The Continuing Crisis
O'ROURKE, P.J.
o Journalism's silly season has made an early arrival. Usually it's not until August that the daily papers are filled with stories about dogs finding lost boys at the ASPCA pound, and...
...Maybe the old civit cat has changed his smell, or maybe he's noticed that Republican invasions always have air support...
...Blacks, although they trusted the system, were in fact sold the idea that they deserved relief and were entitled to pay without work...
...It is, without doubt, the most honest, clearheaded article I've seen addressing the conditions which negate black progress...
...Among other things, the French Communists held the portfolio for the Ministry of Vocational Training...
...We have not given up on irradiation, however, and will continue our research effort to ameliorate its effects...
...I assure you my thought has changed indeed...
...oLebanon is causing headaches and hair-tearing again...
...She's been running for Vice President on the Communist ticket for some years...
...Jesse Jackson has not yet called for the United States to do the same with its political prisoners but is expected to any day now...
...The audience being Democrats, however, and a little slow on the uptake, failed to laugh or applaud on cue...
...oOtherwise, DemCon was so soporific that it even bored the ABC Television Network...
...One quibble, which is really a compliment: It would have been a bonus if Antony Flew could have given us more detail in his review of The Discoverers...
...I recommend this elegant treatment to all sourpuss liberal hypochondriacs and insomniacs--YUK...
...Their vigilant watch over our rights does not extend to moral depravity...
...If he gets some from Moscow, maybe Congress will lighten up on the death squad criticisms...
...The San Ysidro McDonald's massacre, the Westwood sidewalk slaughter, and the Alton Coleman Midwest murder spree are but three recent examples...
...The Israeli parliamentary system allows the balance of power to be held by a small number of lunatics with their own political parties...
...The President is showing the same kind of bad manners that make Americans so disliked when we pay the first price asked in Moroccan rug bazaars...
...There's Reggie and Jessie and Michael--but who are the other two members of the group...
...This year thanks to the Democratic Convention, the Olympics, Amtrak, and the Jackson family Victory Tour, news imbecility seems destined to prevail all summer and well into the fall...
...He was 52...
...EPA officials apparently did neither trust nor believe the Florida citrus industry's promise to search diligently for substitute treatment methods, or to use EDB judiciously and safely...
...oThe World Population Conference has met in Mexico City...
...She passed her New York state bar examination...
...It was apparent that pauses for laughter and applause had been written into Sen...
...oOther socialist news of note: If mail service has noticeably improved by the time you read this, U.S...
...It's hard to get a rational handle on her case, but it would seem that the officials of the sexually exploitative Miss America pageant have fired Miss Williams for sexually exploiting herself instead of letting them do it...
...A single day off in the middle of the week didn't give most of us time enough to make it to the Epcot Center, so the nation's birthday was skipped this year...
...Apparently this is considered more prestigious than the doubles category...
...Much of the random violence in the United States seems to result from lunatics with nothing to do and no adequate means of expressing themselves...
...Also, we'd know where they all were, and this would simplify things like Olympic security and the FBI MostWanted List...
...oAs befits silly season, there's been lots of activity among the dialectical materialists...
...Carry on...
...He has very well articulated to your readers many of the points which the Florida Department of Citrus has repeatedly presented to and discussed for years with EPA officials and the Scientific Advisory Panel...
...In 1982, the ACLU went on record as opposing any work requirement as a condition of eligibility for welfare...
...It will be a beige Princess model with Touchtone buttons instead of a dial...
...The great advantage of heterosexuality to feminists is that it allows them to torture men instead of each other...
...We have constantly pleaded with EPA to permit its continued use until a substitute is found...
...enjoyed an excellent and inexpensive substitute for psychotropic and hypnotic drugs...
...William A. Donohue Chairman, Division of Social Sciences LaRoche College, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Fan Mail Just a fan note to say that your excellent Review has finally arrived on the wild shores of this ancient county (via Encounter...
...This is a wise method of governance...
...Apparently, they're miffed at Francois Mitterrand for not wrecking the economy fast enough...
...the book reviews are of high quality and are about books of importance and of interest...
...The only change in procedure is to increase fumigation time by 15 minutes...
...Having said that, I'd like to comment on Tucker's assertion that AFDC in the 1930s ruined black social patterns...
...Kevin M. Cosgrove, M.D...
...postal workers are probably out on s t r i k e . . . The FD~C has agreed to give Continental Illinois Bank $4.5 billion if it will shutup and go a w a y . . . Five wrecks a month or no, Amtrak still has a wonderful safety record...
...Whenever I experience severe melancholia or insomnia I simply dig out some old issues of TAS and read Current Wisdom and the Continuing Crisis and laugh myself into dreamless slumber (no hangover, except sore belly muscles...
