President Clinton got away with one comment in Saturday's annual radio address, as the AP and Reuters failed to even mention it in their stories.
Clinton said that if the Senate rejects the nuclear test-ban treaty, it would be the same as when the Senate in 1920 rejected the Treaty of Versailles, which he says is to blame for the Depression and World War II: "If our Senate rejected this treaty outright, it would be the first time the Senate has rejected a treaty since the Treaty of Versailles, which established the League of Nations after World War I. We all know what America's walking away from the world after World War I brought us: the depression and the second world war."
In reality, most historians agree that the Treaty of Versailles is the exact point of reference to look to when asking how the National Socialist Party (Nazis) grew to power and contained such hatred of other European countries. Historian Hagen Schulze called the Versailles treaty "a dictated peace" that "put Germany under special laws, took away its military power, ruined it economically, and humiliated it politically".
Another reason to support the Republican Senate in denouncing the nuclear test-ban treaty.
The Brooklyn Museum of Art receives 25% of its funding from the public sector, and has chosen to display artworks that insult Catholicism and religion in general. New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has threatened to withdraw city funding for such desecrations, and the art crowd is crying foul, claiming censorship. But it's not. There is nothing in the Constitution that says that the government is required to use taxpayer money to fund artistic expression. The government cannot punish the artist, but does not have to pay for such offensive works, either. If the art is so great, then private art galleries or organizations will gladly foot the bill. Don't make Americans pay for something that is a direct strike at their personal beliefs.
A quote by Thomas Jefferson can be used by all sides of the political spectrum, but in this case supports those who don't wish to finance anti-religious filth: "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propogation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
Here's Vice-Perpetrator Al Gore's quote about moving his campaign offices from Washington to Nashville, his "home":
"So we're moving it from K Street to the aisles of Kmart."
Sounds exactly like what you would expect from an elitist liberal from the north about the south. Remember, Gore was raised in Washington and has lived there his entire life. He's no more from Tennessee than Hillary Clinton is New York.
Did you ever wonder what the tiny words said in the graphic that appears immediately following the credits for "Dharma and Greg"? I did, and recorded the show last week in order to freeze on that graphic and write down what it said, transcribed below:
CHUCK LORRE PRODUCTIONS #36I recently mentioned to an engineer friend of mine that I got slightly crazed when things are less than pefect. To my surprise he looked at me with a crooked little smile and said, "Oh, but things are perfect." A few days later our conversation continued. This time he told me that the universe was expanding at exactly the right speed to keep it from flying apart or collapsing back into itself. He also noted that the subatomic makeup of our bodies was calibrated so magnificently that were it off by less than one percent, two human bodies approaching one another would release enough energy to blow the Earth out of its orbit. And consider this: if a plane loses its wings at thirty-thousand feet, and DOESN'T fall to the ground, then one would be living in a world where fat people could stick rockets in their ass and fly to Miami for a three-day weekend. Now, if you're like me and don't find that to be an improvement on the laws of nature, then I think you have to agree with my friend--things are perfect.
Not Shakespeare, but humorous. I wouldn't recommend staring at the graphic every week, though, or risk going blind.
Now, apparently affirmative action isn't good enough to "make up" for blacks being suppressed by whites. Two black leaders from Atlanta, Tyrone Brooks, a state representative from Atlanta and president of the Georgia Association of Black Elected Officials, and Joe Beasley, Southern regional director of Rainbow/PUSH coalition, believe blacks should not vote guilty on a jury where a black man or woman is being tried.
In a letter to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the pair wrote that no "self-respecting citizen should return a guilty verdict in this climate of selective prosecutions in our flawed judicial system." Amazingly, the two believe we still live in the 60s, and ended their letter with "We shall overcome!"
Apparently Brooks and Beasely think that every black person brought on trial was framed and wrongly jailed.
"It is our position that clear-thinking people, recognizing the racist manner in which our criminal justice system is administered, should refuse to convict in cases that are clearly political in nature or those involving African-Americans charged with minor drug offenses. The result of this racist system is very clear and is manifested by the fact that the jails and prisons of this state are filled with our young men."
It is more than upsetting that these leaders believe that jailed blacks are all innocent and have done nothing wrong. And even more worrisome that they are advocating lawbreakers should be let loose on the streets to continue to prey on those who wish to be free of such a criminal presence.
President Scumbag had to do some apologizing this weekend after evoking an ethnic stereotype of the Irish in a speech where he said that the sides in Northern Ireland's conflict were as addicted to fighting as drunks are to their drink.
His exact quote:
"I spent an enormous amount of time trying to help the people in the land of my forebears in Northern Ireland get over 600 years of religious fights," he said. "And every time they make an agreement to do it, they're like a couple of drunks walking out of the bar for the last time. When they get to the swinging door, they turn right around and go back in and say I just can't quite get there."
Was anyone really surprised? This from the guy whose campaign slogan in '96 should have been "A chicken in every pot and kneepads for every intern."