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The Justice Department's Tracy Schmaler and 3 Characteristics of Political Thugs
In the days following the Night of the Long Knives in 1934, a bizarre press conference took place in Berlin. Hermann Goering stood before the foreign press corps and explained why Hitler's regime had the obligation to murder hundreds of Germans in the dead of night without due process. The farce is described in Erik Larson's In the Garden of Beasts.
At the time, Germany still had one foot barely in in the democratic past and the other foot dragging the Reich toward indescribable madness. One wonders what the unrecorded thoughts were of the assembled journalists. Some might have considered this an aberration, a frightening yet short fit of madness by a man trying to reverse Germany's malaise. Such apologists were particularly common in Roosevelt's State Department. Others reporters surely had enough human decency to recognize the warning signs of a democratic and enlightened people experiencing a rapid moral collapse.
Goering, however, as was his way, had no shame in standing before representatives of the foreign free press and justifying murder. It should have been obvious to everyone listening to him that the Nazis were a demonic sort, capable of anything, and afterwards equally capable of justifying their twisted behavior.
Today's revelation by Matt Boyle that the Justice Department is coordinating attacks on private citizens (including me) and coordinating with Media Matters on a wider scale than I first reported some months ago here at PJ Media provokes the question — why?
I raise this German history not to compare the events of that era to events today in America, but rather to note peculiar characteristics common to political thuggery, regardless of the degree or nationality of the thuggery.
To be perfectly clear, Eric Holder is no Hermann Goering, so the flying monkeys at Media Matters can abandon that meme. Others, at Investor's Business Daily, for example, are willing to make comparisons I do not:
After the acts, the DOJ then praised them: "Great piece," gushed Schmaler after Media Matters attacked DOJ whistle-blowers J. Christian Adams and Christopher Coates. . . .
Incredibly, this isn't happening in some totalitarian dictatorship or banana republic, but here in the U.S.
Now we see something else — Media Matters acting as an ideological goon squad of the Justice Department to enforce the kind of press Obama wants.
This thuggish meddling crosses the line into dictatorship, and calls for a congressional investigation.
Some time has passed since Matt Boyle broke the story today about the close coordination between Tracy Schmaler, head of the Office of Public Affairs (OPA), and Media Matters. Megyn Kelly's Fox report notes that Schmaler writes "great piece" after attacking former Justice Department Voting Section Chief Christopher Coates. Coates is one of the most decent and courteous lawyers I have ever met. An attack on him by the head of OPA while he was still employed at DOJ is a disgrace.
Schmaler's high-salaried thuggery has three characteristics common to political thugs.
First, like Schmaler, political thugs don't think they are doing anything wrong. Thugs are convinced of their cause. They can't imagine anyone questioning them. The moral among us call her behavior "the ends justifying the means." Schmaler, and most likely her overlords like Eric Holder and James Cole, apparently don't see anything wrong with her behavior, else they would no longer pay her enormous salary ($161,289).
Second, political thugs have an unintentionally comic element. Schmaler's clumsy and intimate relationship with Matt Gertz at Media Matters, while she hasn't returned calls from Matt Boyle at the Daily Caller or Quin Hillyer at the American Spectator for years, is laughable. Schmaler's quick temper and screams are notorious among reporters, provoking bewildered chuckles. She has yelled at Pete Williams of NBC, Sharyl Attkisson of CBS, Boyle, Hillyer, and many many more.
In most jobs, if you screamed at your customers (or, for that matter, anyone), you wouldn't have a job for long — unless of course your boss approves of such behavior. The German verb "schmalern" means to reduce, narrow or belittle. Tracy Schmaler has reduced and belittled the long dignified history of the Department of Justice where she works.
Third, while political thugs often have an unintentional comic streak, their behavior is deadly serious and destructive. Consider that Schmaler has taken the lead in defending the murderous Fast and Furious program at DOJ. She literally found herself in the disgraceful role of spinning away culpability for a government policy that killed people.
How convenient for a hip, young resident of the Beltway living in comfort. While real people were dying real deaths, she enjoyed a fat salary for hiding the government behavior that caused it. She lied to the media about Fast and Furious and screamed at those she didn't lie to.
Most of us wonder how someone like that sleeps at night. But history is full of people, both petty and dangerous, who can sleep at night no matter what they do during the day.
60 Comments, 33 Threads
1. FeralCat
"Fast and Furious""Murder and Mendacity": Eric Holder's and Barack Obama's rolling 9/11 against Mexico.The United States now is a country that has both a sitting President and a sitting Attorney General who are mass murderers.
September 19, 2012 - 12:48 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
I would be cautious about calling Obama and Holder mass murderers. Bad as they are, they don't compare to Nazi Germany. I reviewed Erik Larson's book, and the scary part is the choice of ambassadors to Germany and to Europe in general, during the Roosevelt administration. Here is my review and analysis of how we described Nazism after WW2. http://clarespark.com/2011/08/14/review-in-the-garden-of-beasts-by-erik-larson/.
September 19, 2012 - 9:04 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
The difference is only one of degrees, not substance.
When you facilitate, and then excuse immoral behavior, don't be surprised when others proclaim you as one who lacks morals, and compares you to the worst of the worst.
I suppose that since they didn't eat their enemies, they can't be compared to the thuggery of Idi Amin.
Thugs are thugs!September 19, 2012 - 11:50 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
They aren't, yet. Instead what they are doing is turning a blind eye to the violence committed by their "brown shirts" in the streets. Whether that is simply increasing the terror of random street crime or targeting undesirable voters to keep them from voting or even driving them out district, it is quietly smiled upon.
Keep in mind that DHS has bought over a billion rounds of ammunition in the last couple of years, with another 200 million recently. Why does that agency need so much ammo?
