Editorial Blog


April 30 - May 22, 2002
By JEFF RUSHING, Webmaster


    Today we say good riddance to the blather that is "The Rosie O'Donnell Show." How will you remember her? Perhaps for courageously coming out of the closet as a lesbian - once she had already decided to end the show and didn't need to pander to her middle American female audience? Maybe how she mindlessly badgered Tom Selleck as if he were the anti-christ for supporting the Second Amendment? Or, just for flinging Koosh balls at her audience while contributing zilch to the world at large?
Posted 05/22/02, 5:19 a.m.

    The folks at www.khurasaan.com - and by folks I mean "scary Islamofascists" - have a fun little website dedicated to exposing the Jewish conspiracy of the world, but most importantly to me right now, to my continuing good humor, an extensive list of rights and wrongs for those of the Muslim faith. This includes a lengthy page describing the evils of masturbation, and how the U.S. is leading the way in inflaming passions of Muslims to touch themselves. Let's explore some of their world:
Shar'i (Religious) Harms     The Shar'ee harms are many. Some of them are as follows: a decrease in taufeeq (success granted by Allah Ta'aala); corrupt ideas; hard-heardtedness, an aversion towards people, cheerlessness in the heart and to be deprived of knowledge. The greatest spiritual harm caused by this evil act is the inability to remain steadfast on Deen. As long as a person is entangled in this evil habit, shaytaan will gradually remove him from his friends until he dislikes their company. Thereafter, shaytaan will draw him into the mud of desires until he is deprived altogether from remaining steadfast on Deen.
    Daggum, I'd hate to see what they think when they have their first Trekkies!

Sayings of our Pious Predecessors with Regard to Masturbation     Sa'eed bin Jubair Radiallahu anhu says: "Allah Ta'aala will inflict a punishment on a group of people because they played with their private parts."
    Attaa Rahmatullah alaihi says: "Some people will be resurrected in such a condition that their hands will be pregnant, I think they are those who masturbate."
Physical Harms     6. It causes some limbs like the legs to shake and shiver.
    7. It creates weakness in the cerebral glands of the brain which in turn weakens the power of perception and reason. Similarly, it leads to the weakness of memory.
    7. It creates weakness in the cerebral glands of the brain which in turn weakens the power of perception and reason. Similarly, it leads to the weakness of memory.
    Oh, sorry. Did I already run that one?
    8. It weakens the eye-sight and reduces it's normal limit of vision.
    9. It causes a person to become old before time.
    Strange, nothing about hairy palms. I guess that's not considered a physical harm in their culture.
Posted 05/22/02, 4:45 a.m.

    Another example of Leftist open-mindedness in our nation's capital. The Washington Post reports that the bookstore Politics & Prose -- which two years ago refused to host a reading for cybergossip Matt Drudge because, in the words of co-owner Carla Cohen, "he's a rumormonger and a troublemaker" -- disinvited American Enterprise Institute scholar Joshua Muravchik to sponsor a signing for "Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism."
    Muravchik says it happened once the bookstore owners realized that his book was critical, not praise, of leftist ideology. The store's Cleve Corner said that "we will not be able to host the event" because "there is a strong ISO contingent that frequents the store and they have had several discussions and readings in connection with us."
    In case you're wondering, ISO stands for the International Socialist Organization, whose web site promotes "a workers' state based on councils of workers' delegates and a workers' militia." Says Muravchik: "It makes me a little nervous about what's going to become of me once their workers' militias take power."
Posted 05/22/02, 4:35 a.m.

    Jay Nordlinger provides a quote that makes me smile that touches on two of my heroes:
    Sam Donaldson to soon-to-be pres. Ronald Reagan following a 1980 debate with Jimmy Carter: "How did it feel to be on the same stage as the president of the United States?"
    An unimpressed Reagan: "Oh, for heaven's sake: I've been on the same stage as John Wayne."
Posted 05/22/02, 2:50 a.m.

