THE GURO STOPS ON HERE ON KERRY'S OVAL OFFICE DESK
PTD COMMENT > If Kerry is elected, God forbid, would anyone be (really) surprised if he proposes transforming the "EU" into the "GU" (Global Union) and suggesting the U.S. enter therein?

Would you really?

CNN.com - EU welcomes 10 new members - Apr 30, 2004

OK, NOW I'LL TUNE IN.
NEW YORK, April 29 /PRNewswire/ -- In what may be a surprising move to some political circles, Democratic Presidential Candidate Senator John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) has issued an invitation to former Democratic Primary rival Rev. Al Sharpton to address this summer's Democratic National Convention in Boston.

"YEEEAAAHHH!! I HAVE A SCREEN!!!!"
Dr. Phil could soon be sharing the Paramount lot with another doc: Howard Dean.

While everything's still in the early talking stages, the former Democratic presidential candidate is mulling the idea of hosting his own syndicated gabfest. He's hooked up with ex-Big Ticket TV topper Larry Lyttle ("Judge Judy") and longtime political consultant Gerald Rafshoon, who would likely serve as exec producers of a pilot for any such project.

WE'RE ABOVE THIS
VIDEO footage of US soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners of war horrified America yesterday.

The TV stills showed a hooded captive standing on a box with wires attached to his hands, and naked prisoners stacked in a human pyramid while jeering troopers look on laughing.

Six soldiers now face court martial and jail. One allegedly boasted that the captives "broke within hours". Seven others, including a general, are suspended from duty and may be disciplined.

PTD COMMENT > DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS ARE WARRANTED. BUT LET'S NOT FORGET WHAT THEY DO WITH THE YOUNG AMERICANS THEY GET A HOLD OF. AT LEAST WE'RE NOT DRAGGING THEIR BURNED BODIES THROUGH THE STREETS, HANGING THEM FROM A BRIDGE, AND THEN LAUGHING AT THEM.

Mirror.co.uk - OUTRAGE AT AMERICAN TORTURE OF IRAQI PRISONERS

IF BUSH NEEDS DADDY CHENEY, DID CLINTON NEED MOMMIES BERGER AND LYNDSEY?
Asked about critics who claim he and the vice president wanted to testify together in order to present the same story, the president responded: "If we had something to hide we wouldn't have met with them in the first place."

PTD COMMENT > LET'S NOT KID OURSELVES, MEDIA-BASED KERRY SUPPORTERS... I DON'T RECALL YOU PLASTERING THE HEADLINES WITH QUESTIONS ABOUT WHY CLINTON APPEARED BEFORE THE 9-11 COMMISSION WITH SANDY BERGER AND BRUCE LINDSEY.

MSNBC - 9/11 panel finishes Bush, Cheney session

IMAGINE THIS CNN.COM HEADLINE: "DEFENDING BUSH, SENATOR BLASTS 'BOTOX-FACED WAFFLER"
CNN.com - Defending Kerry, senator blasts 'chickenhawks' - Apr 28, 2004

WOW... CHECK OUT WWW.REPUBLICANSFORKERRY.COM !!

KERRY'S IN TROUBLE. EVEN LIBERALS THINK HE'S A JOKE.
With the air gushing out of John Kerry's balloon, it may be only a matter of time until political insiders in Washington face the dread reality that the junior senator from Massachusetts doesn't have what it takes to win and has got to go. As arrogant and out of it as the Democratic political establishment is, even these pols know the party's got to have someone to run against George Bush. They can't exactly expect the president to self-destruct into thin air.

With growing issues over his wealth (which makes fellow plutocrat Bush seem a charity case by comparison), the miasma over his medals and ribbons (or ribbons and medals), his uninspiring record in the Senate (yes war, no war), and wishy-washy efforts to mimic Bill Clinton's triangulation gimmickry (the protractor factor), Kerry sinks day by day. The pros all know that the candidate who starts each morning by having to explain himself is a goner.

IS THIS MICROPHONE OFF? WELL, ABC IS A RIGHT-WING...
PTD COMMENT > The lanky, leather-faced French botox user that's running for prez blames the two tapes of himself making conflicting statements (re: Vietnam war medals) on the Republicans. Man, they're good... how'd they do that??!! Perhaps with a John Kerry look-a-like (poor guy) in the same studio the Democrats used to fabricate the "moon landing"?

