I Voted...Did You?

The weblog awards are on again for 2006. Some of my favorites are nominated. Go there now and vote. Vote like an election in Chicago, early and often. I voted for IMAO in the humor category, Day by Day comic strip, Captain's Quarters in best conservative, Blackfive in the military category, and Michelle Malkin for best blog. I encourage you to think for yourself and vote for the same blogs that I did.

Ain't God Good!

Ain’t God good? Comedian Jerry Clower wrote a book by that name many years ago but the sentiment is timeless. How anyone can look at the intricacy of the world around us and deny the existence and intervention of God displays an acute arrogance and infinitesimal ignorance.

Yet I’m still amazed when God reveals himself to us a personal way. Last Sunday (four days ago) a good friend was in a car accident. I’m not going to put her name here; you don’t need to know it. She didn’t see a semi-trailer crossing in front of her and hit it at around 70 mph. Her bumper went under the truck so the airbag sensors weren’t activated and the airbag didn’t go off. She was air evacuated to the closest neuro center about 100 miles away from the head trauma when she hit the steering wheel.

Her brain was swelling so fast that by the time they got her to the hospital, permanent brain damage seemed a certainty. But literally thousands of people stopped what they were doing and petitioned God to intervene and heal her. The doctors removed a portion of her skull hours later to relieve the pressure with the hope that she would at least be functional. If everything went better than hoped they would replace the skull piece in three months.

She walked out of the hospital today with absolutely no damage or ill effects whatsoever. She will have the skull piece replaced next week.

God answers prayer. He is still in the business of intervening in the human existence and changing lives forever. There is no medical explanation for my friend’s recovery. The doctors expected her to still be in a coma today. God is real. Look at the wonder of the world around you. He loves you. If you want to get to know Him, put it in the comments and I’ll show you how.

How Quick Can We Surrender?

The New York Post has it right. The ISG report is the counsel of cowards. When you ask career diplomats to report on something, you shouldn’t be surprised when they prescribe more diplomacy.

James Baker almost screwed up the Florida recount mess in 2000. Now he has shown his political willingness to compromise to be detrimental to the security of the United States. This is the same man who was advising Bush the elder when we did nothing to help the Kurds in the early 90’s. It takes courage to do what is right. The ISG has shown that it has none. The White House now has plenty of paper for its lavatories.

What About Salman Pak?

What happened to Salman Pak? The name of this place was all the rage in 2001. To refresh those of you with short memories, Salman Pak was a secret training base for Iraqi military and intelligence services. Everything from specific mission and operation training to more broad suicide, kidnapping, and hijacking training went on there. When was the last time that you read the name Salman Pak in the MSM? Or when was the last time you heard about it in a national news program? Salman Pak represents the smoking gun linking Saddaam Hussein [I really don’t care if I spelled his name wrong] to the terrorist attacks of Sept 11, 2001.

I bring this up because today Sen. Robert (I was in the kinder gentler KKK) Byrd was questioning SECDEF nominee Robert Gates.

RKKKB: In your estimation, who was responsible for the attacks of 9-11 in New York, Saddaam Hussein or Osama bin Laden?

RG: Osama bin Laden

RKKKB: In your estimation, who was responsible for the attacks of 9-11 in Washington DC, Saddaam Hussein or Osama bin Laden?

RG: Osama bin Laden

RKKKB: In your estimation, who was responsible for black plague, Saddaam Hussein or Osama bin Laden?

RG: Osama bin Laden

The former white hooded one neglected to follow up with the most important question:

MM: Was there any connection between the murderous despotic Iraqi regime and the attacks on New York and Washington, DC on Sep 11, 2001?

What would Gates have said? Would he have said something like this:

RG: As yet I have not been briefed on specifics of the connections between Iraq and Al Qaeda. However, it is a matter of public record that former Iraqi intelligence officers told the FBI and other US agencies of the training at Salman Pak to hijack US aircraft for suicide missions. This was reported in the DNC newsletter, the New York Times, in Oct 2001. There is also the testimony of the deputy Prime Minister of Iraq, Mr. Barham Salih. He affirms the connection between the state sponsored Ansar al Islam, Al Qaeda, and the Baathist regime. Even those within your own party, Congressman Chris Carney, were reported to have reviewed intelligence material and came to the conclusion that there was definitely a connection between Saddaam and Al Qaeda. I believe that there is indeed an overwhelmingly positive link between Iraq and Al Qaeda.

Of course, Byrd never let the truth get in the way of a good sound bit for the evening news.