Obviously, this guy has never smelled my sock drawer.
Posted 03/09/03, 4:17 a.m.
Usually, an autobiography means writing down the information in your life. Therefore, one should probably stick by the words therein. Unless, of course, you’re a dumb New York Yankees pitcher like David Wells, who now disputes a claim in his autobiography that he was "half drunk" when he pitched a perfect game.
I think he should stick by the book. Just think of the inspiration he gives to drinkers everywhere, that even half in the bag you can achieve something magical. There could be an entire run of after-school specials on the subject: “Next week, little Jimmy is hopping crazy on caffeine pills, but it helps him build a real volcano in his background to win the science fair.”
Posted 03/09/03, 12:59 a.m.
From yesterday's Philadelphia Inquirer, news that many of the protestors aren't in this as anti-war, but playing their hand far too much in what will legitimately end up as anti-American demonstrations.
The plans call for:
"If U.S.-led forces attack Iraq, antiwar activists in Philadelphia and around the country plan to blockade federal buildings and disrupt major business districts with large protests and nonviolent civil disobedience. ..."
"In California, dozens of protesters plan to infiltrate Vandenberg Air Force Base on the central coast, hoping to disrupt work. A San Francisco-area collective called Direct Action to Stop the War plans to blockade the TransAmerica Pyramid, the Pacific Stock Exchange and the Federal Reserve in San Francisco."
"'My real hope is that the war doesn't start,' said David Taylor of Direct Action to Stop the War. 'But if the Bush administration goes ahead despite worldwide popular opinion, then our goal is to shut down the capitalist machine that drives the war.'"
By this time, the American public will be mobilized for supporting the war effort, and these hippies will be toast.
Posted 03/09/03, 12:50 a.m.
This week's best Vents from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
– Who has been given more chances: Saddam to disarm or Pete Rose to confess (to gambling)?
– Martha Burk is a perfect example of why men want a place to go where there aren’t any women.
– The only thing I did between the time I went to bed drunk and woke up with a hangover was sleep. So it is obvious that sleep causes hangovers.
- Georgia is third from the top in lottery sales, and third from the bottom in math SAT scores. Hmmm...
- I keep hearing our possible conflict with Iraq called a war. If Mike Tyson fought Pee-wee Herman would it still be called a fight?
- Despite all the news articles and the network news video, the truth is more Americans went to the movie "Kangaroo Jack" than attended all the anti-war rallies.
- Our neighborhood will never again be as friendly and innocent without Fred Rogers.
- The next Fox reality program: "Joan Transsexual." Tune in and hear "Joan" tell her beau that she was an all-state defensive back in high school!
- My idea for a reality show: "Nerd House," where 14 nerds are locked in a house with only a Commodore 64 with a 300-baud modem.
- Seen on bumper: "This car protected by anti-theft sticker."
- Hans Blix talks about Iraqi cooperation the same way a battered woman talks about her abusive boyfriend's promise to change.
- Sexual signals can be so confusing. When I think she's giving me the come hither look, it's actually the go thither look.
- The first week of March is National Procrastination Week, but it seems way too early for it. Can't we put it off?
- Is a female in Kuwait called a Kuwaitress?
- War protestor's sign seen on TV: "I don't need your oil. I ride the bus." (Must run on magic dust)
Posted 02/15/03, 5:02 a.m.
Flipping through my digital cable, occasionally there aren't any listings, instead telling me the program is "To Be Announced" or "No Info Available." When this happens, I panic, as if there's nothing on at all, and I'll never figure out what to watch. I end up leaving it on reliable Country Music Television and reading. What did people do before digital cable guides? Was there some sort of paper schedule with listings?
Posted 03/06/03, 3:50 a.m.
To the Left, the U.S. should stand down from war with Iraq in part because we assisted Saddam in his fight with Iran in the 80s. Yet, these same Lefties say that France should lead the way today in opposing war, despite France's extensive business dealings with Iraq in the face of sanctions throughout the 90s, and Jacques Chirac's work in helping Saddam gain nuclear capability (until Israel destroyed the reactor in '81).
