My 80 year old mother recently said, "Don't worry about the Democrats regaining power.  They will--because the Republicans always end up shooting themselves in the foot."

Gee, when a military publication starts questioning it's Commander-in-chief, it is not a good thing. *

*CORRECTION:

Lisa,

After I finished up my 21 year Air Force career as a journalist, I worked for Air Force Times in Springfield, VA. Contrary to popular belief, AFT and its sister publications, Army, Navy and Federal Times, are NOT government publications. They are entirely civilian enterprises which specialize in coverage of their respective military services, Congress and the White House.

Stars and Stripes, on the other hand, is owned by the military and staffed with military and civil service reporters and editors, under the auspices of the Secretary of the Air Force Office of Public Affairs. I also worked for them as a reporter and bureau chief from 1978-1983.

Sincerely,

Roy I. Adams, SMSgt., USAF, Retired.

Thank you Roy. I stand corrected.

Thanks to AHNC caption winner Steve Jones.

Surprise: Stadium blackmail resurfaces 

Palm Beach Post 10-30-03
 

...Gov. Jeb Bush nixed a cruise tax for a ballpark in the past, but seems to be wavering now.

"Every sports team, every stadium built (in Florida) has had state support," Bush said. "But if the (request) is so large that it begins to cut into priorities, that makes it a little more difficult."

Bush seems to be forgetting that Pro Player Stadium, where the Dolphins and Marlins play, was privately financed....
 

Florida needs another government funded stadium like a hole in the head.  Florida needs roads, schools and to get rid of Jeb.

Hillary Still No. 1 With Dems - 43 percent of party now backs the ...
PHXNews, United States - 10-29-03
Hillary Clinton. A Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday showed that
43 percent of her party now backs the former first lady. In fact, Sen. ...

"The Memo" is the Bible at Fox, from an insider, how Fox tows the Bush line

Poynter Online   10-29-03

...The fact is, daily life at FoxNewChannel is all about management politics. I say this having served six years there - as producer of the media criticism show, News Watch, as a writer/producer of specials and (for the last year of my stay) as a newsroom copy editor. ..But at Fox, if my boss wasn't warning me to "be careful" how I handled the writing of a special about Ronald Reagan ("You know how Roger [Fox News Chairman Ailes] feels about him."), he was telling me how the environmental special I was to produce should lean ("You can give both sides, but make sure the pro-environmentalists don't get the last word.")...

"Attorney General John Ashcroft is going to cover up another nude statue in the Justice Department. Remember last time, he spent $8,000 to cover up a statue with a curtain. This time it will be a little cheaper because they're just going to cover it with hundreds of unread FBI memos." —Jay Leno

Today's Top Five Headlines on BuzzFlash.com:

"The Senate voted 97-0 for an anti-spam bill to stop those annoying things you get on your computer. The senators made it very clear that when you start misleading the American people and start taking their money over false promises, that's our turf buddy." —Jay Leno

Graphic by Rand Ozier

"Bush said that the attacks in Iraq are intended to 'cause people to run.' He’s right — at last count there were nine Democrats running against him." —Jay Leno

GIs in Iraq 'Fell About Laughing' When Asked If They'd Vote GOP in '04

By Robert Fisk

...But when I suggested to a group of US
military police near Abu Ghurayb they would be voting Republican at the next
election, they fell about laughing. 'We shouldn't be here and we should
never have been sent here,' one of them told me with astonishing
candour. 'And maybe you can tell me: why were we sent here?'....

Graphic by Rand Ozier

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. ~William E. Gladstone, 1866
 

This NASA Chandra X-ray image shows the longest X-ray look yet at the "supermassive" black hole at the Milky Way's center. New research says the black hole is rotating at great speed. (HO-NASA)

Peace.