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“Metalsome Monday” - 80s karaoke at 10 High in the Highlands Dinner and live blues at Fat Matt’s Rib Shack …followed by drinks and dessert at Intermezzo Peachtree

I love the Internet.

You know that book Sir John (Kerry) prrrrrobably really didn’t want available anymore? “The New Soldier” — the book he wrote in 1971 with Vietnam Veterans Against the War? Well… it’s very, very, very difficult to come by a copy of that book — copies are going for hundreds of dollars on eBay. But now, Internet savvy citizens have (drum roll please) http://freekerrybook.org/, a site where the entire book has been posted in PDF format. You can download it and read it, print it, whatever — for free. No regisration required, no nothing.

Rock :)

After all the whining of Democratic protestors about being “manhandled” by Presidential security guards at various events, yesterday some Kerry/Edwards supporters showed their true colors at a campaign event with John Edwards in West Virginia …by stealing the “Bush/Cheney” signs right out of the hands of a man and his 3-year old daughter who were there and ripping them up. The AP somehow managed to publish the picture of the little girl, sitting on her daddy’s shoulders, in tears as they both hold the remnants of one of the signs. http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040917-010155-8041r.htm

MoveOn, Michael Moore-on and the rest of the loony left fringe are clearly absolutely right: it’s the Republicans who are such cold, horrible, mean people.

Just a little less than seven weeks before we can send Hanoi John packing back to Massachusettes… and in honor of the decisive victory that I think the President has already sewn up, I have stopped displaying my favorite bumper sticker — “Weaken the U.S. Military — Kerry 2004″ (thanks Melissa!) — it just felt mean, like I was rubbing it in ;)

…why we’re at war: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/day.video.09.html

Some thoughts by one of my favorite modern writers, Victor Davis Hanson, written for the first anniversary of 9/11:

There are 364 days in the year to instruct our children in the beauties of diversity, the mystery of the Koran, collective guilt for the sins of humanity, and pacifism. September 11 is not one of them.

http://www.nationalreview.com/flashback/hanson200409101227.asp

…has been remarkable. At this point, I’ve no idea if it’ll turn out to be true or not, but following the blogosphere as it is unfolding has been simply remarkable. Forgive the canned cliched sound of it, but this has been my first real, honest-to-goodness glimpse of the power of the information age at work. The interwovenness of the world of the weblogs — and the speed at which things happen in that world — is breathtaking.

And if this turns out to be “fo real”, then as Jonah Goldberg put it, “all hail the blogosphere”.

Relevant links: CNS news www.drudgereport.com Little Green Footballs http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/007760.php scanned PDFs of the memos in dispute

UPDATE: http://www.indcjournal.com/ — see the “Are the CBS National Guard Documents Fake?” story UPDATE 2: The Weekly Standard joins the fray