summer patriot, winter soldier

i have made "rationalwiki," whatever that is ....

i've not a clue how i got there, nor any hint of how long i will stay, but i made wiki.  http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/John_Jay .

i am not too sure just how excited i should be about all this, although i suspect i may be the only person from milton freewater, oregon who is in "rationalwiki."  who knows?  milton freewater is not the sort of town where people are given to worry over such things, one way or the other.

they have my name at the top of a wiki page, and it is all wiki format.

and, in a lovely touch, just under my name in lovely blue bold, they have in italicized script, the notation, "not the normal one."  the phrase "normal one" is linked to an article on the american statesman john jay, who was a lawyer in new york state, an active revolutionary on the various committees of correspondence, and author with james madison and alexander hamilton as "publius" of the federalist papers, the authoritative exposition of the american constitution and political system.  (he wrote only 3 or 4 articles, out of the 99 screeds & broadsides that comprised "the federalist papers," but one of the ones he wrote is considered one of the six or seven central articles that form the bulwark of their collective analysis.  i do not think him as good an essayist as either hamilton or madison, but, that is no slight on jay, because few were or ever have been.  he was in pretty fast company for his day.) jay was also first chief justice of the united states, and along with benjamin franklin helped negotiate the peace of paris ending the revolutionary war with england.  jay would have been the 3rd chief justice as well, but he turned down a repeat stint on the high court because of health reasons: in his stead, john marshall was appointed chief justice, and the rest is, as they say, the stuff of history.  jay was a federalist, as was marshall, so he may be anticipated to have roughly held to marshall's views, but marshall was a master of persuasive exposition as well.

(robert reich, the diminutive former cabinet member of the clinton administration, graduated from john jay high school in upstate new york.  i learned that when i met him in a hotel lobby in seattle, washington as i was leaving a parfumerie, having bought some rather expensive parfum for a lady friend.  i can tell you that he was not quite accustomed to being accosted by strangers coming out of parfumeries.  i later learned that he is just two inchs taller than the maximum height for a dwarf, or midget, whichever is taller.  he is quite charming.  and, very short.)

i am somewhat humored/amused by the link which establishes john jay the american statesman as the "normal one," leaving the suggestion hanging there that by contrast i am not.

oh, i care not a fig for what the lefties think of me.  it is all predictable enough.

but to distinguish me, or differentiate me from the colonial revolutionary radical john jay, is to display ones ignorance of the fact that john jay of olde adhered to and lived, to the point of making violent revolution against england, values and beliefs that are very similar to mine.

i am, as a matter of fact, something of a disciple of the views on politics set out in "the federalist papers," and the enlightenment thinkers who formed and mentored jay's views, such as blackstone, hobbes and most particularly john locke.  there thinking is seminal to mine.

i don't think there is very much that i have ever said about today's circumstances that would have ruffled any of jay's feathers, and he would agreed with much of it, because much of it is based upon a very careful and attentive reading of jay and his fellows, and his intellectual predecessors.  this would come as quite a surprise to most contemporary lefties, steeped as they are in later day marxism, marcuse and alinsky.  i would assume, though i don't know for sure, that most of them do not have much interest in anyone much past hegel or nietzsche, ... , certainly, most of them would find very much of interest in kant or schopenhauer, or anyone of that stripe.  and, i doubt many of them spend a whole lot of time in the bible.

how do i come by these opinions?  well, because i have read these people my whole life, closely.  i am pretty confident i know what i am talking about.  read the essays herein, form your own opinions.  or, you can have the "lizards" tell you what to think.  laughing.

so, i guess i have achieved, in an odd sort of way, warhol's 15 minutes of fame.  after all, 208 people have looked me up in the article.  it says so.  laughing.  this really doesn't come to close to the traffic my little page at "israel insider."  i am "always" getting hits via typepad's little traffic reporter from that page.

who knew, who knows about such things.

seems to me that if they wanted to "know" me they could just read me, but, as is their usual wont, i suppose they prefer the "authoritative" pronouncements from their little liberal friends.  it's kind of a "lizard's" thing.  and, what an aptly named group.

i haven't the slightest idea why any of you might be even remotely interested in any of this, but, i find it amusing.

john jay @ 11.19.2011

query: just what sort of oppressive society or system of economic injustice ...

