From Herman Cain to Blue Wall Street—the News Behind the News
The News Behind the News
Here are some things in the daily news that do not quite make sense.
I.The Joe Paterno Implosion
To the outsider, it is inexplicable how a coach/former coach like Mr. Sandusky could serially molest boys, even after the crimes were known to many of the athletic staff, apparently at one point even to the campus police, and many in the higher administration.
We are supposed to assume that over decades Joe Paterno had no inkling that his most trusted coach was a pederast/pedophile in a gym-like environment where male youth were ubiquitous? An athletic program is a sort of petri dish for the bacillus of the pederast.
What was going on? Did the campus community close ranks, in the manner of the Catholic Church, to avoid the tabloids, and in fact did so successfully for years? Was the attitude that a ten-year-old who was sodomized in the shower was expendable, given the careers that might otherwise summarily end? If Paterno reported the matter to officials, and even to campus security, and nothing followed, was he not curious as to why that was so?
Did the alleged pervert demonically masque some of his lust in the context of locker-room frolicking to fool his colleagues, as if his groping was just “horseplay” and then by design would escalate at the opportune moment? The Penn State community must have informally considered Sandusky a mere in-house embarrassment? But if so, what a travesty, given the predator’s proverbial ingenuity in finding new victims, and the raw calculation that others were to suffer to protect the reputations of university grandees. So Paterno et al. resigned, but far too late; the tragedy was that it came only after so many new victims.
II. The Herman Cain Mess
If one were to believe some of the narratives about Herman Cain, what exactly is he guilty of? Buffoonery? Lying? Assault? Bad manners? Perversion? Nothing at all? We are never quite told in any meaningful detail.
1) In regard to the current five complainants, is Cain a married roving eye? A sort of unfulfilled man, eager to flirt and fantasize, or, to quote Jimmy Carter, to lust in his heart? That is, did he vent his sexual frustrations, by occasional loose talk, but draw the line by eschewing classical sexual harassment of the casting couch sort that leads to intercourse? Note that no women have come forward in the last, say, ten years. Did age and cancer change Herman Cain? But from what to what?
2) Is Cain a crude groper? A sort of Strom Thurmond or sex-poodle Al Gore? Are there third-party witnesses who can attest that Cain grabbed thighs? If not, are we back to he said/she said? Are we once more to ponder what is “sexual harassment”? We can all agree it surely is the gross quid pro quo, ‘screw’ me for your job. But is it also the asymmetrical relationship between the man with power and the woman subordinate without so much of it? (If we think Cain’s tête-à-tête evening with Ms. Bialek was stupidly above and beyond the call of duty, what in the world was hair over the eye Sharon Bialek thinking in scoring a private coffee break/dinner with CEO Herman Cain?) How odd, that in the age of trashy media sex and crass overt nudity, we act as if we are in the age of Puritanism. In 2011, a coffee break will be both more overtly sexual (even a group discussion of last night’s sitcoms would ensure that) and yet prudish (as in one false slip, a bad joke, a crass compliment can become 14 years later a sexual harassment charge).
Thanks for mentioning Jamie Gorelick. She often gets left out.
As to Cain, has there been criminal charges involved here? In a criminal case, there is the presumption of innocence until proven guilty in a court of law. there are no criminal charges involved, just some “workplace dispute mediation” scenario that resembles a Hollywood cable channel script where we the audience are shown the intimate details before those details spill out into public, with all the press paraphernalia cameras and extras pretending to be the media in front of the HBO set cameras.
Must life comform to Hollywood? does life imitate “art” because hollywood says so? The appearance of Gloria Allred looks like some old old, I mean OLD Re-run.
Gaffe the keyword is Gloria alred. the instant I saw her name I knew the whole thing ws more democratic work against a person they are deathly afraid of. a true Black man who will clean obama’s plow, I am a southern boy from the Carolinas who is for Cain 150%.oh did I forget to say I’m a WHITE southern boy from the Carolinas??
In a criminal case, there is the presumption of innocence until proven guilty in a court of law.
That applies ONLY in a court of criminal law.
It doesn’t apply to the Gibson Guitar Company, which has been severely punished twice by Federal raids and confiscations of its building materials, solely on the assertion of some unaccountable bureaucrat of a Lacey Act violation. With no opportunity to defend itself in a court of law, and with no finding of guilt or innocence. Punishment first, verdict years afterward.
And the media regularly and viciously cashes in on its knowlege that there’s no presumption of innocence in the court of public opinion.
How David Axelrod and the Chicago Machine smeared Herman Cain…with a LOT of help from the MSM and the RINOs!
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Does anyone remember how Barack Hussein Obama got elected to the US Senate from Illinois? I cited Ann Coulter’s gumshoe work and our own research and recollections from when we lived, and voted, in Chicago. It’s a whole lot of ugly.
Those were the days … NOT!
As someone noted the other day, it would be more correct to refer to sexual harassment as gender harassment, as the law deals with harassment due to gender. Because it is called sexual harassment, the first thought that leaps to mind is that there must have been some type of sexual hanky panky involved. In reality, there is the hostile environment part of the law. Or such things as having your wife’s picture on your desk when she’s in a bikini. Or having a swimsuit calender on your office wall. Or telling a joke that might be considered “anti-woman”. It is quite possible to have a sexual harassment complaint brought over something not even vaguely involved with “sex”.
I remember the timing that these supposed assaults took place, the mid-nineties when all the talk about inappropriate sexual innuendo/talk/flirting, or anything anybody deemed unwanted began. Then started a slew of workshops about it. Of course, then began sexual harassment charges towards male employers or supervisors who did not give the desired promotions and positive feedback to female employees under them. I was witness to one of these, myself. It was so outrageous! This was a way to bring men to “heel” in all actuality. Nothing good came out of it and we can see that there were really no basis for the claims made against Cain, or the truth would’ve been out there! The claimants don’t want to look ridiculous to everybody else. Too bad they didn’t just keep their mouth shut to begin with!
Everyone who knew of the rapes should be forced to resign. Paterno’s name should be removed from every building in Pennsylvania. He should not be immortalized.
I’m no fan of Herman Cain, but every charge so far is unsubstantiated or far from proven. They are trying to ruin him with innuendo. Unless and until something comes out that is tangible and has a story and collaborating evidence that is internally consistent and believable, he remains an honorable man. My issues with Mr Cain are his horrible plan, his lack of knowledge, and his disqualifying inexperience.
Republicans have to publicize who the Wall Street piranas really are. It’s hard to understand why they don’t do so more vociferously. It smells.
Illegal immigration is about votes and political power. Everything else is a smokescreen.
Proreason and Gaffe P – Who do you fellows support, and why?
Gaffe Price, I believe the blurring effect you describe is deliberate. I’ve noticed in recent years that a) the lines between one medium and the next have grown somewhat indistinct. That is to say that you find the same messages (including assumptions, inferences, implications, moral stances etc.) echoing from television to the internet to movies to magazines etc. The effect is to create an alternate manufactured virtual reality that only links up to actual reality here and there, but nevertheless has a powerful “psychic” existence.
b) the line between reality and fantasy is also being blurred. Three powerful tools are 1) “reality TV”, 2) hyper-realistic fantasy entertainment and 3) 1st person journalism which seeks to project the viewer into the documentary using different filmic techniques. All three help blur the line between reality and fantasy, especially in kids.
