You Might Be a Liberal
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If you have ever used the phrase “predatory lender” to describe the situation above…
If you have ever said at a Congressional hearing that, “if Congress won’t pay for it, the taxpayers will have to”…
If you have ever worn a jacket with elbow patches to a formal event…
If you think the oil that China and Russia and Venezuela will drill for is cleaner than the oil we are not allowed to drill for…
If your last coffee drink cost more than the book value of your current Volvo…
If you were caught by surprise at the amazing outpouring of affection the week Ronald Reagan passed away…
If you’ve ever had to choose between attending a LaRaza event or a NARAL fund raiser…
...you might be a liberal. (YMBAL)
“I leave it up to the government to make good decisions for Americans.”
—Danica Patrick
“The (person) who lets a leader prescribe their course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.”
—Ayn Rand
20: YE SHALL KNOW THEM BY THEIR FRUITS
If you’ve ever attended a Penn State transgender man boy rally against global warming…
Liberals are liberals first, and therefore devotion to their agenda is more important to many of them than anything else. This is why the pro choice rallies and the pro union rallies and the animal rights rallies and the anti-war rallies and Occupy Wall Street encampments all look and sound and smell alike. They are all the same people.
Liberalism is how they are defined and it is what motivates them, and with such a huge government and a crony complex of companies and so-called non-profits, it is how many of them are employed. As taxpayers, we are paying them to destroy us, in many cases. We do this by paying their salaries and benefits directly, or we do it indirectly, since big government funds most left wing “non profit” organizations.
Since all of these folks are the same people, it is not uncommon to find the same names under various rocks of liberal mischief. For example, if you lift up the rock of the September 11th attacks and find out what we did to make ourselves vulnerable, you find the name Jamie Gorelick as the author of the Justice Department’s “wall of separation” between the CIA and the FBI regarding peculiar information about certain Middle Eastern men and flying lessons. When you lift up the seemingly unrelated rock of our economic meltdown and Fannie Mae’s part in that, you will also find Ms. Gorelick as the highly paid Vice President of Fannie Mae Corporation while all of the underlying lending problems were becoming national policy.
Connectivity like this happens all the time. And these failures always lead to more career options for these liberals. I figured the two biggest catastrophes of our lifetime would be a good example. You can learn more about this later, in the chapter comparing the brilliant liberal Gorelick to the hick conservative Sarah Palin.
Another example would be two of the biggest scandals of the past couple of years, which, at first blush, also seem totally unrelated. Yet, as disconnected as the climate gate scandal of East Anglia and the shower scandal at Penn State may seem, they both run right through the desk of one Graham B. Spanier.
That you did not know that, or perhaps are shocked to find this out, is precisely the point. This is predictable, and not uncommon. When more folks can start to spot liberals and liberalism in all its forms and connect the dots, things like this will be more preventable.
It is important to understand that liberals are always dressing up whacko radicals in nice suits and giving them nice titles and inserting them into positions of great authority—and then society is always shocked when we find out what strange radicals these folks are and thunderstruck by the inevitable disasters that occur.
Government and big education are two areas where this happens a lot. After all, big government and big education is more or less run by radical liberals, so they are simply doing what they do when they hire folks like, say, Van Jones or Graham Spanier.
And certainly, the sanctimonious and clueless liberals at ESPN were the only folks on the planet not to know instantly that the Sandusky scandal was a liberal scandal. Gay sex, pedophilia and big education? Well, no wonder they missed the subtlety. They are too busy equating big time sports to big business, when it is really equated more to big education. But that’s another book.
Back to Spanier: As most know by now, he was taken to the woodshed by the Freeh report (the FBI report) on the Sandusky scandal and cover up. What we know now, which is no real surprise, is that Spanier had every reason to know exactly what was going on in the Penn State showers many years ago, and he took specific steps to simultaneously cover it up while pretending he was getting to the bottom of it. Pardon the very unfortunate pun.
Spanier and another rich white guy, the late Joe Paterno, created a “culture of secrecy,” according to the Freeh report, and this culture “intimidated” some janitors who were long aware of the showering habits of another old white guy, Sandusky. Now, I thought liberals were down for the struggle and always protecting workers like janitors from “the man.”
And it gets worse.
Spanier has shown a proclivity for sympathy with weird sexual habits for many decades. This is not a secret. Promoting the idea of “swinging” was the very heart of Spanier’s grad school thesis, and along with a guy named Charles L. Cole, Spanier has numerous writings on the subject. While this may seem pedestrian now, these works were done in the 1970’s. Spanier has been a cutting edge sexual explorer for decades, or at least sympathetic to the concept.
In 1975, he and Cole authored something called “Mate Swapping: Perceptions, Value Orientations, and Participation in a Midwestern Community.” Yes, that’s the real title. And who did Cole and Spanier cite as their primary inspiration for this magnificent scientific work? Kinsey, of course. I think you can order this work as a combo set along with “The Sexual Politics of Meat.”