... stirs a man to travel from idaho falls, idaho (where else?) to washington, d.c., presumably in his own automobile, and makes it possible for him to purchase an ak-47 type rifle and ammunition, retail from $500 to $1000 depending on quality, ... , just to shoot at the anti-christ?   and, then, have the wherewithal to flee to western pennsylvania to hide in a motel?  http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57326609-504083/cops-white-house-shooting-suspect-oscar-ramiro-ortega-hernandez-was-obsessed-with-president-barack-obama/ .

various news accounts say that he drove the 1800 miles from idaho to d.c. in his "old" honda sedan, and then abandoned it in washington, d.c., after the shooting.  the rifle he allegedly used and some ammo were found in the automobile.

he then traveled from washington, d.c. to western pennsylvania where he was arrested this wednesday last at a motel?

well, this oppressed person, who would overturn the entire economic system and who would install himself and his friends and "leaders" in power of the revised economic scheme and society, seemed to have sufficient money/change/lettuce & wherewithal to do all this, and flee, and take refuge in a motel.  how did he get there?  with whom? http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/white-house-shooting-suspect-arrested-in-pa/2011/11/16/gIQAdK3PSN_story.html

it is all very curious, this manner of oppression, exploitation (slave labor rates, and all that), and injustice (being the robot to "the man," to such an extent that one cannot think for ones self.)

i remain curious if anyone has an entirely adequate explanation for ortega-hernandez's epistemology, and the derivation for the intellectual and emotion process that has caused society to manufacture these ortega-hernandez in seeming droves.

well, an explanation besides karl marx, marcuse, saul alinsky and that little man of the people, nancy pelosi.  oh, yeah, toss in bill ayers and bill moyer and hillary clinton.  and 60" flat screen t.v.'s play barney the dinosaur incessantly.

a very odd way to produce the down trodden.  a very odd way, indeed.

john jay @ 11.18.2011

wouldn't it be rich, if the rifle used ... (allegedly) ...

... by oscar ramiro ortega-hernandez in the friday last shooting at the white house were purchased illegally by ortega-hernandez as part of the justice department's "fast and furious operations."  (there were multiple such operations, perhaps as many as five or more.)

and, what if the gun owner/dealer had told a.t.f. on the buyer check that ortega-hernandez was a convicted felon, but the "stop sale order" were overridden by a.t.f. to allow completion of the sale.  in the "interests" of the "fast & furious" programs.

just sayin'.

poetic justice, as it were.  karmic, even.  (:-O}}}}}

john jay @ 11.17.2011

p.s.  "meanwhile, back at the ranch," this article, "... white house shooter lived at occupy d.c. camp, ..." at atlas shrugs.  http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/11/obama-endorsed-ows-occupy-rap-sheet-plus-white-house-shooter-lived-at-occupy-dc-camp.html .  and, therein, a chart of violence done at the "occupy" camps.  pretty shocking.  ?????   a very high crime rate.

oregon should beat u.s.c. rather handily ...

things don't always go the way they "should" when oregon and u.s.c. meet on the field.  oregon should beat u.s.c. handily.

u.s.c., on the other hand, has some pretty formidable weapons, and is capable of a win if oregon doesn't take care of business and pay attention..

we'll see.  but, if oregon plays well, u.s.c. will travel home disappointed yet again.  oregon had best remember, however, that they have to play well, & hard, & without a whole lot of errors.  we'll see.

john jay @ 11.16.2011

 

the truth is out there, if only you do not sleep ....

i am amazed about the stuff that is on television late at night, into the wee of the morning.

for various reasons, i don't sleep very well.  i have always been a bit of a night owl, and aging hasn't helped it.  so, many nights, i watch t.v.