September 20, 2012 - 7:01 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
Project Gun Runner (Fast and Furious) was launched under the orders of President Barack Obama with the knowledge of Attorney General Eric Holder. Deputy Attorney General David Ogden announced the Obama Administration's new and aggressive 'comprehensive plan' on March, 24, 2009. The plan was aimed at disrupting gun trafficking between the United States and Mexico. Full C-SPAN Video Link 3-24-2009
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/MexicoBorstart=800September 22, 2012 - 10:44 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
T Leon
Neither are mass murderers? Hmmmm? Eric Holder and Soetoro(Obama) have no deaths attributed to them in association? Never mind the millions killed so far in war but lets just look at those who have died directly associated to him that posed a threat: Google "FW: OBAMA DEATH LIST" from myrightwingdad.blogspot.com and "The Obama Death Pool… 'Mysterious' Deaths Surround Obama" from knowthelies.com
They pale in comparison to Goering? Yeah right.These murders were committed BEFORE the coming WWIII.Just wait until martial law is declared.It matters not who is installed as "President" for they are all controlled opposition…they are all psychopaths that have murdered during "their" reigns of the regime.Here's Clintons murders :CLINTON BODY COUNT By: Ether Zone Staff and of course for you Repubicans here is Bush's Death List too http://www.newsfollowup.com/bushfortune.htm#Bush%20Death%20ListSeptember 24, 2012 - 3:06 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
2. John J
You're such a weasel sometimes. You're a lawyer. I guess it can't be helped.
Outside the world's most disgusting profession, variation of degree is not really as important as it is, inside. Humans didn't have stupid things like 1st and 2nd degree laws until lawyers needed a way to get guilty clients off. Now look at the mess this has caused. There is no longer anything at all "just" about the Justice Department, but it's all perfectly sorta legal.
Hermann Goering and his pals didn't start out killing hundreds and thousands, but once you have decided to murder even one just because it benefits you somehow, you are a murderer. If no one stops you, you might get to like it.
At this point, Obama and Holder, and, indeed, Schmaler, have already crossed that line,and they don't think there's anything wrong with it. Pray tell, what is the standard lawyerly benchmark for mass murder?
Let's also keep in mind that nobody ever saw Hitler murder even one single person. He might have killed Eva, but we'll never know for sure. Well, then. I guess he was innocent, after all. It was probably a vast, right wing conspiracy.
It feels like a banana republic because that is now what it is. The reason South America and Mexico are hellholes is because the people are obviously too stupid to vote. After all, they've had the vote for over a century everywhere. What's the first thing they do? Vote in some dictator. Now they're here. You fill in the rest.
They're only not as bad as Hitler because they haven't really gotten rolling, yet. When we sit back and let the Arabs nuke Jerusalem, will that count?
I wonder. It'll probably be another "unexpected" development.September 19, 2012 - 2:58 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
300,000,OOO+ people can sit around listening to Carney spin and lie about even major assaults on our nation and our sovereignty; both by physically violent foreign thugs and lawfaringly (my word) violent thugs like the bozos at the U.N. with their Small Arms Treaty and their "Law of the Sea" sovereignty robbing delusions – all backed by this current administration.
"This thuggish meddling crosses the line into dictatorship, and calls for a congressional investigation."
No S?§/ Sherlock!!! That's like saying, "Johnny messing his pants in class crosses the line into bad manners, and calls for 10 minutes of standing in the corner of the room." No wonder we're in such bad shape.
September 19, 2012 - 3:41 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
Ahmanadinejad IS another Hitler. He's making preparations to nuke Israel. Obama is letting it happen. That makes him complicit.
Let's not understate the facts here.
September 19, 2012 - 9:57 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
W.C. Taqiyya
John J. makes a good point. Just what is the benchmark of evil? Is it one vote stolen, one American murdered, one American disappeared into Obama's gulag? Or does it take a thousand or a million of each? Well, lets not worry about it, it doesn't effect us. Yet.
In Germany, the Nazis were always scrupulous about making everything they did legal. They started out sterilizing retarded people, a socially progressive idea at the time, even in America. Then, it progressed into a very large program to fix the main cause of all social problems. Today, we are burdened with the flexibly defined terrorist problem. Jeepers, anyone can be a terrorist. Even a Jew. That's why we need the drones to keep an eye on us and why nobody can be trusted to board an airplane without a complete search. I'm guessing fat people will need to be controlled, they endanger all of us with their expensive health problems. Bullies too, because they cause fear. Movie makers who poke fun of Islam are certainly a big problem, they cause violence, murder and mayhem. Yep, the list is getting started and as the problems continue to grow in spite of these reasonable and mild corrective measures, the scope of the solutions will need to grow with them. And, we can be gratified to know everything will be done legally. I'm so glad I live in these modern, advanced and intelligent times.
September 19, 2012 - 10:19 am Link to this Comment | Reply
3. Ned Reid
I watched this on Megyn Kelly's program yesterday. She was obviously disturbed by the revelation. So am I, but I'm not surprised. Holder is without peer in this Administration's pursuit of what it calls "fairness" or "justice", liberal "dog whistles", to use their favorite analogy, for what it's really all about: getting even. And then some. Justice it ain't.
September 19, 2012 - 3:32 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
Comparing the DOJ, and its goon squads, to thugs is more than appropriate. In fact, they deserve to be spanked with much worse.
Intimidating those who exercise their right to free speech is not only unseemly, but it is illegal!
It is hard to fathom a more insidious abuse of power, than under the reign of Holder, so ordered by the Thug-in-Chief – Barack HUSSEIN Obama.
In fact, the whole sordid gang of lawbreakers can give lessons to the most notorious Mafia goons. And, we all know, the actions of DOJ has been the cause of who knows how many dead bodies to boot!Fast & Furious, anyone?
http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/08/01/will-barack-hussein-obamas-lawless-justice-department-under-the-aegis-of-ag-holder-finally-fall-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/ is more than on target.
September 19, 2012 - 3:43 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
5. Joel King
I'm confused. You call MMFA "flying monkeys", yet the Tracy Schmaler picture seems to correlate better.
