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Hanging Curve Of The Day - 9/23/04
Published Thursday, September 23, 2004 by Michael K. | E-mail this post
Following the recent Yusuf 'Cat Stevens' Islam deportation fiasco, the US is urging changes in airline watch list rules.
Presumably, it's to counter the imminent threat posed by the arrival of other DFSSSMD's (Dodgy Foreign Seventies Singer-Songwriters of Mass Destruction) on our fair shores. I don't need to remind you that under our current, pre-9/11 security regulations, Gordon Lightfoot could enter the United States at any time. Consider for a moment the chilling fact that the next evidence we might have of him being here could be a mushroom clou....er...an encore of "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" echoing out from some dinner theatre. And I have been told by sources that despite our best efforts, Jose Feliciano is already in the country.
Presumably, it's to counter the imminent threat posed by the arrival of other DFSSSMD's (Dodgy Foreign Seventies Singer-Songwriters of Mass Destruction) on our fair shores. I don't need to remind you that under our current, pre-9/11 security regulations, Gordon Lightfoot could enter the United States at any time. Consider for a moment the chilling fact that the next evidence we might have of him being here could be a mushroom clou....er...an encore of "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" echoing out from some dinner theatre. And I have been told by sources that despite our best efforts, Jose Feliciano is already in the country.
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