It is another form of cultural Marxism: The attempt to disconnect people from causal reality and the evidence of their own senses and submerge them instead in a manufactured reality where there are few fixed reference points. It makes it so some have a hard time getting a firm grip on real time events, slows their response time, confuses their options and leads to a general sense of apathy. It is yet another way in which the left is conspiring to rob off of our property and our freedom.
One of the major reasons it is so satisfying to read Victor’s, and some of the commenters’ postings here, is the contrast they present between this alternative, librul, emotional reality of which you speak, Gylippus, and mere reality. On a weekly basis we see the white hot spotlight of reason light up the dark, dusty, even bloody recesses of the emotional mindset of our leftist friends.
Here is our world, wherein very rich celebs, politicians, lie-stained media wretches [see ex. P. Krugman], and even some moguls from the business world, cry out for less fortunate others to donate to the favorite charities of the wealthy through the tax system. These worthies also favor clearly insane policies like open boarders, more government borrowing, more so-called rights to be funded (while the rights already agreed upon and cemented in law are ignored), and a policy of never ever ending any government programs no matter how foul, foolish, or failed.
Thank you, Victor and contributors, one and all.
Agreed, and well spoken!!
PS – Who do you support Fred?
Really, I could vote for any of them except Romney; I don’t vote for libruls. Newt seems smartest, though I’m not convinced that is the most important quality. Cain seems to evince energy and common sense. Sure would like more choices though: Rubio, Ryan, Cantor, DeMint.
Newt. Conservative, experienced, smartest, good in-fighter, will tear little lenin apart in any debate forum.
Hear hear… Go Newt!! (Though for the record I think Cain would make an excellent President too, and I like Perry’s edginess!)
I would pay to see that debate (as long as all proceeds went to Newt). It would break records for television ratings. It’s like driving by a horrible car accident, you can’t help but look.
proreason. I can only surmise you didn’t vote for obama then. if Herman Cains lack of experience is so appalling to you I am sur obamas lack of experience must have been horrfying, after all obama had so much experience as a community organisor. it realy takes a let of know how to run around signing people up for wellfare and the democratic party. poor old Herma only ran several major corporations and very successfuly at that. but I guese community organising trumps REAL success,
Well it’s plainly obvious that Cain is unqualified. What does Obama’s lack of qualifications have to do with it?
But that isn’t even my main complaint.
9 9 9 is my main complaint. Without writing a column about it, let’s just say it is politial suicide. You can’t publish a plan that raises taxes on 84% of the country, including HUGE increases on the poorest citizens, and even bigger increases on senior citizens (who don’t get the benefit of fica being covered in the 9% income tax), and including HUGE decreases on the wealthiest Americans, and expect to win more the 35-40% of the vote in a general election. Calling Americans stupid idiots would probably be a better strategy.
And then there is the chaos that would ensue if it were ever implemented, and the fact that it will never come up for a vote, or the fact that he can’t explain it, or the fantasy that a revenue neutral (as he says repeatedly) plan will somehow create 5-10% GDP growth, apparantly forever. Magic beans.
If we just adopt 9 9 9, the Cubs will finally win the World Series, and the oceans really will begin to recede.
The whole thing is lunacy from A to Z.
Proreason
I usually enjoy your comments, today not with standing.
At least Cain is opening the debate on our tax policy in terms of completely re-thinking and overhauling it. Al we will get from the rest of the republicans running for Prez is warmed over adjustments to the current tax code, which frankly, is an unmitigated disaster.
Are there issues with the 9 9 9 plan. Yes, but they really aren’t those you list from a strict constitutional and moral perspective. Your concerns are purely on the level of how will it play in Peoria.
The wealthiest in this country pay far too much of the tax burden and the bottom 50% do not pay nearly enough. Any plan that attempts to balance that out and make sure we all have some skin in the game will get my support over any manipulation of the current tax code of +/- 2% by bracket!
The constitution says we all are to be treated equally under the law. Progressive tax system treats us as unequally as just about any policy the government operates under.
You say it’s a joke that it is revenue neutral, where’s your evidence? Or are you just casting assertions unfunded by facts or research. (Let’s be clear, I’m not claiming it is revenue neutral, but then I haven’t done the research and apparently neither have you.)
This country is rally and truly screwed if we continue to allow the republican party to nominate, elect and elevate the likes of Romney, Boehner, Bush, Gingrich, etc. These guys are all inside the beltway big government republicans. They are anything but fiscal conservatives, and the only difference between them and Obama is how fast our liberties and freedoms will be stripped away.
From what I can see, there are only two serious fiscally conservatives candidates in the race. One doesn’t have a prayer in hell due to his moronic foreign policy, Paul. That leaves real fiscal conservatives with but one choice – Herman Cain.
Just my two cents
Brad, Cain himself repeatedly says that it is revenue neutral (i.e., the amount of taxes nationally will not change). Others have said overall taxes will go down by several hundred billions. I don’t have an issue with it being revenue neutral. It should be. What I don’t accept is that a plan that doesn’t LOWER the tax burden, but only shifts it, can be magic beans for the economy. Where is the evidence for THAT. The theory seems to be that if you put more dollars in the hands of job creators, then gdp will take off. But that money has to come from somewhere, and in Cain’s plan, it comes from everybody else…in other words, everybody else’s taxes have to go UP, so everybody else will have less money to spend. If somebody reliable cites significant cases where the overall benefit is as huge as Cain declares, I’d be interested to hear about it. Lacking that, it’s magic beans in my mind.
And I don’t give Cain any credit for opening the discussion, because it is precisely the WRONG discussion. The discussion OUGHT to be about lowering government spending, not about shifting taxes around in ways that will create a lot of winners and losers. In addition to pretending that something that is not the big problem is the big problem, just bringing it up plays into the hands of the demagogues of the left, who will gleefully take it to the voting bank.
I think it is such a serious error that the entire field is hurt by it.
And I’ve only described a few problems with 9 9 9. Like other people are beginning to say, can we please stop pretending Cain is qualified to be President or that 9 9 9 makes any kind of sense. He seems to be a good man, a successful businessman and could be an outstanding role model. Let him go back to being that instead of inflicting craziness on the country.
proreason says Herman Cain is not qualified to be President. OK, proreason, cite your authority for that silly statement. Cain is a U.S. born citizen. He is not a convicted felon. Therefore, he is qualified.
And for an amazing point of view by MLK’s niece, see here:
http://www.priestsforlife.org/africanamerican/blog/index.php/why-the-establishment-wants-to-destroy-herman-cain
Oh I see. The letter of the law. Yes, everybody is qualified.
Cain has never been elected to an office. He has never had to cast a vote. His big credentials are that he shut down underperforming pizza stores and was the chief lobbyiest for the Restaurant Association. Nothing wrong with that. Puts him in the upper 1/100th of 1/100. Qualified to be Commander in Chief. Jeez. Why do people insist on pretending about it.
The smart guy in your HOA isn’t qualified either.
Personally I think by today’s “Standards” that even “The Founding Fathers” would be stymied by the HUGE Bureaucracy and entrenched Industry that surrounds the Government. We need to Triage our country and stop the Trauma before We bleed to death as a Nation.
We need to get back to being “WE THE PEOPLE” again first and foremost, then way down the list – Republicans/Democrats/Independents etc and that can work to bind our divided nation..
We need a Candidate with a Clean moral Background first of all (no freebies for the DNC)
Our Candidate has to have experience in business and know where the government traps and red tape lie so that he/she can get out of the way of Entrepreneurship, Investment, Innovation and Business and cut Business Tax to allow Investment in our Country.
