Katrina Find

Here's new site set up just today by Deacon Dan (found in a comment at Blogs for Bush):

New site I'm trying to promote - www.katrinafinder.us. I built it today as a way, I hope, to help folks find loved ones in the disaster area. My sister was in Gulfport, Mississippi, when Katrina hit, and we haven't heard from her. We're hoping, but I needed to do something more, and that site was built today over my lunch hour. I'd appreciate it if you could include a word about it when you're out n' about and blogging. And if you have any suggestions or want to help with the code, I'd gladly give out the "keys to the kingdom" to the FTP part of the site, and you can help me jimmy the code so it works better. Or if you run across people who want to help, point 'em my way, and we'll get it set up. I'm going to also put out some press releases tonight, and noise it about on the blogs, so hopefully people will find it useful. Thanks, folks!

Dan, our prayers are with you and your family. Thank you for setting this up. If anyone can help out, please do. Trackback to Basil's Blog Covered Dish Supper. Another new Katrina Aid site: Hurricaid.com set up by Kevin Aylward at Wizbang

Dish Network's New Ad Campaign

Dish Network's new ad campaign consists of people whose T.V. "sucks". Their T.V.'s act like vacuums, things fly, and stick, to the T.V. set. The guest says something like, "What's going on?", the homeowner says, "My T.V. sucks, doesn't yours?" The guest says, "No, I have Dish Network, it doesn't suck." Now my four year old is asking if things suck. I really don't need my four year old doing that, or using that word. In my opinion, the new Dish Network ad campaign sucks.

Gas Prices

On Sunday, a local gas station was charging $2.689 per gallon for regular unleaded. Today it's $2.899. Another station nearby was also at $2.899. Around the corner and down the street a station had regular unleaded at $3.299. Down the street from there (at a place that is usually higher than the rest) regular unleaded was being sold for $2.799. There was actually someone pumping gas at the $3.299 place! Today, Chuck Schumer once again called for draining the Strategic Oil Reserves.

"If there was ever a time for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to be tapped, it would be now," he said.

(Source) As if this will do anything at all. There isn't a problem with the supply of crude (which, of course, the Strategic Oil Reserve contains). The problem is with refining the oil we do have. 8-10% of America's refining capacity is temporarily unavailable. It doesn't matter how much crude you have if you don't have the capacity to refine it. More oil isn't the problem. Turning it into gas (with all those "boutique" mixtures), diesel and heating oil is the problem and has been for quite some time. After Hurricane Ivan, pipelines and platforms which produce and deliver crude were most affected. Now it's the refineries. Refineries are currently running at near 100% capacity, more oil isn't the answer, more refineries are. More on this topic at Blogs for Bush.

40,000

Our 40,000^th visitor just came from Taiwan.

Just One Question

Lady Jane over at A Lady's Ruminations has just one question... Will any other country come to our aid over Katrina? She has the transcript of a radio address by Gordon Sinclair (a Canadian broadcaster) from June 5, 1973...

The Americans The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany. It has declined there by 41% since 1971 and this Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least-appreciated people in all the earth. As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtse. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did. They have helped control floods on the Nile, the Amazon, the Ganges and the Niger. Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of those countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.

Go read the rest of the address and the rest of the story of why Gordon felt he needed to do this.

Our Children's Safety

The other day on Fox news, they had an attorney for a convicted sex offender and Marc Klass on to discuss the 2500 foot "barrier" around schools that dictates where a convicted sex offender can and can not live. The attorney was saying that we are a mobile society and keeping a convicted sex offender from living in that 2500 foot radius makes no sense, as the convicted sex offender can still get in his/her car and go to a school. He also said that the half mile radius was too large and, in an urban area, would just push the convicted sex offender further out, into the suburbs, causing the same problems there. Marc Klass was agreeing with him on this point. Is it just me, or isn't the point of the 2500 foot radius to keep our children from walking past the convicted sex offender's home on their way to and from school? Generally, (at least in my town) if you are within a half mile of a school there is no bus service and the children must walk to school. I don't want my children walking past a convicted sex offender's house twice a day, every school day. Consider that this rule is to the benefit of both the children and the convicted sex offender. For the children, they don't have to be so afraid to walk to school. I would think that the sight of many children walking past the house each and every day would pose a great temptation. By removing the convicted sex offender from the path the children walk to school, this temptation just isn't there. Without this rule, a convicted sex offender could wait for a child to come by by him/herself and get them into the privacy of their own home quickly, with a much better chance of getting away with it. With the rule, the convicted sex offender must look for victims where it will be harder to do so. I think our children are far safer with this rule in place, than they are without it. Welcome Basil's Blog readers! Please look around.

