Congratulations, Sullivan's Island & Happy Birthday, Mary Jo Kopechne!!

SMOKERS AREN'T WELCOME IN SULLIVAN'S BUSINESSES

The Post and Courier - Charleston, S.C.

Jun 21, 2006

Sullivan's Island is the first municipality in South Carolina to pass such a law. Councilman Everett Presson had proposed the workplace smoking ban several months ago, mainly to protect workers in businesses, restaurants and bars.

Congratulations, Sullivan's Island. I'm sure Will Moredock and his gang of goose-stepping PCers are already marching lockstep in full force through the doors of your bars and restaurants. By the way, isn't that hamburger you are serving full of fat? If you eat too many you will become obese, taking up too much room at the table, which will infringe on someone else's right to sit at the table with you. So we'd better ban fattening food RIGHT NOW! before there's only room for 2 people at a table designed to seat four.

And isn't the glass full of alcohol? You know, if you drink too much you will get drunk and kill some goose-stepper on the way home and have MADD mad at you.

By the way, how many of you know that Sullivan's Island was named after Captain Florence O'Sullivan who was described as an "ill-natured buggerer of children"?(source: 'Captain Florence O'Sullivan and the Origins of Carolina', South Carolina Historical Magazine #76, October 1975)

In that spirit . . . . I offer this retro advertisement

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Today is the birthday of Mary Jo Kopechne. Had she chosen to go hunting with Dick Cheney rather than go for a drive with Ted Kennedy, she would have been 66 years old today. However, she is still dead, and Ted Kennedy is still a U.S. Senator.

The mysteries of the case continue to haunt Ted Kennedy as well as the
authorities who investigated them. Charges of ineptitude and lack of diligence
abounded, as did insinuations that the machinery of justice crumbled beneath the
power and prestige of the Kennedy family. George Killen, former State Police
Detective-Lieutenant, and chief of a never-revealed investigation, lamented that
the failure to bring the case to a satisfactory conclusion was "the biggest mistake" of a long and distinguished police career. Senator Kennedy, he said, "killed that girl the same as if he put a gun to her head and pulled the trigger."~ Senatorial Privilege by Leo Damore

Those facts, and the more amazing reality that people actually take him seriously and keep electing him, is astounding.

BOOK RECOMMENDATION: Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates. A fictional treatment of the incident that has more truth than all of Teddy's statements following the accident.

Can you believe the cowardice (ignorance, group-think) of the media for NEVER bringing up that issue? But what do you expect when you have the followging types of people in charge of the media today:

According to an article in USA Today, NPR 90-year-old newsman Daniel Shorr has to deal with ignorant, young news producers (who were “educated” almost exclusively at east coast “elite” colleges, like Columbia, Brown, etc . . .). They ask him brilliant questions like this:“Which war came first, Vietnam or Korea?” (Answer: Korea.) One producer even asked, “You covered the Spanish-American War, didn't you?” Shorr replied, “That was in 1898.”

I see the same symptoms, but in a different way. I was giving a carriage tour and I mentioned that the battery sea wall was constructed after the War of 1812. And someone on my carriage asked (I am not joking).

“That was against the Germans, right?”

“No, the British,” I said.

“No, no, that was the Revolutionary War,” he replied.

"As was the War of 1812," I said.

"No, I'm pretty sure it was the Germans, or France."

“You're right,” I said, realizing I was in a disccussion that was going in circles and was going to take too long to straighten out. A carriage tour lasts only 1 hour. It was going to take longer than that to straighten him out. Probably another product of South Carolina Public schools (as am I, by the way, but I have always heeded Mark Twain's advice: "Never let your schooling interfere with your education."

BOOK RECOMMENDATION: The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict by Donald R. Hickey

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The recent escalation of violence in the Mid-East has prompted many so-called 'elite' political pundits to call this World War III. I beg to differ. There is one thing that needs to happen to ensure that this becomes a World War. France has to surrender. Once France surrenders, THEN we can consider this a true World War.As President Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, "In politics there are no accidents. If it happens you can bet it was planned that way." I have always thought: if you're not paranoid, you're NOT paying attention to the important stuff. And, by the way, 90% of the time, the mainstream media does not cover the important stuff.

BOOK RECOMMENDATION: Rule by Secrecy by Jim Marrs. Even if you don't believe everything in the book, you will be watching and reading the news with a different perspective.