September 19, 2012 - 4:51 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
6. ChrisS
I don't understand the Goering bit. It looks like a contrived "Put your Nazi in, Take your Nazi out, Do the Okey-Dokey" when you had Stalin gold "The press must grow day in and day out — it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon. " at your fingertips.
Hermann Goering didn't spring fully formed from the womb. He "evolved" over time. He "grew" into his mendacious, murdering self. Small acts of bad behavior will invariably spawn larger acts of evil if they're overlooked. If you want to channel the Nazi experience then try "Broken Windows Policing Prevents Kristallnacht".
September 19, 2012 - 5:09 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
7. Amazingoly
Will be more than fitting to see them all packing their things and getting out of Washington. New leadership coming soon.
September 19, 2012 - 5:19 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
new leadership that will fall right in step with the presently rolling march, and continue heading in the same direction. Remember his comment above about how nations repeatedly, once they get the "right to vote" install dictators? When a wretched "author" is grinding out a wretched tale at his keyboard, switching to a different font and type colour mid-paragraph won't change the story one bit. We had a candidate who was so totally "other" compared to the two we have left he was a high level threat to the established ruling elite, and was sidetracked, ridiculed, marginlalised (I like that german verb "schmalern", it fits right here) and robbed of his rightful delegates, then shunned from the Convention. I've also been finding some interesting information on the Kennedy assassinations.. seems they, John and Robert, were such a threat to the money-making power mongering elite they had to be "taken care of" to allow the system to continue on. Looking back, it was just about then, starting with the Johnson presidency, when we started to really take a wrong turn as a nation. Viet Nam was the first "sick" war we prosecuted, John K wanted to get us uninvolved, and was taking steps to do so when he was murdered. Imagine our history had he not been shot, and we never "did" Viet Nam? Wasn't it during that conflict private citizens began to be killed and jailed for exercising their First Ammendment rights, free speech largely shut down, laws came round to disarm or severely restrict possession of arms by civilians, "national security" began to be more about meddling in the affairs of nations far and wide, rather than securing our own nation, and the military budget began growing exponentially, to the point it now comprises the larger half of our spending? It was also about that time when welfare and "entitlements" began increasing exponentially….. interesting, all that. And we have thugs like Holder and his Kingpin(head) supplying arms to Mexico's worst murderers, against all laws and right thinking, and now this creep Schmaler justifying it, selling it to a gullible public as a "good thing", so glad we are able to do good unto others…….
September 19, 2012 - 9:46 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Art Chance
You need to get back on your meds!
September 19, 2012 - 10:30 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
'Get back on your meds' Pretty rude thing to say.
Perhaps you should look at what he says that can be substantiated (most) and apply those truths as credits… to what can't be proven either way. Quit hoping for something to be the way You Think it is. …and Get some manors.
September 19, 2012 - 11:27 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Charlie Griffith
Duke [..?..],
One can't can't just go out and "get" manors, surely you must know that they have to be awarded by the Sovereign with the title granted by a light touch on the shoulder with a sword while kneeling at Court. The same way as you acquired yours, eh?
Preferably from among those vast landholdings confiscated after the dissolution of the monasteries.
September 19, 2012 - 5:16 pm Link to this Comment
Well, if for no other reason, we need to vote Republican this year. It's the only chance we have of the media actually holding the politically elite in check! They'll ignore and excuse every Democratic scandal and exaggerate the Republican ones. But at least they WILL investigate the Republican scandals.
September 19, 2012 - 11:36 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
After the first three sentences or so, I thought…"Oh lord, another Ron Paulista." And then I read a bit further and thought…"Man! this guy is a conspiracist!" And then I thought…"this guy is crazy."
So yeah, I do agree that he should get back on his meds. And if he'll slip on this jacket, I'll help with the straps and clasps.September 19, 2012 - 5:43 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
8. Squid
One quibble with the quoted IBD piece, which says, "Incredibly, this isn't happening in some totalitarian dictatorship or banana republic, but here in the U.S."
They seem unwilling to believe or admit that the latter cannot be the former. Open your eyes, people!
September 19, 2012 - 6:17 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
To be perfectly clear, Eric Holder is no Hermann Goering
That's true. Holder is skinnier and doesn't hunt wild boar to the best of my knowledge.
September 19, 2012 - 6:26 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
10. 13times
Issa had wiretaps on DoJ phones as early as fall of 2010. This alone is rather striking. People within DoJ outed the bad actor(s), and with evidence and testimony, a judge consented to the tapping.
2 years later, Issa has yet to roll a hostile witness, perjury trap a low level flunky or secure a single conviction. Obama invoked executive privilege and everything seemingly came to a screeching halt.
Either Issa is incompetent or he's playing an insider political game. It doesn't really matter, justice delayed is justice denied. Brian Terry's family and Mexican victims of FnF deserve more than lip service.
September 19, 2012 - 6:34 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
11. earl t
Its past time to "go to the matresses" against these thugs!
Congressional hearings? LOL! How's that working out for Darrel Issa on "Fast and Furious'?
A few well-placed legal actions would be much better, or the whole of American society might descend into a few "well-placed" somethings else!
September 19, 2012 - 6:58 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
12. judge arrow
If the O wins, there will be blood.
September 19, 2012 - 7:05 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
correction (minor): there will be MORE blood. If the R wins, there will still be blood, as he has no plans to clean house and set things right, unlike another "unelectable" candidate. Thus the sick power system currently in place will continue. Unless the incoming Chief Executive turns loose a house cleaning tornado and overturns the money tables, driving the thieves out, nothing much will change, the current course will continue to run. He'd have to clean out Justice of the dozens (hundreds?) of avowed marxist-socialist operatives implanted in the past few decades, including people like this Schmaler; turn out the two marxist socialist Supreme Court "justices" implanted by the kinyun, and a hosst of other federal level judges (legislating from the bench in cases like the Michigan shariah law "judgement", the "overturning" of California's Prop 8 by a prejudiced judge with his own perverted agenda, and so forth. Romney won't, so the status quo ante will continue s the status quo post. Until the whole charade either collapses or is blown to smithereens from its own corruption, or a REAL President comes out of the woodwork and manages to "sneak" past all the barricades and chicanes erected by the ruling elite and gets elected. Even then, the same process will have to have taken place in both Houses of the COngress nearly simultaneously.
