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4A ♦ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2006 (Ttr K Houston Home if QU| t smtnm 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 Send your Letters to the Editor to: The Houston Home Journal P.O. Box 1910 • Perry, Ga 31069 or Email: hhj@evansnewspapers.com 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 \' - ■ t-.'jjj j j - *. ' 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): f|Lj| fr- * THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL 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.