Today's Nuze: November 11, 2004 

VETERAN'S DAY

Today is the day we honor all of the wonderful men and women who have served in the Armed Forces of the United States.  There is no possible way that we can thank them for what they have meant to us, to our children, to generations to come and to this country.

When you're driving home from work today and you feel the temptation to blow your horn at that old man in front of you who just isn't quite quick enough at making that turn, stop for a second.  That old man may have scaled the cliffs of Normandy, or he may have waded ashore on Iwo Jima.  We don't owe our freedoms to the ACLU or to the politicians who infest the halls of congress.  We owe our freedoms to the men and woman who have been ready and willing to stand before a tyrant who threatens us and say "Not this time.  Not while I'm here." 

Do you know a veteran?  Young or old ... take the time to call them today and say thanks.  If you have a chance to go to a celebration .. a parade .. in your community ... jump at it.  Show them you care, and that you remember.

ARAFAT TAKES THE DESERT SAND NAP

Arafat is dead ... finally.  Now we're going to have to deal with the insipid spin on what a grand man Yasser Arafat was from the media for a few days.  This will definitely not be a day to remember the Israelis who died, including innocent schoolchildren, who died in attacks engineered by this thug.

One of the first people to offer his condolences was none other than UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, who had this to say:  "President Arafat was one of those few leaders who could be instantly recognized by people in any walk of life all around the world."  Oh really?  Hitler could be recognized around the world too.  How big a deal is that?  The media is hailing Arafat as a "peacemaker" and a proponent of a Palestinian state.  The fact of the matter is that  he wanted neither. Let's take a look at his life's "work," shall we?

In 2000 at Camp David, in a last ditch attempt at resolving the peace process, Arafat turned down the best deal he would have ever gotten from the Israelis.  It included a Palestinian state with most of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem as well as a right of return for the Palestinians.  Like any other activist that draws their money and power from a cause, Arafat didn't want to solve the problem.  So he turned Ehud Barak down, and the fighting has raged ever since. 

Under Arafat's leadership, the PLO conducted airplane hijackings and financed suicide bombers that killed civilians.  They were also behind the massacre of children in 1974, the deaths of Israeli athletes at the Olympics in 1972 and the killings of Christians in Lebanon.  Even with all this, Arafat was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.  Not bad for an image makeover.

The caption under Arafat's picture on the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's website says "The icon of Palestinian national aspirations, who had won the Nobel Prize, has died in Paris."  Icon?  Let's get rid of the spin.  Arafat was an icon for violence, for murder and for terrorism.   Rather than working toward the goal of an independent Palestinian state, Arafat spent the last two decades doing everything he possibly could to prevent one.  Arafat knew that as soon as a Palestinian state became a reality he would become irrelevant.  In addition to being a terrorist murderer, Arafat was a thief.  He stole millions, perhaps billions of dollars that were donated to Palestinian causes.  While Palestinians were suffering Arafat's wife was flitting around Paris spending her $100,000 a month allowance, money stolen from Palestinians.  Arafat's death came decades too late.  It's about time.

DEMOCRATS GRASPING AT STRAWS

With President Bush's convincing victory in the electoral college and his overwhelming majority win of the popular vote, that should have finally silenced the left's sour grapes over the 2000 election.  You know, all that  business about Bush stealing the election, and being "selected, not elected" and other such nonsense.  But this year, with the Poodle conceding on November 3 and very few lawsuits filed, that should have erased all doubt, right?

Wrong.  Believe it or not, the Bigfoot/UFO/Michael Moore wing of the Democratic Party has been buzzing on the Internet about how President Bush "stole" the election of 2004.  With George Bush's victory so convincing, what possible leg could they have to stand on? 

They're complaining that George Bush won some heavily Democratic counties in Florida.  Do they have any proof of fraud?  Nope.  They're saying that there's no way a county with Democratic registrations as high as 70% could have gone to Bush.  The only problem with that theory is that it has happened before.  Ronald Reagan won that same support, as did Bush's father in 1988.  So there's really no surprise there.

A few Congressional Democrats have written the General Accounting Office asking for an investigation.  George Bush won the election fair and square, but just as in 2000, the left can't stand the result, so they'll question the process.

After all, no one in their right mind would vote for George W. Bush, would they?

ATLANTA IN SECOND PLACE?

Yesterday on the show I told you that Little Rock, Arkansas has been named the "meanest" city in the nation when it comes to the so-called "homeless."  (I prefer "urban outdoorsmen")  The rankings are handed out by some crowd called the National Coalition for the Homeless. They're upset because Little Rock seems to be kicking the homeless to the curb in order to spiffy up for the impending opening of Bill Clinton's presidential library.

I had mixed emotions today when I learned that the coalition had named Atlanta as the second-meanest city.  That's the best we can do?  Evidently the coalition is upset because there's a "stepped-up emphasis on moving homeless people out of the downtown business district."  Hey .. it's a business district, not an outdoor flop house for drug addicts, winos and petty crooks.  If we try just a little harder I'm sure we can be number one ... maybe after Clinton opens his library.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Let's start off this grand day by irritating the Democrats just a bit more.  Peggy Noonan writes that she just can't stop being happy about the election results.  Ditto.

Today is Veteran's Day.  Some ABC television affiliates around the country are not going to carry the ABC network's showing of "Saving Private Ryan."  Why?  They say that they don't want to risk a fine from the Federal Censorship Commission (FCC) because of the violence and language in the film.  It's an Academy Award Winner, and they won't show it because they're afraid of the FCC.  Ain't government grand?

You wonder when the world is going to really wake up and smell the Jihad.  It looks like citizens of the Netherlands are starting to get it.  We'll see if political correctness and obsessive-compulsive compassion disorder gets in the way.

Now here's an idea.  Using global positioning satellites to keep track of city workers.  Are they really filling potholes, or are they at the local Krispy Kreme?  The local government employee unions are not pleased.  Hopefully you're not surprised.

The conspiracies are making the rounds on the Internet that the Republicans stole the election of 2004.  Ann Coulter notes that some mainstream media outlets are actually picking the story up and reporting it as fact.

Zell Miller is feuding with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd.....and you can guess who's winning.  It's a riot.

Cat Stevens was refused admission into the United States because of his ties to terrorist groups.  Naturally, that's good enough for a peace prize in other parts of the world.

The media is reporting on the resignation of John Ashcroft by talking about how controversial he was.  But S. T. Karnick says it was the media that made him controversial.

Now  that Yasser Arafat has kicked the bucket, William Safire says there is finally hope of a settlement in the Middle Eastern peace process.

In part three of his series about Arlen Specter's opposition to judicial nominees, Thomas Sowell takes a look at the Senator's stand on the Robert Bork nomination.

John Kerry's now-famous quote about President Bush "I can't believe I'm losing to this idiot," shows just why he lost.  Larry Elder says most Americans do not find the president stupid.

The media has a fascination with minority politicians in public office, as long as they're liberal Democrats.  Michelle Malkin says you need look no further than the Barack Obama phenomenon.

Not only couldn't the Democrats win on Election Day, but they couldn't stop candidates running on issues like reforming tax policy and Social Security.  Robert Novak reports.

Alan Greenspan's term is up in 2006, and Larry Kudlow has some suggestions about who should take over at the Fed.

The projectiles are lighter than horseshoes and safer than lawn darts, but the idea's the same: Players try to hit a target several paces away. The game is called cornhole...

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