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| Name: | Milan |
| To: | annelids, nematodes and platyhelminthes |
| Re: | De-evolution |
April 20, 2004 (townhall website)
If you love goodness and hate evil, this is a tough time to stay sane.
Israel has killed Abdel Aziz Rantisi, the Hamas terror leader, and almost every nation in the world and the nations' theoretical embodiment, the United Nations, have condemned Israel for doing so.
World leaders and the world organization have said almost nothing about Communist China's ongoing destruction of one of the world's oldest civilizations, Tibet. World leaders have said almost nothing about the Arab enslavement and genocide of non-Arab blacks in Sudan. But they convene world conferences to label Israel, one of the most humane and decent democracies on earth, a pariah.
In order to retain my sanity, I ask the reader's indulgence as I use this column to express personal thoughts.
I have contempt for "the world." I cherish and admire countless individuals, but I have contempt for "the world" and "world opinion." "The world" has never cared about evils inflicted on human beings. The Communist genocides meant nothing to humanity. The Holocaust meant nothing. With almost no exception, the mass atrocities since World War II have likewise absorbed humanity less than the Olympics or the Miss World Contest.
I have contempt for the United Nations. It is one of the great obstacles to goodness and decency on this planet. Its moral record -- outside of a few specialized agencies such as the World Health Organization -- is almost entirely supportive of evil and condemnatory of good. It is dominated by the most morally backward governments in the world -- those from the Arab and Muslim worlds, the Communists during their heyday and African despots. It appointed Libya, a despotic, primitive state, to head its Human Rights Commission, whose members include China, Saudi Arabia and Sudan. Neither the United States nor Israel sits on the Commission.
I regard the European Union with similar revulsion. With little opposition, Europe murdered nearly every Jewish man, woman and child in its midst, and a half-century later provides cover for those in the Middle East who seek to do to the Middle East's Jews exactly what the Nazis did to the European Jews. For the European Union to condemn Israel's killing of a Hamas leader, when Hamas's avowed aim is another Jewish genocide, is so loathsome as to board the incredible. For Germany and France (who, unlike America, have almost never shed blood for the liberty of others) to do everything they can to undermine America's attempt to liberate Iraq is similarly .
As for the international news media and journalists, I regard most of them as aides to evil.
This is not new. The 1932 Pulitzer Prize, American journalism's highest award, was given to Walter Duranty of the New York Times for reporting from the Soviet Union. In his reports, Duranty repeatedly denied Stalin's forced starvation of Ukrainians that led to the murder of more than 6 million of them. The same "newspaper of record" deliberately toned down reporting on the Nazi annihilation of Jews 10 years later so as not to appear "too Jewish."
The Soviet decimation of Afghanistan was so little reported in the international media -- especially radio and television -- that when I talked about its scope and horror on my radio show in the 1980s, listeners kept wondering if I was telling the truth -- they had never heard anything about it.
In the last years of the Saddam Hussein regime, according to John Burns of the New York Times, major news reporters refused to write stories about Iraqi mass murder and atrocities lest the Saddam regime remove their press credentials. For most journalists, and their newspapers and television stations, it was better to lie for Saddam and have a bureau in Baghdad than to tell the truth but have no Baghdad bureau.
And not one international news organization calls Hamas or any of the other Palestinian terror organizations "terrorists."
I love learning and revere the title of "professor," but with few exceptions, universities, too, merit contempt. The vast majority of professors who take positions on social issues are moral fools. They teach millions of students that America and Israel are villains and that the enemies of those decent societies are merely misunderstood victims who are often justified in their hatred. And they loathe the American Judeo-Christian value system that has made the United States the world's land of opportunity and beacon of liberty.
In sum, I feel that I am living in a world that is morally sick. Good is called bad, and bad is called "militant," "victimized," "misunderstood" and "the product of hopelessness," but rarely bad. Only those who fight the bad are called bad.
I am kept sane by the knowledge that there are hundreds of millions of individuals who can still tell the difference between good and evil; by the knowledge that there was never a time that humanity was particularly decent; and by a strong belief that a good God governs the universe even though He allows evil many triumphs. And I believe this God will judge Osama bin Laden and Jacques Chirac appropriately.
| Name: | Military Man |
Message:
Since it is not likely that we are going to go into Saudi Arabia, I say keep letting them in and then slaughter them. Bring them on!
| Name: | Bill Moyers |
| To: | Dennis Prager |
| Re: | Karen Armstrong is a genius |
Message:
Since you are so concerned about morality, perhaps you can write columns to help us incorporate Wally Wahhabi's Morality Quotient into standard high school curricula.
| Name: | Smedley |
| To: | Milan |
I never much cared for Houston. Without trying to harp on you, I never liked Hyattsville either or anything in PG county, but I do understand wanting to move to this area.
My sister lived in Old Town Alexandria back in the early 80's. Last December I went there with my wife for the first time in well over 20 years. Living in a this ugly suburb of Houston makes me really appreciate now the things that make a place like Old Town so great.
I do understand. For our esteemed Smeditor, Old Town is alot like Palo Alto -- quaint with lots of red-brick buildings.
I would kill to get a job there!
