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Skip to comments.Newt Gingrich: A Conservative Plan for Victory
Posted on 04/06/2005 8:47:01 AM PDT by Tolik
The following is a transcript of Newt Gingrichs speech to the Wednesday Morning Club. You can order a copy of his new book Winning the Future from the FrontPage Magazine Bookstore The Editors.
Thank you very, very much. Hearing all of this actually makes me a little bit tired. When people start going through my list of accomplishments, I have to think about how many hours a day Ive been putting into this: 24 sounds about right. At least you get very nice introductions . I am always reminded of reality, however. When I was a relatively junior congressman, Congressman Bill Dickinson from Montgomery, Alabama, invited me to come and do a fundraiser. He started thinking about the fact that not many people knew who I was at that point, so to make sure that his fundraiser would be successful, he invited Charleston Heston to be the other speaker. After the event, we had a photo line. Dickinson would greet people, and put them between Heston and me. Later on when they sent me 250 pictures to sign, I had the very humbling experience of realizing that in all 250 pictures, not a single girl was leaning toward me.
As Ive gotten older and more fragile, Ive rigorously avoided any joint appearances with Governor Schwarzenegger, because I couldnt stand to go through that experience a second time. But it is great to be here. Its great to be at an institution which is profoundly changing the context in which American academic culture and political behavior will be discussed over the next generation. What David has done is truly historic. You see it in that there are now debates over issues that people just tolerated 10 years ago. There are people who said stunningly outrageous things 10 years ago without consequence, who now have to actually defend themselves. This is the beginning of a very healthy period.
I want to take two principles as the core of my text today: one from Margaret Thatcher, and the other from Ronald Reagan. When she was prime minister, Lady Thatcher used to assert that first you win the argument, and then you win the vote. I want to stick with that first principle for a minute. Youll see why when we pass this out (a questionnaire handed out to attendees also available at www.Newt.org in electronic format.) We put these ten questions together because the Left has a totally false notion that America is closely divided.
America is not closely divided on values. For partisan reasons, however, America is closely divided, largely because Republicans so radically underperform among African-Americans and Hispanics. If Republicans could reach out and create a new sense of inclusion, the natural governing majority of this country would be somewhere around 70 percent. This was illustrated in an article I wrote last July called Whats at Stake. I looked at 34 issues, and John Kerry was in a 77-17 percent minority, on average, in 33 of the 34. The only area where we Republicans dont perform as well as we have to is the environment, so were working on creating an activist conservative environmentalism that solves problems, without using heavy-handed bureaucracy, and without accepting the interpretations of the Left.
Besides the single area of the environment, item after item after item reinforces the fact that on core values, the country is pretty clear about who it is. So we put together this set of questions and we gave it to you. You can also get the electronic version if you want to send it out to your friends. Today, I had somebody in the news media who had taken the questionnaire walk up to meI wont tell you her name, because she wont let meand say, Okay, I took your stupid test. She said, I am a lot more moderate than I thought, and I am not telling you the score.
I think if you sit down with people and say, All right, lets start a discussion, youll be shocked at how big the difference is. So the first thing I want to talk about is winning the argument. A key part of winning the argument is defining the argument. The second thing I want to talk about is what Ronald Reagan understood so brilliantly. He was in a very small league of presidential and national leaders who have been able, by the sheer power of their words, to change reality.
Reagan understood that to win the argument at its most profound level, you have to have clarity, simplicity, cheerfulness, and brute repetition. Reagan didnt mind saying the same thing for 25 or 30 years. Reagan first said, Tear down this wall in 1967 as governor. He was just repeating it in 1987. It shows you how little things have changed, that he had to put it in his speech three times, because the State Department kept taking it out. He kept hand writing it in; the third time they finally got it.
Of course, Reagan understood something else. I am going to walk you through what that is, and a lot of you are going to say that its not possible, or we cant do that, or its too hard. I want to suggest to you, that if you have a yes attitude rather than a no attitude, youll be surprised how many solutions we can find. That doesnt mean its not going to be hard work. I know this from experience because I became a volunteer in Columbus, Georgia, in 1960 as a junior in high school student. I won a congressional seat in Georgia in 1978. In December 1978 I became chair of the Long Range Planning Committee to create a majority. And we got a majority in 1994.
You know people mistake the question, Can I get it done Tuesday? for, Is it do-able? Reagan understood that you must take two things into account: whether you are allied with the core beliefs of the American people, and whether you are flowing with the natural stream of history. Reagan, for example, was very pro-technology. Why? Because his whole career was technology. He was born before commercial radio existed. His first job was at WHO radio in Des Moines, when it was illegal to broadcast radio news; a regulation that the newspapers had passed through Congress, citing an unfair competitive advantage. You really could not legally broadcast the news. Dan Rather, by the way, was thinking about a similar law for blogger sites.
Reagan came to Hollywood right after talkies began, and at the early stage of Technicolor. He then went into television when it was black and white. So Reagan understood the great stream of technological and scientific opportunity. He also understood, as a Midwesterner, the core values of the American people. He articulated them, and he personified them, which is why the only time he tried to play a bad guy, in his last movie, The Killers, it failed. You could look at him and think it was a nice try, but nobody believed he was the killer.
Let me talk about where we are and where were going. I want, as Reagan said in one of his great speeches, to talk about controversial things. I wrote Winning the Future, because all the really large changes in America come from the country, and then force the capital to change. I know of no occasion in American history where really large-scale change started in the capital, because the capital is traditionally a conspiracy of timidity and caution. And thats perfectly natural. People who already have power dont want to lose it. So theyll all surround each other at various cocktail parties, and theyll all reassure each other that being bold is what you and I would regard as being timid, and that doing the necessary is in fact impossible.
Let me again give you an example from Reagans career that I think is seminal to what I am about to describe for you. In the 1970s, the Soviet Union was a fact. You can go back, pull up the information, and you can study it. I would challenge any left-winger to debate this. In the 1970s, there were only two ways of dealing with the Soviet Union: there was liberal détente and there was conservative détente.
Practitioners of conservative détente said the Soviet Union is a fact. The Soviets are stunningly dangerous. Theyre probably going to win in the long run, but we can slow them down. In contrast, proponents of liberal détente said the Soviet Union is a fact. The Soviets are probably going to win sooner than that, and we should hug them a lot.
You' remember the Jimmy Carter interview after the Russians invaded Afghanistan, when he went on national television and talked about how shocked he was. You probably thought: He lived through the Hungarian invasion of 1956; he lived through the Soviets coercing all of Eastern Europe; he lived through all these other indicators of Soviet intent, but it actually took the invasion of Afghanistan for him to think theyre not nice? After that poin,t he promptly showed them how tough he was. He cut off American grain sales to punish Iowa, and he blocked Americans from competing in the Olympics in Moscow. As you can imagine, Brezhnev was trembling at the thought of what Carter would do next.
Then Ronald Reagan came along. A reporter said to Reagan, Whats your vision of the Cold War? Reagan said just four words: We win, they lose. Everybody in Washington understood that was goofy. First of all, we win is a hostile term, implying one side would do better. They lose was crowding them into a corner. How could you expect a dictatorship with nuclear weapons to treat you, if you say theyre going to lose? People like Strobe Talbott were on the edge of heart attacks for four years.