You already know why. Bush is a dangerous cowboy, while the French are avitars of high society to the Left. They'd rather the Euro-weenies look good than America look weak.
Posted 03/06/03, 3:50 a.m.
I have to question the Bush administration's diplomacy the last couple of months. There was no need to go to the U.N. for another resolution, and with France, Germany and Russia threatening vetoes, it's clear that Bush should have used last fall's resolution - passed 15-0 - as all he needed to force Saddam out, and he already has the backing of Congress from last September's vote. The sooner we get this over with, the sooner the Left quiets down and accepts the win and the new order in the Middle East, and the sooner are uneasy economy can rebound, comfortable with the war over.
Posted 03/06/03, 3:50 a.m.
The New York Post reports that wives of U.S. Marines killed in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan "say their income has been slashed significantly, their military housing allowances yanked, and some have been forced to uproot and move to places where it costs less to live."
If this is true, and I have no reason to doubt them, it's disgusting and we need to demand the government make necessary changes to take care of soldiers' families. Those left behind by the dead of 9/11 were given hundreds of thousands of dollars, so why should those who died in the pursuit of those responsible be any less worthy?
Posted 03/06/03, 3:50 a.m.
Steven has a new Weekly Musings on his site, with a religious epiphany I certainly understand nowadays.
Posted 03/05/03, 2:20 a.m.
Maybe we should get Hans Blix over to Middle Earth, where peace is beginning to unravel.
Posted 03/03/03, 1:55 a.m.
Blogger Steve has the five basic flavors of chick flicks. Keys: Men suck, terminal diseases make them cry and smart women deserve good-looking men.
Posted 03/03/03, 1:45 a.m.
French-Bashing Standards and Guidelines have been revised. Make note. (Although, I still prefer using Groundskeeper Willie’s description on The Simpsons- ‘Cheese-eating surrender monkeys.’
But we should also remember that some French citizens still remember, as about 250 demonstrated to support the U.S.
Also, over in South Korea, some 100,000 gathered for a pro-U.S. rally.
Here in the States, several rallies have been held to support President Bush and our troops, in Cleveland, Houston, San Antonio, Tulsa, Nashville and Melbourne, Florida.
Posted 03/03/03, 1:40 a.m.
When life sucks, it really sucks:
Man Complains Bad Rope Spoiled His Suicide
BUCHAREST (Reuters) - A Romanian man plans to complain to consumer authorities about the poor quality of a rope he used in a failed attempt to hang himself, Romanian papers reported Thursday.
"You can't even die in this country," 45-year-old Victor Dodoi was quoted as saying in the daily Adevarul.
The newspaper said Dodoi's relatives found him hanging from a tree in his garden and managed to cut the rope with a knife. He was taken by horse-drawn cart and then by ambulance to a hospital in the northern town of Botosani.
Dodoi said he would file a complaint with the Consumer Protection Authority about the quality of the rope, which was easily cut, as soon as he is released.
Posted 03/03/03, 1:35 a.m.
Evidence that slavery is a shared disgrace for the North as well as the South is unearthed by archaeologists. Interesting that one of the plantations is near Salem, Mass.
Posted 03/03/03, 1:35 a.m.
In a major role-reversal of politically correct environmentalism, five Swedish tree-huggers say that recycling is worse for the environment than incinerating trash. And remember, those Europeans are so much more sophisticated than us rootin'-tootin' styrofoam-container throwin' cowboys in America.
Posted 03/03/03, 1:30 a.m.
Why can’t I take the anti-war crowd seriously? Because too many of them feel the need to get naked to make their point. If you feel you can’t make your case without resorting to stripping, your point isn’t worth hearing.
Let me make it clear: We have heard you. We have decided you are wrong, no matter how many people you line up naked in spelling lessons with such tough words as ‘no’ and ‘war.’
Posted 03/03/03, 1:30 a.m.
National Review Online’s Jonah Goldberg on the Bush administration's "imperialism":
The negotiations with Turkey offer another important lesson: We're not an empire. Empires do not negotiate to use their own bases and they do not take no for an answer. We did the former and were willing to do the latter. Every week I go on TV or on radio and have some lefty -- and a few righties -- drone on at me about America's "imperial designs." Maybe we need a new word for what America is, but it's not an empire.
