Toledo Bytes

2006-02-08T20:45:00.000-08:00

I haven't seen "The Blade" publish any of these cartoons that are upsetting the islamofascists. I know "The Blade" is a very courageous paper, very dedicated to freedom of the press. Like most of the "main stream media" they're very concerned about press freedom and the need for shield laws so "reporters" can protect their "sources" - real or imaginary. But I wonder why the delay in publishing these cartoons?

Papers in this country, like the New York Times, don't have any qualms about publishing material that damages the nation's security, i.e., informing terrorists who want to kill us and establish islam as the official and only religion of the world. No, they're fearless when it comes to things like that. But, they're gutless when it comes to these cartoons, which are, ahem, NEWS.

These liberals what hypocrites! Spineless, lying hypocrites.

Yeah. And are those clods at the University of Toledo going to sponsor talks about how islamofascists are taking these cartoons which were published last year plus some others they themselves created (wonder what Mohammed thinks about that) to fan anti-western hate.

Well, don't hold your breath. If they do anything, it'll be to tell those poor clod students how we need to be more tolerant and how it's our fault. The fact is that tolerance cuts both ways. We don't have to be tolerant of barbarians. That's what these islamofascists are.

2006-02-07T09:25:00.000-08:00

An Ohio State Supreme Court Justice, Mr. Chief Justice Moyer, has been talking out loud. What he's been saying is disturbing.

I glanced over an article in that rag, The Toledo Blade, that seemed to indicate that Moyer advocated life appointments to the Supreme Court of Ohio. I say "seemed" because "The Blade" is not to be believed in its reportage. But, for the sake of argument, let's assume it's actually factual.

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060127/NEWS02/601270368&SearchID=73234879358621

Liberals really like to push this fantasy that by making the judiciary unaccountable to the electorate the judiciary somehow become more impartially wise arbiters. As far as I know, while the above sentiment is often mouthed, the exact process by which its magic is achieved is never articulated. More importantly, the facts show just the opposite result to be true. Remember the federal judiciary? It's devolved into a judicial oligarchy where liberal judges and justices, insulated from the electorate, i.e., the people from whom all power in a democracy resides, have relegated the written Constitution to a blank page on which they may write their peculiar agenda.

Is it a coincidence that those states which have somehow found rights to same sex marriage and other views which a majority of Americans find offensive have Supreme Courts whose members are appointed to life-time terms and not elected? I think not. And that's what Moyer's goofy idea would yield in Ohio. I agree with Mr. Seitz who has observed that

"The plan is fundamentally anti-democratic and uses a meat axe to rectify problems that would be better dealt with in ways short of robbing the public of its rights."

Indeed, this recognition of the dangers an unelected judiciary is hardly new. Mr. Justice Yates, writing as Brutus, noted the above objection and others more than 200 years ago. Given the history of the Supreme Court, Mr. Yates has proven himself, unfortuately for us all, all to prescient.

http://www.constitution.org/afp/brutus11.htm
http://www.constitution.org/afp/brutus15.htm

Frankly, given this article in "The Blade," Mr. Seitz would seem to make a much better Justice than Mr. Moyer. Let me be the first to say, Seitz for Ohio Supreme Court Justice.

2006-01-31T18:18:00.000-08:00

Alito gets senate advise and consent. Oh, happy day!

Course, I like how the liberal media spins this. Heard something to the affect that Alito gets the lowest vote in history or some such nonsense. Well, who exactly does that reflect badly upon? Alito? The Republicans? or is it the Democrats, who again show us they are nothing but the puppets of extreme left-wingers. The answer is, of course, the latter. The Democrats in Congress are the puppets of loony left-wingers who are anti-US.

Republicans should take note, however, the next time a left-wing President tries to foist a left-wing justice on us, like Ruth Bader-Ginsburg, the Republicans need to pull the same kind of antics that the Democrats do. Maybe then we can get the nomination and advise and consent process back onto a Constitutional footing.

How typical that left-wingers say they need to use an unconstitutional filibuster to protect our Constitutional rights. How is the filibuster unconstitutional? Well, Congress is free to make up whatever rules it wants in order to affectuate its Constitutional rights and obligations, but it's not free to impinge on the rights and obligations of the other branches as determined by the Constitution. Denying the President a vote via filibuster (in affect denying an opportunity for "advise and consent") for a given nominee is clearly unconstitutional.

Anyway, speaking of Ruth Bader-Ginsburg, the former ACLU guru and radical feminist, whose husband had many investments that raised conflict of interest questions which the liberal media ignored, she's going to be appearing the University of Toledo law school. I'm sure all the liberal profs are already queuing up to kiss her ass.

