BEGINNING WITH A FEW RANDOM THOUGHTS

The American Airlines terminal at DFW got shut down yesterday when a suspicious device was found.  It turned out to be a vintage microphone.  Probably belonged to some right wing radio talk show host.  They are a problem, you know.

John Kerry has finally started to give us the details of what he would have done differently from George Bush and how he would fight the war on terror.   If it had been The Poodle instead of Bush talking to those school children in Florida on September 11th, instead of remaining calm while further information was gathered, he would have jumped up and screamed "Holy S__t!  We're being attacked" and run from the room.

There may be some interesting news on the Fair Tax front soon.  A new study is underway to determine just how high the national retail sales tax would have to be in order to fund the Imperial Federal Government at its current level.  It may be well less than the previously cited figure of 23%.

Did you hear about the dyslexic man who walked into a bra?

THE POODLE'S HOUSE OF CARDS

What comes around goes around, and things are really heating up out there against The Poodle.  Excerpts from that new book 'Unfit for Command' that comes out August 15 are already creating a monumental stir.  The book was one thing, but now the new television ad is really throwing a wrench in things for the Johns.  Get ready for all-out global thermal nuclear campaign war.  Maybe Kerry would have been better off running on his Senate record instead of his Vietnam record.  Wait!  I almost forgot.  Kerry doesn't have a Senate record.  Twenty years ... and he accomplished absolutely nothing.  He couldn't even show up for meetings of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

The latest excerpt from Drudge has the Swiftees accusing The Poodle of executing a fleeing innocent Vietnamese teenager.  Not good...this is the incident that led to a Silver Star for Kerry.   The Kerry campaign is of course, calling the whole thing trash, and asking 'how low can they go?'  There's only one problem with all of this.  There are 13 Vietnam veterans in that television ad....are they all liars?  Have they all decided to interrupt their private lives for the glare of the media spotlight just so they could lie about The Great and Omnipotent John Kerry?

It sounds to me like John Kerry's four-month tour of duty in Vietnam is being exposed for somewhat less an epic of heroism than the Democrats have presented to the American people.  It's also beginning (beginning?) to sound like Kerry cheated, lied and worked the system to get his medals.  Worst of all, he came back and protested the war, lied about his fellow veterans and made their lives miserable.

The veterans whom Kerry called murders and war criminals are now having their say.  What goes around comes around.

BUSH-BASHING OVERDRIVE

This is beyond pathetic.  The Poodle, speaking to minority journalists at their "Unity Convention," actually said that he would have reacted much more quickly than President Bush did on September 11, 2001, when he learned of the terrorist attacks.  This is the Michael Moore charge, that the president kept on reading to school children in Florida for seven more minutes after learning that an airplane had been flown into the World Trade Center. It's nice to know that Kerry is taking his campaign talking points from Moore's movie. 

OK ... let's pick this one apart.  Here is what Kerry said to the Unity conference:  "First of all, had I been reading to children and had my top aid whispered in my ear 'America is under attack,' I would have told those kids very politely and nicely that the President of the United States had something that he needed to attend to."  This, of course, was followed by cheers and loud applause from the "journalists."

Cheap Michael Moorish shot.  First of all, Bush was not told that "America is under attack."  He was told that an airplane had struck one of the World Trade Towers.  The second airplane had not yet struck. President Bush had no idea it was a terrorist attack. What good would it have done to run screaming out of the classroom?  Even the principal at the time, a Democrat, said she felt it was an unfair attack and that Bush did the right thing.  She says she didn't vote for Bush, but on that day she would have.

sKerry said "Had I been reading to children and had my top aide whisper in my ear that America is under attack, I would have told those kids very nicely and politely that the president of the United States has something that he needs to attend to."  It's the standard line of The Poodle....I didn't like the way George Bush did something, but my only suggestion is that I would do it better. Whatever.

Thank God he wasn't the president on 9/11.

THE ANTI-FREE SPEECH DEMOCRATS

Back to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

You will remember that during the 2000 election the Democratic Party sent legions of lawyers to every single election district in Florida with marching orders to see to it that every single vote cast by a member of our armed forces serving overseas be disqualified.  Such is the love of the Democrats for the U.S. military.  The Democrats have rallied the lawyers again, and once again their targets are military;  this time Vietnam veterans.

Lawyers for the Democratic Party and the Kerry/Edwards campaign are sending letters to television stations threatening them with legal action if they run the ad from the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.  What's the matter, boys?  Can dish it out, but you can't take it? 

Yesterday on The Neal Boortz Show we interviewed Dr. Louis Letson.  Dr. Letson was the physician who treated John Kerry for the superficial wound that led to Kerry's first Purple Heart.  In the letter to television stations the Democratic lawyers have a few things to say about Dr. Letson and that particular incident. Paragraph 4 of the letter reads:

"Further, the 'doctor' who appears in the ad, Louis Letson, was not a crewmate of Senator Kerry's and was not the doctor who actually signed Senator Kerry's sick call sheet.  In fact, another physician actually signed Senator Kerry's sick call sheet."

