Friday, May 28, 2004

Democrats and Republicans Agree That U.S. Morals Are Subpar
Outlook for morals worsened over past year

Yes, I agree, the country is going to the dogs.

Bush Administration Blocked on Oregon Suicide Law

Law could make ultrasound referral illegal for pro-life groups

Eat crow, NY Times. Could you make that a larger crow? Say it loudly and clearly, "George Bush did not lie."
Times Finds Faults in Own Iraq Coverage
"It is still possible that chemical or biological weapons will be unearthed in Iraq, but in this case it looks as if we, along with the administration, were taken in," the Times' editors wrote. "And until now we have not reported that to our readers."

Who would you want to be president if Al-Quida attacks again? Isn't it hypocritical that Bush was criticized for not warning us before 9/11, but now Kerry's gang is criticizing theBush guys for warning us this time?
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB9AU4TPUD.html
Al-Qaida Almost Ready to Attack United States, Ashcroft Says

Kerry can't leave Vietnam.
Ann Coulter
Tit for Tet

Guilty Gore Goes Gaga
"It is now clear that Al Gore is insane," writes the New York Post's John Podhoretz.

ACLU May Sue L.A. County Over Seal
"Here you have this radical left-wing organization whose own symbol should be the hammer and sickle," said Mike Antonovich (search), one of five Los Angeles County supervisors. "They are using pressure tactics trying to rewrite history."

Wednesday, May 26, 2004

American Catholic Voters Support for Kerry on Church Issues Falls as Low as Six Percent
A major poll of 1,388 American Roman Catholic voters shows Catholic presidential candidate John Kerry getting only 20% support among America’s 51 million Catholics on issues where he opposes the Church’s position with his support on some issues dropping as low as 6%.

African-American Leaders Launch Effort to Combat Homosexual Agenda
"Gay Marriage Is Not A Civil Right"

How Chinagate Led to 9/11
"The only place left to go with intelligence information – particularly for efforts to share intelligence information or obtain search warrants – was straight up Clinton and Gorelick’s multi-tiered chain of command. Instead, information lethal to the Democratic Party languished inside the Justice Department, trapped behind Gorelick’s walls."

Be on the look out for these guys.
Some Names of Al Qaeda Terrorists Plotting Hot Summer for America

This is the most politically incorrect article I've read in a long time.
How to Defeat Jihad in America
The simple fact we must face is that we will continue living under the ever-present fear and reality of domestic terrorism as long as Wahhabi and fundamentalist Moslems continue to reside and move around freely in the United States and other Western countries. Therefore, if we want to eliminate the threat of domestic terrorism, and not just keep dancing around the problem, we must stop talking about assimilating Moslems and start talking about excluding and deporting them instead.

Monday, May 24, 2004

Help pass the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act!
Urge lawmakers to cosponsor this major new pro-life bill.

What part of "Thou Shalt Not Kill" does she not understand? Since when is killing innocent, unborn babies something that is allowed by freedom of conscience? I wish they would read 1 Cor 11:27-30 "A person should examine himself, and so eat the bread and drink the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself. That is why many among you are ill and infirm, and a considerable number are dying. If we discerned ourselves, we would not be under judgment; but since we are judged by (the) Lord, we are being disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world."
OnPro-abort pols
The wife of prominent US Senator Ted Kennedy decried as "dangerous" recent statements by Catholic clergy saying they would deny communion to Catholics who support abortion rights.

Putting Faith into Practice
Cal Thomas
If Catholic politicians don’t like it they have three choices: apply church teaching in the political lives, leave politics or find another church.

Your Catholic Voice President Ray Flynn Calls Politicians' Letter to Bishops Disrespectful and Arrogant
Flynn, a pro-life Democrat said of his pro-choice fellow party members, "They want to be Catholic on election day and get the Catholic vote, but when they get to Washington or the state house, they consistently vote with every well financed radical group that is working against the most fundamental of all human rights."

The End of Religious Liberty in Canada
In passing this legislation, the Canadian Parliament added "sexual orientation" to the nation's laws criminalizing "hate speech." The end result is that the Bible may now be considered a form of criminalized hate literature and Christians who teach that homosexuality is sinful may face criminal charges.

