Whew. It has been a very busy few weeks for me. Since returning from the Disney Cruise on July 9, I have been overwhelmed with a special project at work. So my sincere apologies for the gaps somedays in new postings. I’m hoping things are easing up, but my job is unpredictible.
I am still working out some tweaks on the new WordPress site. If you have any suggestions or comments about the look of GP.org, please email me!
Syndication Feeds: For all those interested in having GayPatriot syndication feeds, I wanted to give you that information here since there may have been an interruption when we switched over to WordPress a couple weeks ago.
The options are at the bottom of the left-hand column for your convenience. I didn’t have syndication links on the previous GP.org site, so that has been a great new addition with WordPress.
In the coming days, I will be publishing my exclusive US blogger interview with Peter Tatchell, the head of the UK’s gay rights group OutRage!. Peter and his staff have been the target of Islamic extremist threats as reported at GayPatriot a couple of weeks ago. Peter was gracious enough to answer some of my questions about how the gay community should represent itself in the War on Terror… and I’m sorry I haven’t had time to post it yet.
Finally, I’ve been getting some really great tips on the NJ 9/11 Fund Scandal lately. Thanks! But please if you have any “non-conventional wisdom” or “anti-MSM” stories… please do email me. Also, if there are interesting and perhaps even wacky stories in your local papers that you think GP readers would find enjoyable…. email them to me as well. Unlike some other gay so-called conservative blogs… I have no problem linking to other bloggers!!!
I hope everyone enjoys the weekend and as always thank you for your continued support of GayPatriot.
-Bruce (GayPatriot) – gaypatriot2004@aol.com
NJ ATTORNEY GENERAL FACES IMPEACHMENT MOVE – 9/11 Fund Scandal Update
As first reported here late Wednesday night, New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey is now facing the prospect of impeachment due to the growing scandal of political use of Homeland Security funds.
On Thursday, New Jersey Assemblyman Sean Kean began the impeachment process. The full details of this development are printed below from Assemblyman Kean’s press release.
For Release:
August 18, 2005
KEAN CALLS FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL
PETER HARVEY TO BE IMPEACHED
SAYS HARVEY IS NOT FIT TO CONTINUE IN HIS JOB
Assemblyman Sean Kean, in light of the current controversy surrounding the distribution of state homeland security grants, has directed the non-partisan Office of Legislative Services (OLS) to prepare articles of impeachment against Attorney General Peter Harvey.
“I believe the time has come for Peter Harvey to be removed from his position as Attorney General,” said Kean, R-Monmouth. “The Attorney General has allowed political concerns to influence the distribution essential security funds and should be removed because of misconduct.”
Kean said the charges of impeachment are for malfeasance and the misappropriation of state funds allocated for the protection of New Jersey residents in a time of war.
“The Attorney General, as the highest ranking law enforcement official in the state, had the legal and ethical obligation to award these grant based solely on security needs, not politics,” added Kean. “Politics should have never been allowed to influence the grant distribution process.”
“Mr. Harvey played games with our security and is no longer fit to hold the office of Attorney General,” continued Kean. “His repeated ethical transgressions and illegal misuse of state funding is inexcusable. He must be held accountable for this gaffe.”
Kean also said Acting Governor Codey should take steps to rectify this glaring error.
“As a matter of integrity, Acting Governor Codey should take immediate action to ensure that never again will the grant process be tainted by the ugliness of politics,” Kean said. “I also believe that towns who were overlooked because of political considerations should be allowed to resubmit their applications. Perhaps this time, they will give every legitimate application equal consideration.”
The BadHairBlog is reporting on this as well with more details from the Newark Star-Ledger….. The Democrats’ 9/11 Slush Fund, continued
Stay tuned for more developments on this growing scandal….
UPDATE — Welcome Michelle Malkin, Instapundit & Polipundit readers!
-Bruce (GayPatriot) – gaypatriot2004@aol.com
Republican Named to Head Leading Gay Organization
Here is some very promising news in the “Maybe the Gay Community Is Seeing The Light” Department. Neil Giulano, the former mayor of Tempe, AZ, who also happens to be openly gay and Republican, was named earlier this week to be the President of Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD).
