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2016 - Grand Old Disaster
March 3rd, 2016, Kansas City: Thoughts after the Super-Tuesday |
So, Super-Tuesday is over. As expected, the winners were Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Also as expected, everybody else, even despite harsh defeats and a most demonstrative show how much they are without a chance, declared themselves as successful. Well, I won't bother about the Democrats. Hillary will make it and if not, the superdelegates which are basically determined by the party, not the voters, will decide, she makes it anyway. Democrats just have a different understanding of democracy than other people.
So ... the more interesting subject. The GOP aka the Republicans. Trump won and the party establishment hates the idea that Donald Trump could be the candidate and, God help us all, maybe even win against Hillary Clinton. Lindsay "The Senile" predicted of course, his party is crazy and Trump is crazy and so he will lose against Clinton because "dishonest beats crazy". In another interview, Marco Rubio, till this moment a legitime candidate, discredited himself by painting himself as "the Anti-Trump". There would have been easier ways to commit political suicide, Senator Rubio!
So well, the establishment is unhappy. Now, I admit, Donald Trump is far from being my dream candidate. Only, and that is the point in democracy, we don't get always what we want. Majorities decide. And there is one virtue, that can be used to measure the ethical quality of a politician: When he is forced to step back and rally behind someone he doesn't like because the electorate has spoken. Lindsay Graham and Marco Rubio have shown, in the most disgusting way, they are sore losers without even a drop of this quality.
Now, someone will maybe accuse me to be a too conservative soul and a racist and ... fill in your list of stupid stereotypes here ... whatever! See, here is the rub. Established politicians are always afraid of grassroots. One stumbles so easily over those things while looking for the next butt to kiss to preserve the own power. On the other hand, democracy in its very nature is grassroots. Normal people go voting. The grocery employee living next door votes, the car mechanic, the single mother on welfare, the bank clerk and so do I. All very normal people. Most of us can't be bought because we are too many. Nobody can pay that. So the only way out is to manipulate us into some cozy slavery in which we don't need to think but only need to dollow the "suggestions" of our established professional politically leaders. As the exit polls on Super-Tuesday showed, Democrats prefer this kind of being led with 80% majority. | For Conservatives, it is not that easy. There is the idea of self-responsibility which prevents most of them to give up entirely on thinking.
 Dishonest vs Crazy
Of course, liberal commentators on the main stream media tried to point out, there are many people without college degree out there voting, but in their infinite arrogance, they forgot also those people think. So forget those well paid CBS people for a moment, think about the Republican party here. What does that mean for the GOP? First of all, any Republican party leader can't that much of a self-centered wannabe dictator than the usual Democrat leader because conservatives in the US are far more prone to start grassroots movements. And yes, this can go till sending you the pink slip in the next election. We, conservative voters, despite all, political manipulators try to tell us, are far more immune to a Führer principle and the left loves so much.
Now Trump says, what people think. There went a lot of things wrong in the last years for America. Getting the problem of illegal immigration under control is essential. After we control our borders, a thing, every other nation in the world understands as self-evident, we can still decide how many people we want to let in legally. And most conservatives make this difference between illegally and legally. Most ... not all ... if you see the website of Ted Cruz's campaign, he doesnt. So, some million voters lost, because all together, the naturalized Americans and their children are a bigger majority maker than and ethnic minority alone. Bye bye Senator Cruz!
Conservatives not necessarily insist their candidates have balls as Sarah Palin and Carly Fiorina have proven ... but we definitively insist on them having a spine! Sometimes, it just necessary to speak up against this all white-washed political correct lying that makes our politicians so exchangeable nowadays. Trump does that. Rubio, a hard worker and still young, | has to learn that before he can be considered a serious candidate. Wait eight years, learn. For now, Bye bye Senator Rubio!
And many conservative voters have some old fashioned ideas about honor (Democrats, you can look that word up in a dictionary), honesty (see the note afore) and loyalty. See the first Amendment give you the right to speak your mind ... it doesn't include abn obligation that we have to vote for a backstabbing senile. Bye bye Senator Graham!
