It's a happy day here at GOC Central in Beautiful Dunwoody Georgia. Last night I was looking at the links list at Rantburg, and it said if your name should be on it, e-mail me. I did. Hey, I'm not above a little begging. Much to my surprise, not only did Fred add my name, but he also gave me a plug. Thank yew Fred! Rantburg is one of my favorite sites. No really. I'd say that even without the plug. He's a smart-ass. I'm a smart-ass. He's just smarter and more consistent than I am. Also, looking at my referrals, I also got a plug from Daily Pundit. Thanks to Mr. Quick. Now, I'm under pressure not to suck. No guarantees in that department. Remember, in the blogosphere, ya get whatcha pay for.
I remember reading something Steven Den Beste wrote a while back. We bloggers do this for the love of writing. In my case, I do it because the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation does not realize how perceptive I am and publish every letter I write. So, I write to the blogosphere. If someone reads what I write, that's even better.
So let's see who fed it and who ate it. OK I stole that from Dennis Miller, but he quit using it. Got this story off of Drudge:
U.S. tennis great Martina Navratilova criticized her adopted homeland in a German newspaper on Wednesday, saying money is the only thing that matters there.
She oughtta know. She made enough.
Navratilova, a Czech-born American who won 18 grand slam singles titles when she dominated women's tennis in the late 1970s and 1980s, also wrote in an article for Die Zeit weekly that she believed free speech was being suppressed in the United States.
Got any examples?
"The most absurd part of my escape from the unjust system is that I have exchanged one system that suppresses free opinion
Where you'd get shot.
for another,"
Where we just laugh at you for saying sumpin' that stupid.
said Navratilova, 45, who fled Czechoslovakia at the age of 18 to go to the United States.
Where she would get to make a lot of money. Also she'd get to keep it.
"The Republicans in the United States manipulate public opinion and sweep any controversial issues under the table," Navratilova said.
Bonking interns. Fraudulent land deals. Illegal campaign contributions. Turnstiles in the Lincoln bedroom. What? That wasn't the Republicans? Don't Lanny Davis, Paul Begala, and James Carville work for the Republican Party?
"It's depressing. Decisions in America are based solely on the question of 'how much money will come out of it' and not on the questions of how much health, morals or the environment suffer as a result."
And somehow we've managed to create the most free and open society with the highest standard of living than any country in the history of this planet. I guess we're just lucky.
Why don't you, Alec Baldwin, and Roger Altman....oh, never mind. That's too easy. Anyway the three egos wouldn't fit on the same plane.
And now lets return to the religion of peace and tolerance with this gem from the Jerusalem Post, also courtesy of Drudge.
An article appearing this week in the Palestinian Authority newspaper, Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda, criticizes US National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice as "the dark- complexioned lady" whose policies have "dealt a blow to the image of the African-American in the eyes of the vast majority of the world's inhabitants."
And I don't think the Democratic Party was too thrilled either. Bush's cabinet that 'looks like America' actually went out and got some competent people who 'look like America.'
Itamar Marcus, director of the Israeli Palestinian Media Watch, quotes the article published on Sunday as saying:
"My enthusiasm for George Bush increased after he entered the White
House and chose to appoint to his administration two people from
among the colored,
OK. Where's the diversity training? They're African-Americans. Or black. Or sometimes even people of color. Never colored. That went out in the 60's.
a first in the history of American administrations: Secretary of State
Colin Powell and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice.
And dontcha just know that the Democrats wish they would have done that? That's all right. Hillary can have Jesse Jackson as Secretary of State and Al Sharpton as National Security Advisor when she's da Prez.
We said then, both in private and in public, that these colored
African-American
senior officials are a part of the Third World,
No, they live in the United States. Last time I checked that wasn't the Third World.
even if only due to the color of their skin," Dr. Abd Al-Aziz Al-Maqaleh
writes in the Arabic-language daily, according to Marcus' translation,
which he released on Thursday.
Oh, I get it. If you're 'colored' you live in the Third World. Thanks for straightening me out on that Doc.
"But what happened after that was embarrassing and astonishing,
especially what happened with the dark-complexioned lady,
Don't she know her place?
or, more accurately: black,
That's better.
the National Security Advisor," the article continues.
"What compounds the astonishment is that the Black Lady
always makes a point, whether the opportunity presents
itself or not, of denouncing the Palestinians to the point
See she's got this thing about people who like to strap bombs to 'emselves and blow up innocent people. We've tried to talk to her about that, but she's adamant. She just thinks that's not right.
where her positions and statements have come to be nearly
daily lessons to the American people and the world,
That people who strap bombs to 'emselves to off innocent people are terrorists.
causing regret to every Arab who was optimistic about her arrival
on the political scene."
All them other colored people wuz always on our side. How come she's not like Cynthia McKinney? She hates Jews.
According to Marcus, the writer goes on to call Rice a "pitiful
woman who has dealt a blow to the image of the
African-American in the eyes of the vast majority of
the world's inhabitants."
Yep! They're not all demagogues like Jesse and Rev Al. Condi, you go girl!
Posted by denny at June 27, 2002 06:37 PM