President Bush speaks on the Moveon.org ad and the Democrats.

Well said Mr. President.

It seems as though the Clinton campaign continues to have difficulties with those “bundled” contributions:

When Hillary Rodham Clinton held an intimate fund-raising event at her Washington home in late March, Pamela Layton donated $4,600, the maximum allowed by law, to Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign.

But the 37-year-old Ms. Layton says she and her husband were reimbursed by her husband’s boss for the donations. “It wasn’t personal money. It was all corporate money,” Mrs. Layton said outside her home here. “I don’t even like Hillary. I’m a Republican.”

The boss is William Danielczyk, founder of a Washington-area private-equity firm and a major fund-raising “bundler” for Mrs. Clinton. Mrs. Layton’s gift was one of more than a dozen donations that night from people with Republican ties or no history of political giving. Mr. Danielczyk and his family, employees and friends donated a total of $120,000 to Mrs. Clinton in the days around the fund-raiser.

Of particular interest :

Other Republican voters who contributed the maximum amount to Mrs. Clinton at this event included Mr. Danielczyk’s mother, sister, personal assistant and a half-dozen employees or their spouses. Most of the donors had never made a political donation before contributing $4,600 to Mrs. Clinton, according to fund-raising records.

That certainly was not the end of the news today on monies donated to the Clinton campaign. From the WaPo:

Clinton includes on her list of “Hillraisers” — those who have committed to raising more than $100,000 for her White House bid — several financiers linked to past troubles. They include Marvin Rosen, the former Democratic National Committee finance chairman whose efforts to reward six-figure party donors with attendance at White House coffees and overnight stays in the Lincoln Bedroom became the focal point of Senate hearings into fundraising abuses. Rosen did not return messages left at his offices in Florida and New York.

William Stuart Price, the Oklahoma oilman also on the “Hillraiser” list, stunned a courtroom in 1995 when he detailed how his former gas company had tried to “gain influence” with the Clinton administration by providing $160,000 in money and membership in a ritzy Washington golf club to the son of a Cabinet secretary. Price, who was never accused of wrongdoing, did not return calls seeking comment.

Price’s testimony became the focal point of a criminal investigation of Ron Brown, then commerce secretary and a former chairman of the Democratic Party. The inquiry ended with the conviction of Price’s former bosses, Nora and Gene Lum, for making illegal donations.

Also on the list is former senator Robert G. Torricelli (D-N.J.), who withdrew from a 2002 reelection campaign after being “severely admonished” by the Senate for taking lavish gifts from a businessman and contributor, David Chang. Torricelli did not return messages left at his office yesterday.

“It seems like deja vu,” said Michael Madigan, a Republican lawyer who helped lead an extensive investigation into the Clinton administration’s 1996 fundraising practices by then-Sen. Fred D. Thompson (R-Tenn.). “It sounds like a carbon copy of the last Clinton campaign.”

There is an excellent round-up of all things Hsu (there is a lot of news incorporated in this one post) at Suitably Flip. Of particular interest is an email which begins:

I thought you might be interested in learning that contrary to a statement by Howard Wolfson on September 10th 2007 “an estimated 260 donors this week will receive refunds totaling approximately $850,000 from the campaign” this money still has not been returned – at least not to me. I know this because I was a donor who had my arm twisted to make a contribution to Hillary Clinton’s campaign on behalf of Norman Hsu and I haven’t seen a dime returned. It’s very easy to see my contribution as I completed a form which had “Hillary for President” at the top and “Contact/Code, if any: Norman Hsu” at the bottom. I made the donation through American Express making it easy to trace and easy to return.

And it goes on and on and on.

How many excuses will we expect to hear? I thought about this yesterday and think Mrs. Clinton owes OJ Simpson a lunch..first he endorses her then he knocks this funding issue right out of the pages of the papers and from tv screens.

Well that was short lived and as of today the Senator is back in the news. No, this is not going away. As a matter of fact one must wonder how large it will grow.

Courtesy of Hot Air this is a must see.

Sorry for the brevity of the posts folks, my internet connection through Comcast has been less than reliable all week.

The Senate has voted to condemn the Moveon.org ad which slandered General Petraeus. Those who voted yes are to be applauded.

I am appalled to think that a candidate running for President of the United States voted No.

Mrs. Clinton should be ashamed of herself.

This vote proves once again that Mrs. Clinton will use our good men and women as no more than pawns in some political game. She is certainly not CIC material.

If she should be elected who will she call to defend our nation, Moveon.org? A strong nation needs a strong defense which has finally begun to recover under President Bush. Another Clinton Presidency I fear will not continue in this vein.

The balance of the No votes are at the link above.

HT: Instapundit

Update: Via Captains Quarters this comment from Mitt Romney:

“Hillary Clinton had a choice. She could stand with our troop commander in Iraq, or she could stand with the libelous left wing of her party. She chose the latter. The idea that she would be a credible commander-in-chief of our armed forces requires the willing suspension of disbelief.”

