Today is Wictory Wednesday, the one day out of the week where Right minded bloggers ask their readers to do their part to help the President win re-election.
In the final days of this election, in addition to trying to get out the vote for President Bush, The Right Side will shine the Wictory Wednesday spotlight on a local candidate. Today's spotlight candidate is Gary Podesto. Mr. Podesto is currently the mayor of Stockton, California, and is running for the California State Senate in the 5th District. Mr. Podesto's opponent for the seat is incumbent State Senator Mike "Illegal Contribution" Machado.
Mr. Machado has admitted to taking nearly $236,000 in illegal campaign contributions. Even though Mr. Machado has admitted (in court) to taking illegal contributions he has failed to return over $190,000, having instead spent it on his current campaign. Is this the kind of dishonest politician we want in the State Senate?
Help Gary Podesto bring honor and integrity back to the California State Senate, make a contribution to his campaign today.
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Orange you glad you're not voting for him?
I'm not sure which one of Kerry's advisors told him that it would be a good idea to get a fake tan after summer had come and gone, but they should be fired. Immediately. I mean I know that Halloween is right around the corner, but does Kerry plan on going as a pumpkin?
Of course Kerry's people are trying to tell us that his new found orange glow is the result of a natural tan he received while playing a game of touch football at Harvard this past Sunday. This despite the fact that the Harvard newspaper, the Harvard Crimson ran this as a part of their story:
The College Dems who met Kerry were surprised by his tan skin and tall stature.
To get caught in such an obvious lie simply shows how inept Kerry and his staff is, they would have been better off just admitting to the fake tan. Perhaps they're saving that position for tomorrow.
There's a new poll in town, and it shows that President Bush is holding on to the large lead he took over Kerry during the Republican convention.
President Bush heads into the first presidential debate with a solid lead over John F. Kerry, boosted by the perception that he is a stronger leader with a clearer vision, despite deep concerns about Iraq and the pace of the economic recovery, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News Poll and interviews with voters in battleground states.
Bush's relentless attacks on Kerry have badly damaged the Democratic nominee, the survey and interviews showed. Voters routinely describe Kerry as wishy-washy, as a flip-flopper and as a candidate they are not sure they can trust, almost as if they are reading from Bush campaign ad scripts. But Kerry's problems are also partly of his own making. Despite repeated efforts to flesh out his proposals on Iraq, terrorism and other issues, he has yet to break through to undecided voters as someone who has clear plans for fixing the country's biggest problems.
Bush remains a polarizing figure, strongly admired by his supporters and despised by partisans on the left. Some swing voters who disagree with his policies nonetheless see him as a confident leader and express reluctance to vote him out of office in the middle of the struggle against terrorism, unless Kerry convinces them that he can do a better job.
Despite these concerns, Bush leads Kerry in a hypothetical ballot test, 51 percent to 45 percent among likely voters, in the new poll, with independent Ralph Nader at 1 percent. In the previous Post-ABC News poll, taken in the week after the Republican National Convention, Bush led Kerry 52 percent to 43 percent among likely voters. Among registered voters, the new poll shows Bush ahead 51 percent to 44 percent, virtually unchanged from a few weeks ago.
Bush holds a double-digit lead among men (53 percent to 41 percent) and a narrow lead among women (49 percent to 46 percent). Four years ago, Al Gore carried the female vote by 11 percentage points, and Kerry advisers know he must do much better among women to win the election.
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Bush's overall approval rating stands at 50 percent in the poll, about where it has been for the past two months, after dipping as low as 47 percent in the late spring.
The poll was conducted by telephone Sept. 23 to 26 among 1,204 randomly selected adults nationwide, including 969 self-identified registered voters. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus three percentage points.
While I don't put all of my faith in polls, I will say that these numbers are encouraging, at least for President Bush. Kerry on the other hand has some serious issues to overcome, and not just with the undecided voters. It seems even those who are his "supporters" aren't that happy with him being their candidate.
Bush's supporters are far more energized, with 61 percent saying they are very enthusiastic about voting for him, compared with 39 percent of Kerry supporters who said the same thing. Kerry's supporters were much more enthusiastic about him just after the Democratic convention but have cooled since then.
Ouch, that's got to hurt!
