Consider This A Classified Leak

Back at Wayne Manor: When we last left Rich, he was soaring over the farmlands of Iraq with brief stopovers in BIAP, Abu Ghraib, and Fallujah. Upon hearing of Rich's arrival at each spot, the insurgents temporarily suppressed their evil actions due to utter fear.

Where can the line between sedition and patriotism be drawn? At what point are leaks of classified information no longer in the public interest? Within a matter of a week, The New York Times let the potential terrorists know another key in the fight to prevent future attacks and informed insurgents in Iraq that if they hold out long enough, General Casey will pull out a signifacant amount of troops. Can we finally admit that the interests of the paper is not parallel to the interests of America? Of course, all Americans need to know everything that goes on in our government. Tell me, when are we planning the next big attack in Iraq to flush out insurgents? To The New York Times, this information would be in the "public interest."

Governor Rod Blagojevich of Illinois has signed into law a bill that revokes the driver's license or learner's permit of any student who misses more than ten percent of the previous 180 school days. Good plan.

A man in Columbus, Ohio lied his way out of jury duty and faced the music. Benjamine Ratliffe, 21, told the court that he was having a "bad jonesin' for heroin" and that he "killed someone with [a gun]." This numbskull was charged with contempt of court and obstruction of justice, for which he spent a night in jail. Serves him right.

The D.C. area is flooded and rain is pounding the East (most likely caused by Global Warming). I suggest we evacuate the flooded areas, put the victims in hotel rooms across the country, and give them two thousand dollar debit cards. We did it with Katrina, why not elsewhere?

In a survey of 34 countries, America is the most patriotic. I'm assuming they didn't include the editorial boards of The New York Times and L.A. Times for the poll.

President Bush is determined to push through his good 'ol Social Security plan. As I've mentioned before, it's not the best, but it's something. (The best would to give me my money and let me plan my own damn retirement.) In a speech this morning, he stated, "If we can't get it done this year, I'm going to try next year. And if we can't get it done next year, I'm going to try the year after that, because it is the right thing to do. It's just so easy to say, let somebody else deal with it. Now is the time to solve the problems of Medicare and Social Security...".

Leander Kahney has a fun little piece on the weird transition of "iPod" into everday slang. The most interesting: podestrian and podaholic. I would definitely be considered a Pod snob (someone who plugs into their iPod to tune out others).

The "Flag Amendment" has failed, and by one vote in the Senate. What a waste of time that debate was. Honestly, there are more important things to discuss right now than setting Old Glory ablaze. Though, I am glad to see some Republicans had a clear head about the issue. OK. The base has been rallied. Can we please move on?

Presidential Quick Hits

Last night, I stood five feet away from the leader of the free world.

Entertainment Weekly has released it’s pick of the top ten movie car chases. Sadly, the Blues Brothers’ chase only landed #7. The French Connection placed first.

In December, M. Stanton Evans is releasing a new book about Sen. Joe McCarthy. I’ll be on edge until then.

Ohio, Kentucky’s ugly neighbor to the north, plans on setting in place the strictest abortion laws in the country. Their proposal, which would outdo South Dakota’s new claim to fame, would ban all abortions, even in the case of the “mother’s” (I guess if it’s not a child, she’s not a mother) health being at risk. It would also make it a felony to transport a woman to a different state to suck a fetus’ brain out. I’m glad states are finally demanding their rights back, originally raped from them under Roe v. Wade, but jeez…

Markos Moulitsas, a blogger who screeched “Screw them” in response to two American Blackwater contractors hanging lifeless from a bridge in Iraq, is rather feverish over the clearing of Karl Rove in alleged perjury claims. He whines that Rove is attacking “war heroes,” bringing to light the truthiness of Ms. Coulter’s chapter on the liberal doctrine of infallibility. Don’t you dare question someone who was in combat, lost a loved one, or sent a husband on a trip to Niger!

Three Club Gitmo detainees have committed suicide. Knowing that, I think I slept a little better last night.

New Jersey Democrats are calling for “New Jersey retailers to ban the sale of her book throughout the state.” To see my opinion on this matter, click on the link below.

