Music of the Day: Kim Waters, Got to Give It Up

I stopped at a local pizza joint today for a quick slice before heading back to the ranch. In between bites, and paragraphs from the book I had with me, I eyed my fellow pizza-consumers. Everyone looked happy and normal and, eventually, sated—except for the one guy at a corner table who was reading what appeared to be flash-cards of some kind. I know he was reading them because he was moving his lips. And he was wearing a Che’ Guevara t-shirt. ‘Nuff said.

Today, Friday June 20, was the first day of summer. It was hot today, about 95 degrees. I wanted to complain to someone, anyone, everyone, but then I thought back to the not-too-distant past when I complained to anyone and everyone, friend or stranger, about how cold it was. There’s just no pleasing some people. . . .

Some kind soul told Dear Old Mom about an assistance program for the blind, and the nearly-blind, in her state; she has been visited by some “very nice” bureaucrats who have explained the program to her and now she’s thrilled to be reading again. I’m thrilled, too—even if she is a regular reader of Newsweek, that scurrilous rag. Anyway, she has received three large-print books and some sort of device that helps her see regular print; what’s amazing is that she has some of the old zip and excitement in her voice again.

So, who was Che? He was a Marxist totalitarian of the pro-Soviet variety who established the firing squads that killed thousands after the successful revolution in Cuba and he also established the GULAG-like system in Cuba that housed, and still houses, dissidents, AIDS victims, homosexuals, and others. Why are people like this still revered by Americans on the Left?

I love an athletic or sporting contest as much as the next guy, but I have no intention of watching any, and I do mean ANY, of the Olympic games broadcast from China. None. Zero. Zilch. Nada. The bozos who run the Olympics have again chosen a totalitarian society to host the 2008 summer games and this is one viewer who won’t view or support any Olympic sponsor in 2008.

AJ

TO LIVE IN FREEDOM’S LIGHT IS THE RIGHT OF MANKIND.