...Havender's arguments were clear, concise,and convincing...
...E. Simon Chair in Political Economy Center for Strategic & International Studies Georgetown University Washington, D.C...
...oAt this same convention, Governor Mario Cuomo of New York State gave a speech which w a s . . , well, it was as high as it was wide...
...More restraint should have been exercised by EPA, even under mounting pressure to properly assess the risks and evaluate the alternatives...
...The articles are well-written...
...Communists have taken french leave from the government in France...
...Bronx, New York The July issue is first rate...
...Any other resemblance between Democrats and Communists is strictly coincidental, and no reference to people with real political views is implied or intended...
...At least you can't call me periphrastic...
...While it is no doubt true that AFDC in the 1930s contributed to disruptive family patterns, the big damage did not occur until the 1960s...
...Required Reading The July 1984 copy of TAS arrived just in time for me to make William Tucker's piece ("Black Family Agonistes") required reading in my summer Minorities course...
...Unfortunately, severe chilling damage has resulted from fall and spring shipments and great losses were incurred...
...But our requests fell on deaf ears...
...With millions of members world-wide, the Communists are nothing if not a major political party...
...All-in-aU this is an extraordinary issue...
...Angela Davis begs to differ on that...
...We have repeatedly advanced the fact that EDB is the only viable and approved fumigant for citrus against tropical fruit flies...
...Except during political campaigns of cDurs~, when all the dangerous cnmmdl~ would be running loose (plus ca c h a n g e . . . ). oln the Guinness Book o f World Records spirit which seems to infect our nation, the news media were scrupulous about pointing out exact~ which niass~murrler record Jarrles Oliver Huberty broke, at McDonald's...
...However, Americans no longer know how to celebrate anything by themselves...
...He maintains that the tragedy occurred because blacks "trusted the system...
...True, no doubt, but the types who worry about soaring world birth rates seem to be the same types who worry about devastating nuclear death tolls...
...This therapy is timeless and has already been paid for, which appeals to my Vermont Yankee frugality--only one trouble: The treatment is habit-forming and one needs ever larger doses...
...The secret is train service that goes nowhere anyone would want to go at no time anyone would want to go there...
...Senator Edward Kennedy gave another by way of introducing future private citizen Walter Mondale...
...Liberals have not only politicized culture for ideological ends, they have done the same thing to academic scholarship, all the while pretending that they are the salt of the earth and the custodians of objectivity...
...oAlthough she was apparently picked at random from a list of Democratic elected officials with female Christian names, Ms...
...Thus there were merciful periods of silence in the Kennedy exhortations...
...oFidel Castro is making conciliatory noises...
...In spite of the negative feedback from EPA, we continued our search for new methods and to improve the use and handling of EDB...
...oVanessa Williams is out of a job...
...Those who did the selling were, by and large, white professors, social workers, professional "activists," and bureaucrats...
...However, a heterosexual trend in feminism has been evident of late...
...In January 1984, the Florida citrus industry was forced to switch to methyl bromide for fruit shipped to California or Texas in spite of the reported damage it caused to oranges and tangerines...
...Cold sterilization, developed and approved-by the USDA and accepted by Japan as an alternate to EDB, has been widely used by the Florida citrus industry during the 1983-1984 season...
...eThe Soviets offered to negotiate with President Reagan, and boy were they mad when he said yes...
...Recent results indicate that gamma radiation is effective in killing the Caribbean fruit fly eggs and larvae, but it also results in severe damage to "Valencia" oranges when stored at the recommended temperature of 34 degrees...
...If we sent these people to Washington to hold the balance of power in Congress, it would keep them busy and out of trouble...
...in Eugene H. Methvin's review] are virtually unknown in Europe...
...This time peace has broken out when least expected, and just after all the international pundits had put the finishing touches on their explanations of why the Lebanese Civil War was an intractable, insoluble, permanent situation...
...And so are Matt Dillon and Bullwinkle the Moose...
...oSpeaking of outrages, the Jackson Five Tour continues unabated...
...In the absence of the East German Egg-and-Spoon race team and the Russian Pie-Eating competitors, the United States is expected to reap hundreds, possibly jiUions, of gold medals...
...O'Rourke Literary Liberals Congratulations to Peter Shaw for " L i t e r a r y Lies of Respectable Liberals" (TAS, June 1984...
...W...
...For example, our scientists have suspected that the recommended dose of EDB may be too high and persisted in calling for a reexamination of the dose/fly mortality relationship...
...Paul Craig Roberts Wm...
...We have continued a vigorous research program on irradiation since the fall of 1981...
...We agree with Dr...
...Overall theme of the ConFab seems to be that the world has more humans than anyone wants or needs...
...oPoland is having an amnesty and has let some political prisoners out of jail...