Columnist Cal Thomas also weighs in on how Bush is acting with anything but imperialist ambitions:
The president was told by his critics he should not act unilaterally. So he asked other nations to join in a "coalition of the willing. " About three dozen have offered either direct or indirect support. Critics said the president should get congressional approval. He did. He was told he should take his case to the United Nations. He did. There have been 18 U.N. resolutions, none of which have caused Saddam Hussein to comply.
Posted 03/03/03, 1:30 a.m.
You won't read in the agenda-driven New York Times about chicks who don't care if men have their own clubs, so I'll let you know here: The Suburban Women's Club of Augusta has launched a campaign encouraging women from across the country to withdraw their support from Martha Burk's National Council of Women's Organizations in protest of her attack on their hometown golf club.
"The fact is, Martha Burk doesn't represent people. She represents herself, her agenda and a handful of other feminists who let her have this little project," said Kimberly Schuld, an expert on women's groups and author of The Guide to Feminist Organizations.
Posted 03/03/03, 1:25 a.m.
We may have found the answer for those fellow golfers who cough in your backswing: Firearms giant Smith & Wesson has come up with a brand of golf clubs. Unfortunately, there are no plans for making pistol-packing putters.
Posted 03/02/03, 4:18 a.m.
Forget all the other personality tests. The Oracle of Starbucks will tell you all about yourself based on what you drink. Apparently I should not be ordering a Grande.
Posted 03/02/03, 4:17 a.m.
Every day columnist Dave Barry has a new batch of links from fans who have entirely too much time on their hands. Today we focus on singing horses. (click on heads)
Posted 03/02/03, 4:15 a.m.
Has anyone else noticed that the massive anti-war protests seem to be outside the South? The news is full of marches in California, New York City, and D.C. I guarantee the liberal Atlanta Journal-Constitution looked far and wide for large protests, but the day after most of the protests across the country all they could find was a bunch of kids in the back of a truck toting signs and slowing down traffic. While in Tennessee last week, the liberal Tennessean wrote a big article on a dozen protestors downtown, and promised 1,000 on Friday. Less than 50 showed.
Posted 02/27/03, 10:15 p.m.
Mmmm, biscuits and gravy ... ham ... country fried chicken .... Sorry, where was I? Oh yeah, glad to see that Cracker Barrel reported a 17% increase in six-month earnings. Keep it up, and happy eating!
Posted 02/27/03, 10:15 p.m.
I can't believe people get paid to research this stuff: New "research" shows that "The vast majority of people say they have been mentally tortured at one point in their lives by a song that keeps repeating itself over and over in their heads. And new research shows that people most frequently plagued by this phenomenon are those with slightly neurotic tendencies, and people who enjoy and listen to music often."
Still doesn't explain how I'm supposed to get Eminem's "Lose Yourself" out of my brain.
Posted 02/27/03, 7:45 p.m.
I love Dennis Miller lately in his ridicule of those who criticize our president's Iraq policy:
"If you're at a peace march and the guy next to you is holding up a sign saying Bush is Hitler put the peace thing on hold for a second and beat his ass." -- Miller, "The Tonight Show," Feb. 26
Posted 02/27/03, 6:25 p.m.
I went and got a haircut this afternoon. ("Went and got"? How terrible is that? Obviously if I "got," then I "went," right? But I digress) I miss the feeling of having my hair snipped when I was a child. I don't get that neat little chill when the razor touches the back of my neck. No, now it's annoying. Afterwards I bought some buffalo wings at Publix, and when I sat back in the Jeep, in the rearview mirror I noticed that I shopped with the tiny flecks of hair all over my forehead. I'm sure the rest of the shoppers were greatly amused at my expense.
Posted 02/27/03, 6:15 p.m.
God bless Fred "Mr." Rogers, who died overnight of stomach cancer. He will sorely be missed in this sometimes cruel world as the greatest neighbor that millions of kids ever had.
Posted 02/27/03, 5:16 a.m.
