We break our silence because we found something actually interesting on which to comment. The investigation of Al Gore (note that we did not say AlGore this time) for sexual assault.
While we would love it intensely to see Al Gore locked in the slammer for a very long time due to his malfeasance with respect to the scientific method and his efforts to siphon money out of the economy to support his environmentally scandalous boondoggles, this time we find ourselves on his side. Galling as it is, our allegiance is to truth and fact; not to ideology and the preferences of a moment.
What we have in this case is a woman named Molly Hagerty claiming she was groped, etc. by the former Veep. Let us say at the outset that we don’t know what really happened there and then. We weren’t there. What we do know is that Ms. Hagerty hasn’t produced a scintilla of evidence that can be used in a court of law.
Now where have we seen this before? Where oh where have we seen it? Oh yeah – Anita Hill. The individual most responsible for political correctness degrading this country’s civility, enjoyability, and conviviality.
The similarities are striking. A woman, without a shred of evidence, makes claims against a famous/powerful man. He has to somehow prove he didn’t do it. While it is difficult to prove you DID do certain things, unless there is a record (e.g., receipts, video, etc.), to prove you did NOT do something? How do you get a receipt for something you did NOT do? How do you record that you really didn’t do something? You’d need a video that recorded everything you DID do, 24/7, because you’d never know which part of the time line an accusation about you would be made.
Fortunately for Al Gore, this was a criminal matter. Why fortunate? Because in a criminal matter, there are rules to be followed. There are rules of evidence that will generally be used in a court of law, and if these rules were not followed at the time the evidence was gathered, or if there is no evidence, an impartial judge will throw the case out. And the prosecutors, knowing this, won’t file unless they believe they have a case that can pass muster with a judge.
With Clarence Thomas, there were no rules of evidence. There was just Anita Hill’s claims along with a complicit “trier of fact” (the Congress of the time) and a complicit press that had it in for Thomas. They could follow whatever procedure they wanted, or no procedure at all – and that is, of course, what they did.
Because of Anita Hill, the template was set: accuse falsely a powerful man or woman and try accused in the court of public opinion. Hagerty’s mistake was that she chose someone who is LOVED by the left-wing media, so they held back on Gore. And she filed a criminal complaint.
Now – IF Al Gore truly did do the deeds he is accused of, we can only wish that Hagerty had evidence that would allow the government to throw Gore’s sorry behind into the slammer. For he truly does belong there as far as we’re concerned.
But due process matters more to us than having people we despise sent to the Big House.
Next time, Hagerty, get evidence that will stand up in court.
- O-t-c
From Politico: “As election returns came in Tuesday night, Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) said it’s clear that voters wanted “a whipping boy” for all the lost jobs and foreclosed homes.” – http://bit.ly/8Zej70
We so hope that all Democrats are as stupid as this about the meaning of Brown’s win last night.
This isn’t about jobs and foreclosures. It’s about the kind of government we have; whether it’s a government responsive to WE THE PEOPLE!
Kennedy’s style of reasoning is precisely the kind that comes from not having held down a real job or being a real boss with real employees. It is a public-sector-is-all-I-know mentality. So let us break it to ya’, Mr. Kennedy, not that you would listen to Independents who would have braved snow and sleet to vote for Brown if we were Massachusetts residents.
The thing is – you can’t show the massive disrespect toward We the People and not pay for it at the polls. Obama was put into office by We the People (though not by those of us at O-t-c) on the basis that (a) he wasn’t George W. Bush, (b) that he would have a transparent government, (c) that he would change the tone in Washington (much as George W. Bush promised in his first run for the Presidency), and (d) that he would be the People’s President.
Instead, what did we get? We got a President who stood silent while the Wicked Witch of the West called us astro-turf and Nazis. He rammed through legislation – against We the People’s preferences, made known in poll after poll after poll (which the President has acknowledged that he reads), and he tried to ram through his Health Deformity Legislation before the August 2009 break – remember that?
When We the People rose up and took to holding tea parties (emblems of liberty and disgust with tyranny), We were called teabaggers – apparently a sexually derogatory word. Efforts by the Democrats and the Lame Stream Media to marginalize our voices were intensified; again with ridicule and disrespect.
Independents – including us at O-t-c – started out willing to give President Obama a chance to do things right. He had a historic opportunity. After all, he was the first darker-skinned President (like skin color matters at all in terms of qualifications) we’ve had in this country. He had a chance to be as transparent as he said he’d be. He could have brought in Cabinet and Czars who were centrist instead of Marxist.
But no – he sided with Marx, Lenin, Stalin and Mao – instead of with America. And America gave him his hat.
This November, we’re going to give him his coat.
And in November 2012, we’re going to kick him out of the White House and get it fumigated so that a patriot can live there instead of a man who wouldn’t know Americana or American patriotism if his life depended on it. And make no mistake – if it turns out that the patriot happens to have darker colored skin – we at O-t-c will vote for him or her. We want someone we can respect – not someone who has a politically correct hyphen.
