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Friday, November 9, 2012

The Old Red Lady of the Old Gray Lady Howls at the Moon. Palin has Rattled Her Cage Door



From 7.06.2009

Abstract: Maureen Dowd flies into an incoherent rant and attacks Governor Sarah Palin for stepping down from her job but offers us no substance as a basis for her journalistic abuse. Dowd twists every word and theme in the Palin announcement but omits any reference to the central message about a ‘higher calling.’ The lack of an explanation about her future has infuriated the sordid left and their journalistic bowl scrubbers at the Times, Huffington Post and other shin plasters. Palin has changed her plans and now the frantic left grunt and grab for a defense against her new but unknown and dangerous intentions. The kind of journalistic know-how used here is best left in the cuspidors of shabby taverns of the lower East Side of New York and out of sight.

We are always entertained by the writings that appear in the  NYT—aka the Walter Duranty Papers[1]-- as they attempt to ‘form public opinion’ or merely  justify the antics of their  far left benefactors--their ideological partners in Congress-- by suggesting new and sweeping changes that ultimately lead to socialism, inflation, debt and the  loss of our  Constitutional Rights.  This has been the mission of this tome for many decades so we need not bother to search any of their written works for a trace of any substance that might conflict with their sacred, to them, mission.

Today, we are treated to a mega dose of unbridled and unsanitary vengeance heaped upon the governor of Alaska from the Old Red Lady[2][3], [4] of the Old Gray Lady[5] [Dah Dowdy Dowd today]. [6] Does Maureen cook her hair in the microwave??[7] Where does that color come from? As a chemist, I know that some chemicals that color can eat through glass. [8]

We recognize that ‘the people have a right to know’ all the sordid details of politicians and that our beloved newspaper in the city will shower us with such knowledge commingled with bits of  truth as is necessary to make their point as far as the right is concerned. Nary do we read much about the miscreants and social failures of the left. Richard Cheney can be dragged through the literary latrines with his face down but monsters like Ted Kennedy, John Kerry and Good Time Charlie Rangel get as light a treatment as possible in the NYT and associated rags.

This is expected and is all part of the game so we wonder what Sarah Palin has said that requires her to brace herself for an onslaught from Old Red Lady. There must be some substance, some new dirt since Maureen scoured the dumpsters in the little town of Wasilla on a personal digging mission during the race last summer and found something, or held it back. She must have kept some of this find secret as now she unleashes a thunderbolt against Palin with gusto and dynamism and a few toasts of vinegar.

Let the unmasking of Sara Palin begin!!!

“Sarah Palin showed on Friday that in one respect at least, she is qualified to be president.

Caribou Barbie is one nutty puppy.”-- Now, Sarah’s Folly By Maureen Dowd Op-Ed Columnist Published: July 4, 2009 [Emphasis is mine in all quotes unless specifically indicated as in the original.]

That is almost enough for me! But, give me the dirt!

“Usually we don’t find that exquisite battiness in our leaders until they’ve been battered by sordid scandals like Watergate (Nixon), gnawing problems like Vietnam (L.B.J.), or scary threats like biological terrorism (Cheney).”-- Maureen Dowd

Oh, you left out the Clintons, The Kennedy Klan in all their whiskey-soaked grogginess’. But, we have to expect a bit of bias before the hammer comes down from on high in the NYT on Caribou Barbie. Here we may have an example of sectional cryptomisoxeny. [9]

Now, we read a survey of various prattles and snicks that have described others in politics, but no mention of direct evidence against Sarah?? Gee. We did get some third or fourth hand rumors of diagnostics about ‘narcissistic personality disorder’ that was attributed to her months ago. Can we rule out Michael Jackson, John Kerry, Billy the Bimbo Banger Clinton or maybe Pee Wee Herman as having narcissistic personality disorders?

“As Alaskans settled in to enjoy holiday salmon bakes and the post-solstice thaw, their governor had a solipsistic meltdown so strange it made Sparky Sanford look like a model of stability.”-- Maureen Dowd

Here it is!! We are waiting!!

“What looked like a secret wedding turned out to be a public unraveling as the G.O.P. implosion continued: Sarah wanted everyone to know that she’s not having fun and people are being mean to her and she doesn’t feel like finishing her first term as governor.”-- Maureen Dowd

Did she say that?? Gee, I missed that part. Maybe Fox News edited that out for clarity.

