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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2007
From Gator jibes to diatribes - readers respond
If you know any shrimp
personally, you might
tell them to get out of
town.
As soon as I finish writing
this, I am off to the exquisite
little Georgia Sea Grill on St.
Simons Island to stuff my
face with copious amounts
of the corn-fried variety.
Before I go, I need to clean
out my overflowing mailbox.
It has been a busy few weeks,
thanks to Bible thumpers,
dog lovers, Michael Vick
apologists, Florida Gators,
political prognosticators and
liberal weenies.
I have discovered that
Florida Gators have a good
sense of humor.
My lament on the State
Department of Revenue’s
creation of a state license
plate for University of
Florida supporters brought
a lot of good-natured and
well-aimed jibes.
Gators are totally unre
pentant. (Why shouldn’t
they be? If my Bulldogs were
‘Never forget’ in post-911 America
CC T s only.” Those are the
I verbal crutches America
A must discard in a post
-9/11 world.
If only the State Department
hadn’t been so
sloppy in issu
ing visas to the
9/11 hijackers. If
only police and
state troopers
had been able to
check the immi
gration status
of the hijackers
who were pulled
over for speed
ing before the
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Michelle Malkin
Columnist
malkin@comcast.net
attacks. If only universities had
been more diligent in monitor
ing the hijackers’ whereabouts. If
only the feds had listened to alert
agents’ recommendations to pro
file young Arab students in our
flight schools. If only someone,
anyone, had said something when
they saw the suspicious behavior
of the jihadists on dry runs.
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hand, Tommy jerked his hand
up and said “Ha! Ha!” in the
astonished coach’s face.
• A couple of years later,
Tommy graduated to the
stands, where he was always
the first in the stadium and
sat on the front row.
“Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
Len, how do you think the
Panthers will do tonight?,”
he would ask as I would walk
by him.
“Well, I don’t know
Tommy,” I would reply.
“What do you think?”
“Hey, hey, hey, hey, I think
we’re going to win.”
The subject was always the
same with Tommy. I would
see him sweeping in front
of Lutz, Brown, Peagler &
Manley insurance office
every Monday morning - his
day job.
“Hey, hey, hey, hey, Len, you
going to the game Friday?”
“Yep, how bout you,
Tommy?”
“Yeah,” he would say, then
pause. “Do you think the
Panthers will win?”
“Well, I don’t know, Tommy.
What do you think?”
“Hey, hey, hey, hey, I think
we’re going to win.”
Tommy won’t be going to
any more Panther games. He
died last week at the age of
61. I’ve been around high
school sports most of my life.
Nearly every high school has
their own Tommy or Radio
- some unique person who
finds a home, and accep
tance, in the family of high
school sports.
Most of our current players
probably didn’t know Tommy
well. He had been ill as of
late and hadn’t been able to
make it out to the football
field like he used to.
But, sometime this season,
when the chips are down, we
absolutely have to use Coach
Barber’s “win this one for
Tommy” speech.
Tommy would love it.
Dick Yarbrough
Columnist
yarb24oo@bellsouth.net
national
champi
ons in
two major
sports,
I would
be a lit
tle sassy
myself.)
Even
State
Revenue
Commissioner Bart Graham
got in on the fun and wrote
a semi-funny rejoinder to
my column. I didn’t realize
revenue commissioners had
a sense of humor. State Sen.
Eric Johnson (R-Savannah)
informed me that as a rule
they are only funny after
all the taxes have been col
lected.
Less funny was the reac
tion to the Michael Vick dog
fighting saga. The mail was
overwhelmingly in agree
ment that what Vick did
was reprehensible, but some
folks still don’t get it. One
reader opined that if PETA
We have borne the bloody costs
of coulda-woulda-shoulda. Nearly
3,000 dead. The World Trade
Center in ruins. The Pentagon on
fire. The fields at Shanksville, Pa.,
scarred. Six years later, we can
no longer afford hindsight heavy
breathing. Memory must guide
action. And action must be taken
without apology.
Zogby released a poll for the sixth
anniversary of the 9/11 attacks
showing that “77 percent of those
living in the East and 46 percent
of those living in the West - 61
percent overall - said they think
about the attacks at least weekly.
Eighty-one percent - 90 percent
in the East and 75 percent in the
West - said the attacks were the
most significant historical events
of their lives.”
That’s good news. But remem
brance without resistance to jihad
and its enablers is a recipe for
another 9/11. Not every American
wears a military uniform. Every
American, however, has a role to
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hadn’t gotten involved, “It
wouldn’t have been as bad
as it is now.” Another want
ed to know if ‘“your folks’
had killed a horse,” would
I write about it? He also
called me a lot of bad names
and let me know his dia
tribe was being sent via his
Blackberry.
Yes, I would write about
a dead horse because my
daughter, the animal lover,
would beat me about the
head and shoulders if I
didn’t. I informed him that
my reply was being sent to
him via a Smuckers grape
jelly jar. Never heard back
from Mr. Blackberry.
