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Quote of The Day
"This has just eclipsed Julia Roberts's boyfriends. Who cares about that stuff anymore?"
— Iris Fahrer, a National Enquirer editor, on the discovery of anthrax spores in the Enquirer's headquarters building in Boca Raton.
Don't leavehome without one!
A Wussed-Out Nation Gets A Grip: John Kass's piece in the Chicago Tribune correctly mirrors a national attitude that, thankfully, was there all along. Isn't it amazing how rapidly a "Don't-make-waves-it's-not-P.C." mind set can do a 180 nearly overnight. How about a Howard Beale Award for the four guys who leapt on that airborne loon and saved a plane load of lives?
Stepping Up To The Plate: Newt Gingrich saying, “In retrospect, I wish I had been much more consistent in holding President Clinton’s feet to the fire on this issue.” Let's hope this starts what should become a national speak-out on the roots of bin Laden rise to a place in the world where he could kill 7,000 of us. Let's hear more from the folks on the other side who spent light years whirling around to TV studios defending the man who could have prevented this. And, just in case you thought Clinton wasn't busy, busy, busy - here's the laundry list of "thwarted" attacks on his watch that he delivered at the Kennedy Center last night. How cool of him not to tell us about them when they didn't happen.
Over, We're Coming Over: It's hard to come up with clearer language than that in a dispatch from John Negroponte, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations hand carried to Iraqi envoy Mohammed Douri yesterday: "There will be a military strike against you and you will be defeated." Notice, the editors who write headlines at the New York Post didn't read Deborah Orin's piece when they wrote the headline. There's always someone who doesn't get the message.
What Did You Say? Saying that Rush Limbaugh's hearing loss is extremely rare, doctors point to the possible causes of sudden adult deafness. One is Vicodin abuse. If that's the case, most of Hollywood would be stone deaf by now.
Let's Hear It For Executive Order 12333: Loop holes are developing in the "don't kill him" law and Paul Sperry tells us there's a way to assassinate bin Lauden without breaking the law. If that isn't true we sure hope no one rat's out the first Ranger to find his cave.
. . . . . . just because we can't say it often enough: God bless and keep President George W. Bush. We will never see his likes again. Go W, Go!
Your Bellicose LComStaff
-- Anonymous, October 10, 2001