BUSH TELLS WORLD TO PUT UP OR SHUT UP

In his first major foreign policy speech since he was reelected, President Bush took the world to school over the whole issue of pre-emptive action in the war on terror. No longer held back by political considerations, Bush explained American policy in terms even the Axis of Weasels will understand. Or they should.

Said the president: "The success of multilateralism is measured not merely by following a process, but by achieving results. The objective of the U.N. and other institutions must be collective security, not endless debate."  

Have you seen that television commercial where this guy is choking and his friends sit around the table talking about the Heimlich Maneuver?  Finally someone from another table walks over and actually performs the maneuver instead of just sitting around talking about it.  The announcer says "less talk, more action."  That's George Bush.  The friends sitting around the table with the choker probably aren't all that pleased with the character from the other table.  Who the hell does he think he is to show them up like that?  Obviously the choker's friends are French.

Bush wasn't through: "Defense alone is not a sufficient strategy. There is only one way to deal with enemies who plot in secret and set out to murder the innocent and the unsuspecting: We must take the fight to them." Translation: we have to kill Islamic terrorists before they kill us. He also talked about the idea of advancing freedom and liberty in the Middle East: "By taking the side of reformers and democrats in the Middle East, we will gain allies in the war on terror and isolate the ideology of murder and help to defeat the despair and hopelessness that feeds terror. The world will become a much safer place as democracy advances."

The message is the same now as it was 3 years ago: you are either with us, or you are with the terrorists. Good show!

GOOD NEWS

The US Census Bureau says that the number of US mothers who have decided to forego work in order to stay home with their children is up.  Good news.  You don't have to look past the second page of almost any newspaper to see the effect of children growing up with two working parents.  There is no job more important than that of raising a child.  It's the very reason for our existence.  If both parents have to work for pure survival, that's one thing.  But when the second parent goes to work to enhance lifestyle it's quite another.  

All too often the second parent is working for no purpose other than to pay that family's tax burden.  If you want to find a core cause of two-parent working households look to the tax-and-spend-and-get reelected policies of our representatives in Washington.

WIDER SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM?

Rumor has it that the White House is considering larger Social Security personal investment accounts than the 2 percent Bush was pushing in the campaign. This is a good sign. While allowing younger workers to invest 2% is better than nothing, it's still not a whole lot. Reports say the administration might propose up to 4%. While anything is better than nothing, bolder action is needed.

How about allowing people to opt out entirely? Let people sign a statement giving up any future benefits in exchange for not having to pay the payroll taxes. The problem there of course is that the government needs their money right now to pay the benefits to current retirees.  The government needs the money because it has been stealing from the so-called Social Security Trust Fund for decades to finance their spend-and-elect programs. 

Hey!  How about privatizing the program entirely? What about developing a cutoff age for future beneficiaries and just ending the program? Here's another idea: why not means test the program so it can be phased out more quickly?

Social Security is a disaster. If any corporation were run the way the federal government runs Social Security, it would be shut down and the corporate officers marched off to jail in handcuffs. We need real reform, not just nibbling around the edges.

THE POODLE TO JOIN OHIO RECOUNT?

For the last month, bitter Democrats and conspiracy types have been promoting the myth that somehow the presidential election was stolen and that John Kerry really won Ohio. There's going to be a recount, which will be a waste of time. Anyway, now the Kerry campaign is getting into the act.

That's right...the same Kerry campaign that conceded the election in a telephone call to President Bush on November 3rd. The Kerry campaign has asked a judge for permission to join the Green Party and the Libertarian Party in the process. Bush won Ohio by 136,000 votes. Each vote count is independently certified by the 88 counties in Ohio. There is zero chance of The Poodle prevailing.

Bitter to the end...the left just can't let go of the fact that like 2000, they lost this election fair and square. 

FINALLY!

Atlanta's police chief Richard Pennington wouldn't step up and do it, so Mayor Shirley Franklin did.  She's ordered a review of accusations of police brutality at Hartsfield International Airport.  May I make three suggestions?

1. Hold a public hearing during which citizens who have been abused by Hartsfield take the stage and tell their stories.
2. Order Terrance Alexander, the officer who brutalized Diana Dietrich-Barnes to submit to an MIR.  He showed up in court recently with his arm in a sling.  His attorney is claiming a "soft tissue injury."  If the MRI doesn't show such an injury, fire him.  Hell, fire him anyway.  He has been reprimanded or suspended without pay 13 times since 2001 for violating department rules.  Many of these job actions involved confrontations with citizens.  He's a time bomb.  Dump him.
3. Figure out why Chief Richard Pennington wouldn't step forward and do his job.

