No Contradiction There!

Whiners whiners everywhere and I can't give a crap.

● If the “strong” women who couldn’t report being repeatedly raped and harassed by Weinstein for decades really want to be taken seriously, then stop posing in your damn underwear. You can’t sell your body and then whine when people treat you as a sex object.

● Blake Lively (and others) whined about being discriminated against because reporters asked which designer they were wearing when they attended some women’s conference. The next week, she announced that she would be the spokeschickie for some fashion designer/makeup company. See a contradiction there?

● Amber Tamblyn claims that the only reason Harvey Weinstein went down was that Hillary lost and women decided to stand up for themselves. Such idiocy. So she's saying that if we had elected Hillary, Amber and friends would have let predator Weinstein keep molesting young women? That’s nice. How does that make electing Hillary a good thing?

Notice also that the response to evil Trump being elected is that a group of women finally told the truth about something they’d been covering up to protect their careers. So Trump made honest women of them.

Or, said differently, to get even with the public for the election of Trump, a group of leftist Hollywood starlets destroyed one man... the biggest Hollywood bundler for Democratic causes. Does that make sense to anyone? Maybe it would make more sense if they were wearing hats shaped like genitalia on their heads? Idiots.

● Terry Richards is a pervert. This has long been known with the fashion industry and even among the public. I knew it and I barely know who this guy is. He all but molests models. So this week, the fashion industry decided to blacklist him for his sexual crimes. My question is this: why was his well-known behavior considered acceptable for 30 years?

● The Houston Texans should change their logo to a snowflake... or a moron. Apparently, the playas are upset because the owner said, “We can’t let the inmates run the prison.” Putting aside any anger they feel for him getting the saying wrong, these coddled millionaire delicates apparently don’t realize that this is a common expression used by millions of people to say that management can’t let the people they manage make the decisions. It’s not racist. It does not imply that the employees are “inmates.” Yet, the Texans are moron victim-wannabes, so they’re all butthurt about it. Waaaaah!

Let’s be real about this for a moment, shall we? Why in the world would white managers want to hire black people when the public experience with them is this? Would you hire someone who will misconstrue everything to be racism and then stage protests about it? The answer seems pretty obvious. So while it may be fun to whine like a bitch about being fake-victimized, the damage these delicate millionaires are doing to the cause of black people is immense.

Ditto on the sexual harassment thing. Right now, you have women claiming harassment that is decades old and based on things that should never be considered harassment: “He asked me out! He looked at me! He complimented me on my clothing! I felt uncomfortable around him! He told a joke involving women/sex/something I don’t like!” Would you hire someone who might decide to become a victim 20 years down the road. That’s like hiring a booby trap... no pun intended. Again, how does this help the women who aren't idiots?

● Ford’s new slogan is “Always Unstoppable.” Does that sound like a great slogan for a car company?

Interesting Times

Things are definitely going wrong for the left.

1. In the last couple days, it has been revealed that Clinton paid for the fake dossier created to embarrass Trump and then lied about funding it for over a year. The MSM is pissed, and this story is making Clinton look really bad while vindicating Trump.

2. Clinton's dirty deal letting the Russians take over American uranium mines in exchange for two million dollars in "donations" has killed the Trump-was-in-league-with-Russia industry, something the left was counting on very much to unseat Trump. Suddenly, no one on the left wants to talk about Russia.

3. The left seems to be getting worse at organizing day by day. Instead of a useless pussy-head rally or a counter-productive BLM riot, they're now planning to all scream helplessly to the sky (God?) on the anniversary of the election... because that will achieve nothing. It also makes them look even more like idiots.

4. I think this Hollywood thing is starting to implode. First, you have a bad guy (Matt Damon) pretend to be a leader of the good guys and no one speaks up. Ben Affleck escaped to rehab. Only two names have been tossed out even as these women claim to have been harassed by thousands of different men. Corey Feldman is exploiting the crisis for fund raising. The SJW's are apparently worried about the lack of blacks being harassed. And try as they might, they can't seem to find harassers beyond the (leftist) entertainment industry. At this point, this all has the feel of having switched from substance to circus, which is usually the end of the matter.

Don't Panic!

Okay, I don't want to start a panic, but this could be really bad.

