20 Years On And Some Communists Are Still Bitter...

East Germans lost much in 1989 ~ by Bruni de la Motte

Yes they did Bruni… they lost repression, the Stasi, and Soviet domination. You’re welcome.

Freedom and liberty be damned; having been a “more equal” pig, Bruni insists on lamenting the loss of all the goodness she enjoyed under the autocratic, repressive, and murderous GDR dictatorship. She even enjoyed a life free of “existential fears” guaranteed by the generous hand of the State. Wow!

I’d say the people in the photos below disagree that there was no fear for one’s life in Bruni's Holy & Beneficent GDR. I looked for photos of people dashing through minefields & snipers or climbing up to roofs & fourth floor windows to get into East Berlin but I couldn’t find any. Something that Bruni left out of her article? She too got the hell out of the GDR. Of course she left for love (she met and married a Brit) not principle so that’s different.

A defecting East German soldier, Conrad Schuman, leaps over a barbed wire barricade into West Berlin on August 15, 1961.

West Berlin police hold back crowds of Germans coming from East Berlin for food and clothing in 1953.

Peter Fechter was one of the first victims of the Berlin Wall. He famously bled to death in the so-called 'death strip' after being shot by border guards on August 17, 1962.

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Van Jones Is A...

... What's the word?

Oh, "asshole". That's right.

Well at least now he's an out-of-work asshole.

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Leaving America In The Car

Apparently Ted Kennedy was willing to deal with Soviet Union. No, not to protect and defend America and the West, but rather to get a Democrat (most likely himself) elected President.

Ted Kennedy's Soviet Gambit

Kennedy's message was simple. He proposed an unabashed quid pro quo. Kennedy would lend Andropov a hand in dealing with President Reagan. In return, the Soviet leader would lend the Democratic Party a hand in challenging Reagan in the 1984 presidential election. "The only real potential threats to Reagan are problems of war and peace and Soviet-American relations," the memorandum stated. "These issues, according to the senator, will without a doubt become the most important of the election campaign." [...]

"Tunney remarked that the senator wants to run for president in 1988," the memorandum continued. "Kennedy does not discount that during the 1984 campaign, the Democratic Party may officially turn to him to lead the fight against the Republicans and elect their candidate president."

Kennedy proved eager to deal with Andropov--the leader of the Soviet Union, a former director of the KGB and a principal mover in both the crushing of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the suppression of the 1968 Prague Spring--at least in part to advance his own political prospects.

Apparently swimming away wasn't a one time thing. He tried to do it to the whole nation.

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And The Winner Is....

Kim Jong Il Re-Elected as Leader of North Korea

This was a REAL cliffhanger of an election wasn't it? I bet you were on the edge of your seat all day waiting for the returns to come in. Maybe we should send him a present, like a booby-trapped iPod with some of Obama's speeches on it? But since he won't want to listen to those we put an innocuous file on it like "Madeline Albright - Topless!" and when he chooses that - kaboom! It goes Taepodong on his axis-of-evil.

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