My newest column is up. Enjoy.

Attack on Ann

Before Zarqawi made headlines, Ann Coulter gained top spot for all the pundits. Many have said that she's "gone too far," but leftists said that about her last two books as well. I don't mean to defend Ann, here. She can do that on her own. I actually intend to criticize her.

In her new book, Godless, she writes of the 9/11 widows, "I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much." She also called them "broads" and "harpies."

Criticism has come from everyone on the left, including Sen. Hillary Clinton and Rep. Rahm Emanuel. (Emanuel's statement was made in session, courtesy the taxpayers' buck.)

My grief with Ann comes from a different perspective. I have yet to receive the book, but can't wait to crack it open and enjoy the wit. If these comments about 9/11 widows, who use their loss to gain political capitol, are the most offensive sentences in the book, then sodomists, aborters, and anti-war zealots got off light. I paid $18 for a book filled with the most crass and offensive attacks on the lesser of the two warring political ideologies. If this is the most gruesome statement in the book, I want my money back. Like I said, I haven't received the book, but I expect much more from the rightwing queen.

5 Year Army Anniversary

It’s all pent up, ready to gush out.

I finished the LTC Grossman’s book, On Combat, and recommend it to any law enforcement officer or warrior. Ann Coulter’s new one, Godless, should be in my hands in about a week. But, for now, I’m reading D’Souza’s What’s So Great About America.

Andy Rooney is known for his odd grievances, but CBS still looks to him for “what’s wrong with society” rants. His problem this week: Shoes! That’s right. The most important thing on this geezer’s mind is that he has “20 pairs of shoes [he doesn’t] wear, but they cost so much, [he] can't stand to throw them out.” Rooney also “never understood why [his] shoe size is 9-1/2 and [his] sock size is 11.” Way to uphold the stereotype.

Simon Avery is churning the rumor mill over Apple’s next big venture, an Apple Blackberry. The partnership between Research In Motion and Apple was speculated by the same man, who last year foresaw the partnership between RIM and Intel. Motorola is the company that make’s the Rokr cell phone which allows users to store iTunes songs on their phone. The relationship between Apple and Motorola, despite Apple’s dumping the company for Intel to make their processors, is still workable. If Apple can keep the product cost less than $500, they can definitely take 10 percent of the high-end cell phone market.

Doctors are now claiming that up to 16 million people have been broadly diagnosed with a disorder that can be used to excuse road rage. It’s called intermittent explosive disorder. Dr. Emil Cocarro stated that “[p]eople think it’s bad behavior and that you just need an attitude adjustment, but what they don’t know … is that there’s a biology and cognitive science to this.” The disorder is even being seen in our children. A 16-year-old boy has been diagnosed because, “in stressful situations at home, he ‘explodes and tears apart his room, [and] throws things at other people.'” Sounds like poor parenting if you ask me. As for the adults, they were the ones getting away with temper tantrums as kids.

I am pleased to announce that I have finally found a political ideology which I can rally behind. For years, I have neither claimed Republican nor Democrat as my party. Even when I labeled myself as a libertarian, I had some qualms. I agree with different sides on multiple issues. To put the ideological civil war inside me to rest, I announce that I am a neolibertarian. The philosophy combines the foreign policies of neoconservatism with the social and domestic policies of libertarianism. Other known neolibertarians are Neal Boortz, Larry Elder, and P.J. O’Rourke. I can now sleep at night.

I haven’t seen Brokeback Mountain, but apparently a kiss between the two cowboys was good enough to get the MTV Movie Award’s Best Kiss award. Ewww.

On the topic of sodomy, I understand this gay marriage issue is being brought up to rally the conservative base for the 2006 midterms. However, I’m honestly confused as to how two men getting married threatens my marriage. If gays are allowed to marry, does that mean more heterosexuals will give the other team a fair look? If they are not allowed to marry, does that make my marriage stronger? I’m just not seeing the connection from two women getting married to a complete deterioration of the heterosexual marriage and family. I still feel homosexuality is unnatural, though.