“So Goes Obama, So Goes MSNBC?” Not Exactly…

Upside down Sharpton...so WHAT'S NEW?

Quietly, even stealthily, MSNBC’s ratings have nose-dived from there already low perch. Some in the media have even suggested that they are in “free fall.”

The Washington Post’s Eric Wemple recently suggested the “So goes Obama, so goes MSNBC”theory, but that doesn’t hold water. Even when President was riding high, with an approval rating of 53% after his win over Romney in 2012, MSNBC was mired in 3^rd place among cable newsers, behind FNC & CNN.

The median age of the MSNBC viewer has also ticked upward. Five years ago it was 58; now it is 61. Yes, the hippies are getting older. In the first quarter of 2009, MSNBC averaged 392,000 viewers in the 25-54 demographic for its weeknight lineup. In the third quarter of this year, the number was down to 125,000. FNC leads in this vital demographic, despite having the oldest average listening audience of the three...such is the size of FNC’s lead over its competitors.

Even under its previous management (Jeff Imelt’s GE), MSNBC was the “hate-America’s” network of choice, the place for those who firmly believe that the USA is the source of all the evils of the world...the problem is that there just aren’t all that many of them, certainly not enough to make a huge audience of!

Worse still, there “journalistic” standards, never very high to begin with (think Keith Olbermann and Ed Schultz), set new lows when they took on Melissa Harris-Perry (famous for wearing tampon earrings on her show) and Al Sharpton...the black equivalent of David Duke....WAIT! Apologies may have to be made to David Duke. After all, Mr. Duke never pushed criminal charges he knew to be false against law enforcement officials, the way Sharpton did in the Tawana Brawley hoax and David Duke has never been associated with a mass murder the way Al Sharpton forever is with the “Freddie’s Fashion Mart Massacre” in Harlem! Perhaps Tom Metzger (leader of the Aryan Nation) would be a more apt comparison.

Sharpton has sought to compensate for his complete lack of journalistic skills by taking to, in effect, covering his own causes and rallies as “news” stories.

No, Obama’s poor approval ratings are NOT what ails MSNBC, some spectacularly poor choices, like Harris-Perry and Sharpton very much ARE!

Melissa Harris-Perry donning tampon earrings

Now They FINALLY Figure THIS Out?!

Bruce Bartlett

In late October, Bruce Bartlett failed to ruffle many feathers with his article, Obama is a Republican, something I’ve said (I believe) even more eloquently, right here, claiming that “Barack Obama has delivered G W Bush’s 3^rd and 4^th terms!"

Indeed Barack Obama continued ALL of his predecessor’s wars and prosecuted the “War on Terror” with vigor. Our troops left Iraq only because IRAQ refused to indemnify our soldiers against “acts of war,” threatening to prosecute American soldiers as street thugs. This past week, President Obama has pledged 1500 troops BACK into Iraq and wouldn’t say if that was enough.

The Obama administration prosecuted another war, not even on G W Bush’s radar (Libya), in fact LEADING from behind (using NATO allies to soften the blow to war weary America).

GITMO remains open to this day...some five years beyond the date Mr. Obama promised to close it.

President Obama has gone to court at least THREE times to defend and keep secret the NSA Surveillance Programs…programs he, himself campaigned AGAINST.

I laid out Bartlett’s entire thesis (wonder if he reads Alexandria) for him, including Obama’s cloning “Romneycare,” as the foundation of his national program.

But Bartlett, like myself, is far from the first to note Barack Obama’s “Bushiness,” some liberals/“progressives” had taken note even earlier, as Bartlett himself quotes Cornell West; “I think Cornel West nailed it when he recently charged that Obama has never been a real progressive in the first place. “He posed as a progressive and turned out to be counterfeit,” West said. “We ended up with a Wall Street presidency, a drone presidency, a national security presidency.”

And thank god for it! Wall Street remains the engine of America and its profits sustain not only our mammoth government spending, BUT the retirements of millions of American citizens.

THIS is WHY Women Cannot be Taken Seriously in the Military, Police & Fire Departments

Shoshana Roberts walking down street

The latest YouTube sensation is brought to us by actress Shoshana B. Roberts, along with Hollaback, a group seeking to end what it calls “street sexual harassment. The 1:57 minute video already has over 19,600,000 hits in just two days (as of October 30^th, 2014)! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1XGPvbWn0A)

The video recap is a little under two minutes long, apparently showing the most egregious examples of that ten hour ordeal.

