CAN AMERICA SURVIVE LIBERALISM?
Don't miss Ann Coulter's 09/24/03 must-read column (from anncoulter.com)... read the first 2 paragraphs and see if you can stop. (The article will be in the COLUMNS section of her site titled "It's The Winter Solstice, Charlie Brown!".

In New York City, the chancellor of the Department of Education prohibited the display of Nativity scenes in public schools, while expressly allowing the Jewish menorah and the Islamic star and crescent to be displayed. Some would say that was overkill inasmuch as New York City is already the home of the world's largest public display built in commemoration of Islam: Ground Zero.

Between issuing laws prohibiting discrimination against transgendered individuals and running up a $38 billion deficit, the California Legislature mandated a three-week immersion course in Islam for all seventh-graders. A "crash course" in Islam, you might call it, if that weren't so ironic. Students are required to adopt Muslim names, plan a trip to Mecca, play a jihad game, pray to "Allah, the Compassionate" and to chant "Praise to Allah! Lord of Creation!" They are encouraged to dress in Muslim garb. Students are discouraged, however, from stoning girls at the school dances, abusing their "Jew" math teachers or blowing up their classmates.
-From Ann Coulter's "It's The Winter Solstice, Charlie Brown!"

DEM CANDIDATE CLARK UNVEILS RELIGIOUS BELIEF: TIME TRAVEL
"I still believe in e=mc², but I can't believe that in all of human history, we'll never ever be able to go beyond the speed of light to reach where we want to go," said Clark. "I happen to believe that mankind can do it."

"I've argued with physicists about it, I've argued with best friends about it. I just have to believe it. It's my only faith-based initiative."

-General Wesley Clark, in New Hampshire yesterday. In time travel we trust.

Wired News: Clark Campaigns at Light Speed

WHO SAYS THE MEDIA DOESN'T LOVE A SCANDAL?
"Summoning all the restraint we could muster, the Grind will resist diving head-first today into the burgeoning White House scandal, which we're confident will be sufficiently scrutinized elsewhere today."

-From CNN.com's "The Morning Grind"

CNN.com - Inside Politics

HUH?
"I don't have any knowledge that Karl Rove himself was either the leaker or the authorizer of the leak... I have great confidence that, at a minimum, [Rove] condoned it and certainly did nothing to shut it down."

-Ambassador Joe Wilson



NewsMax.com: Inside Cover Story

PTD CALLS CALIFORNIA FOR ARNOLD
Polls Look Up

DICK-FISTED DONKEY SHOT
Dick and the Donkeys blasted Bush for his aircraft carrier landing photo-op,... On an entirely different note, DICK Gephardt poses in a well-placed, clench-fisted photogenic maneuver... no relation.

ONLY IN NEW YORK

A stock broker, on his way home from work in New York City, came to a dead halt
in traffic and thought to himself, "Wow, this seems worse than usual."

He noticed a police officer walking between the lines of stopped cars, so he
rolled down his window and asked,

"Officer, what's the hold up?"

The officer replies, "Hillary Clinton is depressed, so she stopped her
motorcade and is threatening to douse herself in gasoline and set herself on
fire.

She says her husband is running around on her more than ever and the Democrats
told her to forget about running for president in 2004. So we're taking up a
collection for her."

The stock broker asked, "How much have you got so far?"

The officer replied "About 4 1/2 gallons, but a lot of folks are still
siphoning."

UNKNOWN IS UNBELIEVABLY POPULAR
A recent USA TODAY/CNN/GALLUP poll has General Wesley Clark leading President Bush IN THE GENERAL ELECTION by 49% to 46%. That's quite interesting inasmuch as the American people, by and large, still are asking "General who?".

Donkey Candidates

GENERAL WESLEY CLARK IN DEBATE: "I'M PRO HEALTH"
Fellow Candidates Excited by "New Political Banner" except Dennis Kucinich, Smoker

DEAN, GEPHARDT TRADE BARBS IN DEBATE
Former Vermont Governor Calls Gephardt "Dick"

SHARPTON REVELATION IN DEBATE: TECHNOLOGY BOOM EXISTED DURING CLINTON YEARS
Fat Intern's Boyfriend in White House Apparently Not Sole Reason for Economic Happy Days

GENERAL WESLEY CLARK DELIVERS GENERALLY WEASELY "ANSWERS" IN DEBATE
Disappointed Supporters Begin Building draftgarycoleman.com Site

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE MAY BE IGNORANT ON WORLD LEADERS
Remember how George W. was relegated to "imbecile" when it was discovered by a reporter that he couldn't recall the name of Pakistan's president.

Oh, the mocking condescension that ensued... what an idiot this Bush is...

