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New To “The Usual Suspect” List

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I have clearly been remiss in a number of my duties;

Amidst this I have somehow managed to let AB Freedom escape me.

I plan to rectify the situation now.

Please welcome “AB Freedom” to the Bloviating Zeppelin “Usual Suspect” list!

ABF describes himself as a “Single male beating back and exposing the socialist LIEberals just long enough until Alberta achieves independence.”

For this alone you should read his blog!

It is FAR past time that I expand my US list to include those without the American borders, though I have commented a number of times on his own blog.

You think our GOP problems extend solely to the northern border? Think again! AB Freedom takes and makes a stand clearly in opposition to the bulk of his country and for that, he pays a price. But is he alone? I’ll let you make that decision.

WELCOME, once again, AB Freedom, to the BZ Usual Suspect list!

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And GOODBYE to my Fetching Jen link; a person who promised me a corresponding link at least a year ago, to her own blog — a “fellow” Sacratomato, Fornicalia blog — which never appeared. See ya Jen; goodbye and good luck!

BZ

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The Animals In The Forest

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Imagine a new Hulking Giant in your forest. This new Giant is just that: massive, powerful, muscles rippling, larger than anything you’ve ever seen. You watch the giant flex its claws, open its mouth and casually yawn exposing teeth the size of your entire body. Your burrow happens to be a short distance from where this new Hulking Giant has chanced to make his home.
The new Giant is ferocious and ominous. Fellow animals have disappeared. You’ve seen their dessicated bodies in the forest but you’ve not yet seen the attack. And you’ve noticed that, wherever the Hulking Giant goes, many fellow smaller animals are nearby, praising the Giant or merely attempting to lend support by their presence.
You realize they are attempting to curry favor with the Giant so they are not eaten; fearing they may be killed but hoping it will not happen.
There is another giant in the forest. This is the Old Hulking Giant. This giant lives a distance away. This Old One has seen the New Hulking Giant on the periphery of his domain, not yet crossing into the clearing, but staring hard, daily, at the Old One. The Old One has seen animals in the mouth of the new Hulking Giant but he has not seen the new Hulking Giant kill or eat an animal. And he has seen the other animals at the feet of the new Hulking Giant.
There are two other Lesser Giants in the forest. The Old One has seen these Lesser Giants roaring and stomping, gnashing their teeth, coming up to the periphery of the Old One and bellowing, slashing with their claws, foaming with anger and violence.
These Lesser Giants are smaller and certainly less powerful than the new Hulking Giant, who is immense indeed.
The Old One knows this: if he gets into a fight with any of these Giants, it will not be a test of wills. It will be To The Death.
The Old One knows that some day very soon, one of these three will make a move and cross his clearing. Worse yet, he believes he has seen one, or perhaps both, of the Lesser Giants speaking to the new Hulking Giant.
What does the Old One do? Will he try to locate their lairs and kill them in their sleep, one by one? Or will he wait for them to attack and confront them?
The Old One knows he has strength and energy to take on perhaps one or even both of the Lesser Giants. But what would happen if, in their defense, the new Hulking Giant appeared for a fight?
The Old One also realizes this: the other animals in the forest know he is old and they doubt his power and maybe even his will to use it. The Old One wonders: with whom will they side when I am in my fight?
BZ
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What Has Happened To My Country?

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I woke up this morning and asked: what has happened to my country?

It used to be that we believed we were correct in our thoughts.

It used to be that our people believed in “innocent until proven guilty.”

It used to be that we could count on our Press to provide the truth and not papers filled with what amounts to one continual Editorial section.
It used to be that politicians, no matter the side, could agree on one thing: America first, and American interests first.
And it used to be that our people would believe in the good of our soldiers and support them and their causes when it came to the US and foreign powers.
So I again ask: what happened to my country?
Where has it gone?
Some mornings I wake up and do not recognize my nation, my politicians and my countrymen.
Where has my country gone?
BZ
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Congressman Weldon: There WERE WMD In Iraq!

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You read it here first.

