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October 31, 2004
Sunday morning ... do you know what time it is?
Happy Halloween! Let me get the bi-annual complaint out of the way ... I never truly realize how many electronic time thingies I have around my house until I have to go reset them.
Last night was party night; and happily, this year we did not host a house full of kidlets ... of any age! My girls gathered with friends elsewhere and hubby and I headed off to my friend's, Lisa, home. My husband considers me a Halloween nut as it is, but I'm a greenbelt next to the 3rd degree blackbelt Lisa holds in Halloween deco/fun. She scours every store on Nov 1 for Halloween stuff for the next year and has quite a diverse and perverse collection. There's fog machines and cackling skeletons, mummies and burbling-smoking cauldrons. She's got sound activated creatures in the bathrooms to keep you company, spiders and webs all over. This year as you enter her home there is an animated zombie horror...well, HALF an animated zombie horror ... groaning and dragging itself across the floor in a bloody shirt cut at the waist.
Lisa, I love you!
Michele has her own tale of horror to tell. Nothing will turn a parent's hair grey faster than a gaggle of 14 y/o girls. They are a giant mass of obnoxious condescension, haughtiness and just enough bravado to think they can get away with sneering openly at any adult within range. If you own one of them, you start seriously thinking convent or military school. But I tip my hat that Michele got a nice bit of revenge on the gaggle.
On a much more serious note, one that should up your "Caution: Danger Ahead" factor, is this piece of indecency from Camp Kerry (like I should be shocked?) via Bill at INDC Journal
October 31, 2004 -- THIS campaign is ending just in time before someone gets hurt. John Kerry's stepson, Chris Heinz, 31, displayed his mother Teresa's famous lack of rhetorical restraint at a recent campaign event with a group of Wharton students. Philadelphia magazine reports: "Heinz accused Kerry's opponents - 'our enemies' - of making the race dirty. 'We didn't start out with negative ads calling George Bush a cokehead,' he said, before adding, 'I'll do it now.' Asked later about it, Heinz said, 'I have no evidence. He never sold me anything.'" Heinz also reminded writer Sasha Issenberg of Pat Buchanan by saying, "One of the things I've noticed is the Israel lobby - the treatment of Israel as the 51st state, sort of a swing state." Buchanan was blasted as an anti-Semite years ago when he cited Israel's "amen corner" in Congress.
Bill does a great job in a few short lines to eviserate the bigotry that underlies Heinz's Zionist Conspiracy mongering.
I believe one of the most shocking things for me of the last few years has been the growing and casual anti-Semitism of the Left. Michael Moore's throw away line about the Iraq war -- It's all part of the same ball of wax, right? The oil companies, Israel, Halliburton. -- certainly didn't keep Camp Kerry from sitting Mr. al-Moore next to another "great friend" of Israel, Jhimmi Carter, at the DemCon.
The US's steadfast support for Israel, regardless of "world popularity," has clearly enhanced America's moral position. Kerry avoids even uttering the word "Israel." This should definitely give pause and underline the concern that Kerry is ready to use Israel as currency to buy American popularity with EU and Arabs.
The time is now, to vote GW back into office and fumigate the Democratic Party of the Michael Moore faction that has taken it over.
UPDATE Jeff Goldstein weighs in with a pithy comment:
On November 2, roughly 8 of every 10 American Jews will cast a vote for John F Kerry and his sophosticated continental wife, Teresa. Enjoy, putzes.
UPDATE I highly recommend you read this column from Dennis Prager who has returned "from a week of speaking to Jews in the battleground states of Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio." --
There are overwhelmingly powerful Jewish reasons to vote for President Bush and equally powerful Jewish reasons not to vote for John Kerry.To understand this, I need to explain the word "Jewish." It means two things: that which concerns Judaism and its values, and that which concerns Jews as a distinct ethnic people. Whichever definition one chooses, the case for the re-election of President Bush and the rejection of John Kerry -- and of the left, which along with radical Islam is the Jews' great enemy in our time -- is overwhelming.
Regarding the second definition, the one issue that overwhelms all others is the security of Israel. ...
In a nutshell, John Kerry's primary foreign policy goal is to get America into the good graces of the European Union (specifically France and Germany) and the United Nations. He regards America going it alone in the world as an American calamity.
On the other hand, George W. Bush believes that becoming popular in the EU and in the United Nations would morally compromise America's values and ultimately endanger America.
Only an American president who does not place great importance on American popularity and who has a realistic view of the immorality inherent in international institutions such as the world court and the United Nations will stand behind Israel.
Posted by Darleen at October 31, 2004 07:36 AM