In a couple of years the international community will come to Bejing to “[bring] people together in peace to respect universal moral principles.”

That’s right, Bejing, where an oppressive government exists that still kills its people during protests, will host the 2008 Olympics.

I guess we can hope that shining the light of peace on Bejing will bring about change. But it seems to me that we should ask for peace before giving them the economic/cultural gift of the olympics.

What do you think?

rob

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rob

On Tuesday, voters in Dover, Pennsylvania, sent their Intelligent Design pimping school board home with a big fat F. In response to the vote, cracker jack TV evangelist Pat Robertson had this to say:

“I’d like to say to the good citizens of Dover: if there is a disaster in your area, don’t turn to God — you just rejected Him from your city,” Robertson said on his daily television show, “The 700 Club.”

The rest of the article is just as funny.

rob

I have been doing my best impression of the Democratic Party by not saying anything for awhile. Similar to Democrats, I have been mostly sitting back and enjoying the implosion happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue of late.

Additionally, I’ve been nursing a very sore right wrist that came on very suddenly. Hoping to avoid carpal tunnel syndrome before age 30, I’m resting the wrist by staying away from the mouse and computer a much as possible, which is proving to be quite painful in its own right.

However, any amount of pain I’ve felt has been diminished by my inner rabblerouser. I was amusing myself earlier today wondering if maybe we should have a bake sale or bikini car wash to raise political capital for the President, who has managed to spend all of his less than one year after declaring he had earned far more of it than he actually had.

The interesting thing about the one year since Kerry lost has been the undeniable fact that in winning the election, Bush’s handlers simply did a better job of making Kerry look bad (although Kerry’s handlers did a pretty good job of this as well). Bush is still a terrible president, he always was. It is just clear to more Americans now than it was when the entire Republican Party was focused on smearing John Kerry.

Things that make you go hmmm

rob