There is literally nothing of value being reported in the news this morning. It’s all squirrels. The press is so bored by tamping down all the important shit that they are covering fictional beer. We’re doomed.
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Speaking of squirrels, the comments on this piece of shit article are interesting.
Let’s make the Confederate flag a hate crime: It is the American swastika and we should recoil it from it in horror
One of the more recent (at this time) comments speaks to a thought that keeps running through my brain . . .
When I woke up this morning, I was listening to a report about the bakers in Oregon who were fined, lost their business, and now have a gag order imposed because they refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple (because the bakers felt they could not honor something directly in conflict with their religious beliefs). I wondered how long it will take for government to ban specific religions or religious practices that some people will think of as “hateful” or worse. And how long will it be when my own beliefs will be considered treasonous. And then how long will it be before I am considered a criminal. or you”? or TCH? or liberals? or conservatives? or non-believers?
It’s a “”be careful what you wish for” thought. This truly is becoming a nation of the insane and they are the ones running the asylum.
At the party I attended over the 4th, the conversation drifted to the bakers in Oregon. One of guests challenged one of the other attendees, who is the manager of an Abercrombie store. She said, “I’m fat, and while you’ll let me come into your store, you won’t sell me clothes that fit me. I don’t match your image of what you want your customers to look like. I feel discriminated against. I think your store’s image is hateful and promotes bullying of fat people.”
He told her if she felt discriminated against, she should lose weight. She explained her mother was fat, her father was fat, and her grandparents were all fat. She believes her weight is genetic and can show him how much she eats and how it would not make most people fat if they consumed that many calories. She pointed out there is more scientific evidence that her “fat condition” is genetically based than his “gayness” is.
This was all very light-hearted, but the Abercrombie guy was a little stunned that a good friend thought he personally was promoting bigotry and bullying toward anyone. She did make his “distaste” for fat people public knowledge, which was disconcerting to him. She explained she already knew it was part of him, but she still liked him and enjoyed his company anyway. Just as she hoped he would understand if she thought he had a right to get married, but not to the wedding of his dreams. She would like to be able to shop at his store, but she understood clothes her size were down the mall a bit at Lane Bryant.
As I said, this conversation never got heated, but sometimes the best weapon is a mirror.
“More and more levers of civilization appear to be in the hands of the clinically insane.” – Mark Steyn
honk
Lulu has the report:
Sanctuary cities and stories like Steinle & Shaw could be a winning strategy.
Lulu,
Sing it loud and clear – excellent read.
For my part, I think Trump is petty, vindictive and makes his money catering to people’s vices. There was a point in 2012 where every candidate got a bounce, won a primary, then faded from existence. Trump won’t win New Hampshire because they don’t care about immigrants. Many of the people defending Trump are actually fighting bad immigration policy because Trump has few positive characteristics.
I’d love it if we reached that tipping point on anything, but it’s not happening. John McCain was supposedly an “open borders” guy, but he was 100 times better than Barack Obama. In 2010, we learned that McCain would also get tough on immigration if his job was at stake.
For me, the best thing people can do to make immigration policy sane is to elect Republicans. Trump’s loss is going to piss off supporters and make them stay home. That means we’ll end up electing Democrats and Mexicans will be granted dual citizenship at birth (in Mexico) by 2024.
I think the solution to the whole problem is just to annex Mexico. If we invaded, a good portion of their population would be on our side. LaRaza should be pleased. They’d be “home” again.
I like this solution. That way we get all the natural resources and the productive citizens along with the criminals.
It’d probably save us fence construction money! They already have a hardened southern border.
I share many of your concerns. Not only am I concerned about the documented historical ties between Trump and the Clintons, I’m worried about some of his rhetoric and the fucking Overton Window.
It’s like all anybody hears is “Mexicans-Illegals-Crime”, lather, rinse, repeat. They love it. They don’t hear the rest and they don’t think about it. He also said he wants to make legal immigration easier, which I hear as making some form of what the Obama admin has done legal. Just bring ’em over for work permits, whydoncha, so I can build my hotels, kinda stuff. That’s going to work out so well.
