Promoting Credentials Over Skills

Obama worships credentials, i.e., having degrees. He is less focused on skills and abilities. That is apparent from the lack of successes he has other than staffing the bureaucracy with more people like himself with no marketable skills. Obama's stirring up animosity toward others with skills and wealth can have disastrous results.

[From article]
"When institutions of higher learning turn out highly qualified doctors, scientists, engineers and others with skills that can raise the standard of living of a whole society and make possible a better and longer life, the benefits are obvious.
What is not so obvious, but is painfully true nonetheless, is that colleges and universities can also turn out vast numbers of people with credentials, but with no marketable skills with which to fulfill their expectations. There is nothing magic about simply being in ivy-covered buildings for four years.
[. . .]
Such political movements cannot promote their agendas without demonizing others, thereby polarizing whole societies. Time and again, their targets have been those who have the skills and achievements that they lack. When they achieve their ultimate success, forcing such people out of the country, as in Uganda in the 1970s or Zimbabwe more recently, the whole economy can collapse.
Against this international background, the current class warfare rhetoric in American politics and ethnic grievance ideology in our schools and colleges, can be seen as the dangerous things they are."

http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2012/01/18/an_ignored_disparity_part_ii

An Ignored 'Disparity': Part II
Thomas Sowell
January 18, 2012
TownHall.com

MA Court Ordered Catholic Woman To Have Abortion, Overturned

This problem is worse than just abuses of state court Judges. Today and for many years doctors urge pregnant women whose child has a disability to abort the pregnancy. The doctors tell the parents they will be unhappy and that the child will only ruin the lives of the parents. Politicians, doctors and journalists have no shame. In the name of good, e.g., happiness, eliminating racism, multiculturalism, eliminating hate speech, even the Harvard University faculty destroys lives.

[Earlier version of this report stated that Judge Andrew R. Grainger was the offending judge. Judge Grainger is an appellate judge who participated in the ruling overturning the probate court judge's order. Sorry for any harm done.]

http://www.boston.com/Boston/metrodesk/2012/01/appeals-court-rules-that-state-cannot-order-mentally-ill-woman-have-abortion/vO2pdAOHXusTg8S6QzMrMO/index.html?p1=News_link

Massachusetts Appeals Court rules that judge was wrong to order mentally ill woman to have an abortion and to then be sterilized
01/17/2012 2:30 PM
By Peter Schworm
Boston Globe Staff

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http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1396753&srvc=news&position=2

Decision blasts judge’s order to force abortion
Ruling to ‘coax’ mentally ill woman sparks outrage
By John Zaremba, Chris Cassidy and Erin Smith
Boston Herald
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

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The fact that this petition was ever filed shows how pervasive unlawful bias against persons with disabilities is among government officials, including but not limited to judges who should know better. They would never think about forcing a woman to have an abortion because she was black or a lesbian. Based on fake illnesses the government runs amok. The same thinking allows police, medical professionals, and the superior beings at Harvard University to deny without shame, basic rights and privileges to persons with disabilities. One man from Pakistan told me that it is acceptable to discriminate based on disability but not race. He said, "At least we are whole persons." Once a person is accused of mental illness, police, courts, lawyers, politicians openly deny First Amendment Rights, Due Process Rights, Equal Protection of the Laws, and other rights, based solely on a nonsensical diagnosis, with no basis in science. Journalists mindlessly substantiate the fantasies of these officials publishing their misguided opinions.

http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20220201parents_petition_to_force_ill_daughters_abortion_withdrawn/

Parents’ petition to force ill daughter’s abortion withdrawn
By John Zaremba
Boston Herald
Wednesday, February 1, 2012

UK Hospitals Saving Childrens' Brains In Jars

This is the same behavior by Nazi doctors in Austria. According to the article, it was legal until 2006 in the UK. Psychiatrists at McLean's Psychiatric Hospital in Belmont, MA outside of Boston have been doing this (not just children's brains) for many years.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4065409/40-brains-held.html

40 brains held
Cops probing dozens of cases say mums
By JOHN COLES
Jnauary 17, 2012

Mass Lacks "Son of Sam" Law

Massachusetts does not have a "Son of Sam" law (revised) to prevent Bulger (MA criminals in general) from making money from his crimes. Boston newspapers and the Mass legislature remain unaware that the revised New York law withstands court challenges. A Texas "expert" counseled Boston print media that the laws cannot withstand scrutiny.