“Palin’s speech is classic casuistry.[10]”-- Maureen Dowd

On the off chance that Maureen knew what this word meant before feverously ransacking her thesaurus, we can wonder just what part of her speech produces this conclusion. Maybe this essay is confined to many things that  Palin did not say.

Upon announcing her stepping down from the very popular governorship of her state we find this transliteration:

“Why “milk it,” as she put it[11], when you can quit it? “Only dead fish go with the flow,” she said, while cold fish can blow out of town.”-- Maureen Dowd transliterates Sarah Palin.

“The maverick must run free when greener pastures beckon. The musher must jump out of the dogsled when warmer climes call. As Palin’s spokeswoman, Meg Stapleton, says, “The world is literally her oyster.”-- Maureen Dowd mangles the message of Sarah Palin.

We haven’t seen this much excitement in a commentator since something slithered up Chris Matthew’s leg [12] as he mind-melded with something lurking in the mists[13] while watching Obama give  his Philadelphia Speech sticking up for the rabid racist Jeremiah Wright. She is on a wild rant; we wonder why. Matthews, much like Dowd, must have hit his orgasmic perigee; the only oyster Chris has left is to follow Dan Rather to Ratherdom.

“But just remember, beloved Alaska, it’s all about you.”--Maureen Dowd mangles the message of Sarah Palin.

The interesting observation about this unsystematic dart toss is that it has no basis in truth. It seems that every comment has been twisted in some toxic fit of fringe journalism based on Freud or what many thing Freud should have said.[14] It is a sour screed and is appropriately equivalent to spitting onto the crowd from some 5th floor balcony. There is no substance or analysis here, but there is a wholly artificial and cynical slant on the future designs of this potential national political candidate. The central message from Sarah was about her as yet undefined ‘higher calling,’ which nobody can decipher as yet.[15] Sarah has something in mind and media hacklettes like Katie Couric and now The Old Red Lady are attacking people in full passion and abhorrence. They must fear Sarah very much because if she was a minor player she wouldn’t make page 18 of what is left of the Old Gray Lady. Katie needs to wash her hair and Maureen needs to have somebody wash her mind. These two look like they are heading down Dan Rather’s pathway to oblivion. Maybe their jobs are in jeopardy. Dan’s is finished because of his sleaze. [16]

rycK [a 5th generation Californian in exile]

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[1] In honor of that celebrated Communist stooge and liar and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the NYT. The color RED is used in my essays in honor of Walter Duranty, a saint, if there could be one, in the Marxist Archives of Honor.
[3] The Old Red Lady works her stylus on the shady side of the caves after being dipped in warm Henna and paints the picture of Bush Administration failure upon the right with every jab.  Sausage machines are cyclical like this. Maureen Dowd: The Old Red Lady Essays Us on Psychology  Wednesday, December 05, 2007 1:13 PM
http://rycksrationalizations.townhall.com/g/d4f53de0-327d-4848-b33e-3e0ef081b4c0
[5] The New York Times, or what is left of it.
[8] rycK's Bio: Achieving Prosperity In Spite of the Left Posted by rycK on Tuesday, June 12, 2007 9:06:28. http://rycksrationalizations.blogtownhall.com/2007/06/12/rycks_bio_achieving_prosperity_in_spite_of_the_left.thtml

[10] casuistry n. , pl. -ries . Specious or excessively subtle reasoning intended to rationalize or mislead. http://www.answers.com/topic/casuistry

[11] as she put it

[12] “… have to tell you, you know, it’s part of reporting this case, this election, the feeling most people get when they hear Barack Obama’s speech. My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don’t have that too often. No, seriously. It’s a dramatic event. He speaks about America in a way that has nothing to do with politics. It has to do with the feeling we have about our country. And that is an objective assessment.” http://www.newsbusters.org/static/2008/02/2008-02-12-MSNBC-Election.mp3

[13] or, at least beyond our imagination
[15] http://www.opednews.com/articles/You-Betcha-Sarah-Palin-Has-by-Brasch-090706-33.html
“Without a team of Machiavellian neocons to pull her strings, The Vanilla Guerrilla from Wasilla is a marionette without a master, making a bold, maverick move and stiffing her constituents, sparing them the expense of having an elected leader and demonstrating the efficacy of smaller government.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-weber/the-high-calling-of-a-low_b_225842.html

[16]  DAN RATHER, CBS NEWS ANCHOR: I know that this story is true. I believe that the witnesses and the documents are authentic. We wouldn't have gone to air if they would not have been. There isn't going to be -- there's no -- what you're saying apology? 
http://tabletalk.salon.com/webx/.773a361c/3219
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Saturday, November 3, 2012

Obama: College for Everybody with No SATs?!




