I WAS JUST THINKING ...

.... That Ted Kennedy should just shut the hell up ... until, that is, he steps forward and explains why he did absolutely nothing while his girlfriend died in the back seat of his partially submerged car. How that pathetic cretin manages to maintain even an ounce of respect from the American public is all but impossible to explain.

MY CNN INTERNATIONAL APPEARANCE CANCELLED!

About three weeks ago I got a phone call from a producer at CNN International. The call was to invite me to participate in a CNN Town Hall forum that would be broadcast not only in this country but around the world. The subject would be American reaction to the war on terror and American actions in Iraq. The date for the broadcast is this Friday at 1:00 p.m. Earlier this week I watched a portion of the first part of this Town Hall series featuring Arab "journalists." I can't speak for the entire show, but the portion I watched consisted of attacks on American motives and values. My time would come Friday. No problem.

Those you who listened to the show yesterday know that I was quite vocal in my condemnation of Islamic terrorism and the violence that is taking place around the world involving Muslims of one stripe or another. I chronicled Islamic violence and terrorism back to the Munich Olympics. I challenged listeners to name just three hotspots in the world in which Muslims were not involved. I was supportive of the liberation of Iraq and made my feelings clear that the only way to deal with Islamic terrorism was to hunt the guilty down and kill them. My language was forceful, but I didn't say anything that I didn't truly believe.

When I got off the air I went to my office to check email. There was a message from someone at CNN. Here's the text:

"Unfortunately we had a change in our logistically planning and will have to cancel your appearance in our town hall. I hope this is not an inconvenience for you. We do hope to get you on CNN International though another time. Please let me know you received this notice of cancellation. I am copying the other show producers on this email so everyone is in the loop. Thanks again."

Makes you wanna go hmmmmmmm. Is it possible that I just might be a bit too opinionated for the Town Hall program? Maybe my viewpoint isn't one they want to entertain. And, of course, maybe they really did have some logistics problems with my appearance.

Oh well ... no problem. This will make it easier for me to make my flight at Hartsfield tomorrow afternoon. There's nothing like a nice dinner in New York City and a round of golf on a Long Island course that just hosted a U.S. Open to wash the pain of rejection away.

THE POODLE IS PO'ED SO WHAT.

The Republicans had themselves a bit of sport screwing around with John Kerry's schedule this week. Kerry, you see, has missed about 80% of votes in the Senate this year while he's running around trying to become our next president.

The great and exalted war hero decided to make a pilgrimage to the Senate floor this week, however, to vote on a veterans bill. Veterans, you see, aren't all that thrilled with the hatchet job Kerry did on them upon his return from Vietnam. He can show his tremendous support for Veterans by at least showing up to vote on their bill. Well .. that is perhaps overstating the case just a bit. The real reason he wanted to be there was so that the Republicans couldn't say that he wasn't.

So, The Souffle flies across the country in his mighty fancy Boeing 757 to put in a day of actual work at the U.S. Senate. Those evil Republicans decided to mess with him. What a shame. I guess the thinking was if Kerry can miss almost all other Senate votes this year, what's the big problem with missing this one? It's not like his vote is going to make a difference one way or the other. So, the Republicans used some Senate procedures to delay the vote for a day. Kerry couldn't wait. It was back into his 757 and back to the Left Coast for some campaigning.

As soon as Kerry found some microphones he let loose. He wanted the media and the world to know how upset he was at the treatment he received from those mean-spirited Republicans. Harken to the words of The Poodle!

"But these people are so petty, so sad, so political, that all they could do was spend the whole day finding a way not to let John Kerry vote. Once again it's my way or the highway, shut the door, lock people out. Don't let them take part in the democracy. Don't respect the institution. Don't show the common courtesies and actually bring people together to find the common ground."

Wait a minute! Kerry's having a bit of fun with us here, isn't he? He's really kidding. He didn't say this with a straight face, did he? Kerry is actually talking about Republicans working all day to find a way not to let him vote? They shut the door? They wouldn't let him take part in democracy? They weren't respecting the institution?