...The 4th is one national holiday that has escaped federally-mandated transformation into a three-day weekend...
...Bernard Lester Executive Director Florida Department of Citrus Lakeland, Florida...
...The articles on Jesse Jackson o(TAS, May 1984)were something of a revelation...
...oln a change from previous decades, the Supreme Court has decided that criminal evidence may be used against criminals to convict them of crimes...
...It was "the largest number of murders committed in one day by a single killer...
...Frankly, these people should make up their minds...
...Research by the USDA has just been finalized proving that less than half the recommended amount of EDB is required when the fruit temperature is 65 degrees to achieve the necessary degree of fly mortality...
...Tucker's argument that the ACLU would stand in,the way of any substantive reform of the welfare mess is quite right...
...Will John Q. Public stand for this...
...Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward led the way with their article in the Nation (May 2, 1966) urging everyone to get on the rolls so we could bankrupt the system and thus provoke a nationalized program of welfare...
...The only thing that matters is whether those eligible for welfare are on the dole, experiencing their rights and enjoying the fruits of state paternalism...
...Interesting that no feminists have yet risen to Miss Williams's defense...
...We have also advocated that such continued use must be properly restricted to assure workers' and consumers' safety...
...Havender that EPA and Mr...
...Efforts are underway in Florida to eradicate the Caribbean fruit fly through the release of sterile males...
...The trouble is that we Europeans obtain most of our information about the States from Newsweek and Time (both peculiarly anti-British) and this results in a rather low opinion, however unfair, of America...
...Robert M. Pollet Aylsham, Norfolk United Kingdom I have long...
...oAIso, agreement has been reached about the new Hot-Line phone...
...oMeanwhile, the Sandinistas cannot find anyone to run against them in the Nicaraguan general elections...
...eMeeting in a town appropriately filled with odd bedfellows, the Democrats have selected the first woman vicepresidential candidate ever nominated by a major party...
...Expect fierce competition to better the score...
...In return for our keeping thosel, unbearable NBC sportscasters out of Moscow in 1980, the Communist Bloc has agreed not to send any "of its hideous athletes to Los Angeles...
...Among the manifold attributes of God, we must not forget sense of humor, mp.j...
...But with the constant threat of reinfestation by the Mediterranean, the Mexican, or other fruit flies, there is a need for a reliable standby fumigant or treatment method to assure continued" movement of our fruit to the market-place...
...oEl Salvador President Jose Napoleon Duarte is trotting the globe seeking support for his newly elected government...
...Ferraro is well qualified to execute the many august responsibilities of the vice-presidential office...
...ABC pulled the plug and broadcast a rerun of "Hart to Hart...
...The real shame of the matter is that the welfare binge that took place in the sixties occurred at a time when the nation's unemployment rate was 3.5 percent (and only 4 percent among blacks...
...Therefore, few passengers are injured or even exist in the first place...
...A nice joke, but "1 Dream of Jeannie" would have been apposite...
...Finally the facts about Kathy Boudin & Co...
...Seems he wants to re-establish U.S.-Cuban relations...
...Now the KGB will have to find a new way to get secret information about how to decorate portions of nouvelle cuisine with tiny, half-cooked carrots...
...Usually it's not until August that the daily papers are filled with stories about dogs finding lost boys at the ASPCA pound, and twins separated at birth who discover they both went to dental school...
...The 4th of July fell on a Wednesday...
...She was, after all, photographed while engaged in acts that certain of the more militant feminists have been known to advocate...
...William R. Havender's article "Cancer Scare of the Month" in the June issue of The American Spectator...
...Henry Heatherly Lafayette, Louisiana Florida and EDB I have read Dr...
...You do not wind up making American Express commercials when you lose an election in Nicaragua...
...Kennedy's text...
...oAnd Jim Fixx, author of the Complete Book of Running, died of a heart attack while jogging...
...We had to give in to the Russkies on one key point, however, and there will be no cute message on the answering machine tape...
...We hope that a lesson has been learned to avoid repeating the old saw "Decide in Haste, Repent at Leisure...
...oNevertheless the spirit of detente does live on...
...eFormer Weatherperson Bernardine Dohrn has discovered a more efficacious method than pipe bombs for destroying the social fabric of America...
...and the departments are clever, informative, and even amusing...
...Given this cast of mind, it is evident that the effects of welfare on child development and family solidarity (mentioned by Tucker) are of no interest to our civil libertarians...
...Anyone who's watched ABC's regular programming knows how hard this must be to do...
...olsrael, too, has been having politics, and at last report has achieved the conservative ideal of minimal government interference in daily life--in this case by having no government at all...
...Ruckelshaus have acted hastily under the heightened media EDB-scare...
Vol. 17 • September 1984 • No. 9
