Mark Bossingham

Just wondering ...

THIS QUOTE from the head of the National Guard has me confused. If the Guard is doing so much of the work In Iraq, where is the regular Army? I hope they are not hanging around Germany protecting our "allies" from a Warsaw Pact invasion.
    By the month's end, the Army Guard will make up more than 50 percent of the Army's combat force in Iraq, with eight combat brigades on the ground, Blum said. In addition, defense officials said the Air National Guard represents about 12 percent of the Air Force in the Central Command area of operations.

Thank you!

OK, SO what if Harry Potter VI is flying off the shelves at a rate of 250,000 an hour--I sold a book in June. That's right one you out there bought a copy of Crazy Noise, my novel about the sleazier side of my town Tokyo. I hope you like it.  Just think, if I were to sell one a month that would be 12 a year! I can't tell who bought the book, but one of the wholesalers placed an order for a single book the replenish its stock. It took a year of my life to write (in Cape Town). Every reader is precious.

Media gets Roved

THIS IS simply priceless. I can't decide whether the media has just pulled a Jonestown on us and killed itself, or Karl Rove murdered it. Either way, I can't stop laughing.

The Right Stuff

SPEAKING OF London. On top is a pretty good self-portrait Kiyomi took in the City. BELOW is a crowd shot
of some people
at a parade. Sorry, don't know what the parade was all about but Queen Elizabeth II was there.
ALSO IN the crowd were some quite competent looking police.

UPDATE — Crazy Noise

IT'S BEEN far too long since I have posted the next chapter in the novel, but here it is. I could come up with a number of excuses, lame though they might be. In Chapter 7 we introduce one of our important, if secondary, characters, Manny Ramos, an illegal alien from the Philippines. Read it. Of course, this is easy, simply cut and paste. Kiki & Jiji requires I create. Lazy and busy. I hold out hope. I have a week off around Obon maybe I can finally finish the story. That would be nice.
    NOT MUCH to say about the bombing of London. What would once surprise, doesn't anymore. Kiyomi was just over there. Glad she missed it. She saw the queen and a parade. This week we saw the work of devils from hell. The Beeb finally called the terrorists terrorists. Guess there's a difference when they are blowing up people on your own soil rather than in Israel or some other country. At least, they have an excuse when it comes to Israel — the editors at the BBC are unrepentant anti-Semites.
    I am starting to doubt we can win this war. What losing means is unthinkable. But while the Islamic fascists have said they want to kill all infidels—us—until they are blue in the face, much of the American population refuses to believe them. Why, I am not certain. But I do know the terrorists laugh at out weakness. When they call us nonbelievers, they have a point. Many Americans won't fight back because they have nothing to fight for.
    As a consequence our worst politicians continue to provide aid and comfort to the enemy (Lincoln would have hanged them for treason). The Democrats and their fifth column fellow travelers have hamstrung out military efforts.
    Dick Durbin is more valuable to the enemy than a platoon of suicide bombers.  That one soldier should die for a Barbara Boxer or a Harry Reid is a travesty. That they are undercutting our soldier-children in the hopes of picking up a few votes in a coming election is nearly impossible for me to mentally process.
    The left wants you to forget. History is their enemy—appeasers always die. Someday, Nancy Pelosi will slip up and call 9/11 a natural disaster, like a hurricane or an earthquake. Will you believe her?

   
   

Big surprise

SO WHAT else is new?
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Former President Clinton called him a new kind of African leader and international donors tripped over themselves in granting him cash and praise. Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni said all the right things and brought stability to one of Africa's biggest problem countries.
Now, however, the reformist appears to be setting himself up as president-for-life, his critics charge.

Pelosi: Supremes are God

THIS WOULD be funny if it wasn't true. Instead it's side-splitting hilarious. This from a woman that wants to remove God from the public domain. I think she needs to be placed in a mental institution to gain a little perspective, but you be the judge. Nancy Pelosi on Last week's Supreme Court decision in Kelo v. City of New London.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, said she "would oppose any legislation that says that we would withhold funds for the enforcement of any decision of the Supreme Court, no matter how opposed I am to that decision."
    She then added: "And I'm not saying that I'm opposed to this decision."
    Arguing that Congress has no business interfering with the ruling unless it wants to amend the Constitution, Mrs. Pelosi said: "This is almost as if God has spoken."