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...Nor did they blink in 1972 when Palestinian terrorists killed 11 Jewish athletes and coaches...

...Jackson Lee soon came to expect this curb-side valet service from city employees...

...We all had to give $250 to get rid of Craig,' says a Lay associate...

...The IOC wasn't bothered after granting the 1936 Olympics to Berlin, when Adolf Hitler admitted it was his finest propaganda coup, even as he forbade Jewish athletes to compete for Germany and put signs around sporting arenas saying "Dogs and Jews not permitted in the toilets...

...Among the regulations they're mulling to subvert the law, the most outrageous would give bilingual teachers (as opposed to the kids' parents) the authority to assign students to their classrooms...

...Anyone who follows the IOC knows it has always been populated by tone-deaf, internationalist jerks...

...Gold-medal Jerks Last week, the International Olympic Committee stepped in it when declaring U.S...

...The Scrapbook hears that several members are considering filing formal ethics charges against Jackson Lee for misuse of public funds...

...Which part of the voters' "no" didn't they understand...

...The state's testing of second grade students shows that students with limited-English proficiency who are now taught in English-only classes are vastly outperforming those languishing in the vestigial bilingual programs...

...Sheila Jackson Lee," write Brian Wallstin and Tim Fleck, "arguably the most liberal member of Congress and inarguably the most vocal, became a Ken Lay 'project' in her upstart 1994 race for the 18th District...

...luge team member remove a 1 inch by 4 inch September 11 memorial sticker from a sled...

...Airport subalterns were expected to meet her at the door of the terminal and drive her personal car to the parking garage...

...Most gallingly, the IOC last year granted Beijing hosting rights for the 2008 Olympics...

...Sheila Jackson Lee's using a government car and driver to chauffeur her one block to work on a regular basis, in seeming violation of Congressional Handbook rules...

...So she planted herself in the chair of a prominent Nigerian official and refused to budge...

...Gray Davis's state board of education greeted the good news...

...Still, many complained that the IOC had been hijacked by a bunch of tone-deaf, internationalist jerks...

...Shoot an IOC official...

...According to a former Houston Aviation Department official, when Jackson Lee was a member of the City Council in the early 1990s, her staff would routinely call the airport's operations office to let them know she was on her way but "running late...

...As Investor's Business Daily commented at the time, "One wonders what exactly a rogue regime would have to do to lose a bid for the Games...

...And indeed they have, every four years without a single moment of silence for the murdered Israeli athletes, even though their relatives requested one...

...A veteran reporter described for us the inauguration of Nigeria's first democratically elected president in May 1999...

...When North Korea threw a fit about not getting to co-host the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, then-IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch (a former sports minister in the fascist Franco regime) offered to let them host five events...

...If you're picking up a whiff of IOC anti-Americanism, it's not your imagination...

...We also heard from a Houston Press writer who thought his paper deserved a bit more credit for its Jackson Lee coverage than the one mention we gave it...

...This despite the fact that China had just executed 1,800 prisoners in three months, had tortured members of the Falun Gong movement, and had sent thugs to beat up a photographer who took pictures of a ticket-scalper at an event promoting China's Olympic campaign...

...Bilingual Backlash The indefatigable Ron Unz—author of Prop 227, which ended bilingual education for California students (except those with parents misguided enough to insist on it)—points out some amazing statistics to The Scrapbook...

...Or perhaps we should say "condemn" children to their classrooms...

...athletes couldn't carry the tattered American flag recovered from the World Trade Center during the parade of nations...

...But she was a pain in the ass to [Lay].' The source says that after her election, Jackson Lee would call Lay 'two or three times a day trying to get us to hire her cronies for big money.'" Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, brought to you by Enron...

...As her fund-raising chairman, Lay rallied the Houston business community to join her against their common foe, incumbent Craig Washington...

...Queen Sheila was there too, and apparently didn't like her seating placement at the formal dinner...

...So how has Gov...

...And it seems Jackson Lee exports her boorish behavior abroad...

...And according to the Los Angeles Times's Alan Abrahamson, who obtained minutes from IOC meetings, Rogge once advised Samaranch not to appear at a United States congressional inquiry into the Salt Lake City bribery scandal by quoting a 17th-century French proverb: "The spittle of toads never reaches the light of the stars...

...And the public has taken notice...

...The committee, which Slate nicely summed up as being comprised of "fascist symps, avaricious Third World functionaries, and inbred royals," has micro-managed American athletes down to insisting that a U.S...

...After an outpouring of protest, the IOC said the flag could be shown during the playing of the Star-Spangled Banner...

...Well, behind the scenes they're trying to undo it...

...A greater inducement for Jackson Lee to shape up may come from public censure...

...The IOC claimed its flag decision was simply an effort to avoid political statement-making by the home country...

...Unless, of course, it's the United States, which the IOC asked to declare a ceasefire in Afghanistan during the Olympics (the White House refused...

...But the IOC has a history of looking the other way when such statements are being made, especially by despots...

...Besides the story we cited, we drew on the Press's terrific reporting on the congresswoman's squabbles with Continental Airlines, credit for which was mistakenly removed by an editor...

...When the Guardian recently asked current IOC president Jacques Rogge of Belgium if, since World Cup officials had asked host-country South Korea to ban the locals from eating dogs, might it not be a swell idea for the IOC to suggest China stop killing humans, Rogge replied, "It is not the job of the IOC to interfere with the internal workings of any of its members' political systems...

...So excuse us for gagging when the complaints start up about American patriotism infecting the games...

...The achievement gap in favor of the students liberated by Prop 227 is so glaring that it should qualify as malpractice that any bilingual classrooms have survived...

...Dignitaries from 25 nations traveled to Abuja for the celebration, including Britain's Prince Charles and South Africa's Nelson Mandela...

...That's another strike against them...

...It wasn't until the employees asked for some document giving them indemnity from liability should something happen to her car that her demands stopped...

...As the House ultimately must enforce its own rules, it's certainly possible it will decide to follow the philosophy of Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, who memorably asked: "What's the Constitution among friends...

...The Scrapbook couldn't disagree more...

...For instance, 28 percent of the main-streamed students score above the 50th percentile on the reading test, while only 13 percent of their peers consigned to bilingual classrooms do so...

...He's right...

...Since last week, we've been inundated with tales of the member's diva-like propensities...

...But Leon Buck, an on-again off-again aide to the Texas Democrat, says Jackson Lee has a confidential memo from the Committee on House Administration clearing her of any wrongdoing (though he won't release it to us...

...The games must go on," said IOC honcho Avery Brundage...

...Indeed, Jackson Lee's hometown weekly is a trove of reporting on Jackson Lee, this week unveiling her own Enron connection...