QUICKIES for January 2000
Mercifully short tidbits of news and/or analysis and/or comment.
"YDS" below refers to the book You Don't Say







"Jane Fonda has become a born-again Christian. . . . She's regularly attending church services and Bible studies in Atlanta, and one friend calls her faith 'very real, very deep.'" [This the same Jane Fonda who once said: "I would think that if you understood what Communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees, that we would someday become communists."]
-- From "Fonda Gets Religion After Attending Chauffeur's Church," by Robert Stacy McCain, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, January 17-23, 2000, page 1. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 1-31-00. For related material see You Don't Say pages 43-44.


"Nearly every grocery store in all of the villages I have visited throughout Panama is run by Chinese. . . . If the Chinese can control the populace (i.e., deny food, staples, etc.), they will have no problem moving in and taking over."
-- From T. Welsh's letter to the editor, The New American, January 31, 2000, page 3. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. Posted here 1-31-00.


During Clinton's impeachment, the Clinton Administration, through Larry Flynt, blackmailed Newt Gingrich, using the affair with Callista Bisek to mute Newt. The Speaker "was the chief impediment to [Clinton's] impeachment." [Another example of the Right doing heavy lifting for the Left.]
-- From "Muzzling Newt," The New American, January 31, 2000, page 5. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. Posted here 1-31-00.


[Says Andrew Bacevich in a January 2 Boston Globe op-ed column:] "'The Clinton administration wages war without Americans even taking nortice.' Since 'Operation Desert Fox' began in December 1998, 'US and British warplanes have unloaded nearly 2,000 missiles and precision-guided bombs against several hundred targets scattered throughout Iraq.' 'As with every other US military operation launched since the Persian Gulf conflict of 1990-91, the [ongoing] Persian Gulf conflict proceeds on [Clinton's] executive authority alone.'"
-- From "The Bellicose Mr. Clinton, The New American, January 31, 2000, page 8. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. Posted here 1-31-00.


"Lieutenant General Gordon Sumner (Ret.) told The New American recently, 'I think it is highly likely that we will see the Canal shut down before the year 2000 has ended.' Each year, over 190 million tons of cargo pass through the Panama Canal. West Virginia coal goes directly to Korea. . . Grain from America's heartland destined for the Far East accounts for 23% of all canal traffic. . . [O]ver 100 million dollars worth of fruit and citrus is annually shipped through the Canal directly to Japan. Some 67% of Ecuador's maritime traffic, 43% of Peru's, 28% or Chili's, 70% of El Salvador's and 75% of Nicaragua's ocean commerce depend on the Canal. . . ."
-- From "Reclaim Our Canal!" The New American, January 31, 2000, page 12. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. Posted here 1-31-00.


"So you're thinking, hell, global warming is going to kiss us anyway, right? WRONG! There is no global warming. . . The earth's average temperature hasn't warmed in 50 years. . . . What about those hurricanes and earthquakes? More of them, right? WRONG. There isn't any increased hurricane of earthquake activity worldwide. Not that there ins't a whole lot of shaking going on, but it's about the same as it's always been. . . ."
-- From "Apocalypse - NOT!" by Alan Caruba, eco-logic, Winter 1999, page 34. Address: Environmental Conservation Organization, PO Box 191, Hollow Rock, Tennessee, 38342. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 1-31-00.


"Data from earth satellites in use since 1979 do not show any [global] warming. . . During the period 1940 until 1975, the climate actually cooled. There was real fear that we were entering another ice age. . . . The climate did warm over the last 100 years and that's why icebergs are breaking off. . . But the warming took place between 1880 and 1940 [prior to most carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases produced by man] so that it is a bit warmer now than it was 100 years ago."
-- From "Hot Topics, Cold Truth," by Dr. S. Fred Singer, The New American, January 31, 2000, pages 19-20. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. Posted here 1-31-00.


"[The movie] The Cider House Rules, recently released by Disney subsidiary Miramax, portrays abortion as 'the work of the Lord,' in hope that pregnant women will seek out the 'miracle' of death."
-- From "Cider House: Rotten to the Core," by William Norman Grigg, The New American, January 31, 2000, page 22. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. Posted here 1-31-00.


"Malaria was once close to being wiped out, but so-called environmentalists were able to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory to prevent that. Malaria now causes about 2.7 million deaths annually, while leaving some 500 million chronically ill." [What is it liberals don't like about 3rd world people?] "Ecuador, which has increased the use of DDT since 1993 . . . has seen a 60% decline in new malaria cases. By contrast, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Peru, which stopped DDT spraying altogether in 1993, have seen new cases rise more than 90%."
-- From "The Right Answers," The New American, January 31, 2000, page 41. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. Posted here 1-31-00.