Coming Soon - The Grand Old Portal

Launching August 29th - The Grand Old Portal From the press release:

The Grand Old Portal is a human-edited search engine of Republican websites on the World Wide Web. This search engine is different from other search engines as it only lists sites that support the Republican Party. Each site that is submitted is reviewed by an editor who then determines if the site will be listed in the search engine. Webmasters who run websites that support the Republican Party are invited to visit http://www.GrandOldPortal.com and submit their website for inclusion in the search engine. Even though the website will not be launched until the 29th of August, webmasters are still encouraged to submit their websites now for inclusion.

Via GOPBloggers

Angry In The Great White North has Moved

Angry's new address is http://agwnblog.com and his new email is agwnblog at gmail dot com. This change has been made in our blogroll.

The MuNu server is down - UPDATED

MuNu is back up! Rusty Shackleford is at his backup site http://mypetjawa.blogspot.com/ The MuNu emergency site is http://munuemergency.blogspot.com/

Immigration on the Big Story

John Gibson had two guests today talking about immigration, Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO)and Jim Gilchrist, co-founder of the Minuteman Project. The transcript follows: Gibson: A week after Arizona declared a state of emergency along its border with Mexico, the Feds have finally stepped up and responded. The Homeland Security has promised to help the state fight illegal immigration, drug smuggling, human trafficking, and the violence that comes along with those activities. So what does this promise really mean? Congressman Tom Tancredo joins us now. The Colorado Republican is Chairman of the House Immigration Reform Caucus. Congressman, Governor Napolitano in Arizona put on a lot of pressure and the Feds have said OK we’ll come help. What kind of help can she realistically expect? Tancredo: Well that’s a great question. I don’t know what help has been promised and I don’t know what they’re actually going to do because, of course, everyone in America has been begging them to go down on the borders and do something about the fact that we have an invasion. And so far they’ve ignored it. Now I am happy that both Governor Napolitano and Governor Richardson have done a U-turn, a political U-turn on this issue. You know you do wonder I have to tell you when those two folks look in the mirror in the morning how many faces do they see? {laughs} Because, honestly, it’s just incredible to me that you can be so pro-open borders, work so hard for the ah you know to placate the immigration crowd and then the next day when you decide it’s politically, the thing to do, popular, make a big turnaround. Gibson: But Congressman, who wouldn’t take this shot? I mean the Bush Administration, and you, yourself have been criticizing the Bush Administration for not doing enough. If you’re a Democratic governor of a border state, this is a lay-up, it’s a freebie, it’s a gimme. You’d have to be… Tancredo: John, it’s still hard, it’s still hard to see after knowing what these people have done, signing bills to give illegal aliens driver’s licenses, higher education benefits, making sanctuary cities, allowing sanctuary cities to exist in their states. I mean these things are incredible, to then go all of a sudden, oh, you know what? Oh it’s the federal government’s fault. I tell you they share some of the blame John, they do. Because they are enticing people to come. Sanctuary cities, providing benefits, only entices illegal immigrants. They share some of the blame. {crosstalk} Gibson: Alright, are you blaming Governor Richardson in the same way that you’re blaming Governor Napolitano? By the way, we have asked Governor Napolitano many times to come on here, she’s ducking us, she knows we’re going to laud her for her efforts in this regard right now, I wasn’t going to criticize her like you are, but she refuses to come on here. One can only assume she’s afraid to come on FOX for some reason. But what about Governor Richardson? He says he gives them driver’s licenses because he wants to know where they are. Tancredo: Well, you give them driver’s licenses because it makes life easy for them. You do not do things that improve the way, that make it easy for people to live in your state or your city if they’re here illegally. That only encourages them of course. It makes it an attractive place to come. And if they really wanted to do something John, if either one of them come on your show or on FOX, here’s what I’d like you to ask them. If you are really serious about trying to stop illegal immigration in your state, then why don’t you use your power as the governor to actually put the National Guard troops on the line. Or build a fence. You could actually do it. Both of them could do these things without the federal government because they could say they have walked away from us, the federal government is AWOL, they can complain all they want to and I’d be with them because they are right. But I also would tell you that if they really wanted to do something they have some options that they could take that I don’t think they are going to do. Because I don’t think they are for real. They’re just looking for a way to make a little political hay here. That’s okay, but I wish they’d do something about it. Gibson: Congressman Tom Tancredo of Colorado, Congressman, thanks a lot. For more on the Fed’s response to the border crisis, we’re joined now by Jim Gilchrist, he is the cofounder of the Minuteman Project which organizes civilian patrols along the border. Jim is also running for congress in California. So Jim, you just heard Congressman Tancredo do you slap around Governor Napolitano and Governor Richardson the same way Congressman Tancredo does? Gilchrist: Almost as avidly. John, I commend Governor Richardson and Governor Napolitano for finally stepping out and at least addressing this problem with their borders. I’m waiting for California Governor Schwarzenegger and Texas Governor Perry to do the same. I’ve been to the border several times. The California border, in my opinion, is even worse than the Arizona border. At least where I was on the California border we literally took gunfire, fired at us from south of the border, only 100 feet south of that border, among other challenges to our physical safety while we were down there for three weeks. What they did is a good thing, but also I was told yesterday that Governor Richardson vetoed a state police initiative to allow state police to help the border patrol. He vetoed that just eight weeks ago. Why would he do that? Gibson: Congress… I call you Congressman already, you are running for Congress. Evidently there is political hay to be made on the border issue. Napolitano and Richardson have turned around and taken a position that’s normally thought of as the Republican or conservative position on the border crisis. You seem to think that you might be able to be elected to Congress out of it. Why do think this is the border issue has become a political springboard? Gilchrist: John, because it’s more than just one issue. It’s not a case of someone stepping into someone else’s private property. This is when only 200 or 2,000 people are coming across that border and occupying U.S. Territory annually it’s not a big deal. When four million per year and going up do that, that’s more than the entire Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines Corps combined. We have certainly a serious problem with porous borders. We have an open invitation to anyone, any terrorist who wants to come in here, anyone with a criminal mentality, and I want to protect my country the way I protect my community and certainly my family. Mr. Tancredo is actually was an inspiration for me starting the Minuteman Project. He’s been a long time pioneer. As far as the rest of the politicians joining on this crusade, I want to know where they were, do they have any visible, historical, established, proactive support of immigration law? I don’t see that. And if they don’t have that, I’m suspect. Gibson: But even if they don’t, I mean, anybody can have a late awakening, I mean they could wake up one morning and look at what’s going on. You don’t fault them for that do you? Gilchrist: No, I can’t. I actually I do commend Richardson and Napolitano for coming out, but I think with less than $2 million to put for this project, to help defend the borders, it’s not very much, it’s only pennies that are needed compared to the entire budget. I think border patrol and Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement need at least a 500 percent increase in their working budgets to provide capital, manpower and equipment and resources to literally enforce the laws for which they are responsible. Gibson: Jim Gilchrist, one of the founders of the Minutemen and running for Congress in California. Mr. Gilchrist, thank you.

