Reponse To A Reader

One of my loyal readers sent me an email. A triple threat regarding Harry Bellafonte, the Hedy Lamarr article, and the dispatcher that allegedly "dissed" the sniper. Here's my response:

Well, for one: When I read the entire Hedy Lamarr story, I was SHOCKED that she never received any recognition or award for her work to combat the Nazis. What the hell!?!!! Her patent is still being utilized as the basis of the latest in cellular technology! How revolutionary! The fact that she died in Altamonte Springs living off of Social Security and her Screen Actors Guild pension... well, that chaps my hide. It's like when you hear those stories of formal Medal of Honor winners who bottom out. Just depressing! There should be an inventors medal named after her or something! We should start a letter writing campaign about this!

Two: I can imagine that the law enforcement people down there are pretty stressed anyway. But we need to take into consideration that these dispatchers probably deal with hundreds of calls from the so-called sniper. The good news is that they have this guy on tape now, I would assume. Let's not automatically take the word of some piece of crap over a dispatcher... she or he might have not done anything wrong but now the sniper has terrorized one more person who might now have to live with the pressure of thinking that he/she is responsible for the murders.

Three: What Harry Bellafonte said about Colin Powell is so wrong, it gives me the shakes. The point of an administration is to come in with differing viewpoints and then when an official statement or opinion comes out, they must all unite with the same consensus. Otherwise, they seem disorganized and divided. They are a team. And Colin Powell is one of our nations greatest Americans. And Harry Bellafonte sings stupid novelty songs. Talk about working for the plantation! He works for the music industry! Now THAT'S servitude!