Saddam and Yasser, sittin' in a tree, b-o-m-b-i-n-g. First comes love, then comes martyrdom, then comes Bush with a cruise missile carriage.
Looks like the Iraqi tyrant can count on head PLO goon Yasser Arafat standing guard over one of his palaces as a human shield. Via the indespensible MEMRI.org, Arafat send Saddam a love note in which he said, among other things:
Any kind of support and assistance from you in these difficult times will enable us to continue our persistence and resistance until we put an end to the occupation, in all its manifestations, of our holy Al-Quds [Jerusalem] and the Islamic and Christian holy shrines, and exercise our legal and lasting rights, based on international legal resolutions, and most importantly our rights for self determination, for repatriation, and for establishing our independent state with its capital Al-Quds Al-Sharif [Jerusalem].
Once again we send you our heartiest brotherly wishes, and to your Excellency we wish the best of health and happiness, and may Allah the Powerful protect Iraq from the great dangers and evils that loom over it … and together, hand in hand [we will march] to Al-Quds Al-Sharif with the help of Allah.
Posted 02/27/03, 5:00 a.m.
CBS may have refused to let a Bush administration official not named Bush, Cheney or Powell respond to the Rather-Hussein interview, but the President got his point out just fine at the American Enterprise Institute tonight. In his speech, Bush made this bold promise for post-war:
Rebuilding Iraq will require a sustained commitment from many nations, including our own. We will remain in Iraq as long as necessary and not a day more. America has made and kept this kind of commitment before, and the peace that followed a world war.
After defeating enemies, we did not leave behind occupying armies. We left constitutions and parliaments. We established an atmosphere of safety in which responsible, reform-minded local leaders could build lasting institutions of freedom. In societies that once bred fascism and militarism, liberty found a permanent home.
There was a time when many said that the cultures of Japan and Germany were incapable of sustaining democratic values. Well, they were wrong. Some say the same of Iraq today. They are mistaken.
Posted 02/27/03, 4:59 a.m.
Farewell, Pioneer 10. After 31 years, NASA lost contact with the first spacecraft to venture out of the solar system, which has traveled over 7.6 billion miles from Earth.
And in other news of things that left Earth three decades ago, MSNBC cancelled the woefully performing Phil Donahue Leftist Support Hour. It figures that he devoted his last show to criticizing Bush's Iraq policy with Rosie O'Donnell. MRC reports that the program had "an average of 439,000 viewers this month (compared to 970,000 during the same 8pm EST hour for CNN's Connie Chung Tonight and 2.7 million watching FNC's The O'Reilly Factor)," which actually made it MSNBC's highest rated show.
Posted 02/26/03, 3:45 p.m.
I hereby christen my Cerebrations! Look it up. I've always loved the word. Sounds like a party of thought!
Posted 02/26/03, 9:38 a.m.
Over in Memphis, Steve is recovering from Tyson fight week, in his Weekly Musings.
Posted 02/26/03, 9:30 a.m.
I am fit to be tied over the ways anti-war folks are opposing "Bush's war." Those who are siding with the protest movement seem to do so for two reasons against the president:
a) He's a moron.
b) He's an evil genius.
While the anti-war folks protest, call Dubya Hitler and mourn the children who might die in allied bombing (yet blame us for killing them anyway because of sanctions), let the serious leaders oust the tyrant and clean up Saddam's mess.
Posted 02/26/03, 9:30 a.m.
Random link: The Advertising Slogan Generator. Making it more fun, you can insert your name or any word that sounds funny into the slogans. My first five clicks came up with:
Thank Jeff It's Friday.
For Mash, Get Jeff.
Semper Jeff.
Nothin' Says Lovin' Like Jeff from the Oven.
Time for a Sharp Jeff.
The fourth one is my favorite. Ladies, I'm single and I've got a kitchen!
Posted 02/26/03, 8:44 a.m.
I should just start compiling a list of the Left who were gung-ho when Clinton unilaterally bombed Serbia, but can't stand that a "moron" like Bush is continuing the cause of liberation in Iraq.
