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But tonight, I’m humbled to admit that I definitely have one. The women out there won’t understand this (they don’t understand much - sorry, bitter tonight). For men, it’s tough to own up to a vulnerability and express a hurt, especially to another man. But when your heart is aching (yeah, it actually happens to men every now and then), it’s nice to have a buddy to open up to and get honest, frank advice.
Thanks, JB. I owe ya.
He was at a press conference with Karzai, the president of Afghanistan, and some silly press chick asked about “former generals” asking for his resignation.
He ignored the ridiculous wench and called on someone else for the next question.
Two reminders: Nobody asks Clinton to denounce Sandy Berger or John Deutsch. Those two stole state secrets and destroyed them. And both were Clinton appointees.
He was so busy trying to find Bin Laden he couldn’t hire capable national security personnel. Maybe that’s the new story they’ll try.
This pretty much sums up the Clinton presidency.
Oh, by the way, he did not have sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.
Kind of a cheeky, editorial take on things, but commemorates a milestone nonetheless. 2974 young men and women who gave their lives for idiots like me to be able to spout off on a blog. Very humbling. Thanks folks…sincerely.
I probably don’t agree with Rep. Charles Rangel on much, but on this count he got it WAY RIGHT (no political pun intended).
“You don’t come into my country; you don’t come into my congressional district and you don’t condemn my president,” Rep. Charles Rangel, D-New York, scolded Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Even better:
“I just want to make it abundantly clear to Hugo Chavez or any other president: Don’t come to the United States and think, because we have problems with our president, that any foreigner can come to our country and not think that Americans do not feel offended when you offend our chief of state,” Rangel said.
No such luck in Hollywood. Of course, most of us don’t really care what Hollywood thinks anyway.
Just hush, Harry. Go back to tallying bananas.
CARACAS, Venezuela Jan 8, 2006 (AP)— The American singer and activist Harry Belafonte called President Bush “the greatest terrorist in the world” on Sunday and said millions of Americans support the socialist revolution of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez.
My vote for the comeback of Celebrity Death Matches? Mel Gibson v. Danny Glover! Couple of jokers.
I’m normally a big fan of brevity, precision, and clarity in writing. Brevity, in particular, is a virtue for all good writers. I’m reminded of the scene in one of my favorite movies - A River Runs Through It. The elder son composes a written product for his Presbyterian father, in hopes that he will soon be freed from the burdens of English composition to be allowed to run free and pursue the big trout on the river near his home. Twice, his father marks up the paper, and says “half as long.”
Brevity, on this occasion, will be impossible. I came home from work today with a bad cold, so I had some time to do some reading. I recently received a stunning and revealing book written by David Horowitz, entitled “The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America.” There are so many absolutely shocking things in this book that brevity is not an option. People - particularly parents of college-bound children - need to know this stuff. I obviously haven’t had the opportunity to read the book in its entirety, which I will be doing over the next couple of days. The following examples, however, taken from merely a cursory glimpse at the book’s contents, ought to disturb anyone in his/her right mind.
“We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him.” - Jose Angel Gutierrez, University of Texas, Arlington.
As a proud “gringo” who admires and respects many latino friends, I’m ready to face termination. My Mexican/latino friends, however, might not be so eager to see me go down to a grade-A prick like you.
“I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.” - Bill Ayers, University of Illinois, Chicago.
Ayers was a member of the Weather Underground, which placed bombs in both the Pentagon and the Capitol, not to mention dozens of other locales.
“Rape the white girls. Rape their fathers. Cut the mothers’ throats.” - Amiri Baraka, Rutgers University.
Poetic words from a former poet laureate of New Jersey. “Poetry” is in the eye of the beholder. There’s a reason you’re a “former” poet laureate.
Communist China and Cuba have been “successful in instituting political and economic democracy.” - Gregory Dawes, North Carolina State University.
Incarceration of political dissidents - that sounds like democracy to me.
“Dig it! First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into the victim’s stomach! Wild!” - Bernadine Dohrn, Northwestern University.
Wild indeed. In fact, disgustingly savage. The quote comes from a speech at a 1969 “War Council.”
