Vivian Schiller, NPR, And the Good Old Soviet Union

 Posted by Scott w. Johnson     “The Schiller Syndrome”

“Vivian Schiller is the wretched NPR chief executive who trashed Juan Williams for statements she declared best relegated to his psychiatrist. I detected a whiff of the punitive psychiatry employed in the late Soviet Union in Schiller’s public comment on Williams. Soviet psychiatry’s favored diagnosis for those guilty of heterodox thoughts was sluggishly progressing schizophrenia. Is Williams a victim of this malady in Schiller’s view? She clearly thought he needed therapy to address his misguided thoughts.

At the American Spectator, Jeffrey Lord raised the question whether Schiller was in fact a fan of the Soviet Union. Lord recalled Schiller’s role in the production of Ted Turner’s glowing three-part, seven-hour Portrait of the Soviet Union CNN series in 1988. Lord quoted Schiller: “At the time, Ted Turner went through this period of deep fascination with the Soviet Union…and they hired me to be a translator/production assistant/’fixer’–which in production terms is somebody in a foreign country who ‘makes it happen.’” Now she “makes it happen” at NPR.

Today Schiller spoke at the National Press Club testifying to the greatness of NPR. Her remarks are available in their entirety via this C-SPAN video. Would you enjoy listening to the sound of fingernails being scratched across the blackboard for an hour? If so, you’ll love watching Schiller’s talk.

In her remarks, Schiller revealed that she’s fluent in Russian and used to lead tours of the Soviet empire during the Communist era. It was behind the Iron Curtain that Schiller admitted learning “everything” she knows about “management and leadership.” FoxNation.com contacted Williams for his reaction. Williams commented: “I think she learned those lessons well…questioning my sanity … disparaging me in public … didn’t the Soviets send people to the gulag?”

Schiller addresses the Williams case in the video at around 26:30. According to her, it raised process issues that have been satisfactorily resolved. Everything is beautiful now at NPR. So why did NPR fire Williams? Was he fired because he uttered a politically incorrect statement on Fox News? The answer is obvious, and it belies the gist of Schiller’s remarks.

In her prepared remarks Schiller presented her case for continued public support for NPR. The House of Representatives recently voted to eliminate funding for public broadcasting in the 2011 budget and last week, Senators Jim Demint and Tom Coburn introduced legislation that would end federal funding for public radio and television stations.

Such action is long overdue. NPR can continue its relentless dissemination of the party line through the benefactions of its listeners and other supporters. It has no rightful claim to taxpayer support. (Schiller discusses NPR’s need for federal funding at around 45:00 and 49:00. Her comments are not remotely compelling.)

At around 33:00 of the video, the moderator of the event asks Schiller about the criticism that NPR is dominated by liberals in the newsroom. Schiller’s response to this question is familiar, evasive, and utterly disingenuous.

Via Hugh Hewitt (who commented sharply on Schiller’s remarks during the first half-hour of his show this afternoon).

Comment:  I strongly object to folks anywhere using the wonderful traditional word,  ’liberal’ in any context describing  Marxist bigotries.   There is nothing but appearance which might be deemed liberal about Marxism or any dogma on its dogmatic way to Marxism, such as Progressivism.   A Marxist might be a liberal drinker.    Marxists  are Liberals at  their most liberal.   Some people are Democrats, but are no longer tolerant enough or command the understandings to be democrats…..Barack Hussein Obama comes to mind…..Nancy Pelosi,  Harry Reid…and one could produce and endlist list more. 

A few Republicans are not republican minded.

Comment 2:   I became aware of Vivian Schiller’s Soviet experience propagandizing for  the Soviet Union when Juan Williams was fired for ‘thought crime’.    She probably worked as an INTOURIST guide, meaning she was employed by this organ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.   Remember, the USSR was an advanced and well developed Socialist nation…..although by then, the Party didn’t own the shirt on ones back anymore.

No one could have been employed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union without  the proper mental credentials.  

I do want to admit, however, that in 1990 I, too, was still fluent in speaking Russian, and returned for the second time to the Soviet Union in October of that year.   It was 24 years after my first visit.  Much had changed then  since  Leonid Breshnev was its  Communist ‘guide’ when this empire still was a first class. spy-and-intrigue-filled pathetic excuse for a human’s quality of  living.   It was  pathetic and spy-filled enough so  that one rarely spoke in public whether on the street, on a bus or tram  or train.   A time when one could be attacked or threatened  for taking pictures without permission.  A time when arrangements had to be made to find remote places to have conversations where no one could be listening.     There was a certain thrill accompanying the certainty one was being followed.   I felt very important as an American wearing Russian clothes exploring.  It was the thrill of my life.

I also admit I adored Russians with whom I  talked  freely.   On several occasions I talked openly  to hundreds of people in the streets answering their questions about me, my family,  and my country……until eventually  the police arrived and dispersed the crowds.

