Tidbits - 8/10/04

Here are today's interesting items.

+The race of the US Senate seat has just begun and it is going to be nasty.

The race pits conservative Republican, Alan Keyes, against the Dems liberal "rising star" Barack Obama.

One of the questions that remains is Alan Keyes too conservative for Illinois? In Chicago and Cook County, the answer is probably yes. In the suburbs and below I-8-, the answer may be no. It will be an interesting race.

Keyes: Obama holds 'slaveholder's' view
MSNBC - Keyes assails Obama�s abortion views

+It's possible that the French-looking Senator from Massachusetts and his ambulance chasing friend may have short term memory loss or are just playing liberal politics as usual.

Recently the Kerry-Edwards campaign have criticized the Bush Administration for being too slow on adopting the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission. One of the major recommendations is the creation of a National intelligence Czar. He apparently forgot that the Senate tried to introduce legislation to do just that.

In January 2003, Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) proposed legislation to create an intelligence czar among other intelligence reforms.

Neither John Kerry, a member of the intelligence committee, nor John Edwards added their names to the legislation.

Maybe Senator Kerry missed the meeting. He has missed 38 of 49 public meetings of the Senate intelligence Committee.

Full article from the Cybercast News Service --> Kerry, Edwards Ignored Senate Bill to Create Intelligence Czar -- 08/10/2004

+It appears that "dirty tricks" are no longer just part of the Watergate era.

A hacker broke into the Barnes & Noble website and changed the cover of the upcoming anti-Kerry book, Unfit for Command." The new cover changes the title and the picture.

I thought that hacking into a commercial website was a Federal crime. I guess it is if you are not part of the Kerry campaign.

An article on Human Events notes that as of now it is not certain if the hacker is a B&N employee, just a jokster, or part of the Kerry campaign.

In any event, who ever did it deserves to be prosecuted just like any other hacker.

After trying to stifle the First Amendment rights of Vietnam Veterans, it seems that the Kerry campaign and their followers will do anything.

HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE :: Kerry Supporters Hack Barnes & Noble Website

More later.