"Persecution of Christians is on the rise worldwide. . . . Over two million black Sudanese Christians have been slaughtered by the Islamic 'jihad,' or holy war, launched by the Arab government of Khartoum. The slaughter includes biochemical war, torture, induced famine and crucifixions." [Why haven't we heard about this from the mainstream media?]
-- WorldNet, January 2000, pages 6-7. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, california 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website. Posted here: 1-31-00.


"Abortion of females in South Korea is at alarming levels snice most Korean parents want sons. If the current pace of gendercide continues, South Korean boys will outnumber girls by 80 to 90 percent by the year 2060." "China is running out of females because of its gendercide against girl babies. Female children up to two years of age are sometimes killed by the parents if a boy is born after them."
-- WorldNet, January 2000, pages 9, 11. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, california 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website. Posted here: 1-31-00.


"Russian defector Colonel Lunev has warned the West that Spetnaz troops are ready to poison U.S. water supplies, assassinate right wing leaders and unleash 'mini-nukes' on U.S. cities."
-- WorldNet, January 2000, page 12. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, california 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website. Posted here: 1-31-00.




A Kentucky Fried Chicken location in New York City had a special on what they were calling the "Bucket of Hillary" - two small breasts, two large thighs and a bunch of left wings.
-- Forwarded to me 1-18 via e-mail from a friend. Thanks, Debbie. Posted here 1-24-00.


We've all heard about Bill Clinton's letter in which he said he "loathed" the military, but have you heard about Al Gore's 1969 letter to his father? In it he said the U.S. Army is "fascist and totalitarian." And Democrats want to elect him Commander in Chief of all our military.
-- From Internet Vortex, December 1999, page 2. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website. Posted here 1-24-00.


"The Federal Aviation Administration has ordered air traffic controllers nationwide to handle first lady Hillary Clinton's government jet as if the president of the United States were on board. . . . [T]he first lady's special treatment will cause 'much delay up and down the Eastern Seaboard from Washington to Boston.'. . . [Her] plane, codenamed 'Fox Trot,' will now take precedence over all other aircraft landing or taking off."
-- From Internet Vortex, December 1999, page 5. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website. Posted here 1-24-00.


"Following growing concerns among consumers about a possible link between aspartame and brain tumors, a London grocery chain announced in October that it is banning the artificial sweetener from its own-label foods. . . . American reports have revealed conflicting evidence of a link. . . ."
-- From "Our Life & Times," Media Bypass, December 1999, page 42. Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 1-24-00.


"As the National Journal noted amidst the Kosovo war, "the Clinton administration is involved in many [conflicts], but in almost inverse proportion to the death toll. Only a few hundred people were killed in Haiti before America intervened with 20,000 troops, [yet] in the Sudan, where nearly 2 million have died and 2 million more lives are threatened, the U.S. role is almost non-existent." [E]ven more disturbing, [a] pattern has evolved: the manipulation of U.S. public opinion through the use of inflated death claims, maudlin media coverage, and bombastic rhetoric from our political leaders."
-- From "Too Quick on the Trigger, Too Loose with the Facts," The American Enterprise, January/February 2000, page 11. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 1-24-00.


"Americans didn't invent slavery; they imported it -- from Africa. In fact, slavery is the only African institution this country has ever adopted."
-- From "The History of Victimhood," by Joseph Sobran, CampusReport, January 2000, page 5. Address" Accuracy in Academia, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 800-787-0429, extension 104. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 1-24-00.


"[T]he Leadership Conference on Civil Rights tracks 'hate crimes' against blacks, Jews, Hispanics, Asians, Arab Americans, gays, lesbians, and women. But white Christians need not apply."
-- From "What is a Hate Crime?", The American Enterprise, January/February 2000, page 10. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 1-24-00.


"Liberal columnist Mike Barnicle. . . 'Imagine for a moment if a guy named Kelly sat down at an easel, produced a painting of a black man being dragged behind a pickup truck driven by a laughing rabbi with a smiling Billy Graham standing on the bumper, urinating on the victim's battered corpse and decided to call it art. Would we all run to the museum, insisting that it be displayed, toasting Kelly while reading sympathetic puff pieces about him in the New York Times? . . .' Government money stifles creativity and produces 'art' that's hokey and hortatory. Also, subsidized art reflects the political views of the government officials who fund it. . . ."
-- From "Last Words on Elephant Dung," The American Enterprise, January/February 2000, page 13. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 1-24-00.




