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TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2006
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OPINION
Daniel F. Evans
Editor and Publisher
Julie B. Evans
Vice President
Don Moncrief
Managing Editor
Fish fry is big success
Sonny’s fish fry Saturday was a big
success. More than 2,000 turned
out for the event and provided our
governor with the kind of support he
deserves from the home folks.
Promoters of the fish fry wisely kept
the price low enough that average citi
zens could afford to attend.
An indication of the importance of
the event, which is in its third year,
was the presence of so many statewide
and regional Republican candidates who
made sure to attend and be seen, as well
as heard.
It is obvious
by the way
that Sonny
Perdue
responds to
the crowd,
as well as
the way they
respond to
him, that this
is an event
he relishes.
Knowingthat
the home
folks are sol
idly behind
him certain
ly must give
him a lift.
Other events on behalf of the governor
are held throughout the year in Houston
County, where the well heeled can con
tribute substantially to his campaign.
The fish fry is just a good old-fash
ioned political gathering where the gen
eral public can be a part of Sonny’s cam
paign.
And there was no doubt at the fish fry
that they were solidly behind him in his
campaign for reelection.
The Middle East quagmire
The United States and France got
together and crafted a resolution
to offer the UN in the hope it can
bring about a cease-fire between Israel
and Hezbollah.
The resolution may be adopted, but
there is little chance it will result in a
cease-fire anytime soon.
Israel clearly understands that any
thing less than total defeat of Hezbollah
will be a victory for the terrorists, as
their leader has proclaimed.
Lebanon doesn’t like the resolution,
either.
So if it is adopted it probably will be
like so many United Nations resolu
tions, a lot of noble sounding words of no
importance or impact.
No one can predict where the fighting
in the Middle East will lead. Already in
the past 30 years there have been sev
eral “lasting peace” agreements between
Israel and its enemies. The peace has
lasted only until someone wanted to start
shooting or blowing people up again.
The present conflict may end in another
proclamation of “lasting peace”, but real
ists know that there never will be such a
thing in the volatile Middle East.
Meanwhile, there is Iraq, which seem
ingly has been put on the back burner.
Two United States generals told a con
gressional committee that civil war is
breaking out in Iraq, which should pro
vide fodder for the anti-war activists who
want to cut and run.
The whole Middle East situation is
a real cause for concern and so far
an honorable end is not in sight.
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It is obvious by the
way that Sonny Perdue
responds to the crowd,
as well as the way
they respond to him,
that this is an event he
relishes. Knowing that
the home (oiks are
solidly behind him
certainly must give him
amt.
Turning elections into lotteries
Arizona is considering turning
elections into lotteries. The plan
calls for everyone who votes
receiving a chance to win $1 million.
That’s a sure way to get people to vote.
Why would you want people to vote if
they go to the polls only for a chance to
win a lottery?
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The Air Force has decided to keep
a two-star general at each of the Air
Logistics Centers, after all. It only goes
to show how sound logic can carry the
day, if it is backed up by a powerful
United States Senator named Orin
Hatch.
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I met a woman a few days ago who
was looking forward to her husband’s
return home from Iraq Saturday. He is
completing his fourth tour of duty in
Iraq and, after some additional train
ing in the States, he expects to be sent
back there again. Did someone say we
must be running short of combat ready
personnel?
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While Centerville is making plans for
a unique downtown, someone might
Figure a way to get the garbage trucks
and maintenance equipment storage
area off its main street - Houston Lake
Road. It’s a real eyesore.
©2006 CREATORS SYNDICATE, WC
Watching the Theater of Jihad
Welcome to the marquee perfor
mance of “Qana: The Fraud
and the Furious,” brought to
you by the Acting Guild of the Religion
of Perpetual Outrage.
The drama unfolded over the week
end with mob scenes across the Muslim
world, ostensibly - ostensibly - in
response to civilian deaths in Qana,
Lebanon. Angry Muslims from Beirut
to Gaza to Lahore set fire to American
and Israeli flags. They burned effigies
of Western leaders. They raised their
voices in chants of “Death to America”
and “Death to Israel.”
The nervous nellies sitting in the
world’s balcony seats exclaimed that
the tragedy in Qana will make the
Muslims hate us more. But if the
uproar over the accident in Qana - an
Israeli exception to the Hezbollah rule
- sounds like a tired old re-run to you,
well, it is.
This ongoing production utilizes
the same talented field of Jew-haters
and West-haters and flag-burners and
machete-wielders who brought you
worldwide months of manufactured
rage over the Mohammed cartoons,
crazed riots in Nigeria over the Miss
World pageant, sharia-approved mur
ders in Somalia of World Cup soc
cer fans, the fictional Jenin “mas
sacre,” the fable of Mohammed al-
Dura, and ululating protests over the
corrupting influences of “The Satanic
Verses,” Theo van Gogh, Kentucky
Fried Chicken and McDonald’s, the
sacrilegious Burger King ice-cream
swirl, Valentine’s Day and Piglet from
“Winnie the Pooh.”
