Wednesday, October 13, 2004
still old, less grouchy
I thought this shaggy dog story, especially the name of the county, was pretty good! A nice grin with which to start the day.
A bit of humor for the afternoon:
“When John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk. Get up out of that wheelchair and walk again..” Praise be to Jesus F Kerry! Sheesh. I wonder if John the Baptist Edwards is setting up his post 11/2 employment back in NC? Faith-healing and snake oil sales would be far less damaging enterprises than his previous two.. ..he might be pretty good at the faith-healing, after all he was able to channel brain damaged folk (handy in a faith healer) and the unborn. Got the touch, yes indeedy he does. Lots of space on cable teevee for him to peddle his remarkable skills. Ben Shapiro has a hilarious column about J the B Edwards today.
What was even more fun, a local radio talk show this afternoon had one host that did the very best faith healer gig I've heard since a tent meeting outside of Theodore, Alabama most of a half-century ago! Fortunately I wasn't using any sharp tools!
From: Best of the Web Today - October 13, 2004
By JAMES TARANTO
Honorable Discharge?
In today's New York Sun, Thomas Lipscomb reports on the latest mystery involving the Vietnam service of John Kerry, who by the way served in Vietnam:
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An official Navy document on Senator Kerry's campaign Web site listed as Mr. Kerry's "Honorable Discharge from the Reserves" opens a door on a well-kept secret about his military service.
The document is a form cover letter in the name of the Carter administration's secretary of the Navy, W. Graham Claytor. It describes Mr. Kerry's discharge as being subsequent to the review of "a board of officers." This in itself is unusual. There is nothing about an ordinary honorable discharge action in the Navy that requires a review by a board of officers.
According to the secretary of the Navy's document, the "authority of reference" this board was using in considering Mr. Kerry's record was "Title 10, U.S. Code Section 1162 and 1163." This section refers to the grounds for involuntary separation from the service. What was being reviewed, then, was Mr. Kerry's involuntary separation from the service. And it couldn't have been an honorable discharge, or there would have been no point in any review at all. The review was likely held to improve Mr. Kerry's status of discharge from a less than honorable discharge to an honorable discharge.
A Kerry campaign spokesman, David Wade, was asked whether Mr. Kerry had ever been a victim of an attempt to deny him an honorable discharge. There has been no response to that inquiry.
*** END QUOTE ***
In the absence of an explanation from the Kerry camp, Lipscomb offers some speculation:
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There are a number of categories of discharges besides honorable. There are general discharges, medical discharges, bad conduct discharges, as well as other than honorable and dishonorable discharges. There is one odd coincidence that gives some weight to the possibility that Mr. Kerry was dishonorably discharged. Mr. Kerry has claimed that he lost his medal certificates and that is why he asked that they be reissued. But when a dishonorable discharge is issued, all pay benefits, and allowances, and all medals and honors are revoked as well. And five months after Mr. Kerry joined the U.S. Senate in 1985, on one single day, June 4, all of Mr. Kerry's medals were reissued.
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We're not sure what to make of all this, but certainly the story of John Kerry and Vietnam is more nuanced than the simple tale of heroism he sold his party and is trying to sell the country.
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Why Kerry never signed a SF 180 beats the heck outa me unless he's got something that really needs hiding. Did you know a dead rat in the woodpile smells just like a well-fed rattlesnake?
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"If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own work, instead of sitting idle to envy the luck of others. He must face life with resolute courage, win victory if he can, and accept defeat if he must, without seeking to place on his fellow man a responsibility which is not theirs."
Theodore Roosevelt, January 1897
A bit of humor for the afternoon:
“When John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk. Get up out of that wheelchair and walk again..” Praise be to Jesus F Kerry! Sheesh. I wonder if John the Baptist Edwards is setting up his post 11/2 employment back in NC? Faith-healing and snake oil sales would be far less damaging enterprises than his previous two.. ..he might be pretty good at the faith-healing, after all he was able to channel brain damaged folk (handy in a faith healer) and the unborn. Got the touch, yes indeedy he does. Lots of space on cable teevee for him to peddle his remarkable skills. Ben Shapiro has a hilarious column about J the B Edwards today.
What was even more fun, a local radio talk show this afternoon had one host that did the very best faith healer gig I've heard since a tent meeting outside of Theodore, Alabama most of a half-century ago! Fortunately I wasn't using any sharp tools!
From: Best of the Web Today - October 13, 2004
By JAMES TARANTO
Honorable Discharge?
In today's New York Sun, Thomas Lipscomb reports on the latest mystery involving the Vietnam service of John Kerry, who by the way served in Vietnam:
*** QUOTE ***
An official Navy document on Senator Kerry's campaign Web site listed as Mr. Kerry's "Honorable Discharge from the Reserves" opens a door on a well-kept secret about his military service.
The document is a form cover letter in the name of the Carter administration's secretary of the Navy, W. Graham Claytor. It describes Mr. Kerry's discharge as being subsequent to the review of "a board of officers." This in itself is unusual. There is nothing about an ordinary honorable discharge action in the Navy that requires a review by a board of officers.
According to the secretary of the Navy's document, the "authority of reference" this board was using in considering Mr. Kerry's record was "Title 10, U.S. Code Section 1162 and 1163." This section refers to the grounds for involuntary separation from the service. What was being reviewed, then, was Mr. Kerry's involuntary separation from the service. And it couldn't have been an honorable discharge, or there would have been no point in any review at all. The review was likely held to improve Mr. Kerry's status of discharge from a less than honorable discharge to an honorable discharge.
A Kerry campaign spokesman, David Wade, was asked whether Mr. Kerry had ever been a victim of an attempt to deny him an honorable discharge. There has been no response to that inquiry.
*** END QUOTE ***
In the absence of an explanation from the Kerry camp, Lipscomb offers some speculation:
*** QUOTE ***
There are a number of categories of discharges besides honorable. There are general discharges, medical discharges, bad conduct discharges, as well as other than honorable and dishonorable discharges. There is one odd coincidence that gives some weight to the possibility that Mr. Kerry was dishonorably discharged. Mr. Kerry has claimed that he lost his medal certificates and that is why he asked that they be reissued. But when a dishonorable discharge is issued, all pay benefits, and allowances, and all medals and honors are revoked as well. And five months after Mr. Kerry joined the U.S. Senate in 1985, on one single day, June 4, all of Mr. Kerry's medals were reissued.
*** END QUOTE ***
We're not sure what to make of all this, but certainly the story of John Kerry and Vietnam is more nuanced than the simple tale of heroism he sold his party and is trying to sell the country.
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Why Kerry never signed a SF 180 beats the heck outa me unless he's got something that really needs hiding. Did you know a dead rat in the woodpile smells just like a well-fed rattlesnake?
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"If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own work, instead of sitting idle to envy the luck of others. He must face life with resolute courage, win victory if he can, and accept defeat if he must, without seeking to place on his fellow man a responsibility which is not theirs."
Theodore Roosevelt, January 1897
