Saturday - September 25, 2004
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Quote Of The Day
“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.”
-- Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
On This Day In History
September 25th
1789 - The Bill Of Rights Passes Congress
The first Congress of the United States approves 12 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and sends them to the states for ratification. The amendments, known as the Bill of Rights, were designed to protect the basic rights of U.S. citizens, guaranteeing the freedom of speech, press, assembly, and exercise of religion; the right to fair legal procedure and to bear arms; and that powers not delegated to the federal government were reserved for the states and the people. Influenced by the English Bill of Rights of 1689, the Bill of Rights was also drawn from Virginia’s Declaration of Rights, drafted by George Mason in 1776. Mason, a native Virginian, was a lifelong champion of individual liberties, and in 1787 he attended the Constitutional Convention and criticized the final document for lacking constitutional protection of basic political rights. In the ratification process that followed, Mason and other critics agreed to approve the Constitution in exchange for the assurance that amendments would immediately be adopted. In December 1791, Virginia became the 10th of 14 states to approve 10 of the 12 amendments, thus giving the Bill of Rights the two-thirds majority of state ratification necessary to make it legal. Of the two amendments not ratified, the first concerned the population system of representation, while the second prohibited laws varying the payment of congressional members from taking effect until an election intervened. The first of these two amendments was never ratified, while the second was finally ratified more than 200 years later, in 1992.
1890 - Wilford Woodruff, president of the Mormon church, renounced the practice of polygamy. This paved the way for Utah’s acceptance as a state in 1896.
1957 - Nine black children were escorted to Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, under heavily armed guard, because of racial violence.
1981 - Sandra Day O’Connor was sworn in as the first female justice on the Supreme Court.
Today’s Birthdays
William Faulkner, (1897–1962), American novelist
Barbara Walters, (1931- ), Television reporter and anchor
Michael Douglas, (1944- ), Actor, director, producer
Thanks to The Quotations Page - The History Channel - InfoPlease.
Old Farmer’s Almanac
An old Alabama farmer had owned a large farm for several years. He had a large pond in the back, fixed up nice, with picnic tables, horseshoe courts and some apple trees. The pond was properly shaped and fixed up for swimming.
One evening the old farmer decided to go down to the pond, to look things over as he hadn’t been there for a while. He grabbed a 5 gallon bucket to bring back some fruit from the trees. As he neared the pond he heard voices shouting and laughing with glee.
As he came closer he saw it was a bunch of young women skinny dipping in his pond. He made the women aware of his presence and they all went to the deep end of the pond. One of the women shouted “We’re not getting out until you leave!”
The old man frowned and said, “I didn’t come down here to watch you ladies swim naked or make you get out of the pond naked.” Holding up the bucket he said ....
“I’m here to feed the alligator.”
May The Force Be With You
Friday - September 24, 2004
It’s Been A Long Week
Yeah, I’m back from the hurricane-ravaged areas of South Alabama. Finally. For the record, I have several hundred members of my extended family in LA (Lower Alabama) and the Florida Panhandle. Several of them are staying with me this weekend just to get a hot bath and hot food. I’ve got bruises all over my arms and legs from wrestling tree limbs off of roads (and houses). I’m exhausted but I feel good. Helping family and friends is its own reward. It’s too bad Liberals and Democraps don’t feel like doing these kinds of good deeds. They’d rather pass the responsibility off to the government and tax you and me to pay for it. If you REALLY want to understand the difference between Liberals and Conservatives, there you have it. Liberals tend to be self-centered, unreliable, slackers who think government is the answer to everything. In the world I live in, government is the last place we look for when we need help. We rely on each other and our families and friends first. After all, that is what made this country great in the first place wasn’t it?
What are my relatives biggest concern right now? How will Alabama do against Arkansas tomorrow after the Tide lost Brodie Croyle, Bama’s starting quarterback last weekend to a season-ending injury. You gotta love these folks.
on 09/24/2004 at 06:05 PM
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Why Ask Why?
Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?
GEORGE W. BUSH
We don’t really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.
COLIN POWELL
Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road.
HANS BLIX
We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road.
JOHN KERRY
I voted to let the chicken cross the road before I voted against it!
RALPH NADER
The chicken’s habitat on the other side of the road had been polluted by unchecked industrial greed. The chicken did not reach the unspoiled habitat on the other side of the road because it was crushed by the wheels of a gas-guzzling SUV.
PAT BUCHANAN
To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.