Interesting fact: Because earth's rotation is slowing down, today is about 0.00000002 seconds longer than yesterday pic.twitter.com/vwSDBJwocd

— World and Science (@WorldAndScience) October 24, 2017

Okay, okay, okay, calm down! Don't worry, I have a plan that just might work to save us! Stay with me here. Here's my plan. If we could get every person, animal, and moving object to just run in the westwardly direction at the same time for about an hour or so, maybe, just maybe, we could get the Earth moving faster again. It would be just like a giant NordicTrak!

Now, I haven't done the exact math mainly because I am not good at math, but I figure it might just work give or take an hour or two..maybe a week? Oh, we can work out those kinds of minor details later. That's what we have all those mathemeticians, physicists, and NASA for anyway!

And here is another net positive to this obviously feasible plan - every single person on Earth would be so occupied with working together getting those steps in, no one would be warring, no one would be harassing, and most importatntly, all the politicians, pundits, and prevaricators would be so out of breath, they would finally shut up for an hour or so! Brilliant, huh?

Anyway, that's my plan to save Earth. Other than that, I've got nothing. Any of you have any other ideas?

Turn On The News Machine!!

News Glut, Day 311...

● We have our second (recently) exposed pervert in Hollywood. This is a director named James Toback. I don’t really know his career, but he seems minor enough to sacrifice. He’s been accused by 38 women of generally tricking them into going somewhere private and then jerking off in front of them. Weinstein did that too. I guess it’s a Hollywood thing to jerk yourself off in front of someone. Weirdos. Anyways, I’m still waiting for a real purge in Hollywood.

● Is it just me or does Matthew McConnaughey seem more and more like a pedophile in his ads? My daughters think of him as “gross” (greasy hair and bad skin). I guess that makes him a good spokesman for Wild Turkey though.

● Patton Oswalt, a small time Hollywood comedian, is exploiting his wife’s death (drugs, heart condition) to help his career. He claims to have “found” a letter from his dead wife in which she smeared Donald Trump in 2004. Yeah, no sale. That said, I’m sure the late night fools with lap this up.

● This Gold Star thing is idiotic. It’s just a bunch of the usual suspects pretending to freak out about something that never would have upset them if someone else had said it. There is nothing insensitive about saying, “He knew what he was signing up for, but when it happens is hurts anyway.” And the fact they need to cut the quote short to make it sound insensitive proves it. Now the mother has produced a tape recording. Hmm. What’s that about? Does she just record all her conversations or only those that might prove useful? This reeks of that Code Pink chick, Cindy something, who exploited the death of her son to attack Bush.

● I’m sad I don’t get to see Dodgers v. Yankees in the World Series. That would have been a cool reminder of my childhood.

Thoughts?

Mindfulness To Mindlessness

So have you heard about the new movement called "Mindfulness"? Well, it's actually not new as it has been around since the 1970's, but let me explain. Basically it's meditation to center oneself in the here and now, or as Wikipedia states:

“Mindfulness is the psychological process of bringing one’s attention to the internal and external experiences occurring in the present moment, which can be developed through the practice of meditation and other training.”

The NYC public school system is beginning to institute this practice in our public schools to help promote calm, focused children and even setting aside special spaces for the daily meditations. Now I only bring this up because, well, I started grade school in those way-back times when we still had prayer in school. At the beginning of every day, we would say the Pledge of Allegience in unison, and either sit or stand quietly and have our daily devotional. Then our day would begin with each child now calm and ready to listen to our lessons and focused as a group.

I think this is great idea, but I am also just a little confused. Meditation is an ancient religious practice in Buddhism and Hinduism and let me be honest, it is just prayer. Basically, the NY public school system is reintroducing this kind of practice back in the school system, but how is this any different from prayer which was banned decades ago for being unconstitutional. I reiterate that I think this is a great idea to have this devoted moment of focused calm, but...it's just reintroducing the ancient religious practice of prayer which we got rid of because it was...oh nevermind. Let's just say that maybe there was some method to our previous generations' madness afterall.

And moving on, now for some mindlessness. So, our Governor Cuomo has approved a plan for General Motors to road test their new experimental driverless cars in Lower Manhattan next year - LINK. First let me say this, I don't trust GM to make a car with a driver that will not fall apart, so how on Earth will GM make driverless cars that will? Don't get me started on my long running issues with GM cars!

