New Link And New look

There is a new link on the favorites list. http://mrbrownverses.blogspot.com/  Oh yeah it's written By Jonathan Holmes. So you know it's good. You should check it out for all of your movie review needs.

Also I changed the look of our blog Banned and Dangerous. I love this new look! I hope you do too...cause it's staying. 

The Birther Saga Returns!

Just when you thought it was over, "The Donald" rears his ugly head (and his orange toupee) back into the national media with more Birther crap. Read all about it over at The Way I See It. Also, feel free to make a comment about my latest piece, and, as always, "The Count" is more than welcome to publish my piece over on BAD if he so chooses.

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Great Stuff as always Jonathan. 

The Birther Saga Returns!

In 1946, one year after the end of the Second World War, a young, ambitious veteran defeated a three-term sitting senator from his own party, Robert M. La Follete, Jr. of Wisconsin. The reason for his victory? He claimed that La Follete had not only being a coward for not enlisting in the war after the attacks on Pearl Harbor, but for making obscene profits while he was gallantry fighting for his country. The belief that La Follete was a war profiteer damaged his career, and was swiftly defeated. The name of the newly-elected nominee for the state of Wisconsin was Joseph Raymond McCarthy. Ironically enough, Robert was 46 years of age and serving his third term when the attacks took place, and that McCarthy himself, invested money in the stock market whilst serving his country, raking in $42,000 in 1943. Those facts didn't matter in the end. What stuck was the repeated spin that La Follete's very patriotism was suspect. McCarthy's brash, brazen and disgusting attacks on an opponent's character have been apart of his rise to power and prominence, even back to when he was running for local office in his home state, as the internet magazine on law, Legal Affairs, documents:

The 10th Judicial District was largely rural, and McCarthy, in his three-month campaign in 1939, visited farmers and their families. He knew how to talk to them about crops and climate. He sent out thousands of postcards showing a little boy holding a baseball bat, captioned: "Let's Play Ball." But more potent than these Currier & Ives methods was his attack on Werner's weak spot. The standard biographical source for lawyers, the Martindale-Hubbell directory, listed Werner's date of birth as 1866, which would have made him 73. As a candidate in 1916, Werner had added seven years to his age in order to seem more mature. But now the deception, repeated in edition after edition, backfired. Joe ran ads in the local papers accusing Werner of lying about his age. Werner produced a birth certificate that showed he was born on July 24, 1872, in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, which made him 66 in February 1939. But he was not as effective in broadcasting his defense as McCarthy was in attacking him. Shortly before the election, Joe ran an ad under the headline: "What About This Age Question?" In April 1939, McCarthy won, by 15,164 votes to Werner's 11,219. Once again, the lesson was: Dirty tricks work. At 30, Joe McCarthy was the youngest man ever elected a circuit judge in Wisconsin. 

McCarthy's bully-boy strategy of destroying an opponent by fabricating the most outrageous and malicious slanders, half-truths and false accusations imaginable without even a hint of remorse or shame, and how repeating said smears ad nauseum  until they become the truth, lives on in our political climate to this day. From Saxby Chambliss tearing down the career of thrice amputated war veteran and then-sitting Senator from Georgia Max Cleland, to Karl Rove using John Kerry's service in the Vietnam War to question his own patriotism, the politics of character assassination serve as a reminder that they work and have gotten others elected.

Which brings me to Donald Trump and the resurgence of the Birther bullshit. Yes, just when you thought this sad and shameful bit of thinly-veiled racism had finally been put to bed by President Obama himself when he released, to the press, his birth certificate, "The Donald" makes his un-inglorious return to the 24-hour cable news circuit whilst shilling for the presumptive Republican Presidential nominee, Mitt Romney.

On Tuesday morning, Trump appeared via telephone on CNBC, where he argued that questions about Obama's birthplace have not been adequately answered, despite Obama releasing a copy of his birth certificate over a year ago.
"Nothing has changed my mind," he said.
Trump was skeptical about a recently unearthed promotional booklet from Obama's former literary agency that erroneously reported the president was born in Kenya. After the discovery of the booklet reignited rumors that Obama is not a natural-born American citizen, the author of his biography quickly came forward and said the mistake was a simple fact-checking error.
Trump, however, was not convinced. "Look, a publisher come out last week and had a statement about Obama given to them by Obama when he was doing a book as a young man, a number of years ago, in the 90s," he said. "Now amazingly, the publisher is 'oh we made a mistake.'"
"[Obama was] a young man doing a book, and he said what he believed to be the truth."
Unsatisfied with Obama's birth certificate, the authenticity of which he said many people have "serious doubts" about, he called for Obama to provide his academic transcripts from Columbia, Harvard and Occidental College.
"A lot of people want to see his college transcripts," Trump said. "They're not looking at his marks, his grades. ... They want to see, what does he say about place of birth. Now, those transcripts have disappeared, nobody seems to be able to get them."