People hear him say Obamacare is not working and they shriek with glee. But he also said we have to take care of people on Medicaid. that we have to provide them with health care and other services. NO, we DON’T. Many of the people on Medicaid are receiving multiple layers of aid, and making the worst choices with every aspect of their lives because they can. They’re doing record levels of hard drugs and breeding like cockroaches. I’ll happily give you up to three chances and you can even have a couple of kids while you’re fucking your life up IF you’re seeking help, but I don’t think we should be paying for people to do this to themselves, and especially their 8-12 kids. Tie every inch of that aid to voluntary birth control & mandatory government work, not submitting applications to prove you’re “looking.” At the very least. But is Trump talking about that? No, because he either doesn’t see it, doesn’t care, or like everybody else on the right is scared about 47% shit.
We’ve got at least two Americas, probably more like five. The America we need to be worrying about is the America that attacked that woman’s car in Chicago and the America that is feeding bodies into the young, predominantly black (& hispanic) mobs that have been raging across this country for four or five years. They are all coked up on drugs and Obama’s race rhetoric, they don’t have shit to do or money for anything, thus nothing to lose, and they are itching for a real, unified fight. As soon as they figure out how to move past their 12 city blocks, or hanging out at the state fair while they Tweet with their smart phones, we are fucked. Call me raycist if you have to, but this is some dangerous shit.
/rant
That rant was bigger than mine. Most people (like Lou Dobbs) believe that legal immigration is better than illegal immigration, even if we bring in people on work visas on the basis of wage deflation rather than scarcity of skills. I blogged about the BS of illegal immigrants “doing the jobs Americans won’t do.” Some of those jobs no one should be doing, but automation has been put of due to cheap laborers willing to injure themselves and go to the ER instead of Workers’ Comp.
I don’t care if you are on the right of left. Supporting the crime of border jumping because you don’t like “the system” is like Mexican drug lords killing judges because they don’t like the verdicts.
You’re right, it was. I realized after I walked away that I kind of went off, but I wasn’t going off on you, just in general. I smell a stink on Trump, and about America and politics in general. Agree that illegal immigration is a big issue, but I don’t know that Trump is the guy to address that, and I suspect he’s just a squirrel with a bad toupee.
Also, my use of “you” was in the universal sense.
I suspect his bad toupee is a squirrel. 😈
Excellent rant.
Karl Rove is up against a serious obstacle in Donald Trump.
The “architect” is now going to have to dance to the tune of another fiddler.
Chuck D trending on Twitter…
“Wiping out history is akin to Nazi book burning” couldn’t be more accurate.” imho. The same slippery slope I was talking about above. I read a book whose title I wish I could recall. It was about a culture in which books that were not authorized by the gov’t were not allowed. So each person who opposed this law committed to memorize, word for word, one book. It was a living library. Of course it was fantasy. But I wonder if that is a precursor to what may be coming.
I think this all belongs on tinfoil Tuesday’s thread……………….Maybe I awoke on the bizarre side of the bed this morning.
This is what happens when people elect a cult leader who is a blank slate.
Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury published in 1953. It is regarded as one of his best works.[3] The novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and “firemen” burn any that are found.[4] The title refers to the temperature that Bradbury understood to be the autoignition point of paper.[5][6]
Bradbury stated that he wrote Fahrenheit 451 because of his concerns at the time (during the McCarthy era) about the threat of book burning in the United States. In later years, he stated his motivation for writing the book in more general terms.
Leslie,
Is Fahrenheit 451 the book you described – read it many years ago, time for another read.
There is also a movie adaptation which is rather good. Not a Hollywood piece. It was filmed in England by a French director who did not speak English and from a screen play originally written in French . The film is somewhat stylized and slow. However given the book’s storyline, the stilted nature of the film actually works in its favor to capture the spirit of the Bradbury’s original piece. TCM occasionally runs it and it is one of those movies that is best viewed without commercials. Bradbury was actually rather happy with the film and even liked some of the changes they made as he felt many of the small changes worked better on screen.
Actually it isn’t “Farenheit 451” I looked it up before I wrote my comment. And in looking it up, I decided I need to read this (Farenheit 451) again. I’ll see if I can find the book I’m referring to. It was a very weird novel – almost a fantasy. It was more recently written than “451”.
Sorry, I’ve been out this afternoon, helping her look for a place to buy here. Now I’m going to pick up daughter #1 from O’Hare. She returns from her bike trip in the Dolomite Mts. in a little while.
“her” in the above comment means a friend from another town. Don’t know what happened. That wasn’t what I thought I typed.
Relax. It’s only us.
