SO MUCH TO CELEBRATE

On our hike through the Garden of the Gods at the TTP Summer Rendezvous last August, TTPer Ed Sanders gave me a good-natured ribbing about my mentioning in some previous article that I loved to celebrate things by drinking good red wine in a Reidel crystal glass.

Ed and his wife Susan, it turns out, are the US distributors for Reidel's competitor, WineStar.  "Our hand-blown unleaded crystal leaves Reidel in the dust, Jack," Ed told me.  "If you drink a favorite red from our Diamond Cru instead, you'll be blown away by the difference."

Ed kindly offered to send me a sample to prove it.  There was a shipping delay and it just arrived.  Okay, I asked myself, I've got the glass – what do I celebrate?  Turns out there's so much at the end of this week, I've got to be careful not be to smashed all weekend long.  Especially because Ed is right about his WineStar glasses.  Wow…

Last night, October 11, was time to celebrate the 1,275^th anniversary of the Battle of Tours in 732 AD, when Charles Martel (686-741), forever known as The Hammer, and his 30,000 Frenchmen crushed an invading horde of 200,000 Moslem Jihadis.  As Gibbon noted, had the Moslems won that day, all of Europe would have been Islamized and Western Civilization would have been extinguished. 

Tomorrow night, October 13, is for celebrating the 82^nd birthday of the great Lady Champion of Liberty, the most heroic woman of the 20^th century, Margaret Thatcher.  The story of how she, with Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II, saved Western Civilization from Soviet Communism is told in Now There Is One (April 2005).

Ah, but tonight, October 12, there is celebration to savor.  Not only is it time to toast the 515^th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of America, but of the world's greatest buffoon winning the world's most tawdry and degraded award.

Whatever glass you have, WineStar or not, fill it full and raise it to Algore's Nobel.  You can be quite sure that one person who will not is Hillary Clinton.

The goofy Norwegians (not the Swedes who award the other Nobels) have turned the Peace Prize into a sad joke, for Algore is in good company with Yasser Arafat and Jimmy Carter.  The good news is that this gives a gigantic push for the DraftGore movement he is encouraging.

There may be only one person in the world Gore hates more than GW – and that's Hillary.  This Peace Prize means war, folks!  War between two of the most disgusting people in America. 

If that isn't something to celebrate, I don't know what is.  Sit back and watch the bloody fun and gory fireworks.  With any luck, here's how they'll destroy each other.

The Clinton Smear Machine will make every effort to trash Al and his saintly reputation while nailing down the nomination by the primaries' Super Tuesday of February 15.  Al's Glowarmers will be so fired up and infuriated they will ally with the moonbats for whom Hillary is not moonbat enough and form a Third Party.

Just as Ross Perot enabled the Clintons to win in '92, so Algore will enable the Clintons' defeat in '08.  

I'll drink to that.  So should we all.