"The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words."
-- From National Review, as posted on Dan & Allison's Patriotic Page Website. Posted here 1-17-00.


Comments from Bill O'Reilly, host of the O'Reilly Factor TV program on Fox News: "The government now is way ahead of the journalists. They are much more powerful. . . . I got to walk a wire, and that's how intense the game is. The Clinton people, the Bush people, whatever people are going to be in power next . . . they have people in The New Yorker magazine, in Talk magazine, in the Times, in the Post, in the L.A. Times. They got people that can pick up the phone and say, 'You know you ought to get this guy . . .' And they'll get him. . . . [Y]ou've got a lot to lose. You've got your career to lose. You've got your reputation to lose. . . ."
-- From the AIM Report, November-B 1999, page 2. Accuracy In Media, Incorporated, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 202-364-4401. Fax: 202-364-4098. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 1-17-00.


"[DDT] saved more lives and prevented more illnesses than any single chemical in history." So said professor of biophysics Dr. Thomas H. Jukes. "He infuriated the Audubon Society by using [Audubon] statistics to show that birds counted per observer increased after the introduction of DDT." [Comment: That those in power would choose to ban DDT tends to illustrate to me that the safety and health of the people is not their highest priority.]
-- From the AIM Report, November-B 1999, page 2. Accuracy In Media, Incorporated, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 202-364-4401. Fax: 202-364-4098. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 1-17-00.


"Clinton could not get a security clearance if one were required for the presidency."
-- According to Dana Allen, chairman of NewsMax.com, as reported in the AIM Report, December A & B 1999, page 6. Accuracy In Media, Incorporated, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 202-364-4401. Fax: 202-364-4098. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 1-17-00.


"Surveys of the partisan political affiliations of professors at major universities show that Democrats outnumber Republicans by margins as high as 31 to 1."
-- According to Dan Flynn, executive director of Accuracy in Academia, as reported in the AIM Report, December A & B 1999, page 6. Accuracy In Media, Incorporated, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 202-364-4401. Fax: 202-364-4098. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 1-17-00.


"[T]he FBI is keeping a database on religious and pro-life activists."
-- According to Larry Klayman, chairman and general counsel of Judicial Watch, as reported in the AIM Report, December A & B 1999, page 8. Accuracy In Media, Incorporated, 4455 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 330, Washington, DC 20008. Phone: 202-364-4401. Fax: 202-364-4098. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 1-17-00.


Four German air force pilots parachuted to the ground after their jets collided near Carlsbad, New Mexico. What? Are German military men practicing war maneuvers on American soil? Oh, didn't you know? They have a training center with about 580 military personnel, located at Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo. U.S. military leaders apparently don't mind German Tornado fighter planes with iron cross insignia and F-4 Phantoms flying our friendly skies. What's wrong with this picture?
-- From "Our Life & Times," Media Bypass, December 1999, page 44. Alternative Media, Incorporated, 4900 Tippecanoe Drive, Evansville, Indiana 47715-3234. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 1-17-00.


"Florida's Lieutenant Governor Frank Brogan has testified that it takes six times as many people to administer a federal education dollar as a state dollar."
-- From the Wall Street Journal, as reported in The American Enterprise, January/February 2000, page 7. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 1-17-00.




"The big problem in the long process of dumbing down the schools is that you can reach a point of no return. How are parents who never received a decent education themselves to recognize that their children are not getting a decent education?"
-- From "Dumb and Dumber," by thomas Sowell, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, December 20-26, 1999, page 30. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 1-10-00.


"Survey finds 58 percent of Americans favor tax on Internet sales."
-- Title of an article by John Godfrey, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, December 20-26, 1999, page 20. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 1-10-00.


"In May 1997, despite opposition from pro-life activists, [George W.] Bush signed a law that named a stretch of Texas highway after abortionish John Coleman, a well-known successful local businessman."
--From "The Right Ear," Human Events, December 24, 1999, page 24. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Posted here 1-10-00.


"A group of scientists [has discovered] that yes, people's noses really do grow when they lie. . . [N]asal tissues become engorged with blood, causing them to swell -- provoking the liar to touch his itching nose. The researchers point out that during his 'misleading' grand jury testimony, the President repeatedly touched his nose -- especially when he was asked about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. . . ."
From "News Digest," The Limbaugh Letter, July 1999, page 4. Address: 2 Penn Plaza, 17th Floor, New York, New York 10121. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-563-9166. E-mail. Posted here 1-10-00.