some channels serve solely as conduits for litigation specialists to garner clients for class actions suits.  the asbestos litigation seems to be falling out of favor for the various bladder sling suits, and the damage they do to the uterus and vagina.  about four or five firms, like the goldwater law firm, vie for clients insistently on the post-midnight airwaves.

actually, i preferred the chinese hammered wok commercials of days gone by.

nazi hunt: elusive justice  --  the search for nazi war criminals.  in my little corner of north east oregon we get o.p.b., that's oregon public broadcasting to you which comes out of the willamette river valley, the big population center in western oregon to include portland.

it is the classic volvo driving obama supporters of the old public broadcasting.  it has masterpiece theatre, elmo and the usual liberal head in the ass drivel.

we also get public broadcasting out of pullman, washington, which is the home of washington state university.  wazzu, as it is known, owns the station and for many years was the flag ship of the public broadcasting in the state.

and, oddly enough, their programming is pretty informative, if you are an insomniac.  this night i watched "nazi hunt: elusive justice  --  the search for nazi war criminals."  it was a very thorough presentation of various issues, detailing many nazi crimes throughout eastern europe and russia, and then dealing with the various methods used by nazi war criminals to escape europe and head for the protection of south america and other places.

it explained how war criminals escaped detection by the simple ruse of changing their names.  it explained that when the war ended the allies had literally hundreds and hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war, and that in some sense the allies did not want to be burdened with housing, feeding and providing medical treatment to them, so they let them loose in such numbers that it was difficult to keep track of who was being released: sometimes they simply marched out of stockades.

and, it revealed how a priest in the vatican arranged for nazi's to get international red cross visas and passports, on the basis of fraudulent birth certificates issued in great numbers by the vatican to traffic high ranking nazis out of europe and into south american.  adolph eichmann was precisely this sort of case.  he received a travel passport from the red cross on the basis of the phony vatican document, and then traveled to brazil.  one of the reasons he was discovered was simple arrogance on his part, for though he continued to use the name "klemet", his children in south america took the name eichmann.

the presence of so many german nazis in south america had a rather deleterious effect upon south american politics.  juan peron, leader of argentina and madonna's husband, was a nazi sympathizer and fan who took nazi war criminals in for much the same reason we took in german missile scientists (and raced the russians to capture them first) such as werner von braun: peron wanted their scientific and military expertise and prowess.  the same may be said for brazil and the --guays, which to this day have a distinctly european flavor to them.

to those interested in this aspect of history, a book by uki goni, entitled "the real odessa" is of some interest.

and, most poignantly.--

the little girl in the red coat, in "schindler's list," struck everyone who watched the film.

this program probably explains the origin of the story.  a prosecutor in the israeli trial of adolph eichmann explained how, when he was questioning a witness about the camps, a man came to explain how he was separated from and lost his family.  this prosecutor, now very much older, explained that his witness described arriving at the camp on the train, and as they were checked in a nazi/army apparatchik (hey, it describes a totalitarian functionary with equal precision, fascist or marxist) decided who would go to the right, and to the left.  in turn, his son, his wife, and his small girl were directed in one direction, and he in another.  he lost sight of his wife, and he lost sight of his son as they disappeared into the crowd, probably to their immediate death, and that he finally lost sight of his young daughter.

he was able to watch her for the longest while, as she wore a bright red coat.

the prosecutor is shown in a film taken from the trial, and he recounts and the film documents how this testimony left him speechless and temporarily stricken unable to continue his questioning of the witness, ... , just a short while before hearing this unanticipated testimony, he had bought a red coat for his three year old daughter.

i suspect that steven spielberg is no stranger to that aspect of the eichmann trial transcript.

so, it is not true to say that public broadcasting does not air things of value.  they do.  they just do it, in my little corner of the world, between the hours of 2.00 a.m. to 3.30 a.m.  they did so this night, and they did so two nights ago when they broadcast a story on the nazi theft of europe's art heritage during wwii, and the lengths to which the allies went to recover it after the war.

