Test To See What Offended Blogger

This is the rest of the post from this morning that Blogger's computers marked as offensive and put behind a content warning,  with links and without further editing.   So far the computer hasn't marked it as offensive.   I have no idea what supposedly violated the guidelines,  maybe it was a computer glitch.   Computers are absolutely stupid there is no such a thing as computer intelligence or even understanding, so maybe that's it. 

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 If you read me you will note that in the past couple of years my regard for the entire legal profession has fallen off a cliff and it hasn't hit bottom, yet.   I don't think my thinking about the modeling-pagent-movie industries is unrelated.    The famed "civil liberties" lawyer,  Harvard Law Professor, lawyer who was among those who got Epstein's sweetheart deal with Acosta which allowed him to continue his crime spree for more than another decade AS LAW ENFORCMENT OFFICIALS AND PROSECUTORS AND "OFFICERS OF THE COURT" KNEW ALL ABOUT IT,  Alan Dershowitz had his fame as a "civil liberties lawyer" dissected by one of his most exigent and accurate critics Norman Finkelstein.  Note I'm transcribing from the video here,  and I'm consolidating instead of giving a verbatim transcription of what was said, making insertions for clarity and adding commentary. 

Professor Dershowitz, he had done many despicable things.

Let's just take the most basic.

There was a long period of time up until maybe four years ago when professor Dershowitz was always described as professor Alan Dershowitz of Harvard University,
famed civil liberties lawyer, comma.    

That was his descriptive, "famed civil liberties lawyer."
He wasn't a civil liberties lawyer. There's no truth to that. Alan Dershowitz, his career began in the 1970s, his public career as a public presence, not his professional career.

[In his denial that that's what civil liberties means now, Finkelstein is using the term "civil liberties" too literally, what it is supposed to mean isn't what it means now.  What it means is those with money and privilege being allowed to exercise their liberty over those without money and power and the various promoters of that in the media, whether through things such as producing pornography or lying for corporations and the ultra rich, doing so freely.  I will note that the incumbent Prime Minister of Britain, who knowingly appointed, promoted and had knighted those in the Epstein inner circle and, also, the one who is criminalizing criticism of the crimes of Israel,  Keir Starmer, was one of Dershowitz's fellow celebrity "civil liberities" lawyers.

I have become entirely skeptical of the advocacy of liberity in the absence of actual, legal, social AND ECONOMIC equality.  Such liberty is liberty for the rich and powerful over those without.  That is the kind of civil liberties that such lawyers advocate for. ]

He was a Harvard professor and I assume he was competent in his, uh, field of expertise.  But his professional career begins [when] he was a defender of pornography.

That was his big thing because back then pornography was considered a civil liberties issue because it was banned, right?  There were widespread prohibitions.

- He was the lawyer for I am curious yellow which was the first pornography film imported to United States. It was a French French film I am curious yellow. 

I'll break in here to note that this is a rare moment when Norman Finkelstein erred.   The piece of junk was a Swedish movie, one of those "intellectual" "art films," of the period, this one, among other things, using the image and voice of Martin Luther King jr. I'm almost certain without his permission and without his knowledge - though he may have known they did it before he died I've never heard of him knowing that.   It and its sequel,  I Am Curious Blue were stupid and deadly boring (I saw both back when I figured I was young and had time to waste on the movies).  

- Uh he was the lawyer for Harry  Reemes when Linda Love Lace . . . Deep Throat Deep Throat when she accused him of uh Harry Reems of having brutalized her on uh in the filming of of Deep Throat. He was the lawyer for Deep Throat. 

I'll break in here to clarify that Dershowitz was Harry Reems lawyer when Reems was appealing his conviction on charges of distributing pornography when he was only an actor in the thing.  Rather low hanging fruit for a lawyer to make a nation wide reputation on,  I'd have thought.  Linda Lovelace did accuse the men making the movie, including her then husband, of brutalizing her.  I didn't happen to see the movie - maybe the I Am Curious franchise had already convinced me I didn't want to waste money or time on it, by then - but I can well imagine a man famous for his large phallus would have brutalized women during his film career.  Brutal use of women, other men and children are an intrinsic part of porn.   But Dershowitz's advocacy doesn't seem to have been directly involved with any accusations she made against Reem.  

- He was then the lawyer for Klaus Van Bulow who was credibly  accused of killing his wife.  [I think he did it.]

