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HOW TO WIN ANTI-TERRORIST FRIENDS? PAY BIG
Who cares about a few cowardly movie stars who are afraid to travel here, or worse, leave here on a plane? I'll personally drive you home to L.A. - just to get rid of you.
HOW TO WIN ANTI-TERRORIST FRIENDS? PAY BIG
By LINDA STASI
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October 21, 2001 -- So, let me get this straight. Colin Powell goes to Pakistan, and meets with our "allies" there, and they announce that the U.S. will pony up $700 million in aid and $379 million in debt relief. Isn't the kid in the schoolyard with the big stick the one who doesn't need to buy friends?
Then they announce that a new government in Afghanistan could possibly include "moderate" Taliban members.
What's a moderate Taliban member? A man who thinks a young girl should be allowed to take the day off after genital mutilation? Or maybe "moderates" allow their wives to cut eye slits in their burquas.
Isn't this like allowing "moderate" Nazis to be part of the German government after we beat the living pants off their sadistic Nazi asses?
Say good nights
Who cares about a few cowardly movie stars who are afraid to travel here, or worse, leave here on a plane? I'll personally drive you home to L.A. - just to get rid of you.
But on the positive side, there are plenty of pros who aren't afraid to get out and about.
In fact, on Monday night, hundreds of usually boldface names (including "The Sopranos") paid $200 each to honor, mix and mingle with real boldface names, N.Y.'s Finest, at The Leary Firefighters Foundation benefit.
Actor Steve Buscemi, a former firefighter who lost many friends, gave a heartbreaking, lovely eulogy. You should know who his lost buddies were: Lt. Peter Freund, Chris Mozzillo, Robert Lane and Steve Russell. Now those are real boldface names. The event raised $250,000.
And, since this ain't Kansas, on Thursday night, Broadway came seriously back to life and celebrated all that's great about N.Y.C. with the opening of "Mamma Mia," the most pre-sold-out show in Broadway history. Fear? Hardly. Joy and celebration? Absolutely. In fact, 250 Abba-mad fans flew into our glorious city from all over the world - just to stand up and cheer. I'm still cheering.
Irony's a drag
Talk about a royal flush! In the breathless space of one week, the mayor agreed to be a queen, and was knocked down to knight by a prince.
Last week, Page Six reported that before our mayor became Sir Rudy, he agreed to appear in drag in the sexually explicit TV show "Queer as Folk." For a price. A big donation to the Twin Towers Fund.
To ensure his appearance, members of The Empire State Pride Agenda collected $50,000 in donations. Good for him - and them.
And good thing, too, that the Mayor's Decency Committee is on vacation or missing or something, or they might have gotten upset by the show's plot lines, like the one about the 17-year- old boy who is introduced to very graphic sex by an older man.
But, to be fair, there is not one, repeat, not one, mention of a saint or cow dung.
Crazy like a toxin
Now that we at The Post have been hit with a case of anthrax too, it's more aggravating than ever to hear TV talking heads debating whether anthrax is the work of terrorists or just plain, garden-variety maniacs.
Call me strict, but anyone tossing anthrax around is both crazy and a terrorist. Who else fools around with potentially lethal germs in the hopes of starting a worldwide epidemic that could wipe out mankind?
I mean, when was the last time someone asked you at a cocktail party if you knew where to score anthrax? Believe me, if God had meant for these TV "experts" to be advising us about how to save the world, He wouldn't have invented Al Sharpton.
Buying vile vials
So how hard is it for a crazy to actually get his greasy hands on anthrax? Not so tough if you set your mind to it. It's available in foreign countries through ads, and it's available here to legit researchers.
Ads? Can you imagine a bunch of guys in a terrorist cell leafing through the bio-warfare equivalent of say, the International Male catalog, and ordering the "shape-enhancing bikini," the "Fred Astaire-sequined dinner jacket" and two vials of anthrax?