Of course, 11 years after Ronald Reagan said that, the Soviet Union disappeared, at which point Ronald Reagan disappeared. If you watch the Lefts explanation of the end of the Cold War, it has something to do with Mikhail Gorbachev being a wonderful reformer, who out of pure humanitarian conviction magically brought the Soviet Union to an end, despite right-wing, reactionary leaders in Britain and the United States. I am not exaggerating, because the Left cant admit it was wrong because then youd ask, What else is it wrong about?
I am going to give you examples of the Reagan/Thatcher principles of setting up arguments so profound that the other side cant win them, and then just sticking to it. I am going to give you a couple of areas to think about: patriotic education and patriotic immigration. In order to explain the context of patriotic education and patriotic immigration, I am going to talk a little bit about the centrality of our Creator to understanding America as an exceptional country, and I am going to talk in that context about how we re-balance the Constitution by bringing the courts back into the American system, and taking them out of their current dictatorial biases. Then Ill take questions.
Somebody asked me a question that concerned them. They said, How does John Q. Public prevent the ACLU from running roughshod with the removal of a historical cross and God? This is a reference to the Los Angeles County problem. Ill start by saying the Los Angeles County problem was not the ACLU. The Los Angeles County problem was cowardly commissioners. They didnt go to court. They didnt wage a fight. You have to beat them. You have to find people with the courage to go out and run.
Again, this is hard work. It is not easy. You will say, Its really hard doing it in Los Angeles. Its really hard doing it in Los Angeles, because you allow the current political structure to define Los Angeles. For example, if you went through Los Angeles and took a poll, and asked how many believe we ought to have the right to say One nation under God as part of the Pledge of Allegiance, the answer will be, at the most liberal, 85 percent, and maybe as high as 93 percent.
I would argue, even with Republican tactical incompetence, that somewhere around 85 percent you should have a winning issue. But that means youd have to actually go out into Hispanic neighborhoods and probably talk to people in Spanish. And youd have to say to good Catholics, Do you think saying something about God is okay? This is a fairly strong issue among Catholics. They tend to believe you should be allowed to talk about God.
Next, you need to ridicule the Left. What I mean is that somebody needs to propose that the city should become known as Secularville. How can you be known as Los Angeles, if you are not allowed to have a cross? How can you have angels? Which is it? Either the angels are okay, so put the cross back up, or the angels are wrong too, so change the citys name.
This is the core question and I emphasize this, because it is the core defining issue in American culture and will be for the next 13 years: As a nation, on a non-denominational basis, we have an underlying belief that our rights come from God. This is a debate we need to have. I say to all of my most secular friends, If you are not endowed by your Creator with certain inalienable rights where do they come from? By the way, this term comes from the Declaration of Independence, which is an historical document, not a religious document. If you tell me that youre randomly gathered protoplasm, and that you have contract rights, you have just explained totalitarianism. If all you are is randomly gathered protoplasm, then why cant I have a Holocaust? Why cant I torture you? Why cant I brainwash you? Why cant I eliminate your historic memory, by doing things, for example, like taking the cross off of your seal?
So youre one or the other. Theres no middle ground here. I start with history; not with ideology, not with theory, but with history. The founding document of the United States of America says we are all endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights. It makes us the most exceptional country in history. We are the only country that says each one of you has these rights, and this includes the atheists. They may not recognize God but God recognizes them.
At the back of my book, which is downloadable for free for any of your friends that are coming to Washington, there is an entire walking tour to God in the national capital. The reason I was determined to put in a walking tour to God in the national capital is because my secular friends would rush up and say, Well, Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, and we know he was a Deist. They dont have a clue what that meant, but they felt good about it. They knew it meant he wasnt Baptist or Catholic, so they somehow felt more secure.
I suggest you go to the Jefferson Memorial, which on three of its four walls has a quote about God. Around the top of the memorial, it says the following: I have sworn upon the altar of God Almighty, eternal hostility against all forms of tyranny over the minds of man. And I say to my secular friends, What do you think Jefferson might have meant by the term God Almighty?
Now, because theyve got tenure in the kind of universities that David describes, they promptly say to me, This was actually a stunningly subtle use of language, because if they actually believe that Jefferson meant God Almighty, then he would have meant Creator. If he meant Creator, and Creator was God Almighty, their entire theory of America just disappears.
They will then say. Aha, Jefferson wrote a letter to the Danville Baptists saying that there should be a wall of separation between church and state, which is exactly right, and by which Jefferson meant we should not have a nationally funded (established) church, which I agree with. They then mean separation of church and state has now become anti-religion. Well, what they wont tell you is that two days after Jefferson signed that letter, he got in his carriage at the White House, rode up Pennsylvania Avenue, went to the U.S. House of Representatives Chamber, and went to church, because the U.S. House was used as a church until after the Civil War. Furthermore, Jefferson turned over the Treasury every Sunday to be used as a church, so its a little hard to explain how Jefferson thought you couldnt say, One Nation, Under God, or have a prayer, or do a variety of really radical things, like posting the Ten Commandments.
I am citing this as background, to simply say that if you go to the Lincoln Memorial, you will see that in 732 words of the Second Inaugural, Lincoln refers to God 14 times, including two quotes from the Old Testament. Now if were going to truly become secular, we need to sandblast the memorial, because its the Gettysburg Address where One Nation, Under God comes from. You can just imagine how much work there will be for liberal sandblasters in the next cycle.
Now I am going to describe what we mean by patriotic education, because otherwise it becomes a meaningless term. I dont mean automatically saluting the flag. I dont mean automatically saying America is always right. I mean immersing young Americans, and immersing first-generation immigrants, in rediscovering the founding fathers, the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, Abraham Lincoln, the rise of America, all of the difficulties we have had for 200 years, and developing the country, which is home to the richest, freest, and most remarkable society in human history.
My answer to all of you is if your school system isnt doing this, change it. If the teachers arent doing it, change them. If the school board wont do it, defeat it. If the state legislature wont do it, replace it. Yes, its hard. Well, welcome to the world of Ronald Reagan in 1965. This is how a free country has this debate. You put markers down, and you say, Were going to fight over this. Over time, people say, You know, youre right. I am with you.
Let met talk briefly about judges, and then I am going to talk about education and immigration. The issue of judges is not a complex one. Its just a question of timidity. There is no judicial supremacy. It is an arrogation of the Warren Court in 1958, and has no historic precedent. Jefferson, when asked if there was judicial supremacy said that would be an oligarchy. Lincolns First Inaugural, in describing the Dred Scott decision of the Supreme Courtwhich extended slavery across the whole country, led Lincoln to run, and ultimately led to the Civil Warsaid we were not going to let a handful of judges redefine the American Constitution. It would be inconceivable.
So what do you do about it? Again, I am trying to embed this in historic fact. This is not theory. This is not ideology. This is fact. In 1802, the Jeffersonians, faced with courts deliberately packed by the Federalists, passed the Judiciary Act of 1802, which abolished over half of all the sitting federal circuit judges. The act didnt impeach them; it simply said their jobs didnt exist. They wouldnt be paid, so they shouldnt bother to show up. The judges were deeply offended. They promptly went to court, and the remaining federal judges essentially said, if we overrule the Congress, theyre going to abolish our jobs.
I cite this, because of the Ninth Circuit Court. We should just close the jobs of the two judges who said that it was unconstitutional to say, One Nation, Under God as part of the pledge. Lets just say, Terrific, youre now retired. I am citing this, because the first step to getting this done is to have people like you talk to your delegations, and then presently somebody will introduce a bill. Initially people will say that its very radical, but then as the courts behave more and more stupidly, people will get madder and madder. Finally, one morning well do it, and then the judges who are left will realize that maybe they dont want to be quite that bold.
