Well, the PC crowd is showing its ass demonstrating its “wisdom” yet again. This time, it’s the “enlightened” city government of Bloomington, Indiana, that’s hard at work “saving us from ourselves”.
It seems that the City of Bloomington has chosen to officially rename two holidays. Henceforth, in Bloomington, they will not be known by their common – and legal – names.
The Bloomington city government chose to do this because they deemed the actual names of the holidays to be “culturally insensitive”. Gotta protect those “special little snowflakes” from being offended, dontcha know.
The two holidays Bloomington’s ordered renamed? Good Friday – and Columbus Day.
Freaking idiots. Yo, Bloomington: Hank Hill has a message for you regarding this stupidity. He kinda sums things up in about 5 seconds, IMO.
The main campus of the University of Indiana is located in Bloomington, so this really isn’t too surprising. This kind of libidiotic PC crap is regrettably quite common in college towns.
Hey, wait a minute . . . “Indiana”. Isn’t that rather “culturally insensitive”, too? (smile)
Welcome back my friends, to the dumb that never ends . . . .
Had a visit the other day. My little friend Birdie came to visit – with news.
Yeah, those idiotic jerks “fine fellows” we “know and love” in the DRG are at it again. Once again, I’ve been “identified”. Oh no! “The horror . . . the horror!”
Well, no – not really. They’re just as accurate this time as they have been the previous fourteen times.
In other words: they Fornicated Fido yet again. Not even close.
But hey, I should count my blessings – it looks like they’re back to their old tricks. Once again, they’ve taken to identifying me as a true BAMF. I suppose that’s better than many other possibilities. Hell, they could have identified me as being some Metrosexual Clintoon supporter – but they didn’t!
Anyway: this time, those dumbcluck jholes fine individuals have “identified” me as being a retired SF NCO. He doesn’t need their grief, so I’ll refrain from naming him.
But really, DRC: California? The freaking Granola State? Live there? Me?
Puh-leeze. To paraphrase someone from the 80s who had just as “winning” a personality as you guys: “You cannot be serious!”
Now, I’ve been to parts of California. It’s scenic, and it seems a nice place to visit. There’s plenty to do there, and the weather is nice. (Well, at least in SoCal. Froze my azz off the few times I had business in the Bay area.) You wanna live in a beautiful place that’s also a Socialist cesspool trying its damnedest to regress to Third World economic status through stupid public policy and governmental over-regulation, be my guest.
But melive there? Oh, hell no! Not now; not ever. Ain’t gonna happen unless and until that crazy place returns to political sanity. And I just don’t think I’ll live long enough to see that.
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OK, obligatory recap time. This is at least misidentification number fifteen – and I say “at least” because that count only includes the ones I’ve seen or which Birdie has mentioned to me. I’m sure there were at least one or two others I missed.
This time around, I’m a retired SF NCO. Last time, according to the DRG I was a 1SG in an Army Engineer unit. The time before that, purportedly I was a bona fide war hero with multiple high decorations for valor.
I’ve previously been misidentified by those tools as both a retired SF Major and SGM; a serving Army officer; a retired law professor who served in the Army during the Eisenhower administration; 4 different Navy SEALs; a Navy diver; a deceased Army GO; a different longtime commenter at TAH; and a guy who occasionally writes a sports column for a newspaper in the Midwest. If you want to read the details, follow the link at the second link above – and continue following links. I’m not going to take the time to link each previous article individually; there are too many of them now.
So far, the DRG is batting “Oh-fer” – whiffing every time. They’ve now whiffed at least 15 consecutive times. I don’t see that changing any time soon.
But hey: at least they’re consistent. Sorta. (smile)
Keep wasting yer time if you want, DRG. It’s a free country.
But, honestly – I’m getting a bit worried about you folks. It’s beginning to seem to me that the following accurately sums up your behavior. And that’s not good.
Ah, Baltimore. That “glorious” East Coast city with one of the highest murder rates in the nation.
Per Wikipedia, Baltimore’s murder and non-negligent homicide rate in 2014 was 33.8 per 100,000 population. That’s the highest on the East Coast, higher even than Newark’s. And it’s the 4th-highest in the US overall – trailing only St Louis, Detroit, and New Orleans.
So, what has Baltimore done to try and reduce this rate? Glad you asked. The other day, they passed a law banning firearm replicas. You know, like BB guns which look too much like real pistols.
