27 October 2004 Federalist Patriot No. 04-43 Wednesday Chronicle Restore our founding virtues! Support The Federalist -- http://FederalistPatriot.US/support.asp
*Manage Subscription: To change your e-mail address, select editions and formats, view recent archives, send comments or to unsubscribe, Link to -- http://FederalistPatriot.US/services.asp Kerry and Edwards are double trouble! To find out why, Link to -- http://Kerry-04.org/ Visit the Patriot Shop: Link to -- http://PatriotShop.us/ CONTENTS: THE FOUNDATION INSIGHT UPRIGHT EDITORIAL EXEGESIS DEZINFORMATSIA THE DEMO-GOGUES VILLAGE IDIOTS SHORT CUTS NIGHTLINES ______----********O********----______ THE FOUNDATION "Society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases." --John Adams ______----********O********----______ INSIGHT "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid." --President Dwight Eisenhower "[S]o long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men." --Voltaire "Political language...is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." --George Orwell "I wouldn't call it fascism exactly, but a political system nominally controlled by an irresponsible, dumbed down electorate who are manipulated by dishonest, cynical, controlled mass media that dispense the propaganda of a corrupt political establishment can hardly be described as democracy either." --Edward Zehr "I am concerned for the security of our great nation, not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." --General Douglas MacArthur "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." --Sir Winston Churchill ______----********O********----______ UPRIGHT "Politicians have a field day misleading Americans who, as a result of having been dumbed down by our education system, can't think, reason or analyze." --Walter Williams "Tyranny seldom announces itself. ... In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical." --Joseph Sobran "Our freedom is not being destroyed by terrorists, but by ignorance, apathy and complacency. Our government schools are to blame. ... Our dumbing down is not accidental but a very well organized plan." --Kelly McGinley "You want to appease the 'international community'? Sacrifice Israel. Gradually, of course, and always under the guise of 'peace.' Apply relentless pressure on Israel to make concessions to a Palestinian leadership that has proved (at Camp David 2000) it will never make peace." --Charles Krauthammer "Though neither Kerry nor his campaign 'scare-mail' acknowledge it, no president can require compulsory military service. Our Constitution charges Congress with the responsibility to 'raise and support armies.' Short of a cataclysmic attack on the United States, no Congress is going to vote for conscription -- particularly since it would inevitably force our daughters to fight." --Oliver North "While many people are urging us to vote -- regardless of for whom, for what, or for what reason -- there are very few urging us to do what is far more important: Stop and think! Voting is not a matter of personal expression but a serious responsibility for choosing what course this country will take in the years -- and decades -- ahead." --Thomas Sowell ++ "If a person is utterly ignorant about matters of public policy, then he or she has a solemn obligation to refrain from voting. The percentage of people who fall into the utterly ignorant category is estimated to be about 25 percent of eligible voters." --Mona Charen ______----********O********----______ EDITORIAL EXEGESIS "UN ambassadors from several nations are disputing assertions by...John Kerry that he met for hours with all members of the UN Security Council just a week before voting in October 2002 to authorize the use of force in Iraq. An investigation by The Washington Times reveals that while the candidate did talk for an unspecified period to at least a few members of the panel, no such meeting, as described by Mr. Kerry on a number of occasions over the past year, ever occurred. At the second presidential debate...Mr. Kerry said he was more attuned to international concerns on Iraq than President Bush, citing his meeting with the entire Security Council. 'This president hasn't listened. I went to meet with the members of the Security Council in the week before we voted. I went to New York. I talked to all of them, to find out how serious they were about really holding Saddam Hussein accountable.' ... But of the five ambassadors on the Security Council in 2002 who were reached directly for comment, four said they had never met Mr. Kerry. The four also said that no one who worked for their countries' UN missions had met with Mr. Kerry either. ... When reached for comment last week, an official with the Kerry campaign stood by the candidate's previous claims that he had met with the entire Security Council. ... Asked whether the international body had any records of Mr. Kerry sitting down with the whole council, a UN spokesman said that 'our office does not have any record of this meeting.' A U.S. official with intimate knowledge of the Security Council's actions in fall