Once I revealed that I was American,  whether on a beach or streetside, folks gathered like flies to ask questions or listen.  Eventually party hecklers would arrive.   Then the police.

My, how Russians  endured the weight of government, as if this  fate was  destined at birth.   Nearly all in the cities were aware of their condition, but unaware of an  American and American life except for what they had read.    I had an excellent command of the language and  had been the first Russian speaking American   hundreds and hundreds of these people had  ever met.   Also, over all, except in areas of Marxist consequence such as politics and history, the general population was very, very well educated.   Unfree, but well educated, even the taxi cab drivers.

And I do confess, that  in general I would describe most European  Soviet citizens of that day  as a ‘cultured’ peoples, a supreme compliment in the language.

It was the bureaucracy……often the common person on duty with a duty …. who kept the autocrats in business.   And they could be very petty and very, very mean, jealous and untrustworthy.  It was, after all, a police state…..something Americans cannot comprehend.

I don’t think Vivian Schiller learned her autocratic Marxist snobbery and judgment from her years with Intourist.   She would have worked only with foreigners visiting the good old USSR anyway.   By 1988  old guard Communism was about finished.   In October 1990 when I visited Kiev in the Ukraine, the protests were beginning….Every night for weeks thousands and thousands gathered to mourn in public,  listing the names of loved ones who had disappeared at government hands, grandfather this and brother that, sometimes entire families,  while showing their pictures and  in tears describing the achievements of those  never again seen.   I suppose I should applaud Marxism for providing me  the most emotional two weeks of my life.  

It would have been very difficult not to love such people.

I do believe Ms. Schiller, Marxist and all,  received her M.A. in Russian at Middlebury College in Vermont. 

I did as well, in 1965.  My instructors, elegant people and all ex-aristocrats, had died by her time at Middlebury.   The druggies and terrorists had settled into college life  by then.   I expect that is the crowd she belonged to…..just a guess, I could be wrong.  And, yes, Scott W. Johnson, Vivian Schiller seems wretched.

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High Costs for College; Low Learnings!

Are College Students Learning?

The cost of college has skyrocketed and a four-year degree has become an ever more essential cornerstone to a middle-class standard of living.  But what are America’s kids actually learning in college?  For an awful lot of students, the answer appears to be not much, according to the new book “Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses.”

The authors, Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, cite empirical work showing that the average amount of time spent studying by college students has dropped by more than 50 percent since the early 1960s.  But a lack of academic focus has not had much of an effect on grade point averages or the ability of the undergraduates to obtain their degrees, says the New York Times.

• Thirty-six percent of the students said they studied alone less than five hours a week.
• Nevertheless, their transcripts showed a collective grade point average of 3.16.

Professor Arum says, “It’s not the students, really — they share some of the blame — but the colleges and universities have set up a system so that there are ways to navigate through it without taking difficult courses and still get the credential.”

The book is based on a study, led by Professor Arum, that followed more than 2,300 students at a broad range of schools from the fall of 2005 to the spring of 2009.  

• The study showed that in their first two years of college, 45 percent of the students made no significant improvement in skills related to critical thinking, complex reasoning and communication.
• After the full four years, 36 percent still had not substantially improved those skills.”

Source: Bob Herbert, “College the Easy Way,” New York Times, March 4, 2011.

Comment:  Another example in our Socialist America that some  folks are paid whether they produce or not.   The focus these days in elementary and secondary schools is on self esteem.   One is to love oneself, whether earned and deserved or not…..a woman’s approach to ‘solving problems’ through pumping feelings.

For text:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/05/opinion/05herbert.html

For study:

http://highered.ssrc.org/files/SSRC_Report.pdf

For more on Education Issues:

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_Category=27

Provided by the National Center for Policy Analysis

What Ron Schiller and the Anti-American Marxists at NPR are up to These Days!

Every American should view the video  presented below to understand better America’s  enemies today and how they, Marxism and Islamic Fascism,  spread their wings.    These inhuman and antihuman  politic0-religious enterprises both, are using each other when needed for advantage,  to destroy America as those of us over 50 years old have been blessed to know….both black and white, tall and small, fat and thin, rich and poor.   The country is already severely damaged as  those of you will hear on the video below, or already know from attending classes in the Liberal Arts at you neighborhood school or college, or reading propaganda in  you local city newpapaers.

The real enemy  at home, the real villain corrupting  our traditional American values of liberty, learning, and tolerance, is not Islam…..nor is it fascistic Islam.    It is the Marxists  at NPR and PBS in control of policy and indoctrination, not militant Islam. 