What DO you do? Maybe I could get you a lead or two.
| Name: | Answer Man |
| To: | Bordernut |
Message:
Because the UN is full of corrupt pussies. Bigger pussies than you even!
| Name: | Move On |
Message:
That headline is about as embarassing as a faded Gore 2000 bumper-sticker
| Name: | bordertex |
| To: | forum |
Message:
look lets get real
We have a moral obligation to be in Iraq and it is the american government's prerogative, iraqi citizens are free, mass graves no longer exist, rape and torture rooms are closed, a murderous dictator is captured, a murderous dictator's sons exterminated
a free and liberated country
by our american resolve where Saddam Hussein a vicious and murderous dictator has been removed from power and cannot oppress his people anymore
and his vicious and murdersous sons, after being brought to justice by the courageous american forces, shown before the other dictators of the world so that they would see american resolve
because the elected presidency of George Walker Bush and Cheney, have preferred this victorious diplomacy, to free and liberate Iraqi citizens
YES MR. BUSH WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING HOW YOU AND YOUR COURAGEOUS ADMINISTRATION BEGINNING WITH CANDOLEEZA RICE, have courageously and with conviction protected us from terror threats
IT WAS THE FAULT OF SADDAM HUSSEIN THAT HIS SONS HAD TO PAY FOR HIS LIFE WHEN THE INSPECTORS FOUND WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
I believe we have many problems in our country we need to deal with and dealing with Iraq and world terrorists and the threats against this country is the most important, and our president is doing what should be done to protect this country, so thank you mr. bush
IF HILLARY CLINTON WANTS TO WIPE OUT OVERTIME PAY AS SHE THREATENS TO DO, SHE NEEDS TO RECONSIDER THE RAMIFCATIONS OF TAKING FROM AMERICAN KITCHEN TABLES THAT EXTRA LOAF OF BREAD OR THAT extra pair of shoes for school that the slave minimum wages cannot afford
The clinton administration became like the first step of a modern communism where the chinese have already invaded our american government and where for generations the working class has been humiliated to $5.15 p/h as minimum wage because when the democratic party of bill clinton was in power in congress to give us higher wages
they spat on the working class the refusal to allow the republicans to bring the issue to the floor and I mean this was all over C-Span
HEY ZOGBY LET ME TELL YOU WHERE YOU CAN STICK ALL YOUR POLLS because this country will not be manipulated by democrat polls and every body will grab a hand and go vote this democrat vomits out of office for all the fraud they have been
why dont we just re-elect our president george bush.
| Name: | Scotty |
Hi Lee!
| Name: | HILLARY SUPPORTER |
Legislation Designed to Reach Goal of Universal Education by 2015 Washington, DC – In an address at the Council on Foreign Relations, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (NY) today unveiled legislation designed to provide universal basic education for all children throughout the world. Saying it is important to aim high, Senator Clinton pointed to the internationally recognized goal to get all children in school by 2015.
"We will fail to reach this goal unless poor countries make a firm commitment to education and develop credible national education plans. But the developed world needs to step up its investment too," said the Senator.
Although progress has been made in the past decade, the goal of universal education remains a distant one given the shortage of resources available. In her speech, the Senator referred to credible estimates that it will cost between $5 and $10 billion a year in external resources to reach the 2015 goal for primary education alone. The U.S. currently commits about $300 million for global education funding, and while Senator Clinton believes the nation can be proud of this, much more is needed.
Senator Clinton's "Education for All" proposal will significantly increase the availability of resources for global education and provide those resources to countries with strong national plans to educate their children. The bill provides $500 million in 2005, climbing to $2.5 billion by 2009. It will also establish a process to develop a comprehensive global strategy to reach the goal of universal education, while coordinating the efforts of the United States government.
"When I'm at home in New York, visiting communities from Albany to Buffalo to Harlem, I am reminded of how generous Americans are – but this isn't just about being generous. It's about being smart. Because in today's world, we are all more secure when children and adults around the world are taught math and science – instead of hate," said the Senator.
See attached fact sheet for additional information:
SENATOR HILLARY CLINTON'S EDUCATION FOR ALL LEGISLATION Summary and Legislation Responds to the Crisis of Out-of-School Children in Poor Countries
*104 million children ages 6-11 (60 million girls) in developing countries are out of school – (UNESCO 2003)
*Another 150 million are at risk of dropping out before completing primary school. (World Bank Education Advisory Services). In sub-Saharan Africa, nearly 55% of girls do not complete primary school. (World Bank 2003)
1) Donors had promised to get all children in school by 2015
*In April 2000, at the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal, the U.S. and 181 governments committed to the goal of universal education. (See www.unesco.org/efa)
*The United Nations' Millennium Development Goals call for universal primary education by 2015 and gender parity by 2005. (See www.developmentgoals.org)
2) But poor countries are at risk of missing key education goals by 2015
*Only 36 of 155 developing countries have achieved 100 percent primary completion rates – only six countries in sub-Saharan Africa. 86 countries are off-track to reach universal completion of primary school by 2015 (World Bank 2003).
*Already, 76 countries will miss the goal of gender parity in primary school classrooms by 2005. (UNESCO 2003)
Senator Clinton's Education for All Proposal * FIRST EDUCATION FOR ALL LEGISLATION: Amends the U.S. Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to establish universal education in developing countries as a major priority of U.S. foreign assistance efforts.
* $2.5 BILLION BY 2009 TO FUND UNIVERSAL EDUCATION: Includes a bold new commitment of resources tied to strong standards of accountability and performance. It authorizes $500 million in 2005, increasing to $2.5 billion by 2009.
* CONTINGENT FUNDS FLOW ONLY TO COUNTRIES WITH STRONG EDUCATION PLANS: Funding will be contingent on countries developing strong national plans to get all children in school that include clear performance targets, systems of monitoring and accountability, and a commitment of their own financial resources. This mechanism will inspire countries to reform while ensuring that taxpayer dollars only go to countries where we're confident it will reach children in need.
