George Allen’s “N-word” Problem
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Larry Sabato confirms that George Allen used the word “nigger”.
As does a college professor
Christopher Taylor, an anthropology professor at Alabama University in Birmingham, Ala., said that in the early 1980’s he heard Mr. Allen use an inflammatory epithet for African Americans. Mr. Taylor, who is white and was then a graduate student at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, said the term came up in a conversation about the turtles in a pond near Mr. Allen’s property. According to Mr. Taylor, Mr. Allen said that “around here” only the African Americans — whom he referred to by the epithet — “eat ‘em.”
I ask the people of Virginia: should this man be representing you in the United States senate? And who in the media will be brave enough to ask Sen. Allen’s fellow senators – especially those in his party – if this is the sort of language and way of thinking that should be encouraged in the senate?
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But you see, because of Robert Byrd, its okay for George Allen to use a deer’s head to terrorize a black family. That’s what Papa Dugger told me. Thank you for sharing your wisdom, Papa. I knew you’d find a way to make racism okay again.
yours,
Little Baby George Dugger Allen Hitler
Thank you, GOP, for sending us George Allen. I sure hope he loses, but I’ll miss him when he’s gone. He’s pure comedy gold.
Byrd hardly makes racist behavior ok for anyone. But what Byrd and his long history does is to make Democrats’ feigned indignation every time a Republican is caught (at least allegedly) ring hollow.
As long as Democrats have a former member of the KKK as a party leader and elder, they cannot claim the moral high ground on the issue of racism.
Hedley,
I’m not so sure that Byrd is quite a “leader” in the party. He’s kind of just there, continuously getting elected without seeking leader or whip positions.
Also, it’s quite interesting why Byrd said he joined the Klan in the first place; he wanted to join an anti-communist group.
“As long as Democrats have a former member of the KKK as a party leader and elder, they cannot claim the moral high ground on the issue of racism.”
And so the Republicans can still run unrepentent racists for office. Awesome, Heds, awesome.
Nigger
I’m not so sure that Byrd is quite a “leader” in the party.
If the Democrats take back the Senate, Byrd would most likely again be chosen as Senate pro tempore which would put him fourth in line for the Presidency. If that’s not a ‘leader’, I don’t know what is.
And somebody please explain how Larry Sabato can ‘confirm’ something he never personally heard?
Frankly, I’m pretty certain Allen did use the word. Big deal. I’ll bet all of the Democratic Senators in the chamber have used a racial or religious epithet to describe somebody at some point in time in their lives as well as Republicans. He should have just admitted it, apologized for it and said he wanted to focus on issues beyond that. But he denied it and all he had to do was say it once for the floodgates to open and for this to be the issue from now until election day.
Ex KKK Kleagle Byrd was elected majority leader by the Democrats when they controlled the senate. The ex KKK Kleagle would be third in line for President if Democrats regain the Senate.
Of the ex KKK Kleagle, Senate Democrat colleague Dodd said:
“I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia that he would have been a great senator at any moment,” Mr. Dodd, Connecticut Democrat, said while praising Mr. Byrd last week on the occasion of the eight-term Democrat’s 17,000th Senate vote.
Mr. Dodd continued: “He would have been right at the founding of this country. He would have been in the leadership crafting this Constitution. He would have been right during the great conflict of Civil War in this nation.”
So Democrats think a KKK Kleagle would be ‘right’ for the country during the Civil War. And we need to be worrying about what Allen may have said in college.
Next time Byrd runs, by all means, use it against him. And maybe when Allen apologizes for his past, they’ll approach some kind of equivalence. However, what’s clear from this little discussion is that all you GOPers desperately want racism — and conservative apologies for it — off the table. It’s also clear that you would rather keep Byrd in office in a weaselly attempt to excuse your own candidates from their recent history of racial terrorism. It kinda says it all about you, doesn’t it? Racism doesn’t matter to you; being able to feign horror at liberal hypocrisy is your only priority. Given your utter dependence on the Southern, white, social conservative vote, I guess it was inevitable that it’s rank and file like Dugger and Jay here would become utterly indifferent to real racism, and would rush to defend Allen’s recent racial terrorism.
Given your utter dependence on the Southern, white, social conservative vote, I guess it was inevitable that it’s rank and file like Dugger and Jay here would become utterly indifferent to real racism, and would rush to defend Allen’s recent racial terrorism.
Racial terrorism? Where did that come from and where did I defend it?
I’m more concerned about nonsense like this because what something like this does is keep people from running for office. Why? Because any transgressions they may have committed when they were younger is going to come back and haunt people and made the focal point of a campaign. This goes for both Democrats and Republicans.
Let us not forget that Hillary Clinton called her husbands campaign director a “fucking Jew bastard” some 30 years ago.
Nobody is going to tell me that John Kerry did not use the term “dink” or “gook” when he was in Vietnam.
This doesn’t necessarily define the person they are today.
Take it up with Karl Rove and the Swiftboat liars, Jay. The racial terrorism is the allegation that Allen cut the head off of a deer searched around found a black family, and stuffed it in their mailbox. If that story’s true, I think racial terrorism is a fair characterization of what he did.
“This doesn’t necessarily define the person they are today.”
And I believe George Allen was given the chance to make just that distinction and instead he chose to lie. That’s what you’re defending now. Awesome.
Take it up with Karl Rove and the Swiftboat liars, Jay.
Oh please. Once again the assertion that history started when GWB decided to run for President. Yeah, it never happened prior to Karl Rove getting into the action. Use your own brain instead of peddling the latest talking points.
Oh so you don’t know that it’s true, yet you’re asserting that it is true.
And even if it is true, where did I defend it?
If you’re going to talk about the issue, do so with some intellectual honesty.
And I believe George Allen was given the chance to make just that distinction and instead he chose to lie. That’s what you’re defending now. Awesome.
Is it by habit that you people are so dishonest or is it a sickness? Here is what I wrote:
. He should have just admitted it, apologized for it and said he wanted to focus on issues beyond that. But he denied it and all he had to do was say it once for the floodgates to open and for this to be the issue from now until election day.
So no Frame, I am NOT defending it. Cripes.
You know, I think we’re talking past each other, Jay. George Allen is a CALIFORNIAN who came to Virginia with a fascination for Southern nostalgia, who used the n-word, who had a noose in his office, and who is alleged to have actually terrorized black people. Even if the last story is completely false, the rest of it seems increasingly incontestable. Speaking as a Southerner, this guy seems way, way off of what is morally okay. This is not a game of gotcha on a single slip-up — Allen looks like a real racist to me. And I think that it’s entirely appropriate to go after racists for being racists when they run for public office, especially in the South. Byrd’s transgressions in no way help Allen’s.
I don’t know, Jay, when you argue that Allen should have to be accountable for his racist past, then what’s the functional difference between that and lying? Either way, he’s keeping information from the public. I say that if Allen did use the n-word, and did keep a noose in his office, and is a Californian who’s weirdly attracted to Confederate nostalgia, then it is vitally important and necessary that he be attacked for his racial views when he runs for public office. This is much more than a gotcha game, Jay.
One difference between Byrd and Allen is that Byrd has apologized for his KKK membershp, while Allen issues unconvincing denials of using the N word.
Senator Byrd: “Well, it’s easy to state what has been my biggest mistake. The greatest mistake I ever made was joining the Ku Klux Klan. And I’ve said that many times. But one cannot erase what he has done. He can only change his ways and his thoughts. That was an albatross around my neck that I will always wear. You will read it in my obituary that I was a member of the Ku Klux Klan.”
You know, to me, the worst thing about that macaca incident isn’t the fact that he used some colonial French racist slur he learned from his mom, it was the “Welcome to America” comment he directed at the guy, just because he looked foreign to Sen. Allen. What a bully. It’s now quite clear what Allen is; anyone who denies it has chosen to keep their head in the sand.
So that we get this straight. The college-age Allen may have used the N word in college and per progressive logic, that makes him unsuitable to be a senator. However, a mature adult Sen Robert Byrd can be a key member of a notorious and murderous racist organization, can also use the N word and can fight against civil rights legislation, and, per Progressive reasoning, he’s all Ok – because he’s said he’s sorry. The KKK Kleagle can be a senator.
Did I get that right???
Really Doc? Then why wasn’t any of this brought up before? This is not the first time Allen has run for office. I suspect there is a lot of ‘gotcha’ involved here.
That doesn’t matter though. If Allen said what he did, he should have come clean. Unfortunately, the gut instinct of most professional politicians is to deny and then explain away later.
As for his racial views, correct me if I am wrong, but didn’t Allen co-sponsor a resolution to have the Senate formally apologize for not passing federal legislation to deal with lynchings in the south?
“Frankly, I’m pretty certain Allen did use the word. Big deal.”
Awesome Jay. Awesome.
“The college-age Allen may have used the N word in college and per progressive logic, that makes him unsuitable to be a senator.”
Then years later the adult Allen, when given the opportunity to account for his past behavior and actions, lied about them. Unlike Byrd.
Not really, no. Allen almost certainly used the n-word in college. He definitely had a noose in his office. He’s a Californian with a thing for the Confederate flag. His gut instinct upon seeing a guy who looked Indian was to say “welcome to America” and call him a racial epithet. He’s clearly a bully and a racist. He’s also been accused of committing a truly heinous act of racial intimidation. Nothing Byrd has done helps Allen. If you want to rail against what you believe to be liberal hypocrisy, fine, but recognize that it serves to highlight your utter indifference to Allen’s very real racism. Your hatred of liberals is never going to make Allen not a racist, no matter how much you clench your tiny fists and stomp your little red boots, Dugger.
Awesome Jay. Awesome.
Dictonary.com Frame. Look up the word ‘context’ and the phrase, ‘taken out of context.’
Creep.
Allen almost certainly used the n-word in college.
And Hillary called somebody a ‘fucking Jew bastard.’ Is her running for the Presidency off limits now?
He definitely had a noose in his office.
As part of an old west motif. Why would the same man who co-sponsors a resolution calling on the Senate to formally apologize for the feds doing nothing to stop lynching do such a thing?
He’s a Californian with a thing for the Confederate flag.
He’s been living in Virginia for 35 years. I’m a New Yorker with a thing for NASCAR. Is there any point for continuing to point this out?
. He’s also been accused of committing a truly heinous act of racial intimidation.
By ONE person.
He’s clearly a bully and a racist.
Amazing. You reach this conclusion based upon some words Allen used 25-30 years ago, an incident that cannot be proven, and from a comment he made that he has repeated apologized for.
You have serious issues man.
We aren’t the one making apologies for racists.
You mean the context in which you paint Allen as the victim of some kind of smear campaign even after he lied about his racist past:
“But he denied it and all he had to do was say it once for the floodgates to open and for this to be the issue from now until election day.”
Super awesome, Jay.
We aren’t the one making apologies for racists.
You’re the ones declaring the man a bully and a racist based on conjecture and the say-so of anonymous sources.
I’ve seen no evidence to suggest he is a racist….now.
Did he use some racist language in the past? It appears that way. But, people do change.
The problem with Jay’s argument re: HRC is that its most likely a lie. On the other hand, we’ve got proof Allen is a proud racist.
“You reach this conclusion based upon some words Allen used 25-30 years ago [AND LIED ABOUT] an incident that cannot be proven, and from a comment he made that he has repeated apologized for. [AFTER HE WAS CAUGHT ON CAMERA AND DENIED IT REPEATEDLY].”
Context, Jay, context.
You mean the context in which you paint Allen as the victim of some kind of smear campaign even after he lied about his racist past
I did no such thing. But since you purposely want to be a buffoon, I guess I will have to explain it. The problem with politicians is almost always not the ‘crime’ but the cover-up.
Allen’s problems are of his own making.
Understand now? Or do I need to spell it out for you?
The problem with Jay’s argument re: HRC is that its most likely a lie.
Hahahaha….The accusation about Hillary is a lie because….somebody said it was a lie.
Give it up Oliver.
” But, people do change. ”
You mean he changed since calling someone a macaca on camera? Any proof of this change or are you being stupid on purpose?
You’re the ones declaring the man a bully and a racist based on conjecture and the say-so of anonymous sources.
You mean Larry Sabato isn’t his real name?
“If you want to rail against what you believe to be liberal hypocrisy”
Well, yes it is endless fun.
“We aren’t the one making apologies for racists.”
So you are not making excuses for Senator Byrd??
He can belong to the KKK, be a high ranking member and say he’s sorry and its
“OK. Every thing is fine and dandy now. The Kleagle said ‘My bad’ so lets just move along.”
Or racist Democrat mayor Nagins?
No, I haven’t made excuses for Byrd. If he runs again, and if he takes heat for his racial past in that election, you WILL NOT catch me defending or otherwise excusing him. Likewise with Hillary’s Jew comment. If that’s the way she talks, she should get attacked for it.
So why are the rules different for Racist Allen? And why do you personally feel so compelled to defend and excuse George Allen’s racial bullying, Dugger? And why can’t you, after a year’s worth of post, spell NAGIN yet?
Nice rabbit hole there, Dugs.
Here’s the scoop on Byrd. I’d love to see the people of West Virginia elect a real Democrat to replace ol’ Bob.
Heck, I’d even settle for a nice, moderate, Lincoln Chaffee style Republican.
But the GOP’s best can’t even manage to unseat a former Kleagle. So I guess we’re stuck with him.
Now, your excuse for Mr. Allen is what again?
So you are not making excuses for Senator Byrd??
I don’t think Byrd needs to be excused. Like Dr. Anatole Gavage-Huskanoy said, if someone wants to bring up his past in and of itself, and suggest that an alternative candidate for his senate seat would be better, fine. I’ve often viewed Byrd suspiciously anyway. But then, the people of West Virginia keep electing him, quite possibly knowing of his KKK past (which hasn’t been a secret).
But we are getting off track. The point is that Allen both had problems with race relations in the past, and he continues to have such problems (such as “welcoming” a native born Virginian to America because of his skin color). It’s sure not as blatant, but it’s still not helpful.
You’re the ones declaring the man a bully and a racist based on conjecture and the say-so of anonymous sources.
Anonymous?
Christopher Taylor.
You mean he changed since calling someone a macaca on camera? Any proof of this change or are you being stupid on purpose?
I’ve never even heard of the word ‘macaca’ before and I’ll bet $1000 you haven’t either.
You mean Larry Sabato isn’t his real name?
This shows how closely people are paying attention. Sabato himself is saying “Others have told me” and said he won’t reveal his sources. IE: anonymous sources. Sabato is not a direct source.
Hahahaha….The accusation about Hillary is a lie because….somebody said it was a lie.
Err, no.
It’s probably a lie because the accusation was made by a known liar! And repeated by a conservative mouthpiece who hates everything Clinton.
Anonymous?
Dr. Ken Shelton.
As Quaker pointed out, Larry Sabato is just about the opposite of anonymous. The fact that he put his reputation on the line against Allen is a real turning point.
The racism defenders in this thread have one point, though, and that’s that these character flaws really should have come out in Allen’s earlier races. A racist bully like Allen never should have been Virginia’s governor, and not her Senator, either. He should have been sent home to the OC long ago. It’s a shame that it took Allen to racially bully a kid on camera in order to start this ball rolling.
“The problem with politicians is almost always not the ‘crime’ but the cover-up.”
So you don’t have a problem with his actual racism?
“I’ve never even heard of the word ‘macaca’ before and I’ll bet $1000 you haven’t either.”
Understandable, Jay. It’s really only a term that a committed racist would know. Apparently Allen is quite the connoisseur of racial epithets, which, in your book, it seems, makes his racism okay. You’re not just awesome, Jay. You’re totally bitchin’!
It’s probably a lie because the accusation was made by a known liar!
He wasn’t the only source. Others around Hillary said she often used such slurs. She did. So deal with it and move on.
So you don’t have a problem with his actual racism?
I don’t know if he is a racist Frame. I’ll let you in on a little secret: I’ve used racist slurs in my past.
I was raised by two die-in-the-wool liberals, one of which was raised in Brooklyn. Unforunately, he was raised during a time (50′s) when racism was just normal. Some of that thinking was passed along to me.
While racism is something that is learned, thankfully, it is something that can be un-learned. Do I use such slurs anymore? Absolutely not. I got into a big argument with family members of mine who were spouting some racist nonsense (all of whom are Kerry voters BTW) and told them I didn’t want them to use that language in front of my kids.
Not that any of this matters. I could try and reason until I’m blue in the face and I’d simply just be accused again by a bunch of jackals of “defending a racist.” But maybe somebody will understand the point.
Apparently Allen is quite the connoisseur of racial epithets, which, in your book, it seems, makes his racism okay. You’re not just awesome, Jay. You’re totally bitchin’!
See what I mean? I feel like Charlie Babbitt going nuts while my autistic brother babbles about getting underwear at K-Mart.
“I’ve used racist slurs in my past. ”
Wow! I’m shocked!
I don’t think you’re necessarily a racist, Jay. But I know Allen is. And I know you made a conscious decision to come on a liberal blog and defend him. I do not defend or excuse liberals when they make racist comments — maybe you should try being principled for once.
“I’ve never even heard of the word ‘macaca’ before and I’ll bet $1000 you haven’t either.”
Argentines used to call Brazilians that word — it means ‘monkey’ in Portuguese. I didn’t understand why Allen would have used it, until I learned that it was a French colonial slur against North Africans. And Allen’s mother is a French Tunisian. It was no accident, or a “made up word,” as Allen dishonestly characterized it. IMHO, it’s still not as bad as saying “welcome to America” to a native Virginian, solely on the basis of his skin color. That’s fucking disgusting.
From Wikipedia:
“The friendly match played on October 12, 1920 in Buenos Aires started with 8 players on each side, as some of the Brazilian players refused to play because an Argentine newspaper insulted them calling them macaquitos (little monkeys), in clear reference to the mulato skin of many of the players…The origin of the Macaco or Macaquito expression for the Brazilian is unclear; some affirm it comes from the times of the War of the Triple Alliance fought in the 1860s, when Argentine soldiers would use such expressions to refer to their Brazilian allies, which included a great number of black soldiers in their ranks…During the 1996 Summer Olympics, Argentina’s rival for the final match of the gold medal was to be decided between Brazil and Nigeria. The sports newspaper Diario Olé printed the controversial headline Que vengan los macacos (“Bring the monkeys on”), in clear reference to the already forgotten term used decades before. The headline was widely condemned both in Argentina and Brazil.”
“But maybe somebody will understand the point.”
WTF is your point Jay? Allen shouldn’t have lied about his past. He shouldn’t run around in the present using racial epithets. Aside from all that, WTF are you talking about?
So to clarify then Jay, as I am willing to agree that for instance Byrd’s and Allen’s past racist inclinations do not necessarily dictate who they are today, what do you make of Allen’s current behaviour of, basically, calling some random guy with brown skin a foreign “macaca?” Or for that matter his denial of his own racist past, which goes in contrast to Byrd’s admission and apology of it? If Byrd was willing to own up to his past, what does it say of Allen for denying it? Not simply whether it was a mistake or not, but seriously consider what it means that he so strongly didnt even want it to be brought up, for him to have to discuss it publically. People can change, yes, but that fact alone doesnt mean a person has. So do you think Allen is, not was but still is, a Racist, and if so, should he hold public office?
He wasn’t the only source. Others around Hillary said she often used such slurs.
Really? Are they “anonymous” too?
Or were they certain Arkansas highway patrol officers?
Or were they certain Arkansas highway patrol officers?
Wow! I’m shocked!
Yes, and I am sure your past is as clean as a newborn babies ass. STFU.
And I know you made a conscious decision to come on a liberal blog and defend him.
Actually, I have not defended him. I have pointed out the flawed evidence for which you have reached a conclusion. You’re mistaking that for a defense. There’s a difference.
IMHO, it’s still not as bad as saying “welcome to America” to a native Virginian, solely on the basis of his skin color. That’s fucking disgusting.
I won’t argue with you there. There’s no excuse for that.
The thing is, “welcome to America” is looking less and less like an isolated incident, and more like part of a pattern. That, the macaca thing, the noose, the battle flag, and Sabato’s declaration that Allen used to casually use the n-word — that’s plenty enough to convince me that Allen’s got his moral compass all fucked up when it comes to race. I guess we agree, then, Jay.
“I have pointed out the flawed evidence for which you have reached a conclusion.”
On behalf of a conservative. Against liberals. That’s the common thread with you Jay, whether it’s racism, torture, our counterproductive and failed terrorism policies, foreign affairs, or anything else.
Not truth. Not principle. Just pro-conservative and anti-liberal. Thanks for showing us, day after day, why Conservatism is on it’s death bed.
Rex, I don’t know Senator Allen. I can’t tell you any better than anybody here (most of whom are self-avowed expert racist detectors) whether or not he is a racist. Like I said, it seems kind of odd that a racist would co-sponsor a resolution like the one I talked about earlier.
Allen’s initial denial is the trademark move for a politician. They almost always deny first. I have no idea why. The truth is always going to catch up at some point, but I honestly think arrogance has a lot to do with why politicians go the denial route at first.
As for whether or not he should be a Senator, that is for the people of Virginia to decide.
Once again, for crazyJay, it’s ok if you’re a Republican. Torture? Racism? Lying? It’s ok if you’re a Republican.
“Yes, and I am sure your past is as clean as a newborn babies ass. STFU.”
Shorter jay: “I’m an ass, so I figure everyone else is too”
I don’t know Senator Allen. I can’t tell you any better than anybody here (most of whom are self-avowed expert racist detectors) whether or not he is a racist.
If it looks like a duck…
Like I said, it seems kind of odd that a racist would co-sponsor a resolution like the one I talked about earlier.
Odd, but not without precedent. A little exercise in deflection, perhaps.
On behalf of a conservative. Against liberals.
In what way? I’m not the one being inconsistent here.
That, the macaca thing, the noose, the battle flag, and Sabato’s declaration that Allen used to casually use the n-word — that’s plenty enough to convince me that Allen’s got his moral compass all fucked up when it comes to race.
This is what I am talking about. Allen’s office was apparently decorated with an old-west style. So as part of the styling, he had a noose. Hangings were common in the old west.
As for the Confederate flag, it something that became a symbol of racism in the last 10-15 years. It was not a delicate subject 20-30 years ago. Back then it was all about rebellion. It was featured in ‘The Dukes of Hazzard’ for crying out loud. Unless I missed something, the producers of that show weren’t your typical white supremacists. I don’t recall Lynyrd Skynyrd being the definitive band of the neo-nazi movement and the Confederate flag was a prominent prop with them.
Sabato’s ‘declaration’ is nothing more than second hand information being passed along. I’m sorry, but anonymous sources shouldn’t be given any weight. That leaves, what, one person who has gone on the record to say that he heard Allen say the word nigger? Like I said earlier, I am sure he probably DID say it. But then again, that was a long time ago.
So again, what you’re left with is macaca and unverifiable accusations to reach the absolute conclusion that Allen is a “racist bully.” You don’t see any problems with that?
Like I said, it seems kind of odd that a racist would co-sponsor a resolution like the one I talked about earlier.
Perhaps there was some money in it for him. Or a golf trip.
Shorter jay: “I’m an ass, so I figure everyone else is too”
Nahh. I’m just HONEST. It’s something you couldn’t relate to since you’re a sniveling little anonymous troll.
Odd, but not without precedent. A little exercise in deflection, perhaps
Maybe, especially of the resolution were introduced a week ago, but this was last year before any of this came about.