This past week I stopped in at the local Republican headquarters to pick up bumper stickers and signs for the candidates that I’m supporting in the upcoming election. Since placing a few of these bumper stickers on my car I’ve had several people honk their horn in support, and have also received several less than polite looks from people while waiting at stop lights. You know the kind I’m talking about, a dismissive look accompanied by shaking of the head. No big deal these people are harmless, and I usually just smile and wave at them if I even acknowledge them at all. Yesterday, however, I came across a completely different variety of Lefty, one certainly worthy of receiving a free membership in The Lunatic Fringe.
There I was, minding my own business driving down the highway on my way to class Thursday night when suddenly a vehicle pulled up alongside me. It was a lady driving a taxi cab (with a passenger in the back seat) and she was honking her horn to get my attention, so I looked over. I could tell that she was saying something but since my window was rolled up and I had the music up loud I couldn't make out what she was saying. Thinking she might be trying to tell me I had a flat tire or something else along that line I rolled down my window and turned the music off.
When she saw that she had my attention she pulled to the edge of the lane she was driving in and asked me if I could hear her, to which I responded that yes, I could hear her. She then proceeded to tell me that my car was a "fucking political joke," and then added "fuck Bush, and fuck you too you piece of shit!" Now mind you, all of this is taking place as we're both driving down the freeway doing (at least) 75 m.p.h., and there were several times during this 30-second exchange where she even swerved into my lane.
I was so shocked at this vile woman's hatefulness, and the fact that she would put my life, and everyone else’s life who was driving around us (not to mention her passenger's life), in danger with her erratic driving that I could only look at her in disbelief. Quickly recovering from this hateful outburst, I sped up to get away from this obviously deranged woman. But, not before giving her my biggest smile, raising four fingers and giving her the "Four More Years" battle cry! This seemed to piss her off even more, and I could still hear her spitting insults at me as I sped past her.
Here are a few pictures of my "fucking political joke" car.
Unfortunately, I didn't think to get out my camera phone and take a picture of this retard on wheels, but who knows, maybe I’ll run in to her again on my way to class next week. If I do, you can be sure I’ll put her ugly mug up here for all to see.
Today, we could have witnessed the first step in the redemption of Dan Rather. Instead, what we were given was a half-assed non-apology.
Last week, amid increasing questions about the authenticity of documents used in support of a "60 Minutes Wednesday" story about President Bush's time in the Texas Air National Guard, CBS News vowed to re-examine the documents in question-and their source-vigorously. And we promised that we would let the American public know what this examination turned up, whatever the outcome.
Now, after extensive additional interviews, I no longer have the confidence in these documents that would allow us to continue vouching for them journalistically. I find we have been misled on the key question of how our source for the documents came into possession of these papers. That, combined with some of the questions that have been raised in public and in the press, leads me to a point where-if I knew then what I know now-I would not have gone ahead with the story as it was aired, and I certainly would not have used the documents in question.
But we did use the documents. We made a mistake in judgment, and for that I am sorry. It was an error that was made, however, in good faith and in the spirit of trying to carry on a CBS News tradition of investigative reporting without fear or favoritism.
Please know that nothing is more important to us than people's trust in our ability and our commitment to report fairly and truthfully.
This is the best apology Rather could come up with? I mean he had over a full week to draft it.
Note that in this "apology," Rather doesn't really take responsibility for his actions. He simply places the blame on his sources. He doesn't mention anywhere in his "apology" that he was warned numerous times before he aired his story that there were serious issues with the documents. He simply blames his sources. And in his final analysis, where he should have stepped up and taken the full blame he didn't. Instead, he blamed his colleagues. "WE did use the documents." "WE made a mistake in judgement." Way to spread the blame Danny boy. Sorry, but you don't get off the hook that easy. YOU used the documents. And, YOU made the mistake in judgement.
What pisses me off most about this apology that wasn't, is the fact that Rather never apologizes to the people that matter. He never apologizes to the American people for lying to them, and he never apologizes to the man who his lies and "mistakes in judgment" were designed to harm, President Bush. And, until he does, Rather's apology doesn't amount to squat.
For something that is worth the paper it would take to print, here's a great picture for your dart board.
Enjoy!
Even though I haven't commented on the RatherGate scandal to date, I have been following it rather closely. And now, more than a week after the "story" first broke, it looks like CBS is about to bite the bullet and admit that they too believe the documents in question are forgeries.
After days of expressing confidence about the documents used in a "60 Minutes'' report that raised new questions about President Bush's National Guard service, CBS News officials have grave doubts about the authenticity of the material, network officials said last night.
