Late Night Ramblings

I've finally figured out that time management thing that they tell you during your freshman year. Unfortunately, it took almost three and a half years. My light blogging today is a result of working on a paper for my geography class, which took about six or seven hours, and that's with the one hour I lossed due to my computer crashing and deleting a bulk of the paper.

First things first. Quarterback Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts are undefeated!

The Colts became the only team to start consecutive seasons at 8-0 since the Green Bay Packers did it three straight years from 1929-31. And for the first time in his brilliant career, Manning has thrown for 300 yards in three consecutive games.

Here's what the rest of the season looks like as we finish the ninth week of the regular season:
10 Nov 12 BUF
11 Nov 19 @ DAL
12 Nov 26 PHI
13 Dec 3 @ TEN
14 Dec 10 @ JAC
15 Dec 18 CIN
16 Dec 24 @ HOU
17 Dec 31 MIA

I'm just so glad that I do not have to be on campus on December 18th.

The phrase "All politics is local" has a new meaning.

Senator Bayh sees Bush as divisive. Bayh also campaigned with Joe Donnelly.

A conservative district in Kentucky has a contest.

I got this in my inbox and will share it with you.

Once again, the real news in France is conveniently not being reported as it should.

To give you an idea of what's going on in France where there are now between 5 and 6 million Muslims and about 600,000 Jews, here is an email that came from a Jew living in France. Please read! Will the world say nothing - again - as it did in Hitler's time?

He writes, "I AM A JEW -- therefore I am forwarding this to everyone on all my e-mail lists. I will not sit back and do nothing." Nowhere have the flames of anti-Semitism burned more furiously than in France:

In Lyon, a car was rammed into a synagogue and set on fire. In Montpellier, the Jewish religious center was firebombed; so were synagogues in St rasbourg and Marseilles; so was a Jewish school in Creteil - all recently.

A Jewish sports club in Toulouse was attacked with Molotov cocktails, and on the statue of Alfred Dreyfus in Paris, the words "Dirty Jew" were painted. In Bondy, 15 men beat up members of a Jewish football team with sticks and metal bars. The bus that takes Jewish children to school in Aubervilliers has been attacked three times in the last 14 months.

According to the Police, metropolitan Paris has seen 10 to 12 anti-Jewish incidents PER DAY in the past 30 days. Walls in Jewish neighborhoods have been defaced with slogans proclaiming "Jews to the gas chambers" and "Death to the Jews."

A gunman opened fire on a kosher butcher's shop (and, of course, the butcher) in Toulouse, France; a Jewish couple in their 20s were beaten up by five men in Villeurbanne, France. The woman was pregnant; a Jewish school was broken into and vandalized in Sarcelles, France. This was just in the past week.

So I call on you, whether you are a fellow Jew, a friend, or merely a person with the capacity and desire to distinguish decency from depravity, to do, at least, these three simple things:

*First, care enough to stay informed*. Don't ever let yourself become deluded into thinking that this is not your fight. I remind you of what Pastor Neimoller said in World War II: "First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me."

*Second, boycott France and French products*. Only the Arab countries are more toxically anti-Semitic and, unlike them, France exports more than just oil and hatred. So boycott their wines and their perfumes. Boycott their clothes and their foodstuffs. Boycott their movies. Definitely boycott their shores. If we are resolved we can exert amazing pressure and, whatever else we may know about the French, we most certainly know that they are like a cobweb in a hurricane in the face of well directed pressure.

*Third, send this along to your family, your friends, and your co-workers*. Think of all of the people of good conscience that you know and let them know that you and the people that you care about need their help.

*The number one best selling book in France* is *"September 11: The Frightening Fraud,"* which argues that no plane ever hit the Pentagon.

Saddening, isn't it?

Here's an NY Times article with regards to political parodies.

Chris Dodd hopes to cooperate with Lieberman come next year.

Nevada is popular with potential candidates.

Naomi Snieckus has bid adieu to her career at Second City Toronto.

General Wes Clark was back on the trail in Kentucky.

Indiana Congressional candidate Barry Welsh responds to the reports dealing with Congressman Mike Pence.

“Mr. Pence urged President Bush to put the documents online for the sole purpose of building political support for his failed war policy. The Republicans try to scare Americans by saying the Democrats will not keep you safe, yet they are the ones posting a Nuclear Primer on the Internet, in Arabic and easy for terrorists to read. They showed no common sense in their rush to put this material online,” charged Barry Welsh, who is Mike Pence’s Democratic challenger in the coming election. “It shows a reckless disregard for national security to override the objections of the Director of National Intelligence to hurry these documents into public view.”

“We need to hold this Administration, and this Congress, accountable for endangering the safety of the American people.”

An article published in March by the conservative Weekly Standard said Mike Pence was a leader in pushing for the documents to be published. At a meeting with the President he said, "One of your Republican predecessors said, 'Give the people the facts and the Republic will be saved.' There are 3,000 hours of Saddam tapes and millions of pages of other documents that we captured after the war. When will the American public get to see this information?"

The Weekly Standard reported that as the meeting ended, Bush “approached Pence, poked a finger in the congressman's chest, and thanked him for raising the issue. When Pence began to restate his view that the documents should be released, Bush put his hand up, as if to say, ‘I hear you. It will be taken care of.’"

Ben Chandler's status is on the rise.

Kentucky's 3rd District will go down to the wire.

Well, the bloggers are wrong in this case.

Bayh's folks point out that he contributed the maximum allowable $30,000 from his political action committee, an account separate from his Senate fund.

And Bayh has campaigned or raised money for 10 Senate candidates, according to PAC spokesman Dan Pfeiffer, in addition to contributing $100,000 from his PAC to the Indiana Democratic Party and helping many otherDemocratic candidates

Have a good night.