Rosie O'Donnell continues to let her mouth run without thinking. Then again, if she is thinking these things, then she has a serious problem with reality. From a National Review interview:
On whether the National Rifle Association cares as much about children as she does, Rosie says, "I would say, maybe their own kids, but not kids in general. The only life that is important to them is white, Republican life. Regardless of skin color, it offends me when someone is shot dead in America. (The NRA's position) is based on financial gain, not patriotism or love of children."
More Gore lies:
"With all the talk in recent days about Al Gore's confidence in the stock market, we turned to Schedule A of Mr. Gore's latest public financial disclosure report, signed by the vice president on Saturday and filed Monday. The Gore campaign might insist that the vice president has no money "tied up" in stocks, but the report once again lists the Occidental Petroleum Inc. stock awaiting Mr. Gore in a family trust fund. The stock was reportedly valued at $680,000 in 1992, but should be worth considerably more today. The report only says the stock is valued anywhere between $500,000 and $1 million." (Inside the Beltway, Wash Times, 5-19-00)
If Gore's stance against a global missile shield puts him on par with Russian president Vladimir Putin, then I think Bush wins this issue easily.
Detractors claim that such a system is impossible to achieve. With all we've seen in technological advances this century, why do they doubt that a shield is possible?
No matter what Bush proposes, Gore fires back that it is "risky" without comparing the details of his plan. Just to see if the veep is paying attention, I think the governor should announce that he is for full health care for pets. I bet one month's salary that Gore yells (as he always does to make a point) that such a plan is a "risky scheme of secret plans that will ruin Social Security for the elderly."
Does Gore actually have any new ideas? The vice-president is like a liberal superman: "He wears earth tones and flies Air Force 2 on the taxpayers' dole, the defender of the status quo!"
Friday night, Nashville's CBS affiliate, WTVF-TV, ran a story on how a family renting a house for $400 a month on Al Gores property in Smith County, Tennessee was to be evicted by a management company employed by Gore, after complaining about backed up toilets and clogged sink drains that were never fixed.
If this had been a Republican, the media and late-night talk show hosts would never cease calling him a slumlord and crying about mean conservatives.
I think I know why Atlanta drivers are so rude, angry and obnoxious. As in Ghostbusters 2, there is a river of slime running beneath our highways.
Bobby Knight isn't sorry and he won't change.
Isn't it time to honor soldiers of the greatest generation with an appropriate monument? Over 400,000 Americans died to save the world, yet only $85 million of the $100 million needed to design, build and maintain the memorial has been received to build the National World War II Memorial.
Visit the official site at www.wwiimemorial.com for more information and see the design. The American Battle Monuments Commission hopes to receive final design approval soon and break ground by Veterans Day, Nov. 11.
Speaking of World War II, on this 56th anniversary of D-Day, I recommend reading Stephen Ambrose's powerful account of the invasion and its effects on history, D-Day: June 6, 1944, The Climatic Battle of WWII. It will give you a better understanding of the horror of war, and enhance your viewing of a movie such as Saving Private Ryan.
12-year-old George Thampy won the National Spelling Bee last week, and came in second in the geography bee a few days earlier. This makes it the third year in a row that the winner of the Bee is home schooled. The second and third place finishers are also being taught at home.
John Rocker continues to befuddle me with the amount of brazen stupidity he consistently shows. Knowing that "Sports Illustrated" writer Jeff Pearlman, he being the one Rocker made his offending comments to in December, would be out for some publicity, Rocker threatened him by saying, "this isn't over between us" and "do you know what I can do to you?".
Teammate Brian Jordan is correct in saying that Rocker has become a "cancer" on the Braves' team, and one might add for the city of Atlanta as well. I consider it a blessing that the pitcher was demoted, if only briefly to work on mechanics.
Over the Memorial Day weekend there were several drownings in the Atlanta metro area. I expect to see a march on Washington outlawing bodies of water any day now.
Also, seeing as how the Secretary of Agriculture was recently attacked by a pie-wielding animal-rights activist, isn't it time we imposed restrictions on the desserts? I recommend requiring a license to purchase pie tins and safety locks on whipped cream containers.
Coming soon from FOX, "Too Hot for TV: Sumo Wrestlers Exposed!" :
TOKYO (AP) - Sumo wrestler Asanokiri lost a match and his dignity after his loincloth fell off, exposing his manhood on national television.
The red-faced giant automatically forfeited the match under an obscure rule that penalizes a wrestler for allowing his privates to be exposed by not wrapping his "mawashi" belt tightly enough.
"This is the first time in the 83 years since we instituted the rule that anyone has lost a match," a Japan Sumo
Association official said.
The mawashi belts are about seven to eight meters (23-26 feet) long and are wrapped tightly several times around the
bodies of the massive wrestlers.
"I tied my mawashi the way I always do, but today it just came loose," local media quoted Asanokiri as saying.