11.27.09
Talk about inconvenient truths
This, like the fact that global warming was clearly a deliberate fraud, should be above-the-fold information blaring at the American citizenry from every known information outlet.
49 percent of us rate American health care as good or excellent, up from 29 percent in early 2008.
Mr. Dings said,
November 27, 2009 at 6:54 pm
The American health care system is indeed excellent, as is our research pipeline, which is international in scope. No doubts about it, medical science is achieving miracle after miracle, as the fruits of the mapping of the human genome now come to bear in abundance, the new insights into the form and function of the human anatomy (most especially the brain) facilitated by ever more precise and non-invasive probing made possible by advances in imaging technology, to mention two greatly hopeful areas under continued development. Greg (I prosecuted Tyson, but that’s the only notable thing I ever did in my career) Garrison was squawking the other day on his show (where I think he sounds like the worst of heartless Hoosier hicks sometimes, but, oh well, he’s a barrister, what should I expect?) about his new heart procedure that toyed with his ticker and made him all better. What, him worry? Well, he is, that giving such treatment to the other poor bastards that might need it here might somehow diminish his personal substantial significance to us here on Planet Earth. It’s not the health care system that’s lacking. It is not even the delivery system. It’s the payment system. But you freedom lovers will be squawking about its diminishment, even in light of its continued improvement for everyone. Why? Because you couldn’t stand being in a world where you were not special, I presume. I dunno. Whattya gonna do when we get perpetual motion, anti-gravity devices, cold fusion? Who you gonna take your hate out on then? Who’s gonna have what you got? Everyone? Who you gonna kill then, over what you got that someone else might have more of that you want? American health care was good to excellent in early 2008 too. What brought more folks on board that it’s so here, now, in 2009? Surely you will credit your detested TCM. But I know that vein of thinking.
Bentnotesmanhisself said,
November 27, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Just so our taxes aren’t being used to care for other people’s health.
Mr. Dings said,
November 27, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Stay off our highways too, and hope you don’t find yourself in our prisons, how could that ever be, saintly ones? I detest Greg Garrison.
Bentnotesmanhisself said,
November 28, 2009 at 4:40 am
Now, that’s interesting. Why do you detest Garrison?
Mr. Dings said,
November 28, 2009 at 2:30 pm
He makes blanket statements about his enemies, i.e., those not of his political ilk. For just one example, although I know it’s quite cool to do so, amongst you royal rubes, I hear him diss James Earl Carter, 39th President of the United States, 59th in his class at Annapolis, all the time, as of course Rush and the other AM assholes, as, and I believe I am quoting him right, actually it’s very poor polemics for a legal guy, “dumber than a box of rocks.” And his callers are among the stupidest vindictive dittoheads ever. Guess they couldn’t get by Snerdly. You guys love to call over half of your fellow countrymen clueless. You play very dirty pool. Oh yeah, Carter’s dumber than a box of rocks. End of story. Greg, Hoosier drawl and all, including his superior attitude that bespeaks new money, and it’s not even that much money, or fame, “I got the straight story here, folks” Garrison. And that Zionist crazy he has on there, washissname, Tom Rose? http://advanceindiana.blogspot.com/2008/01/who-is-tom-rose.html Whooh!
This is a list of books authored by Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States (1977–1981).