This is a straight-out fight. The elected branches, the legislative and the executive, have every right to re-balance the judges under our Constitution. Remember, if you read The Federalist Papers, they refer to a division of power. Theres a balance between the three branches, so when the judges say that they are all powerful, the correct answer is, No, youre not. The only way you prove that is to have the legislative and the executive branches take steps to change them.
Senator John Kyl, for example, has a bill in Congress that would block the Supreme Court from even considering the Pledge of Allegiance. If Congress passes that bill, and the president signs it, I think the court is blocked. I think its clear under the Constitution that it is blocked. But if the court were to overturn that law, my next step would be to change the court. Again, that wouldnt be abnormal. The struggle for power between appointed lawyers and the rest of us has been going on for 200 years, and for the last 40 years, the lawyers have been on the offensive. Well, now its our turn.
I think you will find that over the next few years, the judges will increasingly be on the defensive. I dont know how many of you looked at the decision concerning whether or not the death penalty could be applied to someone under 18 years of age. It is amazing to read, because it is clear that the Supreme Court is saying that it actually doesnt have any grounds for this decision, but the justices have changed their minds. So, by 5-to-4, the Supreme Court has changed the rules of the United States, because the justices believed they could. But what is truly fascinating is that this particular decision represents another example of a recent phenomenon, which is citing non-American judges.
So you have the majority justices saying that they want to be like the European Union, which we dont. In one case they cite Zimbabwe. In other case, they cite Jamaica. I want to suggest to you two principles. Principle number one is we are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, and if the Europeans want to give up their rights, or if Zimbabwe wants to suffer under a dictator, or if 19 nutty people in some other country do things, were not going to stop them. That doesnt in any way change American exceptionalism.
Its a very important argument were going to have to have over the next 10 or 15 years, because as the world has gotten smarter, as people see each other, our elites have grown timid. They dont like going to Davos and having lots of other people unhappy with them. They dont like visiting Paris, and having lots of people unhappy with them. We have to say to them that that is really unfortunate, but in fact their job on the Supreme Court is to defend and interpret the American Constitution, within American history, and not give us a lecture about the latest Russian jurisprudence.
Let me speak last about immigration, because I think that the greatest vacuum in dealing with reality in American today is immigration. The Left doesnt want to touch it. The Right doesnt want to touch it. Everybody wishes it would disappear. A Pew poll came out on Monday that indicated there has been a 23 percent increase in legal immigration under President Bush, suggesting there are now an estimated 10,300,000 illegal immigrants in the United States.
Some of you may think that number is low, but I want to make two sets of assertions. The first is based on Director of Central Intelligence Porter Goss statement the other day, in which he said he expects a Weapon of Mass Destruction to come in, either from Canada or Mexico. Remember that the Canadian border was where most of the people who carried out 9/11 crossed, not Mexico, so while its fashionable to focus on Mexico, when I talk about borders, I mean both borders.
First of all, for national security purposes, it is a tragic joke to tell us that we are safe, if there are 10 million people illegally drifting around the country. I work on some projects for Fox TV, one of which is a special on international gangs and border security, focusing largely on MS13, the El Salvadoran gang. MS13 is now in about 30 American states, and its a very violent and a very dangerous gang, whose members routinely go back and forth across the border. We found one border patrolman who we almost talked into testifyingwith a screen, so you didnt see who he wasabout the ease with which non-Mexican extremists could come across the Mexican border. Its patently obvious. We have all sorts of TSA security at airports, as though our opponents are dumb enough to only go to the places where the Americans have maximized the chance of stopping them.
The likelihood is high that the next terrorist will come in by boat or by driving across either the Canadian or the Mexican border; Canada is fully as easy to get across as Mexico. So the first point Id emphasize is just plain national security. We have an absolute national security obligation to have control of who enters the United States of America, and we should insist on it.
Ill make two secondary points about that. We need to change our deportation laws, so that anyone who is clearly illegal can be deported in 72 hours. The current system is a joke. Of the 200,000 non-Mexican illegals picked up two years ago, over 90 percent were never deported, because the current system is so cumbersome, so bureaucratic, so legalistic, that they were released on their own recognizance. Somebody who has already broken the law to get in here is told if they dont show up in three weeks so we can kick them out, we will really feel bad, and of course they promptly say, Ill be here. I promise.
This is madness. Let me suggest one other direct action item to get the federal government to pay serious attention to the border. The statesand California would be the biggest winner of thisshould file for the federal government to pay all costs of imprisoning illegals. For example, a remarkable percent of felons are illegal, and the states should charge the federal government for all health care done for them.
Let me tell you, if the budget committees in the House and Senate looked at the cost over the next ten years of paying for federal failure, their incentive to tell the House and Senate leadership to fix the problem would be staggering. Because what do we do? We have selected places that pay disproportionately, because the federal government has failed, and in the process of failure, has created a nightmare.
Let me take this two steps further, one of which some of you wont like. Nonetheless, I want to say it, because in my judgment you cannot solve the border problem without a green card/work permit program. The reason is straightforward mathematics. There are too many human beings who want to come here to work, to ever seal off the border. We dont have the kind of country that would run that kind of border. The Soviets could do it, because they put up barbed wire, minefields, and machine guns. Were not going to do that, and we dont want to be an America that does that.
We have a governor who is an immigrant. We have a former secretary of state whose parents came here from the West Indies. Go down the list. We had another former secretary of state who came here from Germany in the Second World War. We have Nobel Prize winners who came from all over the planet. We want to be a country that is open to legal immigration, and I think we want to be a country that is open to legal temporary workers. But we want to have a couple requirements. First, we have to have a biometric, which means either an iris scan or a thumbprint, so we know who people entering our country really are, and so we can track them. Second, immigrants have to commit to obey our laws, to pay our taxes, to be involved as honest people. And we have the right to deport them in 72 hours if they break these rules.
Third, there is not an automatic presumption that working here means becoming a citizen. Theres a separate hurdle to become a citizen.
Fourth, everybody here illegally has to go back and apply to come here, because we should not reward people who have already broken the law, and in the process, punish everybody who has been waiting for their green card or their work permit, because theyve obeyed the law.
People will ask how well do this. First of all, if you can deport illegals in 72 hours, you have a little leverage. Second, how many people who are illegal in Southern California go home at Christmas anyway? People ask me how they would get home. I know all sorts of first-generation people with work permits in Fairfax County, Virginia, who fly to El Salvador to see their relatives, because theyre legal and they can go back and forth. They dont wonder how theyll do this.
The idea is that somehow everybody who got here cant find a way to get here a second time, so How could we actually ask them to obey the law? This is the core of the Reagan principle. Youre either for obeying the law, or youre for not obeying the law. And if youre for not obeying the law, a lot of people will be there with you because they dont feel like they need to obey the law either. So if were going to truly reform immigration, we have to truly reform it.
Finally, I would say that people who get to be American citizens should have to pass a test in American history and English. I believe if we implemented these principles, we would, in fact, have a country that was economically vibrant, open to talent from all over the world, willing, and pretty relaxed about any people who come here, because we would understand that at the cultural level they were coming here to be Americans.
