I missed it. You can't be debating when House is on! What happened? Any big surprises? Did any of you Obama supporters figure out that he's not ready to be President yet?

You may have heard that I packed up the boys and moved out.

This was supposed to stay private but....

It's true. The boys and I moved out on Saturday. I did what I thought was best for our children and myself. Marriages don't collapse overnight and ours has been through many, many trials. It didn't survive. We tried to save it but we failed. We are human.

I'm not going to turn this into the War of the Roses. My boys deserve better than to see their parents act like assholes online. They come first and I'm not going to shame myself and them further.

Couldn't think of a witty name for it, but what do you make of this: Hillary Uncensored!

A group called Equal Justice Foundation of America has release a video trailer documenting the dealings of Peter Paul & the Clinton's. So is this Hillary's Swift Boat?? I think it is. No matter if all of the allegations are proven false, the damage will be done. Which is sad, because I see her as the only Democrat that isn't nucking futs!

The ACLU is taking on Sen. Craig's case. This is kinda getting interesting now...

I've been wondering about the law that Craig got arrested for breaking. The ACLU says that the Minnesota Statute is too broad. It does not distinguish between soliciting private sex in a public place, and soliciting public sex in a public place. The ACLU alos argues that even if such a distinction was made, the prosecution can’t prove that Craig was soliciting for public sex.

Exactly. Why was Craig such a dumbass about pleading guilty? A half-witted Public Defender could have made this go away...

There is little difference between what Craig did in that restroom and what men/women have been doing for years everywhere else...

If that is news to you, then you'd better not watch Animal Planet. They don't call it a food chain to be cute...

What's Up?

Barack Obama is super inclusive. Unfortunately, if you're gay, one of the people Obama includes (Pastor McClurkin) thinks you are "a curse" and are "trying to kill our children".

Obama's response to those who are upset over McClurkin's remarks: “…he will not exclude from his campaign the many Americans including many in the African American community who believe the same as Pastor McClurkin.”

Wow, that is just awesome. With every passing day Obama becomes less and less likely to be the next U.S. President. Listen Barack, you are running for the Democratic nomination, you aren't allowed to sell out the Gays and Lesbians before you become President, only after. Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

This has to be the worst smackdown I've ever seen.

And I mean "worst" in the best way.

Recently there has surfaced a letter composed by 138 moslem clerics, directed toward their counterparts in the christian communities of the world. But after giving that letter some careful thought, I just don't buy into the veracity or intent of the men who composed it. Much of the reasons for my rejection of what they have to say is that I like Zionism the way some folks like cherry pie, and Judaism, Christianity or Islam as religious systems has nothing whatsoever to do with that. But Zionism is based on the fact and certitude of a jewish nation with it own set of rights. So when I read a letter such as the one from the moslem clerics, my first question is:

"Where does all this fit the right of the jewish nation to have its own original Land of Israel?"

Because, if the Moslems truly wish to honor Avraham/Ibrahim, then I'm looking for signs that they are prepared to cease encouraging the Hamastinians and other terror gangs who want to run Ishmael's jewish cousins off their rightful national inheritence.

But all I can see from their letter is a minor bone tossed to those Jews, in the form of a few comments wrapped in parentheses. As if some lawyer were cautioning the advertising department of a low-grade and untrustworthy manufacturing firm to put a cover-their-asses statement into the fine print of their otherwise useless warranty.

Anyway, here's some thoughts on that topic that I picked up from "Zionism Lives!", authored by Phyllis Schesler, and reprinted from pajamasmedia.com on the website Zionism Lives!:

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Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI

A friend of mine stumbled upon this and sent it to me. So I am just passing it on.

Gabe & Max's Internet Thing..

Enjoy..

I've had some personal issues that I was dealing with this last week. Most of them have been settled. I'm not going to elaborate right now but I will say that big changes are coming. The blog will change a bit and so will my life and I'm hoping that the changes are all a net positive.

Blogging will be a little erratic for the next week or so. Sorry about that.

If money were no object, and you could pick any five cities to live in, what would those cities be? I'm not asking why, but you can if you like. If you're a true dreamer, you'll pick cities that you have never actually visited.

My Top Five Cities:

Monterey, CA

Kailua, HI (on the windward side of Oahu)

St. George Island, FL

Vancouver, BC

St. Simons Island, GA

I guess you see a pattern here. All are near large bodies of water and three of the five also have mountains as well. For me, I need the spray of salt water, and I'd prefer a view of the mountains as well. If I had to pick a sixth, it would be Helen, GA in the mountains of north Georgia.

Worse than normal farts or basically the same stink level?

Barack Obama is 8th cousin to Dick Cheney. Obama's tongue in cheeck response was that every family has a black sheep. My question: who is that black sheep here?

Watched Hillary on "The View" today, and I still like her.

Otherwise, I feel like shit. Some kinda bug running through me and Draco's system both. So far Dean and Jacob are fine. What's up with you?

By the way, Hillary is our next President. I can't wait!

Thanks for the donations. Looks like the blogging will continue into 2008! Yay us!

Opinion.

by Jerry

I recieved this e-mail last week and the contents of it were purportedly written by Dick Morris, onetime speech writer & advisor to the Clinton's.

Read it, and let me know what you think:

Is this stuff true? Is she really this bad? Or is this another one of those muddled situations where its partially true, but not really totally true.

My sister the Queen is voting for Hillary and I anticipate the brainwashing to begin around Christmas time. Next thing I know, I'll be voting for Hillary.

I tried to Google it to get some answers, but failed miserably. So I'm reaching out to you, her faithful readers...

