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Team USA is out of the gold medal competition in basketball after losing to Argentina in the semi-finals. While the game featured more of the dubious officiating that’s marred the games, the main problem for Team USA was its lack of outside shooting and dominant inside play. These things were directly caused by the NBA pussies who refused to play in Athens, fearing terrorist attacks. I hope we don’t get a lot of whining from the morons who so far have distinguished themselves by their stupidity in blaming the heroes who did show up to play, terrorists be damned, but I know better.

The men who played on this team deserve standing ovations when the NBA season starts, and the pussies who were too afraid to show up deserve nothing but boos.

To Shaq, Kobe, Jermaine, Rip, Ben, Kevin, Jason, and the rest of the cowards who didn’t show up: a pox upon you and your houses. May your child support checks grow ever larger and the criminal charges against you more severe.

The Bleat:

The news today noted that the men arrested at the Albany mosque were fingered by some documents found at Al-Ansar sites in Iraq, of all places. Iraq! Imagine that.

But there’s no connection!!!

Check this post at Michael J. Totten about regular people in Fallujah taking down a pack of Al Qaeda terrorists and freeing their hostages.

We’ve turned the corner in Iraq, and we ain’t going back.

I like the sound of this.

Former co-contributor John Kowalski has his own blog now, so check it out. He’s putting out his Hollywood Buddhist spin on the Democrats’ convention, insisting that Carter’s labeling of Bush as a radical extremist insensitive to human rights isn’t “Bush-bashing.” If you say so, John.

But this raises an interesting point, one that’s been perplexing me for a few days now. The Democrats, particularly under Carter, used to be the party of human rights. If one were sincere about this cause, a dictator like Saddam who routinely gassed, tortured, raped, and murdered his people would be completely unacceptable, a point that’s been highlighted by principled men of the left who supported regime change in Iraq on humanitarian grounds. So why has the mainstream of the Democratic Party abandoned this historic commitment to the downtrodden in favor of a “more stuff for me” platform of free health care, higher salaries for union teachers, etc?

Taking cheap shots at the President for the relatively innocuous prisoner abuses at Abu Ghraib while ignoring the horror that Saddam inflicted on his people strikes me as craven beyond belief, but that’s Jimmy Carter for you, and that’s why I hate what the Democratic Party has become.

Sharing this blog with my lefty colleague John Kowalski was an experiment that failed. Reading the same old tripe day after day bores me, and I don’t like feeling that I have to respond to personal attacks on my own blog. So I’ve revoked his posting privileges and will delete his messages in a few days, after he’s had the time to save anything that he wants.

I like the idea of debating an honest liberal on a day-to-day basis on-line, and hope that I can do that some day.

My pre-season baseball picks were:

AL West: A’s, Mariners, Rangers, Angels

A’s are in second place, ready to kill the Rangers when the time is right – they’re always a stronger second-half team.

AL East: Orioles, Red Sox, Yanks, Devil Rays, Blue Jays

I won’t pick the Yankees on general principles, but Tejada did win the Home Run Derby and set a new record in the process.

AL Central: Twins, Indians, Royals, White Sox, Tigers

Twins are in second place, White Sox are doing quite well, but they’re dirty boys who broke Eric Chavez’ hand so they will be cursed.

NL West: Giants, Padres, Diamond Backs, Dodgers, Rockies

The Giants and Dodgers are see-sawing back and forth. With the league’s best pitcher and best hitter, the Giants (currently in second place) will prevail in the end.

NL East: Braves, Phillies, Mets, Marlins, Expos

Phillies are apparently leading, but who really cares? Braves in second place.

NL Central: Cardinals, Cubs, Astros, Brewers, Pirates, Reds

This was easy.

So I’m 1 for 6 right now, but 5 out of 6 are either in first or second, which isn’t too bad for somebody who’s basically a two-team fan.

This remark of John’s gave rise to great peals of laughter:

Remember, outside of an op-ed or two, there wasn?t anything of substance that these guys really did to oppose the war. It?s not like they were among the millions who took to the streets.

Absolutely priceless.