Conclusive evidence of media bias in favor of the Clintons, from Nashua Telegraph:

Published: Saturday, January 12, 2008

Clinton adviser arrested in Nashua

By STEPHANIE HOOPER Telegraph Staff
[email protected]

NASHUA – A top Clinton adviser faces charges of aggravated driving while intoxicated after city police caught him speeding through Greeley Park a day before the state primary.Sidney Blumenthal, longtime friend and senior adviser to presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. was allegedly driving a rented car north on Concord Street at a speed of 70 mph when Nashua Police Sgt. Mike Masella decided to stop it at about 12:30 a.m. Monday.

Monday to Saturday is six days.  How might the state of Mrs. Clinton’s campaign look if this story had come out before the New  Hampshire primary?   The story if nothing else, would pushed the tale of tears off the front page.  

The Clintons claim to abhor the Politics of Personal Destruction, thou they revel in it and have media hit men like Sidney Blumenthal, a.k.a. Sid Vicious, on salary.

HTABSWK to Lucianne.

The Pundit of Poca, Don Surber, asks can you spot the conservative?

Hat Tip:  Don Surber.

I’ve spent the morning hopping around the ‘sphere, and have noted a trend I’ve noted in previous election years…  I’m noticing how very much of the platforms of the Democrats is surrounded by guilt. Perhaps you’ve noticed it, too?

A strange set of emotions, guilt is. Perhaps the easiest to evoke, and the easiest to control, once one understands the cultural cues.  It won’t take much for people who do understand this tool to keep a great number of people under the yoke of guilt.  A few examples:

Think about the leftists’ constant guilty bowing to the god known as the “environment”.  What is the environmental movement of today centered around?  Guilt.  Guilt for too much pollution.  Guilt for too much energy use which leads, suppsoedly, to pollution. When the facts of the matter do not impress enough to produce the desired effect, the facts are exaggerated so as to create more guilt.  Al Gore has made a very nice living, thank you very much off of placing guilt on the shoulders of the average Joe and Jane just trying to get enough gasoline in their car to get back and forth to work, while seemingly avoiding guilt and it’s foibles for flying his jets around the world, and using 10 times the average family’s annual energy use in one trip… a trip spreading guilt about energy use. Anyone who questions the facts Gore and the rest base their arguments on, are labeled as guilty of a myriad of things. Such charges tend to avoid dealing with actual facts, but rather tend to focus on the emotions surrounding guilt.

Think about the usual cries from Democratic candidates about how we should be “helping the poor”. Guilt again, of course. Conservatives, who want government out of such matters, are guilty of being selfish, we’re told. Anyone who complains about governmental largess in any way… welfare, healthcare, etc, is labeled guilty. Such guilt is not only a nifty way to prevent any real discussion on the issues, the sheer pressure of guilt is a tool to break down resistance to governmental power in the matter. To avoid such guilt we gladly give up half our income and more to government…. never noticing that such government efforts never do quite stem the tide of poor to be helped. (If government ever actually fixed the problem, one supposes their claim to ever growing power would be made illegitimate…. they’d never be able to point to someone’s guilt to expand their own power, anymore) As with the environmental movement, anyone raising any kinds of questions on the topic is made out a pariah, guilty of the worst kind of social mis-stepping. Such as those pointing out that the person who heped the poor the most in our history was Ronald Reagan.

Guilt is perhaps the most crippling of emotions, for both the individual, and a culture as well.
Think about the election process we’re going through, just now. Particularly, an aspect I mentioned last night . We have a black candidate who without directly saying so himself, implies through subordinates that anyone opposing his is guilty of racism. His most formidable opponent is a woman, and the idea has somehow made it out of that campaign and it’s supporters that those opposing her are guilty of being sexist, and that opposition to her is being waged purely on that ground.  Anyone who questions either of these stands is labeled guilty before the echo dies.

Food… that which gives us life… is seen as a guilty pleasure.  We’re supposed to feel guilty when we run to McDonald’s or BK.  We’re supposed to feel guilty if we have a cup of coffee that is not run by ‘the right people’.  We’re supposed to feel guilty if we shop at the great Satan, WalMart. We’re supposed to feel guilty if we buy good not union produced. We’re supposed to feel guilty for simply being American.  We’re supposed to feel Guilty if we’ve managed to improve our families standard of living beyond that of our neighbor… and our governments act on that guilt by increasing the taxes we pay with the stated intent of ‘making things equal’. Some environmentalists have it that man is guilty of ruining the environment by simply existing in the numbers that we do… but never quite seem to make the conclusion that such observations lead to.. that such people could save the environment… just a little, by removing themselves from the equation. Their guilt, apparently doesn’t quite take them that far.

