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Well I guess it's time to get back into the fray. Where have I been? That is not important. It's where I'm headed to. I'm heading back at the liberals. They're in trouble now. So I guess it's on with the comments. There is so much to talk about.
Come on now, Let Him Stay!!!
Being a journalist, it is necessary for me to comment on all news without partisanship, prejudices, or politics. I mean, if Wolf Blitzer and Bernard Shaw of CNN are held to such high and impeccable standards, I guess I must be held to the same fire.
A Wanderer for Peace Has Run Out of Road;
By
CHARLIE LeDUFF; New York Times; Jan 29,
2003
We've got a story for all you peace loving liberals out there.
It appears that Reza K. Baluchi made a string
of
serious miscalculations. One, an adviser might
say, never illegally cross the Mexican border if
you are from Iran. Two, if you do cross, don't
pitch a tent in the Arizona desert. Three, if people
want to bail you out of jail, do not stop them.
Not one of life's lottery winners it seems.
The abridged version of Mr. Baluchi's fantastic
tale goes something like this: He flees Iran on a
bicycle and embarks on a 46,000-mile
circumnavigation of the globe in the name of
peace.
I have to wonder if it's the color of Mr. Baluchi's tie that the immigration authorities don't like.
Over the next six years, he visits some of the
toughest, most despotic corners of the planet:
Africa, former Soviet republics, South America,
lands of famine, war and general discontent. Yet,
his charm is so winning, his intentions
seemingly so pure, that wherever he goes
peasants give him food, dignitaries give him
tokens of friendship and well-wishes, and a
Colombian dentist even fixes his teeth without
charge. In all, Mr. Baluchi pedals over six
continents and 54 countries.
This guy must really want peace badly. Maybe Peanuts Carter can help him.
So Mr. Baluchi waits in detention, running
laps to
keep in shape until Feb. 24, when Immigration
Judge LaMonte Freerks will consider whether to
grant him asylum or deport him to Iran.
Gosh, wonder if this judge with the funny last name will give him a break.
Mr. Baluchi's lawyer said she could probably
arrange for bail of as little as $1,500, but Mr.
Baluchi is not interested. Mr. Ladjevardi and
Arizona's large community of Iranian expatriates
have offered to bail their countryman out of
immigration jail and give him a bed and a job
while his case is considered.
Want my take on this before the judge decides?
Three things are in his favor. It is said that
Judge
Freerks likes to hear a good story. Mr. Baluchi
comes across as earnest to the point of tears.
And he has a book of photographs and
newspaper clippings from various countries to
document his story.
Trust me, the guy will get a free pass, a liberal judge is on the case. What's that Eye? You think you're soooo smart. You think you know the judge or something? (hehe) He likes a good story. I remember telling him the 3 Bears.
Hurl-a-rhyme
I sort of fancy myself as a poet as well. Like most of you, I've done some awesome limericks.
Poets Admonish White House for
'Disinvitation';
AP/Foxnews.com; Feb 17, 2003
Laura had a little lamb. . .
Poets collected Sunday at a Vermont church to
continue to express anger over last week's
White House decision to put the kibosh on
dissent within its own walls.
As a matter of fact, I wouldn't invite these liberal weirdoes in my house either.
The White House indefinitely postponed a
library
symposium to be sponsored by first lady Laura
Bush last Wednesday because a bulk of the
guests planned to get up and protest a possible
war with Iraq.
If you want to know the truth, I was tired of the Hollywood left practicing foreign policy. So now we're supposed to allow poets to dictate policy?
"For poets to remain silent at a time of
national
crisis is unconscionable," said Jay Parini, a
Middlebury College professor who had planned
to read an anti-war poem at the White House
event. "Poets from the time of ancient Athens
have raised voices in protest."
There once was a man from Hope. . .
A White House spokeswoman said that
although
Laura Bush "respects and believes in the right of
all Americans to express their opinions, she, too,
has opinions and believes it would be
inappropriate to turn the literary event into a
political forum."
Who claimed to have smoked but never inhaled dope. . .