The officials, who asked not to be identified, said CBS News would most likely make an announcement as early as today that it had been deceived about the documents' origins. CBS News has already begun intensive reporting on where they came from, and people at the network said it was now possible that officials would open an internal inquiry into how it moved forward with the report. Officials say they are now beginning to believe the report was too flawed to have gone on the air.
But they cautioned that CBS News could still pull back from an announcement. Officials met last night with Dan Rather, the anchor who presented the report, to go over the information it had collected about the documents one last time before making a final decision. Mr. Rather was not available for comment late last night.
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Mr. Rather and others at the network are said to still believe that the sentiment in the memos accurately reflected Mr. Killian's feelings but that the documents' authenticity was now in grave doubt.
If Rather has an ounce of integrity left, (which at this point is highly doubtful) he should be the one to make the announcement. As a matter of fact he himself has said that he should be the one to do it.
"If the documents are not what we were led to believe, I'd like to break that story," Rather said in an interview last night. "Any time I'm wrong, I want to be right out front and say, 'Folks, this is what went wrong and how it went wrong.' "
Something tells me though that when this announcement is made Rather won't be anywhere in sight. Just a hunch.
Three-year-old Sophia Parlock cries while seated on the shoulders of her father, Phil Parlock, after having their Bush-Cheney sign torn up by Kerry-Edwards supporters on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2004, at the Tri-State Airport in Huntington, W.Va. Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards made a brief stop at the airport as he concluded his two-day bus tour to locations in West Virginia and Ohio. (AP Photo/Randy Snyder)
This is the most disgusting display of thuggery I've seen at a campaign rally, ever. Bad behavior has been seen at campaign rallies for both candidates (a point I'll concede to Kirk) but this absolutely crosses the line. That someone, anyone, would think that grabbing a campaign sign from the hands of a child, and ripping it up in front of them, is acceptable behavior just baffles me. I hope that smug looking punk who ripped up the sign is proud of himself, i'm sure his mother is.
This is a story that I came across this past weekend that I found very interesting, and encouraging.
We are so Sorry for 9-11
September 11, 2004
By Kamal Nawash
This September 11 marks the third unforgettable anniversary of the worst mass murder in American history.
After September 11, many in the Muslim world chose denial and hallucination rather than face up to the sad fact that Muslims perpetrated the 9-11 terrorist acts and that we have an enormous problem with extremism and support for terrorism. Many Muslims, including religious leaders, and “intellectuals” blamed 9-11 on a Jewish conspiracy and went as far as fabricating a tale that 4000 Jews did not show up for work in the World Trade Center on 9-11. Yet others blamed 9-11 on an American right wing conspiracy or the U.S. Government which allegedly wanted an excuse to invade Iraq and “steal” Iraqi oil.
After numerous admissions of guilt by Bin Laden and numerous corroborating admissions by captured top level Al-Qaida operatives, we wonder, does the Muslim leadership have the dignity and courage to apologize for 9-11? If not 9-11, will we apologize for the murder of school children in Russia? If not Russia, will we apologize for the train bombings in Madrid, Spain? If not Spain, will we apologize for suicide bombings in buses, restaurants and other public places? If not suicide bombings, will we apologize for the barbaric beheadings of human beings? If not beheadings, will we apologize for the rape and murder of thousands of innocent people in Darfour? If not Darfour, will we apologize for the blowing up of two Russian planes by Muslim women? What will we apologize for? What will it take for Muslims to realize that those who commit mass murder in the name of Islam are not just a few fringe elements? What will it take for Muslims to realize that we are facing a crisis that is more deadly than the Aids epidemic? What will it take for Muslims to realize that there is a large evil movement that is turning what was a peaceful religion into a cult?
Will Muslims wake up before it is too late? Or will we continue blaming the Jews and an imaginary Jewish conspiracy? The blaming of all Muslim problems on Jews is a cancer that is destroying Muslim society from within and it must stop.
Muslims must look inward and put a stop to many of our religious leaders who spend most of their sermons teaching hatred, intolerance and violent jihad. We should not be afraid to admit that as Muslims we have a problem with violent extremism. We should not be afraid to admit that so many of our religious leaders belong behind bars and not behind a pulpit. Only moderate Muslims can challenge and defeat extremist Muslims. We can no longer afford to be silent. If we remain silent to the extremism within our community then we should not expect anyone to listen to us when we complain of stereotyping and discrimination by non-Muslims; we should not be surprised when the world treats all of us as terrorists; we should not be surprised when we are profiled at airports. Simply put, not only do Muslims need to join the war against terror, we need to take the lead in this war.