an interesting contrast.--

during wwii the american army had a contingent of officers and men who worked to recover purloined art, and to preserve architectural and cultural artifacts during the war, to the extent of exempting certain building and monuments from aerial bombing and artillery barrage, if entirely possible.  it showed the vast treasure troves of things taken from france and italy, and also show the collections hidden deep in abandoned salt mines, as the war turned against the nazis.

it showed the work of a german investigator, who just recently returned the silver pivots that fit in either end of the torah scroll, and upon which it turns as it is being used, and showed the little bells at the top which are as little crowns and make a merry noise.  the germans captured 100's of ceremonial torah scrolls, and collected them, and they were liberated in great numbers and turned over to jewish institutions and organization the world over.

many of them were never returned to families that owned them, because the families were "liquidated."

and, along with the torah scrolls that were never liberated, were many of these pivots, (i am sorry, i don't remember the name of them), scores of them still stored in german archives, where this many and a few colleagues strive to locate the descendants of the true owners.

it showed him returning a set to a family in new york, descendants of the death camp prisoners.  the pivots were placed in a Torah scroll, and carried on the shoulders of joyous celebrants who danced, singing, accompanied by the chimes of the bells.

justice.

by contrast, all over the world, police and intelligence agencies, and private groups such as simon wiesenthal's center accumulated dossiers and witnesses, and other documentary evidence of nazi war criminals, some to include rather prominent politicians who simply hid in the open.  these criminals were known by the authorities, and known literally in the thousands.

in the united states, some number of them, perhaps 100 out of 10,000 have been prosecuted for immigration crimes upon illegal entry into the united states and ordered deported to their homelands to face prosecution for war crimes.  they have been stripped of their citizenship.

and, here they languish, because their home countries will not accept them.

the situation is not any better in europe.  not in germany, for reasons not pleasant to contemplate.  and, not in the countries were their crimes were committed, for reasons difficult to fathom.

i will end on this observation.  now, the story about the little girls and their little red coats is quite moving enough.  you'd be pretty hardened and pretty well grizzled not to be moved of it.

but, something a man said in passing, very quickly, sticks in my mind.  he was a man who family was touched by the holocaust.  there are two words he said, not in his vocabulary with regard to the events of wwii, and one was never forget, the other never forgive.

so, yes, p.b.s. in north east oregon serves truth and history, ... , for we who are insomniacs.  it is 5.00 a.m., this day.

john jay @ 11.16.2011

an absolutely perfect day ....

my old house served notice on me this day that though i may have quelled some of the conflict, it has not yet yielded to my home repair campaign, as i woke to a water valve leaking copiously under the bathroom sink, serving the cold water faucet.

it threatened to geyser, and no amount of twisting the poor mineral encrusted fixtures promised any relief: i think it a fair guess that nothing has been done to the bathroom sink fixtures in 50 years or so.

so after a wonderful brunch, one pancake, two slices of bacon and an egg over hard (tara asked me over the bar at the restaurant about 6 times if i was sure i didn't want "over easy," to her merriment), and having everyone at the restaurant read a very good comic about a homeless person asking an "occupier" about using his house while he "occupied," i went back to the bathroom, and started a six hour battle to get the faucets and water valves removed from the sink.

the various joints were so corroded and mineral encrusted that about 15 minutes of work took hours, the use of a hacksaw, and many trips to the hardware store for this and for that, and ended only this evening when i capped the galvanized steel stubs from the wall with brass caps, ... , and that after i had to double layer the washers at the bottom of the caps, and placed two wine bottle corks into the ends of the valves directing the water to the faucet.

the faucet had to be hacksawed off of the top of the sink, because the various bolts and things holding it on were corroded fast.

its fun going to the hardware store and getting stuff to fight the good fight, and bitching about home repair.  i finished off a dr. pepper i have been nursing 3 days since purchase, and had an ice cream to boot.

i have three towels drying in the bathtub, and another sodden towel over a puddle on the basement floor where the water came through the bathroom floor: kind of impressive, turning the quarter turn valve at the main house inlet, running up stairs only to see water squirting everywhere.

how do they cap a runaway oil well?

and, then, the perfect ending to a perfect day.

