13 February 2010

Limbagh was on the Maddow Show? Really?

Possibly related to the Ogletree story, but probably not.  This is just getting stupider and stupider.  Stories are getting all sorts of attention without listing sources or implying false ones.  Take a look at Casey Gane-McCalla of NewsOne For Black America

Rush Limbaugh recently discussed Professor Charles Ogletree’s statement on the Rachel Maddow Show which implied that Palin was deriding Obama by referring to him as a Professor. He went into a long discussion about Clarence Thomas and the word “uppity,” before calling Obama “uppity.”
Only one little problem with that.  Limbaugh does not appear on the show's guest list.  Ogletree does, 8 FEB 2009.  What Gane-McCalla is talking about are Limbaugh's comments from Limbaugh's own show and Gane-McCalla misrepresents them too.  Maybe just bad wording?  If you read the above enough and know Limbaugh was not on the Maddow show it reads okay.

Oh, wait, I get it! The Higher Ed story didn't attribute the Rachael Maddow Show with the quotes!  When I was going through that story I was wondering where the quotes came from.  Jack Stripling never mentions.  I had the impression that he had interviewed Professer Ogletree, but then I found out Ogletree had been on the Maddow show.

No, that's not it.

Maddow begins talking to the professor at 7:39, then they mention Palin at 10:17.  No talk of implying professors are uppity.  The talk is about Tancredo's stupid speech calling for literacy tests.

Maybe I missed it on the video.  How about the transcript?  Palin is mentioned twelve times on the page, only ten in the transcript.  Uppity does not appear.  Professor Ogletree speaks about Palin here for a bit:
What‘s important about all of this, Rachel, I think, is that the majority of Americans, black and white, see that this president is trying to do a good job. They‘re not going to play the race-baiting. They‘re not going to—and Sarah Palin on Saturday, I heard her talk about, “We don‘t want a professor of law who talks about the Constitution and rights. We want the commander in chief.


What‘s the difference? Isn‘t the law meaningful? Doesn‘t it mean something? Doesn‘t the Constitution mean something?

I think we need to go back to a 101 constitutional law test or civics test for folks who are going to talk about that, for everybody to understand that we are a society who believes in equal justice under the law, one person, one vote. And if you get more than, more votes than your opponent, you win. It‘s over. Get over it and let‘s move forward.
Still nothing like what Ogltree is implied as saying by Jack Stripling at Inside Higher Ed.

Maddow tosses the racism bomb at Palin here, when chatting with David Weigel:
MADDOW: And I am fired up about the Tom Tancredo call for the return to literacy tests thing, not so much that he would do it because he does stuff like that all the time, but that people would cheer for it. And I guess I see the choose Ron Paul versus choose Sarah Palin test as kind of a litmus test for the politics of the tea party movement. That combined with cheering Tancredo on this, I think, very racist appeal makes me feel the modern tea party movement is an outgrowth of the sort of angry people we saw frustrated during the McCain/Palin campaign, saying un-politically correct things at rallies. Not an outgrowth of the people who had done tea parties before.
So, where is Stripling getting this stuff?

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Get Off My Lawn! (BOOM)

From the BBC:
Russia farmer convicted of planting landmines in field
A Russian farmer has been convicted of planting landmines around his field to ward off trespassers.
Alexander Skopintsev, from the eastern region of Primorye near China's border, laid the three devices on his land after building them in his garage.


The 73-year-old had apparently been concerned about the frequent theft of potatoes from his farm.

He was arrested after an intruder set off one of the tripwire-style mines in August and was injured in the blast.

Skopintsev was convicted for the unlawful construction and storage of weapons and received a two-and-a-half year suspended sentence.

"Skopintsev testified that he had prepared the explosive devices to protect his garden against thieves," regional prosecutors said in a statement reported by RIA-Novosti news agency.
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Hark, is that the Racism Dog Whistle coming from the Teacher's Lounge?

The Uppity Professor

UPDATE: Professor Ogletree was on MSNBC 8 FEB 2009.  Not sure if Jack Stripling is gitting his imagined thoughts of Professer Ogletree from that appearance.  He does not mention contacting the Professor independantly.  My take on it here.

Seems like the Left is trying to make hay of Sarah Palin's mentioning that President Obama was a Professor during her Nashvill Tea Party speech.  Obama sure thinks he was a Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, but people close to various Clinton activities have expressed doubt.  So, what's the problem?

Took me a while to find the original source for the latest leftoid imagineing of racism.  The Wall Street Journal had the source noted as Inside Higher Ed.  Oddly, they don't have their own big story on the front page, a little searching worked and it looks like Sarah Palin is a popular topic over there.