If this was “the worst of it,” it’s pretty mild stuff. At least one male says, “God bless you, have a nice day,” a few others simply remark, “You’re beautiful” (OK, that’s pretty subjective...Shoshana doesn’t do much for me...but nice), a scant few are downright creepy, which isn’t all that surprising considering that much of the locale she walks through seems pretty seedy.

The problem with messages like this is that they exude an “It’s all about me,” kind of narcissism, but much worse, make it appear that women NEED men to pass laws against other men who’d dare to speak to them without being spoken to. Shoshana and her cohorts at Hollaback seem to see universal kindnesses, like someone saying, “God bless you, have a nice day,” as an affront to her dignity.

It’s not much unlike the attitude that Dr. Spenser (NYC’s “Ebola Doctor”) and “quarantined nursed Kaci Hickox, who earlier today defied Maine’s mandatory 21 day quarantine-at-home order. Ms. Hickox, a nurse who treated Ebola patients, had previously threatened to sue New Jersey over being quarantined before she was discharged, today threatened to sue Maine if officials there do not lift a 21-day quarantine restriction.

“I will go to court to attain my freedom,” Hickox told reporters today via Skype from her hometown of Fort Kent, Maine. “I have been completely asymptomatic since I’ve been here. I feel absolutely great.”

Maine’s health commissioner said Tuesday night the state will “pursue legal authority if necessary”to keep her quarantined.

In Kaci Hickox’s view the first priority in all this seems to be her own convenience. Apparently any program that inconveniences her is a major problem.

She claims a temperature gauge that recorded a high temperature in New Jersey to be “inaccurate,” without being able to provide any proof of that. Absent that proof, it can’t be reliably said that she’s asymptomatic, but that doesn’t seem to matter to Kaci Hickox, any more than Shoshana Roberts’ lumping in kindneses like, “God bless you, have a nice day,” with crude come-ons as “offenses,” matters to her.

Shoshana Roberts may have sought to make a video highlighting “what women go through on the streets every day,” but she really made a very strong case AGAINST women being taken seriously in the Military and in Police and Fire Departments in particular, for if women need men to rescue them from a couple of howling cads, they can’t possibly be expected to fight foreign and domestic enemies, enforce the laws and suppress fires...all of which are far more daunting tasks than walking down a city street.

There Seems to be Very Little Justice in Florida’s “Criminal Justice” Statutes

Marissa Alexander



Lee Wollard (End Left)

Florida continues to give the country and TMZ some of the juiciest crime stories, from Casey Anthony, to Trayvon Martin to Lee Wollard and Marissa Alexander.

Those last two might be a little less well-known, but they shouldn’t be, as the injustices heaped upon them may be Florida’s biggest legal disgrace.

After all any Police Force and any D.A.’s Office could screw up a mother murdering a child. We’re conditioned to look for “reasons”/excuses in such cases, rather than hammer the accused.

And in the Trayvon Martin case, there seems absolutely no doubt that Trayvon Martin assaulted George Zimmerman. NO, perceiving that you’re “being followed” is NOT grounds for self-defense (assault) and yes, private citizens DO have a legal right to follow or watch people exhibiting odd behavior in their neighborhoods.

BUT in the case of Marissa Alexander and Lee Wollard, two people who fired warning shots instead of shooting, in Alexander’s case an abusive husband and in Wollard’s case a homeless teen the family had taken in who was fighting with his teen daughter.

In Alexander’s case, she remains free on bond awaiting a retrial on aggravated assault charges after she fired a warning shot to compel her abusive husband to leave the residence.

In Wollard’s case he has just been convicted and given a mandatory 20-year sentence for aggravated assault for firing a warning shot into a wall to compel a homeless teen the family had taken in to leave the domicile after physically fighting with Wollard’s own teenaged daughter.

Lee Wollard’s nightmare began when the biologist, who used to work at Sea World was taking a nap at his home, but was awakened by his 16-year-old daughter Sarah and her boyfriend fighting.
He and his wife Debbie had taken the 17-year-old in because he was homeless, but the relationship had begun to deteriorate.

