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he saturday night fights w bill stern sponsored on radio by gillette to look sharp and be on the ball seeing an old civil war veteran grand army of the republic in my town s july 4th parade in the 1940 s sunday swiss steak and mashed potatoes supper at grandma s after church around 1 pm having the bleep scared out of me by the movie spellbound coloring the oleo wartime butter substitute by squeezing and massaging a yellow pill inside its plastic bag posted by george w potts at 8 26 am no comments monday october 23 2006 hip hip horray for over four years now our main stream media have been leading the cheers for our enemy in the war on terrorism from running a video of an american soldier being killed by an iraqi sniper to publishing secrets about u s tactics for surveiling enemy communications to insisting that terrorists from around the world be given u s constitutional guarantees to judging american soldiers guilty of battlefield crimes before they even face military tribunals why for the life of me i can t explain it this is not the country i grew up in during the second world war ernie pyle brought home the vicissitudes of the dogface gis fighting our common enemies he made them heroes by chronicling their day to day struggles and small individual conquests has such reporting happened in our war on terror i don t recall seeing one story about heroic actions by u s troops does this mean there haven t been any even pat tillman who was killed in afghanistan after leaving the nfl and volunteering for combat was only fleetingly a hero until it was discovered that it was friendly fire that did him in then he was universally characterized by the media as being misguided or even stupid for his act of patriotism now that the republicans are poised to lose some of their political clout in the upcoming elections i wonder if the mainstream media will keep up their assault on patriotism probably at least until there is a democrat in the white house then the critical question would become will our media giants pick up their pompoms and once again cheer for our side posted by george w potts at 8 14 am no comments friday october 20 2006 wrong wright now that i have been identified as a dartmouth blog i feel obliged to weigh in on the proposed new dartmouth constitution it now seems clear to me that the motivation for these constitution changes was the election of the three upstarts to the board of trustees why is this so bad the new constitution supporters rational for their unilateral change in the ratification proportion 2 3rds vs 3 4ths is a little soft given that the us requires 3 4ths of the states to ratify any amendments to our nation s constitution changing a constitution is by its nature a very serious matter also the proposed change of one trustee nominee versus multiple petition candidate nominees reverses the prior nomination process complaint if it was unfair then why would it be fairer if it were reversed under a new constitution there are other disturbing elements to this constitution situation but i will let them slide for now my perception and i believe that of many other alums is that the root of the current fracas is president james diversity wright and his three predecessors yes including kemeny but maybe not mclaughlin to me pres wright is a one trick pony i have yet to read anything he has written that seriously ranges into any of the other facets of a liberal arts education i once asked him at a luncheon in hanover why dartmouth didn t have more rhodes fulbright and other senior honors scholars his response was stupefying he said he didn t want students who tried for such honors and failed to have this failure define their dartmouth experience one has to conclude that the dartmouth trustees have plotted the route that wright has been following therefore again to me i see the trustees as not acting in the best long term interest of our college thus i welcomed the election of the upstarts and still do i never believed that the board of trustees would be taken over by these upstarts but that they would start asking the tough questions that i felt needed asking have these upstarts been so inconvenient as to warrant such an extraordinary act as changing our constitution after all diversity should also mean a diversity of ideas we have unfortunately seen what self perpetuating boards have done to neuter corporate governance over these last few decades posted by george w potts at 8 14 am no comments thursday october 19 2006 the un the united nations can t seem to resolve the issue of which country will be the next south american representative on the security council the general assembly has been unable after multiple votes over these last days of generating a 2 3rds majority vote for either venezuela or the u s backed guatemala this despite the fact that the venezuelan president hugo chavez in his speech to the general assembly a few weeks back called the u s president george bush the devil he spiced up this insult by saying that the podium from which he spoke still smelt from sulfur because bush had spoken there the day before the general assembly s vote has vacillated from a tie to numerous small advantages to both guatemala and venezuela this means that at least half of the united nation s general assembly countries over ninety of them find nothing wrong with venezuela s behavior and its consequential unsuitability for sitting on the august security council what a sad day for this institution the u n was founded with lofty objectives after ww2 by those who believed in world government as a panacea to the world s continuing belligerence now this body seems to stand for nothing but its own self perpetuation its members live the life of riley staying in the best four star hotels eating at the best restaurants traveling first class everywhere immune from most laws skimming from the vast flows of cash flowing through its coffers and accomplishing nothing if not less it is un