Are children of gay parents worse off?
Mona Charen

New evidence: Saddam's WMD in Lebanon
Through the use of satellites, electronic monitoring and human intelligence, the intelligence community has determined that much, if not all, of Iraq's biological and chemical weapons assets are being protected by Syria, with Iranian help, in the Bekaa Valley.

Those who do not learn from history will be condemned to repeat it.
The Kerry War: Longer, More US Dead
Even the astute blokes at the Weekly Standard don’t seem to understand Kerry’s position. Their Irwin Stelzer recently wrote, “John Kerry is as eager to call it quits in Iraq as is Bush, the main difference being that the Democratic candidate would have our troops hand over their responsibilities to blue-helmet U.N. peacekeepers with an unblemished record of failure …”

Friday, May 21, 2004

Florida bishop rebukes pro-abortion Catholics
He replies also to the accusations that politics is not the proper realm for churchmen, a criticism often accompanied by polemics about "separation of Church and State." "It is totally within our competence to say that one cannot be complicit in the injustice of denying the right to life of an unborn child or an invalid elder and still consider oneself a good Catholic," the bishop writes.

Cardinal said willing to meet Democrats opposing Communion ban
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Washington Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick is open to meeting a group of Catholic Democrats critical of bishops who would deny Communion to Catholic legislators favoring legalized abortion, said Susan Gibbs, the cardinal's spokeswoman.

Is fear of revolt in the collection basket making the bishops cowards?
Catholic Bishop Sticks to Communion Stance for Pro-Abortion Voters

Surely, he doesn't really mean what he said the first time, so how can one believe he means it now?
Kerry Flip-Flops Yet Again on Abortion
As anyone with a brain except Sen. John Kerry could have predicted, pro-abortion groups and other Democrats immediately started screaming after Kerry said Wednesday that he was open to nominating pro-life judges.

Why Kerry's protectionist stance is doomed to fail.
Protectionism
by Jagdish Bhagwati
The fact that trade protection hurts the economy of the country that imposes it is one of the oldest but still most startling insights economics has to offer.

Revive the Conservative Revolution
This summer, the famous Contract With America that swept Republicans into power in Congress in January 1995 turns ten years old.

Thursday, May 20, 2004

So pro-abortion pols are protecting the church now?? Or their political careers?
Catholics in Congress give bishop a warning
WASHINGTON — Forty-eight Roman Catholic members of Congress have warned in a letter to Cardinal Theodore McCarrick of Washington that U.S. bishops will revive anti-Catholic bigotry and severely harm the church if they deny Holy Communion to politicians who support abortion rights.

Massachusetts Senate vote aids gay 'marriages'
The Massachusetts state Senate yesterday voted overwhelmingly to repeal the 1913 law that Gov. Mitt Romney says forbids out-of-state homosexual couples from "marrying" in Massachusetts.


Internet Usage Trends
64% in US use Internet for religious reasons
82 million Americans - or nearly two-thirds of those online - are now using the Internet for religious, faith or spiritual reasons, according to a new study.

On Church attendance in Australia
Statistics suggest religious marriage ceremonies are waning fast. The latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show that only 45 per cent of marriages are now performed by ministers of religion; that is, 55 per cent are conducted by civil celebrants.

Anglicans seek gay bishop removal
Eighteen Anglican archbishops, most of them from Africa and Asia and representing more than 55 million Anglicans, have called on the Episcopal Church to "repent" its pro-homosexual policies within three months or face expulsion from the worldwide Anglican Communion.

Bin Laden exceeds even his wildest dreams (Osama and this writer are giddy with US setbacks)

I don't agree with this writer's conclusions, but his analysis of the problem is good.

Must See Anti-kerry Ads - HILARIOUS - "The French For Kerry"
Rick Reed with one of the premier Republican media consulting firms in America, Steven Reed Curcio and Potholm, has produced two of the funniest commercials we've seen. And we mean ever. Many thanks for allowing them to host them on our crushkerry.com.

"Only Thinner"
"Only Thinner" (French Version)

Wednesday, May 19, 2004

WMD Stockpiles
Gazi George, a former Iraqi nuclear scientist under Saddam's regime, told Fox News he believes many similar weapons stockpiled by the former regime were either buried underground or transported to Syria. He noted that the airport where the device was detonated is on the way to Baghdad from the Syrian border.
"I'm sure they're going to find more once time passes," he continued, saying one year is not enough for the survey group or the military to find the weapons.

