Panhandlia
24-07-2004, 20:40
I'm back, but not for long. Quick update: the long-awaited (by me) business deal I had been working on for a few months now, finally went through. Yay! What it means...it means I can be even more of a capitalist now, making oodles more money, and I can also dedicate more time to my PhD studies. It also means I have even less time for this forum...although it is pleasant to see that it now works a lot better than it used to.
Anyway, here are just 2 articles I found some time to go through this morning.
- Noemie Emery (http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/368rqgqt.asp), writes in the Weekly Standard about the main difference between John Kerry and (truly) the rest of us. It isn't so much that he has made his money the old-fashioned Liberal way (he married into it,) but how he sees the world from behind the tinted windows of his SUVs and from up in the sky as he flies in his private jet. Interesting read, especially since it also looks at how John Edwards, Dick Cheney and George W. Bush gathered their own personal fortunes, just to be fair.
- This editorial from the New York Post (http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/editorial/27834.htm) takes a few well-aimed shots at the credibility of the Left, regarding terrorism, 9/11, Iraq, etc. Even better, it does so using the very report from the 9/11 Commission (http://www.9-11commission.gov). A must-read for RedArrow (even though it doesn't have pictures.)
Also, to close out today, from Friday's edition of OpinionJournal.com's Best of the Web (http://www.opinionjournal.com/best), James Taranto offers a comical tidbit from BarnesAndNoble.com (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=z0s1EFpjxD&cds2Pid=946&pdf=y&ISBN=0393326713&linkid=313812), regarding the 9/11 Commission's final report.
"The 9/11 Commission Report" is available for $9 from Barnes & Noble's Web site, which informs us that "people who bought this book also bought" these titles:
* "Dude, Where's My Country?" by Michael Moore
* "Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush" by John Dean
* "Perfectly Legal: The Secret Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich--and Cheat Everybody Else" by David Cay Johnston
* "Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country and It's Time to Take It Back" by Jim Hightower
* "Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years" by Rich Lowry
As reader Mark Mogle notes: "All but one are left-wing propaganda books! So what does this mean? Most shoppers at B&N are liberals? Mostly liberals are reading the 9/11 report? Or liberals are dumb enough to purchase a book that you can download free!"
Reach your own conclusions...and have yourselves a blessed weekend.
Anyway, here are just 2 articles I found some time to go through this morning.
- Noemie Emery (http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/368rqgqt.asp), writes in the Weekly Standard about the main difference between John Kerry and (truly) the rest of us. It isn't so much that he has made his money the old-fashioned Liberal way (he married into it,) but how he sees the world from behind the tinted windows of his SUVs and from up in the sky as he flies in his private jet. Interesting read, especially since it also looks at how John Edwards, Dick Cheney and George W. Bush gathered their own personal fortunes, just to be fair.
- This editorial from the New York Post (http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/editorial/27834.htm) takes a few well-aimed shots at the credibility of the Left, regarding terrorism, 9/11, Iraq, etc. Even better, it does so using the very report from the 9/11 Commission (http://www.9-11commission.gov). A must-read for RedArrow (even though it doesn't have pictures.)
Also, to close out today, from Friday's edition of OpinionJournal.com's Best of the Web (http://www.opinionjournal.com/best), James Taranto offers a comical tidbit from BarnesAndNoble.com (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=z0s1EFpjxD&cds2Pid=946&pdf=y&ISBN=0393326713&linkid=313812), regarding the 9/11 Commission's final report.
"The 9/11 Commission Report" is available for $9 from Barnes & Noble's Web site, which informs us that "people who bought this book also bought" these titles:
* "Dude, Where's My Country?" by Michael Moore
* "Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush" by John Dean
* "Perfectly Legal: The Secret Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich--and Cheat Everybody Else" by David Cay Johnston
* "Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country and It's Time to Take It Back" by Jim Hightower
* "Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years" by Rich Lowry
As reader Mark Mogle notes: "All but one are left-wing propaganda books! So what does this mean? Most shoppers at B&N are liberals? Mostly liberals are reading the 9/11 report? Or liberals are dumb enough to purchase a book that you can download free!"
Reach your own conclusions...and have yourselves a blessed weekend.