Several readers volun
teered to help Sheila the
Family Wonderdog “edu
cate” former Georgia Tech
basketball legend and
part-time nuclear scientist
Stephon Marbury on the
evils of dogfighting. I will let
her* know of the kind offers
when she awakes from her
play in protecting our homeland
- not just from Muslim terrorists,
but from their financiers, their
public relations machine, their
sharia-pimping activists, the anti
war goons, the civil liberties abso
lutists, and the academic apolo
gists for our enemies.
Earlier this year, jihadist
enablers attempted to intimidate
citizen whistleblowers who said
something about the suspicious
behavior of six imams on a US
Airways flight in Minneapolis/St.
Paul. The legal battle to protect
ordinary Americans from such
lawsuits gave rise to the John
Doe movement. Pro bono lawyers
and GOP members of Congress
stepped up to provide protection.
And Americans across the coun
try expressed solidarity with the
airline passengers targeted by
the Council on American-Islamic
Relations and its ilk.
The Left greeted the John Doe
movement with mockery and deri
sion, preferring instead to suck
OPINION
'1 didn't realize revenue commissioner!
had a sense of humor... as a rule they
are only tunny after all the taxes have
been collected.”
22-hour nap. I suspect Sheila
now has Whoopi Goldberg
in her sights as well, since
Ms. Blabbbermouth opined
on TV recently that dog
fighting is a Southern sport.
Goldberg should know.
She is an expert on all
things Southern, being
from New York City, which
is south of Canada. Whoopi
needs to understand that
Sheila the FWD can and will
bite both males and females
where the sun doesn’t shine.
She is an equal-opportunity
enforcer.
I was surprised how many
Baptists agreed with me that
women are fully qualified to
serve in the pulpit. The few
Bible thumpers who think
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women ought to remain
barefoot and pregnant rant
ed and raved and told me
I wasn’t going to heaven.
I hate to tell them, but
that decision is in the able
hands of Dr. Gil Watson, the
World’s Greatest Preacher.
God has put him in charge of
my sorry soul, thus ensuring
him lifetime employment.
Many of my liberal
weenie friends disagreed
with my comments on 9/11.
Absolutely nothing to worry
about, one assured me. The
overall threat of terrorism
is a right-wing plot that has
been “massively exaggerated
for political gain,” including
tax cuts for the rich.
We can all sleep better
its collective thumb, wield the
grievance card and play the blame
game. But it’s the John Does of
the country, not the race-hustling
litigators and speech-stiflers, who
will help prevent the next terror
ist attack. They are John Does
like Brian Morgenstem, the young
Circuit City employee who con
tacted authorities after viewing a
jihadist training video by the Fort
Dix Six Plotters.
“It was a difficult decision at
first,” Morgenstern told Fox News.
“I went home, and I talked with
my family about it. And we all
came to the general conclusion
that it was the right thing to do.”
No regrets. No apologies. And no
“ifonlys.”
Not everyone is willing to do
the right thing. When the FBI
recently asked for the public’s help
in identifying two men acting sus
piciously on Pacific Northwest fer
ries, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
newspaper refused to run the pho
tos - and instead held a reader
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now. Liberal weenies are
very smart.
Finally, a number of read
ers, including some well
known political types, think
Tommy the Barber is right
on in his assessment of the
presidential chances for
Georgians Newt Gingrich
and Sam Nunn, which he
puts at somewhere around
zero. Incidentally, Tommy
also thinks that President
Peanut is a zero, even
though Tommy cut his hair
once. Tommy the Barber is
a Great American.
Now, if you will excuse me,
I really must run if I am to
make it to my shrimp orgy
before the little boogers find
out I am coming. If you need
me, don’t hesitate to write.
I will have my Smuckers jar
with me.
You can reach
Dick Yarbrough at
yarb24oo@bellsouth.net,
P.O. Box 725373, Atlanta,
Georgia 31139, or Web site:
www.dickyarbrough.com.
haiku contest mocking the terror
ism concerns. When two young
Muslim men were arrested and
indicted on weapons and terrorism
charges after being stopped near
a naval base in Goose Creek, S.C.,
Muslim civil rights groups imme
diately cried racism and suggested
that law enforcement officials were
bigoted and paranoid.
There are 9/10 people and there
are 9/12 people. 9/10 people live
in a world of make-believe, where
sensitivity trumps security and sec
ond-guessing is their only accept
able homeland security policy. 9/12
people are the John Does in your
neighborhood, on your plane, train
or bus, moving ahead with their
lives but always on alert.
We live in post-9/11 reality where
“Never forget” is not just a once-a
year slogan. It’s a 24/7 frame of
mind.
Michelle Malkin is author of
“Unhinged: Exposing Liberals
Gone Wild. ” Her e-mail address is
malkinblog@gmail.com.
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