I want to thank my good friend, my colleague in thought and art, and Prager ally, Steve Levin for directing me to this blog article by John Hinderaker at PowerLine.   John writes:

“Check out this stunning video, shot undercover by two associates of James O’Keefe. The two posed as representatives of an organization founded by the Muslim Brotherhood that is trying “to spread acceptance of Sharia across the world.” That, plus their expressed interest in making a $5 million donation to NPR, got them a meeting at a Georgetown restaurant with Ron Schiller, the outgoing head of NPR’s nonprofit foundation, and Betsy Liley, NPR’s director of institutional giving.

The exchanges are revealing, to say the least. The would-be Muslim contributors express their appreciation for NPR’s “non-Zionist” news coverage. The NPR representatives gratuitously insult conservatives and, for that matter, most Americans. Schiller volunteers about tea party members:

[They aren't] just Islamaphobic, but really xenophobic, I mean basically they are, they believe in sort of white, middle-America gun-toting. I mean, it’s scary. They’re seriously racist, racist people.

At one point, Schiller says that he is “very proud of” NPR’s firing of Juan Williams. It was necessary, he says, because NPR “[stands] for … non-racist, non-bigoted, straightforward telling of the news.” Sure, I get that. You can read about it here. Here is the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd9OYJMX9t4

Further Comment:   Many thanks for the folks at PowerLine especially,  but also for the contributions from all  other responsible conservative blogs to alert fellow citizens interested in American liberties to the ‘comings and goings’ of today’s  American Marxist movement.

There never has been, nor is there today any moral concerns over which Marxists must  mutter, for in Marxism’s religion, what is moral depends upon what is needed for the health or other requirements   of the people’s State.  Since there is no God, morality becomes an invention of mankind and his moment…….and ultimately falls into the hands of those who wield most government power, the bureaucratic planners and their ‘superiors’.

Marxists are always populated at the top by tyrants…..usually  dangerous ones at that.   Pol Pot, Josef V. Stalin, Nikolai Lenin, China’s Mao and Mao’s wife, Ho Chi Minh,  the better known among  Americans  less poorly educated, that is, those educated before the era of Marxist terrorists such as Bill Ayers,  who taught teachers of teachers until his retirement last year.   Adolf Hitler was a Socialist, but his drive for things Germanic superceded his Marxism.

Modern American Marxists ‘at the top’ are usually university people such as those at NPR and PBS.  Most Marxists are peachers  in the Liberal Arts colleges  and universities throughout the Nation delivering their brands of hate through Gay and Lesbian Studies Deparments, as well as Black Studies and Women’s Studies Deparments.   Although no official statistics are available for public view, it is likely that the majority of university English Departments, Humanities Departments, Political Science Departments, Philosophy Departments, Spanish and  French Language Departments have  also become establishments of Marxist thought and politics evangelism.  

Marxism also follows the trail of the false science of Political Global Warming.   It tags along to aid whatever institutions are against Western liberties and traditions, not least among them, all of the radical Islamic movements.  Those who prefer problem solvings and studies  void of political corruption usually matriculate into  the natural sciences.  These students are usually called men.

Modern university-trained Marxists, such as those you have heard speak at NPR or PBS,  are almost all certain that they, because of their ‘exquisite’ leftist learnings and religion led by their anti-Americanism selected lessons, they know best what is good for the American citizen.   Above all they learn to hate free enterprise…..or anything  deemed ‘free’ which they may not be able to control.

The American university over the past century has become the Greatest  Center in the  HISTORY of mankind to destroy Learning and  Learning’s ART.   It has murdered creativity and stifled knowledge  by herding  each individual in attendance to purge  any and all  natural  personal creativity and curiosity  through a very narrow funnel where the  newly narrow minded had emerged pleased with themselves for being themselves, the unintellectual, the  talentless and often the mindless and the dishonest, yet  now fully secure  wearing   their new robes of Marxism and with  all of their self- esteem, ready to direct their  bureacracies to spread their  hates and beliefs  to convert  the underlings, the young and educationally innocent matriculating more classes  through these Marxist funnels for decades to come memorizing their new found antiAmerican Marxist  religious evangelism.

The Vivian Schillers,  the Ron Schillers, the Nina Totenbergs and Betsy Lileys, these few of the bureaucrats at NPR and PBS  are all products of the New American Marxist Evangelism.   Listen carefully while viewing this masterpiece of modern American Marxist reality again.  

And think of answering the question…..Who is responsible for the disappearance of beauty in almost all of expressions of life in the West?    Almost all art forms have disappeared  as measures to inspire human being visually and spiritually and replaced by the inane and profane.

Some Marxists will point their red fingers at greed and private enterprise.   That argument is one which will rise from the mediochre at university and is false.   Great art no longer exists because of the rise of the university, where bureacrats, these days with politically correct views have been chosen for their views to teach, not their abilities, for the unlearned and untrained  usually  have liminted abilities.

