Social commentary

Mama don’t let your babies grow up to be Journalist.

Politics, Social commentary / May 8, 2017

Because being a journalist means you think you know everything when you really know nothing.

From Investor’s Business Daily

 

Economics: Why is it that reporters keep scratching their heads about Venezuela’s descent into extreme poverty and chaos? The cause is simple. Socialism. End it and you will end the misery. When the New York Times wrote about Venezuela’s ongoing collapse a year ago, it described how the country was suffering “painful shortages … even of basic foods,” and how “electricity and water are being rationed, and huge areas of the country have spent months with little of either.”

Here is how the Times explained the reason for Venezuela’s dire situation: “The growing economic crisis (was) fueled by low prices for oil, the country’s main export; a drought that has crippled Venezuela’s ability to generate hydroelectric power; and a long decline in manufacturing and agricultural production.”

There’s no mention — not one — of the fact that Hugo Chávez tried to turn Venezuela into a socialist paradise, policies that his successor Nicolás Maduro has continued. The Times’ coverage is par for the course.

Read the article.

Venezuela has been feeling the Bern. Someday Vermont may feel it too.

 

A CSN&Y reunion in the near future?

Music, Social commentary / April 27, 2017

If it happens we’ll have President Trump to thank.

As we’ve been somewhat aware, relations between the four have been somewhat strained of the last year or two.  Neil didn’t take kindly to David’s comments about his new squeeze,  a washed up movie actress from the eighties, after splitting from his wife of 36 years.

David Crosby was also very pissed at Graham Nash for what he wrote in his memoir about him saying it was “full of inaccuracies and chock full of misinformation”.

Nash for his part says I’m completely done with David Crosby,” Mr. Nash bluntly told The Washington Times. “I will never talk with David Crosby again.”

Nash however did take a cue from Neil and split from his wife of  38 years.

The greatest recent change for Nash was separating from his wife of 38 years, Susan Sennett, and starting up again with his new girlfriend, Amy Grantham. “I fell in love with this wonderful person in New York City and my life has changed,” Nash reveals. “People are going to have to understand that. On my next birthday I’ll be 74 years old, and I need to be happy with whatever life I have left. So this album is a complete reflection of my life changing and me having the courage to go on with it.”

His girlfriend his half his age and looks a little like Joni Mitchell.

It’s good to be a rock star.

But now thanks to their shared hatred of President Donald Trump which has seemed to overcome their hatred of each other, their may be a reunion in the works.  The four of them are probably busy writhing songs of protest right now. Why they could also share the stage with Bruce Springsteen.

Of course they may hate the man but by extension they must hate everyone who voted for him.

I used to be a big fan of them all,  Neil in particular. But it seems like that was a long time ago.

The Captain and Tennille use to sing “Love will keep us together”, (they have since divorced).

With CSN&Y the emotion that brings them together appears to be HATE!

Sad! Very Sad.

 

 

Meanwhile in Venezuela.

Social commentary / April 24, 2017

The People of Venezuela rise up.

From the blog Venezuela news and views.

Read it.

I wonder how many people in America and especially here in the D.S.P.R. of Vermont are aware if this.

The Socialist government of Nicolas Maduro  has of course  been confiscating guns from citizens under the guise that Venezuela has the highest murder rate in the world.  At the same time he’s giving the guns to his street thugs  supporters.

 

Protesting the government of Nicolas Maduro.

The security forces fly over the protesters.

http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crXtRJymYi8

 

Who would have thunk it?  Even the year is right

http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujILMuOAYls

Of course the sad part is that the people of Venezuela voted for this back in the nineties. They took control (the socialist) of the military and the judiciary.  And like the socialist Fascist and Nazi’s  of the 1920’s and 30’s once they take root it is impossible to vote them out.

Picture a boot implanted on your face…FOREVER!

Take it as a warning people. I see rivers of blood for Venezuela.

Haven’t heard of any comment from Sean Penn, Danny Glover, or Bernie.

These are the people who would tell us how to live.

Social commentary / April 19, 2017

From the Daily Mail.

But it’s ok. They want to save the planet and re-distribute your wealth.

