● WTF NFL?: Why was the NFL experimenting with both teams wearing solid colors tonight? It looked like an arena bowl game, only without the dignity. Anyways, Dr. Pepper beat Sprite in a rather dull game in New Jersey. Actually, Nike was behind this. That is a company that should be nationalized so it can be shot into space with all of its employees.
● Missouri Loves Company: Oooh, that's clever! Anyways, I find it funny that all the minority students are now freaking each other out about racists seeking revenge for blah blah blah. Whatever. News flash... no one cares about the U. of Missouri. Seriously, it's a worthless school in the middle of nowhere without even a decent football program. The world does not care about your invented problems. Frankly, I'd like to see the whole school year crash and burn as a lesson to other schools about letting the inmates have their way.
● Sing It Sista: Sista Souljah has declared that Hillary's campaign reminds her of "the plantation," with Hillary being "the White wife of the White Master." That is stupid hyperbole with absolutely no awareness of the reality of slavery, but I'll run with it. Heck, Hillary also reminds me of "the Third Reich" with Hillary being Hitler's Minster of Curmudgeoning Heinrich Grumpler.
● Lookout Below: So the stock market is beginning its annual fall. Your best bet is probably to have invested in 1981. This game is rigged.
● Dude Looks Like A Dude: Caitlin Jenner, f.k.a. Bruce Kardashian, is now getting protested by "trans people" who accuse IT of being "an insult to trans people." First of all, let me say that I think it's funny that "trans people" are now being pulled into the Kardashian empire. There is no escape from that black hole, my friends. Secondly, let me ask, what makes one a "trans person"? Do you need to own a TransAM? Fly TWA? Cross the continent using the TransContinental Rail Road? Come on, there must be more than just wanting to mutilate your genitalia? What kind of sh*tty club is this?
● Liar, Liar (Part 1,007): Hillary now claims she tried to join the Marines, but was rejected. This is so obviously a lie that even the MSM is looking into it. This is truly a disappointing lie. There is no art to this whatsoever and there isn't even the possibility of this being true. It's like Hillary just doesn't care. Sigh.
Thoughts?
38 comments:
There is no escape from that black hole... I see what you did there. :-)
Re: Missouri -
It's not you but I do wish conservatives wouldn't automatically scoff every time someone expresses some kind of grievance. Life isn't peachy for everybody out there.
Having said that...
Do these students have some legit gripes?
I'll say yes.
Are they making a mountain out of a molehill?
Probably. Some of them, anyway.
Are they doing anything to gain allies (i.e. people who might be sympathetic)?
Nope!!
Are they throwing the baby out with the bathwater?
Oh definitely yes!
That was Dr. Pepper? I thought it was Mug Root Beer.
tryanmax, It could have been. One thing it didn't strike me as is an NFL team.
Sister Souljah's still around? Next thing you'll tell me is Public Enemy released a new album this year. Oh, wait. Son of Bush!
Not sure about the Jenner thing, but presume listening to Neil Young's Trans album is optional.
Scott, I always try to determine if there's a legitimate grievance and I saw no legitimate grievance here. I don't believe for a minute that the campus is awash in people running around using racial epitaphs. I don't believe for a minute that the administration was racist either. Nor do I care about the idiosyncrasies of little Hitlers who want the world to bend to their ways.
Eric, Apparently, she is still around. I guess what's old is new again?
Bravo on Neil Young! :D
It is almost the holiday season. Maybe Brucelyn should listen to Trans Siberian Orchestra.
tryanmax, They should require that as a minimum!
Sista Soulja is a successful fiction writer nowadays (no, I've never read her work). She is still hard left so her being opposed to Clinton is perfectly natural, but I have to wonder if Bill using her to triangulate so many years ago factors in to her opposition.
Anthony, The hard left does not seem to like Hillary much. Of course, neither does anyone else. LOL!
I suspect there is some animosity there. If I remember correctly, she was really pissed at Clinton at the time.
BTW, there is now a lot of criticism of the NFL for last night's game because colorblind people couldn't see the game. For anyone interested, here's what the game looked like to our colorblind cousins. It's pretty interesting actually:
Colorblind NFL
As an aside, has anyone been following this story about the Hollywood A-lister who apparently has AIDS and has been sleeping with women without telling them? They say he's super famous, has slept with very famous women, and now say he's slept with over 50 porn stars as well.
I'm thinking we should take bets on who it is. My money's on Kermit the Frog... or Leonardo DeCaprio.
DISCLAIMER: Commentarama does not condone gambling. Or speculating about who in Hollywood has AIDS. Or gambling on speculating about who in Hollywood has AIDS. Or speculating or gambling on who in Hollywood should have AIDS.
Despite the disclaimer: Kermit? Nah, he's a one-pig frog, not a pig-frog. . But Leo DeCaprio is a good/sad choice.
My money is on John Mayer...he seems to be the "rebound boyfriend" of all the A-List actresses who break up with A-List boyfriends.
There's always Charlie Sheen too, but I don't think he's dated A-Listers...