- He was the lawyer for the Jewish Defense League when they killed a woman who was the secretary of a fellow named Sol Hurock. [Dershowitz got them off on technicalities over a terror bombing which killed Iris Kones and seriously injured others.]

- He was the lawyer for Mike Tyson. He was the lawyer for OJ Simpson. [Again, I think he did it.  If the LA Police hadn't tried to frame a guilty man, he might have been convicted, though with the number of celebrity lawyers Simpson bought to get him off,  I doubt that.]

-  He was the lawyer for every high profile wife batterer, rapist, murderer or spousal batterer and murderer.  [Note: "every" may be a bit of hyperbole,  he was certainly on the case for many a high profile wife batterer, etc.]

He was the lawyer for all of them.  THAT came under the rubric of  "famed civil liberties lawyer."  

That's not a civil liberties lawyer. That's not a civil liberty. . .  It's a criminal defense lawyer. Right. . . And a criminal defense lawyer with a red thread running through it. Women who are raped, battered, or murdered. That's his MO. That's Alan Dersowitz.

That never that never did any harm to his reputation. Any harm.

If you were to Google now, you know, your listeners can do it on their own, your viewers can do it on their own. If you were to go now and look at the parade of academics who are celebrating Alan Dershowitz when he is retired or retires from Harvard Law School. It's everybody. A who's who of academia is there. And the Harvard uh law school dean Martha Minnow, she's singing the praises of Alan  Dershowitz. She's a famous feminist scholar, a feminist legal scholar, knowing full well his record, singing his praises.  

And among the other things that's his public defense activity.

Then there is the Israel stuff, the lying and lying in very serious cases, serious cases of Palestinian detainees who were tortured by Israel.

They bring their cases to court because there were deportation cases for them. Israel is trying to deport these detainees  who ended up in the United States and he's lying and lying and saying Israel doesn't practice torture where people were facing the prospect of being deported back and being tortured again and he's lying and lying. 

What happened to Dershowitz? It's a very interesting thing.  It's an interesting thing. He suddenly becomes a pariah. Not even over the Jeffrey Epstein case. Not even He was Jeffrey Epstein's lawyer.  Yes, it makes perfect sense. . .   Of course it makes perfect sense. And as far as I can tell, his accuser, Virginia Giuffre,  she's completely credible. . . at least allegations against him.

Um, in any event, what happens? Even the Jeffrey Epstein [stuff] doesn't turn people against him. 

It was because of Trump because he supported Trump. All of a sudden the woke people on Martha's Vineyard turned him into a pariah.

They didn't care about the Israel stuff. They didn't care about the misogyny.

They didn't care about the fact that he got Jeffrey Epstein off. 

It was even interesting.  So Jeffrey Epstein got one year.  You know, in the first trial he got one year.  He was out in his own recgnissance all day. He only had to come back, you know, he had his office outside. He only had to come back at at night for his sentence.

And Dershowitz was asked about it and he says [when asked] Do you feel bad?  In retrospect, when you know it came out that he had done this and done that and done that.  

Dershowitz said, Feel bad? The only thing I feel bad about is that he got one year.  I think he should have gotten scott-free. Now, he's saying this after after all the claims and allegations against Epstein. That didn't alienate anyone.  

People like, you know, Jeffrey Toobin.

Yeah. Toobin is singing his praises. And then Toobin has an article. I think it was - I can't remember where the article was.  It may have been the New Republic, but don't quote me on it. Tubin says. . . has an article. What happened to Alan Dershowitz? You know, because he's defending Trump now.  As if he had a clean slate up until his defense of Trump.  

And if you ask me, I can't prove it.  I'm speculating, I want to quickly admit to saying I speculate.  If you ask me, what happened was Dershowitz was afraid he was going to be convicted in the Giuffre case, the young woman who says that she had sex with him, non-consensual sex. So he was afraid. So he was defending Trump to get a get off, [a get out of] jail card in case he was convicted.
That's all he did. I mean, he's a snake. He is just such a snake.

