Grant's Eye on the World
DRUDGE REPORT; OCT 17, 2002; BELAFONTE SLAMS COLIN POWELL AS RACE SELLOUTRemember this guy? I guess not, he's out of the 50s. Even I have a hard time remembering this one.
"There's an old saying," Belafonte began. "In the days of slavery, there were those slaves who lived on the plantation and were those slaves that lived in the house. You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master... exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him.Anyone hear Rochester calling Mr. Benny?
"Colin Powell's committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture."You gotta love these people. Who Eye, who? Liberals, that's who. Belafonte is black but foremost, he's a liberal. If Powell were a liberal, or even a Democrat, he'd get a pass. But Powell, just like Clarence Thomas and Condoleeza Rice and any other conservative black, is selling out his brothers.
For close to twenty minutes, Belafonte ripped the entire Bush administration, including an attack on Attorney General John Ashcroft. "There's something wrong with men who think the way Ashcroft does and who manipulate the justice system the way he does."And Janet Reno gets a pass.
Belafonte also sang the praises of the United Nations as a pillar of global democracy, and decried President Bush for failing to attend the UN World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa earlier this year.Our peace loving democracy loving United Nations where 75% of the member countries are socialist/communist/dictatorship/totalitarian states. Guess where ol' Harry's allegiance lies.
"There were tens of thousands of peoples and leaders from all over the world gathered to discuss the issue of race. It was an honorable arena... But by not showing up, by sticking it to the government of Nelson Mandela... It was a dark page on our foreign policy."You left me speechless. Guess I have only one thing to say - "Bananas anyone? Me work so hard, an' me wan'. . . go home".
War protesters hole up inside Sen. Clinton's New York office; By ERIN McCLAM Associated Press Writer; October 10, 2002For those of you who did not read my commentary, I claimed that all the running around the Democrats are doing and knifing each other that it was just as important as to who was not talking. The Democrats who were getting beat up when they talked were readying themselves for a fall. Take a look here at the very last commentary on this link. (Commentary Link)
Five demonstrators staged a peaceful protest for nine hours Thursday inside the midtown Manhattan office of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, demanding she vote against authorizing a U.S. strike against Iraq.Ooooo. An entire handful. You have to wonder whether this group had any clout. Well if they were Hasidic Jews or related to Marc Rich they surely would.
Clinton, D-N.Y., indicated on the U.S. Senate floor that she planned to support the resolution granting President Bush the powers to use military force against Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. A vote was expected early Friday.You see what's going on? Do you see why she was silent during the blood baths going with Algore, Daschole, and Gebhardt (Barbara Streisand spelling book)?
"She's not listening to her constituents," Hirschmann said. "She has to vote with the will of the people."Oh my gosh Broom Hillary, watch out! It's a trap. There's a dozen of them. They're going to be your downfall. So what is it going to be? You going to go with your constituents in the hallway? You going to join your draft dodging ex-impeached hubbie? What are you going to do? You've been awfully quiet. What are you going to do?
Several dozen more protesters gathered on the street outside Clinton's office, chanting, "This is what democracy looks like."
During the Senate's floor debate, Clinton said backing the resolution was "the hardest decision I've ever had to make, but I cast it with conviction. I want this president, or any future president, to be in the strongest possible position to lead our country, at the United Nations or at war."What bravado! What courage! What do we owe your flag waving bleeding heart patriotism to? A new found love of America?
Poll Sees Americans Taking Bush Line on Iraq; Oct 10, 2002; By Randall Mikkelsen ; Reuters(rolling eyes) Just as I thought. Now you know why she's been silent. She knew the support was there for W and her grooming liar of a husband was positioning her for the photo ops. Now WHO ends up looking bad? WHO ends up looking good (I'm talking politically not physically)? Daschole, Gephardt, Algore - you boys have just been suckered. Bananas anyone?
G.O.P. Inquiry Lists Gifts to Clintons in White House; By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ; Oct 9, 2002; New York TimesDid that surprise you? I didn't think so. We knew Billie-bob and company was lower than whale feces. And that's at the bottom of the ocean.
Denise Rich, Malcolm S. Forbes, Nelson Mandela and other friends and supporters of the Clintons showered the couple with roughly $1 million in previously unreported gifts during the Clinton presidency, according to documents released by Republican Congressional investigators.Torcelli never got into that league. And this is just the stuff that was recorded, too.
The gifts vary from tens of thousands of dollars in jewelry, rugs and furnishings to a $90,000 framed handwritten letter by President Harry S. Truman, a $10,000 Mickey Mantle trading card from 1952 and nine rare books, according to the documents.I see the Mickey Mantle baseball card, but it didn't mention the vintage 'Playboy' magazines.