Secondly, why on God's Green Earth, are they approved to test this out in THE most congested, chaotic place on Earth with a car that has no driver. I'm not just talking crazy cab drivers and maniacal trucks weaving unexpectedly through traffic. We're talking buses, pedestrians including thousands of tourist who run amok, and cyclists who I rarely if ever see one actually stop for a red light I would faint dead away. I forsee death, destruction, and more mayhem than usual. But what makes this even better is Gov. Cuomo didn't even bother to consult with Mayor de Blasio or even the Dept of Transporation in NYC before the public announcement. If nothing else, it should be entertaining to witness.

Okay, do your stuff.

More Thoughts

We are in a dessert of genuine of news... the sound of one hand clapping. But here goes. Some thoughts.

● I am Spartacus. That's kind of how Hollywood feels right now. If you are an actress, you better report being molested asap before the ride closes. Was that flippant? See, it's not that I don't believe you... well, actually it is. I don't believe you, especially if you won't name names. "Strong women" my ass.

As an aside, Reece Witherspoon's story about being made to do a naked lineup as a way to be made to lose weight was a woman director, not a man. The media seems to keep skipping little details like that. Where is Algore to give us 'Inconvenient Truths PART 3'?

The #metoo people seem to have stopped reporting numbers... probably because it's truly underwhelming.

● There have been some horrific child killings in the news lately. A mother put her toddlers in the oven to kill them. A 19 year old stabbed his two younger siblings to death locally so he would be alone. Some dude claimed he made his daughter stand by a tree at 3 am because she wouldn't drink milk and she vanished, but the evidence is showing he killed her. BTW, she was 22 pounds at one point as a child. What is wrong with people?

● Meanwhile, it turns out that opioids killed more people in 2016 (64,070) than died in Vietnam (58,000). People are now going into a tizzy. Of course, let us put this in perspective. Few of those 64,070 will be missed. Moreover, 92 million Americans have been prescribed opioids this year alone. That means a death rate of 0.00007%. That's hardly an epidemic. Yet, people aren't smart and they hear a big number and panic. So now it will become nearly impossible to get very useful pain pills because a few thousand hillbillies overdosed. Wonderful.

● Have you seen this idiot who went to Afghanistan with his wife to missionary to people behind enemy lines? Surprise, they were captured and tortured and one of their kids was killed... and now they're acting shocked. Stick your head in a lion's mouth and you will suffer. Duh.

● Finally, my daughter has managed to put Greek Mythology into perspective in one evil swoop: "their real problem was Zeus and his junk." Oy vey.

Open Thread

I got nothing. Seriously, nuthin'. The Harvey Weinstein scandal is proceeding as expected with the herd striking out with blind rage at those who don't conform to the collective's position. Trump gave Obamacare a death blow and only the Democratic leadership seems to get it. The GOP keeps attacking Trump because they are Hillary in drag. Hillary is having to deny that Bill Clinton told her the truth about her book and campaign. That's really about it.

So let me leave you with this. We are all made of atoms that are essentially immortal. Does that make us immortal in a sense? What do you think this means for the existence of the human soul?

There Is Evil... Then There Are Democrats

Just a thought. You know all the things liberals claim are beyond evil, right? And how they love to blame them on everyone else? Like how they are acting like the Harvey Weinstein thing is part of some "epidemic" and therefore attacking Weinstein's crimes and Hollywood's hypocrisy is "politicizing" things. Well, consider this:

Democrat Thomas Jefferson... slave owner

Democrat Andrew Jackson... trail of tears

The Democratic South... slavery, fought Civil War to keep slaves, imposed slavery in other form in Reformation Era, segregation until the 1960s.

Democrat Woodrow Wilson... racist... lied to get country into World War I

Democrat FDR... interned Japanese-American citizens

Democrat Harry Truman... only human to drop atomic bomb on civilian populations

Democrat JFK... tried to assassinate foreign leaders, illegal invasion of Cuba, started Vietnam War

Democrat LB Johnson... lied to escalate Vietnam War including ground troops and systematic bombing of North Vietnam (leftist Bertrand Russell attacked Johnson's policy as "a barbaric aggressive war of conquest"), surveillance of MLK and Civil Right leaders

Democrat Clinton... rapist, serial sexual harasser. Democrat Hillary Clinton... covered up and defended Clinton by smearing victims

Democrat Obama... Kept Gitmo open and tried to declare the prisoners as non-persons with no rights, expanded use of drones including against American citizens without court oversight, expanded wars in Middle East and Africa

K-12 Schools... under Democrats control since 1950s, yet were segregated, accused of systematic racism and sexism

Progressive Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes... endorsed compulsory sterilization of the intellectually disabled (eugenics) in 1927 case Buck v. Bell. "Three generations of imbeciles are enough."

