Just a few random thoughts ... 'cause I can't help it.

• I see that Jimmy Carter, the man who never met a dictator he didn't like, has blasted Zell Miller for his speech at the Republican National Convention.  Carter says that Miller was "disloyal."  Disloyal to what?  The Democratic Party?  Leave it to Carter to put loyalty to a political party above loyalty to one's country.  By the way ... Carter should be hiding under a bed somewhere right now.  That phony election in Venezuela that Carter so quickly certified as honest and above-board is now proving to have been a corrupt sham.  But, then, Hugo Chavez is a leftist thug, so just what did you expect from Carter?
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• In Tucson, Arizona they're building new municipal playgrounds.  The playgrounds don't have swings.  One federal agency and one out-of-control law to blame.  The Consumer Product Safety Commission demands soft landing areas surrounding swings.  At $14 a square foot, the rubberized landing areas are too expensive.  Sand is the best option.  Simple sand.  But sand is a no-go under the Americans with Disabilities Act.  Wheelchairs don't move all that well in sand.  How long before the government has us pave beaches?
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• Former Texas Governor Ann Richards is hanging out this week at the same place that I'm hanging out this week.  You can hear her in the restaurant berating President Bush to her friends.  Others in this well-heeled crowd can be heard getting their own digs in.  "I just can't stand the way he swaggers!"  I called the local country Republican Party and had a "Bush 2004" t-shirt delivered and am wearing it proudly.  We'll see if anyone talks to me today.  I'll report tomorrow.
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• Metro Atlanta ranks 5th in the nation in road congestion. Don't worry folks, help is on the way.  The Windward Marta rail station will open in 23 years.  When that marvelous event happens I may move back to the suburbs.

REBOOTING

After the Democratic and Republican conventions and an encounter with one Hurricane too many it's time to reboot ... and that's exactly what I'm doing this week.  Keep checking back with Nealz Nuze though because my warped staff is going to be putting some of their comments on line, the winsome Web Wench will undoubtedly find some interesting things to post, and I won't be able to resist putting my own two cents worth in from time to time.

RUSSIA RELEASES ISLAMIC TERROR VIDEO

So now we've seen the video.  Russia released video taken from inside the school where Islamic terrorists rounded up hundreds of innocent school children, and then proceeded to slaughter the kids.  Even though the media is trying to hide the fact that these Chechnyan "separatists" are actually Arab terrorists, the pictures don't lie. 

So what do we see?  The video shows hundreds of people (many of them children) huddled in a gymnasium while these psychotic Islamic terrorists string bombs all over the place.  The broadcast on Russian television spoke of more than 1,500 hostages, the first time they have admitted how big it all was.  Blood is show on the floor of the gym, apparently from a body being dragged across the floor.  Boy, those "rebels" really are just misunderstood people...if only we were nice to them, maybe they wouldn't shoot innocent children.

In an interview with a British newspaper, Russian President Vladimir Putin exploded over the situation, apparently upset at the United States for granting asylum to a Chechen separatist.  "Why don't you meet Osama bin Laden, invite him to Brussels or to the White House and engage in talks, ask him what he wants and give it to him so he leaves you in peace?" Putin said yesterday.  Sounds about right.  Terrorists are terrorists...and it's time to exterminate them wherever they roam.

Hopefully Russia's response won't be one of appeasement.  Doesn't sound like it.  Perhaps they'll retaliate without worrying about offending anyone.  Maybe they will understand that terrorism cannot be tolerated, and they won't care what the rest of the "international community" (Old Europe and the U.N.) has to say about it.  People have a right to not stand for their children being randomly shot dead by these bloodthirsty Islamic killers.

They need to show those videos over and over and over again on television, all over the world.  It should serve as a reminder to all civilized societies that all of these Islamic fascists should be eliminated.  Not appeased, not negotiated with, not understood, not arrested and not prosecuted, but wasted.   By the way, contrary to what the media says, this has nothing to do with independence in Chechnya or anywhere, it's all about Islamic terrorists doing what they do best: killing innocent people in the name of Allah.

If I were Putin, I'd level the place.  How's that for your "more sensitive War on Terror," Mr. Kerry?

The latest headlines all over the various media outlets is that the United States has now sustained 1,000 casualties in Iraq.  One thousand!  What a huge number, right?  Well not really, but more on that in a minute.  To hear the media tell it, you would think that 1,000 U.S. troops just died yesterday.  Of course, the truth is much different, but reporting the truth doesn't help The Poodle, now does it?

Operation Iraqi Freedom is now only 18 months old.  In that time, we have liberated a country of 25 million people, overthrown a murderous regime and installed an interim government.  We have done all of this with the loss of 1,000 troops.  While every lost life is tragic, that number is lower than every single estimate that was made before the war.  There were talking heads predicting a loss of 10,000 U.S. lives during the invasion alone.  So we're supposed to believe that after a year and a half, only 1,000 is somehow a failure?  I think not.

Then you have morons comparing Iraq to Vietnam...which shows their stupidity.  58,000 lives lost over the course of a decade is not the same thing as Iraq.  Besides...we've won the war in Iraq by every measure of success.

