This guy is a pathological liar who will literally say anything. He will not even be completely candid about the peculiarities of his faith which was founded by a fraudulent opportunist, Con- man, Joseph Smith. Romney essentially equates Mormonism with Christianity, which it is clearly not. As I have stated previously in a post on Cape Cod Today:
All ideologies, political, religious and spiritual are NOT created equal. Let’s get that out of the way. Private Citizens are free to belong to whatever CULT they wish even those which have a rather bizzare belief system that resembles something out of Stephen King’s ‘Children of the Corn’. But should that ‘Private Citizen’ seek high national office, the highest in our land, it is fair to ask whether and how the peculiar tenets of his CULT membership will impact his leadership.
Romney LIES and changes his positions on a dime with a shameless proficiency literally unrivaled in the history of American politics. Romney’s con-artistry would, however, make Joseph Smith proud. The man is so hollow he would give the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz a run for his money. It has been often stated that the most exciting debate would not be Mitt Romney against any of his Republican counterparts but rather Mitt Romney against himself. That should tell you all you need to know.
Life’s too short to even care at all Ooh
I’m losing my mind losing my mind losing control
The fishes in the sea they’re staring at me
A wet world aches for a beat of a drum
If I could find a way to see this straight
I’d run away
To some fortune that I
Should have found by now
I’m waiting for this Cough Syrup to come down, come down
Life’s too short to even care at all
I’m coming up now coming up now out of the blue
These zombies in the park are looking for my heart
A dark world aches for a splash of the sun
-Young the Giant, “Cough Syrup” 2011
The last couple of years have challenged the American spirit in ways most of us have never would have imagined. The pain and suffering out there across America is palpable and real, leaving many of us reaching for more than cough syrup. For once perhaps the drama of the political rhetoric of our leaders does not even begin to address the depth and severity of the pain, insecurity and despair that many citizens feel across our land. Regardless of the prescriptions and solutions they offer to what ails us, to restore life I am no longer waiting for their cough syrup to come down.
Around me I have witnessed the supreme and strong, falling down, hopefully only intermittently, but still not sure. Yet, in the souls of many of my fellow Americans, however wounded or uncertain they may be, I see the ‘eye of the tiger’ looking only for a basis to rise again or maybe I am just looking in the mirror. In the words of Vince Lombardi:
“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That’s real glory. That’s the essence of it.”
“It ain’t about how hard you can hit. It’s about how hard you can GET hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep – moving – forward.”
Or in the words of film industry legend, Mary Pickford:
“If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.”
Knock me down enough I say and all you are doing is training me in how to get up more proficiently. Let us give praise and thanks to those who have knocked us down for they will only make our victory even sweeter, in the end. This is the character of our people. It is written into the American DNA, yours and mine. Rest assured, the final bell has not yet rung, we will be prepared to rise and do battle in 2012. A little angel is gonna whisper in your ear: “get up you sonofabitch cause Mickey loves you”.
Cut me Mick I ain’t done fightin’ yet. This is not a time for platitudes or making cliched resolutions to toast at midnight but rather a calling to be resolute in all that we do. To all of you I hope and pray you find your splash of the sun in 2012. May you basque in it for the remainder of your days. It’s time we stop waiting for the cough syrup to come down. If we have to, maybe the answer is that we make our own.
Ron Paul’s alleged curious past as a ‘batty old reactionary’ came into wider focus yesterday on CNN. The presidential aspirant while being questioned by CNN’s Gloria Borger, walked off the set under pointed questioning about his role in the creation and dissemination of certain Libertarian newsletters. Newsletters penned under his name more than 20 years ago contained some clearly incendiary (race based) language. Today many news outlets are dissecting the import of Paul’s relationship and involvement in the creation of the “Ron Paul Newsletters”. Many wonder whether his unsettling interview and the charges of racism and anti-Semitism will affect his increasing lead and current rock solid standing among voters, particularly those in Iowa, which holds the first in the nation Iowa Caucus shortly after the new year. Whether Ron Paul’s support will continue to grow or these troubling issues derail him from a victory in Iowa remains to be seen.
In the words of an American Skeptic on The Economist site:
“Ron Paul will win Iowa and finish #1 or #2 in NH. That will give him the national platform to compete against Romney. Aside from the excellent British press, the US mainstream media consistently lies about Dr Paul, denigrates his character, and basically panics that America is ready to elect a truly anti-war candidate. The so-called mainstream Republican party has abandoned core conservative values in favor of a neocon agenda of permanent war — Ron Paul will win them back to the party.”
