Woke Kindergarten

 

 In San Francisco, there's a gigantic mural of Greta Thunberg, that's deeply embarrassing,....if you know the bullshit story of Greta Thunberg. And how politically gullible San Franciscans are.

    

That mural exists because, in the NewAge, no one behaves in a way that makes any sense, and no one watching can explain why. So, basically, the NewAge is like a bad TV show.

   

 You can even see this on bad TV shows like the news, when American reporters ask American Muslims why they won't vote for Biden, knowing Biden's bombing their relatives. It's just embarrassing, and nonsensical, but no one can explain why it's happening. 

   

 Unless you see Zionists as white supremacists, establishing a colonial state, with America's help. Then, supporting a genocide might make sense.

   

Except for one little thing, South Africa reminds us, that still doesn't and shouldn't make sense - especially to Americans:

   

Our values are supposed to oppose white supremacist colonial states, NOT support them.

 

Sick And Twisted

 

 In the first three minutes of [Matt Rife's] stand-up, the Wild ‘N Out star “tested the waters” with a domestic violence joke. The comic narrated a story about being served by a waitress in Baltimore who had a black eye. He jokes about how it was “obvious” what had happened to her. The star also expressed his surprise at the company choosing the woman to be their face despite her battered appearance. 

 He says that his friend expressed how the company should have the lady work in the kitchen where she would not have to face people. Matt then recalls how he told his friend “Yeah, but I feel like if she could cook, she wouldn’t have that black eye.” 

 He backs up his joke saying he’s “Just testing the waters. Seeing if y’all can be fun or not.” “I figure we start the show with domestic violence, the rest of the show should be pretty smooth sailing.” He then segways into talking about women believing in crystals having spiritual energy. 

   

 Cult leader arrested for trying to control followers with homemade mercury-laced elixirs

Jackie Kennedy Allegedly Had an Affair With a Man Linked to JFK’s Funeral Planning

That Whole Macho Thing Is So Over-Rated Now-A-Days

Also, the Lone Wolf thing, just nonsense,...

Should People At The Head Of The March Finish First?

By now, I shouldn't have to tell you how I see blacks, and The Civil Rights Movement, being co-opted for other's purposes, but I can stress how sick it makes me feel when I encounter references to it:

"Vinson points out some astonishing facts, such as how the West’s—and organized Jewry’s—obsession with the Holocaust didn’t begin until the mid-1960′s, when Jews decided to hop aboard the civil rights bandwagon."

But now there's the expectation - no, DEMAND - blacks be relegated to the sidelines to watch (basically getting rid of the "band") because a bad House DJ has been rented, and the "wagon" is now used as lead float in somebody else's (feminists and gays) PRIDE parade. They blare their anti-white Christian message, ignoring blacks, because they know the danger if they're caught - which they surely will be - so they have to move fast because:

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." 

- Winston Churchill

And they're risking ignoring Mark Twain:

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."

Because - mark my words:

 Having the wind at your back - and running away - can sure look a lot alike,...

Anytime You Want To Start Trials For Throwing The Environmentalist Frauds In Prison, Please, Let Us Know (We've Been Ready For Awhile)

Oh man, we thought we were done with the climate crazies, but no - we've got one left and his name is Mike Tidwell and, honestly, he's gone, baby:

Ten years ago, I put solar panels on my roof and began eating locally grown food. I bought an energy-efficient refrigerator that uses the power equivalent of a single light bulb. I started heating my home with a stove that burns organically fertilized corn kernels. I even restored a gas-free lawn mower for manual yardwork.

As a longtime environmental activist, I was deeply alarmed by new studies on global warming, so I went all out. I did my part.

Now I'm changing my life again. Today, underneath the solar panels, there's a new set of deadbolt locks on all my doors.

There's a new Honda GX390 portable power generator in my garage, ready to provide backup electricity. And last week I bought a starter kit to raise tomatoes and lettuce behind barred basement windows.

I'm not a survivalist or an "end times" enthusiast. When it comes to climate change, I'm just a realist.

I haven't given up the cause. I still work overtime to promote clean energy, and I take solace when top climate scientists say we can still avoid the worst effects of global warming if we move quickly. It's just that, well, we're running out of time.

The proof is everywhere - outside my front door, in my neighborhood, on the news. After a decade of failure to address climate change at the national and international levels, our weather has gone haywire. In the Washington region alone, in barely a year, we've annihilated all records for snow accumulation, we've seen appalling power outages associated with year-round thunderstorms, and we've experienced the hottest summer in the 140 years we've been measuring. Winston Churchill's oft-quoted warning on the eve of World War II now applies directly: "The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences."

Those consequences explain the generator in my garage and why I'm reinforcing my basement windows to protect emergency supplies.

