Where is OTIS?

My blog was created on 11-11-11. It seemed like a good launch date. I used to blog moderately successfully under the moniker "Jeff Blogworthy" several years ago. As of today, this blog is still not indexed by any search engines and has not been "crawled" by any spiders. I don't remember this taking so long in the past. One would think that Google would favor its own product. In any case, I'm getting antsy. It's no fun blogging if no one knows you are there.

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The Sad Decline of Herman Cain's Campaign

I find myself melancholy this morning that Herman Cain is unable to endure the slings and arrows of the presidential gauntlet. A gauntlet exempting some, while destroying others. How nice it must be to ascend to the most powerful post in the world absent serious vetting. I kept hoping that Mr. Cain would persevere. This morning his campaign appears to be finished, regardless of the merits of his sexual accusers, whom I still do not believe. The Cain train suffers death by too many mischugs.  It's all over but the crying.

BREAKING: Herman Cain's Iowa campaign chair announces that Cain is "reassessing" his presidential bid. 

UPDATE: Cain reassessing the reassessment. Block says there is "no way" Herman Cain quits, conveying another mixed message in a sea of mixed messages. The Cain campaign is too self-conflicted to survive this. I do not see a successful path forward.

UPDATE 12-3-2011: Cain puts his campaign "on hold." Nothing short of divine intervention can save it now. I hate to see it end like this. I hope that Cain and his attorney takes it to his accusers hard.

Cyber Monday exceedingly unimpressive

Cyber Monday flops as an online counterpart to Black Friday. It appears that the big online retailers already had their major sales on Black Friday, just like everyone else. Cyber Monday is the crumbs left on the tablecloth and the floor after a big dinner party. What is the point? FAIL.

Female on Male Extortion

Protecting vulnerable females is an instinct engrained in American society, doubtless much to the chagrin of those of the radical feminist persuasion. Some women find ways to use this instinct for evil. Often, the mere charge that a man may have "done something" is enough to finish him -- ruin his standing in the community, lose custody of his children, and perhaps land him in jail.

Reader's Digest this month publishes the account of Tracy West, a woman who went to extraordinary lengths to destroy her former lover and father of her child. Ms. West staged a violent attack on herself complete with self-inflicted injuries and an elaborate tale to back it up, all designed to deprive the father of child visitation rights. The story was originally published in the LA Times. Go read it.

"Women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners."

To date, Ms. West has received no punishment for her heinous actions.

Sunday Ponderance

A thought provoking film.

House of Numbers full documentary now on YouTube

I'm really glad to see this important documentary is now publicly available for free. I just discovered that due to a debate I was having elsewhere.




Part 2: The Emperor's New Virus

The False Herman Cain Narrative

What I regard to be a false narrative that has quickly become conventional wisdom is making the rounds. The narrative is most recently advanced in passing by Thomas Sowell.

We have already seen how unsubstantiated allegations from women with questionable histories have dropped Herman Cain from front runner to third place in just a couple of weeks.

I love Thomas Sowell. He is a brilliant man and I generally wish that I had one tenth of his insight. Nevertheless, even brilliant people are sometimes wrong. Those of us seeking a viable Republican candidate are engaged in a thoughtful, extended vetting process. We will not be deterred by false accusers, amplified as they are by cacophonous media blowhards.

The chief person Cain has to blame for his decline in the polls is Cain. When he flubbed a few answers or responded vaguely to questions, Herman Cain received the benefit of the doubt from many of us owing to the fact that he is a business man, not a politician. We Cain supporters were undeterred. However, as time wore on and Cain discovered his "inner Perry" in an interview where he was questioned on Libya, my faith suffered a devastating blow. Neither was Cain's stated position (in the same interview) on collective bargaining by public-sector employees satisfactory. The doubts that were nagging me but that I refused to acknowledge were suddenly brought to a focal point. As days and debates passed Cain failed to sharpen up, and persisted in his fuzziness on the issues. The continuous repetition of "999" will only get you so far.

Don't misunderstand. I still believe Cain is superior to several of the candidates. The jury is still out. If Cain becomes the clear front-runner I will support him without reservation. I do believe that he is a quick study and that he can overcome his deficiencies. But, for now, I feel compelled to explore other avenues. Apparently I am not alone.