Also - In this day and age, HOW DOES SOMEONE CONTRACT AIDS???? Have we learned nothing?
"I'm Sista Souljah and I still… exist."
Scott: Life isn't peachy for everybody out there. I think that's exactly the reason so many conservatives do scoff.
Bev, I could see John Mayer. I thought about Sheen, but I don't see him as any sort of A-lister at this point. They also said the actor was worried that he would be remembered for having the disease rather than "as a great actor." That sounds like someone like DeCaprio to me.
I don't know how you get AIDS these days? It's very avoidable.
tryanmax, Agreed. These people are whining about things that aren't even real and, if they are, are no different than what other people face every day. They have no sense of what real hardship is.
Scott and Tryanmax - They have been so outrageously unreasonable to point of setting the house on fire just to light a cigarette, that no one can help but mock them. They had their "Million Student Walkout" yesterday across the country demanding free tuition, and, seriously, who can keep up. So far 5 college administrators have resigned with more to come, professors are being fired for wanting to give exams, and a college theatre production was cancelled because the playwright took exception that the cast was diverse. Oh, there's more, but it is just getting exponentially more stupid and destructive, it is hard to keep up.
Several colleges have announced a new "progressive" fight songLINK
Brutal terrorist attack in Paris.
France24.com:
"French police officials and witnesses have reported an explosion in a bar near a Paris stadium, a shootout outside three Paris restaurants and a hostage situation in a concert hall, leaving at least 35 dead."
Bev, This is how the left implodes.
France has shut their borders and deployed their military to Paris. Right. Ow there are 100 hostages being held in a theatre. It is a concert by a an American symphony. 4 separate attack sites.
And commenters on HuffPo are admonishing the Press to not jump to conclusions that it is a coordinated terrorist attack or in anyway related to the refugee influx or Islamic relates at all. They are blaming Americn conservatives for some reason.
Just for the record, I am having a minor freak out....
You have friends in Paris?
No, just flashbacks...
Bev, I've been watching the news. This is very similar, isn't it? Hang in there!
September 11?
Yeah. Shitty stuff.
Kit - Yes. I understand the fear that grips Paris right now. They don't know where to turn. Trying to find a ledge to grip onto from the free-fall fear in the minutes, hours and days to come trying to make sense of anything.
I was only 11 and living in a small, podunk town that only the most desperate (and pathetic) would-be terrorist would try to attack, so I was fortunately free of such anxieties.
To me, this is more reminiscent of the 2013 Boston bombing.
Though this might interest you.
From Max Boot's Invisible Armies:
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Between 1892 and 1894 Paris was the scene of eleven bombings, which killed nine people.As a result, wrote a newspaper correspondent, "the Parisians of 1894… lived in a daily dread of some fresh eruption. … If a trifling mishap occurred to a tramcar, through an electric wire getting out of order, people imagined that an explosive had been deposited on the line." (Anyone who was in New York after 9/11 will recognize the reaction.)
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It's worth a read.
Thought this might interest you.
I have no words about Paris at the moment...
Re: the misadventures at Mizzou and my line about life not being peachy for everyone, I guess I was going for something like this:
It's as if the left automatically says, "Yeah, it's not peachy and we blame X, Y, and Z and anyone we don't like should be wiped off the face of the planet"...
...while the right says either, "X, Y, and Z don't exist" or "They should be thankful to live in America - X, Y, and Z are much worse in [insert shithole country here]."
I hope that made sense! :-)
Scott - and the Middle screams silently into the darkness wishing everyone would JUST SHUT UP FOR ONE DAMN MINUTE!!!! Just one moment of silence...no offense, but we are better off than [insert shithole country here].
Bev -
Yes we do, and yes we are.
And if you want to read something that's borderline parody, check this out.
I want to sympathize with these people but after reading each and every "demand" of theirs, I just kept thinking, "Go f--- yourselves." :-)
Scott, I considered expounding on my scoffing comment, but opted to be succinct. I see you posting that link with the comment that it is borderline parody, so I know you understand what was meant by me and the other conservative scoffers. I just wish you wouldn't actively choose to characterize it in the worst possible way.
When you generalize that conservatives either deny X, Y, and Z exists, or isn't as bad in some shithole, I can't exactly deny that's the case--especially since, by combining those two broad responses, you've hedged almost everything. That's generalization used dishonestly.
To my knowledge, no conservative of note denies that racism is a thing that exists. But they will deny racist intent exists behind every conflict that crosses racial lines. Likewise, no conservative says that sexism is not a thing. But when feminists pick petty battles over "manspreading" or some such thing with hyperbolic howls of oppression, it's hard to take them very seriously. Here's another, no conservative says rape doesn't happen, but they have no tolerance for false claims of rape. And don't even get me started on trigger warnings, safe spaces, and all that!
As to third-world comparisons, that response is pretty well reserved for hyperbolic assertions that America is the most backwards dump on the planet or to put extreme pettiness in its place. Besides, as Saul Alinsky said, "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon." Politics is a rhetorical arms race in which conservatives are routinely cajoled into disarming.
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