This may seem like a stunt, or a sign that this frustrated environmentalist has finally lost it. But I'm not crazy. Just wait.

And he hasn't even gotten to the part about buying guns to protect his tomatoes! As one commenter said, we think his tin foil hat has gotten a bit too snug, but, we also have to admit, we prefer this one loon at The Washington Post to when it seemed like our entire society had lost it's mind.

O.K., no jokes, really talking on-the-level now:

What's going on with Mr. Tidwell is the inevitable result of a NewAge cult society gone mad, in far too many ways for most to grasp. For decades, Tidwell's been subjected to this pseudoscientific religious malarky from presidential candidates and other politicians, politicized "scientists", politicized royalty, politicized celebrities, so-called "experts", spiritualists and religious figures, movies, television, public service announcements, and more, all repeating the same doomsday message and waving off anyone and anything that could possibly show none of it was true. We should all be ashamed.

The most important people we want to know about, now, are within his community - where are his friends to talk him down? He says he's married, what does his wife really think? Is it possible to reach her?

Or does she need help, too?

The Democratic Party: From KKK To Saying O.K.

"In the U.S., the Democratic Party, home of the modern left-liberal, was the party of slavery and Jim Crow.

The most racially charged political campaign in recent U.S. history was the Democratic primary contest between Obama and Hillary Clinton. The racism of the left is far more insidious than a simple mistrust or fear of foreigners; it seeks to divide people into groups which can then be exploited and played against each other for political gain.

...Those prepared to use violence in the furtherance of core left-wing aims such as the destruction of capitalism, the abolition of property rights, and the usurpation of democratically elected governments by 'enlightened' revolutionaries number in the millions, if not the tens of millions.

They range from Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot to present-day dictators like Chavez and the Castros, terrorist groups such as Bill Ayers’ Weather Underground and the Baader-Meinhof gang, and environmental extremists and anti-capitalist rioters,....

The reasons why violence is so prevalent on the left go to the heart of the differences between left and right. If you take race, religion, and other 'human' factors out of the equation, the distinction is really between authoritarianism and collectivism on the left and freedom and individualism on the right. There’s no doubt which is the more attractive option for most people, all things being equal, which is why the left has to blur the distinctions and muddle the language.

This distinction is summed up in two quotes from great figures in British political history. The first, by Winston Churchill, goes something like this: 'Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.' (There are several versions of the quote, and variations have been attributed to other political figures.)

The second, by Margaret Thatcher: 'The facts of life are conservative.'"

-- Mike McNally, playing like he's "Captain Obvious" - for those too slow to understand the important things on their own - like why there's a Pajamas Media.

O.K., We See It Now As Well: Thank Goodness The Democrats Have Come Along To Finally Put A "Really Smart" President In The White House

"British prime minister Gordon Brown thought long and hard about what gift to bring on his visit to the White House last week. Barack Obama is the first African-American president, so the prime minister gave him an ornamental desk-pen holder hewn from the timbers of one of the Royal Navy’s anti-slaving ships of the 19th century, HMS Gannet. Even more appropriate, in 1909 the Gannet was renamed HMS President.



The president’s guest also presented him with the framed commission for HMS Resolute, the lost British ship retrieved from the Arctic and returned by America to London, and whose timbers were used for a thank-you gift Queen Victoria sent to Rutherford Hayes: the handsome desk that now sits in the Oval Office.

And, just to round things out, as a little stocking stuffer, Gordon Brown gave President Obama a first edition of Sir Martin Gilbert’s seven-volume biography of Winston Churchill.

In return, America’s head of state gave the prime minister 25 DVDs of “classic American movies.”

Evidently, the White House gift shop was all out of “MY GOVERNMENT DELEGATION WENT TO WASHINGTON AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY T-SHIRT” T-shirts. Still, the “classic American movies” set is a pretty good substitute, and it can set you back as much as $38.99 at Wal-Mart: Lot of classics in there, I’m sure — Casablanca, Citizen Kane, The Sound of Music — though this sort of collection always slips in a couple of Dude, Where’s My Car? 3 and Police Academy 12 just to make up the numbers. I’ll be interested to know if Mr. Brown has anything to play the films on back home, since U.S.-format DVDs don’t work in United Kingdom DVD players."

-- Mark Steyn, making us miss the wisdom of George W. Bush, more and more, with each passing day, in The National Review Online.

He Was Right - Not You (In More Ways Than One)

"Much of the condemnation of his policies,...is driven by a venomous hatred of Bush’s personality and leadership style, rather than an objective assessment of his achievements. Ten or twenty years from now, historians will view Bush’s actions on the world stage in a more favourable light. America’s 43rd president did after all directly liberate more people (over 60 million) from tyranny than any leader since Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Widely seen as his biggest foreign policy error, the decision to invade Iraq could ultimately prove to have been a masterstroke."

