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A Culture of Rape
2011-11-13 01:55:00 To echo Eric wrote. we have a problem. First we had PSU (Pervert State University) and now we have The Citadel. Mere coincidence? Or a pattern? (Reuters) – In the wake of the Penn State child sex abuse scandal, another university, The Citadel military college in South Carolina, revealed on Saturday that it had investigated accusations against a camp counselor but took no action. The man has since been jailed on separate charges of molesting five boys in Mount Pleasant, near Charleston, South Carolina. “We regret that we did not pursue this matter further,” Citadel President Lt. General John Rosa and Board of Visitors Chair Doug Snyder said in a statement Note to Alumni with checkbooks, do a little homework before you write your next check to your old school, or before you send Junior off to school Note that Jerry Sandusky was not just a lone predator in State College, PA, he had an entire organization set up to entice, collect and from which to select his victi... More About: Culture
Courage has been Defeated By Legalisms
2011-11-12 16:00:00 I note David’s post, Pervert State University with large chunks of agreement, particularly where he closes with… Evidently, building character is not included in the curriculum at Pervert State. True, but I’m not so sure we can aver that Penn State is anything unique, in this. I note with some interest a similar post over at OTB:What Ever Happened To Courage? One of the common questions I keep hearing people ask about the Penn State child rape scandal is how so many people could have stood by and done nothing for so long. Many of those comments center on the person of Mike McQueary, former star Quarterback for Penn State, professional football player for the NFL’s Oakland Raiders, and NFL Europe’s Scottish Claymores. How could this 28 year old man have witnessed an old man raping a ten year-old boy and, instead of trying to stop it, go back to his office and call his father? (All of this is in the Grand Jury Report [PDF]) Doug is quite correct in that courag...
Pervert State University
2011-11-11 04:53:00 From the grand jury investigating Pervert State University : On March 1, 2002, a Penn State graduate assistant (“graduate assistant:) who was then 28 years old, entered the locker room at the Lasch Football Building on the University Park Campus on a Friday night near the beginning of Spring Break. The graduate assistant, who was familiar with Sandusky, was going to put some newly purchased sneakers in his locker and get some recruiting tapes to watch. It was about 9:30 p.m. As the graduate assistant entered the locker room doors, he was surprised to find the lights and showers on. He then heard slapping sounds.He believed the sounds to be those of sexual activity. As the graduate assistant put the sneakers in his locker, he looked into the shower. He saw a naked boy, Victim 2, whose age he estimated to be 10 years old, with his hands up against the wall, being subjected to anal intercourse by a naked Sandusky. The graduate assistant was shocked but noticed that both Victim 2 a...
Snark of the Day: Maureen Dowd
2011-11-09 23:28:00 Like the Roman Catholic Church, Penn State is an arrogant institution hiding behind its mystique. And sports, as my former fellow sports columnist at The Washington Star, David Israel, says, is “an insular world that protects its own, and operates outside of societal norms as long as victories and cash continue to flow bountifully.” Penn State rakes in $70 million a year from its football program. Paterno was still practicing for the game against Nebraska on Saturday, and supportive students were rallying at his house. This is what Israel calls “the delusion that the ability to win football games indicates anything at all about your character or intelligence other than that you can win football games.” Maureen Dowd , New York Times. Link to this post!