* A GLOBAL STRATEGY TO ACHIEVE EDUCATION FOR ALL (EFA) BY 2015: Establishes process for developing a comprehensive global strategy that strengthens and builds upon the Education For All Fast Track Initiative, an initiative developed in April 2002 that creates a set of benchmarks to monitor the efficiency and quality of national primary education plans, and presents a clear plan for how U.S. efforts will complement those of other donors to reduce duplication and waste. The strategy should leverage the strengths and contributions of private voluntary organizations that can play a critical role in helping countries reach these most vulnerable children.
* NEW HIGH-LEVEL EDUCATION FOR ALL COORDINATOR AND INTERAGENCY TASKFORCE: Creates a new coordinator and interagency task force, with representatives from all U.S. Government agencies involved in international education issues. Without creating a new bureaucracy, they will coordinate efforts to move the U.S. beyond piecemeal approaches and toward comprehensive plans to get all kids in school.
| Name: | Milan |
| To: | Smedley |
2) What DO you do? Maybe I could get you a lead or two.
Message:
1) Neither do I. Hyattsville has gotten downhill in crime, traffic, and sprawl since I was a kid. Moving to the NE does not necesarily mean Hyattsville or much of Northern Virginia for that matter. Even New York would take me much closer than Houston.
I'll suck it in for perhaps another year because even though I am just an adjunct instructor, I get full health benefits and the cost of living here is cheap. This helps because my wife still doesn't have a work permit (and the INS are very unfair to people getting these things without a lawyer.).
2) Thanks for the offer, but this is quite out of your field. I teach biology at a small college. I follow leads closely at several higher education websites. Unfortunately, most decent jobs are posted just as a formality (They have already selected someone). All I know is that I will NEVER accept a post-doctoral research position again (Did it for one year in Connecticut).
So many Asians have undercut the salary in post-docs that it's just glorified indentured servitude. Anyway, teaching jobs have longer vacations, and these techno-wetbacks* can never outcompete us for teaching jobs because of their thick accents.
* No offense intended, my wife is Chinese!
| Name: | Individual |
| Re: | Morris in the New York Post |
Message:
April 20, 2004 -- BOTH of the polling organizations that track the presidential race in daily surveys have concluded that the contest has settled into a stalemate. Scott Rasmussen reports that for eight of the last nine days, President Bush has gotten 45 to 46 percent of the vote, while Sen. John Kerry ranged from 44 to 46 percent. John Zogby shows Kerry ahead by three and reports little movement either way. This "tie" is terrible news for the Bush camp.
One of the (very few) immutable laws of politics is that the undecided vote almost always goes against the incumbent. Consider the past seven presidential elections in which an incumbent ran (1964, '72, '76, '80, '84, '92, and '96) - that is, look at the final vote versus the last Gallup or Harris polls. My analysis shows that the challengers (Goldwater, McGovern, Carter, Reagan, Mondale, Perot, Clinton, and Dole) got 85 percent of the undecided vote. Even incumbents who won got only 15 percent of those who reported that they were undecided in the final polls. So . . . when Bush and Kerry are tied, the challenger really has the upper hand.
More bad news for Bush: Democrats usually grow 2-3 points right before Election Day as downscale voters who have not paid much attention to the election, suddenly tune in and "come home" to their traditional Democratic Party moorings. Remember, virtually every poll (except Zogby) showed Bush slightly ahead of Al Gore as the 2000 election approached - yet Gore outpolled Bush by 500,000 votes.
| Name: | Bystander |
| To: | Individual |
Message:
Please show us where y said Kerry would win.
| Name: | Barbara Stock |
| Re: | Through The Looking Glass |
This was the week we all heard a plethora of reporters grill the President on such vital topics as, “When are you going to admit you are responsible for the September 11, 2001 attack on America?” and the immortal, “When are you going to admit you’ve made so many mistakes.” My guess is that the enemy passed out popcorn and was rolling on the floor with spasms of laughter over that press conference that gave him a total pass for the 9/11 attack. Those on the left forgot that it was the terrorists, aka--“the enemy”--that carried out that attack. You remember “the enemy”--not George Bush--I’m referring to Osama bin Laden and company--that enemy.
Within a month of the attack, the leftists had shoved the blame off the terrorists and onto the President and the country as a whole--and the Crusades. President Bush is their enemy--let no foreign terrorist stand before them. America is evil and deserved to be attacked. I had a liberal tell me that just this week. “We are horrible bullies and should expect to get our noses bloodied.” He said. “Face it,” he preached to me, “we deserved it.” I’m still stunned by that remark, though I have heard a hundred times from liberals who write to me.
Bin Laden put in his two cents this week. He would stop the killing in Europe if they would just quit helping the U.S. in our pursuit of his hide. This is a kind of confession, is it not? If there were any doubt bin Laden and his merry band of terrorists were behind the killing before, it should be put to rest by the latest from Osama’s top forty.
This was a signal that Osama is getting just a little tense about how close he is to becoming a martyr for his cause, which he really doesn’t want to be, and how many of his plans are being thwarted. Many of his followers have been killed or captured and he has got to be wondering when this all went wrong for him. The last part is the easy one to answer. It went wrong for bin Laden when Bill Clinton left office and George Bush took over and the attack of 9/11 went on as planned. When you think about it, it’s been all down hill for bin Laden ever since.
He made a monumental miscalculation and he and his rabid followers will be paying for it for years to come. That is, he will pay as long as Bush is re-elected. If Bush looses, he will have at least four years to regroup and plan more attacks as Kerry traverses the world apologizing for putting those tall buildings up in the terrorists’ way as they decided to joy-fly over New York City.
