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I think I speak for everyone in the World O’ Crap community when I say how thrilled I was to see s.z. revisiting Megan Cox Gurdon, the husband she apparently stole from one of the lesser Madame Tussauds exhibits, and their children, Cleft, Antipode, Wainscoting, Diurnal, and Tattersall.

I’m also encouraged to see that son Quisp (or “the heir,” as I believe he’s known around chez Gurdon) has had enough of the daily schoolyard beatings, and has finally ceased aping Mummy’s mid-Atlantic speech impediment.  Oh, sure, this means that he too will soon be stuffed with sawdust, hand-dipped in a vat of hot wax, and posed along with Pater in the living room diorama, but it was good enough for Carolyn Jones.

Speaking of old friends, I notice it’s been quite awhile since we checked in on Ellis Washington over at World Net Daily, but alas, all good things must come to an end.  For those who may have forgotten, Ellis:

is former editor of the Michigan Law Review and law clerk at The Rutherford Institute.

When we first met Mr. Washington, Doghouse Riley marveled that “twenty years later ‘an editor of the Michigan Law Review’ and ‘law clerk for the Rutherford Institute’ are at the top of his resumé.”  As it happens, even that hoary credit may have been somewhat upholstered; according to Ed Brayton at Scienceblogs:

The bio at the bottom of his WND posts start with, “Ellis Washington is former editor of the Michigan Law Review…” That is false. He was never even a student at the U of M Law School. As an undergrad, he was chosen from three students to take a temporary job with the law review (replacing someone who had health problems, I believe) where he did mostly cite-checking and footnote checking. And it looks like it only lasted for one issue. “Former editor” makes it sound as though he was the actual editor; he was not.

Well, great.  If this is the impossible standard we’re going to hold people to, then I guess I can just kiss off my plans to claim I was part of the Algonquin Round Table, because I once met a friend for drinks at the Algonquin, and to get to where she was sitting I had to walk ’round a table.

He hosts a radio program Thursdays at 11 a.m. Eastern on 1620 AM in Atlanta.

Surprisingly, that part is true.

Radio Jefferson 1620 AM is a small town radio station dedicated to giving out the local news as well as broadcasting all sporting events for the local high schools.

Radio Jefferson was originally an internet station, although this article predicted it would begin regular over-the-air broadcasts in August of 2007:

The man spearheading the city’s radio station, Brad Dillard, says it’s mainly going to be old-style talk radio, with neighbors talking to neighbors about gardens, recipes and community goings-on.

Radio Jefferson already is streaming over the Internet at www.radiojeffersonga.com. On Aug. 1, it will be on the actual radio airwaves at 1620 AM.

By linking up a series of low-power antennas, none more than 10 feet high, the station’s signal will cover 65 square miles, Ward said.

Dillard said he got the idea for the station as he looked for a way to broadcast Jefferson High School football games.

The website doesn’t appear to work (or exist), but it’s only been three years — I’m sure they’ll get around to throwing up an Angelfire page eventually.  In the meantime, maybe our friend Ivan can tune in the station some night when the atmospheric conditions are perfect, and share a few of Ellis’ political insights, Frosh-Soph football picks, and his award-winning recipe for water chestnut stuffing.

It can be heard online at the Radio Sandy Springs website. His weekly podcasts are available Mondays at The Conservative Beacon. Washington is a graduate of John Marshall Law School and a lecturer and freelance writer on constitutional law, legal history and critical race theory.

As you may recall, Mr. Washington’s WND bio used to describe him as “a professor of law and political science at Savannah State University,” although the University’s website preferred to see him as a “part-time Instructor.”  Now, apparently, he’s left the kudzu-covered halls of Ole SSU behind and gone rogue!  Folks ambling peacefully down the streets of Jefferson, Georgia, minding their own business, never know when Ellis Washington may leap from behind a corner mailbox and begin freelance lecturing them.  It’s caused many a gray hair to sprout amongst the citizenry, although some claim they’ve been enriched by the experience, especially when he closes with that mouth-watering water chestnut stuffing recipe.

He has written over a dozen law review articles and several books, including “The Inseparability of Law and Morality: The Constitution, Natural Law and the Rule of Law” (2002).

