Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Monday, June 29, 2020
IN THE NEWS
My hometown seems to have become a thing. I have no idea who those people are but this would appear to be as good a place as any to remind people that Missouri's state motto, Salus Populi Suprema Lex Esto, is Latin for "What the hell are you looking at, punk?"
UPDATE: Meggie's in.
UPDATE: Shows you how clueless I am. I thought the Central West End was basically Liberal Central in this town.
UPDATE: Kimmie's in. Have fun with it.
UPDATE: Back on off, EuroTrash.
UPDATE: "St. Louis man" bitchslaps Fredo a little.
UPDATE: Seriously, CNN? You honestly don't get what a joke Fredo's turned into?
UPDATE: Meggie's in.
UPDATE: Shows you how clueless I am. I thought the Central West End was basically Liberal Central in this town.
UPDATE: Kimmie's in. Have fun with it.
UPDATE: Back on off, EuroTrash.
UPDATE: "St. Louis man" bitchslaps Fredo a little.
UPDATE: Seriously, CNN? You honestly don't get what a joke Fredo's turned into?
Sunday, June 28, 2020
Saturday, June 27, 2020
VIRTUAL VIRTUE
"Should I tell them?"
"No, leave them alone. Posturing white people are really funny."
BET Founder Robert Johnson mocked the cancel culture mob for taking down statues, getting television shows removed, and have professors fired, thinking that’s what African Americans want.
People who are knocking down statues "have the mistaken assumption that black people are sitting around cheering for them saying 'Oh, my God, look at these white people. They're doing something so important to us. They're taking down the statue of a Civil War general who fought for the South," Johnson told Fox News. "You know, black people, in my opinion, black people laugh at white people who do this the same way we laugh at white people who say we got to take off the TV shows."
Referring to these people as “borderline anarchists,” Johnson said their actions will do nothing to “give a kid whose parents can't afford college money to go to college. It's not going to close the labor gap between what white workers are paid and what black workers are paid. And it's not going to take people off welfare or food stamps.”
He also mocked white celebrities for what he described as apologizing for their race in emotional social media speeches.
"You know, that to me is the silliest expression of white privilege that exists in this country. The notion that a celebrity could get on a Twitter feed and say, 'oh, my God, I am so sorry that I am white.’ I don't find any black people getting on Twitter and saying, 'Oh, I'm so sorry I'm black.' And we got the worst problems. ... My thing is: embrace being white and do the right thing."
UPDATE: Case in point. Trinity-Wall Street has more money than some entire countries do. Seems to me that they could do quite a bit more good with it than this pretentious crap.
Trinity Church Wall Street has awarded nearly $7 million in grants to 57 organizations dedicated to ending systemic racism in New York City, and offering alternative models for a new vision of how New Yorkers can reach their potential and thrive.
The 57 grants, approved by Trinity’s Vestry, and announced today range from $50,000 to $300,000 and total $6.86 million, and is Trinity’s largest grant cycle ever. The grantees are working on a range of projects, including ending the school-to-prison pipeline, fighting to end the racist practice of cash bail, re-imagining the city’s approach to affordable housing and lowering the number of households experiencing housing insecurity.
Like what, Johnson? Like, I don't know, putting a few black kids through college? Oh, and $7 million, Trinity? Generous of you. You found that in your sofa cushions, didn't you?
"No, leave them alone. Posturing white people are really funny."
BET Founder Robert Johnson mocked the cancel culture mob for taking down statues, getting television shows removed, and have professors fired, thinking that’s what African Americans want.
People who are knocking down statues "have the mistaken assumption that black people are sitting around cheering for them saying 'Oh, my God, look at these white people. They're doing something so important to us. They're taking down the statue of a Civil War general who fought for the South," Johnson told Fox News. "You know, black people, in my opinion, black people laugh at white people who do this the same way we laugh at white people who say we got to take off the TV shows."
Referring to these people as “borderline anarchists,” Johnson said their actions will do nothing to “give a kid whose parents can't afford college money to go to college. It's not going to close the labor gap between what white workers are paid and what black workers are paid. And it's not going to take people off welfare or food stamps.”
He also mocked white celebrities for what he described as apologizing for their race in emotional social media speeches.
"You know, that to me is the silliest expression of white privilege that exists in this country. The notion that a celebrity could get on a Twitter feed and say, 'oh, my God, I am so sorry that I am white.’ I don't find any black people getting on Twitter and saying, 'Oh, I'm so sorry I'm black.' And we got the worst problems. ... My thing is: embrace being white and do the right thing."