Neil G. Giuliano Named GLAAD President – GLAAD.org
This is an important step as it appears to be the first time since the November 2004 election that a major gay organization is actually *taking action* to adapt to the reality of America’s perceptions about gay America. Rather than the useless platitudes and phony outreach promises coming from the Human Rights Campaign, and the outright aggression against the will of the people by the head of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force….
MATT FOREMAN: Well, fundamentally human rights should never be put up for a popular vote. Even today if we put the freedoms that we take for granted, like freedom of press or religion or speech, up to a popular vote, we would lose them in most of our states — maybe not most, but at least half of them.
GLAAD has actually done something.
Congratulations to Neil, who I have communicated with before wearing another hat, and perhaps we will have the chance to interview him here at GayPatriot in the coming weeks.
Related Story: Log Cabin Invades GLAAD – The Malconent
-Bruce (GayPatriot) – gaypatriot2004@aol.com
Equal time for all loved ones of fallen heroes
I encourage y’all to read the entirety of Ronald R. Griffin’s editorial today on OpinionJournal.com. Like Cindy Sheehan, he lost a son in Iraq, but she does not speak for him — nor for many of the parents of our fallen heroes.
One of my readers claimed it was “immoral and down right vicious” to try to attack the grieving mother of a dead soldier. By that argument, it would be vicious to attack Mr. Griffin, a grieving father, who supports the President’s leadership in Iraq:
Thirty-five years ago, a president faced a similar dilemma in Vietnam. He gave in and we got “peace with honor.” To this day, I am still searching for that honor. Today, those who defend our freedom every day do so as volunteers with a clear and certain purpose. Today, they have in their commander in chief someone who will not allow us to sink into self-pity. I will not allow him to. The amazing part about talking to the people left behind is that I did not want them to stop. After speaking to so many I have come away with the certainty of their conviction that in a large measure it’s because of the deeds and sacrifices of their fallen heroes that this is a better and safer world we now live in.
Mr. Griffin spoke with a number of
parents and loved ones of fallen heroes in an attempt to find out their reactions to all the attention Mrs. Sheehan has attracted. What emerges from those conversations is an empathy for Mrs. Sheehan’s suffering but a fundamental disagreement with her politics.
One parent believes Mrs. Sheehan “is dishonoring all soldiers” while the author’s wife says. “She is no more important than any other mother.”
She’s right because each one of the parents of our fallen heroes is important. Mrs. Sheehan no more speaks for all of them than does Mr. Griffin. Each parent, each widow, each relative left behind should have a place in our heart for the loss they have sustained. We should acknowledge as well the quality of their children, individuals who volunteered to serve in our armed forces, aware, when they did, that they could lose their lives defending our freedom. Mr. Griffin is right to ask for “equal time to other loved ones of fallen heroes. Feel the intensity of their love, their pride and the sorrow.” As we feel that intensity, we should be ever sensitive to their grief as we honor the service of their sons and daughters.
-Dan (AKA GayPatriotWest): GayPatriotWest@aol.com
EXCLUSIVE: NJ 9/11 SCANDAL WILL HEAT UP THURSDAY
As you know, this blog has been closely following the growing scandal in New Jersey concerning the Democrat-controlled state government funnelling Homeland Security funds primarily to Democrat-controlled municipalities.
NJ Democrats Manipulated Post-9/11 Security – GayPatriot
Malkin Update on 9/11 Fund Scandal by NJ Democrats – GayPatriot
This evening, I can report exclusively that this scandal will result in impeachment proceedings against NJ State Attorney General Peter Harvey, perhaps as early as Thursday.
Sources in NJ tell GayPatriot that the AG will be accused of misappropriation of homeland security funds in a time of war. Recent news reports have revealed that Harvey’s office determined where the funding went.
Keep watching for more developments as NJ Democrats are revealed for the true anti-American partisans that they are.
-Bruce (GayPatriot) – gaypatriot2004@aol.com
Light Blogging, “Beauty & the Beast” and Carl Jung
As I have been quite busy working on two papers for my graduate program in mythology, I have not be able to blog as regularly as I would like this week. This evening, I completed the first draft of a paper for my class in Folklore and Fairy Tales, an essay attempting an archetypal interpretation of “Beauty and the Beast.” Much as I love the Disney version, as I read older versions of the tale, I realized how much it had strayed from those “classic” versions of the story. For example, it was an evil fairy who had cursed the dashing prince to live in beastly form — and not (as in the film) a beautiful enchantress masquerading as an ugly old woman trying to teach a lesson to a “spoiled, selfish and unkind” young man.
