Monday, August 30, 2004 from New York
 NOT THE VIEW I EXPECTED
The view from Neal's hotel room
As I compose this note it's Sunday evening in New York. I'm in my 36th floor hotel room looking out toward the Hudson River. Three years ago I wouldn't have been able to see the Hudson River from this room. Eighteen months ago this room, and this whole hotel was empty. I wouldn't be able to see the river because the view would have been blocked by two skyscrapers, and I wouldn't have been staying in this room because this particular hotel was closed for 20 months to repair damage from the collapse of the World Trade Towers. Right below me, Ground Zero. Perhaps the best rooms in NYC during the next four days are the west-facing rooms of this hotel. All we need to do is to walk over to the window to see why what will take place in this city this week is so important. Almost three thousand people died right across the street, victims of hate-filled Muslims with a driving desire to kill. Someone standing in this very window on a Tuesday morning a little more than 1000 days ago would have seen smoke rising to the sky and bodies plummeting toward the streets below. They would have watched in horror until the knock on the door and the mandatory evacuation order came. Minutes later the view from the window would have been grayness, and then the smoking pile of debris and bodies brought to us by the evil of Islamic terrorism. The demonstrators I saw walking by Madison Square Garden today need to stay in this room for a few nights ... preferably after I leave. They need to sleep with the ghosts of 9/11 who know would read their insipid signs and then tell them why war sometimes IS the answer. Then the need to ask themselves if we truly do want to put ourselves in a situation where UN permission or European participation should be a prerequisite to exercising our right to defend ourselves and to pursue and destroy those who openly state and demonstrate their desire and intention kill us ... as many of us as they possibly can. This is an important week ... and there isn't a better hotel room in the city. AND SPEAKING OF YESTERDAY'S DEMONSTRATORS I saw them. So did you if you were watching Fox, CNN, C-SPAN or many of the other alphabets. Forgive me Lord, but what a motley collection of dirty-looking, shaggy, unkempt misfits. It amazes me that there are people in this country who would give the moral high grade to some portly urchin prancing by Madison Square Garden waving a sign which says "F**ing not fighting." I'll bet C-SPAN loved that one. They sure kept the camera on her long enough. To be sure, scattered among the mass of demonstrators you could actually catch a glimpse of someone every now and then who looked like they might actually earn a viable living at some productive enterprise, but for the most part they just looked like your typical "listen to me because I know all there is to know" crowd of young, mindless leftists. Remember back at the Democratic National Convention in Boston, where the protesters were put in a fenced-in camp, unable to march or even walk right past the Fleet Center? The media gave the Democrats a huge pass on this....and it didn't take a rocket scientist to know that blatant media bias was at work. Because now, with the Republican National Convention, the protesters not only are everywhere, but they are the #1 story.
You will hear about every single last protest being held in all of New York City. Why? Because bad news for Bush is good news for the media, who will be working their little hearts out to elect The Poodle. Crowd numbers will be exaggerated, worthless celebrities will be interviewed, as will assorted race warlords and other leftist morons. The conventional wisdom is that the more protests there are, and the larger they are, the more it hurts Bush. So ... you know the routine. Remember the template.
Watch the coverage of the RNC and compare it to the DNC. If that doesn't convince you of media bias, nothing will. BUT THE PEOPLE OF NEW YORK CITY ... ... have been wonderful. So far. Before I got here I heard warnings not to let the locals know that I was actually in town for the convention. We were told that we would be given wrong directions or otherwise harassed. Last night someone saw me looking at a small city map. He asked where I wanted to go. "Little Italy," I told him. He told me which train to take and where to catch it. His information matched what I had already gleaned from the map. Helpful, not hateful. We'll see if that lasts. I have a suspicion that it will. By the way ... most of the people selling souvenirs on the streets of Little Italy are Chinese. It just doesn't seem right. I wonder if you'll find Italians selling souvenirs on the streets of Chinatown. A STRONGER AMERICA At Kerry rallies they have a banner that says "A Stronger America." How do you make America stronger by giving the United Nations veto power over U.S. troop deployments? How do you make America stronger by pandering to Euroweenies who want to see their economic status improved by weakening America? How do you make America stronger by voting against virtually every weapons system that is being used today in our fight against Islamic terrorism? How do you make American stronger by reducing our intelligence budget? How do you make America stronger by pushing a hideously flawed global climate treaty that would cripple American industry? Inquiring minds, and all that ... EXPLOITING 9/11? YOU BET..
The Hildabeast has accused the Republican Party and the Bush administration of exploiting 9/11 by having their convention in New York. Of course, the city was chosen as a show of support to the city, but let's just concede her point for a second. So what?
The Hildabeast can call it exploitation if she wishes. It's more accurate to call it a reminder. The people of American are in dire need of a little reminder of just what happened right her outside my window almost three years ago. If this convention serves that purpose to some degree, so much the better. And our President should also remind people of his actions following September 11th. These are the actions that have defined his presidency. Notice the double-standard here...is The Poodle accused of exploiting Vietnam, which he is clearly doing? Of course not ... at least not by Hillary.
Had George Bush not been president, it is very likely that neither Afghanistan nor Iraq would be free, liberated nations today. Bush understands that Islamic terrorists must be hunted down and destroyed, along with those that harbor them. Do you think Al Gore would have done the same thing? Dream on. If the Democrats had been in charge. we would have handed over the war on terror to the inept appeasers at the United Nations.