This is my last item about the Left. I visited the high school in Northern California where students were told they shouldnt have the American flag in their senior class picture, because it was a divisive image. True story. Every once in a while you get a nutty person in schools.
I am perfectly prepared to say to people that I am happy for you to come to America. I am happy for you to work and learn how to be an American. But, in fact, my intention is for you to enrich America, not for you to turn us into a different country. Thats a debate we have to have openly and honestly, and it crosses all boundaries. That is, I would have the same debate with Chinese-Americans or Russian-Americans or Mexican-Americans. We ought to have this out in the open. This is a unique society, endowed by its Creator, which has brought more people together, from more parts of the world, to work more productively, with less friction, than any society in the history of the human race. And we have to protect and argue for that. Order a copy of Newt Gingrichs new book Winning the Future from the FrontPage Magazine Bookstore.
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Gingrich/Tancredo '08 anyone?
bump for later read
Me too. I know I'll enjoy it. Newt's a genious.
A black spiritual leader, even if he is of a different demonimation that they are, can resonate with them. We can move some of them away from the extremism on the left.
It sure is nice and refreshing to hear AN ACTUAL CONSERVATIVE VOICE now and then -- to say the least. If Newt could lead from a TRULY CONSERVATIVE position, this country would benefit greatly from it -- in fact, IT NEEDS TO BE SAVED FROM DESTRUCTIVE LIBERALISM, which the present so-called Repubs have no interest in doing.
Bump for later read, dittos!
Rush and Newt - such wonderful analysts and torch bearers.
Wish we had more access to the thoughts of Newt and wish the GOP listened to him more.
Bum for later.
One thing I like about Newt is he has more ideas waiting for the toast to pop up than most people have all day. Now most of them are wacky or never gonna happen, still ya gotta love a guy who keeps thinking all the time.
Im with you - Newt/Tancredo in 08!
Ain't gonna happen, but I'd vote for them.
Newt makes a lot of good points here.
One of the Republicans' major problems is they don't know how to define the argument, let alone win it. It has seemed to me for a while now that they are fearful of even educating the American public about conservative solutions to problems because they would rather preserve the status quo (and their own power) than risk political capital. The GOP will never successfully advance conservatism until they readjust this attitude.
This what I was going on about last month (Long read but well worth it!)Note new tag line.Thanks for posting Tolik!
I like him, too, and I ain't counting him out as a future GOP nominee fer POTUS quite yet...MUD
Go Newt.
Great read.
Personal life. Bad problem, for a Republican.
Would be a resume enhancement for a liberal, but for a Republican . . .
I believe a Movement Conservative will lead the GOP in the post-Dubyuh Era...Gingrich is a Movement Conservative...I ain't counting him outta the mix...MUD
Abide by WHAT?!! Reagan was twice-married and that didn't preclude him from leading the Right...MUD
I wasn't referring to each man's marital bliss.
What were you referring to then? Not all politicians are Caesar's wife, you know. Let's be fair here, my FRiend. Gingrich has been sullied by the Vast, LeftWing Medyuh Whore'd, but the guy's got some great ideas.
BTW..."FWIW...The Righteous Shall Triumph!!"
(To be sung to Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth")
There's somethin' happenin' here...it ain't Right...
Vile Left, they Rule by Fear!!
ATF men in a tank over there...
Slaughterin' kids whilst they knelt in prayer!!
It's high time we INDICT Clinton...PUNK Dem's Clown!!
Tell US, Slick Willie...who killed Ron Brown?!!
There's bad men doin' Wrong...
They'll win The Fight, unless the Right is Strong!!
Bold people must speak OUR minds...
We're gettin' too much resistance from OUR side!!
It's time we ROUT Lib'rals, TRASH DemClowns!!
High time fer Justice to now Rebound!!
Clinton feels he can't be beat...
Med'yuh Poltroons, they're Effete!!
Forgivin' wrongs, Press parrots Slick's LIES!!
Most of them say, "Slick Willie's OUR GUY!!"
It's time we STOP DemRATS...Stop DemClowns!!
Big Guv'ment's shakin' OUR Country down!!
Rev-o-lutions start slow...but Limbaugh's Legions shall grow!!
Evil Wins when the Good are afraid!!
Step outta line...the time's come fer Right to hold sway!!
We shall INDICT Clinton...Stop Left's Clown!!
All ya good FReepers, come help us out!!
We gotta STOP Clinton...Crush Slick's Crown!!
Ev'rybody help what's goin' down!!
We're gonna STOP Lib'rals...STOP DemClowns!!
Destroy Lib'ralism...let's do it NOW!!
Mudboy Slim (12/29/2001)
One thing to say that Reagan was divorced and remarried, and another to say that what he did was sinful. By all accounts Jane Wyman divorced him.On a personal note, Miss Wyman has been married several times: Myron Futterman - married June 29, 1937; divorced November 1, 1938, Ronald Reagan - married January 26, 1940; divorced June 28, 1948, and Fred Karger twice - married November 1, 1952; divorced December 7, 1954 - remarried March 11, 1961; divorced March 9, 1965. She had a daughter, Maureen Reagan, born January 4, 1941; died of malignant melanoma August 8, 2001. She has a son, Michael Reagan, born March 18, 1945; adopted by Jane Wyman and Ronald Reagan on March 21, 1945. A daughter, Christine Reagan, was born prematurely on June 26, 1947 and passed away nine hours later. Her Best Actress Oscar for Johnny Belinda makes her the only wife of a future U.S. president ever to win such an award. Jane WymanIf Wyman initiated the divorce of Mr. Reagan, that does not condem him but her. OTOH Wyman's first marriage, to Myron Futterman, would in Christian principle still have been binding on Ms. Wyman if it was not Mr. Futterman but Ms. Wayman who initiated it. If Wyman initiated both her first and second divorces, it can be argued from scripture that Reagan's marriage to Ms. Wyman was adulterous and the one to Nancy Davis was not.
If Wyman's first divorce was initiated by her husband and if (as I understand it) she herself initiated the second one, Reagan was just a victim of the second divorce rather than being a perpetrator. And if Wyman did initiate the first divorce, you might say that Reagan sinned by marrying her - and paid dearly for it when Wyman did it to him, too.
The man for all seasons when writing TO RENEW AMERICA wrote "Balancing the budget is the right thing to do for America". But then again the book was dedicated to Marianne, his wife, so maybe all things pass.
No argument here...still, Newt's got an ego, and that trait has been known to propel folks to run fer the American Presidency in the past...MUD
I agree Newt has an ego, though much of that is simply his persona and some unflattering pictures circulated by the MSM.
Those who are uncomfortable with his high intellect claim (falsely, IMHO) he's arrogant. However, there are few leaders like him in America who are willing to engage people and share credit and recognition.
Though he has an eye for the ironic, he might do well to develop a more of a sense of humor that would win over more adherents.
Until he is able to generate mass appeal, he is not likely to overcome his past pariah image that Democrats turned against Republicans so effectively in 1996.
For the life of me I don't understand (There's that phrase again :-)) why this was "controversial". I always assumed we were going to win. Why because we were the good guys, ok naive I know, but that's what I thought.
I agree Newt has an ego,
Nothing wrong with that. You need an ego, and a large one to think you have "The Answer" and are willing to put your ideas out there for everyone to see.
Anyone who thinks a politican (any politican) doesn't have a well developed ego, I got a bridge I can let them have real cheap.
