Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Opuscula

Pols, Journalists
Could learn
From Santayana

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás1


IF THE MEDIA “EXPERTS” I see and hear are an example of “educated Americans,” then education in the U.S. is sadly lacking.
Not only are the experts ignorant – or if educated, then lazy – in American English, but their grasp of U.S. history is woefully inadequate.
There is, in this age of the Internet, no excuse for their ignorance.
Yet they are allowed, apparently by equally ignorant managers, to continue plaguing us with their lack of knowledge.


POLITICIANS AND “JOURNALISTS” are railing against the incarceration of illegal aliens; their special ire is directed at the separation of children from parents.
Courts separate children and parents on an almost daily basis.
Granted, the Feds are heavy handed and, also granted, the Feds stupidly failed to create a database to match children with parents; now, if the media is to be believed, some parents and children cannot be reunited. THAT, if true, is unconscionable. Whatever bureaucrat allowed that ought to be, at a minimum, fired.
The entire process has been one disaster after another.
Had anyone in Washington used common sense – obviously “common sense” is not a common commodity in and around D.C. – the whole episode could have been handled with only the most rabid leftists complaining.
It is interesting to note that when Barack Obama did the same thing the media – and leftists -- either ignored it or were complaisant.

FDR, the Democrats favorite president, interned Japanese-Americans, in some cases separating families and in some cases interning members of an American soldier’s family. He was afraid that these Japanese-Americans might be spies for the enemy. So much for protection under Constitutional law! To be fair, FDR also interned a few Italian-Americans and German-Americans as well.
FDR was above the law; he maintained a mistress (adultery) during his years in office. Eleanor kept her lesbian lover so perhaps it all evened out.
JFK was a known womanizer, but the media was silent. Teddy Kennedy managed, while drunk, to drive off a bridge, killing a woman, and William Jefferson “I never had sex with that woman” Clinton had his -- it turns out -- several moments of 'fame," but while a few of these peccadilloes were reported, none was treated as an on-going soap opera.
The media excoriated Nixon and LBJ – Nixon as a political conservative and LBJ because he wasn’t from the Northeast or California.

Moving on
The liberals were enraged when President Trump wanted to close America’s borders to people from seven countries, not all of which as originally claimed and conveniently overlooked by the leftist media, were predominately Muslim.
In 1875, the Page Act banned ALL Orientals from entering the U.S.
The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed in 1882 that banned Chinese immigration. Why? The government decided the U.S. had enough coolies to build the railroads and wash clothes.
Racism? Of course.
More can be read on this site at http://tinyurl.com/ydf3hn75 .
While the U.S. was unable to prevent American Indians from living in their homeland, it DID take most of their land from them. The New Georgia Encyclopedia2 states the reason the Cherokees suffered the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma was that The removal of the Cherokees was a product of the demand for arable land during the rampant growth of cotton agriculture in the Southeast, the discovery of gold on Cherokee land, and the racial prejudice that many white southerners harbored toward American Indians.
When the Oklahoma lands proved valuable, the Indians were moved again to less desirable lands.

Democrats – almost exclusively liberals – object to “Trump’s wall” to reduce illegal entry into the U.S. from Mexico.
Where were these Democrats when Obama spent US$75 million U.S. taxpayer dollars to help Mexico close its southern border to immigrants from Guatemala and Nicaragua. Rather than spend the dollars on the U.S.-Mexico border where it might have reduced illegal entry into the U.S. AND employed U.S. citizens building a wall with U.S. manufactured products, he wasted the money on a Mexican border that still has more holes than a Swiss cheese. Now the U.S. must contend with illegals from Mexico AND Guatemala AND Nicaragua.

Russian interference with U.S. elections apparently is accepted.
President Trump contends there was NO collusion between him and Putin or any of Putin's hangers on. So far, after months of investigations, there is zero evidence of collusion.
Still, the leftists and their media sycophants continue to try convict the President of something without a shred of evidence. A political witch hunt-- something with which both parties have vast experience.





Sources
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Santayana; https://www.iep.utm.edu/santayan/
2. http://tinyurl.com/yc8p76oy


PLAGIARISM is the act of appropriating the literary composition of another, or parts or passages of his writings, or the ideas or language of the same, and passing them off as the product of one’s own mind.
Truth is an absolute defense to defamation. Defamation is a false statement of fact. If the statement was accurate, then by definition it wasn’t defamatory.

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