QandO

March 23, 2004

Quick Hits
Posted by Jon Henke

Pith from the blogosphere....

* Judicious Asininity....

No war for oil:
France: $100billion in oil contracts
US: zip
People of Iraq: zip

War for oil:
France: zip
US: -$87billion to rebuild Iraq (not counting the cost of the war)
People of Iraq: Freedom (priceless)

The 500 biggest companies in America "bounced back" to a 5.9% profit margin for the year. Along the way to earning that mere 5.9% they provided us with the highest standard of living in history. Seems like they earned their 6% if you ask me.

We've noticed that the sales of Depends have skyrocketed since Dick Clarke "came out" today...

I've just learned that TNT Network will be airing Swordfish on three consecutive nights in early April. Problem is, because TNT is a basic cable station, they'll be editing out all the shots of Halle Berry's unabashedly naked breasts.

Which, as those who've seen Swordfish can readily attest, is a lot like showing Schindler's List without the Jews.

Many on the Left are seeing Clarke's comments as "devastating". The problem is that in the final analysis the Bush Administration did what Clarke felt it should do, attack Afghanistan, hit the Taliban and go after Al Qa'ida. I'm not sure what Clarke's beef is, but I'm not sure his complaints are as devastating as many seem to think.

When they say spiritual leader, they mean it in the same sense that Osama bin Laden is the spiritual leader of Al Qaeda, and that Tony Soprano is the spiritual leader of the Sopranos. Translation- these are the thugs behind all the violence.

...what's changed? The Palestinians have been trying their hardest to kill Jews already, that they can't really up the ante. I mean, the Israelis could kidnap Arafat, take him to the beach, and push him into the sea, and all the Palestinians could do is shake their fists in impotent rage while shouting, "Kill joooos!"

The only one who can realistically threaten more violence is Israel, and, if that happens, there is going to be a major virgin shortage in paradise.

For Sale: One used wheelchair, slightly singed.

Is Kerry so disconnected from what average people think that he's just tone deaf to this stuff? I mean, you'd think a Yale man from an upper crust family, and who's on his second society marriage to the foreign-born multi-millionaire heiress to an old-line manufacturing fortune would be more attuned to the attitudes of the common man, wouldn't you?

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