I would like to retract my blog of the 23rd. In it as you can read below I criticized the Bush administration for allowing a security firm based in the United Arab Emirates to take control of six US Ports. Like most Americans with this issue I spoke in haste and ignorance (see Adam I'll admit I don't know everything). The "mainstream" media has been portraying this as basically a complete turnover of security at our ports to this company. This is a complete fabrication. True DP World is contracted to take over part of security at these six ports including New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore but the U.S. Coast Guard will be overseeing all security measures as it has done, is doing and will continue to do at all US Ports. The Coast Guard has released a report on DP World stating that contracting them is not endangering America in any way. The media and the Democrats have taken this opportunity to make a pretence of being tough on terrorism and to crucify Bush and his administration. Perhaps even if Americans can't agree with Bush on this deal we can at least look at Bush's record and the liberals record on terrorism as of now it ranks, Bush: 100, Dems: 0

Families of the men and women who died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks want the memorial planned for the site of the the Twin Towers changed. The present plan, called "The Reflecting Absence" will outline he place where the Twin Towers stood with reflecting pools and the names of the victims. The problem: It will be underground...a tree-lined plaza will be built above ground at the site. Local police and firemen, who were first responders, are concerned over the small number of exits from the memorial in case of fire or another terrorist attack. Family members want the memorial above ground so that everyone can see, not just the ones who venture underground.
Personally I think they're all wrong, we don't need a memorial of either kind, the most fitting memorial is to rebuild the towers, rebuild them and add 3 more stories to it and shove it right back in the terrorists arrogant faces. By doing this we will be telling them: You knocked down the last ones and we've got even better ones now. To commemorate the people who died on 9/11 I would suggest putting up engravings inside the towers on each floor and list the people who worked on that floor. For the brave firemen and policemen who went in and didn't come back out put their names on two of the extra three stories in order of their stations and their response. The pilots and passengers of the two flights that crashed into them should be put on the top floor.

Two very great and different men died over the weekend:
1) The great comedian\actor Don Knotts, best remembered for his portrayal of high-strung deputy Barney Fife in "The Andy Griffith Show"died Friday in Los Angeles. Knotts was an actor whose performances spanned generations from "The Steve Allens Show" in the fifties to voicing characters in animated films as late as 2005. Knotts was a man of many talents, able to make people laugh at the way his expressions would say more than the words he spoke. Knotts, one of the last of the great comedic actors of the sixties is proof of the fact that something good can ideed come out of West Virginia (just not Senators).
2) "The father of modern Creationism", as he is known, died this weekend. Dr. Henry Morris of "Institute for Creation Research" (ICR) had a minor stroke last Wednesday and died in his son's home. His son Dr. John Morris continues his father's work at ICR and is a recognized scientist in the United States and around the world. My condolences to the Morris family and my thanks to Henry Morris, truly a great man.

Has the Bush administration gone mad? Normally I agree with the Bush administration but I take issue over two things: 1) Illegal Immigrants (Stop them now!) and 2) What the heck are you thinking? Why give a United Arab Emirates security firm six of our ports to protect? Are we trying to invite the terrorists over here? With the UAE controlling security at six of our ports the terrorists could easily slip a nuclear weapon into the United States and BOOM the rest of New York City is gone.
Why not continue with our guys in the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for security. As a ICE agent said when told of this deal: "Allowing the UAR to take over these important Ports is akin to allowing Michael Jackson to babysit your children, or allowing Bill Clinton to take your wife along on a business trip!"
Mr. President, maybe you think you are extending the hand of friendship to a third-world nation. But this nation harbors terrorists, according to your speech after Sep. 11, 2001 that should disqualify them from having anything to do with the US, especially something to do with protecting our ports! If this "security" firm gets the job then we will be more vulnerable to another terrorist attack on US soil than we have been since 9/11.

Yesterday Hugo Chavez, Dictator of Venezuela, gave a speech criticizing the American government and he warned Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice: "Don't mess with me Condoleezza. Don't mess with me, girl." These comments came after Rice stated that Venezuela was a threat to regional democracy in South America.
News to Chavez: If Condi has it in for you, you will fall and history books will forget you existed. Except for maybe a note on why America set up a democracy in Venezuela.