RUSH LIMBAUGH
I don’t know why the chicken crossed the road, but I’ll bet it was getting a government grant to cross the road, and I’ll bet that somebody out there is already forming a support group to help chickens with crossing-the-road syndrome. Can you believe this?!? How much more of this can real Americans take? Chickens crossing the road paid for by their tax dollars. And when I say tax dollars, I’m talking about your money, money the government took from you to build a road for chickens to cross.
MARTHA STEWART
No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer’s Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider information.
DR SEUSS
Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I’ve not been told.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
To die in the rain. Alone.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR
I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question.
GRANDPA
We heard on the news that it crossed the road, and we believed it. We were not given reporters’ opinions of why it did.
BARBARA WALTERS
Isn’t that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heartwarming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish its life long dream of crossing the road.
JOHN LENNON
Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together - in peace.
ARISTOTLE
It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.
KARL MARX
It was an historic inevitability.
RONALD REAGAN
Because it was free to take advantage of the opportunity to improve itself.
CAPTAIN KIRK
To boldly go where no chicken has ever gone before.
SIGMUND FREUD
The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual insecurity.
BILL GATES
I have just witnessed eChicken2003, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook. Internet explorer is an integral part of eChicken.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?
BILL CLINTON
Did the chicken cross the road? It depends on what “cross” means. Give me the weekend to consult with my 55 lawyers and I will answer your question
AL GORE
I invented the chicken!
THE BIBLE
And God came down from heaven, and he said unto the chicken THOU SHALT CROSS THE ROAD. And the chicken didst cross the road, and there was much rejoicing.
COLONEL SANDERS
Did I miss one?
(-- Thanks to Stan D.)
Shorties
Guess who supports President Bush? (hark back to Gomer Pyle as you say this) Suh-Prahze!!! Suh-Prahze!!! Suh-Prahze!!!
The guy who’s CEO of C-B.S.’ parent company!!
Why?
“Republican values are what U.S. companies need. ”
You gotta love a politician who advocates that repeat, career criminals who are poor would be denied free health care. I LOVE that idea!!!!
Surely you’ve heard the brouhaha surrounding the car-giveaway stunt Oprah Winfrey pulled, right? Audience members are now complaining they have to pay the federal taxes on the “gifts.”
I would not be surprised if half those assclowns already pay no taxes because they are not employed.
What better way to introduce them to the reality of tax burdens and complexity of tax laws? Flat tax anyone?
Want to know why medical care costs so much? You need only thank Bill “FUCKWAD” Clinton for signing an executive order:
“mandating that all physicians, clinics, hospitals and other medical care providers who receive Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement for treating patients with limited English proficiency, or LEP, provide to those patients full interpreter and translator services in their own languages.”
Considering there are about 500 different languages spoken in the US, think of the logistics nightmare of having to contact a translator for some obscure piece of shit language before you operate or treat a patient.
Then again, why the hell hasn’t President Bush UNSIGNED that order?
on 09/24/2004 at 10:47 AM
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Triple Threat
Teresa Heinz Kerry says the “Evil Bushies” are just waiting until right before the election to announce they have captured Osama bin Laden. It’s all a great big conspiracy to re-elect the criminal Bushitler, according to Senator Kerry’s “sugar-mommy”. The poor little dear has been hanging out with Democraps so long that she is starting to buy into their looney conspiracy theories. Of course, if the Army and the CIA actually manage to capture Osama in the near future, they will have to keep him under wraps until after the election or else the Democraps will start screaming “SEE!! SEE!! WE TOLD YOU SO!” .... I can’t take much more of their babbling bullshit. Will someone please rid me of these parasites?
In Scotland they’ve managed to train dogs to sniff out cancer. That’s right, the dogs can sniff a person’s urine and tell if that person has bladder cancer. We can go them one better .... we have a moonbatdog (Batty) who can sniff out stupidity, lunacy, idiocy and just general lazy hypocricy in people. All he has to do is stare into a person’s eyes for a few seconds .... if he detects any of the previously mentioned traits, he immediately bites a huge hunk out of the moonbat before he or she even has a chance to bark. See him up there in the right upper corner of the page? Stare into his eyes for a little while. Do you feel teeth in your ass? If not, you are welcome to stay here and split a keg with us.
