capncarp | 15 May 2016 7:04 a.m. PST |
Only a few of the non-political candidates have been mentioned. Allow me to add: Enron's corporate movers and shakers The Savings and Loan profiteers Credit Mobilier, who brought you the TransContinental Railroad, cheap at twice the price Harding's Teapot Dome Cabinet Pretty much the entire US banking and financial industry leading up to the Mortgage/banking fiasco of the late 2000's Charles Ponzi The Black Sox, who threw the 1919 World Series All the wonderful US participants in the Iran-Contra Affair (I'm looking at you, too, Ronnie Reagan) And Bernie Madoff, who "mad-e off" with so much of OPM with his ow Ponzi scheme. |
Virginia Tory | 17 May 2016 8:11 a.m. PST |
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attilathepun47 | 17 May 2016 11:25 p.m. PST |
I nominate the following: 1. All the reformers who wanted to "improve" something entirely at the expense of someone else. This would include all those Yankee abolitionists who wanted to eliminate slavery without any compensation to those affected and all the idiotic proponents of prohibition who likewise ignored any idea of paying for the loss to brewers, distillers, vintners and owners of bars, taverns, nightclubs, etc. 2. Myself, for helping to keep this nonsense going. |
Volleyfire | 18 May 2016 2:52 a.m. PST |
Dick Dastardly. The name says it all. |
Winston Smith | 18 May 2016 6:11 a.m. PST |
Due to overwhelming tut-tutting over use of "scalawag" I have requested Dear Editor to change it to "scoundrel". |
Hafen von Schlockenberg | 18 May 2016 8:11 a.m. PST |
"Compensation to those affected". Would that include the slaves? |
Clays Russians | 18 May 2016 8:23 a.m. PST |
J D Lee got doghoused for saying Obama? |
Winston Smith | 18 May 2016 8:24 a.m. PST |
Would that include the salves? They don't count. After all, they are just property. |
Clays Russians | 18 May 2016 8:25 a.m. PST |
That was a question? Simply a question, so how would that be different than saying oh I don't know, Prince John? |
Winston Smith | 18 May 2016 8:29 a.m. PST |
When you include Obama in a list of scoundrels, I believe that counts as Politics. And worthy of the DH. |
attilathepun47 | 18 May 2016 2:17 p.m. PST |
Sure, why not compensate the slaves, so long as everybody pays for it, not just ripping off the slaveholders. No matter what your thoughts about slavery, it had been perfectly legal to own slaves, and it represented a big investment. Most people do not have any idea how much. A healthy male slave in the prime of life could bring well over $1,000.00 USD, at a time when unskilled laborers commonly earned only $1.00 USD per day. So we are talking about huge losses. My point was really about the hypocrisy of do-gooders who want to carry out their agenda without paying for it. After all, there was never any bar to abolitionists raising money to buy slaves, and then set them free. They just didn't want to. |
Winston Smith | 18 May 2016 10:39 p.m. PST |
…ripping off the slaveholders. Repeat that three times and then tell me that is a rational thought. |
Winston Smith | 18 May 2016 10:45 p.m. PST |
Ah. I see when you signed up. That explains everything. Who are you really? A Lad from Frothers, trying to make us look bad? Or Marty the Rhodesian fan white supremacist? In either case, you are too obviously …. [INSERT DH-ABLE EPITHET HERE] to be taken seriously. I hereby declare you a silly person, not worth refuting. |
Winston Smith | 18 May 2016 10:46 p.m. PST |
Btw, slaveholders deserve to be ripped off. |
Winston Smith | 18 May 2016 10:48 p.m. PST |
Ah. I see when you signed up. That explains everything. Who are you really? A Lad from Frothers, trying to make us look bad? Or Marty the Rhodesian fan white supremacist? In either case, you are too obviously …. [INSERT DH-ABLE EPITHET HERE] to be taken seriously. I hereby declare you a silly person, not worth refuting. |
MarescialloDiCampo | 19 May 2016 5:45 a.m. PST |
All of the current US politicians |
aynsley683 | 20 May 2016 6:21 a.m. PST |