Which alleviates any guilt about them being in the top .01%

 

A picture perfect moment! Barack and Michelle Obama pose on billionaire David Geffen’s superyacht during day out with Oprah, Bruce Springsteen and Tom Hanks in French Polynesia
Barack and Michelle Obama were guests on David Geffen’s 454ft superyacht Rising Sun on Friday 
Oprah, Tom Hanks and Bruce Springsteen were also on board the stunning $300million vessel 
The Obamas have been holidaying at the Brando resort in French Polynesia for the past month 
Since leaving the White House, they have also visited Palm Springs, Hawaii and toured the Caribbean  

Read it and puke.

 

 

 

Fascism is on the march

Politics, Social commentary / April 19, 2017

Where? On our college campuses . Middlebury is only one example.

From Frontpage Mag.

Although universities and colleges are supposed to be places where ideas are exchanged and challenged, they are easily the most reactionary institutions in modern American society. Confronting the established wisdom there is a career-ender. Free speech exists in theory but only within the narrowest of prescribed limits. Speakers who violate the politically correct canon are shouted down, demonized, and assaulted. Truly new ideas are anathema in the academy, at least in the humanities and social sciences. Question identity politics, the cult of multiculturalism, or the evil inherent in white people and America, and your life in academia will be over before it begins.

“The cultural Marxism ideology that created identity politics in the first place now permeates the university far beyond the classroom,” opines Bruce Thornton, “and enables an intolerance for competing ideas, not to mention shutting down the ‘free play of the mind on all subjects’ that [English cultural critic] Matthew Arnold identified as the core mission of liberal education.”

And so the dominant illiberal ideology in higher education snuffs out its competition, marginalizing original thinking and combating intellectual diversity – and this weaponized intolerance spills over into the culture at large along the way. Free speech is a threat to the authoritarian glue that holds these taxpayer-supported warehouses of student indoctrination and conformity together, so it must be regulated. There is almost no life of the mind nowadays; there is the dictatorship of thought commissars. And woe to those who fail to toe the line.

America as it has existed is in deep shit.

A good friend of mine said that “it’s good that were old”  Meaning that if were lucky we won’t be around to see that hell on earth that the next two generations have created.

I still have hope.

An example of liberal “projection”

Social commentary / April 2, 2017

Psychological projection is a theory in psychology in which humans defend themselves against their own unconscious impulses or qualities (both positive and negative) by denying their existence in themselves while attributing them to others.[1] For example, a person who is habitually rude may constantly accuse other people of being rude. It incorporates blame shifting.

From the Times Argus via the AP

About 190 art-house theaters have banded together to show the 1984 big-screen adaptation of George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece as a pointed comment on the presidency of Donald Trump, whose “alternative facts” administration has already sent “1984” back up the bestseller lists .

“It’s what’s in the air. People want to do something,” says Dylan Skolnick, an organizer of the event and co-director of the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington, New York. “This started with a conversation about: We need to do something. Well, what do we do? We show movies. So the obvious answer was: We should show a movie

Cinemas around the country are increasingly programming with political protest in mind, playing movies that have newfound resonance for those who disagree with the policies of the Republican president. In May, some 60 theaters are planning to screen films from the predominantly Muslim nations targeted by Trump’s proposed travel ban. That initiative has been dubbed the Seventh Art Stand and billed as “an act of cinematic solidarity against Islamophobia.

Liberals and Progressives have rediscovered George Orwell.

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” Orwell

“Alternate facts administration”, they say. So what is “fake news“,  it’s news that’s just to good to check.

When you see the sign “Love Trumps Hate” you can bet that the holder is chock full of the latter.

The entire Obama Presidency was “Orwellian”, not to them of course.

It seems that most of our college campuses have turned into Animal Farms with their speech codes

And we can’t go without a little two minuet hate.

“Alternative facts” was the lefts trigger word that invoked the Orwell comparisons.

They have no clue that Orwell was most emphatically describing them.

Projection.

 

 

 

Things you normally wouldn’t hear about.

Social commentary / March 28, 2017

If it were not for the internet.

From the blog Lifezette.