i watched 4 hours straight of "the big bang theory," (o.k., in the interest of accuracy about 1.5 hours of "big bang" and about 2.5 hours of commercials.)

this show is so funny.  it has captivated me since i began watching it about 2 months ago.  i really cannot tell you who my favorite character is, they are all so very funny, in their various neuroses, and all of them gifted physical comedic actors as well.  wonderful timing, wonderful stage craft, and they all give the other person a lot of room when that person is being particularly "on."

i haven't been able to watch that much of a show since "star trek:"  my older brother and i once watched a midnight marathon on new years until 6.00 a.m.  i suppose that suggests an affinity for "the big bang theory."  laughing.

this is the first time the computer has been on this day, at 11.33 p.m.

no email, no blogging, no checking this blog to see if i got my usual pittance of a readership, and i didn't worry about "occupy this" or "occupy that" all day long, and if barack obama were struck by a meteorite i suppose i will be content to wait until tomorrow to read about it.

oh, yeah, this old fellow came tottering into the ace hardware store, after dark, looking for a ride to the homeless shelter for he and his little motorized cart, as he didn't want to be late for check in.  or, to miss dinner, for that matter.  i had seen him at the bus stop, sitting there for about two hours as i was back and forth for parts, supplies and advice, and i knew he was cold, and probably on the up and up.

he did not ask for money, only a ride.

so, a clerk and i tossed his electric cart in the back of my s-10 blazer, and we putted over to walla walla to the shelter.  he told me he was looking for an apartment to live in, in milton freewater, and that it would cost $210 out of his monthly $750 social security "retirement" check, and that the shelter was giving him a week to stay with no charge, but that if he could not find a place to live they would charge him.  when we got there, i back the s-10 to the curb, and he and i went around to where people were waiting in the cold to be admitted into the cafeteria, and i asked for volunteers to help with the cart.  a guy and a girl came with me, and the girl answered my concerns about whether she could help, by saying, hell, i was raised on a farm in montana.  hey, no problemo, the cart came out, we unfolded it, and john and i shook hands as he went for dinner.

a good day.

my little house is on the very modest side of grand, and i am not exactly rolling in the dough.  but, having your own sink to bitch about and work on, and your own bed, and water and heat is not so bad, when you get right down to it.  john is 72, he's got no teeth, he rides the scooter because he has some sort of neurological thing that causes him to fall, he's alone and he lives on $750 a month social security after working most his life as a night janitor in hospitals and the like.

yes, he is "right down to it."  in ways only a western european or north american could understand: last june he had laser surgery on his eyes, and he was quite happy to have his sight back.  oh, he has concerns, and he has anxieties, but, he's still taking his "at bats," and still swinging for the fences.  he says he and his girl friend are saving up for a better place to live.

and, yes, i had a very satisfying day.

john jay @ 11.15.2011

p.s.  tomorrow, the installation of the bathroom sink faucet.  it should go better.  if i can find the proper valve seats for the valves, i'll leave the old ones on the stubs, and just replace stuff from there.  i am deathly afraid that if i try to take them from the stubs, the whole assembly including stub will turn on the pipe fixture inside the wall, and then i will have some real work on my hands.  i do not want that to happen.

we'll see.  it is, what it is.

the joe paterno hysteria continues .... e.s.p.n.'s gene wojciechowski proves that he, too, is an idiot ....

i am going to excerpt quite a bit from an article at e.s.p.n. by gene wojciechowski about joe paterno's "fall from grace," entitled "the tragedy of joe paterno."  now, understand, the theme of the whole article is as the highlighted text below points out clearly, e.g., joe paterno should have called the police about jerry sandusky years ago.--

"In less than a week's time, the 46-year reign of Paterno as Penn State's head football coach -- and as the university's de facto leader -- collapsed under the weight of arrogance, ignorance and a sexual abuse scandal that will leave deep, unsightly scar marks on whatever is left of his legacy.

