The sixty-first minute

I've been jumping around the net reading about this, and trust me, there is a lot to read about!

To boil it down for anybody who ran across my post & can't get to the link above (there is currently a ton of heavy traffic), the story starts last night...

60 Minutes aired a piece on personal memos supposedly belonging to late Lieutenant Colonel Jerry B. Killian, which state basically that Bush had chosen to miss a physical that was required as part of his continuing National Guard service. The result of this was Bush's move off of active flight duty. This is the gist anyway (my terms may not be exactly correct here, but you get the idea)...

So supposedly now there is strong evidence to support the possibility that these documents were forged. The most prominent is the fact that the memos were typed in a proportional font, common for modern day computers, but supposedly extremely uncommon in the 1970's. A further feature is a number written in a form of "N^th". Where the 'th' postfix is small text raised up to the top portion of the number. Again, very common on modern day desktop computers, supposedly very rare back in the 1970's...

There are now tons of posts/articles what have you jumping all around the internet about the authenticity of the memos, or complete lack there of.

What do I think? I'm not sure. I think the evidence leans strongly towards the possibility of them being fake, but I won't be heart broken to find out they're not... I've read elsewhere that the situation was almost a mute point, mainly due to the fact that Bush was transferring to a new state, and they didn't employ the type of plane he was trained to fly...

Time will tell, I'm going to keep looking around, as there is more to read about this right now than any other blog topic out there. The Drudge Report has some info on it too, and is probably better suited to host the information. If anything comes which absolutely needs mentioning, I will post about it...