Can We Pick ‘Em
In my memory there was R.L.F. “Robbing Bob” Sikes [re-elected after House reprimand for conflict of interest], Earl “Captain Supremo” Hutto [local children’s TV is good training for Congress], Joe “What Dead Intern” Scarborough [intelligence is over-rated], and now, Jeff Miller. These people have all represented the Florida Panhandle in Congress.
Lambert at Corrente has a post on the Katrina hearings in which survivors compare the lack of regard for their plight to genocide:
“The comparison is inappropriate, according to Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla.
‘Not a single person was marched into a gas chamber and killed,” Miller told the survivors.'”
That’s right Jeff, being abandoned to drown in an attic or bed bound in a nursing home, is not like being “marched into a gas chamber”. Having armed police refusing to allow you to escape from hunger, thirst, and pestilence because of your skin color, is not the same as forcing you into a concentration camp because of your religion. Nonfeasance is not the same crime as malfeasance.
I wonder if Jeff talks to Joe, because that comment is remarkably similar to Joe’s reaction to what Milosevic was doing in Kosovo and Bosnia.
December 7, 2005 Comments Off on Can We Pick ‘Em
Say What?
According to the Associated Press several of the huge “megachurches” have decided not to have services on Christmas.
The logic would seem to be that everyone will be celebrating Christmas at home and since it’s on a Sunday this year they don’t think their congregations will want to go to church.
I’m, sorry, but this is a little stunning. A Christian church is not holding services on a Sunday because it is also the day designated as the birthday of Jesus? What happened to “the reason for the Season”?
December 7, 2005 Comments Off on Say What?
December 7th, 1941
“A day that will live in infamy…”
Via Avedon Carol, the official US Navy site on the Pearl Harbor attack.
There will be a memorial service aboard NAS Pensacola that features an ever smaller number of survivors of the attack.
December 7, 2005 Comments Off on December 7th, 1941