The Disney movie does offer a power message about learning to see with the heart and about one’s ability to change, to overcome one’s faults, but in straying from the various fairy tales, the film alters the story’s original meaning.
I have just begun to outline and write my second paper for my class in Jungian Depth Psychology and as I prepare to write on individuation, I again came across a letter a patient wrote to Carl Jung which he included in his “Commentary on The Secret of the Golden Flower” in Volume 13 of his Collected Works. Reading that letter fourteen years ago (in a book on Jung by the celebrated British psychiatrist Anthony Storr) helped me overcome my doubts about accepting my feelings for men and so helped spring the proverbial closet door. I thought I would share this powerful passage with y’all:
Out of evil, much good has come tome. By keeping quiet, repressing nothing, remaining attentive, and by accepting reality-taking things as they are, and not as I wanted them to be-by doing all this, unusual knowledge has come to me, and unusual powers as well, such as I could never have imagined before. I always thought that when we accepted things they overpowered us some way or other. This turns out not to be true at all, and it is only by accepting them that one can assume an attitude towards them. So now I intend to play the game of life, being receptive to whatever comes to me, good and bad, sun and shadow forever altering, and, in this way, also accepting my own nature with its positive and negative sides. Thus everything becomes more alive to me. What a fool I was! How I tried to force everything to go according to the way I thought it ought to!
Perhaps it will have an effect on some of you similar to the one it had on me. And perhaps later, I will write a little more about how these words changed my life.
-Dan (AKA GayPatriotWest): GayPatriotWest@aol.com
The president’s attitude toward our fallen heroes & their families
In an excellent piece, Michael Barone asks, “How much coverage would the press have given a World War II-era Cindy Sheehan who camped outside Hyde Park or Warm Springs demanding to meet with President Roosevelt?”
After offering some anecdotes of that Democratic president’s meeting with wounded soldiers during World War II, Barone turns to an erstwhile opponent of the president, John McCain, to describe how our current president handles similar meetings:
Look, I’ve been with the president of the United States when he has met with the families of those brave young men and women who have sacrificed. I have seen his compassion, I have seen his love, I have seen his concern. So any charge of insensitivity or uncaring on the part of this president, is absolutely false. He cares and he grieves. . . . I have seen him, I have seen his care, and I have seen him grieve. And I’m sure he wouldn’t like to hear me say this, but I saw him afterwards. He was very, very grieved. And that’s the job of the president of the United States. He fully appreciates the tragedy of the loss of these brave young Americans.
So, why then, I wonder, is the media giving so much attention to antics of one angry relative and so little attention to the reality of the president’s visits with relatives of our fallen heroes?
Hat tip: Polipundit‘s Lorie Byrd. And be sure to read Barone’s post as well as the Anchoress’ post on the president’s meetings with the grieving families.
Cindy Sheehan and the liberation of Iraq
A reader wrote in yesterday wondering if we were going to post on Cindy Sheehan. I agree with him that this is an “incredibly rich topic,” so thought I would share a few thoughts.
As least as far back as the Greeks, people noted the particular sadness of the death of a child. In the Fifth Century before the Common Era, the historian Herodotus wrote, “In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.” I cannot imagine the grief that Ms. Sheehan and thousands of other parents have experienced at the loss of their son or daughter in Iraq or Afghanistan. Just as many parents grieved on September 11, 2001, when their children’s lives were cut short. While some of those parents oppose the war, many continue to support the president even after the loss of their child.
Most of the parents bear their grief in private. Ms. Sheehan has made a public spectacle of herself. As EMT 907 noted last week on his blog, she changed her story about her meeting with the president. Even though she did not support the president’s policies in Iraq, she initially described her meeting with the president in positive terms. Right after the meeting, she said, I now know he’s sincere about wanting freedom for the Iraqis . . . . I know he’s sorry and feels some pain for our loss. And I know he’s a man of faith.” But, last week (more than a year after the meeting), she claimed on CNN that Mr. Bush treated the meeting “like a party.”
She now thinks that if it were not for the Internet, “we would already be a fascist state.” I can’t think of a single fascist state which allows its citizens to protest so vociferously so close to the chief executive’s summer retreat while that very state does not prevent the media from reporting such protests.