"His spectacular rise and equally spectacular fall prove once more that absolute power absolutely corrupts or, at the very least, blurs the vision. And make no mistake: Paterno's power and influence at Penn State was often vast and overpowering.  [the same point raised by the idiot law professor previously discussed in this series of posts, and proving one thing absolutely, and that is absolutely nothing.  it is asserting that paterno, had he wished, could have "solved" all this by his "power," which is pure unadulterated bullshit.  editorial comment: john jay.]

" 'Joe is -- was -- in absolute control of Penn State athletics,' " says a former BCS conference official who had a long working relationship with Paterno. " 'There's no question about it.' "

Says another BCS conference administrator: " 'Joe's got a dark side. He's not always that witty old man. Joe can be very, very tough. He's very smart.' "

"The more phone calls you make to those who know Paterno, who have worked with Paterno and who have socialized with Paterno, the more you realize he isn't simply the smiling cardboard cutout figure that the riotous crowds in downtown State College used as a symbol of their unrest.

 "The descriptions from one administrator: " 'Fabulous and horrendous' " … " 'Surreptitious '" … " 'Self-absorbed' " … " 'Calculating' " … " 'Protective of everything he's done.' "

"JoePa is three-dimensional, capable of extraordinary acts of kindness and charity, as well as extraordinary acts of backroom politics. But he isn't who we thought he was. If he were, he would have called the police nine years ago when first alerted to the alleged misconduct of former Nittany Lions assistant coach and friend Jerry Sandusky."    http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/7221684/the-tragedy-penn-state-nittany-lions-coach-joe-paterno .

and, how does gene wojciechowski "prove" that joe paterno should have told the police about jerry sandusky.

well, by a whole series of quotes from persons who would not allow their names to be attributed to the quotes wojciechowski attributes to them.  in short, none of these people would identify themselves.

now, just in case you are so obtuse as not to see the irony here, you should understand full well that when a person makes a criminal complaint against another, or reveals facts related to crime to the police, that person is not given the luxury of anonymity.  you don't get to put a sack over your head and have your voice obscured when you testify in a court room, or talk to the police.

there is no small irony here, in that the persons who condemn paterno for not coming forward were simply unwilling to do what they demand of paterno, and that is to put their names and identities on the line.

the greatest irony, even greater than their cowardice to identify themselves as they pillory paterno?

they waited 10 or 15 years to do so, before they summoned the "courage" to savage him, from behind a black wall.

this is irony the wojciechowski is completely oblivious to, as he rushes in to skewer paterno, for wrongs that are never named and simply unrelated to this case.

this is what they call "character assassination" in polite circles, and what i would label chickenshit.  it is doubly chickenshit because wojciechowski does not mention: 1.)that sandusky dodged prosecution in 1998-99 because the prosecutor thought the case against him unsustainable in a court room, and 2.)that paterno fully informed the penn state administration what he had heard related to him by mcquery about the anal rape in the showers, and paterno fully informed the grand jury that released the criminal charges most recently against sandusky.

paterno stepped forward, and he stepped up, and he took no efforts to conceal his identity.

he was responsible for his actions.

i am 63 years old.  i have never forgotten a film i once witnessed involving the murder of a hapless man taken prisoner by his adversaries in one of those india-pakistani conflicts involving the hindu's and the muslim's.  as this poor bastard lay on the ground, too weak to even writhe in his agony and death throes, a brave lad from the opposition would walk over, look at him, and then fetch an aged rifle and rusty bayonet, assay the man for a place not already stabbed, and slowly stick the bayonet in the man.  and watch him.  this process repeated by successive "men," who each no doubt claimed a "kill" of the enemy.

well, each of joe paterno's enemy whose cowardice silenced them for these many years have come over to his body on the ground, and given him a gratuitous, if anonymous, kick for his "past wrongs," each of them knowing absolutely fucking nothing about the matter at hand.

gene wojciechowski fashioned the above article, and for it, he condemns himself a hypocritical and ignorant idiot on the matters at hand.

for shame, idiot!! that you are!! wojciechowski!!

can no one see the irony here?

john jay @ 11.13.2011

p.s.  i will remind readers just one more time, (as if it will do any good whatsoever), that in such matters of criminal prosecution, that proof, persuasion, evidence and corroboration are required, and that mere accusation does nothing.

