Rep. William Jefferson (D-La) was indicted today by a federal grand jury in a longstanding FBI 
corruption probe centering on allegations that he took bribes to promote high-tech business ventures in Africa. Now that that threshold has passed, it will be instructive to see what the reaction of his party will be. Will he be expelled or will they circle the wagons and go to court with him?
Will he be removed from Congress? Speaker Pelosi did promise and end to corruption.
I thought they had gone away now that gas is around $3 a gallon. But I was wrong. The Ring-of-Fire Air America crowd has been festering over this for years. They never got over the fact that Bush consulted experts in the energy-related industries when trying to develop an energy policy instead of environmentalists.
That’s what Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says. Let’s see if the mainstream media can pull itself away from naming a NYC street after a guy who ‘hates white people’ long enough to tell you about another madman who hates Jews.
“With God’s help, the countdown button for the destruction of the Zionist regime has been pushed by the hands of the children of Lebanon and Palestine,” Ahmadinejad said in a speech.
related from October 27, 2005: Annan: ‘Dismay’ over Iranian Comments on Israel
We now see the results that ‘Dismay’ gets when it comes to Iran. That’s almost as powerful a weapon as being ‘really really upset’ about it. Then there’s ‘extremely concerned.’ The Useless Nations’ Kofi Annan, the statesman, peacemaker, and, Godfather to corrupt regimes everywhere. Nearly two years later and the problem has only gotten worse and the UN has demonstrated its usual incompetence.
It only makes sense that Sen. Clinton has to have a ‘makeover‘ to show her (mid-western) roots. I hearken back to her first Senate race in New York when she found out she was Jewish, and a New York Yankees fan. Chameleons don’t do makeovers.
[T]the Clinton campaign has embarked on an ambitious effort to present the candidate the way they want her to be seen: as a pragmatic Midwesterner with a compelling life story
and
The challenge is more than just getting voters to connect to Clinton: She has extremely high negative ratings to try to counteract.
It’s what happens when you have a candidate that supplants polls for principles.
Russian President Vladimir Putin still insists that Russia is at odds if not still at ‘war’ with the United States and wants nothing of this missile shield. After bragging that their successful tests of a multi-warhead nuclear missile would defeat the missile shield that the United States has in mind for Poland and the Czech Republic, you can expect that Putin will be banging his shoe on the desk about this at the G8 Summit next week in Germany. This, after the Bush administration, and Bush himself, encouraged Putin to join in on the shield and participate. After all, we are allies remember? The cold war is over, isn’t it? Apparently not, since Putin’s response now is that he will aim his missiles at Europe.
Putin is out there saying
The missile shield only creates the theoretical illusion that one is protected, but the possibility that a nuclear conflict is unleashed is actually greater . . .
and
“The strategic balance in the West is disturbed,” said Putin, adding Russia had to create a system to counter U.S. weapons.
Putin is to world peace what the Democrats in Washington are to the war on terror, which includes Iraq. I think it’s Putin who is disturbed and out of balance.
Apparently not happy with his 5 prayer sessions a day, a prayer rug, and three square religious dietary meals a day, and ocean view, a detainee who hails from Saudi Arabia committed suicide. First early check-out from Club Gitmo.
Saudi Arabian detainee died Wednesday at Guantanamo Bay prison (appropriately named Club Gitmo by Rush Limbaugh) and the U.S. military said he apparently committed suicide. Critics of the detention center said the death showed the level of desperation among prisoners.
The bleeding heart critics have forgotten the level of evil among that bunch of human debris. Watch for the hysteria in the media, and the democrats, to close down Club Gitmo. I think it’s doing just fine, both it and its guests need to stay there, until they’re either adjudicated by the military tribunal to be innocent or until such time that the war is over. They can expect to be there for a couple of decades, if not generations. And that’s just the way it should be.
Socialists and communists everywhere can’t deal with freedom. Especially freedom of the press. As 
evidenced by the hemisphere’s idiot, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (dba Citgo in America), closes down the only remaining television station that offered the ‘other side’ of the story. No fair and balanced down there.
I guess hosting political debates is out of the question there too.
What is the former President’s relationship with InfoUSA?
Because Senate financial disclosure rules do not require Hillary Clinton to reveal exactly how much — or for what — the company has paid her husband over the past five years, we don’t know all the details. But we do know this: former presidents – especially Bill Clinton – don’t come cheap. And, just months after he left the presidency, Bill Clinton was paid $200,000 for a speech given to InfoUSA in Omaha. Since then, he has been paid an undisclosed amount each year, listed only as “more than $1000†for ‘non-employee compensation†on Senator Clinton’s Senate financial disclosure form.
According to the The New York Times, InfoUSA compiled and sold lists that disclosed the names of elderly men and women who would be likely to respond to unscrupulous scams.
The ‘testicle lock-box’ is stronger than anyone can imagine. It has worked for her so far. Whether there’s something to indicate that Slick Willie knew of these practices seems to be a most relevant question. And if there is, I’m just dying to hear him explain. And did she know too? At any rate, the worst thing Mrs. Bill Clinton can do is to ignore it or dismiss it as a ‘right-wing conspiracy’ like the way John Kerry ‘handled’ the Swift Boat Vets. His running from the SBV’s cost him. If Hillary takes a similar stance, she’s toast.
related: NY Times Accidentally Does Opposition Research on Clintons
That’s what it’s known to be called around here on Memorial Day Weekend. There’s been less and 
less objection to it over the years. Money, money, and a more tolerant community are the three main reasons for the greater overall acceptance.
This also marks the best weekend in over two years due to rebuilding efforts after hurricane Ivan. The beach needs a good season.
Another pic from the beach.
The machinations that those on the left like Sen. Joseph Biden go through to constantly berate our soldiers, their commanders, and their mission so as not to make our enemy mad at us (what?) is instructive in revealing that their strategy of ‘if we’re nice to them then they’ll be nice to us’ is a guaranteed losing one. War is about killing the enemy before the enemy kills you. Period.
The recent rescue of torture victims and discovery of al-Qaida torture manuals shows just how ignorant and wrong those on the left are when it comes to the war on terror and the determination of our enemy. It’s not about issuing prayer rugs, Korans, special food, and scheduled “prayer sessions.”
One of our own was recovered, from the river.