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♦ SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 2007
4A
Houston Baity journal
OPINION
Daniel F. Evans
President
Editor and Publisher
Julie B. Evans
Vice President
Group Marketing
Don Moncrief
Managing Editor
Restored state maps a
welcome move
You probably read or heard yesterday
or the day before that the Georgia
Department of Transportation has
decided to restore some of the smaller com
munities back onto the state’s map listing.
The agency had wiped them off to make
the map more legible, the result of which
was a public outcry - including from Gov.
Sonny Perdue who asked they be added
back.
“I had the great pleasure this year to
travel around the state on the campaign
trail and meet Georgians from all walks of
life,” Perdue
said. “While
we have a
wonderfully
diverse state,
a common
thread that
I recognized
throughout
Georgia is
our citizens’
pride in their
communities.
Being from
a small town
myself, I know the personal connection
that each citizen feels with his or her
town. I think this feeling even tends to
increase as the size of the town decreases.”
Here’ one more take - this from one our
Houston Daily Journal employees, manag
ing editor Don Moncrief, who spent 20 years
in the Air Force and takes his approach
from that angle.
“I remember when as a young GI -1 guess
it would be in the late 80s, early 90s - that
it seemed like every map I looked at did not
have Warner Robins listed on it. I couldn’t
believe it. I mean I knew Warner Robins
wasn’t as big as it is now but I still couldn’t
believe it wasn’t on there.”
“To make matters worse, Macon was. I
have nothing against Macon. I happen to
like Macon. But I, like many Gls and trav
elers alike who’ve changed addresses (and
states) - was proud of where I came from.
It was frustrating when you were trying
to make new friends and were asked: ‘So,
where are you from?’
‘Georgia.’
‘Georgia. Whereabouts?’
‘Warner Robins.’
‘Warner Robins? Where’s that?’
‘Do you know where Macon is?’
‘Yeah, I know where Macon is.’
‘Well, it’s about 20 minutes south.’
‘Oh ... OK!’
“See? That must have happened to me a
dozen times if it happened once. It was frus
trating as I’ve already mentioned and it was
degrading (to me). It would be no different
if the roles were reversed.”
‘Where you from?’
‘Macon.’
‘Macon. Where’s that?’
‘Do you know where Atlanta is ...’”
As you can see dear reader we at the HDJ
fully support that all the Killarney’s and
the Dixie Union’s, Ideal’s and even the
Gay’s should remain on the map.
In fact, we’ll go you one further. If it’s
appears the map is too cluttered, we would
suggest maybe the reader try to read it
when the car IS NOT MOVING.
Letter to the Editor
Congratulations Lumsden
On behalf of the State Bar of Georgia, I would like
to congratulate Judge Katherine K. Lumsden for her
appointment by Gov. Sonny Perdue to the new Superior
Court judgeship in the Houston County Judicial Circuit.
Her 10 years of trying cases in our courts as an assis
tant district attorney - not to mention her educational
background as a graduate of the Walter F. Georgia School
of Law at Mercer University - will serve her well as a
Superior Court judge.
Again, I congratulate Judge Lumsden on her appoint
ment and thank her for her willingness to serve and
help fulfill the constitutional promise of justice for all
Americans - a promise worth keeping.
Jay Cook, President State Bar of Georgia
Audrey Evans
Vice President
Marketing!Advertising
Foy S. Evans
Editor Emeritus
The agency had wiped
them off to make the
map more legible,
the result of which
was a public outcry -
including from Gov.
Sonny Perdue who
asked they be added
back.
In regard to women...
Men could use a manual
I wrote about this subject many years
ago, but things some of my friends
said recently brought it to mind. It
is a subject worth further exploration.
It all began when I learned about the
young man, who was so proud that he
had remembered his wedding anniver
sary.
He sent her roses.
He went home feeling good. After all,
how many young men, married several
years, would remember such a thing
as sending roses to his wife for their
anniversary?
Then he learned that he did not
know as much about women as he
thought he did. First, she wanted to
know what he had been up to. After
convincing her that he had not been
naughty he learned that she didn’t like
the roses. They were red. She preferred
another color. And she didn’t like the
way the florist had arranged them.
He wondered, as any red blooded
young man would, if he had made a
mistake sending her roses. If he had
sent nothing it could not have been
worse.
Then, of course, there was dinner for
the anniversary. He took her out, but
he didn’t select the right restaurant.
The evening was a bust. He just wished
he had not awakened that day.
He just didn’t understand women.
Men never have and never will. So men
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All the abortion lies fit to print
It’s official: The editors of The
New York Times have no shame.
Don’t take my word for it. Listen
to the Times’ own ombudsman, Byron
Calame.
On Sunday, Calame wrote a stunning
column debunking an April 9 New York
Times Magazine cover story on abortion
in El Salvador. The sensational piece
by freelance writer Jack Hitt alleged
that women there had been thrown in
prison for 30-year terms for having had
abortions. Hitt described his visit to
one of them, inmate Carmen Climaco.
“She is now 26 years old, four years
into her 30-year sentence” for aborting
an 18-week-old fetus, Hitt reported.
