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OPINION
Daniel F. Evans
Editor and Publisher
Julie B. Evans
Vice President
Don Moncrief
Managing Editor
Wouldn't you know it?
First we get warned about too much
caffeine intake (and some of us old
fogies thought that was really, really
bad news). Researchers, some years ago, tell
us they believe - but never prove as far as
we know - it’s linked to hypertension.
Subsequently, we start monitoring how
many cups we have, cut down if and/or
when the guilt becomes stronger than the
aroma, or just stop all together out of fear.
We try decaffeinated, or switch to it com-
pletely (some
would dis
agree, but
anyone who’s
been drink
ing coffee for
any amount of
time will argue
until they’re
blue in the
face that there
is a difference
in regard to
taste).
And, of
course, then
what happens?
Researchers at the Byrd Alzheimer’s
Institute in Tampa, Fla., this past week
report that caffeine intake equiva
lent to five cups of coffee a day (“Five”
cups of coffee a day!) in humans, pro
tects Alzheimer’s mice against otherwise
certain memory impairment and reduc
es Alzheimer’s pathology in their brains.
Not only does it protect, they say, but it also
reduces the protein they believe leads to the
disease altogether.
Further, those mice who did have
Alzheimer’s, when given moderate amounts
of caffeine showed improvement, research
ers say, suggesting it could help humans
who are already smitten.
That, the fact it could help present and
future generations, is great news. Super
news.
Our only problem with it? We wish they
would just make up their minds.
It’s like eggs, milk and other products.
One day they’re telling us it’s bad, the next
day it’s good. The next day it’s bad, the next
day it’s good.
Could we just make a decision here?
As far as coffee, if that’s true, we’ll cel
ebrate with the world.
But if they’re wrong ... Well, five cups of
coffee is a lot of coffee.
If they’re wrong, they’re going to leave a
lot of people on “shaky” ground.
Letter to the Editor
Give us an answer Mac
Having heard a recent campaign speech of Mac Collins
Saturday at Sonny’s BBQ I could only wonder if Mac
agrees with our president and secretary of defense about
privatizing one-half of our civil service? This promise of
Rumsfeld is public knowledge and the personnel folks at
RAFB and the AFGE union know about it. Jim Marshall
would never support this proposed privatization but I
think that Mac Collins would! Mac wants to add SIOO
billion dollars to our deficit by abolishing the estate tax!
Then lots of programs for our poor would have to be cut!
Speak to us, MAC!
Frank W. Gadbois, Warner Robins
Worth Repeating
“The hazards of politics come not from campaigns and
elections, as might be supposed, but rather from the
nature of the creature that engages in politics. Ambition,
love, jealousy, hate and the many emotions and reactions
man is heir to frequently affect the course of nation and
world more than principles or circumstances or events.”
James A. Farley, 1888-1976
Chairman, Democratic National Committee
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Foy S. Evans
Editor Emeritus
Further, those who
mice who did have
Alzheimer's, when given
moderate amounts
of caffeine showed
improvement,
researchers say,
suggesting it could
help humans who are
already smitten.
Class of the crop - Carl Sanders
He is as straight as a nurtiber 2
lead wooden pencil. And, at 81
years of age is still Hollywood
handsome. When he arrives in his
chauffeur driven, black Mercedes auto
mobile and exits, at his 600 plus law
yer firm, you have to think: “there’s
a man, a real man, a man who has it
made - even at his age, he has it made.”
Really? But, let me shift. Let me start
over.
I used to hear my grandparents say,
“Georgia is a great state”. I heard my
parents and their friends talk about
what a wonderful state in which we
lived. As a child and young man, I said,
“Georgia is a great state”. We were
wrong. By any objective standards,
my Georgia of the 1940 s and 50s and
60s was not “a great state”. Lots of
problems: unbearable heat (and no air
conditioning), obsession with race and
racial matters (most all of our politics
revolved around race), abysmal trans
portation system, lack of money in our
economy and in our government, etc.
All in all, Georgia was a “backwater
state”.
But, there was, in my opinion, some
thing that Georgia most always had
when I was old enough to know what
was happening - from the time I was
eligible to vote in 1960 until I left the
Georgia General Assembly in 2004.
What that was: outstanding governors.
Generally, governors of which we could
be proud.
Think about some of them: Herman
Talmadge, Ernest Vandiver, Carl
Sanders, Jimmy Carter, George Busbee,
Joe Frank Harris, Zell Miller, Roy
Barnes, and Sonny Perdue. These are
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The kill Bush global jihad mania
Let me sum up in two words how
the unhinged Left copes with
the threat of global jihad: “Kill
Bush!”
On the fifth anniversary week of
the September 11 attacks, the anger
of entertainment industry liberals
and anti-war zealots is directed not
at Islamic terrorists telling us to con
vert or die. Not at American al Qaeda
operative Adam Gadahn smirking at
our country’s pain and praising the
throat-slitting, children-incinetating
hijackers as “strong-willed men.”
No, their thoughts are not focused
on killing jihadists. Their dreams lie
with killing George W. Bush. The main
streaming of presidential assassination
chic is on.
In her new book, “Peace Mom,” Cindy
Sheehan confesses on page 29 that she
has imagined going back in time and
killing the infant George W. Bush in
order to prevent the Iraq War. It’s
the moonbat version of pre-emption.
Sheehan admits she has entertained
this infanticidal fantasy “often." That
ice-cream-and-coffee hunger strike is
getting to her head.
Meanwhile, our friends in Canada cel
ebrated the screening of a new kill-Bush
fictional documentary at the Toronto
International Film Festival. “Death of
a President,” a British mockudrama,
is set in the fall of 2007 and looks
back at the impact on America after
President Bush is assassinated as he
leaves the Sheraton Hotel in Chicago.