But really, this has nothing to do with casualties, the war in Iraq, or Bush's handling of it.  This is just the media following their template...running stories that hurt Bush in the hopes of electing The Poodle to the Oval Office.

MEDIA IN PANIC MODE....BUSH MIGHT WIN

After President Bush came out of the Republican National Convention with an 11-point bounce, the media went into panic mode.  Why, it looks like George Bush just might be re-elected!  They can't have that, so now it's time to knock Bush down a notch, and the media's Bush-bashing machine is getting fired up.

First up, this idiotic nonsense about Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard 30 years ago.  Seems like we settled this last election, but the media and their masters at the DNC think they can get more mileage out of this.  Apparently more records have been found on Bush's whereabouts during that time.  The left is not satisfied...they're jumping up and down screaming that there are still gaps.  Well whoop-tee-doo.  The hypocrisy here is off the Richter Scale...shall we count the ways?

First of all, John Kerry has not released all of his military records.  The Poodle's campaign tells the lie that all of the records are posted on his website, but they're not all there, nor have they ever been.  Second, the media never had a problem when Bill Clinton ran for office against two war heroes with only a record of dodging the draft.  At the time, John Kerry even said that it didn't matter.  Apparently military service only matters when it's a Democrat we're talking about.  Whatever. 

Then, tonight on the CBS Evening Kerry, Dan Rather Biased will interview some guy who claims he got Bush into the National Guard's "champagne unit" for rich kids who wanted to avoid the draft.  Never mind that the guy making the accusation is a partisan Democrat...that doesn't matter.  It's Bush-bashing time!

Then there's this new Kitty Kelley trash book that is coming out, that will accuse the president of using cocaine.  How nice.  Newsweek passed on carrying excerpts from the book saying they "weren't comfortable with a lot of the reporting."  I am sure plenty of other media outlets won't have a problem carrying it at all.

As The Poodle's chances continue to fade, look for an all-out assault on George W. Bush.  The Democrats have no real issues to run on, and it shows.  The zero hour is fast approaching, and they're getting desperate.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Alan Keyes has said that Jesus Christ would not vote for Barack Obama.  Well, If Christ is voting for Keyes, then he could be the only one.

The Poodle was seen waving a gun this weekend in a campaign appearance....but wait, it turns out legislation he co-sponsored would have banned that gun.  Another Flip-Flop....

The FairTax plan continues to attract more interest....we can only hope.

The third anniversary of September 11 is coming up....and the left and the media are still in complete denial.  Michelle Malkin says it's time to stop sanitizing the killers.

So why do so many on the left hate George W. Bush?  Mark Steyn says it all comes down to snobbery, and a little thing called the war on terror.

The mainstream media dismissed Zell Miller's keynote speech at the RNC as 'mean-spirited,' but Michael Novak says Zell Miller spoke for a lot of disaffected Democrats.

It's time for all civilized nations, including Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Japan to join the United States and fight a total global war on terror.  Stanley Crouch talks about the real goals of Islamic terrorism.

President Bush stands clear on the issues...but The Poodle's positions on the issues are much murkier.  James Pinkerton says it's difficult to beat an incumbent president in wartime.

The unemployment rate fell to 5.4 percent in August....low by historical standards, unless you ask the Bush-bashing media.  The Media Research Center reports.

Things are looking pretty good for George Bush right now....but Tony Blankley is cautiously optimistic, even as he points out the many deficiencies of the Kerry campaign.

The Tort King loves to tell people on the stump that we live in "Two Americas."  Walter E. Williams says this is nothing more than dishonesty, and he has the facts and figures to back it up.

The left is up and arms as their hopes for The Poodle continue to slip away.  Jonah Goldberg says it's now turning into contempt for the voters, as academics are wondering what is wrong with people who don't vote for liberals.

The federal government is spending billions of dollars on aid to the victims of Hurricanes Charley and Frances.  Thomas Sowell asks the question: would so many people build homes in the path of hurricanes if the government wasn't there to pick up the tab when things went wrong?

The media bias was on full display during the convention as liberal commentators tried to hide their thirst for a Bush defeat.  Of course, they couldn't sneak anything past Brent Bozell, who has a full report.

If you believe the nation is at war against a serious enemy, then chances are you'll vote for President Bush.  If you don't believe there really is a war on terror, then chances are you'll vote Democratic.  Linda Chavez explains.

Is it possible to assess someone's I.Q. with a single question?  Professor Mike Adams takes a stab at it....with some interesting questions.

Unemployment is low, home ownership is at an all-time high, the stock market has rebounded....Jack Kemp says now is not the time to be economic girlie-men.

A New Zealand man on a recent trip in Fiji was about to be attacked by six thugs, but unfortunately for the attackers, the man turned out to be a fourth-degree black belt karate instructor.

Inmates in an Australian prison have found a new way to get high.

A Tanzanian who went to a witch doctor in search of the power to resist bullets and knife attacks died when ritual cuts made on his body proved fatal.

Police in Paris have discovered a fully equipped cinema-cum-restaurant in a large and previously uncharted catacomb underneath the capital's chic 16th arrondissement.

Meet Milo and his amazing tongue! [flash]

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