From Newsweek the other day, on media darling and Democratic presidential candidate, General Wesley Clark:

He even admitted that he wasn’t sure he’d know how to answer some of the questions that will be fired at him at his first debate Thursday night. “There are prime ministers I don’t know, and there are economic facts I don’t know, and I’ll get stuff wrong,” he told us. “Everybody does.”

CNN GIVES FRENCH ANTI-AMERICANISM A PLATFORM
Leave it up to CNN to advertise this for the French

Expect sales to skyrocket in Eurpopean "states" and here, among French-doting liberals...

GENERAL WEASLEY CLARK UNMASKED BY DRUDGE
The Abortion Party's frontrunning anti-Bush candidate, General Wesley Clark insisted he would have never signed on for the Iraq war a day after he said he "might have"... so we weren't particularly blown away when Matt Drudge uncovered some rather flattering remarks that Clark levied on those evil "Bushies".

Look at what Drudge dug up:

Quotes from Wesley "I Decided That I'm a Democrat, So Now I Hate Bush" Clark:

"And I'm very glad we've got the great team in office, men like Colin Powell, Don Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice... people I know very well - our president George W. Bush. We need them there."

"We were really helped when President Ronald Reagan came in. I remember non-commissioned officers who were going to retire and they re-enlisted because they believed in President Reagan."

Clark continued: "That's the kind of President Ronald Reagan was. He helped our country win the Cold War. He put it behind us in a way no one ever believed would be possible. He was truly a great American leader. And those of us in the Armed Forces loved him, respected him, and tremendously admired him for his great leadership."

Clark on President George Bush: "President George Bush had the courage and the vision... and we will always be grateful to President George Bush for that tremendous leadership and statesmanship."

If only a media entity other than the Sean Hannity Radio Program would demand an explanation...

DRUDGE REPORT 2003®

HOW MUCH DO THEY REALLY THINK A FREE AND STABLE IRAQ IS WORTH?
"For the liberals to be arguing over the $87 billion to secure Iraq is like two people arguing over how much to tip the waiters on the Titanic after it hit the iceberg."

- Hal Lindsey (WorldNetDaily: Are we at war or not?)

'Bush's Illegal War' Questionnaire

From boortz.com

Please answer as many of the following questions as you can, and as many with a straight face as possible. Please answer quickly as you already have all of the answers.


1. Since George W. Bush is evil, and thought by some to be far more dangerous than Saddam Hussein, could you please list the instances you are aware of where George W. Bush has ordered the murder, torture and rape of American citizens, like yourself, who oppose his presidency.



2. Could you list any sites of mass graves of American citizens ordered to be killed by the Bush administration?



3. Further, could you please list the instances you are aware of when George W. Bush has ordered the murder of members of his own family.



4. Do you feel that Saddam Hussein possessed no weapons he was specifically forbidden to have by the UN; for example, the Scud missiles he fired into Kuwait during the first two weeks of the war?



5. How do you think Saddam was able to fire weapons that he didn't have?



6. Are inspectors inspectors, or are inspectors detectives?



7. How many more months would you have given Saddam Hussein to comply with the 17 UN resolutions, passed over 12 years?



8. If you owned an apartment building, for how many months would you allow a tenant to defy you to kick him out for not paying the rent he owes?



9. If the UN, and the previous administration, were convinced Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, and used that as a basis for their actions against Iraq, how do those reasons evaporate when applied by the Bush administration?



10. If the Bush administration, led by the evil GWB, lied about weapons of mass destruction in order to go to war, why haven't we found any WMD secretly planted by the Bush administration?



11. If you feel it would be too difficult to plant WMD in Iraq, because there are too many people watching, such that no one can do anything sneaky in Iraq, then why can't we find Saddam?



12. Do you disagree with the statement..."The weapons of mass destruction used in the 9/11 attacks were box-cutters"?



13. Do you think finding an airplane fuselage in a terrorist training camp in northern Iraq means terrorists were practicing hijackings? If not, for what purpose do you think they were using the airplane?



14. Knowing what little you may know about spy satellites, what do you think Iraq was hiding using the tunnel-digging equipment they bought from the French some 5 years ago?



15. Why do you think Iraq had a 'Higher Committee for Monitoring the Inspection Teams' headed by Hussein's Vice-President, and son, Qusay?



16. The fact that Iraq trained experts to foil UN weapons inspectors is documented not just by U.S. intelligence organizations, but by those of many other countries. Why do you think Iraq needed to use these tactics, if George W. Bush is lying?



17. In 1995, Iraq admitted it had biological weapons. They declared they had, for example, 8500 liters of anthrax. Where did they all go? If Iraq destroyed them, why would there be any need for more UN resolutions after that?



