious, reports the Associated Press.
In an interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Assemblyman Bob Beers, R-Las Vegas, reportedly dismissed a program dubbed Fighting AIDS in our Community Today as a program “dedicated to putting condoms on gay men in the black community.”

A fellow assemblyman, Democrat Kelvin Atkinson, said the comment stemmed from Beers’ “racial issues.

“To me it’s a racist remark,”Atkinson said.”It’s something that shouldn’t be tolerated in our district.”

Other assemblymen described themselves as “speechless” over the comment, even though the program’s main goal is to provide outreach to
the minority community and educate them in an effort to reduce the transmission of HIV.

I’ll be taking off for a few days, likely leaving this afternoon… though I may be posting updates from the road.

Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif apparently has been making a concerted effort to throw anything he can at Clear Channel.
Part of the Full Story.

Rest of the story:

Does anyone NOT understand that this is about Limiting Rush Limbaugh, Mike Savage and their political sway on the country?
This is called limiting free speech and in the name of protecting free spech. The real goal? Protection of liberal pols.

It’s really that simple.

Noted some increased propaganda activity last night on the various TV networks, as regards file sharing. Hollywood is screaming about income losses. The media conglomerates seem unwilling to enter the moralistic argument, and so they try the practical approach. Thing is, it doesn’t ring true. Essentially, posing their argument this way: “How can all those poor millionaires eat and pay their bills when you don’t pay for their work?”

First of all, does anyone recall that there was a huge outcry from the Holywood types over the concept of magnetic tape? Then louder over Cassette Audio and Video tape? THen louder yet over double well decks, which are now the standard there? 

Face it, gang….This stuff has been around for about 30 years now, some of it; and they still manage to find a way to pay their bills, despite the dire “lost revenue” predictions from orgs such as the RIAA at the time.  On it’s face, then, the argument presented is bogus.

They’ve made their own bed here on several levels.

One of them has to do with why they have problems making a moral argument. It’s the most likely reason they went ‘practical’ on us, here.

Perhaps they figure their own morality will be called into question. They see the increased resistance to the intensely and increasingly immoral content they’ve been pushing, and realize that a moralistic argument doesn’t quite mesh with the people they’ve been trying to sell this sludge to. They have been glorifying immorality for decades, now.  Is there anyone of sound mind who does not understand that they’re now reaping what they planted?

Well, that’s the usual mantra from the left.  But, in a bit filed on 1/9 of this year, No, says William Bacon. A good read, and likley to tee off the left… which is why, past this website you’ll never seen it mentioned.

Matt Drudge is just now reporting that Jack Kemp is considering a run for California.
It’ll be interesting to see how a Reaganite will fare out there these days, both electorially, and once he has the job.

The Telegraph’s Boris Johnson makes this argument, in a bit just filed today.

Says Johnson:

“But if there were BBC reporters who opposed the war, Andrew Gilligan was not among them. I know, from talking to him while he was reporting from Baghdad, that he supported the enterprise to remove Saddam.”

Even if this is true (I doubt it) the trouble is, the BBC didn’t. Like the recent excesses of the Times, this is not, and by nature of the structure of news orgs today, cannot be, a situation of one rouge reporter getting out of control… this can be nothing less than a systematic effort on the part of the BBC, to carry out an anti-war (anti-Blair) propaganda campaign. As even Johnson, here points out, the BBC all though the war…

“The first lemma of the syllogism is sound. The BBC’s reporting was maddeningly Eeyore-ish. To watch the BBC, during those anxious days while the American forces roared north to Baghdad, was almost unbearable for those of us who supported the war. Reverses were turned into disasters. Announcements of casualties were repeated in a loop.

In their hearts, plenty of BBC producers probably opposed the war. If it had been up to them, Saddam Hussein would still be in power. The Iraqi people would not now be celebrating with exuberant and unmistakable joy the deaths of Uday and Qusay Hussein. Those two thugs would still be stubbing out their Cohibas on the skins of their victims, and still causing the population to cringe past their villas in fear of being shot.”

How, then, I ask, can Johnson deny the pattern of bias extends to this particular employee of the BBC?  Since Johnson claims to have spoken to Gilligan, and apparently thinks he knows him well enough to make such judgements, I have to ask; are they freinds? Is this the reason for the rather disjointed defense?

The fact of the matter is as Robert Jackson MP for Kelly’s district, suggested several days ago:

” I think the fact of the matter is that Gilligan, under pressure from his news colleagues for a scoop, for an exclusive story, under pressure from the wider BBC establishment and its general vendetta against the government on the question of the war against Iraq, I believe he sexed up the whole story and this created the situation that led to the death of my constituent.”

I’ve had leftists in the UK tell me that Jackson is a bit on an idiot, but I take this with the grains of salt due any leftist making such a claim about someone who ISN’T leftist. Indeed, when the left starts in with THAT crap, you can usually bet that the person who is the target of the left is getting too close to the truth for the comfort of the left.

So it is, I suspect, with Jackson.

I made it clear, I think, in last week’s BIT, that Gilligan was not alone in this, and that the BBC itself was and remains the larger culprit. This is a position I still hold; I’ve yet to see any argument to sway me from this conclusion, that of Boris Johnson included.

New York City Council Chambers was the scene of gun battle between two rival Democrats.

The gunman, Othniel Askew, 31 is now dead from Police bullets, along with his intended victim, James Davis. According to a story running on the AP this morning:

“In 1991, Davis founded “Love Yourself Stop the Violence,” a not-for-profit organization dedicated to stopping violence in urban America. He was elected in 2001, and was a minister.”

So, apparently Davis was less than sucessful in his effort to ‘stop the violence’. 

Here’s the Davis Website.

Interesting, that Davis, the anti-gun campaigner was carrying a gun, as it turns out. Of course his family members think ‘the man’ did this, not a fellow Democrat.  Said his brother, Geoffrey Davis, “The system killed my brother,”

Does he really think this was an orginized effort? Or is it rather that this friction against ‘the man’, ‘the system’, etc, is simply a knee-jerk reaction, anymore?Since they were both Black, both Liberal Democrats, both male, both about the same age, one wonders who, in reality will get the blame here? Should it be noted that being an elected official, he WAS the system, he WAS the man?

Oh, one more note:

I sat and watched most of the coverage of this event, flipping channels. 

Just about everything Fox reported turned out to be true;

Just about everything that MSNBC puked up including the report that there was a gun battle between Askew and Davis was dead wrong;

And CNN was slow in getting anything to air, apparently having insufficient people to do their own news gathering.

One point I didn’t see the news pick up on was security concerns, from this angle: Why were fellow councilpeopel not being screened? Does nobody on their security teams remember Harvey Milk? 

Funny how the so called ‘unbiased’ press hasn’t touched this story.

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nypost.com

On the list was the name of an Iraqi intelligence officer, Abid Al-Karim Muhamed Aswood, who was based in Pakistan and “responsible for the coordination of activities with the Osama bin Laden group.”

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So, now, Chuckles Rangle is mumbling about how would should prove Saddam’s sons were involved with killing US serviencemen before targeting them?