Just to name a few. Maybe we should be getting rid of the statues and monuments to these monsters and war criminals after all?

Matriarchy Heal Thyself and other stupid stuff

With all of the stuff coming out about Harvey Weinstein, this is one issue that has gotten lost in the furor. Our former First Lady Michelle Obama stepped in it a couple of weeks ago when making a speech at some organization. Well, she had this to say about women who didn't vote for Hillary Clinton:

“Any woman who voted against Hillary Clinton voted against their own voice,”

Seriously, I am getting so tired of women tell other women what they are supposed to think and do. My response to this was this:

Listen up! I did not fight for equality with "the Patriarchy" only to be told I must swear total loyalty to "the Matriarchy".

Yeah, that is exactly what I think about all of this "if you didn't vote for Hillary, you are traitor to women" crap. Really, how on earth do these idiots think this is going to win women over? Again, I didn't fight for equality all of these years only to be told that I must kiss the ring of the matriarchy! I have a voice and it's mine! I own it! MATRIARCHY HEAL THYSELF!!

And that the Obama's awarded their daughter Malia with a cushy internship along side Harvey Weinsstein, well, enough said. Oh, wait, they had no idea he was a perve and are appalled! Not appalled enough to give all the money back that he has given them over the years, but appalled just the same. And as for all that money being returned, that's not exactly what is happening. All these Dems that lived large off his donation are making a big show of giving the cash to other Dem-affiliated "women's" charities only to get it laundered right back into their campaign coffers.

Okay, now on a couple a issue in New York City:

I know that Columbus Day is over, but Columbus Day is a huge deal in NYC. And an issue in the "Take Down Those Evil Statues" has taken a new twist here too. Yeah, in NYC because, let's be honest, there aren't many statues of Confederate generals around and the statue-haters in NYC didn't want to be left out, so they've shifted their focus to...Christopher Columbus. Not a great idea. You see, first and formost Christopher Columbus was Italian and the Italian-American community in NYC is very large and very proud of the fact that Christopher Columbus was Italian. Many, many things in NYC are named after him at the behest of the Italian-American community like Columbus Avenue, Columbus Circle, Columbia University, and many parades including the big one down 5th Avenue every year, and many, many Italian-American social clubs.

And these same Italian-Americans are very miffed at all the rhetorical and physical attacks on their beloved Christopher Columbus especially from someone whose has taken the Italian name of "DeBlasio" [real name: Warren Wilhelm Jr.]. In fact it has gotten so bad that the famous (and newly renovated) statue of Christopher Columbus in the equally famous Columbus Circle at Broadway and 59th Street now has a 24/7 armed guard to curtail growing vandalism directed at Columbus.

As you may remember from an earlier post, DeBlasio made a big splash during the "Robert E. Lee statue removal of 2017" controversy (there's no controversy to great in an election year) by appointing a special panel in NYC to discuss and decide what statues in NYC might not meet the very new, very stringent rules of what statues should get to stay and which ones should go 'cause it's a thing now. I mean, he is up for reelection in just a few weeks and the committee is meeting "out of the public eye and input" to decide these things and their mayor-imposed deadline for a proposal just happens to conveniently fall after the election in November. Pretty much every statue is up for grabs because, well, there is literally no person who can pass this new purity test of time and hindsight. No one, not even Theodore Roosevelt who is the newest target of our "New Puritans". Oh, and for obvious reasons, the Italian-American community is pobably not a group that you want to "miff", if you know what I mean.

Oh, not that, I mean they are a huge voting bloc. What did you think I meant??

And then there's this:
The famous Solomon Guggenheim Museum in NYC forced to remove art from show 'cause this is what we do now. The museum was going to exhibit some photographs in a group called "Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World" by various artists. However some activists took umbrage with at least 3 of the works being presented - 'Dogs That Cannot Touch Each Other' (2003), 'Theater of the World' (1993), and 'A Case Study of Transference' (1994) - because they showed animals being abused in some way. Unlike the whole Pissed Christ, Mapplethorpe, or Elephant Dung Virgin Mary issue, this isn't about public funding. This particular issue is about pure and simple censorship. Animal rights activist were going to violently (how ironic) protest the display, so the museum decided to pull them "out of concern for the saftety of its staff, visitors, and participating artists". Seriously, if we are going to start censoring artists who maybe could teach us about the bad things that humans do to animal then how are we supposed to learn about them?

