Let's Do Lunch

In what ranks right up there with The Iowa Peace Institute, rich guy Ted Townsend is contributing $1 Million for a "U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy" to be headquartered in Des Moines.

It is written that the Center would promote the concept of citizen diplomacy--one on one, dinner table relationships between people of different nations and cultures.

I wonder if they'll have a Rodney King "Can't we all just get along? "Wing? Or maybe a "Why Cant' We Be Friends" concert featuring WAR.

I personally don't care how Townsend chooses to waste his money, whether on the Great Ape Trust or Earthpark (his rain forest project), I do mind how they waste my tax dollars.

They want $317,000 from the U.S. Treasury this year. Senator Charles Grassley, who helped secure millions for the rain forest, and CommieTommie Harkin think it's too late for fed funding. Congressman Leonard BOZO-well isn't so sure and will try his best to help, "I remain fully supportive of establishing the National Center for Citizen Diplomacy...there's no better place for it than right here in Des Moines".

R.I.P. ----The Iowa Peace Institute closed in 2003, after a highly sucessful(?) 17 year run.