The magazine featured heart-rend
ing photos of Climaco’s 11-year-old
daughter, eyes filled with tears as she
clutched a photo of her jailed mom.
Cruel. Horrible. Outrageous. And
utterly, demonstrably, false.
Climaco had actually been convicted
of murder for strangling her newborn
baby. This information was uncovered
by pro-life groups. Lifesite.net obtained
the court documents in Climaco’s case
and published them on their website
in late November. Calame followed up
and also independently obtained the
documents easily - records which Hitt
didn’t bother to try and get for himself
to verify the propaganda being fed to
him. Reported Calame:
“The care taken in the reporting and
editing of this example didn’t meet
the magazine’s normal standards.
Although Sarah H. Smith, the maga
zine’s editorial manager, told me that
relevant court documents are ‘normal
ly’ reviewed, Mr. Hitt never checked
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with experience don’t try to under
stand them. Just love them.
More experienced husbands know
something else that the young man
may learn someday.
Women have selective memories.
She will remember as long as they
live that he sent her the wrong color
roses, though he had no idea what
color she preferred. But he can do a
thousand thoughtful things for her
and, for some reason, her memory will
fail and all she will be able to remem
ber is the roses.
Of course, as time goes by the list of
“mistakes” he has made or the occa
sions when he was considered thought
less will grow and grow. And she will be
able to list them ... time, date, place, in
order ... anytime, anywhere.
He will wonder how she has such
a remarkable memory ... selective,
though it might be.
And he will remember, if he has
learned his lesson well, not to try to
understand her ... Just love her.
Michelle
Malkin
Columnist
malkin@comcast.net
the 7,600-word ruling in the Climaco
case while preparing his story. And Hitt
told me that no editor or fact checker
ever asked him if he had checked the
court document containing the panel’s
decision.”
Obtaining the public document was
as easy as requesting that a stringer
for the Times in El Salvador walk into
the court building without making any
prior arrangements. Which is exactly
what Calame did. It took the stringer
mere minutes to get the court ruling.
The facts did not fit with Hitt’s pro
abortion narrative. Authorities found
Climaco’s dead baby hidden in a box
wrapped in bags under the bed of Mrs.
Climaco. Moreover, Lifesite reported,
forensic examination showed that it
was a full-term normal delivery. The
child was breathing at the time of
birth. The official cause of death was
asphyxia by strangulation.
Hitt’s main sources of info came
from a pro-abortion group called Ipas.
The group would profit from legalized
abortion in El Salvador since it ped
dles abortion vacuum aspirators. Hitt’s
translator consulted for Ipas, which
launched a fund-raising campaign to
free Carmen Climaco and bring her to
America. Pro-abortion groups recycled
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An older man (when I was young)
told me this story:
His wife had surgery. He stayed with
her most of the day and all night as
long as she was in the hospital.
He thought he did good. That is
because he is a man.
But years passed and
what did she remember?
She remembered that during the time
she was in the hospital he did not
send her flowers. It never crossed his
mind since he was there all the time,
anyway.
He told me that he never forgot flow
ers again, because each time he failed
to do what was expected of him he
made a note of it.
Someone, in my opinion, is missing
a great opportunity. A good manual for
men (husbands and lovers) providing
all the information it takes years to
learn the hard way should be a best
seller.
Most women marry men because of
who and what they are. And then go
to work changing them once they are
married. That is why most men never
get out of basic training.
Why, you might ask, would any man
write a column such as this?
The answer: Because it is fun.
And it could very easily start some
arguments. Or inspire some interest
ing e-mails.
Climaco’s story, citing the Times’ bogus
propaganda to scare up opposition to
any abortion restrictions here.
The Times’ pro-abortion poster child
is a woman convicted of infanticide.
But the Times, questioned by its own
public editor, refuses to acknowledge
Jack Hitt’s false reporting.
There is “no reason to doubt the
accuracy of the facts as reported,” the
editors imperiously told Calame. They
refuse to issue a correction, publish an
Editors’ Note or inform their readers of
the ready availability of the court deci
sion that exposes Jack Hitt’s deception
about the Climaco case.
Calame concluded that “Accuracy
and fairness were not pursued with
the vigor Times readers have a right to
expect.” That’s too polite. The Times
slung bull and they refuse to clean it
up. The Times’ Climaco-gate, like the
Associated Press’ Jamil Hussein-gate
and Reuters’ fauxtography scandal and
CBS’s Rathergate, will go down in
mainstream history as yet another case
of textbook media malpractice.
The next time you hear a New York
Times columnist defend the paper’s
commitment to accuracy, fairness
and ethical standards, give them two
words: Carmen Climaco. The next time
journalism elites wonder why newspa
per circulation is plunging, remember:
Carmen Climaco. The next time MSM
apologists deny liberal bias, ask them
rhetorically - “Atlas Shrugged”-style
- “Who is Carmen Climaco?”
Michelle Malkin is author of
“Unhinged: Exposing Liberals
Gone Wild." Her e-mail address is
writemalkiniu gmail.com.