Two words. Judicial appointments.

What about President Bush's appeals court appointments. What's the current toll? Six? Seven? How many nominees are there out there who have the Senate votes necessary for confirmation, but who sit waiting for that vote to take place? And why aren't those votes being taken? Because of Senate Democrats! Democrats have shut the door. They won't let the democratic process proceed. John Kerry wants to talk about not respecting the institution? Fine! Let's consider the fact that this is the first time in the history of the U.S. Senate that one party has blocked a confirmation vote for a judicial nominee who has the votes needed for confirmation! Democrats aren't just blocking the votes on these nominees for one day. They're making sure that the votes never happen!

I'm not going to waste much time looking for this particular news story, but does anyone remember John Kerry condemning the Democrats for preventing votes on judicial nominees? Has Kerry excoriated the Democrats for shutting the door and locking people out? Has Kerry complained that the Democrats won't let the democratic process proceed?

Methinks he doth protest too much.

WE WANT POWER ... NO MATTER WHAT THE COST!

Back to the Abu Ghraib prison situation again. Democrats are hard at work trying to prove that George Bush approved the use of "torture" on persons detained in the war on terror.

Yesterday the Bush Administration release about a two-inch stack of documents detailing the administration position on torture. The documents cite the administration's legal position that these terrorist detainees are not covered under the Geneva Convention. The documents also make it clear that the president will not tolerate cruelty or torture of prisoners. Specific guidelines are set forth which show just how far American forces can go to extract information from prisoners.

The Democrats aren't satisfied. They want more. In fact, they want the White House to release every single last scrap of paper that has anything whatsoever to do with Administration policies on the detention and interrogation of of terrorist suspects.

These documents clearly show the enemy just how far the United States can and will go to extract information. That knowledge in the hands of the enemy is a dangerous thing. They know just how to train their operatives. They can tell their agents that the American forces might threaten this, and they might threaten that .. but they're bluffing. They won't do it. They can't do it. And now, thanks to the able assistance of our Democratic allies, the terrorists know just what those limits are.

Democrats aren't all that stupid. They know that the consequences of their actions are here. No .. they're not stupid, just power hungry. They are perfectly willing to jeopardize the lives of troops in the fight against terrorism, and the lives of potential American victims if it will help them in their number one quest .. not a defeat of terrorism, not a world at peace in freedom and economic liberty ... but a return to the Democratic Party control of the government of the United States.

CIA OFFICIAL WARNS ABOUT TERROR WAR

Well isn't this just pathetic. A new book by a "senior CIA official" using the pseudonym "anonymous" heavily criticizes the United States' war on terror. There are so many things wrong with this, I don't even know where to start. But since the media won't cover any of it, let's see if we can understand the agenda at work here.

ABC News is saying that the author, who is still an employee at the CIA, was only allowed to write the book and talk to the media if he did not reveal his identity. This should make him real popular down at headquarters (and you can bet everybody knows exactly who it is.)

This unidentified CIA employee says "I wrote the book because I think American is in trouble. We have not yet appreciated the dimensions of the problem or the size of the problem." That's right...we haven't. The American public, thanks to spineless liberals like The Poodle and the Bush-bashing media, does not realize that the Islamic terrorists want to murder all Americans and take over the world. I'd say we are far from realizing the extent of the problem.

How do we know that this CIA clown isn't playing with a full deck? Because he also regurgitates the notion that the war in Iraq was unprovoked, and that Saddam Hussein posed no immediate threat. I guess we were supposed to wait until Saddam sold a nuclear weapon to his buddies in Al-Qaeda before we did anything. And in what is perhaps the most telling fact of this whole situation, "anonymous" was formerly in charge of the CIA's efforts to track down Osama Bin Laden. Well ... we all know what a fine job he did there, don't we?

Then there is the question of motivation, something the media never challenges people like this on, because it suits their political purpose. This is a government official, who is selling a book for money. As Richard Clarke taught us, government bureaucrats are by their very nature opportunistic, and will just flat out lie to sell books and cash in.