If they can't get their deadly germs online, Time magazine reports that anthrax cultures routinely sit around in university labs in unlocked, unguarded refrigerators. Great. How many academics does it take to screw up an anthrax lab?
E-mail: linda [at] nypost.com
By LINDA STASI
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October 21, 2001 -- So, let me get this straight. Colin Powell goes to Pakistan, and meets with our "allies" there, and they announce that the U.S. will pony up $700 million in aid and $379 million in debt relief. Isn't the kid in the schoolyard with the big stick the one who doesn't need to buy friends?
Then they announce that a new government in Afghanistan could possibly include "moderate" Taliban members.
What's a moderate Taliban member? A man who thinks a young girl should be allowed to take the day off after genital mutilation? Or maybe "moderates" allow their wives to cut eye slits in their burquas.
Isn't this like allowing "moderate" Nazis to be part of the German government after we beat the living pants off their sadistic Nazi asses?
Say good nights
Who cares about a few cowardly movie stars who are afraid to travel here, or worse, leave here on a plane? I'll personally drive you home to L.A. - just to get rid of you.
But on the positive side, there are plenty of pros who aren't afraid to get out and about.
In fact, on Monday night, hundreds of usually boldface names (including "The Sopranos") paid $200 each to honor, mix and mingle with real boldface names, N.Y.'s Finest, at The Leary Firefighters Foundation benefit.
Actor Steve Buscemi, a former firefighter who lost many friends, gave a heartbreaking, lovely eulogy. You should know who his lost buddies were: Lt. Peter Freund, Chris Mozzillo, Robert Lane and Steve Russell. Now those are real boldface names. The event raised $250,000.
And, since this ain't Kansas, on Thursday night, Broadway came seriously back to life and celebrated all that's great about N.Y.C. with the opening of "Mamma Mia," the most pre-sold-out show in Broadway history. Fear? Hardly. Joy and celebration? Absolutely. In fact, 250 Abba-mad fans flew into our glorious city from all over the world - just to stand up and cheer. I'm still cheering.
Irony's a drag
Talk about a royal flush! In the breathless space of one week, the mayor agreed to be a queen, and was knocked down to knight by a prince.
Last week, Page Six reported that before our mayor became Sir Rudy, he agreed to appear in drag in the sexually explicit TV show "Queer as Folk." For a price. A big donation to the Twin Towers Fund.
To ensure his appearance, members of The Empire State Pride Agenda collected $50,000 in donations. Good for him - and them.
And good thing, too, that the Mayor's Decency Committee is on vacation or missing or something, or they might have gotten upset by the show's plot lines, like the one about the 17-year- old boy who is introduced to very graphic sex by an older man.
But, to be fair, there is not one, repeat, not one, mention of a saint or cow dung.
Crazy like a toxin
Now that we at The Post have been hit with a case of anthrax too, it's more aggravating than ever to hear TV talking heads debating whether anthrax is the work of terrorists or just plain, garden-variety maniacs.
Call me strict, but anyone tossing anthrax around is both crazy and a terrorist. Who else fools around with potentially lethal germs in the hopes of starting a worldwide epidemic that could wipe out mankind?
I mean, when was the last time someone asked you at a cocktail party if you knew where to score anthrax? Believe me, if God had meant for these TV "experts" to be advising us about how to save the world, He wouldn't have invented Al Sharpton.
Buying vile vials
So how hard is it for a crazy to actually get his greasy hands on anthrax? Not so tough if you set your mind to it. It's available in foreign countries through ads, and it's available here to legit researchers.
Ads? Can you imagine a bunch of guys in a terrorist cell leafing through the bio-warfare equivalent of say, the International Male catalog, and ordering the "shape-enhancing bikini," the "Fred Astaire-sequined dinner jacket" and two vials of anthrax?
If they can't get their deadly germs online, Time magazine reports that anthrax cultures routinely sit around in university labs in unlocked, unguarded refrigerators. Great. How many academics does it take to screw up an anthrax lab?
E-mail: linda [at] nypost.com
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