So please, drop the sex-pot blame game. It's insulting to those of us who always believed the accusations to be lies. The blame in Cain lies mainly in the same.

Occupy Rape and Pedephilia

Student mobs for pederasty.

Via Mona Charen:

So it was almost as dismaying [as the horror of Sandusky's acts, enabled by those around him] to see the response of a mob of Penn State students reacting to the ouster of Paterno, as it was to hear about the child abuse itself. When word of the firings first reached campus, thousands of students surged from their dorms and rampaged down the streets of State College, Pa., blowing air horns and other noisemakers in the middle of the night.

They chanted Paterno's name, threw rocks and fireworks at police, knocked down two light poles, and overturned and crushed a local TV news truck. According to The New York Times, the mob also tore down street signs, smashed car windows, and tipped over trashcans and newspaper vending boxes. Call it Occupy State College. The only missing piece was public defecation.

It seems that there is no evil horror that the leftist mob will not elevate from the gutter or rationalize away.

Horowitz: Ron Paul Is A Vicious Anti-Semite and Anti-American

"Ron Paul Is A Vicious Anti-Semite and Anti-American and Conservatives Need To Wash Their Hands of him."

Tell us how you really feel, David! I must say that I have been very uncomfortable regarding some of Paul's comments and associations, but I haven't taken my conclusions to the same intensity as David Horowitz. Dr. Paul has many antisemitic friends and followers, but is he antisemitic himself? I don't know. If enacted, Paul's stated policies will certainly negatively impact Israel. Regardless, Ron Paul attracts antisemites like a magnet. That, there is no denying.

Perhaps Horowitz is right. Most power-seeking antisemites, like communists, do not fully declare themselves until it is too late. A wily antisemite would mitigate his positions in public, while privately plotting extremism. It is certainly possible that Ron Paul fits this mold. Judging by Paul's aggressive public anti-Israel stance, there is no telling what he might do once he comes to power. I do not trust him.

COWS - Communists on Wall Street

Are the people involved in the Occupy Wall Street movement Commies? Not all. Some of them are fascists. Some of them are a mix. All of them are anti-capitalist. Glenn Beck exposes the truth.

"I'm all for the return of the guillotine."

"You're singing to the choir on this show. We've been advocating the guillotine for years now."

More:

Zuccotti Park in pictures. When I went to the site it was very slow loading. There are many pictures. It is worth the wait.

Company Logo Evolutions

Follow the link to see an interesting treatment of the evolution of various company logos. As a small business owner who does his own marketing (along with bookkeeping and just about everything else, including cleaning the bathroom and mowing the grass) I find the treatment fascinating.

99 out of 100 Scientists agree!

According to a recent study, 99 of 100 scientists agree that argumentum ad populum is a logical fallacy. A similar ratio was found to apply to the general population. Strange, but true!

Don’t Pepper Spray Them: Expel Them

Don’t Pepper Spray Them: Expel Them, says David Horowitz

The most intelligent, common-sense editorial I have read on the UC Davis "pepper spray" incident is written by David Horowitz.

The threat to republican democracy we see comes from those who insist on encouraging mobs, and who shield them from the consequences of their actions.

The Truth about Herman Cain and Women

A former receptionist comes forward.

...never once [during Cain's entire tenure at Godfather's Pizza], she says, did a woman raise an eyebrow about Cain’s conduct. In fact, in an interview with National Review Online, Vachal says that during her entire career at Godfather’s Pizza, she never heard about any improper conduct, harassment, or inappropriate behavior by Cain, even in the form of water-cooler gossip. “Believe me, receptionists know everything,” she says. “They see everything.”

After watching Cain work closely with young women for years, Vachal says she was shocked to learn of the sexual-harassment claims made by former Cain associates at the National Restaurant Association, the organization Cain led after he left Godfather’s Pizza.

Read more at NRO

The Barack Obama Salute

From Russia, with love.
H/T The Blaze



This doesn't fit the "Bush lowered our standing in the eyes of the world" cliche very well, does it? It is only a cliche because the elites loved repeating it. The propagandists love repeating lies, but are loath to repeat the truth. Our standing in the world certainly has been lowered by the bower-in-chief. One would think the Russians would be ecstatic since Obama summarily gave up our entire missile defense shield just for them.