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Re: Valley Fever - James King - Sarbjit Teja Accused of Forcing Oral Sex on Stripper...Who Had Her (Ahem) Monthly Visitor at the Time

tjproudamerican — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:35:43 -0000

dear Lala, I did not say "stripers", that is, strippers are "sub human". i never maintained that Eve was responsible for the fall of humans.

What I said, and it is true, is that strippers are often very damaged humans who hate the men they dance for, and the men they dance for are exploitative by nature. You & I both know that strippers often regard men as suckers and 'tools' and even 'toolsheds' and take as much money from the sucker as they can get by pretending to like them.

That transaction in all sex work is ruinous to one's soul for everyone involved.

Re: Freedom of Expression Vs. Responsible Speech - Global Spin - TIME.com

tjproudamerican — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:44:06 -0000

Last word, even though this "essay" should make all defenders of free speech angry, is that I hope people do not think this coward waving his White Flag and blaming satirists for "openly beg[ging] for the violent response" and turncoat represents liberals and/or progressives.

Bruce Crowley represents Sharia Law and a puppet government beholding to a Caliphate to come.

Re: Freedom of Expression Vs. Responsible Speech - Global Spin - TIME.com

tjproudamerican — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:39:19 -0000

I cannot believe an American publication would print this sentence: " Because not only are such Islamophobic antics futile and childish, but
they also openly beg for the very violent responses from extremists
their authors claim to proudly defy in the name of common good."

If we use our freedom of speech, we "Openly beg for the very violent responses from extremists".

In the South, Cheney Schwerner, and Goodman OPENLY BEGGED for their murders by antagonizing racist extremists.

In Germany, Jews OPENLY BEGGED for persecution by their beards and Synagogues and obvious Jewishness. What did they expect Nazis to do when Jews begged them to annihilate them?

What a coward Bruce Crowley is, and what a nation of cowards he would make us into.

Re: Freedom of Expression Vs. Responsible Speech - Global Spin - TIME.com

tjproudamerican — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:32:56 -0000

As many have said, "I am Bruce Crumley, and I for one welcome our new Sharia Overlords."

Re: Freedom of Expression Vs. Responsible Speech - Global Spin - TIME.com

tjproudamerican — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:31:59 -0000

I hope every person who believes in our way of life and basic freedom shuns Bruce Crumley. I further hope, that barring an apology to The First Amendment and people who believe in freedom of publishing even articles that hurt radical Islamists' feelings, that people think of Bruce Crumley as a Quisling who is actively selling out to a Caliphate mentality.

The name Bruce Crumley should be a cause for feelings of disgust and shame by anyone who has the real courage to oppose terrorism, and not simply blame our rigorous intellectual life for the radical Islamic attacks against it.

Re: Freedom of Expression Vs. Responsible Speech - Global Spin - TIME.com

tjproudamerican — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:08:18 -0000

What a complete coward Bruce Crumley is, what a complete evisceration of Freedom of Speech this "Essay" is, and what a faulty use of logic the coward Bruce Crowley used to indicate that the West needs to surrender to the illogical, oppressive caliphate that Crowley so richly deserves to live in.

I am disgusted by this coward and his white flag. Time magazine should be ashamed of this Quisling and his tacit endorsement of censorship in the service of Sharia Law.

Re: Penn State Students Riot In Protest Of Joe Paterno Firing

tjproudamerican — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:56:09 -0000

Not to exonerate McQueary, but seeing something like this would be so shocking and devastating--not as shocking in any way as to that poor godforsaken boy!!!--that it might inspire anyone to walk away after saying "Excuse me". And seeing a Coach he may have admired, and who knows even feared, may have added to his reaction.

Since you write so eloquently and with such insight, I would like to also propose that McQueary calling his own dad was significant. Seeing the Moral Order toppled, he went to a man he knew he could trust. After speaking with his dad, he did the right thing.

These stories always make us males sick, and I hope we think of this feeling next time we hear a woman say she was raped.

