Thanks to Lead and Gold, Cut on the Bias, and Irish Elk

Re: Fort Necessity 250.

For the notice here, here, and here.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Tue. 07/06/04 09:40:26 PM
Categorized as Other.

Sally Fourth!

Earl's Independence Day Roundup

Vide.

BTW, Faithful Reader, have another look — it will be another look won't it? — at the prayer blogged the other day.

What's missing in that prayer composed in 1791? Didn't it jump out at you that something is missing?

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Tue. 07/06/04 09:12:14 PM
Categorized as Other.

Joe Lieberman's Successor Announced Today

Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode CCCXXV

With John Edwards — Kerry's consolation prize, apparently, for not getting John McCain — on the ticket, the Democrats will be nominating two wealthy, white, liberal lawyers from the US Senate as their candidates for the White House.

So, the Big Answer is, I think, the Democrats have to pretend to be less excited about their vice-presidential nominee than they are about their presidential nominee.

Captain's Quarters says that the US Chamber of Commerce is going to be up in arms about the selection of a trial lawyer as vice-presidential nominee:

.... Tort reform... represents the primary concern for the business community, especially since predatory lawsuits seem to be gaining momentum. Fast-food providers look to be the next big target (pun intended) of lawyers looking to get rich like their brethren in the tobacco lawsuits did. While Bush has not had a lot of luck getting meaningful tort reform through Congress, with Kerry-Edwards the business community will lose four years and a lot of ground as their administration will not only not push but probably would actively block such legislation. Expect to see 527s formed in the business community on this issue in the next couple of weeks....

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Tue. 07/06/04 07:36:00 PM
Categorized as Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode.

Joe Lieberman's Successor to be Announced Today?

Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode CCCXXIV

Yes, the Big Question may get answered today in Market Square in the 'Burgh.

Oh, not Who will it be?

The Big Question is Will the Democrats have to pretend to be excited about their vice-presidential nominee or will they have to pretend to be less excited about their vice-presidential nominee than they are about their presidential nominee?

Either way, wake me when it's over, okay?

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Tue. 07/06/04 07:05:17 AM
Categorized as Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode.

Looks Like The Blog from the Core Got It Right

From a New York Times article, Jul. 2:

.... From his partial answers to questions about the recent war, intelligence officials said they came to believe that Mr. Hussein was surprised when the United States began its invasion in March 2003.

One official said that Mr. Hussein had implied that ambiguity over whether his government possessed illegal weapons "would keep the neighbors at bay, while the U.S. would be hung up in interminable debate at the U.N." ....

See my What Happened to the War?, Apr. 8, 2003:

.... I think there are two explanations for this bewildering response to what was, perhaps, the most telegraphed-in-advance warfare in history. First, Saddam was pretty much convinced that the war would never come....

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Tue. 07/06/04 06:59:34 AM
Categorized as War.

St. Thomas More

The saint was martyred this day, July 6, 1535.

See Ss. John Fisher & Thomas More and From "St. Thomas More: II" and St. Thomas More.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Tue. 07/06/04 06:54:02 AM
Categorized as Historical & Religious.