democratic un effective un savory un representative un ethical un accountable un cultured un talented un managed un important and un sustainable it s the un posted by george w potts at 10 12 am no comments wednesday october 18 2006 activists astray the boston globe recently had a story about a pet shop in cambridge that was torched apparently by animal activists who spray painted no more exploitation of animals on the store front as a result more than two dozen exotic reptiles were barbequed rather than getting their morning ration of feeder mice this story imagines that the following groups could also be losing sight of their mandates save the whales activists have been trapping these behemoths on their annual migration paths so that they might be encased in large blocks of lucite people for the ethical treatment of animals peta members have been sensitivity training slaughter house workers to say a prayer for each animal they dispatch the hemlock society associates have been planting these conifers in most cemeteries the north american man boy love association nambla members have been sending appreciative valentines to accomplished male geography students and teachers throughout the american continent posted by george w potts at 8 15 am no comments monday october 16 2006 nirvana whenever i m feeling bad i just remember that gerry studds is being forced at the point of a pitchfork to service eleanor roosevelt for all eternity and the u s taxpayers are no longer funding his 114 000 a year pension then i don t feel so sad posted by george w potts at 10 01 am 1 comment thursday october 12 2006 topple koopel ted koppel recently wrote an op ed in the ny times the gist of which was let s allow the iranians to build a nuclear weapon and if a dirty bomb explodes in milwaukee the return address will be predetermined and it will be somewhere in iran all one has to do is to substitute when a megaton nuclear weapon explodes in midtown manhattan to realize how incredibly loopy this advice is first proving it was iran would be next to impossible why not north korea or the kgb or china or even pakistan second the economic consequence of such a bit of terror would cost trillions and set this country back twenty years we could not possibly deal a quid pro quo to iran i am eternally glad that this doofus no longer has the nightly eyes and ears of our fuzzy thinking public posted by george w potts at 11 23 am 1 comment wednesday october 11 2006 foley s folly i recently listened to mike barnacle on local talk radio relentlessly bashing those who are pointed to barney frank gerry studds bill clinton etc as counterpoints to the mark foley imbroglio and as much as it raises my hackles i have to admit that in a way he is right that old adage two wrongs don t make a right is pertinent here the fact that gerry studds buggered a 17 year old congressional page and then turned his back on the house of representatives when they censured him and then was re elected five times is not an excuse for nor does it diminish mark foley s despicable conduct what is pertinent however is how these above individuals and many others of all stripes have participated in changing the culture in congress in the media and in our country by a changing the culture i mean that many of our old societal taboos regarding deviant behavior have been kicked to the curb i am not focusing just on pop culture promiscuity but also on child pornography on sedition on drug and alcohol abuse on lying or as it is now called spinning on dirty tricks on bribery on compulsive gambling and on immorality of almost every stripe this change in our culture is in fact the responsibility of all of us both democrat and republican both homosexual and heterosexual both black and white both male and female we have not only allowed this to happen but have been frequent active participants in its relentless progress i don t mean to sound like the taliban recruit but i do believe that the coarsening of our culture is real and can be argued to be a vector in the downfall of mark foley mark foley s amazing recklessness in his contacts with congressional pages i believe came about because he believed he was immune to any consequences and this feeling of immunity had to evolve out of how our culture has reacted to a series of indiscretions and outright crimes by politicians entertainers and other personalities rap artists can brag about being cop killers a former president can call our current president a liar another former president can diddle a female intern in the oval office with a cigar personalities can make sex tapes to the benefit of their careers movie stars can exhibit blatant religious intolerance and 36 of our society can believe that our government blew up the world trade center buildings on 9 11 clearly tastelessness amorality anti social and deviant behaviors did not begin in our lifetimes nor are they going to end any time soon and those who campaign for their elimination are misty eyed pollyanna s i m not doing that here however the pendulum eventually will swing back to a position of less acceptance of such behavior note how foley now stands accused of having sex with a twenty one year old ex page conduct that is legal and has been accepted if not celebrated by the media in the past as this change progresses there will be many many more mark foleys who end up in the land fill of history wondering how and why it happened to them the aesop lesson here is morality no longer drives politics it is now politics that drives morality posted by george w potts at 8 08 am no comments newer posts home subscribe to posts atom about me george w potts view my complete profile featured post interesting factoid baron trump donald trump s youngest son is six feet seven inches tall stand up for a long drink of water followers blog archive 2024 633 may 120 april 124 march 136 february 118 january 135 2023 1697 december 132 november 124 october 139 september 144 august 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