September 19, 2012 - 9:55 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
We can't expect to 'fix' Our government in one election cycle. Lets 'put him in there' and see where we go. What we have now… is a sure end to Our Constitution.
Even a step sideways, is better than six back.September 19, 2012 - 12:10 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
I desagree! I believe Ryan will hold Romney's feet to the fire. I also believe Romney is really planning to create jobs and cut the deficit. I believe he will drill, drill and we will not be dependent on foreign oil.
I believe Romney has the sole of a man who likes to see success in all that he does. I know he is known as a RHINO but his decision to pick Ryan was a major flag that he intends to honor his promises.September 19, 2012 - 2:48 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Charlie Griffith
……"has the sole of a man"……?
That man's left shoe or right?….leather or rubber?…….composite?
[OK...apologies....this is uncontrollable..it's a handicap...never let a good opportunity pass...etc.etc....]
September 19, 2012 - 5:29 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
13. Steve B
I've been saying this for a while now, in the wake of things like the SEIU members beatdown of an African-American conservative demonstrator.
In violence studies it's called, "the interview." It's when a potential assailant makes moves such as invading your personal space, provocations, etc, to determine whether you are a safe victim or not.
September 19, 2012 - 7:16 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
14. Professor Guvinoff
Excellent counter-attack. With the A.C.L.J. on the case, this is going to bite.
September 19, 2012 - 8:42 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
15. Truepeers
Another characteristic of thugs is the vacant, nihilistic visage, the physical deformation that evolves with the soul's diminishment. And yet the deformation can't be complete inasmuch as the thug can't but help think he is on the side of good. Hence the queer charisma glimmering in the emptiness.
September 19, 2012 - 9:11 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
16. ron nord
Even when voted out they will not go away, they have bought their constituency with tax payer money. Obama and his Marxists have initiated the Piven/Alinsky Plan with the help of the Democrat Party, their plan is to ruin the Republic for a Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Another huge purchase of small arms ammunition has been bought along with .308 sniper ammunition by this government for federal 'law' agencies just this last week, they have to explain this purchase and why our armed forces are being trained for a civil insurrection in this country by Obama's apparacheki?
September 19, 2012 - 9:13 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
do you want to know why?
it's because if the O wins, there will be blood, and if the O loses, there will be blood.
September 19, 2012 - 9:36 am Link to this Comment | Reply
17. Denver Bob
I read the Israeli press everyday, and wonder that no one from Israel can see how pernicious that place is on press freedom.
I first saw the type at Hopkins back in the 1960s and will say that their tribe has increased. The saving point is that they are cowards one and all.
September 19, 2012 - 9:33 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Larry, Israel
Well, the article is about Justice and their harassment of people like good Mr. Adams. Why this should lead to an intra-Israel or extra-Israel discussion on Israeli media is a bit hard to follow. But certainly there is a left-tilt and censorship in the Israeli press. For sure.
September 19, 2012 - 10:28 am Link to this Comment | Reply
18. JudyNM
My question, is this a crime? It sounds like it should be. Of course, mainstream media in the US is not different than the TASS (government-run news) in Soviet Russia. I naively expect more in the USA.
September 19, 2012 - 9:39 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
Should Obama be re-elected, your vocabulary regarding Obama will be regulated/whittled down to two adjectives: plusgood and doubleplusgood.
September 19, 2012 - 9:53 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
20. pat
This is a clear violation of The Hatch Act.
September 19, 2012 - 10:17 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Sure is. And whom does the investigations? Like Catherine Sibelius? Little pat on the hand for good work honey. These people are disgraceful and someone above is correct that the government is FULL of them. They must be fired.
September 19, 2012 - 12:16 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
21. MikeGa
Yoou are deeply confused or projecting. Yes the evdience is incontrovertible that the DOJ was stuffed with partisan hacks in violation of the Hatch Act, and that the US Attorneys engagaged in plotical perscutions based on direct orders from the White House.
Unfortunately that all happened during the LAST administration. You may recall the Names Monica Goodling, and Bradley Schlozman to name a few, and the unkind things the DOJ inspector general had to say about thier illegal activities. Chris Coates was Hired by the law-breaker Schlozman to be a "True memeber of the team" in the civil rights section after Schlozman fired two female minority members of the Civil Rights Office so he could replace them with, in his e-mailed words to the heritage foundation asking for resumes, "Real, good, Americans"
September 19, 2012 - 10:21 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
This commment is factually innacurate regarding Mr. Coates. Wholly innacurate in this and other respects.
September 19, 2012 - 12:30 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
22. EastLosCon
Look forward to squads of Lesbian Avengers and their gay assistants fanning out to make sure the entire country becomes a Hate Free zone.
September 19, 2012 - 11:21 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
23. Washington76
The Federalist No. 45 Alleged Danger From the Powers of the Union to the State Governments Considered Independent Journal Saturday, January 26, 1788 [James Madison]
September 19, 2012 - 11:41 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
You'd find much more more wisdom in the Anti-Federalist Papers. Lotsa those 'slippery-slope' arguments; all csme true, just as predicted.
September 19, 2012 - 12:10 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
24. Uncle Vladdi
'Progressives' have only managed to 'progress' from 'restrictive, onerous' lawful morality to lawless immorality (which they call freedom). Liberals never liberate anyone – they only ever take liberties with everyone!
Re: their "The Ends Justify The Means!" meme:
They pretend to believe that the ends justify the means, when in fact the means really only define the end results: If and when you choose to lie, murder and rob others "to get ahead," then, in the end, you're not a "great success" – you're still really only a lying, murdering thief!
