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The other day I was listening to a bimbo talk show host who was scandalized that a nudist resort in Virginia or someplace allowed teens. He seemed to feel that while it was OK for consenting adults to practice nudity, it was horrifying that teens would be allowed to practice nudity. In fact, he thought it was downright immoral of the resort to allow teens in.

Now, I happen to think the talk show host was making a moutain out of a mole hill. For some years ago, I was acquainted with many teens in this town, several of whom would invite me to go along with them on their various excursions, which were often to a nude resort up in the mountains. I recall a number of things about those trips, including staying up until three in the morning in the sauna listening to the teens discuss relationships, sex and God, or being sought out by one teen or another for private chats about their anxieties, but I don't recall that any kids were traumatized by their experiences on these trips. So, I tend to think the bimbo talk show host was just being a bimbo.

But what do you think? Do you think the bimbo talk show host for once had a point? Is there a danger to teen nudity that I didn't see (wouldn't be the first time I haven't seen something)? Should teens be allowed in nudist resorts?

"The 9/10 crowd stubbornly refuses to connect the dots to see any connection at all between 9/11 and the Iraq war. But it is all of a piece, and the troops who joined the military after the terrorist attacks and volunteered to go back again and again see it clearly. ... “Kill them over there so they don’t kill us over here” isn’t just an empty slogan for them. They live and die for it. For their children and ours. In Iraq and around the world."

- Michelle Malkin


I certainly hope Michelle Malkin was educated abroad because, as poor as the US public schools can be, they still don't need the likes of her on their conscience. Can you imagine how demoralizing it must be to have been one of her teachers only to see her grow up to become a mercenary, lying Bimbo Talk Show Host?

The above quote is taken from Ms. Malkin's blog post in remembrance of 9/11. Obviously, she thinks it is appropriate to use the anniversary on which nearly three thousands died as no more than a platform for restating the Bush-Cheney lie that Iraq was somehow behind 9/11. Ms. Malkin is disconnected from any decent feelings and sentiments.

Even one of her fellow Bimbo Talk Show Hosts has nothing but contempt for her. Geraldo Rivera said in the September 1st Boston Globe, "Michelle Malkin is the most vile, hateful commentator I've ever met in my life."

The anniversary of 9/11 should be a time when we come together in recognition of -- not the things that divide us -- but the values that unite us. It need not be a time when unscrupulous people spread lies for political gain. We should speak out against anyone who attempts to make political capital out of the day, least they turn a day of remembrance into an obscenity.