Sunday night at the Grammys, Sheryl Crow performed a song sporting the words “No War” on her guitar strap, and off stage, she offered this insight to reporters: "I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies." Wow, that's so sweet, it's almost a shame to make fun of her while her brain rattles around the near-empty skull.
Let's rewind to April 1996. Crow flew to Bosnia with then-first lady Hillary Clinton to show her support and joined a USO tour to entertain the troops. "Once over there I felt extremely patriotic," Crow told USA Today in April 1996. Crow was so supportive of the Clinton administration's decision to use military force in the Balkans that the Toronto Sun referred to her as "Hillary Clinton['s] sidekick in Bosnia."
Other singers were just as brilliant in their opinion on Saddam's upcoming War Crime Tour. Fred Durst, lead singer of Limp Bizkit, said that, "I hope we're all in agreeance that this war should go away as soon as possible."
Amen, Fred, amen. I'm in total agreeance. Assuming Saddam is six-feet under, of course.
Posted 02/26/03, 8:40 a.m.
Fabulous blogger James Lileks fired off a memorable missive in response to playwright Harold Pinter, who, speaking at last weekend’s rally, said "The US is a nation out of control," and “unless we stop it, it will bring barbarism to the entire world." He said America was "a country run by a bunch of criminal lunatics with Tony Blair as a hired Christian thug."
Lileks responds:
"When Blair shows up in the pulpit cleaving the air with a scimitar, let me know. When US television broadcasts a speech with Billy Graham hosting an Excalibur replica from the Franklin Mint Collection, demanding the decapitation of Muslims, let me know. When George Bush grips the podium and beseeches American rock formations to give up the location of non-Christians so we can slit their throats, and it’s carried live on national TV by presidential order, drop me a line.
It takes a particularly rarified variety of idiot to look at a Jew-hating fascist with a small mustache - and decide that his opponent is the Nazi.
Posted 02/26/03, 8:38 a.m.
Ever thought how much one has to give away their soul to lead the Democrats? The latest to do so is Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D., Sellout), now running for president, who in Nov. 2002 said that "The time has come for us to end the sanctions against Iraq, because those sanctions punish the people of Iraq for having Saddam Hussein as their leader. These sanctions have been instrumental in causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children." This week, Kucinich flip-flopped, weaseling that "Saddam Hussein should be removed from power. . . . I think the way that you do it is continue to use sanctions which thwart his efforts to grow."
Not that this is anything new for the Dim-ocrat Congressman. He also changed his mind on abortion. Formerly he was staunchly pro-life, earning a 95-percent rating from the National Right to Life Committee in 2000, but just before he announced his intention to run for president, the opportunist in him decided to be pro-choice. Nothing new here, since Al Gore and Dick Gephardt did the same flip-flop on abortion in the 80s when they wanted more power within the Dim-ocrat party.
Posted 02/26/03, 8:35 a.m.
It's just ridiculous how quick the unelected warmonger Bush is mobilizing troops! Stop him! Just look at the papers documenting how fast (courtesy OpinionJournal.com):
"Hussein will be given 'a last chance to comply before he gets clobbered,' The New York Times on Monday quoted an unidentified U.S. official as saying."-- CNN.com, Jan. 27, 1998
"Annan Admits Iraq Trip Could Be Last Chance for Peace"-- CNN.com, Feb. 18, 1998
"Clinton: Iraq Has Abused Its Last Chance"--CNN.com, Dec. 16, 1998
"The White House suggested Wednesday that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has missed his 'last chance' to disarm."-- CNN.com, Dec. 18, 2002
"Future European Union members endorsed a joint declaration Tuesday warning Saddam Hussein he has one last chance to disarm."-- Associated Press, Feb. 18, 2003
Posted 02/24/03, 4:36 a.m.
I heard an ad about a national radio show for "urban" America (read: blacks), announcing that 'leaders' as Al Sharpton will talk about what is best for blacks. The list of hosts were all liberal. No surprise, really. But it becomes increasingly clear that the black 'leaders' aren't interested in improving their lives; they make their living off of preaching victimization and prejudice.
