Former British PM Margret Thatcher Hospitalized

The ex Prime Minister, 82, was being kept in overnight at St Thomas’ Hospital, central London, for “precautionary tests”.

A spokeswoman for the hospital said Thatcher was in a "stable" condition and speaking to the medical staff.

She was taken ill at 10.15pm and returned to her Pimlico home before being whisked to hospital. Lady Thatcher’s health has deteriorated in recent years and she has had a number of strokes.

The Sun

Now, we need to keep an eye on The Huffington Post. If you'll remember, when Nancy Reagan went into the hospital last month, their "open minded, tolerant, progressive" readers wished for her to die. Saying

collapse: the old bat will probably steal every thing in the hospital room. if she croaks, does she have to give her free house back, cause i guarantee you michael reagan ain't getting tiddly

Klip: Like her evil husband she has lived far too long..Here's hoping the Hag suffers for several weeks then croaks in the tub.

youthrewaspark: "The saddest day of my life was the day John Hinckley missed." --Kiki & Herb

doctordawg: Sounds like her legs are having trouble supporting the weight of her conscience. She'll be fine with her bottomless millionaire healthcare coverage. Remember, she actually does have a choice. Only the good die young.

Conservatives And Law & Order

Some of you may remember that I talked quickly about this in one my previous Random Thoughts posts, but I wanted to go back to it real quick. Why do so many Conservatives, myself included, love Law & Order so much? L&O:SUV for me. They've shown they don't much care for us or our views and yet we're drawn back week after week like a moth to a flame. And, may I add, that, as an Indian, I'm glad to see Adam Beach on SVU. I don't know how long he'll last, but I hope he's a permanent character.

I went looking and found this page. It's a pretty good piece.

President Bush: We Must Get Off Oil

President Bush said Wednesday that the United States has to "get off oil" to reduce dependence on foreign suppliers and declared "it should be obvious" that high demand is creating painful gasoline prices.

Agreed. We have a potential supply of oil in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico. We need to tap into that and see how much is there. That could temporally alleviate the pain at the pump. Then we need to set a deadline, according to how much oil we can get out of those two sites, on when we should have a viable, affordable renewable resource. While most of our oil comes from Canada and Mexico, we get far too much of it from countries that support terrorism. We're helping their economies while killing ours. I wonder how much of the money we've spent on oil from the Middle East may have went into the bombings of the WTC and the embassies in Africa? I wonder how much of it may have went into killing Israelis? How many attacks has our money helped fund?
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Wednesday Hero

Pictured Left to Right
Chief Warrant Officer Mark O'Steen, 43 years old from Ozark, Alabama
Chief Warrant Officer Thomas Gibbons, 31 years old from Prince Frederick, Maryland
Staff Sgt. Daniel L. Kisling Jr., 31 years old from Neosho, Missouri
SSgt. Gregory M. Frampton, 37 years old from Fresno, California

1st Battalion, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regimen
January 30, 2003


"They succeeded where lesser men failed," said Chaplain Robert Glazener. "They proved themselves in ways that men out there who never served, never volunteered, never sacrificed, would never understand. They sought neither glory nor special recognition, but they gained both by their actions. They are the true American heroes today and deserve more honor than we can humbly bestow on them."

The helicopter carrying the men went down seven miles east of the Bagram Air Base while on a training mission.

These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

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Welcome To Jihad-Mart

Wal-Mart has pandered to Muslims in Michigan. Where's my special Wal-Mart?

And Then There Was One

Mike Huckabee bowed to reality Tuesday and out of the Republican presidential race.

"We kept the faith," he told his end-of-the-road rally Tuesday after John McCain clinched the nomination. "I'd rather lose an election than lose the principles that got me into politics in the first place."

Winter's Last Stand

Just a little over two weeks until Spring and Winter has decided to puff it's chest out one last time. A HUGE storm rolled through last night. Some areas, less than 30 miles away, got nothing. Here in my little town, we got hit with 6-8" of snow. Outside my front door was 6". Before I went to bed last night I decided to have a look outside to see what was going one. Almost white out conditions. I could barely see across the street. The good news, at least, is that there was no ice with this one. After that ice storm back in December, another one would have been devastating. Around mid-40's today and 50's tomorrow should melt most of it away.