Just Discovered Arizona Blog

John Moore | April 25, 2004

Arizona Bloggers,
I highly recommend hardworkingamericans.com blog. It’s been around a while but I just found out about it.
Ironically it’s run by the wife of the former proprietor of my favorite restaurant, a great guy who just discovered that I was his former customer and sent me email.
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Pat Tillman Memorial Visit

John Moore | April 25, 2004

I went down today to the ad-hoc Pat Tillman memorial. For Arizonanas, it’s at the north end of the ASU Stadium.
There were people there continuously, and many tributes had been left. I added my military service ribbons to some others there.
I took some pictures but don’t feel like puitting them up yet.
It was very sad, [...]

Pat Tillman – Afghanistan Ceremony

John Moore | April 23, 2004

Sgt Hook, a soldier blogger in Afghanistan happened to witness the sad ceremony there for Pat Tillman.
Read it here.

More on the Kerry Cover-Up

John Moore | April 23, 2004

As revealed here, John Kerry has tried to cover that while a sworn officer in the Navy Reserve he participated in VVAW anti-war activities and made his notorious speech to the U.S. Senate.
Until the release of his records, Kerry’s biography showed his military service as:

1966-1970 Navy
1972-1978 Naval Reserve

This leaves a gap of 2 years not [...]

Kerry Cover-up.

John Moore | April 22, 2004

Kerry Quietly Changes Biography After Records Released
John Kerry’s web site biography used to say[note 1] that he was a Naval Officer until 1970, and then a Naval Reservist from 1972-1978. I and other Vietnam veterans questioned this gap, which conveniently coincided with Kerry’s anti-war activities, and which implied he was not in the military [...]

PULL OUT NOW!

John Moore | April 17, 2004

I received the following by email. The provenance is unknown. Enjoy:
It’s time to reevaluate our involvement.
Every day there are news reports about lack of public safety.
Every night on the TV are photos of death and destruction. Why are we still there?
We occupied this land, which we had to take by force, but [...]

Kerry to the Senate 1971 – Fisked

John Moore | April 16, 2004

Here is a “fisking” of Kerry’s testimony before the U.S. Senate in 1971, where he makes numerous false allegations about his country and the conduct of our soldiers in Vietnam. He also acts as an agent for the enemy, recommending immediate, unconditional surrender. As a Vietnam Veteran, I consider John F. Kerry’s testimony to be [...]

Kerry Raises A Point

John Moore | April 14, 2004

ID Cards – I’m Skeptical of the Skeptic

John Moore | April 13, 2004

Bruce Schneier, in the following article argues that a national ID card system would not make us safer and in fact would be worse than useless.
Schneier is a very smart guy and a well respected practitioner in cryptography, but his arguments too often seem tainted by a bias towards privacy and against security concerns. Personally, [...]

Janet Reno on Priorities

John Moore | April 13, 2004