Again this isn't about Henry Hyde-style public funding. The issue with the NEA in the '90's was never about censorship, it was who was going to pay for it. Even Rudy Giuliani when he wanted the dung-strewn Madonna removed from the publicly-funded Brooklyn Museum never once said it should be banned. Any private gallery that wanted to pick up that gaunlet was free to do so. None did, by the way. And it's not like there aren't hundreds of private galleries in NYC who couldn't have either. And if it only takes some nebulous threat of violence to get something banned these days, I have a list of a few sculptures I would like removed just 'cause they are ugly and pointless.

Okay, do your commenting stuff...

Thought Updates

Howdy folks. I got nothing... except some random thoughts. Avante!

● Hillary. Hillary is an idiot. Rather than just donating some of the Weinstein money to some leftist woman's group, like the other Democrats are doing, she's maintaining radio silence, drawing attention to her failure to do the right thing. Even worse, she let her stupid daughter defend her by posting on Twitter that those meanie Republicans were trying to politicize this terrible thing! Dumbass. Hillary taking money for her political campaign which was based on slandering the GOP with women from a known sex criminal and not giving it back is inherently political, retard.

● Widespread. So liberal Matt Damon may have done his best to intimidate/sway various news outlets not to cover Weinstein's earlier assaults. That's actually a crime. At the least, it's called a conspiracy. Donna Karan just blamed the victims by saying this wasn't entirely Weinstein's fault because the women might have been provocatively dressed. Up to now, the left has condemned blaming the victim as victimizing the victim a second time. I guess it's cool now though.

● In a bizarre moment, Gayle King -- sitting in for Nora O'Donnell -- defended the Obamas from the Weinstein issue by claiming they didn't know about the harassment, which is why they haven't given back the money he gave them. Ok. That still doesn't explain Obama's failure to condemn it now or why he hasn't given back the money he took from Weinstein now that he knows. Even more interesting though, it's not clear where O'Donnell got this idea because no one has explained what Obama knew or didn't. So basically, she invented an excuse to protect Obama. Shocking, right?

● Arch-feminist Emma Watson has failed to condemn her friend Weinstein. So have arch-liberals Scarlett Johansson, Gwyneth Paltro, Jennifer Lawrence, and others. Rob Reiner and others, including the DNC, are trying to deflect this by attacking Trump.

● Post season baseball is interesting to me. This year, it's actually more interesting that football. I'm sick of the politicization.

● Why do I need to know that "Hot Felon" Jeremy Meeks's ex-wife had plastic surgery to tighter her uh... lower girl parts. Seriously, how does this end up in the news? Why does she want the world knowing this? I feel dirty just knowing this.

● So Dove did a commercial in which a black chick uses Dove to become a white chick. /snicker snicker I don't knew who thought that was a good idea. Mucho whining online about this.

● OJ is free and yet I don't feel less safe.

● So the Democrats are pissed at Trump for not exempting Puerto Rico from the Jones Act, a 1920's law which requires the use of US flag carriers for shipping and thereby adding a ton to the cost of each item. Said differently, they are upset Trump won't protect Puerto Rico from stupid Democratic laws. Typical Democrats... how dare you not save people from the stupid thing we did!

● Apple Air... Amazon Fire... Google Earth... ___ Water.

● Why are we supposed to change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day? What exactly did the IP do that I should care about or that we should celebrate? Besides, aren't we supposed to be extinguishing them from our culture? That's what they say every time they force some sports team called the Indians to change their name to something like the Non-Offensives.

● Emily Ratajkowski is naked... and the sky is blue.

Harvey Weinstein

It's always fascinating when things blow up to see how they turn out, especially when you can compare how people act to other recent events. Let's talk about Harvey Weinstein.

For those who don't know, Harvey Weinstein is a film producer of some repute. He's been behind a massive number of films and he has considerable sway in Hollywood. Indeed, Weinstein is one of the biggest contributors to Democrats, including Clinton and Obama, and he is what is called a "bundler," meaning he throws parties for A-list Hollywood types who also contribute at these parties. Over the years, he has funneled millions to the Democrats.

Well, the other day, allegations starting coming out, led by Ashley Judd, that Harvey is a serial sexual harasser and probably a sex criminal. Apparently, he used his position to demand massages, that women watch him shower, and that at least one (a reporter) watch him masturbate (which is how they say "Hi" in West Virginia). More will come out soon I'm sure.

So how is Harvey being treated?