As for the Confederate flag, it something that became a symbol of racism in the last 10-15 years. It was not a delicate subject 20-30 years ago.
Codswallop.
As someone who grew up in the piney woods of north Florida, and as a white boy who attended Booker T. Washington High School, you’re wrong.
I don’t recall Lynyrd Skynyrd being the definitive band of the neo-nazi movement and the Confederate flag was a prominent prop with them.
You know lots of black folks who dig Skynyrd, do you?
So what would convince you, Jay? If he dropped the N-bomb on CNN today? Or tomorrow? As the hyperbole suggests about Byrd, leopards don’t change their spots easily. If Allen’s office is decorated “old-west” chic, that’s one thing. I would expect to see some cacti in there or something.
Why can’t you just concede that Allen MAY have the same feelings today that he did 30 years ago when he was more vocal about it?
Maybe, especially of the resolution were introduced a week ago, but this was last year before any of this came about.
That doesn’t mean anything. he could have been thinking ahead for this particular race. “See, look at my record!”
Why can’t you just concede that Allen MAY have the same feelings today that he did 30 years ago when he was more vocal about it?
How can I concede a point if I haven’t been arguing against that point? Maybe he does. That’s just it. I DON’T KNOW.
Jay, you’re embarrassing yourself with your comments on confederate flag history and the noose, I’m sorry to say. Clearly you don’t want to believe what’s right in front of your eyes, and can’t be convinced. Your denial of Allen’s racism is dissolving into Dugger’s favorite tactic of constructing bizarre and impossible goalposts; in this case: “racism is impossible to prove.” Thanks for representing the irresponsible, unprincipled wing of Conservatism here, Jay. You really put in some man-hours discrediting your cause today.
Doc, you’re the one that is sad. Why? Because you’re reaching a conclusion about man based upon, as I pointed out before, conjecture, anonymous sources, and dubious ‘symbols.’
You continue to accuse me of “denying” Allen’s supposed racism. I am not denying anything. I am just not ready to pass judgement on the guy based on a 35 year trail of anecdotal evidence. Neither am I going to say that Hillary Clinton is an anti-Semite because of she has said.
That’s the difference between me and you and it has nothing to do with conservatism or liberalism.
I do believe Jay has a point someone’s past not necessarily reflecting their current positions.
Also, about Senator Byrd, I don’t care how many times he apologizes, his name is mud; if some Al-Qaeda terrorist thirty years from now is “sincerely regretful” about having joined the organization, he would still be scum in my eyes.
The issue here is that Allen’s past statements, seem to me, to be indicative of his current positions. As Andrew Sullivan points out, the man past legislation that specifically denies gays any rights as a couple, whether they be civil unions or whatever. However one may feel about the issue, that’s going out of your way to be a bigot. In this case, Allen’s past is a leading indicator of his present.
“you’re reaching a conclusion about man based upon, as I pointed out before, conjecture, anonymous sources, and dubious ‘symbols.’”
Given that we’re talking about racism, in the absence of a statement from Allen saying “I am prejudiced,” that’s all we’ll ever have. And from the evidence that’s mounding up at Allen’s feet, the man has a lot to apologize for. He is clearly not fit for office. Your battle is not with the standards of evidence used by liberals; it’s with George Allen’s actions and words. Good luck to you.
Although again, these sources are not anonymous, and not based on “conjecture.” These are multiple, independent accusations by people who have known him. In the case of the deer head, possibly independently verifiable. At least get that straight, Jay.
Although again, these sources are not anonymous, and not based on “conjecture.” These are multiple, independent accusations by people who have known him.
Multiple? You have TWO. Ken Shelton, who is also the source of the deer head accusation. Funny how Shelton brings this up when the only other person who could confirm it happened is now dead. And Chris Taylor. That’s it. There are more people who have come forward to say that Allen hasn’t used such words. Yet, you chose to just simply believe one side, not the other. Why?
Your conclusions about the Confederate flag and a noose is based on conjecture. It might be true, but you have no evidence it is true, yet you’re stating it is true.
I heard he fucks pigs.
Big black ones.
From an anonymous source, naturally.
ala LBJ
Funny how Shelton brings this up when the only other person who could confirm it happened is now dead.
Great Scott!!
Jay, are you suggesting that Dr. Shelton deliberately waited until after the death of the third member of the hunting party to tell this story?
How could he possibly foretell the death of his friend?
“Funny how Shelton brings this up when the only other person who could confirm it happened is now dead.”
Kind of how that the Swift Boat liars decided that Kerry’s service was heroic up until the time he decided to run for president 30 years later?
There are more people who have come forward to say that Allen hasn’t used such words. Yet, you chose to just simply believe one side, not the other. Why?
That’s a real stumper, Jay.
Could it be because no one has heard all the things Mr. Allen has ever said?
There are people who have never heard me say “dog collar” or “jelly jar.” However, others have heard me use these terms.
Now why would you believe someone who says they’ve heard me say those words?
If George Allen were caught burning a cross on a black person’s front lawn, Jay would argue that he might have been trying to keep warm. It’s possible, but not likely.
I see Quaker. We have more people saying he didn’t use such language than those who did. Yet, we’re supposed to believe those who said he did simply because the other ones didn’t hear ALL the things he has said?
Mr. Pretzel, Meet Mr. Logic.
If the kid filming his campaign event had been blond-haired and blue-eyed do you think he would have let loose with a “welcome to America Abba-Boy?” Bottom line is he that saw someone whose appearance matched his notion of a foreigner, and he used that sterotype against the kid. At some level of his psyche a non-caucasian is a lesser American. No need to dig any deeper; he passes the racist test right there.
“No need to dig any deeper; he passes the racist test right there.”
But that was so long ago. People change.
We have more people saying he didn’t use such language than those who did. Yet, we’re supposed to believe those who said he did simply because the other ones didn’t hear ALL the things he has said?
How else would they know what he didn’t say?
My mother will tell you I never use the F word.
Republicans don’t want us judging their politicians by their actions. They want us to judge them on their “resolve,” their “unflip-flopitude,” their “toughness,” “compassionate conservatism,’ or some other intangible that emanates from deep within their politicians’ souls. But when it turns out that their politicians are racist assholes, why, all of a sudden, they start shouting about proof and mind reading and such. It’s quite sad, really.
So in the past week jay has defended racists and torturers. What’s next, child molesters?
factcheck | Sep 26, 2006 8:47:31 PM
“So in the past week jay has defended racists and torturers. What’s next, child molesters?”
Dugger
CLINTON FRENCH CONNECTIONS TO GEORGE ALLEN LYNCHING
The first item below is excerpted from the Hillary Rodham Clinton, Biography which may be found at:
http://clinton1.nara.gov/White_House/EOP/First_Lady/html/HILLARY_Bio-plain.html “In the summer of 1994, they (Hillary Rodham Clinton and then President Bill Clinton),traveled to Naples, Italy, again for the G-7 Summit.” Whether it was at that summit, or at some other time, we suspect that Hillary Rodham Clinton may well have met with none other than Anne Lauvergeon. Anne Lauvergeon is listed as number eight in The 100 Most Powerful Women at:
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/11/06women_Anne-Lauvergeon_YTCZ.html
The Delegations of France and the United States are described below: “G-7 Summit Naples , Italy July 8th-10th, 1994 France :
François Mitterrand, President of the Republic
Alain Juppé, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Edmond Alphandéry, Minister of the Economy
Anne Lauvergeon, Personal Representative
United States :
William J. Clinton, President
Warren Christopher, Secretary of State
Lloyd Bentsen, Secretary of the Treasury
Robert Fauver, Personal Representative”
at:
http://www.g7.utoronto.ca/summit/1994naples/delegation.html
We wonder if Anne Lauvergeon and Hillary Rodham Clinton may have met at some function or other of something called the “Young Leaders Program”. The program is described as: “The Young Leaders is the flagship program of the French-American Foundation and continues to be central to the Foundation’s success in deepening understanding between France and the United States. The program was created in 1981 in response to observations that the close working relationships between French and American leaders in the post-war period were waning as new, younger leaders rose with little exposure to their transatlantic counterparts. From its inception, the program has taken small groups of carefully selected up-and-coming leaders in government, business, the media, the military and the non-profit sector and provided them the opportunity to spend four days discussing issues of common concern and, most importantly, getting to know each other. The relaxed atmosphere and the off-the-record nature of the conferences have fostered trenchant and open discussions of policy and social issues, and have been very successful in facilitating the development of a new network of transatlantic leaders. The 18 meetings which have been held since 1981 have been attended by 250 influential men and women, many of whom have gone on to positions of significant responsibility. Young Leaders include such prominent American as President Clinton, Senators Bill Bradley and Hillary Clinton, General Wesley Clark, …as well as business leaders… On the French side, past participants include several distinguished business leaders, such as, Anne Lauvergeon (with Areva)…Roundtables are moderated by past participants with relevant expertise. An emphasis is always placed on creating an informal, frank dialogue: discussions are therefore strictly off-the-record. The group stays together throughout the length of the conference,with meals, free time and group activities providing further opportunities to develop personal relationships and networks, and promote cross-cultural understanding….”
Source:
http://www.frenchamerican.org/cgi-bin/programs.cgi?f=ShowDesc&dbid=66
You can see a list of SOME of their key players at their website,others are listed as ANONYMOUS : http://www.frenchamerican.org/cgi-bin/contributors.cgi included in the list: David Rockefeller,Alcatel, Boeing,Cartier, CDC IXIX, The Coca-Cola Company,Crédit Industriel et Commercial Dassault Falcon Jet Corp,EADS, Incorporated, Lockheed Martin,L’Oréal USA,Shearman and Sterling,SNECMA, Thales, Inc.
Dassault and Snecma, listed above, are also mentioned later in this post in the UNHOLY BABYLON excerpts, as among the French companies that armed SADDAM HUSSEIN.
“The Queen Of Nukes Anne Lauvergeon, head of French nuclear giant
Areva, wants the world to give atomic power another chance. Is the
world ready to listen? By Richard Tomlinson May 17, 2004”
from another source:
“(April 2005) A nuclear present for France , a nuclear future for
the world. Anne Lauvergeon is an unsung heroine of France , Europe
and perhaps the world. She leads Areva, a company that is mostly
owned by the French government,” source:
http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/france.html
“Iran Asks France to Oversee Enrichment
October 3rd, 2006 By ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press Writer PARIS A top Iranian nuclear official proposed Tuesday that France create a consortium to enrich uranium in Iran, saying that could satisfy international demands for outside oversight of Tehran ‘s nuclear program. “To be able to arrive at a solution, we have just had an idea. We propose that France create a consortium for the production in Iran of enriched uranium,” Mohammad Saeedi, deputy chief of Iran ‘s Atomic Energy Organization, told France-Info radio.”That way France , through the companies Eurodif and Areva, could control in a tangible way our enrichment activities,” he said.
Eurodif is a branch of Areva, a French state-controlled nuclear manufacturer, and was created in part with Iranian backing in the 1970s.”…European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana gave a cautious response to the proposal, saying the idea of a consortium had long been discussed in his talks with Larijani. “It’s an interesting thing, but it’s difficult to put it in place,” Solana said on the sidelines of an EU defense ministers’ meeting in Finland .Iranian state television, in a commentary Tuesday, said the proposal amounted to a “a test … to assess the extent of the French government’s realism and flexibility.” It said timing of the proposal following talks between Larijani and Solana “shows Iran ‘s determination in seeking a negotiated settlement” over Tehran ‘s nuclear activities….Iran’s participation in Eurodif was reduced after the 1979 revolution, and now Iran has a “purely financial” stake of about 11 percent through a joint French-Iranian company called Sofidif, Hufnagel said.”
Excerpted from page 3 of SPIDER’S WEB: THE SECRET HISTORY
OF HOW THE WHITE HOUSE ILLEGALLY ARMED IRAQ by Alan Friedman ASIN:
0553096508
“It was hardly a secret that Saddam was aiming to develop nuclear weapons. He ahd already shelled out $3 billion, purchasing much of the equipment from the french. Indeed Saddam had even given an interview to a Lebanese journalist in 1975 in which he called his dealilngs with France “the first concrete step toward the production of the Arab atomic weapon.”
Excerpted from page 4 SPIDER’S WEB: THE SECRET HISTORY
OF HOW THE WHITE HOUSE ILLEGALLY ARMED IRAQ by Alan Friedman ASIN:
0553096508
“Although Saddam had been obtaining most of his arms from the Soviet Union since the early 1970s, the top of the line equipment he really craved was Western. So he had begun cultivating the Europeans, especially the French, and in September 1975 he found himself flying into Paris for a champagne reception offered by Prime Mnister Jacques Chirac. It was not long before France, which saw billions of francs worth of business just over the horizon, began selling Saddam missiles, helicopters, defense electronics, and ultimately the materials and technology he needed to construct a nuclear reactor. So obvious was his intended use of this technology that the French press even allowed itself some grim humor, referring to the Iraqi reactor as “O’Chirac” . After he apporved the Osirak deal and other weapons transactions for Baghdad, he became known in certain French business circles as “Mr.Iraq.”
excerpted from page 75 SPIDER’S WEB: THE SECRET HISTORY
OF HOW THE WHITE HOUSE ILLEGALLY ARMED IRAQ by Alan Friedman ASIN:
0553096508
“Allivane did not discriminate between the two combatants in the Iran-Iraq war. Back in 1983, it had signed up as a subcontractor for Luchaire, a French company that was selling the popular 155-mm shell to Iran. The Luchaire sales, based on false end-user certificates, were appproved at cabinet level in Paris and contradicted France’s officially stated policy of neutrality. When they became public, they caused a political fracas.”
excerpted from page 117 SPIDER’S WEB: THE SECRET HISTORY
OF HOW THE WHITE HOUSE ILLEGALLY ARMED IRAQ by Alan Friedman ASIN:
0553096508
“If Baghdad’s nuclear weapons ambitions were acknowledged by London and Washington at the same time they were officially condemmed by them, the same was true of Iraqi chemical weapons development. The Iraqis would frequently order BNL to provide funds to finance a huge petrochemicals complex called PC2, located above seventy kilometers south of Baghdad, near the natural gas feeder lines that came from the southern oil fields. PC2 was to be the pride of the Iraqi military establishment because it had the support of contractors from the United States, Japan, Italy, France and Britain. More significant, as Western intelligence agents knew, although PC2 would manufacture normal petrochemicals upon completion, like many of Saddam’s disquised operations, it would be dual-use. This meant it would be able to generate chemical compounds needed to make mustard gas and nerve gas as well. The head of Iraq’s chemicals industry, Lieutenant General Amer Hamoudi al Saadi, was proud of PC2. Al Saadi was himself a dual operative-his other job was as head of Saddam’s ballistic missile and chemical weapons programs, reporting to Hussein Kamel and his father-in-law, Saddam Hussein.”
One focus of this post is the alleged French connection in the George Allen lynching. We wonder if anyone knows if the James Webb mentioned immediately below might have been a relative of the James Webb, a.k.a. Jim Webb, who is running for Senate in Virginia. If so please post your sources one way or the other which either establish a connection or establish that there is no connection.
James Webb preparing for visit to France.
James. … Title: James Webb preparing for visit to France . Date:
ca. 1951. Accession number: 97-210. Return to Truman Library home page …www.trumanlibrary.org/photographs/ displayimage.php? pointerQ01&people=&listid=7 – 12k Immediately below is an excerpt from a book by the James Webb, a.k.a. Jim Webb who is running for Senate in Virginia. Webb evidently has some affinity for France as he posits a “showdown between American-French forces and Cuban-Soviets “Something to Die for: A Novel (Hardcover)
by James H. Webb …this book is based on his experience as a Pentagon insider and frequent visitor to the halls of power.
Some have dismissed the book’s premise (a showdown between American-French forces and Cuban-Soviets) as outlandish. To do so is not only to neglect the era this book came out of, but to ignore the lessons about “small” wars, political manipulation of the military and the American public’s fickle nature.”
Here is Webb writing as very much a Francophile:
excerpted from
“ Fighting Words
A former Marine’s favorite books on the military.
BY JAMES WEBB
Saturday, May 27, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDT
Mr. Webb, former secretary of the Navy, is the author of eight
books, including “Fields of Fire,” a novel about the Vietnam War. He
is now a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in Virginia.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/weekend/fivebest/?id=110008438
Hell In a Very Small Place” by Bernard Fall (Lippincott, 1966). For anyone who believes that France’s Dien Bien Phu operation in Vietnam in 1954 was little more than a blunder, and for anyone who believes that the French were not capable fighters in Vietnam, this comprehensive and often surprising nonfiction account of the siege that brought France to its knees will be a deserved surprise. Bernard Fall, the Frenchman who was the most perceptive observer of Vietnam’s shaky march away from French colonialism, wrote several books about Vietnam; he was killed while on a patrol with the U.S. Marines in 1966. This book—his best—shows us the under appreciated complexities of that war, the regional issues that drove many local decisions and the tragic heroism of France’s finest fighting forces.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/weekend/fivebest/?id=110008438
Given the Webb campaign’s history of “alleged” anti-Semitism we were hardly surprised by Webb’s choice of another favorite book, this one from the perspective of one of Hitler’s soldiers.
Here is Webb commenting on another of his favorite books:
“The Forgotten Soldier” by Guy Sajer (Harper & Row, 1971). This memoir from the perspective of one who fought on the German side in World War II is probably the most overwhelming book ever written about ground combat. Guy Sajer, an Alsatian drafted into the German army, fought for three years as an infantry soldier, mostly on the Russian front. Germany fielded an army of 12 million soldiers and lost 3.7 million combat dead, a preponderance of those casualties occurring in the mind-boggling, massive engagements with the Soviets. Sajer, who had no politics and little enthusiasm for soldiering, nonetheless demands an understanding of the immensity of this human experience, and is the perfect voice to ask for it.”
http://www.opinionjournal.com/weekend/fivebest/?id=110008438
“Francois Mitterrand’s political career spanned half a century, and his 14 years as president made him France ‘s longest serving leader since Napoleon III. Peter Morgan of Independent Television News remembers Mitterrand just after his death. Morgan’s report precedes a discussion between Washington Post senior foreign correspondent Jim Hoagland and Charlayne Hunter-Gault.
PETER MORGAN, ITN: Francois Mitterrand worked at first for Marshal Petain’s pro-Nazi Vichy government. Later, he downplayed his ties with that regime and stressed his work for the Resistance. FRANCOIS MITTERRAND: (speaking through interpreter) I started my political life in the Resistance. It was there that I had my first responsibility.
PETER MORGAN: But a recently discovered photograph showing Mitterrand with Marshal Petain suggested a more uncomfortable truth. Mitterrand continued to lead a political double life, cultivating the extreme right and the extreme left to further his career. Soon after the liberation, Mitterrand joined the government as its youngest minister, but when DeGaulle returned to power in 1958, Mitterrand left the government. In political exile, the former conservative discovered Socialism. DeGaulle always ridiculed the conversion.” http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/remember/mitterrand_1-8b.html “A recent biography revealed Mitterrand flirted with fascism as a young man and was also, for a time, an admirer of the pro-Nazi collaborationist leader Marchal Petain. Mitterrand himself helped the author’s research and never disavowed the facts presented in the biography.” http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9601/mitterand/ “Even in death, Mitterrand remains a controversial and contradictory figure. After the Nazi conquest of France , he spent a year working for the collaborationist Vichy government… he defended associates who had aided the persecution of Jews under the Vichy regime.” http://www.amazon.com/Francois-Mitterand-Ronald-Tiersky/dp/0312129084 Bitter Scent : The Case of L’Oreal, Nazis, and The Arab Boycott Michael Bar-Zohar Publisher Information:
New York : Dutton. Penguin, 1996.
ISBN: 0525940685
“The business of L’Oreal is beauty. It is the world’s largest cosmetics firm.” This startling book shows the other face of beauty. It is the story of how this giant company became a haven for ex-Nazis. It reveals the illegal alliance the L’Oreal forged with the Arab Boycott Bureau. And it brings to light the secret link between the L’Oreal high command and the President of France himself, Francois Mitterrand—a link cast in the darkness of the Nazi past. Above all, it tells the story of what happened when L’Oreal partner Jean Frydman, a former French Resistance hero who had fought against anti-Semitism all his life, stumbled upon and exposed the shocking truth about L’Oreal and its web of concealed Nazi collaborators. Making it his crusade to unmask the cosmetics firm’s long history of Nazi connections, Frydman filed suit against L’Oreal for forgery, perjury, and racial discrimination. “Though the Nazi movement of the 1930s and 1940s appears to be moribund, vestiges still remain—and in some unlikely places. Official biographer of David Ben-Gurion and novelist, Bar-Zohar documents the very strange truth of how certain top L’Oreal managers collaborated with Hitler and how they conspired to eradicate an existing Arab boycott on their products in the 1990s. The story begins—and ends—with Jean Frydman, a French-Israeli executive running one of the cosmetic giant’s subsidiaries. Told to resign for no apparently valid reason, Frydman launched a series of investigations and lawsuits that eventually led to the resignations of high-ranking businessmen. Jacques Correze, the president of L’Oreal’s Cosmair in New York City , was part of La Cagoule, a band of Hitler sympathizers; and Andre Bettencourt, a L’Oreal director and friend of French president Mitterrand, was found to have been on the payroll of the propaganda ministry of Nazi Germany. Revelations such as these shocked the world press—and will probably do the same for readers in this well-wrought, fact-filled book.”
Library Journal: “Bar-Zohar. a specialist on Jewish-Arab relations, presents another masterpiece (previously published in Israel ) about the corruptions and violations of France ‘s anti-boycott laws by L’Oreal, a giant French conglomerate, with the ‘zealous cooperation of the French embassy in Damascus ‘ and other important French dignitaries. Bar-Zohar relates how L’Oreal yielded to the Arab boycott of Israeli products, which started even before the birth of the state of Israel . He also gives a fascinating look into France ‘s murky past during World War II, following the complex story of President Francois Mitterand’s right-wing connections during his youth, activities as an official of the Petain government at Vichy , and his continued and shadowy ties with top L’Oreal executives. The author also delves into the shadowy past of L’Oreal owner Andre Bettencourt, a cabinet minister, senator, and recipient of the Resistance medal who was on the payroll of the Propaganda Ministry of Nazi Germany. Bar-Zohar’s work is richly detailed and clearly argued but not well documented. It is a remarkable work designed for nonspecialists.”
Publishers Weekly: “In 1989, Jean Frydman, a director of L’Oreal, the highly profitable Paris-based cosmetics conglomerate, learned he had “resigned” at a board of directors meeting that never actually took place. A hero of the French Resistance, founder of Paravision (a L’Oreal subsidiary), a Jew and a part-time resident of Israel , Frydman suspected that his resignation had been forged to meet the demands of the Arab League, which, at that time, was enforcing an illegal ban in both France and the U.S. on businesses with ties to Israel . He later began to suspect that the instigator of his removal was Jacques Correze, a former Nazi collaborator and convicted war criminal who was head of the company’s U.S. operation.