Guilt is perhaps the most crippling of emotions, for both the individual, and a culture as well. When everyone is guilty. it is criminal to be innocent. And yet, we continue as a people to buy the stuff being packaged.. guilt… as ‘fairness’… as “Environmental responsibility” and so on. Make sense to you? How much of this guilt, we buy, much of this guilt we accept into our lives, depends entirely on how slickly the purveyors of such guilt package it.  And boy they do that well.  People get paid millions annually to package guilt well enough that it influences our actions and specifically our voting.

If there’s one thing that amazes me about all of this, it’s that more people haven’t picked up on the idea that guilt is the main motivator for voting Democrat.  Look at the laundry list above again.  Aren’t these part and parcel of the Democrat mantra?

Think about the reaction of voters, to a Republican candidate wise enough to point all this out.

COALITION FORCES DISRUPT AL KUT CRIMINAL ELEMENT NETWORKS, 11 TERRORISTS KILLED

Posted: 27 Dec 2007 04:23 AM CST

COALITION FORCES DISRUPT AL KUT CRIMINAL ELEMENT NETWORKS, 11 TERRORISTS KILLED

IRAQI POLICE UNCOVER MAJOR WEAPONS CACHE

Posted: 26 Dec 2007 07:43 AM CST

IRAQI POLICE UNCOVER MAJOR WEAPONS CACHE

AL-QAEDA NETWORKS DISRUPTED; ONE TERRORIST KILLED, 19 SUSPECTS DETAINED

Posted: 21 Dec 2007 06:06 AM CST

AL-QAEDA NETWORKS DISRUPTED; ONE TERRORIST KILLED, 19 SUSPECTS DETAINED

DETENTION OPERATIONS HOLD EID AL ADHA RELEASE CEREMONY

Posted: 20 Dec 2007 05:34 AM CST

DETENTION OPERATIONS HOLD EID AL ADHA RELEASE CEREMONY

COALITION FORCES CAPTURE SPECIAL GROUPS CRIMINAL ELEMENT LEADER, DETAIN THREE SUSPECTS

Posted: 20 Dec 2007 05:30 AM CST

COALITION FORCES CAPTURE SPECIAL GROUPS CRIMINAL ELEMENT LEADER, DETAIN THREE SUSPECTS

SEVERAL MILITANTS KILLED DURING AFGHAN, COALITION FORCES OPERATIONS IN HELMAND

Posted: 18 Dec 2007 04:27 AM CST

SEVERAL MILITANTS KILLED DURING AFGHAN, COALITION FORCES OPERATIONS IN HELMAND

MNC-I SOLDIER DIES FROM NON-COMBAT RELATED INJURY

Posted: 17 Dec 2007 05:23 AM CST

MNC-I SOLDIER DIES FROM NON-COMBAT RELATED INJURY

BY CHARGÉ D’AFFAIRES PATRICIA A. BUTENIS AND GENERAL DAVID H. PETRAEUS ON THE TRANSFER OF SECURITY RESPONSIBILITY FOR BASRA PROVINCE

Posted: 16 Dec 2007 01:53 PM CST

BY CHARGÉ D’AFFAIRES PATRICIA A. BUTENIS AND GENERAL DAVID H. PETRAEUS ON THE TRANSFER OF SECURITY RESPONSIBILITY FOR BASRA PROVINCE

JOINT STATEMENT BY AMBASSADOR RYAN C. CROCKER AND GENERAL DAVID H. PETRAEUS ON THE CAR BOMB ATTACKS IN MAYSAN PROVINCE

Posted: 13 Dec 2007 04:28 AM CST

JOINT STATEMENT BY AMBASSADOR RYAN C. CROCKER AND GENERAL DAVID H. PETRAEUS ON THE CAR BOMB ATTACKS IN MAYSAN PROVINCE

IRANIAN ROCKETS FOUND, TURNED OVER TO COALITION FORCES

Posted: 13 Dec 2007 04:25 AM CST

IRANIAN ROCKETS FOUND, TURNED OVER TO COALITION FORCES

As Bit commented yesterday, Mrs. Clinton’s campaign looks to be going for ugly.  The Clinton loved passing B.J. off as the “First Black President’ but how dare an uppity black stand between Mrs. Clinton the Oval Office.