Here is the bottom line: A lot of people are unhappy about Donald Trump's success. A lot of us would have wished for more potentials fit for the job to chose from. Instead we got Chris Christie, Lindsay Graham, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Rand Paul. So, dear party establishment, you didn't deliver, so you lost. Now loyalty demands that you support the only one who can beat Hilary Clinton in November. To spend 20 or 25 millions in Anti-Trump-Ads would be the worst betrayal, the GOP ever commited on ... no, not Donald Trump ... on her voters. He won as of yet most of the primaries fair and square. To backstab him for that makes you ... well, actual good material for the Democratic Party. Hillary Clinton, the Democrat you are so willingly want to support against your own voters can explain to you how it feels, she got backstabbed good in 2008, remember?
So, dear GOP party leaders, this is the time, you have to show qualities, the qualities your voters demand from you. You may think, this is about electing a candidate and then a President. You may think, this is about a number of seats in House and Senate. And some of you may think, this is the tension test that can destroy the GOP. But here is the rub: Trump will not destroy the GOP. All that can happen now is that you destroy your political careers if you don't learn to play it by the rules! Because, we, the people (the conservative half of it), have spoken and continue to speak.
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Tue, May 17, 2016
12:00 AM CT
Daniel Lee Siebert
Daniel Lee Siebert is now also in our serial killer collection. A more or less garden variety strangler type who got away longer than necessary bacause some big PDs dropped the ball ... and left it to smaller ones, to get the job done.
| Fri, Dec 18, 2015
12:00 AM CT
Christman Genipperteinga
THe legendary robber along the wine road Trier-Cologne made it finally into our collection. With a total of 970 victim, including six of them his own children, he is currently the most prolific serial killer in the Collection.
| Thu, Oct 22, 2015
12:00 AM CT
Gerard John Schaefer
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| Thu, Sep 24, 2015
12:00 AM CT
Royal Russel Long
Long was quite messed up in the investigation of the Wyoming Rodeo Murders, but details show, he was another kind of animal, y typeless pedophile serial killer. Now his file is in our collection.
| Mon, Aug 17, 2015
12:00 AM CT
The Wyoming Rodeo Murders
A story of misperceptions and midnless cabinet cleaning by police authorities that ended up with someone getting away with at least two murders on young women. Now in our collection.
| Wed, Jul 15, 2015
12:00 AM CT
Joseph Vacher, the French Ripper
Now new in our collection: Joseph Vacher, the French Ripper. The first case, blood spatter analysis was used in a court trial world wide!
| Sat, Jun 20, 2015
12:00 AM CST
No new addition in June
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| Sat, May 16, 2015
12:00 AM CT
The Beauty Queen Killer
New in the serial killer collection: Christopher Wilder, the Beauty Queen Killer. A case that shows how nonsensical the disctinction between serial and spree killers really is.
| Thu, Apr 16, 2015
12:00 AM CT
Burton W. Abbott
Abbott killed only one victim, a case that caused some public attention in 1955. But he showed all hallmarks of a fledgling serial killer and thus, we added him to our collection.
| Mon, Mar 16, 2015
12:00 AM CT
Darren Deon Vann
Ha is basically the usual garden variety strangler case if it wouldn't be for the early warnings statistical data cretated about serial killer activity in Gary/Indiana. Now he is in our collection.
| Wed, Mar 4, 2015
12:00 AM CT
Apologies!
Due to technical problems, the March article was up late. Take my apologies for this glitch.
| Mon, Feb 16, 2015
12:00 AM CT
Affaire of the Poisons
We have added the infamous Affaire of the Poisons to our collection. With more than 80 offenders, it breaks a little the format, but well, it's one of the biggest cases of "organized" crime ever, so how can we let it out?
| Mon, Dec 8, 2014
12:00 AM CT
Joseph Bryan
Once he made the FBI Ten Most Wanted list, now nobody remembers the case anymore. Nevertheless, the father of all allegedly schizophrenic serial killers has entered our collection.
| Fri, Nov 7, 2014
12:00 AM CT
The Trailside Killer
David Joseph Carpenter has now become also part of the Serial Killer Collection ... complete with profile.