There were some 9/11 Commission hearings this week. Americans learned about “walls” that were erected to protect the terrorists’ rights while they were vacationing here in the States. We all heard that had it not been for this “wall” we could have accessed Zacarias Moussaoui’s laptop where the 9/11 attack was laid out three weeks prior to 9/11. Moussaoui is better known as “20th hijacker.”
This now infamous wall was first built in the mid-1970’s as a reaction to Watergate. It was made absolutely insurmountable by Jamie Gorelick, Janet Reno’s next in command. The problem is two-fold. She should not be on the Commission in the first place and because she is on the Commission, she cannot be called as a witness. Tom Daschle was one that put her on that Commission. When you think about it, the plan to shield her from testifying was brilliant in its simplicity.
Another question comes to mind. Ms. Gorelick felt the sudden need to make a law that had been working quite effectively for two decades even more impossible for those given the task of putting all those dots together. Her recommendation was sent directly to President Clinton who got so excited about it that he made it an Executive Order. Put simply, it ordered our FBI and CIA to talk to no one, about anything, at any time, for any reason—period. It apparently was followed to the letter, hence, we were blindsided in September of 2001. The question that keeps surfacing in my mind is a simple one—WHY?
The week has ended with the hit on a man who has probably killed more innocent people than bin Laden. The Israelis kept their word. They gave fair warning to whomever took over the top spot in the terror organization Hamas—“show your face and die.” Today, Rantisi did both. Abdel Aziz Rantisi, proud head and co-founder of one the world’s most famous groups of killers, the proud parent of the suicide bomber plan, was given a missile to chew on and it gave him extreme indigestion.
Despite this man’s illustrious history of terror and killing of innocent people by the dozen, his practice of sending children to kill for him, the world was outraged by his demise. These are the same people who refuse to condemn any terrorism carried out against Israel. America is routinely damned for vetoing United Nations resolutions condemning Israel because most in the U.N. steadfastly refuse to also condemn suicide bombers. For many in the U.N., suicide bombers who blow up buses full of school children are not to be condemned, but the removal of the animal that plans those bombings…is.
Is it any wonder that people can feel like they are at some mad tea-party these days? Liberals want apologies from the wrong people, key witnesses are asking the questions and suicide bombers are revered and those that kill them, condemned.
I see that White Rabbit coming now and I can’t wait to ruin his day by telling him about the time change.
| Name: | The Cold Hard Facts |
| To: | SPINdividual |
Message:
Learn to read SPINdividual. Morris says no such thing.
| Name: | More Bad News for Democrats and Individual |
CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll.(April 16-18, 2004) Bush 51% Kerry 46%
ABC News/Washington Post Poll.(April 15-18, 2004) Bush 48% Kerry 43%
| Name: | Smedley |
Message:
The INS is a joke. It's worse than a joke, it's DANGEROUSLY inept.
And as to your wife -- have her start her own business. This is the perfect opportunity -- tutoring, dogwalking, web-design, brainsurgery -- whatever she can do.
| Name: | khobar |
Bottled water and domestic filters are everywhere. Why can't politicians raise the money to install up-to-date systems?
| Name: | Living On Tap Water In splendid Health |
| To: | Ghoobar |
| Re: | The water is fine, especially in New York City! |
Message:
There is nothing wrong with the water. You are a hysterical fool. Bottled water is for silly, trend-following people with more money than sense.
| Name: | New Yorker |
| To: | Goober |
Message:
Becasue they're tappedout? Too much going to pay off teachers unions and funding affirmative action programs. Choke on that sucka!!!!!
| Name: | Scotty Tolbert |
| To: | Hi Lee |
| Name: | Scotty |
| To: | Lee Bo |
| Name: | Scotty |
| To: | Glory Glory Glory |
| Name: | Lord of Flies |
I Think It Should Be Legal Because If Alcohol Is Y Aint Pot Makes No Since Man Tax It Like Beer It Helps Cancer It Helps Alot Of Things Come On Man
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Anon3491 writes on 4/19/04 at 22:22:09
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END THE INSULT, LEGALIZE MARAJUANA.
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dutch writes on 4/19/04 at 17:24:34
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Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry [whew!], was born in Mozambique, the daughter of a Portuguese physician, and was educated in Switzerland and South Africa. Fluent in five languages, she was working as a United Nations interpreter in Geneva in the mid-60's when she met a handsome young American, H. John Heinz, III, who worked at a bank in Geneva. He told her his family was "in the food business."
They were married in 1966 and returned to Pittsburgh where his family ran the giant H.J. Heinz food company. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1971, and in 1976 he was elected to the first of three terms in the United States Senate.
Senator H. John Heinz was a friend of mine - not a close friend, not a golfing buddy, but a friend nonetheless. The last time I saw him alive was, oddly enough, in the men's restroom at the Maverick Steakhouse, a favorite nighttime eatery and watering hole for politicians and lobbyists in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
The senator was standing at a wash basin, drying his hands, when I entered the room. When he turned and saw me he rushed toward me, threw his arms around me, and said, "Paul, it's good to see you!" All I could do was mumble, "Senator, do you really think we should be seen hugging each other in a men's restroom?" He didn't think so, and neither did I, but we shared a good laugh over his impromptu display of affection.
Several years later, in 1991, he was killed when his plane collided with a Sun Oil Company helicopter over a Philadelphia suburb - the same helicopter that I often used to travel between Philadelphia and Washington, DC. The senator, his pilot and copilot, and both of Sun's helicopter pilots were killed. He was survived by his wife, Teresa, and their three young sons.