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Pataki: best NY governor on gay & lesbian issues
Just read in Log Cabin‘s e-newsletter, “Inclusion Wins,” this comment from Alan Van Capelle, executive
director of the Empire State Pride Agenda about the Republican Governor of New York:
George Pataki is the best governor gays and lesbians have had on their issues. If anybody was looking at specific accomplishments, Gov. Pataki has delivered and matched those when compared with anyone else who has been there in Albany before him. He has the best record on LGBT issues when compared to any other New York governor.
And despite his work on gay and lesbian issues, this good man probably never got more than one-third of the gay vote in the Empire State. It’s that pesky little (R) after his name.
Abortion Rights are Not Gay Rights
Very good column by Dale Carpenter about how the Gay Left has somehow hijacked the push for gay rights and linked it to the pro-abortion agenda. But this shouldn’t be a big surprise when the Human Rights Campaign picks a pro-abortion lobbyist and fundraiser as its new leader, right?
Abortion Rights are Not Gay Rights – Independent Gay Forum
Typical of gay activists’ reaction to the Roberts nomination was that of Joe Solmonese, executive director of the Human Rights Campaign. Writing for the online edition of the Advocate, Solmonese warned that Roberts “has an extremely disturbing record in opposition to Roe v. Wade,” the historic 1973 Supreme Court decision announcing a constitutional right to abortion. Indeed, abortion has become the litmus test for gay groups in deciding whether to oppose him.
But that’s okay…. the Gay Lefty activists repeatedly align themselves (in our name) with the most fringe elements of society anyway. Pro-communist, anti-capitalist, pro-terrorist, and anti-War on Terror organizations. So why would we be surprised that the pro-abortion movement would hijack our supposed largest gay rights organization and that our so-called gay leaders would blindly consent?
-Bruce (GayPatriot) – gaypatriot2004@aol.com
UPDATE (from GPW): Over at the Independent Gay Forum, Steve Miller writes: (scroll down to “CNN’s Odd Ad Policies”)
According to the AP, “other abortion rights groups including the National Organization for Women, the National Abortion Federation and the Feminist Majority all have announced their opposition to Roberts.” They should have added the Human Rights Campaign, the abortion rights lobby that targets gay and lesbian donors.
Forced Outing Results in $270K for Gay Man
This is interesting….. I’m glad I’m not involved in the forced outing of gay men. This would be a lot of money for someone to have to shell out in a civil settlement.
Gay Man Outed on Radio to Receive $270,000 – FOX News
Arbitrator Rebecca Westerfield found on Friday that Hernandez had suffered emotional distress but dismissed claims of sexual harassment. She said that Hernandez had no choice but to quit his job and was owed workers’ compensation.
Hernandez was awarded $250,000 and nearly $20,000 in economic damages because of the emotional distress that led to seven months of unemployment after quitting his job.
Now imagine if a bunch of forced-outed gay men got together and filed a class action lawsuit. Whew. Maybe there *is* money to be made in the blogosphere?
-Bruce (GayPatriot) – gaypatriot2004@aol.com
ABC’s Maverick Stossel: Cut Off PBS Funding
Once again, ABC News reporter John Stossel proves why more conservative voices are needed in the so-called “mainstream media.”
Privatize PBS – RealClearPolitics.com
He starts off with a bang….
My cable company made me a remarkable offer: They want to add a new channel to my cable subscription — and you will pay for it. The channel will have liberal news, highbrow entertainment and a variety of educational programming.
Sounds insane, and yet the channel isn’t new. It’s called PBS.
But then he gets to the real point.
Republicans should stop dithering about reducing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s subsidies and eliminate them altogether. Of course, when anyone suggests cutting the PBS budget, people say, “they’re trying to kill ‘Sesame Street’!” But “Sesame Street” is big business and would survive in any environment. “Children’s programming that has an audience does not need taxpayer subsidies,” says Jacob Sullum of Reason. “Noggin, which is more ‘commercial-free’ than PBS stations, carries 12 hours of kids’ shows (including two different versions of ‘Sesame Street’) every day. Parent-acceptable children’s programming can also be seen on Nickelodeon, the Disney Channel and ABC Family.”
Stossel ends the piece with a quote from David Boaz, the author of “Libertarianism: A Primer.”