Iraqi Nerve Gas, WMD Find Blows Away Pundits
We all know from the anti-war fanatics that there are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq - the leftist media and pundits have pounded that assertion into the American TV fact file. We are told again and again that George Bush lied.

The recent discovery of nerve gas and mustard gas in Iraq is clearly proof that it was Saddam Hussein that was lying. Saddam lied about his weapons and has hidden more than one for future use.

A Very Dangerous Place
Monday's news confirms what [David] Kay reported to an indifferent Congress: "We know that terrorists were passing through Iraq. And now we know that there was little control over Iraq's weapons capabilities. I think it shows that Iraq was a very dangerous place. The country had the technology, the ability to produce, and there were terrorist groups passing through the country -- and no central control."

Bruce Bartlett says:
India's voters may unwittingly have solved the outsourcing problem here in a way that America's protectionists never could.

President Bush Hits Pro-Life Themes in Commencement Address
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- President Bush touched on pro-life themes in his commencement address at Wisconsin's Concordia University. He urged graduates to help build a "culture of life" and warned them of the dangers of destroying human life to advance scientific research.

No Private Affair
Marriage is about more than the man and the woman.

Jeff Jacoby
The end of the gay marriage debate?
"But still another part of the answer to "How did we get here?" is that those who defend the traditional definition of marriage have been woefully ineffective in making their case."

Separation of church and state? But not separation of state from dictating church matters. Does this mean the state can force churches to marry gays?

News from the liberal, feminist fringe.
Coalition of Catholic Women's Groups Supports Same-Sex Marriages

Secularist Double Standards
The court, appallingly, ruled in favor of the members and against the church, basically saying that the church doesn't have the right to enforce its own rules of discipline.

Monday, May 17, 2004

Pro-Family Group Dreads 'Destruction of Marriage Day'
This is a sad day for America.

Conservatives Demand Passage of Federal Marriage Amendment

Yeah, Mike! That's Bishop Michael to you. I know this man. He was my teacher. If bishops won't defend the sacraments, what will they defend?
Bishop: No Communion for Pro-abortion Voters

Those Catholic bishops who actually follow the church's teachings are now targeting more than just pro-abortion politicians such as John Kerry. Bishop Michael Sheridan says that "Catholics" who vote for politicians in favor of abortion, embryonic stem-cell research, euthanasia or same-sex marriage may not receive Communion until they recant and repent in the confessional.


Vatican Warns Catholics Against Marrying Muslims

How Is Marriage Doing?
More people are getting divorced, more kids are living with single parents and more grandparents are playing a mother or father role for their grandkids. Following are statistics and facts about marriage that use the most recent available data.

Presbyterians are next to fight over the issue.
Covenant Network Talks Strategy for
Eliminating "Fidelity and Chastity" from the Constitution

Goal is "removing Authoritative Interpretation"
Strategies leading to the ordination of those in homosexual relationships were the overwhelming concern of the sixth annual Covenant Network conference that concluded Saturday, Nov. 8 at New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. Network speakers made it clear that they wish to achieve this goal without a split.

There are some interesting comments here.
Letters to the Editor about the prison abuse in Iraq

Friday, May 14, 2004

The Bush Conspiracy Theory Generator Play this game.


Compare the candidates. This seems biased to me.
Kerry
Bush

Vet: Officers told Kerry to leave Vietnam
Colleagues couldn't take John's behavior, attitudes anymore

This news story gives an interesting clue. Nicholas Berg was a Jewish-American. Was he slaughtered because of abuse in that Iraqi prison or because he was a Jewish-American?

Let's see now. Hmm. The 9/11 commission is accussing the Bush Administration of not getting enough intellegence to prevent the 9/11 attacks, but is going ballistic because military intelligence officers are doing too much to get information. Information that might save soldier's lives and prevent another attack on American soil. Does that make sense to you?

Wartime Tactics are Not Pretty, but Necessary
Cal Thomas

So Bosnia doesn't count? The war on terrorism hadn't started yet?
Democrats' attacks seen backfiring
"Yesterday, at a campaign stop in Arkansas, Mr. Kerry was sharper in his criticism of the war effort than he has ever been, boasting that "when Bill Clinton left office not one young American in uniform was dying in a war anywhere in this world."
Mr. DeLay noted that "under the policies in the 1990s, we suffered six dead at the World Trade Center bombing, 19 dead of the Khobar Towers, 224 dead in the Africa embassy bombings, 17 sailors dead on the USS Cole, and within months, 3,000 dead on 9/11."