Well, let me start with this. When sexual harassment allegations began being raised at Fox News, the left lost their minds and demanded immediate termination plus more. Essentially, they wanted all of Fox's management canned and the network sent to re-education camp. They tried to get the accused fired and ostracized. And they wanted everyone to have to agree that this was as evil as you can get without rounding up Jews.

Heck, Cam Newton found himself condemned and his sponsors dumping him just for a quasi-sexist remark... he didn't even get the chance to masturbate in front of anyone!

So what about Harvey? Well, his company has put him on administrative leave so they can investigate. That's fair. But then it gets a little iffy. None of the A-list actress types who routinely make sexual harassment a sisterhood issue and demand automatic guilt by allegation have spoken up... not a one. They haven't even condemned these acts in principle "if true." Crickets. A couple minor actresses have piled on, but that's about it.

The Democrats who want to run for President have all agreed to give the money they got from him to charity. Hillary and Obama haven't said a word, though. Apparently, they like the tainted money too much to give it back. On the other hand, the Democratic National Committee is giving up the money... sort of. They're giving it to liberal groups dedicated to getting (Democratic) women elected. That's a bit like giving it to your own PAC.

It's interesting how hesitant the left is to really condemn this when they don't even wait for the allegation to be known before they usually condemn these things. So maybe this isn't as big an issue for them as they would normally have you believe. In fact, let me ask how this could have gone on for two decades with out a single Democrat revealing what was going on? Add this to Clinton's misconduct and Weiner's child-sex texting and a bevy of other allegations and I'm starting to think the Democrats only care about sex-crime when they can lob the allegation, but they are pretty indifferent when it's their own people doing it. So much for being the party that protects women.

Thoughts?

Stop The Presses!

Warning!! What follows is a look into liberal minds as they process the newest NFL scandal: Funny-gate. Proceed with caution.

Hold everything! Cam Newton, quarterback for the Carolina Panthers, said that it was "funny" hearing a woman talk about receivers running routes. This is sexism, pure and simple, which is worse than Hitler. And after careful consideration, I have concluded that such words are beyond the pale of human dignity and totally unacceptable in modern civilized society. Hence, anyone who says such things must be castrated and lynched. And if anyone else proposes worse then list me as proposing whatever they say plus a spanking just to show that I will not be bested when it comes to saving women from the deprivations of the occasional insult! Women are strong after all, and need to be protected from such things.

Yep. Castrate and then lynch Cam.

Oh crap. Wait, Cam's black. Hold the lynching. You can't lynch black people. That would be racist. What if we just whipped him like in 12 Years A Slave until... uh. No. Ok. We'll just ban him for life.

Hurray! Cam Newton is banned for life and I've shown my sanctimonious moral superiority. Feel my smug! Feel my smug!! I am an enlightened being, bitches!! No one will protect women from insults more powerfully than me because I know that it's our job to protect those delicate little flowers from insults so they don't cry and quit and whatever. Thank God you have my moral outrage to protect you little honeys.

Anyways, banned for life.

Hmm. On second thought, everyone deserves a second chance -- sometimes many of them. And wouldn't it be racist to ban Cam when white quarterbacks (honkeybacks) have said worse and weren't banned? Sure, I can't name any, but I'm sure it happened, and that sounds like discrimination. Isn't it just like the NFL to discriminate against blacks? What is wrong with you rich white people?

You know what? I think ultimately, the NFL caused this problem. They hire these kids out of black ghettos and then don't stop them from saying the kinds of things kids from black ghettos say -- "nigga" "bitch" and other things that would be hurtful if they were said by whites. And they definitely don't value their bitches. The NFL really needs to do something about that. Roger Goddell needs to start teaching these kids how to act in a civilized world... while respecting their culture of course.

In the meantime, I think we need to write articles condemning the NFL for acting too harshly without acting harshly enough and for causing this problem in the first place because these rightwing, white, Republican billionaires don't like women.

Signed,
Every liberal sportswriter

Anatomy of Failure

That past few years have seen lots of leftist "movements." Yet, none of these meant anything. Isn't that interesting?

● NFL Kneelers: Let's start with the most recent: the NFL kneelers. As you know a handful of NFL players have followed in the knee-pads of race baiting bench-warmer Colin Kapernick and decided to kneel during the national anthem to protest their hatred of the police in America, racism and whatever else they could think of. But their message has been lost (they've been whining about this a lot recently) and their protests have led to zero social change. Why?