“We wouldn’t want the federal government to publish a national newspaper, writes Boaz, “why should we have a government television network and a government radio network? If anything should be kept separate from government and politics, it’s the news and public affairs programming that Americans watch. When government brings us the news — with all the inevitable bias and spin — the government is putting its thumb on the scales of democracy. It’s time for that to stop.”
To me, the most important point is also at the end: PBS, on the other hand, is broadcasting by bureaucracy. This is not a good thing. We should have separation of news and state.
Separation of news and state. That should be the new mantra for conservatives. Sounds like the great title for a blog, too.
-Bruce (GayPatriot) – gaypatriot2004@aol.com
Rafael Palmeiro and Jim McGreevey
I have always been a David Letterman fan. But as he gets older, I actually think he is becoming funnier, more creative, and much more intelligent in his humor than Jay Leno. In fact, I have begun TiVO’ing both shows and comparing them. There is no doubt that Leno is ripping off some of Letterman’s stuff. But I digress…
Last night, in an homage to Johnny Carson… 
, Paul Shaffer donned the “Great Karnak” hat and lifted the envelope to his forehead.
Shaffer: “The answer is Rafael Palmeiro and Jim McGreevey.”
Letterman: “Rafael Palmeiro and Jim McGreevey……”
Shaffer: “Is there an echo in here?” (Tonight Show traditionalists would have loved it!!!) “Yes, Rafael Palmeiro and Jim McGreevey. I shall now reveal the question.”
Shaffer (ripping open the envelope and pulling out a piece of paper): “And the answer is….. Name two guys who lied about what they stuck in their ass.”
I think I busted a gut last night…..
-Bruce (GayPatriot) – gaypatriot2004@aol.com
Related Story – McGreevey Retrospective: No Big Whoop – BoiFromTroy
Malkin Update on 9/11 Fund Scandal by NJ Democrats
As a follow-up to my posting on this subject a few days ago, NJ Democrats Manipulated Post-9/11 Security, Michelle Malkin has an awesome column about the Democrats’ 9/11 Slush Fund.
For the past four years, Democrats have ceaselessly attacked Republicans for “exploiting” the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
When President Bush showed his support for rescue workers at Ground Zero, Democrats cried “exploitation!”
When the Bush administration launched a long-overdue global war on terror, Democrats cried “exploitation!”
When Bush signed the Patriot Act, Democrats cried “exploitation!”
When Republicans held their national convention in New York City last year, Democrats cried “exploitation!”
And when Karl Rove gave a speech to New York conservatives pointing out the Democrats’ passive counterterror strategy, Democrats cried “exploitation!”
But when an investigative reporter exposes Democrats raiding federal homeland security grants and turning 9/11 money into a party slush fund, where, oh where, are all the indignant liberal watchdogs to protest such clear and unconscionable political exploitation?
-Bruce (GayPatriot) – gaypatriot2004@aol.com
Jimmy Carter: Without Class
Just about two months ago, I wondered whether former president Jimmy Carter resented Republicans more than he loves America. It doesn’t seem that this onetime peanut farmer has gotten over his 1980 landslide loss to the Gipper. In a column today, George Will writes that the Georgia Democrat who, in his concession speech that year, noted that, as president, he never “lied to the American people,” has lately been telling whoppers about that conservative columnist. Will well describes Mr. Carter’s lack of class:
The role of ex-president requires a grace and restraint notably absent from Carter. See, for example, his criticism of the United States when he is abroad, as in England two weeks ago. Having made such disappointing history as president, Carter as ex-president should at least refrain from disseminating a historical falsehood.
(Hat tip: Polipundit and Powerline.)
MSM & Iraq–not telling us about the real war
Just a few weeks ago, I blogged on media bias and noted that reporter Mark Yost was taken to task for reporting that the MSM “ignores positive changes” in Iraq. Well, it’s not only positive changes, they’re ignoring. The MSM is by and large failing to report a major offensive by U.S. & Iraqi forces. Over at Powerline, Paul wonders:
Have you ever read a history of war that focused almost entirely on casualty figures (with an occasional torture story and grieving parent thrown in), to the exclusion of any real discussion of tactics, operations, and actual battles? I haven’t. But that’s what our self-proclaimed “rough drafters” of history are serving up with respect to Iraq.
No wonder more and more people are turning to blogs to get information. Powerline links to Belmont Club which reports on the offensive here.
