It’s been a week now since the story broke (actually last October, but who’s counting) and I still haven’t seen anything on TH about Johnny be Breck Edwards and his version of Camilla Bowles. I admit I may have missed it, however a search has turned up nothing on TH. Now one could argue that piling on to a National Enquirer story has certain inherent risks, but the Big Boys at Fox and elsewhere have had plenty of time to follow up on this story with their own investigative journalistic resources and they be nearly as mum. Why? It ain’t that hard. (Take THAT as you will.) These Commiequeer Poster boys aren’t only NOT Thomas Jefferson and James Bond, they ain’t even Joey Buttaphooko!

Hasn't the "Kennedy Plan" (or "Kennedy/Clinton Plan" depending how much of a Fan of the Rapist in Chief you is) always been the keystone of the Democrats' (my semantic accuracy for that "terminological inexactitude" is "commiequeer" remember) strategy for "uniting" America?

Have ya'll seen where Cousin Joe Sullivan, Principle of Gloucester High, has broken his silence, stood by his word, and spit in the eye of those who were trying to cover their asz by making him the fall guy?!

Way to GO, cuzin!

Seems like Cousin Joe told the truth to Time, and that Mayor Carolyn (Capt.) Kirk ("to boldly go where no moron has gone before") and Superintendent Chris ("even if it was a pact, so what?") Farmer might have been fudging a bit when they accused him of having a "fuzzy memory." 

Cousin Joe loses points only for suggesting the Fertility Cult be left in anonymity.

If he really thinks the focus should be on DEALING with the RISE in teen pregnancies, then KNOWING what these girls were THINKING and WHY they did what they did is CRUCIAL!

The first step in THAT is identifying them and MAKING them TELL ALL!

Still, atta boy, Cousin!

In the words of Rudyard Kipling: "he did not shame his kind."

Nor his kin.

The Big Mick

Scene: Overheard Conversations at Homecoming Dance, 2007, Gloworm High School, the "Cool" Table.

Andy: "I’m thirsty, c’mon guys let’s get some ‘punch’."

Opie: "Ok!"

Harry: "Yeah!"

Dick: "Cool! Oh, and I need to visit the Gas Station Men’s Room."

(Meanwhile at the next table, The "Chaperones" )

Herr Professor Super: "Here, have some more of my special 'punch' mixer, Your Honor."

Her Honor: "I don’t know, I’m pretty smashed now."

Coach Kiddy Suzy: "Ah, c’mon, Karry, baby, loosen up!"

HPSup: "Let’s all go back to my place and play Star Freak, you can be Capt. Kirk, Your Honor, and I’ll be Dr. Spock, and Coach Kiddy Suzy can be Lt. Uhura–and I can get out the whip like in that one episode and...."

Kiddy Suzy: "Shhhh, I want to hear what they’re saying!"

(Back at the Cool Table)

Elindzybeth: "I’m bored!"

Jo: "Me too."

Meg: "Me three."

Amy: "Me.....ah, next."

LB: "I want to do something."

Jo: "What do you want to do?"

LB: "I don’t know, what do you want to do?"

Jo: "I don’t know, Meg, what do you want to do?"

Meg: "I don’t know, Amy, what do you want to do?"

Amy: "I want to get LAID!!!"

LB: "I mean AFTER that, silly."

Amy: "Uh, have a baby shower?"

Meg: "Stupid."

LB: "No, wait an minute, she may be on to something."

Jo: "You mean..."

LB: "Yeah, just think how cool it would be, we’d all have baby showers, the whole school, all the cool girls, would be there. We’d all be in the birthing rooms together..."

Jo: "How cool is THAT!"

Meg: "And like we could all have them in day care together and they could play with each other like..."

Amy: "Ah, that would be so sweeet!"

Jo: "And we could skip Algebra to go ‘check’ on them."

Meg: "Now you’re talkin. But wait, Harry’s Dad would KILL him, he won’t go for it."

LB: "No problem, Andy’s college roommate is gone for the weekend, and Andy knows this 24 year old wino..."

Jo: "HOMELESS!"

Fade Out

The Big Mick

Back in the early 80's I was teaching Middle School in a public school in southwestern Virginia and I chaperoned an 8th Grade Dance. I noticed that sometimes you’d get girl couples dancing, at the time and at that age more a comment on their hesitation to approach boys and boys to approach them then on anything else. I noticed too that sometimes not two, but three or more boys would stand in a circle and dance, and that gave me a lens for viewing what happened about exactly half-way through the evening. Even then I had long maintained that 8^th Graders were Herd Animals and only quasi, perhaps proto, humans.

About half way, as I say, through the event, I noticed one boy/girl couple stand up from the bleachers on the Right side of the Gym, where EVERYONE was sitting and walk, for no discernable reason, over to sit down on the Left side of the Gym. When they got about mid-court, another couple stood up and moved toward the other side, followed, a split-second later by another and another until, in a sort of human Brownian Movement, the Whole Little 8^th Grade Herd migrated to the other side of the gym! Again for no discernable reason other than the whim of the original couple. At the end, couples and single boys and girls were rushing, even running, to get AWAY from the, now, "Not Cool" Right side and over to the, now, "Cool" side before they were the last one remaining on the "Not Cool" side!