The ensuing lawsuits created a scandal in France . As retold by Bar-
Zohar, a novelist and a biographer of David Ben-Gurion, L’Oreal was
a hotbed of former Nazi sympathizers all too willing to bribe and be
pressured by anti-Zionists. It also had friends in high places, Bar-
Zohar claims, as high as French President Francois Mitterand.”
http://www.a1wdb.com/cgi-bin/women/13503.html
You can see a photo of Mitterand with Petain at:
http://www.fil-info-france.com/actualites-monde/mitterrand-petain-photo.htm
More on Mitterand,whose Personal Representative was Anne Lauvergeon, as mentioned above, at the 1994 Naples Summit attended by then President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton, from another source:
“SYNOPSIS
Pétain – François Mitterrand – Photograph 1943
Francisque, decoration of Mitterrand in 1943:
“I make gift of my person to the Pétain marshal like it made gift of his in France.I commit myself to serve his disciplines and remaining faithful to his person and his work. “
François Mitterrand. Note. The order of francisque is created in
September 1940. Philippe Pétain, victorious Marshal of France of Verdun,Head of
the French State sets up a policy based on the “national Revolution” whose
currency is “Work,
family, fatherland”.The francisque one. Just like the Legion of
Honor, this distinction was not received from office.Almost at the same moment
in 1943,in Bordeaux, a certain Maurice Papon activates himself…Extract of
Wire-information-France of Thursday September 19 2002 N°203/20224 FRANCE:
Maurice Papon (photo) (92 years), the last condemned for “complicity of crimes against humanity”, was slackened Wednesday for “reasons of health” to the great indignation of Jewish associations which had succeeded in making it condemn in Bordeaux on April 2, 1998 for its part administrative responsibility in the routing for convoys for Jews towards the Nazi Germany in 1943. But France was condemned last July for “inequitable lawsuit” by the European court of the human rights. The former secretary of the prefecture of Vichy continued, after the Release, a brilliant career where he was a prefect of Paris, deputy and mayor gaullist, chevalier of the Legion of Honour and finally member of the government of Raymond Barre with in the chair Valery Giscard d’Estaing. François Mitterrand did not hold with this lawsuit of alive sound. The former friend of Rene Bousquet was decorated with Francisque in 1943, supreme decoration granted by the Pétain Marshal. The person in charge for the Center Simon Wiesenthal Ephraïm Zuroff qualified this release of “eminently regrettable”. More bonds: The Papon business; Maurice Papon and chronology of the lawsuit by SudOuest Photograph Pétain, Hitler:
The Pétain Marshal, Adolphe Hitler in Montoire, October 24, 1940” Source:
http://www.fil-info-france.com/actualites-monde/mitterrand-petain-
photo.htm
You can see a photo VICHY BOSS PETAIN WITH HITLER
HITLER WITH VICHY BOSS PETAIN in the
Birds of A Feather Photo Album at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KnowTheEnemy/
“Trouble With Uranium Processing Co. H. Josef Hebert
Associated Press April 11, 2000 WASHINGTON (AP) – Less than two years after the government sold its uranium business, the private company it created to take on the job is mired in financial quicksand. The deal is also jeopardizing a crucial nuclear security agreement with Russia , critics say. USEC Inc.’s (NYSE:USU -news) first 20 months as a private company have been anything but smooth. Its stock has dropped 70 percent, its credit rating is in junk bond territory, and its earnings have nose dived. Amid the financial turmoil, lawmakers and others are questioning the sale. A congressional investigation has been under way for a year, with the first public hearings scheduled this week. While investors have lost millions of dollars, some of the people who pushed hardest for an initial stock offering have profited handsomely.
“A number of lobbyists, company insiders and investment bankers made a killing financially,” said Charles Lewis, director of the Center for Public Integrity, a private government watchdog.
In all, Wall Street bankers, Washington lawyers and lobbyists – many with close ties to the Clinton administration – earned more than $75 million on the $1.9 billion sale, according to contracts and interviews. Among those talking up the stock offering in 1998 on Capitol Hill and in the White House were Susan Thomases, a New York lawyer and confidante of Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Greg Simon, formerly Vice President Al Gore’s domestic policy adviser. The law firm of Skadden Arps, which represented President Clinton in the Paula Jones case, was USEC’s lead attorney in the deal.”
This from another source:
“What Wilson Didn’t Say About Africa Joseph Wilson’s Silent Partners By Fedora with help from a few FReeper friends Former ambassador Joseph Wilson has been a leading spokesman for critics who accuse President Bush of basing his case for war against Iraq on forged documents purporting that Iraq attempted to buy uranium from Niger.
Wilson’s charge has been discredited by a Senate investigation,1 but
what
remains unanswered are questions arising from what is now known
about French
intelligence’s role…The role of France and Wilson in undermining
Bush’s case
for war looks particularly curious in light of disclosures about
Saddam
Hussein’s bribery of foreign political and business figures during
the course of
the Oil-for-Food program from 1996 to 2003. Saddam’s web of graft
spun in many
directions: among others, to UN officials,Russian and Chinese oil
companies,
British critics of Tony Blair’s Iraq policies, and US critics of
President
Bush’s Iraq policies, as well as France. Near the center of the web
was the
Banque Nationale de Paris, where Iraq’s Oil-for-Food revenues were
initially
kept until 2001, when they were redistributed among several
undisclosed banks
approved by Iraq. Meanwhile French oil company TotalFinaElf received
Oil-for-Food vouchers and held a contract to develop oil fields in
southern
Iraq.2
Already in December 2001, Russia had announced it would not support a US attack on Iraq.3 Then shortly after President Bush’s January 29, 2002 State of the Union Address named Iraq as a member of a terrorist-sponsoring “Axis of Evil”, France announced on February 22, 2002 that Europe would not support a US attack on Iraq.4 French intelligence soon began a campaign to discredit the US case for war against Iraq. In 1999, French intelligence had begun investigating the security of uranium supplies in Niger, where uranium production was controlled by a consortium led by the French mining company COGEMA, a division of the French state-owned nuclear energy firm AREVA.
Wilson, a lifetime Francophile, had spent the bulk of his diplomatic career in former French African colonies like Niger.7 His second wife from 1986 to 1998, Jacqueline, had served the French embassy in Burundi as a “cultural counselor” (a function often used as a cover by French intelligence).8 From Wilson’s experience in Niger he was familiar with the Niger uranium industry. Additionally, he had worked in Iraq during the days leading up to the Gulf War. (Intriguingly, on the eve of Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait Wilson had dined at the home of an arms dealer who bought weapons for Iraq from France; a Vanity Fair profile on Wilson mentions his wife’s presence at this event, but Wilson’s book states “I was the only guest.”).9 Wilson ran his company out of the offices of an investment company called Rock Creek Corporation. Rock Creek was controlled by Mohammed Alamoudi, whom Wilson had met in 1997 at a reception organized for the World Bank by Westar Group. Alamoudi was a member of the Saudi-Ethiopian Alamoudi dynasty, which was heavily invested in the segments of the African economy Wilson was seeking to penetrate. The Alamoudi-affiliated company Delta Services—a Swiss subsidiary of the Saudi company Delta Oil—handled Iraqi oil export contracts in 2000 and 2001 and was revealed in 2003 as a recipient of Iraqi Oil-for-Food vouchers channeled through Abu Abbas, a Palestinian terrorist with Iraqi connections. Delta Services also cooperated with Afghanistan’s Taliban regime in a project to build an oil pipeline from Afghanistan to Pakistan, prior to this project’s suspension in 1998. In 1999, Alamoudi was accused by USA Today reporter Jack Kelley of heading a bank which was being investigated for financing Al Qaeda. USA Today printed retractions of several details in Kelley’s article in 2004, after another member of the Alamoudi family—Abdurahman Alamoudi, a prominent American Muslim lobbyist—was indicted on terror-related charges involving a Libyan-backed conspiracy to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Abdullah.
Abdurahman was ultimately convicted in October 2004 and sentenced to
23 years in prison.12 Under Mohammed Alamoudi’s direction, Rock
Creek was chaired by Elias Aburdene, an Arab-American international
banking advisor and lobbyist who had previously advised banks linked
to organized crime and intelligence community figures involved in
the S&L Scam. In 2003 and 2004 Aburdene donated to the Sandhills
Political Action Committee, which was affiliated with Senator Chuck
Hagel, 13 a leading Republican critic of the Bush administration’s
Iraq policy.14
While Wilson was pursuing his foreign investment ventures, he also served as a foreign policy advisor to the 2000 Presidential campaign of Al Gore. A company the Gore family had a long-term relationship with, Occidental Petroleum, shared business interests with Alamoudi-affiliated companies in Africa and the Middle East, and employed as Vice President for Middle East business Odeh Aburdene,24 who shared a complex network of relationships with Rock Creek’s Elias Aburdene and Joseph Wilson—notably, all three contributed to Arab-American Congressional Caucus leader Nick Rahall,25 who supported Muslim lobbying groups linked to terrorists and opposed military action in Iraq.26 Abdurahman Alamoudi also contributed to Rahall, and sat on the steering committee of Arab Americans for Clinton/Gore ‘96 along with his associate James Zogby, who later advised Gore’s 2000 Presidential campaign.27 Wilson had worked as an aide to Gore from 1985 to 1986 and had developed a friendly relationship with him.
Wilson says Gore was the first person outside the State Department
to contact him expressing support when he was caught in Iraq in the
middle of the diplomatic crisis leading up to the Gulf War. In 1997
Gore recommended Wilson to President Clinton to help him plan a trip
to Africa. When Wilson began publicly opposing Bush’s Iraq policy in
2002, Gore was still considered a potential candidate in the 2004
election. Gore’s speeches were then being sponsored by the antiwar
group Moveon.org, which Wilson would support in September 2003 in an
attempt to petition Congress against appropriating funds for Iraq
operations.28 Moveon.org was financed by billionaire George Soros,29
who had business interests encompassing, among other things, the BTC
Pipeline that Mohammed Alamoudi’s Delta Oil was helping build.30
Later, after Gore announced in December 2002 that he would not be
running in the 2004 campaign,31 Moveon.org began supporting John
Kerry’s campaign.32 Wilson began advising Kerry’s campaign on
foreign policy matters around May 2003, several months prior to his
public entry into the Niger uranium controversy.33
Another question that might be raised is why Wilson and the CIA’s investigation did not explore at least the possibility of the French-led company COGEMA covertly allowing Niger to sell uranium to Iraq.
In Wilson’s book, while explaining the method that led him to
conclude the report of Niger selling uranium to Iraq was false,
Wilson explains that he ruled out the possibility of an off-the-
books transaction partly because “COGEMA, as the managing partner,
would have had to know and be complicit.”37 This seems to rule out a
priori the very thing Wilson was sent to investigate, and in the
process, to rule out the possibility of French complicity in arming
Saddam Hussein’s regime, which seems a hasty exoneration in light of
the fact that France had a long history of selling Iraq military
equipment and resisting UN sanctions against Iraq.38 It is now known
that in fact French companies were helping Iraq skirt UN
sanctions.39”
Source: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1256475/posts (The full name for COGEMA in French is Compagnie Generale des Matieres Nucleaires)
“The arab American Nick Rahall hates Israel with a passion. He spent the anniversary of September 11th with Saddam Hussein, the man who sent Osama bin Laden to assassinate former President Bush at the White House on September 11th, 2001.
We hope you can recall the name of Nick Rahall in the items above.
Individuals Who Gave To: RAHALL, NICK J II
SABO, J RANDY
LAKEWOOD
CO 8022803/25/1998 250.00 SABO GOVERNMENT RELATIONS GROUP ROCKEFELLER, JOHN D IV WASHINGTON DC 2001009/11/2000 1000.00 U S SENATE 20036131928 ROCKEFELLER, JOHN D IVWASHINGTON DC 2001006/15/1998 500.00 U S SENATE 98033274568 ROCKEFELLER, JOHN D.
IVWASHINGTON
DC 2001007/01/2004 2000.00 U.S. SENATE/U.S. SENATOR24971672139
ROCKEFELLER, JOHN D. IV WASHINGTON
DC 2001010/02/2002 1000.00 U.S. SENATE/U.S. SENATOR22992327691
ROCKEFELLER, JOHN D. THE HON. IV WASHINGTON
DC 2001004/07/2006 2100.00 U.S. SENATE/U.S. SENATOR 26950095865
ROCKEFELLER, SHARON WASHINGTON
DC 2001009/11/2000 1000.00 WETA20036131928 ROCKEFELLER, SHARON
PWASHINGTON
DC 2001007/01/2004 2000.00 WETA TV/FM/PRESIDENT AND CEO24971672140
ROCKEFELLER, SHARON P.WASHINGTON
DC 2001010/02/2002 1000.00 WETA TV/FM/PRESIDENT AND CEO
CONTRIBUTION REFUND TO AN INDIVIDUAL
SADI, ADELRAHIM H
COLUMBUS
OH 4323505/29/1998 -1000.00
98033274589
Please also note the name Sabo in the list of people who gave money to Nick Rahall above.
SABO GOVERNMENT RELATIONS GROUP
COGEMA
Sabo Government Relations Group
Companies and organizations that have
hired this firm ranked by amount spent 2003 2004 1998-2004 1) AREVA Group – - $160,000 2) Cast Transportation – - $80,000 3) Matanuska-Susitna Borough – - $40,000 4) Kerr-McGee Corp. – - $20,000 5)
American College of Nuclear Physicians
The following is excerpted from Registrant/Client List and Senate
Identification Numbers
Which lists lobbyists and their clients.We have not included the
United States Senate Identification Numbers
“SABO GOVERNMENT RELATIONS GROUP” is the lobbyist COGEMA was the
client Source:
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/b_three_sections_with_te
asers/clientlist_page_S.htm
We do not know if Sabo is related to Congressman Martin O. Sabo Democrat http://sabo.house.gov/ whose top campaign contributors have included Lockheed Martin source: http://www.opensecrets.org/races/contrib.asp?ID=MN05&cycle=2004&special=N and CAIR source:
http://www.opensecrets.org/races/contrib.asp?ID=MN05&cycle=2006&special=N
We thought you might wish to find out a bit more about C.A.I.R. from “Daniel Pipes, a former Reagan administration Middle East aide who now runs the Middle East Forum in Philadelphia and the wonderfully informative Web site DanielPipes.org: Mr. Pipes says:
“CAIR is a particularly worrisome organization because it has succeeded in portraying itself as a public affairs organization promoting ‘interest and understanding among the general public with regards to Islam and Muslims in North America.’ In fact, this organization is radical to the core; it seeks nothing less than the imposition of Islamist mores on the United States.” Mr. Pipes notes that CAIR’s record includes the following: “Apologizing for such killers as Hamas (a group associated with the murder of 7 Americans) and Usama bin Ladin (charged with the Tanzania and Kenya embassy bombings a year ago). . . . Helping promote terrorism: In the words of Steve Pomerantz, a former Chief of Counter-terrorism for the FBI, ‘CAIR, its leaders, and its activities, effectively give aid to international terrorist groups.’ . . . Intimidation of patriotic Muslims who disagree with CAIR’s chauvinist agenda: In one case (Sheikh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani), the FBI is looking into charges that he received death threats after renouncing the chauvinists. . . Defense of even the most archaic and barbaric of customs associated with Islam: When a prosecutor in Cleveland argued that the bail of two young men being held for an ‘honor killing’ of their female cousin should be increased, CAIR replied by accusing him of ‘ethnic and religious stereotyping’ and called for a formal investigation into the prosecutor’s actions.” In addition, as anti-terrorism expert Steven Emerson has noted in Congressional testimony, CAIR co-sponsored a May 24, 1998, all-day program in the Walt Whitman Auditorium of Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, New York. As Mr. Emerson testified, “In Arabic,Wagdi Ghuniem, a militant Islamic cleric from Egypt, mesmerized his audience, with his relentless tirade against the Jews, reminding them of the Jews’ ‘infidelity,’ ‘stealth’ and ‘deceit.’ Known for his folksy deliveries and exhortations to commit violence against the Jews, Ghuniem did not disappoint his crowd, several of whom had come just to hear him. The conflict with the Jews, he said, was not over land but one of religion. ‘The problem of Palestine is not a problem of belief. suppose the Jews said “Palestine-you [Muslims] can take it.” Would it then be ok? What would we tell them? No! The problem is belief, it is not a problem of land.’” Mr. Emerson continued: “Ghuniem then led his rapt audience, which numbered as many as 500, in a special song, the audience responsively repeating each refrain: ‘No to the Jews, Descendants of the Apes.’” Says Mr. Pipes: “In short, CAIR represents not the great civilization of Islam but a radical utopian movement originating in the Middle East that seeks to impose its ways on the United States. Americans should consider themselves warned: a new danger exists in their midst.”
Relatively speaking, in a manner of speaking, we do not know if James Webb, a.k.a. Jim Webb, who is running against US Senator George Allen in Virginia, is related to James E. Webb, who ran NASA from February 1961 to October 1968, nor do we know exactly why it is that France is going to help build the James Webb Telescope, named after the former NASA administrator, we do not know why the James Webb, a.k.a. Jim Webb running against Senator Allen was thought qualified to be Secretary of the Navy, or why he thinks he is now qualified to be a US Senator, we do not know if Senator George Allen’s opponent in the 2006 US Senate race James Webb, a.k.a. Jim Webb, is related to Todd Webb. Todd Webb? You may remember Todd Webb’s name from his listing as the “Pardee Hospital Foundation Treasurer Todd A. Webb” at:
http://pardeehospital.org/foundation/who_we_are/board/index.htm and Pardee Hospital? We hope that you can remember that what the news stories are NOT telling you is that Doctor Ken Shelton is the founder of something called Tobacco FREE for Life Tobacco Free for Life – Teaching kids of all ages the truth about smoking. … and is currently operating out of an office on the Pardee Hospital campus. …www.tobaccofreeforlife.org/home.shtml Tobacco FREE for Life TFL started in 1996 by Dr. Ken Shelton of Hendersonville Radiological Consultants and is currently operating out of an office on the Pardee Hospital campus. …www.tobaccofreeforlife.org/home.shtml and that Pardee Hospital is the recipient of Grants Help Fund New Cardio-Pulmonary Rehab and Diabetes Education Center Pardee Hospital Foundation recently received notification of $80,000 worth of grants toward Pardee’s new Cardio-Pulmonary Rehabilitation and Diabetes Education Center. The Center will be constructed in Pardee’s Thompson Street facility which currently houses Pardee’s Urgent Care and Rehab and Sports Therapy services. The James H. Cummings Foundation has awarded a $50,000 grant toward the creation of the center… The Cummings Foundation previously funded Pardee’s Emergency Department expansion…” source:
http://www.pardeehospital.org/foundation/whats_new/cardio.htm
James H Cummings Foundation Inc 1807 Elmwood Ave Ste 112, Buffalo,
NY, James H Cummings Foundation Inc – detailed
company profile James H Cummings Foundation Inc
1807 Elmwood Ave Ste 112,Buffalo, New York 14207-2434
Year Started: 1962 Contact Name: John N Walsh Jr
Contact Title: President”
source: http://www.manta.com/coms2/dnbcompany_6l5q1g
John N. Walsh, Jr. is listed under Additional Regional Board
Members – Board Listing: at:
http://www.nccj.org/nccj/nccj.nsf/regionalprofileweb/14?opendocument and that under Key Facts: at an organization that currently calls itself:
National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ) http://www.nccj.org/nccj/nccj.nsf/articleall/4499?
opendocument
that organization states:
“The National Conference of Christians and Jews, changed its name in the 1990’s to better reflect its mission to build whole and inclusive communities. The historic name confused many, who believed that NCCJ was an interfaith organization. Therefore the new name is not a change in vision, but rather an affirmation of our abiding commitment to embrace the diversity of our nation. NCCJ is the only national human relations organization that focuses on a broad range of “isms,” the multiple manifestations of discrimination and oppression that are based on one’s religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, bias crimes to racial profiling – the challenges ahead are real. To confront and overcome them, NCCJ maintains an abiding commitment to work with decision-makers and leaders to support their work to build an inclusive society.” Now all of these things are of course worthy goals. Medical research is admirable, so is fighting the ills of tobacco, although Webb himself admits to being someone who has chewed tobacco for many years, and certainly fighting discrimination of any sort is a worthy goal. It is the interesting cross connections between the characters involved in the character assassination and overall lynching of Senator Allen that lead us to believe that there are just too many coincidences involved to be pure coincidence. However, to paraphrase Fox News once again, “We report, you decide!” What do you think of the so-called coincidences in this story? Are they more than mere coincidence?
Remember the name John N. Walsh Jr.? You do if you read Are Saddams Saddemocrats Behind The George Allen Lynching.
John N. Walsh Jr. is also a relative of John N. Walsh, III. Coincidence Or Maybe Something Else As Fox News would say:
“We report! You decide!”
Pictured: Mr. & Mrs. John n. Walsh, Jr. with Senator Hillary rodham Clinton (center). annual reportcontents4. Page 15 …
http://foundation.kaleidahealth.org/PDFs/KH_Foundation_AR2005.pdf
Pictured: Kaleida Health Board of Directors Chair edward F. Walsh,
Jr., Congressman tom reynolds, Senator Hillary Clinton, Kaleida
Health president and Ceo James r. Kaskie and former Kaleida Health
Ceo William D. McGuire
kaleida ball
On September 10, 2005 the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center was transformed into the streets of New York City for the annual Kaleida Ball. …Highlights included the presentation of the Spirit Award to both
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Congressman Thomas Reynolds
MCGUIRE, WILLIAM D (KALEIDA HEALTH), (Zip code: 14203) $1000 to FRIENDS OF HILLARY on 02/21/03¡¨ Lockwood, Anne (Kaleida Health/Psychologist), (Zip code: 14214) $2000 to JOHN KERRY FOR PRESIDENT INC on 03/15/04¡¨ Lockwood, Anne S (Kaleida Health/Psychologist), (Zip code: 14214) $1000 to KERRY-EDWARDS 2004 INC. GENERAL ELECTION LEGAL AND ACCOUNTING COMPLIANCE FUND on 09/03/04¡¨ Walsh, John N III, (Zip code: 14222) $500 to JOHN KERRY FOR PRESIDENT INC on 07/26/04¡¨ Walsh, Constance E, (Zip code: 14222) $500 to JOHN KERRY FOR PRESIDENT INC on 07/26/04¡¨ SOURCE:
http://www.city-data.com/elec/elec-BUFFALO-NY.html
Recall if you will Doctor Ken Shelton. Dr. Who? No not the British science fiction series time traveler in any of his many incarnations. Doctor Ken Shelton is the man we firmly believe is lying. Of course lies are nothing new to Saddam’s Saddemocrats. Recall if you will the 2004 fake Dan Rather memo falsely accusing President Bush on his National Guard record. The Big Lie is nothing new to these people. They are masters of The Big Lie. We think Shelton is falsely accusing Virginia Republican US Senator George Allen. We believe that what Shelton is saying is absolutely untrue. “During a deer hunt with Allen in the early 1970s” Shelton lied, “Allen asked whether black families lived in the area before stuffing a female deer’s head into the mail box of a black household. “George insisted on taking the severed head, and I was a little shocked by that,” Shelton lied. “This was just after the movie ‘The Godfather’ came out with the severed horse’s head in the bed,” Shelton lied to the AP. Doug Jones, who said he roomed with Shelton at Virginia, said in a statement that he never saw or heard anything from Allen that supports Shelton ‘s claims. “I never heard George Allen use any racially disparaging word nor did I ever witness or hear about him acting in a racially insensitive manner,” Jones said.”
Please pay particular attention to the following item in the article below in which Senator Warner is comparing the invitation to the 50th birthday party for Larry Sabato to Marlon Brando’s “offer you can’t refuse”.
Surely that line must have stuck with Larry Sabato.