Well, first, this protest drew an immediately backlash because fans were pissed that they had chosen to denigrate the national anthem to draw attention to themselves. Whoops. Rather than use their fame as football players and just hold press conferences, they made the decision to attack the national anthem to get noticed and the public responded angrily. See, the public doesn't like to see its traditions sh*t upon and it definitely doesn't like anyone denigrating all the people who have sacrificed for this country. Big mistake. This basically made it impossible for them ever to win the public.

Then Kapernick turned out to be a turd who praised Castro, called cops pigs and spewed a lot of false "facts" and hate. Moreover, half the kneelers couldn't even say why they were kneeling. Then they whined that no white players were supporting them, because you know... racism. Then they took Trump's bait and fired back at him, morphing the whole kneeling thing into an anti-Trump message. At that point, the NFL stepped in and changed the message again to the nebulous "unity." At this point, only a few hardcore types are still kneeling and no one knows what they really want. Even worse, they don't even have a plan for what they want if we choose to give it to them. The end result, this is a hated, directionless movement with no agenda to offer except "I'm angry at whites and cops." They're going nowhere.

● The Pussy Hat Protests: When the Pussy Hat brigade marched on Washington, it was immediately clear to me that they would amount to nothing. This was a group who wanted... uh... gurl power? R-E-S-P-E-C-T? not-Trump? Not sure. And that was the first problem: they had no idea what they wanted. They just wanted to protest that things weren't going the way they wanted. Some whined about the election. Hollywood chicks whined about not getting paid as much as male actors. Some rich white women whined about sexism keeping them down... somehow. Many whined about a nebulous lack of respect from men, even though they'd done nothing to earn it.

They had no platform. They had no agenda. They had no plan. The confused their personal failures with public policy. They didn't even have the intent to do anything. This was a group of women who stupidly think "raising awareness" of things like Breast Cancer is the same as solving the problem, and they had brought that worthless mentality with them. This was a group of achievement-less women who thought that whining that they wanted things to change was enough and now someone else would hand them all the things they wanted, even if they couldn't identify them. It never occurred to them that the people who get what they want need to work for it. So their movement collapsed as little more than a weekend tantrum.

● Black Lives Matter: Like the others, this group had everything going for them -- historical grievance, a willing media and Democrats happy to use them to keep blacks on the liberal plantation. What they lacked was any sense of judgment. First, rather than focusing on the couple of shootings of black men that brought sympathy, they focused on the thugs. This lost them the public. Then they refused to condemn the murder of cops. This angered the public. Add in that their demands were delivered in the most obnoxious of ways all-but designed to turn off white America. So the public not only rejected them, they did their best to actively show their support for the cops.

The one thing you have to give BLM, unlike the others, is that they actually had an agenda. The problem was that it's bat-shit crazy. Indeed, their massive manifesto covered dozens of whacko and offensive demands that were either intolerable off the bat or not relevant in any way to their cause, things like redistribution of wealth, pay raises and racial-based set asides. All of that is a nonstarter and their movement has been relegated to the fringes.

● OWS: Do you remember OWS? They were an astroturf "movement" created to give the left its own Tea party. The problem was that they had no idea what they wanted. All they knew was that they hated capitalism and America and they wanted everything changed... in some way. That's a non-starter with the public. Add in that this was a gang of spoiled college-students-for-life and professional "anarchists" (read: socialists) who came across as the very people you would never give power too. Then their protests devolved in homeless camps, rapes, and whining and people were done. The public's tolerance was expended without ever coming close to considering concessions.

Pretty much the only place leftist protests have brought any change is on colleges, where it was basically whiny leftist college kids giving a list of demands to leftist administrators, and even there almost no demands were met. In fact, the only place the students really won was the University of Missouri with its sympathetic administrators and that's been in slow-motion implosion ever since, with both black and white students fleeing.

This has been fascinating to me. The left has managed to turn out large numbers of its people, but their protests have been so incompetently handled that they not only achieved nothing, I would say they set the left back on issue after issue.

Thoughts?

Count Our Blessings Day...

I was going to write about something else for today, but I think maybe we need a day to take a big breath and reflect. It seems as if there is just no good news right now and we can't blame everything on the media, Trump, Democrats, or Russia. I contribute this to not what is really happening, but that we spend so much time dissecting each syllable of each word on social media, that we miss the big picture.