You can listen to the entire interview and hear the partial list of eminent academics, including the former Harvard Law School Dean, "justice" Elana Kagan who come in for his criticism as enablers of Dershowitz.  And, as he notes, AND WHICH IS OBVIOUS, there is a link between such "civil liberties lawyering" and the world of Epstein even if someone other than Dershowitz was the ambulance chaser all of those worlds have in common.   If I wasn't bening more careful with words I'd say the Harvard Law crowd, the celebrity lawyers, the media promoters of all of this stuff, the lawyers, the worlds of crime and abuse they advocate for AND GET PAID HANDSOMELY TO LIE FOR ignored the stench of it.   But such elite scum washes regularly and wears expensive, clean clothes,  they don't ignore any of it, THEY KNOW FULL WELL THAT'S WHAT THEY ARE ENABLING AND IGNORING.    They ignore it because,  being part of the racket,  they stink as much as the ones who get fingered.   The rich are generally scum.  

From First Tumescence to Senescence, Simp's Bio In Five Words

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Wow, I'm so shocked you don't like Bernstein's film scores. Because, after all, his "Animal House" and "Airplane" are two of the most droll and witty things written by an American composer in the second half of the 20th century, and you have no sense of humor at all.

Hey Sparky -- you know what else is hilarious? Bernstein was blacklisted (and therefore you have to hate him because he was a Commie by definition) and guess who broke the blacklist for him and gave the guy a job despite his politics?

Rightwing scumbag Cecil B. DeMille (who hired EB to do "The Ten Commandments.").

Thus proving him more of a real liberal than you.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You really are too stupid to be bothering with.  Elmer Bernstein worked on movies just about every year during the Hollywood blacklist years,  he didn't like some of them but he had work whereas those who were really blacklisted couldn't get work.  Looking up your claim, apparently he didn't make that claim, himself,  I read the term "greylisted" used for his situation.   He wasn't a member of the Communist Party, by his own word, so he said he couldn't name names of those who were.   

Since De Mille was one of the worst of the commie hunters in Hollywood, using that as an excuse to fight against unions,  your Trumpian nonsense is even stupider than usual.   I wonder where Bernstein would place his work on Animal House and Airplane within his movie scores.   The movies were both shit but I didn't make that decision on the basis of the scores.   I'm not surprised a case of arrested adolescence such as you would hold them in such high regard.   Clearly, you peaked at puberty.  From first tumescence to senescence, your bio in five words.  

I'm almost tempted to look for his concert music to see what that's like, though I expect Oscar Levant's is probably better.   His scoring for the Eames movies is quite good, as is his direction of it.   I'll bet he enjoyed doing that but I expected scoring Hollywood shit paid a lot better.

How Stupid Is Simps? He Thinks Queens Isn't Part of New York City And The Pop Addled Ass Lives There.

Simps is trying to go back to something I kicked his ignorant ass over multiple times.  Having done that several times before. I'll just post the link to that and what he wanted to post at The Thought Criminal last night.

 "For example that Queens is only one of the boroughs of NYC and, so, NYC has to be either or more ethnically diverse than Queens but it cannot be less so. "

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seriously, Sparky -- you can't possibly be so stupid so as not to know that Queens is a separate geographical, political and cultural entity with its own identity apart from NYC. And that set theory has absolutely zip to do with that.

Oh wait -- yes, you CAN be that stupid and obviously are. God bless you.

Oh For Frigsake, I Don't Want To Go Over Simp's Old, Old, Old Shtick Again!

For anyone who wants to see what I had to say about the over-sold "genius" of Ernie Kovacs can go to one of my less used alternative blogs.

6 months since I banished Simps, I almost missed the date.  I expect by the first anniversary I'll have forgotten he ever impinged on my life.

Blazing Saddles ripped off Ishmael Reed's Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down.  Just sayin'.  

Update:  That retarded Teanecker has been peddling the same old lies over and over again, after I've proven them to be lies.  I could have a full-time moldy oldies blog dedicated just to Simp's lies, and that's only the ones he's told about things I never said.  He's a pathological liar, he's got that in common with Trump.  

Steve Simels is too lazy and stupid to learn anything he hadn't absorbed in his tiny little puddle of ignorance sixty years ago.  And there was plenty of stupid in the greater-lesser NYC area for him to absorb back then.  And he's too undisciplined to maintain a resolve to quit Duncan Black's puddle of mutual congratulations and ignorance once and for all.   That he's spouting the same old lies about me to his fellow addicts to ignorance there is exactly what I predicted here months back. 

He is proof of Bertrand Russell's contention that stupid people won't do anything but misrepresent things that smarter people say because they can't understand what's said so they translate it into things they can understand.  When you put that on top of the willingness to lie and bear false witness, too common among those who profess to believe its a sin to commit those lies but rampant among those who are materialists who don't believe in sin, you get someone like Simps.   

