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Archives-- Installments for  March 1 through 10, 2005, starting below in reverse chronological order.

Mar. 10, 2005--

Media wish good luck to Captain Bob Schieffer, who may be able to keep the U.S.S. See BS from sinking after dropping the Rather over-sized anchor.

            Rumors are that Bob Schieffer may become the "heir" to Dan Rather's anchor chair.  Schieffer tries to be fair, but he'll need a lot of right-full rudder to reverse the perpetually counter-clockwise direction of the U.S.S. See BS News, which, without the oversized anchor may be able to stay afloat despite having struck an iceberg.

            Schieffer is a decent man, but what CBS News ought to do is to hire Roger Mudd, but maybe he's too fond of working at the History Channel.  Charles Osgood would be another good choice.  There were rumors that CBS wanted to hire Katie Couric, but to do that would simply maintain the counter-clockwise drift.

            In the meantime, good luck to Capt. Bob Schieffer, who never lost his common sense.  To be sure, his views are not to the right of center, but neither are Tim Russert's views, yet he manages to be fair most of the time and it's obvious that he tries hard to do so.

--Jim Wrenn, Editor at PoliSat.Com.

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Mar. 9, 2005--

Dan Rather resigns as CBS News Anchor in wake of MemoGate or RatherGate, but worldwide media find Dan Rather certain he did not have fraudulent relations with that source, Mary Mapes.

            Today, on the occasion of Dan Rather's resignation as Anchor at CBS News, PoliSat.Com presents its own historical perspective on Rather.  Much of the information is at http://PoliSat.Com/RatherBlather.htm.  We're also publishing additional, serious commentary on the subject by John H. Wambough, Jr., titled, "Dan Rather’s Attack on President Bush’s Military Service Rested on Left-Wing Media’s Contrived Myths," for which the temporary news-database link is here and the permanent archival link is here.

            Also, with permission of a gifted editorial cartoonist, Mike DeAdder, PoliSat.Com displays what I think is probably the best editorial cartoon about the effect of "MemoGate" a.k.a. "RatherGate" on Dan Rather's career.  In giving permission, Mike certainly does not purport to endorse PoliSat.Com views or commentaries-- rather, he graciously accepted PoliSat.Com's request to display the cartoon to give it special recognition.  The cartoon appears below via the following direct link to his site:  http://deadder.net/dNews/cartoons0105/d50112b.jpg.

To visit Mike DeAdder's site, click the image above or go to http://deadder.net.  People interested in acquiring prints of his cartoons may do so at his site.

            Here's a mega-animation (all silent*) titled " Rather Backward" that consolidates into a single retrospective animation all the recent animations by PoliSat.Com about Dan Rather.  It may take a while to watch, but it's worth it.  (*The "Rather Certain" animation with sound must remain separate.)  To view "Rather Backward," click the image to the right.

            Today, we're also reprising the video-clip of Dan Rather rehearsing for his resignation for his final appearance tonight as Anchor of the CBS News, which video clip (see below) PoliSat.Com's obtained through the clandestine work of its Washington Bureau Drawer Chief using PoliSat.Com's high-tech, remote-sensing equipment.

--Jim Wrenn, Editor at PoliSat.Com.

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Mar. 9, 2005--

Special Guest Commentary:

Dan Rather’s Attack on President Bush’s Military Service Rested on Left-Wing Media’s Contrived Myths.

Click image at left to view commentary.

by Col. John H. Wambough, Jr. (USAF Ret.)

Mar. 8, 2005--

Media world finds Dan Rather certain he did not have fraudulent relations with that source, Mrs. Maples, so he needs to get back to the work of informing the people on 60 Minutes.

            As Dan Rather prepares to formally retire as the CBS News Anchor (and in this case, "Anchor" is literally correct), the media world finds Dan Rather certain he did not have fraudulent relations with that source, Mrs. Maples, so he needs to get back to the work of informing the people on 60 Minutes.  Paraphrasing his most beloved political role model, Rather said, "I am not a partisan hack."  However, even though Rather adamantly insists he is not a politically biased reporter, most media observers know that for decades he has been a reported political bias.   When he began to Anchor CBS News decades ago, many Northeasterners doubted the country could adjust to his accent, but he soon overcame it with his unique way of communicating, which became known as Rather-Blather.