    Columnist Mona Charen chimes in on a subject I brought up recently (May 13) on gays demanding the right not to have to live with heterosexuals:
      "...who gave these youngsters the idea that they ought to be protected from overhearing the conversations of the majority of their sex on the topic of women? It's always a challenge to be different. But should violinists who hate sports be shielded from roommates who have lettered? Should short students be protected from roommates who play basketball? Should brilliant students not have to endure the conversation of the merely bright? How about pious kids? Should they be protected from the vulgar language of the majority? Should pro-life kids be offered only roommates whose views on the matter don't make them "uncomfortable"? Or should all of them learn to live in the world as it is?"
    Apparently not, since they feel that while we should be shouted at that they're here and they're queer, they'd rather not hear that Mary Jane is a hottie. You tell me who's really closed-minded.
Posted 05/22/02, 2:40 a.m.

    Lest we think of France as merely a bastion of anti-Semitism, they provide us so much more. Like environmental wackiness, for example. Greenpeace activists rammed a boat into the French challenger for the 2003 America's Cup in Lorient, France on Saturday. The yacht is sponsored by a nuclear energy company.
Posted 05/20/02, 2:37 a.m.

    Looks like years from now I'll be telling my grandchildren that the urban legend that President Bush let the events of 9/11/01 occur was started by Democrats who can't stand that Bush has such a high approval rating so close to the mid-term elections.
    Check the numbers: A new poll of 1,000 registered voters by Wilson Research Strategies, made available to this column, finds that 53 percent view Republican performance on Capitol Hill as "excellent or good," vs. 41 percent who say "not so good or poor." Democrats' job ratings, at the same time, are viewed positively by 49 percent, with 44 percent responding negatively. As for the single most important issue, 21 percent of those polled cite cutting taxes and wasteful spending, while 16 percent are concerned with strengthening national defense and fighting terrorism, all GOP issues.
Posted 05/20/02, 2:03 a.m.

    Once again, baseball controversy swirls around the strike zone. Unfortunately, this time it's not about pitching between the numbers and knees of batters, but a possible walkout by players during the regular season.
    Many fans left after the strike of 1994 cancelled the World Series and the game went kaput. This time, if they strike they may lose the most passionate fans, like myself. I don't spend hours every week calculating statistics for my fantasy baseball league just to have it end for no other reason than players are angry that their average salary is only $2 million.
Posted 05/20/02, 1:59 a.m.

    Get ready for the start of the Tennis Channel, not to be confused with Court TV. I predict a net loss.
Posted 05/20/02, 1:58 a.m.

    Before I head north to Nashville for the new Star Wars flick, one more thing to remind people that Jimmy Carter is just as terrible as an ex-president than he was as president. Just remember that Carter actually wrote members of the UN Security Council after Iraq invaded in Kuwait, asking them to thwart the efforts of Bush 41 to toss out the Iraqi aggressors.
Posted 05/15/02, 5:20 a.m.

    California Assemblywoman Jackie Goldberg has proposed a bill to ban Indian mascots and team nicknames in California schools and colleges. This, despite a Sports Illustrated poll of 351 Native Americans in March that showed 81 percent believed teams should not stop using Indian names, and many were proud of the practice. This is just one more instance of liberals doing something loony because "they know better" than those who are supposedly victimized.
    I've got a better idea: Let's replace the Indian names with ones that accurately depict the real threats to our lives, such as the UCLA Commie Pinkos or U. of Cal-Berkely Lefty Pantywastes.
Posted 05/15/02, 4:27 a.m.

    The New York Times had a story this week stating that many elite colleges are allowing male and female students to share dorm rooms because homosexual men were uncomfortable living with heterosexual men. Sounds like heterophobia to me. I think we need to investigate this hate thought and sic their Lefty profs to indoctrinate the gay men about diversity.
Posted 05/13/02, 4:20 a.m.