You know, when Gingrich is on, he's really ON!
This Conservative sure as hell won't...MUD
"Tom Delay!!"
(To be sung to Neil Young's "Farmer John")
Tom Delay, Why Won't YOU CUT BigGuv'ment?!! Ohahhohh...
Yer the One...to Lead the Right!! Ohahhohh...
RATS' Power We Shall Devolve...Let's Stuff DemLib'rals' talk!!
We'll make Dem Leftists' shrivel...Right's Winning in a Walk!!
Tom Delay...ohahhohh...Why Won't YOU CUT BigGuv'ment?!!
Yer the One...to Champion Rights!! Ooahhohh...
(Little guitar jammin')
Sen'tor George...boy, you are from Virginia!! Ohahhohh...
Senator...We're the Righteous Right!!
We love how Susan talks...we love yer gawl-durned snuff...
We need some leadership...RightWing's cruisin'...RATS're losing...LOSING!!
Eric C.!! Whipe them RINOs from Power!! Ohahhohh...ohahhohh..
Guv'ment, son...shall be MINI-sized!!
(More guitar jammin')
Cantor, bud...Right Must Reject Big Guv'ment!!
We're the Ones...We're the Shameless Right!!
FReegards...MUD (05/25/2004)
Wow.... this should be posted every morning for the next month.
.....whether you are flowing with the natural stream of history.....
This is the reason I like Newt, he takes the long view and sees today as a part of the continuing process.
I'm sending this to my representative Bill Jenkins and to Senators Alexander and Frist with instructions to make copies and put them where they will be ready reference.
Newt has pointed the way as previously pointed by Reagen and Thatcher, we must take up and follow the course.
Oh yes, regarding the people acting, there is a host of FReepers this day in Washington doing a job...... showing the way. It is not just enough to say "good job guys", we must each make an effort..... spend some time and some money. We will prevail.
.....Gingrich/Tancredo '08 anyone?.....
No. Newt is serving best where he is. He is serving as a thinker and planner. He is providing the intellectual basis for conservative action to be implemented by others.
He was ousted precisley because of his ability to think and to see. He is very much feared and if not in office can't be attacked.
Newt and Rush are powerful forces in America history and to displace either to an elected job would be in the language of the Peter principle..... elevating them to their level of incompetance.
I wonder if Newt really understood the depth of hatred the democrats had for him? He gave them a knife and they used it. I wonder if Newt was the right man to be Speaker of the House at that time? He (and the GOP) might of been better off if he took a lower post. (Ain't hindsight grand!) Actually I did think that at the time.
I think this should apply to guest workers, too, if we get such a program. If they went to a mandatory class a couple of hours a week, they'd soon have enough basic level knowledge of English to get by. Even if they're here only temporarily, it's good for them to know something about our ideas and society (other than what they see while working as somebody's gardener in Hollywood!).
That said, I like Newt and I was very sorry that the GOP caved in to pressure and dumped him. The Dems are trying it again with DeLay, and I bet - given the spinelessness of the GOP - that they'll get rid of him, too.
Well maybe the Peter principle statement was a little harsh, but I think he is currently where he can do the most good. Out of sight and head down he is not and everyday target.
Racial problems and differences are real and difficult, talking about them with terms like underperformance and reaching out, as if he could make these differences disappear with some sort of spin or program or nice words is just avoidance of reality. The majority of blacks and hispanics support affirmative action type programs, how would Newt give them a "new sense of inclusion"? By caving in on AA, of course, but labeling it as something else, because he'll never get their votes if he pledges to eliminate such programs. That's the hard reality that blather about talking to them all just the same won't cover.
The reason is straightforward mathematics. There are too many human beings who want to come here to work, to ever seal off the border. We dont have the kind of country that would run that kind of border. The Soviets could do it, because they put up barbed wire, minefields, and machine guns. Were not going to do that, and we dont want to be an America that does that.
Mathematics is a science, this has nothing to do with science. The rest of this paragraph is just cheap demagoguery, if you support strong immigration controls you're just like those nasty old Soviets. Newt didn't have the nerve to work Nazis in, I guess. Where will we keep all your 72hr deportees Newt, how will we find them in the first place without nasty Soviet style organs, won't that make us the kind of Americans you say we don't want to be? Do you have real, tough, plans to provide for the physical enforcement of immigration laws, to punish employers who routinely flout such laws? The answer is we won't keep or find them at all and, like all other such reforms the only thing left when the dust clears is increased immigration. Newt's an open borders guy, and I'm afraid all this talk about 72hrs is just bait and switch. After all, what did Newt say or do about immigration when he was house leader?
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(Of a person or their behaviour) miserly; mean with money: civic leaders were branded Scrooge-like for axeing their festive budget
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He was accused of organising the 2007 burning of two cars outside the south Dublin home of Nurse Officer Orla Finn from his cell in Wheatfield Prison, where he was serving a sentence for public order offences.
Ryan, of Ballygarett, Gorey had pleaded not guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
The jury of four men and eight women unanimously found him not guilty of the two counts of arson.
On Monday, Judge Patrick McCartan directed the jury to find Ryan not guilty of using a mobile phone from prison after ruling that there wasn't enough evidence to support this charge.
The jury had heard that two days before alleged arson attack Ryan had repeatedly asked prison officers for a cream to treat haemorrhoids.
Nurse Finn said she handed him a sealed box of Anusol cream from a locked prison pharmacy. She said that Ryan was aggressive and told her, 'I hope you get cancer and die'.
She made an official complaint to the prison governor, Seamus Creamer, and Ryan was put on disciplinary report.
Ryan told Mr Creamer that the nurse had given him a packet of Ambre Solaire sun cream inside the Anusol box.
Ryan then handed him the Anusol box, an applicator and a small packet of Ambre Solaire.
Mr Creamer said that Ryan told him he knew where the nurse lived because he used to be a neighbour of hers.
During recorded calls from prison, Ryan told his wife, Fiona, "I want something done".
After his arrest Ryan told gardai that he wanted someone to "have a word with" Ms Finn.
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One thing I've harped on repeatedly is the lack of formalized career counseling within law enforcement. We have guidance counselors in school, academic advisors in college, and financial advisors for investments. In the military, we have career counselors who are often cleverly disgusted as the reenlistment officer.
In Copland, the role is not as clear. I've seen far too many careers derailed or sent down the wrong road due to poor counseling. Often, a trusted Field Training Officer (FTO) or department's training unit performs this collateral duty without preparation, so they have to wing it. So if you're the fabulous new guy/girl (FNG), who do you seek out?
Back in my (politically incorrect) day, there were informal titles for your guardian or connection to success. Fellow officers asked, who is his "hoss," rabbi, or daddy? These people were internal political connections and rather than counselors.
Two types of leaders exist within the human dynamic of groups—those with power and those with authority. Those who are formally appointed to lead and direct by the department are those with authority. They have authority over you by virtue of stripes, brass, and rank. Within the squad is the informal leader, the head of the click and the cool person to be around. They have power.
So much for leadership 101, so who should you listen to? Your supervisor is the one who may approve training or honor a transfer to a special unit. They have the "juice" to get you moving. They can often become protective of their overall mission. Losing you could equate to less success for them, so they give you bad direction or stymie your goals.