Re: Penn State Students Riot In Protest Of Joe Paterno Firing

tjproudamerican — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:51:02 -0000

Rex, you are a mean man with a word, as RFK said to Norman Mailer in admiration. This mini essay is better than whatt is available on news sites. well done!!!!

Re: Penn State Students Riot In Protest Of Joe Paterno Firing

tjproudamerican — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:48:51 -0000

very well said Rex(etc.)!!!!!!!

Re: Penn State Students Riot In Protest Of Joe Paterno Firing

tjproudamerican — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:46:56 -0000

Even Michelle Malkin did not make a political issue out of this. The fact is that people in Institutions develop without knowing it Institutional Group Think, where any problem that embarrasses the Institution produces a reaction to cover it up, circle the wagons, hush everyone, act as if nothing has happened.

Sports Illustrated has a great Opinion Essay, a real sorrow-filled and dignified meditation on the skewed role of sports in the lives of those of us like me, who live and die with our favorite teams. The essay is by a writer I was unfamiliar with, John Ordasik, but I will sure as hell read his work from now on. Do yourself a favor and read this:
http://sportsillustrated.cn...

Re: Gloria Allred To Hold Friar’s Club Press Event With Fourth Herman Cain Accuser

tjproudamerican — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:31:47 -0000

I don't believe the media created Mr. Cain's problem. Mr. Cain, by his own rather stumblebum and convenient memory loss admission, DID settle 80,000 dollars on two women, while a third came forward to also accuse him.

Mr. Cain is woefully ignorant, as Jim Hoft says, about way too many important issues, and his 999 plan is a marketing gimmick which Cain adjusts without making any acknowledgement that adjustments change his 999 plan whenever someone confronts him with facts about who will suffer and who will prosper.

The Media is reporting these charges and settlements. Conservatives have rallied around Mr. cain, while the rest of us, Democratic Party purists like me as well as independents see more and more to dislike about Herman Cain everyday.

"Well, shucky ducky!" won't quite do this time, and blaming the MSM certainly allows Mr. Cain to be responsibility free. The defense that Herman Cain is another Bill Clinton is interesting. I suspect cain is very much in the Clinton grope and leave 'em camp of males who just want to be rock stars, complete with endless groupies and a trusting, faithful wife, who supports him at least publicly.

Re: Father Pavone seeks mediation with bishop of Amarillo, Texas

tjproudamerican — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 14:12:38 -0000

You are the one who knows nothing. Since Fr. Corapi cavalierly ditched his priesthood, he is still collecting money and still acting like a megalomaniac who is in love with his own image.

Anyone who follows The Black Sheepdog rather than the Roman Catholic Church has declared her allegiance to a breakaway egoist who wants to enjoy the fruits of his fame, women, riches, idolatrous fawning attention by people who ignore his leaving the church and try to take the church over to what he has made for it.

Imagine a Corapi in his prime telling a story about a priest who took his money, defied and renounced his much publicized vocation and consecration by Pope John Paul himself, and continued to collect reams of money as a branded entity called The Black Sheepdog. Imagine THAT earlier Corapi telling us about "an old Italian woman who did not vary with the times...." Fr. Corapi would denounce the black sheepdog in such violent terms that his audience would be screaming with the pleasure of seeing others in Hell.

Re: Valley Fever - James King - Sarbjit Teja Accused of Forcing Oral Sex on Stripper...Who Had Her (Ahem) Monthly Visitor at the Time

tjproudamerican — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:27:19 -0000

You wrote a good story, James King. She ran and he came out of the restroom all on tape. Men DO lose their judgement when a stripper plays along and leads them on, but this case is fairly simple despite that. Did a non-consensual event happen or did it not? If it did, the man will have to plead some kind of situation-induced insanity.

Meanwhile, I would never go to a strip bar because the dancers are often women with tremendous issues, and in general, the men regard the women as potential sexual servants (dance, smile, talk to the customer for money, leads to a fantasy that other acts are a few hundred dollars away) and always as objects to be exploited, and the women view the men as all day suckers, as in, if the women had all day they would strip the sucker of his money, his pride, and all sense of reason. The women want you to spend and spend and come back often and spend some more. But, the dancers hate the male customers.