I proved both the motive of the Nazis mass murders in their belief in natural selection any number of times, as I did the scientific racism and of Charles Darwin and advocacy of the deaths of those he deemed unfit, his immediate support of and enthusiasm for not only the eugenics of Francis Galton but his even greater support for the proto-Nazism of Ernst Haeckel and his actual advocacy of Anglo-Saxons, Britains and other North-Western Europeans displacing (that means killing) people who lived in other lands, Australia, Africa, the Americas, etc. in exactly the same terms that the Nazis used for their conquest and genocides in Eastern Europe.  I showed that the contemporary Darwinists, includings Karl Pearson gave their Nazi colleagues pseudo-scientific arguments that the Jews of Poland and Russia were a biological hazard to the Germanic people which the Nazis quoted in their scientific advocacy of first their removal and then their genocide.  I showed how Leondard Darwin, up to the very months before WWII started praised the Nazi's eugenics laws linking them explicitly to his own father's thinking.   

 And those were only some of the many things I proved linking the Nazis to Darwinism, something that no one until the end of WWII and the revelation of the extent of the Nazis murder industry denied was the case, that Nazi "racial hygiene" was a thoroughly conventional aspect of Darwin's natural selection.  Something which William Jennings Bryan more or less predicted would be a consequence of a belief in natural selection, Darwinism, in his undelivered summary at the Scopes trial as the atheist materialist jerk Clarence Darrow, who knew far less about Darwinism ignored that aspect of it.  

Only the "brain trust" of Eschaton (they really do call themselves that) are too stupid to read the primary documentation that proves that was the Nazis motive in their mass murders.  Nor do they have the morality to figure they should find out what's true and what isn't, they don't care about that as long as their prejudices are supported.  I did, actually, change my opinion about this when I did the research that proved a case I was disinclined by preference to believe in.  That's the difference between someone who believes the truth is important and someone who believes there really is no such thing as the truth.  When I started out at Duncan's, I was rather stupid about the play-left, I figured their stupidity was not a product of a deeper problem caused by their amorality, now I see that it's all one problem that starts with not caring about the truth.

No shock that the ADD addled world's oldest tween is back at Duncan's.   He can't stick with anything, a lifetime of too much TV does that to you.  Participating on Duncan's blog, too, apparently.  

 

Get back to me when he starts lying about me there.  I have no doubt he will, he can't stick with not doing that, either.

Johnny Mercer Henry Mancini - Moon River

 After I posted that radio play that used the name of the song I realize I was going to have it going through my head over and over again till I did something about it.

I've posted this version of it before,  the lyricist Johnny Mercer who was rare in that he was also a very fine singer and the composer, Henry Mancini doing a demo of the song that they wrote for Audry Hepburn to sing in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's. 

I used to say that Audry Hepburn's non-singer singing of it was the best version till I heard Johnny Mercer sing it. Knocks ol' Blue Eye's crooning of it out of the water.   I prefer a singer to sing words as if they meant something.  Mercer knew how to do that, so many didn't.

I didn't know anyone was still looking at this

I'd guess there is no subject about which more bullshit has been written than the alleged power of comedy to bring down tyrants, to expose frauds, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.  History proves it has no such power anymore than any other kind of light writing does.  It's bullshit. Anyone who pretends to believe that is either lying or stupid enough to buy it without thinking about it.  There was no more biting comedy than that which went up against the Nazis and, guess what, the Nazis won without any problem.  They harnessed it to their own ends. 

I'll Let Hugh Dillon Say It For Me

Ah, two weeks without anyone telling me what Stupy's doing.  Just one telling me what he didn't do and I didn't much care.   Will this be the last time I mention him?   Can I finally say it?

The beauteous Hugh Dillon when he had hair.  Not that he's bad now, either.   Ah, to be 40 again.  

Here he is an an off-beat short film.  Not a bad actor, either. 

When White People Lecture Other People On What Isn't Racist Or Racialized

 

My last friend who frequents Eschaton tells me that Duncan didn't rouse his lazy ass to ban Simps, Simps left when he was critisized for being such an example of old, white, male, middle-class privilege that he didn't acknowledge the inherent racism of the old Ernie Kovacs Nairobi Trio sketch WHICH IS BLATANTLY AND OBVIOUSLY PRESENTING AN OLDER, WIDELY USED RACIST SHOW BIZ STEREOTYPE OF BLACK MUSICIANS AS APES THAT GOES BACK BEFORE JAZZ AND INTO THE MINSTREL PERIOD and, indeed, well back into white, European racism.  