Our Candidate needs to be familiar with Byzantine plots and Chicanery that goes on in our Government and can GET BILLS Passed that will cut expenditure & repeal Obamacare. Retool the EPA and limit what powers it has. Also to get rid of The MANY wasteful and Un-Constitutional Departments.
Finally our Candidate needs to beleive in The Constitution and The Rule of Law. No more Imperial or Learn on the Job Presidents!
The problem with 9-9-9 is none of the above. 9-9-9 is actually political genius. Tax reform is one of the issues which consistently polls well for conservatives. Furthermore, 9-9-9 was always meant as a _transition_ to a fair flat tax. Frankly most of the objections to 9-9-9 are misinformed.
No, the problem with 9-9-9 is that the President has no power to change the tax code. The House Committee on Ways and Means, and only the House Committee on Ways and Means, currently has the legal authority to propose legislation which changes the tax code. Even if the committee system is circumvented, only the House of Representatives, by law, according to the Constitution, has the power to propose changes in taxes. Anyone who wants to write a proposal for new tax legislation is free to do so, and to find somebody in the House to introduce it to the floor. You don’t have to be President to write up a bill. You don’t even have to be a citizen.
Americans have forgotten what the President’s job is.
The President
1) Is the civilian Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Navy, and Militia and commissions all officers.
2) May grant reprieves and pardons.
3) Makes Treaties with the approval of the Senate
4) Appoints SCOTUS judges.
5) Appoints people to fill vacancies when the Senate is not in session.
6) May convene Congress on extraordinary occasions.
7) Must take care that ALL the laws of the U.S. are faithfully executed.
99.9% of the platforms Presidential candidates run on have absolutely zilch to do with the job. We need to instead hold our Legislators accountable for doing their jobs. Case in point: it’s not “Obamacare”. Obama did one thing: he didn’t veto the bill. The responsibility for that legislation rests solely and absolutely with the House and the Senate.
Americans need to stop complaining that “the government” is doing a bad job and yet voting in the same old representatives election after election. It’s _your_ representative who is at fault. _They_ are the ones who are screwing you over. And then they come back every 2 or 6 years and glad-hand you and tell you all the great things they have done and you idiots vote for them again – neglecting all of the ways they screwed you in backroom deals in Washington, D.C. and didn’t tell you about. “I didn’t vote for it” is not an excuse. The job of a representative is to pass legislation beneficial to their constituents. If they failed to form a coalition to block bad legislation or to pass good laws, then they might be a great person, but they suck as representative, and you need to find somebody else who can do the job.
This entire Presidential election fiasco is a sham, a badly-produced reality TV show for stupid people – and we’re the stupid people. Other than nominating SCOTUS judges – which certainly is a big deal – the next President will have virtually no power to fix any of the problems facing this country. Those problems are caused by the unlawfulness and depravity of the American people, and by the Progressive political machine which feeds that depravity and of which Obama is merely the token figurehead. Voting Obama out and some other yokel in will not change any of those things; without rooting out and destroying the Progressive political virus which permeates our government, which will require rooting out and destroying it wherever it twists and sickens our society, any new President, no matter how well-meaning, will have absolutely no power to restore a Constitutional federal government. Were one man to actually have the power to do so, then we would really be screwed, because a major purpose of the Constitution is to prevent exactly that kind of power from being concentrated in the hands of one person. Thus far it’s not. The problems with the U.S. government do not stem from an executive dictatorship – that we don’t have. The root cause of our problems is that The Rest of Us have neglected our own duties – beginning with the moral truth and legal fact that the foundation of our governments is We The People. We The People doesn’t mean we “get to have” the power, it means that we ultimately bear the _responsibility_ of that power.
oh yeh, it is political genius if you are talking to the most conservative 20% of the country.
For the rest, it’s political lunacy.
84% of Americans are not going to vote to increase their own taxes, no matter the snake oil that is slathered on the pitch.
And that is just one of the dozen or so problems with the wet dream of billionaires and people who don’t buy anything.
It’s the dumbest thing every proposed by someone who achieved some aclaim for president…a steep hill to climb.
“Republicans have to publicize who the Wall Street piranas really are. It’s hard to understand why they don’t do so more vociferously. It smells.”
No matter how Republicans try, the media does not cover wrongdoing by Democrat pirhanas…or weasels. Or do you really think Okkupy Wall St is “peaceful?”
Nor do historians or the media cover the damage that left liberal social psychologists have done to the causes for which our soldiers have fought. See http://clarespark.com/2011/01/02/the-watchbird-state/. We barely teach the disputed causes of the world wars of the 20th century, to the detriment of an educated electorate.
Note: There is an interesting interview on the PJM home page with VDH, in which he presents his view of the 2012 GOP field.
@ gylippus, in no hierarchical order, Cain, Santorum, Bachmann, and even Mitt. (points to Paul for the fiscal things he’s right on).
I used to have severe problems w/ Romney’s mormonism in particular. But, on further examination, I believe any mormonist tendencies will be checked by congress. He’s campaigning much better this time, and altho he’s been a flip flopper, he will be sensitive to his conservative constituency, and I pray, act accordingly, if/when elected….
if/once elected, he needs to govern the (more or less) polar opposite of ()bam a admin, and he said so last debate. He governed as a librul repub in a librul state. What will he do now? He needs to hold to that no matter what. I hope and pray for the best. He will need our support in trying times, and he will have to succeed against fierce, nasty opposition. I say this w/ regard to whoever becomes the republican nominee. democrat party is about to get hammered in the next election, the gig is up, and no one really knows that better than they do (in the deep recesses of their demented minds), so we should take heart and behave accordingly.
Many issues, c.f. repeal of obamacare, must be passed in the congress first, I believe Romney would sign it. Otherwise he’s promised to grant a waiver to all states. That’s what I think he will sign it.
Nine, Nine, Nine i have problems with. it means a new tax- a nat sales tax. i would prefer a nat sales tax, and NO income tax, but my idea has the same flaw/problem as Cain’s would be- the potential for raising the rate, just as income tax rates get raised. BUT, consider this- if Cain said to congress, I will compromise with you, pass Nine Nine Nine for the duration of my term, and we will see if it works (per the economy [Cain has said it is the uncertainty caused by a congress fraught with new changes and regulations that holds back the business community from beginning to take risks again, and will continue to stagnate the economy until a policy that promotes confidence and a more certain atmosphere will solve the problem. He's dead right about that.])
i want both a fiscal conservative and a social conservative, I believe you’ve got to have both, the culture is a cesspool, thanks to you-know-who, and Bachmann and Santorum have the courage of their convictions to stand for both. I may not get what I want (in next years nomination and election, but that’s what I want. if either one were president we could see an avalanche of repeals- light bulbs, income tax, the return of “don’t ask, don’t tell”, Sarbanes-Oxley: repealed, Dodd Frank: repealed etc. I want repeal repeal repeal And some more repeal, and some more repeal after that, and even more repeal for good measure, it’s the only way to ever restore any confidence, and more importantly any trust at all in government, at the national level, and restore it to a federal government.
[P.S. when i ask- "...must life imitate art in hollywood? I mean of course, artifice, ...must life imitate artifice there? political artifice... there is no art in hollywood.] Sad to say.
All good points GP, and I concur wholeheartedly. I like Newt a lot. I believe he has the ideological ammunition to not only out-debate any lefty, but to fight to roll back their big government agenda. He’s been through a lot and I think this has seasoned him. I think he could be a great statesman.
I’m not a Romney supporter but I agree that he could turn out to be a good president. I do think he is a man of principle, I just don’t know if he’s willing to take on the left the same way a Gingrich or a Bachman or even a Cain would.