P.S. In studies, as many as 60% of strippers "self identify" that they are lesbians. Since many sex workers are often damaged people, strippers associate sex with power and money. As dancers, they have the power and your money. Since even more strippers self identify as bisexual, the kicker here is that they MAY very well be open to being picked up...by a woman.

Bottom line: strippers may want your gf or wife or daughter or mother even, but they hate you and your actions are exploitative. Thanks for the $$$$$$, suckers. You can return to the club with more money, but don't come again. As far as the dancers are concerned, don't even come the first time.

Re: Father Pavone seeks mediation with bishop of Amarillo, Texas

tjproudamerican — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 22:22:38 -0000

I admire the loyalty of Fr. Pavone's defenders. Fr. John Corapi has turned out to be somewhat of an egotist whose denials are worded too carefully to be denials--this from a man who acts like George Carlin on steroids--and whose wealth is such that leaving the priesthood was the proverbial no-brainer.

We do not know what the conflict is between the Bishop and Fr. Pavone, and to Fr. Pavone's credit he has not renounced his priestly vows.

It is possible that Fr. Pavone's Spiritual Director(s) are worried that Fr. Pavone has caught the Fame Disease.

It is obvious that you who support Fr. Pavone are sincere in your love, your belief, your loyalty, and your Faith. So use that Faith, and be patient. We DON'T know what the story is here, but to say, as at least one commenter did here, that the Devil is behind the Bishop is just silly.

You should not let your hate of liberals blind you to the love in and faith in and trust in The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit.

Re: Citation Obsession? Get Over It!

tjproudamerican — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 21:13:38 -0000

P.S. I wish my students and our students were interested in passionate conversation. My observation tells me to propose that way too many students have been turned off along the way and would rather be told what to say they think rather than to engage the conversation. I don't blame American young people for their lack of passion, indeed I hope I am wrong, but I would like to reverse that course that "Education" appears to lead them down.

Re: Citation Obsession? Get Over It!

tjproudamerican — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 21:09:41 -0000

Thank you 12080243. One of the great things about discourse is that any subject potentially contains the possibility of a discussion of many (many) issues. Start with "Citation Obsession" and we arrive at a vigorous discussion/debate of nearly all the aspects of writing and college level critical thinking, including hypocrisy and keeping a single glass of water clean while allowing the ocean to be polluted.

Slightly off point, but related to this posting, when our great right wing critics criticize foolish courses like studying relationships or deconstructing Jersey Shore, we sometimes cower when the truth is that any subject that humans recognize is not only a good topic for study, but an important chance to connect the everyday to the tradition that the everyday stands either in opposition or apposition to.

Great discussion. I am going to change my practice because so many great controversies and arguments have been advanced here.

Re: Herman Cain Seems To Reveal That He Was Unaware Of China’s Nuclear Capability

tjproudamerican — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:01:48 -0000

hahahahahaha!!!! What is tragic, is how Republicans defend this unprepared clown by introducing race: he is never a "good man", he is "this good black man". Ann Coulter claims, "our blacks are better than their blacks."

As many have noted, Mr. Cain performs a form of Minstrel Show for white conservatives. He beclowns himself, he assures white people that white people are the victims of racism, and he breaks out into Spirituals and Show Tunes.

Give Mr. Bojangles his Cain, and he will shuck and jive and tell us everything is copacetic,

My my, shucky ducky!

Re: Are we seeing the beginning of religious persecution in America?

tjproudamerican — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:46:59 -0000

dear JMJ

There is no evidence that homosexuality itself is a choice. You try to pull a dishonest intellectual switch by changing the terms of argument to what the Roman Catholic church has defined as a sin as opposed to what science and common sense tell us.

No reasonable person could deny that for the overwhelming majority of heterosexuals and homosexuals, their sexual orientation is not a choice.