News from Ponce, Puerto Rico...Antonin Scalia has finally revealed who his opponents are. Scalia was visiting Puerto Rico on a "Federalist Society" sponsored trip. Scalia a long-serving supreme court justice has stated that his ideas on the constitution include such far out things as: 1) a literal reading of the constitution [meaning things as abortion and gay marriage are not protect by the constitution], 2) anyone who believes that the constitution should change with society is an "idiot"
Scalia for President ! I knew he was my favorite supreme court justice for a reason. Scalia knows that just because society goes down the toilet doesn't mean the constitution has to follow. I still can't understand why Bush didn't pick him for Chief Justice. Imagine the uproar with the Dems, Bush could just stand back and say: "Knock yourselves out, boys." Ah, well, that issue is already taken care of.
The liberals believe that Scalia is "pushing" his conservative "agenda" on Americans. News flash to liberals everywhere: "America's Founders Were conservatives and before you get started on that Christian bit, most of America's Founders were Christians or at the very least Deists. Put that in your marijuana and smoke it.

The U.N. Commission on Human Rights released a report in January that blasted the United States for acts "amounting to torture" at the Guantanamo Bay prison. The U.N.'s report was printed on Sunday in the L.A. Times and stated that the "Commission on Human Rights" wants the detainee prison shut down.
Among the charges that amount to torture are force-feeding and solitary confinement. Wow...everyone remotely involved with the Club Gitmo should be thrown in jail for that! First to ensure that the detainees stay alive the guards break up a hunger-strike and have to force the detainees to eat, big deal. Mothers have to force their contrary two year olds to eat sometimes too and I don't see a U.N. report on banning mothers. And I thought the U.N. wanted us to leave the terrorists all alone...and we do...we capture them and put them in solitary confinement where the only person they can hurt is themselves.

Stop the world I want to get off! The end of the world has come upon us!
The press has actually revealed that Republicans are not the only ones involved with Jack Abramoff! I've been saying it since this whole thing started...what about the Democrats involved? And finally today the Associated Press reveals that Harry Reid, the Senate Majority leader, had ties with Abramoff. While this Senator has been blasting Republican Senators about taking money from Abramoff it seems he did as well. Let me point out a difference between the Republicans and the Democrat Reid, the republicans are returning the tainted money while Reid absolutely refuses to do so.

This is going to offend those of you who believe in "toleration," if you fit that description I'd suggest you close this site on three. One...two..three...
Well if you're still here then you can only blame yourself if you don't like this.
Sheik Hassan Nasrallah has said that President Bush and Secretary of State Condi Rice should "shut up." Why? Because they were the only political figures to state the fact that Syria and Iran are fueling the protests over a cartoon in a Danish newspaper. The Sheik happens to be the head of Hezbollah, a known terrorist group.
The article that reported this (http://articles.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20060202102909990005&cid=774) seems to have all the facts, until we take a closer look. Does anyone else know that these cartoons were printed last year? If you said yes, good for you! Why are the Muslims just now making a fuss? Because Iran is under the international microscope and they don't like it. Iran has been pushed off newspaper front pages since these riots started. Iran is still shocked that their friends in Europe would actually dare to tell them what to do. But not shocked enough to just sit there and do nothing. Another question is...where did all the Danish flags come from? Apparently it took them this long to ship in enough for the protests...maybe that's their story..."we needed flags to burn and we couldn't get them any quicker." Right.
On the issue of the cartoons themselves, why shouldn't cartoons make fun of Mohammed? Newspapers can make fun of Christians, Jews, Jesus or any other person related with these beliefs. Why not Islam and why not Mohammed? Because the religion of Islam is the only one that believes that you should kill those who believe different. That's why.
Things like this make me wish the Crusades (a grudge held against Christians by the Muslims) were successful. I don't care how many people say. I don't care how many republicans say it. I don't care how many conservatives say it. Islam is not a religion of peace it is primarily concerned with killing dissenters. No other religion is this extreme...peace has no place in Islam...not the way "the Prophet" told it.