Larry Sabato must have remembered that line.
“U.S. Senator John Warner, R-Va., compared the invitation to Marlon Brando’s “offer you can’t refuse.”
In case you are not a fan of The Godfather, which starred Marlon
Brando Senator Warner’s 2002 reference was to Marlon Brando’s
character Don Vito Corleone, The Godfather,” Don Vito’s line, “I’m
going to make him an offer he can’t refuse” was voted as the second
most memorable line in cinema history in a 2005 poll”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Godfather
The reference is to a character being pressured by The Godfather to use a film star favored by The Godfather waking up to find the severed head of a horse in his bed.
item immediately below is excerpted from the Wednesday, October
23rd,
2002 issue of a publication called THE CAVALIER DAILY
“Life
Birthday Bashing
Politicians, professors and students gather to celebrate Larry J.
Sabato’s 50th birthday and raise money for the Center for Politics…
Katie
Sullivan , Cavalier Daily Associate Editor
… Clearly, these people could only have gathered for one reason—to celebrate Politics Prof. Larry J. Sabato’s 50th birthday. Virginia politicians, political analysts, journalists and University students and alumni gathered Monday night in the Richmond Marriot to wish Sabato a happy birthday… a few prominent Virginia politicians humorously chose to light something else on fire—Sabato’s reputation.
The celebration, called the “Sabato Five-O,” took the form of a roast a la Comedy Central. The event also served as a fundraiser for The University of Virginia Center for Politics, of which Sabato serves as director.
The Center for Politics, located on Old Ivy Road …After the crowd
made its way
into the dining room, former Virginia
Gov. L. Douglas Wilder introduced himself as emcee of the night’s festivities, and proceeded to introduce a video, much like those shown at bachelor parties.
The video started out with photos of Sabato’s youth, then moved to
doctored photographs including Sabato as Elvis and an onlooker in
the fateful photograph of former President Clinton and Monica
Lewinsky. …The program then gave six of Virginia ‘s most powerful
politicians
the opportunity to poke fun at a man who, as he himself claimed, has
predicted defeat for every one of them…. Virginia Attorney General
Jerry Kilgore
spoke about Sabato’s ability
to state the obvious and make it sound profound, then joked about Sabato’s abundance of media exposure.
“He spends so much time in front of the camera lights,” Kilgore said, “that when he opens his fridge at night he speaks for three minutes.”… U.S. Senator George Allen, R-Va., cited a need to keep Sabato off their backs.
“There are places we’d rather be,” Allen said. “But we didn’t want to cross the good professor.”
U.S. Senator John Warner, R-Va., compared the invitation to Marlon Brando’s “offer you can’t refuse.”
…Allen mentioned budgets cuts facing the University as well, and, indicating Warner, said, “If he cuts your budget next year, Larry, put it in your file as something mean a Democrat did to you.” Allen, who attended the University as an undergraduate with Sabato, remembered Sabato’s beginnings as a student who wanted to fight the power of special interest groups.
“Then I see this gathering,” Allen said. “You make Hillary Clinton look like a pike.”
Other commentary centered on Sabato’s role as a professor…
Politics Prof. Larry J. Sabato covers his face in embarassment as U.S. Senator George Allen teases Sabato about his excessive on-camera time.
Peter Dunn I Cavalier Daily
source:
http://www.cavalierdaily.com/CVArticle.asp?ID=13613&pid=918
We hope that you will pay particular attention to the following item Godfather movie reference in the article above: “U.S. Senator John Warner, R-Va., compared the invitation to Marlon Brando’s “offer you can’t refuse.”
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON (D-NY)
Top Contributors source:
http://www.opensecrets.org
Citigroup Inc $205,160 2 Goldman Sachs $171,290 3 Metropolitan Life $154,350 4 Corning Inc $133,900 5 Time Warner $128,410 6 JP Morgan Chase & Co $115,350 7 Morgan Stanley $110,010 8 Skadden, Arps et al $91,030 9 International Profit Assoc $88,400 10 Ernst & Young $88,225 11 New York Life Insurance $86,250 12 Viacom Inc $84,380 13 Cablevision Systems $82,800 14 Kirkland & Ellis $73,150 15 Cendant Corp $72,450 16 Akin, Gump et al $64,250 17 Lehman Brothers $57,190 18 Patton Boggs LLP $54,138 19 Debevoise & Plimpton $51,500 20 Verizon Communications $51,020 We hope that you will remember the name of Skadden, Arps et al in the list of contributors to Hillary Rodham Clinton from http://www.opensecrets.org above can you find any other contributors to Hillary from the list above in the list of clients of SKADDEN, ARPS, SLATE, MEAGHER, & FLOM LLP below? “SKADDEN, ARPS, SLATE, MEAGHER, & FLOM LLP” is the lobbyist.
The following were listed as their clients:
AK STEEL CO
ALCATEL NORTH AMERICA
AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LIFE INSURERS
AMERICAN ELECTRONICS ASSN
AMERICAN INTL GROUP
AOL-TIME WARNER
AX THE DOUBLE TAX COALITION
BEAR STEARNS & CO
BELL ATLANTIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS
BETHLEHEM STEEL CORP
BOND MARKET ASSN
BURLINGTON RESOURCES OIL & GAS CO
CHICAGO DEFERRED EXCHANGE CORPORATION
CINERGY CORP
CITIGROUP MANAGEMENT CORP
COLGATE-PALMOLIVE CO
COMSAT CORP
COOLGAS INC
CORNING
COUNTY OF WILL , IL
DIAGNOSTIC RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS
DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS
ENRON CORP
ENTERGY CORP
ENTERGY-KOCH LP
EVANS, BILLY LEE
EVERGREEN INTL AVIATION
FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND
FMR CORP
FORT HOWARD CORP
FRUIT OF THE LOOM
FSC COALITION
GLAXO SMITH
GLOBAL CROSSING
GRANITE BROADCASTING
GREATER MEDIA
INSCAP
ISPAT INLAND INC.
KIEWITS SONS,
LOCKHEED MARTIN GLOBAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC
LTV STEEL
MCI TELECOMMUNICATIONS
MERRILL LYNCH
MEYER-CHETFIELD3
NATL ASSN OF BROADCASTERS
NATL ASSN OF ENERGY SERVICE COS
NATL STEEL
NBC AFFILIATES BOARD
NEW WORLD COMMUNICATIONS GROUP
NEWS CORP
NOL COALITION
PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH & MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA
RAYON YARN CORP
SARA LEE CORP
SEQUENT COMPUTER SYSTEMS
SIGNET GROUP PLC
STANLEY WORKS
TAX FAIRNESS COALITION
TELIGENT
TEMPLE-INLAND
TENANT IN COMMON ASSN
TOSHIBA POWER SYSTEMS
UNION PACIFIC
US AIRWAYS
US STEEL GROUP
VERIZON COMMUNICATION
Source:
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/b_three_sections_with_te
asers/clientlist_page_S.htm
“Nature of Practice
Established in 1990, the Paris office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and affiliates (“Skadden, Arps” or “Skadden”) has four partners, one of counsel, four counsel and 20 associates. The Paris office advises clients principally in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate and structured finance, taxation, litigation, and international arbitration, banking and real estate. The Paris office is registered with the Paris Bar and most of its attorneys are admitted as avocats with the Paris Bar. A number of the attorneys in the Paris office are also qualified in New York .
Practice Areas Mergers and Acquisitions Corporate and Structured
Finance General
Corporate”
Here is an excerpt from the bio of one George Beam:
“George Beam Senior Vice President, Nuclear Services AREVA NP Inc. George Beam is currently Senior Vice President of Nuclear Services for AREVA NP Inc. Beam started his career as a Reactor Engineer at the Oconee Nuclear Station in 1977. After two years, he left to attend business school,after which he started work at Babcock & Wilcox in its Nuclear Services business in 1981. He initially started out on staff as a Strategic Planner, followed by several assignments in Business Development/Marketing for Steam Generator and Reactor Services. In 1992, Beam became the General Manager for the Plant Services business responsible for all field services performed by B&W Nuclear Technologies, excluding steam generator services. In 1998, he was promoted to Vice President, Steam Generator Services. Beam received a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Math and Computer Science from the University of Virginia , a Master of Science in Nuclear Engineering from N.C. State , and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Virginia . He is a registered professional engineer in the state of Virginia .” source:
http://www.areva-bp.com/scripts/us/publigen/content/templates/show.asp?
PS0&L=US&SYNC=Y
You may have heard of George Beam, currently Senior Vice President of Nuclear Services for AREVA NP Inc., recently Writing about the imaginary deer hunt, which was really a hunt that never happened
DALE EISMAN, wrote in The Virginian-Pilot on September 28, 2006 about one “George Beam, now an executive at a nuclear engineering firm based in Lynchburg,(Virginia).”
Beam, wrote Eisman: “was not part of the hunting party.” Which is of course true because there was no hunt and no hunting party to begin with.
Eisman writes that Beam “ told the Associated Press that one of the hunters, his now-deceased roommate, Bill Lanahan, described the incident to him later over a beer. “Billy Lanahan told me they cut the head off a deer and stuffed it in a mailbox. He didn’t say whose idea it was, and he didn’t say, at least not in my presence, anything about a black family or a black neighborhood,”
In our opinion Beam lied to the AP.
Eisman’s article continued: “Allen insisted Monday that “The deer head story is… pure fabrication, absolutely false.” The senator and several of his former classmates also have denied allegations that he routinely used the “n” word to refer to blacks.
Beam did not return several calls Wednesday from The Virginian-Pilot…Dick Wadhams, Allen’s campaign manager, insisted Wednesday that there is no evidence to support Shelton ‘s claim and called Shelton and Beam “sad and pathetic” for bringing Lanahan, who died earlier this year, into the dispute. “The incident did not occur. This gentleman is just piling on to a false story,” he said of Beam, adding later that “I have no idea why he would do it.”
(The fabricated “hunt” allegedly)
the article being quoted continues:
“took place on land owned by Lanahan’s family in Louisa County ,
east of Charlottesville. Maj. Donald Lowe of the Louisa Sheriff’s Department said Wednesday that a search this week of department records failed to produce any evidence of a complaint concerning a deer’s head….Lowe said the sheriff’s department also has interviewed several deputies from the early 1970s as well as with black community leaders at the time. None recalled any complaint concerning a deer’s head.…
Reach Dale Eisman at (703) 913-9872 or icemandc@msn.com. http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm? story 1765&ran!065
We do not believe Areva Senior Vice President George Beam’s story about the imaginary “deer hunt”.
Here is Beam being quoted on August 2, 2006
AREVA wins contract for replacement reactor vessel head project at
Diablo Canyon power plant…AREVA, through its subsidiary AREVA NP, has received a contract from Pacific Gas & Electric Company for two replacement reactor vessel heads at the Diablo Canyon Power Plant Units One and Two. “The replacement Reactor Vessel Closure Head (RVCH) project is particularly exciting because we are working with AREVA to fabricate RVCHs in the United States for the first time in many years.” “A replacement reactor vessel head with a state-of-the-art integrated head assembly is one of the best economic options for a commercial nuclear utility to choose in today’s cost and safety conscious environment to ensure continued operational safety as well as guarantee shorter outage durations and less cumulative personnel dose in the future. AREVA looks forward to working with PG&E to provide clean, safe, cost effective nuclear power for years to come” said George Beam, Senior Vice President of AREVA NP Inc.”
The axis of evil certainly figures into this story. Whether it is Iran, Iraq or North Korea.
“Reprocessing is the chemical separation of the spent fuel into its
three parts—plutonium, uranium, and highly radioactive reactor
waste. Several countries have the capability to reprocess North
Korea’s spent fuel, but only two—the United Kingdom and
France —have companies that offer commercial reprocessing services.\3 These
companies also have direct experience in reprocessing magnox fuel—the type of
fuel used in
North Korea ‘s 5-MW(e) reactor.\4 Two companies provide commercial reprocessing
services—British Nuclear Fuels plc. (BNFL) of the
United Kingdom and Cogema of France—and both have expressed interest in
reprocessing North Korea’s spent fuel.\5 If either of these companies is
selected to do the reprocessing, under normal circumstances, the repackaged
spent fuel would be picked up, transported to the company’s reprocessing
facility, and placed in interim storage until it is reprocessed. Neither company
would normally take title to the spent fuel or the
products of reprocessing so, unless other arrangements are made, the
separated materials would be stored for up to 5 years and,
eventually, returned to the country of origin. The specific terms of
the commercial arrangement would be defined in a contract between the
parties. According to BNFL, other matters—such as ownership and
liability for the fuel after its removal—would be defined in letters
between the governments. According to BNFL, reprocessing
North Korea ‘s spent fuel would result in approximately 25 kilograms of
plutonium, 50,000 kilograms of uranium, and 160 liters (one canister) of
high-level waste. If the spent fuel is reprocessed, the separated plutonium and
uranium would
be purified and converted into stable compounds that can be safely
stored until final disposal.\6 The separated uranium and plutonium
could be used as fuel for a nuclear power reactor. If not used as
fuel, the plutonium would be disposed of in an underground
radioactive waste repository, and the uranium would be stored for its
economic value and potential use. The radioactive was
CLINTONS CONNECTED TO THE GEORGE ALLEN LYNCHING
The latest hot internet speculation is that BOTH Bill and Hillary
Clinton may well be connected to the lynching of Virginia Republican
US Senator George Allen. Whether this is mere internet speculation,
or whether
it goes farther than that and is actually true remains to be seen.
Here now the speculation, as Fox News would say: “We Report You
Decide!”
Remember the name John N. Walsh Jr.?
You do if you read Are Saddams Saddemocrats Behind The George Allen
Lynching.
John N. Walsh Jr. is also a relative of John N. Walsh, III.
Coincidence Or Maybe Something Else
As Fox News would say:
”We report! You decide!”
Pictured: Mr. & Mrs. John n. Walsh, Jr. with Senator Hillary rodham
Clinton (center). annual reportcontents4. Page 15 …
http://foundation.kaleidahealth.org/PDFs/KH_Foundation_AR2005.pdf
Pictured: Kaleida Health Board of Directors Chair edward F. Walsh,
Jr., Congressman tom reynolds, Senator Hillary Clinton, Kaleida
Health president and Ceo James r. Kaskie and former Kaleida Health
Ceo William D. McGuire
kaleida ball
On September 10, 2005 the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center was
transformed into the streets of New York City for the annual Kaleida
Ball. Spectacular city scenes and foods from various famous
neighborhoods and delis greeted the more than 1,100 partygoers who
were in attendance. Guests enjoyed foods from Little Italy,
Chinatown, Harlem and Stage Deli as they mingled and danced to the
sounds of Crystal Blue and Jack Civiletto.
Highlights included the presentation of the Spirit Award to both
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Congressman Thomas Reynolds
MCGUIRE, WILLIAM D (KALEIDA HEALTH), (Zip code: 14203) $1000 to
FRIENDS OF HILLARY on 02/21/03¡¨
Lockwood, Anne (Kaleida Health/Psychologist), (Zip code: 14214)
$2000 to JOHN KERRY FOR PRESIDENT INC on 03/15/04¡¨
Lockwood, Anne S (Kaleida Health/Psychologist), (Zip code: 14214)
$1000 to KERRY-EDWARDS 2004 INC. GENERAL ELECTION LEGAL AND
ACCOUNTING COMPLIANCE FUND on 09/03/04¡¨
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Recall if you will Doctor Ken Shelton. Dr. Who?
No not the British science fiction series time traveler in any of
his many
incarnations.
Doctor Ken Shelton is the man accusing Virginia Republican US
Senator George
Allen of
things we firmly believe are absolutely untrue. “During a deer hunt
with Allen
in the early 1970s, Shelton said, Allen asked whether black families
lived in
the area before stuffing
a female deer’s head into the mail box of a black household.
”George insisted on taking the severed head, and I was a little
shocked by that,” Shelton said.
”This was just after the movie ‘The Godfather’ came out with the
severed horse’s head in the bed,” Shelton told the AP.
Doug Jones, who said he roomed with Shelton at Virginia , said in a
statement that he never saw or heard anything from Allen that
supports Shelton ‘s claims.
”I never heard George Allen use any racially disparaging word nor
did I ever witness or hear about him acting in a racially
insensitive manner,” Jones said.”
What the news stories are NOT
telling you is that Doctor Ken Shelton is the founder of something
called Tobacco FREE for Life Tobacco Free for Life – Teaching kids
of all ages
the truth about smoking. … and is currently operating out of an
office on the
Pardee Hospital campus. …www.tobaccofreeforlife.org/home.shtml
Tobacco FREE for Life
TFL started in 1996 by Dr. Ken Shelton of Hendersonville Radiological
Consultants and is currently operating out of an office on the Pardee
Hospital campus. …www.tobaccofreeforlife.org/home.shtml
and that Pardee Hospital is the recipient of
Grants Help Fund New Cardio-Pulmonary Rehab and Diabetes Education
Center Pardee Hospital Foundation recently received notification of
$80,000
worth of grants toward Pardee’s new Cardio-Pulmonary Rehabilitation
and Diabetes
Education Center. The Center will be constructed in Pardee’s
Thompson Street
facility which currently houses Pardee’s Urgent Care and Rehab and
Sports
Therapy services.
The James H. Cummings Foundation has awarded a $50,000 grant toward
the creation of the center. Cummings Foundation was established in
1962 by the late Mr. Cummings to fund medical science, medical
research and medical education, as well as some other focus areas,
in Buffalo, Toronto and Hendersonville. The Cummings Foundation
previously funded Pardee’s Emergency Department expansion.
The Perry N. Rudnick Donor Advised Fund of the Community Foundation
of Henderson County has awarded a $25,000 grant toward the project.
The Community Foundation of Henderson County supports charitable
programs in the greater Henderson County area. It was founded in
1983 and administers over 400 funds with assets of over $67 million.
South Financial Group Foundation, formerly known as the Carolina
First Foundation, has awarded a $5,000 grant toward the creation of
the center. The South Financial Group Foundation was created in 1999
with a focus on improving education through enhancing the quality of
life for the community.
In addition to these three grants, more than $179,000 has been
raised from the Pardee Hospital Auxiliary and other generous
benefactors. Proceeds from the 11th Annual Tournament of Champions
will also go toward the Center, contributing to a total of nearly
$323,000 in funds raised for this project.
source: http://www.pardeehospital.org/foundation/whats_new/cardio.htm
James H Cummings Foundation Inc 1807 Elmwood Ave Ste 112, Buffalo,
NY, James H Cummings Foundation Inc – detailed
company profile James H Cummings Foundation Inc
1807 Elmwood Ave Ste 112,Buffalo, New York 14207-2434
Year Started: 1962 Contact Name: John N Walsh Jr
Contact Title: President”
source: http://www.manta.com/coms2/dnbcompany_6l5q1g
John N. Walsh, Jr. is listed under Additional Regional Board
Members – Board Listing: at:
http://www.nccj.org/nccj/nccj.nsf/regionalprofileweb/14?opendocument
and that under
Key Facts: at an organization that currently calls itself:
National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ)
http://www.nccj.org/nccj/nccj.nsf/articleall/4499?
opendocument
that organization states:
”The National Conference of Christians and Jews, changed its name in
the 1990’s to better reflect its mission to build whole and
inclusive communities. The historic name confused many, who
believed that NCCJ was an interfaith organization. Therefore the
new name is not a change in vision, but rather an affirmation of our
abiding commitment to embrace the diversity of our nation.
NCCJ is the only national human relations organization that focuses
on a broad range of “isms,” the multiple manifestations of
discrimination and oppression that are based on one’s religion,
race, gender, sexual orientation, bias crimes to racial profiling -
the challenges ahead are real. To confront and overcome them, NCCJ
maintains an abiding commitment to work with decision-makers and
leaders to support their work to build an inclusive society.”
Now all of these things are of course worthy goals. Medical research
is
admirable, so is fighting the ills of tobacco, although Webb himself
admits to
being someone who has chewed tobacco for many years, and certainly
fighting
discrimination of any sort is a worthy goal. It is the interesting
cross
connections between the characters involved in the character
assassination and
overall lynching of Senator Allen that lead us to believe that there
are just
too many coincidences involved to be pure coincidence. However, to
paraphrase
Fox News once again, “We report, you decide!” What do you think of
the so-called
coincidences in this story? Are they more than mere coincidence?
As far back as May of 2006 Larry Sabato was so concerned about who
would challenge Republican US Senator George Allen in the Virginia
Senate Race in 2006 that he was calling one of the Democratic
candidates for the nomination “The worst candidate I have ever
seen.” That candidate, Harris Miller, did not get nominated.
The candidate who was nominated was former Navy Secretary James
Webb, a.k.a. Jim Webb.
Sabato in May of 2006 said of George Allen in 2008, “Sabato ranks
him as one of three GOP hopefuls who have an actual shot at winning
the nomination.”
source:
http://virtuconindustries.blogspot.com/2006/05/larry-and-me.html
the article is below:
Virginia Virtucon (Virtual Conservative)
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Larry and Me
I had the good fortune to be able to speak with UVA Prof. Larry
Sabato yesterday after an event in D.C. I got the chance to ask him
about some of the hot topics in the Virginia blogosphere and he had
some interesting things to say.
”The worst candidate I have ever seen.” “A joke.” “Won’t even look
you in the eye when he is talking to you.”
Who might you ask is he describing?
None other than 2006 Democrat senate hopeful Harris Miller.
However, Sabato wouldn’t go so far as to say that Miller wouldn’t be
the nominee. While the good Professor didn’t shy away from making
predictions in any other race he was asked about, he didn’t even
make a guess on the Democrat senate primary next month. Why? Well,
he seems convinced that there is a large Democrat contingent who
will never vote for Jim Webb on the sole basis that he was a Reagan
appointee.
What he would say is that neither Miller nor Webb would defeat
George Allen in November. He said that Webb would make it more
interesting than Miller, but they would both ultimately lose.
Aside from Democrats not voting for Webb on the basis of his ties to
the Reagan Administration, Sabato claimed that there are organized
efforts by Republicans to vote in the Democrat primary for Miller on
the basis that he is such a horrible candidate and would lose worse
than Webb to Allen in November. (If there are indeed such efforts, I
have yet to hear of them.)
On George Allen in 2008, Sabato ranks him as one of three GOP
hopefuls who have an actual shot at winning the nomination, the
other two being John McCain and Mitt Romney. Sabato pointed out the
weaknesses of all three candidates—McCain being a maverick in a
party that hasn’t nominated a maverick since Wendell Wilke; Romney
being Governor of Massachusetts which automatically makes him
suspect to conservatives; and Allen being more Bush than Bush in a
time when W’s approval ratings are in the basement.
Finally, closer to home, I posed the question to Prof. Sabato about
whether PWC Chairman Sean Connaughton has a future at the statewide
level in Virginia . Sabato thought that without a doubt he does, but
said Connaughton might have to wait a cycle or two in order to give
himself a chance to remake his image after he was, as Sabato put
it, “unfairly characterized as a Tom Davis-moderate” during the 2005
Lt. Gov. primary.
So, there you have it—straight from Sabato’s mouth to my ears and
typed here by my fingers.
Categories: Virginia Politics_
posted by Riley, Not O’Reilly at 5/18/2006
http://virtuconindustries.blogspot.com/2006/05/larry-and-me.html
That Larry Sabato was concerned about who might be elected President
in 2008 is clear. Here’s Sabato being quoted about a Hillary blunder:
”A blunder for Clinton ?
