Georgia has issue, man. Serious issues. This story is just an example:
Patrick Lanzo likes to generate negative attention, by openly displaying his ugly racism and hate in the most vile and public ways possible. The owner of a roadside bar in a small Georgia town, Lanzo recently erected a giant sign in front of his Ku Klux Klan themed speakeasy, with the message: “Obama’s plan for health-care: Ni**er rig it.”
I don’t take to using the little ** to soften the hate. Pat’s sign says Nigger rig it. It even got him on CNN, where he lies about being a racist and shows as evidence a photo of MLK, Nelson Mandela, and a 2005 NAACP membership card. LOL. All surely jokes for his Stormfront and Klan friends.
Pat Lanzo is a lying racist assbackwards redneck Georgian. The guy regularly hosts Klan rallies and Aryan Nation meetings and the like. What an asshat.
The other thing wrong with this story? His “restaurant” is called the Georgia Peach Oyster Bar and Museum. That’s just wrong on face.
Juan Cole tells us Bush has a great deal to do with Russia even thinking it could pull this off without retribution:
The run-up to the current chaos in the Caucasus should look quite familiar: Russia acted unilaterally rather than going through the U.N. Security Council. It used massive force against a small, weak adversary. It called for regime change in a country that had defied Moscow. It championed a separatist movement as a way of asserting dominance in a region it coveted.
Indeed, despite George W. Bush and Dick Cheney’s howls of outrage at Russian aggression in Georgia and the disputed province of South Ossetia, the Bush administration set a deep precedent for Moscow’s actions — with its own systematic assault on international law over the past seven years. Now, the administration’s condemnations of Russia ring hollow.
In case you wanted to know more about the news of Russia going to war with Georgia, Tim’s place is where to go. Nobody else in Ohio is able to talk with as much experience and authority as he. Some very good insights. This is the latest:
The only way to reverse this situation is to elect Barack Obama president. That may sound convenient for an Obama supporter, but it is plainly a fact. Because the only way American power will be restored to a point where a country like Georgia isn’t a sitting duck in Russian gunsights, is for America to get out of Iraq, escalate in Afghanistan with its allies, defeat Al Queda, restore American diplomatic influence, American military flexibility, and American credibility in the world.
None of this will happen with John McCain as president. In fact, the impotence of US policy in the face of Russian, or any other country’s, petulance, will get worse under a McCain administration.