Help me figure this out so I know why or why not to vote for Hillary..

Thanks..

I watched it and I was convinced. I'm sticking with Hillary, who btw, came up with the brilliant idea of a Universal 401K. Anyone who can't see the brilliance of that idea is blinded by irrational Clinton hatred. Fred Thompson was the only one I considered as a possibility. He made me miss the most charming Bob Dole...

Over at Dean's they are/were talking torture. This is torture, that is torture, blah blah blah...

Everyone has a qualifier about what is or isn't torture. Let's put aside the obvious things that everyone can say without hesitation is torture. It gets sticky for some when you say playing music or dogs barking is torture. Some will say that that is only discomfort. Sure, it's uncomfortable but torture isn't only applied to the body, it is used on the mind too. Listening to music may annoy you but if you've been kept awake for 36 hours, with naps being allowed for 5 minute intervals a handful of times, that annoying music has gone from annoying to torture.

If you think it isn't torture just because you've not left a mark, you have never been married...

I guess Talibani doesn't think dividing Iraq is racist afterall

Today we had our mega-birthday party. Jake and my two nieces all have October birthdays. Actually, they were all born within a week just different years. One on the 10th, one on the 12th and Jake on the 16th. So, it was a craze fest of gifts and food galore. The eldest turns 13 this year, Jake will be 10 and the youngest will be 4.

We all decided to seriously hook them up. They all got their wishes true. I had a brilliant idea with how to give the eldest her gift from us. We got her a cell phone. I bought a really cute/cool one, set up the account, put money on it and found her favorite song on the list of available ringtones, so I bought that too. I charged that puppy up, turned it on so it vibrated as well as played the cool song and put in a lovely bag with the accessories. When it was her turn to open gifts, she opened the card and I discreetly called her phone. She looked really baffled when the bag started shaking and playing her song. Then she squealed like a 13 year old. She was so brilliantly happy that everyone started to get teary-eyed. I was just thrilled that my plan was timed perfectly. I was so worried that I'd fuck it up.

Anyway, it was a great day. Jake got 4 new games for his Wii, a brand new winter coat, a book, some cool cars and some Wii accessories. He was a very happy boy. Oh, and we bought my youngest niece a Cinderella Princess outfit (dress, glass slippers, purse, necklace and gloves), she's at that age when dressing up is fun. I also bought her a Cinderella doll that was wearing the exact same outfit I bought her. She was beaming. My brother told me that she really wanted fancy dress up shoes, so I took that info and ran with it.

How is your weekend going?

I have never missed an episode and I don't plan starting now. Are you hip to Dr. House?

Did you know that the cases of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder [ASD] has skyrocketed? In the 1980's cases of Autism affected 1 in every 10,000 births, now it is 1 in every 150. Also, it affects 1 in every 99 boys. That means that you probably know someone who either has ASD or someone that know someone with it. Lots of people are blaming the high mercury content in vaccines but the ingredient Thimerosol stopped being used in 1999 and the cases of Autism did not drop off.

There are so many studies to read and so much information out there that a parent can feel overwhelmed very quickly. The number one thing to remember is that ASD is not a cookie cutter condition. They call it a spectrum for a reason. Every child is different and no treatment plan is the same, they have to be tailored to the individual child. So, if you know someone that has a child with ASD be supportive and be a friend. Read about the condition and familiarize yourself with the symptoms. Nothing helps a parent more than having friends that understand and not having to repeatedly explain the behavior you think is odd but the parent knows is unique to their child.

He would be in Iraq too, well, according to Roger L. Simon he would.

Unlike a lot of people I know, I am not overly concerned about the outcome of the presidential election of 2008.

If the winner is someone named Guiliani, Clinton, Thompson, Romney or McCain or even Obama or Edwards – and from the current looks of things, it will be one of those people – the results will not be catastrophic. The differences will be more minor than we expect and overwhelmed by history.

I know this not just because the supposedly more pacifistic Democrats finally admitted in the last debate that they just might not be out of Iraq by 2013. Nor is it because they have all acknowledged a nuclear-armed Iran as a non-starter.

I know this because I believe in my heart that had Al Gore been elected president in 2000 (and as we all know he almost was – he won the popular vote), he would be just as knee deep in the War on Terror as George Bush is right now and fighting it in more or less the same manner. He would be in Iraq.

Yes, you read me correctly. Forget the Nobel Prize and the global warming Oscar, if Al Gore had been elected in ‘00, he’d be burning excess Air Force One fuel, jetting behind the lines to Anbar Province, dealing with an ornery (possibly antiwar) opposition party and doing his best to ignore wretched poll numbers, a hostile media and whacko Code Pink demonstrators (not to mention his quondam allies on the Moveon-Kos end of his party who by now would be calling for his impeachment).

You may not believe me, but I don’t even think it’s much of a stretch, certainly no grand fictional scheme à la Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America in which Lindbergh defeats Roosevelt in the election of 1940 and the U. S. opts out of World War II. The Clinton-Gore administration wasn’t the least bit afraid to use force. Erratic about it - maybe. Insecure about it - maybe. But pacifist? Ask Milosevic.

In fact, Bill and Al are the guys who started the whole democracy promotion thing. They could even be called … neocons. (They as much as anybody. Having been called one myself on occasion, I’m still confused about what it means. I find Leo Strauss impenetrable.)

You read the rest. I'm not sure I agree with him but he makes a solid argument. I think it's an interesting exercise. I also think it's a good piece to read for those conservatives that think we're doomed, if a Democrat wins the White House.

NBC pulled the video less than 24 hours after it went up. I wonder why?

Thanks Much Peeps!!