HILLARY'S LANDSLIDE

Hillary's chief strategist said yesterday that Hillary would get 360 electoral votes if the election were held today and she faced Rudy Giuliani. Mark Penn, Hillary's strategist said, "The voters are looking for someone who has the strength and experience to lead, and little has changed in the last few weeks outside of the massive media coverage of the attacks."

Well .. that's not exactly accurate. Oh, Hillary could probably win with a landslide if the election were today ... but it certainly wouldn't be because they see her as someone with the "strength and experience to lead." It would be because the 21st Century voter is looking for someone who will make their lives easier. The type of voters who will cast their ballot for Hillary are interested in one thing: Which one of the candidates is going to get the government to do the things for me that I don't particularly want to do for myself. Hillary is the candidate for the 40-hour work week voter; the voter who feels that 40 hours a week at a job with ample smoking breaks, 60 days of paid family leave, 12 paid sick days, two weeks of paid vacation, paid parking, child care and a health payment plan is all that should ever be expected of any American .. the rest should be provided by government.

Meanwhile, it must be good to be Bill's wife ... and benefit from your husband's controversial pardons while president. Three recipients of last minute pardons before Bill left the White House have now donated thousands of dollars to Hillary's campaign. Just their small token of appreciation, I suppose.

The campaign finance records were examined by ABC News. One of the people pardoned was David Herdlinger, a former prosecutor from Arkansas who pleaded guilty to mail fraud after taking bribes to reduce or drop charges against defendants charged with drunken driving. He donated $1,000 in August. Insurance agent Alfredo Regalado was pardoned for failing to report "report the transportation of currency in excess of $10,000 into the United States." He gave $2,000. And John Deutch was Bill's CIA director. He was pardoned for charges that he mishandled government secrets. He gave the maximum allowable donation of $2,300.

But --- Penn is right. Vote today and it's Hillary --- then two years of the most explosive growth of government we've ever seen. Young single women will be euphoric.

REMOVING BAD TEACHERS

Boy does this have the teachers unions fired up. In New York City, the Bloomberg administration is beginning its drive to remove lousy teachers. The whole premise of this is complete BS because if a teacher is bad ... why can you just fire them? Oh, wait that's right ... the teachers unions ... the most powerful unions in America.

So now in New York City, the government is being forced to hire teams of lawyers and consultants to help principals build cases against teachers. Do you hear this folks? Lawyers? Cases? They say the plan will cost $1 million a year. Yeah, right.

Schools Chancellor Joe Klein says that "the disciplinary system for tenured teachers is so time-consuming and burdensome that what is already a stressful task becomes so onerous that relatively few principals are willing to tackle it. As a result, in a typical year only about one-hundredth of 1 percent of tenured teachers are removed for ineffective performance."

And why is the situation so terrible? Again, because of the United Federation of Teachers. They call the lawyers a "teacher gotcha unit" and they find it "disgusting" that the Education Department would issue such a memo. Here's the mentality of these unions, folks: "We've always been concerned that the first thing that would happen after somebody put out progress reports would be principals would go after teachers ... Basically, it's signaling to principals that rather than working to support teachers, the school system is going to give you a way to try to get rid of teachers."

Now would be a good time to remind you of a study that came out of Harvard University about 10 or so years ago. The task was to come up with the best quick fix for our education problems in this country. The solution? Reduce the powers of the teacher's unions. Thus far ... nothing has been done. Teacher's unions, by the way, make over 95% of all campaign contributions to Democrats.

And while we are on the topic of government schools, let's go over to Berlin, Germany where a convicted pedophile was sentenced to do community service ... in a German kindergarten. Ooops!

The man was allowed to work as a janitor at the school because a court worker missed three prior pedophilia convictions on his record. He was sentenced to 720 hours of community service for working on the sly while still collecting welfare. Unfortunately the man managed to abuse two children at the school.

Shouldn't execution be next?

ANOTHER STICK FIGURE CONTROVERSY

A first grader in an Oregon government school was suspended for one day for drawing a picture of a stick figure shooting another stick figure. Apparently it was parents that complained about the drawing.

The reason for the suspension that was given to the family was that their son "threatened to shoot two girls in the head." The report could not say whether or not the boy actually threatened any girls verbally.

But it doesn't get any better. Let's shoot to the parents who say that the drawing was inspired by an episode of "The Simpsons." Why in the hell a first grader is watching "The Simpsons" just boggles my mind.

KILLED FOR TEACHING ENGLISH

Taliban militants in Afghanistan shot a killed a teenage boy for teaching English. Armed militants entered the school and dragged the boy out of his class and shot him dead. Their reason was because the boy was teaching English to other students after school hours and had been warned to stop.

Isn't it just a wonderful, peaceful, serene religion folks?

VIRGINITY FIX

The National Health Service in Great Britain is funding "virginity repair" operations for women. The taxpayers have funded 24 hymen replacement operations in the past 2 years. Most clients are in their teens or early 20s.

The procedure in a private clinic can cost up to $8,000. But now some are demanding that the taxpayers pay for the procedure, which is often the result of pressure from future spouses to who believe their wives should be virgins on their wedding nights. The procedure is only supposed to be funded by the state in the case of rape, but some doctors are now willing to do it for "cultural or cosmetic reasons."

Speaking of cultural, there is only one line in the entire article which gets to the meat of the matter: "The trend has been condemned by critics as a sign of social regression driven by Islamic fundamentalists."

Yup ... there you have it. The drive for government-funded virginity restorations in England is coming from - who else? - our wonderful Muslim friends. Why should the taxpayers have to foot the bill so that these Muslim men can trick themselves into believing that their brides are virgins?

TIME TO TROT THIS OUT AGAIN

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

Well, I guess the sack of bones was lighter than the other sack. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

A House task force is recommending creating an "Office of Congressional Ethics" that will have to the power to initiate complaints against lawmakers. There's not enough people to staff such an operation.

The pending spending bills in Congress have at least 8,000 earmarks, costing tax payers $18 billion to $20 billion.

Democrats are calling President Bush a "bully on Iraq war policy," and they say that they will not spend any more on combat without a deadline for troop withdrawal. Saddam Hussein, on the other hand, was no bully.

The U.S. has chosen to resume talks with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, despite Condi Rice's commitment not to engage with banned groups.

This article about the solar-cosmic ray concept of global warming is for Belinda. Get this ... the sun and "global warming" can actually be linked. Imagine that! Whowouldathunkit?

Oh, I'm looking forward to this. OwlGore and Arnold Schwarzenegger will be a part of a "bipartisan" presidential forum on energy and climate change in New Hampshire, just before the primary.

Jaime Dupree alerted us to this yesterday, but Dennis Hastert will not be returning to Congress. Not only that, but he is said to resign "soon."

Talk about a government outrage. FEMA has 7,000 mobile homes just sitting around doing absolutely nothing in Hope, Arkansas. That's a waste of $231 million, not to mention the $4.5 million it cost to put down gravel under the mobile homes so that they don't sink.

You must be a legal resident to get a driver's license ... in Mexico. Seem ironic, doesn't it?

A former Lebanese minister has pledged money to Condoleezza Rice to "have her teeth straightened and fix her face," and the rest of the money should go towards George Bush because he will soon be admitted to a mental asylum.

Hundreds of bottles of Jack Daniel's whiskey that have been aged almost 100 years could be poured down the drain because the government suspects that they are being sold by someone without a license. Oh my God! Someone out there is doing something without a government license! Oh, the humanity!

Barry Bonds was indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice. He has been charged with lying when he told a federal grand jury that he did not knowingly use performance-enhancing drugs. I just love this story. Go get 'em Barry!

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