If anyone wants an idea of a halloween costume that will be guaranteed to frighten small children, cause horses to bolt, and pregnant women to go into spontaneous labor, well, it'd be a Ruth Bader-Ginsburg costume. I mean, well, get a load of this pic:

http://www.law.utoledo.edu/

I'm not one of those people who has been impressed with Bader-Ginsburg's "jurisprudence," i.e., her activist liberal agenda. For example,

http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/whelan200504260804.asp

But, I suppose this sort of observation won't sway professors who like to post pictures of Bush with lens cap on binoculars etc. (He seems to have taken down this pic for some reason). But don't have the intellectual honesty to give context etc.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/folder/dumb_at_the_dmz.guest.html

2006-01-29T10:20:00.000-08:00

I'm disappointed. I was hoping there would be a strike at UT. These liberal fat-cat professors need a dose of reality. Alas, it was not to be. I must admit that I haven't kept up on the facts. In other words, who caved? I suspect the University did more caving than the faculty and the "staff." The faculty got their foot in the door on this "issue" of "domestic partner" benefits, i.e., they get the coverage although they apparently have to pay something towards it. Undoubtedly this is part of some incremental approach, a favorite tactic of liberals, towards getting full recognition and support for whatever concubines and eunuchs they keep on the side.

If there's a silver lining, it may be that the University's enrollment will continue to drop, forcing the layoff of faculty and staff. I realize that they'll sell off the physical plant and come whining to the taxpayers to bail them out ere they do that, but it would be fun to see.

The University of Toledo is really a substandard institution nowadays. Of course, it's a matter of their own making. Liberals in the teacher's unions have provided these so-called institutions of higher learning with "marching morons." Young people who have been indoctrinated in the dogma of diversity, feminism etc., but who can't read, write or do sums.

If I had kids, there's no way I'd let them go to UT. First I'd send them to private schools for grades K-12, naturally. Even there, you have to be discriminating. St. John's HS in Toledo used to be a good HS, but I think they've fallen prey to political correctness, i.e., they've gotten too liberal. MVCDS has been out for many years. You want to send your kids to a school where they will be educated and socialized to some extent but not brain-washed.

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On the local political front, Carty is talking his grandiose ideas for Toledo again. Well, you can't say the guy doesn't have vision. However, one might wish he was grounded a little more in reality. Budget and money reality don't seem make much of an impression on Carty - in that regard, he's a true liberal. I do give him some credit for mentioning that Toledo needs to try to get more white collar jobs. Unfortunately, that idea is about 30 years too late. But, give him his due, he's the first Toledo politico to realize it!

It's too late for Toledo. The young people who have any prospects have either already left or will leave for other more vibrant, culturally and economically, areas. All that's left in Toledo and Lucas county is a husk.

I wonder if it isn't the case that most of the depressed areas in the nation are those that have been under the sway of liberals long term? That's sure the case in Toledo and Lucas county Ohio.

Of course, the local liberals and the local liberal rag, "The Blade," blame the Republicans etc. But, truth be told, the liberals have been running the show here locally for ages. It's their fault. Toledo schools have been run by liberals, they produce students who suck. Curiously, the same can't be said for Sylvania, Maumee, and Perrysburg. Liberals will say it's because Toledo doesn't get the same money or something. Even if that's true, which I doubt, don't believe it. For example, Washington, D.C. schools get more money per pupil than anyone, but they're the worst schools in the nation.

People in Toledo are just plain stupid. They have too much of this stereotypic blue-collar type: low-brow, ethnic types coming from countries with a socialist tradition who'll believe any sort of socialist propaganda the unions, the Democrat establishment, or "The Blade" push. Well, either that or they've been on government hand-outs for generations.

By the way, has anyone ever checked how well "The Blade" has done on its agenda for the city, the county, the state, or the nation? "The Blade" has been in lock step with the local Democrat establishment on what's best for Toledo for years. And we all know how well Toledo is doing as a result.

2006-01-19T15:22:00.000-08:00

The local alleged institution of higher learning, The University of Toledo, continues its parade of liberal myths and the hacks who promote them. On the 25th of January the 24th annual Cannon Lecture, whatever that is, will present "Documentary" filmmaker Rory Kennedy – “Domestic Violence: A Family Affair.”

When I was a kid, I used to think documentaries were unvarnished, straightforward accounts of actual events or situations. Maybe they were - back then. Today most, if not all, documentaries are at best nothing but slick propaganda. National Geographic isn't about a bunch of bare-breasted natives anymore, it's all about indoctrination into nonsense like global warming and why we should love the people who hate us.

