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EDITORIAL EXEGESIS
"When Egyptian immigrant Heshem Mohamed Hadayet approached the
El Al ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport on
the afternoon of July 4, he was clearly bent on murdering as
many people as possible. Hadayet, who was armed with two guns
and a knife, opened fire on a group of people lined up at the
counter, killing two persons and wounding seven others before
being slain himself by an El Al security officer. ... Shortly
after the attack, FBI officials made a series of statements
that seemed to downplay the possibility that Hadayet's bloody
rampage could have had anything to do with terrorism. ... But
none of this is inconsistent with the reality that, based on the
information made public thus far, Hadayet was also a terrorist,
not just a thug who enjoyed preying upon people who looked or
acted differently from him. The U.S. Code defines terrorism as
'premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against
noncombatant targets.' ... The accurate definition of a crime is
no mere semantic exercise. It can have critical implications
that could help prevent future attacks. That's something law
enforcement will need to keep in mind as it goes forward with
the El Al probe." --Washington Times
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DEZINFORMATSIA
From the "Moral Innumeracy" Files: "Once again, violence
broke out this week between an Arab and Israelis -- this time
at Los Angeles International Airport. Once again, the attack
was labeled a 'terrorist act' -- this time by Israeli officials
characterizing the way Egyptian-born Hesham Mohamed Hadayat had
killed two Israelis." --Los Angeles Times on the "violence"
that somehow "broke out" on July 4th when Hadayat committed
premeditated murder of two Jews at the counter of Israeli airlines
El Al, then was killed in defensive acts of security agents.
**If this ain't terrorism, ain't nothing is terrorism. {} This
week's "News Nonsensica" Award: "If they [foreign entrants] have
visas and are from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan or Syria, they now
pose national security concerns and must be fingerprinted and
photographed. ...It's a little like the search for communists in
the government after World War II." --CNN's Bruce Morton {} This
week's "Sagacity" Award: "If this sounds like Mr. Bush has come
down squarely on Israel's side in the Israeli-Palestinian struggle,
that is how it looks in the Middle East and in Washington." --Peter
Jennings on the President's peace plan. **What was your first
clue, Peter? {} From the "Say Again" Files: "I am a liberal,
which means I believe in dissent and I believe in listening to
others." -- PBS's Bill Moyers **Huh?
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SOCIOCRATS
This week's "Ignarus Perpetuus" Award: "I am outraged and
deeply saddened to learn of today's shooting at LAX. That it
happened on the day on which we honor what America stands for
-- liberty, security and diversity -- makes this particularly
more tragic." --California Gov. Gray Davis commenting on the
LAX shooting (not terrorist act, mind you)...on Independence
Day. **We checked, Gray, and there's no mention of "diversity"
in the Declaration of Independence. We checked the Constitution,
too -- no "diversity" there, either. Maybe that's not what America
stands for. ++ And in second place: "More than ever, we cherish
the uniquely American rights and values that our Founding Fathers
gave us." --DNC chief Terry McAuliffe **We checked, Terry, and the
Founders cited God, not themselves, as the source of those rights.
{} Effluent from the "Most Ethical Administration": "Progress
and Paradox: The Realities of Globalization in the Twenty-First
Century." --Title of Arkansas Law Review article by disbarred
lawyer-author Bill Clinton. ++ More evidence why their Party
mascot is a jackass: "[I] would spend more time speaking from
the heart [on] the basic challenges of the country." --Albert
Gore responding to a query about running in '04 **Translation:
"I will be offering up more lies, distortion and spin to stir
emotions expedient to my agenda."
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VILLAGE IDIOTS
This week's "HomoPromo" Award: "We didn't want to select the penis
as a logo for the gay community. We have more respect for the gay
community than that." --Dr. Peter Kerndt, Sexually Transmitted
Disease Program chief for the Los Angeles Health Department,
being a stand-up guy in refusing participation in a California
program designed to increase awareness of syphilis outbreaks among
homosexuals, which uses a cartoon penis infected with syphilis.
{} This week's "Village Ignorati" Award: "So the contempt for
the American people has been made more vivid by the two Bushes
than all of the presidents before them. Although many of them
had the same contempt. But they were more clever about concealing
it." --Gore Vidal {} This week's "Village Glitterati" Award: "I
don't think those with a different point of view than mine should
be forced to say the words 'under God' in public." --Martin Sheen
**Who's forcing? {} This week's "Gender Disorientation Disorder"
Award: "The most absurd part of my escape from the unjust system is
that I have exchanged one system that suppresses free opinion for
another." --Martina Navratilova, who escaped from Czechoslovakia
at the age of 18 to become a U.S. "citizen" collecting many
U.S. dollars to buy a soapbox to complain about the defeat of
Teddy Kennedy's legislation to single out homosexuals for civil
rights class distinction. **A chronic case of "tennis envy"!
