June 07, 2002

Arafat:"Oh, Sheet!"
"Oh, Sheet!" Reads the caption at the New York Post!
"Yasser Arafat can't believe his eyes yesterday as he surveys his wrecked bedroom at his Ramallah compound after Israel's anti-terror raid."

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!Payback's a b*tch, baby!

June 05, 2002

Let's put on a REAL Cow Parade in NYC!

Just when I think I am going to scream from all the petty partisan bickering and arguing and nit-picking coming out of Washington of late, I hear of a lovely story like this one:"The Gift of the Masai."

This is Tony Blankley in the Washington Times writing about the recent condolence gift to America from the Masai tribe in Kenya.
It seems they heard of our great loss of Life on 9/11 and wanted to give us a gift to console the American people in their sorrow, so they presented our Ambassador to Kenya with 15 cows, beings which next to their children are their most esteemed assets.
Mr. Blankley not only wants to document this true gift from the Masai heart, but is staging a bit of a protest because our ambassador wants to sell the cattle and buy local crafts with the proceeds (Go figure!).
Quite rightly, the writer believes that this might be slighting the Masai's generosity and I quite agree with him!

At Mr. Blankley's suggestion, we'd like to see those cows shipped back here and either put in the National Zoo in Washington, on the lawn of the White House, at President Bush's ranch in Crawford with his lonely cow Ofelia...or how about a REAL Cow Parade in New York City!
Mr. Blankley makes his plea eloquently indeed in this paragraph:

 Although in all our history we have never done anything for these Masai, in all the world they are the only people (to my knowledge) to offer a sacred gift of condolence to us after the September Terror. And, without any offers of foreign aid or trade credits, their first thought was to get the man who did this terrible thing to us. But our Mr. Brancick thinks it would be too much bother to accept the sacred gift: Why not just cash them out, buy some local trinkets and mail them to a government warehouse in West Virginia where every 30 years the Inspector General will see how many of them have been stolen?

Why not drop Mr. Blankley an email at tonyblankley@erols.com and the State Dept. at ca@his.com. and the White House at president@whitehouse.gov and let them know that we're looking forward to taking care of our new Kenyan cattle?!
Or if you prefer, do what Tony Blankley asks:
  Please call the U.S. State Department (Bureau of African Affairs, Chief of Bureau Walter H. Kansteiner 202-647-7371) and tell him not to sell the 14 Masai cows.

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