If the terrorists are smart, they will give up on trying to attack us and just sit back and wait, because eventually our entire country is going to be so stupid that people will start sticking their tongues in wall sockets just to see what electricity tastes like. [Link]

Stories from the past week that stood out.

July 13

• “I just learned the Dems are trying to censor Congressmen’s ability to use Twitter Qik YouTube Utterz etc – outrageous and I will fight them.”

July 14

• Democrats break GOP AIDS bill filibuster.
• Polls just in: Obama +17.6 in California, +9.6 in Washington State; McCain +4.0 in North Carolina, +14.7 in Kansas.
• Cheney ‘Repeatedly’ Held ‘Highly Unusual’ Meetings With CIA IG Before Torture Probe Stopped.
• McCain finance co-chair and former New Jersey congressman Jim Courter, chief executive of telecom corporation IDT, is resigning from the campaign after the FCC slapped IDT with a $1.3 million fine last week for failing to disclose information about its contracts in Haiti.

July 16

• “I believe 9/11 could have been prevented if we’d had a Republican president at the time”.
• Just 16% see US on right track.

July 17

• “Sometimes I Confuse What People Tell Me With Reality.”

July 18

• A Cast of 300 Advises Obama on Foreign Policy.
• Obama +9 in New Jersey.
• Diebold Patch May Be Evidence of ’02 Election Tampering.
• George and Laura Bush to divorce after election because of Condi Rice?
• A measure has qualified for San Francisco’s November ballot renaming the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.

July 19

• Bush Administration Promotes Discriminatory Practices Related To Birth Control.
• Kucinich to Investigate Police Surveillance of Peace Groups.
• WBAI Is Recording Readings by Pete Seeger and Others of Kucinich’s Articles of Impeachment
• American voters support 53 – 41 percent giving money to faith-based organizations to help them run social programs. But voters say 77 – 16 percent groups which receive federal funds cannot discriminate by hiring only members of their own faith.
• Former Senator Phil Gramm resigned late Friday as a co-chairman of Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign.
• “U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be the right timeframe for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes,”

July 20

• Final Report on Obama Birth Certificate Forgery.
• “You know, you get to know somebody when you’re traveling in the belly of a C-130 or lifting off in a Blackhawk for somewhere like Fallujah or Kirkuk… We’re the same generation, so we have a comfort level, but I don’t want to overstate any of that. I like him, I hope he likes me.”
• “Phil Gramm the scariest part of John McCain.”
• “Could I mention the presence of my friend, Congressman Steve Pearce, who I believe will be joining me in the United States Senate?”