My nominations are- Lt.Colonel Custer General Sheridan To name but two, for targeting women and children. And then also- President Roosevelt Who ordered the use of concentration camps in the 40's for American civilians of Japanesse descent, goes a little against the constitution one would think. And then no compensation paid out afterwards. There are others but they come to mind first. |
JD Lee | 20 May 2016 7:28 a.m. PST |
Did not Reagan give some some compensation to Japanese Americans who were interned during the war? |
Weasel | 20 May 2016 8:35 a.m. PST |
What's the cash value of a musket ball in 1865? Seems about the right amount of compensation. |
Volleyfire | 21 May 2016 2:15 a.m. PST |
So for arguments sake, if you were to include someone called Amabo in the list of scoundrels, and implied he was a US President, would that get you incarcerated in the DH? |
Winston Smith | 21 May 2016 6:12 a.m. PST |
Try it and see if it works. I don't make or enforce the rules. |
Weasel | 21 May 2016 6:26 a.m. PST |
Considering how awful or outright insane some of the early presidents were, I don't think anyone we've had in the last 20 years can really qualify as "the worst". |
Volleyfire | 21 May 2016 9:20 a.m. PST |
Try it and see if it works. Nah, I'll tiptoe round round that one and walk quietly away. |
vonLoudon | 21 May 2016 9:23 a.m. PST |
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Virginia Tory | 23 May 2016 4:40 a.m. PST |
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KTravlos | 23 May 2016 5:23 a.m. PST |
George Troup and John Forsyth |
49mountain | 23 May 2016 12:58 p.m. PST |
In accordance with the correct definition of scalawag as cited by Queen Catherine the only person I can think of would be James Longstreet. |
Mithmee | 01 Jun 2016 10:23 p.m. PST |
Hmm, Well I would go with two individuals but if I do I would end up in a very crowded Dawghouse. So will pass on this. |
spontoon | 02 Jun 2016 2:55 p.m. PST |
Got to agree with Buff Orpington!!! |
Winston Smith | 02 Jun 2016 7:11 p.m. PST |
Woodrow Wilson. Just for being a flaming self righteous racist. THE most racist president we have ever had, and that includes the slaveholders. |
GGouveia | 02 Jun 2016 11:26 p.m. PST |
George W Bush. Weapons of Mass Destruction? |
Last Hussar | 04 Jun 2016 3:03 a.m. PST |
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jaxenro | 05 Jun 2016 5:06 a.m. PST |
"Slavery is, was and will always be wrong." But to paraphrase Animal Farm it seems some slavery is more wrong than others. It seems quite a lot of people are far more upset about the 3.5 million slaves it wa estimated were held in the US 150 years ago than the estimated 14 million being held in India today. The former pushes a narrative sone want to promote and the latter the same want to surpress It's a little hard to try to hold people of the past accountable to today's standard when at the same time little effort is made to hold others of today to today's standards |
Au pas de Charge | 19 Jan 2019 7:35 p.m. PST |
Uneducated, small minded, working class people |
von Schwartz | 19 Jan 2019 8:42 p.m. PST |
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nevinsrip | 20 Jan 2019 3:00 a.m. PST |
Robert Hanssen. As someone who worked directly with FBI field agents *, I can attest to their quality, courage and loyalty. Hanssen really hurt them where they live. He was directly responsible for the deaths of multiple overseas agents and assets, through his treason. The agents I worked with were devastated and more than a few retired, because they were heartbroken and disgusted by hid actions. Few people in our history have ever hurt the United States as badly as Hanssen. I don't think that the Bureau has ever recovered from this. * Notice the words "field agents". FBI leadership in Washington DC, during the previous administration, has a lot to answer for. Who knows? When the new AG takes over, the Bureau may find itself rocked again. |
42flanker | 20 Jan 2019 1:49 p.m. PST |
'FBI'…. 'overseas agents' Um. Only a Limey and all, I know, but – how did that work? |
nevinsrip | 20 Jan 2019 10:08 p.m. PST |
