Showing posts with label scoundrels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scoundrels. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

The New York Times: Casting Light Upon Darkness.

Via one of coozledad's posts on NancyNall:



Of course, the original story linked to is from The New York Times, a paper coozledad has lately taken to bashing, including in his immediately preceding post [Warning: lot of cussing].

The Times is far from a perfect paper, but its reporting can be vital: "Harvey Weinstein Paid Off Sexual Harassment Accusers for Decades" by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, 5 Oct. 2017.

Friday, February 10, 2017

The Root:
White La. Judge Banned From Local Restaurant After Reportedly Calling Black Patron ‘Fat N--ger’."

Associated Press via Los Angeles Times: "Judge Likes Defendants to Write Their Wrongs." "One way to right a wrong is to write a lot, a judge believes. ... [District Judge Mike Erwin] ...said he hopes forcing defendants to write about their crimes will make them think about what they have done."

Maybe someone should make him write 10,000 times, "I will not spew racial slurs at people."

Saturday, June 20, 2015

One of three prominent disgraces to the Indian people. (The others being Bobby Jindal and Dharun Ravi.)

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

"Shameless Hypocrisy"

Agreed. And he looks like Humpty Dumpty.

Friday, March 06, 2015

Seedy Rahm


http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/05/rahm-goes-nuts-at-a-mental-health-clinic-you-re-gonna-respect-me.html#

Monday, March 02, 2015

Ethel Stansfield Peck: Zero-Waste Pioneer; Kunstler: Heroes and Villains

Kunstler discusses heroes and villains. I maintain a list of scoundrels on this blog; they range from the ordinarily cloddish to the truly malicious. And though I don't have a list of them, I occasionally mention people who do commendable things. On that note, may I present the late Ethel Stansfield Peck. Although she died in 2000 at age 91, Mrs. Peck is and should be remembered for her zero-waste way of life, which she led just because she believed in it.


Kunstler: Heroes and Villains.

Tuesday, December 02, 2014

Elizabeth LOUTen

I found this while checking out Coozledad's blog this morning.



Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Scoundrels

A list in progress. Links added to underscore why they are listed here.

Donna Alderman-Crosby, proprietor of The Forks Pit Stop in Walterboro, South Carolina.



Senator David Perdue (R-Georgia) for this and this. And "moderate" senator Bob Corker (R-TN) for this: When two sexual-assault survivors confronted Republican senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, he said, “I know this is enjoyable to y’all.” “It is not enjoyable,” Tracey Corder, the director of Racial Justice at the Center for Popular Democracy, responded. “It is not fun for us to tell our stories.”

Adrien Broner.

Clay Higgins.

Leslie E. Gibson, candidate for the Maine House of Representatives, for insulting via Twitter a survivor of the Parkland, Florida school shooting. Though he apologized, he deactivated his personal Twitter account <@LeslieEGibson2> and made private his campaign Twitter account, Gibson 4 Maine House <@Gibson_house>. At least, unlike Morgan Roof (younger sister of murderer Dylann), he didn't actually bring weapons to school, and hope protesting students would get shot. (16 March 2018 update: Faced with challenges from a novice Democrat and a former Republican state senator, both of whom declared at the last minute, Gibson has dropped out of the race.)

Disgraced gymnastics coach John Geddert. Will he get even a bit of the scrutiny his crony Nassar has received?

Carl Higbie, former chief of external affairs of the Corporation for National and Community Service.

Brianna Rae Brochu.

Milo Yiannopoulos. For this and so much more. If Justin Bieber doesn't change his ways, he'll look like him and he doesn't want that.

Katie Quackenbush.

Greg Gianforte, his spokesman Shane Scanlon, and anyone who approves of his assault of a reporter.

Yale dean June Chu.

Talib Kweli Greene and Ben Shapiro.

Christopher Duntsch.

South Carolina state representative Chris Corley.

Dae Hae Moon.

Christian Gutierrez.

William Spingler.

Caleb Joseph Illig.

Michelle Herren.

Jennifer Boyle.

Tucker and Buckley Carlson, and Christopher Bedford.

Louisiana sheriff Louis Ackal. Is his middle initial J? It's the most fitting for him.

Brandon Phillips, former Georgia state director for the Trump campaign. Was he remorseful or tried to make amends with his victims? The article doesn't say.

