Wednesday, March 10, 2004

SPECULATION CONTINUES...WILL THE HILDABEAST RUN?

Dick Morris (who knows a thing or two about the Clintons, having worked for them) seems to think it's now or never for Hillary Clinton, and suggests that if she wants to become president, she will join the Kerry ticket as his vice presidential candidate.  It's an interesting take and nobody is better at noodling out these things than Morris.   The speculation is never going to go away until Kerry makes his choice.

Morris' reasoning goes like this: if Kerry gets elected (May God in heaven help us all)  then he will run for re-election in 2008, which shuts Hillary out from making her run. Then, in 2012, Kerry's vice-presidential choice would follow tradition and run for president, shutting out Senator Clinton again.  At that rate, her next opportunity would come in 2016, and if the aforementioned Democrat was re-elected, that puts Hillary's next shot at 2020, at which point she would be 73 years old. (Can you imagine? Let's not.)

Morris says if Kerry is anywhere close to Bush at convention time, Hillary will go for the VP slot, and because the Clintons control the Democratic party, Kerry will have to go along. Besides..who else is Kerry going to get...and does anyone really care? Another question...would Hillary be willing to sit on her hands for 8 years when she really wants the #1 job? 

Now I know that this whole scenario sounds vaguely familiar to you.  It should.  I presented it to you about a week ago.  Great minds think alike. 

IT'S THE ETERNAL DIRT NAP IN HELL FOR DC SNIPER JOHN MUHAMMAD

Convicted DC sniper John Allen Muhammad, a Muslim,  was sentenced to death yesterday by Prince William County judge LeRoy F. Millette Jr. for the killing of Dean Harold Meyers. This is one of the people that Muhammad and his sidekick Malvo viciously gunned down while he was pumping his gas. The condemned's departure date was set for October 14th.  Too bad his dirt nap will be delayed for months or even years while endless appeals are filed.

This is the problem with the death penalty in this country. It is never properly carried out.  In no-brainer cases like this, where there is absolutely zero doubt, the judge should find him guilty, then they should take him out behind the courthouse and shoot him. Why is this so hard? Think of the money that would be saved. But noooooo...poor, misunderstood John Muhammad will continue to be an all-expenses-paid guest of the government at our expense, while his lawyers file all the appeals (again, at our expense.) 

And the worst part? The victims' families, whose loved ones were violently murdered for no reason, get to sit idly by and watch their killer continue to inhabit the earth. Once again, our justice system screws up.

By the way ... I did mention that this murderer was a Muslim, didn't I? 

OBESITY IS NOT A DISEASE; IT'S A CHOICE

A disease is an affliction you are cursed with .. and one that you usually don't bring on yourself.   Sitting on your fat ass, not exercising, and sucking down cheeseburgers every day for lunch is your own fault and no one else's. However, that is not stopping the bureaucrats at the Centers for Disease Control from calling obesity a disease.  The CDC has released a report showing that obesity is close to surpassing tobacco use as a cause of death. Maybe we should make that a disease too.

This is nothing more than the continuing trend of medicalizing (new word) self-destructive behavior. Everything is a disease now: alcoholism, drug abuse, obesity, attention deficit disorder, and so on. We're turning into a nation of fat, lazy, whining morons who want to blame someone else for our actions and our health status.  If we can't control ourselves, then why it must be a disease!  Of course, all of this is setting the stage for all of the lawsuits against the food industry.

Nope...just like everything else,  being fat is a choice.  If you're overweight, you decide whether to overeat and not exercise. It's no one else's fault but your own..not even McDonald's. 

In the meantime .. this word of advice and warning for employers.  Hire thin people.  They're healthier, they work harder, and they'll be around longer.  Who needs the burden of having to replace some blubber-butt who collapses on the work floor and is carried out on a fork lift?

Another word for employers --- including mine.  If an exercise room is good enough for corporate headquarters, why isn't it good enough at the branch locations where the people who actually make your enterprise work are located?

Just asking.  Good thing I have a contract.

Speaking of hefty people.  Is CNN looking for a replacement for Candy Crowley yet?  Any morning now that woman is going to explode!  Ohhhhh ... the humanity!   Yes .. she's a damn good reporter ... but you notice they didn't have her doing the obesity story this morning.

COUNTING ON VOTER'S IGNORANCE

The greatest friend the Democrats have in this election is our hideously pathetic system of government education.  Come on, let's face it.  These schools are doing a hideous job.  You could spend three weeks making a list of things that our young people should know but don't know by the time they get out of high school. 

Particularly galling is the ignorance Americans show over matters economic.  This is fantastic news for Democrats who continuously misrepresent the state of our economy ... and get away with it.  The economy is booming, unemployment is low and things are looking great ... but you'll never hear it from a Democrat.  They can lie and get away with it because stupid Americans just don't know any better.

