To The Point Weekly Report
for November 25th 2005
| CAN
DEMOCRATS CELEBRATE THANKSGIVING? |
| Dr.
Jack Wheeler |
| Thursday, 24
November 2005 |
The short answer is: No, they can’t – not this year. They
can’t emotionally afford it. BDS – Bush Derangement Syndrome
– requires them to overcook their turkey, serve it with
sugarless cranberries to match their bitterness, and wash it
down not with a good chardonnay but with bile.
Their propaganda machine known collectively as the MSM –
mainstream media – should be re-nicknamed the BNM: the Bad
News Media. The Democrats must refuse to acknowledge and the BNM
must refuse to report anything good about America whatsoever.
Failure on their part to do so might cause dangerously
blasphemous thoughts to occur to the American public, like we
are not losing the War on Moslem Terrorism, we are not
losing the War in Iraq, President Bush is an honest and decent
man whose moral character infinitely exceeds theirs ( and most
especially his Democrat predecessor and opponents in 2000 and
2004), the American economy is doing spectacularly well, the sky
is not falling nor the oceans rising due to global warming, that
America has so much to celebrate on this Thanksgiving Day.
The Dems and Libs will on this day mouth pious platitudes about
our “blessings,” making sure to riddle them with
let’s-not-forget buts: “Thank you, O (substitute whatever
they put in place of God) for America’s blessings but let’s
not forget the victims of Katrina and the homeless and the
starving Banglesdeshis and every ailment on the planet because
they are all America’s and George Bush’s fault.”
Democrats cannot truly celebrate Thanksgiving because they no
longer have the capacity to celebrate being American. This is
not hyperbolic. It is a tragic truth. |
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| Dr.
Jack Wheeler |
| Friday, 25
November 2005 |
For some time now, I’ve been telling you that Condi Rice may
replace Dick Cheney (who would step down for “health
reasons”) as Bush’s Vice-President, putting her in the
catbird seat for the GOP presidential nomination in ’08. I
expect this to take place by summer 2006.
As I discussed last month in 44,
her candidacy would be do more damage to the Democrat Party than
Katrina did to the Gulf Coast. She is the only candidate the GOP
can put up who could defeat Hillary.
(Try this on as a barf alert: John McCain as Hillary’s running
mate. Denied the GOP nomination, he’ll bolt his party and team
with Hil who’s got the Dem nomination sewed up. Yep, that’s
the latest hot DC buzz.)
Now it’s time for the other shoe to drop. |
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| TARGETING
TEHRAN AND DAMASCUS |
| Michael
Ledeen |
| Friday, 25
November 2005 |
More than three years ago, prior to the liberation of Iraq, I
lamented that our great national debate on the war against
terrorism was the wrong debate, because it was:
“About using our irresistible military might against a single
country in order to bring down its leader, when we should be
talking about using all our political, moral, and military
genius to support a vast democratic revolution to liberate the
peoples of the Middle East from their tyrannical rulers. That is
our real mission, the essence of the war in which we are
engaged, and the proper subject of our national debate.”
The proper debate has still not been engaged, and the Bush
Administration’s failure to lead it bespeaks a grave failure
of strategic vision. The war was narrowly aimed against the
Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein.
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| Jack
Kelly |
| Thursday, 24
November 2005 |
Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the al Qaeda chieftain in Iraq, has
had a bad week.
If it turns out Zarqawi was among seven al Qaeda leaders
killed in Mosul Saturday, it'll have been a really bad
week. But even if Zarqawi got away again, it's been a
rotten week for him.
It's also been a bad week for antiwar Democrats, who had
their bluff called in the House of Representatives. |
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| Alex
Alexiev |
| Thursday, 24
November 2005 |
After two weeks of unrestrained violence across the
country, France imposed curfews and a state-of-emergency
rule on 24 of its provinces. The government certainly
hopes that this wartime measure will quickly scale down
the riots and it may well do that.
Yet history is more likely to look back on this not as the
end of an irrational burst of urban violence, but as the
first act in a protracted time of troubles for France and
Europe that could ultimately lead to the demise of
European civilization as we know it.
None of this is even remotely discernible in French
political rhetoric or media coverage surrounding the
violent events in the Moslem ghettoes. Yet, shying away
from reality by France's ruling class does not change
reality – and that stark reality is one of a civilized
European nation sliding into barbarism.
