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12.22.2001 12:28 AM Bill Clinton won't fade away like Gerald Ford or (unfortunately) Ronald Reagan. He won't even clean up his reputation the way Jimmy "Habitat for Humanity" Carter did. Instead, Bubba will rev up the campaign to protect his legacy and his place in history. Let's remember a few things about Bill Clinton: He's a liar and perjurer. He is the only elected President to be impeached. He's tied to a real estate deal that landed an Arkansas governor in jail. To look tough in an election he let a mentally incompetent man be executed. When Bill Clinton needed to take some heat off him, he launched attacks on Afghanistan, Sudan, and Iraq. He is also a man who wanted to socialize healthcare. Those are just a few of his "accomplishments" off the top of my head. I don't even need to go into anything about his horrible treatment of women. To sum it up: Bill Clinton is a nasty person, a political genius, and one of the luckiest men ever to work in the Oval Office. He still hasn't and will never accept that what he's done was wrong. He can't do it. His ego won't let him. "Clinton and Aides Lay Plans to Repair a Battered Image" [via Reductio] Sean Hackbarth | 12.21.2001 11:23 PM I will remember Dick Schaap as the collaborator with Jerry Kramer of Distant Replay. The book is Kramer looking back at what happened in the lives of the champion Green Bay Packers of the 1960s. Schaap was a man who loved sports and knew how to really talk about the games and the athletes. Did he get all the scoops and juicy gossip that today's best sports reporters dig up? No, but did it really matter? Godspeed, Dick. "Broadcaster Dick Schaap Dies at 67" Sean Hackbarth | 12.20.2001 10:54 AM From word-of-mouth I've gotten at the bookstore, LotR is a hit. Now, I just have to finish the book. "Fans Rave About 'Lord of the Rings'" Sean Hackbarth | 12.19.2001 1:47 PM Here's more evidence on why Israel considers Arafat "irrelevant": only a few days after calling for the end of Palestinian violence against Israel, Arafat declared, "We are all martyrs in paradise." He also said he's willing to sacrifice 70 Palestinians for every Israeli death. Arafat tries to have it both ways: on one hand he poses as the stateman seeking peace, while on the other hand, he riles up the masses to violent fervor. Secretary Colin Powell ignores Arafat's brazen hypocrisy by asking for security talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. When will Powell accept that Arafat is an impediment to peace? "Arafat's Call to Sacrifice: 'We are All Martyrs in Paradise'" [via Drudge] Sean Hackbarth | 11:33 AM This story won't slip under the radar, but it won't be as big as when it was announced that Citigroup would buy the Travelers. Free market critics complain about huge, powerful corporations forming through mergers, but they become quiet when companies spin off portions of their business. It's similiar to the unequal coverage of job cuts versus job creation. Stories of huge job cuts (i.e. recent airline layoffs) top the evening news, but when millions of jobs are created across the country by small and medium-sized businesses, little is heard. "Citigroup to Spin off Travelers" Sean Hackbarth | 11:25 AM NetFlix is a dot-com that survived the e-commerce meltdown. They did it by spending money effectively and by providing a service in a easy way. The company hopes to be cashflow positive next year and hopes to go public in the future. What I'm really impressed about is the customer praise NetFlix gets. I've read many a post on weblogs saying how easy it is to use NetFlix. A company doesn't have to burn cash through expensive marketing campaigns if they can get good word-of-mouth advertising. That seems to be happening with NetFlix. The biggest downside to the company is that it's in a transition market. Once Internet broadband service gets large enough, people will just download movies instead of getting DVDs. How NetFlix can adjust to that market will be its biggest challenge. "DVD Service Delivers Online" Sean Hackbarth | 11:08 AM Shimon Peres says Israel will withdraw its forces from areas where Palestinian security forces "take over." In the same story, the Palestininan Authority arrested 15 members of the same security force for suspicion of terrorist activities. Does Peres really trust security to a force filled with (at least) 15 terrorist accomplices? How does this square with Ariel Sharon saying Arafat still hasn't "abandon the path of terror?" Some of these conflicting words have to do with political posturing. As leader of the Labour Party, Peres has to have some distance from Sharon's Likud Party even if they're both part of a unity government. "Peres: Israel Ready to Withdraw" Sean Hackbarth | 12.17.2001 4:46 AM Two reasons why Israel considers Arafat "irrelevant": Jassar Samaru and Nassim Abu Rus. These two men are suspected Hamas bombmakers. Israel put them on a list of most-wanted terrorists and gave it to Gen. Anthony Zinni who gave it to Arafat. Samaru and Abu Rus were arrested by Palestinian authorities previously. But they still managed to make bombs while in jail. "Two Bomb Makers are Teaching a New Generation of `Engineers'" Sean Hackbarth | 12.16.2001 11:56 PM Most of the victims of the World Trade Center attack will never be identified. Their remains will be in a landfill named Fresh Kills. Daniel Henninger advocates building a national cemetary there to honor the dead. He writes:
Properly honoring the dead will tell those who live long after us how we really were as Americans. "What We Did For Normandy Do for New York" Sean Hackbarth | 11:49 PM The "Judeo-Christian Tradiiton" is only 70 years old. "Love Bombs at Home" Sean Hackbarth | |
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