Why Not the Best? (1975 and 1996)
”A Government as Good as Its People” (1977 and 1996)
Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President (1982 and 1995) ISBN 1-55728-330-3
Negotiation: The Alternative to Hostility (1984 and 2003) ISBN 0-86554-137-X
”The Blood of Abraham: Insights into the Middle East” (1985, 1993 and 2007) ISBN 1-55728-293-5
Everything to Gain: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life (1987 and 1995), with Rosalynn Carter, ISBN 1-55728-388-5
An Outdoor Journal (1988 and 1994) ISBN 1-55728-354-0
Turning Point: A Candidate, a State, and a Nation Come of Age (1992) ISBN 0-8129-2299-9
”Talking Peace: A Vision for the Next Generation” (1993 and 1995) ISBN 0-14-037440-X
Always a Reckoning (1995) ISBN 0-8129-2434-7, a collection of poetry, illustrated by his granddaughter
The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer (1995), a children’s book, illustrated by his daughter
Living Faith (1996) ISBN 0-8129-3034-7
Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith (1997) ISBN 0-8129-3236-6
The Virtues of Aging (1998) ISBN 0-345-42592-8
An Hour before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood (2001) ISBN 0-7432-1199-5 also available on Audio CD (2001, 2006)
Christmas in Plains: Memories (2001) ISBN 0-7432-2715-8 also available on Audio CD (2001, 2006)
”The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture” (2002) ISBN 0-7432-5068-0
The Hornet’s Nest (2003) ISBN 0-7432-5542-9, a historical novel about the American Revolution, and the first work of fiction written by a U.S. President, also available on Audio CD (2003)
Sharing Good Times (2004) ISBN 0-7432-7068-1 also available on Audio CD (2004, 2006)
Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis (2005) ISBN 0-7432-8501-8; Audio CD won a Grammy Award for best spoken-word album.[1]
Faith and Freedom: The Christian Challenge for the World (2005) ISBN 0-7156-3610-3; UK edition of Our Endangered Values
Palestine Peace Not Apartheid (2006) ISBN 0-7432-8502-6, also available on Audio CD (2006)
Leading a Worthy Life: Sunday Mornings in Plains: Bible Study with Jimmy Carter (2007) Only available on Audio CD
Measuring Our Success: Sunday Mornings in Plains: Bible Study with Jimmy Carter (2007) Only available on Audio CD
A Remarkable Mother (2008) ISBN 978-1-4165-6245-0
Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope (2008) ISBN 1-4165-5880-2
We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work (2009) ISBN 1439140634
Honors and awards
Former President and Navy submariner Jimmy Carter (left) hoists a replica of the USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23) given to him by Secretary of the Navy John H. Dalton (right) at a naming ceremony in the Pentagon on April 28, 1998
4 U.S. Presidents. Former President Carter (right), walks with, from left, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton during the dedication of the William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park in Little Rock, Arkansas on November 18, 2004Carter has received honorary degrees from many American and foreign colleges and universities. They include:
LL.D. (honoris causa) Morehouse College, 1972; Morris Brown College, 1972; University of Notre Dame, 1977; Emory University, 1979; Kwansei Gakuin University, 1981; Georgia Southwestern College, 1981; New York Law School, 1985; Bates College, 1985; Centre College, 1987; Creighton University, 1987; University of Pennsylvania, 1998
D.E. (honoris causa) Georgia Institute of Technology, 1979
Ph.D. (honoris causa) Weizmann Institute of Science, 1980; Tel Aviv University, 1983; Haifa University, 1987
D.H.L. (honoris causa) Central Connecticut State University, 1985; Trinity College, 1998; Hoseo University, 1998
Doctor (honoris causa) G.O.C. University, 1995; University of Juba, 2002
Honorary Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 2007
Honorary Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford, 2007
Among the honors Carter has received are the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1999 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. Others include:
Freedom of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, 1977
Silver Buffalo Award, Boy Scouts of America, 1978
Gold medal, International Institute for Human Rights, 1979
International Mediation medal, American Arbitration Association, 1979
Martin Luther King, Jr., Nonviolent Peace Prize, 1979
International Human Rights Award, Synagogue Council of America, 1979
Conservationist of the Year Award, 1979
Harry S. Truman Public Service Award, 1981
Ansel Adams Conservation Award, Wilderness Society, 1982
Human Rights Award, International League of Human Rights, 1983
World Methodist Peace Award, 1985
Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism, 1987
Edwin C. Whitehead Award, National Center for Health Education, 1989
Jefferson Award, American Institute of Public Service, 1990
