Elf Sternberg

Kitsap County is the county immediately to the west of where I live. It's a short drive or ferry ride to get there, and it truly is a wild country. Although it's getting more and more urbanized every year, it's still one of the last great wooded rural zones in the United States. Adele Ferguson lives there, and writes a column for the Kitsap Business Journal. Over the years, she's given us a precious material from which to pick. Her latest includes the Snopes-refuted claim that President Obama will ban all sport fishing, but I have to admire her comment on Sonya Sotomayor. Convinced that Obama would have chosen to fill the nomination "with a black," she wrote:

I was wrong. I still don’t understand who President Obama was pleasing when he picked a white Jewish woman instead. He didn’t know her. Somebody had to press her case. I’d give anything to know who and the identities of his inner circle.

Sonya Sotomayor is one of The Tribe? Oy gevalt!

But Ms. Ferguson really loves "the blacks." After all:

Remember Ronald Reagan’s story about the kid who had to shovel a huge pile of manure? He went about it with such joy he was asked why and said, "With all that manure, there’s got to be a pony in there somewhere." The pony hidden in slavery is the fact that it was the ticket to America for black people. I have long urged blacks to consider their presence here as the work of God, who wanted to bring them to this raw, new country and used slavery to achieve it.

Apparently, that one took so much heat it's no longer is Ms. Ferguson's archive.

Oh, and add this: Ms. Ferguson believes that, if you're poor, you're not taxed enough.

America is such a weird place.

[Hat Tip: Jesus' General]