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2007-08-29

Good morning Boys and Girls.

Leona Helmsley died a few days ago. For many years, she was fun to dislike. In death, she continued her weirdness. She left her dog twelve million bucks.

Yes.

Last night I saw a video shot of "the" stall in which Senator Larry Craig allegedly took what he called his "unusually wide stance" at the Minneapolis Airport this past June; so wide that his foot inadvertently rubbed up against the foot of the policeman in the next stall. Well, if the shot if I saw was really of the stall where this encounter took place, we're talking more than a wide stance. We're talking Paul Bunyan wide.

I don't know if the guy is guilty (although he did PLEAD guilty,) but he's certainly a liar.

I see we're getting serious about shifting the blame for our staying in Iraq to the Iranians. Wonder what next months excuse will be?

I remember 1979 when those Iranian students took all those Americans hostage. It was a despicable act. Of course, the fact that we'd propped up the Shah all those years prior to that act - something that made hundreds of thousands of Iranians seethe with resentment - didn't matter. In fact, as usual, we just labled the whole damn country murderous and  washed our hands of our own culpability.

I love my country, but as a people, we are obtuse. I despise that about us.

We have too damn many people who check their ability to think logically at the door in favor of their form of giddy patriotism, or a simplistic religious fervor, or, something that really does scare me - in what has to be the strangest soup of a world outlook this world has ever seen - both.

I'm not thrilled with the Iranians, but are they expected to forget we supported Saddam Hussein's Iraq in the ten year war they had? Are they supposed to write off the tens of thousands of people killed by the Shah's secret police a generation ago - someone who was in power only because it "served our interests?"

The situation as it's evolved just isn't as simple as it's being presented.

What's new.


Be good to everyone.

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