NewsMax.com: Inside Cover Story

BLAME THIS ON THE CONSERVATIVES THAT SUPPORTED HIM (COUGH(SANTORUM)COUGH, COUGH(BUSH)COUGH)... EXCUSE ME.
CNN.com - Specter in narrow win - Apr 28, 2004

AT NYC'S PER SQ. FOOTAGE RATE FOR LIVING SPACE, IT'S ABOUT $1 ZILLION IN BACK RENT
A college student who says he spent eight months sleeping in a library basement because he couldn't afford campus housing has been relocated to a free dormitory room, New York University officials said.

CNN.com - NYU student sleeps for months in library basement - Apr 27, 2004

IS THE BOOK ABOUT KERRY? BECAUSE THIS IS RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF... OH FORGET IT!
Former President Bill Clinton's memoir, "My Life," will be published in June, according to a statement from his publisher, Alfred A. Knopf.

"My Life," according to Knopf president and editor-in-chief Sonny Mehta, "is a riveting personal drama as well as a fascinating look at the American political arena over the past four decades. ... It is the fullest and most nuanced account of a presidency ever written."

CNN.com - Clinton memoir due in June - Apr 26, 2004

"I'VE MADE IT VERY CLEAR: I DIDN'T SAY I THREW MY MEDALS AWAY, I SAID I THREW THE MEDALS THAT WERE MINE AWAY"
Contradicting his statements as a candidate for president, Sen. John Kerry claimed in a 1971 television interview that he threw away as many as nine of his combat medals to protest the war in Vietnam.

"I gave back, I can't remember, six, seven, eight, nine medals," Kerry said in an interview on a Washington, D.C., news program on WRC-TV called Viewpoints on Nov. 6, 1971, according to a tape obtained by ABCNEWS.
Throughout his presidential campaign, Kerry has denied that he threw away any of his medals during an anti-war protest in April 1971.

Calling it a "phony controversy" instigated by the Republican party, Kerry said on Good Morning America today that he has always accurately said what took place. "I threw my ribbons. I didn't have my medals. It is very simple."

PTD COMMENT > KERRY CONTRADICTS SELF... SLOW NEWS DAY OR WHAT?

GUYS LIKE THIS MAKE A FOOL OUT OF SISSIES LIKE SEAN PENN
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former NFL player Pat Tillman was killed Thursday while serving as an Army Rangers soldier on a mission in southeastern Afghanistan, Pentagon officials have told CNN. He was 27.

Tillman, who walked away from a $3.6 million contract as a safety with the Arizona Cardinals to join the military after the Sept. 11 attacks, was in an area where numerous U.S. troops have been killed in battles with suspected al Qaeda and Taliban fighters.

YO, WHY DOES IT ALWAYS HAVE TO BE A BLACK AND WHITE AND WEATHER AND PUPPY LUV THANG?
Theories flew fast and furious Thursday after the "American Idol" viewer vote went against favorite Jennifer Hudson, ranging from racism to fateful weather to teenage puppy love.

I DON'T OWN MY SIX GARGANTUAN MANSIONS, MY FAMILY DOES
Does John Kerry, who supports higher automobile fuel economy standards, own a gas-guzzling SUV? He does, but says it belongs to the family, not to him.

During a conference call Thursday with reporters to discuss his upcoming jobs tour through West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan, the Democratic presidential candidate was asked whether he owned a Chevrolet Suburban.

"I don't own an SUV,'' said Kerry, who supports increasing existing fuel economy standards to 36 miles per gallon by 2015 in order to reduce the nation's dependence on foreign oil supplies.

Kerry also has made rising gasoline prices an issue in the campaign against President Bush. In Houston on Thursday, Kerry said the president broke a 2000 campaign pledge to "jawbone'' oil-producing nations by pressuring them to increase their output.

Kerry thought for a second when asked whether his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, had a Suburban at their Ketchum, Idaho, home. Kerry said he owns and drives a Dodge 600 and recently bought a Chrysler 300M. He said his wife owns the Chevrolet SUV.

"The family has it. I don't have it,'' he said.

PTD COMMENT > Classic Kerry. Got to love all of the ways he talks.

Ann Coulter's take on Sen Specter (R/D) Pennsylvania:

Except for the presidential election, the most important election this year will take place......