ALL infantile delinquent liberal Emocrats pretend to imagine that:
"Since there's always a diverse multiplicity of causes and effects for everything, not only are we all helpless victims before life's complexities, but it's also true that all facts are really only opinions anyway! So my subjective, fact-free opinion is the diversely opposite 'equal' to your silly objective facts! Whee! So, obviously we all need a bigger group to protect us from ourselves and from other dangerous groups! Only groups should have rights, and all merely fallible and so potentially dangerous individual human citizens should at most be assigned some temporary, revokable privileges!
And furthermore, it's only my right to be irresponsible, and only everyone else's responsibility to be right (as in factually correct)!
Libs are idolaters who pretend to believe in group rights, never in individual responsibilities!
And their real problem is that liberals hate personal responsibility, so they avoid it by selling endless group-rights victimology scenarios instead. That way the cowards can pretend to be champions without accusing any individual criminals of their crimes!
So, yes – never having any facts which would ever agree with their perpetual irrationality, the left must always resort to the slanderous evasions known collectively as the critical thinking logical fallacies (the deflective ad-hominem personal attacks, the distractive strawman red-herrings, and of course the immoral relativist's favorite, the tu quoque – i.e: "islam – or crime in general – isn't evil because we all do it too! Whee!").
Isn't it funny that people who actually have facts, rarely (if ever) seem to feel the need to indulge in fallacies?
September 19, 2012 - 12:17 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
25. John Stone
To put a finer point to it, the selective license to commit thuggery is not dictatorship, it is the ability to create a dictatorship whenever desired. The one block in the way of our currently criminal government is the upcoming election. If they do not take a political hit for this stuff our democracy will become one of those where constitution governance is never more than a useful fiction.
September 19, 2012 - 12:53 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
virgil xenophon
John, are you the LSU grad "John Stone" from Missouri?
September 19, 2012 - 3:02 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
26. dork lungfish
As to Schmaler's salary, yuou may get the exact number by going this route:
http://search.app.com/sp?aff=1100&skin=&keywords=federal employees salaries
And then take it from there.
I have a search result (which I won't reveal) for one agency, and it is quite meticulous and very revealing.
September 19, 2012 - 2:57 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Thanks for the tip. As of 2011, Schmaler was listed as a GS-15. Her base salary was $161,289, which puts her squarely in my estimate.
September 19, 2012 - 3:13 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
27. N Djernaes
This only proves – again – that Gov't rules, regs or laws are meaningful only to the extent they are enforced. And if so then The corollary must be that in Politics, those that play by the rules invariably finish last. I sometimes wonder if those tasked with oversight are strong enough to hold them accountable or if they're simply passing time waiting for their turn at the trough …
September 19, 2012 - 4:11 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
28. Mike P.
Are you seriously comparing mass murder to media criticism? Shameful and stupid. I didn't see any of you batting an eye when the bush Admin used Fox News as its personal media attack dog for 8 years. The hypocrisy is astounding.
September 20, 2012 - 6:40 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
29. richard40
I remember when one minor bush official got caught calluding with one single blogger in this way, and it was a MSM story for months. Now we have one the the largest and most important gov agencies, DOJ, caught red handed caluding with a huge leftist media empire. Want to bet the MSM response will be … silence.
September 20, 2012 - 12:07 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
"To be perfectly clear, Eric Holder is no Hermann Goering"
Sure he is, both believe(d) that their preferred stereotypes of race and class validate the politically enforced redistribution of resources. All opposition to such this stereotype driven redistribution is regarded as a danger to civilization, which is the only moral validation necessary for any kind of atrocity, from stripping citizens of their much needed paychecks, to destroying lives.
The only difference between the two is in the racial stereotypes each use(d) to validate political aggression, "oppressive Jews" vs. "oppressive whites;" but both Goring and Holder erroneously judge(d) these groups of people as a universal, absolute threat to national health and welfare.
The degree of difference each penalize (d) those they have stereotyped as universally destructive, is not caused by a difference in their political perspective; it is caused by a difference in their stereotype driven value judgements. Jews were presumed by Goring to be such a threat as to require their annihilation; while whites are presumed by Holder (so far) to be a threat requiring the lesser penalty of discrimination.
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"At the time, Germany still had one foot barely in in the democratic past and the other foot dragging the Reich toward indescribable madness. One wonders what the unrecorded thoughts were of the assembled journalists. Some might have considered this an aberration, a frightening yet short fit of madness by a man trying to reverse Germany's malaise. Such apologists were particularly common in Roosevelt's State Department. Others reporters surely had enough human decency to recognize the warning signs of a democratic and enlightened people experiencing a rapid moral collapse."
We now know, courtesy of VENONA, that Roosevelt did indeed have Communists within his administration (Lauclin Currie and Harry Dexter White, to name a couple). During the Night of the Long Knives, the Soviets were still friendly with Nazi Germany and went out of their way to ensure that nothing that was done on our side of the Atlantic would interfere with what was going on in Europe. The Communist Party of the USA was charged with making sure that all Good Countrymen (card carrying members) and Fellow Travelers (Socialists and others sympathetic to the cause) did their utmost to keep America out of Europe's business.
It wasn't until Hitler broke the non-aggression pact it had with Stalin and attacked the Soviet Union, that things changed and it was now acceptable to push for US involvement in the war raging on in Europe.
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Warrantless Spying Bill Passes House, Moves to the Senate THURSDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER 2012
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An article that was interesting chiefly for its tardiness. Democrats have specialized in thuggery since 1964, and each year it has grown worse. Muslims and Democrats, all of them, are America's greatest enemies, and there is no point in being nice to them. Take them off your list of friends and tell them why, and prepare to kill them when the war they are starting heats up.
