Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Hipster Olympics - A Tambourine in Every Fist . . .or a PBR
"The case is like that of a strong man dressed up in a woman's garb; you maintain your chastity, your virility is unimpaired, your body is free from base submission - but in your hand is a tambourine" - Seneca -tutor to the 1st Hipster Emperor Nero
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Labels: Bocephus -Hank Williams, Jr. Hipster Olympics, Seneca
Dr. Kermit Barron Gosnell: Guilty of "woman's reproductive health care" but a Talented 10th Icon
Dr. Kermit Gosnell, whom an AP reporter described as 'suave and elegant' in the early days of his murder & etc. & etc. trial in Philadelphia is the chicken come home rooster not for abortion, but also the Progressive race-baiting doctine developed and credited to WEB DuBois - "the talented 10th."
The Talented 10th is not a marine or infantry regiment, but a doctrine that holds -
The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races.At the turn of 19th Century, Booker T. Washington had done more to provide resources and training to millions of freed Americans and their sons and daughters. Washington encouraged young black Americans to learn crafts, trades and the basic education necessary to compete for bread and wages with other Americans and the millions of newly arrived immigrants. In 1895, most African Americans lived in the post Reconstruction South.
WEB Dubois, was born free in Boston, a child of privilege in a community that celebrated diversity and radical progressives. Dubois and William Monroe Trotter another privileged free-born African American of Boston and other northern free-born well-educated African Americans detested Booker T. Washington.
Washington, born a slave himself, understood the horrors of slavery all too well and dangers awaiting millions of souls set free by a law, but without skills, schooling and any fundamental economic safety. Washington and the African Americans of the Jim Crow south needed the help of their betters - the northern free-born Harvard Educated Negro.
It was more necessary to the Souls of Black People that 10 out of one hundred receive a path to Harvard, Oberlin, or Yale, than all black men and women learn to read, write and distinguish between an eight and a sixteenth. Paddy, Luigi, Stash, Boris, Minkas and Bruno were learning to cut meat, make beer, bottle beers and wines, set and thread pipe and their sons would learn typing, accounting and clerking and their sons would become doctors, lawyers, manufacturers and artists. . . .
Oh, WE Can't have that.
. . .we could give black boys trades, but that alone will not civilize a race of ex-slaves; we might simply increase their knowledge of the world, but this would not necessarily make them wish to use this knowledge honestly; we might seek to strengthen character and purpose, but to what end if this people have nothing to eat or to wear? A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools.
Instant Civilization!
Radicals compromise not. the civilized Negro is a radicalized Negro. Booker T. Washington's path leads to opportunity and opportunity takes time.
Booker T. Washington argued that freed blacks must get basic education and learn trades at Negro colleges and trade schools in the Jim Crow south in order to mirror the opportunities of immigrants in northern cities.
The elite Negro of the Northern demanded, like the comically snooty Jane Addams, that the suffering ignorant unwashed masses needed Euripides, not McGuffey's.Grammar. This was the original Operation PUSH.
By 1909,the Niagara Movement eliminated Booker T. Washington from American historical memory and blacks from the south were lured to Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Piitsburgh and Gary to break the strikes and the unions formed by Paddy, Luigi, Stash, Boris, Minkas, and Bruno who did not take at all kindly to losing their jobs. Black Belts in the above cities were Lab Schools of racial antipathies.
Booker T. Washington died in 1915 and WEB DuBois went to work for the white run NAACP which took opportunity off the table and re-set the table for entitlement.
Dr. Kermit Barron Gosnell, MD, abortionist and Planned Parenthood hero, is the spiritual son of WEB Dubois. Gosnell became suave and elegant and deftly snipped the spinal chords of African American babies.
He is going to get the needle or go away for the balance of his privileged and miserable life.
Talent 10th Today!
President Obama
Dr. Kermit B. Gosnell
Rev. Jesse Jackson
Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr.
Michael Eric Dyson
Maya Angelou
Toure
Melissa Harris Perry
Cornell West
Henry Louis Gates
Toni Morrison
Gosnell is the Talented Tenth. Gosnell is the face of abortion. Gosnell is Progressive America.
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Monday, May 13, 2013
Actress Tamberla Perry - Mike Houlihan Protege Stars in the Goodman Theatre's -Meet Vera Stark
I have a thing about Playbills, the glossy and ad thick handout featuring the current production of any performance art production. I find the nearest receptacle and pitch the booklet.
This quirk of mine goes back to the days of my youth when I worked as a janitor ( Local 25) at Theodore Thomas Orchestra Hall (1904-2013), now known as Symphony Center.