Now for the informal leader, whose power may only exist in a smaller realm or could extend outside the precinct walls. They may be able to use their connections to get you where you want, but weigh the costs. Informal political connections have both pro and con columns. If they are the senior curmudgeons, you could get backwash from their list of enemies. So who do you listen to, the sergeant or squad cool guy? The best answer may be both. They both have elements to offer an inquisitive FNG.
Who should you first seek advice from? Find someone within the department that is successful in an area where you wish to achieve toward. Being the FNG, you may not know this person directly. See if your squad power broker can make an introduction. For instance, seeking advice from a career uniform to become a detective won't get you the best advice.
Also read the job description and requirements of your goal and understand the boxes you'll need to check off. If the job requires special training, go to the training unit, get their calendar and seek enrollment (you may need your sergeant on this one). Keeping good connections between all is advantageous.
I learned a valuable story from an old U.S. Army first sergeant years ago. Never plan for your next assignment/promotion when it is posted. You should have been working on this goal the day after you made your last one. It's always alarming that when a promotional opportunity is posted there's an immediate clamor of trying to get dance cards punched in a short time.
Set your long-term career plans. If you know you'll be required to possess several schools or certifications for the next step, get to work on them now. If you've got these done, check to see if you can get started on the next step. There may be many candidates, and you must position yourself to be one level higher. With the advice of your newfound colleagues, supervisors and trusted trainers, you must absorb this information and apply it to your career dreams.
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Ruth Ewan, Back to the Fields (2015)Posted: February 12, 2015 Filed under: 18th century history, contemporary art, installation art | Tags: Back to the Fields, Camden Arts Centre, Republican calendar, Ruth Ewan Leave a comment
While this show must have been a logistical headache, the extensive catalogue of objects in Back to the Fields points to an impossible dream. And it's the most beautiful and sad dream: revolution.
This is not the first time Ewan has visited post-revolutionary France. You can read about her doomed experiment at Folkestone in 2011. That was to do with hours in the day; this, with days of the year.
So the current exhibition at Camden Arts Centre fills a single gallery space with 365 objects, each of which represents an annual date. My visit (31/01) was in the rainy month on the day of hellebore.
Hellebore, as one discovers, is a flower and occasional poison. In French it is Ellébore, so you learn something new every day. And that cliché is very much the case at this show.
Why name a day after a plant and why name a month after a meteorological phenomenon? Well, January, in the Gregorian calendar, happens to be named after Roman god Janus.
But the Jacobins wanted to get away from all that ol' time religion. And so working in the shadow of the guillotine, the new regime abolished the twelve month year and brought in a rational ten.
The new calendar lasted for 13 years or 130 months. During which time the populous were able to meditate daily on everything from otters to grapes, from honey to mercury, via, say, an axe.
Trout and crayfish also feature in this uncompromising display. Yes, the otter den may be empty for the time being but on March 28 visitors can meet revolutionary animals in the gallery garden.
Republican time may have been intended to overthrow religion. But there is a sense of both zeal and observance about Ewan's collection of objets, which devout onlookers will relate to.
The result is an installation with a touch of the epic. In a 21st century Britain run by Etonians, it points to an epic failure. But even epic failures have more potential than moderate degrees of success.
Back to the Fields can be seen at Camden Arts Centre until 29 March 2015
UK Exhibitions: February 2015Posted: February 1, 2015 Filed under: contemporary art | Tags: Cornelia Parker, February exhibitions, Florian and Michael Ouistrebert, Goya, James Bridle, Lynda Benglis Leave a comment
Welcome back to the new monthly survey of great shows from public institutions who've got their act together online. Cold outside, but it's quite warm in the UK's galleries.
James Bridle: Seamless Transitions, The Photographers' Gallery, London, 6 Feb – 15 Apr. Using planning apps and first hand accounts, tech artist Bridle has visualised some of the buildings which unlucky immigrants see on their way out of the UK. The results appear cold, insidious and seductive.
Lynda Benglis, The Hepworth Wakefield, 6 Feb – 1 Jul. A major new retrospective, which can draw on a career of five decades. See why Benglis held her own in a famous century of American art dominated by men. This major show includes some 50 works.
Florian & Michael Quistrebert: Visions of Void, Dundee Contemporary Arts, 7 Feb – 22 Mar. Fire, shadows, hypnosis and intensity are all promised in Dundee. Immersive work like this won the French brothers a nomination for the 2014 Prix Marcel Duchamp and far out Genesis P. Orridge is a fan.
Cornelia Parker, The Whitworth, Manchester, 14 Feb – 31 May. A major show by Cornelia Parker coincides with a major gallery re-opening. A career retrospective, were it not for new and somewhat convoluted things going on with Blake drawings and local discovery graphene.
Goya: The Witches and Old Women Album, Courtauld Gallery, London, 26 Feb – 25 May. Thanks to his many prints, Goya crops up frequently in survey exhibitions. But here is a fairly novel chance to enjoy his presence centre stage, as a series of occult women power his dark imagination.
UK exhibitions: January 2015Posted: January 1, 2015 Filed under: aggregation, contemporary art | Tags: Grace Schwindt, Isabelle Cornaro, Nature, Ruth Ewan, Self-portraiture Leave a comment
Happy New Year to readers everywhere. Here's the first of a monthly round up of shows in (usually) public sector spaces around the UK. So, if you're in Britain in January 2015, you won't want to miss…
Grace Schwindt: Only a Free Individual Can Create a Free Society, Site Gallery, Sheffield, 10 Jan – 28 Feb. If your experience of taxi drivers is all Magic FM and reactionary politics, you'll be pleasantly surprised here. Schwindt interviews a German taxi driver, and former 60s/70s radical, for a filmic 90 minute trip.
Rights of Nature: Art and Ecology in the Americas, Nottingham Contemporary, 24 Jan to 15 Mar. Twenty pan-American artists bear witness to an environmental crisis with displays themed around the Amazon, the Andes, the Arctic and the Gulf of Mexico. If Bolivia and Ecuador can give legal rights to Mother Nature, can we hope a wave of the future is building across the Atlantic?
Isabelle Cornaro: Paysage Avec Poussin/Témoins Oculaires, South London Gallery and Spike Island, Bristol, 24 Jan – 05 Apr/29 Mar. With training in the academic study of mannerism, Cornaro promises to demonstrate the way that art affects our perception. Resonant objects abound in a major installation at SLG and new works in the West Country. It's a double header.
Self: Image and Identity, Turner Contemporary, Margate, 24 Jan – 10 May. As the gallery is already hinting, this exhibition could put the selfie phenomena in art historical perspective. Visitors can expect over 100 self-centred works, many from the National Portrait Gallery, from Sir Anthony van Dyck to Louise Bourgeois.
Ruth Ewan: Back to the Fields, Camden Arts Centre, London, 30 Jan – 29 Mar. In post-revolutionary France they enjoyed post-revolutionary time. London-based artist Ewan returns to her interest in the decimal clock and calendar with a major installation which brings together 365 seasonal objects with republican leanings.
Agree? Disagree? Seen something which criticismism has missed. Please feel free, as ever, to leave a comment.
Tom Dale, Rock on Standby (2014)Posted: December 18, 2014 Filed under: contemporary art, sculpture | Tags: digital art, geology, Rock on Standby, Tom Dale Leave a comment
The LED blinks on and off. We could be here a while. As deep history has shown, a rock like this can take its own sweet time to breathe forth life, or yawn and swallow us all.
