There were no caches for us yesterday and only one for G&V, and they are now catching us in late Sept at over 2000.

I took Casey to see Shrek2. I really liked it. A lot of the stuff was over the kid's head, but I caught quite a few of the references to other movies, etc. On the other hand, I could have done without the fart jokes, but Casey liked them.

Lileks, read it all. It's too good to excerpt, I'd have to copy it all.

Cristina Rosetti is all over the Oil For Food Scandal cover-up. Get the UN out of the US and v.v!

More on the Algore meltdown: Glenn, (who is from Tennessee): "I was once a big Al Gore fan, but my attitude toward him has gone beyond disappointment. Now it's something more like horror. He's lost it." (I've been glancing at a Tennesean's journal to see his reaction, since I know he admires Gore and swallowed Clinton because of his veep. So far, nothing.)

Blog roundup about the rabble-rousing. Jen: "I've never stopped saying this since November of 2000, but I thank the Lord on my knees that Gore is not the President of this country and that George W. Bush is." Even Maureen Dowd (!!) comments, though she mostly takes on Kerry.

Front Page Mag:

This was not the only history that Gore attempted to rewrite, as he claimed that, "the long successful strategy of containment was abandoned in favor of the new strategy of �preemption.�" Successful? There were five attacks on America by the terrorist enemy on Gore�s watch, beginning with the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 -- all of which went unanswered, which might well explain why al-Qaeda felt emboldened enough to undertake the attacks of 9/11. Containment? Saddam Hussein had tossed the UN inspectors out of Iraq with impunity when the Clinton Administration was too preoccupied with Monica Lewinsky to care. Only Bush's "pre-emptive" extrusion of 100,000 American troops onto the borders of Iraq caused Saddam to change his tune.

Boston Herald(!):

It is Gore who has brought dishonor to his party and to his party's nominee. The real disgrace is that this repugnant human being once held the second highest office in this great land.

More. They point out that the only reason Bush was elected is that the Dems didn't make Clinton resign. I was livid at the time, but obviously, God was watching out for us.

Never Mind the Shrieking, It's Just Al's Disaster Flick (John Fund, in an article that's usually subscriber-only).

David Schneider-Joseph:

The truth is, we need to recognize that the problem of terrorism is not a problem for the Bush Administration, it is a problem for humanity. We are all equally responsible for discovering the solution and implementing it, and, though easy to do, leveling criticism without also recognizing the direness of the problem and presenting an alternative solution, fails to live up to that responsibility.

Heh.

As usual, Scrappleface puts it all into perspective.

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Ah, the European Union.

On Europe.

The Liberal's Creed. I'm tempted to send this to the publisher of our Comic Press News, because he's a strict adherent. He probably wouldn't even notice the contradictions.

This is worrisome.

Peter Robinson:

Food in Iraq is everywhere available, clean water is flowing, electricity is being produced at levels higher than those before the war, hundreds of schools have been rebuilt and some 30,000 teachers trained --and whereas before the war Iraqi civilians were dying untimely deaths at the rate of 36,000 a year, now even an anti-war group estimates that in the last 14 months the number of Iraqi civilians to die unnatural deaths numbers at most about 11,000.

This represents a record of which George W. Bush is supposed to be ashamed?

Roundup of Iraq news (and in the post below this he links to another roundup.)

Kerry, Pompous. But did you know he served in VietNam?

Tom Smith's quiet day at home. Heh.

Hahaha! He's dead.