I do not know about you, but even if I lived in a country where homosexuality was forced on everyone, I would still have no homosexual feelings. From the time I was first tempted with sexual feelings until today, it has been the female that attracts me. For a homosexual man it is almost always the case that he did not choose to be attracted to men, he was aware from his first stirrings that it was the male who attracted him.

When one introduces the issue of sin, one removes the argument from any appeal to the rights of free people and places it into what churches demand of their members.

In your church, you are free to proscribe that everyone has to agree with your interpretation.

In the public square, you may argue that you are correct and that all homosexuals who act on their orientation are sinners, and I suppose even inform them that you know for a fact that God will condemn them forever for their refusal to live as you demand they live, but you do not have the right to say that if the law allows them to act freely according to their decisions and choices, that such acting infringes on your freedom to practice your faith.

We know that in countries where Islamic Law has been enforced, Muslims have the kind of "religious freedom" that you are demanding here. However, in America and Europe, the law does allow a non-believer to have the same rights to live his/her life as you and I do.

Rights in conflict are not easy issues, and I have empathy for people who cannot believe unless everyone else is forced to act according to their beliefs. But there is no way that a Roman Catholic is constrained from following everything the Pope and the Bishops tell her or him to do in the United States.

Re: Citation Obsession? Get Over It!

tjproudamerican — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 02:13:42 -0000

This opinion essay is very important. I remember in 1968, as a new college student who was fascinated by Ezra Pound, and especially,fascinated by Pound's The Cantos, discovering critic and scholar Hugh Kenner. What a surprise awaited me when I read the very politically and socially conservative Kenner's various books. Kenner did not use standard footnotes or references. Instead, for any claim or quote or argument, he used End Notes that gave a fragment of such additions in quotes followed by the source and often an expansion and explanation of the source. Kenner's style was clear and his scholarship was, if anything, clearer.

Cut to 2011 and I see my colleagues bragging about the way students CITE sources even as they rightfully bemoan the student's lethargy, dis-interest, lack of passion, and ignorance. The students do not know what anything means, but they sure know how to cite it. In a similar vein, students very often do not read any articles in the sense that we mean when we read articles, but they sure know how to cite and (as Kurt Schick says above) "quote mine" very deep readings of literature that the student him/herself has no real idea what such readings are.

Among other things, we are training our students to be excellent echo chamber voices and very deep imposters. They may not know or care about anything, but they sure know how to pretend they do. The situation we often find of successful demonstration of "information literacy" wed as it is to lack of actual literacy is a crisis in higher education we need to engage.

Re: Are we seeing the beginning of religious persecution in America?

tjproudamerican — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:41:35 -0000

I mentioned a caliphate because turning back the clock is the goal of all those Islamic states where they do outlaw homosexuality and living together, and other distractions of modern secular society.

The article asked was defunding Catholic Charities from PUBLIC funding the "beginning of religious persecution?" And I think the answer is, "No." As long as the Catholic Church, or any religious group can use its own measure of what is right and wrong when it acts with its own money, I do not think the Church is being prosecuted.

As for the rhetorical questions of whether life is better after certain practices became legal and "normative", my answer would be that I would like the question to be asked in a way I could answer it.

I am not a homosexual, but I do not think there is any evidence that homosexuality is a choice, so I see no reason for homosexuality to be outlawed. the treatment of homosexuals before it became "normative" was cruel and irrational, so do I think life is better for homosexuals since homosexuality was legalized and made normative? Yes.

Often, a girl's reputation was ruined when she "shacked up" with a guy. Again, do I think life is better for women and men who engage in such activities since that was legalized and made normative (although it might technically still be illegal in some states and other governmental units)? Yes.

Is it better for society as a whole? I think so, because the rights of people who believe that homosexuality and sex outside marriage are not threatened by the activities of others. It seems to me that the lesson of The Prodigal Son is addressed to the un-prodigal son, which is the role many of us play in life, is that our reward is our living a moral life in the first place.

And we live that moral life not because we expect a party but rather because it is what we want to do deep in our hearts.