The Cain Train Rolls On
2011-11-09 00:28:00 How bad is the lame stream media? The lame streamers think the President’s opinion of on our closest allies and the the only democracy in the Middle East is somehow private, from Ynetnews: According to a Monday report in the French website “Arret sur Images,” after facing reporters for a G20 press conference on Thursday, the two presidents retired to a private room, to further discuss the matters of the day. ... The conversation then drifted to Netanyahu, at which time Sarkozy declared: “I cannot stand him. He is a liar.” According to the report, Obama replied: “You’re fed up with him, but I have to deal with him every day!” ... A member of the media confirmed Monday that “there were discussions between journalists and they agreed not to publish the comments due to the sensitivity of the issue.” He added that while it was annoying to have to refrain from publishing the information, the journalists are subject to pre... More About: Cain , Train
Did Michael Jackson have NOTHING to Do with His Own Death? (typo Patrol Ver
2011-11-08 17:53:00 I’ve held off on commenting in the minutiae surrounding the Michael Jackson affair, and trial, mostly because it simply didn’t interest me. I have kept a loose eye on it, however, enough to understand that they had his doctor on trial for the death. He’s now been convicted. The verdict here seems to me a foregone conclusion, and that troubles me, enough to write about it, for two reasons: Because it seems to me to fly in the face of the concept of individual responsibility Because it seems to me this verdict is the result of wanting a pound of flesh in revenge for the death of someone who was held high in the ways of star power. Justice is never well served when either of those points are true. To the first point, let’s face it…. If there’s one thing we already knew, it was that Jackson, talented or not, was likely a vacuum cleaner for prescription drugs, not unlike Elvis Presley, years ago. That likelihood was well confirmed in the testimony in this t... More About: Death
The Ramble for 11-7-11
2011-11-08 03:53:00 Carteret,NJ– I’m dropping a load of canned veggies. I’ll camp out for the night, once that’s done. It’s getting colder at night, but thank God my Auxiliary Power unit is working fine. This will be a short week for me; My wife and I got married on 11-11-89. That makes this Friday, 11-11-11, our 22nd anniversary. No way we’re not going to celebrate THAT one. So, I’ll be back in Rochester about mid-day on the 11th. It’ll cost me income, but it’s worth it. It’s the Spending, Stupid: Let’s put the demands of the socialist #OWS crowd into some real perspective, shall we? Supposedly, the big issue with tehse morons is profits by banks. Sorry, wrong answer. The fact is that the total 2011 pretax profits of the entire US financial sector stands at $426B. That’s almost enough to fund the federal government for 42 days, given it’s current rate of spending. Wanna take all those making a profit? Fine. Th... More About: Ramble
Playboy Bunny Gives Herman a Free Pass
2011-11-07 01:10:00 The Playboy Bunny better known as Gloria Steinem defending B.J. Clinton: “The truth is that even if the allegations are true, the President is not guilty of sexual harassment. He is accused of having made a gross, dumb and reckless pass at [Kathleen Willey] during a low point in her life. She pushed him away, she said, and it never happened again. In other words, President Clinton took “no” for an answer…” Hat tip and reax, Political Jack: So apparently.. it was okay for Clinton to give ‘er a try………and if she said “no” and he backed off and said “okay then”, it was all okey dokey. I’m not thinking that this thing with Cain rises to even the “one free grope” status, but don’t you libs think that since your Grand Dame Gloria Steinem said a man gets one, Cain should get a pass on whatever lesser thing he did? Unless Cain’s being black takes the freebee away……&he... More About: Free , Pass
All You Need to Know About the MSM And Herman Cain
2011-11-04 03:19:00 The media frenzy about trying lynch a black man in one graph: Hat tips: Newsbusters, and Lonely Conservative. This is what racism looks like The media will condone rape by a iberal white politician but dare a black man stray off the plantation. Addendum: The Pundit of Poco, b/k/a Don Surber puts some flesh on the numbers, from Daily Mail: Now a Washington Post/ABC News poll taken from Monday to Thursday after Politico reported on a sexual harassment lawsuit shows Republican support for Herman Cain is up 6 from the previous poll a month ago. All that oppo research may be for naught as 3 out of 4 Republicans said they could not care less about the nearly 15-year-old news. To put the settlement in perspective, Bill Clinton settled up with Paula Jones for every penny she asked for — $850,000, or more than 17 times this settlement. The media hit job is not working. Link to this post!
Go Ahead, Make Her Day!