[Here's link to Boston Herald story]

http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1396214&format=comments#CommentsArea

Expert: Free speech to shield Whitey flick
By Laurel J. Sweet
Boston Herald
Monday, January 16, 2012

[New York Post story]
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/wood_war_over_whitey_GejLRgCkdaM70yyXR5uvDN

H’wood war over Whitey
By LEONARD GREENE
New York Post
Last Updated: 7:15 AM, January 16, 2012
Posted: 2:58 AM, January 16, 2012

Zappos' Client Credit Info Hacked

Why is it necessary for any retailer to keep the credit card number of any customer? Are online customers so lazy they cannot enter their card number each time they purchase an item? It is bad enough they keep the email addresses, which only result in spam.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/zappos_cyber_attack_pWsrU60crm8SGHJWYGuP7K

Zappos cyber attack
ID info hacked
By DAVID K. LI
New York Post
Last Updated: 3:04 AM, January 17, 2012
Posted: 1:00 AM, January 17, 2012

Diagnosing Dangers

[Comment on article]
Gottstein says he does not question the diagnoses. My question is why not question the illness? If as Paula Caplan states the DSM illnesses are not defined scientifically what makes them real? If only psychiatrists can see mental illnesses what does that say about the viewers or the objects they view? What role does advertisements (public relations, propaganda), campaign contributions to politicians play in creating the market for taxpayer funded psychiatry? David Rosenhan revealed that psychiatry cannot distinguish between sane and insane (see YouTube videos). What makes psychiatry anything more than personal opinion masquerading as science? When an "expert" makes a diagnosis in court why not challenge the "illness" then. Make them provide scientific evidence. They cannot do that.

[Reply to Paula Caplan]
If the method of naming illnesses in the DSM are not scientific why are they treated as if they are real? What is the pathology for mental illness? Psychiatrists declare speech and behavior that they do not like or do not understand as mental illness. What psychiatrists say and do is offensive to others. So, what psychiatrists say and do can be mental illness under their own system.

http://www.madinamerica.com/2012/01/diagnosing-dangers/#comment-731

Diagnosing Dangers
Posted on January 15, 2012
by Jim Gottstein

Obama Rejects Martin Luther King's Dream

[From article]
"President Obama is not practicing what Senator Obama preached. Instead of channeling the heroic Martin Luther King's dream that people be judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin President Obama instead seems to be channeling the views of his moral compass, Jeremiah Wright, Jr."

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/01/how_obama_betrays_martin_luthers_kings_dream.html

January 16, 2012
How Obama Betrays Martin Luther's King's Dream
By George Picard
American Thinker

Legalize Drugs, Save Lives and Taxpayer Funds

http://biggovernment.com/gjohnson/2012/01/16/its-time-to-end-the-war-on-drugs/

It’s Time to End the War on Drugs
by Gov. Gary Johnson (Gov. of New Mexico, Libertarian candidate for President)
January 16, 2012
BigGovernment.com

Bulger Free Speech Expert Misinformed

The Massachusetts court system consistently rules in favor of connected criminals. Bulger is classically "connected," and will get a pass in any moral or legal issue. The expert cited may not be familiar with the revised "Son of Sam" law in New York State. The first one did not pass constitutional scrutiny. The revised one withstands court scrutiny. Here is a citation of the history of this kind of law in other states.

http://www.ncvc.org/ncvc/main.aspx?dbName=DocumentViewer&DocumentID=32469

Notoriety for Profit/"Son of Sam" Legislation
National Center for Victims of Crime

http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1396214&format=comments#CommentsArea

Expert: Free speech to shield Whitey flick
By Laurel J. Sweet
Boston Herald
Monday, January 16, 2012

FInancial Scrutiny Needed of Police

An officer who stole drugs from police evidence rooms, may be a user. But he more than likely enjoys financial or other profits from stealing the drugs. Requiring police audits every six months would ensure that they are not making more money than they earn legally, or getting other consideration. Drug testing will not reveal selling drug evidence.

