Good Evening - I think quote is perfect for the actions that President Bush has taken over the last 5 years, "do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do" It's a challenge. Do what ever is within your power to solve the problem, no matter what you do, it's better than doing nothing.

Of course I have to rag a little tonight. This new thing with Senator Durbin is more that over the top!! Power Line carried a story about an organization Move America Forward that wanted to put a commercial on the networks that depicted Durbin as ant- military. Durbin threatened them with an IRS audit. Apparently Durbin also contacted the stations that were going to carry the commercial because they all but one have canceled the commercial. The left has no limits to how low they will go. Anything is okay as long as it succeeds in furthering the Marxist agenda of the democratic.

Here is another show of just how biased the media is. The new conference at the White House, concerning the Karl Rove interview, was not a question and answer section, it was an feeding frenzy. The reporters weren't asking questions, they were making statements that they will print as answers from Andy Card, the Presidents press secretary, at the White House. I listened to it and I was appalled. It was mean and hateful. They were like a pack of wild animals fighting over a dead carcass. They had no intention of listening to what Andy said because they already had the answer they wanted, hours before they arrived at the White House and probably already had the story written as well.

There is more nonsense to take about but this is getting to be so absurd, I just don't what to think - it's just nuts - they are crazy!!!

Good Morning - Here is something that I believe is important - What is success? "In order to succeed we must first believe that we can"

Why is it that the left believes that we can not succeed at anything and the right believes that we can succeed at everything? The left has to tear down and the right builds up. The left has an attitude of hate for everything that is American, and the right loves everything American. The new left in this country is part of the problem, not part of the solutions to problems in this country.

Karl Rove. The new left is out to get him again - the Marxist machine is going at full tilt to get him on this Valerie Plame outing, but the actual e-mail that the reporter has concerning this after an interview with Rove says nothing about her covert status with the CIA - in fact it doesn't even mention her name. Rove didn't know anything about her covert status.

Of course these facts have nothing to do with reporting news - this is just a starting point to try and bring down Rove and ultimately the President. The Marxist left will stop at nothing to succeed in the destruction of this country.

Am I going off the deep end here, maybe, but all I have to do is listen to what they have to say to determine that their intent is not finding the truth, but to project their biased philosophy of hate for the common man and our religious beliefs.

This is who they are. Never forget!

Sunday night is always, or always use to be, a low point because I had to go to work the next day. But now it's just another fun evening. Retirement suits me just fine.

Being a biker, bicyclist, means riding in all kinds of weather. Today was 90 degrees and a lot of sunshine. I rode with a club out of Madison, Wisconsin. They sponsor rides during the week as well on the week end. Sunday is always a fun ride in that it is fast, for the most part, and the group was congenial. But the heat today was a factor.

We started out at 8 in the morning at a nice pace, about 18 mph, and then it started to ramp up to 20 and many times in the flats we were doing 25 and 27 mph. When it came to the climbs, I started to fade after about an hour. My legs were shot and my heart rate was topping out at 198. I averaged 173 for the day which is pretty normal for me. I have been in races where I averaged 183 for over an hour and a half. To say the least, I was spent at the end.

At any rate, I hope everyone enjoyed the day as it was a perfect summer example, lots of sun and the humidity was just normal for this time of year. I love it hot!

Good Morning - Sorry I missed yesterday but one thing lead to another and before I knew it I was asleep - go figure - heh - Anyway - it looks like the London attacks haven't gotten the effect that the killers had hoped for - Londoners are back to work and the country stiffens its resolve to continue as if nothing will effect their determination to be British. God bless them.

There are, of course, those in Britain that feel the best way to avoid further attacks is to surrender to the killers. Unfortunately there large numbers of short sighted people who see the world with very poor eye sight. America is no different - large numbers or groups are determined to see us fail in our attempt to stop the killing here and else where. As I have stated in the past, it is very hard to understand why so many people can not see the problem. In light of all that transpired in the last four years, since 9/11, and what had gone on before 9/11, since 1994, the first attack on the Trade Center, many still believe the best way to solve the problem of Islamic extremists trying to kill us all is to shower them with money and call them friend.

