BYE BYE INTERNET EXPLORER

My computer has now been cleansed.  The good people at Vision Computers got rid of all the adware and spyware that had so clogged my operating system that the 'puter just quit working.  Once the computer was back home and on line the very first thing I did was download the Mozilla Firefox internet browser.  So long to Internet Explorer.  It seems that every day some hacker somewhere finds a new security hole in IE that they then use to download rat feces into your computer.  No more for me.  We'll see if things stay clean for a while.

THE SORROWFULLY PITIFUL MAX CLELAND

Looks like Max Cleland has really taken to his role as The Poodle's attack dog.  Yesterday Sad Max had a telephone conference call with reporters during which he said that President Bush attacked Iraq and deposed Saddam Hussein because "his daddy was a failed president."  Cleland said that Bush wanted to be "Mr. Macho Man" and said that Bush "flat-out lied" when he asked the congress to authorize a war against Iraq.

Cleland's role as Kerry's dog washer is particularly troubling to myself and fellow Georgians who have known him so long.  I don't think any of us realized the depth of the bitterness this man is able to generate over real and perceived misfortunes.  I dare say that with each Cleland rant there are more and more Georgians who are thankful that he no longer represents this state in the U.S. Senate. 

The Cleland story that the left is trying to portray to the rest of the nation is that evil, hate-filled Republicans in Georgia attacked his "patriotism" during the 2000 Senate Race.  I was sitting right here doing talk radio in Georgia during that time ... and it just didn't happen.  Cleland's patriotism wasn't attacked.  What was attacked was his leach-like attachment to Tom Daschle.  Daschle recognized that Cleland wasn't strong enough to stand up to Senate leadership.  He quickly became little more than a yes-man to Senate Democrats ... a loyal foot soldier who could be counted on to toe the leadership line even when the leadership cause was at odds with the expressed desires or best interests of the Georgians whom Cleland represented. 

After 9/11, when the congress was creating the Department of Homeland Security, Democrats wanted to make sure that their treasured government employee unions came away from the table stronger than ever.  Republicans felt that in matters of national security the President ought to have the authority to dismiss or transfer key government personnel involved in homeland security matters.  Democrats disagreed.  They yanked on Cleland's leash and he stood fast against the Homeland Security bill.  Georgia voters aren't particularly fond of government employee unions, and they saw Cleland kowtowing to the Democratic leadership, and they fired him.

Get over it, Max.  Georgia voters saw you kissing union ass, and they didn't like it.  You refused to stand up to your Democratic Party puppeteers, and the voters cut your strings for you.  If you had worried as much about what the people of Georgia thought as you did about what Daschle and company wanted you might still be a U.S. Senator today.  Now you rant about Bush trying to be "macho" and fighting this war against Saddam's terrorist aims because his "daddy was a failed president."  Funny ... but we down here in Georgia don't seem to remember you saying anything about Clinton's war in Bosnia!  That war over ethnic cleansing was quite OK with you, wasn't it Max?  But let a Republican fight a war against a bloody butcher who has actually used WMDs to kill his own people ... and you get squeamish.  Now you're reduced to being an attack lap dog for John Kerry. 

Look .... this is a man who introduced a bill in the U.S. Senate that would have given law enforcement officials the ability to simply seize your property if they ever found you in a public place connected to interstate transportation, such as an airport, Interstate highway or bus station, with more than $10,000 cash on your person.  Quite the defender of individual freedom, this Max Cleland.  He worked hard to earn his defeat in Georgia.  Now he's working just as hard to get some federal job hand-out from The Poodle.

How sad.

POSSIBLE IRAN LINKS TO 9/11

Here we go again.  President Bush said yesterday that the government of Iran is harboring members of Al-Qaeda and the United States is investigating whether the Iranian government had a role in the 9/11 attacks.  Bush said "I have long expressed my concerns about Iran.  After all, it is a totalitarian society where free people are not allowed to exercise their rights as human beings."

