Along with the recent saber-rattling over Iran, we now have Clinton brandishing her willingness to "pull the trigger" as her qualification for being Commander-in-Chief.

While force is sometimes necessary, after the debacle of the last 8 years, I want to hear about a candidate's ability to prevent wars, not start them. Shouldn't the Democratic Party be talking about how to reduce the hostility in the world, instead of how ready we are to pull triggers?

THE FIRST EVER POSSIBLE SKULL AND BONES MATCHUP: "Rest assured, there are no pictures of them dancing together naked," said David Wade, Mr. Kerry's spokesman. Ok, so maybe not. But both George Bush and John Kerry are graduates of Yale and fellow members of the university's most elitist secret society, Skull and Bones. So if Mr. Kerry becomes the Democratic presidential nominee, the 2004 campaign will represent the first skull-to-skull match-up of Bonesmen in history.

more info was posted on CommonDreams

And Kerry refusing to answer Tim Russert's questions about Skull and Bones and looking a little uncomfortable is on streaming video at: http://www.prisonplanet.com/010104kerryadmits.html

Now, I'm trying not to sound like a complete nutball conspiracy theorist, here.  But I'm not sure I like the idea of the Democratic nominee being someone who's in the same secret society as W. and Daddy Bush, which has had its hands deep into the intellegence and foreign policy establishment in this country over the last 50 years, leading to a national foriegn policy that is all about helping the elites and corporate interests.