 From 5.30. 2008

Senator Obama now has a solution to education: little or no testing and, of course higher taxes.[1] This is a predictable hope from somebody who practiced ‘community organizing,’ a crude euphemism for rabble-rousing the poor in Chicago using the Communist Saul Alinsky Methods of radicalism. Obama admired Saul Alinsky, a loudly proud Marxist and street hustler.  So did Hillary.

The difficulty in the education of minorities is described by the existence of a social phenomenon known as the education gap. [2]  This gap is the difference between average test scores of white and blacks 100- 85 for a 15 point difference. These 15 IQ points have even been acknowledged by the New York Times.[3] This gap was first noticed about 1905 [4] in the early research on cognitive skills and has persisted in almost forms of education in all the school districts and is described in detail by the publication of The Bell Curve.[5] There have been hundreds of millions of IQ tests given since 1910 and these tests appear in different forms such as the military tests and some tests administered by corporations to screen potential employees. This summary of the Bell Curve studies merely stated the obvious existence of such a gap and was based on public test scores and was immediately assaulted by the left as racist.  Perhaps the critics think the book actually changed the test scores. Many seem to think that the publication of his book actually created the gap, or worse. Minorities cannot compete with whites on standardized tests. We can all argue about this gap and the reasons that it exists and grope for ‘root causes’ and other clichés, but the fact remains that minorities cannot as yet compete against whites in academia, the corporate work force, or more particularly Asians, in the academic arena. So, in nearly all of the 14,000 school districts across the land there are no school systems where blacks routinely score higher than whites on standardized tests with roughly 50:50 population ratios. These tests have been stringently rewritten expunge the ‘white bias’ and ‘be fair’ and when re-administered have produced the same results; A15 point deficiency is nearly always observed. If the 15 point gap was a myth then we would expect to see about half the school districts showing blacks populating the upper half of the academic population and we observe essentially none of this,. Money is not the solution as the Washington, DC, school system spends the most money on their students and have probably the worst academic record in America.[6] Money is clearly not the answer.[7] The lefties tacitly admit (without saying it directly) that affirmative action is absolutely necessary for many minorities to compete in our society. They either don’t have the cognitive skills or refuse to use them, or a combination of both. The use of race-norming was used to disguise this gap. [8]

In any given large group, noting that statistics for intelligence do not apply to individuals, we can expect to find a bell curve. There are bell curves for blacks and whites and Asians and Hispanics and Jews and such that all have a similar bell shape except that the mean is different for certain groups. The width of the curve is expressed in standard deviations.[9] So, if we choose to discuss ‘purple people’ to avoid any race arguments we might find that the IQ ranges from 65, below which there is no way to measure the central cognitive tendency ‘g’ to a median of 100 to an upper limit of about 180 or so. Traditionally, those with higher IQs have gone on to college and the SATs correlate well with IQ and successful graduation. Generally, the minimal IQ level for a medical doctor is about 120 and is about the same for lawyers and CEOs as the latter pair seem to attract the most intelligent.  College is appropriate for about 20% of our citizens.

Okay, now we have to realize that in a modern society we must have sanitation engineers, clerks, teachers, physicists and brain surgeons and that these jobs require different cognitive skills. Our society would have to change significantly and approach something resembling Cambodia during the Pol Pot Khmer Rouge days to ‘equalize’ our citizens in jobs and economic terms.[10] Those people with obviously higher IQs or with soft hands were suffocated with plastic so that the resultant society was more homogeneous. The Russians performed a similar social miracle with the liquidation of the stubborn kulaks[11] and that solved some major problems in their utopia. In the Cambodian society, the skill base was strictly limited to agricultural work except for the political dictatorship so that anybody could trade jobs with anybody else and the outcome would not change. The cities were emptied. Those who complained were liquidated thus enhancing the food supply for the dedicated and true believer and facilitated the streamlining of the government. The left likes things simple and tidy.

So, how do we choose our brain surgeons? By lot or political party loyalty norms as the Russians did for 74 years? Can we imagine electrical engineers with an IQ of 85 designing new and better gadgets while another purple person with 100 points higher works as a sanitation engineer? Yes, we certainly can as we inspect the vision of the left.  In our purple society we would still have to match job skills with the cognitive skill base required for that job or accept disaster. Disaster is very acceptable for the left and that is why they would accept a society based on welfare and having most of the citizens work for the government. There is no evidence that the far left can even tolerate a prosperous society.

