Wrong path to democracy

31 December 2007

Benazir Bhutto's son and husband are now the bosses of her political party, because her will says so.

Pakistan will never achieve democracy this way. A political party should elect leaders, not have them foisted upon it.

There might be dozens of good ways to form a democracy, but nepotism isn't one of them.

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Ignorance is Sherri

30 December 2007

So, there's this (expletive deleted) lamebrain called Sherri Shepherd on "The View" on daytime TV, who believes that the world is flat, that nothing "predated Christians" and who rejects evolution.

A wise man once said (I can never remember names of the wise ones), paraphrasing: To remain ignorant of what happened before you were born is to remain ever an infant.

Maybe Barbara Walters changes Sherri's diapers during commercial breaks.

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The horror, the horror

21 December 2007

If Bill O'Really didn't exist, the "liberal" media would have to invent him. I'm tired of this thug appearing here, there, everywhere. If I wanted to hear or see him, I'd watch his stupid show.

Thursday, someone on Air America was soundbiting the jerk, as part of commenting on how dense Billy-Boy is. Keith O. quotes, shows and imitates BodyOdor incessantly.

Come on, guys ... thanks for the warning about the Threat of Bill, but there are other monomanical phonies on the loose. How about free publicity for them?

Give Bill a rest.

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History bites U.S.

17 December 2007

Georgie W. doesn't know it, I'm sure, but history has his back, in his big-lie invasion of Iraq.

Michael Barone notes in "Our First Revolution — The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America's Founding Fathers" that in 1689 English pamphleteers wrote of the need to maintain a balance of power in Europe. (Barone's book is about the political and military battles that drove King James II out of the country, making William and Mary king and queen.)

A pamphlet titled "A View of the True Interests of the Several States since the Accession of their Present Majesties to the Imperial Crown of Great Britain" said, "It is a Maxim of True Policy that whensoever any Prince is exalted too high, and becomes formidable to his Neighbors, the other Princes ought to enter into a League together, to pull him down, or at least hinder him from growing greater."

Take that, Saddam!

One more invasion by W. and his Neighbors should smack him down, too.

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I hung up on a begging phone call this morning from some deep-voiced man representing some group raising money for some police charity. He started by saying that recently a police officer was killed in the line of duty in Las Vegas. That's where I cut in and hung up.

Don't police have life insurance, like other workers? Don't they have death benefits? Why should the public have to support these people? Yes, it is tragic when a person protecting the public is killed, but we don't get hit for money for bus drivers killed in wrecks on the job. Astronauts, carpenters, high-steel workers, journalists ... they all die on the job. What makes cops — and firefighters — special? They don't know how to find an insurance agent? The government agency they work for is so ill-funded, or breaking that law?

I should, I suppose, track down what Lost Wages pays its coppers, but fact-checking is not the Blogger way.

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End of civilization as we know it

2 December 2007

Forget Liberal versus Conservative, Protestant versus Catholic, Red Sox versus Yankees.

The true split in U.S. culture is between people who think that a 2-inch square screen is a good way to watch a movie and people who think a 52-inch flat screen isn't big enough.

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Oh, bother!

1 December 2007

I have now experienced the hell of hard-drive death. It was not pleasant.

I had dozens of insightful thoughts that have now fled down the drainpipe of my mind.

Enough about me. What do you think of me? Sorry ... long month.

I'm baack!

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