Out of print.  No reviews on Amazon.

Washington’s latest book is “.”

In stock!  Available for immediate shipment!  And reviewed twice!  Let’s see what the critics have to say about this no doubt major piece of historiography:

Richard says:

“Mr. Washington is a law school graduate, but it’s hard to believe it judging by his use of grammar. I would ordinarily fault his publisher’s proofreaders, but he has an obligation to proof his own work as well. It detracts very much from what he is trying to say.

Unfortunately, Mr. Washington relies too much on hyperpole to both attack those who do not hold with him and to praise those whose positions do match his.

I couldn’t get past about ten pages before deciding that the quality of the writing was insufficient to warrant reading any further.”

Ouch!  Tough room.  But you can’t please all the people all the time, and the law of averages gives Ellis a 50-50 chance of pleasing his other reader, Joseph:

“This title purports to resume the discussion and it is profoundly flawed in its content and writing. From the very first page of the prologue where the author introduces his mentor afterward referred to as Machiavelli…(huh?) to page after page of grammatical and spelling errors… This book is a very tough read. The author does not know the difference between the contraction ‘it is, i.e. ‘it’s'… the possessive ‘its’ and the plural of nouns, i.e. plural of ‘noun’ is ‘nouns’ not noun’s, (sic). The multiplicity of errors make it very difficult to read. What is he really saying about Nuremberg? Good luck. Mr. Washington, get someone (not me) to proofread this!”

Well sure, but none of these nitpicky objections reflect on the quality of Mr. Washington’s ideas.  Besides, when you’re freelance lecturing, nobody can tell where you’re putting your apostrophes.

So what’s got Ellis’ dander dancing today?

Man-child Obama and the politics of revenge

In a Sept. 11, 2001, New York Times interview, the murderous terrorist Bill Ayers, President Obama’s political mentor, the man in whose home he started his political career in 1995, said: ”I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.” Rev. Jeremiah Wright, in whose church Michelle and Barack Obama dutifully worshipped for 20 years, said: “Racism is how this country (America) was founded and how this country is still run!”

Up to the minute investigative reporting –  it’s the trademark of WorldNetDaily.  And in today’s shocking exposé, we learn that complaints about racism are the moral equivalent of bombing the Phone Company.  Or maybe it’s dutifully worshipping for 20 years that’s the parallel to domestic terrorism — it’s a deep analogy, and I’m still spelunking it.

Obama, recounting his formative years, wrote: “To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.” From this we can deduce that Obama and his closest friends all passionately hate America.

Ellis omitted the end of the sentence, in which Obama added, “…and punk-rock performance poets.”  From this we can deduce that Obama loves superfluous hyphens, while Ellis Washington hates Henry Rollins.

This is President Obama and the politics of revenge.

This is who Obama is.

Sure, he may come off as a boring centrist with less soul than Al Gore, but every once in awhile the mask will slip — like last week, when Obama pulled on a leather glove during a briefing with the Secretary of Transportation and abruptly flashed the Black Power salute.

This is how Obama was raised: to hate America with a fanatical hatred that controls and animates his social, political, economic, religious and foreign-policy worldview. His entire Cabinet are a veritable who’s who of political radicals, social engineers, Marxists, feminists, socialists, communists, fascists.

Remember when “feminists” weren’t considered political radicals on a par with Marxists and fascists?  We were so innocent then.  Anyway, you’d think a mix of such violently antithetical ideologies would make for some highly volatile Cabinet meetings, and indeed, the communists and the fascists are often seen arguing about who was supposed to bring an appetizer.

Recently, Obama’s entrenched racism toward America was revealed in a vile diatribe by one of his appointees, Shirley Sherrod, the USDA’s Georgia director of rural development, who in a speech to the NAACP in March 2010 unearthed by Andrew Breitbart

Sherrod had been a fairly obscure bureaucrat in the regime, but once Obama became aware of her racist views, she was immediately promoted.

Sherrod later said she realized that the dislocation of farmers is not about blacks and whites but about “haves and have-nots.”

So, are we to ignore Ms. Sherrod’s racism because she recanted by embracing Marxism and redistribution of wealth? What about the hundreds or thousands of unnamed white farmers Sherrod was supposed to help during her career? Did she “do enough” for them?