When Wollard heard a loud thud, which turned out to be his daughter thrown against a wall, he loaded his .357 and went into the room, firing into the wall to scare the boy off.

“We had tried calling the cops. We had tried doing everything. Nothing worked. Nothing,” Wollard related to the local News.
After the teenager left their property, they thought their dilemma was over, but that turned out to be far from the case, as Lee Wollard was charged with, convicted, then sentenced to 20 years in Florida state prison by Judge Donald Jacobson.

An aggravated assault involving a firearm in Florida comes with a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years. Wollard was offered a plea offer of probation and no jail time but he declined, convinced he was innocent. Wollard related, “It never dawned on me that I would lose, because I hadn’t done anything wrong. I’d protected my family, and I didn’t even hurt anybody. Everything is gone.”

The judge told him that he would not have given him such a lengthy sentence if he hadn’t been obligated to do so.

Earlier this year, federal sentencing guidelines were amended to reduce prison time. And in Florida, the legislature passed a law that exempts firing warning shots from the current harsh penalties.

But that comes too late for Wollard.

“Everything, everything is gone,” he said.

Wollard has asked the Florida Governor for clemency – which, incidentally, his daughter’s former boyfriend supports. If he doesn’t get it, Lee Wollard will leave prison in July 2028, when he is 73 years old.

The SAME fate may await Ms. Alexander, of her appeal doesn’t work out, although in her case a national network of Civil Rights and Women’s groups are working on her behalf, so the injustice in her case has a better than even chance of being overturned.

WHY Does Promoting “Diversity” so Often Result in Promoting Mediocrity?

Julia Pierson

Today, we see yet another example of a failed “diversity first” program as Julia Pierson the first female to head the U.S. Secret Service has shit the proverbial bed.

Under Pierson’s tenure security has been lax (alarm volumes lowered because of “complaints from the 1^st Family”), morale has been low and now, apparently, basic procedures not followed.

And why not? Across the country subpar (subprime) candidates have been forced into Police and Fire Departments by those who’ve inanely argued that “standards often amount to deliberate barriers against certain minorities (to wit blacks) and females.

When standards are lowered workforces are diminished that hardly needs to be proven, but every assessment of such policies (“diversity first”) has shown “significant reductions of workforce quality in relatively short order.”

The incident that finally has Ms. Pierson under fire appears now to be the first of many screw-ups to get any traction and this one has raised eyebrows primarily because of the blatant lies initially disseminated by that Department.

Instead of a “man apprehended while attempting to climb a White House fence,” what REALLY happened was that a deranged man (42-year-old, Omar Gonzalez) who’d been arrested in Virginia just two months before the incident, after being discovered with a sawed-off shotgun and a map marking the White House stashed in his car. Virginia authorities confiscated the weapons but concluded he wasn’t a threat to the president.

About a month later, officers spotted Gonzales wandering along the south fence with a hatchet in his waistband. They determined they didn’t have enough evidence to hold him.

Gonzalez’s motives aren’t clear: Though he had armed himself with 3 ½ inch knife, he claims his only intent was to warn the president that the “atmosphere was collapsing.” Still, the fact that a man repeatedly flagged by Secret Service managed to make it so far into what was once considered most secure residence in the nation is troubling.

The Secret Service Uniformed Division claims it maintains “five rings” of protection to create a secure perimeter around the executive mansion, but in this case, it was a counterassault agent patrolling the interior – an agent who was never supposed to come face-to-face with a would-be fence jumper – who eventually subdued Gonzalez.

The first apparent failure came at the North Gate, where a plainclothes surveillance team posted outside the gate failed to notice Gonzalez clambering over the eight-foot fence.

Then, in quick succession, a guard booth officer, SWAT team, and K-9 unit all failed to respond.

According to the Associated Press, agents decided to hold their fire when they wrongly assessed that Gonzalez wasn’t carrying weapons (he was), nor was he wearing clothing that could easily conceal explosives.

They allowed Gonzales to dart into the White House, which the first family had just left minutes before.

As well intentioned as our politically correct championing of “diversity first” might be, it has morphed into a war against quality.

When some misguided, misconstrued concept of “diversity” undermines quality, then “diversity” must be completely redefined, or jettisoned altogether.