    Democrats have officially run out of things to complain about the GOP. Why? Because they whined Tuesday about a photo that is part of a three-picture set of Pres. Bush, being offered for $150 donations to the GOP. One of the photos shows Dubya on the phone aboard Air Force One on Sept. 11, and the Democrat Spin Machine thinks that is wrong, accusing Republicans of cashing in on tragedy. Al Gore even jumped in, saying that the selling of the photo is "disgraceful."
    Does anyone else get the giggles at the thought of being lectured by Dems on ethical fundraising techniques?
Posted 05/15/02, 3:59 a.m.

    Ex-president (thank goodness) Carter started out his speech today on a good note, telling the people of Cuba that "all citizens are born with the right to choose their own leaders, to define their own destiny, to speak freely, to organize political parties, trade unions and non-governmental groups, and to have fair and open trials."
    But, ever willing to take an opportunity to trash his own America, three paragraphs later in the written text he decides that the U.S. is no better in human rights than the Communist island run by a brutal dictator: "My nation is hardly perfect in human rights. A very large number of our citizens are incarcerated in prison, and there is little doubt that the death penalty is imposed most harshly on those who are poor, black, or mentally ill. For more than a quarter century, we have struggled unsuccessfully to guarantee the basic right of universal health care for our people."
    Yep, Carter called for a socialist health care system and is appalled that our police actually imprison criminals rather than political activists.
Posted 05/15/02, 3:30 a.m.

    Ugh, how disgusting is it to see Jimmy Carter coddling to Fidel Castro this week in Cuba? The first thing he does is get on stage and take the word of some Cuban bio-tech scientists that the U.S. report on the Communist state's terrorist abilities is a lie. Even Colin Powell came out to scoff at Carter's unBEElievably prissy dictator hugging. Which is just the latest in a history of Carter's embracing anti-American leaders.
Posted 05/14/02, 9:55 a.m.

    The most overused word in describing something is "engaging." Every movie review, food service review uses it, and I even heard it describe a golfer's smile this weekend. Please, for the love of Pete, let's come up with another word! Let's just call people "charming" or "agreeable" or "appealing" or "winning" for a while (you know, all that is the opposite of this post), then we'll get bored with those and "engaging" will seem OK again.
Posted 05/13/02, 5:20 a.m.

    While a student at U. of Wisconsin at Stout, alleged pipe bomber John Helder wrote a letter to the school paper, declaring: "I will die/change in the end for this, but that's ok, hahaha paradise awaits!" It almost seems that he was inspired by Muslim terrorists. Rush Limbaugh's solution is land for peace: "We need to immediately begin negotiations with him, and offer him Nebraska." (OpinionJournal.com)
Posted 05/13/02, 3:23 a.m.

    This week's best Vents from the Atlanta Journal-Consitution:
    - Headline from the April 26 New York Times: "Economic Revival Poses a Problem for Bush." Now tell me again there's no liberal bias.
    - Why don't you ever see the headline "Psychic wins lottery?"
    - It's great to be a man. You are not expected to know more than five colors.
    - OK, Democrats, I'm ready to hear you complain about Bush's tax cuts "for the rich" causing a 5.8 percent growth rate.
    - I'm upset. Our community pool won't allow children in without supervision, and my daughter only has regular vision.
    - Bill Clinton should do very well if he becomes a daytime TV talk show host. Most of the people who voted for him are at home during the day.
    - If Bill Clinton gets his own TV show, it will NOT be called "To Tell the Truth."
    - I'd like to see our friends, the Saudis, run those "Saudi Arabia and United States united against terrorism" ads on Al Jazeera TV, in Arabic.
    - There is no drought. Big Water is restricting supply and driving up prices.
    - Someone please tell my husband a product called Spray-on-Stripper is for refinishing furniture. It's not for me.
    - Has anyone calculated the speed of dark?
    - If Michael Jackson keeps performing at Democratic fund-raisers, we'll always have Republican presidents.
Posted 05/13/02, 3:20 a.m.