2011-11-01 22:32:00 An armed society is a polite society, and a safe one, from Loa Angeles Times: “I want you to get a concealed weapons permit,” Sheriff Chuck Wright said at the Monday news conference, as reported by TV station WYFF. “Don’t get Mace. Get a firearm.” The sheriff alleged that a 46-year-old man named Walter Lance abducted a woman while she was walking her dog Sunday afternoon and attempted to rape her. Lance was arrested and charged with kidnapping, first-degree criminal sexual conduct and grand larceny, the Spartanburg Herald-Journal reported. In the news conference, Wright said Lance had been convicted of 20 crimes dating back to 1983, including disorderly conduct, domestic violence, assault and battery with intent to kill, and resisting arrest, among others. If the state of South Carolina will not protect their women, give the women the power to defend themselves. It appears, nobody else will. Link to this post! More About: Make
The Ramble for 11-1-11
2011-11-01 17:04:00 Roterdam,NY– I’m here dropping off a load of walnuts, that I brought up from Jersey. Nothing overly special to report… except that it’s been a bust few days so far. I may have something special to talk about tonight, however. Now the Slur Machine gets warmed up against Cain: Over at OTB, they’re playing the tune the Democrats and the GOP Castrati love to sing: After initial responses from his staff that were fairly close to being incompetently disastrous, Herman Cain spent most of his day in Washington today responding to the allegations raised by the story posted by Politico last night regarding sexual harassment allegations made against him 20 years ago: Herman Cain emphatically denied on Monday that he had ever sexually harassed anyone, calling allegations of harassment by two former employees “totally baseless and totally false” and saying that he is the innocent victim of a “witch hunt.” With the allegations threatening his bid for the Re... More About: Ramble
Geraldo Makes an Ass of Myself
2011-11-01 00:13:00 Geraldo Rivera wastes no time in labeling Politico’s charges against the Herminator,b/k/a Herman Cain as sexual harassment. video: Hat tip video: Jill Pundit & Pundette. Two little problems for Gerry, one the complainer never characterized her charge as sexual harassment, and two the actual facts do not substantiate Rivera’s wild charges, from Washington Examiner, via Karen, Lonely Conservative: Van Susteren asked what Cain did that led to the accusation. There were reportedly more than one accusations in the complaint, but Cain said he recalled just one incident. “She was in my office one day, and I made a gesture saying — and I was standing close to her — and I made a gesture saying you are the same height as my wife. And I brought my hand up to my chin saying, ‘My wife comes up to my chin.‘” At that point, Cain gestured with his flattened palm near his chin. “And that was put in there [the complaint] as something that made her uncomfortable,” Cain... More About: Geraldo
The Education Bubble
2011-10-31 12:56:00 The nice thing about classic economics, is the rules do not change between markets. It the same law of supply and demand that applies to widget, automobiles and college educations. So speaking of cars, aside from OWS morons, nobody would argue that all cars are the have the same uses, and should carry the same price tags. Further, we are smart enough to hold Detroit responsible for the vehicles they sell. If we demanded that Detroit sell are vehicles for the same price, but not be required to back only vehicle they sold, the only cars on the markets would be lemons. Yet while nobody wants a steel, chrome and rubber lemon with air conditioning and power windows, they a big demand for parchment lemons, from Glenn Harlan Reynolds, New York Post: I think we should return to the days when student loans were dischargeable in bankruptcy, starting five years after graduation. This will allow graduates who are unable to pay to get out from under what is otherwise a potentia... More About: Education
Imagine a World with No Rape
2011-10-31 00:38:00 The Organize Wall Street socialist rabble has achieved nirvana, a world without rape, from the New York Post, via Sister Toldjah: Wall Street protesters in Zuccotti Park battened down the hatches yesterday as the early October snow turned their tents into igloos, but the close quarters also made easy pickings for one predator. A sex fiend barged into a woman’s tent and sexually assaulted her at around 6 a.m., said protesters, who chased him from the park. “Pervert! Pervert! Get the f–k out!” said vigilante Occupiers, who never bothered to call the cops. “They were shining flashlights in his face and yelling at him to leave,” said a woman who called herself Leslie, but refused to give her real name. She said that weeks earlier another woman was raped. “We don’t tell anyone,” she said. “We handle it internally. I said too much already.” Despite what the good Sister may believe, if you adhere to OWS logic, this not rape, video via Robert Stacy McCain, Other Mc... More About: World
I Can Smell the End of OWS From Here
2011-10-29 02:19:00 Taken from7:10, 28 October Memeorandum: From Natasha Vargas-Cooper, The Night Occupy Los Angeles Tore Itself In Two. From Robert Stacy McCain, Smell y Hippies Get Ripped Off From Aurelius Occupy Madison Loses Permit Because Protesters were “Publicly Masturbating” The end is near. The OWS rabble has no clue how to better run our society. They can not even govern themselves. Link to this post!
