Can Anyone Help Me?

Do they still make honey butter flavored popcorn? I really like it, and it is Ashley's favorite. The problem I have had is that I can not find it on the shelf. Suggestions, anyone? Thanks in advance!

Bill

Gone by morning

Source: The Washington Times Inside The Beltway By John McCaslin
August 6, 2004

Gone by morning
A most ear-opening interview this week with John Kerry's former commanding officer in Vietnam, who told the Kevin McCullough Show in New York that he had asked Mr. Kerry to leave his unit in Vietnam after the issuance of his third Purple Heart.

Former Navy Lt. Thomas Wright said he frequently was forced to confront Mr. Kerry over willful disobedience to orders while aboard Swift Boat patrols.

He told radio host Kevin McCullough that on frequent occasions Mr. Kerry would randomly fire at "things he thought were moving" along the shoreline. The lieutenant stated that protocol was to fire only when the unit was receiving hostile fire. He explained that part of the patrol's goal was to develop contacts with noncombatants living along the rivers.

He said when confronted about his defiance, Mr. Kerry would either claim he didn't hear the orders or insist that he thought "he saw something" moving.

The former commanding officer's boldest claim was that after Mr. Kerry received his third Purple Heart, he and two other ranking officers flat-out asked the now Democratic presidential candidate to leave his unit because his behavior put the group in greater vulnerability and danger.

Mr. Kerry, he said, replied that he would not leave, "but was out of there by morning."


Joyce Notes: Sounds like Lurch a.k.a. Kerry is a cronic flip-flopper going back to his days as a calculating cowboy stiff with a trigger-finger out on the seas of Vietnam. He's by far NO WAR HERO. Lurch is a disgrace during and especially after his four months in the Navy. I repeat: Lurch is by far NO WAR HERO and should not in the least be confused with Arizona Senator John McCain who delayed an earlier release from his captors so that he can return home with other Americans held hostage with him. Lurch is a wimpy stiff with money bags, as well as bags under his eyes when his Botox treatments wear off, that served the minimum to avoid the draft. If this wasn't a political year and if Lurch wasn't running for office, retroactive charges should be filed against him for Dereliction of Duty.

Barbara and Jenna's Journal

Keep up with First Daughters Barbara and Jenna Bush's appearances on the campaign trail this year through their own blog at http://www.georgewbush.com/blog/archives/cat_barbara_and_jennas_journal.html

Kerry: Reagan Was Too Tough on Terrorists

Source: NewsMax.com "Kerry: Reagan Was Too Tough on Terrorists"
June 8, 2004 http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/6/8/145812.shtml

Kerry: Reagan Was Too Tough on Terrorists

Beyond trying to torpedo Ronald Reagan's efforts to free Central America from the Soviet threat, Sen. John Kerry objected when Reagan tried to punish terrorists who killed Americans, arguing that a 1986 retaliatory bombing raid against Col. Moammar Gadhafi was too harsh.

After Reagan ordered air strikes on Ghadafi's presidential compound as punishment for Lybia's involvement in a Berlin disco bombing that had killed a U.S. soldier, Kerry wrote to the White House complaining that the response was "disproportional."

"While I stated that my initial inclination was to support the President," Kerry began, "I pointed out that two essential tests had to be met in determining whether or not the U.S. action was appropriate. First, the United States had to have irrefutable evidence directly linking the [Gadhafi] regime to a terrorist act and, second, our response should be proportional to that act."

Kerry's revealing words, first uncovered in February by radio host Sean Hannity for his recent book, "Deliver Us from Evil," painted Reagan as an out-of-control cowboy whose reckless strategy was bound to fail.

"It is obvious that our response was not proportional to the disco bombing and even violated the Administration's own guidelines to hit clearly defined terrorist targets, thereby minimizing the risk to innocent civilians," he complained.

Kerry said it was a "mistake" for Reagan to have targeted the "head of state of another country - no matter how repugnant we find the leader."

"We are not going to solve the problem of terrorism with this kind of retaliation," he warned. "There are numerous other actions we can take, in concert with our allies, to bring significant pressure to bear on countries supporting or harboring terrorists."