Finally, I have decided today to plant explosive charges all along the several hundred mile long San Andreas Fault. After reading this story about the latest hijinks of the “girlie-men” legislators in the Land Of Californicators, I have decided the people in California are no longer needed for any further entertainment. Over the years, I have laughed myself silly at their devious attempts to prove themselves stupider than the French or the Canadians (or the French Canadians). However, when I read that story I felt the Moonbats in California have gone too far. I figure I’ll need about six million tons of C-4 to do the job right and slide those fuckers off into the soothing waters of the Pacific where they can “sleep with the fishes”. So click on the PayPal or Amazon links on the right and donate today for the “CA-C4-DEEP-SEA” Fund. All donations are tax deductible. Except in states beginning with the letters A through Z.
Vilmar’s Latest Excellent Adventures
This ought to get your blood boiling.
Last night a bunch of us Republicans went out to exercise our First Amendment right to free speech (and free assembly) in front of the local Democratic Headquarters.
We’ve done this before and most of the local Dems take it in the spirit that it is given and exchange points of view with us. We don’t cuss them out, we don’t physically challenge them, we don’t molest them, we do not go on their property, we do not approach nor do we intimidate them (or so I thought until last night.)
We had a couple of huge honkin’ Bush/Cheney signs (4 foot by 8 foot), and a bunch of smaller signs. We stood at the entrance of the road leading to the Dem Hq and held up our signs and yelled things like “4 more years!”; “Who’s in the White House? Bush! Bush! Bush!!”: “Don’t be a girlie man! Vote Bush”; “Flip-Flop” and other stuff directed at Kerry. Plus we made donkey noises. (those were fun!)
This went on for about 45 minutes as the Dems made their way to their HQ to listen to some geek from Kerry’s campaign talk to them. (Note: let me tell you, if the size of the crowd was any indication, Kerry is in a shit load of trouble. I counted no more than 20 or so cars there.)
Then a goon came out of their HQ and stood there staring at us. Then a couple of other goons came out. Then Number 1 goon pulls out a cell phone. We continue to taunt them (visions of Monty Python come to mind), never getting closer than 50 or so feet to the entrance of their building (where they were.) One of the other goons shouts at us to stick it up our bullhorn and walks across the street and through the parking lot of this medical building (where we were standing.) We figure he’s leaving but he walks into the building. I think, “maybe he’s checking in on his illicit lover. After all, he IS a democrat!” Then he leaves. Instead of driving out of the parking lot in the proper direction, he backs out, away from us, and unto the main highway. I was suddenly reminded of Kerry throwing his swiftboat into reverse and fleeing the scene during a gunfight necessitating his return to pick up that Rasmussen fellow who fell overboard or whatever. The operant picture here is fleeing in reverse---just like Fuckface.
8 PM rolls around and we decide, since that’s when their meeting was to begin, that we should leave. Plus it was dark and becoming pointless to be out there if they were all inside.
That’s when the fun began. A cop car pulls up. He goes to talk to goon number 1. We figure, “hmmmm, what’s up with the cop? We have a right to be here.” I went to several of the guys and said that we should not leave. At least not while the cop is here. It would be a sign of weakness.
We stay.
We watch.
The cop gets in his car and we think it’s all over. Not quite. He’s calling for backup.
Meanwhile this other assclown drives into aforementioned medical building’s parking lot, IDs himself as some sort of building supervisor and begins to tell us this is private property and did we ask permission to use it. (Mystery solved about the reverse driving assclown. He’s one of the owners of the place and called this stupidvisor guy.) We all look at each other and know that between the street and the parking lot, the county owns 15 feet right of way. So we go there. I shout out to him, “hey!!! Do these cars (referring to the Democrats’ cars) have permission to be in your lot? Did they ask?” You know the answer, right? He backs out, too! Must be a Democrat thing.
Meanwhile, the cop is still there. Somewhere in between all this we break into song and belt out America the Beautiful.
By now, number 2 cop shows up--a Sergeant. OOOOOHHH!!! We’re scared now. Both cops talk to goon 1 and we continue to verbally taunt the Dems. I make chicken noises. I also meow like a cat in the hopes they will figure out I am indicating they are a bunch of pussies for calling the cops. I make jackass noises. (far be it from me to blow my own horn but I do a fine impersonation of all these critters!!)
The cops come over to talk to us and say that they were called because the Dummycrap women were feeling “threatened” and “intimidated!” Now ain’t that a bunch of pussified shit? The head cop tells us we can do our thing when men are there but to refrain when women are as it could be construed a threat or disturbance of peace.