What would lend credibility to the University and its liberal overlords would be to invite someone like Kate O'Beirne to speak on gender issues!

http://www.nrbookservice.com/products/BookPage.asp?prod_cd=c6862

Then we might be able to say the University is about real diversity, not just this phony diversity liberals like to talk about, i.e., get rid of white males unless they're flaming homos, stamp out Christian organizations, promote radical Islam, make men the root of all evil etc. A liberal's idea of diversity is to create an environment where, while on the surface everyone looks different, underneath they all believe and act the same.

I think it's time to dispel some of these liberal myths and lies that are foisted on poor malleable college students who've already been sinned against when they were in grade and high school by the liberal teachers' unions and gotten more indoctrination than education.

A lot of these liberal gender myths they spout stem from "sociologists." Well, if you haven't figured it out yet for yourself, let me clue you in. Sociology isn't a science, it's nothing but liberals garbed in pseudo-academic status spewing their agenda under the guise it's "science!"

There is this marvelous British tv series "Yes, Minister" and "Yes, Prime Minister" who never miss a change to ridicule this myth that sociology is a science. And, as the Brits say the criticism is spot on.

Since we're talking about gender "relations" one of my favorite foils is the "respected" sociologist (propagandist) Lenore Weitzman. She foisted a bunch of pseudo-scientific bull crap about marriage and divorce which lawmakers and liberal judges bought hook, line, and sinker. In the case of judges, it was easy for them to buy it because they wanted it so badly!

Anyway, what Weitzman said was a bunch of nonsense, but even today it's bought by liberals and taught by them as gospel at a university near you. But it's all lies, Mr. Mason. There's not one word of truth in it.

http://www.spca.org.au/document_library/Lies%20Damned%20Lies%20and%20Lenore%20Weitzman.pdf

Radical feminist liars like Weitzman and other liberals of her ilk tend to view marriage and divorce as lose-lose situations for women. That's their mind-set and they're not about to let the facts get in the way. In fact, if marriage and divorce are a lose-lose situation for anyone, it's for men.

http://www.glennsacks.com/4_feminists_myths.htm
http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm

2006-01-16T14:19:00.000-08:00

The UT school of law continues its love affair with left-wingers. They started off their speaker series with some women, J.E. (I guess she doesn't like her given names) McNeil, the Executive Director of the Center on Conscience and War. Her theme: Do you feel a draft? The talk was co-sponsored by the ACLU of Ohio and the NW Ohio Peace Coalition.

It sounded like a must miss, and I did miss it. I had enough of this left-wing two-faced BS from the Kerry campaign last Presidental election. Nevertheless, I'm sure the usual suspects attended from the law school and the kook community.

According to the press release, "the Center on Conscience & War (CCW) was formed in 1940 by an association of religious bodies." Course this begs the question: what religious bodies? Looking on the net, it appears it was initially formed by "historic peace churches" like Mennonites, Quakers, Brethren, and the Amish.

Normally Mennonites, Quakers, Brethren, and the Amish are the sort of people that liberals would make fun of for their peculiar ways and dress. But here, of course, they can be exploited because their principled, although misguided, objectives dovetail nicely with liberal's unprincipled objectives.

The liberal objective is to essentially destroy the United States as a distinct entity on the world stage, a nation that does not have a socialist tradition, a nation that is exceptional among nations. As currently constituted, the United States is an impediment to world socialism and other failed liberal agenda. It's a thorn in the good liberal's side.

It's odd, of course, that the liberals should be so opposed to a military draft. Why? They're actually in favor of "national service." What is national service? It's just another name for a draft. Course they give you an option - if you want to call it that. Work for free in something like the peace corps or be a marine. What if you object to indentured servitude period? Would the CCW represent you if you refused to work in inner city LA? (Probably safer to be a marine.) It's also worth remarking that professional military men don't favor drafts. They prefer soldiers who want to be soldiers.

In fact, national service was part of John Kerry's platform - until it was discovered he was talking out of both sides of his mouth, as liberals are wont, and it was discretely removed without reportage or fanfare from his webpage etc.

Let's call a spade a spade. The real problem here isn't that liberals are opposed to a draft. As we've seen, they actually love the idea. It's just another currently untapped form of taxation. No, what they're opposed to is young men volunteering to fight for the nation. That implies a strong America, and liberals don't want that.

