Rosie O'Donnell is gay? Can you believe it? If not for ABC abandoning its journalistic principles by giving Rosie a two-hour forum to promote homosexual adoption, would we ever have known? Geez, next thing I know, you're going to tell me that studly Sir Elton John prefers men.
Remember the hubbub over New Jersey state troopers accused profiling of minority drivers? Well, it seems that there was a study commissioned by the government to study the speeding habits of the state's drivers, and the results are not favorable to PC bed wetters.
The New York Times, never one to favor the police or those who have common sense, reports that the study reveals: "In the southern segment of the turnpike, where the speed limit is 65 mph, 2.7 percent of black drivers were speeders, compared with 1.4 percent of white drivers. . . Among drivers going faster than 90 mph, the disparity was ever greater. . . . The study concluded that blacks make up 16 percent of the drivers on the turnpike and 25 percent of the speeders in the 65 mph zones, where complaints of profiling have been most common."
Oops. Maybe the troopers aren't dressed in white hoods after all.
*Sigh.* So Bush went through with signing the campaign finance reform bill, even though he knows it has "serious constitutional concerns." Why, Dubya, why?! Your approval ratings are sky high, Americans don't think you're joined at the hip to Enron, and campaign finance reform was never in the top ten of voters' concerns. Yet you caved to John McCain and the wuss moderates of the Republican party who are afraid to ever leave their cushy jobs on the public dole.
Shame on you, George. Don't just hope that "the courts will resolve these legitimate legal questions as appropriate under the law." That's Lefty pantywaist thinking, and is harmful to your legacy.
The Cartoon Network has banned the cartoon character Speedy Gonzales, citing racial stereotyping for the fun loving Hispanic rodent.
Fox News, however, reports, "there is a place where Speedy can still be found zipping across TV screens--and, presumably, where the crude stereotypes he embodies don't touch a cultural nerve." That place is the Cartoon Network Latin America, where Speedy is "hugely popular." (OpinionJournal.com)
Islam means peace: A Palestinian suicide bomber killed 15 people at a hotel in Israel as guests gathered for a Passover Seder. Remember that the next time Islamic leaders whine that we shouldn't wage war during Ramadan.
We're told that Americans don't understand Islam and we don't respect or tolerate their religion. Pardon me, but it was Muslims who tossed multiple grenades into a Protestant church in Islamabad, Pakistan on a Sunday morning last week, killing five (including an American embassy worker and her daughter). It was Palestinian Muslims who shot and killed Jewish students praying at a school and consistently blow up buses full of Israeli citizens going to school or work.
Where is the call for Muslims to be tolerant of other religions?
I'm glad that the U.S. supports Israel and gives them arms and advice in weaponry. It's a good thing that the Israelis have the military superiority of the Middle East. I have no doubt that otherwise there would be an ethnic cleansing by the surrounding Arab states that would equal the Holocaust in cruelty and bloodletting.
Lest we forget, one of the books on the best-seller list for some time now has been Hitler's "Mein Kampf"; Saddam Hussein gives money to the family's of "martyrs" who blow up themselves and as many Jews as possible; before being decapitated Daniel Pearl was made to say: "I am a Jew. My father was a Jew. My mother was a Jew"; the Egyptian government paper Al-Akhbar described a recent suicide bombing in Jerusalem that killed a number of women and children as "heroic," because it sends the signal that "there is no safe place left for Israelis"; and the strangest post-Sept. 11 result has been that white supremacists are joining forces with Arab and Muslim anti-Semite organizations to fight Israel and anyone of the Jewish faith.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a great explanation of the continuing violence: "The primary objective of Arafat's terrorist regime is not to establish the twenty-second Arab state, but to destroy the only Jewish state. This was and remains the heart of the conflict."
And think of this: At the Arab summit held in Beirut, not one of the 22 Arab leaders represented has been elected in a free and fair balloting.
"The Palestinians are so blinded by their narcissistic rage that they have lost sight of the basic truth civilization is built on: the sacredness of every human life, starting with your own. If America, the only reality check left, doesn't use every ounce of energy to halt this madness and call it by its real name, then it will spread. The Devil is dancing in the Middle East, and he's dancing our way." (Thomas Friedman, NY Times)
"During the fall semester, the University of Colorado's Muslim Student Association was hit by vandalism and threatening phone calls. Campus police investigated it as a "hate crime." Now the campus Jewish organization, Hillel, has found its Israeli flag defaced with anti-Israeli and pro-Palestinian messages, but the cops say it's not a hate crime. 'This case was just a political statement,' Lt. Tim McGraw tells the Colorado Daily. 'There wasn't any threat.'" (OpinionJournal.com)
Willie Herenton, Mayor of Memphis, applauded the successful effort to bring the tremendously anticipated Mike Tyson-Lennox Lewis fight, to the city:
"You'll have corporate leaders, you'll have entertainers, you'll have sports heroes," he said. "And I hate to tell you, you'll have the underworld, you'll have prostitutes, you'll have drug dealers."
This is from a guy who wanted the fight.
Being a native Memphian, I'm glad the city got the fight. It should be a fun spectacle all week beforehand.
This is a link to the "frequently asked questions" page from the U.S. Copyright Office website. Take a look at question No. 58.