It's so thoroughly embedded by racism into the thinking of, not only white people but in human culture that it even appears, unplanned and unconsidered in the algorithms that computer scientists come up with.

Back in 2015, software engineer Jacky Alciné pointed out that the image recognition algorithms in Google Photos were classifying his black friends as “gorillas.” Google said it was “appalled” at the mistake, apologized to Alciné, and promised to fix the problem. But, as a new report from Wired shows, nearly three years on and Google hasn’t really fixed anything. The company has simply blocked its image recognition algorithms from identifying gorillas altogether — preferring, presumably, to limit the service rather than risk another miscategorization.

Wired says it performed a number of tests on Google Photos’ algorithm, uploading tens of thousands of pictures of various primates to the service. Baboons, gibbons, and marmosets were all correctly identified, but gorillas and chimpanzees were not. The publication also found that Google had restricted its AI recognition in other racial categories. Searching for “black man” or “black woman,” for example, only returned pictures of people in black and white, sorted by gender but not race.

I don't think there's much of a question that Ernie Kovacs may well have imbibed the same thing, perhaps unwittingly the images of racism so deeply embedded in American as well as European culture,  when he heard the piece of crap song "Solfeggio" and immediately linked it to a parody of a racist music-box image of Black musicians as Gorillas, it is even less of a surprise when his wife and the other all-white members of his company (and, according to Simps in our earlier go round on it, the white Jack Lemmon)* didn't see any problems with it.  I wish I could find out if there were any contemporary Black people who commented on it because I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't have any problem seeing it for what it was at the time.  

And, really, calling it the "Nairobi Trio" is rather a dead giveaway of the racist nature of it. 

It is rather presumptuous for a white guy to declare that a bunch of white show-biz guys in one of the most racist periods of reaction against the great Civil Rights Movement, dressing up and personifying a very old, racist stereotype taken directly from the past and their very present, present were not, in fact, doing what they were obviously doing.  I'm glad to live in a time when, especially younger people fed up with that long history are no longer willing to just skip over that and to call it what it is, no longer impressed with the admitted though very much exaggerated genius of Ernie Kovacs and those who participated in it with him.  

Oddly, enough, one of the most interesting confirmations of the racism of using ape and, specifically gorilla images that has been ubiquitious was the Brit-American use of exactly the same images used against Black People against the Irish in the 19th and very early 20th century.  But that ended, though the same bias is certainly present in Brit comedy and attitudes today . I wouldn't expect that most Irish Americans would worry about that kind of bigotry regaining its former ubiquity though note what David Pilgrim, a Black sociologist who started the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia has to say about how his assumptions of the diminution of racism even a few years ago has been proved to be wrong by the racist rise of Trump and the Republican-fascist part. 

I saw several images in his collection that are reflected in the Nairobi Trio skit. 

*  You can hear Edie Adams talk about how not only Lemmon but Milton Berle and Tony Curtis put on the gorilla suits to participate in it all without seeing any problem in impersonating a well-practiced racist stereotype.  I'd like to know if any Black People ever worked for Kovacs and his team, I strongly doubt it.  If any did I'd love to hear them on this topic. 

Too Funny, Too Stupid To Not Announce

REALLY?  Simps got dumped by Duncan over a stupid picture of a puppet?  After all of these years after he was documented to be attacking Duncan's regulars with sock-puppet names - something I caught him doing to me back when Digby still had comments - I wondered if that incident wasn't what made her realize that for a writer as good as she is, maintaining comment threads is a liability.  

Geesh, let no one say that Duncan is much bothered by anything  like consistency or integrity.  To drop Simps over that when he could have dropped him for being a lying, libeling, backstabbing creep with Duncan's complete knowledge and sponsorship all these years is pretty stupid, even for that rapidly aging slacker.   I thank God every morning that I didn't go to a prep school or Ivy, the state universities I went to didn't damage my character the way that those typically do.

"Are you missing Simps?"

No. I am also not missing knowing what lies he's telling about me at Duncan Black's blog.  A complete break, only thing to do when it's necessary.  It's like taking a good shower when you're dirty.