In fact, years before 9/11, there was an article in The Atlantic Monthly (a liberal rag) saying a draft was needed because the military attracted too many conservatives, i.e., people who believed in American Exceptionalism, a strong America etc. To these liberal kooks a draft would water down the military with the typical products of liberal teachers' union members: young people who don't want to work, can't read or write, and think the gummit owes them a living. In other words, the liberal's issue with the military is that it actually works.

Just who are these COs that groups like CCW represent?

The New York Times (excerpted)

October 9, 2004 Saturday
Late Edition - Final
SECTION: Section A; Column 3; Foreign Desk; THE SATURDAY PROFILE; Pg. 4
HEADLINE: In Canada, an Exile Pleads a Tangled Case for Refuge
BYLINE: By CLIFFORD KRAUSS
DATELINE: TORONTO

[quote]

Mr. Hinzman says he joined the Army in January 2001 in part to be able
to afford to eventually go to college, but his other reason was linked
to what he calls his Buddhist ''lens'' on life. ''My intent,'' he said,
''was to annihilate my ego.''

''On the surface, obviously I made the wrong career choice and I wasn't
introspective enough before I went in,'' he said calmly, sitting on his
futon couch in a near lotus position with his bare feet crossed.

Mr. Hinzman is ... 25, .... He is a Roman Catholic, a convert ...,
[b]ut his spiritual searching has taken him far and wide, from Quaker
meetings to Buddhist studies.

Mr. Hinzman .., born with no father on his birth certificate -- ''I am
a bastard,'' he says .., [was] raised by his grandparents after his
mother could not care for him, for reasons he refused to discuss.

[I]n the Army [he was] promoted to specialist, and he was due to enter
the elite Ranger school when he decided to file for conscientious
objector status in August 2002.

(Aside: Because of his CO application, when in Afghanistan he served in
the kitchen, apparently.)

MAJ Amy Hannah, spokeswoman for the 82nd Airborne, said the
investigating officer had concluded that ''Hinzman was using the CO
process to get out of the infantry.'' She said he never took his case
to a final appeal.

A 2002 study by the United States Army Research Institute for the
Behavioral and Social Sciences found that deserters tended to be less
educated and of low intellectual aptitude, to engage in delinquent acts
before deserting, to have family and personal problems, and to come
from broken homes.

[endquote]

I gather the CO's argument is that if he hadn't deserted he
would have been forced to commit atrocities. Apparently he belongs
to the John Kerry school. Moreover, he also claims that such
conduct (atrocities) is systemic and not anomalous, that the
war, Iraq and Afghanistan? is immoral and illegal, and that
returning him to the US would subject him to persecution as a CO as
opposed to prosecution under UCMJ as a deserter.

His hearing in Canada was on 6 Dec. Lawyers for Hinzman and the
Canadian government will be supplying additionial written
submissions in January with a decision expected in February.

If turned down, Hinzman can appeal to the Canadian Federal Court
level and then to the immigration minister, whoever that might be.
The current one is in a bit of hot water over a Romanian stripper
and some alleged campaign contribution improprieties.

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2004/11/23/sgro041123.html

A witness who appeared in Hinzman's behalf, former Marine Sergeant
Jimmy Massey, said his unit killed various "innocent" parties. This was
also reported in Europe.

Massey, a 12 year veteran of the Marines, was apparently honorably
discharged (when?) diagnosed as suffering from severe depression
and post traumatic stress disorder.

This is the best witness they could come up with?

Gleaned from yet another source:

At his hearing, Hinzman told how he voluntarily approached a recruiting
office in late 2000, saying he was raised believing the military had a
"higher purpose." (Must've been around Xmas time, see above and below.)

After examining recruiting brochures and videos, Hinzman determined he
wanted to be an infantryman to experience "the essence" of the Army. He
subsequently enlisted two weeks later for a four-year term.

2006-01-09T14:05:00.000-08:00

I don't watch much tv nowadays. The comment about it being "a vast cultural wasteland" seems more true than ever - excepting those channels that run shows from by-gone days like the b&w Perry Mason etc.

Nonetheless, I happened to catch about 20 seconds of a show that airs on the local PBS (Pure Bull Shit) station called "The Editors." Yes, I know, it's a rather pretentious appellation, but what else do Toledoans have but pretensions?

Anyway, "The Editors" is hosted by pseudo-intellectuals from "The Blade," some Jack and Jill team of pretentious yet grossly misinformed nitwits masquerading as intellectual and cultural luminaries.

I guess the topic of this particular program had something to do with religion - it was the Christmas season. So like typical liberals who do they marshal in as experts? Some guy representing "Unitarian Universalists" and some female clergyman whose "credentials" I didn't catch. Why is it that when liberals want to talk religion they invariably go to people who are theologically closer to atheism than, say, Christianity?