I agree with you that another tsunami is coming, and it will wipe out the left. They bit off more than they could chew and now they are going to choke on it.
Well said!
If Cain drops out because of this circus, we have all lost.
It’s a Catch-22, and the Leftists that have gleefully sown these seeds know it.
I’m a Cain supporter, just to make my loyalties clear.
But even if he’s not the nominee, I’d like to see him last well into primary voting. If he walks now, it’s simply a reinforcement of media influence and it will embolden them.
“Leaving for the good of the party” is what they’re counting on.
When the media asks BO about his relationship with Bill Ayers then I’ll give credence to their questions of Cain.
I don’t mind if you Republicans elect a sexual predator as long as you shut up about sexuality from now on. No more talk (or legislation) about gays or abstinence. No more talk about immorality.
You don’t care about what other people do with their dicks anymore, welcome to adulthood in America.
But when Herman Cain signs law using the police to enforce the sexual morality that he never had we’re going to be mighty pissed off.
This one is as certain of his infallibility as little lenin himself.
http://www.cbsatlanta.com/story/16002149/investigator-herman-cain-innocent-of-sexual-advances
And don’t bother to shoot down the link. Anything can be discredited, just as the 5 stories so far have been shot down in many ways.
Unless something tangible from reliable people comes out, Herman Cain is an honorable man. And in case you don’t know, I’m dead set against Cain’s candidacy, but because of his policies and lack of experience at high government levels, not because of a campaign of unproven allegations by unreliable people with motives to lie.
Even regular polygraphs never measure truth, they only measure nervousness.
So Cain is much more comfortable in front of a camera than women who aren’t public figures. Shocking.
But I know you proreason. You are 100% dishonest partisan. You have an angle to spread and you will spread it.
No surprise.
Since you “know” me, you must be aware that I am by far the person who has spoken out the most against Herman Cain’s candidacy among the regular posters at PJM. I get attacked every day for doing so. But unlike liberals, I am actually capable of looking at many sides of a situation, so I set aside my political preferences and analyze the accusations against Cain based on the information that has been disclosed. At this point, it looks like a smear. If more infomation is disclosed, I’ll consider it as well and will alter my views if necessary.
The only agenda I have is to defeat the marxists who are well on the way to destroying the society that has increased the wealth of the world 20-fold in a few over 200 years, the society that fought a war to defeat slavery, the society that roared out of the Great Depression to defeat the Nazis, and the society that held together for 40 years to defeat Communism. And YOUR heros, Mr. “Scholar”, are racists, tyrants and marxists. So I can see why you might want to discount and distort what I say.
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And YOUR heros, Mr. “Scholar”, are racists, tyrants and marxists.
Yes, unlike liberals you never stoop to slander.
No wait, you just did.
No Josh, he didn’t stoop to slander. The truth is never slander, regardless of how bad it makes you look.
Thank you, Doug Loss, for saying it before I could: it’s only slander if it is untrue.
Now, by Josh’s own rules, he must disprove the proposition that his heroes are racists, tyrants and marxists and until he can do that, we must assume that his heroes ARE racists, tyrants and marxists. (And given that it is obvious that Josh’s heroes ARE racists, tyrants and marxists, he will have a more difficult time disproving that proposition than Mr. Cain will have disproving the nasty charges against him.)
“The only agenda I have is to defeat the marxists who are well on the way to destroying the society that has increased the wealth of the world 20-fold in a few over 200 years, the society that fought a war to defeat slavery, the society that roared out of the Great Depression to defeat the Nazis, and the society that held together for 40 years to defeat Communism.”
There’s a problem with the italicized portion of your remarks. The Western Allies, including Britain, the US, Canada, etc., lost only about 800,000 people (soldiers and civilians) during WW II. The Soviets lost around 27 million people in their fight against Hitler. By any measure, the Soviets, not the Americans, bore the brunt of WW II and arguably made the biggest contribution to defeating Hitler.
I don’t say that to belittle the vital American contribution or to glorify the appalling Stalin but facts are facts and we can’t ignore them if we are to have a meaningful discussion.
Snarky, I agree that other countries paid more in terms of manpower lost, but the US involvement was the tipping point and the final reason the axis powers were defeated.
- The US country supplied most of the war equipment. Russia could not have done what they did without our help
- The US bore the brunt of the battle with Japan. No way Japan would have been defeated so quickly without the US, and probably not at all
- One of the reasons Russia took so many casualies is because of the way they fought the war. The US chose not to use men as cannon fodder. As I recall, we had 26 million men and women in the services. That was a monstrous national commitment. If the US had been forced to defend its own homeland against an enemy like Germany, our casualties would certainly have been much higher.
I also did not mean to put Russia and the UK (including Australia, Canada, India, South Africa and other old empire countries) in a second tier. Without all three of those combatants, the axis powers would surely have won.
Snarky’s knowledge of the course of WWII is appaling. Another example of the failure of the US educational system,
Josh,
I agree %100 with proreason’s post here (probably a first). He has never been a Herman Cain fan; he uses the phrase “dice roll” a lot since many of us are willing to vote for someone without any of the usual political experience. Trying to paint him as a Cain supporter will only damage your credibility more than it already is.
Guilty until proven innocent, eh? How liberal.
If you think about it, that is exactly how politics has always worked — candidates are assumed to be guilty until proven innocent. After all, successful candidates have to “prove”: that they are well suited to the office they are running for, and part of that is to “prove” they are innocent of whatever disturbing allegations have been made. Unfounded allegations are not really all that difficult to “disprove” in the court of public opinion (if you are innocent).
Oh! I get it! Irony! Josh, as in “to joke” and scholar, as in “studying man”.
Heavy irony, indeed.
It’s never about the sex. I don’t care if queers bunghole each other with barbed wire until they all saw each other in half. Just don’t you dare arrest me for wearing an “I hate fags” tee shirt while 12 fat, naked men march by with cops watching pulling their puds (the marchers and the cops, although not exactly in the same way) for the edification and amusement of one and all, free as deranged birds (see any Zombie post for details). Like poop and pee at OWS protests, somehow no crime has occured, while two blocks away, people get tickets for spitting in the sidewalk.
It’s about wielding unearned power. For you, Ted Kennedy, or Bill Clinton to wave your members in my face, while the heavily armed government holds me down for you is many bridges too far. At a certain point, one must ask: since so much effort is being brought to bear on one tiny, insubstantial, usually nonexistant problem (like sexual deviation, AGW, political correctness, et al)after another, what is really going on here? Answer: It is as it ever was. Some people will only accept by negotiation what they cannot demand by force, and even the tinyiest baby just tries to snatch things without argument, first. Because leftism is simply a maturation mechanism malfunction, this is the appropriate model to apply.They grab and grab, until an adult spanks them. We are now living with the third generation who were never spanked. How lovely!
Unfortunately for the unwashed, debauched, left, we’re beginning to be onto your little game. When this pendulum is done swinging back, you better have the ass sewn back into those chaps, because it’s gonna be either the barbed wire dildo or a sharp shock to bottyland! Enjoy!
josh it is plain that you are a very intelligent person. thats why you voted for the great community organisor. the phony who is wrecking the country with his vast knowledge of financial manipulation. do you have any proof of Herman Cains guilt??
Sure,don’t worry what anybody does to anybody,right Josh Scholar?It isn’t welcome to adulthood,it’s welcome to Penn State and the coach in the showeroom.But I’m guessing you have no problem with that.