    Jim Wooten, conservative editorial writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, on the influx of Hispanics in the South:
    "Newcomer's Guide for Latinos: Learn English, but for goodness' sakes avoid adapting too much. The new immigrants are family-centered, religious and hard and steady workers who are upwardly mobile. Five years after they arrive, they have created new churches, new businesses and new centers of public life. It'll be a tragedy if they ever discover that Americans prefer to have children without marrying, to attend church only on Easter and to count on Lotto, trial lawyers and politicians for a big payday."
Posted 05/11/02, 12:28 a.m.

    Joke time:
    One day a florist goes to a barber for a haircut. After the cut he asks the barber about his bill.
    "I am sorry, I cannot accept money from you. I am doing community service this week."
    The florist is pleased and leaves the shop. The next morning when the barber goes to open his shop, there is a thank you card and a dozen roses waiting at his door.
    Later a Cop comes in for a haircut and he also goes to pay the barber, and the barber replies: "I am sorry I cannot accept money from you. I am doing community service this week."
    The cop is happy and leaves the shop. The next morning the barber goes to open his shop, there is a thank you card and a dozen donuts waiting at his door.
    A Democrat comes for a hair cut and when he asks the barber what he owes, the barber replies: "I am sorry I cannot accept money from you. I am doing community service this week."
    The Democrat is very happy and leaves. The next morning when the barber goes to open his shop, a dozen Democrats are lined up waiting for a free haircut.
Posted 05/10/02, 6:59 a.m.

    Larry Miller, comedian, has a great piece on the Mideast conflict in The Weekly Standard, especially this bit on the myth of the Palestinian:
    "The Palestinians want their own country. There's just one thing about that: There are no Palestinians. It's a made up word. Israel was called Palestine for two thousand years. Like "Wiccan," "Palestinian" sounds ancient but is really a modern invention. Before the Israelis won the land in war, Gaza was owned by Egypt, and there were no "Palestinians" then, and the West Bank was owned by Jordan, and there were no "Palestinians" then. As soon as the Jews took over and started growing oranges as big as basketballs, what do you know, say hello to the "Palestinians," weeping for their deep bond with their lost "land" and "nation." So for the sake of honesty, let's not use the word "Palestinian" any more to describe these delightful folks, who dance for joy at our deaths until someone points out they're being taped. Instead, let's call them what they are: "Other Arabs From The Same General Area Who Are In Deep Denial About Never Being Able To Accomplish Anything In Life And Would Rather Wrap Themselves In The Seductive Melodrama Of Eternal Struggle And Death." I know that's a bit unwieldy to expect to see on CNN. How about this, then: "Adjacent Jew-Haters."
    Okay, so the Adjacent Jew-Haters want their own country. Oops, just one more thing. No, they don't. They could've had their own country any time in the last thirty years, especially two years ago at Camp David. But if you have your own country, you have to have traffic lights and garbage trucks and Chambers of Commerce, and, worse, you actually have to figure out some way to make a living. That's no fun. No, they want what all the other Jew-Haters in the region want: Israel. They also want a big pile of dead Jews, of course."
Posted 05/10/02, 6:00 a.m.

    Now that we know that the mailbox pipebomb doofus was trying to create a smiley-face pattern on the map, I have a new idea for our war on terrorism. We - and by that I mean the U.S. military - should bomb whatever's left of the Taliban in Arab countries, in the pattern of a man with his pants down mooning bin Laden. Yes, immaturity is fun.
Posted 05/10/02, 5:58 a.m.