            In anticipation of Rather's retirement on March 9, 2005, PoliSat.Com's Washington Bureau Drawer Chief used PoliSat.Com's high-tech, remote-sensing equipment to capture a video clip from Dan Rather's "testimony" before the panel appointed by CBS to investigate the infamous 60 Minutes broadcast of patently fraudulent "documents" from George Bush's National Guard record.  (More on that tomorrow.)   To view the short video segment, click the "Rather Certain" image to the left (or click the larger image below labeled for video clip with sound).

             The doting Walter Cronkite marked the eve of Rather's retirement as an occasion to express amazement that CBS News hadn't replaced rather more than a decade ago.  PoliSat.Com was unable to reach Roger Mudd, widely recognized when Cronkite retired decades ago as the most suitable replacement for Cronkite, but, alas, Mudd had alienated the politically correct crowd at CBS News when, during his interview of Ted Kennedy during Kennedy's campaign in the 1980 primaries against Jimmy Carter, he did the unthinkable-- he asked Kennedy to do what any fair-minded reporter would have known to have been a "below the belt" question-- i.e., he asked Kennedy to explain why he wanted to be president.  Of course Kennedy's embarrassing inability to answer the question all but destroyed his chances against even the feckless Jimmy Carter, and, of course, Mudd's having deigned to ask such a question planted great anxiety in the minds of the brass at CBS News that Mudd might not be a "team player" or might even be a potentially future red-stater.  

            The burning question today is whether Rather's parting words will paraphrase another great line from his political role-model:  "Well, you won't have Dan Rather to kick around anymore."  Or, will he paraphrase Douglas MacArthur:  "Old Anchors never die, they just drag the ships to the bottom."

--Jim Wrenn, Editor at PoliSat.Com.

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Just a 'toon for today--

--Jim Wrenn, Editor at PoliSat.Com.

March 5, 2005--

Special Commentary:

Special Commentary:-- Exit Polls 2000 and 2004-- 

Statistical Analysis of Disinformation Exit Polls-- Part IV. 

(Part V of VIII Part Series)

Commentary by Col. John H. Wambough, USAF (Ret).

Editor's Note:  Delays in PoliSat.Com's publication of the various parts in this eight-part series furnished to PoliSat.Com by Col. Wambough in early January, 2005, are attributable to scheduling problems by PoliSat.Com, for which the Editor sincerely apologizes.

--Jim Wrenn, Editor at PoliSat.Com.

Mar. 4, 2005--

Martha Stewart's release from prison sparks proposals for new laws to criminalize bad puns about Martha Stewart and honor the best ones in the world-wide "Martha Stewart Pun Contest."

            On Mars, Martha Stewart's perceived as one who from Venus did leave to live not on Mars but rather where bars could keep her from sight on TeeVee.  The respite, though short, has been nice for husbands whose wives had the vice of wanting to be like Martha indeed, but now she's no longer "on ice."  So how should her fans and detractors respond to release by her captors?  The answers for some are limericks or puns in blogs by her fans or detractors.  

            The Saga of Martha inspired more puns than we need or desire.  A few are sublime, but most would be crimes, if linguists made laws they desired.  All blogs, but a few, have a place where news about Martha's displayed, so go to your blog to post or to log the puns, best or worst, for display.  So search-engine robots can glean with one search all puns to be seen as weak or robust, your blog-title must add "PSCMSPC."

            Since PoliSat-Com has conceived this contest, results can be gleaned through Google-Dot-Com at PoliSat-Com slash PSCMSPC.º¹·  Then PoliSat-Com will promote a way for all bloggers to vote to love or detest the worst and the best, but Martha, the felon, can't vote.  In case you prefer the design of comments that nat'rually rhyme, read-on for this text repeated and set according to rhythm and rhyme.

PSCMSPC-- PoliSat.Com's Martha Stewart Pun Contest.

On Mars, Martha Stewart's perceived 
as one who from Venus did leave 
to live not on Mars 
but rather where bars 
could keep her from sight on TeeVee.  

The respite, though short, has been nice 
for husbands whose wives had the vice 
of wanting to be 
like Martha indeed, 
but now she's no longer "on ice."  

So how should her fans and detractors 
respond to release by her captors?  
The answers for some 
are limericks or puns 
in blogs by her fans or detractors.