New Study: Half of Young People Will Contract STDs

Fired EMT Sues After Refusing to Transport Woman for Abortion

Surge Of Mexican Immigrants Brings Prospect Of Huge Increase In U.S. Catholic Population

Thursday, May 13, 2004

"Catholics Against Kerry" coordinator John Berns is pleased to launch a new web site [www.catholicsagainstkerry.com] aimed at Sen. John Kerry.

Archbishop John G. Vlazny, leader of 298,000 Roman Catholics in Western Oregon, has declared that any Catholic, politician or not, who is publicly at odds with serious church teaching should refrain from taking Holy Communion.

Public dissenters should themselves refrain from Communion
05/06/2004 Archbishop John Vlazny

CBS Employs McCarthyistic Tactics to Smear Anti-Kerry Veterans

Who needs a tax hike?
Teresa Heinz Kerry's Tax Bill Lighter Than Bush's

Sen. John Kerry and his ketchup heiress wife, Teresa Heinz, paid a meager 15.2 percent of their gross income to the IRS last year, new data released Tuesday by the Kerry campaign shows.

Dem Touts Abu Ghraib as Political 'Silver Bullet'
"We have so many people out there that are so concerned about the human rights of a bunch of people who are murderers and terrorists that I find it offensive," he told Sean Hannity."


The Jerusalem Post has this to say.
Iraq in perspective
"The attempt to compare prisons filled with alleged terrorists and other jihadis with gulags past and present is obscene and an insult to the victims of terrorists and dictators.

How can enlightened people, who claim to care about human rights, compare the real gulags that now exist in places like Iran and North Korea, in which thousands of innocent people are being killed and tortured far from the public eye, to the American incarceration of terrorist suspects?
Regardless of where one stands on the debate over how to fight terrorism, it is incumbent on all those who care about human rights not to debase this fundamental concept by conflating its exceptional violation by countries who believe deeply in it with its rampant trampling by those who do not. Nor should we in the West, because of lamentable but exceptional incidents, condemn ourselves and the world to much greater injustices by simply throwing in the towel in this war to defend our freedom and beliefs.
In Iraq, Saddam Hussein's henchmen would feed prisoners into shredders and shoot them for sport."

I wonder. How do liberals know when something is wrong? Imagine the terrorists saying, "Killing someone is not something I would ever do, but I don't want to impose my beliefs on anyone else." How can liberals judge the terrorists if they promote the killing of unborn babies? Partial birth abortion is as cruel as beheading Nick Berg.

Gary Bauer's comments:
Al Qaeda War Crime
"News is just breaking that a jihadist website is running a video that purports to show an American, Nick Berg of Philadelphia, being beheaded in revenge for the events at Abu Ghraib prison. But before we jump to any conclusions about this being retaliation, remember that our enemy has been beheading us (Daniel Pearl), desecrating bodies (early American POW's) and ignoring the rules of war (hijacking aircraft) long before any of them were being humiliated by American MPs! Why do I think that by tonight this atrocity, if true, will be blamed on Secretary Rumsfeld and President Bush rather than on the murderers who want to behead, poison or irradiate all of us? By the way, the media this morning was describing Berg's body as showing "signs of trauma." It is only now that we discover from his murderers he was beheaded. The press wants us to see every photo from the prison, but they try to hide the handiwork of our enemy."

"Here's another fact you won't hear tonight on the major networks. In February of this year, the parents of one of the accused soldiers wrote to 17 senators, including Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy, informing them of events at the prison. There is no record that any of those senators, among them the loudest critics of President Bush and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, took any action."

Tuesday, May 11, 2004

This is one way to get rid of a judge that legislates from the bench.
Momentum Gaining to Dismiss Mass. Chief Justice Marshall

Two men preparing to carry crosses charged with disorderly conduct
DAYTON, Tenn. — Before they could get one of their trademark 10-foot wooden crosses fastened together, two men were arrested by Dayton police officers on charges of disorderly conduct at yesterday's Gay Day gathering.