What? Attacking Cain because you are still smarting from the antics of Clinton, Weiner, Kennedy, Dodd, et al?
“But when [President Bill Clinton or Senator Kennedy] signs law using the police to enforce the sexual morality that he never had we’re going to be mighty pissed off.” Your quote, from a historical perspective.
Oh my. What manner of journalistic brilliance is this? VDH hits the nail on the head again and again in this stingingly true essay…
Somebody on the Gingrich campaign must be reading our Victor Davis Hanson’s brilliance:
“…the administrative elite, whose numbers have soared to near 1/1 ratios with faculty on many campuses.”
- Hanson, LIBERAL INDULGENCES, Rarified Exploitation. 10/28/11
“By 2014, there will be one administrator for every teacher on college campuses in the United States…”
- Newt Gingrich, CNBC debate. 11/09/11
And as I mentioned in my comment on the 10/28 blog post, Hanson is on to something with his “Rarified Exploitation” concept. I was pleased to see a major candidate share it with the entire country. Slashing the bloated middle management and lowering inflated college tuition will transform a major part of the American Economy.
Keep up the excellent work, Doctor Hanson.
Of all the candidates Newt like VDH understands the American soul. He has displayed this in his writings, especially his historical novels. “Valley Forge” was excellent in that regard and reinforces what sacrifice is needed to retake the values this country deserves.
In all but one of the topics (the Paterno case) you discuss Dr. Hanson, the common thread I see underlying all of it is the Greek chorus effect the media plays in all of it. The overwhleming leftist bent of that chorus leads to the distortions and skewed representations that allow the Gorelicks and Orszag’s and Johnson’s, and too many others to name, to fly beneath the public’s radar as they participate in what is probably one of the most brazen scams in history – the robbery and pillage of the United States of America – with trillions of dollars of wealth vanished or stolen due to a combination of bad policy decisions and outright thievery. There truly are things to be outraged about in America and this grand heist under the people’s very noses is at the top of the list. Second on that list is the media complex that covers for it thru half-lies, distortions and out and out omission/hiding of information. And the people are puppets, taking their marching orders from their media masters, hell bent on destroying what, to any reasonable person, is the greatest, most benevolent power in history. As I’ve said many times before, this Republic cannot survive with as dishonest and partisan a media as this. It’s time to drive that Greek chorus off stage.
well said.
I.The Joe Paterno Implosion
The real question is how widespread is male on male sexual assault in the university system? Who else is covering it up?
Given the social and political deference to perversion in our society in general and at the university in particular I would guess that the crime and cover up is greater than in the church.
I guess now we know what Nittany really means in the phrase “Nittany Lions.”
Closer scrutiny of Pres. Spanier will yield more insight into what really is going on than pilling on JoePa. From close observation and many Saturdays in opposing stadiums, my vote for the most loyal, best behaved and knowledgeable
fan is Penn State.
Everybody’s got a pack of faults on his shoulders,
If heads were on backwards we’d all see our own.
Or,
I’m different?
Then we’re even.
Or,
I’m a liar
myself.
Can’t blame you
for telling
your clumsy lies.
But, remember,
There is a real difference between right and wrong, and good and evil.
All Progressives and most leftists I have met are moral relativists. As such there is no right and wrong or good and evil for them as it applies to themselves. They cannot lie or ever be hypocritical in their own minds. They only project such things onto conservatives. Conservatives who do not understand this are quite responsible for much of the evil in this world because of their ignorance.
Paterno allegedly knew in 1998 and 2002. Too bad so sad jo-pa. You gotta go!! I was at first in agreement w/just letting the guy finish the season. If the players had any courage (or their parents) I would not have the entire team not finish the rest of the season either. Further punishing the Lions with millions in lost revenue.
Cain; The lack of absolute truth, as in Clinton’s case, and the fact that the NRA seems to have created and cured a serial flirt in 3 years time. I will wait. This could go back to Hillarycare paybacks, and forward to Axelrod in Chicago. It may sink Obama big time!!! PBUH.
If Cain wins the nomination, Obama will have only his record to run on.
If Mitt or Newt win, he will run only on theirs-and the MSM will help.
Encourage the Occupy movements, for they are essentially one bunch of leftists protesting another bunch and being funded by a third bunch, while the top of the left wing food chain, Obama and the Democrooks, cheer them on. Let them rip each other to shreds if they want.
Who are worse, the Democrooks or the Demokooks?
That really is the question, oddly enough. During the last presidential primaries I decided I’d prefer Clinton to Obama, because I reckoned a venality the lesser of two evils compared to a true believer; little did I know that there’s such a thing as a democrook-uberkook: our current president. SUCH a true believer that he reckons corruption a prerogative. Absolutely terrifying. That sort is the worst of them all; may we never see another in the office again! I’ll take a pack of mafiosi like the Clintons over these petite-fascists any day.
If you want some insight into the Penn State situation try reading up on the Franklin Scandal. A child-sex ring was uncovered in Nebraska, then covered up again when it turned out that the perps were “important” people. The kids who came forward to blow the whistle were jailed and called hoaxers. An investigator and his ten-year-old son were murdered, and a local police chief was involved.
This new situation is an absolute repeat. (In this case, a DA was “disappeared” and his lap-top computer gutted: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/DA-Who-Never-Charged-Sandusky-Has-Been-Missing-Since-2005-133615093.html)
You want to know how this stuff happens? It happens because perverts band together in secret, eliminate their enemies, and have friends in high places.
Disgusting. Hang them all. Makes me wonder about Josh’s litte hate spew:
5. Josh Scholar
“I don’t mind if you Republicans elect a sexual predator as long as you shut up about sexuality from now on. No more talk (or legislation) about gays or abstinence. No more talk about immorality. You don’t care about what other people do with their dicks anymore, welcome to adulthood in America.”
Josh, are you affiliated with Penn State per chance?
Isn’t “band[ing] together in secret, eliminat[ing] their enemies and hav[nig] friends in high places” what the Left does too?
Yes, banding together in secret, eliminating enemies, and having friends in high places is what politics is all about. (just read Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography if you doubt this) That’s why the way we’ve politicized sin is a true sign of our growing decadence and cannot end well. If you think the PSU situation is bad, remember that DADT has just been repealed. Even now similar problems are undoubtedly starting to brew in our military. They should reach headline status in a decade or so (maybe sooner).
I wish everybody would read VDH.
The interesting thing as far as I’m concerned about the Sandusky business is that there was talk of criminal charges back in I think it was 1998, but we can’t ask the District Attorney why he didn’t file charges, because he vanished without a trace in 2005. Told his girlfriend he was going out for a drive, and never came back. His car was found in a parking lot the next day, empty, no signs of violence, and his laptop computer was found, sans hard drive, in the local river some time after that. No body, no evidence of foul play or suicide or anything. He was declared legally dead this February.
Good lord. Only top-notch hit people can pull something like that off.
Of late I feel as if I’m running out of words. Civil words. All I have left are curse words. Long profane screeds that seethe with contempt for those who supposedly lead us and the contemporary zeitgeist that populates the myth making going on around us. Be they personal (friends, family, colleagues) or the craftily celebrated ones the media idolizes, I cuss them and everyone and everything that their vulgar wretched minds conceive and that they assume the rest of us should dumbly and mutely consume wholly without nary a burp or a blanch. All of this inspired by three years of Obama’s administration of Iraq, Afghanistan and especially Iran, which his administration has accomplished more American KIA’s and wounded than in the eight years of the George Bush effort in these three meat grinders. Yes 3, and the main one goes unscathed. Well, Happy Veterans Day.