The 90-minute feature explores who
could have planned the murder, with
a Syrian-born man wrongly accused of
the crime.
The movie director, Gabriel Range,
produced a similar tinfoil hat retro
spective fake documentary about a
terrorist strike that turns out to be an
inside job wrongly blamed on a Saudi
Larry
Walker
Columnist
lwalker@whgb-law.com
the ones I knew and, as to six of them,
were governors with whom I worked.
Outstanding.
As a group, they would measure
well against any state governors from
the 1950’s thru the end of the cen
tury. Truly, Georgia has had outstand
ing governors. Jimmy Carter reorga
nized state government and became
President of the United States. Busbee
brought foreign investment to Georgia
and made ours an international state.
Harris gave us Q.B.E. Miller gave us
HOPE and transformed our univer
sity system. Barnes dealt with sev
eral difficult issues (he will be kindly
treated by history). Perdue is making
state government much more efficient
and deserves to be included with our
other great governors. Pretty good.
Impressive. Pretty darn good!
But what about Carl Sanders? What
about the man who served one term
(1963 to 1967) and was defeated when
he ran for re-election against Jimmy
Carter. Yes, what about 81-year-old
Carl Sanders? Good looking, wealthy,
rail-thin Carl Sanders? This is my opin
ion. This is my verdict. Carl Sanders
was the outstanding Georgia governor
of the last half of the 20th Century!
Michelle
Malkin
Columnist
malkin@comcast.net
trader.
Range stalked the president to gath
er footage for the movie, according to
the Los Angeles Times, and gained
access to film Bush’s arrival in Chicago
earlier this year for a speech at the
Economic Club of Chicago.
He also filmed anti-war rallies, faked
others and staged a 14-car presidential
motorcade sequence with hundreds of
extras posing as protesters, shouting
anti-war slogans. The film crew hid
behind the acronym “DOAR” Range
explained. “We called the film ‘DOAP’
and very few people ever asked us what
it stood for. To those who did ask, we
said it stood for ‘Death of a President’
and it was a fictional film, the small
distinction being that the president
wasn’t exactly fictional.”
Right. What are a few white lies when
you are creating a murder-Bush mas
terpiece? Tastefully done, of course.
While blame-America Brits and
Canadians munch their popcorn and
soak in President Bush’s fake blood
on the silver screen, no one can top
our own homegrown moonbats in their
hatred of George W. Bush. Malachy
McCourt - Green Party candidate for
the New York governorship and broth
er of author Frank McCourt - earned
“Hardball” loon Chris Matthews’ praise
for voicing his anti-Bush assassination
fascination on national TV (thanks to
Newsßusters.org for the tip-off):
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Among many other things, Carl
Sanders changed Georgia’s image. As
the first “new South” governor, it was
extremely important. We didn’t go the
way of George Wallace and Alabama.
We went the way of Carl Sanders and
Georgia. That’s when Georgia began
to change. That’s when industries
starting moving to our state. That’s
when our economy started to improve.
That’s when we began the transition
from a “backwater state” to a “great
state”.
And, make no mistake about it. Carl
Sanders was in charge when he was
our governor. He ran things. And all of
us who call ourselves ‘Georgians’ are
better for it. Yes, he was the best of an
outstanding group.
You say, “he has it made”? Really? As
good as he was when he ran the second
time, his outstanding performance was
rewarded with defeat at the hands of
Jimmy Carter. So, what did he do? He
founded one of the premier law firms
in the country. Perhaps in the world.
And just a few weeks ago, Gov. Sanders
and his wife, Betty Foy Sanders, lost
a 25-year-old grandson to cancer. So
what will they do? They’ll go forward
and cope. They will hold their heads
up. They will achieve. And they will
love their many friends and family
even more.
Carl Sanders is made of good stuff.
You don’t get to be Georgia’s outstand
ing governor of the last half of the 20th
Century unless you are.
■ This was my article in the July,
2006 edition of James Magazine. It is
re-printed here with permission of the
Managing Editor of James Magazine.
Matthews: ‘“Look, let me ask you
this. Where are you on capital punish
ment?”
Malachy McCourt: “Capital punish
ment? I think that if, if I’ve got to
find that guy in Spain who indicted
Pinochet and get him for war crimes,
and I get him to do the same thing for
Bush. And in that case, I would be for
capital punishment. Otherwise, I am
against it... “
Matthews, at the close of the inter
view, guffawed: “Well, I had to tell
you, I hereby make my stand, I like
you already. Malachy McCourt, Green
Party candidate.”
Bloody Bush Derangement Syndrome
isn’t new. But September 11 and the
campaign season do seem to have exac
erbated the symptoms. And the com
mercial success and social acceptability
of “Kill Bush” literature, talk radio
rhetoric and art on the Left is on the
rise. From Sarah Vowell’s best-sell
ing murder travelogue of assassinated
Republican presidents, “Assassination
Vacation,” to Nicholson Baker’s
“Checkpoint,” a novella conversation
between two people about the advis
ability of assassinating Bush, to mock
stamp art exhibits depicting Bush with
a gun to his head, to anti-war plac
ards featuring a decapitated Bush with
blood dripping from his neck, acute
BDS underscores the complete intellec
tual and moral bankruptcy of the Left
in America and around the globe.
Jihadists are gunning for Bush, our
troops and innocent civilians at home
and abroad. But when it comes to how
they would combat the true menaces
to the West, all the kill-Bush crowd can
shoot are blanks.
Michelle Malkin is author of the new
book “Unhinged: Exposing Liberals
Gone Wild.” Her e-mail address is
malkinQiconcast.net.