This quote from IBD pretty much sums it up.  I leave determining the significance of this post’s subject as an exercise for the reader. –RR

"[Attorney General] Eric Holder's move to try the 9/11 masterminds in Manhattan makes it official: This administration has reverted to pre-9/11 'crime' fighting. Amid all the talk during the attorney general's surreal press conference of the 'crime' committed eight years ago, the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon wasn't even mentioned. Lest anyone forget, the military headquarters of the United States was attacked that day along with the Twin Towers. An entire wedge of the Ring was gutted when the Saudi hijackers slammed American Airlines Flight 77 into it. Nearly 200 military personnel were killed, along with the passengers and crew of the hijacked jet. The jet was a weapon used to attack the very center of our military. That was not a 'crime,' as some say. It was an act of war. And 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, along with the four other al-Qa'ida terrorist co-conspirators Holder wants to try, are no mere criminals. They are enemy combatants -- and should be treated as such. ... Holder clucked that the 'trials will be open to the public and the world.' And they will turn into circuses, playing right into the hands of the enemy. These trials will drag on for years, perhaps even decades, as defense lawyers file endless motions and appeals. Meanwhile, valuable intelligence about interrogation techniques and other methods we've used against al-Qa'ida will be revealed to the enemy during trial discovery. This move to a civilian court makes no sense at all, except viewed through a political prism. ... It will only remind people how much America has shrunk in the last nine months." --Investor's Business Daily

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Can anyone out there who supports the Democrats' health care "reform" bill answer it? Take your time, I'll wait.



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To those who have served, those who are serving, and to those who will serve in the future, words cannot adequately convey my gratitude, especially to those who gave the ultimate sacrifice and to their families.

Today's date, November 11, was once known as Armistice Day, to commemorate the day the guns fell silent in Europe at the end of World War I, and thus it is still known in many nations.  Today we in this country call it Veteran's Day to remember and celebrate those relative few among us who have donned the uniforms of the armed forces of the United States of America.  All we have, indeed all we are as a nation, we owe to you.

Thank you.

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Twenty years ago today, the most blatantly visible symbol of Soviet oppression ceased to be.  Though it remained physically present for a while afterward, on that day it became nothing more than a mass of reinforced concrete whose original purpose no longer existed.  The Berlin Wall fell, heralding the collapse of the Soviet Union that would come the following year.

Many have criticized the current president for not attending the celebration of the passage of two decades since that historic day.  I can't say what his real reasons are though if the excuse is made that it's a "scheduling conflict" I call BS because this was planned well in advance.  But, perhaps, he has pressing matters to attend to that actually do preclude his attending.  I cannot judge one way or the other.

But even if he did attend, he would do so in the shadow of the man who did more to destroy that wall than any other.  Perhaps he isn't there because he knows that he would be compared with that man, and he would inevitably be found wanting.

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The subject of my earlier post on the subject is "God help us all."  Thanks to a few principled Democrats, especially Joe Lieberman, the health care "reform" bill passed yesterday in the house is likely not going to go anywhere in the Senate.  This is not to say that they won't pass a bill of some form but, at least for now, the effort to ruin medicine in this country appears to be stalled.
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The upcoming film, Ninja Assassin, looks like it'll be a fun popcorn flick with lots of over-the-top martial arts action, especially since it's partly produced by the Wachowski brothers..  However, I just found out something interesting:


JMS, eh?  I'm very interested to see what kind of script he penned.
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The House passed the "health care" bill. Once again, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi broke her promise to post the bill on the Web for 72 hours before it was voted on.

I challenge anyone out there who supports this bill to explain why.  I also challenge you to show where in the Constitution the Federal Government has the authority to implement this policy, especially the authority to require me to purchase a product as a condition of my very existence.

Take your time.  I'll wait.
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Current Mood: angry

FedEx, not being a government agency, has managed to get my laptop here faster than they expected, which was next Monday.  Right now it’s on the truck for delivery.  Since nobody’s home to sign for it, I expect they will not drop it off.  But, that means someone will be there tomorrow if they try to deliver it again.  Or, I can probably go down to the local facility and pick it up.

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Despite the assurances from the Obama administration and Democrat leaders in Congress, the unemployment rate has continued to climb and has finally topped 10 percent.

The subheading of this article is, “Obama calls data regretful, says he's working hard to restore economy.”  Um, maybe you should stop working so hard.

We told you this was going to happen.  We warned you that the “stimulus” was nothing of the kind and that it would not “create or save” jobs (unless they’re government jobs, of course).  But you didn’t listen.  You never listen.  You try the same thing over and over expecting that it will have a different result then every time before.

There’s a name for that expectation.  I leave it as an exercise for the reader to look up what it is if you don’t know already.

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The good news:  It’s on its way back via FedEx.  It’s scheduled to arrive this coming Monday.

The bad news:  It’s being set “Direct Signature Required.”  That means someone at the house has to sign for it at time of delivery.  That means that I won’t actually get it until the following Saturday when either someone is home when it’s delivered, or I drive down to the delivery facility and pick it up.  I think it’s in Canyon Park near where I dropped it off when I sent it in.

I am assuming that the facility isn’t open any later than normal business hours.  If it is, I may be able to pick it up after work.

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