After each CSO, Harry Zelzer production ( Gordon Lightfoot, the Clancy Bros. & Tommy Makem, Cleo Laine, Richard Tucker, Danny Kaye, or Peter Max & the Young Rascals) not to mention CPS high school graduations, my comrades and I were required to sweep the hall from stage through the gallery by lifting the seats, picking up the napkins, Junior mints, orange juice boxes and tons upon tons of Playbills and depositing them into the 55 gallon plastic garbage cans. It was a job.
Thus, from that time forty plus years ago, I hold onto a proffered Playbill no longer than CTA President Forrest Claypool holds a political sinecure. Gone, in a nano second.
Playbills make wonderful keepsakes. Keepsakes pile up. I never know what to do with the book that I can not read, while at the performance, and care not to read after the show. I 86 it.
I wish I had not done so with the Playbill I tossed at the Goodman Theatre yesterday, prior to witnessing some great theatre.
An elegant and stunning female woman and I attended the matinee performance of By the Way, Meet Vera Stark. The play by Lynne Nottage is running until June 2, 2013 at the Goodman.
Kara Zediker and Tamberla Perry in Vera Stark
One of the principles, rather the co-star of the production was an Honors Studnet of mine at Bishop McNamara High School - Kara Zediker (BMHS 1987). Her Mom, Carole " Cookie" Zediker was a colleague and her Dad Phil Zediker uttered, "Interesting," every time I opened my yap.
Phil is a prominent psychiatrist.
Kara is a supremely talented actress, singer and dancer who has made scores of films hundreds of TV appearances and trod the boards with the likes of John Malkovich while with Steppenwolf Theatre in the 1990's. Kara plays Gloria Mitchell in Vera Stark, a fictional America'n film's Sweetie-pie of the 1930's. Kara plays up-from nothing gran dame with spot on vocal inflections, poignant facial deliveries and a silky sense of the stage. I was not surprised, because this beautiful little thespian has delighted me every since her grammar school baby-steps with the Paula Aubrey School of Dance, wowing the crowds at BMHS with her Ensign Nellie Frobish in South Pacific and favorite Zediker role extant - Mammy Yokam in L'il Abner.
Kara went onto Chicago's Columbia College, where her talents were plucked by the late John Hughes who put Kara in Uncle Buck. Kara was member of Steppenwold and the old Goodman on Monroe, over by the Art Institute - to wax urban provincial. From there, Kara went onto movies and TV
After the packed matinee crowd bolted down the hall to grab all of the tables at Petterino's, my sexy and chic theatre companion and I waited at the Security desk to catch-up with Kara. We did the Hollywood smooches and then the two talented and toothsome women gabbed like Mother McAuley Alumnae, while I played with the change in my pockets. Then,. . .then we were joined by Vera Stark and her arch rival Anna
Mae, played with intelligent gusAmelia Workman.Ms. Workman and the cast, aside from Tamberla and Kara played dual, or triple roles - here she is as a lesbian feminist cinema critic.
Four gorgeous talented women within an arms reach of this 79th Street Mick troll. God is Great!
Tamberla Perry was stunning on stage, but in person she could make Chris Matthews shut up. I gushed out my praise on all three young ladies and asked them about their Chicago roots. Kara mentioned that I work fro Leo High School and the already luminescent Ms. Perry lit up with proud recognition - " The Pride of 79th Street!' Yes, Mam.
Again the ladies chatted up the arts and the young actresses were called to a cast meeting. Ms. Sullivan tucked her Playbill into her purse. We parted from the cast with sweet sorrow . . .on my part.
Petterino's was booked. We opted for Atwood's in the Burnham Hotel - she the duck breast; me the halibut.
Hours later the thoughtful and beautiful Ms. Sullivan gave me a call. " Had you not tossed away your Playbill, Mr. Hickey, as is your habit, you would know something that I know," she coquetted.
" Honor bright?"
"Yes, of course, I am not the perpetual eight year old in this relationship. . . ," no pique, just fact.
" Spill it, Sister."
" Did you know that Tamberla Perry, Vera Stark, was in the cast of Tapioca, by Friend Houli? . . .this from the Playbill you so scorn , "On film, Mrs. Perry has appeared in Tapioca, Puzzled Love and Chasing Robert, and her television appearances include Boss, Chicago Fire and as the Illinois Lottery hostess on WGN-TV. Ms. Perry is a company member of MPAACT."
" Well, I'll be dipped and rolled. . ."
" Yes, and you should be . . .'
"Friend Houli? What's he turned Quaker?"
" That will be enough for today, I think. Get a good night's sleep, my dear."
I was yet gobsmacked by the information.
This exquisite looking and talented girl worked her chops for Houli? Playbill said so.
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Sunday, May 12, 2013
Carol Marin's Mad Marriage Electorate Metaphor - We Are Rainbow Sherbet! I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream . . .
