Sorry.  Couldn't help myself. 

I just read that libbers and fibbers are hyping the surveillance leak (aka, the New York Times promotion for a book to be released this month) as whistleblowers -- and not criminal acts or treason.

Uh huh.

When I think of hyping a breach of security as a noble act of whistleblowing, the image I have is of Howard Dean pursing his lips and pretending to blow out a Plame --- I mean, flame-thrower.

  I reserve the right to change my mind, of course, but in the waning moments of 2005, I resolve not to make unrealistic resolutions OR end-of-year best/worst lists.

Not that I'm avoiding the responsibility of setting a firm course for the new year.  My course is already set.  Publishing my resolutions would be meaningless to all be me. 

Sobeit.

Nor am I lacking in ideas about who/what were best and/or worst.  Other than natural disasters, I have lots of candidates.  I'm sure no one really cares that, on my lists George Bush, the troops, Coach K, my dawg, my staff and the Iraqi elections were among the best o' 2005 or that the New York Times, the Mayor of New Orleans, Tom Cruise, senseless suicide bombings, a slew of child molesters/murderers and the Terri Schiavo story topped the worst. 

Sobethat, too.  

Happy New Year.

Just what we need .... Bloggers in the White House Press Corp!

Hat tip: Michelle Malkin:

From the Washington Post:

The White House spokesman will spin on a new stage next summer.

With the administration moving ahead with plans to renovate the dirty and decaying press room off the West Wing of the White House, spokesman Scott McClellan -- or his replacement, if he steps aside before then -- intends to start briefing the world from historic Jackson Place, across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House, as early as July.

This means the television, print and radio reporters and crews will be booted from the White House for at least seven months as the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room is modernized...

...  and to Hugh Hewitt: 

Whoever is doing the redesign, let's hope they put in a bloggers row, right at the front, and lose the reserved seating for the dinosaurs from MSM.

Can we hope?  Our blog-leaders need to crank up the cyber-ways and get the message to the White House!

                                Is it THAT time already? 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

If only it could be true again ....

A Christmas Truce 

.... and extended to the New Year

                                                                                    and beyond.

Jason at Generation Why?  and folks over at the American Digest dilute the ink on the New York Slimes ... errrr, Whines ... errr, Times. 

Sales are sinking.  Fast.  And not strictly for the NYT. 

"Looks like trust in the MSM wasn't the only thing that tanked over the last couple of years. They thought they could "get" George W. Bush and the Republicans by pumping life into dead non-stories and publishing classified information while simultaneously ignoring real stories...

I would subscribe to the MSM papers... but I find Charmin is much softer."

Charmin ain't all that's being squeezed, eh?   Love it.

Lest we forget ....

Christmas at Arlington

In gratitude for our many blessings --
especially for the men and women
who stand watch as we celebrate this holiday season ....

Joyous Chanukah,

and
Happy New Year !

So where were the barking moonbats back in the mid- and late-90's when Clinton's administration "installed" the hush-hush (domestic and international) telecommunications spy programs called Eschelon and Carnivore? 

Ever seen the list of keywords that those programs monitored in cyberspace and in domestic communications?

Did it bother you THEN to have email, website visitations, chatroom content and telephone calls monitored?

Don't fall for the hype projected by the MSM and politicrats.  Don't let national security be politicized by barking moonbats who've been bashing Bush since he whipped their butts a couple of elections ago.

Just because THIS President has taken national security to heart is NOT a bad thing. 

Oh? 

You think it's bad? 

Why? 

Ahhhh .... you don't want big brother watching you? 

OK -- try to think of it as watching OUT for you. 

Still don't like it? 

Tough.  (I can't wait to hear you bitch because state governments install similar "monitoring" programs to tax you for items purchased on the net.)

The majority of us DO like it. 

Wanna know something else?

For starters, ask surviving friends and families of the 9/11 attack what they would have preferred.

Survey families and communities whose lives/resources were spared because national security provisions (monitored under President Bush's watch) worked.

Find out what Bill Clinton's National Security Advisor Sandy Burger stole from the National Archives .... 

Go ahead. 

Dare you.

Better still --- break away from that bleating moonbat herd and educate yourself.  Read the Patriot Act.  Learn what Clinton's administration failed to do following the first terrorist attack on the Twin Towers.  Research the Eschelon and Carnivore projects. 

If you're still in doubt about what and why GWB has authorized, back up your position with facts -- and not the same old over-generalized bash-Bush bullshit hype.

Go ahead.  Sock it to me.

I'd much rather read your words than headlines about another terrorist attack.