• President Bush and the Dark Continent and DDT

    • The left credited Colin Powell with the entire Bush program in Africa. The former Secretary, we were told, had to harp constantly, begging the President for every nickel.

    It’s 2005, The General has moved on, and today brought us news… of $1.2-Billion to the continent to reduce malaria by 50-percent in five years, $400-million to educate African girls, and he wants an additional $55-million to bolster legal protection for women against domestic violence and abuse.

    It seems meant to jumpstart the G-8, which is meeting in Scotland next week.

    Britain’s Tony Blair is on board:

    “We welcome the president’s focus both on governance and democracy as well as on the key issues of girls’ education and malaria,” the [Blair] statement said. “We want the G-8 to sign up to providing universal access to malaria prevention and treatment and to train millions of new teachers for Africa.”

    Now if he’d only have offered Africa, say, $250-million for DDT. Kill the mosquitoes, stop the spread of malaria. It’s what the Africans want from us.

    Rachel Carson’s 1962 tome Silent Spring, which created the false notion that DDT harms the Earth’s environment, is responsible for more deaths, perhaps, than any other single book. And the thing is unhidden garbage!

  • The state of the Yankees

    • ‘T was another merciful night off. Tomorrow night in Detroit, Unit vrs. Bonderman, had better be the start of the REAL season. The Sox are returning Schilling, possibly next week, and it’s not going to get any prettier.

  • Tonight’s Music.

    I listened to some Poulenc earlier, but I’m now listening to Michael W. Smith at Creation2005.