September 16, 2004

• Notes from the Garden Journal

  
  

   

  
  

  WHILE I WAS SLEEPING

  
  

   

  
  

  Blogbat will return in a couple of days once animal control comes by to pick up his pet flu bug, which he has been forced to feed and tend to since last Friday.

  
  

   

  
  

  So I’ll be back in a few—after this unparalleled news cycle dies down and all the good stuff has been chewed to death like hay in the mouth of a horse with a tooth infection, naturally.

  
  

   

  
  

  Of course, after I wrote those top two lines, I realized that I, lacking appropriate self-control much like any young foal, had to stick his head in and grab some of that hay for himself.

  
  

   

  
  

  So below is my summery of the UPPERS and the DOWNERS for the past week. UPPERS are last so that we end on a good note…

  
  

   

  
  

  Why can’t I resist all that good hay? Just think for example, the gigantic change in stock fortunes for the following list of mentions- it has been a banner week of historic proportions. And now you get Blogbat’s take on all of it.

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  DOWNERS

  
  

   

  
  

  Bill O’Reilly, Dan Rather, CBS News, John Kerry, DNC: And each hath resolvedly jumped in the quick sand to succor his ally and thence was sucked down too, a gift, some say, for the archeologists.

  
  

   

  
  

  Sunny ocean-side vacations with the tmiling toothless people of the Alabama coast:

  
  

  After seeing a hurricane get rammed straight up the ‘ol chute, even seasoned vacation planners won’t look the same way at the tired old confederation at the top of Mobile Bay.

  
  

   

  
  

  Fox News’ Shepard Smith/Jane Skinner duo: After it got real personal a few weeks ago, it hasn’t quite been the same since. The chemistry is dead, Shep killed it.

  
  

   

  
  

  Baseball: If it had been a fan who threw the chair at someone on the field, the police would have mass-tackled him and dismembered him on the spot. But many Americans are becoming sick of the prima donnas in “professional” baseball. If these poorly-underpaid players are that sensitive about their work, maybe they should find a job doing something more PRIVATE.

  
  

   

  
  

  Illegal immigration: Just when you wished it would all go away, Time Mag says at least 3 million illegal aliens (both Mexicans and non-Mexicans, such as Iranians, Chinese, Syrians and other friends of Jimmy Carter) are expected to cross this year alone. I say we send them all to Connecticut, New Hampshire and other places where the elite poo-poo the woes of the average citizen forced to navigate over-run hospitals, drained county budgets and rampant cases of TB and other “exotic” diseases while being forced to baby-sit people who mostly won’t so much as learn the language, pick up their own trash or obey the other laws of the land. But then why should the illegals- they never had to earn their citizenship, so they don’t care about civics. Likewise the Rockefeller Republicans won’t change until they are forced to feel our pain or we take from them the reins of power and put a responsible adult in charge.

  
  

   

  
  

  Alabama: Mobile mayor advised his residents to flee the oncoming maelstrom even if they have to sleep in their cars. Well, I’m sure the rest of us were shocked when he hinted they may not be doing just that when not fleeing a hurricane. Of course we knew some of them had houses. Assumed we most that the word “mobile home” was actually fashioned after the style of the average Mobile home?

  
  

   

  
  

  Russia: “Putin Padovis” (Putin, choke and die), was the cry of Russians two winters ago as they were left to starve and freeze to death because of his pittance pension-increase. So Putin doesn’t have exactly the best track record with the lives of his own people. And there certainly isn’t any love for the folks in Beslan, who are Muslim or deeply religious Christian, many of them, but not ethnically Russian. So after a non-Russian-on-non-Russian attack, Putin finds the convenient excuse to put on his favorite pair of pre-owned shoes- a gift to him from the late, but rarely early Nikita Khrushchev. The Russian press has already been taught to be afraid to comment on the King’s not-so-new clothes.   

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  UPPERS

  
  

   

  
  

  Brit Hume, Fox News Channel, Power Line blog, Instapundit blog, Little Green Footballs blog & the good names of dead servicemen: The truth is the truth, even if the elite media ignore it to press their own agenda. This time the truth had a voice.

  
  

   

  
  

  Drudge Report: Drudge’s site received a cameo in an upcoming movie about Loch Ness—

  
  

   

  
  

  Repair and cleanup contractors: Contracting to do repairs and clean-up.

  
  

   

  
  

  Bush: Attacked by Kerry through loyal attack dog, Dan Rather who desperately tried to find evidence to back up his leftist political opinions, Bush was vindicated not just with his commander’s assessment of him during his ANG days, but inoculated against any further acts of activist journalism by CBS or other broadcast media with regard to public perception.

  
  

   

  
  

  Woman acquitted after shooting man molesting her 3 year old daughter: Yes, justice still rules and she is right: get caught molesting a child and be prepared to die. It used to be the law of the land, because it is the law of nature and of common sense. The court had the insight to recognize this. They were also sufficiently luminary to see the acts of defensive passion a parent undertakes to protect their child from real threats are reasonable acts of instinct which override all other sensibilities among humans or other creatures and must be respected.

  
  

   

  
  

  Swift Boat Vets: The book is still number one on the NYT best seller list, the ads of course continue despite the DNC’s and elite media’s attempt to censor them and most people believe some or all of their story.

  
  

   

  
  

  Living inland.

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  

  
  

   

  
  

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