Right Nation now in English

The Right Nation a wonderful Italian Blog who has linked to us in the past ( South Park Conservatives Roundup and Piccoli maccartisti digitali crescono ) Now has an all English version of their website for those of us who don't speak Italian... The Right Nation Via Brian Maloney's Linkfest at Michelle Malkin

Cindy Sheehan Leaving Crawford

Just heard on Fox News: Cindy Sheehan is leaving the anti-war protest in Crawford because her mother has had a stroke. Our prayers are with her mother.

Rader Gets 10 Life Sentences

The BTK Killer was sentenced to 10 life sentences today. Fox News has the story:

WICHITA, Kan. — BTK serial killer Dennis Rader (search) was sentenced Thursday to life in prison, with no chance of ever going free.

Rader, 60, who terrorized the Wichita area and taunted police during a 17-year murder spree from 1974 to 1991, received 10 consecutive life sentences — one for each of his victims — for a minimum of 175 years behind bars without the chance of parole.

It was the longest possible sentence Judge Gregory Waller could deliver. Kansas had no death penalty at the time the killings were committed.

He has a life to live, unlike his victims, whose lives were cut so tragically short. Hopefully, he'll use the time to reflect on his crimes, but I don't think he will...

90 Days

It has been 90 days since John Kerry said he signed the Form 180 to release his military records. So far, we have learned that his college grades were slightly lower than George W. Bush's. Have we seen the actual form 180 yet? Have we seen any more from the Globe? Have they posted the documents? As Blackfive says:

This SF180 issue will never be cleared up until he signs an SF180 and lists the recipient as an independent journalist or committee, etc.

See also the clock at the top of the page.

