Allen the accountant (plug) sent this St. Louis Jesuits spoof over the transom:
Though the markets may fall and the bonds turn to dust
Yet the standard of gold shall last
As a treasure to all who trust not the bank
Sing the praise and the glory of gold.
None of those relativistic floating exchange rates here, huh.
A short summary of Senator Kerry’s military experience: he commanded a vessel in Vietnam, and was decorated for valor. He received three non-life-threatening wounds during his four months in Vietnam. Because of these wounds, he abandoned his comrades by petitioning the Navy to let him leave a combat zone (there was a rule allowing three-times-wounded servicemen to leave).
That landed him in a cushy desk job working for an admiral. Then he got the Navy to release him before his committment was over, in order to run for Congress. He then testified before Congress about war crimes he never saw, committed by men he never knew (and who were later proven liars.)
Sen. Kerry is the kind of officer that enlisted men loathe — working the system for his own benefit instead of theirs, advancing his own interests with no loyalty to those underneath him. His haughty demeanor would have only exacerbated their dislike. Maybe he was a different man back then, but I doubt it. I’d be curious to see what his former subordinates really think of him. They’re probably too classy to denounce their former commanding officer in public, but it would be great to get them into a bar and see what they say after a few drinks.
Men are willing to fight and die for a flawed, arrogant, and even cruel leader if they sense he shares their struggles and believes in their cause. They despise self-serving careerists, because they know that selfish men will often endanger their lives for no good reason, and think of the people around them as merely means to an end.
And would a white dress be inappropriate?
A priest friend of mine (and a fellow Casey Democrat supporting Bush) tipped me of to the following troubling story. It appears that the Kerry campaign reportedly assaulted a woman for using her first ammendment rights to express remorse for her abortion. “I just wanted Kerry to know my abortion hurt me,” the woman says, before Kerry’s campaign aids grabbed her sign and tore it to pieces. “They wouldn’t even let me keep the pieces.”
Not surprisingly, I just checked the website of a certain fourth year philosophy student and there isn’t a peep out of him about this incident. Ah well, I imagine he only would have attempted to blame the President for making abortion a wedge issue. Don’t be fooled. It is the demoncrats who, in positioning themselves as the Abortion party, and reportedly assaulting the rights of women who dare speak against Terry’s patriarchy, have made abortion a wedge issue among Catholics.