Liberty Medal, National Constitution Center, 1990
Spirit of America Award, National Council for the Social Studies, 1990
Physicians for Social Responsibility Award, 1991
Aristotle Prize, Alexander S. Onassis Foundation, 1991
W. Averell Harriman Democracy Award, National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, 1992
Spark M. Matsunaga Medal of Peace, US Institute of Peace, 1993
Humanitarian Award, CARE International, 1993
Conservationist of the Year Medal, National Wildlife Federation, 1993
Rotary Award for World Understanding, 1994
J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding, 1994
National Civil Rights Museum Freedom Award, 1994
UNESCO Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize, 1994
Great Cross of the Order of Vasco Nunéz de Balboa, Panama, 1995
Bishop John T. Walker Distinguished Humanitarian Award, Africare, 1996
Humanitarian of the Year, GQ Awards, 1996
Kiwanis International Humanitarian Award, 1996
Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development, 1997
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Awards for Humanitarian Contributions to the Health of Humankind, National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, 1997
United Nations Human Rights Award, 1998
The Hoover Medal, 1998
The Delta Prize for Global Understanding, University of Georgia, 1999
International Child Survival Award, UNICEF Atlanta, 1999
William Penn Mott, Jr., Park Leadership Award, National Parks Conservation Association, 2000
Zayed International Prize for the Environment, 2001
Jonathan M. Daniels Humanitarian Award, VMI, 2001
Herbert Hoover Humanitarian Award, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, 2001
Christopher Award, 2002
Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, 2007[119]
Berkeley Medal, University of California campus, May 2, 2007
International Award for Excellence and Creativity, Palestinian Authority, 2009[120]
Mahatma Gandhi Global Nonviolence Award, Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence, James Madison University (to be awarded September 21, 2009, in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and to be shared with his wife, Rosalynn Carter)
Recipient of 2009 American Peace Award along with Rosalynn Carter[121]
In 1998, the US Navy named the third and last Seawolf-class submarine
honoring former President Carter and his service as a submariner officer. It became one of the first US Navy vessels to be named for a person living at the time of naming.[122]
Bentnotesmanhisself said,
November 28, 2009 at 3:59 pm
So he’s been prolific as an author. He was a miserable failure as a president (interest rates, inflation, expansion of federal governmetn including the worthless Department of Education, the final flare-up of the Cold War in Afghanistan, Angola, and Central America) and he’s interfered in the conduct of US foreign policy repeatedly since leaving in extremely harmful ways, and it’s obvious that he’d like to see Israel not exist anymore.
Nope, sorry, on this one it’s as clear-cut as any sizing-up of a public figure could be. Jimmuh is freedom-hater and a pest on the world stage of the first degree.
Bentnotesmanhisself said,
November 28, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Look how many of those awards have the word “peace” in the title. One begins to detect a certain strong odor.
Mr. Dings said,
November 28, 2009 at 5:44 pm
Strong odor of peace. Well, isn’t that special. Yet, your commentary is much more cogent than ‘dumber than a box of rocks” which Greg Garrison, imhfo, comes much closer to describing. Every president can be criticized. Shit does indeed happen and a whole hell of a lot of avoidable loads of it rained down on our heads during the last interminable Repbulican presidential administration, much of it avoidable. History, as always, will be the judge, and even then, consensus will not necessarily be achieved. I’d take a look at your detestation of the word peace, but I’m no armchair general or anything. I do dig peace and the greatest Christian thing, at least: love. The world is watching Israel. Netanyahu has no universal quorum by any means, not hardly in his own country. We don’t all have to march to Yahweh’s horn, do we? In fact, we can’t, if we’re not chosen.
Mr. Dings said,
November 28, 2009 at 5:52 pm
I fully realize the mere mention of the words Jimmy Carter fill some folks with revulsion. Blessed are the peacemakers. Or was that a mistranslation there somewhere. And dumber than a box of rocks he is not, unless you want to impugn the US Naval Acadamy and Admiral Hyman “Why Not the Best?” Rickover, but Reagan had him fired, over his contention with defense contractors. We know where our bread was often buttered under Reagan. Turned as much into guns as little black Sambo’s tigers were turned into butter. Someday, let’s all enjoy a pancake meal together, in that great beyond all this war and rumors thereof.