Definite Must Read

Via Blogs for Bush. Countercolumn has written an open letter to the New York Times, castigating them for their paltry coverage of positive stories. An excellent fisking with details of stories the Times hasn't covered and listing those news outlets that have covered the same stories. Go read it...

KidSafe Playhouses

We previously wrote about Edward's KidSafe Playhouses here. Here are a couple of pictures of one of his latest: Note: it is only 4 feet from the ground to the top of the stairs. From Edward himself (in the comments)

Not to cause confusion but it is 4 ft to the last open step near the corner post of the playhouse. The playhouse itself is elevated about 6 feet. The whole structure is 8 feet, 4 inches wide and 9 feet, 2 inches long.

Email Edward for more information.

Blinkin Christmas (ACLU)

Stop the ACLU has a link to a new video re Christmas and the ACLU. Go take a look!

Oh, If Only "Vapoorize" Really Existed!

In the Ben Stiller/Jack Black movie Envy the character Nick Vanderpark (Black) invents an aerosol spray that instantly vaporizes doggy doo-doo. Oh how I wish that product were real! I just spent an hour clearing out the "landmines" that my Siberian, Nikita, left in the backyard. It's been a while since that particular task was carried out. There were pounds and pounds of the nasty stuff. I do know that I could avoid this by cleaning up right after Nikita places his landmines, but when they are fresh they can be especially nasty - after a few days they dry up and aren't as aromatic. Maybe someone could invent a "roomba" type machine that will search out and destroy canine landmines...

Help Requested - bumped to top

Bump to top. After TWO days, not ten, the Click for Cathy Campaign has been completed! Click again and again to help out Chris Muir's sister Cathy. See Day by Day for the particulars and click and click again. When my Dad had cancer this was something that we looked into, but his cancer wouldn't have responded to it. Sadly, he passed away almost three years ago, September 4th, 2002.

Relatives of Casey Sheehan Don't Agree With Cindy

From Angry in the Great White North :

In response to questions regarding the Cindy Sheehan/Crawford Texas issue: Sheehan Family Statement: The Sheehan Family lost our beloved Casey in the Iraq War and we have been silently, respectfully grieving. We do not agree with the political motivations and publicity tactics of Cindy Sheehan. She now appears to be promoting her own personal agenda and notoriety at the the expense of her son's good name and reputation. The rest of the Sheehan Family supports the troops, our country, and our President, silently, with prayer and respect.

Sincerely,

Casey Sheehan's grandparents, aunts, uncles and numerous cousins.

Angry in T.O. has checked the statement out and emailed one of the aunts for confirmation. Confirmation was received.

So Much for Personal Responsibility...

BobG at Sweet Spirits of Ammonia brings our attention to another lack of personal responsibility story and the lawyers who help them. A couple in South Carolina were stopped by the police and given tickets for improper plates, driving on a suspended license and driving without insurance. The driver, Tony Gainey, admits, "I shouldn't been driving. I am guilty of that, but the stop never would have taken place if they wouldn't have violated our rights" Tony Gainey says his rights were violated because he believes that the police in Greer, SC stopped him because he has a some bumper stickers on his car. One bumper sticker reads: "It's a Druid Thing." The ACLU has jumped on the bandwagon demanding that the charges against Gainey be dropped and that an apology be made to the Gaineys. Religious persecution. Yep, that's exactly what this is. And never mind that the charges are perfectly valid, since the tickets were apparently given based on that darn bumper sticker, they aren't valid anymore... But think about it, one of the charges is improper plates. Doesn't it stand to reason that during a routine plate check, finding out that the plates were improper would give sufficient cause to stop the vehicle? But nooooo, the Gainey's feel that the plates were checked because of one of many bumper stickers on their car said "It's a Druid Thing". Remember to visit Stop the ACLU

Groups Join NARAL in Denouncing Roberts

The National Abortion Federation and the Feminist Majority Foundation haved joined with NARAL in their false accusations against John Roberts. Via Blogs for Bush, we find that FactCheck.org has posted NARAL Falsely Accuses Supreme Court Nominee Roberts. Reuter's story Abortion-rights groups demand documents on Roberts states:

The groups, which largely oppose Roberts because of his intervention in the abortion clinic case, also said senators must press Roberts on the brief he co-authored that contended that harassment aimed at women seeking abortion services did not constitute discrimination.

