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Sept. 30,  2002 PoliSat.Com's Political-Satire/Commentary Daily Update #20020930-01.™©.2002.
The dousing of fire in the belly of Senator Bob Torricelli.·

    To bosses in Jersey said Bob Torricelli
    "I mustn't bow-out, I've got fire in the belly,"
    but bosses said, "Bow,
    or else you'll learn how
    to bow without aid of petroleum jelly."·

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Inspired by Torricelli's speech characterizing himself as a public servant nobly sacrificing his own best interests for the public good in his September 30, 2002 speech withdrawing from the Senatorial race. --Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com.
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Sept. 27--29, 2002 No Daily Update for these dates due to Jim Wrenn being on vacation.
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Sept. 26,  2002 PoliSat.Com's Political-Satire/Commentary Daily Update #20020926-01.™©.2002.
Says Bar'bra in sending her fax:  "I can't connect dots to Iraq."·*·

    Now Streisand again has selected the fax
    to warn Daschle/Gephardt against being lax
    opposing attack
    by us in Iraq
    'cause Babs can't see dots that connect to Iraq.

    Since Streisand is blind to the dots in the mixture,
    she's seeking a way to keep Dubya in strictures
    preventing attack
    by Bush on Iraq
    'til Saddam Hussein has completed the picture.·

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Inspired by Drudge's September 26, 2002, on-line publication of text of a fax from Streisand to Daschle and Gephardt telling them to prevent Bush from attacking Iraq because, she asserts,
*"Hussein did not bomb the World Trade Center."  Since critics like Streisand have often implied the 9-11 attack occurred because the Bush administration and/or the CIA and/or the FBI failed to "connect the dots," one must infer that with respect to Iraq, she'd prefer to avoid connecting any dots to Hussein and apparently would prefer to wait until his actions have completed the picture for us. --Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com..
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Sept. 25,  2002 PoliSat.Com's Political-Satire/Commentary Daily Update #20020925-01.™©.2002.
For Daschle it's facile to morph into Bashle*..

    While Daschle in speeches is feigning offense
    that Bush said he's stalling our Homeland Defense,
    he keeps his demands
    that Presidents' hands
    be tied by the unions in Homeland Defense.·

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Inspired by Daschle's distortion of what Bush said about the special interests stalling the Homeland Defense bill in order for Daschle to feign offense at what he inacurrately implied Bush said rather than what Bush actually said. 
* I coined "Bashle" as a name for one who bashes opponents.  --Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com..
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Sept. 24,  2002 PoliSat.Com's Political-Satire/Commentary Daily Update #20020924-01.™©.2002.
Would Gore have the moxie for leading a posse?..

    Al Gore has attempted to state
    the reasons that Bush ought-a wait
    before he pursues
    attempts to remove
    Saddam from his terrorist state.

    Said Gore, "To arrest Jesse James
    the sheriff must first take some names
    to round-up a posse
    of helpers with moxie
    who know how to shoot and to aim."  *·          [* 
Red quotation marks denote paraphrased language.]

    But good sheriffs couldn't afford
    to wait 'til achieving accords
    to make a decision
    commencing a mission
    to capture a criminal horde.

    Instead, he would sound an alert
    in which he would clearly assert
    to civilized friends: 
    "I hope you'll join in,
     but I'll go alone if you skirt."·

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Inspired by Gore's fatuous implications in his September 23, 2002, speech in San Francisco, one of them being that a sheriff had to "organize a posse" before "going after [an] outlaw."  No doubt posses were helpful, but sheriffs who waited for citizens to form a consensus before undertaking the mission were less successful in forming posses than those who unequivocally announced commencement of their missions and invited public-spirited citizens to join them.  --Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com.
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Sept. 23,  2002 PoliSat.Com's Political-Satire/Commentary Daily Update #20020923-01.™©.2002.
Will fat be redacted by laws they've enacted?..

    Big Brother's intruding increasingly
    for shaping our bodies more pleasingly
    with laws just enacted
    so fat is redacted
    protecting us all from obesity.