It is also like the attacks on tombs, religious art, and public edifices by Cromwell’s fanatic Puritans, the terror of the French Revolution, going back to the Caliphate in Spain, and now ISIS destroying cultural, historical and religious history that they want to wipe out. It is also eerily similar to cultural destruction waged in Ireland and Scotland trying to obliterate languages and traditional styles of dress and food. Stalin did all of this. A MAJOR part of our history and culture is television. We are seeing attempts of a cultural purge
He is probably in San Francisco by now, safe from US and Mexican authorities!
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Mexican Drug Lord ‘El Chapo’ Escapes From Prison
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/12/el-chapo-escapes_n_7778882.html
He has brothers who live in Chicago. They have been under police protection (per newsradio this morning) lest he return here and his gang retaliate against them. I guess they don’t approve of his livelihood.
You can’t make up stuff like this!
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Art exhibit inspired by Ferguson opens at Chicago gallery
http://wgntv.com/2015/07/09/art-exhibit-inspired-by-ferguson-opens-at-chicago-gallery/
Art created by a white woman as a way of cleansing her racism. Sorry I refuse to jump on this bandwagon of racism and racists. My ancestors also suffered under various regimes, complaining yes but always striving for a better life.
Chicago is one of the most segregated cities. Why here? because she could. Does that mean she should? not by a long shot. Maybe she should have taken her white guilt to the same corner in Hyde Park as Susan Pedersen took her kids to the other night. I wonder how she would’ve handled the onslaught of a black mob attacking her. But an art gallery is a safe place. She won’t have to “rub elbows” with gangs or thugs or hardly anyone who doesn’t frequent the gallery area of the city. [And if the gangs, etc. do appear, there will be plenty of protection (and cameras) for all.]
People who live in our major cities know where they are allowed to go and where they are not. There are no signs, but the residents know.
If you are white and you go into a black neighborhood and you get raped, robbed and/or killed, nobody gets too upset because it was your fault for being there. It’s like climbing in a wild animal cage at the zoo. When black people kill black people in black neighborhoods people just shrug. Black people don’t care, white people don’t care, that’s just the way it is.
People get upset when black people rape/rob/kill white people outside the ghettos, or when white people kill black people. Neither one of those things is supposed to happen.
Many years DH and I spent a romantic week in Chicago, visiting museums, eating at various restaurants and shopping on the Magnificent Mile. One day we took the el to Hyde Park receiving many stares on both the train and the streets, even a police car stopped and observed us for several minutes before taking off. As it was late in the day, we decided to retrace our steps and return to the hotel in the loop. No one accosted us or said anything offensive, just stared at a naive white couple strolling thru their neighborhood. Went the next morning and saw the Science Museum which we learned closes at 5PM so we would have only had 30 minutes to visit the previous day.
Just a minute, we have that distinction of being the most segregated city in the country being told this for many years by our betters and gubermint officials.
“Milwaukee” comes from an Algonquian word Millioke, meaning “Good”, “Beautiful” and “Pleasant Land” (c.f. Potawatomi language minwaking, Ojibwe language ominowakiing) or “Gathering place [by the water]”
“The most accepted name origin of Chicago is the Miami-Illinois word “shikaakwa,” which means “striped skunk” or “smelly onion”. That just about covers it. It also may refer to a water by-way in which a young woman died. She probably still votes democratic.
LOL!!!
Must read from Clarice – Obama killing the Left
“Fed up yet?
You can get sharpened pikes and pitchforks from my conveniently located shop on the outskirts of Washington, D.C. Better yet, work hard to oust these leftist elites; ridicule and resist them at every opportunity; and join together state by state to refuse to follow their ill-conceived dictates. Your choice, but do something, don’t just stand there.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/07/obamas_killing_the_left_lets_help_him.html#ixzz3fgzrr5yf
Wow.
The article mentions that 70% of Obama voters in 2012 regret their choice. I know someone who regretted it about a month later. He’s big on gun rights and Obama’s response to Sandy Hook really ticked him off. I considered it near instant Karma.
Arguing that Obama is good for conservative alternatives is missing the point. The left pushes their agenda in every way possible to see what sticks. This time, gay marriage will stick, Obamacare will stick more than it did and even immigration has little chance of moving. If they go too far (Jimmy Carter) and a conservative comes in, Democrats will reluctantly support a palate-cleanser (Bill Clinton) to modify the brand. When a blank slate like Obama came along, voters were dumb enough to believe his anti-partisan BS. 20-25 years from now, we’ll get the next Obama.
sad but true
BTW:
I’ve been in the “lounge” for more than 8 hours now. Someone may need to restock.