Don’t tell me teenagers aren’t quite capable of creating a relational milieu in which certain specific behaviors become de rigueu without SAYING a damn word!. That kind of Social ComPACT doesn’t have to be written or even verbal to be absolutely binding.

I agree with the 45 year-old Gloucester Music Teacher who the AP quoted as saying, "If you think this wasn’t planned you’re pretty naive."

[At least that was the quote when I first read the story. That quote, indeed the whole last paragraph attempt at some kind of "balance", was dropped from the story within 30 minutes. Wonder why?]

The AP, however, apparently, DOES believe exactly that, buying what Lindsey Oliver, (whom they describe as one of the girls who have gotten pregnant --actually they said "became" as if it was some sort of Miraculous Conception) had to say. The AP reports Lindsey told some morning talk show today (that reference was also dropped from the New Version) that "definitely" it was no pact, but rather "coincidence" and it was all a post-coincidence decision to help each other.

Yup! A statistical two orders of magnitude 400% "coincidence.".

And Bill Clinton never had sex with Monica Lewinski.

God I hate being assumed to be stupid.

At least M. Trujillo (and HER byline has since disappeared) of the AP gave the name of 5 month pregnant (another dropped detail) 17 year old Oliver’s Impregnator, 20 year old Andy Psalidas.

If 17 (or 16?–do the math) ain’t the age of consent in Mass, little Andy done gone and committed Statutory Rape now hasn’t he? Just like those LDS Fundies in Texas, right?

And maybe I’m only a 24 hour prophet, but damn if Psd Andy’s dad, Charlie, didn’t fulfill my prediction of last night. He says Andy’s already got an Exclusive Interview Agreement with Inside Edition (cha ching!) and the couple would air later today. Guess that’s why they were in the Big Apple and the AP couldn’t reach ‘em!

Go cheap and get scooped, AP.

Memo to the Gloucester 16: Better cut your deals quick, kids, your value is dropping fast! If you don’t grab your 15 minutes in the next few days, you’ll be lucky to get a free pack of Pampers out of it.

Even I moved too slow compared to IE. I was going to suggest to Larry Flynt (is he still alive?) that he offer the 17 Inseminators a Year’s College Scholarship (or the equivalent in Cash, Gas, or a New Car) for names, dates, places, number of times, positions, sound effects and post coital pillow talk.  I figured in economically depressed Gloucester the little studs would jump at the chance to squeal. Beats guttin fish for the summer, or for a living.

I was going to suggest he sweeten the offer to 4 years college or equivalent for everyone IF ALL of them came forward.

That or a photo shoot with Miss September and a Lifetime Subscription to "Hustler."

(To commence upon their legal majority, of course.)

Peer pressure works for Males too.

Looks like IE got the worm, and dirt cheap too I’m betting.

Good "get" IE!

AP, I got some water front property in Iowa to sell you.

The Big Mick

On the verge of sleep, tonight, a further realization about the Gloucester 17 and my desired Outing of them, occurs.

Wait a few months and that will take care of itself.

In fact, some far sighted and sagacious, even wily, Tabloid Editor should even now be screening his reporters for one who can go undercover as a High School Transfer Student this September at Gloucester High.

By Christmas we should all know these girls names, their parents, and at least the Street Word on who the Daddy's are.

That same hypothetical Wily Editor should also be planning on placing undercover reporters in all the Maternity Wards of Gloucester and environs. That should get a line on the dads!

On the other hand, a modest amount of Green Lubricant, in economically distressed Gloucester, should render an actual undercover reporter in the Hospitals unnecessary. Come to think of it, an open palm would probably have equal success at the High School.

Consider it an investment.

If somebody isn’t already laying out a book and movie deal, a decades long study of the progeny of the Gloucester 17, at least  3 Masters and a Doctoral Thesis, and TWO Reality TV shows, then the ENTIRE country, not just Gloucester and Yankeeland, is buck naked stupid.

You watch.

The Big Mick

Or Gang GLM-17.

This just keeps getting better! My latest info is from The Fox Report with Shep Smith. Shep skewered em, albeit in abstentia. The Gloucester Mayor had a clip, and so did the Super of the Schools. The Major circled the wagons, threw Cousin Joe (Sullivan) the Principle Under the Bus, adopted a "No Proof" (like they were going to write it down in triplicate and sign it in blood!) standard reminiscent of Janet ("Gas em and Burn em") Renal, and ended up blaming W’s "insufficiently funded" "No Delinquent Left Behind" mandates.

The little matter of possible Criminal Conspiracy to Commit Rape entered into on School Property--

(ALL these girls, according to Fox, are UNDER the age of consent, 16. Any Adult partner is de facto and de jure guilty of a Sex Crime, if the GIRLS initiated sex with underage boys, THEY are equally guilty.)

-- seems to be supremely uninteresting to Herr Professor Doctor Super.