Obama Sets New Record for Monthly Deficit Spending

It’s Ed Morrissey who’s getting old.  He is the author ot the following article from his home base at  HotAir:

“I must be getting old.  I can recall the days when an annual federal deficit of $223 billion was enough to send Democrats screaming to cable news shows about the profligacy of George W. Bush and his ruinous economic policies.  That seems so quaint these days as the Obama administration posts a record $223 billion deficit — for a single month:

The federal government posted its largest monthly deficit in history in February at $223 billion, according to preliminary numbers the Congressional Budget Office released Monday morning.

That figure tops last February’s record of $220.9 billion, and marks the 29th straight month the government has run in the red — a modern record. The last time the federal government posted even a monthly surplus was September 2008, just before the financial collapse.

The worst part is that this happened in the shortest month of the year.  Shouldn’t that make it more difficult to achieve?

One might think that this would make everyone more serious about looking for opportunities to cut spending.  According to The Hill, some people like holding Guinness records:

The hard-charging House majority will be faced with a historic choice this month: Compromise with President Obama, or roll the dice and shut down the government.

Where Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and his 87 Republican freshmen draw the line on spending will shape the entire 112th Congress. For now, the GOP and Obama are about $50 billion apart — and the clock is ticking.

Yes, the suspense is riveting, isn’t it?  If we put together the proposal from the GOP for cuts to the budget and added the total dollar value of the budget cuts proposed by Democrats, we’d get $72 billion in reductions over the next six months.  That would amount to about one-third of the deficit from last month.

We’re facing “historic choices,” all right, but so far neither party has gotten historically serious about addressing them.  The Republican cuts in this year are inadequate, but the very notion that Democrats won’t go any farther than $10 billion in cuts with monthly deficits surpassing $220 billion is not just inadequate, but insane.

Cato puts the entire issue into perspective in this video:

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/03/07/great-news-america-sets-new-record-for-monthly-deficit-spending/

Is Doug Schoen the Only Honest and Forthright Democrat in Today’s ObamaParty?

Although it was Ronald Reagan who awakened me to realize I was really a conservative liberal-conservative rather than a John Kennedy college crafted Liberal, it was John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, George McGovern, Lyndon Johnson, and even Fritz Mondale here at my Minnesota ‘home’,  and the terrorists in the American streets, the know-nothing spoiled druggie vulgars burning, bombing and screwing hither and thither, that made me definitely and profoundly,  for the first time in my life,  dislike being an Americans….Many of these folks  I had voted for>   They ran from their duties  from the scenes of responsibility.  They abandoned America to organize Marxist hate groups…..the victimhoods sponsored and paid to hate America  and spread the lies to justify the hate…..the birth of the anti American ObamaDemocrat.

The Vietnam war had been  throroughly sabotaged.  My wife and I were good citizens who had followed very closely the troubles connected with President Kennedy’s decision to send aid and troops to defend South Vietnam against the invasion of murderers from the Ho Chi Minh dictatorship in the North.  A responsible Democrat mayor of Minneapolis, Donald Fraser, organized public meetings to clarify the issues leading to the War including the conduct of the War.  Donald Fraser was an honorable man, an excellent representative of that political Party of its day, of both political Parties of that day…….the public meetings were not loaded with Marxists, reported by Marxists, with the purpose of spreading the political religion of Marxism…..as occurs with  today’s ObamaDemocrat  autocracies at universities everwhere.

Over 50,000 democratically elected village chieftains in the South had been murdered by assassins sent by the Communist “Democratic Peoples’ Republic” of the terrorist North expand its  version of  a Soviet People’s Republic.

Lyndon Johnson was one president who could match Barack Obama in mendacity, but lacked the baritone and pronounciation of words which continue to keep Barack Hussein Obama recognized as a Marxist by Americans who should know better,  unless our public education and universities are even more corrupt in their instruction than I believe they are.  It could be.

The Bill Ayers terrorists of the American Cultural Wars of the Johnson and Richard Nixon years eventually returned to university carrying their terrorism to the American classroom when they became tenured professors.   Bill Ayers, ally of Barack Hussein Obama in Chicago  ’taught’ theachers of teachers in the Marxist, Bill Ayers’ manner.   University Democrats disappeared.   The Marxists had arrived.

If there are Democrats in today’s Democrat Party  who are honest and forthright, they are well hidden under the ObamaYoke of mind control led until recently by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid who pushed the fraud called ObamaCare with Pelosi instructions that “We have to pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it.”

I admit I have strong views  regarding people both for those I respect and those I believe unworthy, the liars, the disingenuous, the duplicitous, the pretenders, the ones who will do and say anything so or not so,  for public approval, including those who act like the  most talented of all from this group, Barack Hussein Obama.

