More unpure arrogance IMHO
Posted on 07/25/2009 1:29:07 PM PDT by Congressman Billybob
by John Armor (BB 664, Even, 25July, 676 words)
How many of you remember Casey Stengel? If you do, raise your hand. For those who don’t know the name, Stengel was the legendary manager of the legendary Yankees for many seasons. When they cut him loose, he became the legendary manager of the Mets, who were legendary for losing, not winning, games. But Casey’s immortal contribution to American civilization was scrambling the English language beyond both comprehension and belief, while at the core having an excellent base of knowledge and statistics. His mantra was, “And you could look it up,” and when you did, Casey was right.
I was going to write about Harvard Professor Gates and his “racist” encounter with the police. Mark Steyn had an excellent column on the subject. So did a gentleman who signed his work only as “Anonymous Negro.” Here’s what I add: About the time that I was eleven or twelve I did some things that I knew I shouldn’t, and had some encounters with the police in Baltimore.
Mind you, it wasn’t anything that would have earned me time in stir, had I been an adult. But it would have gotten me in a world of trouble with my parents, had I been found out by the police (or anyone else) and the story gotten back to my parents. Anyway, what I learned then was to say “Yes, sir,” and “No, sir,” to policemen who were asking questions, to answer other questions with brief but accurate sentences, and otherwise to sit down and shut up until I knew which was the wind was blowing.
If I, a white kid, could learn that by aged twelve, there is absolutely no way that the “distinguished” Professor Gates shouldn’t have learned the same lesson by the age of 55, or whatever. If Gates said to the police just half of what has been reported (especially the “yo mama” remark), then the stupid one in this transaction was Gates. Well, Gates plus the President, because he admitted that he “didn’t know all the facts” but the police were “stupid” anyway.
Yesterday, Obama was back-tracking from his original remarks. You know, he is a lot like Tom Lehrer, who said in his introduction on one of his albums, “if anyone objects to anything I’ve said, I will not only take it back, I will sign an affidavit that I didn’t say it. Then I’ll burn that affidavit, and eat the ashes.”
As for the truth of what happened in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Stengel would have said, “You could look it up.”
On the subject of health care “reform,” Obama guaranteed, in his latest press conference with a steady decline in people willing to listen, that his plan would “insure all 47 million uninsured Americans.” He also said, “Costs will go down, not up.” For starters, 17 of that 47 million are not Americans, they are Mexicans.
The 47 million lie has been repeated so often by so many sources, and traced to its source and debunked so often, that anyone who continues to use that figure must be either a bald-faced liar or a dummy unfit for any position of importance. I am not picking just on Obama, here. I am ashamed to be a member of any organization which repeats that lie in national advertising. I’m talking about AARP, formerly known as the American Association of Retired People.
As for the 17 million, “You could look it up.”
As for Al Gore, global warming, etc., the Earth has been cooling, not warming, for seven years and counting now. That’s why global warming has been replaced by “climate change.” But of course there is climate change. Temperature goes up, and it goes down, within known cycles which have lasted for tens of thousands of years.
As for normal global warming AND cooling, “You could look it up.”
And finally, I had terrific news these week which I cannot mention until next week. So, be on the lookout. As Casey Stengel said, “I'd always heard it couldn't be done, but sometimes it don't always work." 1.
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About the Author: John Armor practiced in the US Supreme Court for 33 years. He is semi-retired and now lives in the Blue Ridge. John_Armor@aya.yale.edu
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John / Billybob
“the Earth has been cooling, not warming, for seven years and counting now”
What do you mean, seven years? Peak temperature was reached in 1998. Perhaps it warmed and cooled intermittently between ‘98 and ‘02, and went downhill from there. But I think the ten or eleven year figure is more important than the seven.
I keep asking myself - how a guy can be so loose with his lip and be trusted as our president? Pure arrogance, I guess.
I’ve heard estimates as high as 35 million Mexicans, which seems more realistic than 17. Of course, that was before the downturn. I walked into a local KFC a few weeks ago, and was amazed that all the workers there looked and sounded like high-school kids who spoke English as the first language. Maybe the number is down to 17 million now.
"Can't anyone here play this game?"
Sounds like a comment on the current administration.
“Can’t anyone here play this game?”
You beat me to it!
Arrogant, self-absorbed, self-righteous, racist blacks like Gates have learned over the past several decades that they can trample on whites and force them to back down simply by being black, loud and convincingly oppressed. Facts don’t matter. Those with the class of a Gates will play this “bonus race card” to the hilt at every opportunity. And why, as whites, should we be surprised? Who let them get by with it in the first place?
Interesting facts about Casey; he hit the first home runs in both the new Ebbet's Field and the new Yankee Stadium, but they were in pre-season games. He also was apparently one of the fastest guys in the game for his time.
not even ‘ashes and sackcloth’ will save the liberal and marxist bastards that infest this nation when their time is come.
and Yes, I remember Casey.
He taught Yogi BeRRa everything he never knew and more, right?
GreeTings FRom the Left Coast where we finally have a state budget in California, sort of.. :-)
Mets fan? I’ve been considering that a mental illness for the past 47 years.
John / Billybob
He might also have said of the current White House, “It holds the heat well”. (think he said that about the Astrodome but not real sure)
Obama is the present day Marv Throneberry.
More unpure arrogance IMHO
He’s also remembered for “Can’t anyone here play this game?”
Great advice about how one handles encounters with the police that they initiate. I have tried to impart the message to my boys and the CPD/Gates incident is yet another teaching moment.
An interesting youtube entry that is on topic here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
The Mets got him from them.
It's a conspiracy I tell ya!
Ah yes, as a Tiger fan in the late 50’s and 60’s I remember Casey with a great amount of admiration and a tad bit of disdain.
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