it is why sgt. friday always said, "the facts, ma'am, just the facts."  he did not say, "give me your best scurrilous opinion, hearsay and other bullshit, unsupported by personal observation."  keep that in mind.

keep in mind wojciechowski's most "pointed & telling" accusation against paterno, and that is that he "knew" about sandusky and did nothing.  i will simply ask you, at any point in all of this, does wojciechowski demonstrate what he knows paterno to have known?  and, why does he so patently ignore what paterno did do, which was just about everything he could have done within the limitations of his personal knowledge and observation.

these are matters simply lost on wojciechowski as in his haste he rushes forward to skewer paterno with a gratuitous bayonet thrust, so that he, too, can get credit for a kill.

and index of previous articles at this blog on the joe paterno scandal.--

http://wintersoldier2008.typepad.com/summer_patriot_winter_sol/2011/11/smartie-pants-who-have-never-practice-law-should-not-become-law-professors-.html 

http://wintersoldier2008.typepad.com/summer_patriot_winter_sol/2011/11/hey-you-pious-shits-at-espn-lets-see-how-this-works-.html 

http://wintersoldier2008.typepad.com/summer_patriot_winter_sol/2011/11/will-somebody-please-point-out-to-me-under-pennsylvania-common-or-statutory-law-where-joe-paterno-ha.html 

http://wintersoldier2008.typepad.com/summer_patriot_winter_sol/2011/11/for-shame-espn-for-your-treatment-of-joe-paterno-.html 

http://wintersoldier2008.typepad.com/summer_patriot_winter_sol/2011/11/just-exactly-what-was-joe-paterno-supposed-to-have-done-.html 

 

 

stanford did not keep the game between the tackles ...

oregon 53, stanford 30.   oregon wins.  as i had hoped, but was not entirely sure.

oregon ended up being too fast, both the individual players and in terms of "team speed," and stanford's vaunted tight ends dropped the ball.  hearing footsteps, very rapid ones.

oregon blocked, tackled and ran better.  they earned the win by playing better football.

john jay @ 11.12.2011

smartie pants who have never practice law should not become law professors ...

some woman law professor tries to put the schneid on joe paterno for not having done more when then graduate assistant coach mcquery saw sandusky doing things to what appeared to be a 10 year old boy in a shower, ... , to wit, anal intercourse.

in the same discussion, the learned professor intones that mcquery may have "whistle blower" protection and so the university cannot touch him.  just upon whom did he "blow the whistle"?  at the time he witnessed sandusky's conduct, sandusky was not an employee of the university.  so, he couldn't have blown the whistle on sandusky.  the ten year old boy?

little matter.

next, the learned professor piously intones that paterno deserves no sympathy in this, because at the time "he was a very powerful man," and could obviously have rectified the whole situation, presumably by wielding such power.

well, this rather begs the issue of whether he owed a legal duty to do so, and, to whom, and what he could have related about the incident since he did not witness it.  (it also rather hypocritically ignores the issue that paterno did report the incident, and recommended to mcquery that he do so as well.  see the perfected grand jury presentment.)

but, leaving those issues aside, and turning again to the learned professor's assertion.--

one is moved to ask, in the face of such a learned conclusion, a little one word question.

how?  (needless to say, the learned professor ventured no opinion as to "how" joe paterno might have done this, except to observe, that he "... was a very powerful man at the time."  so, o.k., how do powerful men bring someone down upon the uncorroborated assertion of another person?)

how does a person like joe paterno bring a retired & tenured figure like sandusky down on the uncorroborated assertion of another person?  without knowing the name or the identity of the victim?  how does he learn the name of the victim?

law professors who have never practiced law, and i will bet you dime to donuts that this one did not (or, if she did, she was an assistant a.g. in some little "hot house" area of practice) should not comment on such things.