18. When do you think Iraq abandoned their existing Weapons of Mass Destruction program? What do you think was their motivation for abandoning it- the 17th time the UN said 'pretty please', or the fact that it was spending too much money that could used for social programs to improve the lives of Iraqi citizens?



19. Do you think the bio-weapons lab vehicles found in Iraq were being used as lunch wagons, or as mobile auto detail trucks?



20. If a terrorist organization attacked America tomorrow by spraying anthrax over a large city, would you blame George W. Bush for not doing enough?



21. Would Hillary?



22. How many minutes after the attack do you think it would take for Hillary to appear on CNN?



23. If an illegal U.S. president declares an illegal war, wouldn't the two cancel each other out?



Bonus Question: Do you think O.J. killed Ron and Nicole, or was he the victim of a massive conspiracy to plant evidence by many separate divisions of the LAPD?

OH, BABS, AREN'T WE ALL(washingtonpost.com)

THE DRUDGE REPORT 2003® is breaking the following:

**World Exclusive** Democratic presidential hopeful General Wesley Clark offered lavish praise for the Bush Administration and its key players in a speech to Republicans, the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal...

A General Weasel.

COULDN'T FIND THIS ONE IN THE MAJOR MEDIA... PROBABLY BECAUSE SHELTON ISN'T A PERSON OF ANY IMPORTANCE
"I've known Wes for a long time. I will tell you the reason he came out of Europe early had to do with integrity and character issues, things that are very near and dear to my heart. I'm not going to say whether I'm a Republican or a Democrat. I'll just say Wes won't get my vote."

- Hugh Shelton, Gen. Weasely Clark's superior officer when he served as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO

read the article from right-wing co-conspirators at Newsmax.com

MORE CORRECTLY READ AS "ASKED TO LEAVE"
Bet CNN didn't expect General Weasely Clark to run for their party's presidential nod four years after they wrote this

SPEND MORE TIME WITH YOUR DAD, W.

FOXNews's exclusive w/ President George W. Bush...

Brit Hume: "How often do you talk to your dad?"

Prez. W: "Once every 2 weeks."

...

Brit: How often do you talk to your bother Jeb?"

W: "Once a month..."

George W.... spin machine. We love ya... but feel free to be yourself (and tell the truth). That's what drew us to you in the first place. Don't lose us in your fear to be attacked by the left...

P.S. - Talk to your Dad more often... he's dealt with all of this stuff before.

THE CLOWNS ARE IN SESSION AGAIN
The circus is always a sure bet when one is looking for some comic relief... except, of course when the clowns go mad.

KENNEDY'S DO-NOTHING APPROACH TO NATIONAL THREATS
The Senate's resident fat slob (no offense), the well-fed Ted Kennedy, says that the war to liberate Iraq was "made up in Texas" - secretly planned by G.O.P. brass for Republican political gain.

Let's be clear about one thing. Before Senate Democrats overwhelmingly agreed to the War Resolution last year, Senator Kennedy agreed that Saddam was a threat, that he was in the process of acquiring weapons of mass destruction, and that there was "clearly a threat from Iraq" and that Saddam was "clearly a danger".

So, if your wacko conspiracy theory was actually true, and the Republicans concocted a "secret plot" behind the closed doors of the Crawford Ranch to extinguish this threat to our (and Israel's) security, Senator, ... what the heck is the problem with that?(!)

Typical liberal approach to defending our national security interests: demonize those who actually do. Remember liberals' reaction to Reagan?

CNN.com - Kennedy's 'Texas' remark stirs GOP reaction - Sep. 18, 2003

CLARK DISSED BY ROVE, BECOMES DEMOCRAT
In the current issue of Newsweek, a telling statement by "political" candidate Wesley Clark, in regards to his "decision" to run as a Democrat: “I would have been a Republican, if Karl Rove had returned my phone calls.”

How about: "I would have been a serious political candidate and not a front for a future Clinton presidency if I had any inkling of an idea of where I stood on any of the issues."

Campaign 2004: Clark’s Charge

THE BEST THE DEMS HAVE TO OFFER

- It's "a good thing I guess" that the homicidal maniac Saddam Hussein was ousted and his murderous sons killed...

- The U.S. won't "always" be the world's superpower... (wishful thinking?)

- The U.S. shouldn't "choose sides" in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...

(All from the Dem frontrunner, the very mad Howard Dean)

PERSPECTIVE IS AMAZING
Clinton informed us that we'd be in Kosovo for 6 weeks. 7 years later, we're still there. Let's keep things in perspective.

