Well, Liberal after Liberal has politicized Hurricane Katrina, and RFK Jr. has picked up the flag and ran with it. “For They That Sow the Wind Shall Reap the Whirlwind”.
In his article, he lays the blame of Katrina squarely on the shoulders of Haley Barbour, Governor of Mississippi. He even quotes fellow loony Pat Robertson as saying, “hurricanes were likely to hit communities that offended God.”
RFK states that because Barbour convinced Bush… you read it. It’s too crazy for me. And that’s saying a lot.

Fox has reported on the number of people without health insurance. 45.8 Million in U.S. Now Lack Health Insurance.
This number is inflated all out of proportion. It counts people who, moving between jobs, have lost coverage for as little as one day. It also includes people who voluntarily opt out of any health coverage. There is a difference between can’t and won’t.
This is been talked about again and again and still the MSM trots out this number again and again.
Sheesh.

Mike has come up with an interesting question: Should we even rebuild New Orleans?
With the city underwater, levees failed, the expense of draining the city and fixing all of the damage could be prohibitive.
It’s a question worth asking, and answering.

The Zone’s server was down or something because I could not call up the web site nor login to the control page. I had to go into work so I couldn’t wait around until the site came back up.
I’ll post something tomorrow. Right now I have to get 5,000 points of Orks ready for battle tomorrow.
TTYL.

I watch the Sunday news shows for information. Some of the blatant bias sickens me, but still it’s informative.
Yesterday, Fox News Sunday had a pair of moms who had lost their 19 year old sons in Iraq. One was pro-war, one anti-. You can read the transcript here.
What struck me was the anti-war moms strict adherence to talking points. Ignoring the facts that WMD was found, just not recognized by the Fifth Estate. For all of those who didn’t think we found any WMD, here’s what we have found to date:
-500 tons, that’s 1 million pounds of yellow cake uranium. It was found at Saddam’s nuclear weapons facility (yup…he had one of those too.)
-1.8 tons of partially enriched uranium found at the same place. You know, the stuff you need to make nukes.
-Hidden centrifuge parts and blueprints.
-Two dozen artillery shells loaded with Sarin and mustard gas.
And the contacts between Al Qaeda and Iraq’s intelligence service has been documented multiple times in the press, albeit on page B22.
I can’t say Ms. Porchia was lying, but she has certainly ignored facts.
My sympathies goes out to both women.

AlphaPatriot found a clip from a Bob Hope movie, which proves some things never change. Here is the link to the post.
Watch it and enjoy!

Either Fridays are slow news days or it’s me and my moods. I think this is at least the third Friday in a row that I have no news to comment on. I just don’t have the energy to do it this morning.
Sorry.

Wow. What a battle.
Mike and I were planning on trying out my new Ork army last night, and we had some friends show up interested in playing Epic. So we made it a 2 on 2 player game. It was the Black Sun Legion and Dark Angels against Orks and Ultramarines, in a 5,000 point battle.
We were battling over three objectives placed in the middle of the battlefield, with the rules being very simple: Whoever controlled 2 objectives at the end of any turn, won.
I had two 1,000 point Warbands that I parked on top of two objectives, while terminators and other support forces fought over the third objective. When the Dark Angels teleported three units of Terminators onto the third objective, we (Orks and Ultramarines) decided to move our forces toward the one truly contested objective, the one on our right flank. The other guys had managed to close combat and break the Warband on the right flank and chase them off. But they rallied (Orks get bonuses for rallying when they have more than 10 left in a unit, that’s because that’s more stands than they have fingers. Orks aren’t very smart) and managed to make it back into the fray, contesting the objective. Using concentrated firepower from every source we had, we managed to break and drive off every Black Son Legion unit in the area, securing that objective and winning the game!
It was a hard fought battle, with fortunes going both ways at times. The Orks were surprisingly accurate with their fire, despite needing 7’s and sometimes 8’s to hit their target. How do you roll a 7 on a six sided die? Simple. Roll a 6 the first time around, then roll at least a 4. To hit an 8, you need a 6 then a 5.
Despite me having a 2700 point army of Orks, in order to “round them out” and have more of a combined arms force, I still have a lot left to paint. Once I have that done, I’ll be able to field about 5,000 points, which is where I want to be. While you can, you don’t want to field more than that, as the higher the point values go, the exponentially longer the games take and the more slogging you need to do. Kind of like “Are you smoking more and enjoying it less?”
That’s about it, I promise to post pictures of my Boyz when I get the force done.

