In 1971 Kerry was the first Vietnam veteran to testify before Congress about the war. In his testimony,

Mr. Kerry: I would like to talk, representing all those veterans, and say that several months ago in Detroit, we had an investigation at which over 150 honorably discharged and many very highly decorated veterans testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia, not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command.

It is impossible to describe to you exactly what did happen in Detroit, the emotions in the room, the feelings of the men who were reliving their experiences in Vietnam, but they did. They relived the absolute horror of what this country, in a sense, made them do.

They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, tape wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the country side of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.

What a great American Liberal. To read the rest of the transcript…

How in the world can our children get a fair and balanced education when a vast majority of their history instructors are liberal? We know the liberal mind, it is a broken one, and instructors are not interested in balanced history, but rhetoric and indoctrination. Liberal professors want and strive for their students to exit their class as card carrying liberals…

President Bush often argues that history will vindicate him. So he can’t be pleased with an informal survey of 109 professional historians conducted by the History News Network. It found that 98 percent of them believe that Bush’s presidency has been a failure, while only about 2 percent see it as a success. Not only that, more than 61 percent of the historians say the current presidency is the worst in American history. In 2004, only 11.6 percent of the historians rated Bush’s presidency in last place. Among the reasons given for his low ratings: invading Iraq, “tax breaks for the rich,” and alienating many nations around the world. Bush supporters counter that professional historians today tend to be liberal and that it’s too early to assess how his policies will turn out. Source and Read More…

From time to time, I want to address the concepts of democracy and freedom that helped to shape this country. And sadly, ones that might one day soon be lost to us if liberal democrats get their way.

Natural Law - perhaps the first and foremost among concepts that helped to shape American Republican Democracy. It has been applied to theories of ethics, theories of politics, theories of civil law, and theories of religious morality. It is above all as it is ordained not by man, but by a higher authority. As such it is set by nature and therefore has validity everywhere.

Marcus Tullius Cicero, a political and philosophical writer/orator in the 1st-century BC, gave a famous definition of natural law in his De Republica:”True law is right reason in agreement with Nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions. . . . There will not be different laws at Rome and at Athens, or different laws now and in the future, but one eternal and unchangeable law will be valid for all nations and for all times.”

This was found in Quién magazine in Mexico City.

Is this a joke? What is the context? According to what I am discovering, this is no joke, and is marketing at its worst…

I dunno, should we make this into a big deal?

Maybe, maybe not, nut just one more sign that border security is a joke.

But don’t worry, we’re doing something about border security baby. U.S. spends $23 million to aid in border security… to Egypt. You won’t believe this!

History can, from time to time, be a good reference for current events. From a past economic crisis:

Serious debt, doubts about being able to sustain the economy, let alone pay it down, are always serious issues. Let us remain calm. Right now, we are only speculating.

Charlie Rose interviewed CNN founder Ted Turner just this last week, and here’s some highlights; please sit down:

Ted Turner on the environment once global warming kicks into high gear: “Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.”

Ted’s solution: “We’re too many people. That’s why we have global warming. We have global warming because too many people are using too much stuff. If there were less people, they’d be using less stuff.” Brilliant!

And finally, this gem, Ted on the insurgents in Iraq: “I think that they’re patriots and that they don’t like us because we’ve invaded their country and occupied it.”

Read full transcripts here.

How on God’s green earth was this idoit able to build a financial empire?

According to a new survey the average percentage of people reporting that the U.S. has a positive influence in the world has risen to 35% from 31% a year ago. Horray! Seriously, don’t care. We have bigger problems.

By the way, there is a freightening result of this popularity poll, and that is the results of U.S. citizens who view their own country negatively. My God, look at all the other countries where people view us better than our own in this poll? Russia, India, and China? More Americans view their country negatively than North freaking Koreans.

Wow, looks like the leftest media, university system, and public schools are doing their job. Keep it up, and pretty soon we’ll have a lesser view of ourselves than the Iranians. You can do it LIBS!

Michael Hodges reports that according to household, business, financial and government sectors, we are in serious trouble, but no one will tell you this. Today’s economy has more than double the debt load in relation to economy size, as was the 1957 economy. Total debt $75,154 per man, woman and child.

Today’s debt has grown above $53 trillion (the right chart) 76 times higher to $175,154 per man, woman and child - or $700,616 per family of 4.

80% ($42 trillion) of today’s debt was created since 1990.

If we focus on just the Federal Government debt of about $9 Trillion, this would be $29,926 per PERSON, and rising… At the left is a chart showing the rapid build-up of federal debt per man, woman and child to $29,926. This means a family of four (4) shares $119,704 in federal debt responsibility, including those still in diapers. And, that’s not all they owe.

“If today’s debt ratio to national income were the same as in the early 1970s (40%), today’s debt would be a whopping $3.6 trillion ($12,000 per person) less than it is.

Is the debt going down? Nope!! In fiscal year 2007 (ending 9/30/07) federal debt rose to $9 trillion - $501 billion more than the prior year, which is a one-year increase of $1,503 per man, woman and child - or $6,012 per family of 4 - - another in a long string of new records.

During the period since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack, federal government debt increased $2.8 trillion.”

President Bush is sounding more like Hoover in the early1930s every day. With Oil hitting $111 a Barrel, gas prices on the rise, the dollar down, stocks plunging, and the housing market still crashing, our esteemed leader says all is fine. But don’t worry, Congress has got a plan.

Nuts and airports is still in play apparently. Recently some nut with a backpack runs onto a runway and causes an alarm. Let’s hope he was an enviro-wacko, and next time is runover.

A series of violent “snow rage” incidents in Canada have shown the northern country to be not so tolerant after all.

Last Sunday, a man in an upscale Quebec City neighborhood became so upset a woman from a snow removal service was putting snow on his yard that he shouted at her and then took a shovel and hit the window of the vehicle she was driving.

“The woman apologized and returned to work … a bit later the man opened his garage door and emerged with a shotgun, pointed it at the ground and looked at her in a threatening way,” said a police spokeswoman. (Read more…)

And further evidence that this country is in a cultural decent, a man who killed his 17-month-old daughter after she accidently broke his Xbox was sentenced to more than two decades in prison. Not long enough. This person is a waste of space and air.

Finally, I have been slowly coming to terms with the fact that I will probably be voting for McCain. This is happening not from anything the McCainster is doing, but the comedy and freakshow that is the Democratic presidential race. Obama has a serious issue with his radical pastor who he called his “mentor.” While Hillary continues to swing away at him, along with this latest development, it might be enough to bring him down. Either way, I can’t see Clinton or Obama beating McCain in November. More later.