Happy 90th Birthday To Nelson Mandela

The greatest chapter in Mandela's biography will be, I predict, the one describing how imprisonment transformed him It was there he learned to harness his anger and to transform it, by self-discipline, into a force for visionary change without bloodshed.

Don't overreact. The ANC were criminals and scum, despite whatever you think about the fascist-style racist regime that was power long ago. You do know about HIV infection rates and violent crime rates in South Africa now, don't you? So much viciousness was involved in the PC garbage directed at South Africa that it was amusing to see the vaults where South African *** NUKES *** were kept.

You blew it with your photos, Shaun, especially what that big, bold caption. That's not a photo of Obama. tsk, tsk

What's that big, bold caption? I suppose it's a message, right, Shaun?

Now I will say, I do understand if this wasn't meant to be for Obama's photo. There is no halo, after all. [grin]

Mandela was wrong about HIV/AIDS , which he admited later, but his achievement was the transfer of power without bloodshed. This was near miraculous, considering the atmosphere.

Calling other people scum (or any of the other tiresome and insulting epithets) comes easy. Getting something important done- not so much.

I suppose we could call Jefferson scum for his slave holding habit, as well.

When you get right down to it, scumhood could catch most people in tis net, at some point in their lives. But to what good, other than the false sense of superiority it gives some people? Zilch. Nada. No good, whatsoever.