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







"Since the establishment of the Federal Reserve in 1913, the dollar has lost 99 percent of its purchasing power. This is a truly extraordinary theft from the American people, for the government uses the bogus money first before it loses value in circulation to the pubic."
-- "The Ideal Money," by Jane H. Ingraham, The New American, February 28, 2000, page 28. 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 2-28-00.


"Russia is building destroyers for Red China that are armed with supersonic missiles against which U.S. warships have no defense."
-- The New American, February 28, 2000, page 43. 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 2-28-00.


"The same Chinese company that recently took operational control of the Panama Canal is currently completing construction here [Freeport, Bahamas] of the largest container port in the world, just 60 miles from Florida."
-- "China's New Base in Bahamas," by Christopher Ruddy and Stephan Archer, Internet Vortex, February 2000, page 1. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website. Posted here 2-28-00.


"A Mexican drug cartel has offered to pay $200,000 to anyone who kills a United States Border Patrol agent, according to an internal memorandum of the border agency."
-- From the New York Times International, 2-14-00, as reprinted in 9*1*1, February 2000. Address: California Coalition for Immigration Reform, 5942 Edinger, Suite 113-117, PO Box 2744-117, Huntington Beach, California 92649. Phone: 714-665-2500. Fax: 714-846-9682. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 2-28-00.


"California is going to be a Hispanic state. 'Anyone who doesn't like it should leave.'"
-- Quoting Mario Obledo, California Coalition of Hispanic Organizations, on the Tom Leykis Show, June 16, 1998, as reported in 9*1*1, February 2000, page 1. Address: California Coalition for Immigration Reform, 5942 Edinger, Suite 113-117, PO Box 2744-117, Huntington Beach, California 92649. Phone: 714-665-2500. Fax: 714-846-9682. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 2-28-00.


"[L]egitimate mental health institutions . . . are attempting to blow the whistle on the nearly, if not precisely, 100% connection between school (and other mass) shootings, and the ritalin/prozac group of prescription psychotropic drugs used by the shooters. . . . Those drugs have been shown to produce adverse reactions in 5% of the victims using them, including the increasingly prevalent and documented reaction of homicidal/suicidal tendencies. . . ."
-- From Free American Newsmagazine, February 2000, page 37. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 2-28-00.


Recently, Bill Clinton's spokesman, Joe Lockhart said Southern Baptists "perpetuate ancient religious hatred." [Have you seen any cries of outrage in the press about this? Imagine the uproar if the spokesman of a Republican president ever made such a statement.]
-- "Clinton in Hot Water with Southern Baptists," Internet Vortex, February 2000, page 10. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website. Posted here 2-28-00.


"[I]n a Roper poll . . . solid majorities of mothers who either had no outside job or worked at one only part-time said they were very satisfied with their lives, whereas three out of five mothers working full-time outside the home said they were not."
-- From "Scan," The American Enterprise, March 2000, page 11. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 2-28-00.


"In Honduras, Ana Urbina, a 20-year-old mother of two, landed a job sewing underwear. In Louisiana, Ledet, a single parent of a daughter who did the same work, lost hers. At her peak, Ledet made $12 an hour. Urbina is paid 60 cents an hour."
-- From "The Great Looting by Robber Trade: the Ruin of 'Fruit of the Loom.'" by Stephen Franklin, Free American Newsmagazine, February 2000, page 44. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 2-28-00.


"Stanford's department of history has 22 Democrats but just two Republicans. Dartmouth's has 10 Democrats and zero Republicans. Cornell's has 29 Democrats and not a single Republican. . . [T]he University of Colorado, Boulder registers stupefying single-party numbers: in the departments of history, English, and philosophy, there are 68 Democrats but no Republicans. . . A nationwide poll from the early 1990s found 88 percent of 'public affairs' faculty identifying themselves a liberal, with 12 percent claiming to be 'middle of the road' and, remarkably, 0 percent opting for the conservative label."
-- From an article by Professor Paul Kengor, Policy Review, December 1999, as excerpted in The American Enterprise, March 2000, page 11. Address: 1150 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 202-862-5886. Fax: 202-862-5867. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 2-28-00.