Why is it I can't come to grips with this idea of surrender? I can't understand why so many people think that there own little world is so important that they can not see that to give up the very freedom that has given them their little patch of glory will be jeopardized by their lack of intestinal fortitude and being short sighted. Is it just pure greed? Is it lack of history? Selfishness? Ignorance? Stupidity? I don't know and I'm worried.

The six blasts that rocked London is the first statement from the terrorists since they blew up the trains in Spain and I believe, not the last.

The left is already blaming George Bush. If he hadn't started all this by attack Iraq, we would be able to find the real solution to the middle east problem through diplomacy.

Its the same old game that the left always plays, blame someone. They have no solutions except surrender. Did you ever wonder why you never see the pictures of the twin towers on fire and the people jumping out of the windows? It's called news suppression. The media that is controlled by the left doesn't want to remind you of what happen on 9/11. They want you to forget what happended there and concentrate on GWB and how he has screwed everything.

If the media can force us to forget that 3000 of our citizens were murdered by the same people that we are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, they will be able to convince the majority that it is okay to pull out of all foreign engagements and surrender all efforts by the United States to defend itself to the United Nations.

Do you feel safer? Do you believe what happened in London could happen here, again? Well it's just a matter of time, but it will be worse - and the Left will only be too willing to surrender this country to the terrorists to preserve their own small worlds of power.

The left in this country are urban terrorists. They seek to destroy our freedom and democracy. They are socialists, make no mistake. They will decided what is best for you because they are the smart ones and we are the dummies.

The real war in here, in this country. We must fight them on ever front if our way of life is to be preserved. Mark my words, if they win, the Constitution will be gone as we know it!

Good evening - I hope that everyone enjoyed independence Day as much as I did - I seem to enjoy it more now that knowing how important it is to be free. I also enjoy it more now that I am more involved in what is going on in this country and the world and how important it is to our future.

I am dedicated to the fact that everyone that lives in this country has an obligation to be part of the solution to our problems. There are those that have a different view of America, as I have mentioned previously on several occasions. They are part of the problem.

It has been said that "Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve" George Bernard Shaw. What a great idea! If we allow those that want to change the way we live under the founding constitution, to living under the heel of the eastern elites in this country, then we deserve what we get.

Shaw is right. If we can not see that what they are saying is counter productive and anti-democratic, social Marxism, then we will have to live the life that they dictate to us when they come to power, and like. We did nothing to stop it. We refused to acknowledge that it even existed even though it was in the news every night and on the front page of most news papers. Go figure!!!

We all have a duty to stand guard on the home front while the troops are fighting in far away places. It's our watch and we must not fail in our duty.

On this glorious day, in the history of this country, 1776, we decided that it was time to take a stand. Be counted among those though out history that would make a difference. These men saw a light that most others only dreamed of. They decided that it was time to dedicate there lives to Freedom, and did. Just look what they given to us. Our beautiful country. A shining light for all to see. God bless America, land that I love - - you know the rest.

Joe Wilson In The Tank - - - finally Joe is starting to get some attention - from the blogs that is because the attention that he is getting from the MSM is hog wash - Power Line has a great round up on this slug and his loopy wife.

Tomorrow is the day when the founding fathers of this country decided that is was time to take a stand against the British Empire for Independent Thought, Word, and
Deed. What a gutsy move given they were out numbered and had no army to speak of. Get this, the arm that George Washington lead was volunteer! How can it be! Even then there were enough people in this country that thought fighting for Freedom was the right thing to do. They liked the Freedom to decide what was best for themselves and there families. They even died for this Freedom. Why fight when so easy to just to roll over and surrender. We surrender, they proclaim, just don't take our way of life away. We love to party, okay?