I don’t know about you but I am not sure how that can be with women but not with men. I asked the cop what we should do if a man AND woman show up together? Could we taunt them, then? Or does the mere presence of a woman stifle my ability to free speech?
Hey, the cops were doing THEIR job and I have nothing against them. They were trying to maintain the peace. They have to deal with jackasses all day and we were not about to make their lives miserable by harassing them. I could never be a cop. I’d get kicked out for “overuse of the nightstick” phenomena! hehehehe
By then, it was REAL dark and our purpose had been served so we left.
But not quietly.
I walk away yelling, (cue Monty Python again) “HELP! HELP! I’m being oppressed!”
Ya know, I’m tempted to call the sheriff to get his take on this. Maybe even a lawyer. What the cop said sounds like it was said more to defuse the situation than an actual point of law given WHAT we were saying. Making general political comments somehow does not fit into my definition of intimidation or threat.
I AM however, looking forward to the next protest. We should do the same thing we did last night and if I have my way, we should ignore the cop’s “guidance” from last night, too. I just can’t see anyone being arrested for doing what we did but if we DID get arrested we should then threaten to sue the Democratic party for harassment, false imprisonment, defamation etc. I’d like to see anyone prove a case where saying things like, “4 more years” is considered threatening.
All in all, isn’t it typical of dems to pull this shit? Soon as things don’t go like they want, they begin to act like petulant children yelling for their mommy. They go crying to the police to protect them because they do not know how to defend themselves. They are morally, ethically, logically and intellectually bankrupt. After all, they support Kerry, right? And he speaks French. And the French have never really won any wars, have they? But they DO know how to surrender!!
P.S. I hope someone has contacts in the Dem party who reads this blog and forwards this to the local Dem Executive Committee Chairman. (for all I know, it could have been goon #1 from last night!)
on 09/24/2004 at 08:07 AM
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Speaking Of Arizona
Finally, a state who’s citizenry have figured it out and want to control their own destiny.
Why is it that as surely as this passes some activist judge will say the will of the people is unconstitutional?
on 09/24/2004 at 06:24 AM
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Is It Bias or Just Your Imagination?
Page 1 of the L.A. Times talks about Kerry’s lead in that state, 55% to 40%. How is it touted?
“California voters remain strongly in favor of ousting President Bush and replacing him with Sen. John F. Kerry.”
Let’s take a little trip across state lines and see what is going on in Airizona, shall we? Here, the L.A. Times says Bush leads Kerry 54% to 38% (that’s 16 points in Arizona aversus 15 points in California).
How did the L.A. Times cover THIS story? Come on, you oughtta know by now:
“Long a Republican Bulwark, a Growing Arizona Is in Play.” (emphasis mine)
And, OBTW, not only was the Arizona story buried on page 20 but it wasn’t until LATE into it that you see the numbers.
So, what’s the casual reader to think? Especially if he does not have time to read the whole thing? That’s right!!!!
The headline was PURPOSELY written to give the impression Arizona was within Kerry’s grasp.
Hmmmmmmmm, I wonder how the L.A. Times will cover the fact that in Arizona Kerry has decided to stop running campain ads.
Thanks to Best of the Web.
on 09/24/2004 at 06:17 AM
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Communists For Kerry
I got this from a local friend within the local party structure. I checked the site she mentions. This is NOT a joke. These are not “klingons” but actual live COMMIE PINKOS seeking to undermine our country. If you ever needed proof that little difference exists between Dummycraps and Communists, this is it.
The Communist Party of The United States of America, CPUSA, is publicly supporting the election of John Kerry.
No, this is not a typo...you read it correctly. The CPUSA has made available on its Web site, an advertisement entitled Top Ten Reasons To Defeat Bush. This advertisement can be downloaded. The communist party urges readers to place this ad in local newspapers throughout the country to defeat President Bush.
Remarkably, the “Top Ten Reasons” of the Communist party are identical to those of the Democratic party--- out-sourcing, homosexual rights, abortion, and the like. (Vilmar note: these fucktards are even advocating illegal alienss be granted citizenship. They call them immigrant workers but we know what THAT means!)
At first, it was thought that “this was only a coincidence.” The Democratic party of the United States couldn’t be in lock step with the Marxists!
So, the originator of this email wrote to a spokesman of the CPUSA in Georgia and here is part of the spokesman’s letter: “The CPUSA supports the John Kerry campaign with donations and volunteer effort. We believe that defeating George Bush is the single most important issue this November”
**Next, it was discovered that one of Kerry’s campaign themes is “Let America be America Again.” This slogan was borrowed from a Communist poet, Langston Hughes. This is not common knowledge to the average American. “Let America be America Again” sounds good but is a rambling, gloomy poem.