Later in that threatening letter to television station managers the Democrat lawyers even charge that Letson is a "phony" doctor.  This tactic seems to be working.  Even  Brit Hume of Fox News Channel was questioning last night if Letson is actually a doctor.  We covered this with Letson yesterday on the air.  Louis Letson confirmed that he was, indeed, a doctor, and was the only physician serving in that particular region of Vietnam.  Letson told us that it was his practice to have one of his assistants sign all of the records for treatment received at the dispensary.  Further, Letson said that the person who signed Kerry's treatment record was NOT, as the Democrat's letter states, a physician, but was in effect a medic. 

In the letter the Democrat lawyers also seem to be quite upset that the Vietnam Veterans for Truth are being financed by a Houston homebuilder.  Imagine that!  What about those ads the Democrats have been running under the umbrella of those "527" organizations?   What about Moveon.org?  How are the ads being run by these organizations different from the ads being run by the swift boat veterans?  Those ads, you see, are financed by a wealthy international financier named George Soros.  Democrats have no problem with having a foreign-born international money man financing their ads slamming George Bush, but let a Texan, a Houston homebuilder, finance ads against John Kerry and it's the end of the world!

This morning I saw Jim Rassman on television.  Rassman is the man whom Kerry pulled out of the river.  Rassman has been called forth by the Democrats to say that this Swift Boat Veterans for Truth advertising campaign is not very nice.  Rassman said that "It's very dishonest at this stage of the game, 35 years after the fact, to call this into question. This is an example of the lowest form of politics."

Funny ... do you remember any Kerry supporters coming forth to say that very thing about Bush's National Guard service?  That, too, was 35 years ago.  The difference, of course, is that George Bush is not running on the record of his years in the National Guard.  He's running on his years as Commander in Chief of the United States armed forces, and nobody has even whispered a suggestion that he strayed from that post.  Kerry?  All he has is Vietnam?  He's been focusing on those four months since he announced his candidacy.  OK .. so he wanted to make those four months his primary qualification for the presidency.  Fine.  The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth are happy to rise to the challenge.

YOU KNOW THIS TO BE TRUE .. THOUGH YOU PROBABLY WON'T ADMIT IT.

Reverse the situation.  If Bush were the Democrat, and Kerry were the Republican, the mainstream media would be erupting in a chorus of demands today for a full investigation of the charges that Kerry's first Purple Heart came from a self-inflicted wound.  They would want all of the details about Kerry's alleged torching of an entire Vietnamese village with his Zippo, and the charge that he shot a fleeing Vietnamese teenager wearing only a loin cloth in the back.  The Democrats would be demanding an investigation because of the "seriousness of the charge."  The double standard is clear.

MAYBE SEAN'S NOT SO SQUEAKY CLEAN

I have NO idea where this came from. Trust me on this. Okay, maybe we do know where it came from.

Was the latest terrorist alert politically motivated?  That, of course, is the line the left is taking.  The Wall Street Journal says that you act on terror information no matter where the news cycle happens to be at the time.

In case you haven't seen it yet, check out the television ad from the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth.  Louis Letson, yesterday's guest, is featured in the ad.

The media is all in a tizzy over a misstatement that George Bush made yesterday.  Will Kerry and Edwards get the same scrutiny from the liberal media?  Of course not.

The FBI busted two men at a mosque in Albany, New York for helping a man they thought was a terrorist buy a shoulder-fired missile.  Aaahhh the peaceful religion of Islam.

The writing continues to be on the wall for The Poodle....even struggling wartime presidents are tough to beat. Ross K. Baker looks at some history.

This band of brothers has a different view of sKerry...and it isn't pretty.  Collin Levy has the full story.

What is really John Kerry's position on foreign policy?  Who knows, says Max Boot, who talks about The Poodle's three-faced foreign policy.

So .. you think The Souffle wants to implement the 911 panel's recommendations?  Read this and get ready for a second thought. 

John Kerry likes to say that his experience in Vietnam will helps us in Iraq.  That's a recipe for disaster, says Michael Young, who offers up a different view.

The Poodle's Keeper's free ride needs to end soon, says this editorial, who reminds us that we still don't know much about her finances, and how they've been used to resuscitate The Poodle's failing political career.

Liberals like to update words to remove their negative connotation.  Thomas Sowell has a few example of the left's vocabulary.

The Poodle wants to have it both ways on national security, and David Limbaugh is here to say he can't have it both ways.

Despite his pretending at the convention to be strong on terrorism, John Goldberg explains that in his heart, The Poodle is an appeaser.

The Democratic National Convention was held for a week with great promise....this was going to be the event that elevated the Johns past George Bush and pushed  them on to victory in November.  It didn't quite work out that way, says Charles Krauthammer who talks about the lack of a bounce.

Professor Mike Adams has more in his ongoing debate with PETA, this time he has another response.

George Bush has done the right things in office, but Mona Charen tells us he hasn't always said the right things at the right time, and she calls it his biggest challenge.

A 911 operator fell asleep while on an emergency call.

Look out guys: single women in Japan are lining up for 'The Boyfriend Pillow.'

Neal found a new toy. Access your home computer from anywhere.

Local headhunters are pouncing on Citicorp Center - one of the three New York-area buildings in Al Qaeda's sights - hoping to poach and relocate skittish workers and collect some fat commissions.

World's hairiest man can hear properly again after having hair removed from his ears. Here's a picture of him as a child. Could this be Weekly World News' wolf baby?

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