http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20220116chief_seeks_fix_theft_by_rogue_cop_spurs_call_for_random_drug_tests/

Chief: Drug testing key to stopping rogue cops
By Matt Stout
Boston Herald
Monday, January 16, 2012

More Anti Semitic Acts in Brooklyn, NY

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/orthodox_klyn_neighborhood_tagged_FsRmnWb7CgJtpl8yqvfnfI

Orthodox B'klyn neighborhood tagged with anti-Semitic graffiti
By DOUG AUER, REUVEN FENTON and JOSE MARTINEZ
New York Post
Last Updated: 8:07 PM, January 15, 2012
Posted: 8:06 PM, January 15, 2012

Man Admits Killing Ten People

This charming gentleman admitted killing four people in two days. While awaiting placement in state prison, he admitted killing six more. Police did not keep him under surveillance. Police did not harass him. Police and the FBI did not broadcast character assassination. FBI informants did not say he was their friend and tell others he was a retired drug dealer. After the FBI used me to fight organized crime without compensation for 15 years, the police still watch me 24/7, harass me 24/7 and still broadcast character assassination -- after 25 years. Does that explain why people are reluctant to help police; why they do not trust the government? Elected bozos and candidates ignore these egregious abuses and conduct business as usual. Police enjoy harassing people like me. They try to provoke violence, as lawyers stir up controversies to generate business. They use psychiatry to explain many years of abuses of power. It is called bullying.

Spencer Burnett

Maksim Gelman

[Updated January 18, 2012 7:19 PM]

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/maksim_gelman_gets_into_shouting_85wZGDietrHUTKMW0YxBVK

Brooklyn thug sentenced to 200 years -- but not before series of outbursts
By WILLIAM J. GORTA
New York Post
Last Updated: 4:36 PM, January 18, 2012
Posted: 3:25 PM, January 18, 2012

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[From article]
“After you kill one person, it gets easier,” said Gelman, 24, claiming that he ran over his first two victims when he was 18 and driving in southern Brooklyn.
[. . .]
“My father was a gangster, my grandfather was a gangster,” the mass killer said proudly.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/brighton_beach_butcher_gelman_killed_3NJm2oA4was1ClVDZQZBrM

Brighton Beach butcher Gelman: I killed six more no one knows about
By REBECCA HARSHBARGER
New York Post
Last Updated: 11:58 AM, January 15, 2012
Posted: 11:27 AM, January 15, 2012

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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/maksim_gelman_spree_passenger_additional_1UkAyZttvbWhRXAzGkHutO

Gelman gets 25 more years for slashing subway rider at end of crime spree
By JOSE MARTINEZ
New York Post
Last Updated: 2:51 PM, February 15, 2012
Posted: 12:25 PM, February 15, 2012

Speaking for Human Rights is a Kennedy Cult Business

Using human suffering to show one's humanitarianism is a Kennedy Cult trait. It seems that they only speak against human rights abuses if they get paid to do so. How is this different from what the altruistic US Congress and US Senate do? Former US Rep. from Cambridge MA, Joe Kennedy earns a similar super sized salary as an executive of a non profit oil company while promoting the anti American Hugo Chavez. What a wonderful country where the upper class leadership gets rich bashing the nation that grants them a privileged position.

[From article]
"Kennedy was paid a flat $50,000 by lead attorney Steven Donziger on Feb. 22, 2010, bank statements made public in the case show.
She was set to pull down an additional $10,000 per month, according to a September 2010 draft budget by the law firm. And she was to get another $40,000 in expenses in June 2010, according to an invoice from Donziger.
[. . .]
Kennedy, who is paid $225,239 a year as president of the RFK Memorial Center for Human Rights"

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/cash_kerry_in_rain_forest_3zYGnmDnsQ1Qyv536irIWL

Cuomo's ex Kennedy stands to make $40M in secret anti-oil deal
By ANNIE KARNI
New York Post
Last Updated: 8:35 AM, January 15, 2012
Posted: 1:10 AM, January 15, 2012

