STANDING

In the law we find the principle of 'standing'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_%28law%29

I cannot find my Black's Law Dictionary right now but Wiki will do.

In the law, if my memory serves me, the term standing relates to the issue of whether or not someone has a right to bring suit against an alleged tortfeasor.

I checked some silly on-line dictionaries and I am not impressed with the results of that search.

But outside of the legal definition (and to live outside the law we must be honest) my definition of the term 'standing' would read something like this:

When a person or group who has achieved a level of status or prestige that would grant that person or group the 'right' to challenge or defend some concept or belief or political position; that person or group has standing.

For instance:

PAT ROBERTSON

Pat Robertson has again informed us that he has spoken with THE LORD and when the lights went out in DC recently (rather than in Georgia) God had ordained that those lights would go out. If I recall the rationalization given BY GOD had something to do with Obamacare or taxes or something else that our Black, African, Kenyan, Muslim, Socialist President did!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024657512

Now Robertson speaks with God all the time. I know because he tells me so all the time. And I know that is true because no one can squint like Reverend Robertson. I mean, really. This guy squints so hard that I am sure his adult diapers feel the consequence of all this squinting!

So, I might not agree with Roberts' take on this particular catastrophe, BUT he has standing to give his side of things, as they say.

Now, for instance, Larry, the Cable Guy, would (in my view) have no standing to even comment on this issue; I mean he does not even know how to squint properly. And I know that he never talked to GOD because I read his book and have seen him doing commercials and talking like a gator hunter on the History Channel and he does not even get subtitles. (What exactly does 'GETTERDONE' mean, anyway?)

And besides, Pat Robertson was given 90 million bucks by God because he was so goddamn good at squinting. (Not God for chrissakes, I mean Pat!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Robertson

DUCK DYNASTY

Phil Robertson, ‘Duck Dynasty‘ patriarch said that during his youth in Louisiana, he picked cotton with blacks and never saw the “mistreatment of any black person. Not once.” He said, “We’re going across the field…. They’re singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, ‘I tell you what: These doggone white people’ — not a word!” Robertson told GQ magazine.

http://hinterlandgazette.com/2013/12/duck-dynasty-phil-robertson-cotton-picking-blacks-louisiana-singing-happy.html

Now here, we have an example of a man who actually picked the cotton with the Nigras and such and witnessed first-hand the wonderful experience of watching Minorities singing in ecstasy whilst making money for rich white folks.

Robertson has standing in my estimation, to engage on this issue concerning the happy Black Folks picking cotton in the Jim Crowe South!

I mean, there he was, standing and bending over and picking that there cotton with those Black Folks in an era that had no Advil for chrissakes!

Now this recent revelation from some Jim Brown (quite a name huh? There is irony in this universe after all) seems to be irrelevant because Jim Brown never picked cotton with them Nigras and never was bonded as a slave:

In a post on his Facebook page that was—in theory, anyway—about federal spending, Jim Brown, who’s running in Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District, compared modern-day “entitlements” to slavery. But even more disturbing, perhaps, he denied that slavery was, first and foremost, a brutally violent institution:

Back in the day of slavery, slaves were kept in slavery by denying them education and opportunity while providing them with their basic needs .. Not by beating them and starving them. (Although there were isolated cases if course) Basically slave owners took pretty good care of their slaves and livestock and this kept business rolling along.

 

http://www.theroot.com/articles/politics/2014/03/arizona_republican_compares_government_spending_to_slavery.html

So I might grant Robertson some standing as far as this issue goes, but Jim Brown (the one I cited not the football great YOU IDIOTS) does not have standing, in my estimation to make his argument.

http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/musical-ode-dinesh-dsouza-15251

Dinesh (what the hell kind of American name is that if in fact you love America and you know the foreigners are attempting to take over our nation and...) also feels that the slaves were property and therefore their owners loved them and cared for them and honored them as if they were horses!

And Denesh of course, never picked cotton with those Black Folks and never was a slave and always hated the unwashed anyway and....that is the end of that rant.

HEIDEGGER

Many English teachers preface units on Flannery O’Connor or H.P. Lovecraft with critical examinations of these authors’ racism. But every famous creative-type with an odious personal or political life also has plenty of apologists. In grad school, I once had a guy mansplain to me that T.S. Eliot wasn’t anti-Semitic, he was just “anti-usury.” So not anti-Jewish per se, just anti-an-odious-stereotype-he-casually-attributed-to-Jews. Much better...

It’s not that history lacked all evidence before. Heidegger assumed rectorship of the University of Freiburg after Adolf Hitler came to power; he joined the Nazi party and remained in it throughout the entirety of World War II. He even, Hockenos reminds us, referred to “fabrication” of gas chambers and death camps, the stuff of the modern-day Holocaust denier. But only the Black Notebooks contain actual references to “world Jewry” or “a collusion of ‘rootless’ Jews in both international capitalism and communism,” references that, Trawny insists, tie Heidegger’s anti-Semitism directly to his philosophy. Unprecedented indeed.

 

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/03/10/heidegger_and_the_nazis_the_black_notebooks_suggest_he_was_anti_semitic.html?wpisrc=burger_bar

I read a fine essay on Slate whilst I was collecting my usual garbage on the web and the mention of Heidegger struck me raw.

Here was a NAZI who survived 35 years following his 'illustrious' career in Hitler's Germany and this fellow described the Holocaust as a 'fabrication'? I mean the bastard almost lived to see the 1980's?

And this fellow has been 'adored' by some as an 'intellectual'?

I am just going to relate my own 'history' with regard to the Holocaust and with reference to a time when I watched the black and white with three national channels and one local channel from about age 4 to age 12?

We (the good ole US of A) have our own problems and I will get to those issues later but what the NAZI's did was incredible and indefensible and inhumane and just plain old evil.

There are thousands upon thousands of books and histories and individual testimonies about what happened in the 1930's and the 1940's in Germany.

I am centering on this 'fact' or series of 'facts'.

Now others might relate issues as to the terrible and indefensible conduct of the USSR during this same period and beyond. I actually have written about the evil in the USSR and directly with regard to its conduct with regard to 'the Jews'.

But my focus right now is just on this series of events that occurred during this 15 year period in Germany.

Okay, so I am this little kid.

And on my Black & White I see this:

THE JEWISH BADGE

http://history1900s.about.com/od/holocaust/a/yellowstar.htm

It is 1935 and it is ordered that all 'Jews' be labeled as such per stars installed upon their clothing!

But a few years later:

http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blprisoner16.htm

http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blauschwitz28.htm

http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blauschwitz26.htm

http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blauschwitz21.htm

Here are Congressmen visiting one of the areas of the evil doings in Germany prior to April, 1945

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLvc48q5oeM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OFvjgePfkI

My only point here is that Heidegger never spent one day in a concentration camp, Heidegger (according to him anyway) never SAW a concentration camp and this fine NAZI prick never suffered the slings and arrows of judicious fortune. SO HEIDEGGER HAD NO STANDING WITH REGARD TO THIS ISSUE!

CONCLUSION

I really wish to get into this issue of 'standing'.

Now McCain ended up on a Vietnam prison camp for several years and he has standing, as far as I am concerned on a number of issues.

I hate him, of course. We would have ended up in nuclear war decades ago if he had his way! At least that is my opinion.

He wishes to go to war all the fucking time.

BUT

He has standing to bring up the issue of war.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024657512

THE END (For now)