Listening to the Community Leadership, in the persons of the Mayor, the Super and the representatives of the Gloucester Times, one at least can put the WHY question to bed.

Dey Stupid up there in Yankeeland!

Again, what, in Texas, is met with General Communal Outrage, the Full Force of the State to Crush a Criminal Rape Cult Conspiracy, the Intervention of the Courts to take custody of all Minors involved, in Gloucester......apparently is regarded as some Youth Feminist Mini-Manifesto or a kind of High School Sorority High Jink.

That’s Blue State Morality for ya!

Stay tuned, I’ll be satisfied with nothing less than Criminal Charges, all names and addresses, dates times and motives, and a kind of Public Shaming auto de fe.

I won’t get it of course, but I ain’t lettin em walk and will smack em every time they open their mouths from now on.

OUT THE GLOUCESTER 17!

The Big Mick

You've GOT to LOVE the information age. Talk about your Paradigm Shifts. Just two days ago I was taking Fox and the Gloucester Times to task for not providing basic 5 W information, or, apparently, even ASKING the basic questions on the Gloucester 17. Today, noonish, low and behold!, on Happening Now, Generic Fox Blond is interviewing "Pat" from the GT and IS asking Who, What, When, Where, Why, How? And Pat is ADMITTING they are, at least, TRYING to get said answers! Damn! Did I do that?

Now everybody is circling the wagons, backpedaling at World Record 40 pace and trotting out the Hoary New England Tradition of Omerta, Irish Version 2K08.

[By the way, Principle Joe Sullivan, now the sacrificial deer in the community headlights, is very possibly a distant cousin. I got some Sullivan kin folk! Atta boy, Joe, old sod, don’t tell the Limey Bastids NOTHIN!]

Lest we forget in this sudden, uncharacteristic, rush of "we really don’t have the facts yet" (like when has that ever stopped the 4^th Estate) a few Facts are self-evident.

1. Anything of 17 other than School Sponsored in a High School that size is de facto "gang related."

2. Sex with a minor is, by law, Rape.

3. One would think Gang Related Rape would be of some concern to Gloucester even if Teen Pregnancy out of Wedlock was not.

In his interview with Generic Fox Blond today, however, GT Pat simply enlarged my idea of the possible.

You know what the cover story is now? The Spin? (We have GOT to get Oh?Really?, Greta, Miller, Hannity and especially Ingram asking the questions of these morons.)

Pat floated the Talking Point that, what in Texas is Criminal Rape by a Cult REQUIRING State Custody of the Minors, and anywhere else would be "gang activity", is now, in Gloucester, merely "a fashion statement."

You go girls! A new line of Maternity Wear "Gloucester 17."

And speaking of the possible, how is it that we can get Classified Top Secret Intelligence Reports, and know who outed Valery Plame, but find the Press helpless in the face of Teen Peer Pressure?

Perhaps we should turn National Security Secret Keeping over to the Gloucester 17, their kin and classmates, and Gloucester Mass, en masse. The Gloucester Times could have the Counter Intelligence Brief.

If it wasn’t so pathetic, if these girls weren’t desperately in need of help, if the community didn’t equally desperately need a Attitude Adjustment, it would be a HOOT!

"Dear Ray,

If I can do it without too much effort, I’m going to send this as a letter to the editor to your closest competitors."

"Half a day’s reflection on your reply to my Complaint about your paper’s coverage of the Teen Pregnancy Cabal prompts me to point out, however futilely, a few more of the Facts one would reasonably expect a Journalist to be interested in.

The first is the interesting idea that you, apparently, chose to regard an, admittedly, vitriolic, letter of CONSUMER COMPLAINT, as the rant of a Deliverance Redneck Cracker Peckerwood. This I infer from "pathetic" and "people like you." Again, a rational, unbiased, objective, observer might cogently conclude this says more about your prejudices than mine.

For instance, I had every reasonable expectation of receiving Silence, either disdainful or chagrined, from you. Since you went to the trouble of a reply, one would think you would have used the opportunity to "put me in my place" by correcting my misapprehensions and marketing your product in a more positive light. Telling me, for instance, that I was mistaken and that you were doing ABC and that your reasons were DEF in order to "protect the children" and "we are doing all we can and it is unfortunate that others have GHI out of context" etc. would have taken this conversation in a totally different direction, captured the moral high ground for the GT and prompted an abject letter of apology from me.

Again, the fact you chose not to is suggestive.

The second, and I intend to point this out to Fox, is that the Coverage of the GT, and Fox’s apparent willingness to let that sleeping dog lie, is in stark contrast to the General Media Coverage, and Fox’s in particular, of the Fundamentalist Later Day Saint Polygamy Cult.

I present the following particulars in similarity. 1. A pattern of Underage Pregnancies. 2. A pattern of Cultural and Group Coercion. 3. De Facto and De Jure abuse by Adult Males. 4. A Community Cloak of silence.

Of course the LDS Fundies made ‘em get married first. The Gloucester Cult apparently does not hold that.