Mr. Washington’s cool, dispassionate analysis of the situation should inspire us all to take a moment and reflect.  If you have ever entertained biased attitudes or prejudicial thoughts about white people, simply because some of them murdered your father and got away with it, or lynched a relative of yours (even though they didn’t use a rope, so it wasn’t technically a lynching, and therefore the killers didn’t qualify for airline points or a $25 Restaurant.com gift card), you must take care to avoid changing your preconceived notions based on life experience, or having an epiphany about the Brotherhood of Man, because if there’s one thing worse than being a racist, it’s being indecisive.

Liberals and the Democratic Party have always enjoyed a double standard regarding their central role in propagating the welfare state while exploiting racism, ignorance, poverty and class warfare in America. For example, President Obama, in a speech on race, March 18, 2008, said, “We’ve got a tragic history when it comes to race in this country. We’ve got a lot of pent-up anger and bitterness and misunderstanding. … This country wants to move beyond these kinds of things.”

What Obama meant in that speech was that he “has a lot of pent-up anger and bitterness and misunderstanding. …” [And as president he] will not let “this country … move beyond these kinds of things.”

Listening to Obama’s speeches is like trying to watch a 3D movie without the glasses.  It’s all so much clearer when you add the brackets and ellipses.

Following Leon Trotsky and Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” Obama has mastered the art of perpetual societal revolution.

What Ellis meant in that sentence was that he had [st]art[ed]…perpetual[ly] mast[u]r[bating]…[into a]…soc[k].

In less than two years, the Obama administration has caused this country cataclysmic and purposeful damage: TARP, $14 trillion debt…fighting two Vietnam wars (Iraq and Afghanistan), 17.5-percent actual unemployment, a de facto border war with Mexico on illegal immigration, over three months of oil gushing in the Gulf of Mexico and, worse than Jimmy Carter’s “malaise,” Obama has plagued America with an Orwellian dystopia where American exceptionalism, hope and Christian forbearance have devolved into despair, hopelessness and the politics of revenge.

I can’t believe Obama is taking credit for TARP, the historic debt, and both our Vietnam wars (which aren’t even really in Vietnam, so they’re like knock-off wars) — he’s a worse plagiarist than Ben Domenech, and if Bush wasn’t so crammed full of Christan forbearance, he’d take a tip from the RIAA and sue Obama for illegally downloading his intellectual property.

On the other hand, I’m not sure I want to take accusations of “Orwellian dystopia” at face value from a man who spent an entire column getting the details of Nineteen Eighty-Four exactly backward.

Beginning in the 1880s, the Progressive Movement, which is embraced by the political left, had three key mandates for America: 1) Infiltrate the public schools and pervert the young minds of succeeding generations through moral relativism, evolution, Marxist economics and control by the education brownshirts – the teachers’ unions; 2)

Okay, I admit that I am married to a teacher, and have some progressive sympathies, but in the 1880s I was more of a populist, and then only because I was dating a chick who was into bimetallism (c’mon — like you wouldn’t have done the same).

Characterize the constitutional framers as a bunch of rich, racist white guys and assert that, because of slavery, de jure discrimination and misogyny, the Constitution has no binding authority in modern times;

You’re not my real Constitution!  You’re not the boss of me!”

and 3) Characterize Christianity as a relic philosophy of the past with no current relevance or transcendental truth.

This is something I hear frequently from liberals, but it’s an argument which is easily refuted by my knucklebone of St. Salvius.

For the past 130 years, progressives have systematically perverted society, waiting to seize real power in the person of Barack Obama…

For he is the Chosen One whose coming was foretold in the ancient and forbidden text, the Progressonomicron (which also contains some tasty soup recipes).

…whose fascist politics represent the three classical mandates of progressivism:

[Here Ellis appeared to have some sort of seizure, perhaps due to a flickering computer screen, so we'll just skip this part]

In just 18 months, Obama has confiscated more federal power and executive control than FDR did during his four terms as president – and FDR was frequently lambasted as a dictator, a socialist and a fascist.