a person who believes that simple public accusation solves these sorts of things simply does not understand the complexities involved.  you can be assured that the lawyers who advised the university officials to secure sandusky's "retirement" in 1999, after agreeing to extend him every privilege imaginable including tenure and the like, understood the complexities of a situation in which his proclivities were probably well understood, and for which he was investigated, but for which he was never charged because the assistant prosecuting attorney in charge of the case was loathe to perfect charges given that he believed he had an unprovable case.

the university had ample legal cause not to make untenable accusations at that time, ... , as did joe paterno on this occasion, for which he has received an amateur and idiotic burning at the stake.

i suspect it burns the same, even though all his accusers i have come across so far speak from ignorance, though ample conviction.  sometimes not knowing what you are talking about makes you more enthusiastic, but your words burn others as deeply.  you listening, schlabach, maisel, your little dung beetles?

i know barack obama is a homosexual.  but, you don't hear me shouting it from the rooftops, now, do you?  that's the problem when shooting your mouth off, ... , when you cannot prove something, nor have the resources to divine and publish the truth.  it does not stop the lady law professors, and the likes of schlabach and maisel, though, does it.

and a good man is sacrificed on the alter of public idiocy, and naked ambition.

john jay @ 11.11.2011

p.s.  if you are sufficiently caught up in all this clamor for joe paterno's head not to pay heed to my cautionary notes, then think of something, if you will, and if you are capable.--

it has been some years since the acts which have brought joe paterno low occurred.  in other words, it has taken the public authorities, ... , who have police, prosecutors, child services investigators and counselors, and people who are clinically trained to obtain untainted histories from child victims and whose version of events are not confabulated, e.g., clinical psychologists with experience, ... , to gather and marshal the evidence that was taken before a grand jury who issued the perfected indictment.

and, some idiot lady law professor thinks that joe paterno, who after all, "... was a very powerful man at the time ..." should have been able to accomplish all this on his own.  without benefit of subpoena and compulsory attendance.

goodness, we live in a guileless age.

hey, you pious shits at e.s.p.n., let's see how this works ...

"dear jerry sandusky:

i have it on the as of yet unsubstantiated & uncorroborated assertions of one of my graduate assistants that you are a flaming pederast and queer, and that you molest children.

despite your contractual relations with penn state university, and your tenure, and the other rights and privileges that you have acquired in your coaching career, you are hereby dismissed as defensive coordinator from the football team, and you had better keep your ass off campus while i am still around.

in short, your ass is fired, summarily at my pleasure.

sincerely yours,

joseph paterno"

 

now, how would you tolerant hyper pious shits have reacted then?  well, i will tell you how.  you would have excoriated, pilloried and eviscerated joe paterno for being the knuckle dragging intolerant reactionary crazy enough to try and impinge upon the rights of a gay person.

in your zeal of "tolerance" you would have branded him bigot.

just as in your zeal of holier than thou piety you castigate paterno for his "sins of omission[s]."

you have absolutely no insight into the fact that prior to the issuance of the grand jury's presentment/indictment, the officials at pennsylvania state university had their hands tied by the tender cords of affirmative action and tolerance, and the promotion of the gay life style by the cognoscenti, literati and intelligentsia of american society.

punish a man for an alternative lifestyle?  not politically correct, and so non de rigueur.

having created the situation that prevented anyone from doing anything about sandusky's predilections, you now show an almost incomprehensible zeal for pillorying paterno for something he could not nothing about, had he even known about sandusky.

and, i will remind you fucking dullards, though i have done so repeatedly in my complete obscurity to absolutely no effect, paterno did everything he could about the situation by reporting the matter to his administrative superiors, and by encouraging then graduate asst. coach mcquery to report the matter as well.

i can assure you, the grand jury who reviewed the facts of the matter took that view.  again, you damned dolts, read "victim no. 2,  ... " pages 6-13 of the grand jury presentment, if you are too god damned thick to take my word for it.

you are pious, intellectually dishonest shits, and i hope you suffer at god's hands for it.  you destroy a good man because you are ignorant short sighted shit heads, to put the matter bluntly.

john jay @ 11.11.2011

p.s.  yes, this means you, schlabach & maisel, you arrogant pups.  john 8:7, you should read it.