Kerry a Kindred Spirit of Iraqi Abusers
Conventional wisdom holds that these atrocities will hurt President Bush; force him to defend yet another front in an increasingly unpopular war effort. But it is Kerry who stands the most to lose if American malfeasance in the war becomes a chapter in the foreign policy narrative within the 2004 election. Especially now that America’s eyes begin to turn toward Sen. Kerry’s Vietnam War – and post-war – record.

Did Colin Powell Hit a Bull's-Eye?

I asked State Department spokesman Adam Ereli if the department still stands behind everything Colin Powell said about Zarqawi in his Feb. 5, 2003, presentation to the Security Council. "Yes," said Ereli.
Time may be proving that on this all-important question, Powell hit his target dead-on.
Even With Hindsight Liberals Can't See Straight
by Ann Coulter
The reason Al Gore hasn't added "anti-terrorism" to the list of things he invented is that Gore's commission concluded that passenger profiling must ignore ethnicity and nationality. Or as Gore himself might have put it, "I took the initiative in making it easier for Muslims to use airplanes to slaughter innocent American citizens."

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Employment Situation: April 2004

What the jobless statistics don't reveal

Monday, May 10, 2004

Hollywood celebrities and producers do this because they think of themselves as smarter than the rest of us.
Hollywood Comes Out For Kerry
Barbra Streisand, James Brolin, Ted Danson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Oliver Stone, Dustin Hoffman, Danny DeVito, Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt and Kevin Costner were among those who recently showed up at a John Kerry fundraiser in California.

This was written before the war in Iraq started, but it is still relevent.
Who's Smarter?
by Cindy Osborne
The ultimate irony is that many of these celebrities have made a shambles of their own lives, with drug abuse, alcoholism, numerous marriages and divorces, scrapes with the law, publicized temper tantrums, etc. How dare they pretend to know what is best for an entire nation!

Tell the Pope know how you feel about pro-death Catholics in public life.
Catholic Family Association's Canonical Petition to Interdict or Excommunicate Culture of Death "Catholics".
This is an international Ecclesial Legal Action. Catholics from all nations are invited to sign and become petitioners. CFA wants the Pope to change Canon Law.


Mainline United Methodist Church General Conference votes 625-184 that Marriage is Only "the union of one man and one woman"/Congress needs to vote on the Federal Marriage Amendment NOW
Last Saturday, the General Conference of the United Methodist Church overwhelmingly voted (625-184) to add language to the denomination's Social Principles endorsing "laws in civil society that define marriage as the union of one man and one woman."
Miss USA recalls memories of Incarnate Word Academy

Archbishop Myers Issues Pastoral on Pro-abortion Lawmakers
From the perspective of justice, to say, 'I am personally opposed to abortion but . . .' is like saying, 'I personally am against slavery, but I cannot impose my personal beliefs on my neighbor.'”


US Bishop Aquila Warns Catholic Pro-Abortion Politicians They "Risk the Possibility of Hell"

Gay couple denied communion in northern Minnesota church

Adam Smith was a famous economist.
John Adam Smith Kerry
"Even a cursory glance at John Kerry's most recent Personal Financial Disclosure forms (filed in 2003) shows Ted Kennedy's more liberal, junior partner is deeply invested and has personally profited from the outsourcing phenomena that haunts corporate America. We have cross-referenced Kerry's holdings of publicly traded assets with Lou Dobbs' worst outsource offenders list."

Friday, May 07, 2004

Grassfire Announces Plans for Advertising Rating System
As part of its overall plan to restore broadcast decency, Grassfire unveiled a multi-faceted effort designed to curtail the sexual performance ads that are so prevalent on network television. In addition to asking pharmaceutical companies to air these ads after the 10 p.m. hour, Grassfire is also seeking a voluntary ratings system for all network television advertising (similar to what is used for network programming).
Sign the Broadcast Decency Petition.


Teresa Heinz Kerry Nearly Had Abortion
WASHINGTON - Teresa Heinz Kerry nearly underwent an abortion some 30 years ago on a doctor's recommendation because she had been taking cortisone early in her pregnancy, but a miscarriage rendered the decision moot.


Why abortion-on-demand is on the way out


Federal drug regulators yesterday rejected a drug maker's application to sell a morning-after pill over the counter because of concerns about whether young girls would be able to use it safely.


