TUESDAY 10/28/03

WHAT CREATIVE LISTENERS I HAVE

Yesterday the following bit appeared in Nealz Nuze:

"I heard a CNN reporter this morning hammering home the point that we just don't know who is behind these attacks.  The hell we don't.  The people behind these attacks are Islamic terrorists!  They're cut from the same cloth as those who attacked New York City and Washington DC.  They're the brethren of the Islamic terrorists who blew up that nightclub in Bali.   Saddam loyalists, Hamas, Palestinians, Al Qaeda ... whatever.  They're all but teams in the Muslim Terrorist League."

A listener sent that excerpt back to me with the following:

The Muslim Terrorist League... ha.  The MTL.  I wonder if they have a draft.

Announcer:
"...and Abdul Kaliq Istanbul is a real up-and-comer... first car bombing at age 11, and first pointless hand to hand killing before he reached 13.  Now @ age 14 he is seeking early entry into the MTL, as he heard they have instituted a salary cap prior to next year."

Abdul Kaliq Istanbul: "I can get $37,000 and 7 virgins this year.  If I wait until next year, it might be less than half that.  I will only live two years before I will meet Allah upon a glorious mission, so I need to make what I can now."

I don't' care who you are .. .now that's funny.   (Apologies to Larry)

NOW THE RED CROSS IS TALKING ABOUT BAILING OUT

A few interesting points about yesterday's suicide car bombing of the Red Cross headquarters in Baghdad. 

Point one; The International Red Cross and other international aid agencies are talking about pulling their personnel out of Baghdad.  They're in good company there.  The United Nations did much the same thing a few weeks ago after UN personnel were targeted by terrorists.  Score another victory to the terrorists.

Point two:  There is evidence that these suicide bombings are the work of terrorists who have actually entered Iraq, most likely through Syria, to wage battle against the presence of American troops.  The evidence is that Saddam's Baath Party loyalists have no history of suicide bombings. 

So, it would look like the terrorists are actually coming to Iraq to fight the American troops.  This is viewed by some as being a good thing ... certainly much better than waiting for the Islamic terrorists to come back over here for another round.

CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES -- AND TOM DASCHLE

Let's not forget the environmentalists as these fires rage through California.  It is the eco-radicals who have prevented thinning of these very areas that are burning.  The environmentalists protested and fought, the areas that were to be thinned remained clogged with fuel for wildfires, and 1,000 homes burn.

Here's something else you might not remember.  In 2000, which, by the way, was an election year, Tom Daschle added a little amendment to a defense spending bill.  That amendment exempted logging interests in Sough Dakota from restrictive environmental regulations that prevented thinning of forests and wooded areas that could be threatened by wildfires.  The amendment also excepted South Dakota loggers from lawsuits by the environmental crowd.  The environmentalists didn't so much as raise an eyebrow .. not even the Sierra Club.  And why not?  Because Daschle is a liberal Democrat .. and environmentalism isn't so much about our environment as it is about conservative vs. liberal politics.

I wonder how many environmentalists homes have been lost in California in the last week. 

MORE ON PELOSI'S "TERRORIZING" REMARKS

Yesterday I told you about California Democrat Nancy Pelosi's remarks about those illegal immigrants who have been arrested at Wal-Mart stores across the country.  She said that American law enforcement officials were terrorizing these law-breaking illegal immigrants.   Yup .. there was our House Minority Leader telling her audience that the men and women of American law enforcement were, in essence, terrorists. 

Michele Malkin brought up an interesting point on Hannity and Colmes last night.  Nancy Pelosi has now joined a growing list of Democrats and assorted leftists who make comments such as this from foreign soil.  Pelosi's comments were made in Mexico.  Pandering to the Latino vote in California and elsewhere is so important to Pelosi and her ilk that they'll even stoop to implying American police and immigration officers are terrorists.

Pelosi is now scrambling to say that she didn't mean to actually use the word "terrorize."  She really meant to say "traumatize," or something like that.  The backtracking is being done back here at home.  The words she left in Mexico remain.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

North Korea has delivered 400 ballistic missiles to clients in the Middle East.  That would be Muslim clients.  No worries though.  I'm sure the U.N. is on the job.

Orin Hatch is negotiating with the Democratic filibuster crowd to get some votes on Bush's judicial nominees.

Cal Thomas:  "CBS will air a miniseries, "The Reagans," Nov. 16 and 18. If a script obtained by the New York Times correctly depicts the final product, the show will bear as much resemblance to the real Ronald Reagan as Santa Claus reflects the real meaning of Christmas."

Thomas writes some more on the lynching of Janice Rogers Brown.  Liberals can say and do vicious things about and to black Americans ... so long as the black American happens to be a conservative black American.

Mike Adams, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina - Wilmington, urges you to stop donating money to your college or university if it is violating students rights to freedom of association and speech.  Good column.

Why aren't we hearing more about the presidential candidates Al Sharpton and Carol Mosley Braun?  Armstrong Williams has a better question:  Is this the best blacks the Democratic party has to offer?

During World War II America developed the atomic bomb because we were petrified that Hitler was very close to doing the same.  It turns out that Hitler wasn't close at all.  Did we then go on a witch hunt for those responsible for faulty intelligence?  This great column from Jay Bryant gives you some amazing historical perspective.

The Patriot Act.  Does it go too far, or are we just a bunch of Chicken Littles.  Millions of Americans think the law goes too far.  Three states and 200 cities have passed resolutions expressing concerns.

NOW ONE GOOD PICTURE --- HELP!

As amazing at it may seem, there is not one single extant good picture of the Magi laying gifts at the feet of The Baby Jesus at the Hannityfest last weekend.  As Royal would say ... Just Damn.  We spent a pantload of money on those costumes, and nobody on our entire staff managed to get one good picture.  Soooooo ... the plea goes out to those of you who were in attendance at the Hannityfest.  Do you have a good picture of Clark, Scott and myself as the three Magi approaching the hallowed ground upon which Cutie Pie stood?  Send the picture to highpriest@cox.com  The best one gets an autographed Neal Boortz bobblehead doll and our undying gratitude.