By THOMAS M. DeFRANK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
WASHINGTON – Hillary Clinton’s painstakingly crafted campaign to
soften her limousine liberal pedigree for 2008 hit a speed bump in
Harlem yesterday.
Ever since being elected to the Senate, New York ‘s junior senator
has strived to persuade moderate and independent voters she’s not
just another Hollywood lefty.
But her likening of House Republican leaders to slave-era plantation
overseers at least momentarily complicates her move-to-the-middle
blueprint.
”The use of the word ‘plantation’ is terribly unwise,” said Larry
Sabato, director of the University of Virginia ‘s Center for
Politics. “It will just reinforce the view most Americans have of
Hillary Clinton as being very liberal.”
It could have been worse, Sabato added: “At least she didn’t mention
Hitler.”
Originally published on January 17, 2006”
In case you wondered who Larry Sabato donated to:
”Wednesday, November 09, 2005
Pundits Bruce Cain, Larry Sabato Donated to Dems
Another election day has passed and two of the most frequently
quoted pundits, Bruce Cain of the University of California at
Berkeley and Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia , are all
over the news, giving their supposedly unbiased opinions.
A quick search of Federal Election Commission records at
NewsMeat.com reveals that Cain gave Sen. John Kerry $300 last year
and Sabato donated $500 in 1999 to Utah Democrat James Matheson’s
winning run for a seat in the House.
Yet, good luck locating a single news story that quotes either man
and references the political donations they’ve made.
Sabato’s official site, the Crystal Ball, evaluates Rep. Matheson’s
race in 2006, and he doesn’t mention his contribution to Matheson. I
guess Sabato doesn’t believe in full disclosure and transparency.
These are their FEC listings:
Cain, Bruce
San Rafael, CA 94901
UC Berkeley/Professor
KERRY, JOHN F (D)
JOHN KERRY FOR PRESIDENT INC
$300
07/26/04
SABATO, LARRY
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA 22901
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
MATHESON, JAMES DAVID (D)
House (UT 02)
MATHESON FOR CONGRESS
$500
05/21/99” source:
http://mpetrelis.blogspot.com/2005/11/pundits-bruce-cain-larry-
sabato.html
Let’s start off with George Allen critic, to say the least, Larry
Sabato.
First let us travel back in time to the Wednesday, October 23rd,
2002 issue of a publication called THE CAVALIER DAILY
when “Politicians, professors and students gather to celebrate Larry
J. Sabato’s 50th birthday and raise money for the Center for
Politics” Surely Mr.Sabato’s 50th birthday party must have been an
unforgettable
occasion for him. You can see a photo or Mr. Sabato being teased by
Senator
Allen at Sabato’s 50th birthday bash at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KnowTheEnemy/
in the KnowTheEnemy photo
album.”Politics Prof. Larry J. Sabato covers his face in
embarassment as U.S.
Senator George Allen teases Sabato about his excessive on-camera
time.”
http://www.cavalierdaily.com/CVArticle.asp?ID=13613&pid=918
Please pay particular attention to the following item in the article
below in which Senator Warner is comparing the invitation to the
50th birthday
party for Larry Sabato to Marlon Brando’s “offer you can’t refuse”.
Surely that
line must have stuck with Larry Sabato.
Larry Sabato must have remembered that line.
”U.S. Senator John Warner, R-Va., compared the invitation to
Marlon Brando’s “offer you can’t refuse.”
In case you are not a fan of The Godfather, which starred Marlon
Brando Senator Warner’s 2002 reference was to Marlon Brando’s
character Don Vito Corleone,The Godfather,”Don Vito’s line, “I’m
going to make him an offer he can’t refuse” was voted as the second
most memorable line in cinema history in a 2005 poll”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Godfather
The reference is to a character being pressured by The Godfather to
use a film star favored by The Godfather waking up to find the
severed head of a horse in his bed.
item immediately below is excerpted from the Wednesday, October
23rd,
2002 issue of a publication called THE CAVALIER DAILY
”Life
Birthday Bashing
Politicians, professors and students gather to celebrate Larry J.
Sabato’s 50th birthday and raise money for the Center for Politics…
Katie
Sullivan , Cavalier Daily Associate Editor
…Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner slowly worked his way through the
crowd,….
Clearly, these people could only have gathered for one reason—to
celebrate Politics Prof. Larry J. Sabato’s 50th birthday.
Virginia politicians, political analysts, journalists and University
students and alumni gathered Monday night in the Richmond Marriot to
wish Sabato a happy birthday.
Rather than traditional cake and candles, however, a few prominent
Virginia politicians humorously chose to light something else on
fire—Sabato’s reputation.
Warner said he accepted the invitation to speak for the opportunity
to give Sabato some of his own medicine.
”Larry’s been roasting all of us for years,” Warner said. “Turnabout
is fair play.”
The celebration, called the “Sabato Five-O,” took the form of a
roast a la Comedy Central. The event also served as a fundraiser for
The University of Virginia Center for Politics, of which Sabato
serves as director.
The Center for Politics, located on Old Ivy Road …After the crowd
made its way
into the dining room, former Virginia
Gov. L. Douglas Wilder introduced himself as emcee of the night’s
festivities, and proceeded to introduce a video, much like those
shown at bachelor parties.
The video started out with photos of Sabato’s youth, then moved to
doctored photographs including Sabato as Elvis and an onlooker in
the fateful photograph of former President Clinton and Monica
Lewinsky. …The program then gave six of Virginia ‘s most powerful
politicians
the opportunity to poke fun at a man who, as he himself claimed, has
predicted defeat for every one of them…. Virginia Attorney General
Jerry Kilgore
spoke about Sabato’s ability
to state the obvious and make it sound profound, then joked about
Sabato’s abundance of media exposure.
”He spends so much time in front of the camera lights,” Kilgore
said, “that when he opens his fridge at night he speaks for three
minutes.”…
U.S. Senator George Allen, R-Va., cited a need to keep Sabato off
their backs.
”There are places we’d rather be,” Allen said. “But we didn’t want
to cross the good professor.”
U.S. Senator John Warner, R-Va., compared the invitation to Marlon
Brando’s “offer you can’t refuse.”
…Allen mentioned budgets cuts facing the University as well, and,
indicating Warner, said, “If he cuts your budget next year, Larry,
put it in your file as something mean a Democrat did to you.”
Allen, who attended the University as an undergraduate with Sabato,
remembered Sabato’s beginnings as a student who wanted to fight the
power of special interest groups.
”Then I see this gathering,” Allen said. “You make Hillary Clinton
look like a pike.”
Other commentary centered on Sabato’s role as a professor…
Politics Prof. Larry J. Sabato covers his face in embarassment as
U.S. Senator George Allen teases Sabato about his excessive on-
camera time.
Peter Dunn I Cavalier Daily
source:
http://www.cavalierdaily.com/CVArticle.asp?ID=13613&pid=918
We hope that you will pay particular attention to the following item
Godfather
movie reference in the article above: “U.S. Senator John Warner, R-
Va., compared
the invitation to Marlon Brando’s “offer you can’t refuse.”
Consider if you will the Dr.Shelton situation:
”Dr. Shelton said the incident with the deer head occurred during
their college days when he, Mr. Allen, and another teammate who has
since died were hunting on a farm the third man’s family owned near
Bumpass, Va., 40 miles east of the university.
Dr. Shelton said Mr. Allen asked the other teammate where black
families lived in the area, then stuffed a deer’s head into the
mailbox of one of the homes.
”George insisted on taking the severed head, and I was a little
shocked by that,” he told the AP. “This was just after the
movie ‘The Godfather’ came out with the severed horse’s head in the
bed.”
source: http://www.nysun.com/article/40451?page_no=3
We have a million dollar question about Larry Sabato. From “AJR,
American Journalism Review April/May 2005 issue The Quote
Machines By Mark Francis Cohen
Mark Francis Cohen, whose work has appeared in the Washington Post
and the New York Times, is a contributing editor at Washingtonian
magazine.
Larry J. Sabato, who bills himself on the paid speaking circuit
as “probably the most quoted college professor in the land,”
recently donated $1 million to the University of Virginia .
That sum of money—estimated to be 12 to 13 times the scholar’s
annual salary—makes Sabato, 52, the most generous faculty member the
university has ever employed. Actually, it’s one of the biggest
gifts an active professor has handed to a school anywhere.
So where did Sabato get all this cash? “Thank goodness for compound
interest,” the mustachioed pundit told the Washington Post the day
his gift was announced. “It’s amazing what you can live on eating
Kraft Macaroni & Cheese for dinner.”
”Still, a prudent lifestyle and savvy investment decisions hardly
explain Sabato’s beneficence. The scholar has amassed mounds of
extra cash writing 23 books and moonlighting as a public speaker.
He’s a successful pundit whose words and face blanket the newspapers
and airwaves, appearances that boost his profile and his cachet on
the speaking circuit….it has become routine for individual editors,
say on a national desk, to forbid reporters from using certain
pundits as sources. Many editors interviewed for this article would
only admit such prohibitions anonymously. “I have told my reporters
not to use Larry Sabato anymore,” says the editor of a publication
that covers Congress.”
You decide: Where did Sabato get the million dollars? Why would “the
editor of a publication that covers Congress” have told
his “reporters not to use Larry Sabato anymore.” ?
Dr. Shelton said Mr. Allen used the N-word only around white
teammates.
Dr. Shelton said the incident with the deer head occurred during
their college days when he, Mr. Allen, and another teammate who has
since died were hunting on a farm the third man’s family owned near
Bumpass, Va., 40 miles east of the university.
Dr. Shelton said Mr. Allen asked the other teammate where black
families lived in the area, then stuffed a deer’s head into the
mailbox of one of the homes.
”George insisted on taking the severed head, and I was a little
shocked by that,” he told the AP. “This was just after the
movie ‘The Godfather’ came out with the severed horse’s head in the
bed.”
source: http://www.nysun.com/article/40451?page_no=3
”Virginia Senator Denies Using ‘N Word’
George Allen: Accusation By Ex-College Teammate ‘Absolutely False’
”I don’t remember ever using that word and it is absolutely false
that that was ever part of my vocabulary.”
RICHMOND, Va., Sept. 25, 2006
(AP) Sen. George Allen on Monday denounced as “ludicrously false”
claims from a former college football teammate that he frequently
used a racial slur to refer to black people.
Dr. Ken Shelton, now a radiologist in Hendersonville , N.C. , also
alleges that Allen, a former University of Virginia quarterback,
once stuffed the severed head of a deer into a black household’s
oversized mail box.
In an Associated Press interview, Allen vehemently denied the
allegations Shelton made in an article published in the online
magazine Salon.com and an AP interview Sunday night.
His campaign released statements from four other ex-teammates
defending Allen and rejecting Shelton ‘s claims.
”The story and his comments and assertions in there are completely
false,” Allen said during an interview with AP reporters and
editors. “I don’t remember ever using that word and it is absolutely
false that that was ever part of my vocabulary.”
Questions about racial insensitivity have dogged the Republican
throughout his re-election bid against Democrat Jim Webb.
Shelton , a tight end and wide receiver for the Cavaliers in the
early 1970s, said Allen used the N-word only around white teammates….
During a deer hunt with Allen in the early 1970s, Shelton said,
Allen asked whether black families lived in the area before stuffing
a female deer’s head into the mail box of a black household.
”George insisted on taking the severed head, and I was a little
shocked by that,” Shelton said.
”This was just after the movie ‘The Godfather’ came out with the
severed horse’s head in the bed,” Shelton told the AP.
Doug Jones, who said he roomed with Shelton at Virginia , said in a
statement that he never saw or heard anything from Allen that
supports Shelton ‘s claims.
”I never heard George Allen use any racially disparaging word nor
did I ever witness or hear about him acting in a racially
insensitive manner,” Jones said.”
Jim Webb, a.k.a. James Webb is Senator Allen’s opponent in the
Virginia Senate
race this year. Webb is an opponent of the liberation of Iraq. Webb
is one of
what we like to call Saddam’s Saddemocrats The following item on Jim
Webb,
a.k.a. James Webb. comes from his campaign website:
”In government, Jim served in the U.S. Congress as counsel to the
House
Committee on Veterans Affairs from l977 to l98l”
source: http://www.webbforsenate.com/biography/
We wonder what sort of useful and lasting contact Jim Webb, a.k.a.
James Webb,
might have made while he “served in the U.S. Congress as counsel to
the House
Committee on Veterans Affairs from l977 to l98l”.
”Public release date: 22-Jan-1998
BUFFALO, N.Y.—Researchers at the University at Buffalo and the U.S.
Department
of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Buffalo, using positron
emission
tomography (PET), have pinpointed for the first time the specific
brain regions
responsible for Tinnitus, a constant and debilitating ringing in the
ears
experienced by millions of Americans. ….The study was made possible
by grants
from UB, the American Tinnitus Association, the James H. Cummings
Foundation of
Buffalo and the National Institute on Deafness and Other
Communication
Disorders, part of the NIH.”
SOURCE: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/1998-01/UaB-RFSI-
220198.php
We hope that you will remember the name of the James H. Cummings
Foundation of
Buffalo in the article above.
Here is a story about Senator Allen’s opponent Jim Webb, a.k.a.
James Webb, that you will NEVER see on the Saddemocrat controlled
media:
”Webb’s alleged use of a racial epithet
In late September, Webb was asked if he had ever used the “N-word.”
Webb replied that “I don’t think that there’s anyone who grew up
around the South that hasn’t had the word pass through their lips at
one time in their life.” Webb noted that that word and a lot of
other epithets were in “Fields of Fire,” a novel Webb wrote about
the Vietnam War.
Allen campaign officials referred reporters to Dan Cragg, a former
acquaintance of Webb’s. Craig said that Webb told him in 1983 that
Webb and members of his ROTC unit at the University of Southern
California would “hop into their cars, and would go down to Watts ,”
taking fake rifles, yell out epithets, “point the rifles at them,
pull the triggers and then drive off laughing.”
source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_United_States_Senate_election%
2C_2006#Webb.27s_alleged_use_of_a_racial_epithet
By contrast, although he has wrongfully been painted as a racist by the
Saddemocrat controlled media US Senator George Allen, Republican of Virginia is
no such thing. He is in fact, just the opposite.
As a US Senator George Allen sponsored legislation to award $1.25 billion in
grants for computers and technology for historically black colleges and
universities — the measure died in the US House of Representatives.
“I have worked very hard in the Senate to reach out to all Americans, regardless
of their race, religion, ethnicity or gender,” Senator George Allen said.
Senator George Allen proposed that the Senate apologize for its failure to enact
anti-lynching laws in the 1930’s and 40’s.
In fact Senator Allen is being politically lynched every day in the Saddemocrat
controlled media. He is no racist.
We have what we believe is a credible theory about the so-called
”macaca” incident. What we did not know at the time the so-called
”macaca” story appeared was that Senator Allen’s mother is Jewish.
We found that out later. Jews of the generation of Senator Allen’s mother
frequently speak one version of Yiddish or another.
Here is some of the coverage of the so-called “macaca” incident:
“This fellow here, over here with the yellow shirt, Macaca, or whatever his name
is, he’s with my opponent,” Mr. Allen said on Friday night at a rally in Breaks,
next to the Kentucky border. “He’s following us around everywhere. And it’s just
great…. The senator’s communications director, John Reid, said in an interview
Tuesday that Allen campaign workers had good-naturedly nicknamed Mr. Sidarth
“Mohawk” because he would not disclose his name and the sobriquet seemed
appropriate for Mr. Sidarth’s hairstyle. Perhaps, Mr. Reid suggested, “Mohawk”
morphed into “macaca,” with results that turned out to be regrettable.
After his initial use of the term, Mr. Allen went on to urge the crowd to “give
a welcome to Macaca here. Welcome to America and the real world of Virginia
.”Mr. Reid said those words were not an effort to stamp a “foreigner” label on
Mr. Sidarth, who was born in Fairfax County , Va. People who follow the campaign
of Mr. Allen, who was born in California , know that he often talks about “the
real America , real people in the real world,” meaning people outside the
Washington Beltway, Mr. Reid said. Mr. Allen expressed further regrets on
Tuesday, saying, “I apologize if my comments offended this young man.”
What we believe Senator Allen was trying to say was
fakakta: Yiddish for crazy, all mixed up.
Source:
http://www.english.com.tw/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=2553&forum=22&pos\
t_id32
We believe that Senator Allen would have heard one version of that word or
another frequently as a child from his Jewish mother or one or more of his other
Jewish relatives,some of whom spoke several languages.
“JEWISH CULTURE
Nu? I’m talking to you!
You don’t have to be Jewish to appreciate a good bagel and schmear or how to
shmooze and kvetch. Compliments of Jewcy.com, here’s a primer on Yiddish basics
that’ll have you kibbitzing in no time! If you’re looking for more than basic
slang, check out Kolel’s great Yiddish and Hebrew classes.
FAKAKTA (fuh-KAK-ta) adj. Crappy
”I love a good menorah lighting ceremony, but I hate cleaning up the fakakta wax
afterwards.” Source: http://www.kolel.org/revivingeden/culture2.html
“Remember the good old days when all we had to worry about was nuclear war?
(Actually, many of you probably don’t. Never mind.)
Well, those days are back due to the exciting CBS drama “ Jericho ”, which would
be another faceless family drama except for the fact that at least 2 major US
cities get nuked in the pilot. Jericho is a town in Kansas , from where people
see a gigantic mushroom cloud over Denver and gradually learn that everything is
fakakta except in their idyllic slice of Americana . Actually, we don’t know how
fakakta the world is yet, I suppose we’ll be learning over the next several
months.” Source: http://mrfantasy.livejournal.com/
“One reason our political culture is verkakte…. Wow! I don’t think I’ve ever
seen verkakte written down. I probably I would have spelled it fekakte or even
fakakta.
And to think that my childhood babysitter spoke to me exclusively in Yiddish.
You learn something new every day.” Source:
http://nielsenhayden.com/electrolite/archives/005579.html
“Are you Red Sox fans crazy? Fakakta? Looney Toons?” source:
http://redsoxrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2006/07/grade-deflation.html
“All I know is that facacta song has been stuck in my head for two days
now.Never even heard of it before.
That’s because it’s spelled “verkakte.” Source:
http://forums.comicbookresources.com/archive/index.php/t-59874.html
“I can think of two institutions this year to which I would give my vote for the
year 2000 as being – in Yiddish they have a lovely word – verkakte – the most
verkakte service in relation to the advertising. One is ***Technical Support on
the Internet. Horrendous. The ads are very good. They have aged me by twenty
years, as one individual, and *** Bank, the credit card side of it – absolutely
dreadful.”
There are thousands of online examples of the word fakakta
which is also sometimes spelled in a variety of other ways including
fekakte or verkakte, among others. We cannot blame Senator Allen for
mispronouncing fakakta as “macaca”. He certainly never meant to use any sort of
racial slur or epithet.
”In October of 1983
(according to a report in The Jerusalem Post), Syrian television
showed 16-year-old girls-trainees in the Syrian Ba’ath Party
militia-fondling live snakes as President Hafez Assad and other
Syrian leaders looked on approvingly. Martial music reached a
crescendo as the girls suddenly bit the snakes with their teeth, repeatedly tore
off flesh and spat it out as blood ran down their chins. As the leaders
applauded, the girls
then attached the snakes to sticks and grilled them over the fire,
eating them triumphantly. After this, militiamen “strangled puppies and drank
their blood.” Such demonstrations are clearly intended to send a message to the
regime’s domestic opponents.”
source:
http://www.danielpipes.org/articles/198607.shtml
”French Jewish groups say they will file a lawsuit against Mr Assad
for inciting racial hatred when he accused Jews last month of having
betrayed Jesus.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1405000/140
5
980.stm
”The Wall Street Journal October 25, 1990 With a sudden flash of
teeth and claws, our new Syrian ally has pounced on what remains of
Lebanon. Syrian troops, who have been occupying most of Lebanon
since 1984, overran the headquarters of General Michel Aoun, the
military chief of Lebanon’s Maronite Christians, on Oct. 13. No
organized military resistance to Syria now exists in what was once
the Arab world’s best approximation of democracy. *** With
Washington’s smiles turning back toward Damascus, Syrian President
Hafez Assad grabbed his opportunity, and General Aoun has been
driven to seek refuge in the French Embassy in Beirut. At least 30,
and perhaps as many as 100, of General Aoun’s followers were
captured by Syrian soldiers, handcuffed, lined up and shot in the
back of the head. On Sunday in the town of Baabda, gunmen in
Lebanese army uniforms murdered another of the few remaining
Lebanese leaders to dare to oppose Syrian control-Danny Chamoun-and
his wife and two young sons. France has asked the United Nations to
investigate the atrocities that have followed the Syrian takeover.
The U.S has not joined that request. The State Department,
instantaneous and eager in its condemnation of Israel, has yet to
mumble a word of displeasure about Syria’s killings. As the Syrians
descend on Lebanon, so soon after their brother Baathists consumed
Kuwait, we hope the Bush Administration is able to sustain a clear-
eyed view of America’s new Middle Eastern ally, Hafez Assad.”
Can you imagine the nightmare of Hillary Rodham Clinton elected
President in 2008 and James Webb,a.k.a. Jim Webb, elected Vice President in
2008? What sort of views does Webb have of Bashir al Assad, the son of the
Syrian dictator Hafez Al Assad, and his Baathist regime?
Here is Webb being quoted about Syria, the nation from which and
through which most of the terrorists who are murdering Americans and coalition
forces and innocent Iraqis right now come from,in 2006:
”On the current situation in the Middle East, Webb said he believes
the U.S. must befriend Syria and try to use that country as an ally…”
And if under President Hillary Rodham Clinton and Vice President James Webb,
a.k.a. Jim Webb, or President Webb should something happen to Presdient Hillary
Rodham Clinton the U.S. befriends Syria and tries to use Syria as an ally what
country or countries will
Syria be used as an ally against?
Against Israel? Syria is no friend of Israel. So if under President Hillary
Rodham Clinton and Vice President James Webb, a.k.a. Jim Webb
America becomes the friend of Syria and the Syria is the enemy of
Israel does America become the enemy of Israel? Does America nuke
Israel? Does America round up American Jews and open extermination camps? In
America can a sitting US Senator be asked whether he has Jewish ancestry? Think
it can’t happen here? It just did in Virginia!
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SYRIAN THREAT, ROCKET THREATS
Tensions with Syria continue, while Israel Air Force officer says
short-range rockets are the main threat.
Syria’s Information Minister Muhsin Bilal says the “Syrian nation will not wait
much longer for the return of the Golan Heights.” He told the Egyptian Al-Ahram
newspaper that though Syria has waited patiently for 16 years hoping the “peace
for land” formula would be implemented, “nothing has happened.” In the
meanwhile, an Israel Air Force officer said today that the main threat against
Israel today stems from short-range rockets from Gaza, Lebanon and possibly
Judea and Samaria. “If the IDF had had full intelligence on everything going on
in southern Lebanon near Israel, we could have prepared better for a better
solution, both from the air and on the ground, to the short-range Katyusha
missiles,” he said. The officer said that the maps used by the Air Force were
more up-to-date than those used by the ground forces.Two Kassam rockets were
fired by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza Monday morning. The rockets landed just
short of the northern Gaza border fence, causing no damage.”
And what of Hamas, whose headquarters are in Damascus,Syria?