    In candor, I'll tell you my druthers:  
    I'd rather retain my own blubber,
    'cause laws they enact
    just transfer our fat
    to broaden the butt of Big Brother.

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Inspired by a September 21, 2002, article about New York having enacted an "Obesity Prevention Act."  What we really need is an Obese-Government Prevention Act or perhaps a Do-Gooder Prevention Act. --Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com.
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Sept. 22,  2002 PoliSat.Com's Political-Satire/Commentary Daily Update #20020922-01.™©.2002.
They're "sorry" he's bitter they called him a "Hitler"..

    Says Shroeder, "We're sorry you're bitter
    my spokesperson called you a 'Hitler.' 
    We hadn't intended
    you'd feel so offended
    to learn we described you as Hitler."

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Inspired by German Chancellor Shroeder's alleged "apology" to Bush that Shroeder's Department of Justice Minister likened Bush to Hitler. --Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com.
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Sept. 21,  2002 PoliSat.Com's Political-Satire/Commentary Daily Update #20020921-01.™©.2002.

Yes, we have no Usamas...  We have no Usamas today !

Yes, we've not gone atomic, we've not gone atomic today..

    Yes, we have not a warhead !
    We have not a warhead today !
    We've baby-milk fact'ries,
    perfume for olfact'ries
    and toys for the kids and say: 
        We have some old-fashioned tractors
        and lots of Saddam Hussein actors,
    but yes, we have not a warhead !
    We have not a warhead today !

    Yes, we have no al Qaedas !
    We have no al Qaedas today !
    We've diplomat talkers
    but not  "walk-the-walk"ers.
    To Kofi Annan we will say: 
         We're merely old-fashion type Arabs
         who merely would like to raise carobs,
    but yes, we have no al Qaedas !
    We have no al Qaedas today !

    Yes, we have no Usamas !
    We have no Usamas today !
    We were hosting Abu Nidal
    'til planting his corpse in a pall.
    To Kofi Annan we will say: 
        We only want guests who are kind
        like those who inspect while they're blind,
    but yes, we have no Usamas!
    We have no Usamas today !·

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Inspired by my simultaneous non-amazement by Saddam's reprise and astonished at many world leaders nevertheless reprising their gullibility regarding Saddam's reprise.  Who was it that said "Fool us once, shame on you; Fool us repeatedly for more than a decade, shame on us"?  --Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com.
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Sept. 20,  2002 PoliSat.Com's Political-Satire/Commentary Daily Update #20020920-01.™©.2002.

NPR: Nouveau Propagandering Radio

Does N-P-R need a spokesman for trees?..

    Those good folks at N-P-R Radio
    believe right-of-center is "paleo."
    Their leftward domain
    deserves a new name:
    Nouveau Propagandering* Radio !                [*
Poetic license for "propagandizing"]

    A slope they consider too slippery
    views Nature as servant of liberty
    because they view Man
    as slave to The Land
    to serve Pantheopian** Liturgies.                [**
panth-ee-oh-pee-uns]

    That's why it's no shock they'd perceive
    a tree-thinning story they'd need
    and canvass the land
    in search of a man
    to speak for the deaf and dumb trees.

    In searching, it seems they ignored
    the spokesman whose greatest rapport
    with Nature and Earth
    is forestry work: 
    a tree that can talk:  Alpha Gore.

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Inspired by the "NPR Search" segment of John McCaslin's September 19, 2002, Inside the Beltway column in the Washington Times. John's column exposed the patently ideological zeal of NPR in searching far and wide to find someone, somewhere to support their pantheopian beliefs that thinning of trees in national forests is a crime against Nature.  --Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com.
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Sept. 19,  2002 PoliSat.Com's Political-Satire/Commentary Daily Update #20020919-01.™©.2002.

Da Fόhrer Duh Furor

How German perceptions of justice...
... have changed since the Wall has been busted.
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    The German Department of Justice
    says Dubya's like Hitler in thrustin'
    demands on Saddam
    to give-up The Bomb
    or bunkers he soon will start bustin'.