What the NFL’s Domestic Violence Scandals REALLY Teaches

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell

The NFL has opened the 2014 Season with a firestorm. Unfortunately for the NFL that firestorm hasn’t been around its games as much as around the conduct of some of its players.

The scandal started with the now infamous Ray Rice video and the NFL’s paltry two game suspension for Rice.

In Roger Goodell’s defense, the NFL Commissioner was simply following the SAME tack taken by law enforcement which DID NOT pursue criminal penalties in the case.

Rice was initially charged with assault by the Atlantic City police in the early hours of February 15^th. But on March 27^th, an Atlantic City grand jury, presumably after watching all the Revel casino security camera videos, increased the charge to aggravated assault-bodily injury in the third degree and one count of simple assault. If convicted, Rice faced a penalty of three to five years in prison.

Rice's defense attorney, Michael J. Diamondstein of Philadelphia, then applied for pretrial intervention (PTI), a remedy that allows defendants to avoid conviction if they complete a court-ordered set of requirements. Apparently Goodell took that and Janay Rice’s testimony supporting her husband into account in rendering the 2 game suspension.

What I’ve taken from this ongoing scandal is two things; (1) there seems to be quite an appetite for a return to chivalry (protecting women) and (2) the media seems to either be belatedly waking up to widespread black dysfunction, OR (perhaps more likely) loves attacking blacks, so long as they are also “rich.” To date, ALL of those ground up in these domestic & now child abuse scandals are black.

I’m somewhat more interested in the former, that apparent return to chivalry, as it seems so incongruous coming, as it does, from those who also strongly support “women in combat,” and “more females in firefighting,” etc. There appears to be a disconnect there.

YES, women tend to be smaller, with far less upper body strength than men, so it would seem they NEED some societal protections, HOWEVER, if we acknowledge that a woman cannot fight a man and win (she CANNOT), then she also SHOULDN’T EVER be allowed in military combat, or in firefighting either...if you can’t fight a man, you almost certainly can’t fight a fire effectively either.

Nature is what it is and we are left to abide by that. We CANNOT and would not want to change the size and strength disparity between males and females, as it is so much a part of the physical attraction that leads to the very propagation of our species, so we set about protecting those who need protecting. Such sentiments tend to go away with women in combat positions, asserting that they can “fight as effectively as any man.”

I blame a LOT of this on that circus clown Bobby Riggs, who while making sport of Billie Jean King’s call for “gender equality in tennis,” also kindled a nefarious fiction that has only grown, despite ALL evidence to the contrary through to today.

In the 1980s male tennis star Vitas Gerulaitis garnered outrage by claiming, “The #1 female tennis player couldn’t beat the a male tennis player in the top 100.”

That “outrage” was itself ignorance. EVERY sport is divided between male and female because no woman in any sport can compete with any high performing male player. That’s why female tennis matches are a best two out of three, while men’s are a best three of five and why female golfers tee off closer to the greens and off of higher “lady tees.”

WHY is it inconvenient to acknowledge such a basic truth?

Recently female fighter Rhonda Rousey claimed she thought she could beat male boxer Floyd Mayweather in a MMA event. Good publicity, wrong-headed in every other conceivable way. IF such a fight were sanctioned and ended as it invariably would, the SAME champions of Rousey’s calling for such a fight would then deride it as “criminally sanctioned abuse.”

I admit that I am very unfamiliar with MMA fighting and equally unfamiliar with and disinterested in female boxing, BUT my view has always been, “WHY watch female boxing, except for the tits and ass? I am pretty certain that a male high school aged Golden Gloves boxer would beat ANY professional female in the ring.

What do I base that on?

Well, in 1971 I ran a 1:54.2 half mile (slightly more than 800 meters). In the 1976 Summer Olympics Tatyana Kazankina of the then Soviet Union set a women’s World Record in the 800 meters of 1:54.94. In short I beat the women’s world record holder in the Olympics held FIVE years later, when I was in high school.

And my school had 21 guys under 2 minutes in the half mile back then and I was NOT close to the best of us.

If “men and women are not so different,” males and females certainly ARE!

All this chivalry is good, so long as even greater common sense comes out of this. Let’s unceremoniously end any more calls for women in combat and let’s take a much more skeptical look at women in firefighting, commercial fishing, mining and other such “death professions.”