Homosexual Activist Berates Dems for Going 'Squishy' on Marriage Amendment
The head of a homosexual advocacy group says his fellow activists need to adopt the conservative strategy of getting something in exchange for their political support.

Right to Be Murdered in Private?
Judge: It's OK to Starve Terri Schiavo to Death
The law preventing Terri Schiavo's husband from starving her to death is unconstitutional, a judge decreed today. Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's office filed an immediate appeal.


Get your own Kerry Flips tshirt an flip-flops!


The curious lack of curiosity about WMD
Jordan recently seized 20 tons of chemicals trucked in by confessed al Qaeda members who brought the stuff in from Syria. The chemicals included VX, Sarin and 70 others. But the media seems curiously incurious about whether one could reasonably trace this stuff back to Iraq. Had the terrorists released a "toxic cloud," Jordanian officials say 80,000 would have died!


Transcript of Remarks by President Bush on the National Day of Prayer


Boston Archdiocese Says Pope Defrocked Two Priests
May 6 (Bloomberg) -- Boston's Roman Catholic Archdiocese said Paul R. Shanley and Ronald H. Paquin were defrocked as priests by Pope John Paul II following allegations of sexual abuse.

Thursday, May 06, 2004

Shanley, Priest at Center of Clergy Abuse Scandal, Defrocked
BOSTON (AP) - Paul Shanley, the priest who was a key figure in the clergy sexual abuse scandal in the Boston Archdiocese, has been defrocked, according to a document obtained by The Associated Press.

Letter From Archbishop O'Malley to Paul Shanley

Arkansas Debate Focuses on Pregnant Illegals
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Prenatal exams have become the newest addition to the abortion debate, now that Arkansas is making fetuses eligible for federally-funded health care benefits.
Pro-choice advocates worry this could be a step toward outlawing abortion. "The definition that the state of Arkansas is providing is that life begins at conception,"siad Marvin Schwartz of Arkansas Planned Parenthood

Kerry is not the only one.
McGreevey Won't Take Communion in Public
TRENTON, N.J. — Gov. James E. McGreevey (search), at odds with leaders of the Roman Catholic Church (search) over his support of abortion rights, said Wednesday he will not receive communion at public services.

Good news for the USA; bad news for Kerry
Productivity Grows Solidly, Jobless Claims Plunge - Good News for Economy's Health
Third World Workers Need Western Jobs
Opponents of globalization claim that when a Western company moves to a developing country in search of cheaper labor, the corporation is exploiting its new workers and taking advantage of Third World poverty. Is that really what’s going on?

Study finds insulin cells self-renewing

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The cells in the pancreas that make insulin can create copies of themselves, a finding that shows potential new ways to treat juvenile or type-1 diabetes, U.S. researchers said.

The research, published in this week's journal Nature, also boosts arguments that controversial research using embryonic stem cells may be the best way to pursue a cure for the disease, experts said.


This poll shows more education is needed.
Harris Interactive Weekly Poll Results

Doctors in South Korea have experimented with cloning human embryos to yield stem cells. Is this a proper type of research for medical science to pursue?

Yes, the availabilty of sufficient amounts of stem cells will be one of the most important factors ever for treating countless diseases and injuries.
30% 674 of 2231

No, the practice of harvesting human life raises too many moral questions and has too much potential for abuse.
35% 797 of 2231

Not sure, this is a potentially vital breakthrough, but the long-term effects of cloning are still very uncertain and we should proceed with extreme caution.
31% 713 of 2231

Other
2% 47 of 2231

Wednesday, May 05, 2004

Methodists Reject Statement on Divisions Over Homosexuality

Kerry Purple Heart Doc Speaks Out
"I simply removed the piece of metal by lifting it out of the skin with forceps. I doubt that it penetrated more than 3 or 4 mm. It did not require probing to find it, did not require any anesthesia to remove it, and did not require any sutures to close the wound. The wound was covered with a bandaid."

I notice this isn't on ABC.com, CNN.com or Fox.
About that press conference on Kerry by Former Military Colleagues

'04 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION OFFICIAL PROGRAM

Cartoon: On Kerry running as a centerist...

Tuesday, May 04, 2004

My daughter passed her driving test yesterday. Look out St Louis!
Know a teen? Check this out.
2004 National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy Quiz
The goal of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy is to reduce the rate of teen pregnancy by one-third between 1996 and 2005.