As the person directly responsible for the United State's response to September 11th. This convention should do more, not less, to remind Americans of that fact. MORE WHOPPERS FROM THE POODLE
The Poodle has been caught in a couple more lies, and these are pretty good. Maybe not as good as the 'Christmas in Cambodia' one, but still good ones. First up, speaking last year at a Martin Luther King celebration, The Poodle told an audience that he remembered hearing the tragic news of Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination while he was serving in Vietnam. The problem?
John Kerry did not begin his four-month tour of duty in Vietnam until at least 7 months after the shooting. Whoops. "I remember well April 1968, I was serving in Vietnam, a place of violence, " said The Poodle. Does Kerry remember anything that actually happened, or just only concocted memories to make himself look good?
Then there's this regarding a Navy citation, signed by then-Secretary of the Navy John Lehman. This citation was the second such citation for Kerry's Silver Star .. and it was signed in 1986, right around the time Kerry was beginning his Senate career. This Lehman-signed citation had a far more glowing description of the incredible heroism of John Kerry during that action in Vietnam. Now .. here's the rub. Lehman doesn't remember signing that second citation. Lehman says "It is a total mystery to me. I never saw it. I never signed it. I never approved it. And the additional language it contains was not written by me." So .. how did this happen? How did it come to pass that John Kerry suddenly has a second version of a citation for the same Silver Star ... a version much more glowing in its effusive praise for the actions of the heroic Senator? Just how did John Kerry arrange this? We'll never know, my friends, because there won't be any push to find out. And why not? Because Kerry is a Democrat and, as a recent poll shows, 11 out of 12 Beltway journalists want Kerry to win this election. You are just left to imagine what the media reaction would be if it were George Bush sneaking around the halls of the Pentagon trying to have his military records embellished. AND WHAT'S A DAY WITHOUT A LITTLE AVIATION TALK? I flew up to NYC yesterday in a private jet. Yeah, I know, lucky me. This jet had intercontinental capabilities and an inertial guidance navigation system, just like the big boys. I still don't fully understand just how you can navigate an aircraft 5000 miles with a bunch of little gyroscopes, so I asked the crew for an explanation. They handed me an information sheet that explained the process. It was so interesting that I labored into the night transcribing it so that you can share in the knowledge. Here you go: | Aircraft Inertial Guidance Systems The aircraft knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is the greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The Inertial Guidance System uses deviations to generate error signal commands which instruct the aircraft to move from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, arriving at a position where it wasn't, or now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position where it wasn't; thus, it follows logically that the position where it was is the position where it isn't. In the event that the position where the aircraft now is, is not the position where it wasn't, the Inertial Guidance System has acquired a variation. Variations are caused by external factors, the discussions of which are beyond the scope of this report. A variation is the difference between where the aircraft is and where the aircraft wasn't. If the variation is considered to be a factor of significant magnitude, a correction may be applied by the use of the autopilot system. However, use of this correction requires that the aircraft now knows where it was because the variation has modified some of the information which the aircraft has, so it is sure where it isn't. Nevertheless, the aircraft is sure where it isn't (within reason) and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it isn't, where it ought to be from where it wasn't (or vice versa) and integrates the difference with the product of where it shouldn't be and where it was; thus obtaining the difference between its deviation and its variation, which is variable constant called "error". |
Somehow this doesn't seem to be a complete explanation. Maybe there's a page missing. READING ASSIGNMENTS Spy on Neal -- check out the live web cam.
President Bush praised The Poodle's Vietnam service as "more heroic" than his own. But I thought Bush was attacking Kerry's Vietnam service....doesn't look that way. Does First Lady Laura Bush think the swift boat ads are unfair? Not really....good for her.
So why is lifelong Democrat Ed Koch on President George W. Bush's bandwagon? Jeff Jacoby says it's because the Democratic party won't stand up to terrorists.
The polls say this is a close one...the president and The Poodle are neck and neck...but Mark Steyn says something tells him Bush holds all the aces. More election analysis.
Sizing up the race just 64 days out, John Podhoretz says politically, President Bush is not in a bad place.
John McCain warned John Kerry not to make Vietnam the centerpiece of his campaign, and now The Poodle is paying for ignoring that advice. Fred Barnes explains.
The Democrats want the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth to go away, and go away quick. But Jack Kelly says the Swifties are here to stay.
The Clintons are reminding everyone who really runs the Democratic Party...and it's not The Poodle. Their goal is to re-elect George Bush and clear the way for Hillary in '08.
The media had a clear double standard on Ben Ginsberg, the Bush Campaign lawyer also advising the Swift Vets....and they didn't want to hear about Democrats that did the same thing. The Media Research Center has this report.
The Kerry campaign has repeated the Michael Moore charge that the president did nothing for 7 minutes after being told a plane had flown into the World Trade Center. Diana West has the scoop on another example where a president waited even longer.
The Poodle claims President Bush is behind the Swift Boat ads, but as Paul Greenberg points out, he can no more stop the ads than he can start them.
What do fat people, MoveOn.org and the Swift Boat Vets for Truth have in common? Jonah Goldberg has the answer, and it might surprise you.
The race for president has begun in earnest, and Suzanne Fields says there's no time for mixed messages....America is at war against Islamic terrorists who want to kill us all.
Which candidate will do the best job coping with the threat of nuclear terror? All it would take is one dirty bomb....and there is plenty of enriched uranium on the black market. George Will reports.
The Kerry daughters were booed at the MTV Video Music Awards last night. Must've been because Alexandra wasn't wearing the dress (Potentially NSFW.)
Former Olympic athlete Carl Lewis accused President Bush of exploiting the Athens games for political gain. And for what? Speaking the truth.....there were indeed two more nations represented at the Olympic games as a direct result of the war on terrorism. Man too drunk to notice the passenger in his car was decapitated on the way home. | 
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