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09/23/2004: "Hodge Podge"

Part Two of the UN Blood Money is posted this morning on Fox's website. Here's the link.

Victor Davis Hansen eloquently writes about the decaying body of the UN today. I think that American dissatisfaction with the ineffectiveness of the UN will not just stop at tuning them out. With the amount of our hardworking American tax dollars that flow into their corrupt coffers, I see a day when the American people have decided that those funds are better spent at home and kick their sorry asses out of NYC. Personally, I consider the UN a national security threat from within our own borders.

Note to Coloradans: Amendment 36 on your ballots is a NO vote unless your wish is to dilute your significance in national politics. Like it our not, the political system runs on a majority rule. Splitting your electrol votes may have the ability to affect the current presidential race but make your voice silent in future ones. This is classic divide and conquer. If you haven't made up your mind yet, consider this. Our Founding Fathers created a government that has withstood the test of time. They gave great consideration to its structure, including the inclusion of the electoral college. Do you trust the founding fathers judgement or this bills prime benefactor, Jorge Klor de Alva, whose goal is to destroy the electoral college? If Amendment 36 passes, no President would consider Colorado as a battle ground state in future elections and that would influence their decisions to as to where Federal funding for highways and military bases go. It will go to states who have power in their solidarity. NO ON 36.

Democratic Fear Mongering-This weeks talking point is "The Draft." I have heard it several times this week from various different sources. Democrats still caught up in the Vietnam Era with John Kerry are reaching back over thirty years ago to a time when the military had to drag young men into the service kicking and screaming all the way. Current enlistments into the military and reserve are running at or above their goals and this must leave the Hate America crowd baffled. They just don't get the post 9/11 world. You may have noticed from Gulf War One and Two, we fight very high tech wars now. This has the benefit of needing less boots on the ground. It has the drawback of requiring a lot of training which hinders our ability to quickly deploy new recruits. Six weeks of basic training, hand them a rifle, and ship them off as in the days of WWII, doesn't cut it anymore. Before we see any draft reinstatement, I think we will see the age limits on volunteers lifted to allow more recruits. Who would you want to go into a war with by your side? People who have made a committment to the profession and have volunteered or people dragged kicking and screaming against their will? The powers that be know this also and since the name of the game is WIN, I don't see them shooting themselves in the foot with conscripts who, like a younger Mr. Kerry, would be getting face time on the evening news screeching anti war rhetoric and building their futures crawling over the corpses of those who understood the cost of freedom.

Shove it, Idiots and Scumbags! I have taken Mrs. Wannbe First Lady latest most memorable public comments and woven them into a campaign mantra. Kinda catchy isn't it? Such a class act. While I have been known to lower myself to vulgarity on a frequent basis, I insist the First Lady does not. Can you in your wildest dreams see Laura Bush publicly using the word scumbags? I have a pretty good imagination and I can't even imagine her using the word privately cuddled up on the couch with Dubya watching CBS evening news. If the stakes weren't so high in this election, I would be secretly hoping the Kerry/Edwards team would win the election and provide me four years of tremendous fun writing about their administration with a sarcastic, castrating wit. But alas, my practical side of wanting to see a safer world for my children and grandchildren prevails and I responsibly choose the role of security mom. Four more years. Then Hillary will provide me with enough fodder for my lifetime. Patience my dear woman, first things first.