Posts Tagged ‘double standards’

Now if they had only set up their practice in Hollywood…

Posted: October 6, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…then at least they would have the support of the local community:

Twin brother pediatricians are going on trial on charges that for years they used their practices in a middle-class Ohio community to recruit boys for sex and bribed them not to tell authorities.

Jury selection began Monday in the trial of 53-year-old Mark Blankenburg in a state court in Butler County, about 30 miles north of Cincinnati. Blankenburg’s twin, Dr. Scott Blankenburg, faces a separate trial in April.

Details are few on the number of victims, their ages or where the alleged crimes occurred. The charges include multiple counts of corruption of a minor with at least two youths who were ages 13 to 15 at the time.

What do real estate people say, location , location location. After all if they were in Hollywood maybe Harvey Weinstein could start a new petition for them. Maybe then people would be afraid not to sign:

Could it be that courage does not come as easy when it is time to oppose someone who might give you your next movie role, or you might be doing a deal with soon? The warlord in Sudan, rebel soldier in Congo or the Taliban cannot kill a Hollywood career. The sad fact is that many people in Hollywood probably think that what Polanski did is reprehensible, but lack the real courage – putting your livelihood and status on the line – to go against Harvey Weinstein, Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen, so they just keep their mouths shut and hope the story dies soon. Any actor, agent, director, makeup artist or craft services person who spoke out to disagree with the kingmakers would instantly be dead to “the industry” and everyone knows it. Where is your moral outrage and big voice now Hollywood?

I think it would be really instructive to see if a petition for these twin docs was circulated among the signers of the other to see what they would say.

Update: in Hollywood I am not sure a 13-year-old is really a 13-year-old. Here I thought I was making an Ironic Joke and the Washington Post shows otherwise.

Update 2: Will the last blogger out the door pick up Patterico’s jaw from the floor?

I was going to use the famous Flip Wilson line for this story…

Posted: October 5, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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but that would have been tasteless:

Herman Thomas had an enviable political record as a black Democrat elected and re-elected in a county overwhelmingly white and increasingly Republican. The respected circuit judge once was the Democratic Party’s choice to be the first black federal judge in south Alabama.

Then his career collapsed under allegations that he brought inmates to his office and spanked them with a paddle. Later, an indictment accused him of sexually abusing male inmates in exchange for leniency. The trial on charges of sodomy, kidnapping, sex abuse, extortion, assault and ethics violations is set to start Monday.

The details get worse:

Some inmates in those cases described being checked out of the jail for meetings with Thomas in his car or in his private office in the county courthouse. First, there were reports of inmates having to pull down their underwear for spankings with a wooden paddle. Then came allegations of oral and anal sex, according to court records.

Sounds like quite a scandal so I guess this will be big news…for the BBC:

The trial of a former US judge accused of having sex with male inmates in exchange for leniency is set to start in Mobile, Alabama.

Herman Thomas, 48, denies the charges, which include sodomy, kidnapping, extortion, sex abuse and assault.

And Cambodia News:

A black Democrat judge from Alabama in the US has been accused of having sex with male prison inmates in exchange for lesser sentences.

Herman Thomas, who was once the Democratic Party’s choice to be the first black federal judge in south Alabama, allegedly took inmates to his office and spanked them before having sex.

CAMBODIA NEWS? Cambodia news has scooped the MSM on a corrupt judge sex story in Alabama?

Well the judge is a democrat and is black, and is apparently Gay.

I submit to you that if the party label was changed this trial would be the lead story all over the morning shows, but if you are reading this blog then you likely already know that.

At least nobody in Hollywood is starting a petition for him.

Update: Dan beat me and the Cambodia news.

8 of our guys killed…

Posted: October 5, 2009 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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…in a battle in the war in Afghanistan.

You know I wonder how many of the other guys were killed?

Remember the battle of Mogadishu? The enemy lost anywhere from 10 to 60 times dead as we did, and that is a loss?

You know it would be nice if the media wouldn’t play cheerleader against our army, but then again we made fun of the president over the Olympics so I guess we’re even.

Just a thought. The number of Americans killed in that battle is the same number that were killed at Lexington Green in April of 1775. If the same media and pols where in charge at that time Joe Scarborough would be in trouble for his Queen on Trampoline line this morning and we would be flying the Union Jack over our public buildings.

Update: It’s the top story at Michelle’s

According to Charles, he has lost the fight:

Posted: September 26, 2009 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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While looking through lgf to find his opposition to Trig Trutherism. (Thumbs up on that one Charles!) I stumbled upon something interesting, the LGF Dictionary

Whatever one might thing of Charles behavior lately it can’t be denied that he has been an important figure in the blogosphere and going through the dictionary is like a glimpse through it’s history.

However there is also this gem:

racist – A statement of surrender during an argument. When two people or disputants are engaged in an acrimonious debate, the side that first says “Racist!” has conceded defeat. Synonymous with saying “Resign” during a chess game, or “Uncle” during a schoolyard fight. Originally, the term was meant to indicate that one side was accusing the other of being racist, but once it was noticed that people only resorted to this tactic when all other arguments had been exhausted, it acquired its new meaning of “indicating one’s own concession of defeat.”

By his own definition he has been conceding an awful lot of arguments lately.

What was that Alinsky rule again?

… most of all, make them live by their own rules. If you make them live by their own rules, you destroy them. And never forget that ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. Comedy is our friend.– from Saul Alinksy’s “Rules for Radical Comedians.”

Maybe he was riding without a helmet and took a fall affecting long term memory or something?

Of course there is no entry for Raaaaacist in there.

That’s worth a Nelson award

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