Congressman Curt Weldon, representing Pennsylvania’s 7th district, stated this afternoon on the Michael Savage show that he is now in possession of a document entitled “Continuing Evidence of WMD In Iraq” which, he states, provides information indicating that Saddam Hussein did in fact have WMD (to consist of missiles capable of transporting Sarin gas), and that Hussein moved much of what he possessed via aircraft to Syria.
Fox News broke this news an hour or so ago:

We have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, chemical weapons,” Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., said in a quickly called press conference late Wednesday afternoon.

The National Ground Intelligence Center was forced to revel a portion of a report (go here to see this report) referenced by Senator Santorum. The report indicates that “Since 2003, coalition forces have recovered approximately 500 weapons munitions which contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent.”
“This says weapons have been discovered, more weapons exist and they state that Iraq was not a WMD-free zone, that there are continuing threats from the materials that are or may still be in Iraq,” said Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
If this story turns out to be TRUE, then it will be THE critical TURNING POINT on the War Against NOT “Terrorists” but the TRUE “War on Islamists.”
The ridiculous argument offered by the Dems and the DEM will finally, truly, be shot full of holes.
But the overaching question that begs even more questions: WHY WAS THIS REPORT NOT MADE PUBLIC UNTIL NOW?
The weapons are thought to be manufactured before 1991 so they would not be proof of an ongoing WMD program in the 1990s. But they do show that Saddam Hussein was lying when he said all weapons had been destroyed, and it shows that years of on-again, off-again weapons inspections did not uncover these munitions.
The release of the declassified materials comes as the Senate debates Democratic proposals to create a timetable for U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraq. The debate has had the effect of creating disunity among Democrats, a majority of whom shrunk Wednesday from an amendment proposed by Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts to have troops to be completely withdrawn from Iraq by the middle of next year.
Can you imagine a pull-out from Iraq predicated upon information such as this?
Santorum said: “This is an incredibly — in my mind — significant finding. The idea that, as my colleagues have repeatedly said in this debate on the other side of the aisle, that there are no weapons of mass destruction, is in fact false,” he said.
Once AGAIN the Dems and the DEM get it wrong. And — in truth — the GOP got it wrong too.
— WHERE has this report been hiding?
— WHY was it buried?
— WHY didn’t President Bush have access to this report until now?
— WHO is responsible?
— WHAT is the motivation for burying the report?
— HOW was this report allowed to languish for such a long time?
This will easily be the story of the week — and more!
BZ
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Blogging Is Tough

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Quick post this morning, I’ve got a mandatory class to attend today, my 84-year-old father went back into the hospital unannounced, for surgery, it’ll be 101-degrees today and I’ve got so much to do it isn’t funny.

Blogging is tough work. It takes time. I post now whenever I can, primarily on two computers; one at home in the mountains and one at my second “home” in Sacratomato. I’ve given up blogging at work: the computer is uncooperative and there isn’t time.

I see a number of other bloggers taking time off as well; Mahndisa, People Covered In Fish, and others. Texas Fred recently changed his blogging host and can now be found at http://texasfred.net. James Manning felt the heat for a while and felt the need to take a break. Rebecca of Revka’s Take had a fabulous blog but just found a huge conflict between blogging and Life in general. Boy, how I know that feeling.
It’s all understandable. Blogging is, to me, such fun. But it is a challenge and it does require enormous amounts of time. Right now, I should be in the shower preparing for the commute to the class. But here I am instead, placing myself farther and farther behind in my morning’s preparations.
This is my post for the day. No photos. Blogger is still being kludgy, at least for me, with regard to posting photos. Sometimes it’ll allow one. Sometimes two. In my other blog, it allowed three and then boom, no more. I cannot predict.
In any event, after class it’s a visit to Dad, mow the grass, fix dinner, hit the rack in preparation for tomorrow morning’s dental visit. Yeesh. Then I’ve got to plan for a skilled nursing facility for my Dad to occupy following his recovery in the hospital. This is his 6th major surgery in two years. He is amazing.
Take care people. Blog on.
BZ
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