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4A SATURDAY, JULY 22, 2006 39ousttm Mmi\s .IJmmral OPINION Daniel F. Evans Editor and Publisher Julie B. Evans Vice President Don Moncrief Foy S. Evans Managing Editor Editor Emeritus President looking in wrong place President Bush spoke to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People at their annual convention this week for the first time in five years. The President has stayed away from the NAACP conventions since he was insulted and booed the first time he spoke to the organization. This year he went before members of the organization with hat in hand and his support for renewal of the nefarious Voting Rights Act of 1965. Our opposi tion to renew al of this Act is that it ignores the fact that Georgians will be includ ed under Section 5 for things as they were guilty of 40 years ago, a situation that does not exist today. Georgia should be exempt today. Some states that do not measure up today to the test applied in 1965 still will not be included in renewal of the Act for another 25 years without a change, while some states, including Georgia, no longer fail that test today, and should be left out. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Apply standards of the Act across the board to all states and there will be no reason to complain. It is pure demagoguery for the President and members of Congress to pass this law for another 25 years in its present form. They are pandering to black voters and it is ironic that President Bush appar ently believes that doing so will win over blacks to the Republican Party. President Bush received less than 10 percent of the black vote in both of his elections for President. Republicans will be lucky to get that many in the next national elections, regardless of how much he and Congress pander to blacks while selling millions of their constitu ents down the river. An example of how ridiculous Section 5 is when applied to Georgians is the fact that Centerville must receive Justice Department approval to use two voting machines that the county has been using in future elections. Fair is fair and this is not fair. Some Georgia lawmakers have stood in the way of renewal of the Act in its present form for several weeks, but they are just voices in the wilderness. The overwhelming majority of members of Congress of both political parties are willing to insult Georgians and others covered by the Act in the hope that it will get them a few votes in future elec tions. Blacks have a vested interest in the Democratic Party, where they have a disproportionately large influence. Republicans, who believe that they will switch parties are naive, at best. We deplore using millions of Georgians as pawns by self-serving politicians. WORTH REPEATING “Tell my friends to be brave and fearless and loyal to the great common people.” - William Goebel, 1856-1900 Governor of Kentucky (Democrat) Last words, February 1900 Some states that do not measure up today to the test applied in 1965 still will not be Included hi renewal of the Act for another 25 years without a change, while some states, includ ing Georgia, no longer fail that test today, and should be left out. Call centeps offer unwelcome surprise If you have problems con cerning your Medicare Part D prescription insurance you logically will call the company that issued your policy for accurate information. Surprise! The Government Accountability Office says that only 34 percent of the answers you receive from insurance company call cen ters are accurate. Isn’t that encouraging? • • • Don’t you know that President Putin of Russia was thrilled when President Bush of the United States gave him a lecture on the kind of government Russia should have? Bush, like Jimmy Carter before him, just likes to tell leaders of other countries how to run them. It surely isn’t the way to win friends and influence people, and our country cer tainly needs some good will somewhere in the world at this time. • • • Major League Baseball just had its All-Star Game. Did you know that the only two days in the year when no professional sports game is played in this country are the day before and the day after the All-Star Game. SAR&tfT you 3ARWEAP& WfcNGINS'fOUR MEA&sjl UNDE\?OORCON«npTTON^ YOU KNOW YOU AKE id J Hezbollah is not just a headache lop Israel Sheeple thought of the day: “Hezbollah is not my problem.” You think Hezbollah is only Israel’s headache? Wake up. Iranian Hezbollah’s spokes man Mojtaba Bigdeli’s threat on Tuesday to dispatch 2,000 operatives “to every corner of the world to jeopardize Israel and America’s inter ests” is more than just idle Islamic heavy breathing. The Jew-hating terrorists of Hezbollah who call them selves the “party of God” are already here. In America. Plotting attacks. Raising money. Slipping through the cracks. In May, the New York Post reported on Hezbollah’s plans to activate sleeper cells in New York, Los Angeles, Boston and Detroit as the nuclear showdown with Iran heats up. One focal point: “the Iranian Mission to the United Nations, where there have already been three epi sodes in the last four years in which diplomats and securi ty guards have been expelled for casing and photograph ing New York City subways and other potential targets.” Heightened alert comes in the wake of reports that Iranian crackpot president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with Hezbollah leaders in Syria earlier this year. Four years ago, I reported on how information-sharing walls between federal immi gration and law enforcement agencies created a path to citizenship for at least one known Hezbollah member. He walked through our figu rative front door. The then assistant district director for Foy Evans Columnist foyevansl9@cox.net I don’t know where this statistic came from, but it