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I'm back atcha. I'm sure most of you with children have watched them trot off to the local indoctrination stations - schools. Better take a look at what the indoctrinators are telling - er teaching - them. You just might want to pull them out. With that aside let's see what's happened this week. You might not like it, but I assure you, it's the typical liberal agenda, that's why I put it up. They're such a hoot.


Killer Carp


Let's start with a non-political event. But I warn you, to the media there is nothing that isn't political and nothing gets put in the paper that doesn't have an agenda behind it. News events for news purposes only just don't make the papers. Why? They don't serve the liberal agenda. Remember that.

Giant Carp May Eat Up Great Lakes; August 21, 2002; By Jeff Goldblatt; Foxnews.com
The headline alone should scare you. You have to wonder if these giant Flipper-like creatures don't have an insatiable drinking problem as well as a voracious appetite. Why, not only are they giants but they are actually going to eat up the Great Lakes (scratching head).

It's been referred to by scientists as a marine vacuum cleaner and it has made its way into the waterways of the Midwest.
Shares in Hoover Vacuum dropped on that news by the way. Rumor has it that some entrepreneur was going to catch these aquatic beasts and sell them as environmentally safe household buddies for those hard to get at places under the couch.

Since the mid 1990s, populations of two types of Asian carp -- silver and bighead -- are estimated to have increased by more than a thousand along a stretch of the Illinois River. And they're getting harder to control by the day.
Well you have to wonder if there really isn't a conspiracy at work here. Remember all the problems the Billie-bob administration had with Asians - Charlie Trie, Buddhist Temples fundraising by Algore, Torcelli payoffs by the Chinese, ad infinitum - these are Asian carp here you know.

Scientists say Asian carp produce millions of eggs a year and can eat up to half their weight every day. And so they grow fast -- up to 12 inches and 12 pounds in one year. Some species of Asian carp have been known to tip the scales at more than 100 pounds, and eclipse lengths of about 6 feet.
What'd I tell you! You know how populace Asia is; even the carp have that same procreation problem.

The fish don't even have a true stomach -- food goes in one end and waste goes out the other as they devour their meals. Their appetite is so voracious that the carp end up "knocking the stool right from under the food chain," said Jerry Rasmussen of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Another serious stock plunge went on record after this news as well - Ex-Lax shares dropped (no pun intended). The rumor mill had it that DNA co-mingling with humans would eliminate (no pun intended) laxatives in the future.

The carp also pose a threat to humans. They are capable of jumping up to 10 feet in the air and into fisherman's boats. They also jump up at water-skiers and others in the water.
Even more bad news for Wall Street. Share prices plummeted for makers of ski-jets and other related outdoor recreation equipment. It was reported there was a mad dash of people trying to catch these scaled creatures and dump their jet skis for these non-pollutant varieties.

"They come right up and jump right in the boat, or jump over the boat," said Jerry Carlock, a commercial fisherman. "I've known guys that have gotten hit beside the head."
And the bad economic news continues. Share prices for the nation's fishing equipment makers dropped by 50% because anglers took the news to heart and are now just too scared to go fishing.

"We've had several staff members hit by these guys when we're sampling," said Pegg. "We've had stories of people with broken noses, black eyes. So there's a very high risk of getting hurt when you're out here on the river these days."
Guess we better stop with this story. Carp boxing is the last straw. Mike Tyson is not going to like this.


The Hundred-Man Reparation March


Remember all the million man marches on Washington? The civil rights marches, the million-mom march that ended up a 100,000 (even thought they tied it in with something else to get that many)? Well we've got a bigger one.

Blacks Rally in D.C. for Slave Reparations; A/P; Aug 17, 2002
By the looks of things, this should have been a hugely attended event. I mean millions of people at stake here with billions and billions of dollars or more involved.

Hundreds of blacks rallied in front of the Capitol on Saturday to demand slavery reparations, saying that compensation is long overdue for the ills of that institution.
Huh? Hundreds attended? Wow, more people attend the opening of a shopping mall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa than this.

"It seems that America owes black people a lot for what we have endured," Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan told the crowd. "We cannot settle for some little jive token. We need millions of acres of land that black people can build."
Told the crowd? What crowd? Ever notice that any event the left favors is always a huge success even when they can't dry flies at cow a manure convention.

While Farrakhan and Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., did attend, many major names in the black civil rights movement were absent, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton.
Almost makes you wonder where the real shysters were? Looks like they're not taking care of their troops.

The reparations movement has gained momentum in the past year.
Rumor has it, they're expecting 250 to show up next year.

"They owe us. I want justice," said Antoinette Harrell-Miller, who drove 19 hours from New Orleans with her husband Dennis to attend. "They built this country off the free labor of our ancestors."
I agree. Maybe Calypso Louie Farrakhan can reimburse you for the gas. You might ask him for a carton of cigarettes too. Those you can black-market when you get back and make some real money.


