Michael van-der-idiot at it again

[Z'areh]

This Dutch prostitute has a new blog and he has crowned himself editor-in-cheat, again, and guess what? he is the same old anti-Armenian BS-er making a mockery of the Armenian genocide, but there are some good feedback to teach him a lesson or two.

 

I am not going to post his new website here because I really believe that this idiot periodically comes up with anti-Armenian topics just to get a lot of hits on his website, and get more revenue.

 

On another note, did you read about Mitt Romney having Armenian background? His grandparents were of Armenian and Swedish origins.

 

http://groong.usc.edu/news/msg219526.html

 

A Mormon of Armenian origin, and a presidential hopeful, who would have thunk it? maybe in 2016 (after Obama's two term tenure) Romney would be pushing 70 by then, of course if his MS does not progress and is under control.

 

[Yervant1]

 

"He's a very intelligent man, he's a highly moral man, he's run a

major organisation and the US is a huge organisation," said Eric

Cosman, a physics professor waiting to cheer on Romney.

 

Citing his Swedish and Armenian heritage, Cosman said he vehemently

opposes McCain's softly-softly approach to illegal immigrants: "Most

Americans, like myself, have grandparents who really had to struggle

to get into the United States - and they did it the legal way."

 

Eric Cosman's background is Swedish and Armenian and not Mitt Romney.

[Z'areh]

"He's a very intelligent man, he's a highly moral man, he's run a

major organisation and the US is a huge organisation," said Eric

Cosman, a physics professor waiting to cheer on Romney.

 

Citing his Swedish and Armenian heritage, Cosman said he vehemently

opposes McCain's softly-softly approach to illegal immigrants: "Most

Americans, like myself, have grandparents who really had to struggle

to get into the United States - and they did it the legal way."

 

Eric Cosman's background is Swedish and Armenian and not Mitt Romney.

 

 

Yervant jan, you are right and, I read it fast and thought the article was quoting Romney as saying "like myself, have grandparents..."

 

I stand corrected

 

....the importance of reading things carefully!

 

thanks!

 

 

[phantom22]

If you Google "Eric Cosman" you will find that he is a very prominent scientist and inventor, now retired.

 

Why doesn't some Armenian organization contact him about renewing his roots and helping with Armenian Causes?

 

"He's a very intelligent man, he's a highly moral man, he's run a

major organisation and the US is a huge organisation," said Eric

Cosman, a physics professor waiting to cheer on Romney.

 

Citing his Swedish and Armenian heritage, Cosman said he vehemently

opposes McCain's softly-softly approach to illegal immigrants: "Most

Americans, like myself, have grandparents who really had to struggle

to get into the United States - and they did it the legal way."

 

Eric Cosman's background is Swedish and Armenian and not Mitt Romney.

 

[Armenak]

This Dutch prostitute

You'll notice there are prostitutes of many different ethnicities... Stanford Shaw (Jewish), Justin McCarthy (American). There are even Armenians who we can call that. So don't say Dutch and just call him a prostitute and a pig. He lashes out at anyone who disagrees with him, so why bother leaving him any comments?

[elle]

Does Mitt Romney even care about the Genocide?

 

The Mormonator

Mitt Romney’s blinding ambition. Plus, the inexplicable opposition to an Armenian-genocide memorial.October 30, 2006 5:26:26 PM

 

 

Political dynasties are as American as apple pie. Since the Civil War, witness the marks made — or still being made (for better or worse) — by the Tafts of Ohio, the Stevensons of Illinois, the Roosevelts of New York, the Bayhs of Indiana, the Bushes of Connecticut and Texas, the Clintons of Arkansas and New York, and the Kennedys of Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island.

 

Now comes Mitt Romney, son of George, who as governor of Michigan in 1968 unsuccessfully sought to become the first Mormon elected president. Son Mitt hopes to succeed where dad George failed. And Mitt, the governor of Massachusetts, is not going to let anything stand in his way. On the surface he is as smooth and as gentlemanly as his dad. But in his heart Mitt is a sharpie, as cold as he is ambitious. Like George Bush II, who saw his dad outflanked on the right by Reagan, and on the left by Clinton, Mitt Romney is not going let the failings of his paternity mess with his success. His will to power, whatever the price, is straight out of Nietzsche. And his desire to do his dad one better, whatever the cost, feels like pure Freud.

 

Armchair analysis aside, Mitt Romney’s dedication to his own success is undebatable. With the help of Christy Mihos (a politically delicious irony), he strong-armed Republican acting governor Jane Swift aside to stake his claim to Beacon Hill. He shamelessly fudged his Utah residency to get on the Massachusetts ballot. He cavalierly abandoned Massachusetts’s voters after two years in order to launch his White House run, and he held on to his office to use it as a convenient bully pulpit. From that perch he morphed from a centrist to a right-winger, flip-flopping on choice and suggesting — with a straight face — that the sort of stem-cell research conducted at Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School should be criminalized. Mitt Romney: what an hombre.

 

In his latest exercise in duplicity, Romney secretly lobbied an influential member of the Mormon church’s innermost ruling council to leverage resources in the service of his White House campaign. The scandal of this is that Romney has long sought to wrap himself in the mantle of Roman Catholic John Kennedy, who in his 1960 presidential run stressed that he would not be an ideological slave to the pope. On the eve of that election American Protestants — especially the evangelicals and fundamentalists whom Romney now courts so assiduously — still feared Rome’s potential influence on the American Caesar. (What a difference 50 or so years can make.)

 

 

 

Today, however, all that has changed. Secular voters fear the powerful influence of the religious right. And many conservative Christians still look with suspicion on the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints, as the Mormons are properly known.