Neil Gross, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia, is quoted in Professor in Chief  by Jack Stripling:

“When Palin and others describe Obama as professorial in style, they are invoking themes and tropes that have a long history in American politics,” says Neil Gross, an associate professor of sociology at the University of British Columbia. “That longstanding tendency in American politics is also in this case being drawn together with an implicit criticism of liberal professors, which really only became a mainstay of conservative discourse in the 1950s.”
That rings pretty true.  Other examples are given in following paragraphs.  One that was missing was former Professor George Will's story of an early run for office by Daniel Patrick Moynihan and his opponent welcoming "Professor Moynihan" to the race.  Moynihan's response: "The mud-slinging has begun!"

What has become the money-passage, Harvard Professor and founding executive director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, Charles J. Ogletree, weighs in (or not) with accusation of racism, for calling Obama a Professor:

“I think anyone who examines it closely and carefully will see this type of criticism of Obama will ultimately be counterproductive,” Ogletree says. “Do you want to tell your children we don’t want smart people in government?”




Ogletree, founding and executive director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, says he sees the “professor” label as a thinly veiled attack on Obama’s race. Calling Obama “the professor” walks dangerously close to labeling him “uppity,” a term with racial overtones that has surfaced in the political arena before, Ogletree said. Describing his divisive confirmation hearings as a “circus,” Justice Clarence Thomas called the proceedings “a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas.…” It is perhaps ironic, then, that Ogletree, who represented Anita Hill when she made harassment allegations against Thomas in 1991, now sees a bit of the “uppity” label being placed on Obama.



“The idea is that he’s not one of us,” Ogletree says of the professor label. “He has these ideas that are left wing, that are socialist, that he’s palling around with terrorists -- those were buzzwords, but the reality was they were looking at this president as an African American who was out of place.”
 
That's the closest I could find to a source.  Not even full quotes.  Where did Ogletree actually say that Palin was calling Obama uppity, or coming danger-close?  It's all in the paraphrasing by the subjective writer.

Maybe Stripling thinks that Ogletree thinks Palin is calling Obama uppity?  Code-words are mentioned, but it looks like it is two Leftists speaking to each other in code and one of them writing it out for the rest of us from a decaying memory and active imagination.  Anybody have a decoder ring?  When did Professor come to mean uppity?
 
Whatever the case, this nonsense about 'code words' is getting pretty old.  It is just a vehicle for the accusor to make up whatever he wants about the accused.
 
The Wall Street Journal link above has a good story on this topic.  They even mention the CNN "go gangsta" incident that did not seem to get as much traction as this.
 
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12 February 2010

Now this is Funny! Blog Traffic from Paris

On 12 FEB 2010, someone was poking around this blog from Paris, France (not Kentucky or Texas) using the mpls network.

First, they found the blog through Google, search term: skipoject.blogspot.com.  That this blog as an alternative to the misspelling.  They landed on the December traffic report page:
http://sukiproject.blogspot.com/2010/01/suki-project-blog-traffic-for-december.html
Just some highlights of December traffic, not all inclusive and lingered for 27 seconds.

In no particular order, this user used this search twice:
http://sukiproject.blogspot.com/search?q=skiproject
Which returns nothing and they averaged six seconds between the two hits.

This one is interesting:
http://sukiproject.blogspot.com/search?q=imea+
A weirdo was creeping all over the blog a while back looking for "imchi arabic word" from her office in DC (imchi is phonetic English for the Arabic "go away from me"). Previously, she was looking for her first-middle-last name, daily, even though that was not here either.  Interesting.

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Texas Writes Its Name in the Snow Day

Texas just got buried in snow.  Dallas sees 11"
Somehow, I think they can handle it.  Nature: Don't Mess With Texas!

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11 February 2010

Charlie Wilson Died


Suki|2.11.10 @ 9:41PM|

Congressman (retired) Charlie Wilson died, the one of Charlie Wilson's War.
Odd that his nemesis on the covert budget, Jack Murtha, died the other day.


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Global Warming Slows DC Murder Rate


Washington DC paralysed by snow for fifth working day in a row



Hidden at the end:
On a more positive note, police in the US capital, which has a high murder rate, have not recorded a single fatal attack over the last week.

WMAL radio reported that the last DC homicide was February 3rd, 2010.

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09 February 2010

Snowmageddon Upon Us

The sequal to the weekend's Snopocalypse, Snowmageddon, is on the way.  No flakes in my part of Arlington. VA yet.

Felony snowballing charges have been filed against several people from the last one (and I don't mean this kind).  Of course I can't find a link, I heard it on the radio.

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The Palin Scandals Post

Nick Gillespie has a long story about how Sarah Palin's awful flute skills disqualify her for VP.  Something in the thread got me going on a tangent and here it is:
Remember that Palin scandal where she got the National Guard to fly her around and shoot a wolf?  Oh yea, not true.  What about the National Guard helping her move stuff out of her house?  Oops, that was this guy.

Remember her illegitimate child scandal all over the Enquirer?  Sorry, wrong one again.

