November 5
First off, happy birthday dad. Feel free to buy him something. And while you're at the store, get something for me too.

At long last, my Mackinac Site has been started! I would have had it out sooner, but I had some work to do. The Mackinac pages are the first release of my updated web site. The pages will not look much different, but the behind the scenes code is completely new, and hopefully better. I still don't have control if you can't accesss my web site at time - that is my hosting provider's fault. But the conversion should make my page easier for me to maintain. Over the next couple months, I will be converting all my old pages to this new format, so if things break from time to time, let me know by either e-mailing me or posting a notice in my guestbook.

Check out this quote from Newsmax. It really sheds some light on on the election: The only places where Kerry won more than 60 percent of the vote: Massachusetts, Rhode Island and the District of Columbia. Bush topped 60 percent in 14 states.

November 4
I am going to take a page from the President's playbook and adopt a new tone. I've been hard on you Kerry voters, and that is because I cannot see why anyone would think he is a viable candidate. From his anti-American behavior immediately after the Vietnam War to his anti-American voting record in the Senate to his "I have a plan" strategy during the campaign, where he also lacked a single positive message. But just remember, it's not personal.

I am still giddy from the President's Bush's win, and giddy is not usually an adjective I use to describe myself. I have questions about why certain pro-Kerry networks (CNN,ABC,NBC,CBS,MSNBC) refused to call several states for the President when they were clearly in his column. Wisconsin was called for Kerry when he lead by about 12,000 votes, but Bush lead in New Mexico by 17,000, and Ohio by well over a 100,000 votes, yet people like Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather refused to give the President his victory. Sore losers, I think.

This must be a very bad day for Hollywood and the media. Rather did everything he could to take Bush down (trying to pass forged documents off to the public and attempting to leak a made-up story about missing weapons in Iraq two days before an election), yet he failed. Bruce Springsteen and Puff Daddy? They made NO impact even though they are supposed to have some kind of influence with younger voters. And where is Michael Moore? His obvious attempts to remove the President by using blatant lies and clever editing failed. But bring on the next movie, Mike. It's entertaining to debunk your lies.

November 3
Celebrate good times, come one! (Insert the rest of any Kool and the Gang song here.) Yes, common sense and decency has won, and the President has been re-elected, defeating that liar Kerry. Please, liberals, if you say you are moving to Canada, please do so. We don't want you here anyway. (Or you can move to the northeast - one socialist governed place is the same as the next.)

And in other good news (it's a very happy day), my stepdad Skip Losey won a spot as a Bath Township trustee. His first act upon being sworn into office will be to raise a militia and invade DeWitt.

November 2
Election day is finally here! I got to the polls at 7:15 and it took me about an hour and fifteen minutes to vote. I proudly wore my 'W' hat.

There was something interesting at the polls. A Move On person - one of those uninformed people that think Kerry would make a good president - was actually stationed inside the polling place. I'm not sure if that is quite legal, by what do liberals care about law. Anyway, the volunteers eventually asked her to leave. Still, it was odd.

November 1
Tomorrow is election day. For those of you in Bath Township, remember to vote for Skip Losey. If you don't, then no one will like you anymore.

Bin Laden released a tape last weekend trying to scare American voters into voting for Kerry. Sounds kind of like what happend in Spain. But, Americans are less cowardly than the Spanish, and this tape probably helped President Bush. But bin Laden brings up an interesting item. In the tape, he actually puppets what the Democrats have been saying: that Iraq is an illegal war, that the President stole the Florida election, etc. Sounds like John Kerry has another endorsement!

I'm a Republican, which means I'm a caring individual. And because I care (even about those of you with bad judgement), as a service to Kerry voters, I would like to provide you with an alternate candidate, one I think you will agree with even more than Kerry. Follow this link and you will go to the US Communist party site. I'm sure you will find much there to your liking.

I'm working on my Mackinac site. It should be up in a few days.

October 27
It has happened - Kerry has reached a new level of desperation. He is out there screaming that it is the President's fault that the explosives stolen from the ammo dump in Iraq are being used to kill US soldiers. Another Kerry lie - the explosives were stolen before US troops entered Iraq. He knows this, but continues with his lies that it is Bush's fault that they are gone. If you are a Kerry supporter, you should be embarrassed by this complete lack of honesty.