A Washington Post story (1-14-00) confirms that the White House made a secret deal with major networks to review/edit programming content to be broadcast. In payment, government penalties with regard to drug advertising were waived. Evidence has been uncovered indicating the White House conspired with networks to assure that conservatives and other 'enemies of the President' were kept off the air.
-- "Judicial Watch News Briefs," Judicial Watch, January 2000, page 7. Published by Judicial Watch, 501 School Street, SW, Suite 725, Washington, DC 20024. Phone: 202-646-5172. Fax: 202-646-5199. E-mail. Website. Posted here 2-21-00.


"Much more [in the way or Y2K mishaps] did occur than was reported in the news . . . like the Pentagon admission about our surveillance satellites. Y2K continues to unfold: Pennzoil closed one refinery; Iraq lost 75 percent of its oil production; a Y2K power outage in the Middle East is affecting oil production. . . ."
-- "Letter to the Editor," by Scott Maley, The New American, February 14, 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 2-21-00.


"War between Communist China and the United States is 'inevitable,' according to General Chi Haotian, Defense Minister of the People's Republic of China."
-- "Red China: War with U.S. 'Inevitable'," The New American, February 14, 2000, page 7. 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 2-21-00.


"Mr. Gore . . . doesn't feel obliged to explain why he changed his mind on abortion, because he didn't change his mind -- just his position."
-- From "Ambition of a King, Soul of a Sycophant," by Joseph Sobran, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, February 7-13, 2000, page 30. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 2-21-00.


"In Israel . . . a bill . . . proposed by Rabbi Porush of the national Religious Party . . . calls for a five-year sentence for those convicted of trying to persuade an Isr4aeli citizen to change faiths, ten years for trying to convert a minor or 'needy' person, three years for using advertising to encourage people to change faiths, and one year for bringing a minor or 'needy' person to an event sponsored by a religious group other than their own."
-- From "From Far and Wide," Midnight Messenger, January-February 2000, page 2. Address: 9205 SE Clackamas Road, #1776, Clackamas, Oregon 97015. Phone/fax: 503-824-2050. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 2-21-00.


"At no time in the history of the world have more Christians been subjected to persecution and murder than at the present time. According to the International Bulletin of Missionary Research, 605 million Christians live 'under political restrictions on religious liberty' and 225 million endure 'severe state interference in religion, obstruction, or harassment' -- in other words, outright persecution. . . Every day Christians are beaten, tortured, maimed, raped, sold into slavery or executed. . . ."
-- "The Lions Are Back," by Greg Nyquist, WorldNet, February 2000, page 4. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website. Posted here: 2-21-00.


"On Sept. 26, 1997, President Yeltsin signed a new anti-religious law which, in effect, outlaws every religious organization that has appeared in Russia during the last 15 years. . . ."
-- "The Lions Are Back," by Greg Nyquist, WorldNet, February 2000, page 7. Address: PO Box 2450, Fair Oaks, California 95628. Phone: 916-852-6300. Fax: 916-852-6302. Website. Posted here: 2-21-00.


"Thanks to the ACLU and immigration-driven multiculturalism, Christian students can't pray in America's public schools, but Muslims can. That's the latest lesson in the real meaning of diversity from Ann Arbor, Michigan, where an American English teacher is accused of bigotry for telling an Islamic immigrant student that her [the student's] vocal classroom prayers violate the Supreme Court's decision to separate church and state."
-- From "Newsbriefs," Middle America News, February 2000, page 3. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 2-21-00.


"[B]etween 25 and 75 lives are saved by a gun for every life lost to a gun. Medical costs saved by guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens are fifteen times greater than costs incurred by criminal uses of firearms. . . ."
-- From "From Far and Wide," Midnight Messenger, January-February 2000, page 2. Address: 9205 SE Clackamas Road, #1776, Clackamas, Oregon 97015. Phone/fax: 503-824-2050. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 2-21-00.


