Update:  Making this a weekend OTA post.  I have to work Sunday, so likely I will not have much to post.

In personal news, I spent much of today guitar amd amp shopping.  I just had to share that.  Wee this blog in a few weeks to see what I bought.

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For todays special Treason edition I am posting Oliver North and Ann Coulter's opinion of the NY Times.  Enjoy.

"Show Me The Money!"

By: Oliver North

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In the movie, "Jerry Maguire," Tom Cruise, playing a sports agent in the title role, euphorically shouts, "Show me the money!" Until this week, when the editors of the New York Times decided to reveal highly classified details about the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program, that's exactly what the U.S. government has been doing to Al Qaeda. In an effort to prevent another Sept. 11, the CIA and Department of the Treasury -- with the help of several U.S. and European financial institutions -- have been secretly mapping terrorist networks through the use of financial data. It's not a secret anymore.

The paper that boasts about delivering "all the news that's fit to print" defends its right to divulge state secrets by arrogantly claiming that "the public has the right to know." In the wake of publishing accounts on how the National Security Agency monitors overseas communications with suspected terrorists and the means by which the CIA has been tracking terrorist finances, the NYT, other media outlets and "civil libertarians" describe those in government who leaked this classified information as "whistleblowers," "patriots" and "watchdogs against government abuse of our right to privacy." They're not. They are traitors.