{} From the "Village Academic Curriculum" File: The University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill is requiring 3,500 incoming freshmen
read a book on the Qur'an: "The Early Revelations." The ACLU's
Seth Jaffe noted, "We are keeping an eye on it, but so far it does
not seem to be problematic." Would Mr. Jaffe have a problem if
UNC required all its incoming freshmen to read the Bible?
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SHORT CUTS
"A liberal judge who finds God unconstitutional is precisely
the stuff of which Republican dreams and Democratic nightmares
are made." --Jonah Goldberg {} "There are enough fools in
Washington to destroy the country without any help from Muslim
terrorists." --Paul Craig Roberts {} "Remember the good old
days when a guy ran for president and lost and you never heard
from him again?" --Greg Crosby {} "Bill Clinton has still got
some of us snowed, and the younger, the more snowable. Actually,
a piece by Bill Clinton on the law and how to get around it
might have been of considerable interest. Much like a piece by
Willie Sutton in a banking journal. It would have had a True
Confessions kind of appeal." --Paul Greenberg {} "Julian Bond
is in rare form as the NAACP convention opens in Houston, Texas.
Bush this ... right-wingers that ... racism this, that and the
other thing. The same tired old 'we're so picked on' story,
Chapter 342." --Neal Boortz {} "The geniuses at WorldCom, Arthur
Andersen, Enron (remember them?), Global Crossing, and Qwest have
done for top executives at major corporations what Monica Lewinsky
did for White House interns." --Rich Galen {} "Constitutional
Convention: I've got it! Rather than ruling the country directly,
lets just sell franchises to the states." --Bob Thaves in the comic
strip "Frank & Ernest" {} "Wiley's Dictionary: Withdrawal -- how
Southerners are born." --Johnny Hart in the comic strip "B.C." {}
This week's "Keen Sense of the Obvious" Award was a toss-up between
"Bond Between Child and Parents Runs Deep, Effects Are Lasting"
--Associated Press headline, and "Lawmakers Likely to Use Issues
for Fodder in Autumn Elections"--subheadline, Denver Post {}
A Greenfield, Wisconsin, man attempted to rob a gun dealer with
a knife. The owner of the store shot the robber. The Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel described the robber as "the victim."
Jay Leno.... For the first time in five years, street crime
is up. Just on one street, though -- Wall Street!
www.federalist.com
"When Egyptian immigrant Heshem Mohamed Hadayet approached the
El Al ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport on
the afternoon of July 4, he was clearly bent on murdering as
many people as possible. Hadayet, who was armed with two guns
and a knife, opened fire on a group of people lined up at the
counter, killing two persons and wounding seven others before
being slain himself by an El Al security officer. ... Shortly
after the attack, FBI officials made a series of statements
that seemed to downplay the possibility that Hadayet's bloody
rampage could have had anything to do with terrorism. ... But
none of this is inconsistent with the reality that, based on the
information made public thus far, Hadayet was also a terrorist,
not just a thug who enjoyed preying upon people who looked or
acted differently from him. The U.S. Code defines terrorism as
'premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against
noncombatant targets.' ... The accurate definition of a crime is
no mere semantic exercise. It can have critical implications
that could help prevent future attacks. That's something law
enforcement will need to keep in mind as it goes forward with
the El Al probe." --Washington Times
______----********O********----______
DEZINFORMATSIA
From the "Moral Innumeracy" Files: "Once again, violence
broke out this week between an Arab and Israelis -- this time
at Los Angeles International Airport. Once again, the attack
was labeled a 'terrorist act' -- this time by Israeli officials
characterizing the way Egyptian-born Hesham Mohamed Hadayat had
killed two Israelis." --Los Angeles Times on the "violence"
that somehow "broke out" on July 4th when Hadayat committed
premeditated murder of two Jews at the counter of Israeli airlines
El Al, then was killed in defensive acts of security agents.
**If this ain't terrorism, ain't nothing is terrorism. {} This
week's "News Nonsensica" Award: "If they [foreign entrants] have
visas and are from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan or Syria, they now
pose national security concerns and must be fingerprinted and
photographed. ...It's a little like the search for communists in
the government after World War II." --CNN's Bruce Morton {} This
week's "Sagacity" Award: "If this sounds like Mr. Bush has come
down squarely on Israel's side in the Israeli-Palestinian struggle,
that is how it looks in the Middle East and in Washington." --Peter
Jennings on the President's peace plan. **What was your first
clue, Peter? {} From the "Say Again" Files: "I am a liberal,
which means I believe in dissent and I believe in listening to
others." -- PBS's Bill Moyers **Huh?