PS
This could have been as easily composed on 11/11/71 . Joni’s right, “we go round and round and round in the circle game”!
Correction: It is MF Global, not MR. The MF stands for “Man Financial.”
Rush noted yesterday that Sandusky’s reputation was well known in the area. There is a local dessert called the “Sandusky” that involves an upside-down ice cream cone between two scoops of ice cream arranged in a sexually suggestive way. If JoePa knew and did nothing to stop the perversion of his staffer, then he deserves to be gone, and his reputation too.
The OWSers are merely a collection of typically gullible, inexperienced college students with no grasp of how capitalism, economics, or the real world actually operate. They protest, but against all the wrong things and all the wrong people. They are compared to the Tea Party, except when they aren’t: the media conveniently ignores their crimes of property destruction, rape, robbery, and disturbance of the peace. Instead of being our version of the “Arab Spring” (as the Communist organizers hope), these protests are just a reflection of the immaturity and incoherence that passes for leftist thought. It will die out soon, as the movement has already become a joke.
As for the illegal immigration issue, there will only be one way to finally seal our border with Mexico. It will happen when there is a terror strike in the US and we discover the perpetrators entered there. The proponents of open borders are clearly anti-American, caring nothing about the law.
Shorter version of this post: We are well and truly boned.
One reason why the OWS protesters don’t know how capitalism is supposed to work, is because all they’ve seen around them is crony capitalism (corporatism).
The OWS protesters really think that crony capitalism–companies making money by government favors they lobbied for–is the only kind of capitalism there is.
And sadly, in the last 10 years, crony capitalism has become much more prevalent. Instead of General Motors streamlining and modernizing its operations to compete with foreign car companies, they went bankrupt and “profited” from a Federal bailout. Wall Street companies were bailed out–so that their CEOs could report this bailout on their balance sheets as “accounts receivable” and use it as a rationalization for voting themselves big bonuses.
Both political parties are responsible for turning America from a free enterprise society into a crony capitalist society.
sinz, you are right on the money. Thank you for your thoughtful comment; it cuts right to the chase.
Well, little lenin has taken crony capitalism, which is bad enough as it is, to a whole new level…fascism. At that point we are at, it isn’t really capitalism at all. It’s a mutation of socialism.
And let’s not forget crony socialism (union favoritism, money to ACORN, Planned Parenthood, etc.) and crony environmetalism (global warming scares, subsidizing wind and solar power, designating CO2 as a pollutant, etc.). Maybe even crony educationalism can stand on its own, as a separate crony-ism.
Now it’s just cronyism.
Anyone who either a) represents enough voters or b) is wealthy enough or c) threatens civil disobedience, can run to the Government and demand favors.
Anybody can play. And almost everybody does.
The Federal Government has become a giant ATM machine; and every week some lobbyist shows up, swipes his card through it, and gets some money out of it.
Sorry, crony-capitalism does not cover it. OWS folks have been customers of McDonalds, Apple, Microsoft, Starbucks, Nike, Lulu, Lululemon, et. al.–many successful companies that have had little or no government support. It is much, much deeper. How about a wayward culture that blesses irrationality & neediness and distains reason & productivity. For the VDHs of the world, there is a whole lot of work to do. Let’s hope there is time.
That’s the way the OWSers started, with a few real anarchists thrown in to try to start trouble, as long as they can lead from behind (so that’s where he got it!). Never fear though, the SEIU is sending reinforcements, so things can become really nasty. Strangely enough, the deluded Primitive Russian Art majors, 100K in the hole, will be the one’s to get the credit, and the jail time.
Exactly what financial brilliance earned Jamie Gorelick, a Clinton apparatchik, a $26 million take at Fannie Mae, as it imploded and nearly wrecked the country?
First was her moronic contribution to 9/11. Then came the appalling milking of the treasury. The refusal of the media to pursue Jamie Gorelick’s role in these two matters is a national disgrace. I would love to see James O’Keefe put a microphone under the noses of the Clintons and other Democrats and ask them to explain why Gorelick was paid $26 million.
Don’t forget Franklin Raines, Obama’s onetime financial advisor during the “08 campaign- $93 mil from Fannie Mae was the number I saw.
In various commentaries we find references to Jamie Gorelick’s $26,000,000 bonus. Specifically, how did she “earn” it? What accounting paradigm was it based upon? How did Franklin Raines “earn” his millions? Were these simply kickbacks for directing Freddie and/or Fannie funds to banks and Wall Street? We often read of these “earned bonuses” but never any background. Were Jamie and Franklin protected by their connections? Would the not-so-connected have ended up in the slammer? Were the books cooked and they knew it? It would be interesting to know. And, of course the big question. Why aren’t the answers to these questions common knowledge? Why the media silence?
They did cook the books to make Fannie and Freddie appear profitable, as determined by an oversight agency. When Bush went after Freddie and Fannie, to reform their practices, in 2006(?), he was stymied by Barney Frank and the Black Caucus.
The bottom line is that only morals and ethics would have spared us the rip-off that Jamie and Franklin so eagerly participated in. They know that they received their millions from cooked books but since they apparently are totally lacking in either morals or ethics they really don’t give a damn. I hope that their grandkids, who will inherit much of the largess, will appreciate the fact that their respective Granny and Grandpa were actually bottom feeders.
“I hope that their grandkids, who will inherit much of the largess, will appreciate the fact that their respective Granny and Grandpa were actually bottom feeders.”
Yoopers, they will probably care about as much as the Kennedys care their family fortune was made on the backs of booze smugglers during prohibition.
Fannie Mae was subsidized by the taxpayer to the tune of 7 billion per year since ’93. With that revenue stream, Fannie was supposed to make mortgage interest lower for the borrower. With roughly 2/3 of that revenue, they lowered the interest rate for borrowers a whopping one half of one per cent. With thew other third, they paid lobbyists, researchers and academics to write favorably about Fannie before the Banking subcommittee. Fannie was to have been privatized in ’96, but that was thwarted by the lobbying effort. What Raines and Gorelick pilfered from the company they probably consider to be chump change, but it was the taxpayer subsidy that paid for it. Proper oversight, submitted by the Comgressional Budget Office to the subcommittee in hearing could have prevented the later cost to taxpayers in the form of the 140 billion bailout years later, but bribery stopped action of behalf of those at CBO. Read about it in “Reckless Endangerment” -Gretchen Morgenson
I don’t know, VDH…some days I feel the full impact of our identical age.
What frustrates me to the level of spitting ten penny nails, is the rush to judgment/smear if the accused is a non-leftist vs. “it’s just about sex”, “nothing to see here”, full coverup, full distortion of the proven offender is a leftist.
Barney Frank’s basement was a fully operational brothel. Ted Kennedy drove off a bridge and left a young girl to die in the freezing water. Bill Clinton had so many bimbo eruptions his zipper was named Old Infaithful. Eliot Spitzer got a TV show, that went limp nearly as quickly as it went on. John Edwards put the morals and ethics of plaintiff’s attorneys in full view of the world. Anthony Weiner was fond of his camera and its zoom lens.
But one thing in common with all of the above…the media empire had ZERO interest in these stories, did not investigate them, did not breathlessly lead with them, did not pour kerosene on their fires…it ignored them, buried them, tried tirelessly to offset them with Mark Sanford “specials” and Arnold Schwartzenegger/Maria Shriver candlelight vigils.