Just whose hand might go to the remote to activate a 80kg lump of sandstone? Would it be a god, or an artist, or an artist who thinks they might be a god? Or even a reviewer.
A classical sculptor could make something of this proposition. From Michelangelo to Brancusi, the chisel and hammer have been switching on stones in the name of art.
But this is a digital rock, so that wouldn't appear to work. We have enough animate objects in our homes. We no longer need figurines, no longer need expressive miracles.
The red glow of the pilot light is miracle enough. It appears to take its power from deep inside its core. No one plugged in this boulder; it is pure potential.
Mind you, Rock on Standby is already activated to some degree by a plinth, a photo, a blog post. Are not all inert works of art on standby in this familiar sense? A collector would certainly trigger it.
As possessors of eyes, etc., we come ready to push buttons. Until then, we might be on standby too. In fact, we are the ones who really come to life around this piece.
We cannot look away from this collision between two speeds: geological time and recent speeds like broadband and 4G. We can hardly get faster. This rock reminds us how far we've come.
It also hints at the speed of the rock on which we live: about 30km per second. The Earth too is on standby, primed for natural disaster, a likelihood we are also accelerating.
So nice to know the artist hasn't lost his sense of humour. If you could ROFL in a gallery without being ejected, you just might. This heavy piece of work has the lightest of touches.
Tom Dale: Terminal Blue can be seen at John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, until 7 February 2015. For more on this artist see my previous posts here, here, and here.
Nick Davies, From Tippex Forms (i-iv) (2014)Posted: December 10, 2014 Filed under: contemporary art, sculpture | Tags: deforestation, exeter phoenix, Max Delbruck, mistakes, Nick Davies, office life, Tipp-Ex Leave a comment
It's a curious thing. It is hoped that not many typos find their way from this keyboard onto your screen. But a recent blog post for Bad at Sports had at least three. My very bad.
What made it strange was that the subject of my review, Nick Davies, has been doing fantastic things with Tipp-Ex and hence capitalising on mistakes like mine, but those made in another age.
Here you see a sculpture made from Mistake Out, as it was first called. Note the petri dish; it looks to have been grown here like a stunted GM tree and not painstakingly painted into existence.
But of all the forms which dried Tipp-Ex could take, this tree is the most appropriate, as if Liquid Paper emanated from a liquid forest. (Without wood pulp we'd not have needed it.)
And this petrified grove, for there are a group of these sculptures, bring together the lab, the office and the gallery. All of which are implicated with the desolate whiteness of the plantlife.
True, we have made some mistakes. We have signed away logging rights for far too many real trees. We have polluted seas and killed off coral reefs, which also come to mind.
It's a major oversight. If only we could go back in time and erase a few thousand pen strokes. But Tipp-Ex was only about ameliorating office life, not life on the planet in general.
Now we have the delete button. Thanks to which, and to cut and paste, writing has become a kind of collage. And so it moves closer to art or at least to artfulness, and to the covering of tracks.
But mistakes just don't seem to go away. There are social media users who post as quick as they can think and comment leavers oblivious to their crimes against grammar. Bloggers make howlers.
We're really getting sloppy, and it's a growing problem, like one of Davies' spectral trees. Which just brings up the title of the artist's handmade book, The Principal [sic] of Limited Sloppiness.
He borrows the maxim from scientist Max Delbruck: "One should be sloppy enough so that the unexpected happens, but not so sloppy that one can't figure out what has happened afterwards."
This holds true for conceptual artists as much as scientists. So proceeding with a Tipp-Ex mindset might now be the best way forward. The book, by the way, is immaculate.
The full show, Intention Invention Convention by Nick Davies, can be seen at exeter phoenix until January 10 2015. Here's my (soon amended) post for Bad at Sports.
Turner Prize 2014Posted: December 1, 2014 Filed under: British art, contemporary art | Tags: Before the Law, Channel 4, Ciara Phillips, Duncan Campbell, Kafka, Tate Britain, Turner Prize 2014 Leave a comment
Nothing like the Turner Prize to deliver half an hour of overwrought excitement. Not that the writer of this blog was there. He was wound like a spring on the sofa, as the reportage photo above implies.
But how close can you get to this Prize? Like the man in a Kafka parable, you wait and wait all year in the knowledge there are doorkeepers beyond the doorkeepers. You are Before the Law.
On the one occasion this writer did make it to the ceremony, at BALTIC in 2011, he somehow took a wrong turn and ended up in a bar at the venue, still watching the whole thing on TV.
British television's engagement with contemporary art is so minimal that Channel 4's coverage of the Turner is the equivalent of watching an entire football season in one short burst.
Sorry to those offended by the sports analogy, but that's just of what sofas and televisions put one in mind. Blame Tate for establishing the art world's annual moment as a lucrative competition.
Duncan Campbell won. And for many in the room surely Gore Vidal's cynical comment on envy surely rang true: "Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little." Still, a worthy winner.
Looking back at a piece written for Culture24 in early September, your sofa correspondent appears to have predicted the result. But only in the most throwaway of fashions, almost by accident.
It could still be maintained that Ciara Phillips would have made a more interesting winner. Thanks to her use of collaboration, she might also have made a more approachable one.
In Kafka's brief fable, the supplicant for admittance to the law is a "countryman" but not necessarily a regional blogger. He spends the rest of his life waiting for the doorkeeper to let him through.
Before he dies, he goes blind: "Yet in his darkness he is now aware of a radiance that streams inextinguishably from the gateway of the law." Just the television crew lights, perhaps.
Roberts, Selmes & Bartlett, Work Programme 71 (2014)Posted: November 18, 2014 Filed under: contemporary art, installation art, performance art | Tags: 5-1, anti-anti art, Aston Villa, Bobby Robson, claret and blue, Darren Bent, football, Ipswich Town, Lambert Out 1 Comment
For those who don't already know, Aston Villa FC are an underperforming English football team from the West Midlands. It might not be common knowledge in the wider art world.
Three artists staged a gallery event last Saturday: Bartlett, Selmes and Roberts. We'll drop the first names, in the spirit of football. Because all support 'the Villa'.
And all three wore the team's claret and blue shirts and in doing so took on a radical (or alarming) non-art look. They didn't even look like performance artists. It was perhaps anti-anti art.
The terrace vibe was helped along by an atmospheric loop of crowd noise: grown men professing their loyalty to this historic club and its players through the medium of chant.
Meanwhile, the 'art' was a collection of doctored pages ripped from matchday programmes and merchandise catalogues. A 90-minute projection showed AVFC demolish Birmingham City 5-1.
All of the above was fiendishly parochial. Players who had been gods in their time, were reduced to the status of an in joke. Was this about the idiocy of football or the selective ignorance of art?
There were also beers. There always are at openings. But these were an assortment of different brews, with each one themed around a first team star. This blogger opted for a Darren Bent lager.
Another attraction was the Lambert Out campaign, by which Bartlett attempted to drum out the club's under fire manager by handing samizdat posters to bemused gallery folk.
If you like football, the whole thing was a total hoot. But what many overlook, and which you could have learned at this show, is that the most interesting things happen off the pitch.
What to make of the current prime minister David Cameron and heir to the throne Prince William? Both claim to be lifelong Villa fans, to Bartlett's horror. It's a surreal carnival.
Art's perspective on football may be as narrow as football's perspective on art, but both worlds could surely learn from one another. You will, for example, find art at football grounds.