Eric Kleefeld TPM,

An anonymous Clinton adviser made an interesting comment to The Guardian, explaining the difference between Hillary supporters and Obama supporters.

“If you have a social need, you’re with Hillary,” the aide said. “If you want Obama to be your imaginary hip black friend and you’re young and you have no social needs, then he’s cool.”

It is long past time for the Clintons to go back to Arkansas and to take Mike Huckabee with them.

Hat Tip: Memeorandum.

Ben Smith over at the Politico notes that there’s been a lot the last 48 or so over charges of racism:

A series of comments from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, her husband and her supporters are spurring a racial backlash and adding a divisive edge to the presidential primary as the candidates head south to heavily African-American South Carolina.

The comments, which ranged from the New York senator appearing to diminish the role of Martin Luther King Jr. in the civil rights movement — an aide later said she misspoke — to Bill Clinton dismissing Sen. Barack Obama‘s image in the media as a “fairy tale” — generated outrage on black radio, black blogs and cable television. And now they’ve drawn the attention of prominent African-American politicians.

So, Obama is playing the race card, already? Interesting how that happens. But is he playing us straight here when he levels such charges? Consder this WaPo article from November:

In Obama’s first successful campaign, he was not the candidate.

It was 1992 and he had recently finished Harvard Law School and returned to Chicago, spurning prestigious law jobs to work closer to the ground. He went to work for Project Vote, a voter registration drive that boosted the candidacy of Carol Moseley Braun (D), only the second black U.S. senator since Reconstruction. Sandy Newman, who recruited Obama, said he offered him the job with limited expectations. Fundraising was not in the job description, yet Obama “raised more money than any of our state directors had ever done. He did a great job of enlisting a broad spectrum of organizations and people, including many who did not get along well with one another.”

Obama recruited a fundraising committee chaired by John Schmidt, a white former chief of staff to Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) and John W. Rogers Jr., a young black money manager and founder of Ariel Capital Management. In less than a year, Obama hired 10 workers, attracted 700 volunteers and produced 150,000 new voters.

By the end, Schmidt was struck by the fact that the drive actually registered voters.

“He really did it, and he let other people take all the credit. The people standing up at the press conferences were Jesse Jackson and Bobby Rush and I don’t know who else. Barack was off to the side and only the people who were close to it knew he had done all the work.”

Three years later, Obama ran for office himself. He used his elbows.

At the time, he was teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago and working at a small civil rights firm after finishing his memoir “Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.” He spotted an opportunity when Alice Palmer, a progressive black state senator, ran for Congress in an off-year election.

Palmer assured Obama that she was comfortable surrendering her safe seat in a community that had produced a string of successful anti-machine candidates, including the late Sen. Paul Douglas (D) and Abner Mikva, future member of Congress, federal judge and White House counsel. She informally blessed his candidacy and said if she lost the House race, she would not drop back into the Illinois contest.

But after Jesse Jackson Jr. (D) won the special election in November 1995, Palmer had second thoughts. Her followers pressed Obama to drop out. He refused. Palmer and her supporters hurriedly gathered hundreds of signatures to put her name on the ballot.

Obama challenged the validity of some of the signatures on the petitions before the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners. He also contested the petitions submitted by his three other Democratic opponents. The authorities ruled all four opponents ineligible, clearing the field.

“It took some real guts to do it,” Schmidt said. “There were a lot of people who said, ‘You can’t do that.’ ”

Toni Preckwinkle (D), a 4th Ward alderman, believes Obama did the right thing, although his maneuver left some hard feelings.

“Alice Palmer and her supporters will never forgive him,” she said.

Not surprising.

Alice Palmer was a well known and well respected civil rights leader, at the time, and one whose work was derailed by Obama’s power grabbing. And yes, I know the Clinton camp is spreading this one just now also, but the point is these are both, in the end, Chicago Democrats, involved in a power grab. One claiming racism, one claiming sexism, both guilty of each crime and much more. .

These are the people to bring ‘change’?

How stupid does this sound?

“Allowing retailers to make money off of hungry people is wrong.”

So where did you eat breakfast this morning?  All I did was change one word, sick to hungry.  Da Mayor of Boston:

The decision by the state Public Health Council, “jeopardizes patient safety,” Menino said in a written statement. “Limited service medical clinics run by merchants in for-profit corporations will seriously compromise quality of care and hygiene. Allowing retailers to make money off of sick people is wrong.”