UPDATE: Case in point. Trinity-Wall Street has more money than some entire countries do. Seems to me that they could do quite a bit more good with it than this pretentious crap.
Trinity Church Wall Street has awarded nearly $7 million in grants to 57 organizations dedicated to ending systemic racism in New York City, and offering alternative models for a new vision of how New Yorkers can reach their potential and thrive.
The 57 grants, approved by Trinity’s Vestry, and announced today range from $50,000 to $300,000 and total $6.86 million, and is Trinity’s largest grant cycle ever. The grantees are working on a range of projects, including ending the school-to-prison pipeline, fighting to end the racist practice of cash bail, re-imagining the city’s approach to affordable housing and lowering the number of households experiencing housing insecurity.
Like what, Johnson? Like, I don't know, putting a few black kids through college? Oh, and $7 million, Trinity? Generous of you. You found that in your sofa cushions, didn't you?
Friday, June 26, 2020
OZYMANDIAS
Don't worry. When American "journalism" finally falls to the ground, smashes into dust and blows away (I've got a week from next Sunday in the pool), we'll all have plenty of fine replacements.
Like this guy.
UPDATE: Professional journalism. Phil Bump at the Washington Post sends along this delightful exploding soufflé.
Like this guy.
UPDATE: Professional journalism. Phil Bump at the Washington Post sends along this delightful exploding soufflé.
DEAD ON ARRIVAL
"I'll take THINGS THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN for $800, Alex."
The House approved a bill Friday to make the District of Columbia the 51st state, saying Congress has both the moral obligation and constitutional authority to ensure that the city's 700,000 residents are allowed full voting rights, no longer subject to "taxation without representation.'' Lawmakers approved the bill, 232-180, largely along party lines, marking the first time either chamber of Congress has passed a DC statehood bill, the AP reports. The legislation now goes to the Republican-controlled Senate, where it faces insurmountable opposition from GOP leaders. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, the district's non-voting representative in Congress, sponsored the bill. It would create a new state of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, in honor of the Maryland-born Frederick Douglass, and shrink the US district to federal buildings.
Where to begin? First of all, this abomination will die in the Senate. Even if it didn't, the Constitution would have to be amended if you want this to have even a shred of legality. That will take a couple of years at least and it won't work anyway. Let's just say that I would have a better chance of trying out with and making the St. Louis Cardinals than that amendment would have of ever seeing the light of day.
"Shrink the US district to federal buildings?" Not happening. Do these people seriously think that the rest of us are going to put up with a pitiful little entity having that much control over our federal government? The federal district will have to be moved which kills DC tourism deader than Judas Iscariot, Artur Schopenhauer or the XFL.
Which would be a shame since the only thing Washington produces is "governance" and it sucks at that. It's got no industry, no farmland. It can't produce anything anybody wants. Which means that the rest of us are going to be supporting this "state" pretty much until Christ returns.
On the plus side, at least the new state's motto has been picked out.
The Welfare State.
Don't get me started on how high the tax bills of DC residents will be raised. The District will be paying federal and state taxes now and those will be through the roof. After all, the tourists won't be coming in anymore and we've got to get money from somewhere.
The House approved a bill Friday to make the District of Columbia the 51st state, saying Congress has both the moral obligation and constitutional authority to ensure that the city's 700,000 residents are allowed full voting rights, no longer subject to "taxation without representation.'' Lawmakers approved the bill, 232-180, largely along party lines, marking the first time either chamber of Congress has passed a DC statehood bill, the AP reports. The legislation now goes to the Republican-controlled Senate, where it faces insurmountable opposition from GOP leaders. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, the district's non-voting representative in Congress, sponsored the bill. It would create a new state of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, in honor of the Maryland-born Frederick Douglass, and shrink the US district to federal buildings.
Where to begin? First of all, this abomination will die in the Senate. Even if it didn't, the Constitution would have to be amended if you want this to have even a shred of legality. That will take a couple of years at least and it won't work anyway. Let's just say that I would have a better chance of trying out with and making the St. Louis Cardinals than that amendment would have of ever seeing the light of day.
"Shrink the US district to federal buildings?" Not happening. Do these people seriously think that the rest of us are going to put up with a pitiful little entity having that much control over our federal government? The federal district will have to be moved which kills DC tourism deader than Judas Iscariot, Artur Schopenhauer or the XFL.
