Ninth Stage

Don’t tell Say Uncle.
Carlos Barrios Orta … gave up a career in accounting for this … the privilege of diving in the Mexico City sewer system….

Glenn doesn’t think the Bush girls did that well.
Maybe I wasn’t feeling that critical after Arnold’s speech but when the girls were talking I felt that the convention was really hitting it’s stride.

I would never have thought that he could work “I’ll be back” into a speech without it being a groaner. He did and it wasn’t, I had the widest smile on my face since the start of the RNC.

French astonished by the kidnapping of journalists.
French cry out, “but we are good kafirs“.
Extremists reply, “let the journalists go, they’re ‘useful idiots’“

Go contribute already!
Jeff is threatening us with a porn site, the horror.

Four million and, my guess, rising.
At No Watermelons.

And (at the same link below) Lileks spanks an old media would be “web-only” blogger.

Second tier RNC blogging - day one.
One vote for Giuliani.
One vote for McCain.

On today’s “Le Show”
Harry Shearer provides evidence (app. 18 minutes in) that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth are somehow pro-Bush despite the claims of the veterans that they are simply against Kerry.
The point made is that if these veterans thought that J. F. Kerry was so disqualified from the presidency why didn’t the vets. [...]

I’m aware of Cambodia Kerry and the CIA hat
no thanks to the MSM. Reading todays NYT’s Kerry spin/SwiftVets hit job brings one item to mind that I haven’t seen mentioned elswhere.
The article implies that “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth” is a group funded/founded by Republicans (In the NYT’s world this is a criminal act [...]

Last Thursday (12th) was travel time in Tennessee
for me. I’m working towards being done with this travel to California. Next Thursday (26th) I’ll be heading home and that sounds good to me.

Ravenwood has the goods on the theft of firearms by cops in NY.
If what the cops did doesn’t piss you off try sustituting the words “printing press” for the word “guns” to get a sense of how wrong this is.

The Geek is packing heat.
Since you won’t be able to recognize him on the street be nice to everyone you meet in Pennsylvania.

Old Skool at Stop the Bleating points out another “assault weapon” massacre.
Damned unlimited capacity Tantos.

The Geek with a .45 has an answer to England’s ongoing submission to criminals.
The Church of John Moses Browning! Oh and Druids are mentioned too.

Say Uncle lays out the facts.
And surprisingly gets results from his local television station!

Questions asked unanswered.
Countertop had a shot at D.C. chief of police Ramsey but as usual for politicians he dodged the hardball.

The Smallest Minority has the story about a security guard defending her life, successfully, with a firearm.
The bad guy attacted her with brass knuckles and “Ms Brown suffered a fractured skull, a fractured eye socket, a fractured nose, a fractured left hand and possible brain damage” with these injuries Ms Brown was able to [...]