Yeah, this is a short entry, but Drudge was talking about it on his show last night (and has a flash on his website), and I just got a kick out of it. At the MTV VMA's last night, the Kerry daughters came onstage to urge young people to vote (for their father, of course), but were unexpectedly booed while trying to get votes for the Democrats! Ha! So much for Rocking the Vote for Kerry!

Kerry daughters getting booed at the VMA's - it got so bad that one of them tried to shush the crowd! Ha!

The Parade of Moonbats has begun, with tens of thousands marching in New York to protest the President's policies. It will be interesting to see what sort of violent acts these "pacifists" commit - it never fails that some of them end up showing their true Communist colors and trying to get away with all sorts of idiotic things. I mean, really, some of these people are so far off the edge of rationality that it almost is just funny to watch them walk around and pretend to be important. Take this character for instance:



Huh? George W. Bush went up to your son, took out a gun, and shot him in the face? Or Bush took a knife and gutted him on the street corner? NO! Your son signed up for the armed services of the United States of America on a completely voluntary basis of his own free will, which means that you are about as wrong as you could be. No one forced him to sign up (except for maybe you, if you were too poor to send him to college), and when you agree to join the armed forces, you are signing a legally binding contract. He signed up for an organization that carries the inherent risk of being killed in the line of duty, and he paid the ultimate price. You should be proud that he was willing to give up his life in the defense of the freedom of others, and not pissing on his grave by parading around like a nincompoop, bleating about how George Bush is a Nazi. Idiot.

And what about this guy [quoted in this article]: " ' It's the same kind of nonsense that we endured in Vietnam,' [James Adams, dean of students at St. Francis College in Brooklyn] told AFP. 'Based on lies, no enemy we can point to, and we're fighting an insurgency we cannot defeat.' " WHAT?! No enemy we can point to?! What about the insurgents in Najaf? What about Muqtada al-Sadr? What about al-Zarqawi? *sigh* I guess it would be too much to ask you to pay attention to facts and logic, seeing as you've effectively destroyed both of them with your sign, but hey, that's all I expect from Idiot Hippies like yourself.

Here's another good one from the same article: "Alice Powelo, a 75-year-old doctor from California, showed she had not lost her political fervor: 'The administration we have is the most dangerous to our democracy and the world. It is the most regressive administration ever.' " Riight. Since you've obviously done a complete study of American history, and looked at every president that we've had... heck, I doubt that they even had an American history class back when you went to school, you old fossil. Try picking up something besides The Village Voice when you want to read the news, and get back to the mental ward where you belong.

OK, last one, I promise: " A 21-year unemployed woman named Jenny, who sported two-tone reddish brown hair and a diamond stud in her nose but would not give her last name, agreed. 'Why wouldn't I be out here today? There are so many bad things going on right now that it seems logical to protest,' she said. " Logical to protest? As opposed to getting a job, getting a haircut and actually contributing to society instead of wandering around and spouting off misinformed liberal drivel? Nah - that'd be too taxing on your poor overworked brain. After all, anyone who has listened to Waffles and Fatboy as much as you obviously has severe mental disturbances in the "Logic" section of the mind, so I guess I won't take you too seriously.

All I can say is that I'm glad that ProtestWarrior and RightMarch will be there to shed some light on the truth. Will they get much press coverage? Highly unlikely. Ah well - just goes to show you how "fair and balanced" the mainstream media is.

I got this via email once and meant to posted, but managed, in my infinite wisdom, to lose it before doing so. I have, however, finally managed to find a copy of it on the Internet, and am posting it here so that I won't lose it again. Oh, and for your reading pleasure, as well.

Hurricane Charley went tearing through Florida, causing $11 billion in damage and killing several people. Luckily, of the two sets of relatives I have down there, one set wasn't touched and the other only lost a tree in her front yard that she was planning on removing anyway. Thoughts and prayers go out, though, to those that lost so much more than that; good luck in the recovery and rebuilding.

Now, of all the idiotic things to do at an Olympiad, refusing to compete because of virulent anti-Semitism has got to be near the top. I mean really - this Iranian guy trained for years to be at the top of his sport (judo, in case you didn't read the article), and turns around and refuses to compete because of a ridiculous policy his extremist government set in place: that no Iranians can compete against Israel since they "don't officially recognize its right to exist as a country." Douchebags. They need to hurry up and get with reality - Israel is a country, and will most certainly continue to be one. Ignoring the fact can only have a negative impact on Iranian rapport with the rest of the world, and when you add the bad publicity of this with their nuclear weapons program, nobody is going to want to be friendly with them. Morons.