I will assume since we all have internet service and all the modern electronics that come with with it, that we all have a roof over our heads, clothes to wear, plenty of food in our bellies, and loving family and friends who care. At least I hope you all do. Frankly, I am not completely convince that all of the hot air we create by constantly finding fault with everything isn't one of the main contributions to global warming...er...climate change. The Butterfly Effect in real time. There's so much pain in the world, maybe we can take a day to make it just a little less painful.

Let's just take a day and count our blessings. I'll start.

I have an infestation of mice. Okay, maybe that's not a positive, but at least they're cute and amazingly fast. I am fascinated at how fast mice are. If we could all move as fast as scared mice, we wouldn't need rockets. I realize I should be eeeeeeeeked out about these mice, but, what can I say. It's just life in the big city.

Okay, who's next?

Of Whiners and Winners

Happy Monday!

● Update on the NFL. Wow, things have changed. Trump is still fanning the flames and the small cadre of race-baiting players are continuing their thing, but the NFL has found a solution. Rather than letting the protests happen randomly and control the agenda, team after team is now kneeling as a group before the anthem and then standing for the anthem. This has done several things. First, it has muddied the water as to what the protests mean because they describe this as being a message of "unity," whatever that means. In fact, the original protestors are all very pissed off that their message has been hijacked -- the original message, by the way, is one of racial division and spoils. Even the leftist media who were fanning the flames of this are stupidly repeating that this is a message of unity or an anti-Trump message. At this point, the original point is long lost. What's more, teams are now saying, "We had your protest, now let's focus on football." So look for the issue to shrink back down to only a handful of players no one is listening to.

Equally interestingly, despite this now being about unity, the fans are booing the players when they kneel. This is the fans expressing their dislike of the protests and the protestors.

Finally, the funniest aspect of this arose when the left starting asking themselves, "what do we do next?" Ha ha. It turns out that "raising awareness" isn't all that valuable after all.

● The left is desperate to equate Puerto Rico with Katrina. The problem is, there are no similarities except that the incompetent local officials are again Democrats. They're trying everything though: Trump is golfing instead of whatever he's supposed to be doing, Trump was unprepared, Trump didn't send the exact combination of ships I would have sent, Trump is leaving food and water on the docks un-distributed, and Trump said something nasty to a local mayor! Wahh. None of this is true. In fact, most unbiased experts are saying their preparations have been excellent and the problem is that the island has essentially be destroyed and doing anything is hard. As for the food on the docks, FEMA has pointed out that the commercial containers the rumormongers are pointing to do not belong to FEMA and that FEMA's stuff has been distributed. Still, that hasn't stopped the left from repeating it.

● So this leftist librarian at some elementary school tried to get famous by rejecting a gift of books from Melania Trump. She sneered at the Dr. Seuss books Melina sent as cliched and racist. Good grief. What's funny about this is that Michelle Obama used to go around reading Dr. Seuss books to kids. Hmm. I guess she's cool with racism.

● More Islamic terrorism. Islam: Killing the West 3-5 people a week.

● I've been reading the articles about Hugh Hefner by various people who knew him. It's funny. If you don't know any better, Hefner made his world sound like magic: a cool mansion designed for parties, a life awash in celebrities, surrounded by hot (if cheap) women. Hedonism in the lap of luxury.

Well, reading these articles has presented a very different picture. It's a picture of a dirty, beat up claustrophobic mansion, partiers being paid to attend parties, women who were there for the money and had to be forced to have sex, drugs, blackmail, and a world of no friends or decent people whatsoever. Hefner sounds like a control freak monster who needed to buy the sex he got and confused sex with love. He surrounded himself with courtiers to make himself feel important and loved. What a loser.

I don't think of Hefner as Satan. To me, he's a pathetic footnote to the cultural rot of the 1960's, but the things I'm reading remind me of the classic descriptions of hell very much. Indeed, as was said in The Lord of the Rings, Satan would appear fairer, but seem fouler. That's what this sounds like -- a shining mansion of pleasure on the hill led by a seemingly charismatic leader, which in reality is a corrupt, sclerotic nest filled with vipers. I'll take my family any day.

● Finally, I find the Megyn Kelly thing interesting. First, it was obvious to me that she had little talent at Fox. All she really offered was being abusive to guests to make her audience happy. Apparently, the NBC execs didn't get this. Secondly, the constant smears and attacks from the left remind us that (1) the left likes to destroy people it does not like no matter what they are doing, i.e. political or not, and (2) they will never forgive.