City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young said replica guns are contributing to violence on Baltimore’s streets. He said people are using the fake weapons in robberies, and children who carry them are put in harm’s way.
Yeah, that’s a real quote. Apparently the Baltimore city council president actually thinks many criminals in Baltimore are committing armed robberies with replica firearms. Well, either that or he’s dissembling for public consumption.
But hey – it’s Baltimore. So it’s entirely possible he really is that freaking clueless.
OK, here’s the background info on what IMO actually caused this idiocy: apparently last April a Baltimore teen got into an altercation with a Baltimore cop – and got shot because he flashed his replica BB-gun. (The 14-year-old dumbass was lucky; he survived.) To prevent another such “unfortunate occurrence”, Baltimore has by city ordinance now banned the possession of such “replica firearms” by its citizens.
I guess that shouldn’t be a surprise, though. Baltimore is indeed a part of the People’s Republic of Maryland. Idiocy like this seems to be endemic there.
Proving once again that they know nothing, the media has twisted it’s knickers over Trump and his supposed request for security clearances for his kids. This from Reuters;
Trump was referring to media reports on Monday that he was seeking security clearance for three of his children and his son-in-law.
Such clearance would allow Trump to discuss matters of national security with his daughter, Ivanka, sons Eric and Donald Jr. and son-in-law Jared Kushner. Federal law prohibits him from hiring family members to serve in his administration, but all four played key advisory roles through the campaign.
The President-elect has denied that he made the request, but it doesn’t matter if he did or not. The president is the supreme arbiter of security clearances. He’s the head of the government’s executive branch – the branch that executes the functions of government. One of those functions is deciding who does and who doesn’t have access to certain information.
The agencies that issue those clearances work for the President – they are his agent in the entire process, so he doesn’t have to review and sign off on every background investigation. In other words, if the president wants to grant you clearance to information, all he has to do is wave his hand and viola! You’re cleared.
He’s also the final authority on what is considered classified information.
But this is the media and they want to act like they’re watching out for us, hoping we’re all low information voters.
In yet another example of PC asininity, a group of 469 students and professors at a major university have asked the university’s president to refrain from using quotations from a particular historical figure. In common vernacular, they’ve done so because, in essence, “That’s racist!”
Yeah, I know – you’re thinking this is just another example of garden-variety academic stupidity. Well, read on.
The university in question is the University of Virginia. The historical figure? Thomas Jefferson – who founded the University of Virginia in 1819. The PC tools who signed the letter drafted by an equally clueless group of faculty object to the University of Virginia’s President using Jefferson quotations because he was a slaveowner during the late 1700s and early 1800s.
Unfortunately, the University of Virginia’s president – Dr. Teresa Sullivan – didn’t have the guts to tell the fools, politely, to GFT (plural of GFY). Her reply was IMO a weasel-worded cop-out, saying that “quoting someone recognizes ‘the potency of that person’s words’ ” without implying “an endorsement of all the social structures and beliefs of his time”.
No sh!t, Dr. Sullivan. That’s incredibly obvious to anyone with three or more working brain cells. Although perhaps you did need to spell it out “see Dick and Jane” style for this particular group of fools.
Dr. Sullivan should have provided a bit of adult leadership here, but didn’t really do that. IMO, she should have instead said something along these lines: “Jefferson was a great man, but was a man of his times. He was not perfect. However, his ideas remain sound, and form the basis of our democracy; he also founded this university.
As this university’s President, I will continue to quote Jefferson whenever I feel doing so is appropriate. It’s a free country; in your own writings, feel free to quote him or not as you desire.
If that last is unacceptable to you, perhaps you should seek your education or employment elsewhere. Here at the University of Virginia, we allow freedom of speech – even when that involves facts or ideas we find distasteful.”
The Washington Post reports that some students at Brown University thought they could show how grown up and inclusive they are by tearing up a display of small American flags;
Nicholas Strada, a neuroscience major who’s in an eight-year undergraduate and medical school program at Brown, was in a constitutional law class Thursday when he saw people putting up flags for the ceremony, all along the walkways that crisscross the school’s main green.
When he left class, the first flag he saw was snapped in half, just dangling, he said. So he went and bought a roll of tape. While he was fixing it, he noticed a pile of flags lying on the ground, and then another. So he started putting those flags back into the ground, he said.