Nearly the entire ‘notable’ writing staff  of the New York Times belong to this group of unworthys…..Thomas Friedman, Paul Krugman and Frank Rich lead this very long list.    However, the Times  did allow John Byrnes to cover Iraq during the GW Bush years, and the quality and value of his writings were almost enough outstanding  to offset those of all those bleating  Marxists  the Times puts together.

I seek out old time Democrat, Doug Schoen wherever I notice his name.  Iwant to know his opinion…. what this honest, forthright old fashioned Democrat, the kind who used to make me proud to be a liberal, before the Party’s Marxist corruption and the army of hack antiAmericans it has created, is thinking.

Doug Schoen is an American.   He  has his opinions to share as an American with American values, rather than sharing the Party’s dicta.   And these opinions are shared honestly and honorably from one who seems to practice what he preaches…….a non-existent in the modern Democrat Party starting with Barack Hussein Obama, John F. Kerry, Nancy Pelosi et  alia ad infinitum in today’s ObamaParty.

Let me know if you know of any other Democrats with similar good character and thinking mind.     I am certain some exist.  But we are now living in ObamaTime, the world of Marxist political correctness, a world of intimidation which did indeed precede the present president.   Some folks in this corrupt political ObamaWorld are Republicans.   They check the winds before they make up their minds to speak or vote.

We are entering the  days of the real battles for America’s future.   Who will win….the Marxist thugs led by Michael Moore  on stage with their hates and threats screaming at the Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin?…..those Marxist thugs now also gathering in Columbus, Ohio?    the less impolite but more disingenuous powerful ObamaCrats in Washington D.C.? ……..or will American citizens recover enough consciousness and knowledge to recognized the evils of the Obama BIG GOVERNMENT STATE  and help us recognize and accept  our own responsibilities as  citizens to do what we can to keep our democratic institutions as healthy as they can be?

I believe Doug Schoen is a traditional liberal, an honorable Liberal, but, unfortunately, a lonely one and a very lonely Democrat.   Unfortunately many of  today’s American Democrats are Democrat by religion.   Government and religion has become fused into atheistic Marxism, making it very difficult for discussions to remain intellectual.   These Democrats prefer feelings to reality and common sense.   They believe in their new ‘Faith’.

Keep hopeful.  Be challenged by  Dennis Prager as often as possible.   Visit his “Prager University” web site often.  and remember his truism:    “The bigger the government; the smaller the citizen.”………

glenn h. ray

Sibelius “ObamaFox” Caught “Double Counting” in Obamacare Chicken Coop

Obamacare was a fraud from the very beginning.   Barack Hussein Obama’s signature piece of ACTION  outside of diminishing American strength throughout the globe, was a con-job cooked up in the Obama-Reid and Pelosi darkrooms to force Marxist dictatorship over American health care.   Never forget House Speaker Pelosi’s instructions to the American people regarding passage of the 2700 page government takeover of American health:

“We have to pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it!”     (So much for open and democratic examination of a law……Remember, these folks are Maxists, NOT democrats.)

Double counting was suspected by the conscious and the alert.  Double counting was denied by ObamaCrooks, one and all, and until January had the power to command silence over their crime.   Remember, the Marxist-Democrats control  our American mass media, entertainment, and educational industries as well as the professional bureaucrats of government and its labor unions.   Truth needs time to trickle out of such powerful one Party autocracies.

Double counting finally was admitted once Republicans gained control of the Health and Human Services committee on Capitol Hill.     Head honcho Obama Democrat running the ObamaHealth show, Kathleen Sibelius, hedged and hidden while Dems were the  Committee-powerful in the House of Representatives, finally confessed……..

…….that to hide the real costs for  funding  ObamaCare   $500,000,000,000 were cleverly and darkly counted by ObamaCrooks to fund both Obamacare AND Medicare which would add up to $1,000,000,000,000,000 required to pay for both services.   

By slight of ObamaHand and ObamaMouth, however, from the onset of its advertising this crooked Obamadeal, the same $500,000,000,000 was knowingly counted TWICE to cover costs  both for Medicare AND ObamaCare services as promised in the ObamaCare flawed bill.  

ObamaFolk didn’t want to admit to the more honest cost of ObamaCare and so  ’erased’   $500,000,000,000 from the debit sheet to pretend ObamaClaims that ObamaCare would be bought at a cheaper price than anything America was paying currently.   To hell with truth in advertising.

To read more about this sleazy Obama Administration’s slight of hand and mouth come to the space ABOVE ObamaTable, click on here for the House hearing starring ObamaHealth gal, Kathleen Sibelius:

glenn h. ray

http://www.extremeskins.com/showthread.php?345023-HHS-Secretary-Sebelius-admits-to-double-counting-in-Obamacare-budget

No administration in my life time so perfectly and completely overwhelms a remarkably true adage with more TRUTH than this one by H. L. Mencken, writer for  the Baltimore Sun, I think it was in the 1920s.   It went something like this:

“NO ONE EVER WENT BROKE UNDERESTIMATING THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!” …………

…….and I publish this Mencken truth with great pride and great sorrow…..for I confess, I too, am an American….take us or leave us.