Now that’s fine, I guess, as far as it goes. I could care less what fantasies Spanier harbors secretly, and one can only imagine what his search engine history would show. But seriously, is this the kind of guy we want in charge of a major university? Put a guy like this in charge, and the next thing you know, the taxpayers of Pennsylvania will be paying for all kinds of weird sexually charged events on the campus.
Which, of course, is exactly what happened.
In 2001 and 2002, Penn State hosted a series of events including the euphemistically named “The Woman’s Health Conference” that included a “Sex Faire” as well as a “Cunt Fest” and a “Tent of Consent.” Now, I don’t know why Penn State felt the need to pay additional money for a “Tent of Consent.” I figure the taxpayers were already paying for something called “dorm rooms.”
The main conference on “Health and Wellness” featured Patrick Califia-Rice, a self-described “transgendered bisexual person.” Calafia-Rice spoke of a journey from “female to male sexuality.” Califia-Rice is also the author of books such as “Macho Sluts” and “Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex.” How this Calafia-Rice managed not to be a policy advisor for Barney Frank is anybody’s guess.
Now refocus for just a minute. Spanier ok’d this conference and went out of his way to defend it to the Pennsylvania Legislature. This was no accident, and this was not something that popped up on the campus that Spanier was not aware of. Let’s connect some dots—think swinging, Kinsey, Sandusky, and Califia-Rice.
Now this. The North American Man-Boy Love Association, or NAMBLA, includes this quote from Califia-Rice on its website: “Boy-lovers and the lesbians who have young lovers are the only people offering a hand to help young women and men cross the difficult terrain between straight society and the gay community. They are not child molesters. The child abusers are priests, teachers, therapists, cops and parents who force their stale morality onto the young people in their custody. Instead of condemning pedophiles for their involvement with lesbian and gay youth, we should be supporting them.”
Which sounds
scarily like a combination of Sandusky’s “horsing around” stories and his “caring about kids” comments with the mission statement of his youth organization called “The Second Mile,” an organization he founded in 1977 to serve “at risk youth.” If we had only known just how “at risk” they were.
Now I connect all of these dots not to be gratuitous. I connect them simply to demonstrate that a man like Spanier should have never been trusted to run Penn State University, or the University of Nebraska, which he did prior to 1995. And yet, in the liberal world of academe, he is just the kind of academia nut they think is great.
Thus, when he stated that he had “complete confidence in how (we) handled the allegations against Sandusky” he was more or less saying that he thought he had covered his rear end sufficiently and dodged a bullet. He was fired shortly thereafter. Again, apologies for the unfortunate use of words.
Of course, a propensity to be sympathetic to sexual exploration and an instinct to protect Penn State’s cash cow—Joe Paterno and the football program—is not the only endearing trait of Spanier. In 2010 he was asked to look into academic fraud on the part of one Michael Mann (yes, global warming “hockey stick” Michael Mann) and the results were very similar to the results of the Sandusky investigation. ‘Move along, nothing to see here. Trust me on this.’
Never mind that 376 Mann emails were at the very heart of blowing the cover on the fraud at the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at East Anglia in “climate gate.” Penn State’s investigation determined that 329 of them were not worth looking into.
Basically, Penn State interviewed a few scientists who are sympathetic with Mann’s views on climate change and believed them, and interviewed a couple who demonstrated Mann’s fraud and ignored them. They ignored other sources who asked to be part of the investigation, along with the bulk of the damning emails. Which, of course, inspired Spanier to proclaim, “I know they have taken the time and spent hundreds of hours studying documents and interviewing people and looking at issues from all sides.”
What is becoming obvious to everybody that, short of little boys in Sandusky’s showers and gosh knows who in the “tent of consent,” absolutely nothing is examined on all sides on Penn State’s campus.
By any measure, Graham Spanier has been an abject disaster for Penn State. Chances are, Penn State will never again in our lifetime be a respected football power, and, more to the point, the very name of the school will likely remain a punch line. Yes, I’ve heard the old “state pen, er, Penn State” jokes. But those are not necessary anymore.
All you have to say to evoke an eye roll or a snigger or some other emotion of contempt is to say “Penn State.” And Lord help the innocent town of Sandusky, Ohio. They’ll probably have to rename the city.
Yet this disaster was predictable. In fact, it was predicted by the Student Body President of Nebraska days before Penn State hired Spanier. Andrew Loudon, in an interview with “The Daily Collegian,” said “(Spanier) is known as a liberal individual who pushes an aggressive social agenda. He very much focuses on affirmative action and a pro-homosexual agenda. Watch out for his agenda and make sure he doesn’t make it a priority over academics.”