The Ramble for 10-28-11
2011-10-28 22:34:00 Indian Castle, NY– I’m along the New York State Thruway, headed home for the weekend, by way of a short stop at Geneva, NY. Your intrepid blogger and his mighty steed. (Did I really say that?) We had some ice and snow around here last night, which slowed my progress something terrible, so I didn’t make it home as planned. But, since I wasn’t scheduled for anything after this anyway, I wasn’t too worried. I’ll get to Geneva around 630pm, and from there to the yard, and the arms of my loving wife, who will be waiting for me. We’re supposed to get more snow, too. Nature seems to agree, we’ve got a big one coming. I’m noticing bigger seagulls than usual… the big lake birds, not the usual winged rats you see hanging around shopping malls and such… never a good sign, in terms of oncoming weather. Oh, well, at least I’ll be home. The truck is running well, with the exception of a broken belt in my right steer tire.... More About: Ramble
Snark of the Day: Michelle
2011-10-27 13:27:00 The riot police are apparently in San Francisco now, ready to evict the Occupier dregs. Livestream here. The Oakland occupiers have just voted to go on a “general strike.” I’m confused. Aimless, unemployed Kamp Alinsky Kids are going to walk off jobs…they don’t have? Whaaaaht? From Michelle. I can just hear the first words of President Cain, “Our long national temper tantrum is over.” The OWS campers need to grow up, clean-up and shut up. Link to this post!
The OWS Boomerang
2011-10-27 02:34:00 I am not sure if this is a brilliant strategy on the part of Mayor Dumbberg and his crew, or the inevitable, that you get what you incent, from Rebecca Rosenberg et al, New York Post: Rikers cons flood Zuccotti for free eats Newly sprung ex-cons and vagrants rousted from other parks are crashing the Occupy Wall Street protest, where gourmet meals are free and boozy, drugfueled parties are on tap, the movement’s leaders griped yesterday. “They’re telling people who leave prison to go to Zuccotti Park,” lamented Daniel Zetah, a leader of the OWS community-relations group Some of the excesses of "Occupy Wall Street" leaking out The OWS’ gang seemed at least temporarily flummoxed by Da Mayor’s apparent strategy. I sure is will take something more than a mind numbing OWS general assembly to find a counter. Snidely, it does seems that the OWS crowd was all for redistribution when they were the redistributees, not for being the redistributers. ...