How can this be? There are great numbers of people in this country today that find our military an evil machine that seeks to destroy all in its path - and the people that populate its ranks, fools. They think this country is not worth fighting for. You see it all the time on TV and in the papers. Everything that we do is wrong. They, of course, have no suggestions of how things should be done, but they are sure that what ever we are doing now is wrong. America is bad. America is hated by the whole world, according to these people. It is amazing though there seems to be millions of people still coming here, by hook or by crook. Go figure!!!

But never mind the ranting of those lunatics and put your flag out, say the pledge, sing the national anthem and say a prayer for our President and the troops in the field. That will drive those people batty. They hate all those things!

Have a grand time in the ' land of the free and the home of the brave '. Enjoy

Good morning and what a beautiful day it is. Clear skies, cool breeze and the scent from the trees and marsh across the street is fantastic. I don't know why but a certain smell in the air brings back memories that no other medium can. Fond memories of being out on the farm in South Dakota early in the morning in August, that moist damp rich aroma of hay and grain being feed to the cows with just a hint of molasses - good times, long remembered.

I love this country and all that it stands for, but I fear for its well being.

When I look at what the liberals are saying on their blogs and what the news media prints everyday in almost every paper in the land, I always marvel at the hate that posses them. The hate for the very country that is the light of the world. A country that has given them everything. How did they come this point in time with such an obsession? Where did they develop such a twisted sense of right and wrong? Maybe it started out as just the opposition party, fighting the good fight as opposing parties have always done, especially if you are on the outside looking in.

It seems to me that once one start down this road of hate, turning back would be almost impossible. It would be like coming down off of a narcotic. The reasons would be the same as well - you take the drug because you can't see any other way to cope with your problems. You are out of ideas and you have no set of values to guide you in your daily life. The liberal is much the same - they started out having a philosophy and moral guide lines that help them make decisions, but when the very philosophy that was the foundation of their beliefs was founded on false premises, they didn't have the moral background to help them to figure where they went wrong. They are now standing all alone on the edge of the abyss of extension. They see the opposition party taking new and bold steps to solve problems using judgment that is founded on values that were established hundreds of years ago and have stood the test of time.

The only way left for them, in their little world, is to strike out at those that are moving forward. Those that have ideas and solutions that, all to obviously, work. The more that they hit back with name calling, the more irrelevant they become and the more vicious their attacks become. Over the years it is what we see today in the Democratic party and the liberal left - pure hate! They are obsessed with it and they are blind to it. It has become a way of life. It has eaten into their very souls. They are a people with no country, no moral values, and no living philosophy. They are a rot that has infected this country and which must be fought to the end. We have a history of courage in the face of adversity. We must rely on it now.

We must now bring to bear that deep seated pride in ourselves, our country and our God that has done so much for us all. We must prove again and again that we are what we say we are - a free country. A country that is dedicated to the welfare of its people.

It is note worthy on the Fourth of July that we take a minute out of our busy lives and reflect on what we have to be thankful for. We have so much!! Think about how we arrived at this point in time and all those that paid with their lives to make it happen. Thank God everyday the you live in this country and of all the blessings that he has bestowed on us. Also think about the obligations that we have to the rest of the world, the spreading of freedom, that go along with living in Paradise. We owe it to all those that went before us. We can not afford to fail.

See you later - enjoy the holiday

Time magazine's decision to turn over the secret sauces of their reporters has sent the rest of the media in a tail spin. The main stream media has always seen itself as the only source of information that is reliable because they are the only ones that are professional enough to do it. Isn't that just a laugh. How about the newspaper that found one of it's reporters had lied about her sources 43 times in 10 years. I found out about this on a blog, not in a newspaper.

The main steam media didn't find this discrepancy as out of the ordinary - business as usual- what is all the fuss about? So What! More Ratherisms. The facts have been faked but the store is true. Good enough. I don't believe anything that the lettered televised news reports or any of the major news papers or there wire services. The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Times is as close as I want to get to believing that they are telling the truth. The New York Post isn't too bad as well -

More on the out come of this grand jury investigation into the Valerie Plame thing as it develops. I think that she and hubby Joe blew their cover on themselves just to get at Bush. We'll see.