______----********O********----______
SOCIOCRATS
This week's "Ignarus Perpetuus" Award: "I am outraged and
deeply saddened to learn of today's shooting at LAX. That it
happened on the day on which we honor what America stands for
-- liberty, security and diversity -- makes this particularly
more tragic." --California Gov. Gray Davis commenting on the
LAX shooting (not terrorist act, mind you)...on Independence
Day. **We checked, Gray, and there's no mention of "diversity"
in the Declaration of Independence. We checked the Constitution,
too -- no "diversity" there, either. Maybe that's not what America
stands for. ++ And in second place: "More than ever, we cherish
the uniquely American rights and values that our Founding Fathers
gave us." --DNC chief Terry McAuliffe **We checked, Terry, and the
Founders cited God, not themselves, as the source of those rights.
{} Effluent from the "Most Ethical Administration": "Progress
and Paradox: The Realities of Globalization in the Twenty-First
Century." --Title of Arkansas Law Review article by disbarred
lawyer-author Bill Clinton. ++ More evidence why their Party
mascot is a jackass: "[I] would spend more time speaking from
the heart [on] the basic challenges of the country." --Albert
Gore responding to a query about running in '04 **Translation:
"I will be offering up more lies, distortion and spin to stir
emotions expedient to my agenda."
______----********O********----______
VILLAGE IDIOTS
This week's "HomoPromo" Award: "We didn't want to select the penis
as a logo for the gay community. We have more respect for the gay
community than that." --Dr. Peter Kerndt, Sexually Transmitted
Disease Program chief for the Los Angeles Health Department,
being a stand-up guy in refusing participation in a California
program designed to increase awareness of syphilis outbreaks among
homosexuals, which uses a cartoon penis infected with syphilis.
{} This week's "Village Ignorati" Award: "So the contempt for
the American people has been made more vivid by the two Bushes
than all of the presidents before them. Although many of them
had the same contempt. But they were more clever about concealing
it." --Gore Vidal {} This week's "Village Glitterati" Award: "I
don't think those with a different point of view than mine should
be forced to say the words 'under God' in public." --Martin Sheen
**Who's forcing? {} This week's "Gender Disorientation Disorder"
Award: "The most absurd part of my escape from the unjust system is
that I have exchanged one system that suppresses free opinion for
another." --Martina Navratilova, who escaped from Czechoslovakia
at the age of 18 to become a U.S. "citizen" collecting many
U.S. dollars to buy a soapbox to complain about the defeat of
Teddy Kennedy's legislation to single out homosexuals for civil
rights class distinction. **A chronic case of "tennis envy"!
{} From the "Village Academic Curriculum" File: The University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill is requiring 3,500 incoming freshmen
read a book on the Qur'an: "The Early Revelations." The ACLU's
Seth Jaffe noted, "We are keeping an eye on it, but so far it does
not seem to be problematic." Would Mr. Jaffe have a problem if
UNC required all its incoming freshmen to read the Bible?
______----********O********----______
SHORT CUTS
"A liberal judge who finds God unconstitutional is precisely
the stuff of which Republican dreams and Democratic nightmares
are made." --Jonah Goldberg {} "There are enough fools in
Washington to destroy the country without any help from Muslim
terrorists." --Paul Craig Roberts {} "Remember the good old
days when a guy ran for president and lost and you never heard
from him again?" --Greg Crosby {} "Bill Clinton has still got
some of us snowed, and the younger, the more snowable. Actually,
a piece by Bill Clinton on the law and how to get around it
might have been of considerable interest. Much like a piece by
Willie Sutton in a banking journal. It would have had a True
Confessions kind of appeal." --Paul Greenberg {} "Julian Bond
is in rare form as the NAACP convention opens in Houston, Texas.
Bush this ... right-wingers that ... racism this, that and the
other thing. The same tired old 'we're so picked on' story,
Chapter 342." --Neal Boortz {} "The geniuses at WorldCom, Arthur
Andersen, Enron (remember them?), Global Crossing, and Qwest have
done for top executives at major corporations what Monica Lewinsky
did for White House interns." --Rich Galen {} "Constitutional
Convention: I've got it! Rather than ruling the country directly,
lets just sell franchises to the states." --Bob Thaves in the comic
strip "Frank & Ernest" {} "Wiley's Dictionary: Withdrawal -- how
Southerners are born." --Johnny Hart in the comic strip "B.C." {}
This week's "Keen Sense of the Obvious" Award was a toss-up between
"Bond Between Child and Parents Runs Deep, Effects Are Lasting"
--Associated Press headline, and "Lawmakers Likely to Use Issues
for Fodder in Autumn Elections"--subheadline, Denver Post {}
A Greenfield, Wisconsin, man attempted to rob a gun dealer with
a knife. The owner of the store shot the robber. The Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel described the robber as "the victim."
Jay Leno.... For the first time in five years, street crime
is up. Just on one street, though -- Wall Street!
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