The gifts were not disclosed by the Clintons because the couple turned them over to Bill Clinton's presidential library, the investigators said. Under federal law, gifts that the first family do not keep for themselves are exempt from the public disclosure requirement on presidential gifts, the investigators said.Yeah right. They claim a loophole. "Yeah Eye, there you go again, you're just a Clinton basher." A Clinton basher I admit to, but the mainstream news gives the slimebag a pass on everything. But you know even their claim of not keeping the gifts and turning them over to the library is in keeping with the Arkansas trailer trash mentality of theirs.
There was a $2,000 bronze statue of an angel from Denise Rich; a $9,000 hand-woven Navajo chief's blanket (circa 1885) from Larry Rockefeller; and an oil painted in a gilt frame, a cheese plate, a porcelain teapot, a gold cross and other items totaling $6,000 from Nelson Mandela.Let's see now, just how many cheese plates, teapots, custom-made tuxedos and dress shirts, and handbags do you find in other libraries? You really wonder why the real important items were not mentioned. Those no-name soggy cigars don't appear to be listed.
Then there were other gifts that investigators say the Clintons may have used before donating them to the presidential library: nine custom-made tuxedo and dress shirts worth $900 from Walter and Selma Kaye; and four purses worth $8,680 from the handbag designer Judith Leiber.
Tree-sitter dead after fall from tree in Corralitos; Sacramento Bee/AP; Oct. 10, 2002You will undoubtedly hear cries for workman's compensation one day from these whackos.
A man with the environmental activist group Earth First! has died after a fall of more than 50 feet from a redwood tree, raising concerns about the dangers of tree sits, often used to stop logging operations.Perhaps these idiots will try suing the department of fish and wildlife service for not posting tree-sitting warnings. However that wouldn't work either, cigarette-packaging warnings were no legal defense.
The man, whose identity hasn't been released but went by the forest name "Naya," had only been in the tree for about 12 hours on Tuesday evening when he fell, according to Dennis Davie of the Santa Cruz contingent of Earth First!If I were that dumb I wouldn't divulge my name either. But take a look at this guy, he only made it 12 hours. Guess you can't find reliable tree sitters these days.
"Santa Cruz Earth First! is deeply saddened by this tragic event, we never like to lose an activist," said Davie. "This was a young man in his first tree-sit."You have to wonder if these whackos at Earth First aren't responsible. Why, he was on his first tree-sit. Probably wasn't adequately trained.
On Tuesday night, for an unknown reason, he fell out of the tree and was taken by helicopter to Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, where he was soon pronounced dead. The county coroner's office had not determined the cause of death or the man's identity Thursday.Hey, I'm no doctor or anything. I'm not even one of those cosmically brilliant enviro whackos. However to save the bankrupt state of California money in their cause of death investigation, I'd put it down as death by a 'fall'. I realize it's a wild guess and all, but the coroner's office won't accept the cause of death due to 'stupidity'.
"A large-scale federal and state investigation into voter registration fraud in six South Dakota counties is under way, state Attorney General Mark Barnett said Thursday. The two-week-old investigation, now being led by the FBI, has uncovered the likely registration of dead people, people not old enough to vote and people who appear not to exist, Barnett said.I guess dead people voting is now not limited to Illinois. This is serious stuff folks. The places where fraud will be the biggest is in the places where Democrat senators are in danger of losing their seat - New Jersey, Missouri, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa.
'The feds jumped on it immediately. The FBI has conducted a remarkable number of interviews, and they're moving very rapidly. I've been very impressed with the speed and thorough nature of their investigation,' said Barnett, who has made the matter a top priority for the state Division of Criminal Investigation. 'We get reports on what they're finding out. They're reporting directly to the U.S. attorney, who I'm in conversation with on a daily basis.'"
The South Dakota Democratic Party has launched a massive voter registration drive on South Dakota's nine Indian reservations in preparation for the November 5th election. The story goes on to quote Democratic Party spokeswoman Sarah Feinberg, who said party officials became aware of the situation after visiting with the Dewey County auditor about problematic absentee ballots. "The party itself is not implicated in any wrongdoing."Just to remind you where the problems are. See which party has launched the drive? When the 2000 voter turnout in heavy populated democratic precincts in Pennsylvania was 100% and in certain democratic counties in Texas the turnout was 125%, don't you think this election is just as important? As a matter of fact it's just as important as the presidential election because control of the senate is at stake. This is no joke. Get out and vote and get your family, relatives and friends to vote.
