Loose cannons

July 3, 2002
Issue 
498

Loose Cannons

Find those Binladenburgers!

“Larry Ponemon, the CEO of Privacy Council, says that since September 11 he's been hired by at least one major supermarket chain to oversee the handing over to law enforcement agencies of the buying records of customers with specific ethnic backgrounds. The authorities requested the data, Ponemon says, because they were trying to compile a profile of 'terrorist eating habits'.” — From the July issue of USÌýPopular Science magazine.

Common sense

“I believe that it points up the fact that we need common-sense judges who understand that our rights were derived from God. And those are the kind of judges I intend to put on the bench.” — George “The Crusader” Bush, commenting on the June 24 ruling by a California federal appeals court that the insertion of the words “under God” into the US pledge of allegiance by Congress in 1954 violated the US constitution's provision that “Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion”.

Dollar

“America is a nation that values our relationship with an Almighty.” — George the Crusader again.

From 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly, July 3, 2002.
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