It is interested how Gen. Wesley Clark who failed as a general, failed as a surrogate, he failed as candidate for the Presidency, and he continues to be a loser dares to take on Sen. McCain on whether McCain knows anything about the military and leadership.

Wesley Clark was FIRED from NATO for being incompetent. He was known -- in nicer circles -- as the political general. In not-so-nice circles, he was known for following those with influence too closely. The fact is, nobody pays any attention to him, and his criticizing McCain is like a flea taking on an elephant.

WASHINGTON - Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, a former Democratic presidential candidate now supporting Barack Obama, said Sunday John McCain's military service does not automatically qualify him to be commander in chief.

Underscoring during a national television appearance a position he has been expressing for several weeks, Clark said performing heroic military service is not a substitute for gaining command experience.

"In the matters of national security policy making, it's a matter of understanding risk," he said on CBS' "Face the Nation." "It's a matter of gauging your opponents and it's a matter of being held accountable. John McCain's never done any of that in his official positions. I certainly honor his service as a prisoner of war. He was a hero to me and to hundreds of thousands and millions of others in the armed forces, as a prisoner of war.

"He has been a voice on the Senate Armed Services Committee and he has traveled all over the world, but he hasn't held executive responsibility," Clark said. "That large squadron in the Navy that he commanded — that wasn't a wartime squadron."

This article from the United Press International is just a touch of what Russia/The Soviet Union has in terms of its capabilities to spy and to perform genocide against other countries and cultures. Even though their people are starving, have no medicine, don't have the resources to keep their peoples warm during the brutal Russian winters, they always have money to perform their evil deeds towards an evil endgame. And just to think that in terms of foreign policy Barack Obama would truly be "Jimmy Carter Deux."

EDINBURGH, Scotland, June 29 (UPI) -- A Scottish map enthusiast has discovered that the former Soviet Union had extraordinarily detailed maps of Scotland.

The maps showed the width of important roads and the streets and buildings of major cities, along with less obvious choices like Dunfermline, a historic town between Glasgow and Edinburgh, The Scotsman reports.

John Davies told the newspaper he found the maps while he was on a trip to Latvia. He said he believes they showed the Soviet Union was contemplating invasion and occupation.

"You have got to speculate as to how maps of this complexity were put together," Davies said. "A lot of it could have been done through aerial surveillance, either by satellite or high-altitude reconnaissance planes. But the maps also include detail which just could not have been observed from the air. That means that they almost certainly had people on the ground in the U.K. compiling these maps."

The maps even showed whether buildings had been fire-proofed.

The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaction and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilization. It is what we seek today.

President Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

And what is wrong with this, pray tell?

With the U.S. Supreme Court taking a super whacked out view of the second amendment of the U.S. Constitution, seeing how the whacked-out gun-toting Republicans, knowing how things go in our country, it is going to take the senseless killing of a prominent Republican politician that is going to get them all back in line towards sane gun control.

Really, these days, the Democrats make it hard for me to be a full-hearted Democrat (the party of the murderer Sen. Ted Kennedy), and the Republicans make it hard for me to be a full-hearted Republican.

Dear Lord, what is it going to take to get some sanity on this issue, huh?

I really try to be very fair of my assessments of liberals and conservatives, but this news piece from Great Britain is what makes liberals on "both sides of the pond" the laughing stock of the world.

Council bans 'brainstorming'

A council has banned the term "brainstorming" - and replaced it with "thought showers".

Officials Tunbridge Wells Borough Council in Kent feared the phrase might offend epileptics or the mentally ill. Staff have been sent memos about the change and even sent on training courses, reports The Sun.

But Margaret Thomas, of the National Society for Epilepsy, said: "Brainstorming is a clear and descriptive phrase. "Alternatives such as "thought shower" or "blue-sky thinking" are ambiguous to say the least. "Any implication that the word "brainstorming" is offensive to epileptics takes political correctness too far."

And Richard Colwill, of mental health charity SANE, agreed: "This ban goes too far. Few would be genuinely offended by the word "brainstorming" in the context of council meetings."

A council spokesman said: "We take diversity awareness very seriously. The majority of staff have taken part in training and been asked to use the term "thought showers"."

On Friday, the esteemed journalist Tim Russert died of a heart attack at the NBC Studios in Washington DC. Tim Russert was a good journalist, but not a great one...yet all day Friday, all weekend, and then into Monday the news media kept on heeping all of the remembrances non-stop.

ENOUGH ALREADY, FOLKS!!!! TIME TO MOVE ON!!!!

Isn't that interesting....

This just convinced me that the Democratic party is not the party for me...and that they really are the party of hypocrites....and after hearing the hypocrite in chief, Al Gore, just convinced me of that even more.

Today he came out and endorsed Barack Obama for president...and in the same speech he said, "I feel your determination after two terms of the Bush-Cheney administration to change the direction of our country," he said. He accused Bush of myriad missteps, including a botched response to Hurricane Katrina, economic problems, foreign policy mistakes and allowing lead-tainted toys and poisoned pet food in from China.

"Even our dogs and cats have learned that elections matter," he said. "This election matters more than ever because America needs change more than ever."

Isn't that interesting, Mr. Gore... Your own Democratic party has played its own election roulette in Florida not counting votes, then decides to count only half the votes. What about that, Mr. bloated fat cat Gore....who complains about global warming and "carbon footprints" but prances around the country in a private jet....

I was nosing around on a personal site and saw the following description of the individual which put the biggest smile on my face:

Love to laugh. Goofy is good. I'm a sucker for nice people. I'm an adventurer at heart. I'm probably more immature than you. I'm a native San Diegan. I have a weird nick name. I don't want your life. I love my family & friends. I think good grammar is hot. I am a work in progress. I have a sensitive sense of smell. I probably should have been born in Canada. I've fallen and I can't get up. I enjoy looking up words in the dictionary. I am a gentleman. I sleep-in for sport. I read Wikipedia for fun. I make the best microwaveable food you've ever had. I prefer Pepsi to Coke. I save my ticket stubs. I'm a targeted demographic. I chew on things a lot. I found Waldo. I collect matchbooks. I often enjoy people watching more than people talking. I arrange my t-shirt rack by color. I wish I could sing. I'll never grow up. I am well read. I still eat milk and cookies. I should be working right now. I laugh at inappropriate things. I like diners over nice restaurants. I still have my tonsils and appendix. I can't believe it's not butter. I make shampoo mohawks in the shower. I believe people are inherently good. I vote. I have more sneakers than jeans. I believe in evolution. I have a subtle wit. Extremists of any stripe bother me. I like songs that build. I could never find the object in the Magic Eye posters. I think I've lost that loving feeling. I made Shake and Bake.