Big Bird coming home. What's for dinner?
Thursday, October 25, 2001
Quote of The Day
"I find the figures on illegal residents flabbergasting.The numbers indicate
that some 400,000 to 500,000 persons were flowing into the country each year
since 1990, and that shows the nation has lost control of its borders."
--Steven Camarota, Research Director, Center for Immigration Studies
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''This war began with the direct and immediate murder of thousands of
Americans, and if we find that we have a reasonable target along with Osama
bin Laden in the government of Iraq, we must wage this war quickly. We must
wage it powerfully. We must wage it cleverly. And we must wage it
ruthlessly.''
--Former CIA director James Woolsey
Your Anthrax Is Not In The Mail: Tom Knott, in the Washington Times, takes
the right tack with the current anthrax panic. Chill. Saddam (and it probably
is him) isn't after you unless you have a really big TV show or got elected.
Make nice on your mailman, he's got it rougher than you and remember - most
Americans are only one generation away from concerns about polio, small pox,
tetanus, scarlet fever, whooping cough, measles, tick fever and being run
over or impregnated in non-preventable accidents involving a Studebaker,
Nash, Kaiser or Edsel.
Our Better Angels:
Here's a poll that ought to make us all feel better about
ourselves. a survey
published by the National Opinion Research Center at the
University of Chicago says our national confidence is up, national pride is
up, faith in our fellow man is up. Some say our Jim Beam, Marlboro Lite and
Hostess Twinkie consumption is up as well but why not. Culture shock calls
for comfort. We can go back to the treadmill when we sort all this out.
Trust But Vilify: Anything written by Bob Woodward at the Washington Post
should be, as Michael Ledeen recently pointed out, read for its subtext.
Here's Woodward's latest effort at thumb-sucking and from the ferocious tone
of the Ldot comments attached, folks have figured out the subtext and they
ain't buying.
More Tantalizing Travel Tales: Yesterday we had a Turk taken off a flight
because he had a full terrorist outfit in his luggage. He said it wasn't his.
Today's travel story is a real doozy. Here's an Egyptian guy who locked
himself inside a shipping container complete with bed and toilet. Inside,
authorities found a laptop computer, two mobile phones, cameras, a Canadian
passport. The stowaway's lawyer said family problems made him decide to leave
the country in such a fanciful way. We will be bringing you these strange
travel tales as they develop and we have a feeling there will be a lot of
them.
May There Always Be An England: Now you know we couldn't resist pointing this
story out. It seems a survey shows that English women have the biggest
breasts.
Your Generally Sunny and Partially English LComStaff
Some on staff here were delighted with the news. Others merely sniffed.