In the Texas case, the outrage, even in the face of unsubstantiated rumor, innuendo, and speculation, was positively frothy. In the case of The Gloucester Cult, and your coverage, the outrage was....well where IS the outrage?

Mine is apparently offensive to you.

Let me also point out that what we have here, in part, is a CRIMINAL Conspiracy. Whoever INSTIGATED the intercourse with a minor, male or female, in each case, was guilty of Statutory Rape. If any of the partners, one thinks of the "24 year old homeless man", were Adults EACH and EVERYONE of them is guilty of Statutory Rape.

One could have reasonably expected that a Gang whose initiation ritual included Rape, especially Rape of a Minor would have generated a bit more Fury in Gloucester.

But more than that, Ray, can’t one reasonably speculate that if this Gang had been practicing animal sacrifice as its bonding ritual, or engaging in the bullying, harassment or even exclusion of a minority or handicapped classmate as its initiation, the GT, and you, would have been all over it like White on Rice?! That your toleration factor would have been minimal? What if their Gang colors were the Confederate Flag, or a noose, would THAT have gotten their names in the Paper?

What is the underlying Cultural Ethos that holds this little initiation ritual or bonding act somehow different?

The underlying Principle in the FLDS case is that bringing a child into that environment was De Facto ABUSE, and mothers were forcibly separated from their children under that principle. A reasonable person might cogently argue that a teenager intentionally bringing a child into the world, without two parents, without a job, dependent on the State, is also DE FACTO child abuse.

Again, based on your coverage, what caused outrage and State intervention in Texas in the FLDS case, is met in Gloucester with, at best, complacent laissez faire indifference, at worst, active cover-up and complicity after the fact.

That’s what it looks like based on the Fox interview and your web site, to an outside observer, Ray. And the way you handled my complaints about that does nothing to make me regret the harshness, I would even admit to viciousness, of my language in that complaint.

Ya’ll got WAY bigger problems then "people who think like me."

The big mick

I immediately fired back this for Ray’s further consideration, even though I figured he was telling me he was going to block me.

"Ray,

Got your reply. Glad to be of "help."

What I THINK, Ray, is that "Lucy, you got a lot of ‘splainin to do."

First of all, Ray, I’d be FASCINATED to know WHAT, in YOUR August Wisdom and Superior Moral Position, YOU "think" "people out there who think like [me]" Think?!

What (damn a 5 W) do you "think" I am "like", Ray?

What (damn, another one) do you "think" I think?

One could argue all I did was ask you to provide the answers it is your JOB to provide and I was treated with disdain. One wonders Why (damn another one)?

I would also point out that you had an EASY way to shame me while pointing out what a good job you are doing---POINT me to WHERE (another one, damn, I’m on a roll) YOU HAVE PROVIDED this BASIC information, as is your DUTY to do! Had you done so this would be a letter of apology for my unwarranted anger. The fact you DID NOT is suggestive, reminiscent of Sodem fighting so hard NOT to reveal supposedly non-existent WMD's--if ya got nothing to hide, Ray, why the 'tude? What (!) It suggests, Ray, to any moderately intelligent consumer of news, much less someone with a smidgin of true Journalistic Instinct that you are SUPPOSED to have, is that:

1. You guys COULD get the W's if you WANTED to. Or rather, probably more accurately, you HAVE them and aren’t Printing them.

2. You DON'T, for whatever reason--what? half of 'em kinfolk?--WANT to.

3. In a post Chapaquidic (I don't know how it's spelled and don't give a damn) Post Watergate, Post Lewinski, Post Valery Plame World, this suggests YOU are ACTIVELY AIDING a COVER UP!--THAT's truly PATHETIC in a NEWSpaper, Ray!

What (!) I think, Ray, is that it looks like I really got to you. That's good and bad. I'm glad to know the 4th Estate can still be pricked, but it is unfortunate my legitimate anger, as a News Consumer, (you wanna know, what I really THINK, Ray, I think I HATE being treated like an easily misled MORON–your usual readership?)...my legitimate anger as a NEWS Consumer, at the paucity of information YOU are "supposed" to provide, and at the "pathetic" manner in which the minuscule and agendized amount you have offered was presented, seems to have MERELY angered you rather than SHAMED you into providing a better product, as it is your responsibility to do.

But to continue, I am FASCINATED that the Editor of a NEWSpaper seems to regard Journalism 101 (and I don't even have THAT, just one Teacher's Course in "Managing a Student Newspaper") as "[not] worth dignifying with answers". ‘Fraid I’d have to flunk you, Ray. Of course one could argue your response is a kind of Iconic Nietzschean Statement for The New Journalism Paradigm, a kind of profound Mini-Manifesto rating an A+.

I think you know better, Ray. The guy you sent out for the Fox Interview was pathetic, though that might not be HIS fault. You know this. 17 of anything besides School Activities in a High School your size is Gang Related Activity, you know this. Underage sex is Criminal by Law, you know this. You guys "broke" the story a MONTH ago, and have, apparently, given your response to me, added almost nothing to the 5ws since then, you know this. What I THINK, as opposed to what YOU FEEL, Ray is that YOUR COMMUNITY has a BIG PROBLEM and YOUR PAPER seems to be doing NOTHING USEFUL to try and SOLVE IT, or even GET AT or PROVIDE the information NECESSARY to solve it!

