Open Threads

For all the fools who said “It is ok to march in peace protests wit people who call Bush Hitler because we are not legitimizing their views, but we are all working for peace,” it is time for you to reap what you have sown:

If you want to hear “hate” coming out of the mouths of school kids, go to the schools of North Korea, as a Dutch television crew did, and you’ll hear hate from that country’s teenagers directed at the United States.

Western television reporters rarely get into North Korea, but remarkably they let a Dutch television crew in to see how they’re using Holland’s most famous book, “The Diary of Anne Frank.”

That diary, of her life in hiding during World War II, is now being studied in North Korea’s schools. But Anne Frank’s plea for peace and freedom got lost in translation.

North Korea is using her diary, not to teach how Anne suffered at the hands of the German Nazis, but to warn the students how they could suffer at the hands of those they call “American Nazis.” Correspondent Mike Wallace reports.

“After reading this book, I had a hatred for the American imperialists,” says one student.

“That warmonger Bush is just as bad as Hitler. Because of him we will always live in fear of war,” says another student.

Useful Idiots. We told you what your irresponsible speech helped to accomplish, yet you told us how patriotic you were. The name really says it all. Useful Idiots.

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This has my complete support:

There’s a topless protest being planned this weekend in Daytona Beach, at the end of Bike Week.

Liz Book of Ormond Beach is among the organizers. She hopes to lead a thousand “top-free” women and men along a half-mile of Main Street from the pier to the bridge. The goal is to add Daytona Beach to the small but growing list of places that allow women to show their breasts openly, just like men.

Word.

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My evil twin and Rosemary need your help. Go help.

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I have a hard time falling asleep unless there are people talking (preferrably male voices) in the background. No need to tell you that, really, except to state that I often hear a lot of infomercials, late night C-Span, and frequently the Coast to Coast conspirators.

One of the recurring topics of late on Coast to Coast has been the increasing frequency of super-viruses (I may be using the wrong term). Granted, you have to take a lot of what is said there with a grain of salt, but they do manage to unearth a lot of references to the avian bird flue, SARS, etc.

With that in mind, I am curious- why is this story not getting more attention:

A mysterious viral infection has forced military authorities in Germany to close four bases, ordering nearly 4,000 personnel and their dependents to stay home, authorities said Friday.

The bases Schwalmstadt, Schwarzenborn, Stadtallendorf and Neustadt will be closed for three weeks while the premises are disinfected.

“This is the worst single such infectious situation we’ve ever had,” a Defence Ministry spokesman said Friday.

The viral epidemic began in Schwalmstadt in the central German state of Hesse, when 150 of the 800 personnel stationed there complained of inflamed and itching eyes.

The Bundeswehr closed that base last week. Just four days later, the same symptoms cropped up at nearby Neustadt, where all 800 service personnel were told to go home until further notice.

With some 14,000 troops stationed in Hesse, German military authorities became alarmed as two more bases were ordered closed.

“Something is being transmitted between these bases – food, laundry, books – something that people touch with their hands and then inadvertently transfer to their eyes,” a spokesman said.

Let’s try to go easy on the tinfoil hat theories, but are these viruses really on the rise? I have not seen anything on Charles Murtaugh’s or the Medpundit’s sites.

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Thanks. And the same goes for my readers, please.

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Does anyone have any idea how to get the attention of the blogads people? I have been trying for months to get blogds set up, to no avail. Is it just me? Do I stink?

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And the UN shows once again why many think it is nothing more than an international parliament of whores:

Secretary General Kofi Annan has combined his finding that hasty elections in Iraq are not feasible before the June 30, the end of American governance, with a determination to leave to Iraqis themselves the decision on the best alternative way of restoring sovereignty, United Nations officials said today.

“The ball is back in the court of the Iraqis and the C.P.A., with the U.N. willing to be called in to help as requested,” Mr. Annan’s spokesman, Fred Eckhard, said, referring to the American-run Coalition Provisional Authority.

Thanks for nothing. At least they are staying somewhat out of the way. Like the Democratic party, every time I see the UN given an opportunity to lead, they just drop the ball.

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