March 30th, 2003 — impolite company
The “Fair and Balanced” network used their Times Square news ticker to offer some objective coverage of the recent “die-ins” in Manhattan, according to an article from North Jersey.com:
“War protester auditions here today … thanks for coming!” read one message. “Who won your right to show up here today?” another questioned. “Protesters or soldiers?”
Said a third: “How do you keep a war protester in suspense? Ignore them.”
Still another read: “Attention protesters: the Michael Moore Fan Club meets Thursday at a phone booth at Sixth Avenue and 50th Street”
Always glad to see real journalists in action.
March 30th, 2003 — time-wasters
From The Declaration of Independence by John Ashcroft:
We hold these truths to be self-evident:
- That all white American-born, Christian men are created equal in the eyes of the Lord;
- That Jews, women, American-born blacks, American-born Orientals, and some foreigners are granted limited equality in the eyes of Men;
- That pagans, atheists and Sodomites are stains on His good works, and are therefore less than human;
- That all Humans are endowed by the Lord — Our Savior, Jesus Christ — working through His Government on Earth, with certain rights:
- the right to Life, from the moment of conception until the Lord, in his mysterious ways, shall call them home;
- the right to Liberty and Punishment in walking the path prescribed in the Holy Bible;
- the right to the Pursuit of righteous Happiness and Wealth;
- That to bless us with these rights, Governments are ordained by God, deriving their just powers from His grace;
- That whenever the Governed become destructive of these ends, it is the right of Christ’s minions to alter or to abolish that Government, and to institute a new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their entry into Heaven.