Journalists May be Mentally Ill

Mike Barnicle laments the dumbing down of "the press corps." Isn't that a result of the dumbing down of schools? Recently the Harvard University faculty voted to remove course listings of a professor they accused of hate speech. Academic freedom died there and no one noticed? How many journalists have a history of mental illness? How many are taking psychiatric drugs? How many are FBI informants publishing propaganda for the feds? Could a corrupt government be the cause? When politicians deny access to reporters is it because of advocacy journalism which Barnicle practices?

http://thephoenix.com/Boston/news/132436-bus-stopped/

Bus stopped?
The iconic campaign bus is no longer full of newspaper reporters writing for the folks back home. Are the political-junkie Web sites filling the void?
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN |
January 11, 2012

If Men and Women Are Different, Science Threatens Feminism

[From article]
"research, conducted by Marco Del Giudice of Italy and Tom Booth and Paul Irwing, both of Manchester, England, involved interviewing 10,000 Americans. The researchers concluded that men and women are vastly different creatures, feeling and behaving in markedly different ways.
Such information is not the least bit shocking to those of us with common sense, or those of us who have both sons and daughters; but it’s “staggeringly different from the consensus view,” says Irwing. Indeed it is. That’s because it undermines the message feminists have been propagating for decades."

http://www.nationalreview.com/home-front

Alert the Presses: Men and Women Are Different!
By Suzanne Venker
National Review
Home Front
January 11, 2012 3:51 P.M.

Liberal Homosexuals Mock Science

[From article]
"three decades of consistent research showing that kids who grow up in a home with their married parents tend to do better in all measures of educational attainment than their peers being raised in single, divorced, and cohabiting-parent homes,” Then I concluded by explaining, “Moms and dads both matter here, as well as the type of relationship between them.”
[. . .]
such a statement is raising the hackles of a small but very vociferous group. The LGBT site of ThinkProgress had a fit on the story, saying I and the organization I work for are distorting the findings fueled by our blind opposition to “marriage equality”

http://www.nationalreview.com/home-front

The Nasty Politics of Parenting Research
By Glenn T. Stanton
National Review
Home Front
January 12, 2012 5:07 P.M

Rasing Children The French (Better) Way

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/familyadvice/9011303/French-mothers-dont-have-it-all-their-own-way.html

French mothers don’t have it all their own way
British women need to toughen up to match the French.
By Jemima Lewis
9:25PM GMT 12 Jan 2012

Disability Prevents Upward Mobility Gasp!

This essay uses some academic concepts, but at least the subject is discussed in major media. Few wealthy and influential political groups or officials have an idea that disabilty exists.

[From article]

As Robert Whitaker reports in a recent book (which we’ve discussed in the recent past), the number of Americans disabled by mental illness has increased considerably in recent decades. A review essay by Marcia Angell recounts the alarming facts:

The tally of those who are so disabled by mental disorders that they qualify for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) increased nearly two and a half times between 1987 and 2007—from one in 184 Americans to one in seventy-six. For children, the rise is even more startling—a thirty-five-fold increase in the same two decades. Mental illness is now the leading cause of disability in children, well ahead of physical disabilities like cerebral palsy or Down syndrome, for which the federal programs were created.

(Scroll down the list to read entire article]

http://www.nationalreview.com/agenda?page=1

Mental Illness and Social Mobility
By Reihan Salam
National Review
The Agenda
January 9, 2012 12:21 P.M.

Teddy Roosevelt's Attempt to Keep Sundays Alcohol Free

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/14/opinion/a-new-anti-alcohol-campaign-in-new-york.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

How Dry We Aren’t
By RICHARD ZACKS
New York Times
Published: January 13, 2012

American Citizens Losing Freedoms

[From article]
"The government now routinely uses secret evidence to detain individuals and employs secret evidence in federal and military courts. It also forces the dismissal of cases against the United States by simply filing declarations that the cases would make the government reveal classified information that would harm national security — a claim made in a variety of privacy lawsuits and largely accepted by federal judges without question. Even legal opinions, cited as the basis for the government’s actions under the Bush and Obama administrations, have been classified. This allows the government to claim secret legal arguments to support secret proceedings using secret evidence."


http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-the-united-states-still-the-land-of-the-free/2012/01/04/gIQAvcD1wP_story.html

10 reasons the U.S. is no longer the land of the free
By Jonathan Turley
Washington Post
Published: January 13, 2012