Hanssen had a top security clearance. He was the top "mole" hunter for the FBI and was privy to information that had been gathered by overseas CIA and other operatives. By passing along this information to the Russians, they were able to deduce where the info originated from and they liquidated the assets. What part do you not understand? |
42flanker | 21 Jan 2019 4:38 a.m. PST |
None. Each part is clear as the crystal waters of an unmuddied lake in spring, thank you. |
nevinsrip | 21 Jan 2019 5:07 p.m. PST |
42, You're welcome. I now realized that you were under the impression that the FBI only worked on Continental US cases, while the CIA (and other agencies) worked the overseas cases. The FBI has offices and agents all over the word working Counter Terrorism, Counter Insurgency (Spy hunting) and other fun things. It is no longer limited to the shores of America. Sorry, if that came off as sharp. |
42flanker | 21 Jan 2019 6:57 p.m. PST |
Nevinsrip. You are quite right, that was my impression. I know better now. Loose lips sink ships |
nevinsrip | 21 Jan 2019 7:47 p.m. PST |
42 There are several good books about the Hanssen case. This is one of the better ones. This is how bad it was. Excerpt From "The Bureau And The Mole" by David A. Vise Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc. – Pub. Date: December 2001 Excerpt: pages 239-245 Robert Philip Hanssen was a traitor of unparalleled dimension. His access to national security and intelligence secrets was broad and deep, and his betrayal of those secrets was far-reaching, given his computer expertise and access to secret FBI, CIA, National Security Agency, National Security Council, and Pentagon documents. Aided by the efforts of federal agencies to share more information with one another, Hanssen obtained an extraordinary array of classified materials. Several counterintelligence experts, including former FBI and CIA director William Webster, have equated Hanssen's treachery with a "five-hundred-year flood." He compromised thousands of pages of intelligence sources and methods; cryptology' communications and technical surveillance programs; counterintelligence operations and military, logistical, and political strategy for surviving a nuclear attack. |
steve1865 | 25 Jan 2019 11:49 a.m. PST |
About the Slaves. In 1862 E.P Lincoln said just come back to the Union and no slaves would be freed. The south refused. Lincoln in 1863 tried to get slave states like Maryland to free the slaves and get compensation. Those states refused as well. |
42flanker | 25 Jan 2019 1:14 p.m. PST |
Nevinsrip, I now recall I saw a feature film about the Hansen case a year or so ago. I'm not sure whether it made much of the international dimensions but, in any case, I was only watching it for entertaintment. Quite a breach. 'A system is only as strong as its weakest link', etc. |
Rudysnelson | 28 Jan 2019 4:32 p.m. PST |
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von Schwartz | 29 Jan 2019 8:46 p.m. PST |
Aaron Burr?!? Why, for heavens sake, just a better shot. |
nevinsrip | 29 Jan 2019 11:09 p.m. PST |
42 There were two movies released concerning Hanssen. In 2002, "Master Spy" was a made for TV movie. In 2007 "Breach" was released as a full length Hollywood film. To be blunt, both stink The TV version is as you would expect. Slow, plodding and devoid of any suspense whatsoever. "Breach" features a pretty face, Ryan something, as the hero. It's the better of the two, but that'snot saying much. If you have the chance grab the book by the actual case agent. It's fascinating. |
cypherkk | 30 Jan 2019 3:47 a.m. PST |
Actual scoundrels that were missed. Sam Houston Richard M. Daley Jesse James The mortgage and Banking industry in the early 2k's (The economy died in mid 2k's, not late.) |
Asteroid X | 01 Feb 2019 3:06 p.m. PST |
and Bill Clinton – economically, morally and politically. link link Saul Alinsky – morals and social division
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Blutarski | 01 Feb 2019 3:42 p.m. PST |
Louie De Palma ….. Allowing, however, a big +3 to wmyers for his Hit Parade nominees. B |