The Ramble for 10-26-11
2011-10-27 00:22:00 Ridgefield, NJ– I’m at the Vince Lombardi rest area for a rest break. I’ll be going into the city shortly after midnight. But what are they, really? and what are they fighting for?: OK, like a lot of you, I too am getting to the point where I have a little “occupy” boredom. I’m bored with it. Now, the press seems enamoured with them, but they tend to like anything that tilts left. Here’s what the press thinks of “Occupy Wall Street”.. and for the purpose of reference, what they think of the supposed counterpart of “Occupy”… the Tea Party. But what are they? Why are they there, really? Seems to me that like McKay in the movie “The Candidate” that I mentioned the other day, it’s a movement in search of a cause. Let’s ponder, for a moment, though just what a lot of them have been mouthing, and why they’re there. They clearly want to shut our financial engine down. Well, isn&rsq... More About: Ramble
The Ann of Two Tales
2011-10-26 00:06:00 Ann Althouse I like Professor Althouse’s blog. However to do make to claims to understand the good professor. While I am not certain, of where the professor stands, I do find this two recent posts of her amusing. Item, gender feminists find that reality does not conform to gender feminist theory: 142 legal secretaries surveyed and not one preferred working with a woman partner. Why? Lawprof Felice Batlan elicited these comments: Gender feminists face meet reality and find it refuses to conform to their theories. Solution, make fiction conform to gender feminist theory: “Realistic portraits of the women of animated Disney films.” A Metafilter post with comments like: “I’ve never seen Hercules. Does Megara look that drunk and horny in the movie?” And: “See these Disney characters? See how they are really gorgeous and skinny but they’re animated? Imagine what they’d look like if they were gorgeous and skinny and looked like very hig... More About: Tales
The Ramble for 10/24/11
2011-10-25 03:21:00 Sloatsburg, NY— I’m at the Thruway Rest area just north of the NY-NJ border. From here I’ll head to Connecticut, and then back here to Jersey, and then to Western NY. Getting cooler by the day, and we’ll see rain here for a few days. I’m very pleased with the truck; it’s running very well. What is “Occupy” doing? Yes, it’s losing it’s bite as I suggested yesterday. (If you missed that, read it here.) But apparently there’s a fair amount of violence going on. Shootings are reportedly up some 154% in NYC since ‘Occupy’ started. Things the liberal press will never tell you. Where’s all his Friends? Politico says Dems are ducking Obama on campaign trail. In trips to Michigan, North Carolina and Pennsylvania — all states that he carried in 2008 — members of Congress were notably missing from the president’s side. Must be all that stuff about the ‘dysfunctional congress’. Whic... More About: Ramble
Snark of the Day: Jill (Pundit & Pundette)
2011-10-24 17:25:00 Organize Wall Street H/T Pundit & Pundette This is just sad. Please consider homeschooling. A mind is a terrible thing to waste. From Jill , Pundit & Pundette. Note speling is hard. Link to this post!
Islamic Blizzard Strikes Arab Spring
2011-10-24 12:39:00 Call it what you will, the so-called Arab Spring is certainly not a new birth of freedom, from Telegraph(UK) via Pat Dollard: Libya’s liberation: interim ruler unveils more radical than expected plans for Islamic law Libya’s interim leader outlined more radical plans to introduce Islamic law than expected as he declared the official liberation of the country. Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, the chairman of the National Transitional Council and de fact president, had already declared that Libyan laws in future would have Sharia, the Islamic code, as its “basic source You’d think the rag heads would have at least had the courtesy to let the Dim Won, b/k/a Barrack Obama get his his victory lap before they threw his under the bus. Aside to Mrs. Clinton: Tell me again about your “smart diplomacy.” Addendum: Scctt Johnson applies salt to Dim Won’s wound, from Power Line: In his statement marking the death of Muhammar Gaddafi last week, President Obama inserted a... More About: Blizzard
“Occupy Wall Street” Losing It’s Bite As Reality Catches
2011-10-23 19:01:00 It wasn’t so long ago that Obama decided that he was the only thing between wall street and the pitchforks. As I commented at the time in a Pajamas Media article, America’s bankers lack backbone. Maybe I’m being unfair to the current crop of bankers. After all, the problem has always existed. It’s just that it has come to a head recently because we have a political power structure in place that clearly plans to take advantage of that perceived weakness. As a rule, financial types are not exactly noted for their bravery. And we all know that predators tend to attack where they see weakness — particularly if they anticipate some gain for themselves. So it was recently when we saw a Democratic president of the United States suggesting that his administration was the only thing standing between the bankers and the pitchforks. To anyone who has been watching the events unfolding recently and understands the causes of those happenings, the statement of the president wa... More About: Reality , Wall Street , Street , Wall
Snark of the Day: Clarice Feldman (American Thinker)
2011-10-23 13:08:00 If you run around with signs attacking private property as theft and extolling expropriation of others’ wealth, can you be surprised when your fellow would- be- communards steal your good stuff like Apple iPhones and iPads? If you discourage law enforcement from entering your occupation territory, should you be surprised when your fellows assault and rape you? If you hang out with folks who covet other peoples’ things, can you be astonished when whatever you earn (in this case by your drumming ) is taxed at 50% by those who are sitting around eating chef-prepared donated organic food and trying on free shoes? And when you gather with those who eschew any order are you entitled to cry: Clarice Feldman, American Thinker. Link to this post!