Indeed.

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Usama bin Laden is reported to be releasing another of his speeches, perhaps in a few days.

The announcement of the upcoming message came as Al Qaeda released a new video in which bin Laden’s deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, boasted that the United States was being defeated in Afghanistan, Iraq and other fronts. Speakers in the video promised more fighting in Afghanistan, North Africa and Sudan’s Darfur region.

The messages are part of a stepped-up propaganda campaign by Al Qaeda around the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Earlier this month, bin Laden released two messages — including his first new appearance in a video in nearly three years.

A banner posted on an Islamic militant Web site on Thursday advertised that another message would be released, though it did not say whether bin Laden would appear in video or speak in an audiotape.

“Soon, God willing: [Ed note: Allah---not the real God'] Come to Jihad (holy war)’, from sheik Usama bin Laden, God protect him” the banner read. [Ed: The Devil protects his own.]

“Urgent, Al Qaeda declares war on the tyrant Pervez Musharraf and his apostate army, in the words of Usama bin Laden,” it read.

What a coward to hide out and declare all these things while not participating in them himself.

In the meantime, his chief sandal-licker Aymen Al-Zawahiri put out an 80 minute video that shows him in a room with books. Maybe they’ve made a studio in their cave, or maybe they’ve escaped the mountainous region of Afghanistan/Pakistan.

Al-Zawahiri began by condemning the Pakistani military’s July assault on Islamic militants who took over the Red Mosque in Islamabad, and he paid tribute to one of the militants’ leaders, Abdul Rashid Ghazi, who was killed in the fighting.

The siege “revealed the extent of the despicableness, lowliness and treason of Musharraf and his forces, who don’t deserve the honor of defending Pakistan, because Pakistan is a Muslim land, whereas the forces of Musharraf are hunting dogs under (U.S. President George W.) Bush’s crucifix,” al-Zawahiri said.

“Let the Pakistani army know that the killing of Abdul Rashid Ghazi and his male and female students … has soaked the history of the Pakistan army in shame and despicableness which can only washed away by retaliation,” he said.

Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri are thought to be hiding in the lawless Pakistan-Afghanistan border region, where many analysts believe they have rebuilt Al Qaeda’s core leadership.

The tone of Thursday’s video was triumphalist, with al-Zawahiri calling for attacks on French and Spanish interests in North Africa and on U.N. and African peacekeepers expected to deploy in Sudan’s wartorn Darfur region.

The French and the Spanish? Gosh, I thought the French didn’t fight them and the Spaniards switched governments to get out of Iraq when one of their trains got blown up by Al Qaeda.

Folks, I truly believe this is a war between the forces of good versus the forces of evil.

Remember we didn’t do anything to them to provoke the 9/11 attacks either, no matter what people who want to appease them say.

They want the entire world to do one of two things: convert to Islam or die. Period. The only reason they are fighting is to convert the world to Islam, which they feel is their duty.

If we were to walk out of Iraq today we could count on them coming to get us again and again until they have achieved their goal. Convert or die.

Heck, we can’t even convince some people God is real and Christ died for their sins so they can have eternal life in heaven, but I’ll bet a lot of the appeasers would be more than happy to convert to Islam before dying.

We no longer have any Nathan Hales in our Congress to declare, “Give me liberty or give me death.”

Some in Congress would lead the conversion effort if they thought it meant more power for them. Unfortunately, there would be no women in power and the rest of us would be in burkas if bin Laden were to get his way.

A Liberal Member of Parliament in Canada, home of the world’s greatest health care system according to some, has come to the United States to get an operation for her breast cancer.

I actually found some of the comments in the article quite interesting:

Flanagan
If I had her money, I’d receive my primary care in the States too. We have been saddled with a Stalinist, second-rate system.

The best physicians and the best equipment are in the U.S.

Joe
She joins a lengthy list of Canadians, including politicians who go to the United States to get treated.Unfortunately, the mythology that state run medicine is superior to that of the private sector, takes precedent over the health of the individual Canadian.
Best wishes Belinda.

jim
Sure she should get her treatment where she can if she is able to pay for it.

The story here isn’t about those who get treatment in the states. It’s about a liberal politician that is part of a political party that espoused the Canadian public system and vowed to ensure that no private health care was ever going to uspurp the current system. She is an MP for the party that relentlessly attacked the conservatives for their “hidden agenda” to privatize health care.

The irony and hypocracy is the story here. The rich get health care, the rest of use wait in line. All because of liberal fearmongering that does not allow for a real debate on the state of the health care system in Canada.

David F.
9,000 Canadian-trained doctors in the US. Why should we be surprised if some of the patients head there too? It’s time for the Liberal Party to acknowledge the gorilla at the dinner table and work with the Conservatives in a non-partisan way to start thinking about fundamental changes to our health care system. This means either raising taxes to Scandinavian levels, or openly allowing privatization instead of operating in the shadows and slowly cutting services one a a time. Let the NDP scream about zero compromise on socialized medicine, time for the mainstream parties to get a grip on this.