As to apologizing, we will no longer wait for our religious leaders and “intellectuals” to do the right thing. Instead, we will start by apologizing for 9-11. We are so sorry that 3000 people were murdered in our name. We will never forget the sight of people jumping from two of the highest buildings in the world hoping against hope that if they moved their arms fast enough that they may fly and survive a certain death from burning. We are sorry for blaming 9-11 on a Jewish or right wing conspiracy. We are so sorry for the murder of more than three hundred school children and adults in Russia. We are so sorry for the murder of train passengers in Spain. We are so sorry for all the victims of suicide bombings. We are so sorry for the beheadings, abductions, rapes, violent Jihad and all the atrocities committed by Muslims around the world. We are so sorry for a religious education that raised killers rather than train people to do good in the world. We are sorry that we did not take the time to teach our children tolerance and respect for other people. We are so sorry for not rising up against the dictators who have ruled the Muslim world for decades. We are so sorry for allowing corruption to spread so fast and so deep in the Muslim world that many of our youth lost hope. We are so sorry for allowing our religious leaders to relegate women to the status of forth class citizens at best and sub-humans at worse.
We are so sorry.
I think Mr. Nawash has hit the nail on the head. For too long moderate Muslims have remained silent as the extremists in their religion have perpetrated countless acts of mass murder. They've allowed extreme religious leaders to brainwash the uneducated into believing all of their problems are caused by the Jews, and America. To me, this letter is more than just moderate Muslims apologizing for the deeds of others, it's about them finding their voice. A voice that will hopefully continue to grow in strength and number. Welcome to the fight Mr. Nawash.
And now for the most ridiculous item of the week . . . wait, that's someone else's gimmick, but this story would certainly qualify for that segment of their show.
Can the color of the pen that a teacher uses to grade a student’s papers adversely affect their delicate psyches? According to some teachers the answer to that question is yes.
A growing number of the nation’s educators are stocking up on purple pens for grading papers and passing on the traditional red, which they say can be intimidating and damaging to a student’s self-confidence.
"Teaching should always be a positive practice. Red seems to stand out in such a negative way," said Dorothy Porteus, school support specialist with the New York Charter Schools Association. “Little guys internalize the red and it doesn’t make them feel good.”
Porteus, who taught elementary school for 20 years, said a teacher should coach kids to do their best, not scare them into thinking they’ll never be good enough. She equates using red ink with drawing a frowning face on a student’s work.
"They put all this effort into something and by marking it up with red, in some ways it is like tearing their hard work to shreds,” she said. “They look at the red and think the teacher is upset with them, and this greatly influences their attempt to do their next paper.”
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Critics of the move toward a kinder, gentler color say kids have lived with red ink for decades and aren’t helped by teachers going easy on them.
Michael Barone, author of "Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs. Coddling and the Battle for the Nation's Future," said the push for purple is an example of American teachers going soft on students.
"This is ridiculous, because the only reason we associate red with bad in a classroom atmosphere is because that is the color that has been used to correct papers for decades,” he said. “If teachers now switch to purple, in time purple will become negative, and then what?”
According to Barone, young people today exist in a "soft" culture, which emphasizes self-esteem and protects them from the realities of adult life
Some parents, too, argue that changing the color of an F doesn’t alter its meaning, and if it gets the student’s attention, it has achieved its purpose.
As I was reading this article I was really trying to take it seriously, but I just couldn't. That our teachers are wasting time and effort, regardless of how minimal it might be, on this issue is ridiculous. Students don't care about the color a teacher uses to grade their paper, they only care about the grade they receive. They don't say "gee, I got an F on this paper, but at least my teacher didn't grade it in red ink."
I really don't understand this, so I’m asking you, my readers with school age kids, to give me your opinions. Does it matter what color your children's teachers use to grade their papers? Are your children more concerned with their grade, or the color of ink used to give them their grade? Let me know.
I hear people saying
We don't need this war
But I say there's some things worth fighting for
What about our freedom and this piece of ground
We didn't get to keep them by backing down
Now they say we don't realize the mess we're getting in
Before you start to preaching let me ask you this my friend
Have you forgotten how it felt that day?
Too see your homeland under fire and her people blown away
Have you forgotten when those towers fell?
We had neighbors still inside going through a living hell
And you say we shouldn't worry about Bin Laden
Have you forgotten?
They took all the footage off my TV
They said it's too disturbing for you and me
It'll just breed anger, it's what the experts say
If it was up to me I'd show it everyday
Some say this country's just out looking for a fight
Well after 9-11 man I'd have to say that's right
Have you forgotten how it felt that day?
