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I have recieved a memo from Blog Central that, however insignificant this blog may be, I am nevertheless legally obligated to hold forth on the Obama-Wright controversy. Not one to ignore The Law, here goes:

First off, the whole thing is about blackness and race. And the most obvious point is that neither of these two gentlemen are exactly the blackest of public figures. Here, if the technology is willing, is an image of the Very Wright Reverend:

Thanks to the generosity of the BBC for that image. Feel free to click the link. (later, after you’ve read this page).

I’ve seen darker Puerto Ricans. Heck, I’ve seen darker Jews. So much for the concept of “The Black Man Speaking for Himself.”

I have a point to make about this. I’m not just carping about color; If I, or any other white or medium-dark guy, were to find myself the leader of some black church, I might indeed be tempted to take the most Radical Black position I could find; To keep down the doubts, which must be rumbling just below the surface. So, what’s the craziest idea you can find these days?

Well, the same government that can’t think its way into a paper bag is obviously totally incapable of inventing AIDS. They can barely spell it. They probably think it has a silent ‘P’, or something. Is there anybody out there who doesn’t know this? Anybody?

The biggest secret the US government ever had was the invention of the Atomic Bomb. The Soviets and probably several others were able to figure out the US was working on it, simply by reading the normal publications in the science of physics. A whole section of the best researchers suddenly went silent, and whole topics were simply not written about. This wasn’t censorship, it was simply that the best scientists in certain areas had all been spirited away into the secrecy of the Manhattan Project.

The point is that Big Science leave tracks. The way that the government gets things done these days is by hiring private industry. Eventually, somebody knows. And people don’t study medicine and biology to learn how to kill people. They mostly study this stuff to learn how to heal people. A few are after the big bucks, for sure. So what do these guys put on their resumes after they’ve spent 10 or 15 years working on a doomsday weapon? Military Virologist? And what company gets the credit for this? Lockheed wants the world to know it makes the best stealth technology. Likewise Boeing. Who gets the prize for this?

And what President ordered this fiasco? Nixon? After Nixon we had Ford and Carter. Were they all in on it together? By the time Reagan was President, the virus was already spreading. On the other hand, according to this old CNN article, AIDS began around 1959, and probably some years before that. Are we supposed to believe that FDR started this research? Eisenhower? Who? And, above all, why?

To utterly beat this poor Dead Horse to death, I must point out that it has been known for just centuries that infections do not understand the Color Line. They cross it at a whim. Or less. And if you want to commit genocide with a deadly virus that spreads as a venereal disease you had better have very good information as to who is connecting to who. And who isn’t. Are we to believe that the politicians did not understand that people will lie about sex? That these same evil politicians did not know about the very existence of prostitution? Are we talking about the same politicians?

The whole line of unreasoning is simply a Failure to Think.

Now, if the Wright Reverend really did have rocks in his head, he would have an excuse. But, sadly, that is not the case. And he doesn’t have apples neither. It doesn’t work that way.

Oh, oh, Obama! I haven’t mentioned Obama. He’ll get blamed for all of this. That’s the way politics works. Like I said, they tried to get Nixon for his dog. They’ll work on Obama for his preacher. Poor Obama sat in the pews for 20 years and didn’t hear a thing. Or will he say he never went to church at all? That’ll go over big. Sleep with dogs and you wake up with fleas, I guess. Like Nixon’s dog, Obama needed a leg up, a connection to the Black Voters. But now he’s climbing for the next rung, reaching for the bigger gold ring, and he has to either sink with Wright or throw him overboard. Man Overboard!