Wednesday, November 7, 2001
Quote of The Day
A Taliban Treat
"I'm very fit. I still box. I don't smoke. I'd like to find a reporter who can outdistance me. I have a 31-inch waist, a 42-inch chest. I'm still real butch."
--Geraldo Rivera to the Philadelphia Inquirer
Mayor Bloomberg. Thank you, Sir Rudy.
The Power of One: New York has a Republican mayor once again. All it took was fifty-million dollars and Rudy Giuliani. Remember when "the wife" was so important to a pol. New Yorkers have elected a mayor with an undisclosed "steady girl friend" and we may be in for a surprise. Has anyone seen Jean Harris lately? Tonya Harding? Miss July? Stay tuned.
Tough Tony to the Rescue: Kudos to Tony "My shirt can beat up your shirt" Blankley of the Washington Times for articulating the effect of the bratty, know-nothing behavior of the media covering the Pentagon briefings. Don't these people know the world is watching?
While We Were Sleeping: Here is yet another story regarding the utterly chaotic and borderline criminal behavior of the Immigration service that has put our very lives at peril. Maybe throwing these people out is a job for Janet Reno. She had plenty of practice with little Elian.
Davis Ploy the Only Bomb: Better late than never, the FBI says that Gov. Gray Davis, former aide to Gov. Moonbeam, was living in some parallel universe when he issued a very expensive warning about the imminent bombing of California bridges. It just wasn't so. Isn't there some kind of a law against doing something like that?
Bin There, Bin That, bin Laden: Information warrior and Ldot citizen reporter Sally V. reminds
us that fifteen years ago in Senate testimony Col. Oliver North, taking grief for the $60,000
security fence he built around his house, was asked why he did it.
‘Because the life of my family and I were threatened.’
‘Threatened? By whom.’
‘By a terrorist, sir.’
‘Terrorist? What terrorist could possibly scare you that much?’
Ollie replied, ‘His name is Osama bin Laden.’
You could look it up.
Shark Repellent: Has anyone noticed that since 9-11 there hasn't been a single shark attack? Has anyone noticed that Senator "Rolex" Toricelli seems to have skated? Does anyone think Lizzie Grubman may have joined the Peace Corps? Has Clinton spent any quality time in his really expensive offices in Harlem? and lastly, now that he's free to travel why haven't we seen Mark Green on a banquette at the Four Seasons?
Love Note: Two Ldotters who traded quips on our Weekend Roundtable earlier this year, exchanged private E mail, finally met face to face and now inform us that they are getting married. This makes us very happy and, no, Igor will not accompany them on their honeymoon no matter how pathetically he begs.
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-- Anonymous, November 07, 2001