In any "reportage" etc., liberals invariably stack the deck with people who agree with their rather narrow viewpoints. I guess they're afraid of a real debate and the possibility that the actual facts will get out to the "masses."

"The Blade" routinely practices this type of "journalism." Examples are legion, but here are a couple that come to mind immediately. During the Presidential election liberals were salivating over the prospect that Britain's Tony Blair and Australia's John Howard would be turned out of office for supporting Bush over Iraq. Well, when Blair, who's actually quite liberal, was returned with a diminished majority, it was front page news in "The Blade." But when Howard won handily in Australia their was just a one incher buried days later in the back pages. I guess that result didn't fit the "program."

That's how "The Blade" reports. It either ignores or buries the news it doesn't like (the wonderful state of the national economy, progress in Iraq etc.) and highlights the news it does like (Noe's problems etc.)

That's not journalism, that's propaganda. No wonder people are abandoning "The Blade."

2006-01-05T12:58:00.000-08:00

The Blade along with all the other media certainly have egg on their collective face again. Again, the media, which includes that student paper, The Blade, have shown that they are nothing more than rumormongers. They reported all the West Virginia miners save one survived when just the opposite was true.

Apparently none of the media ask questions like who, what, where, when, how etc. Clearly, by foregoing such rudimentary fact-finding, they've shown they are not interested in conveying accurate information.

So, what good are they, then? The media want us to believe they're essential to liberty - the myth of the utility of a free press etc. But how does rumor and propaganda further democracy? It doesn't of course. In fact, it's antithetical to a well-functioning democracy.

The media isn't interested in democracy; it is only interested in the furtherance of its own peculiar political ideology.

Of course, The Blade has been following liberal talking points in trying to portray Republicans as corrupt etc. while ignoring the fact that Republicans actually investigate such wrongdoings and don't try to block them. Democrats do just the opposite. Moreover, The Blade and the rest of the media conveniently ignore Democratic ethical missteps which as far as I can tell of no less numerous than Republican.

Telling just half the story isn't being truthful, it's lying. That's what The Blade is all about.

2005-12-12T06:10:00.000-08:00

I've come to the conclusion that the "news" media whether local, national, or international are nothing but narrow-minded, petty, and malicious gossips. Old biddy gossips spreading so many lies, rumors, and misrepresentations that they have constructed a huge edifice of deceit. It’s an edifice whose legion structural inconsistencies make it apparent to any objective observer that the emperor has no clothes, but they see nothing but richest of raiment.

I don't really watch or read the "news" anymore. If I want to gossip, I can get more credible and interesting gossip via instant messaging or around the water cooler. The media, like the liberal pseudo-intellectuals they like to parrot, have made themselves irrelevant.

But they are fun to watch occasionally. I enjoy how they have tried to gin up excitement of these ridiculous Nazis and the panic-stricken reaction of Toledo officialdom. These Nazi types while no doubt offensive are inconsequential in and of themselves. Like those black Nazis, the nation of Islam. (It's interesting to contrast the reportage the two groups generate!)

As I have noted earlier, however, the Nazis do seem to have served a useful purpose. Their ridiculous rallies and parades and what not have illustrated that Toledo has a gang problem. What frightens Toledo officialdom isn't the Nazis. No, what frightens Toledo officials is the Nazis demonstrate Toledo has a problem with black gangs etc. who apparently terrorize vast sections of the city and Toledo police are unable to control/eliminate these gangs. That's what officials don't want Toledoans to see! In that sense the Nazis and the hysteria-inducing gossipy ol' media have served a useful purpose. Of course they didn't intend it!

Since I'm on the topic of the risible media, how can I not mention "The Toledo Blade," Toledo's decidedly low-brow unintentionally hysterical news rag. A few weeks ago they were claiming that they're not biased because they get criticism from wacky liberals for not publishing even more anti-Republican rubbish. Yeah, that makes you an unbiased, credible news source!

I love how they buried the McCloskey story until after the municipal election. And they haven't said much, if anything, about it since. Contrast that to the Noe story. Every bit of salacious gossip, innuendo etc. that comes their way on that front goes on the front page. But if we're going to gossip, why can't we be equal opportunity gossips? I'm sure there's plenty of scandal lurking in the local Toledo and Lucas county government they could report on.

Indeed, the Blade and local TV totally ignore local issues. We don't get reports on what's happening at city council, with the county commissioners, or with the local school board. We don't hear about what is or isn't going on with the police department, the fire department, the local economy etc. We don't hear anything about the gang problem directly! We only learn about it indirectly when they report on a few hapless Nazis.