October 26
First off, remember, you Bath Township residents (and I know you're out there) to vote for Skip Losey on November 2nd. He will lower taxes, defeat terrorism, and land a man on Mars within ten years.

Here we go again. The recent report by the New York Times and CBS about the missing explosives is horribly misleading, another attempt to bring down President Bush. An NBC embedded reporter confirmed that the explosives were missing when the US forces arrived there the day after the invasion began in April of 2003! You would think, listening to the news reports, that this just happened. There are some good articles about this on Newsmax, a great site for people who like the truth about issues.

This brings up a two issues. One, the US has secured 400,000 tons of explosives that have either been destroyed or are ready to be destroyed. But when 380 tons of explosives are missing, this is a horrible crisis. Perhaps a little perspective is in order. But second, and more importantly, if these explosives can be removed before the US forces arrived, why can't the same about WMD's be true as well?

There is some good news from the world of the judiciary. The Georgia Supreme Court has rule a hate crime law unconstitutional, saying it was worded too vaguely. I think anyone who understands law can agree that hate crime are worthless. If a white man attacks a black man, why does it matter that they are different color? The fact that a crime was committed is the only item of relevance.

And, on a good and a bad note, I have finished posting Italy pictures. With 235 pictures, it is my biggest gallery site. So, next, our Labor Day trip to Mackinac.

October 21
Much has been said about John Kerry's love of the UN. Here is a quote from the Washington Post, referencing a past CNN interview, a question and answer from Frank Sesno CNN on Late Edition, April 17th of 1994:

Sesno: Senator Kerry, it begs the question, what are the U.S. interests and the strategic interests in this place called the Balkans? Kerry: Well, they are less than our interests in perhaps Haiti. They are greater than our interests in Somalia.
Sesno: But worth dying for? That's the question, are they worth fighting and dying for? Kerry: Well, it depends what you mean by that, Frank. If you mean dying in the course of the United Nations effort, yeah, it's worth that. If you mean dying American troops unilaterally going in with some false presumption that we can affect the outcome the answer is unequivocally no. So I think it's a question of where you place the interest.

Posted moreItaly pictures - our last dinner in Rome.

So, Kerry supporters, defend him if you can.

October 19
Someone in Ohio was paid with crack cocaine to sign up voters. And it was the NAACP that paid him off. But, hey, let's get angry with President Bush because he didn't meet with the NAACP, even though a branch of their organization is committing voter fraud to get his opponent elected.

Andrea is up north doing some training, so I am trying to cope on my own. So it's been fast food, though last night was Damon's. Tonight will probably be McDonald's, because they have a new Monopoly game.

October 18
So much for Kerry's plan to import cheaper drugs from Canada. This article tells how Canadian Internet pharmacies will not sell drugs to US states because it could cause shortages and higher prices in Canada. By the way, as the article mentions, drug costs are lower in Canada for TWO reasons. One is the way that the Canadian government buys in bulk. The other reason is that the government sets the prices for those drugs. Those costs have to be made up somewhere, and that somewhere is higher taxes to support the "free" socialized health care system.

Over the weekend, Kerry gained the endorsement of the New York Times and the Boston Globe. Big shock. But, he gained another endorsement - that of Mahathir Mohamad, the ex-Prime Minister of Malaysia. Of course, this is the man who said, and I quote: 'Jews rule the world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them'. So, Kerry, you can have that endorsement.

Posted moreItaly pictures.

October 15
More about the debate. Kerry brought up Cheney's daughter, who is a lesbian. It's not a secret, but the question has to be asked - why did Kerry (and Edwards before him) bring it up? It is because the Dems think that the backward hicks of the Republican party will say "Well, tarnation, that there Cheney has a lesbo daughter. That's it Betty Mae! I'm a votin' fer that Kerry feller!" Of course, this will fail, but I wonder if President Bush had said, during the discussion of abortion: "Abortion is bad, but it's a choice. Like when Kerry's daughter had an abortion, I'm sure it was very a difficult decision."