Four years later, after inheriting Heinz's $500 million fortune, she married Senator John Forbes Kerry, the liberal junior senator from Massachusetts. She became a registered Democrat and the process of her radicalization was set in motion.
Heinz Kerry is not shy about telling people that she required Kerry to sign a pre-nuptial agreement before they were married. John Kerry may not have checkwriting privileges on the Heinz catsup and pickle fortune, but he is certainly a willing and uncomplaining beneficiary of it. A lot of hard-earned money, made through many years of hawking catsup, pickles, and soup, has fallen into the hands of two people who despise successful entrepreneurship and who believe in the confiscatory redistribution of wealth.
So how does Mrs. Heinz Kerry spend John Heinz's money? Just one example:
According to the G2 Bulletin, an online intelligence newsletter of WorldNetDaily, in the years between 1995-2001 she gave more than $4 million to an organization called the Tides Foundation. And what does the Tides Foundation do with John Heinz's money?
They support numerous antiwar groups, including Ramsey Clark's International Action Center. Clark has offered to defend Saddam Hussein when he's tried.
| Name: | Milan |
| To: | Smedley |
Message:
Don't get me started!
I have sent them one note and two letters since January (one certified) requesting that they send me confirmation for my wife's residency application that I sent in October!. A month ago I even wrote the auditing department in D.C.
Yes, I DID go to their office building back in January, but the officer told me that the office that deals with these things does not give out phone numbers or email. It can only be contacted by notes or "letters".
Needless to say, none of my messages has been answered.
Two weeks ago I wrote my congressman in D.C., so I am pretty confident the problem will finally be solved. This same comgressman expedited her fiancee visa.
In a recent episode of "Law and Order" Brisco and his collegue went to the INS office to collect information on an immigrant who had been murdered. I got a vicarious delight in seeing how this great series depicted the INS bureaucrats as lazy, rude, and uncooperative.
...And to think this disgraceful agency has now merged with the department of Homeland Security!
| Name: | Wally Wahhabi |
| To: | Milan |
| Re: | How to make peace with jihadis |
* No offense intended, my wife is Chinese!
Message:
If you can't beat them, marry them!
| Name: | Rublev |
| To: | Wally Wahhabi |
| Re: | piece of jihadi |
Message:
Given that Muslim men are so notoriously misogynistic,
I suppose a Muslim wife would be willing to put up with alot of crap from jerks here at home.
As for women marrying jihadis, this should provide the ideal outlet for American women with very poor self-esteem!
| Name: | Az402846109 |
| Re: | Bottom-end loser Gals |
Message:
Well, I guess if the Jihadis get popular with the mullets, those poor guys on Death Row will have to get furloughed to Frisco and marry each other now!
| Name: | Raccoon Mary |
| To: | Squinty At The Keyhole |
| Re: | Shiney black shoes always squeak. |
Message:
Yo! Ashcroft!! what's shakin'? When you gonna let JUUlie out of your jail?
| Name: | Khobar |
| Name: | Mother |
| To: | Khobar |
Message:
Because I said so.
| Name: | Q.D. Bassinger |
| To: | Khobar |
Message:
Why should I pay some damned idiot's doctor bills?
| Name: | Dierdre Huffstuttle |
| To: | Khobar |
| Re: | He will have a 3-wheel bike with a little box on the back... |
Message:
I can't wait to see President Kerry in his little monkey suit delivering bottled water door-to-door to the all the poorpeople!
| Name: | Cigarette King |
| To: | Khobar |
Message:
I can't wait to see President Kerry in his little monkey suit delivering jobs door-to-door to the all the poorpeople!
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| Name: | Theresa Heinz |
| To: | All |
Message:
He can damned well deliver ice cubes to Eskimos for all I care, just as long as he stays the hell out from underfoot.
| Name: | Hi Lee |
| Name: | Socialist |
| Name: | Baby Namer |
| Name: | Curious |
| Name: | John Kerry |
| To: | Curious |
| Re: | We must surrender to the U.N. at once! |
Message:
I'm amazed that you asked that question. I'm John Kerry, and I was in Vietnam. That's all you need to know, littleman. It is not for us to resist the Jihadis, or to attempt to reason with them. It is for us to acommodate them.
| Name: | His Highness the Exhaulted John F'ing Kerry |
This week, Sen. John Kerry accused the administration of playing global politics with gas prices. Under scrutiny, that scandalous charge raises more questions about Mr. Kerry than President Bush.
The source of the allegations was Bob Woodward's recently published book, "Plan of Attack." Mr. Woodward wrote that the Saudis planed "to fine-tune oil prices to prime the economy in 2004." Mr. Kerry seized upon the text to accuse Mr. Bush of making a "secret deal" with the Saudis to reduce oil prices in time for the election.
Representatives from the Saudi government — including Ambassador Prince Bandar bin Sultan — have strongly denied making such a sweetheart deal, as have members of the Bush administration. But taking Mr. Woodward's words at face value has put Mr. Kerry on both sides of the issue.
Scarcely a month ago, the presumptive Democratic nominee was chiding Mr. Bush for his failure to engage Middle Eastern oil producers. In a March 30 statement, Mr. Kerry claimed, "I'll use real diplomacy to do what George Bush hasn't — pressure OPEC to start providing more oil." The release added, "As president, John Kerry will engage in diplomacy to ensure that U.S. consumers are not held hostage to price fixing by OPEC." A few days later, Mr. Kerry said, "By treating the Saudis with kid gloves, the president is giving them the green light to produce less oil and drive prices up."
Mr. Kerry cannot have it both ways on this point. Mr. Bush cannot be in intimate collusion with the Saudis to reduce oil prices at the precise moment he needs an election boost, while at the same time having completely ineffective negotiations with them to increase oil supplies.