So you can’t say Fox News has made people stupid, because morons have been around at least since 1933.  Anyway, while I’m not sure if socialists considered FDR a fascist, some of the people who called him a socialist were actual fascists, so at least they had legal standing to file a grievance.

Who, therefore, is Barack Obama?

He’s the wind, baby!

President Obama is a vengeful, spoiled little man-child who, since he was raised and mentored by people who hate this country, derives perverse pleasure by seeing America on her knees. Obama’s presidency is the revenge of liberal intellectuals, radicals and the countercultural hippies of the 1960s and ’70s.

Obama’s presidency is a protracted world war on America, and his fascist policies are systematically being implemented as a politics of revenge.

This subject will be further explored in Mr. Washington’s forthcoming book, Fascist Hippies:  The Secret History of the American Right from Nature Boy to the Sommer der Liebe.

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Radio Jefferson 1620 AM is a small town radio station dedicated to giving out the local news as well as broadcasting all sporting events for the local high schools.

Meaning, my dear Scott, that it’s a leased time station.

See, there are three models in commercial radio:

1) Advertiser supported — this is where the station creates programming, then sells commercial time.

2) Programmer supported — surprisingly, this is how Rush et al operate. They provide the programming to the network. They also provide the advertisers for whatever percentage of slots the agreement calls for. The programmer keeps all the revenue from those spots. The network then sells the rest, keeping the lion’s share of revenues.

3) Leased time — Here, the network does nothing. Less than nothing because the programmer pays to have his program aired (he then keeps all the ad revenues).

I’ll wager this is Radio Jefferson.

Unfortunately, Mr. Washington relies too much on hyperpole

Yea, but I bet his gold lame jock is stuffed with tips.

*reading onward*

It’s Ellis Washington. Not worth the effort.

Hey, both books are listed on Amazon. Bought together, you pay the low low price of $91.99.

Customers who bought this item also simply adored tomes by Michelle Malkin and Dick Morris.

This is truly pathetic. But God love you, scott, for making his existence worthwhile by virtue of this one post.

So, are we to ignore Ms. Sherrod’s racism because she recanted by embracing Marxism and redistribution of wealth? What about the hundreds or thousands of unnamed white farmers Sherrod was supposed to help during her career?

Yeah, she helped those poor white farmers, but what about all those rich, white farmers whom she didn’t help by taking land from the poor farmers? I think this example alone proves Mr. Washington’s contention that Obama hates America.

Wull, yeah. I’m white. I coulda been a farmer, instead of a bum, which is what I am. Because Shirley Sherrod refused to help me! Gah. I weep for myself and my lost potential. And the 40 acres, and the mule that only certain specially privileged people got. It’s not fair.

Sadly, it’s not just us who fail to properly appreciate Mr. Washington’s many accomplishments. This is from his story of “Why I Became a Conservative”:

“Twenty years of offering my intellectual, strategic and tactical abilities in vain to the Republican Party to utilize my skills to build new and more substantive coalitions, has not dimmed my resolve nor provoked me to lash out in anger at their missed opportunity.”

After reading Scott’s post, I imagine the GOP is now reconsidering their failure to utilize Ellis’s skills.

Mr. Washington relies too much on hyperpole

I think the hyperpole happened when the ten-foot pole went metric.

What an impressive word salad.

You should put Master Washington up against Pastor Swank (or has he actually been taking his meds lately?).

May the most incoherent win.

His discourse kinda wanders around like a fart in the bathtub, no?

In the meantime, maybe our friend Ivan can tune in the station some night when the atmospheric conditions are perfect, and share a few of Ellis’ political insights, Frosh-Soph football picks, and his award-winning recipe for water chestnut stuffing.

I’ve just returned from Radio Shack…and should have the crystal set working any day now.

Wowsers, a 246-page (I love hyphens, by-the-way, and regard the now-fashionable vilification of their proper use as hopelessly middlebrow; in a world seemingly filled to brimming with irritating little people with irritating little ringtones they can’t be bothered to shut off in enclosed spaces, and with professional news readers who’re overmatched by the schwa, the defense of cacophony should be left to John Cage. I’d not only write “punk-rock performance poets”–though only if I had to–but also “sell-out”. In fact, I would, gladly return to the umlaut for vowels doubled in compound, if only everyone else would coöperate) uh, sorry, twohundredfortysix pages quibbling with The Nuremberg Trials on the grounds of some Poli-Sci 101 coffee-shop bullshit philosophy session, as told by some clown who barely heard half of it, understood far less, and should be busying himself studying for that Remedial English midterm? Hard to believe it’s only #1.9 million in sales.