Also, we were in Japan for 7 years before they were self-reliant in their democracy... and they weren't raised to hate us from birth.

WHY WERE WE SO MEAN TO HIM?
Let's be clear on this: Hitler had no weapons of mass destruction.

EASY FOR YOU TO SAY GRAY
"My vision is to make the most diverse state on earth, and we have people from every planet on the earth in this state. We have the sons and daughters of every, of people from every planet, of every country on earth..." -Gray Davis

Davis concedes he had lost touch with voters

GENERAL CLARK 'MOBBED' IN TINY RESTAURANT
We love this line in the Washington Post's article about General Wesley Clark's first campaign stop... it's a great snapshot of the positive message being broadcast by each of the other 9 losers:

"Clark, standing on a chair in the middle of an overflowing restaurant in this city north of Miami, criticized President Bush on the economy and Iraq and told supporters he needed money."

Supporters Mob Gen. Clark on First Campaign Stop (washingtonpost.com)

DNC FOLLOWS DEAN INTO BLOGGERDOM
The Democratic National Committee has followed Howard Dean's camp into the wonderful world of e-campaigning by releasing their "Official Blog" named "Kicking Ass" (see link below). PTD has recommended to the Republican National Committee that they follow suit - with a new "Official Blog" titled "Kicking Asses"...

DNC: Kicking Ass

Clark AWOL on Debate
Wesley Clark pulls an Ahhrnold and skips out on the next Donkey debate... perhaps giving himself a bit of time to study the issues. Here's a suggestion: "The Idiot's Guide to The American Tax System"

CNN.com - Clark to give paid speech, miss debate - Sep. 19, 2003

OUR "BLOG" BEFORE THE BLOG

- HBO's "K Street" is intense. Political junkies everywhere will be ditching the aluminum-foiled rabbit ears for a $79.99/month HBO package. James Carville, Paul Begala, and George Clooney are some of Howard Dean's top political consultants.... who'd have thunk it? Too bad the Senate Rules and Ethics Committee axed the behind-the-scenes filming allowance for Clooney and Soderburgh that made the first episode so good. Good concept... events go down... episode airs days later... we'll have to check out next week's episode to find out what happened behind the scenes this coming week when Democrats on the Hill blame Bush for the Hurricane that's prepping to rake the East Coast.

- The Democratic Debate, as sponsored by unlikely collaborators FoxNews and the Congressional Black Caucus - and I believe Vince McMahon, turned out to be quite a bash. Let's see... Howard Dean and Joe Lieberman looked like Tyson and Holyfield - with Joe being Mike (in any of those fights) - Dick "Gephardt" won the award for bashing Bush the harshest with his "Bush is a miserable failure" line (read: Dick is a miserable Dean loser running a losing candidacy for the White House... AGAIN), the Dems all felt compelled to showcase their ability to "be like Dean" and be mad and negative, and... well... Democrats. - . and oh yeah, AL SHARPTON took the spotlight. The 'reverend' was the only presidential wannabe with know how/package size sufficient enough to stand up to a few annoying hecklers. (By "a few", we mean "a crowd").

- TIME Magazine's "Blackout Issue" included a graphical depiction of the mechanics behind a shoulder-fired rocket - a spread on page 44 and 45. Remember Clancy's novel and the subsequent movie "Sum of All Fears" -when Clancy's Middle Eastern Islamic terrorists (w/ the nuke) became Caucasian skinhead terrorists in the politically-correct film? The terrorist in the TIME graphic is shooting a shoulder-fired rocket. He's drawn facing away from us, so we can't see his white face... but we can see his blonde hair. We think it's one of the Hanson brothers.

- John Kerry, Vietnam Vet and French-looking billionaire, running as the Democratic candidate for the little man... was showcasing his dare-devil "alpha male" persona to NBC... he plays hockey, kite-boards, boats, is man enough to cry on camera when campaigning to the underprivileged, and is tough enough to showcase his candidacy announcement (he just started running?) with a fiery anti-Bush speech in front of what appeared to be a huge aircraft carrier. Wait, didn't this noodle-backboned political coward accuse Bush of "showboating" when he landed on the aircraft carrier (for a real reason) in the Pacific?

- Here's where we stand: the 10 Commandments are being dragged out of the Alabama Supreme Court (wasn't our legal system founded on the contents of those tablets?), Madonna exemplifies heterosexual female maturity by open-mouthing Britney Spears and Christina Aquilera - who, of course, continue to turn their legion of young impressionable female fans on to the wonderful world of slutterdom. Thanks girls. And the Boy Scouts continue to be harassed as Fascists by the ACLU, who is devoting it's time to defending the North American Man/Boy Love Association -an organization of incredible perversion that promotes old man-on-young-boy sex. Progress... brought to you by the wonderful world of liberalism.

