Wednesday, May 5, 2004

INTEMPERATE THOUGHTS

Just quick thoughts on a variety of issues .... sharply delivered.

I cannot understand why George Bush is remaining on that bus tour and not heading back to Washington to engage in hands-on management of the growing controversy over Iraqi prisoner abuse.  Oh, I know ... he can work quite effectively from the road, but perception becomes reality.  When the perception becomes that you're more interested in cruising the plains in a campaign bus, that you're more worried about the election than you are about putting out this firestorm in Iraq.

But wait!  This just in!  George Bush is actually going to be making at televised speech today just for Arab viewers!  Good move.

Yesterday ... once again ... I asked my listeners to tell me one thing that The Poodle has ever done in his entire life -- just one thing -- that shows him to be qualified to be president of the United States.  The only thing that people can mention .. and I do mean the only thing .. is his service in Vietnam.  His accomplishments there, like his three paper-cut purple hearts, are open to some question ... and he hasn't done a damned thing since then?

But then there are people who say that any man who can arrange to be kept by two different women -- not one, but two -- who have hundred-million-dollar net worths certainly shows some extraordinary ability.  How that would transfer to the presidency, I don't know.  Do you think The Poodle might be able to get foreign countries to send us foreign aid?  Maybe he can get the UN to start writing us checks!

Have you seen the video of Bush riding that campaign bus through crowded streets in Ohio?  He's standing up there in the front window waving at the people on the street.  I wonder how long it's going to be before the Democrats point out that the president is standing in front of that little white line and the sign which says "Federal law prohibits operation of this vehicle with passengers standing in front of this line."

If CAIR, the Council on American Islamic Relations, would spend as much time condemning Islamic terrorism as it does condemning American radio talk show hosts they might actually accomplish something worthwhile.  Who knows, maybe more Americans would take them seriously if they would take our fears and legitimate concerns seriously.

John Kerry says that he wants to be the "education president."  That means one thing ... he wants to spend more money.  That's it.  It's all pandering to the nation's most powerful union, the National Education Association.  What we need is a "separation of government and education" president.

There was that sot Ted Kennedy yesterday .. promoting a quicker transition from illegal alien to American citizen.  Just understand that Kennedy is pushing this for one reason ... votes.  There's a push on to let non-citizens vote across the country.  In many areas that has morphed into a call for even aliens who are here illegally to be allowed to vote.  Votes .. that's the Democratic motivation.  Nothing else.

You probably haven't heard about this yet ... but do you realize that the federal budget deficits are now about $100 billion lower than previously estimated?  That's right ... $100 billion lower.  Some non-government economists are suggesting that we're about to enter a period of economic growth that rivals the growth we had through the '80s and '90s.  Jobs are being created (by private businesses, not by government) at a rapid clip ... and you haven't heard the news.  And why not?  Because that news doesn't serve the ends of the mainstream media, that's why. 

Some mindless people are saying that the only way to win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people is to pull out of Iraq, now.  Yeah ... leave Iraq to suffer a bloody and brutal civil war.  That's how you win hearts and minds.  Cut and run, as America has done so many times in the past.  Great idea.

THE POODLE MAY NOT BE A TOP GUN AFTER ALL

In a speech to the Anti-Defamation League on Monday,  John Kerry told a story about flying a jet upside down over Israel in 1991.  He said it gave him a different perspective on Israel, and that nobody else in the room had probably seen Israel the same way.  The Poodle claims that authorities in Israel kept denying his request to fly one of their planes, but that a colonel that was showing him around Israel let him take the controls.  Sounds like a good story, doesn't it?  The only problem is, it may not be true.

After the speech made news, former fighter jet pilots started responding to the story.  In an e-mail to WorldNet Daily, one pilot said "First of all, jets are more difficult to take off than propeller planes because they accelerate much faster  and the speed they need to get airborne is much higher.  Second of all, no rational military trained pilot would take the chance of hurdling off the runway at 160mph just to let some bigwig handle the controls."  In short, it looks like this is another one of The Poodle's tall tales.

Typical John Kerry...fabricating a story to try and impress an audience.  Clintonesque, isn't it?

KERRY'S OUCHY PURPLE HEART

Every time somebody brings this up, they get accused of attacking The Poodle's patriotism, but somebody's gotta do it, so here we go.  While John Kerry has released some of his military records,  he has yet to account for exactly how he received his injuries that led to his three Purple Hearts.  This is important, of course, because 1.) Kerry has made his military service in Vietnam a campaign issue and 2.) the rule at the time was three Purple Hearts got you sent home from Vietnam.  So was The Poodle working the system?  It sure looks like it with every passing day.

The latest comes to us from the doctor that treated one of Kerry's 'Purple Heart' injuries.  Louis Letson, now a retired doctor in Alabama says he has a very clear memory of an incident that occurred while he was a Medical Officer in Vietnam.  Letson says he remembered Kerry because "some of his crewmen related that Lt. Kerry had told them that he would be the next JFK from Massachusetts."  Sure sounds like The Poodle was plotting and scheming for his political career from the start.  Anyway, about the injury. 