In terms of full disclosure I am a registered Democrat likely prepared to vote again for President Obama, given the lack of a reasonable alternative. The candidacy of Ron Paul has however resonated with independents and democrats, many of whom have developed a hearty respect for Congressman Paul’s willingness to buck current Republican orthodoxy on many issues, particularly foreign policy and civil liberties. While I am not a Ron Paul supporter and do not necessarily agree with all of his policy positions, I am too concerned that a country which invests in WAR before its own people is doomed to implode or collapse entirely. Not everything America does in policing the planet can be viewed in earnest as in the best interests of America or the majority of its people; the Financial Oligarchs protecting crony capitalism yes, the people no.
While I reserve the right to render a fuller judgment upon further review and reflection of this matter, I must admit that I find the timing of the attempted take down of Ron Paul by the mainstream media rather curious; coming just as he has risen to the lead in Iowa Republican Presidential polls.
It is worth considering, however, that Paul’s policy positions may actually the least racist. In the view of many, the warfare/welfare lobby has bankrupted the wealth and soul of this nation. All the 99% have left is politicians offering targeted platitudes that don’t put food on the table, pay the rent or end their fear of what the future may bring, but nevertheless they continue their efforts to delude the population that they are still on your side. Political platitudes offered by corrupt politicians who serve as guardians of a crony capitalist system give citizens all the comfort of Jeffrey Dahmer or Hannibal Lecter whispering in your ear that he wants to eat dinner with you.
Collapse of Middle Class
America’s growing inequality and the collapsing middle class encompasses all races and nationalities; with increasingly more of our citizens finding commonality with poor rural whites and inner city blacks and disadvantaged minorities. You do not have to live in Compton or South Central to feel the pain of America’s extraction. It is being felt in the Jewish neighborhoods, the Italian-American community and in some solidly middle class all white zip codes where the decline of the professional middle class is all too evident. And it continues to be felt across white rural America across Appalachia, which conveniently garners the attention of politicians during Presidential campaigns but then gets forgotten about soon thereafter. America is eroding from the inside out. Have you heard that on the mainstream media lately? Oh yeah, I forgot they were too busy promoting yet another Kardashian.
The despair in the land is palpable. Even those who live in fear of those different than them might begin to see the world through the same lens as those who they once thought was the enemy. The changing face of expanding poverty and hopelessness just might make many Americans forget about skin color or ethnic heritage and create a new political reality for our leaders to deal with. Consider the impact of an increasingly enlightened and united voter base, with a wide swath of our people united across socioeconomic, ethnic and religious lines, blue collar workers arm in arm with white collar workers, seeing the world instead as US vs. those who prey on US with intellectually dishonest policies. This risk to the ruling class probably explains the effort to conquer and divide by stewing racial resentment. Think I am wrong? Consider the unprecedented level of racial intolerance, scape-goating of unions and government employees, and the hate and fear mongering against Muslims and immigrants.
Liberty vs. The Cult of Romney
America’s dialogue on Liberty must continue. Hence I am reluctant and thus not yet prepared to render a final judgment, dismiss him outright or cede ground to those who may want to conveniently pull the plug on Ron Paul’s candidacy at this time. Why? So that the Republican establishment and mainstream media can have their coronation of Mitt Romney, a man who is an enigma shrouded in a veil of secrecy and adorned in ‘magic underwear’ despite allegedly being so highly qualified, articulate and thoughtful? For that matter so is the devil, or at least that’s what I am told. Nevertheless, I suspect that the Cult of Romney will persist well beyond Iowa because the elders of his party see him as the most palatable demon to challenge Obama at this time, even in spite of his rather wacky Mormon beliefs. On this issue I am in accord with the view penned by the late Christopher Hitchens in Slate, political correctness be damned.
Evidence suggests that Mitt Romney’s most dangerous debate opponent just might be himself. If the Republican Party establishment wants a Mitt Romney as Sybil campaign in a 2012 ‘Say Anything’ Tour of America, I say let’s put the shape-shifter of today on stage with his opponents, Mitt Romney from last week, Mitt Romney from the 2008 Presidential campaign and Mitt Romney as Governor of Massachusetts. Ron Paul it seems at present merely shields Romney from the rise of another candidate in Iowa who may challenge him more heartily in New Hampshire and perhaps derail his candidacy for good. The media putting a pin in the ballooning Paul candidacy to bring him down out of the stratosphere in Iowa means that it is beginning to feel a lot like Christmas in the Romney household.
“What he did was verbally abusive,” said Rose. “He knew the best way to hurt me.”
“He’s a hurtful person. His was sadistic, violating behavior. I’m never again going to look up to someone I’m not close to. It doesn’t matter if a man is your idol, if a man makes you feel bad, you need to stand up for yourself. Women need to have a no-jerk policy. Women can’t let men play games with them. I just want girls to know they need to speak out and this type of behavior is not OK.”