”Report: Hamas weighing large-scale conflict with Israel
…Hamas smuggled hundreds of tons of weapons from Egypt into Gaza Strip Aaron
Klein, WND Hamas has succeeded in smuggling “hundreds of tons” of weapons from
Egypt into the Gaza Strip and is preparing for the possibility of launching a
large-scale conflict with Israel… Hamas has smuggled from the Egyptian Sinai
desert between several hundred and 1,300 tons of advanced rockets; anti-tank and
anti-aircraft missiles; rocket propelled grenades; raw explosives; rifles;
ammunition; and other heavy weaponry….Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip last
year. In a deal brokered in November by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the
Egypt-Gaza border, once controlled by the Jewish state, now is manned by
Egyptian and (so-calle) “palestinian” security officials and is observed by
European monitors. The monitors reportedly have fled their duty several times
the past few months. Israeli security officials have noted multiple breaches in
border security, including the transport of terrorists and weapons across the
border. They say several key sections of the border are penetrable and that
smuggling tunnels that snake under the border are “thriving.” …since the
Jewish state withdrew from Gaza, the (so-called) “palestinians” successfully
have transferred hundreds of tons of weapons into the Strip. “If we don’t move
to counter this smuggling, it will continue and create a situation in Gaza
similar to the one in southern Lebanon,” (Yuval Diskin,
director of Israel’s Shin Bet Security Services, said)referring to Hizbullah’s
development of large rocket and weapons arsenals in south Lebanon for use
against Israel. Hizbullah ‘turning Gaza into south Lebanon’… “he is right. We
are turning Gaza into south Lebanon,” said Abu Ahmed, northern Gaza leader for
the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group. “We learned from Hizbullah’s victory
that Israel can be defeated if we know how to hit them and if we are well
prepared,” Abu Ahmed said. “We are importing rockets and the knowledge to launch
them and we are also making many plans for battle.” Abu Abdullah, a leader of
Hamas’ so-called “military wing” told WND his group is preparing for war against
Israel. “In the last 15 months, even though the fighters of Hamas kept the
cease-fire, we did not stop making important advancements and professional
training on the military level. In the future, after Hamas is obliged to stop
the cease-fire, the world shall see our new military capabilities,” said Abu
Abdullah, who is considered one of the most important operational members of
Hamas’ Izzedine al-Qassam Martyrs Brigades, Hamas’ declared “resistance”
department. Al Aqsa’s Abu Ahmed said his group is receiving help from Hizbullah
to import long-range rockets and train in guerrilla warfare tactics. “We have
warm relations with Hizbullah, which helps with some of the training programs,”
Abu Ahmed said. “We don’t have anything to be ashamed of – that we are dealing
with Hizbullah and that we are receiving training and information from them.” He
said Hizbullah maintains cells in the Sinai. “The Sinai is an excellent ground
for training, the exchange of information and weapons and for meetings on how to
turn every piece of land into usable territory for a confrontation with Israel,”
Abu Ahmed said. The terror leader said (so-called) “palestinian” groups are
developing war bunkers inside Gaza imilar to the underground Hizbullah lairs
Israel found during last month’s war in Lebanon. “Our preparations include the
building of special bunkers. Of course, we are taking into consideration that
Gaza is not the same topography as Lebanon,” Abu Ahmed said. During its
confrontation with Hizbullah, Israel destroyed scores of complex bunkers that
snaked along the Lebanese side of the Israel-Lebanon border. Military officials
said they were surprised by the scale of the Hizbullah bunkers, in which Israeli
troops reportedly found war rooms stocked with advanced eavesdropping and
surveillance equipment they noted were made by Iran. Abu Ahmed said the most
important “tool” in the so-called “palestinian resistance arsenal was rockets.
He said his group learned from Hizbullah that Israel can be defeated with
missiles. “We saw that with the capacity to bombard the Israeli population with
hundreds of rockets every day we can change the strategic balance with Israel,”
he said. Since Israel’s Gaza withdrawal, so-called “palestinian” terror groups
have been regularly firing rockets at nearby Jewish communities. The terrorists
generally have fired three versions of Qassam rockets, improvised steel
projectiles filled with explosives and fuel. Qassams can travel between one and
five miles depending on the sophistication of the particular rocket.
Israel has noted improvements in Qassams, including rockets carrying double
engines. Israeli security officials say a large number of Katyusha rockets have
been brought into Gaza. Katyushas can travel about 12 miles and can deliver
large payloads. Hizbullah fired more than 2,800 Katyusha rockets into Israel in
July and August, devastating many northern towns. In August, Islamic Jihad fired
a Katyusha rocket into the Israeli Negev. It landed in an empty area. In June
the group fired a Katyusha-like rocket that traveled about nine miles. “The
Katyusha we fired (in August) shows we can have every weapon we need,” said Abu
Ahmed. “It is only a matter of a small period before Gaza is ready for war.”
James Webb, a.k.a. Jim Webb, Senator Allen’s opponent in the
November 2006 Election appears to be a man who will say and perhaps do anything
to get elected. Here is Webb being quoted :
By Todd Jackson on Tuesday August 1st, 2006
”The country, too, should tailor an affirmative action plan that
would aid only blacks, Webb said, because that’s the only group of people to be
systematically held down decade after decade in the U.S.” “On the current
situation in the Middle East, Webb said he believes the U.S.must befriend Syria
and try to use that country as an ally…””Webb, sitting in an easy chair in
Democrat Warren Campbell’s living room,acknowledged that he’s got name
recognition issues—particularly in Western Virginia—a day after a Mason-Dixon
poll revealed that 33 percent of 625 survey
respondents statewide don’t know who he is. The same poll showed
that incumbent Republican Sen. George Allen’s name recognition is 97
percent.Moreover, 58 percent say Allen is doing a good or excellent job. Three
months from Election Day, Allen leads Webb by 16 percentage points, the poll
found.
Source:
http://www.roanoke.com/politics/wb/76197
The day before, on Monday, July 31, 2006
”Ben Tribbett of Not Larry Sabato reports that only 39 percent of
African-Americans support Jim Webb for the Senate. Sixteen percent
support Sen.George Allen and a whopping 45 percent are undecided
Are these the type of “sweet little truths” Webb would be
whispering to black voters?
”To understand me, you’ve got to look at things like my mother. My
mother grew up in East Arkansas. When her father died, they were the only white
family living in a black section of town. They had to follow the crops, picked
cotton, strawberries . . . there is not a black family in this country that had
it rougher than they did. I am still finding out how rough things were.”
(Washington Post, 12/8/1985).
”Affirmative action, which originally sought to repair the state-
induced damage to blacks from slavery and its aftermath, has within one
generation brought about a permeating state-sponsored racism that is as odious
as the Jim Crow laws it sought to countermand. A Soviet-style bureaucracy of
political commissars now
monitors every level of our society to ensure that racial and
gender “diversity” matches pre-ordained models, using the awesome powers of
government to make certain that white males are not “overrepresented” in
education, employment or
government contracts.” (Wall Street Journal, 5/22/00)
”It would be folly to assume that affirmative action has done
anything but exacerbate these disparities” (Wall Street Journal, 6/19/95)
”[The racial polices established by Clinton for the military are]
absolute stupidity,” said former Navy Secretary James Webb, who has
criticized Clinton administration efforts to make the military “reflect society
at large.”
(Washington Times, 8/9/95)”
Source:
http://howlinglatina.blogspot.com/2006/07/wonky-numbers.html
Now that’s quite a difference.
as is this:
”U.S. SENATE RACE
Webb’s Support of Affirmative Action at Issue
Writings Scrutinized During Campaign for Democratic Nomination
By Rosalind S. Helderman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 6, 2006; Page B08
RICHMOND—Democratic Senate candidate James Webb has a childhood
memory of relatives living hard lives in southwest Virginia
communities with no electricity.
That’s why when he started studying affirmative action programs as a
law student, he came to a question: Why was preferential treatment
given on the job to all kinds of ethnic groups that were considered
disadvantaged—Latinos, Asians, blacks, Native Americans—but
not to
working-class whites struggling to overcome poverty?”
Kind of reminds me of voting for the $87 billion before voting
against it, if
anyone can remember Kerry’s 2004 flip flops.
A historical note, this writer went to Mississippi in the 1960s to
join the
civil rights movement. As such I am extremely uncomfortable about
the use of the
so-called “n” word in some of the articles being quoted. I find the
word to be
offensive and atrocious.
I have included it sparingly where it exists in some of the articles
being
quoted for the sake of accurately relaying what some of the articles
being
quoted are saying. Nonetheless I am repelled by the word itself, and
by those
who would use it against other human beings. I do not believe that
Senator Allen
ever used it against anyone. I do believe that James Webb, a.k.a.
Jim Webb did
and may still do so. Moreover Webb is not the only one to have
allegedly used,
and possibly still be using, such an atrocious racial slur.
the following item is excerpted from:
More Than Sex: The Secrets of Bill and Hillary Clinton Revealed by
Arkansas State Trooper NewsMax.com
September 14, 1999 Washington – An Arkansas State Trooper who once guarded Bill
Clinton has revealed startling new information about Bill and Hillary Rodham
Clinton. Trooper Larry Patterson, a recently retired 32-year veteran of the
state police,
had been the most senior member of the elite Governor’s Security
Detail during the period Bill Clinton served as Governor. During that time,
Patterson became privy to Bill and Hillary Clinton’s most closely guarded
secrets. Patterson told his story exclusively to NewsMax.com and Internet
Vortex. NewsMax.com has
published More than Sex: The Secrets of Bill and Hillary Clinton
Revealed — a two-hour audio cassette tape of Christopher Ruddy’s interview with
Trooper Larry Patterson. In More than Sex Patterson makes bombshell revelations,
some of which
have never been disclosed before: Organized Crime. The press has ignored
reporting of this critical issue, but
Patterson says Clinton had a close relationship with the head of the
Dixie Mafia—Arkansas’ homegrown organized crime family that has grown in recent
years through drug trafficking. Patterson said Clinton regularly received gifts
from
the reputed mob boss. Ethnic Slurs about Jews. Both Hillary and Bill Clinton
frequently used slurs during heated arguments with each other, Patterson said.
Among the epithets they
frequently hurled at each other were anti-Semitic slurs such
as ‘mother f—in’ Jew’ or ‘Jew bastard’. Patterson said such references were
heard frequently during the years he served the Clintons. Patterson said Clinton
loved telling
ethnic jokes and frequently told jokes that were anti-Semitic.
The use of the “N” word. Patterson said Bill Clinton would use the
word “nigger” — the “N” word — when he was angry with African-American
opponents. He recalls the use of the word in describing a black, Arkansas
activist who was critical
of Clinton. Patterson said Clinton also used the “N” word during the
1992 campaign Hitler and Mein Kampf. Bill Clinton, Patterson said, spoke
admiringly of Hitler and was fascinated by his book Mein Kampf.
source:
http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=1999/9/13/220611
In 2004 John Forbes Kerry launched what was seen by many as a pre-emptive strike
against the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign by discussing the sexual
orientation of Vice President Cheney’s daughter. Some years earlier, published
reports in a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania newspaper had alleged that Theresa Heinz,
who later became Theresa Heinz Kerry, was a lesbian. In light of the
vulnerability to charges of racism in the story immediately above one wonders
whether history was in a sense repeating itself when
the baseless charges of racism against US Senator George Allen of Virginia were
aired by the Saddemocrat controlled media. Kerry’s 2004 campaign was taken over
by Clintonistas in the fall of 2004.
Kerry Has No Sense of Decency or of Shame No Sense At All
Kerry Worse Than Howard Stern And Howard Dean Combined
Joseph Welch
Joseph Nye Welch (left), chief counsel for the U. S. Army, speaks to
Senator McCarthy during the Army-McCarthy hearings in Washington, D.
C., June, 1954.
http://www.apl.org/HISTORY/MCCARTHY/welch.html
”Welch removed his glasses, stared dolefully at the table and shook
his head. What he said then became the event’s dramatic climax, and
a moment more movie-like in its dramatic impact than even most
movies come close to.
”Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your
cruelty or your recklessness.” There was no noise in the huge, high-
ceilinged room save for the sparse clearing of throats. “Let us not
assassinate this lad further, Senator. You have done enough. Have
you no sense of decency sir, at long last? Have you no sense of
decency?”
”Mary Beth Cahill, John Kerry’s campaign manager, called Mary
Cheney’s sexuality “fair game” in a post-debate interview with Fox
News Wednesday night
(October 13th, 2004).”
”KERRY: I think if you were to talk to Dick Cheney’s daughter, who
is a lesbian…” (October 13th, 2004). Bush-Kerry Presidential Debate
”EDWARDS:
…the vice president and his wife…have a gay daughter.”
(October 5th, 2004) Cheney-Edwards Vice Presidential Debate
”The vice president’s wife, Lynne Cheney, called Kerry “not a good
man” and his remarks about daughter Mary Cheney “a cheap and tawdry
political trick.” Meanwhile, Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of vice
presidential candidate John Edwards, suggested in a radio interview
that Mrs. Cheney might feel “a certain degree of shame” because her
daughter is a lesbian.”
Source:
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/special_packages/election2004/9918392
.htm?1c
’Clintonistas’ Rally Behind Kerry’s Presidential Bid
AFP: 9/22/2004 WEST PALM BEACH, United States (AFP) – Democratic Senator John
Kerry‘s White House bid has become more combative, more open to reporters and
delivered a more focused message recently which
observers have attributed to the influence of former Bill Clinton
administration staffers. Under advice from the ‘Clintonistas‘, according to US
media reports, the veteran Massachusetts senator‘s campaign has clicked into a
higher gear just 41 days before Amercians go to the polls on November 2. The
Democratic presidential hopeful interrupted his campaigning across Florida on
Tuesday to hold a press conference, his first in more than seven weeks, at which
he lambasted President George W. Bush‘s credibility over Iraq.
Kerry last spoke took questions from the press on August 9, despite
the growing number of reporters who are following the Democrat
around the country. Kerry criticized Bush who has also kept his distance from
the press. …Under the guidance of former Clinton era White House spokesman Joe
Lockhart, and other former high-powered ‘Clintonistas‘ including James Carville,
Paul Begala,… the Democratic candidate has become more combative and less
nuanced.
Kerry has notably increased his attacks on Bush, concentrating his
fire on Bush‘s handling of Iraq in clear-cut language.
Citing the “chaos” and “colossal errors” in Bush‘s decision to go to
war against the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in March 2003,
Kerry laid into Bush in a speech on Iraq this week at New York
University.
According to Michael McCurry, another former Clinton spokesman who
has joined the Kerry campaign, the speech was “exactly what you‘d
expect, many people have said this was a speech that you needed to
give.”
The Democratic candidate, who has pulled back of late in some polls,
has said he always performs better as he approaches the finishing
tape in political campaigns.
”Tonight I‘m going to talk softly, but carry a big stick, the guys
have got me in a fighting mood,” Kerry told thousands of supporters
at an Orlando rally late Tuesday.
”There is a time for everything and it was time for him to take off
the gloves,” Kerry‘s wife Teresa told a New York audience at a fund-
raising dinner for her husband.
Kerry has not hidden the fact that Bill Clinton‘s seemingly
inexhaustable energy might be rubbing off: “He is probably the best
observer of American politics, the only Democrat who‘s won twice in
50 years or more, he is worth listening to,” Kerry told CBS talk-
show host David Letterman earlier this week.
Explaining the recent ramping up of his campaign, Kerry said “a
campaign grows, a presidential campaign is an enormous undertaking,
suddenly you‘re building a multimillion dollar corporation.
You grow and there are stages in it, we have fabulous people in
place, nobody was fired, we just hired more people and brought in
more talent,” he added.”
Source: http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=28068
”The Clintonista “Coups.” At several critical junctures Kerry’s
campaign (and
the candidate himself), struggled to find sure footing. Following
the missteps
of August, Clinton veteran James Carville confronted Kerry campaign
manager Mary
Beth Cahill, telling her she had to step aside and let newly arrived
Joe
Lockhart run the campaign. So worked up, Carville began to cry,
imploring
Cahill: “You’ve got to let him do it.” Carville continued, “Nobody
can gain
power without someone losing power.” Carville threatened to go
on “Meet the
Press” the next day “and tell the truth about how bad it is” if
Cahill didn’t
give effective control to Lockhart.”
Source: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041104/nyth186_1.html
Kerry appeared to be mesmerized by Bill Clinton, as, sadly, so many
Americans
have been. While Bill Clinton appears to have fooled Kerry, and the
author
of the piece excerpted from immediately below, the Clintons can’t
fool all of
the people all of the time.
”Former Reagan Navy Secretary and now Democratic Senate hopeful from
Virginia James Webb is being accused of anti-Semitism for a flier
produced against his opponent Harris Miller.
By James Joyner
Senate candidate James H. Webb, President Reagan’s former Navy
secretary, was criticized by his Jewish opponent Friday over a
campaign flier that depicted the opponent with a hooked nose and
cash spilling from his pockets. The flier was intended for
distribution among labor groups. It was titled “Miller the Job
Killer,” referring to Webb’s opponent for the Democratic nomination
in Tuesday’s primary, businessman Harris Miller.
The flier, drawn in comic-book cartoon style, depicts Miller with a
grotesquely hooked nose and cash overflowing from his suit pockets
as he orders an underling to find ways to export U.S. jobs overseas.
The flier refers to Miller as the “anti-Christ of outsourcing.”
Miller called it “despicable.” “One of the things I hoped we would
keep out of this campaign, because it has nothing to do with the
campaign, is my religion and my background,” Miller said.” source:
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2006/06/james_webb_accused_
of_anti-semitism_in_democratic_primary/
Here are some excerpts from that anti-Miller flyer
click on the url immediately below to see it:
http://notlarrysabato.typepad.com/doh/files/miller_flyer_color.pdf
which was “paid for and authorized by webb for senate.
http://www.webbforsenate.com” whose caricature drawings of Democrat Harris
Miller, who happens to be Jewish, look like they came straight out
of some nazi Germany era anti-Semitic propaganda piece, have him
saying: “Let them eat cake.”, which of course he never said, and
which has a footnote stating “1. Attributed to Marie Antoinette
shortly before she was beheaded in 1793.” as if Miller had actually
said it.
”Harris Miller, a corporate lobbyist, made his fortune by advocating
the outsourcing of American jobs. Called the “anti-Christ of
outsourcing
Are Saddams Saddemocrats Behind The George Allen Lynching
As Fox News would say: “We report, You Decide!”
Let’s start off with George Allen critic, to say the least, Larry
Sabato.
First let us travel back in time to the Wednesday, October 23rd,
2002 issue of a publication called THE CAVALIER DAILY
when “Politicians, professors and students gather to celebrate Larry
J. Sabato’s 50th birthday and raise money for the Center for
Politics” Surely Mr.Sabato’s 50th birthday party must have been an
unforgettable
occasion for him. You can see a photo or Mr. Sabato being teased by
Senator
Allen at Sabato’s 50th birthday bash at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KnowTheEnemy/ in the KnowTheEnemy photo
album.”Politics Prof. Larry J. Sabato covers his face in
embarassment as U.S.
Senator George Allen teases Sabato about his excessive on-camera
time.”
http://www.cavalierdaily.com/CVArticle.asp?ID=13613&pid=918
Please pay particular attention to the following item in the article
below in which Senator Warner is comparing the invitation to the
50th birthday
party for Larry Sabato to Marlon Brando’s “offer you can’t refuse”.
Surely that
line must have stuck with Larry Sabato.
Larry Sabato must have remembered that line.
”U.S. Senator John Warner, R-Va., compared the invitation to
Marlon Brando’s “offer you can’t refuse.”
In case you are not a fan of The Godfather, which starred Marlon
Brando Senator Warner’s 2002 reference was to Marlon Brando’s
character Don Vito Corleone,The Godfather,”Don Vito’s line, “I’m
going to make him an offer he can’t refuse” was voted as the second
most memorable line in cinema history in a 2005 poll”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Godfather
The reference is to a character being pressured by The Godfather to
use a film star favored by The Godfather waking up to find the
severed head of a horse in his bed.
item immediately below is from the Wednesday, October 23rd,
2002 issue of a publication called THE CAVALIER DAILY
”Life
Birthday Bashing
Politicians, professors and students gather to celebrate Larry J.
Sabato’s 50th birthday and raise money for the Center for Politics
Katie Sullivan , Cavalier Daily Associate Editor
A conversational hum filled the hotel lobby as men and women in
business suits congregated in small groups.
”Can I get two minutes when you’re done here?” one businessman said
to another. Hearty greetings were exchanged while college students
and interns searched for a chance to network.
In a corner, a table holding platters of fruit and cheese stood near
a cash bar where even beer was poured into wine glasses.
Nearby, a long line waited to pick up their pre-printed nametags. An
aide asked for the Virginia attorney general’s nametag, only to find
that his nametag had not been printed.
As Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner slowly worked his way through the
crowd, a server holding a xylophone wandered in the throng, striking
random notes to encourage the group to move into the dining room.
Clearly, these people could only have gathered for one reason뾲o
celebrate Politics Prof. Larry J. Sabato’s 50th birthday.
Virginia politicians, political analysts, journalists and University
students and alumni gathered Monday night in the Richmond Marriot to
wish Sabato a happy birthday.
Rather than traditional cake and candles, however, a few prominent
Virginia politicians humorously chose to light something else on
fire뾖abato’s reputation.
Warner said he accepted the invitation to speak for the opportunity
to give Sabato some of his own medicine.
”Larry’s been roasting all of us for years,” Warner said. “Turnabout
is fair play.”
The celebration, called the “Sabato Five-O,” took the form of a
roast a la Comedy Central. The event also served as a fundraiser for
The University of Virginia Center for Politics, of which Sabato
serves as director.
The Center for Politics, located on Old Ivy Road , uses various
research and outreach programs to promote civic education and
participation around Virginia .
After the crowd made its way into the dining room, former Virginia
Gov. L. Douglas Wilder introduced himself as emcee of the night’s
festivities, and proceeded to introduce a video, much like those
shown at bachelor parties.
The video started out with photos of Sabato’s youth, then moved to
doctored photographs including Sabato as Elvis and an onlooker in
the fateful photograph of former President Clinton and Monica
Lewinsky. The video then featured birthday wishes from some of the
media’s most prominent political talk shows, such as Crossfire, The
Capital Gang and The Beltway Boys.
The Beltway Boys, Mort Kondracke and Fred Barnes, named Sabato as
their favorite guest, even if “he doesn’t always know what he’s
talking about. His greatest strength is that he’s always there.”
University alumna and NBC Today Show anchor Katie Couric also taped
a personal message, as well as fellow alumnus and FOX news anchor
Brit Hume, who encouraged Sabato to “prevail in your long struggle
against shyness.”
The program then gave six of Virginia ‘s most powerful politicians
the opportunity to poke fun at a man who, as he himself claimed, has
predicted defeat for every one of them.
Virginia Lt. Gov. Tim Kaine called the head table “the greatest
group of Virginia politicians since Thomas Jefferson ate by
himself.”
Much was said about Sabato’s willingness to comply with the news
media. AOL Editorial cartoonist Bob Gorrell showed the crowd a pie
chart, claiming to cater to Sabato’s love of precise polling data.
According to the chart, 60 percent of the audience were thrilled to
be there, 30 percent were moderately pleased, and 10 percent were
incredibly inconvenienced. He also called Sabato “the Pez dispenser
of sound bytes.”