Hungry people have to eat, and sick people need medical treatment.  Is it somehow immoral to provide service to remedy the former but not the latter, and if so why?

Hat Tip and More: Bryan, Hot Air.

Addendum:

This ought to be criminal.  CVS is trying to provide medical services to the residents of Boston and their mayor is fighting CVS tooth and nail to oppose the service.  Here the full Boston Globe story:

Mayor Thomas M. Menino embarked on a highly public campaign yesterday to block CVS Corp. and other retailers from opening medical clinics inside their stores, an effort that exposed a rift between Menino and the state’s public health commissioner, a longtime ally.

If I were a crasp liberal like Bill Maher or Joy Bahar, I’d be openly rooting for Menino to get sick.  I hope the good citizen of Boston remember this jerk come election day.

Hat Tip: Memeorandum.

Steve at OTB:

 Hillary’s Energy Policy

Well, one part of it at least. I don’t know what prompted me to go look at her plan, but I did. One thing that struck as a bit…well ignorant was this part,

An aggressive comprehensive energy efficiency agenda to reduce electricity consumption 20 percent from projected levels by 2020 by changing the way utilities do business, catalyzing a green building industry, enacting strict appliance efficiency standards, and phasing out incandescent light bulbs;

The italicized part struck me as just plain ignorant of how the utility industry works. Utilities don’t really care how much people use, at least when it comes to electricity. Most utilities are regulated monopolies. As such, they don’t have to worry too much about marketing…at least their overall product. Sure maybe marketing different rates or rate options, but not for electricity. You either buy from the utility or…you don’t get electricity.

What you need to understand about that, Steve, is that her “changing the way they do business” means rationing of energy. Utter state control over who uses energy and for what purpose.  And you know, that’s not unlike McCain’s proposed policy.   Neither one even comes close to suggesting increasing energy production and reducing costs, Nothing about economic growth which is invariably tied to energy production. No, they’re about rationing, the both of them. Oh, and taxing the hell out of it, of course.

This nightmare needs to be loudly rejected.

Addendum:  (David L)

Let me make this perfectly clear.   Any energy rationing plan starts with the Washington politicians.   That is before Dirty Harry Reid and Mrs. Pelosi starting tell how much energy we are allowed to use, they had better be walking, or pedaling their bicycle, to work.

John Hawkins emailed a bunch of right siders within the last week or so and asked a series of questions aimed to judging where we are on the presidential election, and specifically the Republican nomination. Among those responding:
The Absurd Report, The American Princess, AtlanticBlog, Baldilocks, Barking Moonbat Early Warning System, BitsBlog, (John) BitsBlog, BizzyBlog, Blonde Sagacity, Bluey Blog, Bookworm Room, Lorie Byrd, Cold Fury, Dr. Melissa Clouthier, The Conservative Reader, Conservative Grapevine, Damian Penny, Election Projection, Musings, Flopping Aces, Freeman Hunt, GOPUSA Northeast, Guardian Watchblog, Dr. Helen, Jeff Gannon – A Voice of the New Media, Inside Larry’s Head, Keith Burgess-Jackson, JackLewis, (Brian) Liberty Pundit, (Hank) Liberty Pundit, Likelihood of Success, Moonbattery, Neocon News, Newsbeat1, Newsbusters, Nosiy Room, No Oil For Pacifists, The Nose On Your Face, Outside The Beltway, PrestoPundit, Pundit Guy, QandO, (Alexham) Redstate, Reformed Chicks Blabbing, Right Wing Rocker, Say Anything, Sister Toldjah, Slobokan’s Site Of Schtuff, Knowledge Is Power, Stolen Thunder, The Sundries Shack, dcthornton.com, Trying To Grok, Vox Popoli, WILLisms,

You’ll have to go there to see the results.

Me at Q&O just now:

I say, “who cares” – which was about the same reaction I had when I heard John Kerry had endorsed him.

Well, that was my first reaction, too. But I got to thinking about it and came to two conclusions:

1: Obama cares. It’s an open question, far as I can see, if John Kerry’s endorsement carries a positive or negative weight for the endorsed.

2: Perhaps more importantly, John Edwards cares. This isnt quite so much about whom Kerry endorsed as whom he didn’t. His former running mate would seem to have been a logical choice, were Kerry’s choice anything but a cynical attempt at triangualtion. Kerry’s not endorsing Edwards also seems to me both a damnation of Edwards as a prospective President, and a bit of revenege for what Kerry obviously feels was a major reason for his not winning in 04; Edwards being on the ticket.