We do get a steady stream of liberal propaganda, though! anti-Iraq war reportage, making bad news out of good economic news, environmental global warming religious nonsense etc. In other words, gossip.

2005-11-20T07:53:00.000-08:00

Mirabile dictu ... that worthless rag "The Toledo Blade" is aparently reporting allegations that a current Democrat Toledo city councilman tried to blackmail a local business exec into "donating" money to a pet charity and/or parties the councilman has an interest in ....

"He told me that's how business works in the city if you want to get something done," Mr. Berg testified.

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051120/NEWS08/511200353

Does anyone seriously doubt that's how business works in Toledo? It's been controlled by Democrats for decades.

"The Blade" has a history of being very proactive in reporting every rumor and making any innuendo that might reflect badly on Republicans, but it's shown (consider the McConnell-Hancock saga) it's very reluctant to investigate or report bad news for Democrats. Usually the only time it does it is when some other paper or news source has already scooped them or is about to scoop them!

Since we're on the general topic of corrupt liberals ... Charles Krauthammer has an interesting take on muslims, the pet liberal project of multiculturalism, France, and the muslimification of Europe.

The fact that our homegrown liberal kooks have such a love affair with Europe is yet more proof that their policies are antithetical to US short and long term interests.

"With current trends," Professor Bernard Lewis has said, "Europe will have Muslim majorities in the population by the end of the 21st century." The future? "Europe will be part of the Arab west, of the Maghreb [Muslim northwest Africa]." Today's rioting youth are just a bit ahead of their time in claiming their upcoming patrimony.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1129602,00.html

That's why liberalism must be utterly stamped out in this country - before it's too late. Multiculturalism and ancillary projects like the war against Christianity is destroying our culture and it will eventually destroy us if allowed to continue.

2005-11-17T15:57:00.002-08:00

The University of Toledo and/or the Law school seem to be hosting a film on Wal-Mart. I guess this "documentary" is the brainchild of a guy named Greenwald. It seems to be attracting the usual suspects.

One thing I don't understand about liberals is their rabid hostility to corporations. Undoubtedly it grows about of Marxism and Marx's ridiculous "labor theory of value." But don't these assorted rabid kooks realize that Marx and his "theories" have been forever consigned to the historical ash heap? Apparently not. After all, who could these people "feel" for if it weren't the "victims" of the corporate form. Nevermind corporations are the greatest engines for prosperity ever conceived!

2005-11-16T08:44:00.000-08:00

Well, Gaulistan is settling nicely into a more typical pattern of car burnings and other indications of social nonconformance.

No doubt spending even more money on worthless layabouts, pushing the country even further to the left, and kowtowing to "multiculturalism" will be credited with this "success." Not following liberal precepts sufficiently resulted in the problem in the first place, right?

Of course, those of us who don't buy into the shallow emotionalism of liberalism realize that France and the rest of Europe have "liberaled" themselves into non-existence.

In the near future, Europe will be an Islamic continent. Women will be chattel. Homosexuals will be persecuted. Religion will be foisted on all inhabitants.

How ironic! The things liberalism supposedly hates the most will be its legacy. No doubt, that will suit them just fine. At least Islam isn't Christianity!

Of course, liberals don't see these contradictions. That's probably a by-product of their inherent emotionalism. Those facts which don't fit into their emotional conception of reality are simply derisively ignored. For example, note the liberal media's pointed lack of interest in the fact that the rioters are muslim etc. Liberals don't think they just emote.

2005-11-09T13:18:00.000-08:00

There was a local election in Toledo yesterday touching upon the mayoralty, local councilmen, municipal judges, and various local and state issues.

For mayor, it was really a choice between the devil and the deep blue sea. Actually, a more apt analogy might be this: it was a choice between an hyperactive egoist and a personable zombie. The egoist won.

However, the winner, a former mayor, even if he had the intellect and the ambition, which he doesn't, won't have any more luck raising Toledo from the dead than any other mayor. The city is too far gone. It's not 1970 anymore. The local politicos had their chances and they squandered them. You can't turn back the clock. The local Democrats, who have controlled Toledo for ages, have been too concerned with ass-kissing the unions and embracing left-wing ideology for the past 3 or 4 decades.

This election marked the first use of touch screens. Naturally, results took 3x longer to tally than they did under the old fashioned method. That wasn't a surprise. Toledoans aren't particularly savvy when it comes to technology.