"A Grade 5 [math] worksheet asks students to fill in the blanks on the questions below: '(A) If math were a color, it would be _____, because _____. (B) If it were a food, it would be _____, because _____. (C) If it were weather, it would be _____, because _____.' We'll allow a pause here for primal screams.""
-- From "From Far and Wide," Midnight Messenger, January-February 2000, page 2. Address: 9205 SE Clackamas Road, #1776, Clackamas, Oregon 97015. Phone/fax: 503-824-2050. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 2-21-00.


"[T]he Hippocratic Oath originally stated: 'I will neither give a deadly drug to anyone if asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect. Similarly, I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy.'. . . . At the dawning of the new millennium . . . 97 countries . . . still dare to stand up and say that abortion is wrong."
-- From "The Abomination of Abortion," Discerning the Times, January 2000, page 3. Address: EPI Environmental Perspectives, Incorporated 1229 Broadway, Suite 313, Bangor, Maine 04401. Phone: 207-945-9878. Posted here 2-21-00. See also: reference 1, reference 2.


"[U.S.] Department of State Publication 7277 [is titled] Freedom From War: The United States Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World. . . . To implement the plan, President Kennedy signed Public Law 87-297, creating the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. . . . [T]he principles of Freedom From War have remained the official policy of the United States since 1961."
-- From "Global Gun Control -- Establishing a Global Police Force," Discerning the Times, January 2000, page 3. Address: EPI Environmental Perspectives, Incorporated 1229 Broadway, Suite 313, Bangor, Maine 04401. Phone: 207-945-9878. Posted here 2-21-00.


"If you have a dog that likes to roam, you can take Fido down to your local veterinarian who will provide a syringe gun implantable bio-chip that will be injected under the skin of your pet. This system boasts that it can track over 1 billion pets by GPS satellites and cellular towers." [Are we next?]
-- From "Global Control of All Buying and Selling Now Possible," Discerning the Times, January 2000, page 3. Address: EPI Environmental Perspectives, Incorporated 1229 Broadway, Suite 313, Bangor, Maine 04401. Phone: 207-945-9878. Posted here 2-21-00. See also: reference 1, reference 2, reference 3.


"Oral sex has just gotten too boring out here."
-- "Darcy," age 13, from Los Angeles, as quoted in "The Sex Lives of Your Children," by Lucinda Franks, Talk Magazine, February 2000. Address: not known. Posted here 2-21-00.




"[T]he Starbucks massacre [of former Clinton intern Mary Caity Mahoney] came just three days after Monica told Clinton she was going to tell her parents about their relationship. According to Monica, Clinton reacted angrily, telling her, 'It's a crime to threaten the President.' 'I don't want to wind up like Caity Mahoney,' Monica is rumored to have told friends."
-- From "Starbucks 'Killer' Recants, New Questions Emerge in Intern's Death" as posted on NewsMax.com. Posted here 2-14-00.


"Under proposed legislation the U.S. Postal Service will be attempting to bill email users out of 'alternate postage fees'. Bill 602P will permit the Federal Government to charge a 5 cent surcharge on every email delivered, by billing Internet Service Providers at source. The consumer would then be billed in turn by the ISP."
-- From an e-mail I received. Thanks, Fritz. Posted here 2-14-00.


"The equivalent [to the Elian Gonzalez case] would be, during the Cold War a mother with a child in her arms races to the Berlin Wall, shots are fired, and she tosses her child over the Berlin Wall to freedom. Would we send him back? Apparently so, under this administration."
-- Quoting Senator Bob Smith (R.-N.H.), "Capital Briefs," Human Events, February 11, 2000, page 2. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Posted here 2-14-00.


"[I]n New Hampshire outside a Gore town meeting . . . Gore supporters threw snow and mud at [Senator Bob Kerry (D.-Neb.)]. One heckler repeatedly screamed 'cripple' at Kerry, a Navy Seal Medal of Honor winner who lost a leg in Vietnam. . . 'It's the first honest thing they've said in ten days,' [Kerry] said of the Gore campaign."
-- From "Capital Briefs," Human Events, February 11, 2000, page 2. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Posted here 2-14-00.


