It was a real nice weekend here in Beautiful Dunwoody Georgia. It got unseasonably warm last Wednesday and I had to turn on the AC. That doesn't usually happen until May. But it turned out to be an excellent weekend.
My wine guru, Michael, was in California at a wine geek convention, so I asked his wife, Cindy, if she wanted to come over for dinner. Now my Saturday dinner is very boring. I grill a filet mignon (medium rare), bake a potato and toss a salad. If I have someone for dinner I usually add a vegetable. So that is what we had. We had a nice Graves white with the salad and a 1998 Gigondas with the steak. The 1998 is not quite as good as the 1995 (91 vs 92 per Robert Parker) but was pretty kickass all the same. The weather was nice enough that we were able to eat the entire meal out on the Great Patio of Dunwoody. And to finish off, I had just enough Delamain Vesper left for an after dinner drink for both of us. So Saturday was pretty mellow.
Sunday, I worked out in my raised beds getting them ready for the vegetable garden I'm putting in next weekend. I programmed the sprinkler system for the yard and admired how much better the lawn looks this year.
So, all in all, I was in a pretty mellow mood. I'm attending a class via a web conference on my PC at work, and I love going to school, unlike in my earlier years when I managed to flunk out of college twice.
I know both of you who actually read this are saying when is he gonna get to the point, but it's coming. Over lunch, I surfed on over to the FrontPageMag web site and came across this piece. This really pissed me off. Go read it and come back and we'll talk about it.
Now for Reverend Damon Lynch III substitiute Yasser Arafat or Adolf Hitler. Yeah, that's right I'm lumping Hitler and Arafat together. Hitler hated Jews and wanted to kill as many as possible. Arafat hates Jews and wants to kill as many as possible, especially children and old people. Now for Mayor Charlie Luken substitute Ehud Barak or Neville Chamberlain. For the Blacks in Over the Rhine substitute the Palestinians or the Germans. Get the picture?
Hitler kept saying just give me this little piece of Europe and I'll be happy. The more he was given, the bolder he got and the more he wanted. Same with Arafat. Keep in mind that Barak gave Arafat a better offer than he had ever received before. But, Arafat, emboldened by Israel's desire for peace, turned down Barak's offer and started the Intifada. For all you Clinton lovers, this happened while your boy Bill was in office and while Barak was Prime Minister. For all his bitching about Sharon, it was Arafat who got him elected. Just like Hitler wanted all of Europe. Arafat wants all of Palestine. Don't believe it? Check out the PLO charter. It advocates the total destruction of Israel and a Palestinian state from the River (Jordan) to the Sea. As part of the Oslo accords, that was supposed to be changed. Oops! Never seemed to get around to that. Even the doves in Isael have finally realized that Arafat does not want peace. Neither do the Arabs. Crown Prince Abdullah's peace plan would have Israel retreat to its (indefensible) pre 1967 borders and repatriate all the Palestinian refugees The Israeli Arabs would then outnumber the Jews. Israel, being the only democracy in the Middle East, would have been voted out of existence. Cool, huh? Some peace plan.
So now we come to reparations. Jonah Goldberg had a real good line about reparations. He was all for them if it would shut up Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and all the other civil rights poverty pimps. Here..here's some money. Now shut up and go away. I could live with that. Then, as I remember many Black leaders saying about the scandals surrounding our first black president, maybe we could say, 'Let's just move on'. Fat chance.
Ya know a lot of good things came out of the civil rights movement. Blacks were discriminated against in schools, housing and jobs. We fixed the problem with the schools and do not need to bus anymore. What with the teachers unions we have succeeded in making the schools in the suburbs as bad as the schools in the cities. We have integrated neighborhoods. And we have affirmative action. I'm not gonna talk about affirmative action. That's a topic for another time.
Something bad that came out of the civil rights movement was Jesse Jackson and all the other poverty pimps. I remember when I lived in St. Louis and Jesse Jackson was head of PUSH. He came to St. Louis and threatened a boycott of Anheuser Busch. He wanted more minority (read black) hires and more minority distributorships. There was at least one more minority distributorship after that and it was given to two of Jesse's sons. Wow! This shit works. Let's try this again. This became a nice little business for Jesse. Threaten a boycott, get bought off. It was easier to buy Jesse and all the other extortionists off rather than fight. Guess what? Appeasement never works.
Now we come to the latest pile of bullshit: reparations for slavery. David Horowitz has chronicled some very good reason why this sucks. Let me add some of mine:
1. We fought the bloodiest war in this country's history to free the slaves. Reparations in blood.
2. We've thrown four trillion dollars at poverty. Reparations in money.
3. And what really pisses off Julainne Malveaux if she hears it (I saw it it was beautiful): the poorest black person here is better off than over 90% of the black people in Africa. Honest Blacks (Uncle Toms, of course) realize that they are better off here, being the descendants of slaves, than if their ancestors hadn't been brought here. That does not justify slavery, but slavery happened a long time ago. It's over.
Blacks in the United States live better than Blacks anywhere on this planet. Let's stop all this crap. We do not need race wars in this country. That is what we'll get if we have to fight reparations.
Appeasement never works.
Just say 'no' to Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Johnny Cochran.
Let's move on.
Posted by denny at April 22, 2002 08:18 PM