Rodrigo Duterte.

Marc Wabafiyebazu.

Stanley Vernon Majors.

Dani Mathers.

Alex André Moraes Soeiro.

Steven Arnold "Steve" King, Iowa congressman, lover of guns and meat, English-only custard shops, watcher of Mexican migrants' "cantaloupe" calves, hater of Harriet Tubman on the twenty-dollar bill.


Howard Sparber, spurned loser.

Serial vandal of national parks Casey Nocket.

Tennessee candidate Rick Tyler, who wants to make America "white again." He's also against "miscegenators."

Christopher Mohrlang.

Nevada judge Conrad Hafen.

Rachel and Nyomi Fee.

John R. K. Howard and the other defendants. (9 January 2017 update: And Deputy Attorney General Casey Hemmer, for saying this assault doesn't amount to a sex crime.

https://www.change.org/p/idaho-state-senate-recall-deputy-state-attorny-general-casey-hemmer

Larry Thomas, barber.

Azealia Banks.

Jason M. Feldman. (His law firm page includes this: "He is active member of the National College of DUI Defense ... and has made it his personal goal to make miracles happen on daily basis." Where are the indefinite articles?)


Peter Kema, Sr. and Jaylin Kema.

Tennessee state representative Jeremy Durham, alleged sexual harasser, co-sponsor of anti-trans bathroom bill. Of course, he announced earlier this month that he'll seek re-election.

Former policeman Douglas Ioven, for assault and false imprisonment.

Fort Worth police officer W. Figueroa, for pepper-spraying motorcyclists as they were riding by.

Hawaii State Rep. Isaac W. Choy.

Michigan State Senator Virgil Smith, Jr.

Leonard Debello.

Robert Rialmo.

Former Arizona Congressman Ben Quayle.

Rep. Mitch Holmes. Not so much for his dress code but for his assertion that men don't need a dress code because they look "professional" already. Cf. Montana State Rep. David Moore (R) and his proposed ban on yoga pants.

Katr1na P1ers0n.

Ragheb Nouman.

Joshua Warren Killets.

Roselle Park, Councilwoman. At least she resigned.

Jodie Marie Burchard-Risch of Coon(!) Rapids, Minnesota.

Dr. Steven Anagn0st and Rick Perry.

Marshall W. Leonard.

Officer Bobby Harrison, HPD.

James Declan Basile, Christian Guy, Tucker Cole Steil, Austin Rice, Kyle Hughes, and whoever in the college let them off easy.

Triceten Bickford.

Chase Utley.

Jennifer Connell and William Beckert.

Dr. Geoff Marcy. (He has since resigned.)

Matt Bevin. (He has now won the governorship of Kentucky.)

The Gawkerites.

Donald Anthony Watson.

Natalie Munroe.

Poppy Harlow. I just found out about this story when I read a Mark Ames article. Sympathy for the devils, indeed!

Justin Harris.

Ikemefuna Enemkpali.

Ariana B. Kelly

Pamela Bullock

The as-yet unidentified Fox News anchor who inexplicably called Rory McIlroy a leprechaun and said she couldn't stand him.

Rachel Dolezal, impostor extraordinaire.

Sean Toon and his unnamed high school cronies.

Matt Bruenig.

Matthew Makela.

Gemma Wale.

Nevada assemblywoman Michele Fiore.

Robin Paul.

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory, for pulling an Alvin Greene*. (*This man.)

Jeff Roe.

Maria Valdes, Cypress Bay H.S.

John Hancock.

Thom Tillis, for advocating this loophole, and writer Luke Brinker, for making such a to-do about it. I wash my hands of both of them!

Kirby Delauter and Billy Shreve.

Elizabeth Lauten.

Mark Fuller.

Carlo Dellaverson. See also Scott Bentley.

Toure Neblett.

Jurger Klinsmann and his son Jonathan Klinsmann.

Shannon K. Smith.

Sharlene Simon.

"Guru" Bikram Choudhury.

These people. (names forthcoming)
One refused her cup of iced tea without a lid and a straw.

"Hashtag activists" (about as useful as "momagers").

Laura Ingraham.

Sara Netanyahu.

Bill Newcomer.