The good doctor tells us that some of Kerry's crew confided that they had not received any fire on their boat, but rather Kerry's injury may have been self-inflicted and come from The Poodle firing a military round at some rocks on shore, at close range.  The injury was a small piece of shrapnel stuck in Kerry's arm.  Did it require stitches?  Nope.  So just what was the treatment for this battlefield injury for which The Poodle was awarded one of his Purple Hearts?  A band-aid.  The wound was covered with a band-aid. 

What was the experience of some other commanders in Vietnam?  You're unlikely to hear this from the Bush-bashers in the media, and the Kerry campaign cries foul when anyone brings it up.  But it's a legitimate question, and one that The Poodle has yet to answer.

DISNEY SLAMS DOOR ON MICHAEL MOORE

There may be justice -- or at least some common sense in this world after all. The Walt Disney Company is blocking its Miramax division from distributing  a new Bush-bashing "documentary" from Michael Moore.  The film, called "Fahrenheit 911" links President Bush with the family of Osama Bin Laden and bashes the president throughout, blaming him for 9/11, among other things.  Typical liberal trash.  The good news is finally Hollywood is starting to see the light (maybe.)

Does this mean that the Disney empire is conservative .. even Republican?  Hardly.  Remember, Disney was the number one corporate contributor to The Hildabeast when she ran for Senator in New York.  These folks are most definitely aligned to the left.  Mickey Mouse would call himself a "progressive."  You can't say that Disney is friendly towards or supportive of the Bush administration.

But try to tell that to Michael Moore.   We all know what's going to happen here.  Michael Moore will hit the media full-throttle with lies about how the administration is censoring his film and about how this is what America has come to blah blah blah.  The left is very good at playing the victimology card, and you can bet this is what is going to happen here.  He's already started.  In a statement on Tuesday, idiot Moore said "At some point the question has to be asked, 'Should this be happening in a free and open society where the monied interests essentially call the shots regarding the information the public is allowed to see?" Nonsense.  Just because a company exists in a free and open society doesn't mean that it has any responsibility to market a film that it realizes is full of lies, half-truths and hatred.  If Michael Moore wants to exercise his right of free speech he can market and distribute his latest effort on his own.   

Just why did Disney make this decision?  Maybe it's because they now know that Michael Moore isn't above placing deliberate lies in his motion pictures.  Let's take Moore's "Bowling for Columbine" for instance.  Moore says that he gave the film this name because the two killers were at a bowling class -- they went bowling -- on the morning of their attack.  Not true.  They weren't there ... and so the lies began.  You can learn more by going to the Bowling For Truth website. 

This is not a freedom of speech issue. Freedom of speech does not mean that  private company has to publish or market material that it knows, or has reason to suspect it dishonest. 

By the way .. has anyone ever seen Michael Moore and Ted Kennedy in the same room at the same time?  A little hair coloring can do marvelous things.

WHO IS GOING TO WIN THE JEOPARDY "POWER PLAYER" SERIES?

My guess was Peggy Noonan.  Belinda goes with Tim Russert.  Royal's choice was Tucker Carlson.  We ran a poll on the Nuze yesterday ... here are the results.

Looks like the Nuze readers are going with me. 

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Kofi Annan's United Nations is still doing all it can to obstruct the probe in the scandal surrounding the Oil for Food Scandal.  Remember ... this is the organization that  Kerry wants to go crawling to on all fours as soon as he is sworn in.

And just what excuse is Kofi offering for his obstruction of the probe of the Oil for Food scandal? 

The Council on American-Islamic Relations won't condemn Muslim fanatics, but has declared war on Americans who will.  Check this out from Michelle Malkin.

The AP has admitted they lied (or, as they call it, a 'clarification') about the 'gas or food' story we told you about on Monday.

This is interesting...scientists were blasting NBC over the implausible '10.5' earthquake epic, but now they're embracing the equally nonsensical movie 'The Day After Tomorrow.'  More Hollywood junk science.

George Will says it's time for the Bush administration to see the realities of Iraq.

Why is Bill Clinton choosing June to publish his memoirs?  To steal the spotlight from The Poodle, of course.  Dick Morris explains.

Things still aren't going as badly in Iraq as they could be, and there are several signs things are actually improving.  Tod Lindberg looks at the situation thus far.

There are some people in every country who commit atrocities.  The difference is in America, people actually get upset about it. Here's more from Thomas Sowell.

There has never been as ambitious of a nation-building project as the one going on in Iraq now. Jonah Goldberg talks about the history.

There may be a few bad apples in Iraq, but there are tens of thousands of good men and women, says Kathleen Parker.

Did Colin Powell hit a bull's-eye when he made his speech at the U.N. a year ago?  Terrence Jeffrey thinks so.

Here's a column that dares to suggest that the presence of women in the military may be causing discipline problems. The writer is a woman herself, Linda Chavez.

Should the government reinstate the draft?  Absolutely not, says Walter E. Williams, who calls it something else: government confiscation of labor services.

The head coach of a middle school basketball team may be fired for giving a 'crybaby award' to a student athlete.  The school is worried it may harm the child's self-esteem.  Welcome to the real world, Sparky.

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