THURSDAY, January 15, 2004

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BOYCOTT BRAZIL

This is a picture of Dale Hersh.  He is an American Airlines pilot.  He is flipping a bird at Brazilian authorities because they were photographing him and fingerprinting him on his entry into Brazil.  Brazil, you see, is upset that the United States is photographing and fingerprinting foreign visitors.  Brazil, the nation that harbored God knows how many Nazi war criminals after World War II, can't understand why America is concerned about security.  Captain Hersh has been arrested.  Now we have American Airlines apologizing to Brazil for the pilot's gesture.  A Brazilian judge will determine whether to hold him for trial, or release him.  In the meantime, it's time for Americans to stop visiting Brazil until they grow up down there.  Oh, and if you're reading this in Brazil, beja minya bunda. I don't know if I spelled that right ... but you get the picture. 

GUNS IN COCKPITS

You do remember the flap over allowing pilots to have guns in the cockpits of commercial airliners, don't you?  Finally the FAA gave its blessings and the TSA started trying to figure out how this would be done.  Now we're learning that the process of approving pilots for firearms is moving slowly, and the Bush Administration and the TSA  seems to be making a conscious effort to make it just as tough on the pilots as possible.

1.  The site for pilot firearms training is in a remote area of New Mexico.
2.  Pilots must pay their own way to and from the training site.
3.  Pilots must pay for their rooms and for all food during the weeklong training session
4.  Pilots must take unpaid leave from work while the training is being conducted.
5.  The training includes intrusive psychological exams.

And ... get this ... the TSA is actually disqualifying many of the pilots who apply.  Think about that for a second.  The FAA says that you are psychologically balanced and skilled enough to command the cockpit of a commercial airliner with over 200 people in the back, and then the TSA says you aren't fit to have a firearm handy to protect that cockpit from a terrorist.  Add to this the irrationality of the anti-gun fools.  They don't want pilots to have guns because they're afraid that some innocent passengers might be injured in a gunfight with terrorists; but if the terrorists take over the aircraft because the pilots had no means to defend the cockpit all of the passengers will die when an Air Force fighter shoots the plane down.  Why is it so difficult for the anti-gun crowd in this country to engage in rational thought?

GORE'S BACK ON THAT GLOBAL WARMING NONSENSE AGAIN ...

.... and he picked the coldest day of the year in New York City to do it.  The purpose of Al Gore's speech in NYC today is to slam Bush for his "inaction" on global warming.  Gore isn't going to be deterred by the fact that the temperature in New York is supposed to be the coldest in ten years .. 1 degree above zero.  In fact, he's reportedly going to make the case that this cold weather is actually caused by global warming which, of course, is caused by George Bush.

We're not going to go through the evidence again here ... suffice it to say that there is absolutely no scientific evidence out there which shows that any measurable increase in the temperature of the earth's atmosphere is being caused by the actions of man.  There is evidence, however, strong scientific evidence, that sunspot and other activity has actually been making the surface of the son hotter for quite some time.  Evidently liberals and anti-capitalist eco-radicals aren't able to make the rational connection between a hotter sun and a hotter earth.   Why blame it on the sun when you have such a good opportunity to slam capitalism and slow down America's industrial machine?

CAROL MOSLEY BRAUN DROPPING OUT

And just what in the hell was this candidacy all about anyway? And how could this woman spend four months on the campaign trail without someone pointing out the aura of corruption that surrounded her when she had her local government job in Chicago?  This is someone who couldn't even win reelection to the US Senate in her home state .. and she was running for President?

A FEW RANDOM THOUGHTS

Scott Peterson is soon to go on trial for the murder of his wife.  Why haven't we heard any more about those Satanic cults that supposedly kidnapped and killed Laci?

It looks like I'm getting on a few Flaggot nerves in Georgia.  I know that there are plenty of pictures of me out there, but where did they come up with this picture of Belinda?

Republican Congressman Lamar Smith from Texas is on a campaign to have the "F" word removed permanently from radio and television.  Wow!  The "F" word seems to bother Lamar greatly.  I've been looking for a statement from Lamar about depictions of murder on television .. .haven't found any.  I guess in Lamar Smith's world seeing multiple murders on television is OK, hearing the "F" word can warp you.

Oh boy .. .it's "the children" again.  Hillary kiss-up Marian Wright Edleman of the Children's Defense Fund is saying that Bush's space initiative will hurt children.  Every time the left wants to take a swipe at some Republican initiative they start whining about how the money could have been spent on the children.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Peggy Noonan wonders if the Democratic establishment can stop Howard Dean.   She hopes it does.  Why? Let the leftists nominate this man!

Give me a break on this one.  Britney Spears believes in the "sanctity" of marriage? Oh yes, she "totally" does! 

The latest from UNC-Wilmington professor Mike Adams.  This time he's writing about using the classroom to indoctrinate students, and about one particular UNC instructor who is taking a stand against classroom indoctrination on the one hand, and teaching a class in "queer theory" on the other.

As you know, I am one solidly plugged-in radio talk show host.  Also, since I am actively involved in Aviation I have access to information you may not have.  As you know our Homeland Security Department is developing new machinery for screening airline passengers. You can click here for an example of just how one of those machines work.  Just drag your mouse over the passenger you want to screen. Mrs. Strong, keep your 11 year old brat away from this. Not safe for viewing at your workplace.

Dennis Miller will soon have his own talk show on CNBC.  He says the joke will be on the liberals.

Did you know that the United States imports from two to three times more jobs from overseas than it exports?  Thomas Sowell explains that we are exporting low-skill, low-paying jobs while importing high-skill, high-paying jobs.  This article will be painful for whiners and difficult for those who went to government schools to absorb.

From Thomas Sowell to Robert Samuelson ... more on the specter of outsourcing.

Here is a lesson from Rebecca Hagelin ... a lesson totally and completely lost on the left. The more economic freedom a country has, the higher the standard of living. 

A few reading assignments for you this morning concerning Bush's Hispandering:

1. Tony Blankley on "The strange case of immigration politics."
2. Fred Barnes on why Bush's plan won't work.

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