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| Neal
Asbury |
| Friday, 25
November 2005 |
The recently completed fourth Summit of the Americas held
November 6th at Mar del Plata, Argentina was
over the top surreal even by the bizarre standards of past
meetings of the 34 democratic countries of the Western
Hemisphere.
At the heart of all the hullabaloo and political
annihilation lies the FTAA (Free Trade Agreement of the
Americas), which has become the lightening rod of South
American leftwing-populist governments making a stand
against the omnipresent bogeyman of American Imperialism.
FTAA would create a free trade zone from Alaska to Tierra
del Fuego and encompass all the countries of the Western
Hemisphere with the exception of Cuba. It would result in
a $13 trillion market of 830 million people. It
is a comprehensive trade agreement covering merchandise
and services while setting standards for environmental
protection, labor rights and due process. Essentially it
would extend NAFTA throughout the hemisphere and be a boom
for businesses everywhere.
Despite the ranting of nutcase Hugo Chavez of Venezuela,
who claimed he came to Mar del Plata “with a shovel to
bury FTAA”, 29 of the 34 countries in attendance pledged
to turn the Western Hemisphere into the world’s largest
free trade zone. Only five countries, Argentina, Brazil,
Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela opposed the agreement.
Though there were numerous anti-US and anti-Bush
demonstrations throughout the region from Argentina to
Panama, the concept of an economically integrated region
won hands down.
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| Dr.
Joel Wade |
| Thursday, 24
November 2005 |
I talk a lot about gratitude in these columns, because
being actively grateful for what you have in life –
whatever your circumstances – is one of the most
important things you can do for your own sense of
happiness and well being.
Today I want to address one of the barriers toward feeling
grateful in life, and offer a perspective that I hope will
allow you to remove this barrier.
Every so often I hear a comment that goes something like
this: “The world is such a crazy place”, or “Life is
overrated”, or “Mankind is so terrible.”
Each time I wonder to myself - or say out loud if it’s
appropriate – “To what else, exactly, are you
comparing ‘the world’, or ‘life’, or
‘mankind’?”
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| POLITICAL
NASDAQ -- November 18-23, 2005 |
| Dagny
D'Anconia |
| Thursday, 24
November 2005 |
The DDI remained up all week and the Nasdaq gained about
3% from this time last week. The volume was light, in
advance of the Thanksgiving break. There was a slight drop
as traders closed out some positions near the end of the
day Wednesday in advance of the holiday. Markets will be
closed until Monday. The DDI remains up.
The guessing game for Woodward’s source continued like a
game of Clue: Was it Secretary Rice? No. Was it
Vice-President Cheney? No... As some of the more desirable
targets were eliminated, the market went sideways on
Monday.
The Leftist media (or BNM – Bad News Media – as Jack
puts it) is still shaking their Christmas present, trying
to guess what they will get. The new Woodward testimony
has allowed the media to extend their coverage of the leak
scandal for yet another week of Administration bashing and
intrigue.
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| LITTLE
KNOWN WEB DELIGHTS |
| Dennis
Turner |
| Friday, 25
November 2005 |
The Internet is like what the North Pole and the Moon used
to be – a great, unexplored terrain with all sorts of
life-changing phenomena, just waiting be discovered, and
used for your betterment.
Of course, it depends on how you define ‘betterment.’
For many people that means having the computer spit out a
can of Coke because they’re too lazy to get up and fetch
one from the fridge themselves.
If you’re in the neighborhood of MIT, you can
use your computer to conjure
one up.
However, if you want your kids to get fresh air, you might
consider the Internet to be the second most useless
invention in human history, a close runner up to the TV.
But forget TV: the miracle of the Web is that there are
sites that are not only fun, but amazingly useful, too.
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| PRESIDENT
BUSH MAY SEND THE MARINES TO RESCUE FRANCE |
| Humor
File |
| Friday, 25
November 2005 |
News Bulletin from Bravo Sierra News Service
Washington, November 25, 2005. President Bush
today authorized the Joint Chiefs to begin drawing up a
battle plan to pull France’s derrière out of
the fire again.
With France facing an apparent overwhelming invasion force
of thousands of teenaged vandals, Mr. Bush doubts
France’s ability to hold them off. “If the last two
World Wars are any indication,” Mr. Bush commented at
the Pentagon meeting, “I would expect France to
surrender any day now.” |
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