Too see your homeland under fire and her people blown away
Have you forgotten when those towers fell?
We had neighbors still inside going through a living hell
And you say we shouldn't worry about Bin Laden
Have you forgotten?
I've been there with the soldiers who've gone away to war
And you can bet that they remember just what they're fighting for
Have you forgotten all the people killed?
Yeah some went down like heroes in that Pennsylvania field
Have you forgotten about our Pentagon?
Yeah all those loved ones that we lost
And those left to carry on
Don't you tell me not to worry about Bin Laden
Have you forgotten how it felt that day?
Too see your homeland under fire and her people blown away
Have you forgotten when those towers fell?
We had people still inside going through a living hell
And you say we shouldn't worry about Bin Laden
Have you forgotten?
Have you forgotten? Oh
Have you forgotten?
WE WILL NEVER FORGET!!!
It seems those Dems are up to their nasty rhetoric again. First we had the folks over at MoveOn.org host ads that compared President Bush to Hitler, then we had that wacky loser Al Gore compare Republican staffers to "digital Brown Shirts." Now a Democratic organization in Minnesotta has been caught distributing bumper stickers that compare the Bush administration to Hitler.
A campaign skirmish flared this week in Minnesota over a bumper sticker comparing President Bush to Adolf Hitler that was briefly on display at the local Democratic Party headquarters.
Minnesota Republicans called the bumper stickers -- which read "Bush/Cheney -- Most Hated World Leaders Since Hitler" -- "a repulsive smear." A Republican campaign worker asked for and received one of the stickers at the opposition party's headquarters earlier this week.
The bumper stickers were not placed into circulation but one campaign worker "unwittingly" left a stack of them on an office counter for two hours before they were removed, said Democratic party spokeswoman Tonya Tennessen on Thursday.
Republican objections were an "attempt to distract, distort," she said.
The bumper stickers were mailed by a Bush opponent in New Hampshire, the St. Paul Pioneer Press newspaper reported.
Right, the bumper stickers were "unwittingly" left out. I believe this about as much as I believed the people over at MoveOn.org when they claimed they didn't know they were hosting that ad that compared Bush to Hitler on their website. It's simple, they got caught, and now they can't spin their way out of this fast enough.
Just when I think I've heard the most ridiculous thing Teresa Ketchup-Kerry could possibly say, she opens her mouth and says something even more ridiculous.
Teresa Heinz Kerry says, "only an idiot wouldn't like" her husband's proposed health care plan, adding, "[but] Of course, there are idiots."
In an interview with the Intelligencer Journal of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Heinz Kerry says John Kerry's plan to subsidize health care for children, the unemployed and small companies, to name a few, is so great that, "I don't have to sell it — the people want it."
As for herself and criticisms that she's an eccentric billionaire, she says, "The common man doesn't look at me as some rich witch. I talk about what I see. It has always been so."
This is typical liberal elitism at work here people. If you don't agree with what they say you must just be too stupid to understand what they're saying. By that logic I'm sure she thinks that those that don't vote for her husband are idiots as well. I'm not sure who she's trying to appeal to when she speaks like this, but I'm fairly certain she's catching up to Hillary Clinton on the "Most Hated Politician's Wife" list. There might be a kernel of truth in her last statement though, the common man might not see her as some rich witch; I think the term most commonly used is "rich bitch."
Have you ever noticed that people that interrupt President Bush and other Republicans giving speeches are called "protestors" by the media, while those who interrupt Kerry and other Democrats are called "hecklers?" Just something to think about.
Anyway, a "heckler" who interrupted a Kerry speech is claiming that he was assaulted by Kerry supporters, and the picture below seems to back up that claim.
A heckler who briefly interrupted a speech by Democrat John Kerry today says he was assaulted by two men near him in the crowd before others shouted him down with cries of "Kerry, Kerry."
Police said 48-year-old Michael Russell of Foster, Kentucky, complained that his neck was hurt by a man who put him in a headlock after Russell started to yell about Kerry's allegation of war atrocities after returning from Navy service in Vietnam.
City police were investigating. No charges had been filed today.
Russell says he had been trying to ask Kerry whether he had personally participated in atrocities in Vietnam including burning villages.
Russell says he was then grabbed by the man standing next to him in the audience.
Kerry spokesman David Wade told reporters that the heckler was Mike Russell, who is listed as a spokesman for the anti-Kerry group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The group has accused Kerry of lying about military heroism for which he received medals.