The forum would be better served with a conservative black American (Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Larry Elder or Ken Hamblin would be perfect) to take the microphone after every liberal and counter the arguments as Yoda to their Luke, constantly saying, "That is why you fail."
Posted 02/24/03, 4:33 a.m.
I take that last one back. Studying brawls HAS to be better than determing how much penguin poo it takes to ruin a building in the Antarctic.
Posted 02/19/03, 3:48 a.m.
Who pays people to do studies like this? How exactly do you study how serious a barroom brawl is, and if drinking contributes to the severity? Although, being a subject told to get plastered and then talk smack to idiots at the bar seems like a fun way to earn some quick cash.
Posted 02/19/03, 3:45 a.m.
Inspired anti-affirmative action by college Republicans this month, mocking the practice through … baking.
Folks at the U. of Michigan on Monday sold muffins and bagels priced at $1.00 for white students, Asians and Middle Easterners, and "$0.80 for underrepresented minorities (including African-Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans). " This, to show how silly the school’s policy is of awarding 20 points to minorities in the application process, when only 100 points are required for admission, thus giving the "unrepresented" a big jump from the start. This practice is currently under review by the U.S. Supreme Court.
An Ann Arbor News story seems to define that the Left at Michigan has its own bullying tactics and no sense of humor whatseover: "Jarvis Williams of an organization dubbed "Here Earning a Destiny Through Honesty, Eagerness and Determination of Self," or HEADS, said the group was there to monitor the sale, take photos of customers and document the activity, which they viewed as racist."
On the Left Coast, Republicans at UCLA did the same on Feb. 3, charging black, latina and American Indian females 25 cents for cookies that cost males of minority descent 50 cents, white females $1, and white males and all Asian Americans were charged $2.
Students selling the cookies were assigned name tags portraying them as "Uncle Tom," "The White Oppressor" and "Self-Hating Hispanic Race Traitor."
Posted 02/19/03, 3:36 a.m.
The Left is terrified of dissent. Nothing new there. But a couple of examples from Monday prove the point:
Apparently, readers of The Nation are so afraid of anything considered conservative that even a simple Fox News channel full page ad causes them to lose control. Some 50 readers of the liberal magazine even cancelled their subscriptions because of the "enemy" ad. Among the roughly 250 "vehemently angry letters, e-mail messages and phone calls," one e-mail said, "It is like an ad for Klan News." Ellen Bollinger, vice president for advertising at the magazine, added, "The words that they're using are outraged, shocked, confused, absolutely appalled, dismayed and dumbfounded."
This also comes on the day that wealthy Democrats voiced efforts to begin a liberal talk radio network. Again they miss the point of why conservatives succeed on the radio in far greater numbers than the left: It's an alternative to countless television, radio and newspapers with opinion from the left. What they don't understand is that there were no wealthy conservatives conspiring to bring the Right to talk radio. It happened over a couple of decades as radio owners realized talk was cheaper than music, and the ratings are ten times higher for national conservative talk than liberal. So the left is relegated to NPR, which doesn't have to be successful since it's paid by taxpayer dollars (exactly how the Democrats prefer everything run anyway).
Posted 02/18/03, 6:50 a.m.
This week's best Vents from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
- The best way to deal with North Korea is to make an example out of Iraq.
- The airlines’ next ploy: Pass around a tip jar after every successful landing.
- Recent studies say that there’s more sex on television. All I want to know is, what channel?
- The only known phrase guaranteed to wake up an audience: “And in conclusion . . . “
- Brain cells come and go. Fat cells last forever.
- Dude, you can't have a Dell in your cell!
- Valentine's Day is known to most American males as National Guilt Trip Day.
- When did it become cool to spend hundreds of dollars on new clothes that make you look as though you can't afford any new clothes?
- If Hans Blix managed a Jiffy Lube, could he find the drain plug?
- What terrorist attack? I bought duct tape and plastic wrap for something kinky on Valentine's Day.
- OSCARS: Only Serious Chickflicks Are Really Selected.
Posted 02/18/03, 6:47 a.m.
I would just like to reiterate that despite my consistent haranguing of European politics, I would give anything to take a year off and travel throughout the continent.
Posted 02/17/03, 12:58 a.m.