And I did you the COURTESY of emailing you with MY HOME EMAIL ADDRESS UP FRONT, Ray!

If all you want to do is beech back at me with "I'll remember you" threats, go ahead! YOU are the one responsible for the INFORMATIONAL content (and the AGENDA behind it) for YOUR paper AND THE WEB SITE.

As a CONSUMER I considered the PRODUCT you offered PATHETIC, and I told you so. If you don’t care, it would seem to me to be prima facie evidence for the Agenda School of "Journalism" (propaganda under the old speak) rather than the Traditional Concept of the Duty of the 4th Estate to INFORM!

That’s what I THINK, Ray! And I think what's TRULY PATHETIC, is that THESE GIRLS DID SOMETHING TRULY HORRIFIC! EVEN CRIMINAL given Age of Consent Laws! THEY are in DESPERATE NEED of HELP, and that HAS to INCLUDE an ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT and CHANGE OF MIND! PUBLIC SHAMING may be an ESSENTIAL ELEMENT of that Attitude Change, and if, as thinking people would consider reasonable, THE COMMUNITY needs to undergo a Paradigm shift, PUBLIC SHAMING of the COMMUNITY is DESPERATELY needed as well. That IS a Duty of the 4^th Estate!

Ray, you are offended by my questions, questions it was your DUTY to provide answers to. You choose to insult me rather than provide them, that suggests a kind of Bigotry on your part. One could cogently argue that constitutes a Vegas "Push" between us, admittedly I tend to regard Blue Staters and Yankees with a certain amount of, in my mind, well earned contempt.

You, and the Community you "serve" STILL desperately need to get your collective yshit TOGETHER, Ray. Being piszed at my temerity in challenging you to do so does not, and will not, change that."

Wednesday's coverage on Fox News of the Gloucester Mass. Teen Pregnancy Cult got me so stirred up that I wrote a e-letter to the Editor of the Gloucester Times.

Note I said Fox's Coverage. The interviewer/host/anchor babe on Fox started by giving the interviewee credit for "breaking the story"--which fact Fox got factually WRONG! No, it was one of the interviewee's colleagues who had broken the story "a month ago". Now it may not have been the young man’s fault, he may have been the sacrificial lamb, or maybe Fox’s Producers screwed up the "get" from the word go, or he stuck his face in where it didn’t belong, but the ACTUALITY of the matter is, he stunk!

He had almost nothing factual to contribute, spent most of his time defending the Day Care program and the Community, and looked like some Community College Journalism Intern!

Fox’s babe’s conduct of the interview was equally non-productive.

Professionally speaking it was a genuinely miserable job by all parties all the way around.

That piszed me off! These folks are making enough money that I feel righteous and justified in demanding some standard of competence in their News Product. I didn’t get it. And I complained to Fox by email immediately.

In obtaining the email address on the Fox News site, however, I ran across a companion piece in which some MD in some supervisory capacity for the Clinic at the Highschool was quoted as advocating the distribution of birth control to the minor children, even over parental objection, as a RESPONSE to these collegial, if not cooperative or collaborative, pregnancies.

That piszed me off even more. Some people ought to be smarter than to talk, or think, that stupid!

That led me to finding the Gloucester Times web site, where I noted "leads" bemoaning the lack of state funding for sex education, and the need for contraception for boys in apparent response to the Gang Bang Crisis.

That was the last straw. I fired off a viciously vitriolic letter to every editor the GT listed under "contact us." I will admit straight up I was extremely belligerent, offensive, and took no prisoners.

I was not in the mood to; because I believe it is THEIR job to get ME the FACTS, it is THEIR raison d’etre, Their PRODUCT, and as a consumer I have a legitimate and reasonable right to some kind of quality in that product. I didn’t get it and I was MAD! Nobody likes being treated like an easily misled and satisfied moron.

Let me confess to some of the more egregious slams.

I used the "Community College Intern" crack, went on to "bunch of gutless wonders," then I got nasty:

"Where were you? Where are the Editors? The Managers? The owners? Where is the guy who broke the story? So now I know that "Journalists" at GT are not only Unabashedly, Uncaringly, Willfully, Ignorant of all the IMPORTANT FACTS in the story, they are basically absolutely inarticulate when it comes to presenting the little information they HAVE managed to gather.

Facts like: oh, I don't know, like maybe the 5 w's? WHO are the moronic sluts? WHO are the CRIMINAL Fathers? WHAT is being done to identify and ARREST them? WHO is going to PAY for these little yankee bastids? HOW did they get inseminated? WHEN and WHERE did it happen? WHY so many? 17? NOT exactly a click, or even a gang, more like a MOB! When and where was the pact made? WHAT were they thinking? WHAT do the other girls in school think? Boys? WHERE were the parents? WHO are the parents? WHAT are the parents going to do about this? WHERE were the Teachers administrators etc? What are THEY going to do?