The Left is crying into their veggie burgers that Bush didn't meet with enough environmentalists while creating an energy policy. That's funny; I never heard the media bitch about Clinton not meeting with conservative experts when forming his policies.
Jeff watches the Oscars, part one:
I love that Julian Fellowes, accepting the award for Best Original Screenplay for the movie Gosford Park, said in his remarks: "Finally, I want to thank the Academy and all of you for your tradition of kindness to foreigners like myself. I think you must be the most generous nation on Earth. So thank you very much and God Bless America."
Why is this significant? Because, not only was the English Fellowes the only person to say "God Bless America" during the ceremony, but the director of the film he wrote is Robert Altman, who has ripped his United States since George W. Bush was elected president. Two months ago, Altman said in a Times of London interview: "When I see an American flag flying, its a joke," adding "There's nothing in America that I would miss at all." He also said: "This present government in America I just find disgusting, the idea that George Bush could run a baseball team successfully -- he cant even speak! I just find him an embarrassment."
And did you notice that of the Hollywood crowd, notorious for wearing ribbons to commemorate every special interest out there, not a one sported a red, white or blue ribbon to remember 9/11 or troops overseas?
Jeff watches the Oscars, part two:
How silly was it for me to see black Hollywood Leftists all up in arms and celebrating supposedly racist tendencies of thousands of Hollywood Leftists, most of whom are the most politically correct people in the country. For goodness' sake, these guys gave a standing ovation to Woody Allen, a guy married to his daughter!
I guess blacks in America no longer have other race wars on social, economic or educational ills, because that long-standing 74-year war on black Hollywood actors has finally been won. . . .by a man who already won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar, and a woman with a blue-eyed blond-haired mother from England who raised her alone after her African-American husband abandoned her.
One starts to wonder if Hollywood gave Halle Berry and Denzel Washington the awards because they are black. Sure, both deserved it as much as any of the other nominees, but I reject the idea that they were entitled to it through some sort of mythical slight by the filmmaking community.
"If liberal Hollywood is so filled with racists who are denying opportunities and recognition to blacks, how about a little coverage of that from a media which so often sees racial motives behind policies and campaign tactics employed by conservatives?" (Media Research Center)
Instead, Berry and the pundits should have listened to Sidney Poitier's speech earlier in the night, where he was thankful for his role in the Hollywood history, and showing his classiness, gratefully thanked people of both races who made it happen. Berry herself said that in the preceding tribute that Poitier "is not just an African-American treasure, he is an American treasure." If only she would have recognized that later.
Of course, Berry should be more concerned that many more people went to see Swordfish last summer than Monster's Ball, if only for the three second snippet of Halle topless.
The hypocrisy of the Left on parade:
Herman Talmadge, a former Georgia governor and U.S. Senator, recently died. As a classic Southern Democrat governor and senator, he was a staunch segregationist. After the 1954 Supreme Court ruling that outlawed segregation, Talmadge predicted that "blood will run in Atlanta's streets." He voted against the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
After he died, though, all anyone will say, including civil rights activists now joined at the hip with Democrats, was that he had "regretted" his racist past and should be remembered as someone who, in his later years, should be remembered more for improving Georgia's schools and roads.
You know, I seem to recall a certain Judge Charles Pickering from Laurel, Miss., who was criticized for not showing enough support for Civil Rights reform on the bench by not giving the harshest sentence possible years ago to a KKK member, and it is ignored that Medgar Evers's son, Charles, says Pickering is a staunch supporter of the rights of all men. He's accused of being a racist and a bigot, and the Democrats refused to allow the Senate to vote on his nomination to a Appellate court seat.
Are you recognizing the hypocrisy yet? That it doesn't matter what you do, as long as you label yourself a Democrat?
Say That Again?: "The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has approved $31.7 million for the soundproofing of schools near airports in New Jersey and New York," reports the Home News Tribune of East Brunswick, N.J. "Then one reads where $2.6 million of that money will go: the Lexington School for the Deaf in Jackson Heights." (OpinionJournal.com)
A group calling itself Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch (mlaw.org) gives awards to the silliest warning labels on products. Some examples:
- On a CD player, "Do not use the product as a projectile in a catapult."
- On a Duraflame fireplace log, "This product presents a risk of fire."
- A 35mm camera warns: "When operating the selector dial with your eye to the viewfinder, care should be taken not to put your finger in your eye accidentally."
- On a toilet, "Recycled flush water unsafe for drinking."
- The label on a box of birthday candles tells users: "DO NOT use soft wax as ear plugs or for any other function that involves insertion into a body cavity."
- A warning on a pair of shin guards manufactured for bicyclists says: "Shin pads cannot protect any part of the body they do not cover."
- A 13-inch wheel on a wheelbarrow warns: "Not intended for highway use."
- A Holmes Bathroom Heater says: "This product is not to be used in bathrooms."
- On a baby stroller: "Remove child before folding."
- A cardboard car sunshield that keeps sun off the dashboard warns, "Do not drive with sunshield in place."
Batman's Words of Wisdom: "This time, the Joker gave the party. Next time we'll hand out the door prizes."
Homer quote: "Marge, there's an empty spot I've always had inside me. I tried to fill it with family, religion, community service, but those were dead ends! I think this chair is the answer."
Random site: Breaking News -- A news satire site.