- The DEAN INSURGENCY has become the $10 million-a-quarter DNC EMERGENCY... we love watching this McGovernish campaign unfold... and dominate this field of 9 (errrr... 7....errr 6) Democratic laughingstocks... who will get the nod? Kerry... naw, too French, too fake,... Dean, obviously not... way too out of touch... Gephardt... can't ride on unions and pacifism alone... Lieberman... too weak and mousey... Sharpton, Kucinich, Gary Coleman... aaahh.. ... perhaps...

- What have the Democrats been harping on for the past few months? DEFICITS... oh, George W. loves DEFICITS... not only that, but RECORD deficits... he's a big spender and a deficit booster... not like them, of course. :-) RIGHT... GREAT... SO ANYWAY, Dick Gephardt, like, proposes his plan for, like American and all... and it's so crazy- there's like spending and crazy "initiatives" all over the hypocriticalplace - like higher taxes for individuals, the restriction of foreign trade, the socialistic federal financing of a humongoloidely chunk of our health care tab, increased education plan spending, a universal preschool program, and expensive energy program, doubling the budget for the Homeland Security Department, tripling the budget for the National Institutes of Health, expanded plans for a Homeland Security Department Trust Fund, and a college cost-assistance program for students who agree to teach in government, uhh, public schools for at least five years, etc.. etc... more spending on the way - details to come. Hyper-spending liberals don't have any problems with "spending" ... unless, of course, it's not them spending the money.

- "Chemical Ali" was nabbed...a bucket of scum who "enjoyed killing people" - apologies to liberals who take offense to that harsh reality slap in the face. Democrats have sunk into despair and begin fingering the apparently failed "Road Map to Peace" and the bombing of Baghdad's U.N. headquarters as a diversion from this incredible success in the War on Terror. The American people are being played for chumps by this asininery... we believe things like this will swing votes W's way, as too many Americans have taken to educating themselves to the matters of the day... world affairs, the threat of terrorism, the insufficiency of the 9... uhh.. 6 Democratic candidates, etc... power to the people!

- The www.bushrecall.org people (incl. Clinton ass-ociate Joe Lockhart) want to recall the President. 1) Come up with your own ideas 2) Uhh.... that's it.

- Michigan has blessed its taxpayers with a new course at the University of Michigan. The taxpayer-funded course, "Calculus 101" ... uhhhh... sorry, we meant "How to be Gay: Male Homosexuality and Initiation. " The first sentence in Professor David Halprin's course description is thus: "Just because you happen to be a gay man doesn't mean that you don't have to learn how to become one." If Michigan taxpayers don't ante up, does that leave a lot of gay men stranded without fully learning the art of being gay? Aaaaaand, there's a $35 lab fee ... we don't have the toolbox to ask...

- The Alabama Supreme Court... the Ten Commandments... oh goodness, who's surprised here? When the "In God We Trust" removal from coinage comes down the pipe, then we'll talk. Remember this: God has predestined everything that surprises us (e.g. Clinton's '92 and '96 wins) - don't fret... He's still in control.

- But you know what? Is it not the ultimate example of hypocrisy - the U.S. Supreme Court Justices have the Ten Commandments above their heads, yet order the removal of the same from Alabama's Supreme Court. Our continually deteriorating moral foundation is undoubtedly going to leak out of this ridiculous legal precedent. So sad..

- Hamas has declared the so-called cease-fire "over" because Israel had the gall to respond to a bloodthirsty terrorist attack on its unarmed citizens. How dare they? Don't the Jews know that they'll never be pushed into the Mediterranean Sea if they keep standing their ground?

- Gray Davis is now appealing to God to assist him in his attempt to keep his head above the recall election water. He carries a card that says there's nothing he'll face during the day that he and God can't handle. One: which God? Two: Don't pump out your pseudo-spiritualism for political gain... take your recall like a man... God's plan will prevail and we're not convinced that you're part of it.

- Ten thousand or so French have died from the heat wave that's pummeling Europe. Energy and the availability of air conditioning is surfacing as the target of conventional blame. France is a PROGRESSIVE socialist society... say it ain't so...

- Wow, Riduan Isamabudian, key Al Quedian was captured today... by golly gee... we ARE making headway in the quagmire that the Bushies like to spin as the so-called "War on Terror".