How is one to know when to spit on the ground in disgust at the indecency and corruption…and when to avert one’s gaze and to lionize the “Lion of the Senate”, or accept that one “didn’t know” that a prostitution ring was being run out of his basement? It’s so difficult to adopt the superior morality of our “betters” when the rules are so fluid.
Joe Paterno went to his superiors and turned in the facts he was told…not that he witnessed. In that regard, I would like to hold that standard up to EVERY media lackey who was told of the actions of EVERY leftist public figure, including, but not limited to…the ones mentioned above.
If the standard that we choose to hold others (and ourselves) to…is that when we are TOLD a story about somebody engaging in a screw job and it reaches a level where further investigation is not only warranted, but demanded…whether with little boys, prostitution rings, or the United States of America as a nation, or those who mean to overthrow our government through treason…we are mandated to present full disclosure, inquire and investigate until completion of our knowledge. I’m happy to hold the media empire to that moral/ethical code.
They can start with ACORN, SEIU, George Soros, Bill Ayers, the Midwest Academy, Cooper Union, Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, Franklin Raines, Jim Johnson, Cloward Piven, Sean Penn, Danny Glover, the New Party, the NLRB, the DOJ, the New Blank Panters and everyone at MSNBC and the NYTimes.
The Occupados can begin to register on something other than the stink detector when their signage asks for the unions to get back in line instead of being given preferences in bankrupt government motors. Or they hold up placards demanding money back from Solyndra. If they want to complain about taxpayer money going to businesses in crony communism…they can complain about the global warming hoax and all of Al Gore’s money, mansions and mistresses.
As for the cheerleaders for illegal immigration…the pom poms of Flying Navarette’s …they have one tactic. Call anyone who isn’t for sieve-like borders a racist or nativist…and let the small c communist propaganda machine call them “enemies” and be done with it.
Threaten the “Latino bloc” vote… and watch politicians get whipsawed by using the small c communist smear machine do it’s openly and nakedly hypocritical slander thing.
We are operating in a rigged game, with bought, pocketed, bribed and controlled “refs, umpires and judges”…where there are two sets of rules. The Big Red Machine used to have Johnny Bench and Sparky Anderson. It now has Paul Krugman and Chris Matthews. Marge Schott was the owner, now George Soros is the owner. Bob Howsam was the GM, Cass Sunstein is now the GM.
The Big Red Machine is rolling over the competition. (this nonsense of reversing the colors of states blue states/red states to confuse the issue isn’t washing…we all know who the real reds are)…the Big Red Machine owns academia, Hollywood and the conspiratorial media.
The game is rigged, the rules are fluid and we keep losing. Is it any wonder why?
I, like hallmonitor above, have been reduced to little more than cursing and spitting, so deep is my anger at what I see unfolding in front of my eyes: the occupation and takeover of my country by a hostile power armed with a poisonous idea -collectivism – that is the antithesis of everything this country stands for. And since this country is an idea more than anything else,(as opposed to almost anywhere on the planet where ethnicity determines nationality) – the idea of equal opportunity – the collectivism of the left, based on equality of outcome, is an existential threat to its very existance. The difference between those 2 words – opportunity and outcome – can be measured in the millions of dead that collectivism has left in its wake since 1917. And ironically, this hostile power, took over under our very noses while our attention was focused on patrolling the borders of the West and keeping the Soviets and the Red Chinese at bay. I was one of those that took my turn at patrolling those borders and will say that I had more respect for our foes, who at the very least, openly declared themselves and openly confronted us, than I do for the treacherous worms that worked their way in to undermining our institutions and our culture, using stealth and deceit . My family escaped from this Communist menace (and my father fought against it as a freedom fighter) when I was a baby and we adopted this wonderful country as our new home. And my family is appalled that the very thing they fled has now, after 50 years, followed them here. As I said at the beginning, I am close to being speechless in any civil way and the only question I have left is “When do we fight?”
Thanks for sharing your story. We fight today, right now. We do so by organizing, joining, discussing, arguing, convincing, mobilizing, financing, supporting, promoting… We do not let up until November 2012, then we pause briefly to savor our victory. Next moring, we resume the fight, only we fight even harder, and we don’t let up until we’re six feet under.
Hollywood sets the pace for many Americans. It is curious to see all those who idolize Michael Jackson and support Roman Polanski suddenly be horrified at the Penn State sexual abuse. There is something sick about a society that eats their young. It’s time we recognize this ‘known but ignored or sanctioned’ behavior, determine the causes behind it and make immediate effort to protect our children from predators, no matter how elevated their celebrity status.
Shame on us! Of all places children should be safe–School and Church–we have allowed men in both institutions to take advantage of the most trusting and most vulnerable and impressionable. Who, by the way are our FUTURE.
There is ZERO to the accusations against trump, any person not overwhelmed by the utterly malevolent media cant and chorus of flaked and faked alarm can see that. There is no smoke, just fog. There is no fire found at the heart of a fog.
“–the game is rigged–” Always has been and always will be ie ever since Eve seduced Adam into taking a bite of the apple. The Democrats are just better at the game rigging and have the media at their backs. VDH is brilliant in his analysis and we could only wish that he had his own television network featuring one on one substantive discussions. Sadly this would never satisfy the masses who can hardly maintain their attention to sound bite and food fight programs. PJ Media is an oasis in a wasteland. The mass media is the wasteland. VDH needs to have greater exposure where it counts. And my thanks to the many thoughtful responders who appreciate Dr VDH’s insights and clarity.
Typo: “trump” in above should read “Herman Cain”. All charges against him are trump. Frauds.
Remember, this is the same university that keeps running interference for Michael “hockey stick” Mann.
That could also be Michael “Piltdown” Mann, snork.
This article and posts are remeniscent of a third world dictatorship just before stripping away of every citizens “inalienable rights.”
Need proof? This last election. Republicans had a chance to voice their opinion in massive numbers at the polls against Union/leftist’s “push back” of Wisconsin’s Recall Election. Republicans stayed home. Result, Gov. Kascich has a task of trying to balance a budget that defies sane budgeting principles.
O.K. Tea Party was massively present in 2010. Absent one year later. Tea Party is fractured, internal spats, differing philosophies and voting in strange ways, absent guiding principles of Our US Constitution. That’s We The People’s “light on the Hill.” The US Constitution.
Congress. It’s We The Elite People of Washington DC. Super committee Republicans stood firm on “no revenue increases.” 11/10/11 buckled and have “revenue increases.”
Amnesty in the 80′s was a joke. Amnesty in 2012 will be another joke. As a proud
naturalized American, all illegal aliens (they can’t be an immigrant…they broke the law, they’re all CRIMINALS)ME, and my fellow naturalized Americans are immigrants.
We legal immigrants followed ALL laws, procedures, interviews, hired attorneys, wrote down answers to test questions in English, speak, read and write English perfectly, can read freeway signs, obey all law enforcement. We legal immigrants are gainfully employed, have served the USA military, pay our taxes and help our fellow legal immigrants. We legal immigrants don’t go to State sponsored handouts, freebies, nor go to emergency wards on tax payer dimes, We legal immigrants have health insurance WE pay for through hard work, sweat, blood and tears. NO TO Amnesty…send ALL Illegal criminal Aliens back where they came from…ALL 20 million. Period.
Herman Cain, a true travesty of an Honorable American. A dirt poor American. An icon to American ingenuity, hard work and persistence. I vote for him. The leftist press (which We legal immigrants are more than familiar with)will distort public perception, ruin honorable candidates lives, families, relatives with out-and-out bare-faced lies. Smear campaigns…We legal immigrants have seen this all our lives…it’s unfolding right before our eyes again, in the USofA!!!!Who woulda thunk????
