From the diaries by Erick

Rush dares to judge all by the content of their character and that threatens the race industry

Raised by parents that were instrumental in integrating the races in my South Carolina hometown in the 60s and 70s, I was receptive in my youth to the Democratic Party’s rhetoric of racial inclusion. I practiced affirmative action in my law firm in the 80s and became a party official; but almost from the beginning of my political activism there was some unease with my liberal associations.

Fellow democrats giggled about an empire Reagan correctly denounced as evil; ignored the success of tax cuts; and hired mostly white paralegals. As a very young county party chairman I was appalled at hostility to people of faith by my party elders, as well as the unfair demonization of Republicans as racist and uncaring for the poor.

I admit at this time that I suffered from extreme, classic Democratic Party class envy and that later on, my reluctance to change parties while still in my hometown was due partly to this and cowardice, but I couldn’t deny that among the legal community and members of my church, it was invariably mostly the Republicans that actually hired blacks.

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Yesterday in the broad daylight of mid-morning, a dozen masked terrorists carried out an attack on a police-escorted convoy carrying Sri Lanka’s national cricket team to the stadium in Lahore, where they were to compete against Pakistan (Note: Click here for map of region showing Sri Lanka’s location).

Six players were wounded, and five members of their police escort, which included “several” vehicles filled with regular police as well as “commandos,” were killed, according to VOA. Other reports have four Sri Lankan athletes and a coach wounded.

The coordinated ambush began when the attackers fired into the three lead police vehicles, disabling the convoy and turning the rest of the vehicles and their occupants into sitting ducks. The initial salvo was followed by an unsuccessful rocket launcher attack on the bus, which was followed with a hand grenade that missed its target and by small arms fire.

A portion of the attack was filmed by a Pakistani television network from a relatively safe distance. A still from that footage is below.

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Effective dunk? Check. He slammed it home with authority.

Patriotic dunk? Check. He did it in the red, white, and blue.

Mean dunk? Check. He put his hand on the head of the Australian center to vault over him, in Australia, in front of the home country crowd.

Vince Carter might have made the perfect dunk that year. Open thread.

Update: Oh yes, and he did it off of a steal, too, to give him defensive credit on the play. All the better!