Taper topics: Democracy and Fred Thompson’s Future Wife

Workout Notes 10.6 somewhat easy walking miles (2:31), which included the West Peoria Heading Course and a hilly loop in the West Peoria Cemetery on each out and back.

I can tell that I am in the taper mode when I walk with Barbara; she keeps yelling at me to slow down. My legs are feeling fresher.

Other topics Oh, that pesky Democracy. Cosmic Variance weighs in.

The LA Times has a front-page article, apparently free of irony, that laments the glacial rate of progress on constructing a world-class subway system for the city, and imagines wistfully how much easier it would be if only we lived in a one-party communist state. In particular, they look at the progress that Shanghai has made in building its own subway, and pout about all of those nefarious restrictions that Americans have to put up with because we give actual citizens a say in the process. [...]

One searches the article in vain for the part where they say “Of course we live in a democracy, and some people think that there are certain benefits to that kind of system, even if the government does have to ask permission before tearing down historic sites,” but the moment never comes. Instead, we are treated to stirring stories of the plucky citizens of Shanghai, who don’t raise a peep when construction displaces them from their homes — no, indeed, they are happy to be displaced, as it gives them a chance at a new life! (It might be that voices of complaint are not heard because they are actually silenced, but that smudges up the narrative.) [...]

By the way, there are rare times when I end up siding with some conservatives; eminent domain cases like this one are such times.

Fred Thompson Well, what will happen when the current Mrs. Thompson starts to age and sag in a few years?

Well, I have a candidate for the next Mrs. Fred Thompson right here!

Ok, she was probably struggling to find an answer that wouldn’t offend anyone…still, she looks as if she is in Bush Administration form right now!

But yes, this youtube video can be used to show what is wrong with our school system. And, as Liberalsmustdie points out, conservatives have the answer: schools like this one!

(music in the background: remember where that comes from?)

George W. Bush Brings up Vietnam; things would have been better had we not left when we did? A few facts:

George Bush — and other Iraq War supporters — have argued that if we withdraw from Iraq the result will be like the slaughters — the killing fields -in Cambodia.

Here are the facts:

* The killing fields were real. The genocide against their own people was committed by the Khmer Rouge.
* The Vietnamese — the Communist Vietnamese — were the people who went in and put a stop to it.
* The United States then supported the Khmer Rouge.

Here’s how that came to happen. [...]

Withdrawing from Iraq: A call from the governor of Puerto Rico for the U. S. to withdraw from Iraq got a standing ovation from 4000 people. Liberal traitors, right? Uh, these were National Guardsmen!

This happened at the opening of the 129th National Guard Association general conference. There are about 1,800 Guardsmen from Puerto Rico currently in Iraq.

“The daily death toll of Americans and their allies has caused irreparable anguish here in Puerto Rico, and throughout the country. The same could be said for the people of Iraq,” Acevedo said.

Here’s the thing, though — this story was moved by the Associated Press and it has gotten almost zero coverage. Try to find it in your local paper. It’s even difficult finding it with a Google search.

On the other hand, if 4,000 Guardsmen stood and cheered for a call to stay the course you can bet it would be 24/7 on cable TV news.

That liberal media!

Some final comments: last night, I saw the first part of a three part CNN series on the three major monotheistic religions and those who fought/fight in their name. The first part of the series was called “Jewish Warriors”, and I was dismayed at how much influence the AIPAC lobby has on our elected officials. So, I did a quick google search and came across the site Jew Watch.
What is this site? The claim made was:

The Jew Watch Project Is The Internet’s Largest Scholarly Collection of Articles on Jewish History…

Ok, so what sort of articles are there? Well one of the featured articles claims that:

The German-American Bund was a pro-Nazi political movement that started in 1935. Under the leadership of its “Führer,” a notorious anti-Semite named Fritz Kuhn, the Bund at its height claimed about 15,000 members.

A 1939 rally in New York City’s Madison Square Garden attracted an audience of 20,000 (which oddly were mostly Jewish). The Bund’s fortunes experienced a downturn in 1939, when Kuhn was sent to prison for embezzling funds.

It turned out that the ADL was financing the whole thing.

Remember: this was supposed to be a “scholarly resource”.

Similar claims by articles featured by Jewwatch: Jews were behind the American Nazi Party, Church of the Creator, Soviet Russia, etc.

Note: these are NOT commenter’s thoughts or contributed diaries; these are articles that the site owner checks out and links to.

As one poster at Amazon.com said: “Jewwatch isn’t so much anti-semitic as it is retarded”.

Finally I commented on Ted Nugent’s outrageous comments at one of his concerts. Well, it gets even better:

Update:
For good measure, I thought you might like to see the sort of misogyny that Nugent is expressing on the cover of his new CD “Love Grenade.” A nude woman in bondage on a platter like a pig with a hand grenade in her mouth.

This affirms the obvious hatred he harbors for women. The fact that he feels comfortable offering this as a reward for those who pre-order just compounds the sickness of it all.

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