How about when all of her business was taken up by real scandals and she had to resign as governor on her way to prison?  Missed by that much.

State Police Officers going to the papers about her with verifiable facts?  Wrong again.

I am sure there was plenty more.  These are just the ones I remember.  When reading Nick's article, and someone pointing out that he should not have been confused by her resignation, I began noticing that her critics seem to be recycling things that others did.

I don't remember Nick supporting any of the people in the images above, but I haven't been around Reason Mag. that long either.  I have finally noticed that the general crowd who supported the people in the pictures, and apologized for them, like to re-gift the accusations.

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Fourth Hand Smoke Thread at Reason


SugarFree got a good discussion going in response to this BBC story.



SugarFree|2.9.10 @ 8:59AM|

"Third-hand smoke" article in the NYT a year ago. BBC is johnny come superlately.
I shall recycle my comment:
I'm deathly afraid of fourth-hand smoke, which is the use by blog comment avatar of virtual tobacco products. And fifth-hand smoke, which is watching a movie, reading a book, or listening to a song about tobacco products. And sixth-hand smoke, which reading a review of any movie, book, or song that mentions tobacco products.

I have a Federal grant to discover seventh-hand smoke and how to combat it.

Johnny Longtorso|2.9.10 @ 9:12AM|

Every breath you take contains at least one molecule of air exhaled by Sharon Stone when she was smoking and flashing her junk.

Suki|2.9.10 @ 9:28AM|

Wasn't that a Sting song?

Fist of Etiquette|2.9.10 @ 9:19AM|

And fifth-hand smoke, which is watching a movie, reading a book, or listening to a song about tobacco products.
And I will peer-review your previous findings by recycling a comment of my own about Weaver lighting up in the movie Avatar:
I think there's a valid concern here. Children watching Avatar in 3D are going to see Ripley seemingly puffing on a cig right next to them in the theater. And we all know that virtual secondhand smoke is exactly as dangerous as the real thing.




SugarFree|2.9.10 @ 9:29AM|

Woo! Peer-review! Now Chony has to believe everything I say.

Suki|2.9.10 @ 9:40AM|

Smoking thread = illustrated blog worthy.
Thank you!

bob dole|2.9.10 @ 9:36AM|

Eagerly awaiting a new report on first-derivative hand smoke.
And shouldn't this really have been about gripping-hand smoke?

Read the rest here.

Since Chony was brought up, some of these images are "special" girls.

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08 February 2010

Death of John Murtha

Democratic Congressman John Murtha, (D-PA) has died.

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Audi Green Police Super Bowl Ad



I thought the Audi Green Police ad was funny.  Also glad my guy drives a truck instead of that thing that was in the commercial (not pictured).
Collide-a-scape has a good take on it.

Reason has a good take too, interesting long discussion.
Found this there:

will abramson|2.8.10 @ 3:17PM|

You can download Cheap Trick's new version of "Green Police" for free herehttp://bit.ly/GPfacebook
it's actually really good.








Bonus: The Car Song with Godzilla



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Suki's Morning Links

The weekend night crew of (mostly) boys analysed the Super Bowl at Reason:

That Tim Tebow Anti-Abortion Ad Is Even Less Interesting Than Florida's Kicking Cincinnati's Ass in The Sugar Bowl
With a tribute from Warty:

Warty|2.7.10 @ 9:11PM|

Obama picked the Colts

More on the Audi Green Police Ad

Snowpocalypse hits DC and the Mid-Atlantic

Could be God getting even with someone for last year or more "overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change".
Something to remember on that last point, Osama agrees with Obama.  The consensus expands.




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07 February 2010

Blogging through the Snowpocalypse

Hello all.  Finally got a snow day to blog, blog, blog.  My version of it anyway.

Snowing as I type in the Washington, DC area.  On with the show.

Found some erotica that fits in with Sarah's fan fiction story, John and Suki: Vacation Fun.  Should be third one down at that link, paperback will be out with Suki's fan fiction story in the same volume.  Browse on Google here.

Caution!  Not Safe For Work links follow.

Sarah has two nurses attending to John and Suki during their kidnapping by Mike and Honey, but not really finding anything that fits just right.  This is a little close to the one that was tending to John.

She used suspension pretty often, in dramatic ways.  I liked the descriptions of spread-eagle suspension in a frame.

Bull whipping was a recurring theme too.

Designer drugs were a cornerstone of her plot line.  Problem with finding erotica for that is the designer drugs made the person on the dose appear and feel like they were naturally doing what they were being manipulated into doing.

Golden showers were a recurring item.

She did have Suki do some pole dancing and John did some cage dancing.

In other news, Suki is dominating the 'blog stats with a post with one picture and one headline. Danica races tomorrow (6 February, 2009) at 4:30 on the SPEED channel.

Her morning links with that Bethesda BDSM club story is getting a lot of traffic too.

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