Thursday, November 11, 2004

"a powerful human symbol and forceful advocate"

Indeed... Ah the words of former president Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter, it's about time you drank a great big frosty mug of "shut the fuck up" [I always loved that lame joke]. Suddenly visions of John Belushi in a bee suit are flashing through my mind. Powerful men in brown checked leisure suits and nuclear physicists wearing lab coats and big black horn rimmed glassed are slogging through the puddle waters at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant...

Gabe Kaplan is the ABC team captain on Battle of the Network stars, and Yasser Arafat is blowing up Israeli children. A powerful human symbol indeed, as powerful a human symbol as Pol Pot or Jim Jones.

I'll always remember Yasser Arafat as a whacko murderer. The guy wearing gun belt and ammo as he spoke to his cronies at the UN. As a guy who managed to make himself more important than his cause, and who leaves behind a national movement in complete tatters. Just where is the 2 billion dollars the bleeding hearts in the US and Europe gave his people... Wifey needs new shoes.

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