The President was exactly right about the cost of health care. One was the lawsuits by lawyers like Edwards. But another was the fact that customers no longer have any idea what the actual cost of the procedures that are demanded actually cost. If someone only has to pay a $10 co-pay, and the test they order cost $300, where does that difference come from? It comes from the insurance companies, typically. If enough people order unecessary, expensive tests, then the cost the insurance companies have to charge goes up, and people who do not need medical services pay higher premiums.

Added more New Orleans pictures.

October 14
Debate #3 was last night, and President Bush crushed John Kerry. I'll bring up a few points. First, the vaccine question. Recently, it was announced that because of corrupted vaccine from an English company, there would not be enough stock for the expected demand. Kerry completely skirted the question. What could be pointed out is that if it were not for Hillary Clinton's plan to provide free vaccinations for the children of the US, we would have enough for everyone. Giving free vaccine to children sounds good, right? No one wants children to suffer. Well, American corporations are in the business of making money (their employees DO like to get paid), and since the companies would have taken large losses on this project, and the government would have made them provide the vaccines for very little cost to the government (how 'about that socialism) they no longer produced vaccines. So instead of having a plentiful supply, we now have a shortage. So much for that good plan.

And I wonder if Kerry plans to force the Heinz company (the ketchup producer and source of Teresa's money) to bring back their overseas, outsourced workers. And we're still waiting for her full tax return. Thusfar, she has paid less than 13% of her income to taxes while most Americans pay around 30%. And we're also waiting for Kerry's military records. If President Bush has to show his documents (and he has - and Dan Rather even knowingly passed off forged documents to help out Kerry), then why hasn't Kerry released his?

October 13
What would have happened if John Howard, the prime minister of Australia, would have lost the election last weekend? I think we all know - the press would have gleefully announced how another ally of the evil President Bush was bounced from office. But Howard won in a landslide, so nothing was heard about the election from the Democrat talking points transcript services (NBC,CBS,ABC,CNN). Even John Kerry's sister, operating in Australia to try and get Howard out of office, failed to have an effect. On another happy note, less than a month before John Kerry loses decisively and we don't have to hear anymore from the Botox candidate.

October 12
I have a few items about the Nobel laureates. First is this year's winner of the Peace price, Wangari Maathai. Now, she got the prize for planting 30 million trees. That's the claim anyway. But who cares? 30 million trees. If I had the time, I could do that, so what's the big deal. Anyway, she said (and is not the first person to say this) that the CIA invented AIDS to kill black people. Yep, she is that dumb.

The Nobel prize winner in economics, as reported in Yahoo! news has the following quote:

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Edward Prescott, who picked up the Nobel Prize for Economics, said President George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s tax rate cuts were "pretty small" and should have been bigger.

"What Bush has done has been not very big, it's pretty small," Prescott told CNBC financial news television.

Finally, a quote from John Edwards: 'WHEN KERRY IS PRESIDENT, PEOPLE LIKE CHRISTOPHER REEVE ARE GOING TO WALK'. So who are the candidates of fear? Here is Edwards basically saying that people in wheelchairs would walk if it were not for President Bush. Yeah, the Democrats have a real winner on their hands.

October 11
I watched the debates last Friday night and President Bush clearly won. Kerry's favorite phrases were "I have a plan" and "but...". The former means that we, the general public, are too stupid to understand his nuanced positions. The latter means that he is trying to be on both sides of an issues. Remember those guidelines - they will come in handy whenever Kerry speaks. Yesterday, Kerry referenced terrorism as a nuisance. Apparently, if only a dozen or a hundred Americans die in a terrorist attack (like in the Clinton years), it's okay, but if the number goes up around 3,000, then we need to do something.

Here is something interesting I read on the Drudge Report:

Stephen Moore, president of the Club for Growth, writes in the WALL STREET JOURNAL on Monday: "According to the Kerrys' own tax records, and they have not released all of them, the couple had a combined income of $6.8 million in income last year and paid $725,000 in income taxes. That means their effective tax rate was a whopping 12.8%.... "Under the current tax system the middle class pays far more than the Kerry tax rate. In fact, the average federal tax rate -- combined payroll and income tax -- for a middle-class family is closer to 20% or more. George W. and Laura Bush, who had an income one- tenth of the Kerrys', paid a tax rate of 30%.

