October 13, 2004 -

HONKER HEALING!

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We just have to have faith and John and the Cutie will cure all ills.

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Now, the details...

The headline on an Associated Press story by Catherine Tsai in Denver held the key to total elimination of the ballyhooed shortage of flu vaccine. The headline read: "Adults, Kids Urged to Skip Flu Shot." Yep, that should leave plenty of vaccine available.

I got the impression that Honker John Kerry might be getting a little desperate when he blamed Dubya for a shortage of flu vaccine. The Honker was speaking to six women at a "roundtable" discussion in Ohio and he said, "If you can't plan to have enough of that vaccine, what are they doing with respect to the other things that could potentially hurt America in terms of bioterrorism, chemical terrorism, other kinds of things?" Okay. Maybe the evil George W. Bush has contracted with Halliburton to give lots of flu vaccinations to Osama bin Laden, so that Osama will be healthy when Bush captures him in the Democrat-anticipated "October surprise."

I hope Osama looks to be in good shape when Bush announces his capture. If he appears to be a tad on the unhealthy side, chances are good the American Civil Liberties Union will sue Bush to release him immediately.

However, Kerry's silliness about Bush and flu vaccine is just that: silly. There are only a few companies that make flu vaccine and one dropped out, leading to a worldwide shortage. Regulators in Great Britain shut down production by Chiron, a leading supplier of vaccine. Would Kerry suggest that Bush bomb England? Or maybe go to the United Nations Security Council for a resolution?

A goofball from nearby Clifton, Texas owns and runs the "Iconoclast," in Crawford. The weekly newspaper promotes itself as President Bush's hometown newspaper. But the Iconoclast is getting a real-life lesson in freedom of the press. Now there are many high-flown sentiments one can have about freedom of the press. One that seldom comes up is freedom FROM the press, which Crawford's residents and businesses seem to be flexing as a result of the Iconoclast's endorsement of Honker John Kerry for president. Iconoclast owner W. Leon Smith admits that a reader boycott has cut circulation about in half (to a puny 482) and advertisers are generally boycotting. Dubya Leon Smith had best hope that the Democratic National Committee and George Soros decide they should pour money into advertising in the Iconoclast.

Bush and Kerry talk at great and boring length about medical care. But John (The Cutie) Edwards indicates we might not even need doctors and medications if Honker John accedes to the nation's highest office. The Cutie was absolutely disgusting in his demagoguery (or should that be DEMOgoguery?) about Christopher Reeve's death. The Cutie indicated that Kerry is a combination of Jesus and Oral Roberts. The Cutie called Reeve "...a powerful voice for the need to do stem cell research and change the lives of people like him, who have gone through a tragedy."

Then Edwards, the trial lawyer whose junk-science lawsuits laid waste to medical care in his native North Carolina, got to the sales pitch: "Well, if we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do, when John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again. That's what we can do in America."

It would be hilarious if it weren't so damned disgusting. Edwards is no fool and knows very well that stem-cell research has zero probability of curing spinal-cord injuries.

Kerry/Cutie remind me of the man who was relating his experience with a faith-healer preacher. "The preacher said throw away your left crutch and I did. Then he said throw away the other crutch and I did." His companion asked what happened then. "Well, I fell on my ass," he said.

Honker John loves to talk about taxes and how rich people don't pay their share. It turns out that he really does know what he's babbling about. The Club for Growth says Maria Teresa Thierstein Simoes-Ferreira Heinz Kerry and the First Gigolo had a combined income of $6.8 million last year and paid $725,000 in income taxes – making their income-tax rate 12.8 percent. The Bushes had a tenth of the Kerry income and paid at a rate of 30 percent. Middle-class Americans generally pay 20 percent. So, I'd appreciate it if John and Teresa would pay a greater percentage of tax before they raise mine.

I had a James Bond moment when I visited the VA hospital in Temple for a routine checkup. The nurse introduced me to a physician. "This is Dr. No," she said. However, a check of his name tag revealed he is an American of Vietnamese ancestry. Dr. Ngo.

QUESTION FOR THE DAY: Can we expect to hear John Kerry say, "Put your hands on the television set and be healed?"