-- Nile Gardiner, stating what has been obvious to TMR for some time now, in the Telegraph.UK.

The Macho Response: Memorial Day, 2008

AMERICANS WILL DIE FOR LIBERTY

As we took off from London for New York a few days ago,...

...our three over-excited children asked if there was any chance of the plane being blown up.

I explained that the likelihood of that happening was virtually zero,...

...and wondered how we were going to maintain some semblance of order during the flight.

One did not wish the sedate American passengers by whom we were surrounded to form the impression that British parents are unable or unwilling to impart the rudiments of good manners.

Luckily, American Airlines had provided a screen on the back of the seat in front of one's own,...

...on which one could watch old movies.

There was also a map showing how far we had gone,...

...on which places of interest were marked.

It began by showing only two places:

London and Chartwell.

The Americans are more old-fashioned than us,...

...and what is equally admirable, they are not ashamed of being old-fashioned.

They know Churchill was a great man, so they put his house on the map.

There is a kind of Englishman to whom this sort of behaviour seems painfully unsophisticated.

We are inclined, in our snobbish way, to dismiss the Americans as a new and vulgar people,...

...whose civilisation has hardly risen above the level of cowboys and Indians.

Yet the United States of America is actually the oldest republic in the world, with a constitution that is one of the noblest works of man.

When one strips away the distracting symbols of modernity - motor cars, skyscrapers, space rockets, microchips, junk food,...

...one finds an essentially 18th-century country.

While Europe has engaged in the headlong and frankly rather immature pursuit of novelty - how many constitutions have the nations of Europe been through in this time?

The Americans have held to the ideals enunciated more than 200 years ago by their founding fathers.

The sense of entering an older country, and one with a sterner sense of purpose than is found among the flippant and inconstant Europeans, can be enjoyed even before one gets off the plane.

On the immigration forms that one has to fill in, one is asked: "Have you ever been arrested or convicted for an offence or crime involving moral turpitude?"

Who now would dare to pose such a question in Europe?

The very word "turpitude" brings a smile, almost a sneer, to our lips.

The quiet solicitude that Americans show for the comfort of their visitors, and the tact with which they make one feel at home, can only be described as gentlemanly.

These graceful manners, so often overlooked by brash European tourists, whisper the last enchantments of an earlier and more dignified age, when liberty was not confused with licence.

But lest these impressions of the United States seem unduly favourable, it should be added that the Americans have not remained in happy possession of their free constitution without cost.

Thomas Jefferson warned that the tree of liberty must be watered from time to time with the blood of tyrants and patriots.

To the Americans, the idea that freedom and democracy exact a cost in blood is second nature.

We went to the fine new museum in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, devoted to the American Civil War.

It was the bloodiest war in American history.

Americans slaughtered Americans in terrible numbers before the North prevailed.

You can look up the names of soldiers on a computer, and I found to my slight surprise that a man called Joseph Gimson served on the Union side as a private in the 37th Regiment of Coloured Infantry, and was "severely and dangerously wounded" in the battle of Northeast Station on February 22, 1865.

We stood at Gettysburg, scene of the bloodiest battle of all,...

...on a field covered with memorials to the fallen.

Here Abraham Lincoln gave his great and sublimely brief address, ending with the hope "that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth".

Again some Europeans will give an unkind smile.

All this sounds so Puritan, so naïve and so self-righteous.

We cannot help feeling that the Americans ought to have been able to settle their quarrel without killing each other, and, while we cannot defend the institution of slavery, we wonder whether the North had the right to impose its will by force.

These are vain quibbles.

The North went to war and was victorious.

The Americans are prepared to use force in pursuit of what they regard as noble aims.

It is yet another respect in which they are rather old-fashioned.

They are patriots who venerate their nation and their flag.

The idea has somehow gained currency in Britain that America is an essentially peaceful nation.

Quite how this notion took root, I do not know.

Perhaps we were unduly impressed by the protesters against the Vietnam war.

It is an idea that cannot survive a visit to the National Museum of American History in Washington,...

...where one is informed that the "price of freedom" is over and over again paid in blood.

The Americans' tactics in Iraq, and their sanction for Israel's tactics in Lebanon, have given rise to astonishment and anger in Europe.

It may well be that those tactics are counter-productive, and that the Americans and Israelis need to take a different approach to these ventures if they are ever to have any hope of winning hearts and minds.

But when the Americans speak of freedom,...

...we should not imagine, in our cynical and worldly-wise way, that they are merely using that word as a cloak for realpolitik.

They are not above realpolitik,...

...but they also mean what they say.

These formidable people think freedom is so valuable that it is worth dying for.

-- Andrew Gimson, writing for the Telegraph U.K.