Wishing all of our readers a Happy Thanksgiving. Take it easy, enjoy the day and give thanks that you live in America. Tomorrow is time enough to get back to all of our cheerful news about missing Somali youths, and unhappy Iraqis and all those other joys that diversity worship has brought us.
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Answering my lament about the mainstream media
My friends at the Blue Ridge Forum sent this little story, perhaps you’ve seen it already. It’s a reminder that in this business we are in, we have to laugh sometimes! Here is “A Biker Story”:
A biker is riding by the zoo, when he sees a little girl leaning into the lion’s cage.
Suddenly, the lion grabs her by the cuff of her jacket and tries to pull her inside to slaughter her, under the eyes of her screaming parents.
The biker jumps off his bike, runs to the cage and hits the lion square on the nose with a powerful punch.
Whimpering from the pain the lion jumps back letting go of the girl, and the biker brings her to her terrified parents, who thank him endlessly.
A New York Times reporter has watched the whole event.
The reporter addressing the biker says, ‘Sir, this was the most gallant and brave thing I saw a man do in my whole life.’
The biker replies, ‘Why, it was nothing, really, the lion was behind bars.
I just saw this little kid in danger, and acted as I felt right.’
The reporter says, ‘Well, I’ll make sure this won’t go unnoticed. I’m a journalist from the New York Times, you know, and tomorrow’s paper will have this story on the front page… So, what do you do for a living and what political affiliation do you have?”
The biker replies, ‘I’m a U.S. Marine and a Republican.’
The journalist leaves.
The following morning the biker buys The New York Times to see if it indeed brings news of his actions, and reads, on front page: *
U.S. MARINE ASSAULTS AFRICAN IMMIGRANT AND STEALS HIS LUNCH
Humanitarian groups mucking around with terrorists?
Thanks to Richard for sending me this snippet from NRO: The Corner this morning (the short piece is lead-in to this longer article in the Wall Street Journal entitled: ‘FARC’s Human Rights Friends.’ ) Laugh till you cry.
As we learn more about the Colombian military’s daring hostage rescue last week, one detail stands out: In tricking FARC rebels into putting the hostages aboard a helicopter, undercover special forces simply told the comandantes that the aircraft was being loaned to them by a fictitious nongovernmental organization sympathetic to their cause called the International Humanitarian Mission.
It may have taken years for army intelligence to infiltrate the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, and it may have been tough to convincingly impersonate rebels. But what seems to have been a walk in the park was getting the FARC to believe that an NGO was providing resources to help it in the dirty work of ferrying captives to a new location.
So what does all this have to do with us? Maybe, just maybe, you should look with a jaundiced eye at all these NGO’s running around the world “saving” people “because they care.”
You must see ‘Fitna’
Here is a link to Gates of Vienna blog which gives several links to where you can view the controversial Dutch film, “Fitna.”
Good morning from RRW
This morning I want to make a statement to our readers. First, to our national and international readers, sorry that we have been focused recently on the issues surrounding Refugee Resettlement in Washington County, MD. Tonight we have a public forum which includes representatives from the US State Dept., Maryland Office for New Americans, and federal contractor Church World Services and its subcontractor Virginia Council of Churches. We hope that much of what we have been bringing, although local in nature, may help you understand the issue better and help you put some ideas to work. We will get back to covering more on broader issues shortly.
Since one of our goals at RRW is to “encourage reform of Refugee Resettlement policy at a national level”, we plan to have some suggestions for reform in the coming days.
For our readers who are here today to see what we are up to, I am making one thing very clear. This is a serious debate about public policy. In fact, in my opinion, the subject of immigration, legal and illegal, is the most important issue facing our country. I have not interjected anything about anyone’s personal lives into the debate, but apparently my personal life is fair game. All I can say is, it is easy for people to be charitable with taxpayers’ money. It’s a lot harder to give out of your own pocket to help make the lives of people from the third world a little better. Our contributions this evening will be based on policy, not how many points we can rack up on the “I’m so compassionate” scale.