ABC Defends "Kerry's Distinguished War Record," CBS Skips Topic:


Back on February 10 when the White House released.....

KERRY: PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, 'AMERICAN'

"Our democracy is a farce; it is not the best in the world."

- John F. Kerry, 1971

Kerry in 1971: 'Our Democracy Is a Farce'

OOPS: PERHAPS KERRY SHOULD RECONSIDER HIS SWEETHEART DEAL WITH BASELESS ACCUSATIONS ABOUT BUSH
Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States stood firm that his country made no secret deals with the White House to try to drive down gas prices to help re-elect President Bush and sought to reassure Democratic contender Sen. John Kerry.

"I really don't see what is the big deal," Prince Bandar bin Sultan told reporters Wednesday after a White House meeting with national security adviser Condoleezza Rice.

"Unless somebody would like to see the oil prices stay high, then nobody should complain."

SEX

I talk about it in this week's column. Now you want to read it. You know you do. Kind of like when someone says, "Don't look! There's a naked person!" and you can't help but look.

The Joys of Sex Roulette

BUSH LETS US DOWN

"I'm here to say it as plainly as I can: Arlen Specter is the right man for the United States Senate."

Specter is one of the most liberal Republicans in Congress. As National Review put it, he's "the worst Republican senator." What is Bush thinking?

Go, Pat Toomey!

IN HER DREAMS

"It's been said, and I think it's accurate, that my husband was obsessed by terrorism in general and al Qaeda in particular." - Hillary Clinton

She said it. Yes, she really did.

That must be why Clinton retaliated for the 1993 WTC bombing, the 1998 embassy bombings, the 2000 attack on the USS Cole ...

"WE'RE GETTING TIRED OF JOHN KERRY ALREADY AND WE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO HE IS."

- AMERICA

President Bush increased his lead over Sen. John Kerry in a CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll released Monday, but fewer than half of the respondents said they approved of the way Bush is handling of the war in Iraq.

IF BUSH DROVE THE GREEN DURING A ROUND OF GOLF, KERRY WOULD CLAIM HE HAD A SECRET "SWEETHEART DEAL" WITH CALLAWAY. (A CALLAWAY-HALIBURTON LINK WOULD BE SURE TO SURFACE SOON THEREAFTER).

AFTER AWHILE, IT JUST GETS OLD, AND CREDIBILITY WEARS THIN. AN INTROSPECTIVE BUSH COULD AGREE WITH A CERTAIN PERSONAL ATTACK KERRY LEVIES ON HIM... AND KERRY WOULD ATTACK HIM FOR AGREEING.

Kerry Claims Bush Has Secret Gasoline Deal With Saudis

LAKE WORTH, Fla. - When John Kerry finally deigned to show up more than an hour late today at a rally of Palm Beach County Democrats baking in the sun, he insisted on calling the campaign event a "town meeting" and a "conversation," but he did most of the talking, including a harsher-than-usual attack on President Bush.

NewsMax.com: Inside Cover Story

SO DID KERRY, KENNEDY, LEVIN, AND THE CLINTONS
Denmark has declassified intelligence reports compiled before the Iraq war which show officials thought Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
In one report, Iraq was thought to have both chemical and biological weapons, as well as an active nuclear programme.

The extracts appear to contradict claims leaked to a newspaper that there was no evidence to back up the theory.

SO DID BUSH LIE?
This is not from Paul Harvey, but is certainly composed in his style.
Check it out for yourself...

I'LL CHECK VOLUME XXVI OF "KERRY'S POSITIONS ON IRAQ" AND GET BACK TO YOU, BUT DIDN'T KERRY ONCE HOLD THE POSITION OF THIS ALLEGED "PROTESTER"?

CNN.com - Kerry debates anti-war activist in New York - Apr 14, 2004

ON FOR TWO WEEKS IN L.A. AND CHICAGO??!! SORRY, I UNDERESTIMATED THEM...

FROM DRUDGE:

STATION OWNER CLAIMS: AIR AMERICA 'BOUNCES CHECK'; LIBERAL RADIO NET TAKEN OFF IN LOS ANGELES, CHICAGO AFTER ONLY TWO WEEKS
Wed Apr 14 2004 16:18:43 ET

After just two weeks on the air, Air America Radio, the fledgling liberal talk-radio network featuring Al Franken and Janeane Garofalo, appears to have encountered serious cash-flow problems.

