Having formulated a plan to solve my previous dilemmas, I’m ready to point you to my new site. I’ve given it, I hope, an objective broad enough to keep your interest(s) yet specific enough that I won’t lose focus.
I call it Tennessee Conservative, a blog about Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Holiness.
See you there?
Readers who have followed me since the Fishkite days know I’ve been writing at this address for about two and a half years. Well, it’s about time for me to move again.
Since most of my posts are political, I’m switching to a politically-themed site. Despite the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – inspired tagline at top, this blog never really had much focus. I’ll link to the new site when it’s ready.
I’m also trying to figure out what to do with the old content at this domain (the “morgue”). I’m pretty sure I don’t want to haul it all to the new place, as I did last time. Why? 1. It’s a frustrating process; 2. I don’t have time to re-size all the images and fix all the broken links, even if I wanted to; and 3. starting fresh might be good. At the same time, though, it’s nice to have a record, so I’ll probably leave this site’s archives untouched.
Last, I’m trying to decide whether I will continue to write more personal-oriented stuff here, save that for Facebook, or post it at the new location — things like Eden & Freckles updates, etc.
What do you think? Feel free to add your $0.02 in the comments.
U.S. Government foreign aid was increased dramatically under the “stingy” George W. Bush administration, reversing a steady downhill trend over the previous four decades. Source: USAID Greenbook on U.S. Overseas Loans and Grants.
The average U.S. household makes $67,609 a year and is $668,621 in debt — $546,668 being its share of federal government debt and another $121,953 owed privately to creditors (mortgages, car loans, credit cards and other debt).
It would take the average household 9.88 years to work its way out of debt, provided it hands over every penny earned in that span.
Discussion question: how are Washington’s policies correcting, or contributing to, this sorry situation?
CNN is running with the shocking headline, “Cheney: No link between Saddam Hussein, 9/11.”
The quote: “I do not believe and have never seen any evidence to confirm that [Hussein] was involved in 9/11. We had that reporting for a while, [but] eventually it turned out not to be true.”
Gosh, if only Cheney would have said something sooner…
Russert: Do we have any evidence linking Saddam Hussein or Iraqis to this operation?
Cheney: No.
Russert. [I]s there a connection?
Cheney: We don’t know. You and I talked about this two years ago. I can remember you asking me this question just a few days after the original attack. At the time I said no, we didn’t have any evidence of that. Subsequent to that, we’ve learned a couple of things. We learned more and more that there was a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda that stretched back through most of the decade of the ’90s, that it involved training, for example, on BW and CW, that al-Qaeda sent personnel to Baghdad to get trained on the systems that are involved. The Iraqis providing bomb-making expertise and advice to the al-Qaeda organization.
We know, for example, in connection with the original World Trade Center bombing in ’93 that one of the bombers was Iraqi, returned to Iraq after the attack of ’93. And we’ve learned subsequent to that, since we went into Baghdad and got into the intelligence files, that this individual probably also received financing from the Iraqi government as well as safe haven.
Now, is there a connection between the Iraqi government and the original World Trade Center bombing in ’93? We know, as I say, that one of the perpetrators of that act did, in fact, receive support from the Iraqi government after the fact. With respect to 9/11, of course, we’ve had the story that’s been public out there. The Czechs alleged that Mohamed Atta, the lead attacker, met in Prague with a senior Iraqi intelligence official five months before the attack, but we’ve never been able to develop anymore of that yet either in terms of confirming it or discrediting it. We just don’t know.
RUSSERT: Well, I asked you, I said, “is there a connection between Saddam and 9/11 on September ‘03” and you said “we don’t know.”
CHENEY: (Unintelligible). That’s right.
RUSSERT: So you raised that possibility.
CHENEY: It was raised by the CIA who passed on the report from the Czech Intelligence Service.
RUSSERT: All right. Now the president has been asked, “What did Iraq have to do with the attack on the World Trade Center?” and he said “nothing.” Do you agree with that?
CHENEY: I do. So it’s not…
RUSSERT: So it’s case, case closed.
CHENEY: We’ve never been able to confirm any connection between Iraq and 9/11.
The Bush administration said this again and again and again, but the Leftist media still continues to hear only what it wants to hear.
Newsbusters has more quotes.