"Two separate organizations have tabulated a database of more than 20,000 website locations which either promote, encourage, exhibit, or defend sexual contact between adults and children."
--From "Groups Count Over 20,000 Pedophilia Internet Websites," American Family Association Journal, January 2000, page 9. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Posted here 1-3-00.


"When are you going to stop believing that crap your parents teach you?" So said high school teacher Stan Roth, a 40-year teaching veteran in Lawrence, Kansas, to sophomore Anna Harvey who had asked about creationism. "Grow up and learn the truth," Roth said to Harvey (a straight-A student until Roth gave her a C), whom he later called a "snot-nosed twit."
--From "Teacher Removed after Insulting Christian Faith," American Family Association Journal, January 2000, page 6. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Posted here 1-3-00.




"[A]ccording to Doug Bandow of the Cato Institute, the Army has deployed overseas '29 times during the past decade compared with just 10 times during the previous 40 years.'"
-- From "The Right Answers," The New American, December 20, 1999, page 40. Published by American Opinion Publishing Incorporated, 770 Westhill Boulevard, Appleton, Wisconsin 54914. Phone: 920-749-3784. Fax: 920-749-3785. E-mail. Website. Posted here 1-3-00.


You may think your income taxes are too high, but what about "hidden" taxes? For example, beer: 43%; cigarettes: 75%; gasoline: 54%; guns: 46%; hotel stays: 43%; liquor: 44%; phone calls: 50%!
-- From The American Sentinel, December 1999, page 11. Address: 10660 South Tryon Street, Suite 16, Charoltte, North Carolina 28273. Phone: 704-504-1899. Fax: 704-365-1845. E-mail. Posted here: 1-3-00.


"Two in ten Americans told a recent Newsweek poll that they expect the world to end in their lifetimes, destroyed by a dramatic clash portrayed in the book of Revelation. . . . In the same poll, 6 percent of Americans -- or about 15 million people -- expect to see this apocalypse around 2000. . . ."
-- From "'End of Days' May Be a Schwarzenegger Movie -- And That's All," by Larry Witham, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, December 13-19, 1999, page 14. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 1-3-00.


"A respected team of epidemiologists . . . [has] concluded that sunbathing is healthy. . . The British Medical Journal . . . [says] that health fanatics who run around warning people to stay out of the sun to prevent skin cancer . . . are really preventing a simple human pleasure that boosts happiness, increases levels of Vitamin D, and may even reduce heart disease. They add that lack of sun has even been linked with depression. . . ."
--From "News Digest," The Limbaugh Letter, August 1999, page 5. Address: 2 Penn Plaza, 17th Floor, New York, New York 10121. Show phone: 800-282-2882. Fax: 212-563-9166. E-mail. Posted here 1-3-00.


"In Vermont, the supreme court . . . ruled that the state constitution requires the state government to grant homosexuals domestic partnership rights equal to those of married couples . . . ."
--From "Capital Briefs," Human Events, December 31, 1999, page 2. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Posted here 1-3-00.


"American Airlines, discarding previous promises to pro-family organizations, has cemented its place as the nation's homosexual airline with its sponsorship of Gay.com, the largest and leading homosexual website portal."
--From "American Airlines 'Gay' Sponsorship Grows," American Family Association Journal, January 2000, page 9. Address: PO Drawer 2440, Tupelo, Mississippi 38803. Phone: 662-844-5036. Posted here 1-3-00.


"In late 1997, a single-issue CNN poll showed that just 24 percent of Americans were concerned about global warming, down from 35 percent in 1989."
-- "Do People Really Care About Global Warming?," by Dr. Fred Singer, The DeWeese report, November 1999, page 8, published by the American Policy Center, 13873 Park Center Road, #316, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Phone: 703-925-0881. Fax: 703-925-0991. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 1-3-00.


"[W]hile [Janet] Reno's troops bring down massive firepower on the Branch Davidians . . . the open violence of environmental terrorists has been ignored. In fact, the FBI's files on such groups are virtually empty. Reno has specifically ordered the FBI to stay away from such investigations. Meanwhile avowed green terrorist groups like Earth First and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) openly call for death of American citizens and the destruction of private property. . . ."
-- "Is American Law Enforcement Out-of-Control?," by Tom DeWeese, The DeWeese report, November 1999, page 10, published by the American Policy Center, 13873 Park Center Road, #316, Herndon, Virginia 20171. Phone: 703-925-0881. Fax: 703-925-0991. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 1-3-00.






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