“I’m sorry to say that I don’t feel able to pursue what we only just began. I think you are a dynamic, passionate, extraordinary person, and I apologize for backing away so suddenly.”
Her pseudo feminist mishegas directed towards womankind in a rant to the NY Post reeks with all the sincerity of a grifter fleecing her prey and her call to protection of other similarly afflicted female victims, with all the coherence of a drunkard saying “I love you man.” Women who scream abuse or cry wolf as part of their own famegame but who have suffered no damages or actual abuse undermine women who are real victims. Somehow, I highly doubt that Gloria Allred even wants to jump into the mix on this one. Yes, it is that ridiculous.
The photo ilustrates nothing…..
As a photographer and a lawyer and one who has seen up close and personal Ms. Rose’s antics, in my opinion, the image tweeted by Ms. Rose illustrates nothing. It hardly looks like that representative or indicative of some massive romance, deeply formed alliance or any kind of significant intimate relationship between her and the world famous author of the Satanic Verses. It instead looks like that of one taken by a fan or brazen fame ball/stalker for her scrapbook or tool in her ongoing social climb.
As stated to me by an acquaintance who has withdrawn from New York Social circles because she has moved on to a more important segment of her life called adulthood: “It never ceases to amaze me the lengths these people will go for ’status’ in the make-believe construct of their social microcosm.”
Men of means and accomplishment are on notice that this type of Dangerous Beauty with a narcissistic personality disorder worships only at the alter of fame. She will sell you out at hello. Devorah tweeted that picture of her and Rushdie because in her mind, it made her ‘relevant’. And by relevant I mean that a man of means, intellect and literary accomplishment chose to have this charlatan in his company, however briefly.
Tweeting that photo was a marketing and publicity maneuver and not indicative of behavior becoming a lady or a woman sincerely interested in a meaningful involvement with a man of substance. Emily Post would certainly not approve of this course of conduct. Given that she is a woman of literally no meaningful accomplishment but a semi nude spread of her surgically sculpted and lipo-suctioned frame having appeared in the pages of Maxim in a spread that seems more appealing to necrophiliacs, pedophile and fans of Anorexia, one should not be surprised that Mr. Rushdie had little interest in an ‘intellectual relationship’ with someone whose apparent social currency was fame for no reason and nude profile resembling a concentration camp victim. It shocks me that she could have even briefly made him horny. But that is besides the point.
Devorah Rose: Another Cog in the Wheel of the Culture of Distraction
Whether this is yet another case of ‘Men Behaving Badly’ or a pervy old man misreading the intent of a woman who flaunts her nudity online with the brazen hustle of a street walker is not so relevant. That he chose to walk away from her is not abusive to Ms. Rose as much as it was likely motivated to preserve whatever remained of his integrity as well as coming to the realization that he was being used. Hence, if he was looking for ‘The Girlfriend Experience’ he should have paid by the hour rather than tangled with an unrelenting fame monster who simply would not stop trading off the one photo of them together.
“As the economy unravels further and we head into a global worldwide ‘Depression,’ the relative significance of who and what is important on New York’s party circuit will matter far less. As far more folks find themselves living less glamorous lives, our willingness to celebrate the petulant indulgences of others will dissipate. Perhaps then fame will become based more on some substantive and real set of values and accomplishments rather than doing coke at Bungalow 8 or merely staying out too late at parties at high-end boutiques.”
That Miss Rose continues to be given a platform proves only that the culture of distraction continues to call upon its loyal servants for more tomfoolery at the expense of enlightenment of our citizenry.
Most who met her between 2005 -2010 do not recognize her in these images on Maxim. Upon closer examination of the images of Devorah Rose in Maxim, Facebook and Twitter, what I see is not an attractive, sexually desirable woman but something that is disturbing. The images are a cross between a concentration camp victim and a vampire who is but one procedure away from looking like Jocelyn Wildenstein. What was not removed with a plastic surgeon’s scalpel or sucked out via liposuction, enhanced via breast implants or collagen injections was photo shopped or air brushed to reveal a feminine creature that is a turn on only for necrophiliacs or pedophiles.
*NOTE: This post was written for and appeared first in Cape Cod Today
SEE ALSO Hamptonyte: Inside the Social Life Magazine Kerfuffle Hamptonyte: Breaking: Social Life Magazine editor threatens to quit Hamptonyte blog: NY Times Profiles Most Transparent Fameball in History Hamptonyte blog: Hate Mail & Devorah Rose’s obnoxious post Times profile reaction NY Times: A Celebrity of her own Making Jewish Journal: Devorah Rose: Future reality star or upstart Jewish socialite? NY Magazine: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Devorah? Cape Cod Today: Salman Rushdie Attacked by NYC Fame Monster Scallywag & Vagabond: Devorah Rose: Women’s advocate against abuse that cried wolf. CAPITAL: The Salman Rushdie-Devorah Rose Story:Why?
