How quickly we forget

From our local paper’s “Opinion Line” (it doesn’t matter where — there’s a crank in your city with the same thought):

When J. Edgar Hoover was head of the FBI, we had no terrorist problems or anything else. He was right on top of everything.

He automatically fails this semester, right?

I was worried when I was reading Castro’s comments and thinking, “Yeah, he’s got a point.” I was worried when I saw what books Castro was reading and thought, “Hmm. Well, I haven’t read those particular titles, but they’re not far off.” This is not really encouraging, is it? I don’t keep up on this like I should.

But as if he doesn’t do enough wrong, George W. Bush’s speech complaining of sex tourism in Cuba is now found to be plagiarized, according to the LA Times. MSNBC has more.

Speaking to Florida law enforcement officials on July 16, Bush claimed the Cuban leader shamelessly promotes sex tourism.

“The dictator welcomes sex tourism. Here’s how he bragged about the industry,” said Bush. “This is his quote — ‘Cuba has the cleanest and most educated prostitutes in the world’ and ‘sex tourism is a vital source of hard currency.’”

The president made his accusations amid the release of the State Department yearly report on global human trafficking, which lists Cuba among the top ten violators.

Three days after Bush’s remarks, the Los Angeles Times reported that the White House found the comments in a Dartmouth undergraduate paper posted on the Internet and lifted them out of context. “It shows they didn’t read much of the article,” commented Charlie Trumbull, the author.

Speaking in 1992 to the Cuban parliament, Castro actually said, “There are prostitutes, but prostitution is not allowed in our country. There are no women forced to sell themselves to a man, to a foreigner, to a tourist.”

As a teacher, Bush is through with his “see me after class” and “do over” privileges. This is beyond “failure to live up to potential.” He fails and has been for a long time.

Guess which parent SHE takes after . . .

Screw you too.

I’m only toning it down for the gentle readers of the blog, but don’t even get me started on what this spoiled little twat with her snotty little rich bitch gesture represents.

And yeah, I doubted it was real too, at first. But it’s a real picture: you can read about the incident here.

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