I'm not about to re-hash this matter, mostly because i've pointed out the obvious several times before on this blog. What I will say is that if you're looking for Mitt to distance himself from this nonsense, don't waste your time. He won't, and neither will the rest of the Republican Party. In secret, they know this line of attack is reprehensible and ludicrous in almost every conceivable way.  But they're hunting bigger game: the game plan has been to use coded words to paint President Obama as "foreign", or a president "who isn't like us," or "one of us." This line of personal attack is one i'm sure ol' Tailgunner Joe would be proud of.

On Vacation in Orlando

I'm currently in Orlando, Florida with my aunt and uncle to celebrate Christmas. Ill still be able to make a few posts during my week here, so have a happy and safe Christmas to my Banned and Dangerous family!

If anyone is wondering...

Yes, i'm still on the Banned and Dangerous payroll...at least I think there's a payroll...*Mental note*: ask the Count about when my next paycheck comes in. Anyway, i'm still around, I haven't shut down my other blog The Way I See It and there's still stuff I want to talk about - including the President caving again to the GOP on the Bush tax cuts, the awful sports weekend in San Diego, etc. - but my classes are my first priority and it'll stay that way up until Dec. 16, the last Final Exam I have to take before i'm released for Winter Break.

Hope all is well on here.

-Jonathan

I've decided to scrap Jonathan's Corner

Wait, that doesn't sound right.

I've decided the change the name. Jonathan's Corner is now The Way I See It. New name. Same opinionated Jonathan.

A birthday weekend and other thoughts

First off, thanks to the Count, RalphyFan, and everyone who either wished me a happy birthday on Banned and Dangerous, or through social networking via Facebook. My 20th birthday celebration was quiet for the most part, primarly because Mom doesn't get paid until next Friday, so we held off on celebrating until then. That didn't mean great things didn't go down: I talked to Kerri Greene over the phone on Friday (most of you know her simply as Keg from the NH O/T Forum) for over an hour. Such an amazing, down-to-earth woman she is. We discussed music, karma, the importance of throwing out positives in the universe, and horses, among other things.

Saturday and today consisted of more laid-back coolness, though I did recieve a shock when dad bought me a new, 22-inch Sony Bravia HDTV for my room. Now all I need is a cable box for it...After that, it was movie time with mom. We saw The Losers, which was awful, but a good awful. A good awful means that the movie was so bad, it was actually entertaining to watch (see The Day After Tomorrow when Jake Gyllenhaall was trying to outrun the hyperfrost that cast over Manhattan after a typhoon-like storm leaves half the city underwater). A bad kind of awful is when the movie is bad and contunies to get worse and worse (see the 2 1/2 hour loud, dumb, violent, misogynistic, and racial stereotype parade of steaming shit that was Trasnformers: Revenge of the Fallen), the kind of movie I do my best to avoid like the Plauge.

Thanks again for all the warm wishes on my birthday, they meant more than any gift I could get.

This Date in History: April 23 Revisited

On this date in history, April 23:

* 1635 - In Boston, Massachetusetts, Boston Latin School is estaablished, making it the first public school built in the United States.

* 1910 - U.S. Preisdent Theodore Roosevelt makes his "Man in the Arena" Speech, which later serves as inspiration to François Pienaar, the captain of the South African Rugbuy team in 1995.

* 1935 - The country of Poland adopts its own Constitution.

* 1949 - The People's Liberation Army is created under Mao Zedong.

* 1990 - Most importantly, on this day, Jonathon Purcell Holmes is born on this day to two loving parents, Rhonda Gamble-Holmes and Johnny Holmes.

Happy Birthday Jonathan!

Happy birthday Jonathan!

The DSC is off the air in San Diego

My favorite morning radio show, Dave, Shelly and Chainsaw on 101.5 KBG has been canceled. Thanks, Clear Channel. Fuckers.

I'm a guest blogger on News Hounds!

That's right. I'm watching Glenn Beck so you don't have to.

Here are my first two reports on Beck.

Remember Me?

Sorry for the long absense - the new quarter in college ust started up and my focus has divereted to my studies....that, and my PC has been infected by a virus and It needed to be taken into the shop. The good news is that I get to pick it up today, the bad news is that most of m files were deleted, so it's a good thing that i rememeber all of my passwords.

I'll be up and running later tonight or tomorrow, depending on how the wind blows. BTW: i'm typing this in the middle of an English class with Internet access...It's a lecture, and it's been days since i've done any kind of update on here. What's life without a little risk, eh?

:D

Message To Jonathan And Sergei

It it currently 55 Degrees in Berkeley, 67 in San Diego and 972 in Omaha...

You Guys Suck!!!!

Suck Suck Suck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Grrr... :)

Happy Birthday Jonathan!

Happy 18th birthday Jonathan. Honestly I think you'd find the first three choices to be anti-climactic and disappointing but you should do whatever the fuck you want. And enjoy it.

By the way. Can you please put the polls on top because they are easier to read. :)

Happy Birthday!