Musings

AP reports today that "a top Russian general said Friday that Poland's agreement to accept a U.S. missile interceptor base exposes the ex-communist nation to attack, possibly by nuclear weapons, the Interfax news agency reported." Moreover, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced today that Georgia may have to accept "deep concessions" in order to stop the violence and bloodshed by Russia. Part of those "concessions" entails ceding over 1/3 of its territory to Russia. What's next? Ukraine? Poland? And what can the US do?...Senator John McCain raised $27 million in July. While it pales in comparison to what Senator Obama raised, there's a definite sense that this race is tighenting up considerably despite what national polls might say...Furthermore, this election will not be a "blow out" as many Democrats expected...If we believe Howard Wolfson's claim that Senator Clinton should be the Democrat nominee if Senator Edwards had not run because of the lie he was concealing, then does Wolfson believe that Senator Bob Dole, or even President George H.W. Bush, should have been elected and reelected? Why? President Clinton should not have run in the first place because of the Gennifer Flowers affair, which Clinton later admitted was true under testimony. Oh, the hyprocrisy!...So much for party unity. Hillary Clinton's name will be placed in nomination at the Democrat convention starting on 25 August. Rather than do the traditional voice vote, the Democrats have decided on a roll call in order to keep the Clinton delegates quiet in a national "show of unity"... One last musing...ESPN radio host Colon Cowherd on his show "The Herd" said yesterday he did not trust the media. He liked many members of the daily news media, but he did not trust it. Why? Cowherd suggested that the media have an "agenda" to the exclusion of actually reporting the facts as they happen. We're not as miserable, apathetic, hated, etc. as the news media might make you believe. Hats off to Mr. Cowherd for pointing out the truth.

There are 81 days until the presidential election. And, it's been 2,730 days since there's been a terrorist attack on US soil. Good day and God bless!