Kevin Kavanaugh and Tim Russell.

Laura Bush.

Jeff Orr.

Drew Paahao and Koa Alii Keaulana.

Faye Hanohano. She is no Helene Hale! In fact, she didn't even show up for Helene Hale's memorial service.

Michael Dunn.

Rick Perry, for his tepid "condemnation" of Ted Nugent's "subhuman mongrel" rant after earlier saying he didn't personally take offense.

Justin Bieber, of course, but also his father and partner in crime, Jeremy Jack Bieber.
"Pastor" David "Scott" Lemley, arrested on charges he raped a 20-year-old woman with the mental age of seven. Also the woman's father who urged her to have sex with the pastor. (And look at the photo. What a cretin.)

The soldiers who made funny poses around a flag-draped casket then posted the photo on Instagram.

(I mean the tag to read BAD behavior. BAD, from Paul Fussell's book of the same title. Bieber, for instance, is BAD. Not a bad singer like William Hung, who was so bad he was good, but a BAD celebrity: donning gas masks, (allegedly;P) egging a neighbor's house, drag-racing a rental car, etc.)

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

I Wouldn't Talk

The bad language is in this person's tweet. I apologize in advance.



I wouldn't call either Eric Alterman or Max Blumenthal "radical leftist." Alterman is left-liberal and Blumenthal is left. The terms a**hole and d-bag apply to Alterman and certainly to the tweeter. Just look at his face.

7 November 2013 update: Takes one to know one.

Sunday, March 24, 2013

A March Miscellany

Last night Nightline marked the tenth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq with stories on "tween" girls dressing provocatively, children distracting their parents while driving, Tiger Woods's new girlfriend, and only at program's end, a brief overview of the war, according to the reporter, a mixed bag. There was untold carnage, but did you know there are now 21 million cellular phones in Iraq?

Power-walking with Michele Bachmann.

How Far is Heaven? Jack Schaap, former pastor of the First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana, (The megatacky megachurch building was Kunstler's Eyesore of the Month last August.) was sentenced to twelve years in prison for having sex with a seventeen-year-old parishioner.

Sunday, December 02, 2012

"Why Did Florida Fire Allen West?"




In light of all his antics it seems obvious, but this article points out yet another reason:

To improve his chances at winning reelection, he chose to leave his Fort Lauderdale-area home and run in a more Republican-friendly district about 100 miles north. Bob Crowder, a well-liked Republican sheriff, challenged him in the primary. When the two crossed paths one day in June, the sheriff extended a hand to the congressman. “No, thanks,” West said, turning away. His refusal to shake hands with a member of his own party made a bad first impression in his adopted district. ...

Murphy won by 1,900 votes. In Martin County, the district’s Republican stronghold, West received 4,800 fewer votes than Mitt Romney, while Murphy outperformed Obama by 3,700 votes, a sign that a significant number of Republicans split their ticket. It didn’t help that in the final weeks of the race, Crowder, West’s spurned GOP rival, endorsed Murphy. West believes he lost because voters accustomed to pandering politicians couldn’t handle his directness. “I just talked the truth. I think that a lot of people maybe are not comfortable hearing the truth.”

Saturday, November 10, 2012

Allen West Loses




Could it be?





Only a few months ago, West seemed formidable, as this Mother Jones article suggested. Also interesting is the kind of place that would elect such a politician:

Sixty years ago Wellington was pure Everglades, part of an undulating expanse of saw grass and cypress that stretched for hundreds of miles down into Florida Bay. In the years since, the land has been drained, filled in, bought and sold and repossessed. In its place, a fever swamp of an entirely different sort has emerged. Allen West, tea party rock star, is its champion.

It seems to be a very wealthy place, actually. I was thinking of vast housing tracts.

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He still won't concede, but it may not be up to him.

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20 November update: Allen West has finally conceded.

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Tin Man

Ian Lind discusses two articles on Mitt Romney. One details his stone-cold behavior towards gay activists, but anyone who read The Real Romney will know that's not out of character for the Tin Man.

Friday, January 13, 2012

A$$hole



As I said at Hattie's Web, it's not that Mitt Romney is a Mormon, it's that he's an a$$hole. (It's never a good idea to put your money where your mouth is.)



16 January update: More proof of Mitt's a$$holiness.