The CHICAGO TRIBUNE is developing a story, insiders tell DRUDGE, on how the network was pulled off the air this morning in Chicago and Los Angeles, the network's second- and third-largest markets, because, the owner of both stations said, the network bounced a check and owes him more than $1 million! A charge the network strongly denies.

A Chicago source familiar with the situation said a Multicultural representative showed up at WNTD's offices Wednesday morning, kicked out Air America's lone staffer overseeing the network's feed to the station from New York, switched over to a Spanish-language feed, and changed the locks on the doors...

Air America filed a complaint Wednesday in New York state Supreme Court charging Multicultural with breaching their contract and seeking an injunction to force Multicultural to restore the Air America broadcast on both stations.

CLOONEY TUNES

George Clooney has penned an op-ed saying that people should judge his father, not George Clooney, in Nick Clooney's run for Congress.

I completely agree. Nick wouldn't deserve a single vote if we judged him by his son's acting, which has only gone downhill since "The Facts of Life" (and it wasn't that hot then).

RE: I NEVER FOCUSED ON AL QAEDA ...

Janet, babe, the Oklahoma City bombing happened in 1995. What did you do your last five years at Justice? You know, when two U.S. embassies and the USS Cole were bombed by Osama bin Laden's henchmen? Oh yeah ... NOTHING.

I NEVER FOCUSED ON AL QAEDA BECAUSE I WAS WATCHING TV
"I never focused on al Qaeda, because I stood there and watched the Murrah Building (in Oklahoma City) in rubble..."

- Janet Reno to the 9-11 Commission

PTD COMMENT > WHAT?!?!

CNN.com - Reno: No recollection of al Qaeda talks - Apr 13, 2004

TIME FOR A CHANGE IN PA
Republicans will be focused on Pennsylvania come November because capturing its 21 electoral votes almost certainly would mean a second term for President Bush. Conservatives, however, have reason to tune in to the state a lot sooner.

On April 27, GOP Sen. Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania's notoriously liberal pain in the trunk, will face conservative challenger Pat Toomey in a primary contest. A Toomey upset, say many on the right, would be a shot across the bow and send an important message to other "moderate" darlings of the Washington press corps: Continue to undermine your caucus--and for the past three years, your president--and you, too, might pay a political price in the form of a primary challenge.

OpinionJournal - Extra

ANN COULTER'S NEW BOOK IS A 'SURPRISE' BEST SELLER (AGAIN)... ROBUST JOB FIGURES ARE A 'SURPRISE'... AND 'SURPRISE'! - THERE'S 'SURPRISINGLY' STRONG RETAIL SALES!
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Surprisingly strong retail sales numbers in March proved that U.S. shoppers may be in a buying mood right now, but some analysts caution that consumers could tighten their purse strings again once a tax refund stimulus wears thin.

March retail sales stronger than expected - Apr. 13, 2004

MY COUSIN IN UNIFORM

I mentioned my cousin, Kevin Carmony, in the PTD blog a couple of weeks ago. He recently left Camp Victory in Kuwait, headed to Iraq in a convoy. His last day of travel will be the most tense, as they travel close to Fallujah. He is headed for a town about 40 miles north of Baghdad.

The latest news is that is that Kevin's convoy is at a standstill about 90 miles south of Baghdad. They are waiting for the 1st Cavalry to clear the way for them. They have heard some firefights but have not yet been involved. Kevin and his buddies are asking everyone back home to pray Psalm 91 for them. Here's a piece of that most encouraging Scripture:

"If you make the Most High your dwelling -
even the Lord, who is my refuge -
then no harm will befall you,
no disaster will come near your tent ...

"He will call upon me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble,
I will deliver him and honor him."

TAKING MACHISMO TOO FAR

Leave it to the BBC to air the first televised sperm race. You heard it here first: within 10 years, we'll have spam cramming our inboxes, asking if we're happy with our sperm speed. Maybe size doesn't matter after all.

A Soldier's Letter to Kerry:
Reading this reassures me of how proud I am to be
an American and how pathetic kerry really is.
Dear Senator Kerry: Since it has become clear that you will probably .......