- A major blackout is affecting most of the universe (read: Manhattan)... the reactions to this blackout prove one thing: from now until kingdom come, any malhappenstance will trigger thoughts of Arabs attempting to please Allah and meet up with the 70 virgins. Why the heck is there GREEN on the Homeland Security Departments Terrorist Threat Level chart...? But then... does a pipe dream have a color? When our PCs crash, we'll forever wonder if Al-Queda is on the move again. And almost undoubtedly, sometime(s) in the future, we'll be right. Welcome to life post-9-11.

- A group called "Military Families Speak Out" is crying for the release of their loved ones from Middle Eastern captivity. It seems the Pentagon has captured them - lured by "voluntary service" proposals and are holding them against their will in Iraq, Afghanistan, and some other undesirable locales (oceanside Guantanamo Bay Officers' Villas, etc.)... Word is the Military Machine is forcing work (labor) on these prisoners in war, and the families are mounting a powerful campaign for their release. I think the effort's website is www.wedidntrealizewedactuallyhavetogoanywhereordoanything.com. We'll put it on PTD as soon as our web designer gets a chance.

- Is this British arms dealer- and the other two charged in connection w/ conspiring to put surface-to-air missiles in the hands of apparent Muslim terrorists (sike!) going to be stoned to death in the town square? Or at least be allowed to sit and rest (in peace) in 'Ole Sparky? What kind of soft, Jimmy Carteresque example will we set if we allow them to get a simple life sentence after a lengthy civil court case with Johnnie Cochran inside the courtroom and Jesse Jackson outside -fighting for their nonexistent rights? We were as surprised as the rest of you to find they all have Muslim names. Oops, didn't mean to be intolerant of the Religion of Peace. Sorry. By the way, for those of you duped by post-9-11 pacifists, "Islam" doesn't mean "Peace" as was WIDELY REPORTED in the hours that followed the toppling of the WTC by Muslims. It means "Submission".

- One of our staffers is running for governor of California. Uhh... I meant - to 7-11 to get us coffee. Either way, we feel they're more than qualified.

- Larry Flynt is running for the CA gubernatorial electric chair as a COMPASSIONATE smut peddler (is that like a altruistic crack dealer?) - and Al Sharpton is now calling himself a CONSERVATIVE. Why are liberals always afraid of calling themselves liberal?

- Mike Tyson squanders $300 million... spending skills prompt possible congressional bid in '04.

- PTD is demanding the release of 28 pages of the controversial Saudi Arabian "Anti-American Manifesto" being held under cover in Riyadh ... details to come...

- We're reading "Parliament of Whores" by P.J. O'Rourke... oh geeze... what a book... government sucks.

- Neal Boortz continues to make the most convincing case we've heard for the legalization of drugs, the injustice in lengthy imprisonments of minor marijuana offenders... and a convincing argument that the whole war on drugs is a colossal waste of taxpayer money. Disclaimer: PTD does not believe that drugs should be legalized. Yet.

- Our thoughts have been solicited on Kobe. Here they are: we're huge fans, but we weren't in the hotel room. Neither were all of these ridiculous Monday morning Lazy-Boy magistrates. She might be the victim- no doubt, but perhaps HE IS. Then again, maybe Desiree wasn't the victim, but Tyson was (ouch!)... There's a lot of mud being slung, and when it settles in a cloudy, fog-like O.J. Simpson-like trial of reasonable doubtability, we'll accept the judge's verdict. Sorry... we goofed... the O.J. case was actually unbelievably clear-cut - what were we thinking... Furhman OBVIOUSLY planted the glove - and all of Nicole and Ron's blood all over O.J.'s house, and ride, and driveway...

- The made-up and lipsticked cadavers of Sodamn Insane's two "foolish" and murdering sons, OO-DAY and QWA-SAY INSANE were thrown into a dirt pit in their hometown of Tikrit today... or as the much more politically-correct CNN says: "laid to rest". We God-fearing right-wing, intolerant Christian wackos don't necessarily subscribe to the notion that they're partaking in a whole lot of "rest" right about now. Our condolences, truly... to all of the rape victims and northern Kurds that succumbed to chemical gases and such. Evil that only conservatives and, well... Joe Lieberman seem to understand... anyway, there's N.R.I.H.

- SAUDI INTELLIGENCE might have been involved in 9-11 !!?? Who'd have thunk it? Let's all get a grip and face the reality of the matter: Arabs hate Jews... we're (justifiably) friends with those Jews... but damn!-there's a lot of oil under those Arab sands... and liberals won't let us drill in the wastelands of this country (ANWR) that would liberate us from that oily Middle Eastern stranglehold of economic subjugation ...

- Ann Coulter's signs a $3 million book deal as her virtually un-promoted new book Treason skyrockets on her beloved NY Times' Bestseller List and slides up next to the mega-promo'ed, super-duper-marketed fiction work "Lying History" ... wow... who would've thought that there was such a market for conservative thoughts. Another "surprise best seller" surprises the media... again.