Just sayin’. The chocolate croissants were yummy. Thanks whoever left them. 😉
Take a tour around the world where the Confederate battle flag is displayed as a symbol of the South and its unique culture.
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Confederate flags spotted outside the US
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33471885
Trump Preaches Peace Through Strength In Phoenix
During his July 11 rally at the Phoenix Convention Center, GOP hopeful Donald Trump spoke of his love for the military and promised that, if elected, he “would have a military so strong that we would never have to use it.”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/11/trump-preaches-peace-through-strength-in-phoenix/
Miss USA Pageant on Reelz at 8 pm EST.
http://conservativetribune.com/airline-pilots-control-towers/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=WesternJournalism&utm_content=2015-07-12
Somebody—you have to read this and show your husband
Love those. Usually things are so scripted and professional, it’s fun when things go off script. We have one controller in our local tower we call grumpy. So fun when he goes off.
I laughed so hard at these.
to this day when I hear someone say ” over and out” I cringe.
when you say over it means talk back to me
when you say out it means conversation is ended
so when someone says “over and out” they are saying you can talk to me ,but I am not listening
Yep. When you have an instruction from a tower, you have to repeat it. But when you don’t, you can say roger. Never say over and out. The rule of what you say is: who you’re talking to, who you are, where you are, and say what you want. If replying to a tower instruction, it’s who you are, and repeat the instruction.
LOL. Years ago in LE our system used “That is all” to signify the end of a wanted broadcast. As if he were the boss, one obnoxious dispatcher used the phrase to end every conversation to officers. One night he made the mistake of saying it to the sergeant, who immediately snapped back, “No, it’s not”! Dead silence for five minutes. After radio traffic resumed he didn’t say it again. Ever.
Every article you read says Trump is bashing Mexican immigrants. None say illegal.
And none are reporting that legal immigrants and native born Hispanics are cheering him. Because “narrative”.
http://conservativetribune.com/date-convention-states/
this could get interesting
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/07/deal-reached-in-sham-iranian-nuclear-talks-announcement-monday/
we are screwed
stolen from Rev Amy’s place
http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/12/jim-webb-dems-have-moved-way-far-to-the-left-thats-not-my-democratic-party/
he might be worth watching
So Scott Walker’s candidacy announcement tomorrow will be buried by the news of the Iran “Nukes for Nothing” Deal
It’s a good thing Twitter faked it yesterday, then.
Someone should do a spoof of the money for nothing mtv music video about the Iran deal.
Humorous video on the Social Justice Mob
http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/07/why-its-socially-acceptable-to-do-nothing/
That is some funny stuff.
stole it
I have a really bad toothache. I see a dentist visit in my future.
got any ora-jel in the house? it will numb it for a while until you get to the denist.
Jim Webb Stands Up For ‘Southern White Cultures’
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/12/jim-webb-southern-white_n_7779298.html
http://www.independentsentinel.com/fars-news-agency-leak-nuke-deal-lifts-all-sanctions-and-the-embargo/
looks like iran won. valjar must be so proud
Fiorina: Trump Tapping Into ‘An Anger’
http://www.weaselzippers.us/228916-fiorina-trump-tapping-into-an-anger/
Leslie,
Hope you enjoyed your visit – remember to turn off the TV and lights when you leave as we don’t want the Klown to complain about rising power costs. 49erD baked those croissants while waiting for U-Verse to hook him up again – something about parts being wagon trained from Tennessee or was that Kentucky (gin and bourbon).
Word Press acting up – my comment is in response to Leslie’s which seems to have migrated northward.
Maybe that was in part due to 49er’s wagon train. 😉
It’s a miracle and I’m outta the cellar!! The healing power of the sun is mightier than I thought.
Me, too!!!
Thanks for the baked goodies.
The gin and bourbon weren’t bad, either.
I found the book! It’s entitled “The Angel’s Game”.
From goodreads.com:
I’m not necessarily recommending this book. It took me a very long time to finish it. It’s not really the type of book I usually read. It’s quite dark and tragic. But it stuck with me for quite a while. I was trying to come up with the title while driving to/from the airport just now. And here it is.
http://lego.wimp.com/birthday-lego/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=video/
this is cool
It is…
This was a good thread. I’m sorry I wasn’t here to enjoy it.