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The Effects of Education on Americans' Religious Practices, Beliefs, and Affiliations
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I challenge the scholarly contention that increases in education uniformly lead to declines in religious participation, belief, and affiliation. I argue that education influences strategies of action, and these strategies of action are relevant to some religious beliefs and activities but not others. Analysis of survey data shows that (1) education negatively affects exclusivist religious viewpoints and biblical literalism but not belief in God or the afterlife; (2) education positively affects religious participation, devotional activities, and emphasizing the importance of religion in daily life; (3) education positively affects switching religious affiliations, particularly to a mainline Protestant denomination, but not disaffiliation; (4) education is positively associated with questioning the role of religion in secular society but not with support for curbing the public opinions of religious leaders; and (5) the effects of education on religious beliefs and participation vary across religious traditions. Education does influence Americans' religious beliefs and activities, but the effects of education on religion are complex.
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- The Effects of Education on Americans' Religious Practices, Beliefs, and Affiliations
- Journal
Review of Religious Research
Volume 53, Issue 2 , pp 161-182
- Cover Date
- 2011-11-01
- 10.1007/s13644-011-0007-4
- Print ISSN
- Online ISSN
- 2211-4866
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- Education
- Social class
- Culture
- Religious tradition
- Authors
- Philip Schwadel (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Sociology, The University of Nebraska—Lincoln, 740 Oldfather Hall, P.O. Box 880324, Lincoln, NE, 68588-0324, USA


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Woodlawn Baptist Church is not a new fixture for Harrison County. It's had a presence in the community since 1850, when 13 charter members established Bethesda Baptist and began holding worship services. Over 160 years later, the name and location have changed, but the commitment's still the same, says Bill Westmoreland, who's been an active member for 79 years. "This is always the focal point, the focal point of the community, I'd say," he said.
However, Wednesday night, Westmoreland got a phone call from the fire department, where he serves as a volunteer, sending him to the church for a very different reason...to help save it. "This is about the fourth of the biggest fires I've been involved in. It's tough," he said.
After battling the blaze with the help of several nearby volunteer departments and the Marshall Fire Department, firefighters saved the sanctuary. The fellowship hall, however, was destroyed. "They're devastated with it, you know. You always see it on TV and that it happened to somebody else and whenever it happens to you, it's just surreal," said Beje Foster, who's been going to Woodlawn Baptist for three years.
Fire Marshal Thomas Mock said a mechanical problem with the water heater is to blame for the blaze. Church members say service will go on as scheduled Sunday...and they're vowing to rebuild.


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supported by revenues from approximately 9,000 down- separate meeting is held to discuss transit and roadway issues.
town parking spaces. It is at this meeting that the transit agency presents needed
transit improvements to the developer and county representa-
tives. The RPC summarizes all comments and provides its
Plaza Collina Shopping Center recommendation to the county. The proposal then passes to
the county for its approval process.
The proposed Plaza Collina Shopping Center is located in
Lake County just west of the Orange County border along All of the successful projects cited here provide transit
State Highway 50. The proposed development is a 142- amenities as a result of the Florida planning process and DRI
acre site that is currently vacant land. The development requirements. The LYMMO project also provides an exam-
was approved in January 2006 and when completed will be ple of utilizing municipal parking revenues to support transit
composed of 1.2 million square feet of retail and office operations. The city of Orlando, through the DDB and the
space and 200 condominium dwelling units. As a result of CRA, provided initial support to plan, design, and construct
the recommendations made by the DRI process, the devel- the physical facilities for LYMMO. The on-going operating
oper will provide an on-site system of bikeways to be con- costs to provide LYMMO service are funded through the use
nected to adjoining external bicycle paths, covered bicycle of downtown parking revenues.
parking, and employee shower facilities. Shaded pedes-
trian circulation within the development is also required. Over time, LYNX has learned to change its approach
Transit elements provided by the developer include with developers. The agency requests operating assistance
$200,000 for an express bus service between Orange and for specific service improvements that will enrich the devel-
Lake counties, and a four-bus-capacity superstop with ade- opment. It provides the developer with information on the
quate space for passenger shelters. The passenger shelters proposed service improvements and how these services will
will be provided by LYNX and maintained by LYNX. Two positively affect the development. This has been a much
additional bus stops equipped with a pole and bus sign will more successful approach than asking for capital improve-
be provided on the property. Fifty commuter parking ments, such as shelters, which can often be funded through
spaces will be provided within the development to encour- other means.
age transit use.
Winter Garden Village
CATA, located in State College, Pennsylvania, is a joint
The Winter Garden Village development is planned as a municipal authority comprised of six municipalities. The ser-
mixed-use commercial development of big box stores, town- vice area is 133 square miles, with a population of approxi-
houses, and condominiums. The 175-acre site is located in the mately 90,000. CATA operates an all CNG fleet of 50 vehicles.
city of Winter Garden west of Orlando and is currently used Annual ridership is more than 6 million, the third highest rid-
for agricultural purposes. The planned development features ership of all transit systems in the state. State College is the
an open-air retail village that will include pedestrian-friendly home of Penn State University, where many students do not
amenities. Storefronts will be closer to the street, with on- own automobiles.
street parking and wide sidewalks. The developer will provide
circulation for pedestrians and bicycles with covered walk- Unemployment in the service area is relatively low at
ways in front of stores. The developer will also provide bicy- 3.5%. The surrounding areas have higher unemployment
cle lockers or racks, bus passenger shelters, and bus parking and many residents outside the CATA area travel to State
bays within the development. In addition, the developer will College for work. Despite this, there are no local ordinances
provide $125,000 to fund 50% of the operation of one bus requiring the consideration of transit or inclusion of transit
route for 2 years. amenities in developments. Everything that has been
accomplished in terms of successful bus transit and land
development integration has been through cooperation and
Successful Strategies negotiation.
