Brawl for the Bench

Got a piece published on National Review Online this morning. A day without smacking Ralph Neas is like a day without sunshine.

Red Sox pitcher disses Kerry this morning on GMA

ABC'S CHARLIE GIBSON: "Well, well said, Curt and Shonda. You both have certainly lifelong membership now in the Red Sox nation. It was a great thing to watch, and I think everybody – whether they were great Red Sox fans or not – had to admire what this team did. It was extraordinary, and one of the great stories of sport. And sport always produces such great stories. Curt, Shonda, great to have you with us. Congratulations." CURT AND SHONDA SCHILLING: "Thank You." CURT SCHILLING: "And make sure you tell everybody to vote, and vote Bush next week." (ABC's "Good Morning America," 10/28/04)

It's all in the numbers.....

Some say a picture is worth a thousand words. This may be worth only about 666....

(Hat tip to World Net Daily....)

Well, at least it was a Cadillac.

It's actually getting dangerous out there to support President Bush. Unbelievable story. Some Bush-hating liberal actually tried to RUN CONGRESSWOMAN (and former FL Secretary of State) KATHERINE HARRIS DOWN WITH HIS CAR.

Not making it up.

May I suggest switchin g to decaf with a heavy dollop of Thorazine?

Blood moon, Red Sox....same night. Coincidence?

If you'd like to watch the lunar eclipse tonight, try here.

Good to know -- Top Ten Politically Conservative Colleges

Gig 'em, Aggies.

Dad wanted me to go to Texas A & M. Lots of my family had attended and he really liked the campus, the respect for the military, etc. My grandfather was a proud A & M graduate and he had worked his way through the school by milking the cows at the Ag school every morning and every night.

It would be appropriate here, I guess, to mention that my father is on my mind a great deal today. Two years ago today he passed away.

I had gone out to San Diego to move him out with us in DC for cancer treatment. At the time, I was all of 10 weeks pregnant, but determined to help my father through the fight of his life. When I saw him, I was shocked. My 6'1", 210 lb, Cary Grant lookalike of a father was a gaunt 140 lb and physically devastated by the lymphoma that had ravaged him.

We spent one glorious day and evening together. The last lesson he taught me was about the care of his firearms. I had heard the lesson a thousand times, but was thrilled at the unexplainable burst of energy he was experiencing. That night, he died in his sleep. My world has not been the same since.

My father had been a professional football player, an OSS agent in WWII in both the Pacific and the European theaters, and a widely respected banker. I grieve for him not only because there is no one who can replace a daddy, but also because my wonderful sons will never know their extraordinary grandfather personally.

Rest with the angels, Daddy. You've earned all the peace the heavens can muster for you.

Remind me to buy a Hallmark card

Word has it that Yasser Arafat either is on death's door, or needs a nice nap and a Tums. Spinning is fast and furious on both sides as reports of his condition are veiled in more secrecy than Yuri Andropov in his last days at the Kremlin.

Wondering if he doesn't get the 72 virgins because he isn't murdering infidels and going out in a blaze of glory.

Kerry's harangue about missing explosives in Iraq just went KABOOOOOM!

According to a Washington Times piece by Bill Gertz, the Russkies spent a lot of "quality time" in Iraq. And it wasn't a getaway weekend with the wives and kids to hang out at the Tigris and get a few snapshots.

No, it would appear that the Russian special forces were busy little bees before the Marines arrived. Moving caches of weapons. Shredding documentation of arms transactions. Removing and destroying evidence of any hint of a Russo-Iraqi partnership.

We should never forget that Putin is the former KGB chief. Once KGB, always KGB.

Kerry plans to run an ad about the missing explosives.

Dirty dog dare ya, Senator.

Is Kerry Giving Up Florida???

According to Tony Snow on the O'Reilly Factor tonight, Kerry is pulling up stakes in Florida and betting on Ohio and Wisconsin for the win.

Wondering, though, if Ralph Neas has gotten that memo because he and his merry band of leftist lawyers are still stirring it up in Florida.

Ohio's Secretary of State Ken Blackwell has come under fire from leftists in the past few days as they parrot the "voter suppression" talking points outlined in these recently released memos.

The opportunities for a Kerry win may be shrinking. If Bush does not win the popular vote, look for a well-funded fight against the electoral college.

It's gonna be a long night next Tuesday.

The Daly Report - October 15, 2004

An Open Letter to “Momma T”

Dear Ms. Heinz-Kerry:

At first, I thought you were nothing more than an interesting sidenote to the Kerry campaign. A bit of comic relief, if you will. Heaven knows, the country could use it after watching the painful machinations of your husband as he desperately tries to explain his ever-shifting positions on every policy issue imaginable.

It is time, however, for you to put down the gin-soaked raisins and smell the coffee. Let me say this as clearly as I know how: Motherhood IS a full time job. Despite you and your fellow feminists’ best efforts to belittle stay-at-home moms, we manage more in an hour than many folks do in an entire day.

And there are many of us who are stay at home moms who have managed to have careers while we are at home. That’s right, it may come as a shock to feminists, but it is no longer necessarily an “either-or” option. Technology allows for telecommuting and many careers now are not bound by the old-fashioned notion of physical presence in an office and a 9 to 5 mentality.

You made your money the old-fashioned way, Ms. Heinz-Kerry – you married it. And while there is nothing at all wrong with having money, there is a certain separation from the reality of people’s every day lives. Don’t worry, darling, it happens to most nouveau riche.

Clearly, for example, the reality of motherhood may not have ever hit you foursquare in the face. I can certainly imagine that having a fortune at your disposal allowed you to hire a battalion of nannies, night nurses, chefs and housekeepers to manage the little ones.

And that is your choice.

Just like it was Laura Bush’s choice to leave her career as a teacher and librarian to raise her children. Now I’m quite certain that being a teacher and librarian isn’t a glamorous career that one could brag about at Beacon Hill cocktail parties or the spa in Aspen, but outside of motherhood itself, I cannot imagine a more important choice of occupation than working to educate the children of this nation.

We are proud of Laura Bush as our First Lady because she brought back to the White House a true gentility, a quiet propriety that had been missing for many years. She put the “Lady” back in “First Lady.”

Where there is no doubt that you would provide endless amounts of material for many of us should your husband be elected and you take your road show to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, there is already a generation of young women who have been brainwashed to the notion that their entire sense of value is tied to their career achievements.

So you’ll excuse me if I fervently pray that Laura Bush stays put.

In other words, Ms. Heinz-Kerry, and I think I speak for many stay at home moms, SHOVE IT.

Sincerely,

Kay Daly
Stay at home mom of two darling boys