What flavor is Rainbow? Carol Marin begs this question. . . within her Gay Marriage column on this Seventh Sunday after Easter.
Your Marin Morning Metaphor Madness:
"The electorate is not vanilla. It’s a rainbow sherbet,. . ."
Vanilla ? adjective, noun? Rainbow goes all adjectival and sherbet remains a noun.
Carol Marin has a column, a podcast, face-time on WTTW and NBC.
I have a mortgage; three wonderful kids; modest personal debt, a wealth of reading across the disciplines, some skill as a writer, a solid reputation as a secondary English teaching, a laughable history in organized sport, a pocket full of spending loot and a gal who knows what to do with it.
I would not trade places with the poor woman for all of the gold in the teeth of 21st Century Professional Athletes.
Unlike, Ms. Marin, holding an opinion that contradicts my own is not a cause for jihad- especially if that opinion demands the complete obliteration of the values I live by. No, every one is entitled to ones opinion; no one is entitled to tell another person that a flavor is color wheel. e.g. Carol's
Problem is the old one, Pat Brady, isn’t all that old. And dared to express a modern idea about equality, publicly voicing support for same-sex marriage. Brady’s pronouncement caused the delusional in the right wing of the Republican state central committee — I’m speaking chiefly but not exclusively of Jim Oberweis, the state senator and ice cream king — to choke on their double-dip vanilla.Ice cream is a frozeb treat. Vanilla is a flavor extracted from a plant that tastes like vanilla.
The electorate is not vanilla.
It’s a rainbow sherbet, though you’d never have known it looking at the Republican National Convention last year. Even though the Land of Lincoln’s favorite son was closing in on re-election as the first African-American president.
Vanilla irony?, or ironic vanilla?
A Rainbow is visual manifestation of light reflected from the earth's surface to the skies above and the concoction of Light + Water droplets. I guess that one's historical, cultural and religious values can and should be reduced to a Carol Marin chilled cream concoction. Here's the deal, as I see it, simple man that be - if you hold the belief that marriage is between a man and a woman with the goal of producing a biological family, blessed by God, and bonded with eternal love for another, well, then you are double-dipped vanilla.
My problem lies with the fact that there Rainbow Sherbet is a rhetorical device that intends to skews the senses. Rainbow is visual and flavor lies on the old taste bud lizard. What does Rainbow taste like, Carol?
More to the point, Sherbet and Ice Cream are very, very different.
Ice cream
nounfrozen dessert containing cream and sugar and flavoring [syn: ice cream]
sher·bet
nouna frozen fruit-flavored mixture, similar to an ice, but with milk, egg white, or gelatin added.
QED - sherbet is different from ice cream, though both happen to be frozen desserts. Vanilla is a flavor of ice cream, Rainbow is not a flavor. It is traditionally three flavors concocted by Mr. Emanuel Goren of Sealtest Ice Cream, as between courses palate cleanser.
Rainbow sherbet is comprised of orange, raspberry, lime (traditional) and possibly lemon, or pineapple for the exotic tongue and the progressive Third World fruit flavors of mango, prickly pear, pommegranet and kiwi for les meilleures personnes
Rainbow sherbet is three flavors (with attendant color) made seperately, but swirled, scooped or packed together.
Three distinct evolutions, but packed together artificially -like Gay Marriage. Man + Woman + Gay Man, or Woman = traditional marriage under Greg Harris's Religious Liberty and Marriage Equality Bill -"Sponsoring Rep. Greg Harris, D-Chicago, said the bill is needed “because we need to treat all Illinoisfamilies equally under the law” but the status of people in civil unions is often misunderstood.
Yet, were one to do, what all of God's children do with a frozen dessert, what would we get?
One ugly-assed color ( kind of a brownish pinkish hue), depending which flavors ( Ala Marin) are used. Vanilla color ( Marinade) is white and remains, so.
A man (or Woman to woman) united in a love ( sex and affection) relationship and civilly joined by the state to another man (or Woman to woman)will not result in a biological child no matter what the heart wants.
Making a law that demands otherwise is hardly a rainbow, much less a sorbet which is very different indeed from a sherbet.
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Friday, May 10, 2013
Asian Women and White Irish Males - A Sensitive Consideration
Post Honeymoon Sino-Celt Cuisine 2013 (above) - once the bond is formed.
I recently learned that a FeminAsian activist/documentarian wants the world to know that Gwailo males are said to be disturbingly enralled with the Women of the Orient. Cute is cute, I would counter, but I thought to pursue the issue.