Pulitzer Prize winner Galway Kinnell, who was
invited to the White House event but declined,
and Grace Paley, Vermont's incoming state poet
laureate, both expressed joy about recent peace
protests around the world. . .
Do you believe this ruse or pooh-pooh this news. . .
"What happened in the last few days has really
been so encouraging, so hope-making," Paley
told the audience, referring to peace protests
across the globe on Saturday. "And I really feel
that the rise of the poets had a lot to do with it
happening everywhere in the world."
If you do then you need audience with the Pope.
The poetry reading, which also included
"Lesson," a poem by National Book Award
Winner Ruth Stone about a University of
Wisconsin student who was jailed for protesting
the Vietnam War, will be published and proceeds
will go to charity.
Gosh, isn't that something. The poet got jailed for protesting the war, and Clinton got elected president for it. Hey, all you future poets, doesn't that tell you something? Rhyme will get you time, but with deceit you become elite.
While on the Subject of Weirdoes. . .
As pointed out, the Hollywood left is about as whacko as you can get. What qualifications do they possess that anyone should listen to, anyway?
Jackson: I've Been Betrayed;
AP/Foxnews.com;
Feb 6, 2003
Now if the entertainment crowd needs a front person, I nominate Whacko Jacko, the decomposing rock star.
Michael Jackson said Thursday a TV
documentary about him was unfair and he felt
"more betrayed than perhaps ever before" by the
program, in which the King of Pop revealed he
sometimes lets children sleep in his bed.
Can anyone think of something any more scarier than sleeping with Michael Jackson? (Yeah, waking up to Hillary Clinton.)
"I trusted Martin Bashir to come into my life
and
that of my family because I wanted the truth to be
told," Jackson said in the statement, released by
his London representative Stephen Lock.
That's not so bad, Mikey.
You didn't put your trust in the French at least. They'd have fried you.
In 1993, Jackson - who says he identifies with
Peter Pan and lives on a ranch called Neverland
- was accused of molesting a boy who had
stayed at his home. He denied the allegations,
and no charges were filed.
Don't you see it Mikey? You ought not be identifying with Peter Pan (hehe). Wasn't Petey a fairy? You ought to identify with more of a manly character. One who can get through the worst of problems unscathed. I think identifying with OJ Simpson makes more sense this time around. At least you both know the same lawyer.
A Peace Prize Winner Signs Autograph
We go from poets to rock stars to losers. The left scrapes the absolute bottom to come up cosigners.
EX-PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER BACKS OUR
FIGHT; Feb 18, 2003; Mirror.co.uk
The man who dances with dictators has taken a position.
FORMER US President Jimmy Carter is
backing
the Daily Mirror's Not in My Name campaign.
The Nobel Peace Prize winner, and the only US
president since 1945 never to order American
soldiers into war, endorsed our stance on war
with Iraq, saying: "You're doing a good job. I am
glad about that. War is evil."
What other things has this ex-president 'never' done? Well he has the dubious honor of never having done anything right. He's still 100%.
"He obviously has the capability and desire to
build prohibited weapons and probably has some
hidden in his country.
What an astute observation Peanuts!
Carter said an opinion poll which rated the US
as
the country posing greatest danger to world
peace was a "very embarrassing thing".
Right, embarrassing. You want to know what's embarrassing? Peanuts Carter watched American embassy personnel held hostage 444 days and never (note the word here) did anything about it. His famous comment was, "There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about those hostages." He didn't do anything, but he thought about them.
The former peanut farmer's house, where he
lives with his wife Rosalynn, is surrounded by
pungent red peanut fields and cotton farms.
Guess that pretty well sums up Peanuts Carter's strengths. He is able to tell sh** from a poor grade of peanut butter, but not cotton.
"But there is a growing consensus, among
other
countries at least, that we should let the UN
inspectors do their thing first before we start a
pre-emptive war against Iraq."
Forever the diplomat, Carter was careful not to
directly criticise President George Bush by
name.
(shaking head) I'm now wondering who is more ridiculous - Peanuts or the people at The Mirror. Is there any other president running the USA being charged with starting a 'pre-emptive war'? Shhhh, don't name any names now!
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