"I wrote in this book Earth in the Balance that we should set as a strategic goal the phasing out of the internal combustion engine over a 25-year period. I accept now that was a mistake. Twenty-five years is far too long for a goal like that."
-- Vice President Al Gore at a January 29th town meeting in Lebanon, New Hampshire, as quoted in "The Right Ear," Human Events, February 11, 2000, page 28. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Posted here 2-14-00.


"If the anthrax vaccine being mandated by the defense department is safe and effective, it is clearly in the nation's security interests for all national leaders to receive these inoculations. Further, your stepping forward to voluntarily subscribe to this medical regimen would demonstrate that our government is not subjecting our servicemen and women to unnecessary, non-battlefield risks that they themselves would not be willing to take. . ."
-- From "US Leadership MUST be Protected by Vaccines," by James D. Staton, Free American Newsmagazine, February 2000, page 23. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 2-14-00.


"[W]hen Time magazine went to examine a typical, suburban public high school for a cover story last fall, they found 20 percent of the children dosed up on officially prescribed psychoactive drugs -- the very kind which had been in use by Oregon school shooter Kip Kinkel and by one of the two lads who shot up Columbine High School in Colorado last year. . ."
-- From "Is John Rocker Off His?," by Vin Suprynowicz, The Libertarian, as reported in Free American Newsmagazine, February 2000, page 36. Address: US Highway 380, Box 2943, Bingham, New Mexico 87832. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 2-14-00.


"Ford Motor Company, like many other big corporations, has adopted anti-white bias as official company policy, tying salaries, promotions, and bonuses to how efficiently its executives wipe out white influence in the company. . ."
-- From "Newsbriefs," Middle America News, February 2000, page 3. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 2-14-00.


"NBC and ABC separately agreed to deals with the NAACP to enforce anti-white bias in hiring and promotions at the networks. News reports say ABC agreed to link pay bonuses for executives to their willingness to hire non-whites. . ."
-- From "Newsbriefs," Middle America News, February 2000, page 5. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 2-14-00.


"NBC agreed to join forces with the NAACP, and will require political re-education classes in 'diversity' for all of the network's 5,000 employees . . . [A]ccording to columnist John Leo, 'Every NBC show that survives its first season will have to add one additional diversity writer to its team, whether needed or not.'"
-- From "Newsbriefs," Middle America News, February 2000, page 7. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 2-14-00.


"One of the Puerto Rican terrorists freed last fall by Bill Clinton conspired with Castro's Cuba to stage the biggest armed robbery in American history in 1983 -- so Jorge Masetti, a Cuban defector, told a House committee in January. Some $4 million of the 7.2 million haul went directly to Havana, according to Masetti."
-- From "White House Whispers," Middle America News, February 2000, page 18. Address: We the People Institute, Incorporated, PO Box 17088, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619. Phone: 919-839-1001. Fax: 919-839-2181. E-mail. Website. Posted here: 2-14-00.




"The George Washington Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana, was recently forced to change its name. Why? Because liberal lawmakers in New Orleans thing that George Washington and other 'former slave owners' are a disgrace to our nation. Now George Washington's name has been erased from one school. And 22 other schools with names honoring governors and Confederate icons like Robert E. Lee have been forced to change as well. . . [M]embers of Congress are also trying to strip his likeness off the dollar bill and the U.S. quarter!"
-- From a letter, dated 1-26-00, from Ron Robinson, president, the Young America's Foundation. Posted here 2-7-00.


"They get detention for passing love notes in class, holding hands, kissing, giving foot massages, smiling suggestively and uttering sexually tinged language. An American high school? No. It's basic training in the new U.S. military."
-- From "Policing of Sexes Seen taking Instructors' Focus Off Training," by Rowan Scarborough, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, January 24-30, 2000, page 18. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 2-7-00.