Oh, speaking of the Olympics,  Michael Phelps won a gold, and several other Americans got silvers and bronzes. Go America.

School starts soon, so updates are not promised for a while.

I can't believe it.

The leaders of the free world, and some punk European agency feels the need to monitor our elections? Since when do some random foreigners (likely from socialist countries like Germany and France) have authority to come in and tell us that we aren't running our country the way they think it should be run? Even if we signed some stupid treaty 14 years ago, why are they just now coming in to check elections? Kinda suspicious considering so many foreign leaders are so dead set against seeing Bush have a second term.

Matt Drudge brought up another good point on his show last night - what kind of access into the voting procedures will these observers have? If we have gotten to the point when we're giving non-voting, socialist foreigners better access than tax-paying Americans, things are seriously screwed up. If there is one of these "observers" at my polling place when I go to help re-elect George W. Bush this year, I'm going to ask him/her just what exactly they're doing - I for one don't want some crazy Frenchies looking over my shoulder and "observing" my votes.

Someone asked me why it's such a big deal; after all, if we have nothing to hide, why should we be scared of letting observers come and watch? The answer is because we aren't a dumpy, corrupt African tinpot dictatorship, we're the United States of America. We don't have to worry about vote fraud and mismanagement - there were exactly zero credible, worthy-to-be-listened-to claims of fraud in 2000, including in Florida. All problems were dealt with by the courts, and the rightful winner of the election was installed. (There were 4 recounts of the votes by major media sources after the election, and all of them showed that Bush would have won no matter what; any claims to the contrary are misinformed and irresponsible rumor-mongering.) We have a legal and judicial system set up for a reason, and that's to handle any issues that may arise from allegations of misconduct.

There is no good reason for us to have to submit to the rest of the world's jurisdiction; contrary to what the radical, peacenik, multiculturalist liberals in think tanks and media outlets across the nation would have you think, we are the beacon of liberty and justice to the world. Any attempt to bring in foreigners to "observe" the election in an alleged attempt to guard against misconduct is a travesty on our voting system and legal system, and I won't stand for it.

So sue me.

You know, John Edwards is a silly guy; at least, the GOP thinks so, and I for one trust them on that. See, I was browsing the GOP website, and aside from the usual funnies of Kerry vs. Kerry and Kerryopoly, there was a lovely page on John Edwards, detailing his incompetencies. Of course, it's slanted and biased as none other, but if you can get past the partisanship on the page, there are some very good questions raised about Edwards' viability as a serious vice-presidential candidate. If only the mainstream media would report on some of those questions...

There's a new movie coming out this fall that is raising some hackles at the White House - called "Team America: World Police", it is a film that lampoons the War on Terror. The interesting thing about it is that it is entirely acted by marionettes... which could make it both extremely funny and highly offensive. I'm going to reserve judgement until I see the movie itself; Matt Parker and Trey Stone (yes, the creators of Southpark) are both Republicans, so I doubt that the movie will be injurious to President Bush, especially since it comes out just weeks before the election. However, making a mockery of so serious a subject is teetering dangerously close to the edge of bad taste, and it won't take much to land it in that zone. Thus, I plan on seeing the movie, and will decide its merits after that.

In a nasty knock for the Kerry campaign, their poll numbers hardly bumped after their convention. I guess the big liberal lovefest wasn't as effective as they anticipated... but wait, that's not all! In addition to losing the traditional advantage given by the convention, the economy is going back up - which hurts continued liberal whining that Dubya has messed up our economy. After all, if factories are on a growth spurt unprecedented in 30 years, Mr. Kerry can't complain too much, can he?

Oh, Bush is also going to revamp the national intelligence system, a move recommended by the September 11 commission. Good for him - the system needed redoing, and hopefully this will make us safer. I do, however, have a remarkable confession to make: in part of the matter, I agree with Kerry instead of Bush. The President has said that he doesn't want the new intelligence czar to be located in the White House, and that he shouldn't be a Cabinet member. Kerry, on the other hand, says that the new post should be on the Cabinet and in the White House, and I agree. Keeping such an important person close to the President at all times to effectively assess threats and coordinate responses to them seems like a no-brainer to me. Oh well... it's not like this is going to make me vote for Kerry *shudder*.

