Posted By Russ Emerson on November 29, 2003 at 11:48 am
There has to be a way the Donks can blame this on Bush:
Woman Knocked Unconscious By Wal-Mart Shoppers
Witnesses: Shoppers Stepped Over Woman Having Seizure
ORANGE CITY, Fla. — A 41-year-old woman was knocked unconscious and then trampled by a mob of shoppers who continued to step over her as she suffered a seizure during a Friday sale at Wal-Mart in Orange City, Fla., according to Local 6 News.
Well, obviously this never would have happened if the President hadn’t cut taxes. If people would just let the government have more of their paychecks, they wouldn’t have as much to spend for the holidays, and we’d never have to see this sort of tragedy again.
Now that the Bush tax cuts are setting the economy back on track after the recent slump (which I might remind you, gentle reader, began before he took office), and now that the general public recognizes that things are getting better, and now that people are actually going out to spend their own money, we can undoubtedly see more such frenzied shopping-induded tramplings, right? Right?
The part of my brain responsible for rhyming can’t come up with any catchy slogan for the moonbats to shriek about this….
“Bush cut tax rates — people in dire straits!”
Wow, that’s incredibly — even amazingly — weak.
I’m open to suggestions. In the meantime, I’m going to go have more coffee.
(link via James at VRWC)
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Posted By Russ Emerson on November 28, 2003 at 2:10 pm
This business about Howard Dean’s late brother has me wondering.
Active duty soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines are upset over being forced take part in a military repatriation ceremony today for remains believed to be those of the non-military brother of presidential candidate Howard Dean, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
“His brother will receive full military honors…flag over the coffin and all!” fumes one soldier, who asked not to be named.
Governor Dean is set to visit to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) and the repatriation of his brother to Hickam AFB, Hawaii.
The brother’s remains were recovered in Laos by a JPAC recovery team this past month. JPAC’s mission is to search, recover, and identify remains of US service members who were killed in previous wars.
During the Vietnam War, Dean’s brother and an Australian friend treked into Laos as civilians — and were captured by the Vietcong and killed.
JPAC was pressured to not only recover his brother’s remains, but to bump Dean’s recovery over numerous other MIA’s who actually died fighting for their country, a well-placed military source tells the DRUDGE REPORT.
(Via the Drudge archives)
OK, I can understand the troops being unhappy about this. I’m none too thrilled by it myself. Military honors should be reserved for military personnel (or high-ranking government officials). But I have a question:
What were those two guys doing over there?
I can think of only three types of civilians (other than the press) who might have gone to Laos in 1974:
- aid workers, akin to the Red Cross or CARE,
- sympathizers/supporters of the North Vietnam (read: communist) regime, akin to “Hanoi Jane” Fonda
- drug traffickers.
Am I missing something here? Someone please clue me in.
UPDATE, 3Dec03: I have since been clued in. Apparently, he was there as a “adventure tourist.” Which leads to the question, why would anyone think tourism in what was (for all intents and purposes) a war zone would be a good idea?
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