WHEN are you going to paste the names, faces, and addresses of these demohos ALL over the media? AND their parents! WHY haven't you already DONE so? WHERE do these morons go to Church? Where were THEY? Where was your whole damn moronic yankee Kennedy SUCKING, O'bama Voting COMMUNITY!!!?

And most importantly HOW did this HAPPEN! WHY did it happen? WHAT was everybody THINKING, you morons?!"

See what I mean? But I wasn’t finished, I mentioned Dr.Stupido’s comments about birth control over parental objection and pointed out that this is his response to INTENTIONAL PREGNANCIES (like birth control is going to help THAT?!) And commented:

"This is not locking the barn door after the horse has gotten out, this is UNLOCKING the PIG PEN IN RESPONSE to the Horse's exit!"

"And you idiots are going to elect the next POTUS!"

I went on to comment on their web site leads, criticizing their response to "this little 21st Century Roman Orgy or Sodom and Gomorrah Glee Glub" as:

"Ah, that Great Journalistic Overiding Principle: Agenda trumps Truth and puts Reality in the Shade."

I concluded:

"Congratulations on becoming the POSTER CITY for BlueState Kennedy/Hussein Commiqueer Politics!

Great Job Guys!

the big mick"

Not exactly a reasonable sounding (though absolutely reasoned, reasonable  and cogent) critique of their efforts, was it?

But THEN, in defiance of all expectation, I get a reply from the Boss Editor, Ray.

I won’t print his private email to me, I don't have his permission, but I can summarize it. He advised me that he had gotten my message and considered it truly pathetic. He considered (down South we’d have said "reckoned") it was helpful to know there were folks out there who thought like I did.

However he considered my questions, and I will quote him here, "[weren’t} worth dignifying with answers."

An Editor of a NEWSpaper and he considers Who, What, When, Where, Why and How Questions unworthy of answering!

He did advise me, however, that he saved my email and would retain the IP address for future reference.

For what? If he considered it a customer complaint, his response was lousy. If he considered it harassment he’s too thin skinned for an Editor worth his salt.

Is it just my guilty conscience for allowing my legitimate dissatisfaction to grow into an anger that generated meanness, or am I correct in detecting a threat of some kind here, if only a "I’m gonna block you sucka!"

Read on to see my TWO responses to Ray’s response.

The Big mick

It occurs to me that one can identify some basic archetypes (if that isn’t a redundancy) of posters on TH and, to a minute degree, in responders to my one blog where I forgot to disable comments.

[For those of you who have missed it, the reason I disable comments is not because I want to take the position (and in my experience many "professional" pundits do want to occupy the position) of being able to spit without being spat upon. Rather, it is out of respect for you guys. Note how long it was between my blogs! I, being an undisciplined sort, must restrict my blogging and TH posting to a very narrow time commitment. Otherwise I’d spend way too much time talking to you guys. You are interesting and I like doing it. But I just can’t afford the time. So rather than have you guys comment and feel ignored, I disable comments. I figure you can always catch up with me on the TH street, call me out, and throw down on me then. I’m almost always on the Coulter thread Wednesday nights and Thursday days. You want a show down then, feel free.]

Tinslider’s comment, though, has got me reflecting on the genres of TH posters. Tinslider represents what I call the Lilly Gloved Prune Faced Old Maid Aunt School of Political Rhetoric. The Lace Doily School, for short. The poster boy here is Mort Con-drak-he, and the Guiding Principle is "Civility Uber Alles". You are practically guaranteed to hit one or a couple on any TH thread. They claim to have some kind of relation to the GOP or Conservatism, but, once scratched, shriek like the Moronic Mythical Middle "Moderates" crawling toward Socialism (in Buckley’s model) that they probably really are.

These people, like Tinslider, reject all I or Ann or many of you have to say simply because they don’t like the Style and Tone of our Rhetoric. I don’t want to get the women stirred up at me here, and I’m sure it works both ways with men equally at fault, but, guys, have you had my experience, and the experience of other men I have talked to, that you can make a perfectly innocent and factual statement to your wife, void, as near as your forebrain thinking is concerned, of emotional loading, and have her react vociferously, not to what you have said, which she may even acknowledge to be true, but to the way she perceived you said it?

Thus the Tinsliders of the world react. Were they all raised by Aunt Prunella with Ms. Manner’s Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior in lieu of Holy Scripture?

Now let me admit that my Philosophy of Rhetoric is, in large manner, shaped by C..S. Lewis. And it is a fact Lewis points out, in The Screwtape Letters that all of us, male and female, are quite capable of saying the most offensive things in a way that the bare text would seem innocent, but the delivery makes in a blow to the face. I will not deny having committed that sin. Further, Lewis speaks of Courteous Words or Hard Blows being the Language of the Knightly or Noble Warrior in The Chronicles of Narnia (The Horse and His Boy). So, in a vacuum, Tinslider’s principle has merit. It’s the way his ilk apply it that fails my cogency test.

