Front page Archive Why Arlen? Arlen is the TV home of "King of the Hill." It's a small conservative town that is threatened with ruination on a regular basis by twig boys, enviro wackos, diversity nuts, "PC" police and other ivory tower liberals. I like to think of Arlen as a metaphor for this here great nation of ours.

Friday, October 29, 2004 Posted 1:15 PM by Hank "OCTOBER SURPRISE"...INCOMING....? The blogosphere is abuzz that the SwiftBoat Vets have unearthed proof that Kerry was not honorably discharged. At this point it is all rumor and innuendo. However, it's potentially telling that Kerry has now admitted to Tom Brokaw that his military record "is not public" after months of insisting it was. While such a reversal could just be another Kerry "flip-flop," it could also be the first marker being laid by Kerry to claim his "privacy" is "violated" when the story of his discharge goes public. Fasten your seat belts... Thursday, October 28, 2004 Posted 6:01 AM by Hank ITHACA POLICE BAN US FLAG? A letter writer to the Ithaca Journal reports that Ithaca's controversial police chief, Lauren Signer, has ordered officers to remove the American flag from their uniform: Ms. Signer and the deputy chief of the Ithaca Police Department have decided, in their wisdom, to remove the U.S. flag from the police uniform and put a police patch in place of it. The men and women of the police force have been told that if they do not remove the flag they will be charged with gross insubordination. I was told that a small pin (which inaccurately depicts the American flag) will be put on the uniform and that because the city buys the uniforms, the "chief can do as she wants." Ithaca has long claimed to be the "most enlightened city in America," for its extreme liberal policies. Like most liberals, however, the people of Ithaca equate "enlightened" with "anti-American." Wednesday, October 13, 2004 Posted 7:24 AM by Hank THE OCTOBER SURPRISE: KERRY'S DISHONORABLE DISCHARGE? Today's New York Sun is reporting that a "Mystery Surrounds Kerry's Naval Discharge": An official Navy document ...opens a door on a well kept secret about his military service. The document is a form cover letter [that] describes Mr. Kerry's discharge as being subsequent to the review of "a board of officers." The article goes on to note: There is nothing about an ordinary honorable discharge action in the Navy that requires a review by a board of officers. The article goes on to tie the year the review occurred, 1978, with certain policies of then-President Jimmy Carter: The "board of officers" review reported in the ... document is even more extraordinary because it came about "by direction of the President." No normal honorable discharge requires the direction of the president. The president at that time was James Carter. Mr. Carter's first act as president was a general amnesty for draft dodgers and other war protesters....in March 1977 it had been expanded to include other offenders who may have had general, bad conduct, dishonorable discharges, and any other discharge or sentence with negative effect on military records. In those cases the directive outlined a procedure for appeal on a case by case basis before a board of officers. The timing of the review in 1978 is even more suspicious, the Sun reports, because it is six years after Kerry should have received an honorable discharge: Mr. Kerry's military commitment began with his six-year enlistment contract with the Navy on February 18, 1966. His commitment should have terminated in 1972. Furthermore, the article notes, the government had grounds to deny Kerry an honorable discharge due to his anti-war actions "while still a reserve officer of the Navy": For example, while America was still at war, Mr. Kerry had met with the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong delegation to the Paris Peace talks in May 1970 and then held a demonstration in July 1971 in Washington to try to get Congress to accept the enemy's seven point peace proposal Given the above, the Sun's writer has to conclude: The review was likely held to improve Mr. Kerry's status of discharge ...to an honorable discharge. Of course, Kerry could clear up much of this mystery by simply releasing all his military records. However, as the Sun, and others, have reported: Kerry has repeatedly refused to sign Standard Form 180, which would allow the release of all his military records [and] the Naval Personnel Office [has] admitted that they were still withholding about 100 pages of files. So far, this story is confined to the Sun, and the various blog sites out there (including, now, this one). However, if this theory is correct, and if the story gets traction, it could be that the "October surprise" against Kerry is that he, in fact, did not "serve honorably" while in the military, as he has always claimed. Friday, October 01, 2004 Posted 11:57 AM by Hank OBIT ENDORSES BUSH-CHENEY Today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel contained the following paid death notice: Dey, Jeffrey Gordon Publication Date: October 1, 2004 Born to Eternal Life on September 25, 2004, age 48 years. Loving husband of Mary Dey. Father of Jason (Karina), Christopher, Red Reynolds and PFC Benjamin Reynolds. Loving son of Gordon and Carrol Dey. Dear brother of Brian (Amy) Dey. Dear son-in-law of John and Judy Ristow. Dear brother-in-law of Diane, Lisa and Karen. Further survived by aunts, uncles cousins, nieces, nephews and friends. Funeral Service Saturday, Oct. 2, 2004 10:30 AM at MAX A. SASS & SONS-GREENRIDGE CHAPEL. Interment Chapel Hill Cemetery. Visitation Friday, 4-8 PM and thereafter on Sat., 9:30-10:30 AM at the funeral home. Jeff was an avid George W. Bush supporter--Vote for Bush!! It's not often a death notice makes you smile. This one did. Home