    Since German perceptions of justice
    have changed since the Wall has been busted,
    they ought to proclaim
    a change in the name
    to German Department of Nutzis.·

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Inspired by September 19, 2002, reports that Germany's "Justice" Minister likened Bush's strategy vis-a-vis Iraq to Hitler's "saber rattling" to "divert attention from domestic problems."  The regional Schwaebisches Tagblatt newspaper quoted German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's justice minister, Herta Daeubler-Gmelin, as saying "Bush wants to divert attention from his domestic problems. It's a classic tactic. It's one that Hitler used." --Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com.
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Sept. 18,  2002 PoliSat.Com's Political-Satire/Commentary Daily Update #20020918-01.™©.2002.


    The world-famous village of Hershey
    no longer appears at the mercy
    of Switzerland's Nestlι !
    The Trust ain't divesting,
    so Kisses are safer in Hershey !·

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Inspired by a September 18, 2002, news report that Hershey is safe from Nestlι-- at least for the time being.  Could Hershey have been saved by our August 26, 2002 limerick when the Village of Hershey seemed to be within the clutches of Switzerland's Nestlι?  Naaaaa. --Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com.
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Sept. 17,  2002 PoliSat.Com's Political-Satire/Commentary Daily Update #20020917-01.™©.2002.
A bigot's agenda as safety pretender..

    Though S-U-V-hater, Keith Bradsher,
    has penned High and Mighty as basher
    of S-U-V cruisin',
    himself he has proven
    a crude intellectual flasher.·

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    Inspired by a September 17, 2002, report by Tom Walsh about a new book, High and Mighty,  by New York Times' "correspondent" Keith Bradsher bashing  SUVs as "the World's Most Dangerous Vehicles" and purporting to explain "How They Got That Way." Bradsher's book contends that "[SUV owners] tend to be people who are insecure and vain ...[,] frequently nervous about their marriages and uncomfortable about parenthood ... [,] lack confidence in their driving skills ... [, and] ... are apt to be self-centered and self-absorbed, with little interest in their neighbors or communities."  His narrow-minded, ideological, pantheopian obtuseness speaks for itself.  
    In the interests of full disclosure, I unapologetically state that I own a GMC Suburban.  I bought it primarily to minimize the risks that anyone in my family would suffer serious or fatal injuries in a motor-vehicle accident.  I also found it useful while exhibiting "callousness" toward my community by coaching Little League and soccer for many years and by transporting children to and from school in our "car" pool.  
    Unlike many other SUV's, my Suburban is wider than a full-size automobile, and it's width/height ratio makes it less likely to "roll over" than the vast majority of the small-size automobiles favored by activists such as Bradsher.  I know this from personal experience:  My Suburban successfully and safely made it though a 360-degree spin at nearly 70mph (when I over-steered upon suddenly encountering a road hazard) without rolling over and enabled me to regain control and stop safely without injury to anyone despite my Suburban sustaining damage on both sides and all four corners in colliding with the guard-rail during the 360-degree spin.
    My Suburban also saved my family from an accident on another occasion:  When a very large trunk fell onto the highway in front me in the lane in which I was traveling at approximately 70 mph without room to maneuver into another lane and without time to stop, my Suburban crushed the trunk beneath it rather than being wrecked by it as would have been the case had I been driving a vehicle such as those favored by activists like Bradsher-- i.e., vehicles with hoods barely higher than the trunk my Suburban safely crushed.
    Furthermore, on two separate occasions involving sudden, total blowouts, my Suburban made it easy for me to maintain control, safely decelerate and reach off-road safety to replace the tires.   If activists like Bradsher were not to have successfully lobbied the government to mandate smaller passenger vehicles, there would be fewer people at risk of death today in motor vehicle accidents.  Indeed, in the first two situations described above, if I were to have been driving a vehicle favored by activists like Bradsher, it's highly likely one or more members of my family would have sustained serious or fatal injuries. . --Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com.
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Sept. 16,  2002 PoliSat.Com's Political-Satire/Commentary Daily Update #20020916-01.™©.2002.
The Visions of Gore for 2004..