Ms Magazine, established by Gloria Stienem, may proclaim itself the voice of all woman, but it surely is not.   Some topics are just too darn hot for the girls to handle, such as this ad (PDF)

 Via, Powerline:

A Ms. Magazine representative, Susie Gilligan, whom the Ms. Magazine masthead lists under the publisher’s office, told Ms. Kurlander that the magazine “would love to have an ad from you on women’s empowerment, or reproductive freedom, but not on this.” Ms. Gilligan failed to elaborate what “this” is.  

Gender feminists claims to reprent all woman, a claim I utterly reject.  Gender feminism represents but few vocal women who are vastly over represented in the media.

Edit:  Linked ad and quote.

Edit:  Added photo, Hat Tip:  Gateway Pundit.

Addendum:   More, Michelle Malkin. “Ms. magazine loves strong women, except…”

Addendum:   Eugene Volokh, Volokh Conspiracy, commented:

The AJC item closes with this: “Ms. has the right to turn down our ad. But in exercising that right, it has spoken loudly about itself and its readership, and their lingering hostility to Israel.” If the account in the AJC report is correct — and I have no reason to doubt it, though if you know of contrary facts, please let me know — then the AJC’s evaluation seems quite right, too: Ms. is entitled to make its editorial judgment, but it’s an editorial judgment that we ought to condemn.

Yes in this country everybody even, Ms Magazine,  has a right to be bigoted.

More, Memeorandum.

Ya know, it’s early in the morning yet, but there’s something very wrong with that title. Else, there’s something very right with it, I can’t figure which.

Anyway, check this:

 Hillary’s willingness to tolerate Bill’s compulsive philandering is a function of her general contempt for men. She distrusts them and feels morally superior to them. Following the pattern of her long-suffering mother, she thinks it is her mission to endure every insult and personal degradation for a higher cause — which, unlike her self-sacrificing mother, she identifies with her near-messianic personal ambition.

It’s no coincidence that Hillary’s staff has always consisted mostly of adoring women, with nerdy or geeky guys forming an adjunct brain trust. Hillary’s rumored hostility to uniformed military men and some Secret Service agents early in the first Clinton presidency probably belongs to this pattern. And let’s not forget Hillary, the governor’s wife, pulling out a book and rudely reading in the bleachers during University of Arkansas football games back in Little Rock.

Hillary’s disdain for masculinity fits right into the classic feminazi package, which is why Hillary acts on Gloria Steinem like catnip.

…But Hillary herself, with her thin, spotty record, tangled psychological baggage, and maundering blowhard of a husband, is also a mighty big roll of the dice. She is a brittle, relentless manipulator with few stable core values who shuffles through useful personalities like a card shark (“Cue the tears!”). Forget all her little gold crosses: Hillary’s real god is political expediency. Do Americans truly want this hard-bitten Machiavellian back in the White House? Day one will just be more of the same.”

OK, first of all, Camile Paglia preaching about hatred of men strikes me as a bit off center, but past that of course she’s got Hillary nailed… as she always has since she noted her “Pink Estrogen light “ a decade ago.  What Paglia notes is, I think the basis for some of the Democrat anger with Hillary Clinton, though I wonder if Paglia herself has thought that matter through quite so far.

Hillary Clinton is all over the board, emotionally, and logically. I submit that electing her to the White House introduces an unstable element, to an already unstable world situation…. particularly when so much of her self-identification runs directly afoul of what has been working for us in the world… Bush policy.

BBCT: RWN 

Addendum:  (David L)

Michelle has commented that she does not believe that Mrs. Clinton upset victory in New Hampshire represents a turn around.   Given that all the democrat endorsements in the wake New Hampsphire have gone to Barack Obama, the lady seems to have a point.

Conservatives, such as myself,  have long been repulsed by the behavior of the Clintons and puzzled by the gender feminists seeming acceptance of it.    I have an emerging theory, H/T:  Pat Sanity, that while the gender feminists knew, in their hearts, that Mrs. Clinton was a weak woman,   they abided by her as long as she played the part of strong woman on the campaign trail.

Now that Mrs. Clinton has dropped her pretense of strength gender feminists like Gloria Stienem, Maureen Dowd and Camile Paglia no longer feel the duty to support her, and indeed have a strong urge to attack her.  Welcome on board girls.

