If you know someone that seems to think it is, gently remind them of the thousands of men and women that have died for this country, for the idea of freedom, and their own.

I am betting the NY Times will be the ACLU’s first stop after getting their hands on these. I am also quite sure the NY Times can’t wait to write another 53 front-page stories on the subject either.

I have a question for the ACLU.

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So I guess I definitely won’t be flying Northwest again.

Why, when Harry Reid says so, silly. Didn’t you know that?

WASHINGTON — The vote on John Bolton to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has been blocked, with Democrats trying to force the White House to release long-sought classified information about the controversial nominee, or perhaps to pick someone else for the job.

Republicans were not able to muster on Thursday the 60 votes needed to stop debate on Bolton’s nomination despite support from two Democratic senators who had been instrumental in recent negotiations over judicial nominees.

Although Democrats claimed the move did not constitute a filibuster, Republicans said it sure looked like one.

“John Bolton, the very first issue we turned to, we got what looks to me like a filibuster,” Frist said, adding that the matter soured the air of cooperation the two parties’ centrists forged just days ago after months of wrangling over judges. “It certainly sounds like a filibuster … it quacks like a filibuster.”

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“We’re not here to filibuster Bolton, we’re here to get information on Bolton,” Reid said.

Bullsh*t. Cloture votes don’t fail if there is no filibuster. You are digging for dirt in a lame-ass attempt to derail a nominee that would otherwise be confirmed.

The party of “NO!” strikes again. The roll. And before some looney lefty starts screaming that Frist voted “No” on cloture - he had to change his vote because the Senate rules say that only someone on the winning side of the vote can call for another vote later, thus Frist changed his vote from “Yes”.

So DeLay sent a letter to NBC regarding the Law & Order episode where they used his name to get a cheap political shot in.

In a letter to NBC Universal Television Group President Jeff Zucker, DeLay wrote: “This manipulation of my name and trivialization of the sensitive issue of judicial security represents a reckless disregard for the suffering initiated by recent tragedies and a great disservice to public discourse.”

The Texas Republican went on to suggest the “slur” against him was intended as a jab at comments he had made about “the need for Congress to closely monitor the federal judiciary.”

And the response?

NBC Entertainment President Kevin Reilly responded in a statement that the dialogue in question “was neither a political comment nor an accusation.”

“The script line involved an exasperated detective bedeviled by a lack of clues, making a sarcastic comment about the futility of looking for a suspect when no specific description existed,” Reilly said.

He added: “It’s not unusual for ‘Law & Order’ to mention real names in its fictional stories. We’re confident in our viewers’ ability to distinguish between the two.”

How much would you like to bet that the suits at NBC figured folks in blue states would cheer them on and those in red states were too stupid to know a bullsh*t excuse when they see one. Of course, Dick Wolfe, the Producer and creator of the show made things pretty clear with his two-cents.

Producer Dick Wolf, creator of the “Law & Order” franchise, took a swipe at DeLay in his own statement on Thursday, saying, “I … congratulate Congressman DeLay for switching the spotlight from his own problems to an episode of a TV show.”

I’d say that makes their motivations pretty clear. Yet, we’re supposed to believe the line in the show “was was neither a political comment nor an accusation.”

Yeah, right. And I am going straight so I can make babies with Britany Spears.

First it was the elections in Iraq in January. Now, the possibility that al-Zarqawi is actually dead? Of course, when you kill one terrorist leader, another usually pops up to replace him. However, this would be a major victory and could provide the needed momentum to help crush these terrorists once and for all.

I have XM radio in the new truck and was listening to Fox News on the way home yesterday when an ad for this episode of Law & Order came on. I knew there was going to be trouble when I heard the line “Liberal judges are being murdered by extremists.”

I had no idea they would go this far.

DET. ALEX EAMES (KATHRYN ERBE): Looks like the same shooters. CSU found the slug in a post, matched it to the one that killed Judge Barton. Maybe we should put out an APB for somebody in a Tom DeLay T-Shirt. (emphasis mine)

UN-F*ING ACCEPTABLE. I don’t particularly care for DeLay, but this is just beyond the pale. “Any similarity to persons or events…” my ass. I’d say taking cheap shots at current political figures for ratings makes that statement laughable. I also think it borders (if not crosses) the line on defamation of character. I’d say an apology is in order, at the very least.

Good lord, Senator Voinovich. You are starting to sound like Barbara Boxer.

Note to the Senator: We ALREADY HAVE FRIENDS all over the world. What we have found out is that some of our supposed “friends” are not friends at all. And THAT is why we need John Bolton at the UN. Someone has to cut through all the bullsh*t and some lilly-livered apologist just won’t cut it.

On the one hand, the EU could be dealt a final, crippling blow by the rejection of the constitution. On the other hand, a French YES would have also given more credibility to the removal of France from the UN security council.

THE leader of France’s ruling party has privately admitted that Sunday’s referendum on the European constitution will result in a “no” vote, throwing Europe into turmoil.
“The thing is lost,” Nicolas Sarkozy told French ministers during an ill-tempered meeting. “It will be a little ‘no’ or a big ‘no’,” he was quoted as telling Jean-Pierre Raffarin, the Prime Minister, whom he accused of leading a feeble campaign.

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President Chirac will go on television tonight to deliver a last-ditch appeal to his country to resist the temptation to vote “no” and trigger a crisis for the whole European Union.

But the President, who called the referendum in July last year but has done little campaigning, was reported to be pessimistic and telling visitors to the Elysée Palace that he expected a “no”.

M Sarkozy’s outburst came after M Raffarin, who is expected to lose his job in the event of a defeat, told ministers and the leadership of M Chirac’s UMP party that they should avoid defeatism but be prepared to limit the damage from the crisis from a “no”, party sources said.

After Philippe Douste-Blazy, the Health Minister, insisted that “we should trust the head of state”, M Sarkozy retorted: “Everything has to change — our way of doing politics . . . the labour law.” He said that the UMP would demand changes after the referendum and that “the Government had better follow the party”, the sources said.

M Sarkozy wants to be President and is locked in a bitter rivalry with M Chirac. The leaking of the row by M Sarkozy’s camp was a sign of the rising bad blood between the party leader and M Chirac’s team.

I guess I will just have to settle for reveling in Chirac’s international embarrassment and potential ouster from office after the next round of French elections.