In early March, 19-year-old Guatemalan Douglas Hus-Flores was arrested in Stamford, Connecticut, after sexually assaulting a three-year-old girl. That same week, 29-year-old Jorge Zapata-Rosas was arrested in Texas for raping a seven-year-old girl.

19-year-old illegal alien Kevin Cisneros was arrested by U.S. Marshals in Trenton, New Jersey, for the sexual assault of a 14-year-old and 44-year-old illegal alien Mateo Campos-Garcia was arrested in Rowan County, North Carolina, for indecent liberties with a child and a first-degree sexual offense.

Also, in March, Border Patrol agents apprehended at least three convicted illegal alien sex offenders trying to re-enter the United States. Zeferino Galindo-Lopes, 32, Francisco Bravo-Ruelas, 38, and Rene Murillo-Almansa, 46, were arrested in Arizona. All three had convictions for serious sexual offenses involving children.

Read it all and check out the entire blog.

Liberals and Progressives are fond of the phrases “for the Children” and if it “saves just one life” . Usually these pronouncements come with a hefty price tag of other peoples money or when it comes to abortion it’s  well…”never mind”.  And sexual assault when it’s not being perpetrated by white males but by illegal immigrants seems to get a pass in the media.

All illegal immigrants are breaking the law. When women and girls are assaulted by men who should not have been here in the first place, well remember this ladies, your physical safety is not a priority when it comes to the progressive big picture.  If you, progressive liberal woman or your daughter by chance becomes a victim, well suck it up for the cause.

 

 

He Just identified as a woman that day

Social commentary / March 23, 2017

From the blog Intellectual Takeout.

After opening the blog post she felt necessary to write by saying that she was reluctant to write it, as a tolerant person who would likely be labeled and derided as intolerant, ‘The Get Real Mom’ stated clearly: “This is a story about a biological man in the women’s restroom.”

Innate sensibility prevailed when a startled young mother was disturbed enough by her own experience at a Disneyland women’s restroom when a man walked in, and stayed, while women and children nervously looked for someone to say or do something. But…not…them.

First, she felt the need to establish liberal bona fides….

Someday my Tolerant Liberal friends this may happen to your daughter. Or if your an adult tolerant liberal women…it may happen to you.

Be prepared. Remember if you consider yourself a proper “progressive liberal” the STFU!!!

Read it in its entirety.

Something like Sharia law comes to Drake University

Social commentary / March 18, 2017

It comes with a very strange twist.

Imagine if you will that a student is passed out drunk. The person you’re with who is also drunk decides to sexual assault you while you’re incapable of resisting. We have all heard about cases like this that took place at Stanford in 2015.  Guy whose brains are in the head of his dick gets caught doing naughty things to one drunk chick. He’s now a convicted sex offender and has kissed goodbye forever a chance to make the Olympic swim team.

It was a stunning fall from grace for Turner. Once a record-setting swimming prodigy, he is now a convicted sex offender at age 20.

It was also a landmark case in the nationwide struggle to combat sexual assault on campus, at least according to prosecutors.

During the trial, they argued that despite his squeaky clean image and exalted status as a Stanford athlete, Turner deserved no special treatment.

“He may not look like a rapist, but he is the … face of campus sexual assault,” Deputy District Attorney Alaleh Kianerci told the jury, according to the Mercury News.

After the guilty verdict, prosecutors again argued that the case set an important national precedent.

All well and good the bastard deserved it.

At Drake university however…comes this little story.

What’s good for the goose does not apply to the gander.  In this case it’s the guy whose passed out and it’s the woman who decides to give him a blowjob, without his consent. What happens next would at best be described as surreal. As it was the (male) victim who ended up getting expelled.

Add insult to injury his father sits on the board of trustees for Drake University. He was fired for defending his son. Lawsuits have been filed.

College for American males today is walking into a minefield. They’re damned if they do and damned if they don’t.

Since most colleges are anywhere from 60-70% female and young American  men are viewed as predators to begin with they should boycott colleges altogether and leave the spaces open for young immigrant Muslim men.  In a case of sexual assault of a woman by a Muslim man, well,   I would love to see the PC police figure that one out.