I enjoy doing these commentaries. The mass-media is so far to the left it is easy to poke holes, or should I say craters, into their reporting. So let's get on with it.
Let's hear it for the Beauties
For all of you dirty-old-men out there reading this, you might want to give a listen to this story.
Miss Universe pageant faces hurdles; By
JULIE WATSON, Associated Press Writer; May
26, 2007
I remember staring at, er -- watching the pageant when I was a young lad. It seems as though things may have changed some since my younger days.
This year's Miss Universe pageant is
missing
one of its most noted contestants: Miss
Sweden, a statuesque blonde whose country
is one of the few to win the crown three
times.
Isabel Lestapier Winqvist, 20, has dropped
out
because Swedes say the Miss Universe
competition, airing live Monday night from
Mexico City's National Auditorium, is
degrading to women and weighed down by
scandals.
Degrading to women? Gosh, I always thought the pageant sort of accentuated women, especially the swimsuit competition.
"We're taking a big beating by being linked
to
it," said Panos Papadopoulos, the organizer of
the Miss Sweden contest, which scrapped its
swimsuit competition and allowed women to
apply for the position like any other job after
heavy criticism from feminists.
Wanna know what's strange about this -- Panos Papadopoulos. The Swedes have a Greek organizing their competition? To remove the swimsuit competition and take applications for the position is sort of defeating the purpose. What happens if a babe like Rosie O'Donnel applies?
Miss Tanzania, Flaviana Matata, an
electrical
technician whose country is participating for
the first time, is also challenging stereotypes
of beauty with her shaved head. "I never let
anyone define me neither by hair nor clothing
as I believe God made me perfect as a pure,
natural African woman," she said.
Whaaaat???? No bone through the nose?
Miss Mexico Rosa Maria Ojeda was forced
to
change her gown to a fruit-and-vegetables
motif after Mexicans were outraged by the
bullet-studded belt and images of hanging
bodies and firing squads in her skirt's original
design, which referred to the bloody Cristero
war, a Roman Catholic rebellion in the 1920s.
Miss Jamaica donned a Bob Marley T-shirt to
honor her country's culture, while Miss
Ecuador, Lugina Cabezas, appeared holding a
fake, bloodstained banderilla, a colorful
barbed stick stuck in the back of bulls during
bullfighting, outraging animal rights groups.
I guess we've got a colorful bunch this year.
Organizers say the Miss Universe contest
carefully selects women who are intelligent,
well-mannered and cultured, and dispute the
notion that beauty queens are clueless about
international issues.
Intelligent? Well-mannered? Cultured? Gosh, let's go back to the good old days when a young guy could sit in front of the TV, light up a smoke and watch the pageant in the privacy of his own home with one hand.
This Story Just In!!!
U.S. Senator Unhurt in Air
Crash
The Associated Press reports that New York
junior Senator Hillary Clinton,
narrowly escaped injury in the aircraft she was
piloting when she was forced
to make an emergency landing in Southern
New Jersey because of bad weather.
National Transportation Safety Board officials
have issued a preliminary
determination pilot error contributed to
the accident, and the senator was
flying a single engine aircraft in IFR [instrument
flight rating] conditions
while only having obtained a VFR (visual flight
rating) rating.
The absence of a post-crash fire was likely
due to insufficient fuel on
board. No one on the ground was injured.
Photographs were taken at the scene
show the extent of damage to
Senator Clinton's aircraft . She was very
lucky!
Let's hear it for Spending
Our democrat friends and their media buddies have been trying since Bush went on offense to derail him and the war effort. Their claimed electoral mandate that America wants out doesn't seem to hold a lot of water today.
Bush signs Iraq spending bill; By ANNE
FLAHERTY, Associated Press Writer; May 25,
2007
It must really pain the media to write a headline like that. I mean, Bush actually signed the bill, he didn't print it with a crayon.
President Bush signed a bill Friday to pay
for
military operations in Iraq after a bitter
struggle with Democrats in Congress who
sought unsuccessfully to tie the money to
U.S. troop withdrawals.
Looks like Bush wins one for the troops and the American people.
"I think the president's policy is going to
begin to unravel now," said House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi, who expressed disappointment
that the bill did not force an end to U.S.
participation in the conflict.
If you have been following the president's policy since 2001, he nor "it" has unraveled. It sorta remains the same, kill them before they kill us.
"This effort shows what can happen when
people work together," Bush said after visiting
wounded troops earlier at the National Naval
Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. "We've got
a good bill that didn't have timetables or tell
the military how to do its job, but also sent a
clear signal to the Iraqis that there's
expectations here in America ... about how to
move forward."
Not only a clear signal sent to the Iraqis, but to the Democrats as well.
Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama
both voted against the bill.
"I fully support our troops" but the measure
"fails to compel the president to give our
troops a new strategy in Iraq," said Clinton,
D-N.Y.
(scratching head) A new strategy? What is the alternative strategy to winning?
"Enough is enough," Obama, an Illinois
senator, declared, adding that Bush should
not get "a blank check to continue down this
same, disastrous path."
So why are these 2 presidential hopefuls voting against this? Answer is very simple- the money. You can't get funding from George Soros and Moveon.org by jumping into the trenches with the troops.
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commentary by Grant Freerks. Copyright (c)2007
Grant Freerks.