Devorah Rose has in the words of Bud Fox in Wall Street “bagged the elephant”. The Frankenstein Fame Monster created in part by the distraction culture media machine, anorexia and plastic surgery found herself on the front page of the New York Post twice in one week. The question is, however, has Devorah Rose peaked? Where does she go from here? Appearing on the front page of the world’s leading tabloid media, a woman of literally no meaningful accomplishment involved in a media scandal involving one of the most well known authors of our time, is the highest heights for a Social Parasite.
Dangerous Beauty Poses as Victim
Ate my heart
He a-a-ate my heart out
He ate my heart
He a-a-ate my heart out
Look at him
Look at me
That boy is bad
And honestly
He’s a wolf in disguise
But I can’t stop staring in those evil eyes
“He’s a hurtful person. His was sadistic, violating behavior. I’m never again going to look up to someone I’m not close to. It doesn’t matter if a man is your idol, if a man makes you feel bad, you need to stand up for yourself. Women need to have a no-jerk policy. Women can’t let men play games with them. I just want girls to know they need to speak out and this type of behavior is not OK.”
Ms. Rose’s Achilles’ heal is that she is a bona fide Social Parasite. Anyone who has literally gone through the level of personal reconstruction as Ms. Rose has serious self esteem issues. She has attempted to redefine herself to the world at large through cosmetic makeovers and revisionist history of her lineage. Miss Rose has few people who believe a single, solitary word that flows from her fake lips. She has some Nerve. Despite her assertions in the Sunday New York Post cover article, Mr. Rushdie has not used anything against her or about her that is not already in the public domain, that is unless you believe that there is a massive media conspiracy against her involving the NY Times, The Observer, NY Magazine, Gawker, Scallywag & Vagabond, City File et. al etc. Her posture in all this actually reeks with all the sincerity of a social grifter fleecing her mark.
While some may commend the upstart Jewish socialite for her persistence in garnering time in the spotlight without any noteworthy accomplishments, men of means and accomplishment are now on notice that a scheming Forrest Gump with a penchant for appearing in the right place at the right time to garner media attention, may be one of the most annoying and dangerous personages for any such man to cross paths with in this town. Simply put, she will sell you out at hello.
Upon closer examination of the images of Devorah Rose in Maxim, Facebook and Twitter, what I see is not an attractive, sexually desirable woman but something that is disturbing. The images are a cross between a concentration camp victim, a vampire and leave her looking like she is but one procedure away from looking like Jocelyn Wildenstein. What was not removed with a plastic surgeon’s scalpel or sucked out via liposuction, enhanced via breast implants or collagen injections was photo shopped or air brushed to reveal a feminine creature that is a turn on only for necrophiliacs or pedophiles.
This may sound particularly harsh but its true. Miss Devorah Rose is not a compelling natural beauty. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. And in my estimation, whatever beauty has been crafted and is visually appealing comes undone by a narcissistic personality disorder. What I often witnessed covering Social Life Magazine parties was her narcissism taking over. Her posture insisted that the camera focused on her and whatever celebrity she was able to wrangle to pose on the red carpet at the Social Life Estate. Absent her control, the camera might focus on the female beauty or girl next door professional women who often in abundance as either share house time share guests or invitees to the Social Life Estate but who were lesser photographed and often did not appear in any press clippings. Nevertheless, these were the women actually often surrounded by men. Rose did not garner similar attention.
Not a Victim: He’s Just Not That Into You.
The Satanic Verses author and former spouse of Padma Lakshmi has undoubtedly already suffered sufficient shame for not recognizing more easily the dangerous beauty of Devorah Rose. Her semi-nude persona appealed to him on some level. Despite Ms. Rose’s alleged interest in an “intellectual relationship”, fact is he did not see that as a possibility. Who could argue with that? Despite her Columbia University pedigree she is simply one of the most vapid people I have encountered on the New York social scene, and trust me that is saying a lot. Mr. Rushdie, were he in need of that type of companionship, or even wanted The Girlfriend Experience, simply should have paid by the hour. It would have been cheaper.
The love of my college years once famously told me, ‘Only time can tell what the future holds in store for us.’ She is no longer in my life. Rushdie, like most of us is likely sincerely hoping that her 15 Minutes are finally up rather than only beginning. Some may hope that this type of ‘fame crazed reality star’ takes a nose dive into the scrap heap of human history.