Baptist activists: Pull kids out of school
Resolution urges members to reject government education

Think about this.
Same-sex marriage: Good for gays, bad for children
Of all the arguments against same-sex marriage, the most immediately compelling is that it is hurts children. If children have a right to anything, it is to begin life with a mother and father.

Death, divorce, abandonment, a single parent's mistakes -- any one of these deprives children of a mother or father. But only same-sex marriage would legally ensure that children are deprived from birth of either a mother or a father.

Kerry 'Unfit to be Commander-in-Chief,' Say Former Military Colleagues
(CNSNews.com) - Hundreds of former commanders and military colleagues of presumptive Democratic nominee John Kerry are set to declare in a signed letter that he is "unfit to be commander-in-chief." They will do so at a press conference in Washington on Tuesday.

Clinton's Economic Espionage Led to Intelligence Failure
America was blind to the threat because the Clinton administration directed our eyes, ears and brains toward economic spying for corporate buddies. Clinton denied our armed forces the budget to defend America and spent our intelligence assets on foolish enterprises.

Is what bin Laden said true? "America is a paper tiger."
We Ain’t What We Were
John Kerry is appreciated…at least by North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap…despite equivocation to the contrary. Reuters reported that during the 29th celebration of the fall of Saigon, Giap articulated his thanks to “the leaders of the U.S. antiwar movement.” He did not specifically mention the dysfunctional flip- flopping Massachusetts Senator by name, but he made it clear that without the help (aid and comfort) of the Fonda/Kerry crowd, the U.S. would have prevailed in Vietnam.

Poll Numbers
Armstrong Williams
Friday, Apr. 23, 2004
Amid one of the worst weeks of his presidency - a week that included renewed violence in Iraq, claims by former terrorism czar Richard A. Clarke that the administration rushed to war in Iraq, and intense scrutiny at home from the 9/11 Commission - President Bush's poll numbers remain steady.

Monday, May 03, 2004

My oldest child, Kristen, is celebrating her 16th birthday today. This is a day I have dreaded for years. I'm taking off early today to take her for her driver's license test. I am filled with fear of losing her to an accident, yet I know I can't hold her back or over-protect her.

My mom once told me about a mommy robin that was pushing her babies off the top of her car. The mommy robin was trying to make her babies learn how to fly. I wish I could rejoice in the freedom my daughter wants from me, but I just can't help wanting to hold on to her. And I remember when she was a toddler my biggest worry was that she would fall down the stairs. Now the dangers are so much bigger and I'm shaking from fear. I'll be praying her Guardian Angel will follow her everywhere now. That's all I can do -- turn it over to the love and care of God and trust He will bring me through this.

I love you, Kristen! Happy Sweet Sixteen!
Reno Admits Responsibility ... Press Ignores
This second issue was discussed at some length with one witness before the Commission, former Attorney General Janet Reno. General Reno’s testimony has been little remarked upon by the mainstream press largely, we assume, because it almost completely condemns her and the Clinton administration for ineptitude and incompetence in the face of international criminal terrorism.
To her credit, Reno admits fault, even responsibility, for the failure of intelligence agencies to communicate with one another:

Fear of God
If you want to drive the political media crazy these days, mention God. They'll immediately start acting strangely, running for the exits

Crush Kerry web site has some interesting stuff.

Kerry Must Answer for Gaps in His Service Record

Just as the Kerry campaign begins a new ad blitz to highlight the Senator’s alleged bravery as a Swift Boat Captain in Vietnam, new allegations threaten to stall the Democrat’s campaign yet again.

And people think Saint Louis University is a Catholic university.....
ST. LOUIS PRESIDENT ON BOARD OF HOSPITAL CHAIN THAT PERFORMS ABORTIONS

On July 23, Rev. Lawrence Biondi, S.J., president of Saint Louis University (MO), will be considered for re-election to the Board of Directors of Tenet Healthcare Corporation, a national chain of 114 hospitals which has been tied to abortion. Biondi is currently chairman of the board's Ethics, Quality and Compliance Committee, charged with ensuring that "Tenet, its employees and directors act in accordance with appropriate ethical standards."

Methodists Order Review of Lesbian Case
PITTSBURGH (AP) - United Methodists ordered their top court to review the case of a lesbian pastor after the court ruled Saturday that gay sex violates Christian teaching.