The Saga of Martha inspired
more puns than we need or desire.
A few are sublime,
but most would be crimes,
if linguists made laws they desired.

All blogs, but a few, have a place
where news about Martha's displayed,
so go to your blog
to post or to log
the puns, best or worst, for display.

So search-engine robots can glean
with one search all puns to be seen
as weak or robust,
your blog-title must
add "PSCMSPC."

Since PoliSat-Com has conceived
this contest, results can be gleaned
through Google-Dot-Com
at PoliSat-Com
slash PSCMSPC.º¹·

Then PoliSat-Com will promote
a way for all bloggers to vote
to love or detest
the worst and the best,
but Martha, the felon, can't vote.  

        To learn how to use your own blog to enter your own, or someone else's, pun (or rhyme) about Martha Stewart in this contest, go to PoliSat.Com's Martha Stewart Pun Contest pageº¹ and follow the instructions.  Feminine Felon (mine-- today), Domestic Diva, Kitchen Queen, Self-Cooking Goose (mine), Queen of Mean, Homemaking Harlot, Hamptons Hussy, Princess of the Pokey, -- gotta stop now-- I need to resume my daily task of de-Marthifying my wife's domestic handiwork by cluttering the countertops, leaving the lid up, un-emptying all ash trays, hiding the front-porch flag of "the season," dropping unwashed socks and underwear strategically in the foyer, leaving unfinished snacks on dishes to harden while also cluttering the family room, placing at least one empty beer can on each end-table and coffee table, etc. ... so much to do and so little time to do it-- after all, I am from Mars.

   
º¹·http://PoliSat.Com/PSCMSPC.htm.

--Jim Wrenn, Editor at PoliSat.Com   

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Mar. 3, 2005--

Supreme Court allows death penalty for victims of juvenile killers-- Effects of that 5-4 decision will increase the number of victims of murderous schemes by under-18 offenders who'd risk killing victims.

            One struggles in vain to find good judgment in the 5-4 decision of the Supreme Court to arbitrarily rule that no one under eighteen is capable of sufficient moral judgment to face the risk of evidence to rebut a presumption that they lack such judgment with respect to whether they should be deemed potentially liable for the death penalty upon proof of sufficient aggravating circumstances.  One recognizes that the setting of any age limit for the purpose of a legal classification unavoidably will-- in some small but irreducible percentage of cases-- seem, if not be, arbitrary.  One recognizes also that in setting such age limits for the purpose of preventing death or injury, a legislature would want to err on the side of minimizing such risks-- thus, the fact that many teenagers may be capable of being competent drivers years before the age limit established by law exemplifies a context in which the legislature may sensibly apply an arbitrary age-limit threshold rather than a rebuttable presumption that teens below a specified age could qualify for a driver's license.  

            However, common sense dictates that the goal of minimizing the risks of innocent people being murdered by criminals under eighteen (in contrast to being killed by incompetent drivers below the age-limit for driving) would require the legislature to err on the opposite side in establishing the age below which a murder would be too young to be deemed sufficiently morally responsible to face the risks of possible liability for the death penalty on the basis of evidence sufficient to rebut a presumption of the absence of such level of moral responsibility.  Instead, the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision maximizes the risks of innocent deaths by arbitrarily making it a conclusive presumption that no one under eighteen is capable of such moral responsibility.  Thus, the Court has given the "green light" to gang rituals requiring teens to commit murder as an initiation rite into the gang.  The Court has relieved hardened criminals under age eighteen of the fear that committing murder might expose them to the death penalty.  This is not only judicial legislation rather than adjudication, but it's also dangerous legislation that will, of necessity, lead to an increase in the number of, rather than to minimize the risks of, murders by criminals under eighteen.

Death Penalty for Common Sense.

The penalty ordering death
for viciously ending the breath
of innocent lives
no doubt has comprised
deterrence of some who'd cause death.

This argument doesn't depend
on science but mere common sense
that some, if not many,
with motives for killing
would choose to subdue them with sense.

That some aren't deterred by the fear
that death is the sentence they'd hear,
does not mean that many
do not avoid killing
for fear that such sentence they'd hear.

So therefore, one cannot deny
that fear of such death has comprised
--though not without erring--
a factor deterring
the murder of innocent lives.