The 9/11 Commission has found that eight of the ten hijackers passed through Iran between October 2000 and February 2001.  Remember the speech the president gave right after the 9/11 attacks where he said we would make no distinction between the terrorists and those who harbor them?  Well, Iran is harboring members of Al-Qaeda.  So, is it now time to knock off another member of the axis of evil?

I don't think we have the guts, not to mention the national will, to do it.  Not if you believe the mainstream media.  They say Iraq is a quagmire, and that the war on terror is a failure.  The Poodle says we should turn it all over to the U.N. to appease France and Germany.  What if Iran develops nuclear weapons?  Can you imagine?  That insane, bloodthirsty, nutcase Ayatollah with a nuke?  No way.  Israel has already said they'll take it out if they have to.  Now that's something, isn't it?  The United States may be depending on Israel for it's defense.

If Iran develops weapons of mass destruction, they have to be destroyed. Which means if we have to bomb their reactors, so be it.  By the way, here's an election year question for the undecideds...which do you want...a totalitarian Islamic terrorist state being appeased by The Poodle or one being destroyed by George W. Bush?

I thought so.

MEDIA BIAS 101

Well, it looks like former national security adviser Sandy Berger has seriously stepped in it.  The former Clinton official is the subject of a Justice Department investigation after removing highly classified terrorism documents and handwritten notes from a secure reading room during preparations for the 9/11 Commission hearings.  His home and office have been searched by FBI agents already.  Serious stuff.

For his part, Berger and his lawyer said yesterday he took notes and inadvertently removed some of the classified documents.  Now, either he didn't mean to do it, and all of this is just a stupid mistake, or there is some other nefarious reason the investigation will discover.  Who knows.  But here's the point of all this.  Notice how the media is handling Berger's bungling of the classified material, and ask yourself one question: what if it had been a Republican?

What if it had been Bill Frist, or Tom Delay or some other Republican that had done this.  It would be the top story of every newscast, the Democrats would be calling for that person's arrest and screaming for an independent counsel.  The media would be polling the public...."do you think Republicans are trying to hide something when they steal classified documents?"  There would be no presumption of innocence, there would be no waiting for the investigation to be completed before passing judgment.

Now, there may be a simple explanation for all of this.  But if it had been a Bush appointee that had taken the documents, there would be hell to pay in the media.

As it stands now, Berger is largely getting a pass. Good for him.

LINDA RONSTADT...MEET WHOOPI GOLDBERG

Boy, it seems like liberals are dropping like flies in the entertainment business these days.  The latest comes to us courtesy of Linda Ronstadt, and this is another good one.

It seems Linda Ronstadt took the stage Saturday night at the Aladdin Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.  Now, the people who were there to see her no doubt assumed that she would be singing her hits and doing what she was hired to do, which was entertain the audience.  Ronstadt had other plans.  She decided to talk about Michael Moore.

Before singing "Desperado," she called Moore "a great American patriot" and "someone who is spreading the truth."  She encouraged everybody to see the movie about President Bush.  So what  happened next?  Did the audience just roll their eyes and wait for the song to start?  Nope...they revolted.  In addition to their loud boos, hundreds of concert-goers stormed out of the theater, tore down her concert posters and tossed their cocktails into the air.  Nice work by the audience.

The president of the place, a Brit named Bill Timmins, told the AP Ronstadt had to go.  He didn't let her back into her luxury hotel suite and had her escorted off the premises to her tour bus.  He then had her suite emptied of her stuff and had it delivered to her and told her that she was not welcome to return.  It's nice to see people aren't just letting this crap slide by anymore.

Poor, poor, pitiful Linda. But man ..... can that woman flat sing.

FRANCE'S CHIRAC OUT OF CONTROL

For somebody that's always lecturing America about how we conduct our foreign affairs, French President Jacques Chirac seems to be able to dish it out, but he can't take it.  What's the latest news from Le Frog?