First of all let me say that it must be considered that Tinslider & Coffeeklatch only say, or in charity, only think, their problem is with my rhetoric. To my mind, it is a better than even chance it was either the TARGET of my wit, be it person or principle, or the bitter truth of the bon mot that cheesed Tinman and posse off. In Tinny’s case, he’s an acolyte in the Military Order of the Church of St. McAin’t. For whatever reason these, supposedly, military types (serving, ex, or family) can’t see past Mac the Knife’s last century hero status as a POW.  One wonders what history they have read if they don’t know Heroes can turn Traitor. Does the term Benedict Arnold, decorated war hero, mean anything to them? Is this a kind of "Nam Vets against the World" sub-culture? I recommend to you the little known Tracy/Hepburn film,  Keeper of the Flame or even Seven Days in May.

[WARNING WILL ROBINSON! If you view those films, beware the Commiewood Marxist ju-jitsu. The protagonists stand valiantly in the gap to foil Fascist Coups by the Last War’s heroes.  (Don’t forget the original  Manchurian Candidate was a POW programmed by Chicoms–what does that little setting shift in the recent remake say to you?). We now know, of course, beyond dispute or denial, from their own people/documents, that it always was/is the Commies who are the threat. (Don’t forget, too, that no less a light then historian Tom Wolfe in the Millennium Edition of Time, or maybe Newsweek, pointed out that Hitler and Stalin were Fraternal Socialist Twins!) Here you might want to read my treatment of McCarthyism in the newest Indiana Jones movie.]

The Tinsels of the world seem oblivious to the possibility of the Hero/Traitor in defense of St. McAin’t.

Which makes em, to my mind, a kind of intellectual white trash, i.e. buttkissers extraordinaire, or perhaps buttworshippers would be more accurate. You know, the kind of NASCAR Fan (and I am a NASCAR Fan) who cheered Dale Burnfart Senior, may he rot not in peace, because he was "The Intimidator" completely ignoring his ruthless cheating and murderous driving.  Hero worshipers of false Idols. Those who lick the boots of those who despise them while accepting their fawning. Among commiequeers they become Ted Kennedy lovers. Loyal serfs who live to serve the Elitist Aristos. Political Uncle Toms.

Whatever they say about "childish name calling" what is really being shouted in what they use for brains is "How DARE you say that about your betters!"

But be this as it, most likely, may, I’m going to show Tinslider more consideration then the dis-cogency of his gripe deserves and issue a point by point Philosophy of Political Rhetoric in rebuttal.

Mick

Indy 4 wasn't my only disappointment this week. I also caught a bit of the Libertarian Convention on C-Span and it was all I could do to keep from puking!

Now listen carefully all you morons who don't think things through--I'd LOVE to BE a Libertarian if they MADE SENSE--but THEY DON'T!!! Their political and Constitutional Theory has MERIT!! The way they APPLY it is MORONIC!!! And it PISZES ME OFF WITH THE DAMN DRUG CRAZED PORNO ADDICTS!!! They give Libertarianism and Constitutionalism a BAD NAME!

L.Neil Smith is a well know Libertarian Science Fiction writer and I LOVE his stuff! IT makes sense. BUT NOTE HIS Libertarians are NOT isolationist! They are Revolutionaries! One thumbs down to the Pat Buchanan, Paul Potter Flatulent Earth Isolationist Crowd. More boos to Pat later. Further, near as I can tell, there is no room for Religion in Smith’s Alternative Universe. Fine for Sci-Fi, but the FACT is that MOST AMERICANS are RELIGIOUS, you PsuedoliberTINEarian morons, so DEAL WITH IT!!!

To put it bluntly, you Porn and Pot Worshiping Pointy Heads, if you WANT to save the Constitution and our Liberties you MUST form ALLIANCES with RELIGIOUS people! Religious CONSERVATIVES most pointedly! You will FIND if you bother to think it through, that THEY AGREE with you, most of em, on nearly EVERY vital Libertarian Point regarding LIMITED Government and Constitutionalism. The Reagan Landslides PROVED this, but they AIN’T EVER gonna cotton to your PornoPot Agenda, nor your Isolationism. So you can keep putting THAT non-starter out FRONT like your Mr. Whimple look alike balding phart-bags did at your Convention (my GOD is that the BEST you can do? They were WORSE than Old Man McCain’t or Paul Potter, worse than Buchanan the Ancient) and FOREVER REMAIN an insignificant and marginalized gad-fly group; OR you can emphasize what the REST of the American people AGREE with you on and become a REAL Player in Conservative Politics.

Do you REALLY think a Commiqueer appointee like Ginsberg on the Court is going to let you KEEP your kiddieporn? The Feminazis will CRUSH you the moment they are in power! How long will the Smoking Nazis let you keep your Pot!?   The RedGreen Ecoterrorists your private property? Your best interests are SAFER with Christian Conservatives then with Commiequeers. With a little persuading the Christians can be convinced to leave it to the States and in the Bedroom. The commiequeers allow NOTHING outside the dominion of the Federal State!