This is covered in full at FactCheck.org in their rebuttal to the NARAL ad. From FactCheck.org:

The brief that Roberts signed, and on which the NARAL ad is based, is from another matter entirely. It is dated April 11, 1991. Furthermore, it is from a civil lawsuit brought by abortion clinics against protesters who were blockading the clinics. Bombing was not an issue. Supporting Anti-abortion Groups? The ad contends that Roberts "filed court briefs supporting violent fringe groups and a convicted clinic bomber." Indeed, Roberts' name appears on the "friend of the court" brief in Bray v. Alexandria Women's Health Clinic that the ad shows. But what Roberts was supporting wasn't violence or bombing or even the behavior that was the subject of the lawsuit - blockades of clinics. In fact, Roberts went out of his way to say that the blockaders were trespassing, which is a violation of state law. What Roberts argued was that a federal anti-discrimination law couldn't be used against abortion blockaders because they weren't discriminating against women – they were blockading men, too.

These things are easy to check and we bloggers check them. Welcome Blogs for Bush readers! Please look around. Welcome Jack Lewis.net readers!

PETA Once Again Going Too Far

Via Michelle Malkin: The New Haven Register reports that a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) display "Are Animals the New Slaves" which was "showing" at the Green in New Haven, CT has caused much consternation. The display, which is on a national tour, shows large photos of minorities being beaten, lynched or killed alongside photos of animals in "similar" circumstances.

One man demanded that the NAACP get involved immediately. Five minutes later, Scot X. Esdaile, president of the state and Greater New Haven chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, arrived at the scene, surveyed the photos and blasted the organizers. "Once again, black people are being pimped. You used us. You have used us enough," Esdaile said. "Take it down immediately." "I am a black man! I can’t compare the suffering of these black human beings to the suffering of this cow," said Michael Perkins, 47, of New Haven. He stood in front of a photo of butchered livestock hung next to the photo of two lynched black men dangling before a white mob. "You can’t compare me to a freaking cow," shouted John Darryl Thompson, 46, of New Haven, inches from Carr’s face. "We don’t care about PETA. You are playing a dangerous game." Paul Tomaselli, 46, of North Branford took exception to an exhibit that included a photo of a black man being beaten to the ground by a white man with a stick while a white mob gathers. Next to that photo was one of a man chasing a seal across the snow with a club.

PETA is definitely in the wrong here.

Go read Stop the ACLU - lots of good stuff

Stop the ACLU

Juan Williams: Legitimate ID Is a Good Thing

Welcome Michelle Malkin Readers! (Thanks Betsy). Please look around. Georgia Rally – O’Reilly/Williams Talking Points Memo:

Over the weekend thousands of people showed up for a Jesse Jackson-sponsored event that brought attention to the Voting Rights Act and protested Georgia's requiring a picture ID before allowing someone to vote. Talking Points admires the Voting Rights Act and wants the act extended forever - on this we agree with Jackson and his supporters. But Jackson and others are objecting to voters having to produce picture IDs in Georgia. This is an anti-fraud measure, and the state says it will actually come to your house and give you an ID if you don't already have one. Sounds reasonable, but far left pundits such as Cynthia Tucker, editorial page boss of the Atlanta Constitution, say asking for IDs will disenfranchise some minorities. The truth is this - valid picture IDs will cut down on fraud. Elderly and sick people can easily acquire them, and the whole issue is a fraud. But it serves the purpose of ideologues like Jesse Jackson and Cynthia Tucker, and that's what this is really all about.