Virginia Attorney General Jerry Kilgore spoke about Sabato’s ability
to state the obvious and make it sound profound, then joked about
Sabato’s abundance of media exposure.
”He spends so much time in front of the camera lights,” Kilgore
said, “that when he opens his fridge at night he speaks for three
minutes.”
Kilgore also mentioned Sabato’s record for predicting the outcomes
of elections.
”In ancient times, prophets who got it wrong were taken out and
stoned,” he laughed.
Several of the roasters mentioned a fear that if they turned down
the invitation to speak, they later would receive some roasting of
their own in Sabato’s political analysis.
U.S. Senator George Allen, R-Va., cited a need to keep Sabato off
their backs.
”There are places we’d rather be,” Allen said. “But we didn’t want
to cross the good professor.”
U.S. Senator John Warner, R-Va., compared the invitation to Marlon
Brando’s “offer you can’t refuse.”
Several speakers also joked about the dinner’s fundraising function,
calling it “extortion.”
Warner claimed it was only the beginning of a series of fundraisers
to support various state agencies, including ABC stores and the
Virginia Museum .
Allen mentioned budgets cuts facing the University as well, and,
indicating Warner, said, “If he cuts your budget next year, Larry,
put it in your file as something mean a Democrat did to you.”
Allen, who attended the University as an undergraduate with Sabato,
remembered Sabato’s beginnings as a student who wanted to fight the
power of special interest groups.
”Then I see this gathering,” Allen said. “You make Hillary Clinton
look like a pike.”
Other commentary centered on Sabato’s role as a professor.
Warner, citing Sabato’s frequent role as a debate moderator, posed a
question of his own to the man of the hour: “Larry, do you require
students to buy your textbooks to line your own pockets, or because
nobody else will?”
The night did include some serious moments, with Warner promising
the state would come through the budget crisis and that the actions
of the sniper would not keep the state from “moving forward.”
The dinner raised over $166,000 for the Center for Politics, which
Sabato claimed was a third of the money needed to compensate for
budget cuts.
Sabato, always the academic, took advantage of the night as an
educational opportunity. Two of his classes dined at sponsored
tables, and each of his students met the roasting politicians and
took pictures with them.
Fourth-year College student Audrey Wagner, who is in Sabato’s
Virginia Government and Politics class, said she valued the
opportunity to see the figures discussed in class in person.
”Mr. Sabato’s class is a class where you learn the kind of things
you can’t learn from textbooks,” Wagner said. “It’s great to
understand some of the inside jokes the politicians made this
evening just because I’m in his class.”
Sabato, who has been roasted before, said he enjoyed the event
enormously.
”I would walk over hot coals while barefoot to raise money for my
beloved University,” he said.
Politics Prof. Larry J. Sabato covers his face in embarassment as
U.S. Senator George Allen teases Sabato about his excessive on-
camera time.
Peter Dunn I Cavalier Daily
source:
http://www.cavalierdaily.com/CVArticle.asp?ID=13613&pid=918
We hope that you will pay particular attention to the following item
Godfather
movie reference in the article above: “U.S. Senator John Warner, R-
Va., compared
the invitation to Marlon Brando’s “offer you can’t refuse.”
Consider if you will the Dr.Shelton situation:
”Dr. Shelton said the incident with the deer head occurred during
their college days when he, Mr. Allen, and another teammate who has
since died were hunting on a farm the third man’s family owned near
Bumpass, Va., 40 miles east of the university.
Dr. Shelton said Mr. Allen asked the other teammate where black
families lived in the area, then stuffed a deer’s head into the
mailbox of one of the homes.
”George insisted on taking the severed head, and I was a little
shocked by that,” he told the AP. “This was just after the
movie ‘The Godfather’ came out with the severed horse’s head in the
bed.”
source: http://www.nysun.com/article/40451?page_no=3
We have a million dollar question about Larry Sabato. From “AJR,
American Journalism Review April/May 2005 issue The Quote
Machines By Mark Francis Cohen
Mark Francis Cohen, whose work has appeared in the Washington Post
and the New York Times, is a contributing editor at Washingtonian
magazine.
Larry J. Sabato, who bills himself on the paid speaking circuit
as “probably the most quoted college professor in the land,”
recently donated $1 million to the University of Virginia .
That sum of money뾢stimated to be 12 to 13 times the scholar’s
annual salary뾪akes Sabato, 52, the most generous faculty member the
university has ever employed. Actually, it’s one of the biggest
gifts an active professor has handed to a school anywhere.
So where did Sabato get all this cash? “Thank goodness for compound
interest,” the mustachioed pundit told the Washington Post the day
his gift was announced. “It’s amazing what you can live on eating
Kraft Macaroni & Cheese for dinner.”
”Still, a prudent lifestyle and savvy investment decisions hardly
explain Sabato’s beneficence. The scholar has amassed mounds of
extra cash writing 23 books and moonlighting as a public speaker.
He’s a successful pundit whose words and face blanket the newspapers
and airwaves, appearances that boost his profile and his cachet on
the speaking circuit?it has become routine for individual editors,
say on a national desk, to forbid reporters from using certain
pundits as sources. Many editors interviewed for this article would
only admit such prohibitions anonymously. “I have told my reporters
not to use Larry Sabato anymore,” says the editor of a publication
that covers Congress.”
You decide: Where did Sabato get the million dollars? Why would “the
editor of a publication that covers Congress” have told
his “reporters not to use Larry Sabato anymore.” ?
Dr. Shelton said Mr. Allen used the N-word only around white
teammates.
Dr. Shelton said the incident with the deer head occurred during
their college days when he, Mr. Allen, and another teammate who has
since died were hunting on a farm the third man’s family owned near
Bumpass, Va., 40 miles east of the university.
Dr. Shelton said Mr. Allen asked the other teammate where black
families lived in the area, then stuffed a deer’s head into the
mailbox of one of the homes.
”George insisted on taking the severed head, and I was a little
shocked by that,” he told the AP. “This was just after the
movie ‘The Godfather’ came out with the severed horse’s head in the
bed.”
source: http://www.nysun.com/article/40451?page_no=3
”Virginia Senator Denies Using ‘N Word’
George Allen: Accusation By Ex-College Teammate ‘Absolutely False’
”I don’t remember ever using that word and it is absolutely false
that that was ever part of my vocabulary.”
RICHMOND, Va., Sept. 25, 2006
(AP) Sen. George Allen on Monday denounced as “ludicrously false”
claims from a former college football teammate that he frequently
used a racial slur to refer to black people.
Dr. Ken Shelton, now a radiologist in Hendersonville , N.C. , also
alleges that Allen, a former University of Virginia quarterback,
once stuffed the severed head of a deer into a black household’s
oversized mail box.
In an Associated Press interview, Allen vehemently denied the
allegations Shelton made in an article published in the online
magazine Salon.com and an AP interview Sunday night.
His campaign released statements from four other ex-teammates
defending Allen and rejecting Shelton ‘s claims.
”The story and his comments and assertions in there are completely
false,” Allen said during an interview with AP reporters and
editors. “I don’t remember ever using that word and it is absolutely
false that that was ever part of my vocabulary.”
Questions about racial insensitivity have dogged the Republican
throughout his re-election bid against Democrat Jim Webb. His use of
the word “macaca” in referring to a Webb campaign volunteer of
Indian descent in August prompted an outcry. The word denotes a
genus of monkeys and, in some cultures, is considered an ethnic
slur.
Shelton , a tight end and wide receiver for the Cavaliers in the
early 1970s, said Allen used the N-word only around white teammates.
During a deer hunt with Allen in the early 1970s, Shelton said,
Allen asked whether black families lived in the area before stuffing
a female deer’s head into the mail box of a black household.
”George insisted on taking the severed head, and I was a little
shocked by that,” Shelton said.
”This was just after the movie ‘The Godfather’ came out with the
severed horse’s head in the bed,” Shelton told the AP.
Doug Jones, who said he roomed with Shelton at Virginia , said in a
statement that he never saw or heard anything from Allen that
supports Shelton ‘s claims.
”I never heard George Allen use any racially disparaging word nor
did I ever witness or hear about him acting in a racially
insensitive manner,” Jones said.”
Jim Webb, a.k.a. James Webb is Senator Allen’s opponent in the
Virginia Senate
race this year. Webb is an opponent of the liberation of Iraq. Webb
is one of
what we like to call Saddam’s Saddemocrats The following item on Jim
Webb,
a.k.a. James Webb. comes from his campaign website:
”In government, Jim served in the U.S. Congress as counsel to the
House
Committee on Veterans Affairs from l977 to l98l”
source: http://www.webbforsenate.com/biography/
We wonder what sort of useful and lasting contact Jim Webb, a.k.a.
James Webb,
might have made while he “served in the U.S. Congress as counsel to
the House
Committee on Veterans Affairs from l977 to l98l”.
”Public release date: 22-Jan-1998
BUFFALO, N.Y.뾕esearchers at the University at Buffalo and the U.S.
Department
of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Buffalo, using positron
emission
tomography (PET), have pinpointed for the first time the specific
brain regions
responsible for Tinnitus, a constant and debilitating ringing in the
ears
experienced by millions of Americans. ?The study was made possible
by grants
from UB, the American Tinnitus Association, the James H. Cummings
Foundation of
Buffalo and the National Institute on Deafness and Other
Communication
Disorders, part of the NIH.”
SOURCE: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/1998-01/UaB-RFSI-
220198.php
We hope that you will rember the name of the James H. Cummings
Foundation of
Buffalo in the article above.
Recall if you will Doctor Ken Shelton.
What the news stories are NOT
telling you is that Doctor Ken Shelton is the founder of something
called Tobacco FREE for Life Tobacco Free for Life – Teaching kids
of all ages
the truth about smoking. … and is currently operating out of an
office on the
Pardee Hospital campus. …www.tobaccofreeforlife.org/home.shtml
Tobacco FREE for Life
TFL started in 1996 by Dr. Ken Shelton of Hendersonville Radiological
Consultants and is currently operating out of an office on the Pardee
Hospital campus. …www.tobaccofreeforlife.org/home.shtml
and that Pardee Hospital is the recipient of
Grants Help Fund New Cardio-Pulmonary Rehab and Diabetes Education
Center Pardee Hospital Foundation recently received notification of
$80,000
worth of grants toward Pardee’s new Cardio-Pulmonary Rehabilitation
and Diabetes
Education Center. The Center will be constructed in Pardee’s
Thompson Street
facility which currently houses Pardee’s Urgent Care and Rehab and
Sports
Therapy services.
The James H. Cummings Foundation has awarded a $50,000 grant toward
the creation of the center. Cummings Foundation was established in
1962 by the late Mr. Cummings to fund medical science, medical
research and medical education, as well as some other focus areas,
in Buffalo, Toronto and Hendersonville. The Cummings Foundation
previously funded Pardee’s Emergency Department expansion.
The Perry N. Rudnick Donor Advised Fund of the Community Foundation
of Henderson County has awarded a $25,000 grant toward the project.
The Community Foundation of Henderson County supports charitable
programs in the greater Henderson County area. It was founded in
1983 and administers over 400 funds with assets of over $67 million.
South Financial Group Foundation, formerly known as the Carolina
First Foundation, has awarded a $5,000 grant toward the creation of
the center. The South Financial Group Foundation was created in 1999
with a focus on improving education through enhancing the quality of
life for the community.
In addition to these three grants, more than $179,000 has been
raised from the Pardee Hospital Auxiliary and other generous
benefactors. Proceeds from the 11th Annual Tournament of Champions
will also go toward the Center, contributing to a total of nearly
$323,000 in funds raised for this project.
source: http://www.pardeehospital.org/foundation/whats_new/cardio.htm
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that organization states:
”The National Conference of Christians and Jews, changed its name in
the 1990’s to better reflect its mission to build whole and
inclusive communities. The historic name confused many, who
believed that NCCJ was an interfaith organization. Therefore the
new name is not a change in vision, but rather an affirmation of our
abiding commitment to embrace the diversity of our nation.
NCCJ is the only national human relations organization that focuses
on a broad range of “isms,” the multiple manifestations of
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race, gender, sexual orientation, bias crimes to racial profiling -
the challenges ahead are real. To confront and overcome them, NCCJ
maintains an abiding commitment to work with decision-makers and
leaders to support their work to build an inclusive society.”
Now all of these things are of course worthy goals. Medical research
is
admirable, so is fighting the ills of tobacco, although Webb himself
admits to
being someone who has chewed tobacco for many years, and certainly
fighting
discrimination of any sort is a worthy goal. It is the interesting
cross
connections between the characters involved in the character
assassination and
overall lynching of Senator Allen that lead us to believe that there
are just
too many coincidences involved to be pure coincidence. However, to
paraphrase
Fox News once again, “We report, you decide!” What do you think of
the so-called
coincidences in this story? Are they more than mere coincidence?
”Larry Sabato.. a classmate of Allen’s in the early 1970s, said in a
televised interview Monday that Allen used the “n-word.”
Earlier, Dr. Ken Shelton ?a radiologist who played football with
Allen at the University of Virginia in the early 1970s ?said Allen
not only used the slur frequently but also once stuffed a severed
deer head into a black family’s mailbox? Christopher LaCivita, an
Allen strategist?said Allen and Sabato were not friends nor did
they associate with each other in college. “ Sabato, director of the
University of Virginia Center for Politics, would not say how he
knew Allen used the slur. He told Chris Matthews on MSNBC that he
did not know whether it was true that Allen used the word frequently.
”I’m simply going to stay with what I know is the case, and the fact
is he did use the n-word, whether he’s denying it or not,” Sabato
said.
However, Tuesday, Sabato acknowledged he has never directly heard
Allen use the slur.
source:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003277349_allen27.
html
UVA’s Larry Sabato had strong words about Sen. George Allen (R-VA)
on “Hardball” last night:
MSNBC’s Matthews: “What about these charges that he actually used
the bad language that some of us are familiar with in this country?br> in fact, most Americans are뾲he bad language about people from
another, other background뾡id he do it?”
Sabato: “I can’t say how frequently he did it, but I don’t believe
him when he denies never having done it.”
More Sabato: “I’m simply going to say that I’m going to stay with
what I know is the case. And the fact is that he did use the ‘N’
word, whether he’s denying it now or not. He did use it. It was
the ‘70s, you’re right, it was a harsh term, it was an obscenity at
this as far as I’m concerned.”
Matthews: “How do you know about the ‘N’ word? How do you know,
Larry, about the ‘N’ word?”
Sabato: “Because there is other evidence that I’m not going to go
into on your show, Chris, sorry.”
Asked if he heard Allen use the word: “I’m not going to go into any
more details” (“Hardball,” MSNBC, 9/25).
source:
http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2006/09/hotline_after
_d_93.html
Rough translation of op-ed that appeared in Yediot Achronot – 12
Adar:
A band of Islamic terrorists kidnapped Daniel Pearl – a Wall Street
Journal correspondent, a month ago, in Pakistan . His captors held
him
hostage, degraded him, hit him and tortured him. Afterwards, they
slit his
throat, chopped off his head and grossly mutilated his body. They
documented their crimes on video. Daniel Pearls, last words, as they
appear on the video are: “I am a Jew, my father and mother were
Jews.”
The decapitated head of Daniel Pearl, a son of two Israeli parents
who
emigrated from Israel to America , has still not been brought to a
proper
Jewish grave among the nation of Israel .
Let us contemplate the significance of his last words that were
uttered in
the hateful faces of his murderers.
”I am a Jew”, said Pearl , meaning I am the son of the nation and of
the
fate of the Jewish people. “I am a Jew”, meaning I am a link in the
long
chain of persecution, Exiles, pogroms and death camps. “I am a Jew”,
meaning this is my own personal Holocaust.
When Daniel Pearl said “I am a Jew” he died sanctifying G-d’s name.
But Daniel Pearl also said, “My father and my mother are also
Jews.” Meaning: In my last moments of life I proclaim that I am
reconnecting to the fathers of my parents – to my Jewish ancestors.
I am
not only the proud son of this persecuted nation, I am the proud son
of
these survivors, this strong nation, who can never be defeated. My
son,
who is now in my wife’s womb, will be a Jew just like me. You can
kill me
but you can’t kill him. You can’t kill us.
Daniel Pearl said “I am a Jew” as a prayer and as a message. Pearl
wanted
the whole world to know that he was butchered by his Muslim captors
because he was a Jew, and not because he was a reporter or an
American.
Thus his words are a last will and request to Israel , the Jewish
state.
Gibson charged with drunken driving
Misdemeanors carry maximum of six months in jail
Thursday, August 3, 2006
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — Mel Gibson was charged Wednesday
with misdemeanor drunken driving, as well as driving with an
elevated blood alcohol level and an open container of alcohol in his
car, prosecutors said?During his arrest, Gibson asked the arresting
deputy whether he was a Jew and said, “F—ing Jews. The Jews are
responsible for all the wars in the world,” according to a sheriff’s
report obtained by the entertainment Web site TMZ.com, which is
owned by CNN.com parent company Time Warner.
Mel Gibson Drives Drunk, Swears Uncontrollably, Hates Jewish People,
Threatens Cops,
Worried that Gibson might become violent, the deputy on the scene,
James Mee, told the actor he would not be handcuffed as long as he
cooperated. As the two stood next to the hood of the patrol car, the
deputy asked Gibson to get inside, at which point Mel
proclaimed “I’m not going to get in your car,” and bolted to his own
vehicle. The deputy quickly subdued Gibson, cuffed him and put him
inside the patrol car.
The deputy taped the entire exchange between himself and Gibson,
from the time of the traffic stop to the time Gibson was put in the
patrol car, and that the tape fully corroborates the written report
obtained by TMZ.
It gets better/worse. Once inside the car, Gibson began banging
against the seat.
”You motherf뻢er. I’m going to f뻢 you,” he yelled.
The deputy, in the report, wrote that “Gibson almost continually
[sic] threatened me saying he ‘owns Malibu ‘ and will spend all of
his money to ‘get even’ with me.” The report also states that Gibson
launched into a tirade of anti-Semitic statements, exclaiming “F?br> king Jews?The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.”
Gibson then asked the deputy if he is Jewish.
The deputy became alarmed as Gibson’s tirade escalated, and called
ahead for a sergeant to meet them when they arrived at the station.
When they arrived, a sergeant began videotaping Gibson, who noticed
the camera and then said, “What the f뻢 do you think you’re doing?”
Gibson then allegedly saw a female sergeant and yelled, “What do you
think you’re looking at, sugar tits?”
TMZ has been told that Gibson took two blood alcohol tests, which
were videotaped, and continued saying how “f뻢ed” he was and how he
was going to “f뻢” the deputy who arrested him. He was then put in a
cell with handcuffs on. He said he needed to urinate, and tried
manipulating his hands to unzip his pants. Afraid Gibson was going
to urinate on the floor of the cell, the deputy asked someone to
take Gibson to the bathroom.
After leaving the bathroom, Gibson demanded to make a phone call,
and was taken to a pay phone, where he began bashing the receiver
against the phone when he didn’t hear a dial tone. Gibson was warned
that if he damaged the phone he could be charged with felony
vandalism. Gibson was then asked, and refused, to sign the necessary
paperwork, and was thrown in a detox cell.
Deputy Mee wrote an eight-page report detailing Mel Gibson’s rampage
and comments. Sources say the sergeant on duty felt the written
report was inflammatory, especially given the current situation in
Israel . It was mentioned several times that Gibson had
incited “anti-Jewish sentiment” and “For a drunk driving arrest, is
this really worth all that?”
Deputy Mee was then ordered to write a second report, leaving the
comments about Jews out. Sources say he was told the sanitized
report would end up in the media, and that he could file a
supplemental report that contained the incendiary information, which
would be locked in the commander’s safe.
Initially, a Sheriff’s official told TMZ the arrest occurred without
incident. On Friday night, spokesman Steve Whitmore told TMZ:
”The L.A. County Sheriff’s Department investigation into the arrest
of Mr. Gibson on suspicion of driving under the influence will be
complete and will contain every factual piece of evidence. Nothing
will be sanitized. There was absolutely no favoritism shown to this
suspect or any other. When this file is presented to the Los Angeles
County District Attorney, it will contain everything. Nothing will
be left out.”
http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com
by Liba Pearson I don’t know what kind of Jew Daniel
Pearl was뾦f he went to synagogue regularly or thought about keeping
kosher. And it just doesn’t matter.
These days in Israel , I’ve noticed that cab drivers no longer only
say “have a nice day” when you get out of the cab. Instead they
say, “Have a quiet day.” By that, they mean: “Let’s hope no one dies
today.” Because it seems that almost every day comes another horror?br> two teenagers blown up in a pizza shop, an old man bludgeoned to
death in a soccer stadium just inside Palestinian territory, a
mother and her developmentally disabled daughter shot in their home
by a demon who will later be proclaimed a hero by people who live a
half hour’s drive from me…
Not every few months, or few weeks; the unthinkable is occurring so
frequently that thought stops.
With each headline, I pause and reflect… and it is too much and I
close my eyes tightly. I try to comprehend how this happens, how can
they do this…
But I understand that I cannot understand.
On Friday, shortly before I ran out for Shabbat, I saw that Daniel
Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter, had been killed by his
captors. I can’t say that I was surprised. But, still, I had a
moment뾩onger even than usual뾵here I grieved.
I read the obituaries: about his joviality, his love of music, his
propensity for walking around the newsroom in bare feet. And the
reports were now “releasing” the information that Daniel Pearl was
Jewish. To us뾲o Jews뾲his came as no surprise. His name, his
face… we already knew that. And as silly as it seemed that his
captors might not know it themselves, I understood why his family
had asked that it not be reported.
It wasn’t until after Shabbat that I read what Daniel Pearl’s last
words were:
”I am a Jew. My mother is a Jew…”
That was the last thing he uttered before one of his captors stepped
up behind him and slit his throat.
That was apparently the last thing he uttered before one his captors
stepped up behind him and slit his throat. Then they beheaded him,
and they videotaped the entire grisly spectacle. Those words뾲hey
beheaded him뾪ust be said in a whisper. They don’t make sense, even
to me뾞nd I live in a place where children are killed for eating
pizza.
They beheaded him.
Things like that don’t happen. The gruesomeness of it, the
barbarism…
But that’s not what stuck in my head.
He was a Jew and his mother was a Jew.
I don’t know what “kind” of Jew he was뾦f he went to synagogue
regularly or thought about keeping kosher, if he considered himself
a member of any of the particular “streams” of Judaism (maybe he was
Refoconservadoxal) or not, or if his pretty wife is Jewish, or if he
planned on giving the son she is carrying a bris.
And it just doesn’t matter.
This is something that the wicked men who killed him understand,
sometimes, much better than we do. Whether he was right or left,
whether he was completely assimilated or wildly and fervently
observant뾆aniel Pearl was just a Jew.
As I sat reading eulogies, with tears brimming in my eyes,
Mordechai’s admonition to Esther came into my head: “Do not imagine
that you will be able to escape in the king’s palace any more than
any other Jew.”
Just like the old man beaten to death in a soccer field, like the
teenagers eating pizza, the mother and daughter… They all
committed the same crime: Being a Jew.
I do not understand.
This past Shabbat, we read Parshat Zachor, when the entire
congregation repeats: “Remember what Amalek did to you on the way…”
Amalek led his tribe in an attack on the Jews as they wearily made
their way out of Egypt . His deeds were most dastardly: he attacked
the Jews’ rear, where the old and sick and weakest were. Ironically,
he was a grandson of Esau’s뾞nd therefore not-so-distantly related
to the Jews. And yet he attacked just after the miraculous splitting
of the Red Sea : He feared neither the Jews nor God.
