Politicana

I realize that this only borders on the political, but it’s my blog and I’ll do as I like. Don Imus, the popular radio personality, pretty much set himself up for disaster…

He’s getting suspended for two weeks by CBS, but leaders in the black community, Al Sharpton in particular, are calling for his head. I say let him dig his own grave. Free speech demands that we let people say whatever they want, no matter how stupid. We have to trust the consumer to realize that they’re listening to racist drivel and tune out, instead of trying to censor what’s being put out over the airwaves.

Ever heard of ‘the checkers speech’? Neither had I until today…brilliant…

He actually made it sound like the Democrats had threatened to take away his dog.

Yes you are.

…The bad new days…

Oliver North (see previous blog entry) was on a roll! Apparently he also was involved in creating a protocol that would suspend the entire U.S. constitution. Nice.

If you’ve never heard of the Iran-contra scandal before, buckle your seatbelt.

In the late ’80s, it came out that senior officials in the Pentagon and in the Reagan administration had been involved in covertly supporting a coup against the communist sympathizing Sandinista government in Nicaragua. Congress never sanctioned this action (which by law they have to), so the operation (called the contras) had to be funded non-governmentally.

They did this in two ways. Firstly, they illegally sold U.S. arms to Iran, which had been considered a terrorist nation ever since the hostage crisis in ‘79. They also (this part is rumored, but not proven) took cocaine that had been produced by the Nicaraguan rebels, shipped it into America on U.S. military planes, and had it sold.

Check this video out, it’s a good explanation of the whole thing.

Hilarious…

You and I have the courage to say to our enemies: “There is a price we will not pay. There is a point beyond which they must not advance!”

In honour of nothing in particular I’ve decided to devote the next week to arbitrary and obscure facts and videos about Ronald Reagan. Let Reagan week begin…