A new documentary, which airs tonight ( May 6, 2013)on PBS, explores the psychology behind yellow fever - the phenomenon that sees white men attracted to, and sometimes even obsessed with, Asian women.Filmed and directed by Debbie Lum, a fourth-generation Chinese-American from St Louis, Missouri, Seeking Asian Female looks to discover why many men see Asians as ideal wives, a concept that is 'very painful for the Asian-American community,' Ms Lum told ABC News.According to the filmmaker, there is an overriding perception that women of that particular race are more docile and make for obedient life partners, a stereotype that is offensive and often untrue.
The lovely Ms. Lum, descanted with Foucaultian charm - 'Every Asian-American woman knows exactly what I am talking about,' she said. 'Men come up to you in a way that really looks like a stare, which lasts a bit longer than it should. 'You can feel it,' she continued. 'It's like they are looking through you.'Well, Deng! Talk about painting with a broad brush. Ms. Lum, just beca,use a round eyed geezer is giving a bit of Eastern Dim Sum the long appraisal, does not necessarily mean that like Jimmy Carter, one has lust in the heart. At our age, it takes twenty minutes to read the plastic wrapped menu at Denny's.
I ran into an acquaintance who in his late middle aged shopped for an Oriental bride - one Declan "Banjo" Larkin. A trans-continental Tristan and Isolde union was formed between Larkin and his mail-order bride Crystal. Banjo is retired City of Chicago Water Department digger. The man can dig; hence the sobriquette of Banjo, a euphemism for the shovel.
Banjo Larkin Mount Carmel 1967 "Hickey,
When is it time to go to the Chinese dentist? "
Me- " Hmmm, I dunno."
Banjo- " A Pearl, Hickey. A Pearl of the Orient!"
I imagined Larkin Manor. . .
Mr. & Mrs, Banjo Larkin of Alsip, Illinois, At home:
Mrs. Banjo- " Bajo, Is Gon Rain?"
Banjo - "Fuggs My Tay?"
Mrs. Banjo -" Arun Stow. Gedgey Yu-sef.! . . . .(in diminishing sotto voce in native tongue) AI YA! NI SHI ( trans: you are a) DAI ZI! Gwailo mudah fudah! "
I read a study from the London School of Economics that concluded:
“We found no evidence of the stereotype of a white male preference for East Asian women. However, we also found that East Asian women did not discriminate against white men (only against black and Hispanic men). As a result, the white man-Asian woman pairing was the most common form of interracial dating—but because of the women's neutrality, not the men's pronounced preference. Men don't seem to discriminate based on race when it comes to dating. A woman's race had no effect on the men's choices.”
Quod Erat Demonstrandum!
I love women. They tolerate us . . .for the most part. One even married me. I am now a widower. When my beloved wife Mary was fighting for her life, well meaning persons of limited thought often asked her " How'd get a brain tumor?"
The ready redhead would rejoin, " I married him."
I dated fewer women* than I recall, I suppose. Let's see, I am now 60 and change and began to notice the allure of women at age (10 let us say).
- Irish American - Eileen (3), Noreen (2), Terry(1) , Mary (1), Mary Kate (1), Kathleen (1), Sally (1). Patty (1) - Norine was salt water Irish.
- French American (Kankakee County only) - Michelle (2), Paula (2), Barbara (2)
- Italian American - Cristine ( 2), Lynn (1), Marylynne (3)
- Polish American - Cindy (1), Anna (2), Alina (1)
- German American - Betty (1), Debbie (1)
- Jewish American - Bunny ( 1), Deborah (1)
- Beer-Goggle Skank American (undeterminate number and unspeakable self-loathing if exact)
- African American - Pam ( 1/2) her dad ran me off with plumber's wrench - circa 1972.
Now, as to Les belles femmes sexy et désireux de l'Orient???? Never had the pleasure of a comely maid of the Heatrhen Chinee. I'd take a hard run at Nancy Kwan ( or the babe above) six days to Sundays: forward and in reverse. " My secret!"
* Numbers may skew as to the recollections of women and level of enjoyment or personal revulsion measured on the assignation(s).
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Labels: Asian Chicks, Bart Hickey and Uncle Bart Raw Courage., Celebrating Diversity Like a Turk at a Baptism, Femi-nonsense, Gwailo Hickey
Thursday, May 09, 2013
Leo High School and the Skinny & Houli Show Will be Featured in Robert Redford's 'Chicagoland' for CNN
Skinny Sheahan, Dan McGrath, Mike Houlihan and Bob Redford
“It’s a city that wears its heart on its sleeve and I am honored to be a part of telling this story,” Redford said.
Bob, not only heart - you gotta remember this is the Windy City; you'll find some stuff on the sleeve less solid than heart and who knows what up them sleeves. Just sayin'!
