http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4295309.ece?Submitted=true

I must be slow or dumb or worse but after 7 1/2 years, I still haven’t figured Bush out.  He looked into Putin’s eyes some years back and saw a good soul.  He trusted Teddy Kennedy and Uncle Ted screwed him.  He asked the Saudis to increase their production of crude oil and they effectively laughed in his face.  I could go on and on but George W. Bush is either the most naive president we’ve had since Wilson, (okay, maybe since Carter), or he’s as dumb as the libs say he is.

This latest incident attesting to his naivete’ or stupidity, good buddy Vlad Putin’s reaction to a deal with the Czech Republic to site the radar for a European defenSe (When will those Brits learn how to spell?) system, is just one more nail in Bush’s legacy.

SWIFT BOAT KERRY AIN’T SO SWIFT

R.I.P. FORMER ARMY PFC. JOSEPH DWYER

The unfortunate death of 31 year old Joseph Dwyer, married father of a young daughter, was just one of the more recent instances of post-war tragedy:  http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-lisold0706,0,814136,print.story

That is not to say that the Iraq War is over; that mission is not yet accomplished.  But the war ended, finally, for Joseph Dwyer with his death on June 28th, 2008.  It could not be said that his war ended with his separation from the Army in 2006 because his personal demons would not allow it.

I write this belated and abbreviated obituary for Joseph Dwyer, the young man whose picture carrying a young Iraqi victim of that war epitomized our honorable struggle in that nation, to honor him and to highlight the apparent and ultimate cause of his death.  As with many thousands of other troops, he returned to his country a changed man, changed by the horrors he had witnessed.   

War by defintion is a horror, a Hell for those on the field of battle mostly and a different kind of Hell for their loved ones at home, hoping and praying for their safe return.  Joseph Dwyer did return but wasn’t saved from his war.  He had carried it home with him and two years later became another one of its casualties.

WHEN OUR JOHNNYS AND JANES COME MARCHING HOME AGAIN

RUSH LIMBAUGH: A BOMBASTIC BLOWHARD, BUT OUR BOMBASTIC BLOWHARD!

Click here: A Tribute to our flag  (original lyrics by Katherine Lee Bates; music composed by Samuel A. Ward ) O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed His grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!

O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassion’d stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness.

America! America!
God mend thine ev’ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law.

O beautiful for heroes prov’d
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life.

America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness,
And ev’ry gain divine.

O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears.

America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.

A Little Bit of History….

O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassion’d stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness.

America! America!
God mend thine ev’ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law.

O beautiful for heroes prov’d
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life.

America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness,
And ev’ry gain divine.

O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears.

America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.

THE NEW YORK TIMES AND OIL SUPPLY TRUTH

The New York Times, long a bastion of pessimistic liberalism, which is redundant, was peddling its negative petroleum wares and scares soon after 9/11:  http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9401E2DC123FF937A25753C1A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=4.  The Times has never retracted its fearmongering view that the only recourse for America’s oil woes is to curb our insatiable lust for oil, in effect to cut back on our industrial production and lifestyle, to conserve ourselves into Third World status since there just ain’t no more oil to be had because of our limited “proven reserves.”  That’s poppycock.

Whether the Commissioner of the U.S. Patent office ever said in 1899 that, “Everything that can be invented has been invented,” the sentiment nevertheless is aptly applied to that NYT article which reflects the narrow point of view of that former “Paper of Record.”  It’s tantamount to believing that if you can’t see something then it isn’t there, such as available petroleum resources.

Granted, that story was published before the cost of oil hit the stratosphere on its way to the mesosphere.  However, it still ignored the facts of unproven but far from unavailable oil reserves. 

In 2006, the grand poobah of the world’s largest oil company, Saudi Aramco, said:

‘We are looking at more than four and a half trillion barrels of potentially recoverable oil. That number translates into 140 years of oil at current rates of consumption, or to put it anther way, the world has only consumed about 18 percent of its conventional oil potential. That fact alone should discredit the argument that peak oil is imminent and put our minds at ease concerning future petrol supplies.’ ” (http://www.radford.edu/~wkovarik/oil/. ) That article concludes with the admonition that “misinformation about future oil supply is something the media and government have the responsibility to correct” and incorporates great detail on the truth about oil reserves.

Another piece of significant interest is this item of information, http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/next-energy-news2.13s.html, which details a single source of oil deposits within our borders which could multiply ten-fold available domestic reserves, news that has gotten little attention from the Times or from anyone else.

TEEN SEX RING IN VERMONT

There may be something about Mary but there is definitely something about judges.  Perhaps the job, the power, the judicial robes go their heads?  Who knows? 

The Supreme Court of the United States has made more than its share of screwy decisions, from the Dred Scott miscarriage of justice to the horror of Roe v. Wade and its subsequent result of 50,000,000 legal murders of the pre-born to its recent decision that child rapists can’t be executed.

On my local scene, I still recall Judge “Cut ‘Em Loose Bruce” who was notorious for his years of insane siding with low-lifes over New York City Police and would free the most vile offenders to allow those predators to wreak their horrors on the innocent public until he was finally deposed.

Recently, Vermont judges (and legislators) have been in some news, (I say some since most mainstream media refuse to report it), for ignoring the rights and well being of children, more precisely, their right not to be sexually molested and raped.  Vermont State District Court Judge Edward Cashman demonstrated that misplaced  empathy in sentencing a guy to 60 days in prison for repeated sexual involvement with a girl from the time she was six until she was ten, when he was caught.  (Cashman ultimately resigned in disgrace and denial.)

(http://media.www.vermontcynic.com/media/storage/paper308/news/2006/01/24/News/Vermont.Judge.Sentences.Convicted.Child.Rapist.To.60Day.Sentence-1503039.shtml)

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