Taking Mr. Woodward's word for what Bush was actually doing — instead of what Mr. Kerry alleges — clears the picture, especially since Mr. Woodward said in an interview on "Larry King Live" Monday night that "[Mr.] Kerry has taken this to the next level." According to an analysis of Mr. Woodward's book by USA Today's Mark Memmott, during a Feb. 24, 2003, meeting that Prince Bandar was not at, Mr. Bush expressed concern about "the adequacy of the oil market" to absorb temporary wartime shortfalls and wondered about the ability of other Arab states to compensate. The 2004 election was not mentioned. During his conversation with Mr. King, Mr. Woodward elaborated, "I say in the book that the Saudis ... hoped to keep oil prices low during the period for — before the election because of its impact on the economy." Prince Bandar, who called in to the show, concurred, adding that there was "nothing unusual" with such a presidential practice. "President Clinton asked us to keep the prices down in the year 2000," he said. "In fact, I can go back to 1979, President Carter asked us to keep the prices down to avoid the malaise."
In other words, over the past year, Mr. Bush has been doing exactly what Mr. Kerry says he would do as president. Mr. Kerry should clarify his position before he makes more pungent charges.
| Name: | John Kerry |
| Re: | My military records |
| Name: | Greenspew |
| To: | John Kohn Kerry |
Message:
That will seal the doom of the Black Ferret, Mr. Kerry. That is a deeply disturbing position for you to take as we approach EARTH DAY here on a planet in crisis!!
| Name: | Curious |
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Since the editors stance is that because Hillary and Bill raised a daughter who graduated from Stanford, is anyone who had a kid who graduated from Stanford qualified to run the village?
What about Oxford?
Is a child graduating from only elite private universities that qualifies one to run the village? Are parents that have kids graduate with honors from public universities somehow unqualified?
Is Chelsea being carried out of London pubs dead drunk on many occasions somehow better than getting a ticket for underaged drinking?
Is Hillary the only one in the world qualified to run the village?
| Name: | Smedley |
| To: | Milan |
Message: Don't get me started! I have sent them one note and two letters since January (one certified) requesting that they send me confirmation for my wife's residency application that I sent in October!. A month ago I even wrote the auditing department in D.C. ...
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Dude, might I make a suggestion.
GO to your congressman and BOTH SENATORS, and explain the situation.
Go in person. Write a letter to each pol, but GO IN PERSON.
Make some noise.
Letters (not emails) and especially personal appearances make a big impression on pols. Do a bit of research on these Pol's positions -- talk to them stating things like "I'm very supportive on your initiative regarding ILLEGAL immigration." (likely in border states) "However, my wife is not only a legal immigrant, but she's healthy, well-educated, law-abiding and much DESIRES to be a productive member of her adopted country."
"I'm only ASKING that the INS to do what it is SUPPOSE to do."
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Also consider letters (not emails) to Senators with direct oversight over the INS as well as the Governor's office.
| Name: | Larry King |
| To: | Hyena |
| Re: | Michael Moore’s Fantasy Girl |
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Question that you will never hear asked: "What the hell are you laughing at"
| Name: | Lord of Flies |
| To: | Blind Followers |
I think I have that about right. This is a paraphrase of the official Democratic Party line on the war--the same war to which they assented when they were stampeded by their own craven opportunism into giving Cheney and his ugly pet unlimited authority to attack Iraq.
So now both parties find themselves trapped in their own oh-so-special cul-de-sacs. The Republicans are stuck with an untenable military occupation and the Democrats are stuck with an idiotic critique. The Republicans can't speak about oil, and the Democrats can't speak about Zionism. So everyone is stuck with the same ty end of the stick--reduced to talking in tongues to justify the bloody occupation of Iraq to an every more skeptical American polity.
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.........American Abrams tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles bristle around Fallujah and Najaf--the latter established as a no-cross line by Ayatollah al-Sistani--and reconstruction crews are bailing like rats off a sinking ship. The Spaniards are leaving, Japan is on the brink of a political crisis, and there are hostages held from the United States, Denmark, Italy, Israel, France, the Czech Republic, and Japan.
The Sunnis and the Shias are forming tactical alliances, meaning GWB has accomplished something after all--he has re-awakened pan-Arab nationalism, and with that re-awakened the brooding peshmerga to the north and further north the Turkish army.
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Everywhere any Democrat candidate shows up in public, we need to be dogging his or her footsteps and confronting them in front of the cameras with the very questions they least want to hear, as a way to go after sections of the Democratic Party base with a public-education effort.
| Name: | Why John Kerry will never be president |
Heinz Co. Is Campaign Weapon for Bush
Tue Apr 20, 3:45 PM ET
By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Though John Kerry (news - web sites)'s wife is an heir to the H.J. Heinz Co. fortune, the food company and its executives are providing President Bush (news - web sites) with money and a campaign issue — jobs flowing overseas — in this year's election.
| Name: | Jonah Goldberg |
| Re: | A question of patriotism |
As Mort Kondracke of Roll Call has been dutifully chronicling, ever since Kerry became the unofficial nominee, Kerry has claimed that criticism of his record equals criticism of his patriotism.
In February, when Ed Gillespie, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, listed the number of defense programs Kerry opposed - the MX missile, the B-1 bomber, the Tomahawk missile, the Apache helicopter, the Patriot missile, the Harrier jet and the F-15 fighter aircraft -Kerry's campaign manager immediately replied, "Today, RNC chair Ed Gillespie made another desperate attack on the patriotism of John Kerry."
