Quote of The Day
"They will eat your apples and bananas and then blow us all up."
--Northern Alliance soldier angry at Red Cross feeding Taliban prisoners (no word on whether or not Red Cross charged)
"Geraldo's paperwork is not in order, and it won't be in order until the war is over."
--Military reponse to Geraldo Rivera's request for access
Shock Troop Santas Storm Laughing Stock Town
Geraldo's Incoming Chickens Darken Sky: Warming news this morning that it's payback time for Geraldo and his stomach-lurching support of Bill Clinton. ("I want to hug him"). Seems the Rivera loathing military is turning a deaf ear to his pleas for access to the front lines. We wonder why this didn't occur to Fox News when they bought him all that war gear and a ticket to Kabul. Kiss your fingers good-bye, Jerry. The rest of your anatomy (and war reporter career) will follow.
Maybe It Was The Clothes? The curious travels of 20 year old Californian John Walker, pulled blackened with the scuzz of war from a prison fire fight in Mazar-i-Sharif, is stirring up a lot of warm fuzzy feelings among liberals. One hears "good kid trying to find himself," "brainwashed" and "well meaning but misguided." He also was carrying a spent rifle. Check out one of the basic requirements for American citizenship. The only word that fits here is "treason."
The thread running on Richard Starr's excellent piece on this "sweet, shy kid" in the (Daily) Weekly Standard is most illuminating.
Man, We Couldn't Get Much Higher: Befuddled Alert Czar Tom Ridge has run out of vocabulary and wants some kind of permanent system to warn us of varying levels of threats. How about high...higher...highest....Boom!? We are sticking with the only alert we've ever been on. It's called the They Are Trying To Kill Us! Alert and it keeps us razor sharp and out of the Lincoln Tunnel.
Those Subtle Brits: This story is worthless but we had to note the headline just so you could print it out for the fridge door.
Book Note of Note: Beth Harpaz, the AP reporter who had to endure weeks of Hillary's campaign speeches has a new book out called "The Girls in the Van." It hasn't got much publicity and she was on O'Reilly last week defending Hillary not going to a single New York funeral but this Chicago Sun Times report makes it sound worth at least a "stand-up" flip through at the local Border's.
PC Busters: We had picked "crippled" as today's pc buster word but that takes some explanation as does "spastic," yesterday's word. These are not words you use to hurt people who have infirmities. These words only work to describe things nonphysical and we want to be able to use them without being schussed by the thin-skinned. However, because our mail has been overwhelmingly for the total elimination of the word, "enabler" we pick that for today's practice under your breath. This is a substance abuse word that lets people blame someone else for the deep doo-doo they've got themselves into. We say erase it from the national vocabulary before we become communication cripples.
Your Alert Heightened LComStaff
-- Anonymous, December 04, 2001