This past October through December, a film crew headed by Marc Levin made a number of trips to Leo High School. Mr. Levin explained that he was working on a continuation of a project developed for CNN through the Sundance Network and Robert Redford. The project had focused on New Jersey with series called Brick City. The intent is to capture modern American big city life and the people who have a positive impact.
Houli and legemndarty Leo Boxing Coach, Mike "Pickle" Joyce
In December they wrapped up the visits with an interview of Leo President Dan McGrath. This past April 6*, Dan and I were again invited to share the Life Leo on the Skinny and Houli Show. As is my wont, I arrived early and was greeted by the same crew from Sundance.
They were taping the Skinny and Houli as part of the project. Kismet? Mayhaps.
The Skinny and Houli Show's mission is to capture the people who do for others in this great American City; the Sundance project is all about that. Here at Leo, we do what we can do and most days so much more.
Robert Redford doing 'Chicagoland' TV seriesCatch Skinny and Houli on Saturday afternoon's at 3PM on AM 1450 Chicago's Ethnic Station. Drop by Leo High School -7901 South Sangamon, Chicago, IL (773) 224-9600 ex. 208 (ask fo Hickey).
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CNN has ordered a documentary series looking at the challenges faced by the city of Chicago.
In Chicagoland, executive producers Robert Redford and Laura Michalchyshyn team with Brick City filmmakers Marc Levin and Mark Benjamin in an eight-part series about “a city generating change and innovation in social policy, education, and public safety – to meet national and local challenges.”
According to CNN’s release, Chicagoland will capture “the riveting, real-life drama of a city looking to unite at this critical moment in the city’s history. In the aftermath of a countrywide economic collapse, Chicago faces the challenges of improving its public education system, and neighborhood and youth safety. Can the city’s leaders, communities, and residents come together in ways that expand opportunities and allow aspirations to be realized?”
In a statement, Redford praised Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel: “The vibrant culture and opportunities inherent in this 21st century, world-class city run alongside profound daily challenges. Much of it falls on the shoulders of its tough, visionary mayor, his team and people doing heroic work in neighborhoods throughout the city. Chicago has always had a rhythm all its own. It’s a city that wears its heart on its sleeve and I am honored to be a part of telling this story.”
“Chicago is the quintessential American city and where it goes tells us a lot about where our country is going,” added series producer Levin.
Chicagoland will debut in early 2014.
Watch Chicagoland** in 2014.
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Podcast: April 6, 2013
CNN Picks Up Robert Redford-Produced Docu-Series ‘Chicagoland’
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Labels: Leo High School, Robert Redford 's CNN production Chicagoland, Skinny and Houli return to AM Radio -WCEV 1450
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Stephen Hawking and Some Other Public Intellectual Dumb-assesI
"If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good."--- Ezra Pound
Sometimes both are true, Mr. Pound. Love your poetry, but I would take a pass on a pub crawl with you.
I have a weird social code.
If I get on someones nerves, I try avoid social contact with them; why put the poor suffering SOB with time spent with me? Likewise, if I find another person to repellent, phony, self-absorbed, mean-spirited, or just bone-stupid, I tend to decline invitations to share thoughts.
I love a good debate and like to have my opinions challenged with spirited, thoughtful and good natured vigor. I learn from people that way. There is so much that I do not know, that I can not allow my inclinations and prejudices to get in the way. If more people thought the way I do . . . we'd eat pretty damn good.
Ignorance is no crime, but stupid is a life sentence.
I have know off-charts IQs who happened to be the most petty, cheap-tipping, half-baked, bigoted arrogant dumb asses this side of a Columbia University faculty May Day picnic.
Stupid people do not share anything, unless it is forcibly pried out of the pink digits. Want to measure the worth of a Mensa Member, or Phi Beta Kappan Rhodes Scholar? Watch her tip a bartender, or him a waitress. Stupid people delight in taking any wildly contrarian point of view in order to clutch the attention of one all gathered - ' America and Third Reich planned to impose Christianity on the free-thinking indigenous Unitarians of New Guinea by introducing 'cargo cultism' during WWII and conducting genocide on the Great East Asian Co-Prosperity Activists of Port Morseby, Weewak and Owen Stanley Mountain folk."
Thank you Oliver Stone; now go load up that pipe of yours and get back to us on ShoTime.
Today, another beauty surfaced.
Stephen Hawking boycotted a conference in Israel to 'protest' Jews demanding that Palestinian fascists stop blowing up pizza parlors full of kids, showering rockets on neighborhoods and calling for a New Holocaust.
Hawking is the much afflicted physicist who operates from a wheel chair command center and who knows the exact quants in quantum mechanics.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - British cosmologist Stephen Hawking has pulled out of an Israeli conference, joining an academic boycott of Israel to protest against its occupation of Palestinian lands, Cambridge University said on Wednesday.