Interestingly, another poem by Langston goes as follows; “Goodbye, Christ Jesus, Lord, God, Jehovah, Beat it on away from here now. Make way for a new guy with no religion at all—A real guy named Marx, communist, Lenin, Peasant, Stalin, Worker, ME—I said, ME!”
Then, if this was not convincing enough that the Democratic party has lost it, a third discovery!
**A Vietnam vet group took a trip to Communist Hanoi to investigate a report that John Kerry was in the “Hanoi Hall of Fame.” Yes, there is a museum in Hanoi with a section dedicated to foreign activists who help defeat the United States Military in Vietnam. Of course, you would expect Jane Fonda’s picture to be there. But, alas, there is John Kerry’s picture shaking the hand of a communist official.
Never has there been such a tragedy! Never has there been such a threat to America! Has the Democratic party has been taken over by the far, far left?
It’s not only the communists but the homosexual activists who are appalled that George Bush is married to a woman! They are enraged that the President wants a constitutional amendment to protect traditional marriage between a man and woman.
Then we have the ACLU running to a federal activist judge with every piece of legislation that doesn’t fit into their leftist agenda. They support every Democratic socialist whim. The removal of the Ten Commandments is their top priority!
Don’t trust this message for the truth—visit the CPUSA website at http://www.cpusa.org—read the articles, and then decide for yourself.
So...who will you vote for during the next Presidential Election?
Klingons For Kerry?
The Earth committee of the Klingon Empire met in Portland, Oregon (where else would you expect to find Klingons?) and decided to endorse John Kerry.
“On the home world, if there had been a contested election between Gore and Bush, the honorable thing would be for Gore to kill Bush,” explained Khraanik (Earth name: Jason Lewis), a 38-year-old from Southeast Portland. “Or the other way around. And then ascend to the head of the High Council.”
Now we know which “foreign leaders” Kerry was referring to recently when he talked about support for his campaign overseas. We are still awaiting word from the Vulcans and Romulans on their position in the upcoming race. Live long and prosper.
Book ‘Em, Danno
William Safire dug up the legal background to pursue RatherGate ....
Quoting U.S. Criminal Code, Chapter 63, Section 1343, New York Times columnist William Safire went straight to the heart of the CBS Rathergate scandal, writing, “At the root of what is today treated as an embarrassing blunder by duped CBS journalists may turn out to be a felony by its faithless sources.”
Writing in Wednesday’s New York Times, Safire noted that the statute holds that “Whoever, having devised any scheme or artifice to defraud transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce, any writings for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.”
Safire contends that law applies to those who “conceived a scheme to create a series of false Texas Air National Guard documents and append a photocopied signature to one of them.”
Says Safire, that person “then helped cause the fraudulent file to be transmitted by means of television communication to millions of voters for the purpose of influencing a federal election” – which he adds is “no mere ‘dirty trick’ but a potential violation of federal law.”
According to this, someone needs to go to jail and I would venture to suggest See-BS is guilty of being an accomplice ex post facto. I wonder if Martha Stewart will mind sharing her jail cell with Dan Rather?
Update on Heinz Ketchup Contest
In case you missed it, I posted yesterday that Heinz is having a contest to “say something kethuppy” about its ketchup which would be put on their labels. Our readers came up with a couple of good ones and I encourage all of you to send your entries to Heinz. Hell, steal them from the post above or use anyone below. It’s not like they will win but we can harass Heinz by having them pay someone to read them---and then throw them out.
‘I found this update with more “ketchuppy” phrases at Best of the Web today.
“Only an idiot would use mustard.”
“Our flavor is stronger at home and respected in the world.”
“Foreign leaders prefer ketchup.”
“Ketchup: C’est magnifique.”
“The taste that’s smeared--smeared--in your memory.”
“For your papases fritas, your pommes frites, your patate fritte and your fritadas francesas.”
“Mustard: The wrong condiment in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
“By the way, served in your kitchen.”
“Too good for the common man.”
“Hunt’s is for scumbags.”
“It’s red, like the blood John Kerry spilled in Vietnam.”