    A recent column published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution advocated the glory of atheism, asserting that only those who have no religion - which is really a religion in itself - are not to blame for the world's problems. He then whined that following Sept. 11 atheists have felt removed from the world discussion as everyone prays for the victims of the terrorism and the country yelled "God Bless America" at every turn.
    I don't have a problem with atheists just because they believe there is no God, but what I do object to is the collective belief by many, many atheists that they are the only legitimate "free thinkers" and only they can be rational. Letters in response to the column were from atheists who claim to enjoy their lives "without fear of mythical monsters," meaning a God, and that being atheist "simply means that one has rejected the silliness of religions."
    This intolerance for those who believe in a higher power is the same intolerance they blame for the world's ills, and they don't even realize it.
Posted 05/10/02, 2:30 a.m.

    Remember the footage of the Palestinian funeral, where the "dead" body is dropped, then gets up and hops back on the sheet? Turns out there's a perfectly good explanation or two. The Palestinian "human rights" group LAW first said that the phony funeral was a movie being filmed. Yesterday it decided that it was actually just a group of children playing "funeral" like ours play Cowboys and Indians. Tomorrow I'm sure LAW will tell us that the group was merely singing "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" and tossing the body up and down in celebration for carrying out a terrorist attack.
Posted 05/09/02, 3:12 a.m.

    Quote Time. A reminder of what Democrats think of America and Americans:
    "We're going to push through health care, regardless of the views of the American people." - Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV, June 1994
Posted 05/09/02, 2:48 a.m.

    Used to be when a student scored 1,600 on the SAT, they could attend any school in the nation. Nowadays that's not the case. For example, Stanford rejected more than half the applicants with perfect scores this year. My bet: Stanford's PC bedwetters accepted every student who spent three weeks in a redwood tree to protest logging and any minority who titled their essay, "If I Don't Get Into a Major University I'll Sue the Bigots."
Posted 05/09/02, 2:30 a.m.

    Georgia doesn't recognize military IDs as valid proof of identification to get a state driver's license. Maybe the military should pull "Beetle Bailey" from newspapers in the state. A month without Miss Buxley and the state leaders will be clammoring for a military ID to be accepted!
Posted 05/09/02, 2:19 a.m.

    Just a few hours after another Palestinian suicide bomber murdered over a dozen Israeli youths at a billiards hall Tuesday, the U.N. General Assembly condemned by a 74-4 (America, Israel, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia) vote Israel's West Bank offensive. Fifty-four nations abstained as a protest over what they called an imbalanced resolution. I disagree. The resolution isn't imbalanced, it's biased and unjustified, unlike Israel's efforts to prevent civilian teens being continually targeted by Arafat and his terrorist goons.
Posted 05/08/02, 11:46 p.m.

    One of the guests at the White House Correspondents Dinner this week was "Beverly Hills, 90210" vixen Shannen Doherty. When asked about her trip to the White House earlier in the day, she replied: "I would have never stepped foot in the Clinton White House!" she said. "They were sleazy."
    Delicious.
Posted 05/08/02, 11:41 p.m.

    IInvestigators have concluded that a deadly explosion at a synagogue in Tunisia was linked to Bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist network. Don't expect to hear much of this internationally, as Euro elites and the U.N. are doing everything they can to avoid Americans sympathizing with Israel as it becomes clear that Islamofascists are waging war on two fronts, against American and Jewish values.
Posted 05/06/02, 4:31 a.m.

    I've heard of dirty money, but this goes a little far:
    Earthweek reports that "Disease experts in northeastern India issued a report that said 'overused and soiled' currency can transmit tuberculosis, pneumonia and other lung infections. ... British health authorities and travel guides regularly warn tourists in the region to wash their hands following every financial transaction."
Posted 05/06/02, 3:58 a.m.

    Name of the Week: Ray Ban, a meteorologist at the Weather Channel.
Posted 05/06/02, 3:48 a.m.

