Catchup. I'm b-a-a-a-ck. This has been an unusually crowded week for me, which included one day (my 62nd birthday) when I drove hither and yon for a total of 122.1 miles on personal business and my commute to work, so I have been unable to comment here as I would have liked to. One story, the absurd waste of media time given to the search for three reckless mountain climbers in Oregon, has been partly mooted by events. The search was called off in failure after only one climber was found, dead, in a snow cave. The other bodies will presumably be found in the spring, when the snows melt, or never, if they died above the permanent snow line.
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My irritation was that throughout the two weeks of fruitless searches, media kept taking several minutes every hour or even half hour to tell us they had nothing to tell us! This happens all the time, especially in this day of 24-hour news channels. It's got to stop. When you have something to tell us, tell us. But when you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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Nine Months of Governmental Harassment, and Counting. The prosecutor in Durham, North Carolina has dropped rape charges against three Duke University lacrosse players accused of raping a stripper who performed at a team party on-campus in March. But the bastard is continuing to pursue kidnapping and sexual-offense charges. It is long past time for the State of North Carolina and the ACLU to step in and demand the removal of that prosecutor, and act to punish him criminally and civilly. He should be sued for every cent he has now or ever will have, and sent to prison for criminal harassment, where he might find out what rape is really all about.
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I am very tired of whores pretending to be innocent victims. In the present case, DNA testing on the "victim" has, according to Fox News, shown the presence inside her of 'DNA' — no, let's not pussyfoot: semen — from SEVERAL different men, NOT including any of the three accused lacrosse players and NOT including her boyfriend! The bitch is a whore, plain and simple, and nothing she says can be believed. She too should be prosecuted, for filing false and malicious charges, and sued for money, which probably matters a lot more to her than her 'reputation'.
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If these boys are, as seems likely, completely exonerated — they have maintained their innocence all along — the lacrosse team and Duke University should hold a parade and rally to honor them and the ultimate triumph of justice even in North Carolina.
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The prosecutor seems to have committed reverse racism against these white boys accused of rape by a black woman. Reverse racism really is not one whit better than the original racism that has for so long tainted North Carolina's reputation. Not one whit.
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"David and Goliath". Evan Bayh, the U.S. Senator from Indiana who contemplated a run for the Presidency in 2008, dropped out, comparing the odds to those of "David and Goliath":

"The odds were always going to be very long for a relatively unknown candidate like myself, a little bit like David and Goliath," Bayh said .... He added that beyond the question of "whether there were too many Goliaths or whether I'm just not the right David," his chances were slim.

Apparently Sen. Bayh doesn't understand the David and Goliath fable: David WON. What anyone who uses the comparison really means is that their opponent(s), like Goliath, is (are) doomed, so Bayh should be glad to be seen as David — for that purpose only.
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Of course, the whole story of David and Goliath is at best self-vaunting by the Jews, part of the thousands of years of Jewish aggression against their neighbors. The real moral of the story is that technology makes up for brute strength, because David avoided Goliath's sword, mace, and anything else he might have employed in hand-to-hand combat by hurling a projectile at him from afar.
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David was a horrible, horrible person who is reported by the Old Testament to have gladly complied with a demand by King Saul that he kill and sexually mutilate 100 Philistine men (in order to present Saul with their foreskins as proof he had killed Philistines, not Jews — Jewish "scalping"). He did that. Double.

David was successful in battle against the Philistines and this aroused the jealousy of Saul, who tried to kill David by throwing a spear at him. David stayed with Saul, however, and Saul offered him his own daughter, Merav, as a wife. He later reneged on his promise, but offered David his second daughter, Michal, in exchange for the foreskins of 100 Philistines, a price that David paid.

That is the Jews' idea of a hero: a man who not just murders men but also mutilates their bodies sexually. From 1 Samuel:

After David had killed Goliath, the men of Israel returned home. The women came out of all of the towns of Israel to meet King Saul. They danced and sang joyful songs. They played lutes and tambourines. 7 As they danced, they sang,
"Saul has killed thousands of men.
David has killed tens of thousands."

8 That song made Saul very angry. It really upset him. He said to himself, "They are saying David has killed tens of thousands of men. But they are saying I've killed only thousands. The only thing left for him to get is the kingdom itself." 9 From that time on, Saul became very jealous of David. * * *

In everything [David] did, he was very successful. That's because the Lord was with him. [Yes, the Lord of the Jews is all for mass murder of non-Jews. Philistines, Palestinians (same thing: the Arabic name for Palestine is Filisteen), Christians — no difference.]

27 David and his men went out and killed 200 Philistines. They circumcised them.

Aren't the Jews wonderful? What a lovely book the Old Testament is. Children's literature of the first water. Oh, no. That's wrong. The Old Testament is unfit for anyone to read. It is filled with murderous violence, death, and injustice. It should be burned in every copy that might conceivably fall into the hands of a feeble-minded loser desperate to find something to believe in.
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Instead of being loathed by all decent people thruout time, David has been glorified as a virtual demigod, praised and adored as a model for men. Michelangelo made a famous nude statue of him to regale the public, including children, in a public plaza in Florence. Some gay men have tried to make him a gay hero, by interpreting the story of Jonathan and David (found in the same book of the Old Testament I quote from above) as a homosexual love story. I'll have none of it. David was a monster.
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But if one should nonetheless be tempted to compare himself to David in a "David and Goliath" contest, he should be clear: Goliath is doomed.
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Mike Evans Dead?!? I was astonished to hear that the actor who played Lionel Jefferson in two classic TV sitcoms, All in the Family and (much of) The Jeffersons, has died at age 57.

Evans died of throat cancer Dec. 14 at his mother's home in Twentynine Palms, said his niece, Chrystal Evans.

Evans, along with Eric Monte, also created and wrote for "Good Times," one of the first TV comedy series that featured a primarily black cast.

Every time I see an episode of The Jeffersons with Damon Evans* (no relation) in the role of Lionel, I am annoyed to be seeing the "fake Lionel". Now every time I see The Jeffersons I will be a little sad to know that not only Weezie and Mama but also Lionel is dead, just as every time I see an episode of Roseanne with Glenn Quinn (who played Mark, husband to Becky**) I am a little sad to know he too has died, from heroin at age 32. Hey, at least George Jefferson is still alive.
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Donald Trump Called Somebody Ugly? I was a bit amused to hear Donald Trump call Rosie O'Donnell ugly inside and out. Does The Donald think he's a looker himself? Oh Donald, Donald, Donald. Find a mirror that works!
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* Hm: three Evans today (Evan Bayh, Mike Evans, Damon Evans). It's "Evans Day"!

** Did you know that both of the very American boyfriends/husbands to the Conner girls in Roseanne were played by actors born abroad? Glenn Quinn was born in Ireland and was of Irish nationality; Johnny Galecki (who played David, husband to Darlene) was born in Belgium, where his American father was stationed during service in the Air Force.
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(The current U.S. military death toll in Iraq, according to the website "Iraq Coalition Casualties", is 2,964 — for Israel.)
- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 2:49 PM