ONE DAY LEFT

THE TINY LETTERING IN RED UNDER "WARNING" READS:"USE OF DEADLY FORCE AUTHORIZED"...

It is 5:59 am and 70.7 degrees out. Drought continues. Patrick got up, went out, and has now joined Junior downstairs for a nap.

Michelle:

“A young Air Force airman is fighting for his life in Camden, N.J. He was shot on Independence Day by a crazed gunman who reportedly had a beef with the military and the U.S. government and ‘wanted to make a statement’ on the Fourth of July. Have you heard about the plight of 22-year-old McGuire Air Force Base loadmaster Jonathan Schrieken? Probably not. The shooting got no mention in The New York Times—not even a squib in a back section... Now, imagine the scenario flipped: What if a soldier had attempted to murder a peace activist over the holidays in order to ‘make a statement’? The Times would be holding front-page vigil, and Katie Couric’s brow would be furrowed for a week. The yakkity yaks on ‘The View’ would be clucking their tongues about the culture of violence bred by the military—and who knows what Rosie O’Donnell would be dressing her poor child in to exploit the story on her website. Funny how the Root Causes crowd becomes so incurious about the root causes of crime when the suspects are anti-military nutballs and anti-war protesters.” —Michelle Malkin

More later. One day left before we leave for Midwest Geobash 2007 and Area 51.

GO GATORS!