We The People understand full well the power We The Elite People in Washington DC wield. We legal immigrants saw it in our undeveloped countries rife with socialist speak, communist/marxist slogans. It’s hard to believe its happening in We The People’s USA.
If We The People don’t wake up, vote in massive numbers (see, in Our former countries Voting is mandatory)America will be a “Has Been.” God Bless America.
If Mr. Cain was a white southern man, his arrogant “know-it-all-know-nothing” persona would have buried him in an avalanche of rejection of Nein-Nein-Nein.
A Federal sales tax? Are you serious? The people will insist that Congress will pass 9-9-9? Is Cain serious?
And, so many mulligans on Cain’s proud ignorance of any other issue? Who is giving Cain money at his fundraiser today at Manhattan’s Russian Tea Room?
The GOP will never recover from supporting Cain AND simultaneously rejecting Perry for Texas’ in-state tuition for the children of illegal mostly Mexicans. (16,000 students mostly at community colleges is a heresy?)
Classic reverse racism that the Democrats have long refined into an art-form.
If the GOP really wants to win the Presidency, you better nominate Newt Gingrich because neither Romney nor Cain have a chance. I would vote for Rick Perry, who can also win, although I am beginning to think a Gingrich-Perry ticket might be the most powerful.
from the disillusioned dem who always enjoys the insights of Dr. Hanson.
and remembers the Baptists who asked to see my Jewish ‘devil horns’ in 1960′s Florida – and tries to not hold THAT against Cain.
Well said, if Cain was white he wouldn’t even been allowed to debate. He is a horrible example pf Republican affimative action.
Just wondering…has there been a march or an Occupado movement to demand that the gang of 88 apologize to the innocent members of the Duke lacrosse team?
Are there any tents in the quad or signs planted or placards held demanding that officials and Marxist scum be removed for engaging in wholesale slander, destruction of lives, ruining reputations?
Where is the moral outrage? Where are the ethical demands? Why do we not know the names of the signatories and why are they not being marched on at their homes…why is nobody defecating on their cars, why are they not held to a moral scrutiny demanded of “truth ministers” everywhere?
Where are the marches against slander? Where are the marches against smear campaigns?
In fact, why are the Tea Partiers not marching on the houses of Lawrence O’Donnell and Michael Moore and Paul Krugman? If we are going to march for truth, …shouldn’t the 99% of us not in mass media be marching on the steps of the NYTimes on MSNBC and on CNN?
If we are demanding that the 99% of us who are not Marxist or anarchists be marching on the LA Times for holding the tape hostage that contains Obama with Rashid Khalidi in a Jew-bashing festival of hate against Israel..at a fete for Edward Said?
Where are the marches on the borders of Arizona where Jan Brewer is fighting to save her state from the gun running of the Obama cartel to criminals in Mexico?
How about an Occupy the Borders movement, with tent communities…and all the guns that were being run to Mexico in the hands of vigilantes for capitalism?
Would the Obama administration and their flunkies and stooges in the mass media support THAT public outcry of the 99% who are not Marxists?
WE are the 99%. The Marxists and anarchists are the 1%. Where are our signs? Where are our marches? Where is OUR media coverage?
Nowhere to be found. The Big Red Machine is not interested.
Hey, Tea Partiers typically have jobs, seek work if they are without, or must take care of their family, homes, etc. People who can march every other week are either rich union people, or people without responsibilities. Thus, most protests are staged by the leftards.
Are we seeing a new, updated version of wag the dog. We are getting sex scandals, instead of vital news. And they are coming from the same people who insist on teaching kids that anything goes with respect to sex. But watch out, if you believe that, they will joyfully destroy your life!
As the old salt Morton said: When it Raines it poors.
Apparently the Cain accusations have only just begun. According to the Daily Rash, a North Carolina shoe salesman is claiming he’s Herman Cain’s illegitimate son. Only one flaw in his story; he’s white! http://www.thedailyrash.com/disabled-shoe-salesman-claims-he-is-herman-cains-illegitimate-son
They will try to overcome the weakness of the accusations with volume. That will become the biggest theme of the msm.
But they also might decide to move the big guns to Gingrich. We’ll know next week.
They probably hate them both about the same.
Re: Illegal immigrants. You’ll note that the ‘open borders’ crowd NEVER mentions that Mexico’s #2 source of foreign money – right behind oil – is that which is sent home from the U.S. Most ‘illegals’ are not interested in becoming US citizens. They are here for the money.
“The young people in Zuccotti Park and more than 1,000 cities have started America on a path to renewal. The movement, still in its first days, will have to expand in several strategic ways. Activists are needed among shareholders, consumers and students to hold corporations and politicians to account. Shareholders, for example, should pressure companies to get out of politics. Consumers should take their money and purchasing power away from companies that confuse business and political power. The whole range of other actions — shareholder and consumer activism, policy formulation, and running of candidates — will not happen in the park.
The new movement also needs to build a public policy platform. The American people have it absolutely right on the three main points of a new agenda. To put it simply: tax the rich, end the wars and restore honest and effective government for all.
Finally, the new progressive era will need a fresh and gutsy generation of candidates to seek election victories not through wealthy campaign financiers but through free social media. A new generation of politicians will prove that they can win on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and blog sites, rather than with corporate-financed TV ads. By lowering the cost of political campaigning, the free social media can liberate Washington from the current state of endemic corruption. And the candidates that turn down large campaign checks, political action committees, Super PACs and bundlers will be well positioned to call out their opponents who are on the corporate take.
Those who think that the cold weather will end the protests should think again. A new generation of leaders is just getting started. The new progressive age has begun.”
- Jeffrey D. Sachs is the director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and the author, most recently, of “The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity.”
Trial by legacy media has been the theme of 2011, from the would-be French president whose career was destroyed by an African-African prostitute masquerading as a maid, through the famous coach to the top Republican presidential candidate – any accusation by any woman anywhere will stir up the hysteria of their sisters in the legacy media and finish off their careers. All without a smidgeon of evidence…
Re: “There’s a problem with the italicized portion of your remarks. The Western Allies, including Britain, the US, Canada, etc., lost only about 800,000 people (soldiers and civilians) during WW II. The Soviets lost around 27 million people in their fight against Hitler. By any measure, the Soviets, not the Americans, bore the brunt of WW II and arguably made the biggest contribution to defeating Hitler.”
Indeed, it is accurate to state that the Soviet army broke the back of Hitler’s army in killing 7 of every 10 German soldiers lost in WWII. However, it is simply incorrect to state that “By any measure, the Soviets, not the Americans, bore the brunt of WW II and arguably made the biggest contribution to defeating Hitler.” If any nation deserves sole credit for defeating Hitler, it is Great Britain, who opposed Hitler alone for nearly two years. Stalin’s troops would have been defeated if not for the mountains of lendlease supplies convoyed to Russia in the Battle of the Atlantic. The air war over Europe drew millions of men, and their arms and supplies, away from the eastern front to defend Germany from the Anglo-American bomber offensive. Freed up to be used against the Russians, these would have broken Stalin’s army. The same applies to the Anglo-American invasion of Europe; a two-front war doomed Hitler.
As for American contributions to the war effort, if America fails to enter the war on the allied side, England and Russia lose. It is that simple. The USA won the naval war in the Pacific almost singlehandedly. No other nation on earth could have prevailed under those conditions of distance and space and such long supply lines, but the USA. Not Britain, not the USSR…