The Individual Ready Reserve (IRR) is being called up. And some Call-ups balk at reporting. Here is how the article defines what the IRR is for:

The Individual Ready Reserve is made up of 111,000 people who have completed their voluntary Army service commitments and have returned to civilian life but remain eligible to be mobilized in a national emergency.

Where is the national emergency? Can you blame these guys for not showing up?

Or how about this one. Depleted uranium (DU) is some nasty stuff, The war's littlest victim, He was exposed to depleted uranium. His daughter may be paying the price. DU is to this war what agent orange was to Vietnam.

Look what the Republicans tried in Ohio, Blackwell ends paper chase. They were going to throw out voter registrations because they weren't on the right paper!?

The Gallup Poll has lost its objectivity, Play the "How can Gallup..." game.

Al Gore has some advice for Kerry on How to Debate George Bush

The biggest single difference between the debates this year and four years ago is that President Bush cannot simply make promises. He has a record. And I hope that voters will recall the last time Mr. Bush stood on stage for a presidential debate. If elected, he said, he would support allowing Americans to buy prescription drugs from Canada. He promised that his tax cuts would create millions of new jobs. He vowed to end partisan bickering in Washington. Above all, he pledged that if he put American troops into combat: "The force must be strong enough so that the mission can be accomplished. And the exit strategy needs to be well defined."

Comparing these grandiose promises to his failed record, it's enough to make anyone want to, well, sigh.

- posted by Mom/Dad @ 3:04 PM