THE GOP INVASION OF NY: ATTACK BUSH, THEN HOLD NOSE AND VOTE FOR KERRY

PTD COMMENT > WHAT AN INTERESTING LITTLE NUGGET BURIED IN THIS CNN.COM STORY ABOUT THE REPUBLICAN INVASION OF NEW YORK:

College of Arts and Science senior Brian Berkey, who said he plans to attend demonstrations at the late-August convention, said he feels more comfortable attacking Bush than promoting presumptive Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.

PERHAPS WE SHOULD CUT AND RUN
One of Saudi Arabia's most wanted al-Qaida militants has called on Muslims to kill Americans everywhere and vowed attacks against Arab leaders allied to Washington, according to a video carried on an Islamist website.

ALLEGEDY SOBER KENNEDY DELIVERS A PILE ON THE SENATE FLOOR
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, on Monday launched a withering election-year attack on President Bush's domestic agenda and again blasted him over his handling of Iraq.

"Iraq is George Bush's Vietnam," Kennedy declared in a speech at the Brookings Institution, a think tank.

Kennedy's speech drew a stern rebuke from the Senate majority whip, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who took to the Senate floor to denounce Kennedy's remarks as "vicious" and "outrageous."

PTD COMMENT >

TWO THOUGHTS:

1) IRAQ IS NO VIETNAM

2) CHAPPAQUIDDICK IS KENNEDY'S CHAPPAQUIDDICK

WILL LIBERALS TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR OWN FAILURE HERE OR BLAME IT, AGAIN, ON SOME RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY?

Air America. "Rush Limbaugh can sleep soundly. For now," said the Minneapolis Star-Tribune after this liberal talk radio network's debut. Critics agreed that Al Franken, who leads the programming, needs to sharpen up: Howard Kurtz called him "meandering and discursive," the Boston Globe said "he is not a good interviewer," and the New York Times thought his mix of "mockery and mild indignation" proved the difficulty of matching "the fervor and ferocity of right-wing radio." Right-wing radio hosts were happy to agree: Jay Severin claimed "audience demographics" would be "the death knell" for liberal talk, and in the Los Angeles Times, Richard A. Viguerie and David Franke questioned Franken's commitment (he has a one-year contract), reminding that the conservative talk empire "was the result of decades of hard work." Franken did win praise for high-powered guests—but the New Republic noted that it "doesn't bode well" when a show's "most entertaining segment is one featuring Al Gore."

John Kerry looks as out-of-place here as a New York Times editor does in a Bible study group.

LITIGATE IT AL... DEMAND A RECOUNT OR SOMETHING.
Gore TV Deal Is Stalled At The 11th Hour; Major Investor Pulls Out

The Observer has learned that the deal for former Vice President Al Gore and his business partner Joel Hyatt to acquire digital-cable channel Newsworld International (NWI) has hit a major obstacle and may have fallen through in the 11th hour of negotiations.

GO TO HELL ...

Or at least learn the circle of damnation for which you are destined. Take this quiz. I myself am headed for purgatory - a good sign.

And here's a cool personality disorder test. Wouldn't it be amusing to see results for John Kerry and the rest of the Democrats in high office?

Bob, I'll post my results if you post yours ...

FAST-FOOD VETERANS UNITE

Have you ever worked at a McDonald's, Burger King or Wendy's? If so, and you're proud of it, enjoy my latest column, Confessions of a Teen-age Whopper Flopper.

THE QUICKIE-MART NEXT DOOR TO THE DNC HQ JUST SOLD OUT OF PEPTO

CNN.com: U.S. job growth soars

Gain of 308,000 jobs far better than Wall Street's forecasts; unemployment rate up to 5.7 percent. U.S. payrolls grew at the fastest pace in nearly four years in March, the government said Friday, in a report that soared past Wall Street forecasts and could play a pivotal role in Fed policy and the presidential election.

DE-ARM THE POLICE AFTER YOU IMPOSE ECONOMIC SANCTIONS ON TERRORISTS. THAT'LL FIX THIS ANNOYING TERRORISM PROBLEM...
CNN.com - Bomb found on Spanish rail line

I CAN'T AVERT MY EYES

Speaking of rap and hip-hop, I encourage PTD readers to check out MTV's "Pimp My Ride." Hosted by rapper Xzibit, the show chronicles extreme car makeovers, such as a junky Oldsmobile turned into karaoke machine on wheels, complete with suede seats and ceiling, two DVD screens and Playstation 2. The best part is when the recipient ends the show saying, "Thanks, MTV, for pimpin' my ride!" Fascinating television.