| Tue, Oct 7, 2014
12:00 AM CT
The Vampire of Duesseldorf
Peter Kuerten aka The Vampire of Duesseldorf roamed the city at the River Rhine for more than two years and left behind a trail of bodies-
| Fri, Sep 12, 2014
12:00 AM CT
The Grim Sleeper
Lonnie Franklin aka The Grim Sleeper has been added to our serial killer collection
| Thu, Aug 14, 2014
12:00 AM CT
Michael Lee Lockhart
... and with a little delay, another serial made it into the serial killer collection. Michael Lee Lockhart, not so much interesting for his "achievements" but because his case appears as if he became a psychopath only after a serious head injury.
| Tue, Aug 12, 2014
12:00 AM CT
A Game of Daggers
Diane's new novel A GAME OF DAGGERS is now available at Amazon for Kindle. A story of murder, mayhem and political intrigue set up in the year of the Lord 1096.
Pope Urban II has called for a crusade, but this news has yet to reach Cornwall. And people there have anyway to deal with other problems from storms to wreckers on their coast and when some murdered men are discovered on the beach, nobody guesses, this is only the prelude to much greater events coming to the so remote shores ...
| Sat, Jul 5, 2014
12:00 AM CT
Ivan Hill
Ivan Hill, as the first of the many serial killers, who haunted Los Angeles in the 80s and 90s, is now added to our serial killer collection.
| Sun, Jun 8, 2014
12:00 AM CT
Raya and Sakina
The famous Egyptian serial killers have become part of our collection. And as so often, things are not as simple as the urban legend tries to tell us.
| Thu, May 1, 2014
12:00 AM CT
Dagmar Overbye
The infamous Danish baby farmer has been added to our Serial Killer Collection.
| Thu, May 1, 2014
12:00 AM CT
Pharaoh Djoser added to the Egyptian Collection
I finally came around to add a new pharaoh to our collection: Djoser, 1st Pharoh of the 3rd Dynasty.
| Fri, Apr 4, 2014
12:00 AM CT
The Green River Killer
This month, we added Gary Ridgway to our serial killer collection, a case, not so much interesting for the profiling but for the lessons about case organization to be learned from it.
| Tue, Mar 4, 2014
12:00 AM CT
Manson Family
The "Manson Family&quo; has been added to our serial killer collection. Especially interesting for those who think, brain washing isn't possible.
| Fri, Feb 7, 2014
12:00 AM CT
Hans van Zon
Dutch serial killer Hans van Zon joined our serial killer collection. Not entirely voluntarily though.
| Mon, Jan 6, 2014
12:00 AM CT
The Syracuse Dungeon Master
John T. Jamelske aka the Syracuse Dungeon Master has been added to our Serial Killer Collection. While not a seria killer but a serial rapist, Jamelske represents a similar psychopathology as some OCD type serial killers, for example Dahmer and therefore is some valuable object for studies.
| Thu, Jan 2, 2014
12:00 AM CT
Khasekhemwy
The last of the 2nd dynasty pharaohs, the man who re-united Egypt, is now also in the Egyptian collection.
| Thu, Dec 12, 2013
12:00 AM CT
Pharaoh Sekhemib added to the Egyptian Collection
I finally came around to add Pharaoh Sekhemib to the collection, the sixth of the 2nd Dynasty. So, with some luck, I can finish this year the 2nd dynsty, only one, Khasekhemwy is left.
| Tue, Dec 10, 2013
12:00 AM CT
The Riha disappearance
In 1969, Dr. Thomas Riha disappeared and in the subconsequent series of events, Gloria Tannenbaum was arrested for forgery and under suspicion of two other homicides. She plead not guilty by reason of insanity and got away with it. The case has now been added to our serial killer collection.
| Mon, Nov 4, 2013
12:00 AM CT
Richard N. Clarey jr.
Clarey is one of the lesser known serial killers, skirting the definition a little. Still, for some reasons an interesting case.
| Wed, Oct 2, 2013
12:00 AM CT
Now in the collection: William E. Cosden
A garden variety sexual predator, notable only because his existence shows, how wrong the idea of 1 monster at 1 time in 1 area is.
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