And just this week Kerry denounced what he calls the administration's "twisted sense of morality and ethics" for questioning his patriotism.
"I fought under that flag and I saw that flag draped over the coffins of friends," Kerry declared, referencing his service in Vietnam for the 12,098,876,918th time by my rough count. "I'm tired of Karl Rove and Cheney and a bunch of people who went out of their way to avoid the chance to serve when they had the chance," he said.
According to The Washington Post, after one of these outbursts, Kerry was asked by reporters if he knew anything about Karl Rove's draft record. Kerry said he didn't, but "I'm just not going to be accused by any of these people of not being strong on defense, period."
So there you have it. Kerry leaves us with nothing but bad choices. If we truly think Kerry is, in fact, too soft of defense we can either A) lie, B) tell the truth and weather the accusations that we are "questioning his patriotism," or C) simply cut to the chase and question his patriotism directly.
Now, I don't really think Kerry's unpatriotic. But at the same time, I don't think it'd be the worst thing in the world to say so if it were true. If patriotism is defined as love of country, I fail to see why it's out of bounds to say that some people love America more - or less - than others.
Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, novelist Barbara Kingsolver declared,
"Patriotism threatens free speech with death... It despises people of foreign birth. It has specifically blamed homosexuals, feminists and the American Civil Liberties Union. In other words, the American flag stands for intimidation, censorship, violence, bigotry, sexism, homophobia and shoving the Constitution through a paper shredder. Whom are we calling terrorists here?"
I have limited space here, but statements fundamentally similar to Kingsolver's are easy to find. Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore, Susan Sontag, Katha Pollitt, Oliver Stone: people like these have all added to the rich oeuvre of blame-America-first.
Not all of their statements are nearly so moronic or ill-timed, but I am at a complete loss as to why I can't say someone who agrees with Kingsolver, never mind Kingsolver herself, is less patriotic than the typical guy playing pool at an American Legion post.
Professional liberals have invested a vast amount of time and energy popularizing the notion that the worst thing in the world is to question the patriotism of someone to your left. I agree that it's not very nice, especially if it's unfounded. But I don't think questioning someone's patriotism is any worse than questioning their decency.
For generations, Democratic candidates and liberal journalists have asserted with impunity that Republicans, by their very nature, hate blacks, gays, children, the poor, the environment, animals and immigrants.
Al Gore ran as a champion of the "people against the powerful," claiming he cared about Americans more than Bush. His campaign manager declared that Republicans "have no love and no joy. They'd rather take pictures with black children than feed them." Clinton routinely said that the GOP wanted to "punish" children. The organizers of the Million Mom March insisted that "good" moms support gun control.
Again: Why is it fair game to question conservatives' love or loyalty to children or to their fellow man, but beyond the pale to question liberals' love of country?
In fact, I think liberal defensiveness sometimes undermines their case. After all, if I angrily asked, "Are you saying I'm gay?" as often as liberals say, "Are you questioning my patriotism?" a lot of people would think I'm hiding something.
Here's the kicker, as Kondracke and others have noted. Kerry is lying when he says the White House has been questioning his patriotism. The only politicians who've been throwing around the unpatriotic charges have been the Democrats.
During the primaries, Howard Dean declared, John Ashcroft "is no patriot. He's a direct descendant of Joseph McCarthy" and John Kerry declared that Bush's economic policies are "unpatriotic." When pressed on such statements, the Democrats routinely cite Bush's record on this or that.
Get it? If I point out John Kerry voted against, say, the MX Missile, I'm questioning his patriotism. But when John Kerry questions Bush's patriotism, he's merely criticizing Bush's record.
Welcome to the funhouse, folks.
| Name: | Slimmerson 2M's |
I sincerely hope everyone has been carrying on fine without me and I am sure I will find someone to agree or disagree with.
| Name: | I'm so scared that SIN can't WIN |
| To: | forum |
| Re: | NY Times writer is LATE and he's not even in the obituaries! |
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Posted on Wed, Apr. 21, 2004
Texas governor pushes 'sin' taxes to fund schools
BY DAVID CAY JOHNSTON
New York Times
AUSTIN, Texas - How much money Texas spends to teach children reading, writing and arithmetic may soon depend in part on how successful women like Vanity, Destiny and Rio of the Yellow Rose, a topless bar in this state capital, are in attracting customers.
Gov. Rick Perry called the Legislature into special session Tuesday to change the way public education is financed in Texas. He wants to give billions of dollars in property tax reductions to the most affluent homeowners while making up part of the revenue loss through vastly expanding legal gambling, increasing cigarette taxes by $1 a pack, raising taxes on alcoholic drinks and collecting a tax of at least $5 each time a patron enters a topless bar.
The governor's plan faces an uncertain future, but it seems likely that Texas will adopt at least some of his "sin tax" proposals.
The idea that the education of future generations should depend on increasing sin taxes is not unique to Texas. Across the country, politicians, eager to avoid anything that looks like a tax increase, are turning to levies on what Perry, a Republican, calls "unhealthy behaviors."
"What we are seeing is renewed interest across the states in taxing vices," said Bert Waisanen, a tax policy specialist at the National Conference of State Legislatures.
| Name: | Smedley |
| Re: | True Fact |
http://www.washtimes.com/national/pruden.htm
| Name: | La Shawn Barber |
| Re: | The State Of The (Liberal) News Media |
Sorry, Tom, but you and the rest of the Bush-bashers have been exposed. Your industry is just finding out what the rest of America already knows: The mainstream media is biased toward the left.
Worthy of front page headlines, was released last month by the Project for Excellence in Journalism ("Project") with little fanfare and scant coverage.