PETERSON JUROR DISMISSED

If you look up "who cares" in the dictionary, you will find a picture of Scott Peterson. The media, in its hunger to find news programming to fill the summer, decided to put the Scott Peterson trial on the schedule. There is nothing about this story that has any effect on the rest of the nation, yet it is front page news. And so it goes.

Yesterday, the judge dismissed juror #5. Juror #5 turns out to be a tub of goo named Justin Falconer, who is now enjoying his 15 minutes of fame as the media's latest publicity whore. The judge in the case gave no reason for the dismissal, but transcripts reveal he admitted to discussing media coverage of the case with his girlfriend. Yeah right. You can bet it was a lot more than that.

Anyway, this fool comes out and says to the media that he thinks Scott Peterson is innocent. This is the same Scott Peterson that was arrested 30 miles from the Mexican border with dyed hair and $15,000 cash. Sounds like the behavior of an innocent man to me.

Scott Peterson could actually walk on the charge of murdering his wife and her unborn child. Just like O.J., even though he did the crime, some idiotic jury that doesn't understand the concept of reasonable doubt is going to let him off the hook.

It must be the education people are receiving in government schools.

FELONS PAID FOR VOTES

A Democratic group that The Poodle needs to win the presidency has been paying felons, including those convicted of sex offenses assault and burglary, to conduct door-to-door registration drives in swing states. Is anybody surprised at this?

The organization is called "America Coming Together," and this group hires felons to go around signing up voters. Now think about this for a minute. Convicted felons, who themselves cannot vote in many cases, are going around signing up people to vote, and gathering sensitive information like driver's license numbers and Social Security numbers. This is exactly how the voter fraud machine of the Democratic party operates.

You see, unlike Republicans, Democrats can not win elections just by people voting. They have to have "get out the vote" drives in which they pay people to vote, or bribe minority groups in one way or another. Everybody else just shows up and casts a ballot, but the left has to dig deeper...they actually have to physically transport people to the polls to cast their ballot.

This would be pathetic if it wasn't so frightening, but this is exactly the way the Democratic party has been fraudulently electing liberals and working the system for decades.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Ann Coulter weighs in on President Clinton's memoirs, saying that in the final analysis, Bill Clinton will not be remembered for what he did as president, but for who he did.

Don't have days on end to sit and read Bill Clinton's book?  Slate offers the condensed Bill Clinton.  They read it so you don't have to.

Here come the lies...people are coming out of the woodwork to refute some of the things Bill Clinton wrote in his book.  First up, convicted spy Jonathan Pollard.  Then, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says a version of events in Clinton's book is incorrect. Anybody surprised?  Bill Clinton also claims that The Hildabeast was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, who climbed Mt. Everest 7 years after Hillary was born. Oops.

The United States has made a disastrous decision:  we have dropped our attempt to renew our exemption to prosecute American troops for war crimes.  Now all of our men and women in uniform are exposed to the risk of winding up in some world court some place.  The United Nations is a waste of time.

And now the whole list of women Clinton doesn't mention in his book....and boy is it a long one.

So what exactly was Iran doing holding those eight British sailors?  According to John Keegan, Iran has always dreamt of dominating the Middle East.

Here's more good news from Iraq that the press doesn't want you to hear.

Professor Mike Adams takes a look at one of Michael Moore's other America-bashing movies; Bowling for Columbine.

It's too bad Bill Clinton's book is so bad...he could have done a lot better.  Suzanne Fields has some suggestions as to how it could have been improved.

After weeks of Bush-bashing, the race for president is still a dead heat.  Robert Novak tells us why, and explains why George Bush said all of those nice things about Bill Clinton.

So Ron Reagan, Jr. says his Dad never wore his religion on his sleeve.  Larry Elder is there with facts.

And now, some random thoughts from the brilliant Thomas Sowell. Pay attention, you don't want to miss anything.

Cheerleaders develop film to find surprise pictures of man getting really close to personal items in their hotel room.

Turns out this holiday cruise included a flesh buffet.

Canadian lottery winner so distressed by people hounding her for money that she suffers a heart attack.

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