Why did he do it? Our sages answer simply: because Amalek was evil.
Not forgetting what Amalek did to us on means remembering that there
is such a thing as simple wickedness, and remembering Amalek rebukes
the notion that everyone is motivated by some sort of rational self-
interest.
Evil deserves only to be eradicated.
Thousands of people were slaughtered as they sat in their offices in
New York and there are those who say we must “understand” why those
who perpetrated the deed did so.
Evil cannot be simply explained by reason. Evil deserves not to be
understood, twisted into some shape that we recognize as rational
behavior: Evil deserves only to be eradicated. Our charge to
remember Amalek confronts us with that.
We so want to rationalize evil into something we can wrap our
intellects around: We want to believe that Hitler had some sort of
gruesome Jewish kindergarten teacher and acted out his frustrations
on the whole Jewish people. Mordechai set off Haman’s dreadful
inferiority complex. And maybe Amalek himself had appallingly low
self-esteem?
No.
Nor can we any better understand the actions of the men who stepped
in front of a video camera and murdered Danny Pearl.
”I am a Jew. My mother is a Jew…”
When he said that, they killed him. We know for what he was
executed, what crime he committed.
Parshat Zachor concludes: “It shall be that when God lets you rest
from all your surrounding enemies in the land that God gave you as a
heritage to bequeath, you are to erase the memory of Amalek from
beneath the heaven. Do not forget.” And, just like the old man in
the soccer field, and the mother and daughter, and the kids in the
pizza shop, we must never forget what Amalek did to Danny Pearl.
Marianne Pearl said that Danny Pearl’s spirit lives on.
And after I am galled each time that I can go on with my day after
the choking pause when I hear about the old man, or the mother and
daughter, or the kids… or Danny Pearl, I know that going on, going
downtown, refusing to be cowed by the fear the modern-day Amaleks
spread, continuing to live life as a proud, committed Jew뾲hat is
the only victory I understand.
Contributions to support Daniel Pearl’s family can be made at:
Pearl Family Foundation
c/o Wall Street Journal
P.O. Box 300
Princeton , N.J. 08543
This next item is excerpted from The Man in the High Castle by
Philip K. Dick “The loudspeaker at the end of the aisle
said “Achtung, meine Damen und Herren.” In his seat, Mr. Baynes
started, opened his eyes. Through the window to his right he could
see, far below, the brown and green of land, and then blue. The
Pacific. The rocket, he realized, had begun its long slow descent.
In German first, then Japanese, and at last English, the loudspeaker
explained that no one was to smoke or to untie himself from his
padded seat. The descent, it explained, would take eight minutes.
The retro-jets started then, so suddenly and loudly, shaking the
ship so violently, that a number of passengers gasped. Mr. Baynes
smiled, and in the aisle seat across from him, another passenger, a
younger man with close-cropped blond hair, also smiled.
”Sie furchten dass?quot; the young man began, but Mr. Baynes saidat
once, in English:
”I’m sorry; I don’t speak German.” The young German gazed at
himquestioningly, and so he saidthe same thing in German.
”No German?” the young German said, amazed, in accented English.
”I am Swedish,” Baynes said
”You embarked at Tempelhof.”
”Yes, I was in Germany on business. My business carries me to a
number of countries.”
Clearly, the young German could not believe that anyone in the
modern world, anyone who had international business dealings and
rode뾠ould afford to ride뾬n the latest Lufthansa rocket, could or
would not speak German. To Baynes he said, “What line are you in,
mein Herr?”
”Plastics. Polyesters. Resins. Ersatz뾦ndustrial uses. Do you see?
No consumers’ commodities.”
” Sweden has a plastics industry?” Disbelief.
”Yes, a very good one. If you will give me your name I will have a
firm brochure mailed to you.” Mr. Baynes brought out his pen and pad.
”Never mind. It would be wasted on me. I am an artist, not a
commercial man. No offense. Possibly you have seen my work while on
the Continent. Alex Lotze” He waited.
”Afraid I do not care for modern art,” Mr. Baynes said”I like the
old prewar cubists and abstractionists. I like a picture to mean
something, not merely to represent the ideal.” He turned away.
”But that’s the task of art,” Lotze said. “To advance the
spirituality of man, over the sensual. Your abstract art represented
a period of spiritual decadence, of spiritual chaos, due to the
disintegration of society, the old plutocracy. The Jewish and
capitalist millionaires, the international set that supported the
decadent art. Those times are over; art has to뾤o on뾦t can’t stay
still.”
Baynes nodded, gazing out the window.
”Have you been to the Pacific before?”Lotze asked.
”Several times.”
”Not I. There is an exhibition in San Francisco of my work, arranged
by Dr. Goebbels’ office, with the Japanese authorities. A cultural
exchange to promote understanding and goodwill. We must ease
tensions between the East and West, don’t you think? We must have
more communication, and art can do that.”
Baynes nodded. Below, beyond the ring of fire from the rocket, the
city of San Francisco and the Bay could now be seen.
”Where does one eat in San Francisco ?” Lotze was saying. “I have
reservations at the Palace Hotel, but my understanding is that one
can find good food in the international section, such as the
Chinatown .”
”True,” Baynes said.
”Are prices high in San Francisco ? I am out of pocket for this
trip. The Ministry is very frugal.” Lotze laughed.
”Depends on the exchange rate you can manage. I presume you’re
carrying Reichsbank drafts. I suggest you go to the Bank of Tokyo on
Samson Street and exchange there.”
”Danke sehr,”Lotze said . “I would have done it at the hotel.”
The rocket had almost reached the ground. Now Baynes could see the
airfield itself, hangars, parking lots, the autobahn from the city,
the houses. . . very lovely view, he thought. Mountains and water,
and a few bits of fog drifting in at the Golden Gate .
”What is that enormous structure below?” Lotze asked. “It is half-
finished, open at one side. A spaceport? The Nipponese have no
spacecraft, I thought.”
With a smile, Baynes said, “That’s Golden Poppy Stadium. The
baseball park.”
Lotze laughed. “Yes, they love baseball. Incredible. They have begun
work on that great structure for a pastime, an idle time-wasting
sport?quot;
Interrupting, Baynes said “It is finished. That’s its permanent
shape. Open on one side. A new architectural design. They are very
proud of it.”
”It looks,” Lotze said, gazing down, “as if it was designed by a
Jew.”
Baynes regarded the man for a time. He felt, strongly for a moment,
the unbalanced quality, the psychotic streak, in the German mind.
Did Lotze actually mean what he said? Was it a truly spontaneous
remark?
”I hope we will see one another later on in San Francisco ,” Lotze
said, as the rocket touched the ground. “I will be at loose ends
without a countryman to talk to.”
”I’m not a countryman of yours,” Baynes said.
”Oh, yes; that’s so. But racially, you’re quite close. For all
intents and purposes the same.” Lotze began to stir around in his
seat, getting ready to unfasten the elaborate belts.
Am I racially kin to this man? Baynes wondered. So closely so that
for all intents and purposes it is the same? Then it is in me, too,
the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are
in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And뾥ow many of
us do know it? Not Lotze. Perhaps if you know you are insane then
you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up. I
suppose only a few are aware of all this. Isolated persons here and
there. But the broad masses. . . what do they think? All these
hundreds of thousands in this city, here. Do they imagine that they
live in a sane world? Or do they guess, glimpse, the truth. . . ?
But, he thought, what does it mean, insane? A legal definition. What
do I mean? I feel it, see it, but what is it?
He thought, It is something they do, something they are. It is뾲heir
unconsciousness. Their lack of knowledge about others. Their not
being aware of what they do to others, the destruction they have
caused and are causing. No, he thought. That isn’t it, I don’t know;
I sense it, intuit it. But뾲hey are purposely cruel . . . is that
it? No. God, he thought. I can’t find it, make it clear. Do they
ignore parts of reality? Yes. But it is more. It is their plans.
Yes, their plans. The conquering of the planets. Something frenzied
and demented, as was their conquering of Africa, and before that,
Europe and Asia .
Their view; it is cosmic. Not of a man here, a child there, but air
abstraction: race, land. Volk. Land. Blut. Ehre. Not of honorable
men but of Ehre itself, honor; the abstract is real, the actual is
invisible to them. Die G?e, but not good men, this good man. It is
their sense of space and time. They see through the here, the now,
into the vast black deep beyond, the unchanging. And that is fatal
to life. Because eventually there will be no life; there was once
only the dust particles in space, the hot hydrogen gases, nothing
more, and it will come again. This is an interval, ein Augenblick.
The cosmic process is hurrying on, crushing life back into the
granite and methane; the wheel turns for all life. It is all
temporary. And they뾲hese madmen뾯espond to the granite, the dust,
the longing of the inanimate; they want to aid Natur.
And, he thought, I know why. They want to be the agents, not the
victims, of history. They identify with God’s power and believe they
are godlike. That is their basic madness. They are overcome by some
archetype; their egos have expanded psychotically so that they
cannot tell where they begin and the godhead leaves off. It is not
hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate
confusion between him who worships and that which is worshiped. Man
has not eaten God; God has eaten man.
What they do not comprehend is man’s helplessness. I am weak, small,
of no consequence to the universe. It does not notice me; I live on
unseen. But why is that bad? Isn’t it better that way? Whom the gods
notice they destroy. Be small. . . and you will escape the jealousy
of the great.
As he unfastened his own belt, Baynes said, “Mr. Lotze, I have never
told anyone this. I am a Jew. Do you understand?”
Lotze stared at him piteously.
”You would not have known” Baynes said, “because I do not in any
physical way appear Jewish; I have had my nose altered, my large
greasy pores made smaller, my skin chemically lightened, the shape
of my skull changed. In short, physically I cannot be detected. I
can and have often walked in the highest circles of Nazi society. No
one will ever discover me. And?quot; He paused, standing close, very
close to Lotze and speaking in a low voice which only Lotze could
hear. “And there are others of us. Do you hear? We did not die. We
still exist. We live on unseen.”
After a moment Lotze stuttered, “The Security Police?quot;
”The SD can go over my record,” Baynes said . “You can report me.
But I have very high connections. Some of them are Aryan, some are
other Jews in top positions in Berlin . Your report will be
discounted, and then, presently, I will report you. And through
these same connections, you will find yourself in Protective
Custody.” He smiled, nodded and walked up the aisle of the ship,
away from Lotze, to join the other passengers.
Everyone descended the ramp, onto the cold, windy field. At the
bottom, Baynes found himself once more momentarily near Lotze.
”In fact,” Baynes said, walking beside Lotze, “I do not like your
looks, Mr. Lotze so I think I will report you anyhow.” He strode on,
then, leaving Lotze behind.
item directly above was excerpted from The Man in the High Castle by
Philip K. Dick
George Allen’s Jewish Heritage Confirmed
http://politics.wizbangblog.com/2006/09/20/george-allens-jewish-
heritage-confirmed.php
In a statement on AllenHQ and in in interview with The Jewish Daily
Forward, Senator George Allen addresses the ethnicity of his parents.
Yesterday, I found it especially reprehensible that a reporter would
impugn the attitudes of my mother, as Ms. Peggy Fox did in her first
question at the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce Senate debate. My
mother and father both taught me to abhor bigotry, and Ms. Fox’s
suggestion to the contrary was deeply offensive.”
”The notion peddled by the Webb campaign that I am somehow
embarrassed by my heritage is equally offensive, and also absurd.”
”I was raised as a Christian and my mother was raised as a
Christian. And I embrace and take great pride in every aspect of my
diverse heritage, including my Lumbroso family line’s Jewish
heritage, which I learned about from a recent magazine article and
my mother confirmed.”
”On several occasions through the years, I have mentioned publicly
that my mother’s father was incarcerated by the Nazis. I have never
known whether he was persecuted by the Nazis because of his
nationality, his religious faith, his role as a community leader, or
his part in the anti-Nazi resistance. What I do know is that my
grandfather’s imprisonment by the Nazis had a profound impact on my
mother. It was a subject she found painful to discuss and so we
almost never discussed it.”
”Some may find it odd that I have not probed deeply into the details
of my family history, but it’s a fact. We in the Allen household
were simply taught that what matters is a person’s character,
integrity, effort, and performance – not race, gender, ethnicity or
religion. And so whenever we would ask my mother through the years
about our family background on her side, the answer always was, ‘Who
cares about that?’”
”My mother has lived a long and full life, and I hope and pray she
will enjoy many more years. She deserves respect and she also
deserves privacy, especially where painful memories are concerned. I
sincerely hope that simple decency will be respected.”
In case you missed the question, here it is:
”It has been reported,” said Fox, that “your grandfather Felix, whom
you were given your middle name for, was Jewish. Could you please
tell us whether your forebears include Jews and, if so, at which
point Jewish identity might have ended?”
In a campaign most notable for missteps, Allen’s response confounds
pundits, but in our estimation plays very well to potential voters,
at a visceral, emotional level. He wasn’t being questioned about a
his family history, he was being accused of hiding it. The
desperation of Jim Webb’s Netroots Coordinator Lowell Feld to make
this persona matter an issue should be spotlighted by the Allen
campaign – repeatedly. Privacy, or more importantly inappropriate
incursions into ones private life, is an issue that everyone can
identify with, and voters have a history of being very supportive of
politicians requests to allow them a level of privacy in their
family – for example Clinton and Bush’s protectiveness of their
daughters privacy.
This clip, where Allen’s justifiable outrage at the tone and
aspersions of the question, will go along way toward erasing the
memory of the “macaca” video.
The response shows an Allen who is passionate, raw, unscripted, and
protective of his family. Anyone who thinks those qualities are a
negative with voters is just deluding themselves.”
A Look at former Navy Secretary Virginia US Senate Candidate James
Webb’s
tangled webs
”Secretaries of the Navy
DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY뾐AVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE뾚ASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060
James H. Webb 1 May 1987 – 23 Feb 1988
source:
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq37-1.htm
Former Navy Secretary Virginia US Senate Candidate James Webb has
been a long
time opponent of the liberation of Iraq. When he was Secretary of
the Navy he
urged that the US attack Saddam’s enemy Iran. While we support the
liberation of
both Iraq and Iran, it is clear that the US tilt towards Iraq and
against Iran
in the Iran-Iraq war helped to set Iran on its current anti-American
path.
That tilt was a major mistake. Webb’s role in that tilt as Secretary
of the Navy
during part of the Iran-Iraq war is examined briefly here. Hopefully
those who
are naive enough to think of former Navy Secretary Webb as a
peacemaker will
have their eyes opened by this brief look at some of his history.
Excerpted from Pages 39-40 of SPIDER’S WEB: THE SECRET HISTORY
OF HOW THE WHITE HOUSE ILLEGALLY ARMED IRAQ by Alan Friedman ASIN:
0553096508
”In January 1987, as the” (Iran-Iraq)”war entered its seventh year
and the
combined death toll neared one million people, Iran began yet
another major
offensive. This time it pushed deep into Iraqi territory. Saddam
Hussein needed
help-but he also required reassurance from Washington about its
intentions,
since revelations in the Iran-Contra scandal were now detailing the
U.S. covert
military aid that had been going to his enemy, Iran. From Baghdad’s
point of
view, Washington was either ambivalent or duplicitous.
Thanks to the rival pro-Iraq and pro-Iran factions inside the
government, the
United States had indeed sent out very confusing signals.
Nonetheless, the
secret shipments to Iran paled when compared with the support given
Saddam, and
William Casey led the drive to placate Iraq. He had already met with
Tariq Aziz
at the United Nations to make sure Iraq was happy with the flow of
intelligence
it was receiving, and he encouraged Aziz to go ahead with more
attacks on
Iranian economic targets.
Then netural ships in the Persian Gulf began coming under attack
from both Iran
and Iraq. Those of oil-rich Kuwait were of particular concern to the
administration. Kuwaiti leaders wanted their oil tankers protected
by either
Moscow of Washington, and in March 1987 top U.S. officials including
Caspar
Weinberger, George Schultz aand Admiral William Crowe, the chairman
of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, decided to defend Kuwaiti vessels that were
navigating the
Gulf.
Two months later, on May 17th, pro-Iraqi officials such as
Weinberger suffered
an instant case of political whiplash when a U.S. frigate, the
Stark, was
attacked by an Iraqi warplane and thirty-seven Americans on board
were
killed?The Stark incident underscored the increasingly risky state
of affairs
in the Gulf, and it was followed by a formal announcement from
President Reagan
that the United States would reflag Kuwaiti oil tankers so that the
U.S. Navy
could escort them.”
You can see photos of the USS Stark in the
VICTIMS OF ARAB ATTACKS photo album at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KnowTheEnemy/
”May 17 1987, had started out as a routine day in the Persian gulf,
we were to
soon be on patrol escorting the newly flagged Kuwaiti Oil tankers.
Little Did I
know that day would change my life forever .we were always thinking
of The world
and our loved ones back at home, to get this over with do our duty
to our
country .I had just helped Daniel Homicki, move into my old bunk,
and I went on
my last watch ,my commitment to the Navy was up.
What was supposed to be a good last memory for me went horribly
wrong. The
excitement of coming home was over shadowed by an Iraqi attack that
killed 37 of
my shipmates, and wounded many more, I narrowly escaped death myself
by being on
a SH2 Sea sprite helicopter.”
SOURCE:
http://groups.msn.com/ussstark/_homepage.msnw?pgmarket=en-us
”USS STARK
On May 17, 1987, the Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate, USS Stark
(FFG 31) was
hit by two Exocet anti-ship cruise missiles fired by an Iraqi F-1
Mirage fighter
aircraft while operating in the central Persian Gulf. The explosion
of the first
missile caused extensive structural damage and flooding. Combustion
of the
burning propellant of both missiles immediately caused intense fires
to build
throughout the ship. There were 37 deaths and 5 injuries reported as
a result of
the attack.
http://www.dcfp.navy.mil/mc/museum/STARK/STARK.htm
”THE STARK INCIDENT
When the USS Stark (FFG-31) took a hit from a pair of Exocet
missiles in the
Persian Gulf in 1987, its port side fire mains ruptured and its
precious supply
of A-FFF Foam, which quickly extinguishes Class B oil fires, became
unavailable.
Additionally, the ship’s damage control and fire fighting inventory
did not
include many of the important fire fighting and life saving
equipment that
ordinary fire fighters ashore use every day.
The Stark incident killed 37 sailors, injured 21 others and caused
$142 million
in damage to the ship. The terrorist attack on the USS Cole in 2002
caused
similar damage to the port side fire mains?br> Missile attack on the Stark ruptured port side fire mains,
inhibiting the crew’s
ability to fight the onboard fire”
source: http://www.marinelog.com/DOCS/PRINTMMIII/MMIIIDecIRA1.html
”USS Stark should be remembered
Submitted by Jagfly, Apr 7, 2006
Hi, I just wanted to say it is a sad thing that you don’t hear much
of this
attack. I have often brought it up to people and no one remembers.
My brother
was on the USS Stark and he was one of the survivors. All men and
women who
serve our country in the name of “freedom” and die doing it should
forever be
remembered, as it has been with WW1 etc. God bless all who serve our
country.”
source: http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/42677
”On October 12th, 2000 terrorists in a boat laden with explosives
carried out a suicide bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in the harbor at
Aden, Yemen.
In what President Clinton described as a “despicable and cowardly
act,” 17 U.S.
sailors were killed, and over 30 others were wounded.”
”Iraq has the motivation and the means to actively support the
Islamist networks of the region*** In the past, there have been
intelligence reports of possible cooperation between Iraq and Osama
bin Laden. Iraq has already tried to assassinate President Bush
Senior in 1993, when he visited Kuwait as a private citizen. In the
attack on the USS Cole in Aden (in) October (of 2000), there could
have been an
Iraqi connection. Iraq has excellent relations with the anti-Western
Yemeni
Islamists of the Army of Aden-Abyan, whose militants have been
arrested by the
Yemenite authorities in connection with the attack. Such an attack
required long
preparations, technical and military skills and good operational
intelligence.
In addition, the explosive used in the attack was sophisticated,
a “shaped
charge” like a torpedo or a missile, a device not in use by terrorist
organizations, and which may have come from a military stockpile.”
The USS Cole was scheduled for duty off Iraq when it was attacked.
Excerpted from: “CBS Evening News for Wednesday, May 20, 1987
Headline: USS Stark Aftermath
[Navy Secretary James WEBB - denies reports that Stark’s defense
system was
disabled.]”
source:
http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1987-5/1987-05-20-CBS-2.html
excerpted from: “CBS Evening News for Monday, May 25, 1987
Headline: Memorial Day Abstract: (Studio: Bob Schieffer) Report
introduced.
(Atlanta, Georgia: Peter Van Sant) Nation’s Memorial Day observances
noted
underscored by recent USS Stark tragedy; details given, scenes
shown. [At
Arlington National Cemetery services, Navy Secretary James WEBB -
eulogizes
Stark crew as well as war casualties.] “source:
http://openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1987-5/1987-05-25-CBS-3.html
the following is excerpted from:” The Stormy Departure of a Navy
Secretary who
veered off course(Washington Post, March 7, 1988) “Webb also
attempted to dispel
concerns over a magazine article he’d written years earlier
entitled “Women
Can’t Fight” by opening more non-combat jobs to women?. Webb”
(told) “a group
of newspaper editors and reporters that he believed the United
States should
respond to Iranian hostilities with strikes that would prevent
further
aggression rather than hitting small military targets. The United
States
recently had destroyed Iranian oil platforms used for communications
and
launching small boats.”
the following is excerpted from:”A Tangled Webb By Colonel Paul E.
Roush, U.S.
Marine Corps (Retired)When James Webb wrote “Women Can’t Fight” for
Washingtonian magazine in 1979, he initiated an assault that
continues to the
present day. The assault primarily is on women, but it extends much
further. It
is an assault on the Naval Academy and on the naval service. . . .
It is an assault on civilian control of the military and ultimately
on the
constitutional constraints that define the relation between citizen
and soldier.
His 1981 book, A Sense of Honor, continued to press certain elements
of the
assault. In particular, it decried congressional legislation
regarding hazing.
In an article entitled “The War on the Military Culture” in The
Weekly Standard
in January 1997, he returned again to some of the basic themes that
have marked
his writings over the years.
The content of James Webb’s writing matters for several reasons.
First, he is a
person of influence뾞 highly decorated small-unit combat leader, an
accomplished
writer, a former Secretary of the Navy. Second, his writings are an
appeal to
the politics of resentment, one result of which is to foster
cynicism toward the
institution and the profession. Third, many midshipmen continue to
refer to his
ideas and to be shaped by them in their formative years of
preparation for
future leadership roles in the Navy and Marine Corps.
Accordingly, it is worth giving careful attention to what I see as
his central
themes.Theme #1: Stress is fungible and is the means by which
warriors are made
at the Naval Academy.Webb seems to believe that response to stress
generalizes
almost without limit. In other words, if one learns to deal with one
kind of
stress, one is assured of being able to deal with all other kinds of
stress.
He uses this theory to defend the use of physical abuse at the Naval
Academy.The
argument goes something like this: Being abused physically by those
in power is
stressful. Combat also is stressful. Learning to endure the stress
of physical
abuse therefore will allow one to face the stress of combat without
being
debilitated by it.
This belief undergir
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