Here and There, Nov. 6

If you were to combine international film star Salma Hayek with Nazi propaganda master Joseph Goebbels, airplane hijacker Leila Khaled, and teen girl suicide bomber Ayat Akhras, the result would be PLO spokeswoman and cheesecake girl, Hamas Honey Diana Buttu. Buttu is speaking at UC Berkeley this evening (Evans Hall 7-9:30). If her track record serves as a guide, she will throw the truth out the window and describe a version of Israel and Palestine that exists only in the hysterical imaginations of PLO terrorists and their fan club.

Republicans retake the Senate, improve margin in the House, in what is, among other things, an endorsement for the Administration's foreign policy, and a rejection of Democrat defeatism and appeasement. And in Minnesota, voters choose Coleman over Walter "Mesozoic" Mondale.

Here in San Francisco, voters were surprisingly sane, passing an initiative to end cash handouts to homeless people, and rejecting measures to raise real estate taxes and to municipalize the electric company. On the other hand, the anti-private property lunatic left defeated a measure to permit renters to purchase their apartments. Also, the city will now be in the business of growing and dealing marijuana for medical use and temper-tantrum throwing bleeding-brain Supervisor Chris Daly has been reelected.

And in Berkeley people are still allowed to drink whatever kind of coffee they want.

The latest Carnival of Vanities is up.

I thought we had stupid referenda on our ballot here in San Francisco, but this takes the cake.

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at November 06, 2002 09:16 AM