As I was reading this morning's Atlanta Urinal and Constipation I came upon an op-ed piece by Jimmah Carter. Arrrrggghhhh! Make him stop!!!
Jimmy Carter was probably the most incompetent president of the 20th Century. I postively hated him. A running joke during his single term in office was who has two bigger boobs than Dolly Parton? Lillian Carter. She had Billy and Jimmy. I still remember his solution to the energy crisis: turn down the thermostat and wear a sweater. And there was Jimmah in a cardigan to set an example for the rest of the American people.
Let's look at his foreign policy successes. He gave away the Panama Canal and he bribed Israel and Egypt into not fighting for only $2 billion a year to Egypt and $3 billion a year to Israel, which we are still paying.
Let's look at his big foreign policy failure: Iran. He fucked up big time. And Jimmah, since you're so big on international law, why didn't a pissant country like Iran obey international law? Where was your wonderful UN during this crap?
So the last thing we need is to have to listen to Jimmah Carter expound on foreign policy.
Jimmah was a good man when he founded Habitat for Humanity which builds homes for the poor. If that was all he did as an ex-president we could forgive him for some of his sins. Unfortunately, he didn't stop while he was ahead. He started meddling in foreign affairs. At first, he started monitoring elections, and it looked like he might be doing some good, but sometime in the 90's he went off the deep end.
He managed to muck up the North Korean situation when he negotiated the agreement with North Korea in 1994, that they immediately started violating in secret. And to Molly Ivins, I'm still waiting to hear how we didn't hold up our end of the bargain!
It seems now that Jimmah never meets a dictator that he doesn't like or is not willing to appease. Robert Mugabe? Hell of a guy. Castro? Love him. He let Jimmah speak to the Cubans. A lot of good that did. And Saddam? Let the inspections work.
I was gonna fisk Jimmah's op-ed but, dammit, Frank Martin beat me to it, and a fine job he did.
So what else is there to write about? Howza 'bout Spring at GOC Central in Beautiful Dunwoody, Georgia? Today was an incredibly beautiful day! It got up in the 70's. So off I went out to the Great Patio of Dunwoody (There's a story there that I'll write sometime) got up upon the Great Wall of Dunwoody (Ditto) and started weeding my berm.
Last week my friend Cindy got some creeping phlox and planted it for me. We tried to get some more Saturday, but only found one. I'm trying to get it to take over my berm so I don't have to do any weeding. I've been doing this for three years and in about two more years, I'll have it done. It blooms in the early spring and is really beautiful.
I got about half the berm weeded. Hopefully, I'll finish next week if the weather is nice. My sister and her husband are visiting next month and I'm gonna let them help me build up my raised beds. Cindy has two bum wrists and can't carry landscape timbers back to the Great Patio anymore, so when my sister comes, we can add two more rows of timbers to the raised beds and build some screens to keep bugs bunny out of my vegetables. He loves little seedlings. He's especially fond of string beans.
So, I'm actually in a mellow mood. Sorry, no ranting and raving tonight. I'll try to do better tomorrow.