The blogger world was out in force to catalogue the inane pro-Saddam rallies this weekend. Check out some of the pictures here, appeasement idiocy here, New York here, L.A. here, and Phoenix here. Also, a great piece in the London Daily Telegraph on How the Marchers are Doing Saddam's Work.
Posted 02/17/03, 12:05 a.m.
Who would have thought in 1783 that today we'd thank the British for their support and condemn the French for their bluster?
Posted 02/16/03, 11:51 p.m.
Stop Wil Wheaton before he says something interesting!
Yep, the former "Star Trek: The Next Generation" stud has a blog, and he's cementing his washed-up status.
Unbelievably, this guy was once able to kiss Ashley Judd. Sure, it was before she was bigtime, and it was a TV show, but still....
Posted 02/15/03, 1:40 a.m.
Islam may mean peace, but it doesn't have anything to do with love.
Police in Iran shut down shops selling Valentine's Day items, and Agence France-Presse reports from Peshawar, Pakistan, that Islamic fanatics there are also denouncing the day:
"This is a shameful day. The people in the West are just fulfilling and satisfying their sex thirst on this day," Khalid Waqas Chamkani, a leader of the Islami Jamaat Talaba in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) bordering Afghanistan, said this week. "Celebrating Valentine's Day is against our Muslim traditions."
Posted 02/15/03, 1:35 a.m.
Well, that's it. Time to pull out of the region. Saddam Hussein banned weapons of mass destruction from Iraq on Friday. Whew! That was close.
Of course, there's also that little thing about long-range missiles. But the Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz let's us know that his military is inept: "Our missiles have a much shorter range and don't have a guidance system. Therefore they sometimes fall 5 to 10km beyond their target. That's not dangerous."
Not that Aziz is entirely forthcoming. After an Israeli reporter asked him a question, Azia responded that he wouldn't answer any questions from Israeli media. Some fellow journalists jeered and others walked out, but many shrugged it off. Great show of solidarity, guys.
Posted 02/15/03, 1:35 a.m.
Another reason to be thankful Bill Clinton isn't in the White House anymore:
The impeached former president actually said that, "We should let [Hans] Blix lead us to come together."
No, thanks, Willie. I'll let President Bush lead us.
Posted 02/15/03, 1:35 a.m.
Random Musings:
-- The guy who gave LeBron James free retro jerseys was criticized, yet no one figured out that the Hummer folks received more free advertising than imaginable for letting James' unemployed mother "buy" an H2 on the basis of future earnings.
-- Dennis Miller was zinging the anti-war folks while on Donahue's MSNBC show the other night. A couple of examples:
On the New York Times: “If only Saddam Hussein would open an all-male country club somewhere in Iraq, so the Times could get behind this invasion.”
On Osama bin Laden: “I think that he made a fatal error when he said that he didn’t approve of drinking wine or adultery. Because now the French and Clinton are on board.”
-- John McCaslin of the Washington Times reveals that President Bush and Saddam Hussein wear the same Italian handmade shoes. To the president's credit, Bush is the bigger man. He wears size 10 and Saddam wears a 9-1/2.
-- Another example that when it counts, people lean to the right: Nature magazine reports on a study of which way people turn their heads when they kiss. The result: "They turn to the right twice as often as to the left."
-- The NFL minority hiring process is a joke. For the league to cave to Johnny Cochran and mandate that teams must interview blacks for head coaching jobs is a recipe for disaster. The world of sports is no longer the last place where merit counts more than race.
Posted 02/15/03, 1:35 a.m.
More examples of French ethics: The French parliament adopted a new anti-crime law that makes it illegal to boo the national anthem.
Meanwhile, while Zimbabwe starves its people and arrests religious leaders and human rights activists, the French invited dictator Robert Mugabe to a conference, leading other, more sensible leaders to boycott and eventually force the European Union to cancel the event.
Posted 02/15/03, 1:30 a.m.
Now it's all clear, the scare tactics of the Bush administration over looming terrorist attacks was just a gift to the duct tape and plastic sheeting industries.
Posted 02/12/03, 9:20 p.m.
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