Snark of the Day: William A. Jacobson (Legal Insurrection)
2011-10-21 12:00:00 What do you call someone who lies about rape for political gain? Mr. Vice President. William A. Jacobson, Legal Insurrection. Link to this post!
The Ramble for 10-20-11
2011-10-21 02:49:00 Brunswick, NJ– I’m going up to Queens in the morning, then back into Jersey and then to Connecticut. Drying out now, but cool. Truck is fine, and I am as well. Occupy Wall Street and the Chicago ’68 Riots I commend to your reading this article. The insights are very powerful. Fred Seigel makes the same link. Why Is Class Hatred Morally Superior to Race Hatred? Dennis Prager asks and answers this one. Khaddafy killed. I still have this poster somewhere in my collection. It was passed out to all who saw the movie the first week of release. I saw it in the DC area, that week. Does anyone remember the Robert Redford movie from about 1973, called “The Candidate”? He goes through the process of getting himself elected to public office, and then asks “Now, what?” Seems to me that’s the question we should be looking at. It strikes me that nature abhors a vaccum. It also seem to me that if the Obama administration paid as much attention t... More About: Ramble
Well At Least Organize Wall Street Never Said Nigger
2011-10-21 02:29:00 The entire Tea Party movement was deemed racist because Congressman John Lewis alleged, albeit without proof, that somebody, presumed to a member of the Tea Party, called him a nigger. Well so fare as I know, no member of Organize Wall Street had been accused of using the vile N-word, video: Hat tip: Right Sphere. Imagine the uproar if anybody at Tea Party were to have been videoed demanding that black go back to Africa, where in fact few have ever been, or that illegal Mexican immigrants go back to Mexico, which by the way is where they belong. In OWS land, respect is a one way street. The OWS demand it but do not give it, video: Hat tip: William A. Jacobson, Legal Insurrection. Organizing Wall Street is more akin to a bowel movement than a political movement. Link to this post!
Snark of the Day: William Teach (Pirate’s Cove)
2011-10-20 02:41:00 Celebrated Narcissist Says He Made All The Right Choices With high unemployment, low GDP, a stagnant economy, low consumer confidence, rising food and fuel prices, real wages going down, and even more people without health insurance, I’d hate to think if Obama had made what he considers to be bad choices. From William Teach, Pirate ’s Cove. Link to this post!
The Ramble for 10/19/11
More articles from this author:2011-10-19 23:30:00 Ayer, MA— I’m what, about 60 miles off the New Hampshire Border, just off I-495. I’m here taking a break having driven up from the house yesterday. Raining here, pretty hard, and has been since last night. They’re getting some minor flooding around here as a result. This has to be a quick one, as I’m supposed to be on the move in a few minutes. Perfect? Thinking ones self to be without fault is a sure sign of a delusional mind. I guarantee it’s going to be a close election [in 2012] because the economy is not where it wants to be and, even though I believe all the choices we’ve made have been the right ones, we’re still going through difficult circumstances. Right, Barry. Clueless AND delusional. Medic! Bring the “I love me” jacket, please. Brian Terry needs answers. He’s one of the people, in his case an ATF agent, who died as a direct result of the Obama administrations attempt to limit the second amendment by planting false i... More About: Ramble 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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