It is not the state that is breaking down the moral code, it is other individuals. The laws I think have been slow to follow the overthrowing of conventions. An entire generation almost overnight decided that there was nothing wrong with living together without the benefit of marriage. The laws were slow to acknowledge this change. Likewise, a generation almost overnight became more accepting of homosexuality, and the laws again were slow to acknowledge this change.

But I think the Gospels show us over and over that our ability to live moral lives is not dependent on anything except our own activities.

I do have great empathy for those who liked the world as it was when behaviors of others that they found threatening were neither normative nor legal. It is simply untrue, however, to insist that we are being oppressed when we are completely free to make our moral decisions and live our lives unemcumbered by laws against us.

Re: Are we seeing the beginning of religious persecution in America?

tjproudamerican — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:08:20 -0000

I think Paul Rimmer is correct. There is a difference between Government Funding and Catholic Charities Funding. The Courts and the Obama Administration are putting NO LIMITS on what Catholic organizations do with their own money. The Obama administration does put limits on what Catholic Charities can do if they want to accept Federal funding.

I feel compelled to assure you that weekly Mass is the happiest hour and forty minutes of my life, and yet I find the woe is my, self-pity reactionary Catholicism a dangerous trend. People love to claim victimhood, especially when rights are being disputed.

Society has moved on from the days when homosexuality and living together in an unmarried union were illegal. One may decry these decisions by the government, the courts, and most of all by society at large to accept what once was regarded as a sin and denounced as illegal, but the rights of non-believers have won.

Unless we want to set up a Catholic version of a Caliphate, which could not possibly include most American Catholics (how many American Catholics abide by Church Teaching on Birth Control? Count the large families.), any Fundamentalist Christians whose opposition to Roman Catholics is vitriolic on the individual level (they regard the issue of The Virgin Mary as heretical, they denounce the saints as "Devil Worship", and they routinely say the pope of Rome and Obama are each the anti-Christ), as well as all the other doctrinal divisions that make "Christians" a non-ecumenical group, we should try not to get so riled up about things that are not by themselves threats to our Faith.

Re: Exclusive: James O’Keefe Explains His Attack On Huffington Post’s Sam Stein

tjproudamerican — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:05:45 -0000

The people who are supposed "conservatives" (I refuse to believe that the human refuse that reacts in a fascist choir are actual conservatives) ignore the facts. O'Keefe MADE UP the quote he used to try to ensnare Sam Stein.

The so-called "conservatives" are so intellectually corrupt and cowardly that they cannot even admit facts that are clearly in evidence. In any other time, a comic buffoon like James O'Keefe would be publishing a mimeographed neighborhood news sheet while living in his parent's basement.

It is too bad these idiots do not believe in God. They are full of lies and their lies corrupt the Public Square.

Re: Is Obama's New Populism Working? - Clive Crook - Politics - The Atlantic

tjproudamerican — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:17:23 -0000

How can a writer hope to be taken seriously when he writes that President Obama has turned "partisan" without mentioning that Republicans have swatted down every Obama overture?

Re: Romney: Wall Street Protests ‘Class Warfare’ - - NationalJournal.com

tjproudamerican — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 11:26:51 -0000

Oh, and remember Mitt has said he is one of the 80% (by his crazy pull the statistic out of the air) Middle Class who are suffering. He just happens to be a multi-millionaire, but if you average his salary and yours, so are you.

Re: Romney: Wall Street Protests ‘Class Warfare’ - - NationalJournal.com

tjproudamerican — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 11:25:25 -0000

It is always class warfare when the riff-raff poor question their overlords. And the solution is to destroy the Middle Class and take more of the economic pie and give it to the already wealthy. Mitt Romney was born wealthy and you should have been too.

And for you old people, you can have the table scraps and don't worry about the fact that the Tea Party is very old and very well off white men and the Wall Street protesters are young and a mix of people, because the media won't allow the Wall street protesters to get any real message through. Old people, take your checks and your pills and go back to being taken care of by under-paid poor people who can never and will never live as well as you, Mitt feels your pain. Go back to sleep everyone...Nothing to see here.