Not to take anything away from Kerry and Clark, for whose service to the country we should all be grateful, but it strikes us that President Bush's experience as a commander in chief who's led the military in two victories is a more relevant qualification than service in combat a third of a century ago.---Best of the Web Yes, I know it's a repeat, but it bears repeating, since the media is beating this particular dead horse so hard.

The Battle Hymn of Al Gore. He thinks it's 1976. He really had a Dean moment, didn't he? Ed Driscoll has a question for Gore about the "World's Greatest President." Of course, it's not surprising, Clinton had a D after his name, and their hypocrisy is getting more and more blatant.

Powerline Blog: "this is far worse than the kind of foul accusations Lindbergh used to make to those adoring America First audiences before Pearl Harbor."

Bill Quick is shy about how he feels:

This pathetic loser, who literally sold his country to Chinese commies in exchange for filthy blood money contributed to his campaign, has the unmitigated gall to call George Bush a traitor?

If there were any justice, Al Gore would be ashamed to show his oaken face in decent company. But Big Wooden Al is a far-liberal Democrat, which means three things: He's a liar. He's a hypocrite. And he has absolutely no shame.

Dave comments:

There've been other times when hearing Gore has given me the shivers, thinking how close we came to having this clown as President; but this has them all beat, hands down.

Rich's blood failed to sink fast enough, so he didn't get to donate today. However, I'd planned to veg out at home, and in fact cleaned out the spice shelf. I combined duplicates, threw out old things, gave the neighbor all the sprinkles and some arrowroot (which I've used exactly once, though now I'll likely need some next week). Then I actually alphabetized what's left! I'm washing out the old bottles, and will either sell them at a garage sale or donate them to recycling.

Yesterday I had a 191 for one bowling game! If I'd managed to pick up the spare at the end, I could have gone over 200.

Afterwards we went to Schweitzer Grove for a cache. Rich remembers taking Vince there for Laser Tag games. It'd be great. It's currently used for disk golf, and paintball. We were looking for the first part of this multi and an attractive older woman came up and introduced herself, another geocacher. That's three "wild" ones in two days. The second part yielded some plant ties that look like praying mantises. Initially I thought they were for us, but now we believe they're really Monica's.

ObGoe: Heinlein's first book. He loved Heinlein, and we used to argue a LOT about Number of the Beast. (B-O-R-I-N-G!!)