Did you notice how during the Republican convention when "protestors" interrupted several speeches, not a single audience member assaulted them? They didn't push or punch them. They didn't try to choke them. They simply out-shouted them. Perhaps Kerry's supporters need a few more lessons in civility. I’m sure Teresa will be more than happy to teach them.
Kerry seems to be so lost in this campaign that he can't even remember who he is, or what he's done in the past. At a campaign rally this past weekend Kerry accepted a gift from a local union representative. No big deal right? I mean gifts given to candidates on the campaign trail are fairly common, right? Maybe, but this particular gift was a Remington model 11-87 shotgun, a weapon which would have been illegal to buy if a bill Kerry co-sponsored had been passed.
Was Dem presidential hopeful John Kerry seen this weekend waving a gun which would have been banned if legislation he co-sponsored became law?
Kerry co-sponsored S. 1431 last year (“The Assault Weapons Ban and Law Enforcement Protection Act of 2003) which would have banned a "semiautomatic shotgun that has a pistol grip.”
Opponents of the bill successfully argued how nearly all guns have "pistol grips," including millions of Browning Auto-5 shotguns produced since 1903.
Photos show Kerry's hand resting on the "pistol grip," as loosely defined in the bill. [Section SEC. 2; (H) (ii) and (b)(42): "The term 'pistol grip' means a grip, a thumbhole stock, or any other characteristic that can function as a grip."]
Kerry was presented with the semiautomatic shotgun during a Labor Day stop in Racine, West Virginia.
"I thank you for the gift, but I can't take it to the debate with me," Kerry told a cheering crowd as he held up the device.
But Kerry's gun bill would have also banned any "gift" transaction!
[It is not clear if Kerry completed the required paperwork (Form 4473) before he claimed the gun.]
Kerry's campaign was of course quick to attempt to rebut this claim and had this to say:
"Let's do some straight shooting on the gun issue. John Kerry's opponents are worried because he's the first Democratic candidate to support Second Amendment gun rights and to be an avid hunter.
"The facts are clear. John Kerry opposes banning this gun and always will. John Kerry was proud to receive this union-made gun at the United Mine Workers Labor Day picnic in Racine, West Virginia.
"The Republican Party and George Bush's campaign will stop at nothing to mislead voters about John Kerry's record. We challenge Bush to engage in honest debates--West Virginians deserve to hear the truth."
Unfortunately for Kerry's campaign the facts are indeed clear, but they certainly don't support their claim. Evidently, even Kerry's own people are so concerned about his flip-flop image that they've devised a new strategy. Deny, deny, deny.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation also came forward with a press release of their own.
At a Labor Day campaign rally yesterday, Sen. John Kerry accepted an ironic gift from a labor union representative. The gift, a Remington model 11-87 shotgun commonly used in hunting and recreational shooting enjoyed by millions of Americans, would be banned as an "assault weapon" under a bill that Kerry is co-sponsoring.
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Keane said several sportsmen's groups have pointed out that Kerry's effort to cast himself as an avid hunter do not square with his anti-gun votes as a U.S. senator. In various photos Kerry appears unaware of proper firearms handling. The Hunting and Shooting Sports Heritage Fund is advertising in national sportsmen magazines and on the Web site, http://www.voteyoursport.com, to illustrate these points.
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Remington President Tommy Milner said, "Rest assured, Remington was neither aware of this presentation in advance nor in any way supportive of its intent to support Senator Kerry's candidacy. In fact, the company remains amused by ongoing photos of Senator Kerry shooting without either ear or eye protection while discharging a firearm."
I'd say Kerry should just try and be himself, since it's obvious that his "average guy" shtick isn't going over very well, but I’m not sure even he knows who he really is.
In order to avoid a drawn-out, and contentious lawsuit, I have updated the "Quote of the Day."
And David, it hasn't been up there for a year....maybe a month, but not a year! Anyway, you can call your lawyer and tell him you won't be needing his services, and i'll try to do a better job of updating the quote every day!
I bet some of you have been wondering what's going on with this blog since it hasn't had an entry since August 16. Well, let me put some of the rumors to bed. No, I wasn't kidnaped by aliens. Nor was I taken out by a Democratic hit-squad (though I’m sure I’m on a list somewhere).
What actually happened was that I was called up on orders by my Reserve unit for a couple of weeks, and it turned out that I didn't have access to the internet during that time. In any event, I’m back now and will be returning to my usual ranting on a daily basis, so stay tuned!
