I say let him come to Columbia and speak his piece. Let him come to the United Nations and address the General Assembly. Let him come and dissemble and hem and haw. Let the American people really see the face and hear the thoughts of the enemy. Let him come.
John Edwards has proposed that if he were elected President that he would work to create an international counter-terrorism group that would share resources, intelligence and information and work to fight terrorism where ever it exists. Um, John, I hate to tell you but such an organization already exists, the International Criminal Police Organization, commonly called INTERPOL. John, this organization has been around since 1923 and guess what? The United States is already a member. Even better, INTERPOL’s Secretary General, Ronald K. Noble, is an American who used to work in the Treasury Department. Now I know that 1923 is a long time ago, but perhaps you and your staff should do a bit of research before you make proposals which simply duplicate existing programs and organizations. To do otherwise makes you look and sound like an idiot.
I have been away for a while. So here is the update; the Chaser completed her cruise to Southern California and the Channel Islands. It was a great cruise, sixteen days in length and there was not a single major equipment failure, not a one. The crew did well and everyone had a great time, I’ll post pictures later. I celebrated my birthday while on the cruise by having a great dinner at the Delancey Street Restaurant in San Francisco. After that, I had to start work again.
My brother in law flew out from South Carolina to join his fiancee and claim his boys from his ex-wife who moved them out of state without his permission. The family is now reunited in SC and awaiting a court hearing so that my brother in law can have sole custody of my nephews.
The politicking continues with Oprah throwing her considerable weight behind Barak Obama, the Clintons being accused of more shenanigans, John McCain winning the Republican debate in New Hampshire and Fred Thompson finally entering the race for the Republican nomination. Meanwhile, to the north of me in Washington State, the Democratic Governor Christine Gregoire, who really did steal an election, has struck a blow for liberty and freedom and personal choice by bowing to pressure from Planned Parenthood by forcing the state pharmacy board under threat of replacement to remove a “conscience clause” in their approval of the “Morning After Pill” and forcing all pharmacists in the state to dispense the drug even if they have moral or religious objections. I suggest that Madam Gregoire and the leaders of Planned Parenthood read the First and Fourteenth amendments to the Constitution. Of course, to liberal statists like Madam Gregoire, freedom of religion only applies to Wiccans, Muslims, Buddhists, Sikhs, Neo-pagans or Satanists but not to Catholics, Jews or conservative Protestants. I am sure that many of the Founding Fathers would be proud of Madam Gregoire’s actions. Perhaps she and John Witherspoon should get together.