Portman Road is the stadium for my team de choix; on a plinth outside is a statue of former manager Bobby Robson. It is made by Ipswich fan and sculptor Sean Hedges-Quinn.
Home fans arrange to meet by this artwork. They pose for photos here, and roundly approve of this tribute to a local legend. One presumes they even admire the likeness. No soul searching here.
Just be warned. Football art cuts both ways. This blogger once got a text from a friend who saw fans from another club urinating on the likeness of our hero; Robson died of cancer five years ago.
That's a pretty direct critique, which this blogger could only dream of emulating. Art people might still piss all over your latest show, only with the ambivalent gift of metaphor.
Work Programme 71 took place on Saturday November 15 2014 at Community Arts Centre, Brighton. See gallery Facebook page for future events.
Sophie Dickson, Shooting Range (pt 2) (2014)Posted: November 16, 2014 Filed under: contemporary art, installation art | Tags: Brighton, Junk is Beautiful, objets trouvés, Shooting Range, Sophie Dickson Leave a comment
At a point of maximal chaos, the objects in this sculpture hang together and you feel you could take your finger off the pause button and return this scene to order.
The tableau is composed of 'junk', but white paint gives it a wintry appearance, akin to a seasonal shop window, and perhaps one dressed by an anarchist.
Look closer and you will see a cash till, caught mid air, cash drawer gaping, empty. As a nation of shopkeepers, this is an attack on all we hold dear.
But look it's okay. The whole thing is kept within a theatrical frame. Despite a lack of glass or limits, there is a notional vitrine, nodding to blue chip art-mongers like Hirst and Koons.
Perhaps following in the footsteps of the former organiser of Freeze, Dickson has taken on a vast space in Circus Street, and for a solo show no less.
Hence she demonstrates a youthful talent for wrangling planning applications and funding bids. She has overcome a mountain of paperwork along with a mountain of junk.
Most of the found objects used here are obsolete, a landline phone, a cassette player. They are perhaps fossilised. But fossils don't get airborne like this.
I want to say it is rare for explosions to turn rooms like this upside down here in Brighton. Yet in 1984, the whole country was rocked by a bomb in the Brighton Grand Hotel.
But this was six years before Dickson was even born. So one can only guess at whatever ash-covered interiors might have inspired this work. Strangely beautiful, there are plenty of them.
Junk is Beautiful can be found in Circus Street, Brighton, until November 21. See Facebook page for opening times.
Sanja Iveković, The Disobedient (The Revolutionaries) (2012)Posted: October 28, 2014 Filed under: contemporary art, installation | Tags: anti-semitism, donkeys, revolution, Sanja Iveković, stuffed toys, The Disobedient, WWII Leave a comment
The fifty donkeys were cute and the labels were amusing. But it was the third element in this piece which packed a real punch. A photo of a real donkey behind barbed wire in a town square.
It was a scene was staged by Nazi authorities in 1933 as a warning not to be stubborn and buy from Jewish shopkeepers. Or you too might end up in a concentration camp.
This shot was printed in a German newspaper in 1933, but for the purposes of this show it's been blown up and displayed as forensic evidence on a lightbox.
Suddenly the donkey becomes the most noble of beasts. And the talent of these stuffed revolutionaries, the best examples of humanity, from Benjamin to Biko, becomes intransigence.
In the catalogue to artes mundi 6, essayist Natasa Ilic reveals that Bertold Brecht worked with a small wooden donkey on his desk to remind him of a critical section of his audience.
Hardworking donkeys are the salt of the earth. Which may be why, in the US political system, donkeys are democratic. It takes a tough hide, rather than a sharp mind, to make revolution.
The burden of so many of these cuddly toys, or the figures whose name they share, is to have had endured persecution, torture and in many cases execution.
As Manca Bajec points out on culture magazine B-turn, to see this piece is to realise that donkeys are unlikely heroes. Move aside Winnie, Eeyore's in town.
Once again Ilic highlights something interesting. At least one philosopher has linked the spirit of revolution in the early 21st century to depression, withdrawal and exhaustion.
In the absence of any horizon of positive change, we must all learn from the donkey how to endure. Our only comfort, in the austerity age, might be a soft toy and a memory.
Just by way of an interesting aside: the German authorities may have overlooked the story of Balaam and the ass when they staged their 1930s photo op.
Balaam was of course a prophet on his way to curse the Israelites when the Angel of the Lord came down to turn him back and indeed destroy him.
His equine steed, a donkey as you will know, was granted sight of the Angel. And cut a long story short, Balaam ended up blessing the Jewish homeland. Spooky or what?
Iveković is one of nine shortlisted artists in artes mundi 6. The exhibition runs in various venues in Cardiff until 22 February 2015.
Dinh Q Lê, The Farmers and the Helicopters (2006)Posted: October 11, 2014 Filed under: contemporary art, film art, war art | Tags: Dinh Q Lê, JG Ballard, The Farmers and the Helicopters, Vietnam Leave a comment
War is a game for boys of all ages. So if that's your violent gender you might especially enjoy this montage of vintage film in which helicopter gunships rain deafening misery on the Vietnamese.
Dinh Q Lê's film begins gently with innocuous footage of dragonflies and some peasant wisdom about determining the weather from their flight patterns. So far, so bucolic.
But then come the invasion force, in footage we have seen all too often, along with the reports from the ground, from the Vietnamese from whom we have heard all too rarely.
As said by one of the farmers in the film, young at the time, you could watch these helicopters for hours. To some degree he found their ominous presence a pleasant spectacle. Strange indeed.
Or is it? JG Ballard can be relied upon to explain a paradox like this. His landmark book The Atrocity Exhibition, which first appeared toward the end of the Vietnam war, is full of helicopters
"The Vietnam war," he writes, "has offered a focus for a wide range of polymorphic sexual impulses". In other words, the first televised war arrived in our living rooms bearing an erotic charge.
It was, he adds, "also a means by which the United States has re-established a positive psychosexual relationship with the rest of the world." That has a ring of mad truth, doesn't it?
Certainly anything that defies gravity carries, if a male partner is involved, some sexual promise. And asymmetric warfare can in this way be seen as a sado-masochistic hook up between whole nations.
Sadly, at its climax, this film offers a terrible thrill as, midway through, we undergo a fusillade of bombs, rockets and bullets on all three channels. It's a troubling, visceral pleasure.
You would think that Vietnam had seen enough of these mechanical dragonflies to last a lifetime. But in a coda to this film, we discover that the rural helicopter fan is now an amateur engineer.
His grown up passion is for building the very vehicles which waged war on his people is something an analyst could probably explain. They pale, of course, compared with industrial US models.
And we never see them fly. They may as well be sculpture. The may as well be pieces of kinetic art about making or keeping peace, no matter how anti-climatic that grown-up impulse might be.
This film can be found in The Sensory War 1914-2014 at Manchester Art Galery until 22 Februrary 2015. The Ballard quote can be found in Chapter 11: Love and Napalm: Export USA.


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You made a blunder in an OTB game against another player in person? Was it a tournament game or a slow time control game, or was it at a fast time control?
It does seem possible that if you play online games and don't take them seriously, that could carry over into your real-world games, which you might start unintentionally taking less seriously. It's difficult to see how sometimes playing with a 2D board could make real-world play worse, and I've never heard of this happening, while playing sloppy chess online (regardless of whether it's 2D or 3D) will probably encourage bad habits that carry over to all play.
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