Morons!  Your "convention" was a joke! Nobody but middle aged white males! For the Constitution's sake FIND SOME WINNERS that don't look and sound like Middle Aged Queens looking for some juvenile to molest!  Learn to couch INDIVIDUAL Liberties in the language of Traditional American FAMILY VALUES.  As it is you are hurting, not helping, the cause of Liberty.  Great Job, idiots!

Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skulls of Doom

Having just seen the latest Indiana Jones offering from Lucas and Spielberg, I will give a mere nod to my one semester post graduate work in Film and offer one comment as a Movie Critic rather than a TH Blogger. The film makes it obvious L&S are, as Indy is, no longer young.  Where the other Indys romped, this one jogs–with a stitch in its side. Still worth seeing, though.

Spoiler alert! I will now discuss my OTHER problems with L&S with references to the Film.  If you don’t want to know, don’t read further.

If I said to you, "1957", what’s a good Ann Coulter fearing, TH reader like yourself going to think? The Myth of McCarthyism (sp?) right? We now KNOW, from Coulter’s research, other books,  various de-classified intercepts, the Mitrokhin KGB files etc, etc, etc, that Joe was RIGHT and there WERE a BUNCH of Reds in the States working very hard to destroy us. The Mitrokhin Files revealed every single department of FDR’s Wartime Cabinet had a Code Named Soviet Agent IN PLACE! Wallace, FDR’s first Veep, had already picked two for Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of State should FDR have croaked earlier. Is it reasonable to believe they all packed up and went home at the end of WWII?

And consider this, while at Duke, I had a conversation with a grad-student who had worked with a scholar researching McCarthy. He said the research now shows it was NOT TV or Hollywood that brought an end to the hearings, but IKE, when the Truth Light got turned on the PENTAGON! Ike covered for his ring-knocker West Point buddies.

So, given the fact the TRUTH is now quite easily learned, it is a BIG Disappointment that L&S can’t resist the inertia of the Hollywood Big Lie concerning McCarthy. Note the following annoying incongruities–discontinuities in film jargon.

SPOILER ALERT!

The film opens with a Spetnaz (did they call it that in 57?) unit shooting its way into Area 51!–AND a Nuke Test site. So we’ve already established, in the first ten minutes, that the Commies ARE in the US, quite undetected, and capable of great damage! They KNOW that Alien remains are there. Now how did they find THAT out? Then Indy’s bud from MI-6 turns out to be a Red Double Agent! And we do KNOW that the Brits were COMPLETELY penetrated from the 30's on! The Head Red (Boris and Natasha with no Boris, but with skills and a killer tude) throws up to Indy the quote from Oppenheimer (sp?) "I am become the destroyer of worlds", but neither Natasha, or ex-OSS Indy seems to know that members of Oppenheimer’s team were SOVIET AGENTS! L&S seem to have forgotten this too.

By the way, I’d sure like to hear how Lucas figures the God of the Ark (the "top men" put it in the same warehouse with the alien) who kicked some serious Nazi Asz, feels about the Saucer Driving Hive Mind of this installment. As Indy says, "depends on who your God is". One wonders about Lucas’. The Aliens were hors de combat when the Ark was beamed up and sent back down. Different group of Saucer Men, George?  Later on Indy finds artifacts from "every ancient civilization" at the saucer site and theorizes of the aliens "they’re archeologists". So how come THEY didn’t have the Ark?

By the way Number 2. Would some great researcher out there determine if the term "Deity Object" had really replaced "Idol" by 1957 even if only in Academia? Was political correctness THAT early?

To continue: Then there is the chase scene through the College Campus. All the student activists are holding up RED banners that say, if I read it right, "Better DEAD than Red"! Now that, as I recall, is the exact OPPOSITE of the saying common among commiequeers of the time (and we now KNOW that every major anti-nuke group was being manipulated by the Commies–hell even M.L King had one on staff). "Better Red then Dead" was the Ban the Bomb Phrase and it came STRAIGHT from Moscow! Indy tells us he is ex-OSS and had spent "years spying on the Reds", and he doesn’t know this?

Rather he gets all bent outa shape when the FBI has problems with his friendship with a now KNOWN Commie double agent! He complains that "our Government is telling us there are Reds everywhere!" Well DUH, Indy–didn’t you just SHOW us THERE WERE!!!? Of course Indy gets blacklisted and his Dean resigns and they both complain bitterly about McCarthyism without ever using the word. Indy’s army buddy rescues him from the FBI saying "not everybody in the Pentagon is a commie." Does Lucas now admit some WERE!!!?

It’s not only the same ol same ol Hellywood Commie Propaganda, it’s not even INTERNALLY consistent in the Narrative of the Film. I think it was Spielberg, though it might have been Lucas, that was quoted as saying during the filming of Indy 1, "we’re making a B movie here folks." Well, Indy 1,2 and 3 proved not to be. I’m afraid 4 is, and it is L&S’s commiequeer inertia that makes it so. Shopworn is the word.

 Part 2–"he Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls of Doom"follows.

The big mick