Aside:  Now if you were to listen to the cows, you would believe that only cave dwelling troglodytes like Rush Limbaugh used terms like feminazi.  

Fred Thompson on Mike Huckabee:

“That’s not the model of the Reagan coalition, that’s the model of the Democratic Party,”

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Hat Tips;  quote; Joe Gandelman, Moderate Voice; video, Byran, Hot Air.

The Thompson Treatment was long over due.   The media is intent on destroying the republican party by forcing their voters to choose between Huck and John McCain.   I only hope that Fred has planned a future such Thompson Treatment for McPain.

• Another Honorable mention at the udderly ridicowlus version of OTB’s caption contest.
• Speaking of OTB, Joyner is running a headline…Huckabee and Al Qaeda Oppose Guantánamo.And James? Huckabee is dead wrong here. This should end his WH run, far as I’m concerned.
• Look, Billy I agree with most of what you say about the ‘experiment’ nonsense. And Kim is unfocused on the subject, at least.  But look, did the founders figure they were going to see the full fruit of their labors? Did they figure their children would? The answer of course, is ‘no’.  So yes, being patient is, in fact, part of the deal. By the way, stopping a socialist “tide” is an interesting metaphor, given the slow and almost un-noticable movement of the tide, (unless you’re in a place like say, Fundy.) The awful truth is we didn’t get to this level of infusion of socialism all at a go. It’s not going to go away all at a go, either. Even the war we’ve discussed many times, isn’t going to suddenly change that picture to a non-socialist world, or even a non-socialist COUNTRY.  That’s because moving away from socialist dogma is a matter of changing minds. And war seldom does that, of itself. Where successes occur, there is an educational process that is the bigger part of that success. That’s because a war, generally, is a short term action… and changing minds takes far more time.  We’re not going to get where you and I both want to get, by shortcutting the process.
• I see John Kerry has endorsed Obama. MIchelle is talking about that, here. Well, maybe Obama will get a lot of votes anyway, in spite of the loser’s ‘support’. Michelle points up and I agree that what’s going on is exactly what prompted McGovern to open his bazzoo a few days ago… he’s desperate to maintain relevancy. He didn’t succeed, but maybe Obama won’t be too damaged by the attempt. We’ll see.
• I didn’t see the debate tonight…. (I just got home) but apparently Fred Thompson, by all accounts, won the thing going away.  JPOD, from his new digs at Commentary Magazine: “Thompson is not only winning this debate, he is giving the most commanding debate performance we’ve seen from any candidate in either party since the beginning of this endless primary process.” Heady stuff.
• I’ll leave you with a couple shots of the result of those 75mph winds, I spoke of the other night. This is a tree that fell onto some power lines, and knocked out power for most of the area. When it fell, it did so smack in the middle of a four lane residential street, dragging hot wires with it. I was on my way into work when it fell. When it did, my server rack went to battery power, and shen it does that, it’s programmed to send an Email to my cell phone to let me know the power’s gone.  I had to run home to see what was what, since I have a sump pump, here.  Power was back on by the time I got back, at least to our house, but as I say several streets were dark and the main road was closed for a couple days. That closing resulted in all the heavy traffic being sent along backroads not designed for it. The shot with the cars is up my street the next day. On the main road shot, note the light pole leaning in. That’s not normal. The pole had the main feed wire for the blacked out areas, whn the tree took the wire out, the pole got pulled in, too. Notice too,how tall those poles are.  Those are high tension wires that are feeding a substation, which in turn feeds the whole west side of town. Bottom line; had that pole fallen, a lot more people would have been cold for one pine tree falling.

On the eve of Doctor Martin Luther King Day,  I pose a question.   Does socioloigical change come from outside or within?   I suggest the latter.   True change comes from self-examination and then rejection.  

So did mainstream culture change due to pressure from agitators, for lack of a better word, like Doctor King, or from self-examination.  Kyle-Anne Shiver, American Thinker,  provides power, albeit, anecdotal evidence:

I am a white lady, and a mere two generations removed from a plantation in Mississippi.  I grew up during the 50s and 60s hearing the stories of grandparents who were raised there, and who spoke as if General Sherman were still burning houses somewhere close by, and the War Between the States had been fought only a few years back.  One of the reasons that I’m a Republican today is that I grew up among genuine white racists — all strident Democrats to their graves.

If Doctor King was such a seminal agent for change, why is message so ignored today?