But what does Loudon know? He’s just a dumb student, right? Of course, this story might have a fable like ending if there was some evidence that liberals had learned their lessons with Spanier. But no. After the failure with Sandusky and the failure with the Mann investigation, Spanier has now, in liberal fashion, failed his way into some more taxpayer largess. Of course.
On July 27, just months after being fired from Penn State and just days after the Freeh FBI report had taken him apart, The Washington Post reports “Spanier’s lawyer confirms to the (Post) that Spanier is working on a part-time consulting basis for a “top-secret” agency on national security issues. But the gig is so hush-hush, he couldn’t even tell his attorneys the name of the agency. In April—months after his ouster as president, but before the release of the internal report—he told the Patriot-News of central Pennsylvania that he was working on a “special project” for the U.S. government relating to national security.” Folks, this is how liberals operate. Should we be surprised? And in fact, should we be surprised if Spanier makes more decisions that lead to abject disasters? Think Jamie Gorelick and 9-11 and Fannie Mae. This is what liberals do. They get jobs they have no qualifications for. They then fail, but continue to appoint each other to more jobs that they are not capable of doing so that their failures can be even bigger and more disastrous.
And radical liberals often get away with it because they look normal. Folks look at Spanier as they look at some corporate chieftain, some old white guy with clean cut grey hair and lots of suits and ties and a big pay check and lots of authority. I suspect many think of him the way they think of the CEO of Exxon or Bank of America.
Yet, former Penn State President Spanier is indeed a spooky radical. And by spooky, I mean it would be one thing if he were merely the strange old man at the end of the block with the broken down Volvo and the over grown ivy in his yard and lots of cats. It is quite another when he has immense power over a huge budget and a huge and influential university with hundreds of thousands of current students and alums. And now, apparently, some influence over our security.
Liberals: Always getting jobs for which they have no qualifications from other liberals who also are not qualified. And when it ends in predictable disaster, they are again hired by other unqualified liberals and the process starts over again.
I feel safer already.
YMBAL’S #20
If you like the idea of the Fair Tax but just can’t bring your self to admit it…
If you think Bill O Reilly is a hard core conservative…
If you know exactly what Rush Limbaugh says, but have never actually listened to his show…
If you ever backed into your old VW van with your new Nissan Leaf…
If you ever chanted, “hell no, we won’t go” and have no idea where it is you won’t go…
If you ever bought a pant suit like Hillary’s…
If you used to like John McCain but suddenly started not to like John McCain about the time he got the 2008 nomination…
If a backpack is considered a fashion accessory for the women in your life…
If you think the fact that many families in New Orleans have been on government assistance for generations while the city has boomed in the hospitality industry is probably George Bush’s fault…
If you inherited your food stamps account…
If you think hunting with Dick Cheney is more dangerous than driving with Ted Kennedy…
If you ever bought into all that spin about John McCain being a maverick…
If you actually believe the media spin that the small attendance for Obama-Biden rallies are what the Obama Campaign wants…
If you haven’t figured out that Nazism is National Socialism, and not related to conservatism at all…
If you haven’t figured out that Nazism is blatantly anti-Christian…
If you start to answer of political questions with the words “I feel...”
If you’ve ever voted pro-union and complained about the price of a car…
If you think it’s perfectly normal for the Social Security Administration to buy hundreds of thousands of hollow point bullets…
If none of the married couples you know have both genders represented…
If you think all white guys who would like to be members at Augusta National can get in…
“That’s why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us—no matter what our age or background or walk of life—each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.”
—Michelle Obama
“Mrs. Obama famously complained that America is ‘just downright mean,’ and you can see what she’s getting at: She had to make do with a lousy $316,962 pl
us benefits for a job so necessary to the hospital that when she quit to become First Lady they didn’t bother replacing her. Leave “corporate America” and get a non-job as a diversity enforcement officer: that’s where the big bucks are.”
—Mark Steyn, on the ‘public service’ job of Michelle Obama
21: ELIZABETH WARREN’S SUB PRIME LEND’EM WOMPUM
If you are driving a new Government Motors car and have a credit score of 540…
Sub prime lending did for our economy what Jerry Sandusky’s shower habits did for Penn State football. And what’s the old saying? I think it goes something like: “Liberalism is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.” Indeed.
With our economy still on death’s door thanks to liberal energy policy and the sub prime mortgage housing mess, liberals in Barack Obama’s administration—and this of course includes Government Motors—are gearing up to create a sub prime auto loan bubble. Yes, they really are. And they’re doubling down on the sub prime mortgage theory in a covert way, as well. You cannot make this up. Being a satirist these days is a losing proposition because liberal reality is outstripping anything that even the most outrageous humorist could conjure up. The next thing you know, these wacky liberals will be saying something ridiculous like $15 a gallon gas will solve our economic problems.