Here's the full text of Kerry's letter blasting Reagan as it appears in Hannity's book "Deliver Us from Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism":

"While I stated that my initial inclination was to support the President, I pointed out that two essential tests had to be met in determining whether or not the U.S. action was appropriate. First, the United States had to have irrefutable evidence directly linking the Qaddafi regime to a terrorist act and, second, our response should be proportional to that act. The evidence was irrefutable that the Qaddafi regime was behind the Berlin disco bombing which claimed the lives of two innocent victims and injured 200 others.

"However, as to the second test, it is obvious that our response was not proportional to the disco bombing and even violated the Administration's own guidelines to hit clearly defined terrorist targets, thereby minimizing the risk to innocent civilians. I believe it was a mistake for us to select as targets areas of heavy civilian concentration, as well as to include the family and home of the head of state of another country - no matter how repugnant we find the leader.

"The fact that the bombing resulted in the deaths of at least 17 civilians certainly undermined the Administration's own justification for the raid. Beyond this point, however, is the fact that we are not going to solve the problem of terrorism with this kind of retaliation. There are numerous other actions we can take, in concert with our allies, to bring significant pressure to bear on countries supporting or harboring terrorists."


Joyce Notes: THE END OF KERRY. Evidently Democrat candidate Lurch the stiff, wants the United States to coddle terrorists instead of put them out of business like President George W. Bush and his 1980s predessor former President Ronald Reagan do. Lurch would ultimately kiss up to them and make the United States vulnerable to blackmail by weaking our defense. If this doesn't spell trouble to you, then you should be living in the Europe where they follow weak defense and are always crumbling under terrorist blackmail. Not a good position to be in, but that's where Kerry wants to take the United States.

Kerry's French connection

Source: The Washington Times Inside Politics By Greg Pierce January 29, 2004

French connection
Former French Environment Minister Brice Lalonde said yesterday that he supports his first cousin Sen. John Kerry in the bid to win the Democratic presidential nomination.

"My cousin's a nice guy, I'd like him to win," Mr. Lalonde told Agence France-Presse. "We saw each other six months ago and even then I was hoping he would be in the running and take the top job."

Mr. Lalonde, who served in France's Socialist Party government from 1988 to 1991 and was the founder of one of France's green parties, Generation Ecologie, on Tuesday revealed that he and Mr. Kerry were related.

"Our two mums were sisters, from a family that during [World War II] spread out and dispersed to the five continents," he told Europe 1 radio.


Joyce Notes: Senator John F'n Kerry, the "French-looking" foul-mouthed Lurch, apparently isn't called "French-looking" for nothing. With a first cousin from France belonging to the French Socialist Party endorsing him proves that Ketchupman is running for high office in the wrong country. With your rhetoric, France is where you belong John.

"Kerry's record" & "Kerry's fault"

Source: The Washington Times Inside Politics By Greg Pierce
February 10, 2004 http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20040209-111049-1013r.htm

Kerry's record
The Wall Street Journal, in an editorial, notes that likely Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry recently disparaged President Bush's service in the National Guard during the Vietnam War, likening it to draft-dodging.

"The far more intriguing story here is why Mr. Kerry is playing this Vietnam-service card. This is the same John Kerry who declared in 1992 that Bill Clinton's draft-avoidance record should be out of political bounds. His precise words, defending Mr. Clinton against an attack from fellow Democrat Bob Kerrey at the time, were that 'We do not need to divide America over who served and how.' Why does he now want to assail Mr. Bush for service that was far more extensive than Mr. Clinton's?" the newspaper asked

"The transparent answer is that the Senator is trying to use his Vietnam biography as a political shield against his national-security voting record....

"We rather doubt this gambit will work, and it shouldn't. A candidate's service history is one window on his character, but far more important is his judgment on the major security issues of his time. In Mr. Kerry's case, he has taken the dovish side of nearly every foreign-policy debate since he entered public life.

"After fighting in Vietnam, he returned to lead the protests against that war and urge the U.S. withdrawal that turned Indochina over to Communist rule for a generation. He was in favor of the nuclear freeze movement in the 1980s that would have frozen the Cold War in place with a Soviet advantage. He denounced the invasion of Grenada in 1983, though he now cites it as an example of a use of force he favors. He also opposed U.S. support for anti-Communist movements in Central America in the 1980s that helped bring democracy to Nicaragua and elsewhere.