For those of you who are concerned about my well-being, I had mentioned that I had a medication check appointment on Monday. This was important because this was the first one under the new Tennessee formulary that limits me to five medications, only two of which can be name-brand.
I am currently on three name-brands, Wellbutrin XL, Abilify and Trileptal. We had agreed that mood stability was the priority, so Wellbutrin would have to go.
Well, I saw a new med nurse this time and she realized that Wellbutrin SR is now available in generic, so we switched me to it. The same medication, just a little shorter acting. This means I have to take it twice a day for the same effect, instead of just once with the XL.
This has put my mind at rest concerning my medications, at least for the moment. Until they change the rules again. But I’m not making the evening news tonight.

Tuesday was a firestorm when Pat Robertson on Monday’s 700 Club suggested that the United States assassinate Hugo Chavez, the ruler of Venezuela. It was all over every news source that I use. I didn’t report it because it was old news. I mean, how could he top himself after suggesting that we nuke our own CIA?
The Bush Administration quickly distanced itself from such kooky right-wing remarks, something that a Democrat Administration would have a hard thing doing, because Democrats try to enamor themselves with their kooky fringes.
Well, even Pat Robertson has seen the light and apologized for his remarks. He is backtracking off his remarks, as he should.
I bring this up now as a clear example that you should think about what you are saying before you say it anywhere that other people can hear it. It saves yourself a lot of trouble later.

Well, there’s an old joke that goes, “If a firefighter fights fires, and a crime fighter fights crime, what does a freedom fighter fight?”
I ask this because Cindy Sheehan has called the terrorists in Iraq “freedom fighters.” Here are her own words:

“You know that the president says Iraq is the central front in the war on terrorism, don’t you believe that?” asked Mark Knoller of CBS, surrounded by a host of other reporters.
“No, because it’s not true,” Sheehan replied. “You know Iraq was no threat to the United States of America until we invaded. I mean they’re not even a threat to the United States of America. Iraq was not involved in 9-11, Iraq was not a terrorist state. But now that we have decimated the country, the borders are open, freedom fighters from other countries are going in, and they [American troops] have created more terrorism by going to an Islamic country, devastating the country and killing innocent people in that country. The terrorism is growing and people who never thought of being car bombers or suicide bombers are now doing it because they want the United States of America out of their country.”

Here are some other words, not carried by the MSM.

We have no Constitution. We’re the only country with no checks and balances.
…we are waging nuclear war in Iraq, we have contaminated the entire country.

This is a woman who is out of her mind from grief. And she is susceptible to the left wing loonies who are feeding her grandiose conspiracies, which fit their paranoid delusions.
And she is being selectively covered by the MSM, so she doesn’t sound like the loony tool she is.
Too bad.

You read me ranting yesterday (in fact, the prior post) about Michael Graham and how his First Amendment rights were violated.
Well, he now has a job offer from KFI in (I think) LA. Good luck to him and may all of his rants be approved by higher management.

I found this article and wanted to share it with you. D.C. Radio Host Fired for Anti-Islam Remarks.
I am brining this up, not because he is right or wrong, but because he lost his way concerning the First Amendment, which he claims his was infringed by this firing.
The First allows you to speak your mind, whatever is on it. However, it does not guarantee that anyone actually listen to what you say, nor does it force someone to allow you to use their equipment to say what you are trying to say.
The radio station is perfectly within its rights in regulating what the host has to say. They are paying for the equipment and air time, and they have to sell advertising time during these shows. If advertisers are skittish about such speech, then the station has to reign in the program to keep the advertisers.
So this guy losing his job is not a First Amendment issue. It’s a case of him being stupid. I don’t care if he was right or not, he was stupid.

Please excuse the thump, thump, thump you hear. That’s just me banging my head into the wall. I’ve got a lot to do today, and it’s got me wound up. As Jerry Reed sings, “We’ve got a long way to go and a short time to get there.” Not to mention that I don’t have an air conditioner for my living room and it’s hot as hades in here. None of this is good for my condition.
I have to go and hide. See you later.

Cindy Sheehan is a classic case of a left-wing nut job. I do not know who is feeding her this stuff, but she is saying that we are using nuclear weapons in Iraq, and that Bush and the White House is controlled by a “secret Jewish cabal.” Cindy has lost her son in Iraq, and her family and husband over her anti-war crusade. She originally promised to stay on this crusade until she got a second meeting with Bush, or he left his ranch in Crawford, Texas. She is now promising to set up camp in Washington, D.C. to continue her 15 minutes of fame as long as possible.
Her stories, as they are with all Liberal distortions, have more holes and inconsistencies than a bowl full of lumpy batter. Every statement she has made has either been untrue on it’s face, or she has had to “revise” once the truth came out.
So, I, as an Evil, heartless, cruel Nazi Republican and Conservative, give her my thoughts, prayers and good wishes for a complete recovery of her mother who just had a stroke. Cindy left her Texas vigil to go and be with her mother, vowing to return. I wish her and her mother well.