Barack Obama is and was a jerk in that he never lost a chance to reward the enemies of Democrats and throwing his supporters under the bus to do it, whether it was watering down the spending on infrastructure to court Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe (making it far less effective for nothing) or what would later become Obamacare. It was one of the earliest of tests of Democratic leadership that Barack Obama failed when he idiotically kept Democrats from punishing the guy who put the "sling" in Quisling, the "shit" in piece of shit, Joe Lieberman for his treachery and disloyalty, his hypocrisy and his vengeful pettiness. Joe Lieberman is now encouraging people to vote for a really putrid Republican by voting for Joe Crowley on the Working Families Party ticket (fucking third party frauds) instead of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a veiled attack on liberals in the Democratic Party and, certainly as a support for the Republican-fascists he's supported pretty much since Democrats failed to give the Quisling the nomination in 2004.
The Estimable Charles Pierce has a piece about this treachery which also contains a valid criticism of Ocasio-Cortez as part of Bernie Sander's counter-productive attempt at kingdom building by sandbagging decent Democrats who might win in places a Bernie or Buster probably can't*. But, as he points out, she's still a rookie at national politics, Sanders doesn't have that excuse, he only has ego to explain it.
* That Bernie Sanders won the Kansas Caucus is a demonstration that Caucuses are an entirely unrealistic and anti-democratic way of choosing delegates to a convention. Democrats ARE chumps if they retain that 19th century relic into 2020. Democrats should get rid of caucuses by refusing to seat delegates who aren't selected through a primary, if states won't cooperate, they should run their own primary of members only, preferably through mailed-in ballots.
Hey Sparky -- please tell me you didn't like this book or the guy who wrote it. He was one of my childhood heroes and a guy I cribbed stuff from, so I'd be devastated if you enjoyed his work.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671638378/ref=od_aui_detailpages00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Let me guess, I was right about you having read Jokes For The John.
DeleteI have a rule, Stupy, I don't follow links from finks who stink.
I posted this only because I figure you should have the opportunity to tell one truth in your time online, that you copy other peoples' stuff.
So, I'm guessing you didn't read that paper by Pearson and Moul linked to below, I'm not surprised, it's long. And there's math.
A) So you think Harold C. Schoenberg's THE GREAT PIANISTS was a lousy book. (Schoenberg was the music critic for the NY Times for years. A hero of mine.) Fine. Get back to me when you've written a classic book on the history of music.
ReplyDeleteB) Nobody gives a fuck about your thoughts on Charles Darwin as long as you insist he caused centuries of European anti-Semitism via time travel.
I thought Harold Schoenberg was an ass, though he certainly knew something about music. I'm not surprised you take him as a hero, you being one of his fellow asses. You cribbed from him? To impress girls? To impress dinner company with erudition you cribbed instead of got from experience? Yeah, sounds like you.
DeleteAs to B) you maintain your consistency in being an ignorant, bigoted ass. The word "anti-semitism" was a botched neologism as it wasn't specific enough to be accurate in describing scientific racism that arose among atheists in the 18th and 19th centuries. Christians wanted to convert Jews, which was called anti-semitism, "enlightenment" racists wanted to kill them. There was never any "Christian" anti-semite who could outdo the line of atheists extending from Voltaire to Karl Pearson, to Alfred Plotze, Eugen Fischer, Hitler, Goebbels, Eichmann, and extending on into the post war period of such Darwinists as William L. Pierce, David Irving and Kevin MacDonald and a guy who Richard Dawkins cited in The God Delusion, John Hartung, one of his anti-semitic scientific papers.
Of course you a. don't know anything about that because your preferred sources hold up science as a perfect oracle, as neither you nor the scribblers you read knows the first thing about science, b. you grew up with the typical New York., Madison Wisconsin style of pseudo-lefty hatred of Christianity and Christians when none of you could hold a candle to the radicalism of The Reverend MLK jr. Diane Nash, Dorothy Day, the Berrigans, etc.
About that time travel line? I presented the line of scientific racism that extends directly from Charles Darwin through Ernst Haeckel and Francis Galton, Karl Pearson and Alfred Ploetz, directly to the people who informed Hitler in his racist theorizing. I did that yesterday when I quoted Karl Pearson, during Francis Galton's lifetime spouting the same lines that the Nazis would spout in German when Hitler was 11 and Leonard Darwin approved of it saying his similar views were inherited, certainly from his father. You don't have the standing to second-guess Leonard Darwin about his own father's POV.
ReplyDelete"I thought Harold Schoenberg was an ass, though he certainly knew something about music."
You didn't like Schoenberg? I can't imagine why -- he disliked Glenn Gould as much as you. Oh wait -- Schoenberg. Let me guess.
"I presented the line of scientific racism that extends directly from Charles Darwin through Ernst Haeckel and Francis Galton, Karl Pearson and Alfred Ploetz, directly to the people who informed Hitler in his racist theorizing."
That's so true, Sparky. And of course Darwin, via time travel, was also responsible for the Spanish Inquisition. And the entire previous history of European Christian anti-Semitism.
"Oh wait -- Schoenberg. Let me guess."
DeleteYour guess is that I think he's an ass because he shares a last name with the man I think is the greatest European composer of the 20th century? Strange guess.
I have remarked on how you don't understand how time works, Stupy, you shouldn't assume that that is a disability that is shared by other people.
I have read a lot of the Nazi's theoretical basis for their scientific racism and have yet to find a single citation of the Spanish Inquisition. It would be rather odd as they pretty uniformly hated Christianity. As I showed the last several days, I can give you links to their citations of Darwinism, including the fact that the scientific racism was elucidated by the mainstream Darwinist, Karl Pearson when Hitler was a child and the fact that Hitler's theory of Lebensraum was introduced into scientific discourse by Charles Darwin and his authorized representative in Germany - Thomas Huxley said he was the chorus leader of Darwinism in Germany - Ernst Haeckel.
You've got nothing except a few terms that you can't link to Nazis in the same way, with citations of primary documents. Go ahead, try it. I'm ready to knock it down.
Oh, yeah, I should mention that when I teach counterpoint, if they don't want to do modal counterpoint, I always use Arnold Schoenberg's Counterpoint, I agree with Robert Craft that it is the best book ever written on the topic of diatonic counterpoint, one of the great achievements in musical textbooks in the history of musical textbooks.
DeleteGood grief. The Spanish Inquisition doesn’t count? You’re fucking insane.
ReplyDeleteSimps, you proved you were mentally disabled last week, you don't need to reconfirm it this week.
DeleteProduce a single instance in Nazi theory that gives a positive citation of the Spanish Inquisition in their plans to discriminate against Jews and, later, to kill them.
Why don't you blame the Spanish Inquisition for the murders of Richard Speck? Son of Sam? Without those citations it would make as much sense.
I provided the citations that prove the inspiration they got from mainstream Darwinism through the exact book that Hitler was reading as he ranted out Mein Kampf, supplied to him by the atheist publisher. As I documented this afternoon, Hitler proved his support for the Darwinism of Eugen Fischer by getting him a major academic appointment and his role in helping to write the Nazi race laws in 1933.
Please...anybody out there in Sparkys circle of friends or family, if any...get this loony some help.
ReplyDeleteThis is the song they play when brave Simp Simels is running away.
DeleteNotice, no citations to back up his claim, no explanation of where that connection is documented. Of course, as it's pulled from the asses of asses, it's kind of embarrassing to say where you might find it. It requires proctological equipment. It's where Simps finds most of his material. The stuff he doesn't get from The Village Voice or other venues of his concept of kewelitude.