Freedom and rights , change and a new breath of fresh air seem to be on everyone’s mind this week, perhaps because everyone was sickened by the posing’s over the Judge Samuel Alito Jr confirmation hearings, The NZ Bear has posted An Appeal from Center-Right Bloggers
“We are bloggers with boatloads of opinions, and none of us come close to agreeing with any other one of us all of the time. But we do agree on this: The new leadership in the House of Representatives needs to be thoroughly and transparently free of the taint of the Jack Abramoff scandals, and beyond that, of undue influence of K Street. ”
There is much more, and it is a phenomenon when this many bloggers agree on anything.
A starting point. Which made me think of a article written by Ogre’sPolitics” What is a Right? ”
Which made me think of this from the freedomfolks .
And inevitably led me to something we are, or should be familiar with. “When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”

Some food for (mostly my thoughts ) on this chilly and windy morning in ThisSmallTown,Florida.

I had a note this morning from Stop The ACLU about a news flash regarding al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden’s top lieutenant.
The rumor again and the hope is this time he is dead.
(flash from the Munchkin coroner from the wizard of OZ.. not merely dead, but really, most sincerely dead,this medical examiner could tell the difference between dead and a rumor..)

Pakistani officials tell ABC News that five of those killed were high-level al Qaeda figures, and their bodies are now undergoing forensic tests for positive identification.

Officials say Zawahiri was known to have used safe houses in this area last winter and was believed to be in the area again this winter.

Zawahiri, who appeared just last week in a new videotaped message, had increasingly been taking the operational reins of al Qaeda, and is thought by U.S. officials to be the current true mastermind of the terrorist group.

8 AM UPDATE

The two Pakistani officials told The Associated Press on Saturday that the CIA had acted on incorrect information, and Ayman al-Zawahri was not in the village of Damadola when it came under attack. Al-Zawahri is ranked No. 2 in the al-Qaida terror network, second only to Osama bin Laden.

“Their information was wrong, and our investigations conclude that they acted on a false information,” said a senior intelligence official. His account was confirmed by a senior government official, who said al-Zawahri “was not there.”

The Munchkin coroner from the wizard of OZ.. says sorry the scum is still not merely alive, but really, most sincerely alive.