of 2002 said that he was not aware of any meeting Mr. Kerry had with members of the panel. An official at the U.S. mission to the United Nations remarked: 'We were as surprised as anyone when Kerry started talking about a meeting with the Security Council.' ... The revelation that Mr. Kerry never met with the entire UN Security Council could be problematic for the Massachusetts senator, as it clashes with one of his central foreign-policy campaign themes -- honesty." --The Washington Times _________________________________________________ Check out the new items at our Patriot Shop. Link to -- http://patriotshop.us/catalog/index.php _________________________________________________ ______----********O********----______ DEZINFORMATSIA This week's "Propagandum Magnum" Award: "Eight days to go til America elects a President, and disturbing news from Iraq is again dominating the campaign. The White House acknowledged today that a huge stockpile of ultra-high explosives is inexplicably missing from an Iraqi weapons site. Senator John Kerry called this a quote, 'great blunder' by President Bush and his administration." --Dan Rather-biased **Those explosives were missing in April 2003, before American troops even arrived. This week's "Sociocrat Sycophant" Award: "If the government has failed to deal with the flu vaccine shortage, how can American voters have faith in the nation's public-health system -- and its ability to deal with a bio-terror attack?" --Eleanor Clift **What Section of the Constitution deals with flu shots again? This week's "Blow Hard" Award: "To me the most interesting lie, John O'Neill, that I would submit to you that you should answer, is, you make a lying claim that John Kerry's antiwar activity prolonged the amount of time that prisoners of war were held in Vietnam. ... That's a lie, John O'Neill! ... Lies! ... That's a lie! It's another lie! That's a lie! Absolute lie! You lie in that book endlessly! ... Disgusting, lying book! ... It's a pack of lies! You are unfit to publish! ... He just lied to you! He spews out this filth! Point to his name on the report, you liar! ... You just spew lies! ... I just hate the lies of John O'Neill. I hate lies. It's not an argument; they're proven lies. ... O'Neill's a liar, he's been a liar for 35 years about this, and he's found other liars ... They lied! ... They're lying somewhere! ... Lies! Just tell me the initials, you liar! Creepy liar! ... You are a liar who makes things up! ... You want the lies! That's how you make your living, on lies!" --MSNBC Political Analyst Lawrence O'Donnell, with a few professional journalistic observations on the Swift Boat Vets' book >From the European Psychosis Files: "The world will endure four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed, with no benevolent deity to watch over and save us. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr. -- where are you now that we need you?" --Charlie Booker, The Guardian ______----********O********----______ THE DEMO-GOGUES >From the Eco-theology Files: "Honor the solitude and beauty of wilderness areas and our National Parks by keeping snowmobiles and jet skis out of Yellowstone.... John Kerry will reinstate the Clinton Administration's phase-out of noisy and direct snowmobiles that have been overrunning some of our most precious lands, including Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton National Park." --John Kerry for President website ++ This week's "Limited Candle Power" Award: "It is so important that we preserve our rural way of life.... And that includes, making sure...that your right, your ability to hunt and fish is protected; making sure that you can go in the national parks and national forests and ride on a snowmobile." --John Edwards **Memo to the No. 2 John: Visit JohnKerry.com for your position on this issue. This week's "Periplaneta Americana" Award: "[American media organizations] have been cowed, because they didn't want to be unpatriotic. There has been a lack of inquisitive journalism. In fact, it's hard to think of a major medium in the United States that has been objective and fair and balanced, and critical when criticism was deserved." --Jimmy Carter, who was awfully upset with the media for being critical of him during the Iran hostage affair This week's "Primo-Prevaricator" Award: "[Republicans] are trying to scare the undecided voters about Senator Kerry and they are trying to scare the decided voters away from the polls." --Bill Clinton, on the stump with John Kerry This week's VC Award: "With the same energy...I put into going after the Viet Cong and trying to win for our country, I pledge to you I will hunt down and capture or kill the terrorists before they harm us. And we will wage a war on terror that makes America proud and brings the world to our side." --John Kerry, promising to lose the war on terror >From the "Village Matriarch" Files: "If we were living in another country and we had the president of the country and his brother controlling one of the biggest provinces or states, we would...have some doubts about whether, given their track record, they really believe in democracy." --Hillary Clinton ______----********O********----______ VILLAGE IDIOTS This week's "Character-Deficit Disorder" Award: "Well, you know, I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good. But I don't know that she's ever had a real job -- I mean, since she's been grown up." --Maria Teresa Thiersten Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry ++ Then the apology: "I had forgotten that Mrs. Bush had worked as a school teacher and librarian, and there couldn't be a more important job than teaching our children. ...