But, at least Toledo isn't a Detroit (or Cleveland) yet. I don't think there was widespread voter fraud. By the way, when is something going to be done about voter fraud in Detroit? I mean, I know no one gives a damn about Detroit, but it does impact the rest of Michigan and sometimes even the entire nation.

The local Republican candidates, a small cadre, made a remarkably respectible showing considering the local paper is heavily biased in favor a liberal candidates etc. and for the past 1 year so has been pointing out shortcomings in a couple republican politicos. Of course, they ignore the dirt of the Democrats.

Statewide Issues 2,3,4, and 5 also failed. These were sold as electoral reform, but, of course, they were anything but. They were designed to make it easier for liberal action groups to seize control of the state government.

Speaking of seizing control, how 'bout France? I enjoy how the media types in this country and elsewhere tie themselves in knots trying to blame the rioting on anything but muslims trying to seize control of France bit by bit. When the first rioting started, I heard a propagandist on NPR try to blame it on "the Christians." (They said the three who were electrocuted were Christian). Now the excuse is the same tired old liberal song: "We're not spending enough money etc."

By this point in time, it should be obvious to all, that as far as liberals are concerned, there will never be enough money spent on the dole for worthless lay-abouts and criminals.

It should also be obvious that "multiculturalism" is a liberal sham that's being exploited by militant islamists to impose their laws, culture etc. on the rest of us.

Given what's happening in France, can the rest of Europe and Canada be far behind?

2005-11-03T11:52:00.000-08:00

Prince Charles has come to this country to teach us about tolerating Islam.

It seems his time might be better spent preaching tolerance in Islamic countries.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,174409,00.html

2005-10-31T07:38:00.000-08:00

This month, October, 2005, was another advertisement for how wretched a hole Toledo, Ohio (and Lucas County) is.

Left-wingers want to blame the recent riot by the criminal elements in Toledo as the fault of the neo-Nazis, poverty, or, no doubt, the phase of the moon. In other words, they want to place the blame on anything or anybody but the real culprits.

The real culprits are liberals and liberalism. Liberals by making excuses for the bad (anti-social) behavior of their "pet" constituents encourage such behavior. In the liberal world-view, it's not the malefactors' fault they're bad, it's someone else's.

Not very many people subscribe to the racist propaganda of the neo-Nazis, but too many people subscribe to the racist propaganda of liberalism.

If anything good has come out of the wanton destruction that took place in Toledo, it's the realization that Toledo has a problem with gangs and a criminal element.

Will anything be done? Nothing can be done if you don't recognize the problem! Toledoans have exhibited time and time again they either can't do that or won't.

Until they do, Toledoans will continuing living in a hole.

2005-10-03T09:06:00.000-07:00

A month or so ago, a media saint, Peter Jennings went to his final reward. Liberals often at a minimum hint they think Christians hypocritical. The Catholic Church should be ashamed of itself for not selling off "its" treasures to help the world's downtrodden and the like.

Well, with "saint" Peter Jennings we have an example of what a liberal does with his riches - only after he's dead of course. Jennings apparently had an estate with about 50 million. Not bad for a pompous airhead who never graduated from high school. He left 49 million to his second wife and his kids. Supposedly some 1 million goes to a pet charity or two. Namely, some initiative involving the homeless.

That's all well and good, but given Peter's pontifications in life about the world's poor and downtrodden, you'd have thought he'd be giving 49 million to them and 1 million to wife number two and kids.

2005-09-30T12:39:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, someone told me there was a fire in an abandoned building in "downtown" Toledo. My response was "which abandoned building?"

Yes, an old building dating from 1887 went up in flames. It must have been a nice building once upon a time. It was according to accounts a fairly substantial blaze. The nominal owner bought it for investment purposes a few years ago. What a risky proposition in Toledo! I guess he wanted to turn it into condos or some such, but he had no takers. The local tax man was foreclosing on back taxes to the tune of about 28,000$.

Wow!! That seems pretty substantial for downtown Toledo. But Toledo government always imagines itself on a par with NYC. Most of downtown Toledo consists of old, derelict, vacant buildings. I can't imagine anyone either holding on to them or buying them unless there was a tax write off lurking in the bushes.

I'm not completely heartless when it comes to Toledo, I do sympathize somewhat with the people who actually hold title to property there - especially if it is downtown. Even newer structures, there are one or two, can't be unloaded. The following was built in the 70s, I think, and has been vacant for years:

http://www.cimls.com/data_sale/full_sale_listing.php?ID=7135&ref=property_review

sirwd

2005-09-15T12:05:00.000-07:00

Sometime ago candidate for mayor Finkbeinger made a comment that the Polish will vote for Wilkowski, the blacks will vote for Ford etc.