The wheelchair-bound Hawking, who has won international recognition for his work on black holes, had been due to speak at a prestigious conference in June organized by Israeli President Shimon Peres that draws hundreds of leading world figures.
However, his name was quietly dropped from the list of participants earlier this week, giving a major boost to supporters of pro-Palestinian groups that want to isolate Israel on the international stage over the continued occupation.
"This is his independent decision to respect the boycott, based upon his knowledge of Palestine, and on the unanimous advice of his own academic contacts there," the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine said on its website.
Hawking has joined the company of other public intellectuals and artists who proved to be absolute dumb-asses in world events, politics and living within the columns that make up history's personal pagination - Poets Ezra Pound and William Butler Yeats were tickled by fascism's trinkets -soaring rhetoric and mythopoeic imagery. Pound became radio traitor for Mussolini and Yeats formed his own Celto-fascist political party.
Semiotic totalitarian Noam Chomsky leads the pack as a dumb-ass, with all of hate of a Bill Ayers and all of gravity of MSNBC. The old clown is pathetic and no more of a public prophet than the now forgotten mope Ward Churchill.
First, Chomsky is an absolutely shameless liar. A master of the argument in bad faith. He will say anything in order to get people to believe him. Even worse, he will say anything in order to shut people up who disagree with him. And I’m not necessarily talking about his public critics. If you've ever seen how he acts with ordinary students who question what he says, it's quite horrifying. He simply abuses them in a manner I can only describe as sadistic. That is, he clearly enjoys doing it. I don't think anyone ought to be allowed to get away with that kind of behavior.
Second, Chomsky is immensely important to the radical left. When it comes to American foreign policy he isn't just influential, he's basically all they have. Almost any argument made about foreign affairs by the radical left can be traced back to him. That wasn't the case when he started out back in the late '60s, but it is now.
Third, he is essentially the last totalitarian. Despite his claims otherwise, he's more or less the last survivor of a group of intellectuals who thought systemic political violence and totalitarian control were essentially good things. He babbles about human rights all the time, but when you look at the regimes and groups he's supported, it’s a very bloody list indeed.
Communism and fascism are obviously dead as the proverbial doornail, but I doubt the totalitarian temptation will ever go away. The desire for unity and a kind of beautiful tyranny seems to spring from somewhere deep in the human psyche.
Fourth—and this may be most important—he makes people stupid. In this sense, he's more like a cult leader or a New Age guru than an intellectual. He allows people to be comfortable with their prejudices and their hatreds, and he undercuts their ability to think in a critical manner. To an extent, this has to do with his use of emotional and moral blackmail. Since he portrays everyone who disagrees with him as evil, if you do agree with him you must be on the side of good and right. This is essentially a kind of secular puritanism, and it's very appealing to many people, for obvious reasons, I think. We all want to think well of ourselves, whether we deserve it or not.There is an intellectual side to this, as well. You see it clearly in his famous debate with Michel Foucault. Chomsky says at one point that there is a moral and ethical order that is hardwired into human beings. And Foucault basically asks him, why? How do you know this hardwired morality exists? And even if it exists, how can we know that it is, in fact, moral in the first place? We may feel it to be moral, but that doesn't make it true.Chomsky's answer is essentially: Because I believe it to be so. Now, whatever that is, it isn't thinking. In fact, it's an excuse for not thinking. Ironically, Chomsky later said that Foucault was the most amoral man he ever met, whereas I would argue that Foucault was simply pointing out that Chomsky's “morality” is in fact a form of nihilism. (emphases my own)
I have read this clown. There are people who do important work in linguistics, like Northwestern University's Tolstoy scholar Gary Saul Morson, there work makes sense to people who want to present texts to their students in manner that will broaden conversation, not diminish talk. Noam don't play that way; hence his appeal to loud mouths and phonies.
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Labels: Bill Ayers the Barney Google of Terror and Prose, Ezra Pound, God Bless Israel, Noam Chomsky, Stephen Hawking, William Butler Yeats
Tuesday, May 07, 2013
In Obama's Policy Jungle, Follow the Kookie Krumbs - Samantha Power to Susan Rice to Valerie Jarrett to Hillary Clinton to . . .
The Benghazi tragedy is treated by the political media, the DNC and most especially Brand Obama's White House like a smashed up box of Maurice Lenell cookies that only would be used if high end Rich biscuits could make all the difference in the world.
Yes, sir. Some might scoff at this Chicago product as food for the helots ( it is) in the same tones one hears from WTTW/PBS/NPR zealots snort when they hear Fox anything. I learned long ago, from Chicago saloon keeper and political genius Boz O'Brien, the meaning of value - " Boz, what's the difference between a vase( Vahhhhzzzz) and a vase( Vayce)?"