"Our middle son, David, 6, now believes, along with countless millions of other American schoolchildren, that humans are despoiling the planet, that every tree felled is a tragedy, and that white Europeans brought envy, greed and rapacity to a continent that until then had been living in idyllic harmony with nature."
-- From "PC Programming of Kids Starts at a Young Age," by Mona Charen, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, January 24-30, 2000, page 34. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 2-7-00.


"Of course, if Janet Reno doesn't like the federal judge's decision on the fate of Elian Gonzalez, she can always send in the FBI and the BATF and blow the kid away."
-- From a "Letter to the Editor," by Vinton M. Lampton, The Washington Times National Weekly Edition, January 24-30, 2000, page 39. Address: 3600 New York Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20002. E-mail. Website. Posted here 2-7-00.


"California murderer William Bonin received $75,000 in tax-paid disability benefits for his claim to be mentally ill while he sat on death row for 14 years. the law bars felons from receiving such monies, but the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program paid Bonin for years by mistake." [Why should the SSI folks worry. It's not their money.]
-- From "The Right Ear," Human Events, January 28, 2000, page 28. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Posted here 2-7-00.


"The Clinton Administration, driven in part by Hillary's Interagency Council on Women, wants to legalize sex-trafficking if women consent to be exported to foreign countries for use as prostitutes. [Says William Bennett and Chuck Colson:] 'Even if it were practical to distinguish between consent and force in such cases, the administrations' position would still contradict common sense and decency.'"
-- From "The Right Ear," Human Events, January 28, 2000, page 28. Address: 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: 202-216-0600. Posted here 2-7-00.


"The Head Start program in Tulsa, Oklahoma [government funded] that educated economically disadvantaged children, authorized nurses to perform invasive physical examinations on 3, 4, and 5-year-old children. These exams included the drawing of blood and genital examinations. None of the children's parents were informed or given an opportunity to object to these examinations. Many of the children voiced their distress and objected to the examinations while they were taking place."
-- From "Head Start Forces Pre-School Children to Undergo Physical and Genital Exams," Action, Winter 1999, page 9. Address: The Rutherford Institute, PO Box 7482, Charlottesville, Virginia 22906-7482. Phone: 804-978-3888. Fax: 804-978-1789. Website. Posted here: 2-7-00.


"New York City is becoming a Spanish-speaking city. At 2.2 million, Hispanics are the largest minority, and one in five New Yorkers speaks Spanish at home. Half the residents of the Bronx are Hispanic."
-- From "O Tempora, O Mores!," American Renaissance, December 1999, page 11. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website. Posted here 2-7-00.


"South Africa has what is probably the highest rape rate in the world. In 1998 there were 116 reported rapes per 100,000 people (and many unreported) compared with 34 rapes per 100,000 in the United States. . . . Since about 13 percent of South African adults are infected with AIDS, the attacks can be a death sentence. Some men rape women in the hope of spreading the disease, and others rape children in the belief that sex with a virgin cures it."
-- From "O Tempora, O Mores!," American Renaissance, December 1999, page 12. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website. Posted here 2-7-00.


"Consider the album put out by 2 Live Crew titled, appropriately enough, 'As Nasty as They Wanna Be.' [T]his album contained 87 descriptions of oral sex, 117 explicit descriptions of male and female sex organs, 226 f-words, and 163 uses of the word 'bitch' in reference to women. . . ."
-- From "American Culture vs. Young people," by Greg Nyquist, Dispatches, December 1999, page 14. Address: PO Box 409, Cave Junction, Oregon 97523-0409. Phone: 541-597-1776. Fax: 541-597-1700. Website. Posted here: 2-7-00.


"Black members of Zimbabwe's parliament have called for therapeutic public beatings of whites as a cure for 'racism.'"
-- From "Beat Up Whites," American Renaissance, Januiary 2000, page 12. Address: PO Box 527, Oakton, Virginia 22124. E-mail. Website. Posted here 2-7-00.


"Boeing . . . insists, under oath in court, that an 'external source' must have downed TWA Flight 800 in July 1996." ["External source" as in "missile."]
-- From Internet Vortex, January 2000, page 32. Address: Sequoia Digital Corporation, 224 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, Florida 33401. Website. Posted here 2-7-00.






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