Mr. Dings said,
November 28, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Say what you want, Carter is not to be dismissed as “dumber than a box of rocks.” I can’t stand to listen to Garrison’s demeaning tone in his know-it-all lawyerly Hoosier delivery often enough to provide more particulars, but he often uses terms as yahoo, and boobs to describe those he is not in agreement with.
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/155513
In a defense of Carter penned for the mass-circulation Israeli newspaper Yediot Acharonot, the woman who served as former Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin’s education minister wrote that, “Indeed apartheid does exist here.”
“The U.S. Jewish establishment’s onslaught on former President Jimmy Carter is based on him daring to tell the truth which is known to all: through its army, the government of Israel practises a brutal form of Apartheid in the territory it occupies,” explains Aloni. “Its army has turned every Palestinian village and town into a fenced-in, or blocked-in, detention camp. All this is done in order to keep an eye on the population’s movements and to make its life difficult. Israel even imposes a total curfew whenever the settlers, who have illegally usurped the Palestinians’ land, celebrate their holidays or conduct their parades.”
Aloni should be reminded that the battering of Carter has as frequently come from non-Jews as Jews in the U.S. But, with that clarification, her message is one that merits serious attention from Americans who are frustrated by this country’s inability to engage in a serious discussion about Middle East policy.
I suppose, though, it’s Garrison’s American Zionism, which, like the bloggie’s sticks in my craw, because it appears they’d rather hang with that country in deference to ours, or, at best, align our fate with Israel’s, and, you know, that just does not sit well with this patriot, and, of course, I’m called otherwise by you two and your ilk. Israel needs to “tear down that wall” and exit the disputed settlements to get things moving towards that dreaded word of peace again. Aint gonna happen, I know, and anyone who voices that opinion is going to be falsely and despicably declared an enemy of the American state.
http://info.jpost.com/C002/Supplements/AmericasVoices/garrison1.html
While the Liddy visit helped create a model for bringing national US radio shows to Israel, Indianapolis’s Michael Papo thinks he may have stumbled upon a similar, if slightly different, model, namely: how to cost-effectively allow local federations to bring local talk show hosts using local Jewish federations as the sponsoring agents. Papo says he “couldn’t believe it” when he learned that he could bring his city’s number-one rated talk show host to broadcast a week’s worth of programs live from Israel for only $12,000.
“I can’t even buy one full-page ad in my local newspaper for that,” he says. “Even I couldn’t fully appreciate the incredible opportunities such a minimal community investment would present at first, so it is not surprising that some of our board members had questions,” Papo says.
Once those questions were answered, Papo got his board’s approval and, along with Federation President Charles Cohen, invited Indianapolis radio personality Greg Garrison to come to Israel to broadcast his three-hour morning talk show for a week as the guest of the Jewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis.
For Garrison, an evangelical conservative staunchly supportive of the Jewish state, coming to Israel was a no-brainer. “Getting to visit Israel for the first time with Chuck and Mike as my guides and as a guest of the Indianapolis Jewish community was one of the greatest honors I ever had.”
Mr. Dings said,
November 28, 2009 at 8:34 pm
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Mr. Dings said,
November 28, 2009 at 8:40 pm
And let’s have a whiff of “your strong odor of peace” here:
http://www.austindiocese.org/newsletter_article_view.php?id=4032
Pope appeals for peace in the Holy Land
Catholic Spirit, June 2009, Front Page
By John Thavis
Catholic News Service
Pope Benedict XVI closed his Holy Land pilgrimage by delivering a plea for peace and a message of Christian hope.
“In Jerusalem at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher May 15, the pope prayed at what Christians believe is the place of Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection. In a talk, he returned to a key theme of his eight-day visit to the region: that the church can bring healing to a land torn by conflict and mistrust. Christ’s empty tomb “speaks to us of hope,” he said.