Obama: So Many Words, So Devious a Mind, So Huge an Ego, so weak a man.

Monday, March 07, 2011

Obama Never Gives In, He Just Changes His Mind

Fox News (among others) is reporting that The Blame Bush Obama Feckless & Co Administration is going to permit military trials to resume at Guantanamo Bay prison camps…

…Hey, wait! What is this? There is a bona fide You Tuber below the jump, showing our President, pen in hand, signing his very first Executive Order in January 2008 as former members of our military lined up behind him to applaud this brave act of derring-do. [Be sure to watch through to the part where he lets show his ignorance about what happens next. He’s signed this paper, see. But now what?]

And then there’s another video from May 2009. The Little Engine That Couldn’t Quite, looking still almost presidential, reaffirms his resolve: Gitmo must close, y’all hear?

And the Lemming Left boomed back,

“Tear down those fences, Mr. President!”

Ah, there’s life, and there’s Obama posturing. Think of it as the difference between reality and those Reality Shows. Maybe Obama’s show is “The Metrosexually Misinformed Descend on Washington”.

Below the jump is the latest pose (think Yoga) being assumed by Obama. Call it, perhaps, the One-Legged King Pigeon pose. He has assumed this position since dealing with the real world has cost him his first leg. Afghanistan may cost him the other one, which is only fitting, considering the number of valiant young fellows who paid a far higher price than he has.

And now, the next volume in that exciting autobiography, Lies and Other Nightmares I Inherited from My Mother and Father

Here’s Obama with his brand new pen in January 2008:

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2011/03/obama-never-gives-in-he-just-changes.html#more

And here he is again in May 2009 with his same old song and dance. I’d compliment him on his rhythm, but then I’d be accused of racism…or lying, since he hasn’t a lick:

Nor a lick of common sense either. No wonder he was forced to go on to Harvard Law School, where he learned as little about the Constitution as possible since he’s told us he doesn’t believe in it. Our President, the Constitutional Atheist.

Now given the momentous news, i.e., Obama’s great big “never mind”, you’d think there’d be a matching great big honkin’ video of the historical moment when Our Leader signed a new Executive Order, this one permitting military trials to resume at Guantanamo. According to Fox News, he said he wants to “broaden our ability to bring terrorists to justice.” Ummm…wasn’t this the very ability he narrowed to such a fine line that he froze the process completely?

• Did he also mention that no one wants to take this core crew of degraded human beings into their polity — country, state, or locality?
• Did he describe the likelihood of riots if he attempted to submit his own fellow citizens to the horror (and the humungous security costs) of civilian trials in our midst?
• Did he say that the high-minded Europeans don’t want them, either? Oh, except for Ireland (which needed the money and likes dramatic gestures), or the few places where he made offers they couldn’t refuse?
• Did he ponder aloud the inconvenient fact — i.e., that many of those released went back to Jihad, Inc.?
• And biggest question of all, did he apologize to President Bush for the many smears and sneers directed his way ever since Obama decided he could do it better?

TEAR DOWN THAT WALL OF WILLFUL PRIDE, MR. PRESIDENT. It only makes you look more foolish with each passing “executive” order.

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Do read the Fox News report to see our Attorney General bloviate. You get the prize if you can make it all the way through Holder’s turgid talking points. One must be a seasoned Washington-watcher to slash through such a jungle of prose. And if you do make it to the other side, please tell us what he said.

Also read it for the snide comments from the administration about abiding by “the rule of law”. They’ve suddenly got religion after all this time?

Here’s the last paragraph in the article. What do you think it means?

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard “Buck” McKeon, R-Calif., said he was pleased with Obama’s decision to restart the military commissions. But he said the administration must work with Congress to create a trial system that will stand up to judicial review.

Here’s one possibility: in the short term, Obama has probably been served notice by the legislative branch that the Executive’s powers are not unlimited and that as a lawyer and our president he ought to start acting as though he knew this. Longer term (and beginning with the House Armed Services Committee) Obama is being told to ditch his “doesn’t-play-well-with-others” high-handed attitude and get out on the playground for the game.

Like it or not, Obama will be forced to play. And because he was such a sore winner, he’s going to have his nose rubbed in the rule changes they’ll make. For starters, they’ll go right over his head to the American people. When it’s convenient, that’s a good move.

One more thing: wouldn’t you love to have been a fly on the wall when Bush got this news?

Education of the Crotch Replaces Education of the Mind at Your Favorite University

The $50,000 Orgasm

Tuesday, March 08, 2011    an article by Dennis Prager at Townhall.com.