supposedly is accurate. Sixty percent of men say they would marry the same woman if they had it to do all over again. But only 40 percent of the women said they would marry the same man. • • • Why did God take a rib from Adam to create Eve? I’ve heard that it was so that he would have someone to tell him what to do. • • • Some of my friends were talking about which words in the English language rhymed with other words. It got me wondering if there were any words that did not have another that rhymed with it. The best information I can find says that there are no words that rhyme with month, orange, silver and Michelle Malkin Columnist malkin@comcast.net INS investigations in New York City and two FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force offi cials were placed on admin istrative leave when the bungle was discovered. Sources informed me the unidentified Middle Eastern male - now a fel low American - appeared on terrorist watch lists and is a member of the Hezbollah ter rorist organization. Despite numerous calls from adjudi cators in Newark, N.J., han dling the alleged terrorist’s naturalization case, the FBI and INS reportedly did not respond to requests to turn over the individual’s “alien file.” The A-file includes bio graphical and status infor mation and investigative data. It is unclear why INS and the JTTF did not turn over the file, or why the New York office neglected to order the adjudications branch in Newark to put the naturalization process on hold. Why did INS adjudica tors in Newark proceed without viewing the alleged terrorist’s file? Adjudicators to this day remain under intense pressure to meet naturalization “quotas.” Job-performance ratings P'S purple. Do you know of any more? • • • My mother used to lose weight by eating “catabol ic” foods. These are foods which require more calories to digest than are contained in the foods. You can eat all the catabolic foods you like in a day and they will give you less calories than you burn. It works. Celery is a catabolic food. There are many others in the veg etable family. • • • Whether true or not, some scientists say that a human being can live longer with out food than without sleep. Want to try it? • • • Who talks the most - men or women? We men know the answer. Women may not. The answer, according m jJk JHB •*» w* 9H and cash bonuses are based on the number of natural ization approvals processed. It’s standard operating pro cedure. Hezbollah has also enlisted the aid of gullible American women to ease their way into the country. Jessica Yolanda Fortune hooked up with Lebanon born Chawki Youssef Hammoud in 1994. The mar riage enabled him to obtain a green card - and the cover to operate a Charlotte, N.C.- based cell that smuggled cigarettes to raise cash for Hezbollah. The terror cell reportedly answered to a senior Hezbollah leadership in Lebanon and was part of a broader North American network responsible for also obtaining dual-use technolo gies for Hezbollah - includ ing goggles, global position ing systems, stun guns, naval equipment, nitrogen cutters and laser range finders. Fortune was convicted of marriage fraud in October 2001. Hammoud was con victed of smuggling, credit card fraud, money launder ing and racketeering in June 2002. Fortune’s brother-in law, Mohammed Hammoud, married three different HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL to a recent report for which I will not vouch, women speak an average of about 7,000 words a day and men speak about 2,000 words. Sounds about right to anyone who has ever seen a woman using a telephone. • • • Parents of only children should take note of this: An only child never has been elected President of the United States. • • • Has it ever occurred to you how helpless we are with out electricity? The current went off at my home while I was writing this column and everything in the house came to a halt. No air condi tioning. Remote telephones didn’t work. Lost internet access. Televisions went off. It was dark. Food in the freezer was melting. Food in the refrigerator was spoiling. Where are all the flashlights that were all over the house a few days ago? We have become slaves to something we did not have when I was a boy. We had electricity for the first time when I was 12 years old and that was to provide us with power to run a small light bulb hang ing down in the middle of each room. Now our lives come to a halt when the elec tricity goes off. American women. After arriving in the United States on a counterfeit visa, being ordered deported and filing an appeal, he wed Sabina Edwards to gain a green card. INS officials refused to award him legal status after this first marriage was deemed bogus in 1994. He then married Jessica Wedel in May 1997, and while still wed to her, paid Angela Tsioumas to marry him in Detroit. Tsioumas entered a plea agreement in March 2002 on charges of con spiracy. Her “husband” was convicted on 16 counts that included providing mate rial support to Hezbollah. A total of 25 people connected to the ring were nabbed. Does the name “Hammoud” sound famil iar? Earlier this month, the FBI announced the capture of Assem Hammoud - also a Lebanese-born Muslim like the members of the ciga rette-smuggling Hammoud gang. He is suspected of working for al Qaeda on a plot to blow up PATH train tunnels between New Jersey and lower Manhattan with a team of suicide bombers. The 1998 terrorism indict ment of Osama bin Laden notes al Qaeda’s forged alli ances “with the government of Iran and its associated terrorist group Hezbollah.” Together, they’ve killed American servicemen and civilians around the world. Not in your backyard? Think again. Michelle Malkin is author of the new book “Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild. ” Her e-mail address is malkin @comcast. net