So – go ahead, Mr. Kennedy. Belch steam and smoke as hard as you can. Try to misdirect as much as you can. We the People are on to you now. We’re awake and we’re going to see this through to the end.
And once we’ve secured our nation for ourselves and our posterity, maybe we can go to sleep again and become the sleeping giant that rises from its slumber when duty calls – as it did in 2009.
We look forward to the day we can retire this blog. That is a long ways off, but we think we see a light in the distance – a faint light, but a light nonetheless – at the end of this tunnel. And we think we can make out a sign illuminated by that light. Yes – it says, “Election 2012!”
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An Open Letter to President Barak Hussein Obama – mmm mmm mmm:
An AP analysis of your Presidency in 2009 finds you irritated by the fact that people don’t remember”how bad it was” when you took office and how much “progress” you’ve generated for us in 2009. The AP analysis doesn’t analyze much, so we’re here to help. But let’s first begin with what little analysis it does do, because for the most part, it is reasonably well done.
The AP’s Ben Feller says it quite well: “He says “the buck stops with me,” but nearly a year into office, President Barack Obama is still blaming a lot of the nation’s troubles — the economy, terrorism, health care — on George W. Bush.”
And as to why the American people might not be ready to give you the B+ you give yourself? Read more
America
Failing
Day 352
We heard on FoxNews today that part of the health dictatorship program that Congress and the President are trying to force down our throats (“Now open wide; this won’t hurt a bit. Oh – stop being a baby and take this trillion dollar syringe like a man!”) will be to give the IRS new powers.
Like we need a stronger IRS. Is there any agency anywhere in the United States that is more despised than the IRS? And these clowns want to make it even more powerful? Supposedly, you’re going to have to indicate somewhere on the form that you actually have purchased health insurance. We thought that no bureacracy was going to get between us and our doctors, Mr. President. Yet again, Joe Wilson was spot on with his language: “YOU LIE!”
During a brainstorm session recently, one of us quipped, “You know – I am more afraid of how much damage Obama and his legion of Neanderthals can do to this country than I am about Al Qaieda.” She is joking (we think she is joking – she insists she’s not). But all joking aside, Obama is no joke. He is a living, walking, breathing ongoing malfeasance against the Constitution of this country.
If we lined up 10 kindergartner kids (who have not yet been brainwashed by the Left) and asked them about principles underlying the Constituion of this country, they’d give a more accurate picture than the President could after 3 hours of trying to explain himself with his calibrating-miscalibrating language.
We so wish that he, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid would take a small, propeller airplane to Antarctica. We’d buy it for them. We’re sure one of the science bases (Obama says he’s big on science – it is to laugh) would make space for them. If he and the other three would spend the next 3 years there, they could save the penguins, and America would have a chance to heal itself from these dreadful, despicable, unamerican people.
Please – Mister President – RESIGN!
- Off-the-cliff.com
America
Failing
Day 346
The ScienceDaily.com website (one of our favorite venues) has an entry about climate variability accounting for the colder than normal weather that the authors say has led some of us to doubt that global warming is real. They say, in effect, that even with a trend-line going up, one can expect variability around the trend-line.
We consider this last proposition reasonable. We agree, from the lay perspective we have, that climate appears as a highly variable set of processes and phenomena. So if global warming was real, we think it would be reasonable to see variability.
But the problem for climatologists, as distinct from environmentalists, is that climatology has been hijacked by the environmentalism movement, which is a quasi-religious, overtly-political, nothing-to-do-with science set of memes that undermine huge numbers of laypeople’s ability to ascertain real scientific endeavor from the political memes that attempt to mimic it. After all, those who think of CO2 as a villainous element should be required to calmly discuss this: http://bit.ly/6Tjat9 (also from ScienceDaily.com).
We at O-t-c have a great fondness and respect for scientific endeavor and for scientists generally – when the science is done per the scientific method. When it is politicized, we consider those involved to be on the order of Bernie Madoff – cheaters in the extreme, who deserve nothing but ridicule and imprisonment for trying to steal billions of dollars for their pet projects.
Do the right thing, boys and girls. Do the right thing.
- Off-the-cliff.com
We call on CLIMATOLOGISTS to start doing whatever they can to shut down the environmentalists in their midst and tell them to stand down, to stop making the science unintelligible. It is up to the CLIMATOLOGISTS and the METEOROLOGISTS to lay out methods of research (which would not be skewed toward showing that global warming was real, but would be aimed at finding out what is going on with weather and climate using null hypotheses and other generally accepted rubrics in the scientific method). Hyperbole, data suppression, data alteration, suppression of dissent, calling people you disagree with names, are the acts of those in the area of politics – not in the arena of science.
The problem is exacerbated by the fact that the ENVIRONMENTALISTS want to have taxpayers transfer enormous amounts of wealth to the have-nots because of their political memes. This is unacceptable, and CLIMATOLOGISTS should be at the vanguard of shutting this effort down.
As long as climatologists (and ecologists gtenerally) do not distinguish themselves from and distance themselves from the environmentalism religo-political movement, laypeople around the world will be correctly suspicious.
- Off-the-cliff.com