Well, in looking at the results from the primary, that's exactly how Toledoans voted. At the time Finkbeiner made the comment, the local liberals were aghast. The truth seems to generally have that affect on them.

It doesn't say much for Toledoans that they'd vote along those lines, of course, but there's no denying that's the reality. Just because the truth hurts, that doesn't make it untruthful.

2005-09-14T10:24:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Toledoans narrowed the choice for mayor to two candidates: the incumbent, Jack Ford, and former mayor, "Carty" Finkbeiner. Both are Democrats, but Ford is the favorite of the Democrat establishment.

Toledo is a solidly Democrat town and run, essentially, by the unions. That's why it's a total disaster area when it comes to employment and economic outlook. Years ago, Toledo was a sleepy little city with few prospects. Today, after decades of Democrat misrule, it's an even sleepier city with even fewer prospects, well along on its way to mini-Detroitdom and oblivion. If you want to see the an example of the fruits of liberalism on a local scale or how not to run a local governmenton, just visit Toledo - an even more glaring example is New Orleans, of course.

Jobs and young people have been leaving the area for years under the Democrats. What is left is a crumbling infrastructure with few high-paying jobs. The public schools are horrible. Kids know less when they graduate than they did when they matriculated. And, apparently, their parents just don't give a damn. Since most, if not all, are Democrats, I suppose they just expect the government to provide their worthless progeny with employment.

Jack Ford, who is black, keeps a picture of Malcolm X on his desk. I suppose the "white" equivalent is having David Duke as mayor with a picture of Hitler. Ford has, naturally, gone out of his way to reward his friends - all in the name of "affirmative action," i.e., legalized racism. He's done this by farming out city contracts to minority businesses even if those businesses aren't local. Oh, well, it's a practice endorsed by the likes of the late, but not lamented, Coleman Young of Detroit and Michael White of Cleveland, both stellar examples of mayoralty.

Finkbeiner is no great shakes, either. He's something of a kook, with a rather large ego - not particularly pleasant to be around.

Toledoans have given themselves another great choice: the devil and the deep blue sea. Through their indifference and stupidity, Toledoans have ruined their city beyond recovery, turned their children into marching morons, and condemned themselves to an almost third-world economic status. It couldn’t happen to a more deserving group of people.

2005-09-12T07:55:00.000-07:00

www.toledotalk.com is an alternate source of "information" about the goings-on in Toledo. However, postings there should be taken with a large grain of salt. Many of the posters aren't very well informed about Toledo or, frankly, anything. They let their emotions run riot and relegate what little they have of intellect to the back-seat. Even so, occasionally you may find some useful information there.

I used to post there now and then until I was ejected by the site's owner, "jr." Apparently, I insulted the memory of one of his (or her?) heroes, Peter Jennings, the much lamented, in some circles, so-called journalist. For some reason, "jr" thought that "cowardly." But rather than let me reply, he foreclosed that option. Strangely, that made me a "coward." Oh, well, can't have high expectations generally about Toledoans like "jr."

I have a different view of Mr. Jennings. I found him to be an insufferable, anti-American prig, who tended to lecture and talk down to his audience. I'm not surprised the liberal media should have worshipped the ground he walked upon, but it is amazing that members of the general public would. On the other hand, I should remember that many people from Toledo aren't very discerning or, well, smart.

I, on the other hand, agree with the following assessment of Mr Jennings legacy, such as it is:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1461106/posts

As I said elsewhere,

http://www.toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/comments.pl/27/1329

I'm sorry he died, liberals like Jennings are more often than not in danger of "The Judgment," but I certainly won't miss his smug pronouncements!

2005-09-05T11:32:00.000-07:00

I propose "Toledo Bytes" to be a place where I may wax poetic on the city I love to hate: Toledo, Ohio. I was unfortunate enough to have been born in Toledo. Alas, unlike one's name, one cannot alter the place of one's birth; wherever you may move, its stigma seems to move with you.

Why so much contempt for Toledo? You may say that such a pathetic locale hardly warrants such attention. There is merit to this argument, of course.

I would counter by saying that while Toledo itself is just about as insignificant and worthless a place as can be imagined, the utter stupidity of so many Toledoans who have brought the town so low through decades of malfeasance and ineptitude is worth memorializing. The actions of Toledoans will serve as examples of how not to behave or conduct oneself in the context of civic responsibility and governance generally.

In short, I will play the role of Vergil and you, Dante, as we navigate together the hellish ruin that is Toledo!