    We wonder if Joe will deplore
    the recent report Alpha Gore,
    inventor of visions,
    has made a decision
    to run in Two Thousand and Four. ·

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Inspired by a September 15/16, 2002, Drudge report anonymously quoting Gore "insiders" as saying Gore has definitely decided to run in 2004.  Since Joe Lieberman has said he won't run if Gore runs, what will Joe say now? --Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com.
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Sept. 15,  2002 PoliSat.Com's Political-Satire/Commentary Daily Update #20020915-01.™©.2002.
Said Jesse, "Retract 'sexual tourism' or else I'll apply some Venturism.".

    When Reich told Ventura with boorism,
    "In Cuba, avoid 'sexual tourism,' "
    "the Body" told Reich
    "Retract your advice
    or else I'll apply some Venturisms."*

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Inspired by a September 14, 2002, report that Jesse Ventura is demanding an apology from Assistant Secretary of State Otto Reich for cautioning Ventura's delegation to Cuba to avoid "sexual tourism." 
*A caricaturization of Jesse "the Body/Mind" Ventura's demand for an apology.   What's a "Venturism"?  Perhaps it's a verbal, rather than physical, headlock.  --Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com..
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Sept. 14,  2002 PoliSat.Com's Political-Satire/Commentary Daily Update #20020914-01.™©.2002.
Egads, jeepers-creepers-- American sleepers!..

    It seems more Americans studied in drills
    designed by al Qaeda to maim and to kill,
    and then-- jeepers, creepers--
    returning as sleepers,
    it seems they were posing as Buffalo Shills.

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Inspired by September 14, 2002, reports of the arrest of five apparently normal young men in Buffalo, NY on charges that they attended al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan.  . . --Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com.
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Sept. 13,  2002 PoliSat.Com's Political-Satire/Commentary Daily Update #20020913-01.™©.2002.
The written and oral traditions for jobs that require erudition..

    By written and oral traditions
    for jobs that involve erudition,
    it's long been required
    that ev'ryone hired
    be judged in a stiff competition.

    The office in Harlem for Clinton
    tells applicants seeking positions:  
    The time has expired
    'cause Bubba has hired
    an intern for ev'ry position."

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Inspired by a September 13, 2002, New York Daily News article indicating Clinton's office in Harlem is now telling people responding to its ads soliciting applications for internships that "[all] positions have been filled." 
*Could this be a Freudian manifestation of Clintonese?  Click here to learn about the highly effective Hookered on ClinPhonics method for learning to translate Clintonese in the latest edition of the Clinton Liebrary Book.     --Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com..
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Sept. 12,  2002 PoliSat.Com's Political-Satire/Commentary Daily Update #20020912-01.™©.2002.
Delusions of hope to restrain a megalomaniac brain..

    The world merely sounded alarms
    when Hitler began to rearm
    but never took action
    to force a redaction,
    so Hitler expanded his arms.

    Invoking his status as Fόhrer,
    his goals changed from single to plural: 
    The Czechs were step one,
    and once he'd begun,
    the next ones were Poland and Europe.

    Since megalomaniac minds
    of sociopathic design
    succumb to temptations
    and miscalculations,
    success leads to grander designs.

    His conquest of Europe enhanced
    delusions he'd authored the plans
    for Superman Prussians
    to conquer the Russians
    avoiding the fate of Napoleon's plans.
    
    Appeasement had killed his compunctions; 
    success fed delusions he'd function
    as head of an empire
    instead of the quagmire
    that authored his country's destruction.

    Appeasers today claim Saddam
    is not like a Hitler rearmed
    and claim we'd attain
    a way to contain
    Saddam when he's armed with The Bomb.

    To see why appeasers are wrong
    to hope that containing Saddam
    would match our attainment
    of Cold-War containment,
    read-on* to see why they are wrong.   

    Appeasers contend we should not 
    "take on" the regime in Irδq**                  [** i-rδk' rhyming with "clock"]
    until we have gotten
    Usama bin Laden
    and then hooked the dots to Irδq.