“The Gospel reassures us that God can make all things new, that history need not be repeated, that memories can be healed, that the bitter fruits of recrimination and hostility can be overcome, and that a future of justice, peace, prosperity and cooperation can arise for every man and woman,” he said.”
All clear now, go blow your nose and toot your Zionist horn some more.
Mr. Dings said,
November 28, 2009 at 8:49 pm
Thought you might enjoy this repartee Ole Greg enjoyed a while back vs. the gay community in Indy. I fail to see how he has much more of anything but being a bully in his head. He’s obviously not that bright either.
http://advanceindiana.blogspot.com/2005/12/greg-garrison-lays-bare-his-anti-gay.html
Within minutes of reading Welsh’s e-mail, Garrison referred to him derisively as “some guy who claims to be an attorney” and completely dismissed the views expressed in the e-mail. To further highlight his complete ignorance and insensitivity, Garrison sent Welsh an e-mail which read: “OH Gary, where to begin with you. Read the ordinance. The worm can is turned over here. Once again your emotional passion for this kind of crap has blinded you to the letter as well as spirit of those constitutions you so recklessly attempt to invoke. You will search in vain for a provision in either document that protects sodomy or other forms of homosexual behavior. Likewise, cross-dressing, using the ladies’ restroom, etc, are not protected. You just wish they were, so you say if (sic) often enough–and castigate those who bother to read the documents–that eventually you can make yourself think it’s there. Its (sic) not.”
Bentnotesmanhisself said,
November 28, 2009 at 9:38 pm
Ah, the whole question of how homosexuality fits into – well, everything from culture to law to religion to education.
Okay, Garrison’s chops as a polemicist fray around the edges when he’s hot. I’ll do a little presumptive expressing here regarding what he’d probably have to say about the subject in a calmer moment. Or, probably at least as presumptive but in a more general sense of speaking for mainstream conservatism in general on the subject, let me say a sentence or two: There seems to be a miniscule segment of humankind that for reasons still not determined, goes in for sexual and / or romantic relations with the same gender. They do not form lifelong committal bonds with the same frequency as married heterosexuals, but sometimes they do. A predisposition to this kind of attraction is not, by a statistical definition, normal. Nonetheless, those acting on it should not have to suffer harrassment from those put off by it. By the same token, it weakens the foundation of our society to enact laws treating it as normal. There are homosexuals aggressively pursuing the enacting of such laws anyway, which evokes a backlash from those who are concerned about the weakening of society’s foundation. No decent person wants to stop any homosexual from pursuing the kind of romantic life that seems most fitting to him or her.
It’s important to remember here that no one has a right not to be offended, just like no one has a right to health care, clean water or a job.
Mr. Dings said,
November 28, 2009 at 10:37 pm
No one has a right to clean water now? So you can buy it, piss and shit in it, dump whatever in it for the poor sucker downstream to worry about it? I do tire of gay activism, actually turning pretty much of a deaf ear towards it. They have huge chips on their shoulders, and, for me, are just not that fun to be around. I just posted that as exemplary of Ole Greg’s communication skills. Basically, though, he’s just an asshole lawyer, typical ego gone wild. I don’t enjoy listening to or being around those types either. I’m sure he wouldn’t give me the time of day if there weren’t anything in it for him.
Bentnotesmanhisself said,
November 29, 2009 at 12:00 am
That’s right. There’s no such thing as a right to clean water.
Mr. Dings said,
November 29, 2009 at 1:02 am
Is clean air OK? Perhaps for children under a certain age at least?
Mr. Dings said,
November 29, 2009 at 1:04 am
At least I know you aren’t God now, because He actually graced us with clean water, at least at one time, didn’t He? We should be grateful our pregenitors often thanked Him for that.
Mr. Dings said,
November 29, 2009 at 6:28 pm
So now it’s, there by the grace of ownership, go I……
Bentnotesmanhisself said,
November 29, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Well, you certainly have the right to do what you want with what you own.