The following is a Video of Jack Cafferty, commenting on the health care debacle that is not meeting providing medical care to over 1.8 MILLION veterans. Lots of good info, and his outrage comes across as very real. I too am outraged, as you might notice. Good for me, but better that I can make 10 more people angry enough to fight for them too. Cafferty just might get it done. I also enjoyed his book and hearing his story, and indeed ours… It’s Getting Ugly Out There. Good read, not too heavy, nice bedtime read…

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Cafferty_1.8_million_veterans_without_healthcare_1102.html

The next story, is so very sad. The suicide of one of our soldiers who was almost all alone in this world. He is one of 128 who have taken their lives while stationed in Iraq. That total is anywhere even near the number who have taken their lives after or following deployment while here at home… He joined the military to break free from a life of poverty, misery, and pain. And, his story, is like so many others I have heard. PTSD doesn’t wait. It is a killer, and what is so frightening is the continued lack of care for this potential killer. We as a society, are going to have to find a way to help these active duty and veteran personnel. The need is urgent, or we will someday be facing ‘emergency’ situations without a clue as to where to begin.

http://www.modbee.com/local/story/109830.html

A great article, which sites 147 suicides in Iraq and Afghanistan since the beginning of the war, was written by Kimberly Hefling, and does a great job of laying out the bigger picture, and the need for intervention before it gets even worse. If we do not address the homelessness, frustration, anger now, the problems will just get worse.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/103107A.shtml

There are many possible things that might be done quickly to get the ball rolling. Senator Webb has some positive things that he is working on at this time on these issues. It is time we demand that those who have given so much are not forgotten and left on the streets to die. Cafferty is right. This is a National Disgrace.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110107A.shtml

In lieu of the self serving wimps in the Senate, like Shumer and Fienstein, today in the Senate it makes you think of that Billy Joel song…”Only The Good Die Young”. (and the Bad live forever.)

The bizarre terror connections of Bush’s choice for Homeland Security Czar
Federal Appeals Court Judge Michael Chertoff’s ties to the financiers of the Sept. 11 attacks may prevent his confirmation as Homeland Security Chief.

According to a June 20, 2000 article in the The Record of Bergen County, New Jersey, Chertoff defended accused terrorist financier Dr. Magdy Elamir.
Foreign intelligence reports given to then chairman of the House International Relations Committee Ben Gilman (R-New York) in 1998 accused Magdy Elamir of having “had financial ties with Osama bin Laden for years,” according to an Aug. 2, 2002 Dateline NBC broadcast.

In 1999, Magdy Elamir and brother Mohamed were named suspects in Operation Diamondback, an FBI/ATF undercover infiltration of Pakistani arms merchants who sought to arm Osama bin Laden with conventional and nuclear weapons, according to independent researcher and former New Jersey police officer Allan Duncan and taped transcripts with FBI informant Randy Glass.

http://www.gnn.tv/articles/article.php?id=1089

Now back to Rudy. He supports a pedophile!!

Monsignor Alan Placa, the priest who presided over the wedding of Rudy Giuliani and Donna Hannover, stands accused of repeatedly sexually molesting at least three boys at his former parish. Amid the controversy, Placa stepped down from his duties at the Long Island Catholic diocese, but he did not have much trouble finding work. According to ABC News:

Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani hired a Catholic priest to work in his consulting firm months after the priest was accused of sexually molesting two former students and an altar boy and told by the church to stop performing his priestly duties.

I’ll be glad to explain why if anyone is interested.

Compared to Rudy, Bush is a walk in the park.
Rudy is a ruthless prick; exactly what we need in the White House.

Not a good thing for Al Qaeda – and their dem cong allies (ie. Leahy, “Turban” et.al.)
OR the worthless, leftwing federal bureaucracy, such as that bunch at the State Dept. “town hall meeting.”

it SAYS open thread

Oh, now don’t despair!

Only as the main dish, I hope.

How are you doing??