    The following is an excerpt from an article by Fatma Abdallah Mahmoud titled "Accursed Forever and Ever," which recently appeared in the Egyptian government daily Al-Akhbar, courtesy the Middle East Media Research Institute:
    "With regard to the fraud of the Holocaust... Many French studies have proven that this is no more than a fabrication, a lie, and a fraud!! That is, it is a 'scenario' the plot of which was carefully tailored, using several faked photos completely unconnected to the truth. Yes, it is a film, no more and no less. Hitler himself, whom they accuse of Nazism, is in my eyes no more than a modest 'pupil' in the world of murder and bloodshed. He is completely innocent of the charge of frying them in the hell of his false Holocaust!!"
    "The entire matter, as many French and British scientists and researchers have proven, is nothing more than a huge Israeli plot aimed at extorting the German government in particular and the European countries in general. But I, personally and in light of this imaginary tale, complain to Hitler, even saying to him from the bottom of my heart, 'If only you had done it, brother, if only it had really happened, so that the world could sigh in relief [without] their evil and sin.'"
Posted 05/05/02, 3:52 a.m.

    NASA just released some amAAZing new photos from the Hubble telescope. Isn't it nice to know that American scientists seek knowledge of the universe and reveal its beauty, while Arab scientists are trying to perfect the ultimate suicide bomb to strap on 12-year-olds?
Posted 05/05/02, 3:49 a.m.

    Anyone else see that great footage from an Israeli Defense Force drone camera of the Palestinian 'funeral' in Jenin this week? Supposedly carrying a dead body through the streets, the pallbearers drop the person, who promptly rises from the dead to get back in the middle of the sheet, gets covered up and carried around as a victim of the 'massacre.'
Posted 05/04/02, 7:10 a.m.

    Why do movie critics insist on listing movie lengths in minutes? Is this like baby ages, where you can't say they're a year and six months old? No, it has to be "18 months." Similarly, even when movies go on forever, critics will still put 185 minutes, instead of three hours, five minutes. Hey guys, if I wanted to do math, I'd calculate the number of times Alec Baldwin has promised the leave the country, divided by the number of times he's poked himself in the eye with a sharp object "just for fun."
Posted 05/04/02, 7:03 a.m.

    Just how 'fit' is a fiddle?
Posted 05/04/02, 7:03 a.m.

    I think I'm the only person who actually likes Carrot Top in his AT&T commercials.
Posted 05/04/02, 7:03 a.m.

    Tonight's fortune cookie said, "You emerge victorious from the maze you've been traveling in." Does that mean I get a slice of cheese? Because I'd really like a slice right now. On top of Ritz crackers.
Posted 05/02/02, 8:30 p.m.

    Yasser Arafat is condemning Israel as "terrorists, Nazis and racists," yet Pres. Bush continues to befuddle those of us on the Right who side with Israel against terrorism the way the U.S. is battling terrorism. Today he called for an end to Israel's "occupation" of the West Bank, ignoring the truth behind the "occupation" and giving credence in the eyes of Muslims to the filth spewed by Arafat.
    And because I can't avoid criticizing Arafat, I'll say of him: He is the terrorist, Nazi and racist. The so-called Palestinian leader is supposedly angry over the Israelis firing on the terrorists holed up in the Church of the Nativity, yet the fact that these terrorists desecrated the holy shrine in the first place by taking its inhabitants - priests and nuns - hostage, goes by without a shrug.
Posted 05/02/02, 3:35 p.m.

    Islam means peace:
    A Muslim mob stabbed and burned to death 12 Christians in Indonesia on Sunday, setting homes and a church ablaze. Six of the Christians were stabbed to death, including a six-month-old baby. Six others died in the fires.
Posted 04/30/02, 3:33 a.m.

    This week's best Vents from the Atlanta Journal-Consitution:
    - Being 80 years of age, I feel that nostalgia is like a grammar lesson. I find the present tense and the past perfect.
    - My friend doesn't panic when he gets lost. He just changes where he wants to go.
    - Sign in a restaurant: "If our food, drink and service aren't up to your standards, then you need to lower your standards."
    - The combination of online shopping and short-term memory loss makes for lots of interesting visits from the UPS guy.
Posted 04/30/02, 3:30 a.m.



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