Daily Dose
Quote Of The Day
“An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t. ”
-- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
On This Day In History
September 24th
622 AD - the prophet Muhammad completes his Hegira
On this day in 622, Muhammad-------ah, screw it, given the lunacy of Muslims in the world today, fuck the dumb shit. I will not write about this moron’s adventures. I have better things to do. Like letting you know about our Supreme Court, below.
1789 - The First Supreme Court
The Judiciary Act of 1789 is passed by Congress and signed by President George Washington, establishing the Supreme Court of the United States as a tribunal made up of six justices who were to serve on the court until death or retirement. That day, President Washington nominated John Jay to preside as chief justice, and John Rutledge, William Cushing, John Blair, Robert Harrison, and James Wilson to be associate justices. On September 26, all six appointments were confirmed by the U.S. Senate. The U.S. Supreme Court was established by Article 3 of the U.S. Constitution. The Constitution granted the Supreme Court ultimate jurisdiction over all laws, especially those in which their constitutionality was at issue. The high court was also designated to oversee cases concerning treaties of the United States, foreign diplomats, admiralty practice, and maritime jurisdiction. On February 1, 1790, the first session of the U.S. Supreme Court was held in New York City’s Royal Exchange Building. The U.S. Supreme Court grew into the most important judicial body in the world in terms of its central place in the American political order. According to the Constitution, the size of the court is set by Congress, and the number of justices varied during the 19th century before stabilizing in 1869 at nine. In times of constitutional crisis, the nation’s highest court has always played a definitive role in resolving, for better or worse, the great issues of the time.
1957 - The Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field.
1960 - The Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched.
1969 - The trial of the “Chicago Eight,” radical antiwar and counterculture activists accused of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic convention, began.
1991 - Children’s author Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, died at age 87.
Today’s Birthdays
John Marshall, (1755–1835), American jurist, 4th Chief Justice of the United States (1801–1835)
F. Scott Fitzgerald, (Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald), (1896–1940), American novelist and short-story writer
Jim Henson, (1936-1990), Puppeteer
Thanks to The Quotations Page - The History Channel - The Biography Channel.
Thursday - September 23, 2004
A Canadian Sees The Light
I’d almost given up on my Canadian neighbors but after reading this I believe there is hope. A few more like this and I just may make that trip to Canada to spend some of my American dollars there.
We’ve all known for a long time (well, most of us, anyway) of Reuters News Service’s predisposition to not want to refer to terrorists as “terrorists” but rather, as activists or freedom fighters or some such liberal, bullshit nonsense.
But our Canadian friends at CanWest, Canada’s largest newspaper chain, may be on the road to vindicating themselves in my eyes for the atrocious anti-American and anti-Bush behavior of Canadians in general over the past 4 years with this one.
Looks like CanWest’s editor-in-chief, Mr. Anderson, is basically telling Reuters to go fuck themselves by calling a spade a spade. How? His editorial board is now inserting the word “terrorist” in Reuters stories! And Reuters is PISSED OFF! (hey, fuck ‘em if they can’t take a joke, right?”
Check this out. Reuters says they don’t use those terms because their
“… editorial policy is that we don’t use emotive words when labeling someone”
So now adjectives and nouns are emotive? I wonder if they use the word “murderer” or “rapist”? Hey, those are emotive, aren’t they? How about leftist? Conservative? Liberal?
Hell, Muslim or Islamic is pretty fucking emotive for me! Will they stop using those, too? Or only the words that fit their convenient, politically correct definition?
I’ll leave you with this:
“Scott Anderson, editor-in-chief of CanWest Publications, said Reuters’ policy “undermine[s] journalistic principles,” and raised the key question: “If you’re couching language to protect people, are you telling the truth?” The issue was addressed in a recent editorial published in the Ottawa Citizen, one of CanWest’s newspapers:
Terrorism is a technical term. It describes a modus operandi, a tactic. We side with security professionals who define terrorism as the deliberate targeting of civilians in pursuit of a political goal. Those who bombed the nightclub in Bali were terrorists. Suicide bombers who strap explosives to their bodies and blow up people eating in a pizza parlor are terrorists. The men and women who took a school full of hostages in Beslan, Russia, and shot some of the children in the back as they tried to flee to safety were terrorists. We as journalists do not violate our impartiality by describing them as such.
Ironically, it is supposedly neutral terms like ‘militant’ that betray a bias, insofar as they have a sanitizing effect. Activists for various political causes can be ‘militant,’ but they don’t take children hostage.
BRAVO, Mr. Anderson. Finally, a Canadian who gets it.
on 09/23/2004 at 12:26 PM
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