And thus, we know rules to exclude
that death be a sentence to choose
would add to the till
decisions to kill
that folks fearing death wouldn't choose.

But rules for deciding the age
when choices for murdering made
could not be perceived
as choices conceived
by grown-ups, of course, must be made.

It's true rules we're forced to devise
on "age" to save innocent lives--
like rules setting higher
the age to be drivers
though younger ones safely could drive.

In contrast, procedures devised
the save the most innocent lives
from murderous rage,
presumptions on age
should err on the opposite side.

And thus the Supreme Court's decision
by fiat requiring excision
of rules to rebut
that not-yet-adults
could not deserve death needs rescission.

Effects of that Five-Four decision
will increase the number of victims
of murderous schemes
by under-eighteen
offenders who'd risk killing victims.

--Jim Wrenn, Editor at PoliSat.Com.

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Mar. 1, 2005--

In wake of car-bomb in Hillah, Iraq, thousands of Iraqis condemn "Wahhabism" rather than the West; NeoCons at the Gates welcome what Neo-Arabians Speak in Neo-Arabian Streets.

            In the wake of the car-bomb murder of 125 Iraqis waiting in line in Hillah outside a clinic to undergo physicals as new recruits for the Iraqi National Guard and Iraqi Police, a crowd of 2,000 spontaneously assembled to protest the car-bombing.  Did they chant against George Bush or Tony Blair or the Coalition forces?  No-- They chanted "No to terrorism" and "No to Baathism and Wahhabism." (Emphasis added.)   It's hard to know whether their protests are more stressful to the Saudi royalty or Michael Moore and other Hollywood Leftists of his ilk.  Probably equally stressful to them all.  

Neo-Arabians Speak in Neo-Arabian Streets.

What's new in Arabian streets?
The words of the "man in the street"
spread Neo-Arabian
freedom contagions
in Neo-Arabian Streets.

When freedom first toppled Saddamists,
the "man in the street" as a novice
at Baathists first booed,
then terrorists too,
but now he is booing Wahhabists.

That Arabs would boo the Wahhabists
said critics were mere hyperbolic
predictions Bush spoke
while breathing the smoke
from "pipe-dreams" of "NeoCon sophists."

But now that the "man in the street"
in "Neo-Arabian" speaks,
like bricks what he speaks
is re-paving streets
as "Neo-Arabian Streets."

            Perhaps this would be a good time for Americans (and especially those of Arab ancestry) to commence similar protests outside the Saudi-run "high school" in Northern Virginia from which the American-born Saudi now accused of offering to organize an al Qaeda attempt to assassinate George W. Bush graduated as a "valedictorian" in Wahhabism.  Where is Prince Bandar?  When will he find it in his interests and the interests of the rest of the Saudi Royal family to end support for the medieval, terroristic philosophy exemplified by Wahhabism?  

            Who in Saudi Arabia will stand against the fanatics?  Probably few other than women courageous enough to challenge such medieval form of patriarchy.  Is there a female "underground" in Saudi Arabia?  Can women who courageously and surreptitiously organized against the Taliban in Afghanistan become covert operatives in Saudi Arabia?  Are these foolish questions to ask?  Was it foolish in 1989 to ask whether the Berlin Wall might fall?  Who would have predicted a year ago that a massive movement "in the streets" of Lebanon would peacefully coerce the puppet government of Lebanon controlled by Syria into dissolving?  Who would have predicted that rival Lebanese factions would so quickly surrender their symbols of division in favor of waving the red, white and green flag of Lebanon?  Surely they have in part been inspired by the Orange Revolution in the Ukraine, but recent comments by the Lebanese leader, Walid Jumblat, a previously virulent opponent of Bush's policy in Iraq, indicated that the Iraqi election played the vital inspirational role, which Jumblat equated with seeing the "Berlin Wall coming down."

            Who would have predicted the Rose Revolution in Georgia?  Who would have predicted the Orange Revolution in the Ukraine?  Who skillfully and deftly supported both those revolutions in ways reminiscent of the skillful and deft way the Reagan Administration smoothed the way for transition from dictatorial rule to a fledgling democracy in the Philippines?  Who?  Those "NeoCons" in Dubya's administration, that's who.

--Jim Wrenn, Editor at PoliSat.Com.

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