LYNX benefits from Florida laws that require a special plan-
ning process for DRIs. The RPC receives all applications for Successful Projects
DRIs. The Council then initiates a review process among all
interested stakeholders, including the transit agency. The Colonnade Shopping Center
RPC requires the developer to forward copies of the applica-
tion to all interested parties. In this way, LYNX receives plans Before development, the 70 acres occupied by the Colonnade
for the large developments very early in the planning process. Shopping Center was forested land. The neighboring com-
A site visit is conducted to discuss the developer's proposal munity appreciated the natural environment and used the
with all interested parties (education, water, police, etc.). A area for recreation, even though the land had been zoned
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transit elements. The plan was revised to include a central
bus stop and incorporates trees and pedestrian walkways to
the main entrances. This was all built within the private
property of Wal-Mart and is maintained by the shopping
center. Based on CATA's experience with this develop-
ment, all townships within this authority have revised their
local ordinances to require pedestrian walkways and trees in
all large parking lots.
The regulations require pedestrian walkways after every
three lanes of parking. In addition, developers of large big
box centers are requested to prepare a master plan showing
pedestrian and transit access within the development. The
template that has proven successful over time is that of a
central transit roadway within the site, removed from the
building facades and containing two or more bus stops.
FIGURE 5 Bus stop in Colonnade Shopping Center. Pedestrian walkways and traffic islands connect the transit
(Courtesy: Timothy C. Geibel.) stops with the building entrances, which benefits CATA by
allowing for quicker travel time through the shopping cen-
commercial for some time. When development discussions ter. In addition, an improved waiting environment with more
began, the community organized to have a say in the devel- transit amenities is provided because the developer can con-
opment outcome. As a result, a special zoning district was centrate its resources at a central location. The developer
formed. This zoning district had a great impact on the qual- appreciates this arrangement because the bus traffic is
removed from the front of the buildings, avoiding potential
ity of the space within the finished development. The zoning
conflicts with cars and pedestrians. Another benefit for the
required enhancements if the developer exceeded 110% of
developer is that it does not have to provide extra weight-
the minimum parking requirements. Enhancements were
bearing roads throughout the shopping center, but can con-
also required if more than 65% of the land area was covered
centrate that expense on the designated transit roadway.
with impervious materials. The development exceeded both
of these limits and, as a result, the quality of the shopping
The provision of this type of transit center provides a bal-
center environment for transit was greatly enhanced.
ance between walking distance, service efficiency, and cus-
The Colonnade Shopping Center is a commercial and retail tomer amenities. The transit center arrangement provides
center with large retail, electronic, grocery, and other stores. fewer bus stops that are located farther away from the store-
CATA participated in the plan review process and suggested fronts; however, it improves travel time for through-routing
a revised concept plan that was supported by the municipality bus customers and provides more amenities for waiting
and incorporated in the final design. As a result, transit became customers than are normally available. With each new devel-
the physical focal point of the development. The plan revisions opment, CATA learned more about how to improve on its
suggested by CATA included a pedestrian multipurpose path successes. One of those lessons was to provide shopping cart
and dedicated bicycle lanes coordinated with four transit stops corrals next to the bus stops. Because the bus stops are
(see Figure 5). The transit facilities include bus shelters coor- located away from the store entrances, customers can push
dinated with the development architecture and multiple bus their shopping carts to the bus stop. Provision of the corrals
bays at each stop. In addition, the local ordinance requires that helps to circumvent the problem of loose shopping carts in
developers provide "green space" in new developments, the bus stop and roadways.
which are ordinarily complied with through nondevelopable
land such as gulleys and steep slopes. In this case, CATA was
successful in situating the green space adjacent to the transit Off-Campus Housing
stop, which provides an exceptional waiting environment. The
transit facility is now an active suburban transit center, which Within the CATA service area are many off-campus residen-
not only provides access to the shopping center, but serves as tial housing complexes for undergraduate college students.
a transfer location for reverse commuters, who no longer need These complexes can be very large--housing up to 1,000 res-
to travel through downtown. idents. Generally, they are built along existing transit service.
The developers rely on the students using bus transit service,
rather than driving, to reduce their parking requirements.
Wal-Mart/Sam's Club CATA worked with the various developers to ensure that
good pedestrian access was provided throughout the housing
For this development, CATA successfully lobbied for a complexes. In addition, the developers provided a bus lane
redesign of the parking lot to incorporate pedestrian and and bus stop amenities suitable to comfortably accommodate
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50 to 75 waiting bus passengers. Pull-off bus lanes to hold one
or two 40-ft buses out of the traffic lanes are provided along
with concrete pads, shelters, and benches. Developers are
given the option of providing custom bus shelters, which they
must maintain, or providing one of the standard CATA shel-
ters, which would be maintained by the transportation author-
ity. Most developers choose the standard shelter.
Developers are willing to provide these amenities to avoid
paying additional roadway impact fees. The provision of
pedestrian sidewalks, pull-off lanes, and bus stop amenities is
generally less expensive than fees associated with added turn
lanes or signalization improvements. The operation of the
adjacent bus routes is adjusted to pick up the 50 to 75 students
who want to get to school at the same time in the morning, with
one or two extra trips scheduled ahead of the regularly sched-
uled service. The pull-off lanes allow the extra buses to remain FIGURE 6 Open space adjacent to bus stop in Colonnade
out of the traffic lane while picking up the waiting students. Shopping Center. (Courtesy: Timothy C. Geibel.)
For example, during discussions regarding the provision of
Successful Strategies open space it became known that providing the open space
around the bus stop would also help to drain stormwater. The
Projects that successfully combine bus transit and land devel- transit interest of providing a more pleasant waiting area at
opment have a champion that persisted in voicing the need the bus stop was then supported by one of the other disci-
for transit considerations. In the CATA region, the local plines, further strengthening the provision and location of the
elected officials fill that role. Many of the elected officials in development's open space (see Figure 6).
the CATA service area ride the transit system and therefore
have a sense of transit's value and are sympathetic to transit This early participation in the process is critical to the suc-
needs. Successful development in the CATA region depends cessful coordination of bus transit and land development.
on supportive local officials, who together with the regional Once a developer starts the design of a project and has deter-
planning agency are willing to forego a development rather mined where the buildings will be located and how the
than build an unsuccessful project. stormwater will drain, incorporating transit is more difficult.
