Talking about records...

[Yonivore]

...how 'bout this?


Navy Contradicts Kerry on Release of Military Records (http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=\SpecialReports\archiv e\200409\SPE20040916a.html)

Excerpts:

"The U.S. Navy released documents Wednesday contradicting claims by Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry that all of his available military records have been released."
...
"Navy Personnel Command FOIA Officer Dave German wrote in an e-mail to Judicial Watch that the Navy 'withheld thirty-one pages of documents from the responsive military personnel service records as we were not provided a release authorization.'"
Didn't Kerry say he'd released everything?

[Yonivore]

So, no one finds it interesting that a federal judge deems it worthy to order the military to turn the furniture over for Bush records -- BY September 24th -- after the White House has publicly stated that the military is free to release and, to the best of anyone's knowledge, has released all existing records concerning the President's service while, at the same time, we hear the Navy is withholding 31 pages of documents from John Kerry's service file because the candidate failed to file the necessary forms to allow their release -- after stating he would release all records?

Nah, no bias here.

[Tommy Duncan]

Frankly I find none of this shit interesting or relevant, just like I could care less about what Bush was doing 30 years ago. About the only issue of note to come out of the Swift Vets/National Guard clusterfuck is some nutjob's attempt at forgery that managed to utterly humiliate Dan Rather and expose him as a partisan hack.

[Yonivore]

Tommy,

I believe the CBS cluster-****, this example, the DNC recruiting lawyers to fight election laws all over the country (they're looking for 10,000) are all signs of a serious ill worth discussing.

[Tommy Duncan]

Well the CBS issue is of interest to me because it perfectly illustrates the degree of partisanship in the so-called "mainstream" media, that which some have claimed is nonexistent.

But of all the issues facing this nation and its government it's definitely not the most important. We have two entitlement programs which are in dire need of serious reform and I've yet to see much said about that. Kerry of course wants to create new ones and expand the old ones. Bush himself did mention such reform at his convention speech but all he did in his 1st term was expand Medicare.

[Yonivore]

"But of all the issues facing this nation and its government it's definitely not the most important."
Unless it achieves its intended purpose.