Intermission (part one)

Yes... the cheap way out, that is what this post is.... Intermission.

Intermission because I just don't have the time to put up NYC "part deux" yet unless I want to stay up really late... so it is just going to have to wait. Besides, the last post was definitely long enough to keep you busy... if you even made it all the way through, and this next one... It's going to be even longer. It will be about the first full day in the Big Apple after all.

Sooo...... Instead a splash of politics.

I often lavish praise on old Newty Gingrich, and will likely continue to do so.

Gingrich says war on terror 'phony': Former speaker says energy independence is key

You said it Newt.... the less we have to deal with the radicals the better. Right now our thirst for oil from the Middle East is filling the coffers of fundamentalists. It is ironic that for the most part we are pouring money into the region that spews so much resistance our way.

Other gems from the article include, but are not limited to:

• Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Thursday the Bush administration is waging a "phony war" on terrorism, warning that the country is losing ground against the kind of Islamic radicals who attacked the country on Sept. 11, 2001.

• "We have got to get past this partisan baloney, where I'm not allowed to say anything good about Hillary Clinton because 'I'm not a loyal Republican,' and she's not allowed to say anything good about me, or she's not a 'loyal' Democrat. What a stupid way to run a country."

• "We've been engaged in a phony war," said Gingrich. "The only people who have been taking this seriously are the combat military."

• HMMMMMM...... Gingrich said he would lay out in a Sept. 10 speech what a successful U.S. approach to this threat would have looked like over the past six years.