Let's take this asinine nonsense over jobs "outsourcing."  To listen to Democrats and those who vote for them you would think that India has stolen about two out of every three jobs in the United States.  It's not true.  None other than Bill Clinton's Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich had his say on this subject.  Reich said: "The number of [information technology] jobs sent abroad still accounts for a tiny proportion of America's 10-million-strong IT workforce.  When the U.S. economy bounces back from recession -- as it surely will within the next 18 months -- we can expect many IT jobs to return." 

Is there really a jobs problem in the United States?  Try this factoid on for size.  The Bureau of Labor Statistics says that with all of the baby boomers retiring, by 2005 there will only be one worker in the U.S. ready to join the workforce for every two boomers that leaves.  This means that by 2008, the time of the next presidential election, there will be 10 million more jobs than there are people in this country available to fill them. 

This information is dangerous to Democrats ... so is education.  No wonder they oppose any meaningful reform in how our children learn.

MILLION DOLLAR COUNTERFEITER

A lady was arrested at a Wal-Mart near Atlanta for trying to pass a million-dollar-bill while purchasing about $1,600 worth of stuff.  Now if I was an attorney, I would take this case.  I don't think she committed a crime.  Now ... admittedly ... I haven't hit the U.S. Code this morning to check on the definition of counterfeiting.  But I do happen to have about 40 or so of these million dollar bills.  They make excellent bookmarks in the books I read on real estate investing.  Several years ago the authors of the book "The Millionaire Next Door" handed out these million dollar bills with each book at book signings.  I don't believe they can be called a counterfeit bill because there is no such thing as a real million dollar bill!  If the denomination doesn't exist, how can you counterfeit it?  

In the wonderful world of commerce you are allowed to trade anything you own of value for something you want.  Sure .. you might run into sales tax problems .. but you can deal with he state on that issue.  I was paying for a cup of coffee once and the clerk saw a million dollar bill in my wallet.  She offered me the coffee for the bill.  Sale!  Perhaps the only thing they can get this woman arrested at the Wal-Mart for would be fraud. 

By the way ... I gave a million-dollar bill to a waitress at a restaurant once to pay for the meal.  She disappeared for a while, then came back and handed me the bill.  "I'm sorry," she said, "We can't change this.  Do you have anything smaller?"

Government education.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

CIA Director George Tenet is warning of "spectacular attacks" against the United States currently being planned by Al Qaeda.  Let's not worry about the Islamic terrorists though ... let's send out troops to shut down those call centers in India.

What is it that John Kerry calls American companies that outsource jobs overseas?  Oh yeah ... I remember.  They are "Benedict Arnolds."  The CEOs of these companies are "Benedict Arnold CEOs."  Very clever.  That language plays well with the lower IQs of those who vote Democratic.  Now .. what about H.J. Heinz?  That's the company that John Kerry's wife owns.  They have 79 factories where actual people work.  Of those 79 factories ... 57 of them are overseas ... with overseas workers.  Do you think John Kerry calls his wife a "Benedict Arnold heiress?"

We are literally eating ourselves to death in the United States.   Stuffing our gullets and laying around on our fat asses is now the number two cause of death.  Tobacco is still number one.

So what is the Bush campaign going to do to defeat Kerry in November? Dick Morris says it is already underway, and it's all about the flip-flops.

John Kerry says he is all for military strength, when appropriate. In this interview, he seems to support the Iraq war, but not the way Bush did it, but maybe so. But that's today.  What will he think tomorrow?  One day Arafat is a statesman ... the next day he's a menace.  Does Kerry have any real moral compass at all ... or does the needle always point to the polls?

So if no weapons of mass destruction are ever found in Iraq, will the American electorate hold it against Bush? Tod Lindberg examines the issue.

Wondering just what the differences are between John Kerry and George Bush? This column explains. One is for higher taxes, the other is not. One would abandon the war on terror, the other would fight it. You get the idea.

Mark Steyn, relating a story about Nova Scotia banning certain words, says to beware of fruitcakes in government. Also contains an excellent analysis of the federal budget deficit.

The Kerry campaign has accused the Bush people of already going negative. John Podhoretz begs to differ, saying John Kerry is the nasty one.

Mona Charen makes the case that it is pointless for President Bush to try and cooperate with the Democrats. It hasn't gotten him anywhere yet. I hope to hell Bush reads this one.  Enough of the nice guy routine.

Remember that company selling a T-shirt to teenagers that said "voting is for old people?" Jonah Goldberg looks at the controversy.

Government schools in Nashville have stopped posting honor rolls because they are worried about the self-esteem of the students who can't make the grade. Walter E. Williams looks at this educational ineptitude.

Thomas Sowell talks about the latest trend of exporting quotas. Is there affirmative action in other countries? You bet.

John Kerry said last weekend that foreign leaders have told him they want to see him elected, and not see Bush re-elected. Tony Blankley calls them the 'Euro back-stabbers for Kerry.' Good read.

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