It starts with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.  Apparently anti-Semitism has been on the rise in France.  So Sharon spoke out, urging all French Jews to come home to Israel.  Chirac heard that, got his panties in a knot, and has now uninvited Sharon from visiting France.  

Sharon has said he only meant in a general sense that the Jews should leave France and come to Israel.  For instance, if Sharon had publicly urged all Jews in the U.S. to come to Israel, everyone would have known what he meant and wouldn't have thought another thing about it.  But not good 'ole thin-skinned Chirac.

This guy is a loon, that's all there is to it.  By the way, The Washington Times is reporting they discovered a message on the door of the French Consulate in New York that warns Americans applying for a visa to check their attitude before entering. The question, of course, is why an American would apply for a visa to visit France?  That nation of whiners and appeasers is barely hanging on by its fingernails.  If it weren't for that bicycle race and some wine France would cease to be of any significance to the rest of the world. 

Sounds like somebody else has the attitude problem.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

You need to see this one.  It's actually quite well done.  This is from a group that is not too fond of talk radio.  Sadly, I wasn't included.  Guess I'm just not big enough.

The United States wants to cut foreign aid to any country that would dare to hand an American citizen over the jurisdiction of the United Nations International Criminal Court.  This seems to have some liberals upset.  No surprise there.  Liberals aren't too fond of the idea of U.S. sovereignty.

You really need to see this page from The Drudge Report.  It shows The Poodle in all his athletic greatness.  Wow, what a stud!  He kite surfs, hunts, ride bicycles, snowboards, rides motorcycles without a helmet, plays the guitar, surfs and hits baseballs.  Damned if I don't think I want to sleep with him!

This is for you global warming freaks out there.  It's an article detailing the  fact that sunspot activity is at a 1000 year high.  This means that the sun is burning brighter right now than at any time in the past 1,150 years.  Golly!  I wonder if this could cause any warming on earth?

Jacksonville's shame is Democrat Congresswoman Corrine Brown.  Read this and see if you can figure out why she's still a member of the U.S. Congress.

Oh this is just great.  Junk food makes up about one-fourth of the U.S. diet.  The makers of the Lark scooters couldn't be happier.

The 16 words President Bush spoke in his State of the Union address in 2003 that everyone claims were a lie are now true.  Where are the apologies now?  William Safire explains.

Now that Bush may have been right on the Iraqi uranium charge, where are the Democrats and the media on this, asks Richard Benedetto.

The government says obesity is a disease that will be covered by Medicare.  This excellent editorial says self-indulgence is not a disease.

Wonderful, wonderful lady, that Martha Stewart.  Read some of the reasons why she felt she was entitled to a lenient sentencing.

A column speaking out in favor of school choice for Washington D.C. government school students, from Virginia Walden-Ford.

Since The Poodle has gone on the record as being both for and against the war in Iraq, Joel Mowbray wonders just how he's going to pull it off.

John Kerry is a liberal...no, wait...John Kerry is a conservative.  David Limbaugh takes a look at what a typical supporter of The Souffle might believe.

If John Kerry had doubts about the intelligence that led him to vote to authorize action against Saddam Hussein, then why did he vote yes?  Debra Saunders says The Poodle has made his bed, and now he has to sleep in it.

A school district in a budget crunch had to cut every single non-academic school activity.  Parents were up in arms, but Jeff Jacoby has a good question: would that community's quality of life really be diminished if they focused solely on academics?

The Poodle's choice of John Edwards is a big win for the trial lawyers.  Phyllis Schlafly explains.

Sometimes a political figure becomes so hated that they can't do anything right.  Rich Lowry says George Bush has achieved this status, which puts him in a bit of a tight spot.

You won't hear this in the media....the federal budget deficit is on track to be actually smaller this year than predicted.  The reason?  As Jack Kemp points out, it's the Bush tax cuts driving the engine of economic recovery.

Now that Joseph Wilson has been exposed as a liar, Jay Bryant says the Bush administration needs to hit back, and hit back hard.

Find out what Michelle Malkin has to say about this much passed around terror in the skies article.

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