Today's Nuze: November 16, 2004 

US MARINE SHOOTS TERRORIST ON CAMERA

THE SMOKING MARINE

Apparently this is America's newest sex symbol.  Some people seem to be upset because he is smoking.  Hell ... he's getting shot at.  Now isn't the time to quit.  He can worry about this when he gets back home.  In the meantime it sure is nice to see Americans clamoring for the address of this Marine rather than fawning over the fake Hollywood culture.

AND I THOUGHT THAT I WAS INSENSITIVE

This line appeared in James Taranto's "Best of the Web" Column on Opinion Journal.com yesterday.

"Arafat is in stable condition after dying in a Paris hospital."

Damn, why can't I think up a line like that?

HIP HOP --- THE CULTURE OF VIOLENCE

Tonight you will see the Vibe Awards on television.  Vibe magazine focuses on our country's "urban culture."  Well, you won't see the entire show when it is broadcast.  That's because it was actually taped last night, and some of it will have to be cut from the broadcast.  You see, a fight broke out.  The ruckus started as Vibe was about to give some sort of lifetime achievement award to Dr. Dre.  The award was for Dr. Dre's lifetime of contributions to hip-hop.  Big whoop.  During the fight chairs were thrown and at least one person in the audience was reportedly stabbed.  This is the face of the much-ballyhooed "Hip Hop Culture."  It's a culture of in-your-face "whatchulookinat?" violence, predatory sexuality and disrespect for women.

DONALD WILDMON .. JUST GO AWAY, WOULD YOU PLEASE?

Donald Wildmon, the leader of some group called "The American Family Association" has decided that he is going to file complaints with the FCC over the showing of "Saving Private Ryan" on Veteran's Day.  In doing so Wildmon is showing a complete lack of appreciation for the sacrifices of the men who waded ashore at Normandy on D-Day.  Steven Spielberg produced a movie that most veterans say was the most accurate depiction ever made of what these men went through.  As such, it was a much-needed reminder to Americans, especially young Americans, of the horrors of war.

Donald Wildmon might be surprised to learn that our soldiers wading through withering German machine gunfire didn't yell "Golly!" or "Gosh darn it!" when they saw their friends fall.  They didn't exclaim "Nuts!" when caught in a German ambush.  Theirs was not a world of etiquette or political correctness.  Survival was the goal, not cultural niceties. 

Wildmon sent an email to his followers saying that ABC had the technology to bleep the bad words.  ABC also had the technology to edit out all scenes of American soldiers getting killed.  This didn't seem to bother Wildmon.  An American soldier getting killed on film is not quite so upsetting to Wildmon as is the "F" word.  Sorry .. but I just don't understand that frame of reference.  If Wildmon had bothered to research the issue he would have known that ABC's contract with Spielberg forbade any editing of the movie.  Wildmon wasn't interested in facts.  He was interested in self-promotion and control of public discourse.

No doubt Wildmon was prompted to take this action by the pathetic TV executives who decided that their stations wouldn't carry the showing of "Saving Private Ryan" last week.  When it came to defending the concept of free speech and standing up for the veterans of World War II, these men and women were AWOL.  They are in the same league with Donald Wildmon.

CONDOLEEZZA RICE TO REPLACE POWELL

Yesterday President Bush accepted the resignation of Secretary of State Colin Powell.  Rumors abound in the media and on the left that Powell was somehow run out of office by the "hawks," that would be Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney.  All of this talk completely ignores two facts.  One, Powell serves at the pleasure of the president, and no one else.  Two, it had been widely know for quite some time that Powell's original intention was to serve but one term as Secretary of State.   The conspiracies don't wash.  

So now the president is going to nominate his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, to be the next Secretary of State.  The announcement is expected today, and it is a historic one.  She would be the first black woman to ever serve in that position.  Not too shabby for that evil, racist Republican party.  Should be an interesting confirmation fight, if there is one.

It's interesting how Democrats get a lot of the credit for somehow elevating minorities.  Who nominated the first woman to the Supreme Court?  Ronald Reagan, a republican.  Who appointed the first black secretary of state?  George Bush.  Who appointed the first Hispanic attorney general?  George Bush.  Who is about to appoint the first black woman to be secretary of state?  George Bush.  Of course, since the modern politically correct definition of blackness is more political than it is racial, Condi Rice will immediately, for all intents and purposes, stop being black.  She will continue being a female however.

Watch this:  The left's objection to Condi Rice as Secretary of State will be that she agrees with Bush's foreign policy positions.  That's an interesting reason to oppose an appointment, don't you think?

Bill Clinton used to say he wanted a cabinet that "looked like America."  Now we see who's really getting it done.

UN CORRUPTION ESTIMATE DOUBLES

The estimates of the corruption in the UN oil-for-food probe just got a whole lot bigger.  This is the program, instituted and run by the U.N., where Saddam Hussein was supposed to be able to sell barrels of oil and use the proceeds for food and medicine.  In reality, he used it to build palaces, line his own pockets, buy votes on the Security Council and pay off the U.N.  Everybody benefited.  Everybody except the Iraqi people, of course.

Congressional investigators have discovered that Saddam Hussein made more than $21 billion in illegal revenue off the oil-for-food scam.  Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman said "That humanitarian program was corrupted and exploited ... for the most horrible and aggressive purpose."  Essentially what Hussein was doing was giving oil to foreign officials, journalists and terrorists, who then sold the oil to oil companies for a commission.  Some of the other beneficiaries of the fraud were groups like the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Would somebody please remind me what useful purpose the United Nations serves?  Time to move their headquarters to some place more hospitable, like Haiti.  Think of all the parking spaces that would be freed up in New York.

