- Teflon Tim jumped back into the news with a proposal to create performace-based pay for politicians. Essentially, politicians - Pawlenty included, obviously - would forego paychecks when they miss critical deadlines...such as the recent budget gaffe that left so many in the lurch. The tactic is a ridiculously obvious ploy to win back some hearts and minds after the embarrassment of a ludicrous special session and the reneging of and lack of renewing his no-new-taxes pledge.
- Not only is Teflon Tim talking big game about do-nothing polticians...he's on the rampage because PETA recently decried walleye-fishing because of some new "study" that alleges the Minnesota state fish can feel pain. How did he prove his point? By shoving as much fried fish in his mouth as humanly possible at Tavern on Grand. Check out the video!
- This is a story about Minnesotans on werenotafraid.com, who feel they're proving something to those terrorists. Of course they're not afraid. They live in Minnesota. And I'm sure the terrorists are just poring over that Web site...
- This is a story about the recent drug "sting" that "netted" 27 suspects in St. Paul. I'm going to ask a completely unrelated question that only loosely ties into this: Has anyone ever seen the St. Paul Police Department arrest someone who isn't black? Think about it. I mean, based on my personal experiences alone, I can't come up with anything. This is a very scientific poll, by the way. You can bet I'll be publishing the results in an academic journal.
- Katherine Kersten defends the use of the atomic bomb in WWII. Blah, blah, blah. The best part: She quotes a guy named Ray Makepeace saying "It was the only way to end the war. There was no other way." Oh, really, Makepeace?
- Somebody stole a painting from a hospital in Hudson and the PiPress is playing it up like its Edvard Munch's "The Scream." Typical.
Friday, August 05, 2005
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Ray Makepeace was a hero. He was a POW for three years, was forced to work for the Japanese and then was sent to Japan on a ship where a third of the men died to work in a lead mine. I think he can say whatever he wants about dropping the atomic bomb, and he certainly has more authority than you.
I wrote the above comment when I first read this page, and now I have something to add. You can debate endlessly the merits of dropping the bomb; on the one hand it killed many thousands of people, on the other it ended the war, but you can not debate the debt we owe to our veterans including Ray Makepeace. I am related to him, and I also happen to be related to Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay, both deceased. They both sacrificed years of their lives in service of this country, and after going through what they did, I trust their judgement that it was the right thing to do.
http://www.west-point.org/family/adbc/autobios_files/makepeace.htm
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