Mr. O'Brien patiently and spontaneously answered, " Forty Dollars." In our brand conscious folly we value nothing. Hell, we help murder infants through our taxes - outliers or not.
Maurice Lenell cookies were made on north Harlem Ave. and for 70 years a family of Swedes cranked out pinwheels, sugar cookies, tea biscuits and those vanilla bits with the prehistoric cherry in the middle. Granny Nora Hickey , of Cahirciveen, County Kerry opted for Maurice Lenell "bickies" for her tea table in the kitchen at 7535 S. Marshfield. Those cookies crumbled up a storm.
Back in the day, Maurice Lenell's came in tin boxes in stacks on paper doilies. They looked classy and working people could afford them. As our society became more disposable-friendly after Roe v. Wade, paper and flimsy plastic replaced the tin. Those cookies crumbled quicker, often in the over-stuffed Jewel bag squeezed between cantaloupes and 48 oz. cans of Dinty Moore.
Crumbled cookies put swells off and by the Obama First Term Maurice Lenell was swallowed whole by some food group. Now, Obama's youthful demographic eat cookie dough. Oh, yeah, Benghazi.
Sept. 11th 2012, the Obama Kooky Middle East narrative crafted by Samantha Power at the command of Valerie Jarrett crumbled like tea cookies. Power and Jarrett are exempts, as singularly a Chicago product as Maurice Lenell's baked goods. Exempt hires are answerable only to person who hired them. They are salaried. . .very salaried . . .employees who are exempt from the standard application processes and the job requirements most of the rest of us must meet.
What in Valerie Jarrett's public resume makes her vital to national executive capacity whatsoever? Valerie Jarrett hand-picked some the Obama Administrations daffier prodigies: Desiree Rogers, Van Jones, Arne Duncan, Anita Dunn and the girl-friend of Cass Sunstein Samantha Power.
Samantha Power is architect of the Obama Middle East Policy - from the bow tour, the Cairo speech, the Arab Spring, the ascent of the Muslim Brotherhood, the back-door treatment of Israel -as in, " Hey, Hymies, hit the back door!"
Now, just hours before the start of another hearing on Benghazi, Eric Holder's FBI found some Minnesota cracker by the name of Buford to divert attention from the collapse of Brand Obama. Perhaps, I just a tad cynical. Maybe this has nothing to do with Libya; rather, it is make-up dibs to David Sirota of Salon, who begged for Boston's terrorists to be fans of NASCAR, or Knights of Columbus. Brand Obama is banged up good, Eric. Nice that your boys grabbed Buford, though.
Brand Obama is packaged in flimsy plastic and the Kookies have crumbled. Even the fawning Democratic Establishment (wonky money-dogs, media purse puppies) are baring their fangs:
For some time, the left of the MSM has been attacking the White House over issues like drones and Guantanamo, but now much heavier fire is coming from the center. The Washington Post ran an opinion piece by Thomas Carothers and Nathan J. Brown arguing that the administration’s Egypt policy has been overtaken by events. And both Dexter Filkins in the New Yorker and Bill Keller in the New York Times have gone after the administration for dithering on Syria, especially in light of the mounting evidence that Assad has crossed the administration’s “red lines” on the use of chemical weapons. These are heavy hitters; throw in the David Sanger co-authoredNYT weekender saying that the whole “red line” controversy in Syria was caused by a major presidential gaffe, and some of the biggest dogs in town are saying some very harsh things about presidential competence and judgment.If we were sitting in the White House right now, we would be worried that the Benghazi hearings scheduled for later this week could be an important tipping point, accelerating the MSM turn away from a lame duck president whose Middle East policies, to put it mildly, face some unresolved issues.
President Obama faces a tough mix of domestic and foreign challenges in the Middle East. Abroad, the situation in Syria has steadily worsened while the Egyptian revolution he championed looks less attractive every day. The mullahs in Iran have not shown many signs that they fear his wrath, suggesting that a peaceful resolution of the nuclear issue is not in the cards.
The Congressional hearings on Benghazi beginning tomorrow should sweep up some of the Kookie Krumbs littering America's standing in the world. We should see the penmanship of Samantha Power all over this mess, under the commands of Valerie Jarrett.
Democrats will circle the silent butlers around the neck of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who sat down hard the Benghazi cookie tray and collect the Kookie Krumbs. Hillary Clinton will be the subject of national and world ridicule, until she serves up Jarrett, Samantha Power and President Obama.