What! Me? Violent?


You have to love the left in this country. They've infiltrated the media and schools and government and just about every place else. You have to wonder just how stupid they really think the average American is.

Florida Professor Denies Terror Ties; Foxnews.com/A-P; August 22, 2002
Here is one of those leftist profs now.

A tenured Palestinian professor denied any links to terrorists on Thursday and said the University of South Florida is seeking to fire him because of anti-Muslim sentiment in America following the Sept. 11 attacks.
So what did our esteemed professor do? He claims the state of Florida hates Muslims.

"I'm an Arab, I'm a Palestinian, I'm a Muslim. That's not a popular thing to be these days," computer science professor Sami Al-Arian said a news conference at his attorney's office. "Do I have rights or don't I have rights?
A plea for freedom of equality granted under the constitution. Poor guy, he didn't ask to be born Palestinian (course no country exists or ever did anyway).

Al-Arian has been on paid leave since an appearance on Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks. He was quizzed about links to known terrorists, and asked about tapes from the late 1980s and early 1990s in which he is believed to have said "Death to Israel" in Arabic.
Hmm. Looks like our prof here doesn't like our Israeli friends. "Maybe his defense is that in the 80s it wasn't a terrorist threatl".

Those comments are noted in his pending termination letter, along with an allegation that Al-Arian used the school's name in booking a 1991 conference where "money was raised for causes later associated with terrorist activities."
Hmmm. If it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, chances are it's Arafat.

"The issue was, still is, an issue of academic freedom, the right to espouse views, even though they may be unpopular," Al-Arian said. "If a professor tomorrow, not 14 years ago, says on campus ... 'Death to God' he will not be fired. But for one statement, they will not let it go" in his case.
Espouse all the views you want, but raise money for terrorism against the USA along with it and see what happens. Guess these guys want their terrorist rights and their freedom too. See anything wrong with this picture? They are not synchronistic.


I'll Have a Big Mick


You really have to wonder where these Brits are headed these days. Have to wonder about the rest of the namby-pamby Europeans as well.

New from McDonald's: the McAfrika burger (don't tell the 12m starving); The Guardian (UK); Andrew Osborn; August 24, 2002
Typical stuff from The Guardian mind you. Lenin or Mao couldn't do things any better.

McDonald's has been accused of extreme insensitivity after releasing a new sandwich called the "McAfrika" in Norway, one of the world's richest countries, at a time when 12 million people are facing starvation in southern Africa.
This is a joke, right? I mean we've got the champions of free world capitalism accusing here. When's the last time you've seen anything with a "Made in Norway" tag? Perhaps the Norwegian farmer is feeding the world with their excess snow - er grain. Since when has Norway been included as one of the world's richest countries (rolling eyes)?

The launch of the new hamburger has infuriated the Norwegian equivalent of Christian Aid and the Norwegian Red Cross and generated a storm of bad publicity for the American fast-food giant.
Heard any good Olie and Lena jokes lately? (Note the accusations here - American fast-food giant.) "Eat your Mac D's now, think of all the poor kids starving in Africa."

The concoction of beef, cheese, tomatoes and salad in a pitta-style sandwich is said to be based upon an authentic African recipe and is being sold to Norwegian consumers for about £2.80.
You know what? I almost agree with this insensitivity. Why, look at how long they got by with selling 'hamburgers' while the people of Hamburg have been silent. Then consider frankfurters.

But aid agencies trying to raise funds to stave off a famine in southern Africa say that the timing of the McAfrika marketing campaign is insensitive, crass and ill-considered and have demanded remedial action from McDonald's.
Look closely at this, don't let it slip by you now. These do-gooders leftists are trying to raise funds and have demanded "remedial" action. See what's going on?

Protesting members of the aid group have been doling out "catastrophe crackers" - the protein-rich biscuits given to starving people in Africa - to fast-food lovers outside the firm's restaurants in Oslo.
Just as I thought! Nobody wants these stupid protein biscuits and these groups have taken it in the shorts. They're blaming someone for their own marketplace stupidity and want someone else to pay for it. While they're giving away their tasteless biscuits, MacDonalds is selling theirs for profit (gasp). Their stupid donation drive failed miserably just like any of the other stupid leftist plans.

"Twelve million people are suffering from starvation in countries such as Malawi and Zimbabwe; it is one of the biggest humanitarian disasters we have ever seen. We have nothing against McDonald's but the timing of this is insensitive," said Gunstein Instesjord, a senior policy advisor at Norwegian Church Aid.
The question is why? What does MacDonalds' menu have to do with 12 million starving people in Africa? Not a damn thing. As we say in Japan, "We nuked that issue just in time."



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