Last but certainly not least, I can't wait until this book comes out. It details some of the lies that John Kerry has been spewing about his service in Vietnam - and this information comes directly from those who were on his Swift Boat. Yes, John Kerry is about to be caught in some more lies, namely that he keeps insinuating that everyone who was on his Swift Boat supports him and thinks he's a great guy; too bad that isn't the case. I mean, the libs have had their go-around with political books, so now it's our turn; I just hope that this one is more effective than Kerry's were.

So yeah, I've been lazy for a while. I'll try not to be such a slacker, but hey, what can I say? It's still summer break, after all...

... but here I am! I was on Long Beach Island for a couple of weeks, and then with various relatives for another week, but now I'm back in action! In case you care, it was a pretty good vacation; I even went deep sea fishing (on this boat) for the first time in my life, and I even caught a 20-22 inch bonito. The only disappointment was that I had to read Jane Eyre for school - quite possibly the worst book I have ever had to read for school. It is nothing more than a cliché romance novel, with the ugly-but-smart orphan girl getting together with the ugly-but-charming rich man. It was, however, written by a woman in the mid-nineteenth century, so I guess that makes it a "classic", or some such nonsense. Besides that, though, the vacation was great, and I can (finally) get back to updating this silly thing.

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Now, a whole lot of important things have happened since I last updated: we handed over power in Iraq, Waffles picked John Edwards as his running mate, and several other things... but I don't want to rehash tons of old news, so we're just going to skip it. The one political thing I'm going to comment on is the Radical Idiot Hippies who plan on disrupting the GOP convention in New York by fouling up as much security as possible; they're even undergoing training to learn "activist tactics"! I mean, what in the world is wrong with these people?! They claim that they just want to protect their own right to disagree and to have free speech, but when you are purposefully planning to disrupt the security measures, you are going way too far. By disrupting security, they are opening the way for terrorists who would just love to take out a major portion of the bigwigs of the party that is the most adamant in fighting their terror (note that there are no such massive, idiotic demonstrations planned for the Democratic convention.......). Ah well - not sure what I expected from Idiot Hippies.

Anyway, I should be able to update more often now, so be sure to check back regularly.

Once again, I'm going to be gone for a while. This time, it's a family vacation to the town of Barnegat Light on Long Beach Island. However, I'll try and keep a few updates up with Blogdrive's new update-by-email feature (don't expect much, though - I'll be catching some sun on the beach and hanging out at the lighthouse for a few weeks!).


This is the lighthouse that Barnegat Light gets its name from - and also where I'll be for the next few weeks.

I've also reverted The Last Word to its standard format, since the national month of mourning for Ronald Reagan will end while I'm away. Much as I hate to do it, we have to move on. Thus, the blog will put the flag back up and remove the picture from the top (although it may make some reappearances just for old times sake). Just remember that although Reagan is gone from the blog, he will always be present in spirit.

According to this Reuters article, a majority of Americans now oppose the Iraq war. Just goes to show you the idiocy of the American public; Waffles, FatBoy and their ilk go around spreading lies and rumors (and misinterpreting things like this), and the average Joe American is too lazy to find out the facts for himself, thus being forced to accept the drivel given to them. I wish it weren't so, but that's the day and age we live in. I just hope that you, my loyal reader(s), can get past this lunacy. [Side note: to celebrate the opening of "Fahrenheit 9/11", Michael Moore's libelous, fallacious bit of scum he calls a "documentary", I have added MooreWatch and Bowling for Truth to the Links section. Oh, and RightWingStuff too, just because it's cool. Enjoy.]

An Oklahoma judge has been a bit... busy while running his courtroom, according a complaint filed by the Oklahoma Attorney General. Frankly, I find that completely insane - aside from being wholly disgusting, why would someone do that in such a public place? What a pervert.

The Vice President had some choice words for Senator Patrick Leahy today, participating in what an aide called a "frank exchange of views." Heh. Yay for spin doctors. I just am surprised that Cheney would be so vulgar for such a petty reason - it's bad publicity, Mr. VP! Come on now, you got out of kindergarten a good long time ago, so stop acting like you're still there.