The Obama Solution to the problem of education lies in the leftist intrinsic hatred for private property and capitalism. He is a product of the gutters of Chicago and rabid Marxism of the mean streets and brings this openly into his campaign. His angry wife parrots this view. The leftist societies like the USSR, Cuba, North Korea and other social latrines are abject failures and everybody knows this. But, for the rabid left, which can be the only way to describe the left-liberals in the US now, this IS a solution. Big government is the only answer to any left liberal question and dumbing down[12] our society by placing the ‘average’ person in control of the economic and governmental levers of society is exactly what they need for a political success. The poor have nothing according to the preaching of the far left so why not vote for Obama and hope for a job as a university professor or brain surgeon or court magistrate?

The proof of the far left and their intent appears quite openly in the failure of the massive social programs such as HUD, War on Poverty, The Great Society and other monstrosities. They have never apologized for these outrages. They only demand higher taxes and opportunities for more of the same. More proof of what the unsupervised leftists in the minority sectors is seen when mostly black liberals get control of cities such as New Orleans, Baltimore, Philadelphia, NYC, East St Louis, Detroit and others. These places are the centers of crime, sloth, sodomy, shootings and abject failure:

Murder in the Cities with left-liberals in control.

State/Territory  
City  
Population  
Murders in 2007  
Murder Rate  
Michigan
Detroit
1,900,303
600
48.3
New York
New York
8,115,690
539
6.6
California
Los Angeles
3,871,077
489
12.6
Illinois
Chicago
2,873,441
448
15.6
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
1,472,915
406
25.6
Texas
Houston
2,045,732
334
16.3
Arizona
Phoenix
1,466,296
220
15
Texas
Dallas
1,230,303
202
16.4
District Of Columbia
Washington
550,521
169
35.4
Louisiana
New Orleans
431,153
162
37.6
Totals

23,957,431
3,569
14.90
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_cities_by_crime_rate

Murder in the Cities: The Triumph of Liberalism
http://rycksrationalizations.blogtownhall.com/2008/04/12/murder_in_the_cities_the_triumph_of_liberalism.thtml

So, if Senator Obama wants to convince us of his intentions with this kind of fluff:

"China is graduating eight times as many engineers as we are," he said. Obama, rightly, noted that that's a big problem "in a world where good jobs can be located anywhere there's an Internet connection -- where a child in Denver is competing with a child in Beijing and Bangalore."[13] [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]

China has 1.4 billion people, some 4.3 times our populating. India is doing better with the highest educated work force on the planet. We actually expect more, but China has a billion poor so who knows?  A child from Denver whose parents have little use for education and are more interested in sports or drugs cannot compete with anybody unless he or she has the drive and cognitive skills to get into college and work hard to learn engineering. Obama will provide a free ride here with no academic responsibilities. This is a circus.

Obama rants on with this phony promise:

“Then, Obama said he'd make community college free, as in beer.”As president, I will ... make community college completely free," he said.

In return, students must agree to teach, volunteer, or join the Peace Corps, Obama said, curiously leaving out the military as means through which kids can "serve their country" to get a free pass into higher education.”[14]

Teach what? How to be a loser and political parasite?

Obama, if his Ivy League education is authentic and he is not just some token who has had very narrow political training, which might be supported by observing that he listened to Jeremiah Wright for 20 years, a lunatic and hopeless racist, merely honks the sorry old kazoo of the socialist left. They want more ‘education.’ This is elitist paternalism.[15] The left still believe that they have something to contribute to society beyond sodomy, chaos, failed government and the mind-expanding effects of drugs.

To think that we cannot test individuals to see where they might be best employed in our society argues against China and India’s impressive academic credentials.  They don’t test?

We have to accept the very ugly fact that Obama is just the far left product of gutter Communism and that he knows there is no hope for the inner cities without taxing the rest of society and reducing the suburbs to the same social and economic levels. We can look to Washington, DC and ask: why can’t you make education work there with the excessive money that is wasted there? Why not explain to us about the sloth and crime rates in New Orleans, Detroit and other leftist enclaves? Do they have community colleges in those places? How much education does a drug dealer have to have to make a million dollars in the hood?