 

An argument can be made that Romney is getting a bum wrap: that the Mormons aren’t just Romney’s faith community; they are also his ethno-cultural community. Just as evangelical Jimmy Carter cultivated his fellow believers, so should Romney be able to reach out in an organized way to his fellow Mormons. In fact, the parallel is closer to ethnic groups than to Christians of any stripe. For Romney not to court Mormons would be akin to an Italian candidate not courting fellow Italians.

 

The problem is that Romney — unregenerate power player that he is — subverts his own advantage in this line of argument by going right to the bosom of his church to tap into the affluent Mormon communities that marble the nation. Blinded by his own naked ambition, he shoots himself in the foot. Jack Kennedy was much defter at exploiting his cultural heritage while arguing convincingly that he could insulate his public self from his private beliefs. But then, Mitt Romney is no Jack Kennedy. In terms of slick ambition, Romney might turn out to have more in common with Dan Quayle. Be wary, America; be very wary.

 

The case for an Armenian memorial

The Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, Mayor Thomas Menino, and the Greenway Conservancy advisory board chaired by well-respected corporate citizen Peter Meade all agree that a proposed monument commemorating the deaths of at least 600,000 Armenians in the Turkish-prosecuted genocide — the first historically recognized genocide — has no place in a park named after Rose Kennedy, located on land cleared by the Big Dig near the waterfront. We ask this simple and clearly inconvenient question: why not? Are these Boston worthies afraid of offending local Muslim sensibilities? Is their vision of the Rose Kennedy Greenway so sterile and so suburban as to hold that history should not punctuate the reality of this public space as it does so elegantly in the Public Garden and along the Commonwealth Avenue Mall? Our advice is simple: set a limit. Reserve space for a set number of monuments and memorials. Devise design requirements. And set a high-minded example by approving this worthy project. The august and historic Public Garden found a place for a tasteful and quietly moving memorial to local victims of the 9/11 attacks. The Holocaust is memorialized near Faneuil Hall. The Irish Potato Famine is remembered on Washington Street near Downtown Crossing. The firemen who fell battling the blaze that almost destroyed the Hotel Vendome, in 1972, are honored for their service on the nearby mall — although approval for that modest shrine required a shameful battle.

 

The Armenian slaughter, together with Hitler’s holocaust, Pol Pot’s massacre of his fellow Cambodians, and today’s carnage in the Sudan, stand as sad testimonies to mankind’s capacity for inhumanity. We memorialize tragic events such as these so that we may remember and learn. Surely in these early days of the 21st century we have it in our hearts to join in communion with our Armenian friends and neighbors, and together say: never again.

 

[Z'areh]

You'll notice there are prostitutes of many different ethnicities... Stanford Shaw (Jewish), Justin McCarthy (American). There are even Armenians who we can call that. So don't say Dutch and just call him a prostitute and a pig. He lashes out at anyone who disagrees with him, so why bother leaving him any comments?

 

Please... political correctness is not needed where there is no issue about correctness.

 

He is a prostitute who happens to be a Dutch national, that's all. Also, the significance of him not being a Turk is the issue here, which means he is a foreign national selling himself for a price; personally benefitting from Turkish sources by being virulent anti-Armenian as a blogger and not just generating an open debate on the genocide issue.

 

[DominO123]

Please... political correctness is not needed where there is no issue about correctness.

 

He is a prostitute who happens to be a Dutch national, that's all. Also, the significance of him not being a Turk is the issue here, which means he is a foreign national selling himself for a price; personally benefitting from Turkish sources by being virulent anti-Armenian as a blogger and not just generating an open debate on the genocide issue.

 

Selling himself? The guy is fianced to a Turk and they plan to move to Turkey to get married. Plus he's sponsered by very credible news sources such as the Turkish daily news, which we know are very credible when depicting Armenians. Right?

[Z'areh]

Selling himself? The guy is fianced to a Turk and they plan to move to Turkey to get married. Plus he's sponsered by very credible news sources such as the Turkish daily news, which we know are very credible when depicting Armenians. Right?

 

you are right, I just read his article in today's TDN about the headscarf issue, and incidentally he is urging the Turks to rise up against Erdogan's AKP, he writes: "Europe-minded Turks should organize protests and, more generally, do everything in their power to undermine the AKP", his worry is the future of Turkey of "the great Ataturk"

 

 

 

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=96339

 

 

PS, Domino, believe it or not there are some unbelievably honest articles published in TDN despite the dangers of rule 301. I am not talking about tributes to Hrant Dink by journalist colleagues, but about general Armenian issues with considerable depth. Of course you also have the required periodic anti-Armenian articles, which should not be surprising. TDN has seen a transformation after Ilnur Cevik ( a disgusting ultra nationalist ) quit as editor-in-chief and was replaced by an American David Judson and a well known intellectual Yusuf Kanli.

 

[Aubépine]

Ilnur Cevik, an ultranationalist? That's news to me. He is the biggest contractor in Northern Iraq and a close confidante to the Kurdish leadership there. But then he plays in tune with what currently suits him best.

[Z'areh]

Ilnur Cevik, an ultranationalist? That's news to me. He is the biggest contractor in Northern Iraq and a close confidante to the Kurdish leadership there. But then he plays in tune with what currently suits him best.

 

Not an ultranationalist in the sense of thugs like Erhan Tuncel and Yasin Hayal, who are on trial for Hrant Dink's murder, but ultranationalist like Gunduz Aktan or Dogu Perincek, who espouse virulent anti-Armenian and anti-Kurdish views in there writings or speeches.

 

you can follow such view points in Cevik's new post as editor of the newspaper The New Anatolian

 

 

As for business opportunities, hey even ultra nationalist need to by Porches, he can continue being anti-whomever later.