First Lady Laura Keeping Us Calm
Wednesday, October 24, 2001
Quote of The Day
"For if there's one bright side to our current horror, it's that we're drawn
to what's better among us, what's higher, grander, truer and soul-enlarging -
not what's prunish, greedy, grasping, cold-blooded, calculated and completely
full of it. Like her".
--Margery Eagan, of the Boston Herald, commenting on virtuecrat Hillary
Clinton's "performance" at Madison Square Garden.
--Kathleen Parker, the Orlando Sentinel
Second Quote of the Day:
" Political correctness -- the art of camouflaging truth to protect the
psyches of the silly -- "
A Flume, A Spritz, A Hock: If you woke up this morning and turned to the
Internet to find out where all the anthrax is coming from -
the answer isn't
here. No one yet seems to know who did it (is doing it) and how. What
mystifies us is how do you get it into an envelope without getting infected
yourself. These guys seem to like to die. Maybe the FBI should be checking
some morgues in Jersey?
Duck Test Flunk Out: From
The Miami Herald this morning. "German authorities
are holding a Turkish man who was yanked off an Iran-bound plane last week
after a search of his luggage turned up a chemical weapons suit and a CD-ROM
for training holy warriors. Authorities also recovered materials to build a
detonator, combat fatigues and a cloth face mask. The passenger denied that
the items reportedly found in his luggage were his." Sounds a lot like O.J.
doesn't it?
Could Someone Just Look It Up? The congressional slapfest over the meaning
of "weapons grade anthrax" was in high slug again yesterday as
Democrats said
one thing and Republicans said another. Deep in this story a female scientist
quietly suggests "terrorist grade anthrax." So far no one is listening.
Hillary's Collar Problem: Bill O'Reilly claims Hillary was booed Saturday
night because she appeared before a blue collar crowd (read firemen and
police). He should know better. Hillary rarely appears before groups that
aren't carefully selected. And when they aren't a different opinion is heard.
Doesn't anyone remember the booing she got at the St. Patrick's Day parade?
It's not just blue collar, it's the public in general that has finally seen
through her.
Incidentally, that cute guy who wanted bin Laudin to kiss his royal Irish
rear was a fireman, not a cop as we wrote yesterday. Cops have some other
ideas.
Cipro, The Blunder Drug: If you got it, don't use it. The rush to arm
themselves with a drug that cures a disease they don't have is going to make
a lot of people sicker than they should be. USA Today speaks out today and
watch for other articles on what may turn out to be one of the biggest
medical messes since Thalidomide.
Brushing Away History: Film makers, in a quandary about shots of the twin
towers in films made less than two months ago,
wonder whether to alter their
work. Some think its a dumb idea - which it is. Not the honchos at HBO. Their
techies just spent days Talibanizing any scene in Sex in the City where to
towers once stood. As though what those girls get up to could ever be dated.
Description of the Day Award: Today's goes to Tony "My shirts are jiggier
than your shirts" Blankley at The Washington Times for this line regarding
congressional behavior toward the anthrax scare. "Too many senators swaggered
around Washington clanging their brass testicles, which some of them had
rented for the occasion."
Who You Callin' "Kraut"? The London Telegraph reports the current P.C.
struggle to call or not call Germans
"krauts" and French people "frogs." We have no trouble with "kraut" but we
prefer "cheese eating surrender monkeys" for the French.
Your Irish-German-Jewish-Scots-Dutch-Maltese and Yet-To-Be Determined (that
would be Igor) LComStaff