As always, hotlinks for referenced articles at the site, lucianne.com Wednesday, November 14, 2001

Quote of The Day

NBC's Today devoted 75 percent more time two weeks ago to Jeffrey Toobin's claim, that Gore really won in Florida, than on Monday to the new media re-count which disproved that. "The wrong man was inaugurated on January 20th, 2001," CNN's Paula Zahn quoted Toobin before asking: "Do you still agree with what you wrote?" Toobin remained unswayed: "Oh absolutely."

-- Media Research Center CyberAlert

"I've been trying to tame our press corps ever since I got into politics, and I've failed miserably. They get to express their opinions - sometimes in the form of news."

-- President George W. Bush

Rag tag and ready to rumble....Northern Alliance fighters enter Kabul singing.

Look Muffy, Toy Soldiers: People love to be cutting edge but the scramble to suck up to our war effort has gotten out of hand. The minute style setter Tina Brown decides war is chic we are in big trouble. Keith Kelly at the New York Post tells us that the Talk mag editor wants West Point as a backdrop for some sort of self-promoting conference. Fortunately, military heads who don't care squat about being "in" prevailed.

For The Birds: The probable cause of the American Airlines flight out of JFK changes by the hour. Gov.Pataki says it dumped fuel. The FAA says it didn't. Birds did it says the AP. Not so says the NTSB. There wasn't an explosion. The engine and tail dropped off possibly from loose screws says someone else. Now comes the Dallas Morning News to say the NTSB says "no birds." Someone wake us when they have the answer.

Little Miss Dowd Says "Ick": One of the enduring mysteries of American journalism is how Maureen Dowd keeps her job at the New York Times let alone won a Pulitzer prize. Today's girlish twittering about the consequences of war, clearly jotted on the back of a LeCirque menu between sips of a Fuzzy Navel, shame her country, her employer and her colleagues.

EEEEEHaw, No Borsht: We thoroughly expect to see Vladimir Putin in full Texas drag before the weekend is out. If there is one place that knows how to throw a nonstop party is the Lone Star State. He will never be the same. Has a Russian head of state ever defected?

There All Along: Buried in the middle of Secretary Rumsfeld's briefing yesterday was the news that U.S. Special Ops forces have been on the ground "tracking" the Taliban all along thereby confirming their hidden presence for the first time. When the ladies of Kabul and Khandahar throw off the burques there may be some real surprises.

What's With O'Hare? Hawk-eyed security guards at Chicago's O'Hare have done it again. A "confused" Chinese chef got on a plane there with a bag full of meat cleavers yesterday. What next? A rocket launcher, an ABM missile? A horse?

Oops: Seems two 500-pound bombs flattened the al Jazeera TV facility in Kabul without killing anyone. A managing editor there told the AP he thinks we might have done it on purpose. Golly, we sure hope not. Maureen Dowd will be so upset.

Your Continuously Bellicose LComStaff

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2001

Answers

"We thoroughly expect to see Vladimir Putin in full Texas drag before the weekend is out"

Someone did a spiel on radio last night that Putin would *never* agree to wear one of those cowboys hat, that he would agree to whatever diplomatic concessions we want, so long as he didn't have to wear one of those damned hats!

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2001

I imagine that Putin will diplomatically eat Texas barbeque and pronounce it good, while wishing he was in N.C.

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2001

Radio person was also speculating that Bush intended to put Putin to work, clearing brush or something. And then there's the matter about Bush bee a teetotaller.

We may get those diplomatic concessions yet. ;^)

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2001

I imagine that Putin will diplomatically eat Texas barbeque and pronounce it good, while wishing he was in N.C.

What??? WHAT??? WHAT??? NC barbeque is HORRIBLE, it's nine point five parts vinegar, ugh, and I LIKE vinegar. Texas barbecue is wonderful. Not that I'm prejudiced or anything.

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2001

Actually. . .Kansas City barbeque is the best of all. Texas comes in a very close second. :-)

Well, sounds like the *doin's* in my 'neighborhood' have commenced; have noticed a lot of "Big Birds" flying high today.

I know they were going to have a honest-to-Pete, gen-u-wine chuckwagon, complete with cowboys cooking tenderloin and a Western Swing band to boot (not sure when that is scheduled). . .but the weather's not been cooperating. It's been raining pretty good all day; at times, very much like a cow pi$$ing on a flat rock. Hey! Maybe that's just part of the Texas ambience? :-)

-- Anonymous, November 14, 2001