    To wait 'til bin Laden we've "got"
    or wait to connect all the dots
    gives time to Saddam
    for building a bomb
    deterring attack on Irδq.

    His nuclear-status attainment
    would limit our choice to containment
    allowing Saddam's
    control of the bomb
    for blackmail, extortion and payments.
    
    And then he'd be free to invade
    a country nearby like Kuwait
    'cause risks to reverse it
    the West would interpret
    as prices too high to be paid.

    Secure in control of Kuwait
    for riches he'd not have to wait,
    and Saudi support
    he'd surely extort
    without any need to invade.
    
    He'd then use atomic extortion
    producing alliance contortions
    to rule an "alliance" 
    compelling compliance
    by Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and Jordan.

    Emboldened, he use an alliance
    supporting the goals of Al Qaedas
    as proxies for war
    with terror employed
    to cripple the Western alliance.

    Al Qaeda would gladly use bombs
    covertly obtained from Saddam
    to cripple the West
    to further the quest
    for "final solutions" desired by Saddam.

    His tactics would not be ethereal
    commencing with weapons bacterial
    covertly provided
    to terrorist guided
    by lust for destruction of Israel.

    Through terror by proxy unbridled
    he'll seek a "solution" that's "final"
    by terrorist funding
    exposing his country
    to risks of Israeli reprisals.

    His megalomaniac mind
    of sociopathic design
    would think he'd survive
    the rubble to rise
    to rule as Saddam the Divine.

    Emboldened, he'd lose all compunction
    in seeking Israeli destruction
    'til miscalculations
    induce conflagration
    exchanging atomic destruction
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*The portion of this update following the red asterisk is a reprise of our September 7, 2002, Update. --Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com..
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September 11, 2002.
Today, we pause to remember the 9-11 victims, honor the heroes and renew our determination to defeat terrorism.  Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com.


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Sept. 10,  2002 PoliSat.Com's Political-Satire/Commentary Daily Update #20020910-01.™©.2002.
Now McEnroe's back in our face to lecture on "losing with grace.".

    Now McEnroe thinks it cachet 
    to formally state his dismay
    that terrorist strikes
    are viewed black & white
    and not viewed in McEnroe "grey."* 

    How little the progress he's made
    as shown by the statements he made
    presuming his fitness
    to speak as a witness
    to educate others on "los[ing] with grace."**         .

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    Inspired by a September 10, 2002, article for the London Telegraph authored and apparently filed by John McEnroe on September 8, 2002, about the aftermath of 9-11, the war on terror and Bush's stated intentions regarding Iraq.  Although the article expresses some obviously laudatory sentiments, the gist of its predominantly sophomoric theme appears in the final sentence: 
**That Americans need to learn "to lose with grace."  What an insulting comment from one of the most spoiled brats of all time.
   
His predominant theme with respect to how we should respond to organizations and/or countries posing terrorist threats is his characterization of the 9-11 attacks on New York and Washington as "the most horrific example" of what he describes as his "shock[ing] dicover[y] that most things in life [are]
*grey [sic]."   To illustrate the "grey[ness]" with which he perceives Al Qaeda's 9-11 attacks on us, he compares their war against us in a morally equivalent way to our assistance to the Afghans in their struggle against conquest of their country by the totalitarian government Reagan presciently predicted to be "destined for the trash heap of history."   Does he likewise consider possession and use of firearms by police and criminals alike to be a valid basis for perceiving mere shades of "grey" [sic] between them?  
    He rightly lauds Giuliani's Churchillian qualities while characterizing what he expects to be a change of position by Bush on Iraq as bowing to "political winds" despite the fact that Guiliani has been supporting Bush's position on Iraq-- Does he think before he writes or isn't his rant just the latest example of juvenile screaming at the officials? 
    --Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com.
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Sept. 9,  2002 PoliSat.Com's Political-Satire/Commentary Daily Update #20020909-01.™©.2002.
A Nine-One-One Conference of London Islamists..