I've heard from some Atlanta police officers, and they're less than pleased with the negative publicity that is coming from the actions of the airport cops. They want Terrance Alexander gone.  His continued presence on the force is a black eye to the 99% of Atlanta cops who don't deserve this negative publicity.

A NICE PERSON WOULDN'T SAY THESE THINGS ... BUT I WILL

My knee surgery is scheduled for this very afternoon.  As of midnight last night I can't eat or drink anything.  No coffee.  No water.  I'm hungry and irritable.  This ought to be one helluva show.  They had better put me under quick this afternoon before I snap a few heads off.

My mother told me that I should be nice to people who are dying.  Does that mean I have to be nice to smokers?

Why do Mexicans put their names on the back windows of their cars in Old English lettering?

People are getting so fat that x-ray and other medical imaging equipment can't even get through the lard.  This is going to require newer and more expensive machines and this is going to cost all of us more money.  Fat acceptance?  Yeah, right.

Is this absurd "bling-bling" term now a part of our culture?  We're sinking fast.

They've arrested some men for dumping clean dirt in a national forest.   Better be careful pouring water into a waterway.  Government gets more disgusting day-by-day.

SO THIS IS HOW YOU TEACH ABSTINENCE?

The Washington Post is reporting this morning of some amazing things that are being taught to American teenagers in federally funded, abstinence-only programs.  President Bush wanted $270 million of your hard-earned dollars to fund these programs in 2005.  The congress gave him $168 million.  And just what are our teenagers learning?

Well .. they're learning that abortion can lead to sterility and suicide.  There's no scientific evidence to support that claim.  They're also teaching teenagers that one-half of  gay male teen-agers in the U.S. have tested positive for AIDS virus.  Again ... not true.  And how about this one!  If you touch a person's genitals you can get pregnant. Try this one one:  A six-week-old fetus is a "thinking person."

How in the world do you expect to maintain any credibility at all if you try to pass this nonsense over on teenagers.  They know better.

By the way ... just how well are these abstinence programs working?  Only 12 out of 100 teenagers who pledge to remain virgins until they're married manage to live up to their pledge.  The promise lasts about a year. And then when they break the pledge, they aren't prepared with birth control or STD prevention so they're at a higher risk of pregnancy and disease.

We'll do a lot more to prevent sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies if we'll just deal with teenagers honestly.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

You've heard that the International Red Cross is claiming that our government is "torturing" prisoners at Guantanamo.  the Wall Street Journal says that the Red Cross is betraying America .. and the Geneva Convention. 

Peggy Noonan chronicles the Education of Dan Rather.

OK ... at least I will admit that men are pigs.  All men.  No exceptions.  So here are some pictures of the Tampa teacher. who seduced a 14-year-old student.  Go figure. [I hope you pigs are happy that you hammered this guys site so hard that it's down. Google's cache to the rescue!]

The left loves it when minorities are promoted to positions of power, as long as Democrats are doing the promoting.  Ann Coulter weighs in on the ascendancy of Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state.

This should bring comfort to the American people.....the Islamic terrorist group CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) is conducting sensitivity training for FBI agents.  Nice.  What's next? Al-Qaeda doing airport security?

A new study shows that after 25 years and $25 Billion, the United States is still losing the drug war.  How about we try something different?  I'm just asking.

Oil prices are falling.  But will you hear about this anywhere?  Of course not, it makes the administration look good.

CBS and NBC have turned down an ad for the United Church of Christ that emphasizes the church's inclusiveness by saying they won't turn away gay couples.  The networks' reasoning?  They don't need one.  As a private business, they can do whatever they want. Who cares.

Here's some excellent advice for the NAACP from Clarence Page: make Bill Cosby the head of the NAACP.  It's such good advice, they probably won't take it.

President Bush's second term won't entirely be a lame-duck presidency.  Zev Chafets thinks George Bush will be preparing for a third Bush term - Jeb Bush.  Interesting commentary.

How does the United States fix the United Nations?  How about we start by cutting our dues, says Dick Morris.

Former New York Mayor and Liberal Democrat Ed Koch supported George Bush in the general election, and now he has some advice for the Democrats.  They should listen, but they probably won't.

Bush is in Canada, and what are the networks covering?  All of the anti-Bush supporters, naturally.  There's no rest for the Bush-haters, as the Media Research Center reports.

The president's inability to pass the intelligence bill underscores the fact that he is a lame duck.  Robert Novak says the White House should take note.

Democrats have been whining for 4 years that President Bush is dividing the country.  Larry Elder argues that Bush is doing just the opposite.  He's actually already uniting the country.

The United States has been fighting the war on terror in Afghanistan and Iraq for three years, yet can anybody name a hero from those wars?  Thomas Sowell says the media has been holding out on us.

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