I haven't posted here in over a year... I hope Lee and Six don't mind, but this is something near and dear to me, and I would like people to know about it.

And, I may just start posting again on a more regular basis -- Bwah, hah, hah, hah, haaaaaaaaaaaaaa.....

A few weeks ago I posted the item about the rising rate of mortgage defaults n the U.S. Since then, the official economic experts and gurus have been busy pooh-poohing the significance of this phenomenon. But if you read widely and closely, you start to see that the pooh-poohing is mostly for consumption by the unwashed masses.

You have the radical Muslims and the traditional Muslims. The radical Muslims, I would agree, oppose many fundamental features of our society; we can not convince them, we have to fight them. The traditional Muslims, on the other hand -- and I can give you an overwhelming amount of evidence to prove this -- support liberalism of the classical kind but reject liberalism of the modern kind; they support the liberalism of the Founders, they reject the liberalism of Hillary Clinton.

These are people who are totally in favor of democracy. They like the idea of being able to live wherever you want, to speak your mind. They believe in religious toleration. However, they don't believe in the right of blasphemy. Or they don't want their daughters to be given condoms before they get married. They don't believe in the social permissive liberalism of modern day America. So that's my point: that the cultural left, by pushing this liberalism on the rest of the world, is producing a backlash from traditional Muslims that is making those Muslims more vulnerable to the appeal of radical Islam.

The White House and most Republicans would like the nation to believe that the "Bush Doctrine" consists of a commitment to preemptive attacks on those who would attack us, combined with a policy of treating nations who "harbor terrorists" the same as terrorists themselves." Bull.

Yep. Ain't pretty, is it? Over at CBS, a cute piece on how all us baby boomers are going to nuke the economy shortly....

I kid you not. To paraphrase the late Rod Serling, "submitted for your approval", a bit from The Guardian where some military officials STILL ain't got it yet!....

Keeping up with a fine tradition of using Ambassadorships to reward cronies, scoundrels, and others unworthy of representing the U.S. abroad, we get this from Bob Geiger's blog:

"Times are changing for the better," Bush said. "People's lives are improving. And there is hope."

The sentiment isn't shared by many who live along the storm's brutal path -- particularly in New Orleans. Much of the city is in ruins, crime has soared and health care is limited. Large numbers of residents are so frustrated they are thinking of getting out for good.

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Marines don't collectively bargain over whether they're, you know, going to end up being deployed in Anbar province or Baghdad.

A little bit of truth from the head of the Army Reserve, speaking to a Government Executive breakfast:

Another beauty from the Denver Post:

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