    In London Islamists* have scheduled a conference
    to praise Nine-Eleven as warfare that's wondrous
    so when will there be,
    and where will we see,
    a conference of Muslims condemning that conference?

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Inspired by a September 8, 2002, report in the London Telegraph about the scheduling of an Islamic conference in London on September 11, 2002, to "celebrate" the 9-11 attack. 
*Note, I think Lou Dobbs coined "Islamist" to define radical Muslims and distinguish them from the vast majority of decent Muslims.  I wish that vast "silent majority" of Muslims would stop being so silent. --Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com..
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Sept. 8,  2002 PoliSat.Com's Political-Satire/Commentary Daily Update #20020908-01.™©.2002.
Says Mailer, America's error is how she's reacting to terror..

    Says Mailer, "We're making an error
    in how we're reacting  to terror.
    We ought to adapt
    and learn to accept
    a tolerable level of terror."* 

    A beauty of liberty's symphony--
    that folks full of idiosyncrasy
    are fully protected--
    is proof we've accepted
    a tolerable level of idiocy .

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Inspired by Drudge excerpts from an interview of Normal Mailer in the London Sunday Times in which Mailer implies we're making too much of the 9-11 attacks and should view those deaths the way we view the risks of dying in an automobile accident.  I agree with his premise but not his conclusion.  In other words, I believe that we, like the Brits during the Battle of Britain (click here), must be willing to continue exercising our freedoms by refusing to be deterred by our individual risks of becoming victims the same way we don't let the risks of traffic-accidents deter us from traveling by automobile.  However, just as we exhibit moral outrage at, and exert efforts to reduce the risks of, drunk driving, we are right to exhibit moral outrage at terrorists and exert maximum efforts to defeat them.  We are also right to proudly proclaim our patriotic pride that we are lucky enough to be citizens of the only civilization in history with the means and the will to effectively battle such barbarism-- If not us, who?  For illustrative 9-11 banners, click here
*This is a paraphrasing of quotations of Mailer's comments in the London Sunday Times. --Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com..
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Sept. 7,  2002 PoliSat.Com's Political-Satire/Commentary Daily Update #20020907-01.™©.2002.
Says Bubba "No bombin' 'til catchin' bin Laden"*  [*a paraphrased quotation]..

    Now Bubba contends we should not 
    "take on" the regime in Irδq**                  [**
i-rδk' rhyming with "clock"]
    until we have gotten
    Usama bin Laden
    and then hooked the dots to Irδq.

    To wait 'til bin Laden we've "got"
    or wait to connect all the dots
    gives time to Saddam
    for building a bomb
    deterring attack on Irδq.

    His nuclear-status attainment
    would limit our choice to containment
    allowing Saddam's
    control of the bomb
    for blackmail, extortion and payments.
    
    And then he'd be free to invade
    a country nearby like Kuwait
    'cause risks to reverse it
    the West would interpret
    as prices too high to be paid.

    Secure in control of Kuwait
    for riches he'd not have to wait,
    and Saudi support
    he'd surely extort
    without any need to invade.
    
    He'd then use atomic extortion
    producing alliance contortions
    to rule an " alliance" 
    compelling compliance
    by Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and Jordan.

    Emboldened, he use an alliance
    supporting the goals of Al Qaedas
    as proxies for war
    with terror employed
    to cripple the Western alliance.

    Al Qaeda would gladly use bombs
    covertly obtained from Saddam
    to cripple the West
    to further the quest
    for "final solutions" desired by Saddam.

    His tactics would not be ethereal
    commencing with weapons bacterial
    covertly provided
    to terrorist guided
    by lust for destruction of Israel.

    Through terror by proxy unbridled
    he'll seek a "solution" that's "final"
    by terrorist funding
    exposing his country
    to risks of Israeli reprisals.

    His megalomaniac mind
    of sociopathic design
    would think he'd survive
    the rubble to rise
    to rule as Saddam the Divine.

    Emboldened, he'd lose all compunction
    in seeking Israeli destruction
    'til miscalculations
    induce conflagration
    exchanging atomic destruction .