Kim
While living in the USA several years ago I found a lump in my breast. I went to the doctor the next day, she had me in for a ultrasound and mam the very next day. We are now living in Canada again, this time my doctor here found a lump, she sent me to a specialist ( 10 1/2 weeks it took), still haven’t had a mam. This Canadian system is scary, and needs to be fixed! I too if I had the money would seek treatment in the USA.

Whether you call it government-mandated universal health care or socialized medicine you see what some of the Canadian people think of what our Democratic presidential candidates are promising us.

The Democratic presidential candidates are promising universal health care, billions on bridges, universal pre-kindergarten and more funding for cancer research.

How do they plan to pay for them? By ending the present tax cuts on people in the $200,000 to $250,000 and up income range.

The problem is those cuts are in effect until 2010 and wouldn’t provide enough funds to do all they promise anyway.

Soooo, it looks like the rest of us will be declared filthy rich too and we can fund it with higher income taxes for us. How nice.

I don’t mind paying more taxes to fund cancer research. I think that’s a good idea, but mandated health care? Uh-uh.

Senate democrats tried for the umpteenth time to do a back-door retreat of troops in Iraq yesterday, and for the umpteenth time they failed.

Senate Republicans yesterday blocked a bid by Democrats to restrict troop-deployment schedules for a second time, saying it would impede the ability of President Bush and generals to wage the war in Iraq.

“The majority has brought this back in order to reduce the numbers of fully trained and combat-experienced troops available to our military commanders and thus to force an accelerated drawdown of troops and units in Iraq and Afghanistan. Let’s be honest about this,” said Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican and presidential aspirant.

The troop-deployment measure, which would have required troops to get “dwell time” at home equal to time deployed overseas, died 56-44, falling four votes shy of the 60 needed to pass, according to a previous agreement.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, vowed to keep pushing to end the war, even though Mr. Webb’s amendment was the lone war-related measure considered to have a chance for passage.

“We will not stop waging the hard-but-necessary fight to responsibly end the war,” he said.

OK, let’s see if we can make this clear. I’ll type slowly so maybe they can understand.

Congress has the right to declare and fund wars. The president is the Commander in Chief and has the right to decide how to deploy the troops and for how long.

If they want to end the war the only option available to them is to vote to de-fund the troops.

I learned that in ninth grade civics class. Seems pretty clear to me.

An Oregon snake collector stuck a rattlesnake in his mouth while drunk, to impress his ex-girlfriend.

Wilkinson, 23, had downed a six-pack and his ex-girlfriend asked him for a beer. He handed her one, not realizing the snake was also in his hand.

“She said, ‘Get that thing out of my face,’” Wilkinson said. “I told her it was a nice snake. ‘Nothing can happen. Watch.’”

So he stuck the snake in his mouth.

“It got a hold of my tongue,” he said.

He was having breathing problems when his ex-girlfriend drove him to the hospital. “She was the only one sober,” Wilkinson said.

En route, they spotted a police car and asked for help.

His next memory, he said, was waking up at the hospital.

Doctors could not get a breathing tube down his throat.

Dr. Richard Mullins cut a hole in Wilkinson’s neck to insert the breathing tube. Physicians started giving antivenin, moved him to intensive care and kept him sedated until the swelling went down.

I have a cousin who got bitten in the heel by a pygmie rattler when he was a teen-ager. Even though he had boots on the snake got to him. His fangs were still in the boot when it was removed.

He recently broke his knee at work and has told me this is the worst pain he has felt since he got bitten by the snake.

Maybe this guy has learned his lesson and should be glad his ex-girlfriend was there to take him to the hospital.

Mary Winkler, the preacher’s wife who was convicted of killing him, has been granted supervised visits with her daughters while a custody battle with her former in-laws still is ongoing.

Her former in-laws want to remove her parental rights and adopt the girls, ages 10, 8 and 2.

A woman who killed her minister husband with a shotgun can begin supervised visits with her three young daughters on Sept. 29, a judge ruled Wednesday.

Judge Ron Harmon said he will draw up rules and locations for the visits within a few days and Mary Winkler can phone her children every other day.

The visits will be supervised because of worries about Winkler’s mental health, the judge said, and physical security for the children will also be provided if needed.

Winkler, 33, was convicted of voluntary homicide in April for shooting husband Matthew Winkler, a Church of Christ minister, at their residence in Selmer, Tenn., in March 2006.

How any of the children react to her is the question. The two older ones are old enough to know what she did and may be hostile to her, while the youngest one is so young and has been separated from her for so long she may not remember her.

The judge is right to mandate supervised visits in order to make sure the children are not harmed psychologically or physically. I doubt she would harm them physically, but then I wouldn’t have thought she would have killed her husband either.

I hope they can re-establish a loving relationship for the well-being of all of them.