- We questioned our neighborhood Barnes & Nobles about the prominently-displayed (and ceiling high) piles of Hillary's great new fiction - mistakenly displayed on the "New Non-Fiction" table... we almost tripped over a gigantic 'Lying History" stand-alone display... Hillary Rotten Clinton's airbrushed face positioned center-aisle for maximum sales exposure. Treason? Nowhere. Ann Coulter's great new best seller wasn't anywhere to be found. Hidden in the back room? No... we pressed,... and got an answer. Sold out.

- This, by all means, is not a up-to-the-minute (or day), rendering of news as it happens, but... uh... BREAKING NEWS: FOX NEWS IS REPORTING THAT ALBERT GORE MIGHT JUMP IN TO THE LACKLUSTER MIX OF DEMOCRATS FIGHTING AMONGST EACH OTHER FOR 2004. Yeah, he left like Alec Baldwin When W Won. We hope this news plays out to be true. What's Lieberman to do if Gore swaggers back into the race? There's a debate we'd love to see. It'd go like this: "Joe, why did you flip-flop on a bunch of issues when I pulled you to my side as my VP running mate - don't your convictions have any roots?"... yadda, yadda... you get the visual...

- The Democratic Field of Hopeless Presidential Candidates was further reduced in stature (didn't know that was a possibility) by recent primary state polling that pin-pointed Democratic voters' favorite candidate: non other than non-candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. We think George McGovern was second or something.

- David Kaye will testify tomorrow to Congress that there's been no "smoking gun" uncovered in Iraq, but that evidence DOES exist that there was an active WMD program. Huh? Isn't that a smoking gun?

- We mentioned the other day that Al Sharpton (only know the top 8 Dem presidential candidates? - well, remember Tawana Brawley?) - Anyway, we mentioned that he had raised approximately $50k for his no-shot of a nomination nod. We forgot to mention that he'd also spent enough to put his "campaign" $65k or so in the red hole. The question, however, is still begged, who in the world is giving Al Sharpton so much friggin' money?

- The more Bob Graham opens his mouth, the more we realize how out of touch he is with... well, reality. We can only hope that he's asked to sit on one of the laps of the other 7 candidates (we don't count Carol Moseley Braun) as VP running mate - possibly opening up a chance for Katherine Harris to run for the Senate. We, like Drudge, run this site from Katherine's beautiful state of Florida. We, however, unlike Drudge, aren't operating out of a $600,000 luxury oceanfront condo. By the way, we don't count Sharpton either, but we wouldn't want to be tagged "racist" and suffer a boycott from all of the liberals that make frequent visits to Prevent Truth Decay.

-The Clintons are rushing to Cali to save the day for Governor Gray "I'm the worst governor ever" Davis. As the undisputed heavyweight champions of the Democratic Party prepare to lend their political pound-per-sq.-inch power to the recall fight, is there more here than meets the eye? If the end result is still a recall, won't this drag the Clinton machine down a notch or two? It just doesn't seem to be Clinton Political Stategery to walk out on such a limb.

- CNN, in a segment promo today, said: "We're hot on the trail of Saddam Hussein, but what about Osama bin Laden?" If we get Saddam, and then find Osama, the promos will be "We've caught Saddam and Osama, but where is Zahid Kalik Mohammattahahahesdead ?"

- Madonna visits France and thanks their "government" for opposing the war in Iraq. She's applauded for such tremendous use of her free speech rights. Wouldn't it be nice if Lance Armstrong used his "I won the Tour de France" platform to tell the French exactly what they are: losers in more ways than just the Tour de France every year.

- We miss JC Watts... we'd be forever grateful for anyone who can track JC's speech down (video, audio, or transcript) that he gave in July 2001 at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in Charlotte, NC.

- Drudge is reporting that the Hussein brothers were found w/ $100 million, painkillers, cologne, and Viagra. The painkillers are understandable - for 101st airborne assaults, TOW missiles into house, suicide, etc., but the Viagra? Uday.... barbaric rape lost its luster and you needed assistance? I hope those virgins do it for you, because Pfiser's marketing plan fell short of the heavenly realm. A thought comes to mind - the Onion.com's attempt to resurrect humor shortly after Sept. 11... with the headline "Terrorists Surprised to Find Selves in Hell" ...

- His sons are dead, his bodyguards are being apprehended and arrested... the "noose is tightening" around the Butcher of Baghdad ... Sodamn Insane. The DNC brass must be wearing the varnish off their Campaign 2004 war room board table. Any advances in the War on Terror represent clusters of garlic cloves and silver spikes in the hearts of the left...