"Here is the man who finds clever ways to reduce his own tax liability while voting for higher taxes on the middle class dozens of times in his Senate career. He even voted against the Bush tax cut that saves each middle-class family about $1,000." The Kerrys "have unwittingly made the case for what George W. Bush says he wants to do: radically simplify and flatten out the tax code. ... So before John Kerry is given the opportunity to raise taxes again on American workers, shouldn't he and Teresa at least pay their fair share?"

Added more New Orleans pictures.

October 8
Two quotes from a recent Larry Elder article:

Former Clinton CIA Director Woolsey said, "Iraq's ties with terrorist groups in the '90s are clear . . . with a decade of connections between Iraq and al Qaeda, including training in poisons, gases and explosives. There was no need to show that Iraq participated in 9/11 . . . describing occasional cooperation of the sort that is well chronicled was quite sufficient."

Is Iraq not even close to the center of the War on Terror? In December 2001, John Kerry said, "[Saddam] is and has acted like a terrorist, and he has engaged in activities that are unacceptable." A few days later, Kerry expounded, "I think we clearly have to keep the pressure on terrorism globally. This doesn't end with Afghanistan by any imagination. And I think the president has made that clear. I think we have made that clear. Terrorism is a global menace. It's a scourge. And it is absolutely vital that we continue, for instance, Saddam Hussein."

October 6
You have heard the accusations by the Democrats that President Bush is going to reinstate the draft, right? Well, here is some truth about the draft issue. Charles Rangle (Democrat) had created a bill in 2003 to do just that - reinstate the draft. Just yesterday, he voted against that bill, saying that the President was playing politics. HE VOTED AGAINST HIS OWN BILL TO REINSTATE THE DRAFT, BUT ACCUSES THE PRESIDENT OF DOING WHAT RANGLE JUST TRIED TO DO! You can't make this stuff up.

A terrorist in Iraq was found to have, in his possession, the emergency response plans from the US Department of Education. I'm sure he wasn't interested in how the schools and police and fire departments communicate. I'm sure he was just concerned about his own children's welfare, to make his country a better place, while at the same time blowing up soldiers and others people children.

Posted moreItaly pictures.

October 5
I forgot to mention yesterday that Andrea and I ran in the Dino Dash on Sunday, a 5k on the MSU campus. I finished with a pace just under an eight minute mile - not by best time, but better than collapsing and dying on the course.

The vice-presidential debate is on tonight. I wonder if Edwards will try and sue Cheney for medical malpractice. That is Edwards previous experience, convincing new mothers into suing doctors. And he talks about Cheney using scare tactics. Hopefully Cheney will bring up the idea of stopping the rising health care costs by stopping Edwards from practicing law.

Here is a quote from the president of Poland. This is in response to Kerry not recognizing that there is a coalition in Iraq, and completely ignoring the sacrifices they have made: "It is sad that a senator with 20 years of experience does not recognize Polish contribution. This is immoral," Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski told FACTS in an interview commenting on the US Presidential Debate.

October 4
This article describes an incident where a teacher had displayed a montage of presidents, including President Bush. (He is, after all, a president.) Three morons were upset that the current president was listed and demanded he be removed or a picture John Kerry (NOT a president) be posted.

Franklin County, Ohio now has more registered voters than it has citizens over 18. Sounds like the Democrats are at their old tricks. Not content to merely debate issues and broadcast campaign views (ie lies), they are now trying to commit fraud. Kind of like this absolute LIE that one million black votes were not counted in the last election. If you believe this, 1) I have a bridge I want to sell you and 2) tell me the reliable source for this information.

I should clarify my position on the debate. Kerry won on style, on most smoothly getting out the message he wants people to believe. President Bush won on substance. It's like watching a Clinton State of the Union address. If I wouldn't have known better, Clinton was such a good speaker (and liar), I would have bought the things he said. But, I have common sense.

I have posted some New Orleans pictures - more French Quarter shots.

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