Then he saw someone grabbing flags out of the ground and throwing them against a tree. He put those back. Then he saw the same person taking a pile of them and walking off with them. “That wasn’t the only person,” he said. “Someone was walking down the path and stomping on them one by one. I went over and nicely asked, ‘Could you not do that? People just put them up.’ .?.?. I explained they were for Veterans Day. She said, ‘I don’t care about that right now’ and walked off.”
Immature college students who don’t respect other people’s opinions is nothing new, but the fact that there are a number of folks who were willing to restore the display is fairly new. For the University’s part, they aren’t caving to the voices of a few vandals;
Cass Cliatt, a spokesman for the university, responded to questions with an email:
We are investigating the accounts of vandalism to American flags set out on Brown’s College Green to celebrate Veterans Day. Every year members of our campus community come together to honor our veterans and their commitment to serving our country. The flags were planted a day in advance as part of an event held on Veterans Day, where student veterans and ROTC undergraduates joined students, faculty and staff from across campus for a Veterans Day procession and ceremony. According to some accounts we have received, members of our community diligently worked to restore the removed flags, some of which had been removed and left nearby. Other flags were removed by the organizers of the event and replaced the morning of the Veterans Day ceremony. We do not condone the activities that led to the flags being removed, and destruction of property is subject to disciplinary review.
Strada tried to gather the flags and reassemble them only to see some of the them trashed again.
“A few different people (were) doing things like stomping on them,” he said.
Another Brown student, Tristan Hood, shared similar sentiments.
“(They were) tearing up the flags, stomping them, breaking them in half, (and) throwing them in the trash,” said Hood, who is also an Air Force veteran who did two tours in Iraq.
Meanwhile Newsweek reports that teachers and students at Brown and several other “Ivy League” institutes are calling for the University to be a “Trump sanctuary campus”;
Students, faculty and alumni from top schools, including Brown, Harvard, Yale and Columbia, are calling on school leaders to make each of their campuses a “sanctuary” for people who could face deportation under the policies of President-elect Donald Trump. Community members at the Ivy League schools are among those at colleges and universities across the country taking action following Trump’s election.
“We have reason to believe that Providence Police officers cannot enter the campus without permission of the University,” says a Brown University faculty letter, which employees at the Providence, Rhode Island, school sent to administration officials on Friday; it was published online in the student newspaper Monday. “Given that many students, staff members and their families are directly affected by this issue, we urge the University to immediately work to develop a protocol for the University serving as a sanctuary campus.” The letter includes 168 faculty member names.
Can you imagine the reaction if we had demanded sanctuary from Obama eight years ago?
The New York Times reports that Bradley Manning has petitioned the President to reduce his 35-year sentence for being a traitor to “time served” because he didn’t intentionally intend to hurt any of his fellow soldiers or to damage the national security of the United States. That was his gender dysphoria talking.
“I am not asking for a pardon of my conviction,” she wrote. “I understand that the various collateral consequences of the court-martial conviction will stay on my record forever. The sole relief I am asking for is to be released from military prison after serving six years of confinement as a person who did not intend to harm the interests of the United States or harm any service members.”
Ms. Manning’s petition was accompanied by letters of support from Daniel Ellsberg, who is famous for leaking a classified history of the Vietnam War known as the Pentagon Papers; Morris Davis, a former military commissions chief prosecutor; and Glenn Greenwald, a legal commentator and journalist who has been an outspoken supporter.
Yeah, that’s who I want in my corner, Daniel Ellsberg and Glenn Greenwald. Manning probably doesn’t have much hope for an appeal to the next President.
I expect that next he’ll try to convince someone that it was his male identity that committed the crime and now that he’s female, that isn’t the person that committed the crime, so they have the wrong person in prison.
An economics professor at Yale University, who is unnamed at this point, has made his midterm exam optional for the special little folks who are too distraught over the election results last night to concentrate on the rest of their lives.
He wrote to them saying: “I am getting many heartfelt notes from students who are in shock over the election returns” and “fear, rightly or wrongly for their families” and are “requesting that the exam be postponed.”
Meanwhile, on the other coast, some residents of Oakland and San Francisco rioted and looted;
Protesters set trash cans on fire, and vandalized several businesses, and shattered store fronts on Broadway. KTVU reporter Christien Kafton reported a Wells Fargo Bank between 12th and 13th Streets was vandalized.
Several hundred protesters shouted anti-trump chants and scrawled graffiti.