- On Larry King Live, Senator Bob Dole was graced with a "surprise guest" - Bill Clinton. (Can you surprise me with that guy that cut me off the other day for my birthday?). The mutually congratulating (it was Bob's birthday for heaven's sake) conversation degraded into another one of the ever-present legacy-saving attempts by the x-perpetrator. One interesting note though... Bill dubbed the Hussein brothers "foolish" while Bob more correctly labeled them "terrible". One of the major differences between liberals and conservatives in a nutshell? We think so.

- Al Sharpton spoke to Chris Matthews about the atrocities "this president" is committing in regards to "moving at turtle speed" in Liberia. Are we the only ones wondering why Al gets any airtime at all? Chris, come on... that's like CNN giving a platform to Sean Penn to ask him about complex world affairs. Oh, wait... bad example.

- Did we hear the increasingly conservative MSNBC label the Hussein brothers as "pro-business"? Nah... such demagoguery is only saved for greedy conservatives here in the grand old U.S. of A.

- Democratic presidential hopeful Al Sharpton has raked in approx. $50k to W.'s $35 million+ ... the question is begged- who the heck is giving so much money to Sharpton??

- Uday and Quasay's beautiful postmortem portrait captions on foxnews.com described the graphics as such - "here is Uday, here is Quasay"... you get the point... cnn.com, however, hedged against such a right-wing, pro-American stance by captioning the same photos as "here are the photos OF WHAT THE U.S. SAYS are the bodies of the Hussein brothers..." Those damn flag wavers over at Fox...

- NewsWeek's non-partisan, fair news reporting approach has never been more apparent than the 07/28/03 edition's "Perspectives" cartoonitorials... there's 3 politically centered 'toons: blast Bush, blast Bush, and blast Rush.

- In the same edition of NewsWeek, the Conventional Wisdom segment praises the Media for "questioning this prez" (presumably due to the 16 undeniably true words he spoke in the State of the Union) - they say "what a novel concept". Hmm... a more mind-boggling concept, it seems, is the thought that NewsWeek would pretend to believe that the press has given Bush a free pass on anything - let alone the war. It must be Jesse Jackson, Robert Byrd, Ted Kennedy, and other liberal politicians they've spent so much time grilling.

- Perhaps the 16 words NewsWeek should be questioning is its own projection re: the outcome of the war - 2 days before the fall of Baghdad, NewsWeek's Conventional Dribble gave Bush a hearty thumbs down with the since-been-proved wrong 16 words: "but his war cluelessly flings open the gates of hell, making any sort of victory phyrric" ... wishful thinking on their part... America, we're sure, was sorry to deliver a cake-walk.

- There's a lot of fuss lately about W.'s announcement on the aircraft carrier deck that the 'major combat was over' in Iraq in light of the unfortunate daily attacks on our troops. You know what? The major combat IS over. Perhaps the media thinks that the daily tit-for-tat sucker-punching by Baath Party holdouts is the MAJOR COMBAT. We were thinking that the major combat was the liberation of Iraq and the deposing of Saddam's bloodthirsty regime, but we've been wrong before. Like the time we said the media would report this war fairly.

- We've been listening to the audio book version of Al Gore's "Earth in the Balance"... can someone please ship us a case of Vivarin? Don't ever accuse us of not reading anything other than our daily official talking points that we receive from the White House and Rush Limbaugh's office. Believe it or not, we read Eleanor Clift and Maureen Dowd on a regular basis. We even listen to George McGovern when he decides to soil the political discourse. Our favorite White House correspondent is Helen Thomas. It takes people like these three to provide a non-stop flow of incontrovertible proof of how damaging liberalism is. Anyway, Al Gore's drone... excuse us... tome is great - he's quite the phenom when it comes to environmental science, socialism, evolution, and the case to be made that there is no God. In fact, he reveals an unbelievable discovery that didn't get near the press it deserves- The Missing Link. Seriously... it's in the book... the inventor of the internet discovered the elusive Missing Link! You'll have to read it - pick the book up at your local yard sale.

> Compiled by PTD staff / contributors

Don't forget > We fought a war in Kosovo in the absence of any threat whatsoever to the United States. Iraq manifestly posed a future, if not imminent, threat. Does anyone disagree with this?

Also - Wesley Clark approved of Kosovo, disapproved of Iraq, and now wants to be Commander-in-Chief.

Is General Wesley Clark being nationally exposed for a future ('04 / '08) VP run w/ Hillary? She still has time (@ 1 mo.) to file for the 2004 race... don't count her out... totally. Even Billary Clinton said today that it's a decision "she'll have to make". Hint, hint?

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