THE USELESS JACQUES CHIRAC

French President Jacques Chirac is at it again.  Despite the fact that the American people overwhelmingly voted to reelect President Bush, the French are refusing to accept reality.  Such is his hatred for the United States, the head pretentious snob of the Axis Of Weasels is reminding everybody that anybody who deals with President Bush gets nowhere with them.   Typically French.

This all started because Tony Blair, who, unlike Chirac, actually opposes Islamic terrorism.  Blair basically told other European leaders that they would have to deal with George Bush, and that  he could be an honest broker between them and the United States.  Chirac's response?  No way.  You support George Bush, you can write us off.  Some things never change, I suppose.

Chirac is just upset that we're the only superpower left, and France and the EU are becoming increasingly irrelevant when it comes the security of the world.  We'll have to remember their cooperation the next time they need somebody to save their bacon.

And that day will come.

SUPPORTERS OF THE POODLE IN THERAPY

There was a story over the past couple weeks that supporters of John Kerry were so distraught over his defeat at the polls that they were seeking therapy.  Well, the first person to complete this therapy is speaking publicly about her experience.

A forty-year-old alleged grown woman says that she was so upset when Bush won that "I was very devastated and very astonished that people would re-elect this president. I was moody about the war and economic issues. I felt very unsettled and fearful. I thought, 'Oh no, what will happen for four years?'"  She also says she was having trouble sleeping.  They're calling it "Post Election Selection Trauma," or PEST for short.  Poor baby.  What a pathetic life it must be to stake your own personal happiness against who wins an election.

Her doctor says it was mentally unhealthy for her to expect a Kerry win.  Thankfully for the rest of us, he was right.

SHOTS FROM THE LOOSE CANNON

The Atlanta City Council has now voted a 4% pay increase for all city workers, not just the police.  Now if they could just come up with a way to get all city workers to actually earn their pay.

If Carol Costello isn't there .. why go there?

When Condi Rice becomes the Secretary of State will she automatically be another "Uncle Tom?"  You do know that being "black" has every bit as much to do with politics as it does skin color, don't you?

This lame-duck session of the 108th Congress has nine budget bills to pass.  These nine bills will be consolidated into one huge bill.  It will be filled to the top with pork spending projects designed to do nothing but to buy votes for individual congressmen and senators.  Over the next week the American people should adopt the position.  Bend over and grab your ankles.

A BIT LATE WITH THIS ONE

But I thought you might like to see this picture that came to us soon after Hurricane Ivan hit the Pensacola area.  Perhaps this will reinforce our feelings that you voted the right way on November 2nd.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Why do Democrats keep losing?  Could it be because they have nothing to really offer ... except handouts?

The Pentagon is alerting military bases worldwide that they should not sponsor Boy Scout troops.  And why not?  Because of the requirement that Boy Scouts believe in God. 

Congressional Democrats are planning to go on the attack in the 109th Congress.  So, what else is new?

Defending the Second Amendment ... another reason to ditch Arlen Specter.

Third party candidates for president have now raised enough money for a recount in Ohio...which will be a waste of time and money.  There aren't 136,000 votes to be had for The Poodle.

A portion of the Democratic party believes that the reason they lost the election to George Bush is because 51% of the voting public are idiots.  George Will says the left has felt this way for a long time.

The media and the Democrats go on and on about "the working poor."  Steven Malanga makes an excellent case that the very existence of the working poor is a myth.  Good reading.

The economy continues to boom...recruiting on college campuses is going through the roof.  But what about the recession and the job loss the Democrats were talking about?  It doesn't exist.

If Democrats want to filibuster President Bush's judicial nominees, then Jack Kemp says Republicans should call their bluff.  Make them actually go through with it.

The controversy is raging about the seal of Los Angeles County, which features a small cross.  Dennis Prager explains what's going on, and looks at what is behind the controversy.

Democrats continue to search for relevance in the modern political landscape, but Armstrong Williams says it all comes down to the fact that liberals are out of step with American voters.

Does the Kerry loss mean that Democrats are permanently doomed from winning the presidency?  Not at all, says David Limbaugh, who cautions that people shouldn't read too much into Bush's victory.  After all, Hillary Clinton still looms large.

President Bush's tax cuts are controversial on the American left. but Bruce Bartlett has discovered that Europe is doing the same thing...cutting taxes just like Bush did.

All of the panic about the decline of the so-called dollar is completely unfounded, given that the dollar is right where it was 10 years ago.  Larry Kudlow says people should stop comparing its value to the Euro.

Now that Arafat is dead, is there hope for peace in the Middle East?  Cal Thomas says don't hold your breath...all of the names being thrown about to replace Arafat are just as bad.

Keith Olbermann continues his out-of-touch, conspiracy-laden reporting on the 2004 election.  The Media Research Center is there to cover it all.

Bill Cosby continues his crusade to bring accountability to low-income blacks, and says they can stay mad at him if they want to.

American auto regulators are getting ready to sign off on the first-ever global automobile safety standards.  Here's what's in store.

A way to lose weight?  Don't eat after the sun goes down.

Here's the picture of Dick Cheney Neal referred to on the air today.

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