Unless the GOP again screws up the hearings as royally as they have in the past ( Fast & Furious/Benghazi),
I believe that the two White House exempts and their Chinaman the President will wear the jacket of political
larceny all covered up with and by the crumbs of these dilettante egoists.
The need now, among Democrats, over the next fews months will be to convince the American voter that George W. Bush selected Barack H. Obama to run for the Illinois Senate, US Senate and America's Chief Executive. Hillary Clinton, once the crumbs have been brushed, will help do just that. That's how this cookie crumbles.
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Sunday, May 05, 2013
With Benghazi ( "Long Time Ago") Peeling, Hillary Clinton Will Toss These Three Under the Bus
Benghazi, seems like only yesterday. Jay Carney said that I am very much mistaken, because it happened so long ago and that an American Ambassador and three security heroes were slaughtered in Libya, while the White House remained on Deaf Com 6 - Got an Election, Folks! Distraction.
Samantha Power, Susan Rice and President Lame Duck #44 will be the Fall Person's tossed to history's dentures by Hillary Clinton: When the smoke clears Hillary Clinton the #45 Wannabee will put the jacket on Mrs. Cass Sunstein, (Samantha Powers), The proud black woman named Rice who is not named Condalisa, ( Susan Rice) and the Al Green in Chief President Barack H. Obama. The bus is rolling.
From Stephen Hayes for the Weekly Standard, The Nation with a moral core:
After the internal distribution, CIA officials amended that draft to include more information about the jihadist threat in both Egypt and Libya. “On 10 September we warned of social media reports calling for a demonstration in front of the [Cairo] Embassy and that jihadists were threatening to break into the Embassy,” the agency had added by late afternoon. And: “The Agency has produced numerous pieces on the threat of extremists linked to al Qaeda in Benghazi and Libya.” But elsewhere, CIA officials pulled back. The reference to “Islamic extremists” no longer specified “Islamic extremists with ties to al Qaeda,” and the initial reference to “attacks” in Benghazi was changed to “demonstrations.”I see the penmanship of Samantha Power, the Foreign Policy Czar of the Obama White House, the Irish-born OxFam activist/journalist who remains in the shadows but crafts the daffy Obama Middle East balls-up universal, all over the talking points read by Susan Rice. Reuters reported that Samantha Power is about to be 'disappeared' to a State Department post.
The talking points were first distributed to officials in the interagency vetting process at 6:52 p.m. on Friday. Less than an hour later, at 7:39 p.m., an individual identified in the House report only as a “senior State Department official” responded to raise “serious concerns” about the draft. That official, whom The Weekly Standard has confirmed was State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland, worried that members of Congress would use the talking points to criticize the State Department for “not paying attention to Agency warnings.”
In an attempt to address those concerns, CIA officials cut all references to Ansar al Sharia and made minor tweaks. But in a follow-up email at 9:24 p.m., Nuland wrote that the problem remained and that her superiors—she did not say which ones—were unhappy. The changes, she wrote, did not “resolve all my issues or those of my building leadership,” and State Department leadership was contacting National Security Council officials directly. Moments later, according to the House report, “White House officials responded by stating that the State Department’s concerns would have to be taken into account.” One official—Ben Rhodes, The Weekly Standard is told, a top adviser to President Obama on national security and foreign policy—further advised the group that the issues would be resolved in a meeting of top administration officials the following morning at the White House.
There is little information about what happened at that meeting of the Deputies Committee. But according to two officials with knowledge of the process, Mike Morrell, deputy director of the CIA, made broad changes to the draft afterwards. Morrell cut all or parts of four paragraphs of the six-paragraph talking points—148 of its 248 words (see Version 2 above). Gone were the reference to “Islamic extremists,” the reminders of agency warnings about al Qaeda in Libya, the reference to “jihadists” in Cairo, the mention of possible surveillance of the facility in Benghazi, and the report of five previous attacks on foreign interests.
Samantha Power is like cashiered Green Czar Van Jones, one of the power persons who appear out of left-field and manage to craft bad policy while avoiding the blame. Unlike Jones, Power keeps her ego in her purse. When it got the better of her ambitions, got her knocked off Obama 2008 Campaign for nasty comments on the future Secretary of State. Van Jones took his ego to TV.
Hillary will bounce Power quicker than Bill Clinton's next exploitable chick comes along.
When the dust settles on the Benghazi Disaster Sept. 11, 2012, so long, long, long ago in the words of White House Press Flak Jay Carney, Hillary Clinton will be required to get from under her fish-monger roar of 'What difference does it make?"
PeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeLenty!
Samantha Power is ready for tenure at Columbia.
The President already purged the military in this matter, Rice resigned quicker than the time it takes to have a new talking point, but Hillary Clinton thinks she will walk into the White House in 2016.
What a difference a long time makes.
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