Some rain came through the area starting yesterday. Is sunnying up today though.
I believe Rhonda signed us up at the Y. So, we'll be able to take the kids swimming there often. They'll like that. On Tuesday, while John was at preschool, Rhonda took Hanna over there and met a friend of Rhonda's and her kids. Hanna had fun.
John seems to be enjoying his preschool. I haven't heard of any difficulties.
Last night I met a guy from my database class, and we worked on some homework. In that class we're all paired up with someone else, and do our work in these teams. We met at a library in Roseville. There's a coffeshop attached to the library, so we sat in there. So far school isn't terribly difficult. A lot of reading to do, but I've been doing database stuff for a decade, and what we've gone over so far is pretty basic. I wish it was more challenging, or new stuff. The software engineering class is interesting. The prof is fun.
I've been following this CBS/forged memo scandal pretty closely. The reason CBS has been so reluctant in withdrawing the story is that they are utterly nailed to the wall on this, they know it, and worse, they seem to have been in collusion with the Democrats on this story. At best, a violation of journalism "ethics", at worst a crime. That's why they are trying to stonewall this and hope this goes away.
Couple of examples. Newsmax reports that the Kerry campaign made reference to content in one of the forged memos back in *April*.
Also, the day after CBS first ran this story on 60 Minutes II, the Democrats launched their "Operation Fortunate Son" ad campaign, and referred to the memos. Are we to believe the Democrats knew nothing of the CBS story? Saw it that night, rushed out and in 24 hours created this campaign. Not hardly. The Dems knew what was coming. How? Consider another serious element of this story. The producer of the CBS story called Joe Lockhart (used to be Clinton's press spokesman, just joined the Kerry campaign not long ago) and asked him to call this Burkett character, the person who gave CBS the memos.
Rush puts things this way: "Right. Okay. Yeah, that's the answer. There's some guy down in Texas from the Travis County Democrats who's upset that the Kerry campaign is not being more forceful about the swiftvets, and so Mary Mapes calls Lockhart and says, "Hey, we've got some guy down there that says you're not being strong enough on the swiftvets. Would you talk to him?" and Lockhart said, "Sure, I would love to talk to any of our supporters who think we're screwing up the campaign." Come on, folks, this doesn't happen. You can't get through. Try calling Joe Lockhart. Do it. Try calling the Kerry campaign and say, "Hey, I'm a disgruntled Democrat and I don't think you're doing a good enough job responding to Bush on Iraq or the swiftvets," and see if you get through. You won't.
So next call Mary Mapes of CBS and say, "Hey, I'm a disgruntled Democrat and I can't reach Joe Lockhart, but I think they're really screwing up by not responding forcefully to the swiftvets. Can you get me through to Lockhart," and see if she calls Lockhart and runs interference for you so you can talk to him. Come on, folks! This is not some accidental conversation between some high ranking guy at the Kerry campaign and some lowly little supporter out there who just happened to score the Lotto that day and get through to the campaign to tell him what they think they ought to do. Give me a major break. So you have a CBS producer as part of a deal to destroy the president, willing to do a political favor for a Bush-hater by putting him in contact with Lockhart. This is as seedy a journalistic deal as one can imagine."
There is much more to be found in this story. Will the Dems succeed in covering up the fact they colluded with an "objective" news organization to smear President Bush with utterly amateurish forgeries? The next few weeks should be fun!
Finally, here is a brilliant column, pointing out a valid reason for going into Iraq. After the way we kind of relatively meekly went into Afghanistan, the Iraq campaign serves to let other baddies know that the United States will act preemptively if we have to.
I believe Rhonda signed us up at the Y. So, we'll be able to take the kids swimming there often. They'll like that. On Tuesday, while John was at preschool, Rhonda took Hanna over there and met a friend of Rhonda's and her kids. Hanna had fun.
John seems to be enjoying his preschool. I haven't heard of any difficulties.
Last night I met a guy from my database class, and we worked on some homework. In that class we're all paired up with someone else, and do our work in these teams. We met at a library in Roseville. There's a coffeshop attached to the library, so we sat in there. So far school isn't terribly difficult. A lot of reading to do, but I've been doing database stuff for a decade, and what we've gone over so far is pretty basic. I wish it was more challenging, or new stuff. The software engineering class is interesting. The prof is fun.
I've been following this CBS/forged memo scandal pretty closely. The reason CBS has been so reluctant in withdrawing the story is that they are utterly nailed to the wall on this, they know it, and worse, they seem to have been in collusion with the Democrats on this story. At best, a violation of journalism "ethics", at worst a crime. That's why they are trying to stonewall this and hope this goes away.
Couple of examples. Newsmax reports that the Kerry campaign made reference to content in one of the forged memos back in *April*.
Also, the day after CBS first ran this story on 60 Minutes II, the Democrats launched their "Operation Fortunate Son" ad campaign, and referred to the memos. Are we to believe the Democrats knew nothing of the CBS story? Saw it that night, rushed out and in 24 hours created this campaign. Not hardly. The Dems knew what was coming. How? Consider another serious element of this story. The producer of the CBS story called Joe Lockhart (used to be Clinton's press spokesman, just joined the Kerry campaign not long ago) and asked him to call this Burkett character, the person who gave CBS the memos.
Rush puts things this way: "Right. Okay. Yeah, that's the answer. There's some guy down in Texas from the Travis County Democrats who's upset that the Kerry campaign is not being more forceful about the swiftvets, and so Mary Mapes calls Lockhart and says, "Hey, we've got some guy down there that says you're not being strong enough on the swiftvets. Would you talk to him?" and Lockhart said, "Sure, I would love to talk to any of our supporters who think we're screwing up the campaign." Come on, folks, this doesn't happen. You can't get through. Try calling Joe Lockhart. Do it. Try calling the Kerry campaign and say, "Hey, I'm a disgruntled Democrat and I don't think you're doing a good enough job responding to Bush on Iraq or the swiftvets," and see if you get through. You won't.
So next call Mary Mapes of CBS and say, "Hey, I'm a disgruntled Democrat and I can't reach Joe Lockhart, but I think they're really screwing up by not responding forcefully to the swiftvets. Can you get me through to Lockhart," and see if she calls Lockhart and runs interference for you so you can talk to him. Come on, folks! This is not some accidental conversation between some high ranking guy at the Kerry campaign and some lowly little supporter out there who just happened to score the Lotto that day and get through to the campaign to tell him what they think they ought to do. Give me a major break. So you have a CBS producer as part of a deal to destroy the president, willing to do a political favor for a Bush-hater by putting him in contact with Lockhart. This is as seedy a journalistic deal as one can imagine."
There is much more to be found in this story. Will the Dems succeed in covering up the fact they colluded with an "objective" news organization to smear President Bush with utterly amateurish forgeries? The next few weeks should be fun!
Finally, here is a brilliant column, pointing out a valid reason for going into Iraq. After the way we kind of relatively meekly went into Afghanistan, the Iraq campaign serves to let other baddies know that the United States will act preemptively if we have to.
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