Let The People Vote

Hey folks,

I have to do this. Hi Sean. I’m talking to Sean Hannity. I loved your show yesterday. Especially the opening monolog where you compared the upcoming elections to the Super Bowl or World Series. LOL, you even, in your own way, told people to get their game face on. Thanks for that.

Happy Friday to everyone. I have some news to get out of the way first. I will not be here tomorrow, Saturday, October 14, 2006. I have prior obligations. Family stuff. But, as Sean would say, "Let not your heart be troubled. " I will be back on Sunday with a double whammy. Both the JMT {Just My Thoughts} and IWA.

Well folks, it’s Friday the 13th . 25 days to go until "Judgement Day." The Press is going nutty. The LWL are going even nuttier. Here is a perfect example, Foley is STILL in the news. First the big news is that,

"Ex-congressional aide Kirk Fordham emerged from a House ethics committee hearing Thursday after more than four hours of sworn testimony in the scandal surrounding former Rep. Mark Foley's inappropriate contacts with teenage pages.

Fordham, once Foley's chief of staff, went before the ethics committee's investigative panel early Thursday afternoon and remained there until well after 5 p.m. Neither he nor his lawyer, Tim Heaphy, would discuss details of his testimony, but Heaphy said Fordham "has been forthcoming."

"He has been consistent in his accounts of these events when he's been with the FBI [and] when he's today met with the ethics committee," Heaphy said. "He's been truthful and cooperative and will continue to be throughout this and other investigations."

OK I can appreciate CNN reporting this. This can be called news. Foley was OUSTED, yes OUSTED by the Republicans when it was discovered that he was a creepy little bastard. There has to be an investigation, therefore people want to know who knew what and when.

But THIS article by the Palm Beach Post and Reuters, is MORE than a stretch. It’s not news worthy at all. Unless they are trying to get you to believe that the reason for the "snub" was because they {the White House} knew of Foley’s actions. They are reported this BREAKING news story,

"Disgraced former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley (news, bio, voting record) complained to Florida Gov. Jeb Bush two years ago that the White House snubbed him during presidential visits to the state, according to e-mails obtained by the Palm Beach Post.

In e-mails the newspaper excerpted on its Web site (http://www.palmbeachpost.com) on Thursday, Foley asked the governor to intervene on his behalf with his brother, President George W. Bush."

LOL there is no reason for this story of something that happened as petty as this from TWO years ago, unless it’s just to keep Foley’s name in the news. {Sigh}

Then the other big news is, I’m laughing just thinking about this, the OTHER big news is, China and Russia are opposed to the UN sanctions against North Korea. The AP reports,

"Russia and China on Thursday opposed tough sanctions the U.S. wants to impose against North Korea this week for its claimed nuclear test, saying they want time to work out a more moderate response to Pyongyang's nuclear brinkmanship.

After several hours of closed-door negotiations late in the day, Russia and China — the two Security Council nations closest to Pyongyang — reported good progress.

The U.S. envoy was even more upbeat after the meeting of the five permanent council ambassadors — the U.S., China, Russia, Britain and France — and the Japanese ambassador, who is this month's council president.

"We have made very substantial progress," U.S. Ambassador John Bolton told reporters. "I don't want to say we've reached agreement yet, but many, many of the significant differences have been closed, very much to our satisfaction," he said."

Reuters reports it this way,

"A U.S. drive to impose tough U.N. sanctions on North Korea for its reported nuclear explosion was delayed to Saturday at the earliest after China balked at some measures sought against the reclusive state.

China and Russia managed to get some changes in a text the United States had wanted to put to a vote in the U.N. Security Council on Friday on a package of economic and arms sanctions.

Japan's U.N. Ambassador Kenzo Oshima, the current council president, told reporters he hoped for a vote on Saturday on a revised text, the third this week, which would be distributed later on Thursday for governments to analyze."

I told you all this before. On Thursday, July 06, 2006, I said,

"Of course there are small disagreements on how much of a rebuke it should be, but a rebuke it is. Japan, asked for a U.N. Security Council resolution Wednesday that would ban any country from transferring funds, material and technology that could be used in North Korea's missile and weapons of mass destruction programs. China and Russia, on the other hand, said that they favor a weaker council statement without any threat of sanctions."

That was about failed rocket test, now a Nuke test? Yup, those talks really worked. But do you think that the UN is REALLY where we should put our faith? China and Russia will never agree with us. They do not like us. Neither does the UN.

25 days to go. 25 days to make up your mind. In less than a month, either you vote for security, the economy, lowering the deficient, immigration control, or you vote for what we have had for the past four weeks, only on a permanent, full time bases. You decide. The power is your’s.
Peter

Sources,
CNN -Ex-aide testifies to ethics panel about Foley
Reuters- Foley says White House snubbed him
AP- Russia, China oppose N. Korea sanctions
Reuters-Vote on N.Korea sanctions delayed