Archive for February 12th, 2007
Trying to keep up with the cast of characters in the whole Anna Nicole Smith ordeal and the Scooter Libby trial is like trying to follow the characters in War and Peace.
The paternity issue alone, for Smith’s daughter, is getting really bizarre. Not only are there three guy’s claiming to be the dad, we now have the possibility that Anna impregnated herself with the frozen sperm of her dead billionaire husband. Her mansion, in the Bahamas, where Howard K. Stern is staying with the baby girl, is now the subject of an ownership dispute. Bizarre!
The Libby trial is getting more bizarre by the moment. The cast of characters, including news media personnel, is getting increasingly convoluted.
While writing this, CNN is claiming that tapes and witnesses exist insinuating that Stern supplied the lethal dose of methadone to Anna’s son, Daniel Smith. The audio tapes depict Stern as being a very controlling person. The icing on the cake is that methadone was in the refrigerator in the hotel room where Anna Nicole Smith died.
We seem to be witnessing the Springerization of the mainstream media.
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Today, February 12, is Honest Abe’s birthday. Do yourself a favor and read the ugly truth about one of our most revered Presidents. I found it completely ironic that Barak Obama was so eager to invoke the spirit of Lincoln. I guess Obama believes that Lincoln’s goal in the Civil War was to free the slaves. Or, perhaps Obama chooses to perpetuate a convenient lie. Anyway, take a few minutes and learn some history.
Garrison knew Lincoln well. He knew that Lincoln stated over and over again for his entire adult life that he did not believe in social or political equality of the races, he opposed inter-racial marriage, supported the Illinois constitution’s prohibition of immigration of blacks into the state, once defended in court a slaveowner seeking to retrieve his runaway slaves but never defended a runaway, and that he was a lifelong advocate of colonization – of sending every last black person in the U.S. to Africa, Haiti, or central America – anywhere but in the U.S.
Garrison and other abolitionists were also keenly aware that the January 1863 Emancipation Proclamation freed no one since it specifically exempted all the areas that at the time were occupied by federal armies. That is, all areas where slaves could actually have been freed.
Historians have portrayed the Mythical Lincoln as a man who brooded for decades over how he could someday free the slaves. Nothing could be more absurd. According to Roy Basler, the editor of Lincoln’s Collected Works, Lincoln never even mentioned slavery in a speech until 1854, and even then, says Basler, he was not sincere.
When Lincoln first entered state politics in 1832 he announced that he was doing so for three reasons: To help enact the Whig Party agenda of protectionist tariffs, corporate welfare subsidies for railroad and canal-building corporations (”internal improvements”), and a government monopolization of the nation’s money supply. “My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance,” he declared: “I am in favor of a national bank . . . the internal improvements system, and a high protective tariff.” He was a devoted mercantilist, and remained so for his entire political life. He was single-mindedly devoted to Henry Clay and his political agenda (mentioned above), which Clay called “The American System.”
Read it all: The Mythical Lincoln
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If I remember correctly, there once was a day when the Grammy Awards were about music. Apparently politics is the number one priority now. Bush was bashed by the voters in November, now he was bashed at the Grammy Awards by the Dixie Chicks.
LOS ANGELES - The Dixie Chicks completed a defiant comeback on Sunday night, winning five Grammy awards after being shunned by the country music establishment over the group’s anti-Bush comments leading up to the Iraq invasion.
I have nothing against the Dixie Chicks, in fact, I agree with their anti-war stance. What I don’t understand is how James Blunt walked away empty handed, even with 5 Grammy nominations, a wildly successful first album and sold out concerts everywhere.
My other beef with the Grammy Awards is the sheer number of categories, there were 108 this year. About the only group not represented was pop male vocalists accompanied by a kazoo played blindfolded.
In summary, the Grammy Awards are too political and too politically correct. Thank God I was able to watch myriad ways to cook with chocolate on the Food Network.
Source: Dixie Chicks sweep Grammy Awards - 2007 Grammy Awards - MSNBC.com