Torturing them with Harry Potter
I wonder if Osama bin Laden (and other radical Islamicists) would approve that a fictional young wizard has “bewitched” some of his followers detained at Guantanamo Bay. A librarian there told Reuters that “Harry Potter is a popular title among some of the detainee population.” While the reporter, a Carolyn Drees, does note the camp is for “foreign terrorism suspects,” she points out that the prison “which has come under fierce attack by human rights groups for its treatment and indefinite detention of prisoners.” She doesn’t mention that recent reports have dismissed the most serious allegations leveled against the camp.
Although the subject of the article is how much the terrorist detainees enjoy Harry Potter (as well as other books), Ms. Drees seems to dwell on the allegations of torture, concluding by noting that some critics want to shut the place down. (She neither names the critics nor the human rights groups which have “assailed” the U.S. for its policies there.) While she reports that 242 detainees have been released, she neglects to say that some of those have traveled to Afghanistan to take up arms against the government there and its American allies.
While Ms. Drees may be dredging up these charges in an attempt to attack the U.S., her article ends up proving that this detention facility is hardly the terrible place described by many Administration critics. That our military provides the suspected terrorists a library which stocks Harry Potter in four languages as well as “12 different Agatha Christie titles in Arabic“–and even the 1001 Nights–is a sign that we recognize the prisoners’ humanity. The article even notes a prisoner has requested the Harry Potter movies. They can request movies? But, I thought Guantanamo was a torture chamber.
-Dan (AKA GayPatriotWest): GayPatriotWest@aol.com
(Please note that this post also appears on GOP Vixen (under a literary alias) where Bridget has invited me to blog from time to time.)
Barone on Multiculturalism
Just read a great piece on multiculturalism by Michael Barone–one of my favorite columnists. He quoted Jean-François Revel, quite possibly the wisest living Frenchman: “A civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.” Barone adds: “Tolerating intolerance, goodhearted people are beginning to see, does not necessarily produce tolerance in turn.” Here he really gets at the heart of multiculturalism and its refusal to note the superiority of western democracies:
Multiculturalism is based on the lie that all cultures are morally equal. In practice, that soon degenerates to: All cultures all morally equal, except ours, which is worse. But all cultures are not equal in respecting representative government, guaranteed liberties, and the rule of law. And those things arose not simultaneously and in all cultures but in certain specific times and places–mostly in Britain and America but also in other parts of Europe.
Emphasis added. Now that I’m whet your appetite, just read the whole thing!
Sunday Afternoon: My (Short) Journey to the Pacific
After the park dedication, I decided to head out and explore more of the Lewis & Clark territory on my own. After all, the rental car (although not the gas) was free! Oh by the way, check out the price of gas in Southern Washington State!
And is there any doubt where our lumber comes from? I saw TONS of trains and lumber yards that were shipping out on a Sunday afternoon. Bad economy, according to MSM, remember?
So I headed north on Interstate 5 to see how close I could get to Mt. St. Helens. By the time my trip was over that evening, I would have covered pretty much the entire length of the Lower Columbia shown here on the map. From Mt. St. Helens to Cape Disappointment, nearly 375 miles total drive from Portland. It probably would have taken Lewis & Clark a week. It took me a half-day.
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Sunday Morning: The Dedication of Cpt. William Clark Park
I began Sunday at the LCTHF meeting itself. We were there early to be bussed over to the dedication of the Captain William Clark Park in Washougal, WA.
On their return east in the spring of 1806, the Corps of Discovery spent six days camped near present day Cottonwood Beach in Washougal where they gathered provisions in preparation for their return to the Nez Perce Indians in Idaho, who were caring for their horses over the winter. As the Corps ascended the Columbia River on their return home, they rowed with determination and journal entries stated that they rowed as much as 20 – 24 miles each day against the spring current. They normally spent one night at various beachheads along the Columbia where they prepared their biggest meal of the day, and would then bed down for the night and rise early to “proceed on.”
It turns out there are many many parks and other landmarks across the USA named for Lewis *and* Clark… but this is the first to be named just for Capt. Clark alone. It also turns out I know a “William Clarke” in one of those strange confluences of life and history. Speaking of which, the LCTHF uses the word “confluence” a lot. Just an observation.
Anyway, I got a chance to roam around the not-yet-finished-Captain Clark Park and take pictures before the dedication ceremony.
PETA would loooooove this one….. (a bunch of animal skins…. )
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