On Feb. 21, the 600 Northwestern University students enrolled in the popular Human Sexuality course taught by professor John Michael Bailey were told that if they wished to stay after class — it was clearly made optional — they would see a live demonstration of female ejaculation, the subject of that day’s class. A naked young woman (not a student) would demonstrate a “f—saw” and come to orgasm in front of the students. About 120 students stayed.

When word came out about this contribution to young people’s understanding of life, the university defended it. Its official spokesman, Al Cubbage, released this statement:

“Northwestern University faculty members engage in teaching and research on a wide variety of topics, some of them controversial and at the leading edge of their respective disciplines. The university supports the efforts of its faculty to further the advancement of knowledge.”

We will return to that statement in a moment.

But first, here are excerpts from the longer statement released by Bailey on March 1, after the story had begun to be national news:

“On the afternoon of February 21st Ken MB and colleagues arrived while I was finishing my lecture, on sexual arousal. I was talking about the female g-spot and the phenomenon of female ejaculation, both of which are scientifically controversial. I finished the lecture and invited the guests onstage. On the way, Ken asked me whether it would be ok if one of the women with him demonstrated female ejaculation using equipment they had brought with them. … My decision to say ‘yes’ reflected my inability to come up with a legitimate reason why students should not be able to watch such a demonstration. … The demonstration, which included a woman who enjoyed providing a sexually explicit demonstration using a machine, surely counts as kinky, and hence as relevant. … I did not wish, and I do not wish, to surrender to sex negativity and fear. …

“While I watched, I experienced some apprehension. None of this apprehension had to do with the possibility of harm to any observer, and none of it had to do with a lack of educational value. … Rather, I was worried that there could be repercussions that would threaten the valuable speaker series that I have built over the years. …

“Do I have any regrets? I certainly have no regrets concerning Northwestern students, who have demonstrated that they are open-minded grown ups rather than fragile children.”

Two reactions:

First, Cubbage’s statement must be deemed one of the great statements summarizing the state of American university education. The University of Chicago just released a devastating report on American universities, the gist of which is that most American students learn little or even nothing during their first two years at college.

In the 1960s and ’70s, university education was trashed. Required courses were dropped, as 19-year-old “grown ups” were told that they would now decide what they would study. One could henceforth attend most American universities never having read a word of Shakespeare or one verse of the Bible, never having taken a course on Western civilization or American history, never having heard a symphony or, for that matter, never having experienced anything uplifting or elevating.

Whatever was previously deemed great — as in great men, great literature, great art — was deconstructed to mean nothing more than some ethnocentric, phallic-centric, culturally biased nonsense. Too many DWEM — Dead White European Males — had been studied before. Now students would study Latina lesbian poets.

In Bailey’s class and Mr. Cubbage’s statement, we have reached the logical culmination of the ’60s and ’70s. Instead of studying Dead White European Males, students get to study a young white living female ejaculating with a f—saw.

Second, the complete secularization of everything — from ethics to human sexuality — has also reached its logical culmination. For four years, the American college student is taught that human beings are animals. The notion that humans are not only animals, but also creatures created in the image of God and therefore possessors of ineffable sanctity, is dead at our institutions of higher learning. Actually, worse than dead — laughed at.

And since we are only animals, why shouldn’t students have a woman come to orgasm in front of a hundred students? Except for the possible titillation, the exhibition is no different than watching a female baboon having sex.

By Northwestern’s logic, a biology class studying the excretory system would watch a man or woman relieve themselves in front of a hundred students. I cannot think of a single argument the man-is-an-animal crowd could offer against it.

So, parents, just know that by and large that is the message your son or daughter gets at almost any American university for your $50,000 per year (Northwestern’s tuition plus expenses). Most colleges don’t have public orgasm sessions. But I’ll bet almost none, aside from garnering bad publicity, can think of a single good reason not to.”

Comment:  Of all of the countless corruptions festering in  today’s American cultural melting pot, none surpass those stinking at the American university’s liberal arts schools  from coast to coast.   Arab oil money and lesbianism perverts education in some, Black studies and women studies corrupt curricula nearly everywhere,  Marxism dominates the floors at Colleges of Education.   Nowhere has tenure become more sabotaging of  purpose.   The flake and perverted with tenure choose their think and act-alike clones whenever there is an opening on the deparment staff.

Freak replaces freak.   Knowledge no longer has meaning.   Standards are for bigots, ruining creativity.   Attitudes dominate.   Hates are chic.  Sex is ‘examined’ to satisfy the crotch, not the mind in the new meaning in the schools of  “Liberal Arts”.   The tyranny of leftwing political correctness sytmies free speech and thinking everywhere.

The intolerant breed their intolerance.

What do you think is taught in Black Studies Departments…..Women’s Studies Departments, and Gay and Lesbian Studies Departments?