The developer has already invested too much money in the
Early participation in the design process by transit plan- project to be cooperative with transit interests.
ning staff is a key strategy for successful integration of bus
transit with land development. CATA has a unique opportu- In addition to early participation, CATA provides valu-
nity to ensure this early participation. CATA and the CRPA able technical expertise to the developer to solve problems
share a transit planner who spends 20 h per week at each associated with the incorporation of transit into the develop-
agency. It is through this planner that CATA becomes ment. The provision of physical design details up front,
involved early in the development process. together with on-going follow-up with the developer by
CATA staff, has proven to be a small but influential catalyst
All development projects are reviewed by the CRPA. in the process. The developers find that CATA is flexible in
When a development proposal is received by the township or finding solutions to meet the needs of transit, and this is also
local municipality a copy of the plan is sent to the CRPA. a key strategy.
This is a voluntary process and is made possible by the sup-
port of local officials, as noted previously. It is also possible Another meaningful ingredient to CATA's success is
because many local governments have chosen to have related to the knowledgeable staffs at both CATA and CRPA,
smaller planning staffs, which can be accomplished by who have worked together for some time. Management has
including the CRPA in all their planning activities. The also been stable. In 18 years, CATA has had only two general
CRPA planners provide support for plans within the local managers and both have recognized and understood the rela-
areas and also provide the local governments with a regional tionship between transit and land use. CATA staff has found
perspective. When a plan is received, the CRPA planner that requesting reasonable transit elements, gaining respect
immediately consults with the CATA planner. The CRPA and credibility among local stakeholders, and building on past
arranges meetings to include all of the various disciplines accomplishments is a successful strategy. Developer experi-
involved in the proposed development. This discussion ence is also important. Most developers in the area are now
is helpful and can sometimes provide opportunities for experienced in the process and often expect to incorporate
the various stakeholders to collaborate on a design idea. transit needs into the design of their developments.


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By Paul SullivanTribune staff reporterAugust 23, 2004, 11:09 PM CDTNomar Garciaparra's left wrist became a cause of concern Monday when it was revealed he strained it before Friday's game in Houston.Garciaparra had two hits that night, including a two-run home run, but sat out Saturday's and Sunday's games with what the Cubs said was a sore Achilles' tendon. He had MRIs taken on both the wrist and Achilles' tendon on Monday, and may miss extended time if the wrist injury lingers."That could be a possibility," Garciaparra said. "That's something we haven't discussed or gotten into yet. Right now, we're looking at the present day and the very near future, and see how that goes. Then we'll worry about the rest when it comes."Garciaparra said a stint on the disabled list hasn't been discussed, but the Cubs are considering it to ensure he's available for the stretch run."There's going to be a point where we have to make a decision," manager Dusty Baker said. "Hopefully it's a good decision."Baker said he had wrist problems for 10 years as a player."I know how important they are and I know how you can reinjure them," he said. "We're hoping he'll be all right [Tuesday] with treatment."If the Cubs backdated Garciaparra to Saturday, he would be eligible to return from the disabled list Sept. 5 in Florida. The Cubs would then bring up Neifi Perez, who signed a minor-league contract Thursday and is playing at Triple-A Iowa.Garciaparra didn't mention the injury when talking to reporters about his Achilles' tendon in Houston after Sunday's game, and the Cubs didn't let on either."I did it during batting practice," he said. "I took a swing, and it was just one of those things. You're there every day—took a swing and it just felt kind of weird. I kept swinging and played that day. I thought it was just kind of something like when you get a few zings here and there, but obviously this one stayed with me. It didn't go away. I had some swelling and everything. I'm still working through it."Garciaparra was able to take fielding and batting practice Monday, but at one point during batting practice he abruptly exited to the trainers' room to get his wrist retaped. Garciaparra has a ritual where he adjusts his batting gloves before every pitch, and he wasn't comfortable hitting with the tightly taped wrist."We're trying to find a comfort zone for him," trainer Dave Groeschner said. "We found a compromise."Garciaparra played in only 21 games with the Red Sox in 2001 after surgery in April on his right wrist. He came back to hit .310 in 2002 with 24 homers, 56 doubles and 120 RBIs. Garciaparra downplayed the dueling injuries Monday."Guys have injuries, especially this late in the season," he said. "You try to go out there and perform the way you can and go out and help the team the best you can."The MRI revealed no further damage to the Achilles' tendon, which has been a problem for Garciaparra since spring training, forcing him to miss 57 games with Boston. Garciaparra said his Achilles' "hasn't gotten worse," but is sore on occasion."Like I said from Day 1, you're going to have some days [of soreness] here and there," he said. "I had a day off on Saturday and was ready to go, and now this (wrist injury). It just kind of piles on."Cubs general manager Jim Hendry knows the feeling. Garciaparra is the latest Cubs star to suffer through an injury this season, joining Mark Grudzielanek (Achilles' tendon), Sammy Sosa (back), Mark Prior (Achilles' tendon and elbow), Kerry Wood (triceps), Aramis Ramirez (groin), Joe Borowski (shoulder) and Todd Hollandsworth (shin). All but Ramirez spent time on the DL.The Cubs have placed 14 players on the DL this year, including Mike Remlinger twice.Hollandsworth had his cast removed Monday from a stress fracture in his right leg, and he hopes to be ready to play by the time rosters expand on Sept. 1. It's not likely he can return in nine days, but if Hollandsworth is on the disabled list Sept. 1, he's still eligible to be placed on a postseason roster if he's able to return at all, and the Cubs win the wild-card spot. Hollandsworth believes a Sept. 1 return is a distinct possibility."I don't see why not," he said. "I might be overly optimistic, but that's how I am."Copyright © 2004, The Chicago Tribune
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