Why?
"Americans think journalists are sloppier, less professional, less moral, less caring, more biased, less honest about their mistakes and generally more harmful to democracy than they did in the 1980s." That's why.
This is news only to the liberal media.
According to the report, 36 percent of Americans think news organizations are immoral, up from 13 percent. Fifty-nine percent of Americans think news organizations are politically biased, up from 45 percent. The believability of ABC News, CBS and NBC has declined.
Those findings were foreshadowed last summer when the Pew Research Center for People & the Press released similarly damning statistics. Sixty-six percent of FOX News viewers see the press as liberal, compared to 54 percent of network news viewers and 47 percent of CNN viewers. Twice as many Americans (51 percent) say the media is politically biased toward the left than say it's conservative (26 percent).
In a classic understatement, the Project contended that there is a "disconnection between the public and the news media over motive." Edward Seaton, former president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, believes it's just a matter of communication. He and his colleagues "need to work harder to explain what we do and why we do it," he told the Boston Globe.
We already know what they do and why they do it. Whether they realize it or not, liberals in the media expose their biases by the way they cover issues like race, homosexuality, abortion, education and more recently, the war in Iraq.
The Media Research Center (MRC) uncovered anti-Bush bias on all three networks as they interviewed relatives of victims during the 9/11 Commission hearings. MRC reviewed all interview segments on ABC's Good Morning America, CBS's The Early Show and NBC's Today from March 23 through April 15, and found that in 23 interviews, 20 were critical of Bush while only 3 were not.
"Neither ABC nor CBS featured any morning interviews with pro-Bush relatives, while NBC squeezed in two Bush backers: Jim Boyle, the father of a New York firefighter killed on 9/11, appeared twice on the Today show, while Deborah Burlingame, the sister of one of the pilots on American Airlines Flight 77, appeared once," MRC reported.
In Sunday's Washington Post (April 18), reader ombudsman Michael Getler confessed that his newspaper played fast and loose with the facts. The President's Daily Brief that Condoleezza Rice was grilled about indicated that the FBI noticed "patterns of suspicious activity...including surveillance of federal buildings in New York", but the Post rendered the facts this way:
"President Bush was warned a month before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that the FBI had information that terrorists might be preparing for a hijacking in the United States and might be targeting a building in Lower Manhattan." [emphasis mine] The impression is that President Bush knew the terrorists would attack the World Trade Center.
Getler sheepishly admitted that "readers who believe this introductory paragraph was, or could be seen as, misleading and conveying a political bias make a fair point, in my view." That's it. No apology or reprimand for the reporters' creative writing exercise. All in the name of "public interest."
Searching for a scapegoat for their colleagues' own shortcomings and unethical behavior, the Project speculated that the "disconnect over the motives of journalists may have been exacerbated by the growing critique by conservatives over the last few years that most mainstream news organizations are distorting their coverage with an ideologically liberal agenda."
That's professional. When caught red-handed, point to the other guy. But the jig is up. The growing conservative voice in America has merely exposed the truth. The liberal media wants you to remain misinformed and manipulated while they push an agenda disguised as "news." Americans are on to the Bush-bashing media, and their own study is a damning indictment against them.
| Name: | Chris Baker of KVIC |
| To: | Gov. Perry of Texas |
| Re: | Say WHAT? |
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Several other states have been doing this for years. And Texas property owners can get some relief from escallating inflated values on their property cranking property taxes up 10% PER YEAR. This is eating retired, fixed income peoples' LUNCH! Some have to slice off some Alpo meat loaf just to maje ends meet. I think Senator Dashel even had to send his mother a can opener to help out! Or maybe that was veternarian money for her dog? I forgot.
| Name: | Sul Rost |
| To: | forum |
| Re: | Killing off Hamas is decades overdue. |
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Israel has been extremely long suffering. Poncho Villa raided a few border towns and Americans sent a general with an army to chase Villa down. The USA wouldn't have been as patient with Hamas and Arafat as the Israelis had Hamas been tormenting security with blown up busses, cars, hospitals, pizza palaces, synagogues, and any other off-limits non-military targets.
Israel is a tiny country with a small population. Israel's civilian casualities have been proportionally the equavalent of a 9/11 every year for America, Heaven forbid.
It just breaks my cotton-picking heart that France, Russia, Germany and other Wahabbi/terrorist/Hamas sympathizing UN dupe-nations will not be vacationing in Israel. Israel could use those tourist dollars. But the biggest disappointment, perhaps, is that tourists from these nations wont be riding the busses and cabs in Israel to see what they are missing!
| Name: | Scroll Mouse |
| To: | Mr. Super-Imposed Crapola Man Persyn |
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Why......... Sad, sick puppy is what you are
| Name: | Expelled to Algeria |
| To: | Al Jazzera |
| Re: | French |
| Name: | Crawford Livestock Comission |
| To: | Fleecees |
| Re: | Texas "education" is already more than adequately funded. |
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The man is a Kerry-esque photo-op fop, and evidently he is fast morphing into a full-blown DEMOCRAT!
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| Name: | Crawford Livestock Commission |
| To: | Root E. Toot |
| Re: | There is NO lack of reasonable and adequate funding for education in Texas. |
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Ever hear of the "Tobacco Settlement", Bosco?
FYI, Democrats like any and all taxes, and Rick Perry is going to get plenty of Democrat support.
Perry is out to raise taxes, and his "sin tax" gambit is just a replay of Ann Richard's great gift to the gullible: the "LOTTO". The new "sin taxes" will no more satisfy the bottomless greed of the educrats than did the "Lotto".