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Inspired by a September 5, 2002, report of a speech by Clinton in which he argued the US should focus on "beefing up our efforts [against bin Laden and Al Qaeda" while avoiding action against Iraq on the theory that such action now would give Hussein "maximum incentive" to use the "chemical and biological weapons" already "stockpiled" in Iraq.   --Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com.
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Sept. 6,  2002 PoliSat.Com's Political-Satire/Commentary Daily Update #20020906-01.™©.2002.
We're glad Dubya's fin'lly begun to crayfish on pilots with guns..

    We're glad Dubya's fin'lly begun
    to crayfish on pilots with guns
    so terrorists can't
    think chances are scant
    that pilots could stop 'em with guns.

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Inspired by a September 6, 2002, Washington Times report that the Bush administration is reversing course on its prior opposition to arming airline pilots with guns.  See also my May 22, 2002, Daily Update on the subject. --Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com.
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Sept. 5,  2002 PoliSat.Com's Political-Satire/Commentary Daily Update #20020905-01.™©.2002.
Was Bill really plottin' to capture bin Laden?.

    You thought you heard Bubba exclaiming with drama
    he suffered obsession with getting Usama,
    but what he accomplished
    was speaking ClinPhonics*                                      *
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    to state his obsession with getting a sauna .

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Inspired by Clinton's having recently asserted that during his presidency he had a "virtual obsession with [getting Usama]."   However, listening to a recording of his statement at half-speed reveals that he really said "a sauna" rather than "Usama."  Amaze your friends by becoming an expert in translating ClinPhonics and other forms of Clintonese by purchasing the Clinton Li
ebrary Book 2001 Edition., a unique collector's item from the Clinton Era Error.  The "Hookered on Clinphonics" chapter can make you a Master Parser of Clintonese faster than you can say what "is" is.  For more about the book (an ideal gift for a friend or-- even better-- for all your friends), click here.  --Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com..
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Sept. 4,  2002 PoliSat.Com's Political-Satire/Commentary Daily Update #20020904-01.™©.2002.
Why Bubba said "No" to hosting a show..

    "I won't host a talk-show," said Bill.
    His reasons we quickly distilled: 
    He suffered from fright
    at thoughts that he might
    be trapped in the cellar with Phil.*                                        [*
See 20020828 Update.]

    Solutions to troubles for Phil
    could rise from the rubble with Bill: 
    A programming notch
    assuring they're watched: 
    A talk-show that's hosted by Bubba & Phil.

    M-S-N-B-C would be glad to send Phil
    to help C-B-S with a program for Bill
    to alternate posts
    as viewer and host
    on odd/even days between Bubba and Phil
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Inspired by a Sept. 4, 2002, report that Clinton declined a CBS proposal for him to host a daily television talk-show and a Sept. 4, 2002, report about Phil Donahue's ratings approaching negative totals as predicted in my Aug. 28, 2002 Update as well as in my April 3, 2002, prediction (when MSNBC announced plans for Donahue to host a program opposite Bill O'Reilly) that Donahue would be a flop. --Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com.
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Sep. 3,  2002 PoliSat.Com's Political-Satire/Commentary Daily Update #20020903-01.™©.2002.
Potatoes on couches face danger as slouches..

    UN warnings issued to health-care reporters
    reveal folks in danger far greater than smokers: 
    Potatoes on couches
    face danger as slouches,
    who now will hire lawyers for suing Big Sofas.

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Inspired by a Sep. 3, 2002, London Telegraph report that the World Health Organization (WHO) announced findings that a "couch potato lifestyle is worse for your health than smoking." --Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com.
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Sep. 2,  2002 PoliSat.Com's Political-Satire/Commentary Daily Update #20020902-01.™©.2002.
No Update-- Labor Day Holiday.....
--Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com.
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Sep. 1,  2002 PoliSat.Com's Political-Satire/Commentary Daily Update #20020901-01.™©.2002.
No Update-- Labor Day Holiday.....
--Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com.
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