27 December-31, 1969 – The Weathermen hold a “War Council” meeting in Flint, Michigan, where they finalize their plans to submerge into an underground status from which they plan to commit strategic acts of sabotage against the government. Thereafter they are called the “Weather Underground Organization” (WUO).
By the way, Bill Ayers (see above) was her running mate and husband.
“The U.S. qualifies as the main terrorist government in the world today.” - Norman FINKlestein, De Paul University.
Yeah. That’s why everyone wants to live here.
“I’m not sure which is more frightening: the horror that engulfed New York City or the apocalyptic rhetoric emanating daily from the Bush White House.” - Eric Foner, Columbia University.
Let’s see. Almost 3,000 dying horrible, burning, painful deaths or the President verbally calling it like it is? Not sure which scale everyone else might use, but I’d say on the “frightening” scale, 3,000 dying is infinitely more scary.
“One is Not Born a Man.” - Alison Jaggar, CU-Boulder.
Especially if one is born a woman, one is not born a man! I get it! Thanks. (Boulder again. How tiresome). In this case, I’ll quote the book for humor’s sake.
“To overcome women’s oppression, Professor Jaggar believes the act of childbearing must no longer be limited to one sex.”
Sign me up! If I can carry a child to term, I’ll be a rich man! Book and movie rights! More from Jaggar: “This transformation might even include the capacities for insemination, for lactation and gestation so that, for instance, one woman could inseminate another, so that men and non-parturitive (non-child-bearing) women could lactate and so that fertilized ova could be transplanted into women’s or even into men’s bodies.”
“Jews are a race of skunks and animals that stole Africa from the Black Man.” - Leonard Jeffries, CUNY.
I would have guessed Adjunct Faculty, Nation of Islam.
“The only contributions the ‘Euro-American’ Founders brought to the New World were ‘cultural genocide,’ ‘racial hierarchy,’ and ‘gender politics.’ ” - Oneida Meranto, Metro State College, Denver.
Well, what do you expect? Metro State. Boulder-in-training.
There are so many examples of lunacy in this book, it honestly makes me scared for the future of American academia. Particularly since some of our most prestigious schools (Columbia, Colorado-U, Northwestern, Penn, Berkeley, Rutgers, Stanford, MIT, Georgetown, and countless others) are represented in the pages of this book.
There are some professors included that don’t concern me all that much - John Esposito and Yvonne Haddad at G-town, for example. I appreciate and respect academic freedom. I’ve pulled the most egregious offenders out and cited them here. Some express unpopular ideas - American policy vis-a-vis Israel, for example - that have some merit. But most are shocking.
Sorry for the long post, and a major ten-gallon hat-tip to David Horowitz. Think about this, folks. We’ve got serious issues to think about.
I know the spinach thing is serious. But part of this story is just hysterical!
Marina Zecevic, 49, of West Los Angeles, shopping at a Trader Joe’s, said she made the mistake of serving creamed spinach to her kids the day the story broke.
“My sons started accusing me of premeditated murder,” she said.
What a funny quote. Gotta love it.
Michelle Malkin is a brilliant columnist and a stand-up gal who isn’t afraid to call a spade a spade. Hat tip to her for the following link.
Not meaning to inflame this whole situation even more, but I have to say it again. You don’t protest the Pope’s ill-advised comments by killing Nuns!!!
Absolutely disgusting, unconscionable, and downright scary.
that with Monday Night Football not on ABC, with Al Michaels working for NBC…. the terrorists have won.
Is it because I’m a lesbian ?
I like this guy. A little truth is a good thing.
Item the First: Right-wingers hate to admit it, but it’s true: Ariana Huffington was as much of a know-nothing, obnoxious twit when she was a Republican as she is as a Democrat. Though her politics have changed, her cacophonous, self-promoting nonsense has not.
Item the Second: Ann Coulter is a joke. But she’s not the only joke among conservative talking heads. Many right-wing talk show hosts are absurd, Michael Savage being only the most obvious example. As pathetic as Michael Moore may be, he’s easily equaled in idiocy by the likes of Mr. Savage. That guy is a knuckle-dragging doofus.
I don’t agree with all the others, but still reasoned thought.