Does society really need a college education for their dope dealers, abortionists, muggers, welfare recipients and rabble rousers? Why not convert our prisons into community colleges and see how that works?

Without testing, the left can always claim success and avoid any responsibility for the failure of their politically defined ‘graduates.’ Metrics always sort out the losers and show us what the left is like and what they have to offer.

An ignorant population is the only one that the leftists can govern so they pursue the dumbing down of American so their political constituents can compete. Money and power are what they want and the tax base can be milked until the system collapses then they will blame capitalism. Dekulakization [16]is their goal. They cannot tolerate those who oppose socialism or have the cognitive skills to finess the crass tenets of the forms of socialism that has ruined Europe  and most of Asia. The let has learned nothing from the 100,000,000 dead bodies they left scattered around in Europe in Marxist purges.

If they cannot round up the non-Marxist anti-believers they can certainly tax them away from their power base, quench their individualism  and teach the proper use of socialism to their cadres in free community colleges. The government will pay them impressive salaries with the best benfits in the world.  Such is happening to California now, a hopeless case heading for certain bankruptcy and probable civil war.

Obama is a slick  politial constuct carved out of primitive leftist political theory and can best work the  dispicable  levers of racism and marxian ecnomnics for the Democrats. It a testamant to the Democratic Party that Saul Alinsky, whose mental and personal hygienes could not approach the common goat, is the enchanting idol for our two presidential candidates. That is very telling.

rycK

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[1] Obama's 'Solution' For Bridging U.S. Science Gap: Eliminate SATs Posted by Paul McDougall, May 29, 2008 04:01 PM. http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/05/obamas_solution.html
[2] “The Education gap is a common term for describing differences in educational attainment measured by grades, test scores or other measures between different social groups. The groups compared often are categorized by race or ethnicity but may also include gender or other features.”
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_gap
[3] An Emerging Theory on Blacks' I.Q. Scores by DANIEL GOLEMAN; DANIEL GOLEMAN COVERS PSYCHOLOGY FOR THE TIMES.  Published: April 10, 1988 “MOST social scientists know - though few publicly discuss it - that there has been a puzzling gap of about 15 points in I.Q. test scores, on average, between blacks and whites in America ever since the tests were first widely used more than 70 years ago. After long debate over why blacks score lower, and what it means, a fresh theory is putting the discussion into perspective. “http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE1DF1E3AF933A25757C0A96E948260
[4] The Measurement Of Intelligence by Lewis M Terman. Published by   George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1905.
[5] The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (ISBN: 0029146739)
by Herrnstein, Richard J. and  Murray, Charles  Free Press of Glencoe , Inc, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A., 1994.
[6] Can D.C. Schools Be Fixed?  “After decades of reforms, three out of four students fall below math standards. More money is spent running the schools than on teaching. And urgent repair jobs take more than a year.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/09/AR2007060901415.html
[7] Education gap can be closed with fresh ideas MY VIEW • Black and Hispanic students are being left behind. By Abigail Thernstrom The Portland Tribune, Mar 2, 2004.
“How much would it cost and what would the benefits be if blacks and Hispanics graduated from high school, went to college, and graduated from college at the same rate as non-Hispanic whites? The answer to this important question for the future of the nation is explored in this report. The costs of education would be high, increasing by about 20 percent in California and 10 percent in the rest of the nation. But the benefits, in the form of savings in public health and welfare expenditures and increased tax revenues from higher incomes, would be even higher.”
http://www.portlandtribune.com/opinion/story.php?story_id=23161.
The NYT Alerts Us: It Is Now Time to Change Education Programs, Again, Etc. ad nauseum. Tax Hike Alert!
[11] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulak “The kulaks were to be liquidated as a class and subject to one of three fates: death sentence, labour settlements (not to be confused with labor camps, although the former were also managed by the GULAG), or deportation "out of regions of total collectivisation of the agriculture". Tens of thousands of kulaks were executed, property was expropriated to form collective farms, and many families were deported to unpopulated areas of Siberia and Soviet Central Asia.

Often local officials were assigned minimum quotas of kulaks to identify, and were forced to use their discretionary powers to find kulaks wherever they could. This led to many cases where a farmer who only employed his sons, or any family with a metal roof on their house, being labelled kulaks and deported.

The same was happened to those labelled as "kulak helpers" or "subkulaks" (подкулачник), those who sided with kulaks in their opposition to collectivisation.”
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