The truth about Muslim outrage
over Qana is that it’s not really about
the tragic deaths at Qana - just like
the Mohammed cartoon jihad was not
really about the cartoons. It’s a pre
text for much grander goals to defeat
OPINION
Columnist SBj
foyevansl9@cox.net BUk- .SI
How many of you remember when
Warner Robins had such a hard time
persuading people to move here? Do
you remember the sign that Ed Bayer
(Warner Robins Supply) erected on
Highway 247 for base workers to read
on their home?
It said: “If You Lived Here You Would
Already Be Home.” Now people are
coming by the thousands to Warner
Robins and Houston County seeking a
better place to live.
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I see grandparents come into a res
taurant early in the morning with a
grandchild and grinning. It might be
interesting to see them late in the day.
Smiles might have turned into grimac
es after a full day of trying to keep up.
One grandmother told me. “I just
can’t wait for my grandchildren to
arrive and I can’t wait for their parents
to pick them up.”
Michelle
Columnist
malkm@comcast.net
the infidels -- be they Israeli, Danish,
Dutch or American.
Remember: Muslim riots over the
Mohammed cartoons printed by the
Danish Jyllands-Posten newspaper
last fall were manufactured amid
attempts to bully Denmark over the
International Atomic Energy Agency’s
decision to report Iran to the UN
Security Council for continuing with
its nuclear research program. Iran
blamed Israel for the cartoons in a
speech marking the 27th anniversary
of the Islamic Revolution.
Now, the Qana jihad, gleefully stoked
by Iran, is unfolding amid mount
ing UN Security Council pressure on
Tehran to suspend its nuclear pro
gram. What better way to distract from
Hezbollah’s atrocities and Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad’s annihilate-the-Jews
plans than to start screaming about
Israel’s “war crimes” and Western
crimes against humanity?
As we watch Hezbollah’s horrible
parade of dead children in Qana replay
endlessly on television, here is a sugges
tion for all the intrepid American jour
nalists gallivanting with Hezbollah’s
handlers in the region: Perhaps you
could put down the figurative hookah
pipes, take off your sympathy hajibs
and find out the identity of the green
helmeted guy holding up baby corpses
in Qana as props for your sensational,
page-one pictures.
Is he just an ordinary bystander?
HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL
Now that Perry city officials have
realized that they better get busy
annexing as much land as they can
their city limits soon will resemble
those of Warner Robins.
It is grow or get left behind and,
apparently, Perry’s city officials don’t
want to be victims of the stampede.
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It would be good if all city and county
zoning and engineering could be han
dled through central offices. Codes are
not the same now and it would be good
to have one code for all developments
in the county.
There are some good and bad fea
tures in all four zoning and building
codes now in existence. Engineering
from one office would be beneficial if
applications were handled efficiently
and speedily. If it takes more people
than today, find a way to pay for the
extra costs through some kind of fees.
It would be worth' it to developers and
builders.
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I believe that newspapers and tele
vision perform a good public service
when they provide pictures of crimi
nals and suspects. Otherwise, how can
the public respond when told to report
to law enforcement officers if one of
the suspects is sighted?
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A rescuer who just happened to be in
the same place 10 years ago, traipsing
around with dead children’s bodies to
exploit an accidental Israeli bombing
prompted by terrorists hiding behind
civilians? A civilian volunteer or a pro
paganda producer?
To his credit, MSNBC reporter
Richard Engel picked up on a ques
tion the blogosphere has been asking
since the toddler corpse-paraders in
Qana took center stage: Where were
all the men? His reporting under
scores Hezbollah’s evil m.o. - embed
ding themselves in civilian populations
to force exactly the kind of tragic
error from Israel that appears to have
occurred at Qana. “[W]e went house
to house in trying to figure out where
all the young men were. It seems that
some of them were fighters, some of
them were Hezbollah members that
were out - this according to Hezbollah
people who didn’t want to be inter
viewed but we convinced them to talk
to us.”
To the photographer-stenographers
who were herded to the scene eight
hours after the strike, why is it that
the bodies of the children were already
in a state of rigor mortis? How to
explain the sparkling clean pacifier
clipped onto a dust-covered toddler
carried around by the friendly corpse
parader? And why were the women
and children kept in the building for so
long? Questions abound. Answers are
as scarce as men in that Qana build
ing.
“All the world’s a stage,” Shakespeare
wrote. The journalists of our age have
chosen their costumes: court jesters in
the Theater of Jihad.
Michelle Malkin is author of the new
book “Unhinged: Exposing Liberals
Gone Wild.” Her e-mail address is
malkin @comcast. net.