I read a funny little anecdote from the Olympics. A Russian woman was asked in a press conference if she use some of the prize money from winning a medal to add to her shoe collection. After having the question translated from one language to another and finally to Russian, she answered, "Well yes, I did do a bit of archery in my youth."

Also, a New Zealand athlete was sitting on a bench in the village and started chatting with the man next to her. "So what's your name?" "Roger." "What do you do, Roger?" "I play tennis." Suddenly the woman realized that she's a moron. I don't know that "I play tennis" is very accurate for Roger Federer, I think "I dominate in tennis" would fit better.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110005543

Good news from Iraq, and lots of it. You'd never know if all you ever read were newspapers, because big media sure as hell doesn't want you to know how well things are going.

I just read about a dude in Cobb County that was driving drunk, hit a telephone poll, which caused his passenger to become decapitated, continued driving home, got in bed and fell asleep. A neighbor walking a dog the next morning saw the body hanging out the window of the truck. Then the driver was found in bed covered in blood.

That's messed up!

I read this morning that the Kerry daughters suffered prolonged booing at the MTV Video Music Awards. I mentioned such at lunch when someone asked if anyone had watched the show. They said, "Well I watched it, and there were no boos." Well then I read this afternoon that MTV is being accused of editing out the booing.

Silly? Yes. But also sad, sad that MTV is so desperate to push their point of view that they'll edit out booing directed towards the daughters of the candidate they support, but leave in the booing of the candidate they don't support.

I've been busy, haven't blogged much. Sorry! CHeck out this speech from Michael Crichton, very interesting!!

http://www.perc.org/publications/articles/Crichtonspeech.php

Now that the U.S. is pulling so many troops out of Germany and other foreign soils, can a left-winger credibly accuse Bush and friends of being imperialist warmongers? Wouldn't someone trying to establish a worldwide American hegemony want to keep his troops on these foreign bases?

Not too many entries lately. I've been very busy at work, and watching the Olympics at home. I saw another gem from Kerry and had to mention it. Responding to Bush's announcement that the Army is going to move around a lot of troops, taking a huge number away from Germany and Korea. Kerry then talks about how removing troops from the Korean peninsula is the wrong message to send at this time. Funny thing is, just a couple of weeks ago he said, "I will have significant, enormous reductions in the level of troops ...In the Korean peninsula perhaps, in Europe perhaps." John Kerry, August 1, 2004.

The guy is a complete ass who has no desire to do anything good, only to increase his personal power and prestige. There's no other explanation for a man who took a veideo camera to Vietnam and had his soldiers go out and film him reenacting events. You may not agree with Bush on everything, but at least you can tell he's trying to do the right thing for the country.

John Kerry has run his entire campaign on the basis of his FOUR months as a soldier in Vietnam. Why? Because he knows his record in public office is utterly boring, no major legislation, no major anything, except for a penchant for voting far left, and a habit of skipping votes altogether. Recently the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth group pubblished a book that blasted Kerry's service in Vietnam, with various allegations from Kerry lying to get a purple heart, to Kerry shooting an unarmed Vietnamese man in the back. Now we've got a whopper of a lie that is undeniable. Just wait till you hear the spin.... Anyway, Kerry said that he was part of secret missions in Cambodia. When the Swift Boat group said that was ridiculous, that he would have been court-martialed for going in to Cambodia, Kerry responded that he never said such a thing. Then he was confronted with a video of him talking about it in a speech on the floor of Congress in 1986. No response.... But someone high in his campaign group said something along the lines of, "Kerry, like many war heroes, may have exagerated his record a little bit." In other words, he's a liar. Next we'll start hearing how events that happened 30 years ago have little to do with his ability to run the country. That's completely true, but Kerry was the one that made the Vietnam thing the major issue of his campaign. He has almost nothing else to his credit.

Though there is no hard proof of dishonesty in the Kerry campaign, they sure do like to add suspicion to themselves. Over the last few months, several items and links had been on their website, and then removed after various news items came out. For instance, there was a reference to their campaign book saying that the introduction had been written by a man named Michael Kranish. After the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ad came out, and the Kerry campaign threatened to sue to block the ad from running, an article written by that same Michael Kranish was published in the Boston Globe saying that one of the veterans, a George Elliot, had recanted the story he told in the ad. Very soon after Elliot put out a press release or some such thing saying that he ahd never recanted and doesn't know what Kranish was talking about. Of course the next step was to thwart off accusations of mistruths, which they did by getting the Globe to print a story saying that Kranish has nothing to do with the Kerry campaign and they stand by their story that Elliot recanted, despite Elliot saying he did not. When people called them on it, saying "Look at the Kerry website, it even says Kranish wrote the introduction, so obviously he has an interest in the Kerry campaign." Now the website no longer says such, as the Kerry campaign had to remove it in order to fir their lies and half-truths.

There's no way to know just how dishonest Kerry and friends are being. Maybe it's been limited to a few white lies, or maybe there's a lot more we'll never know about it. All I do know is that instead of covering up this sort of thing, which they have done several times, they ought to come out and confess to making a mistake. It would show more integrity, and even cause some people to gain some respect for them.

Another time that something disappeared off the Kerry website was ater the allegations that Joseph Wilson is a big, fat liar came out. Wilson was the guy at the heart of the yellowcake/Niger scandal. The Kerry party had embraced him, linked to his website, and brought him on as a "close advisor," but onc eit came out that he'd been outright lying in some cases, and stretching the truth to fit what he wanted to say in others, Kerry distanced himself. There are no more links to Wilson's website, and they are no longer saying he was a "close advisor." Instead he was just an associate or some such BS.

Kerry has also removed links to several far left web sites, I suppose fearing that people might actually discover what he's about. To this point no one really knows what Kerry is about, except that he served four whopping months in Vietnam, and he's not George Bush.

I have a vague memory of this event... Great story...

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/espn25/story?page=moments/94

More Moore dishonesty. In the movie he talks about how the children of congressmen are underrepresented in the armed forces in Iraq. But look at the numbers....

300 million Americans, 130,000 troops.
535 congresspeople, 5 children of them serving.

For every 107 congressperson, there is 1 child serving. For every 3846 citizens, there is one child serving. How is that underrepresented?

Word on the street is that the Republicans are going to push the elimination of the IRS and income tax as a major theme for the second term of G.W. Bush. They want to replace it with a FairTax, a 23% sales tax, in which everyone, rich or poor, would receive a monthly check from the government equal to 23% of the cost of goods necessary for survival. I hope and pray they are serious and that it happens.