Ian at the Political Teen has the video of the remarks made during the march. Bill O’Reilly spoke with Juan Williams last night regarding the Voting Rights Rally in Georgia O’Reilly: Joining us from Washington, Fox News Analyst Juan Williams. I had to slow down because we had all this fancy gadgetry and I wanted people to see you and not the graphic… Now look Juan, we disagree on a lot of things, respectfully always, you know you’re one of our favorite guests here. But you’ve gotta agree with me on this, this is simply bogus, this is nonsense and Belafonte and Mathis and Tucker should be ashamed of themselves. Williams: Without a doubt. I was stunned at what you just played. I have such respect for especially Cynthia Tucker I just, I don’t know what’s going on there. This is clearly a case, where it seems to me, you have people reenacting things that happened forty years ago, but they’re reacting to devils that have been slain forty years ago. Nobody is saying that you shouldn’t have the voting right. In fact, the Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, has said that he thinks he’s going to support the continuation/extension of the provisions 2 5 and 203 that expire in 2007. So what you have here is exactly what you just said, Bill, which is an opportunity for them to bash President Bush, to go after republicans, to make it out as if republicans don’t want black people to vote. This is, you know given what’s going on here with Ken Mehlman, the chairman of the Republican Party having extensive outreach to black voters, I think they’re out of step and out of date. O’Reilly: But it’s more than that, it’s dishonest. That’s what, that, you see, look. We expect Harry Belafonte to say dopey stuff. Alright? He’s Fidel Castro’s biggest fan. Alright? Judge Mathis, I don’t know who this is, I don’t know what he does, he has some little TV show. I don’t know what he’s talking about, I don’t really care. But the editorial director of the Atlanta Constitution, the largest newspaper in the south, to be as blatantly dishonest as she was, and the Cox newspaper chain, it’s gotta be embarrassing. But this whole thing is contrived as you said to make an issue that doesn’t even exist. Everybody wants the voting rights act… Williams: Exactly. O’Reilly: …extended and the ID’s for voting in every state, I have to show my ID on Long Island, I gotta show it. That’s so people can’t show up, sign somebody’s name who’s been given money and vote five times. Everybody knows that. Williams: This is good stuff. And you know what, here’s the thing, people forget that you flip the scenario here and these kinds of fraudulent tactics, you know dead people voting, were used against minorities and to keep minorities out of political office and away from the polls for years. The idea that you would have legitimate identification is a good thing. Now the contrary position coming from a lot of these people who were in the march, you know who are, I mean they’re clearly democrats, they don’t have any illusions about that. Their argument is if you go back to Florida in 2000 there were people who were wrongly pushed off polls because they were identified as felons, people who were asked for ID and didn’t have ID. But I’m telling you ID is a good thing. We want a credible electoral process in this country for everybody. O’Reilly: And look. And this is the thing that I want everybody to understand. We’re not coming at this from an ideological point of view. The republicans have done bad things in elections, but so have the democrats. The St. Louis polls stayed open for three hours past polling times so they could ram in everybody they could ram in in the last election. Duval county in Jacksonville in the 2000 election, they had vote buying and selling there like crazy. These are documented. On the record. So we want everybody to stop and run honest elections and one way you do that is to know who is voting. And this bogus stuff about there’s an old guy, somewhere in… And I’m not a big fan of Sonny Purdue, the governor of Georgia, which stems back to my trying to get those, I don’t know whether you remember this Juan, these high school proms where they were having them segregated. Williams: Oh yeah, yeah. That was ridiculous. O’Reilly: And I said, no that’s unacceptable, we can’t have this. Williams: It is unacceptable. O’Reilly: It is. And Sonny said “I’m not going to do anything about it.” Thank God we don’t have those anymore in Georgia that we know of. But anyway, I’m not a big Sonny Perdue fan. But Sonny actually said look if you don’t have and ID and you live in Skunkwat, Georgia somewhere, we’ll come to your house and give you one. Yet they still are pulling this game about disenfranchisement. Williams: Well here’s what they’re saying Bill. They’re saying that, in fact, if you look at minority communities, especially poor, black communities, there are fewer driver’s licenses, fewer of these kinds of IDs. There are only going to be six kinds now accepted as opposed to the 17 previously accepted in the state of Georgia and therefore, they’re saying, it will have a discriminatory impact. You know what… O’Reilly: {laughs} You know, they’re coming to your house, Juan, and they’re giving it to you. It doesn’t get any easier than that. Williams: But the record actually backs them up. There are fewer drivers licenses, fewer of these kinds… But I’m telling you in service to having no-fraud elections, I think you can say to people go and get a legitimate ID, go register to vote. I don’t think that’s too much to ask. O’Reilly: If you’re 96 and have emphysema you can’t really do that, but again, Georgia will go to your house. Williams: They’ll come to you. O’Reilly: Juan, thanks very much, we appreciate it. Williams: You’re welcome Bill. Welcome Anchoress Readers!

Happy Birthday Susan Anne Catherine Torres! UPDATED

From the Susan M. Torres Fund site:

The Torres and Rollin families are proud to announce that Mrs. Susan Torres gave birth at 8:18 am on Tuesday, August 2, 2005 to Susan Anne Catherine Torres. The baby weighs 1 pound 13 ounces and measures 13 ½ inches long. There were no complications during delivery. The baby is doing well and is being monitored in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of Virginia Hospital Center. The Torres family will hold a press conference tomorrow, August 3, 2005, at 1:00 p.m. eastern time at Virginia Hospital Center. Further details will be available at that time.

Congratulations! Our prayers are with you. UPDATE: This afternoon, the ventilator was turned off and Susan M. Torres is now with the Lord. To the Torres/Rollin families: Our prayers are with you all.