Hold on to your hats for this one, but most suicide bombers travel to Iraq from Syria. King Abdullah II believes the suicide bombers that hit Amman traveled through Syria. Yet this nation still has no sanctions applied to it despite a heavy involvement in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rufik Hariri. And some people question why I have such disdain for the United Nations.

While the United Nations is looking the other way, many Americans are looking the other way as well. I would imagine 99 percent of Americans agree discrimination is wrong, yet half of those believe affirmative action is somehow not discrimination or basing hiring decisions off of something other than merits. The Bush Administration is suing Southern Illinois University over the university pushing white applicants to the side so they can get a certain quots of minority candidates. Senator Barrak Obama says it doesn’t make sense, but I’d be more than happy to explain it to him if he would like. Senator, give me a call.

Senator Barbara Boxer has written a new novel. It’s about a Republican president and congress nominating a right-wing Supreme Court justice. Thankfully though for the American people, a no-nonsense senator from California comes to save the day. Perhaps the gem of her story is what names she chooses to use for her characters. Frida Hernandez is the nominee, while early in her life the Senator, going by Ellen Fischer, chooses between two boyfriends named Josh Fischer and Greg Hunter. Who would have guessed Hunter would turn out to be a Republican gun nut? The stereotypes written by a far-left Senator who thinks she’s mainstream are comedy enough, but the book is supposed to be a thriller.

Is it finally safe to say at least some anti-war groups do not support our troops? If this had happened to the graves of my ancestors who are veterans, I too would have gone to jail, but it would have been before the “first snowfall.”

The French riots continue, but at least Chirac is lashing out at French policemen and people who desecrated a mosque. The policemen though are fighting back, proving once again stereotypes are not always accurate. Meanwhile 71 percent of the French do not believe Chirac can resolve the riots, again proving stereotypes are not always fitting.

The head of Indonesia’s largest Muslim organization has condemned suicide bombing, proving it’s not as good when it happens to you.

Australian Treasurer Peter Costello indicated “We will never be an Islamic state. We will never observe sharia law . . . We will always be a democracy.” Sounds fine to me, but not to the Lebanese Muslim Association of Australia who has condemned the statement as hate speech.

San Francisco has voted to ban handguns, but one 66 year-old grandmother in Arlington, TX (a suburb of Dallas) was glad she had a gun when an intruder decided he wanted to rob her house. And here I thought guns were just bad.

Russia has pledged to help the new Iraq in all areas including the nation’s fight against terrorism. I suppose only in certain areas Russia wants to fight radical Islam, but in other areas they help build nuclear facilities for nations which support radical Islamic terrorism.

We’re running out of colors for revolutions against supposed fraudulent elections. The latest one is in Azerbaijan. Someone come up with a colored name for the 20,000 protestors. These protests and the election though will challenge U.S. foreign policy. On one hand the sitting leader of Azerbaijan has contributed soldiers to Iraq and the nation sits on a sea of oil, but on the other hand international monitors of the election maintain the vote was rigged. Hopefully President Bush will do the right thing and support a re-vote.

Now I feel really old. Has anyone else actually heard of the band B5 that caused a mall to close? It sounds like a vitamin to me, not a band worthy of bringing thousands of little girls to the mall to see the performers.

One thousand one hundred lawyers quit the defense of Saddam Hussein and his co-defendants over security issues. How many lawyers do people need? Seriously.

Saudi Arabia has pledged $1 billion to help rebuild Iraq after meeting with Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. There must have been something in her coffee that morning.

Iraq’s defense minister Saadoun al-Dulaimi claims terrorists are training in Syria. He’s made those allegations before, but it’s never enough to show just how complicent Syria has become with radical Islam while they are in the sights of the international community.

Because it’s Sunday and on Sunday it becomes all NFL all the time for me, that is until the Stars game tonight, I can’t resist the following news. Jesse Jackson has come out in support of Terrell Owens saying the reaction was too harsh. The reaction of suspending Owens indefinitely for making disparaging remarks yet again about his teamates somehow has a civil rights clause to it according to Jackson. No, it’s not about trying to maintain a professional precense in the locker room or keeping heels out of a team game, but it’s about civil rights according to Jackson.

During halftime at the Clemson v. Florida State game, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan won $1 million. Congrats!

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