Anyone else find it peculiar that “intelligence” is saying that there are Al Qaeda in the U.S. planning an attack between the political conventions and the election? The first reports just didn’t say that there were Al Qaeda here planning an attack. They went so far as to announce that the attack was being planned to occur between the conventions and the election, conveniently. I, personally, have come to accept the fact that no matter what we do, Al Qaeda and their supporters live, work, and thrive within the boundaries of this country. I am not, however, as receptive of the thought that our “intelligence” has determined that the attack will happen within a specific period of time. American intelligence is an oxymoron when it comes to terrorism. These are the people who tried to pursue a video game character. At any rate, my parents and I agreed months ago that the Bush camp would have found “intelligence” indicating a stragetically timed attack on this country. After all the bad press Bush is dealing with now, you would think that this “intelligence” ploy would’ve been scratched off the list. Jason finds this one fishy and he’s been known to occasionally say good things about Bush. Oh well.

I am a proud Vonage customer. I have telephone service through my cable modem. Yeah you heard right, through the cable modem. I have to say that it’s nice to not have to depend on some baby bell company to tax me up the wazoo for a phone a barely answer. Furthermore, it’s nice to pay nothing extra to call Canada. For the love of god, nothing in North America should be long distance anymore. I can get a cellphone for 19.99 a month and not pay long distance. Don’t the bells understand that they’re pricing themselves right out of friggin’ existence? How many cents a minute to call a city less than two hours a way? They have to be kidding me. Anyway, VoIP telephony and Nextel have freed me from the abuse of the baby bells. I am happy. Yay.