Mark my words … I mean what I say

0 Comments | Insight on the News, June 3, 2002 | by John Elvin

"It's about time that those who continue to defend Castro realize that they are defending a terrorist."

--Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.) commenting on Bush-administration charges that Cuba is trying to develop biological weapons and is transferring biotechnology to rogue states.

"We know guns in the homes are more likely to be used for killing relatives and for suicide. We have to consider guns in the cockpit might be used for more than the purpose intended."

--Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D. C.) envisions murder and other mayhem in the cockpit as a petition for the right to bear arms, signed by 20, 000 airline pilots, arrives on Capitol Hill.

"It is like the mother of all flowering plants."

--David Dilcher of the Florida Museum of Natural History and the University of Florida characterizes Archaefructus sinensis, a plant that scientists say lived at least 125 million years ago. Akin to the water lily, its fossilized remains were found recently in China.