[I] am sincerely sorry I had not remembered her important work in the past." --Teresa Heinz Kerry This week's "Village Victimitis" Award: "Listen up. If [Bush] is re-elected, he will appoint a Clarence Thomas clone and reverse Roe versus Wade." --Actress, Christine Lahti This week's "Village Glitterati" Award: "[Y]ou know, the people, like, in the very right wing of this party, of these Republicans...the Jerry Falwell element, if they get any more power, you [gay] guys are going to be living in some state by yourselves. ... I think that as Bush will, if Bush gets elected, he will put in new Superior Court [sic] judges, and these guys are not going to want to see gay pride week." --Cher This week's "Village Ignorati" Award: "The best part to me in the entire debate was when John Kerry said we have to pass a global test before we enter into a war. And you see George Bush got all nervous because frankly the word 'test' terrifies him. He never passed one at Harvard or Yale, but whatever." --Rosie O'Donnell, who dropped out of Boston University after 1 year, on President Bush, who has an MBA from Harvard >From the "culture commissar" crowd: "Witches with pointy noses and things like that are not respective symbols of the Wiccan religion and so we want to be respectful of that." --Karen Hansen, spokesman for Washington State Puyallup school district on the decision to cancel Halloween celebrations in school **At least, we know "witch" religion these folks adhere to! ______----********O********----______ SHORT CUTS "No, it turns out Saddam Hussein didn't have weapons of mass destruction. And how crazy does that make Saddam? All he had to do was tell Hans Blix, 'Look anywhere you want. Look under the bed. Look beneath the couch. Look behind the toilet tank in the third presidential palace on the left, but keep your mitts off my copies of Maxim.' And Saddam could have gone on dictatoring away until Donald Rumsfeld gets elected head of the World Council of Churches. But no..." --P.J. O'Rourke "You get the sense that if George W. Bush said it was sunny, John Kerry would rise in indignation to speak about how a 10 percent possibility of light rain proves that George W. Bush has not been honest with the American people." --John Podhoretz "John Kerry's problem is that he can make a cigar store Indian look like he's overacting." --Argus Hamilton "While the people of Afghanistan are celebrating their first democratic election and the Iraqis are taking their first steps to democracy, the great thinkers in the Democrat Party are still polishing up their conspiracy theories about the war to liberate Iraq. There's no consensus position, but the Democrats are pretty sure the real reason we went to Iraq was one of the following: Bush family's connections to the Saudis; Halliburton; the Carlyle Group; something about the Texas Rangers needing more left-handed pitching; the neoconservatives; the Straussians; oil; the Jews; oily Jews." --Ann Coulter ______----********O********----______ NIGHTLINES David Letterman.... "Top Signs You've Purchased A Fake Flu Shot:" The doctor looks a lot like the guy who hooked up your illegal cable box; You see the nurse filling the syringe with Gatorade; Instead of FDA, the vaccine was approved by FTD; The "clinic" is in a booth at Red Lobster; It has a 100 percent guarantee from physician "Dr. Pepper"; This morning you had a fever of 183 degrees; Label lists the active ingredient as nougat; For another 39 cents, doctor offers to super-size it. Jay Leno.... In an interview in USA Today, Teresa Heinz Kerry said she didn't think Laura Bush, who was a public school librarian for nine years, had ever held a "real job." Let me tell you something -- if you're a librarian married to George W. Bush, there is no harder job on Earth. .... Both candidates are trying to scare voters for votes in the last weeks of the campaign. And they're doing a pretty good job. Voters are petrified that on November 2nd they're actually going to have to pick one of these guys. What's scarier than that? .... The town of Bloomfield, New Jersey, was holding a lottery to determine who would get a flu shot. It's terrible. And the winner doesn't even get the flu shot all at once. It's injected very slowly, once a year for 25 years. .... The Kerry campaign announced today they will have "10,000 lawyers at the polls in battle ground states." 10,000 lawyers. Well, let's hope you don't slip and fall on the sidewalk outside a polling place. 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