Now, apparently, he’s left the kudzu-covered halls of Ole SSU behind and gone rogue! Folks ambling peacefully down the streets of Jefferson, Georgia, minding their own business, never know when Ellis Washington may leap from behind a corner mailbox and begin freelance lecturing them.

I love this image. And there are people I would gladly pay for this kind of service, but Mr Washington is not among them.

If you’re going to put accents on “resume,” both E’s get one.

Baby steps, Rob, baby steps. I’m not even sure how I did it the first time.

“President Obama … derives perverse pleasure by seeing America on her knees.”
What, everything but missionary position is ‘perverse’ ?

His discourse kinda wanders around like a fart in the bathtub, no?

This is poetry.

For the past 130 years, progressives have systematically perverted society, waiting to seize real power in the person of Barack Obama…

Man, we’ve been biding our time for a centrist technocrat? We had Debs and Woody Guthrie. And the late-period RFK. And a couple others too who could have made a difference. FUCK. The culmination of my vision is such a fucking let down.

Man, I wish I could get my hands on whatever these wingnuts are drinking! Must be some powerful shit. Makes ‘em see fascists! and socialists! everywhere–even when they’re looking at someone like Tim Geitner–who after all, is Mr. Wall Street…

If most of society has been perverted, wouldn’t that make most of society normal? I mean, if you have eleventy-seven million people and they are perverts, and three people who are normal, then the normal people aren’t, are they?

Hey, Scott, give me back that bone! My knuckleball isn’t worth a damn now and as a result my team is last in the Celestial Fastpitch rankings.

Folks ambling peacefully down the streets of Jefferson, Georgia, minding their own business, never know when Ellis Washington may leap from behind a corner mailbox…

And yet, they amble still.

…several books, including “The Inseparability of Law and Morality: The Constitution, Natural Law and the Rule of Law”

Whenever anyone starts talking about “natural law” in the context of hoomin law-makin’, I think of that great exchange from “Major Barbara”, where the cannon manufacturer/social reformer Andrew Undershaft is trying to ascertain what profession his aristocratically-minded son Stephen could fill. Stephen describes himself as having “no taste for business”, “nothing of the artist”, not having enough “push” for the law, etc. His father says:

UNDERSHAFT. Rather a difficult case, Stephen. Hardly anything
left but the stage, is there? [Stephen makes an impatient movement]. Well, come! is there anything you know or care for?

STEPHEN [rising and looking at him steadily] I know the difference between right and wrong.

UNDERSHAFT [hugely tickled] You don’t say so! What! no capacity for business, no knowledge of law, no sympathy with art, no
pretension to philosophy; only a simple knowledge of the secret that has puzzled all the philosophers, baffled all the lawyers, muddled all the men of business, and ruined most of the artists: the secret of right and wrong. Why, man, you’re a genius, master of masters, a god! At twenty-four, too!

STEPHEN [keeping his temper with difficulty] You are pleased to be facetious. I pretend to nothing more than any honorable English gentleman claims as his birthright! [he sits down
angrily].

(GBS knew how to use hyphens, too.)

Hey, neat! I’ve got a radio ‘show, too! Doe’s that make me a brilliant commentator on world affair’s like Mr. Wa’shington i’s? Becau’se I want to be ju’st like him!

And thank’s for that fla’shback to the 1984 po’st. That wa’s wonderful…

I love how he drops evolution in with all the other Marxist indoctrination. Too bad he didn’t call it “Darwinism”.

i refuse to believe that “Ellis Washington” actually exists! he has to be the persona of yet another angry white male, doesn’t he?!?

Strange this post is totaly unrelated to what I was searching google for, but it was listed on the first page. I guess your doing something right if Bing likes you enough to put you on the first page of a non related search. :)

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