WEDNESDAY, January 14, 2004

WHAT A DIFFERENCE THREE DAYS MAKES

How sad.  All of those leftists and Saddam appeasers who thought that they finally had the issue they could ride to victory in 2004 are now off somewhere licking their wounds.  The great Paul O'Neill roar turned out to be more like a whimper.

Let's review what we heard last weekend vs. what we are hearing today:

1.  O'Neill said that Bush was disengaged at Cabinet meetings.  A blind man in a room full of deaf people.  First .. that doesn't make sense. A blind man can hear, and deaf people can communicate .. but never mind.  Now we have O'Neill saying that he wishes he hadn't said that in the first place.

2.  A big deal was made over O'Neill's revelation that the Bush Administration was making plans for an invasion of Iraq almost as soon as they moved into the White House.  Oops.  Then we learn that the Clinton Administration had been making the very same plans, and that in fact those plans were required after a law was passed in 1998 making regime change in Iraq an integral part of American foreign policy.

3.  Then we learn that O'Neill is going to vote for Bush in 2004, because "I don't see anyone who is better prepared or more capable." 

So ... how much did the big Paul O'Neill story last?  Four days, wasn't it? 

HOME INVASION ... THREE DEAD

We had a home invasion robbery near Atlanta last night.  The predator broke into one home and stole a car.  Then he broke into another home where he got into a fight with the occupants, a 55 year-old man and his 17 year-old son.  The homeowner and his son didn't have a gun.  The predator did.  The man and his son are dead. 

The predator was later tracked into the woods by police canine units.  He shot one of the dogs and the police responded with gunfire of their own.  The predator, thank God, is dead.

I don't know why the homeowner didn't have a gun in his home.  Perhaps he believed some of that idiotic nonsense about guns being used more frequently to kill family members than to ward off criminals.  Maybe he used to live in Chicago where it would have been illegal for him to even own a handgun, unless, of course, you're a high-level politician or friend of the mayor. 

I hope some of you anti-gun nuts read this bit today.  Here's a predator who had a gun, and a homeowner who didn't.  The homeowner is dead.  So is his son.  What great work you anti-gun people are doing.  Are you proud?

No ... I don't know about the condition of the dog.  I'll update you.  But for now let's just rejoice in the death of the predator.

DAMNED IF YOU DO, DAMNED IF YOU DON'T

Earlier this week we learned that President Bush is going to visit Atlanta on Thursday to participate in the ceremonies celebrating what would have been Martin Luther King's 75th birthday.  Bush intends to lay a wreath at the King Center during his visit.  Every president has done this, with the exception of Ronald Reagan.

Now we learn that the event organizers in Atlanta are upset about the president's visit.  They don't like the disruptions caused by the Secret Service.  They're griping that Bush invited himself, and they're upset that there's going to be a fund raiser later in the day in Atlanta.  One of Atlanta's more off-the-wall race warlords, State Representative Tyrone Brooks, says that Bush's visit is "quite insulting."  For the record ... every one of the other presidents who visited the King crypt to lay a wreath came without a formal invitation.

Now ... let's flip the situation here.  What if George Bush didn't visit Atlanta on the 75th anniversary of MLK's birth?  We all know what would happen, don't we?  The civil rights warlords would be citing Bush's absence as evidence of his disdain for blacks and the legacy of Martin Luther King.  Some of the more rabid warlords would be screaming racism.

Oh well ... it gives Tyrone something to rant about for a while.  I guess that's a good thing.  Keeps him off the streets.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Howard Dean, Weasley Clark.  The Wall Street Journal asks "Who are these guys?"

We've already covered this ... but maybe you would like to hear it from someone else.  Getting rid of Saddam Hussein was official US policy long before George Bush became president.

This week's Boortz column in World Net Daily.

Big Brother is after homeschoolers.   Here's Michelle Malkin. 

Jimmy Carter is going to campaign for Dean.  Zell Miller is going to campaign for Bush.  This is Zell Miller reinforcing his credentials as a winner, and Jimmy Carter reinforcing his credentials as one of the worst presidents in American history.

Drudge brings us some of the rhetoric from a moveon.org awards banquet.  Lovely, caring people, these Democrats.

Did Howard Dean urge Bill Clinton to act unilaterally, without support from allies, to enter the war in Bosnia in 1995?  Yup, looks like he did.  In fact, the letter from Dean to Clinton contained the words "we must take unilateral action."

Lawrence Lindsey, the former director of the National Economic Council, tells us why Paul O'Neill is wrong.

Now here are two high school Harrys that need to spend about the next ten or so years in jail.  They were planning a recreation of the Columbine tragedy.

If you happen to be a news anchor on a local television station it might not be all that good of an idea to display your fun bags at a wet t-shirt contest in Key West.  People have cameras .. and Internet access.

Read this to see the future of medical care in the United States.  Remember ... since most of you out there think that health care is always either your employer's or the governments responsibility, socialized medicine is inevitable in the United States.

If you take advantage of an ATM that isn't working right ... you're a crook.  This story is about a bunch of crooks in Bryan-College Station, Texas.  Sadly, some of them were probably Aggies.  If so .. they should be permanently expelled from Texas A&M.

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