Which would be a shame since the only thing Washington produces is "governance" and it sucks at that. It's got no industry, no farmland. It can't produce anything anybody wants. Which means that the rest of us are going to be supporting this "state" pretty much until Christ returns.
On the plus side, at least the new state's motto has been picked out.
The Welfare State.
Don't get me started on how high the tax bills of DC residents will be raised. The District will be paying federal and state taxes now and those will be through the roof. After all, the tourists won't be coming in anymore and we've got to get money from somewhere.
HMMMMM
I guess I'm going to have to start thinking hard about this. Word is, they give you a lot more room to write which would be all kinds of wonderful for a blowhard like me.
Thursday, June 25, 2020
JOURNALISMING
New York has had something on the order of ten times more Chinese Flu deaths than Florida has had and Florida has far more people. Yet CNN thinks this is reporting.
TARGET-RICH
Know what? The left may be pushing all-in. Deep down, I think they realize that the Doddering Old Fool isn't going to beat Trump and that their chance is gone and might not come back for generations. Why else would they propose an idea this mind-blowingly idiotic?
“The 53-year-old in me says, we can’t change things that have existed forever. But then there are these young people who say that America needs to live up to its real creed,” Walker told Yahoo! Entertainment. “And so, I do side with the people who say that we should rethink this as the national anthem because this is about the deep-seated legacy of slavery and white supremacy in America, where we do things over and over and over again that are a slap in the face of people of color and women. We do it first because we knew what we were doing and we wanted to be sexist and racist. And now we do it under the guise of ‘legacy.’”
Next up: Santa Claus is "racist." I mean, he's always a fat, white guy.
Activist and journalist Kevin Powell agrees. “‘The Star-Spangled Banner was written by Francis Scott Key, who was literally born into a wealthy, slave-holding family in Maryland,” he explained.
A sinner, in other words. Like me and you, Kevvy.
“He was a very well-to-do lawyer in Washington, D.C., and eventually became very close to President Andrew Jackson, who was the Donald Trump of his time, which means that there was a lot of hate and violence and division.”
Great. Another historical illiterate. Know what else Jackson was, Kevvy, with his personal slaveholding, his Indian Removal Act, his ethnic cleansing and the Trail of Tears?
THE FIRST DEMOCRAT.
So what should replace the anthem? This is how I know this will never happen. You can't possibly suggest something this stupid and seriously believe that you'll succeed.
So what do they suggest? Walker says whatever it is, it must go through a vetting process to ensure the new anthem “doesn’t have a terrible past.” But Powell already has a song in mind: John Lennon’s “Imagine,” which Powell says is “the most beautiful, unifying, all-people, all-backgrounds-together kind of song you could have.”
Unless you believe in God.
Moron. Have you ever actually read its lyrics?
“The 53-year-old in me says, we can’t change things that have existed forever. But then there are these young people who say that America needs to live up to its real creed,” Walker told Yahoo! Entertainment. “And so, I do side with the people who say that we should rethink this as the national anthem because this is about the deep-seated legacy of slavery and white supremacy in America, where we do things over and over and over again that are a slap in the face of people of color and women. We do it first because we knew what we were doing and we wanted to be sexist and racist. And now we do it under the guise of ‘legacy.’”
Next up: Santa Claus is "racist." I mean, he's always a fat, white guy.
Activist and journalist Kevin Powell agrees. “‘The Star-Spangled Banner was written by Francis Scott Key, who was literally born into a wealthy, slave-holding family in Maryland,” he explained.
A sinner, in other words. Like me and you, Kevvy.
“He was a very well-to-do lawyer in Washington, D.C., and eventually became very close to President Andrew Jackson, who was the Donald Trump of his time, which means that there was a lot of hate and violence and division.”
Great. Another historical illiterate. Know what else Jackson was, Kevvy, with his personal slaveholding, his Indian Removal Act, his ethnic cleansing and the Trail of Tears?
THE FIRST DEMOCRAT.
So what should replace the anthem? This is how I know this will never happen. You can't possibly suggest something this stupid and seriously believe that you'll succeed.
So what do they suggest? Walker says whatever it is, it must go through a vetting process to ensure the new anthem “doesn’t have a terrible past.” But Powell already has a song in mind: John Lennon’s “Imagine,” which Powell says is “the most beautiful, unifying, all-people, all-backgrounds-together kind of song you could have.”
Unless you believe in God.
Moron. Have you ever actually read its lyrics?
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