"These policy instincts have held even after the Soviet collapse vindicated the Ronald Reagan strategy that Mr. Kerry opposed. The senator voted against the first Gulf War, arguing that Saddam Hussein could be contained without force. But in 2002, he voted to give this President Bush the power to disarm Saddam, only to oppose a year later the $87 billion to finish the job. We'd argue that these votes say more about the policies and judgment of a future President Kerry than does his Navy career."


Joyce Notes: Kerry is such a double-talking, wishy-washy, go where the wind blows, spineless, hypocrite as evidenced in his frequent flip-flopping or unpopular positions (or gambles) he took on the above on our national security. This guy can't even be trusted to hang a picture straight or tell you what the day of the week is.


Source: The Washington Times Inside The Beltway By John McCaslin February 10, 2004

Kerry's fault
A former aide to President Clinton is suggesting that John Kerry and the anti-Vietnam War organization he once led were the real reasons Republicans broke into Watergate in 1972.

Bob Weiner, the 1971-72 Youth Voter Registration director for the Young Democrats office at the Watergate headquarters of the Democratic National Committee and a White House staffer for six years, told this columnist yesterday that he has re-examined Watergate hearing volumes held by the Library of Congress.

He points out that Watergate burglar James McCord testified that the DNC office was broken into because its staff was "working closely with violence groups." Upon further questioning, he repeatedly named the Kerry-led Vietnam Veterans Against the War, which he accused of being "a violence-oriented group."


Joyce Notes: Since finding out that Kerry led Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), a "voilence-oriented group" he now looks more like Louis Farakkahn, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson more then the Massachusetts Governor and former presidental candidate that he was Lieutenant Governor to, Michael Dukakis.

"Playing dodge ball" Inside Politics - The Washington Times July 23, 2004

Source: The Washington Times - Inside Politics by Greg Pierce July 23, 2004

Playing dodge ball
"John Kerry ditched adviser Sandy Berger over the 'Socks Docs' probe, but is stonewalling questions about another national security adviser whose credibility is taking much flak — Bush-basher Joe Wilson," the New York Post's Deborah Orin writes.

"Wilson, a former U.S. diplomat, probably did more damage to Bush's credibility than any other Kerry ally by setting the stage for a year of charges that 'Bush lied' over whether Saddam Hussein was angling to get yellowcake uranium from the African nation of Niger. But a bipartisan Senate intelligence panel report painted Wilson as seriously truth-challenged — and even Wilson's own wife no longer backs up his story, according to a panel member," Miss Orin said.

"Wilson claimed his wife, CIA operative Valerie Plame, had nothing to do with getting him sent on a CIA mission to Niger, but she pleaded amnesia and told the panel's staff: 'I honestly do not recall if I suggested it to my boss.' "

"Lott's Line" Inside Politics - The Washington Times July 30, 2004

Source: The Washington Times - Inside Politics by Greg Pierce July 30, 2004

Lott's line
"U.S. Sen. Trent Lott fired up Neshoba County fair-goers Wednesday when he branded Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry 'a French-speaking socialist from Boston, Massachusetts, who's more liberal than Ted Kennedy,' " the Clarion-Ledger of Jackson, Miss., reports."

It was a line the Mississippi Republican said he'd worked on for a while, and it ignited loud applause from hundreds of Mississippians gathered at Founders' Square [in Philadelphia, Miss.], hub of the 115th annual fair," reporter Andy Kanengiser writes.

"Near cabins with signs like 'Trapp Troop' and 'King's Kastle,' and with Bush-Cheney stickers popping up everywhere, Lott ripped Kerry and his running mate, Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina. "

As some in the crowd at 'Mississippi's Giant House Party' snacked on ice cream sandwiches, Lott said America is waging a war on terrorism and 'you don't want to change horses in the middle of the stream.' "

Lott referred to the Kerry-Edwards ticket as 'waffle and grits.' He called it history's 'most liberal ticket for president of the United States.' "

AN ANNOUNCEMENT

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