Worthless labels are worth less each time they're used. Cheap, cheap, cheaper. In The Spectrum's letters to the editor section today we read about the "liberal left." What does that tag prove? Why doesn't the writer challenge the ideas or behavior of the person he's striking out against instead of lazily tacking on a moniker meant to put down or insult someone?
Every single day, we hear and read about the "wackos, Islamo-fascists, anti-Americans, defeatists, leftists, right-wingers, liberals, jingoists, neocons, and extremists."
Don't call me a peacenik, you warmonger.
It just doesn't work.
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Other Matters
* Utah's Senator Hatch is urging fellow senators to get behind the push for another seat in Congress to represent Utah. If it happens, it will be tied to giving the vote for the first time ever, to District of Columbia residents who live under taxation without representation.
Constitutionalists have always considered such a vote franchise as against the law of the land, and that's hard to dispute on paper. I was always for extending the vote to DC, regardless. But now that Orrin Hatch is for this, I'm against it. I was for it before I was against it.
* The Southwest Utah Public Health Department warns against too much consumption of fish. Gunlock Reservoir bass is bad. The problem is mercury, which is rampant in this country anyhow.) It's about time we avoid mercury, microwaves, cell phones, depleted uranium, sodium fluoride, sodium benzoate, color dyes, plutonium, and aluminum. But we are Americans and we fear nothing. Bring 'em on.
* Oh, by the way, a famous leader said, "All we have to fear is fear itself." A famous doctor said, "You've got to die from something." So eat the trout, bass and whatever else moves in the water.
* Immediately after raising the price of a stamp to 41 cents, the U.S. Post Office issued a new "Forever" stamp which will retain it's value, well, forever. They've really gone postal this time. The e-mail computer industry will make the government's monopoly obsolete long before forever.
* Think for a moment. You know the Dems will run Gore & Obama against the Reps Romney & Giuliani.
Dixie Thinker is serious fun, not for the snug & smug
Meeting & Events
* Confidential notice: Good ol' boys emergency meeting tonight at ONLY THE LONELY saloon on St. George Boulevard. Must decide on items tabled at last meeting. No recorders, cell phones or cameras.
* The ex-Defense Secretary Rumsfeld will be here to speak on his new book, "Don't Blame Me. I Believed Too." Time and date to be announced.
* Anyone having an out-of-body experience will benefit by calling Louis at 800-8666-1151. He'll get your story out there.
Twenty-Years-From-Now News
* The last health insurance company will go out of business on June 1, 2007. Management blames the total absence of insured customers. Corporations no longer provide insurance to employees ("major overhead burden") and independent individuals have not been able to afford the protection in recent years.
* An AMA spokeperson told the national conference of Future Physicians, "I am proud to inform you that American health care is the finest in the world."
Help Wanted
Finance director (CFO) at The Dixie Thinker. Must be willing to face serious challenges such as negative cash flow, management incompetency and embezzlement. Tumultuous work atmosphere. (You will grow on this job.) Our new CFO will have to go along to get along - drop a few principles. Mail a handwritten resume. No calls or office visits, please. Only a proven team player, non-smoker, tea totaler, quiet natured, house-paid-for, married with spouse working, short haired, fair, frugal, and clean-driving-record person need apply. The pay depends.
Worth Repeating
* "The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency." - Vice President Cheney, 2005
* "Insurgencies tend to go on for five, six, eight, 10 or 12 years." - former Defense Secretary Rumsfeld
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