Who would hire a recipient of a  Phd in “Penis Studies”  or “Vulva Freedom”  from a university “Gay and Lesbian Deparment?    What are these “Studies” and their departments replacing on the curriculum?    What kind of mind is created by such loonies?   Easy….Marxists create Marxists.

Look Again at the Bill the Madison Thugs Thrill to Kill and so, Bankrupt the State

Simply listed from a previous article at PowerLine, the Scott Walker Bill is as follows: 

Asks government workers to pay half the cost of their pensions – still less than private employees pay for their pensions

- Asks government workers to pay 12% of their own health insurance premiums – the national average for the private sector is over 20%

- Ends collective bargaining for government unions for pensions and benefits. Allow bargaining only for raises that are less than inflation.

- Ends forced union dues, collected by the state. Union dues would become voluntary.

- Union members get to vote yearly on whether to keep their union.

Are those significant reforms? Absolutely. Hence the desperation on the Left to frustrate them. But in talking about what is at stake, it is helpful to be concrete about what the legislation would actually do.

Barack Obama has yet to remark about the thuggishness, hate, and Michael Moore performances at the Madison thug and teacher protests.    His government workers don’t receive the plush dividends provided to  these ‘suffering’ teachers and professors in the Wisconsin leftwing ‘education’ industry.   And he has the power to print money whenever he dictates.  

What is it Wisconsinites don’t understand about bankruptcy?

Despite the Collapse of the American White Male, Males Elsewhere Dominate!

“Great civilizations are not murdered.  They commit suicide.”  –Arnold Toynbee

The feminizating of the human male is the beginning of the end of any healthy society.  Creativity and energy are  replaced by comfort and sloth.

Niall Ferguson at Newsweek wrote the following article titled “Men without Woman”:

“In 1927, Ernest Hemingway published a collection of short stories titled Men Without Women. Today, less than a century later, it sums up the predicament of a rising proportion of mankind.

According to the United Nations, there are far more men than women on the planet. The gender gap is especially pronounced in Asia, where there are 100 million more guys than girls. This may come as a surprise to people in the Western world, where women outnumber men because—other things being equal—the mortality rate for women is lower than for men in all age groups. Nobel Prize–winning economist Amartya Sen calls it the mystery of Asia’s “missing women.”

The mystery is partly explicable in terms of economics. In many Asian societies, girls are less well looked after than boys because they are economically undervalued. The kind of domestic work they typically do is seen as less important than paid work done by men. And, of course, early marriage and minimal birth control together expose them to the risks of multiple pregnancies.

When Sen first added up the missing women—women who would exist today if it were not for selective abortion, infanticide, and economic discrimination—he put the number at 100 million. It is surely higher now. For, even as living standards in Asian countries have soared, the gender gap has widened. That’s because a cultural preference for sons over daughters leads to selective abortion of female fetuses, a practice made possible by ultrasound scanning, and engaged in despite legal prohibitions. The American feminist Mary Anne Warren called it “gendercide.” Notoriously common in northwestern India, it’s also rampant in the world’s most populous country: China.

In China today, according to American Enterprise Institute demographer Nicholas Eberstadt, there are about 123 male children for every 100 females up to the age of 4, a far higher imbalance than 50 years ago, when the figure was 106. In Jiangxi, Guangdong, Hainan, and Anhui provinces, baby boys outnumber baby girls by 30 percent or more. This means that by the time today’s Chinese newborns reach adulthood, there will be a chronic shortage of potential spouses. According to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, one in five young men will be brideless. Within the age group 20 to 39, there will be 22 million more men than women. Imagine 10 cities the size of Houston populated exclusively by young males.

The question left open by economists is what the consequences will be of such a large surplus of young men. History offers a disquieting answer. According to the German scholar Gunnar Heinsohn, European imperial expansion after 1500 was the result of a male “youth bulge.” Japan’s imperial expansion after 1914 was the result of a similar youth bulge, Heinsohn argues. During the Cold War, it was youth-bulge countries—Algeria, El Salvador, and Lebanon—that saw the worst civil wars and revolutions. Heinsohn has also linked the recent rise of Islamist extremism in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan to an Islamic youth bulge. Political scientists Valerie Hudson and Andrea den Boer warn that China and India could be the next countries to overdose on testosterone.

That has scary implications. Remember, most of Hemingway’s stories in Men Without Women are about violence. They feature gangsters, bullfighters, and wounded soldiers. The most famous story is called simply “The Killers.”

It may be that the coming generation of Asian men without women will find harmless outlets for their inevitable frustrations, like team sports or videogames. But I doubt it. Either this bachelor generation will be a source of domestic instability, whether Brazilian-style crime or Arab-style revolution—or, as happened in Europe, they and their testosterone will be exported. There’s already enough shrill nationalism in Asia as it is. Don’t be surprised if, in the next generation, it takes the form of macho militarism and even imperialism. Lock up your daughters.”