I don’t do this enough – we talk about a lot of stuff on GrokTALK! and throw in all kinds stories when we talk about the main story of that particular segment. But, being the “ADD blogger bunch”, we do it a lot because we all read a lot and each of these “extras” give a little but more of a nuance or detail to that main story.
- PayPal and their reaction to the recently passed law in NC about bathroom. I wrote about it here but Katrina Trinko has questions about Paypal’s hypocrisy as well which comes down to “Hey, if you are all up in arms about limiting men to mens’ bathrooms and women to womens’, how come you still do business in countries where they just don’t insist you use the bathroom your equipment says you should, they kill you“?
And yes, I have been one of those men that accidently (years ago) went into the wrong bathroom – and quickly came out quite redfaced. But I guess that’s the Progressive transformation of society – no embarrassment is ever required for violating what used to be traditional social mores…
- Ellen Kolb, at Leaven for the Loaf, came on the show as a guest host and we talked about eleven roll call votes from this year’s House session in Concord. Each one touches on the life issues in one way or another. Ten of the eleven bills were killed in the House – and who’s responsible for that? Take a look at her results and see. By the way, the one bill that made it to the Senate is HB 1570, repeal of the anti-First-Amendment “buffer zone” law. HB 1570 has just had its Senate hearing and is awaiting a committee vote.?
- Ah yes, a sorority Kentucky Derby party canceled at Dartmouth because RASICM! and another example of the Tyranny of the Political Correctness Minority (reformatted, emphasis mine):
There will not be a Kentucky Derby party at Dartmouth College this year because some students allege that one of the nation’s most prestigious horse races is racist…Back in 2015, a group of Black Lives Matter protestors targeted an exclusive Kentucky Derby party hosted by the ladies of Kappa Delta Epsilon – calling the event overtly racist and “recreating an Antebellum South atmosphere on the Ivy League campus.”
The protestors accused the party of being a “bastion of racism, exclusion and oppression.” They chanted, “What is Derby? It’s the face of genocide” and “What is Derby? It’s the face of police brutality.” I searched The New York Times archives and could find no evidence of police brutality at the Derby – nor could I find any evidence of ethnic cleansings.
Great line here:
I can only imagine the angst and soul searching among the fragile Ivy League snowflakes as they contemplated the grave offense they had caused to the perpetually-offended, hashtag protesters. To right the terrible injustice — the sorority ladies met with members of the university’s Afro-American Society. Oh, to have been a fly on the wall in what was most certainly a confab on “privilege.”
No, not a confab – a one-way screaming lecture (if what we have seen at election rallies is any indication (re: BLM taking over one of Bernie Sander’s early rallies).
Shortly thereafter, Kappa Delta Epsilon decided to change the Kentucky Derby theme “because of its racial connotations.” “[It is] related to pre-war southern culture,” KDE vice president Nikol Oydanichtold The Dartmouth newspaper. “[The] Derby was a party that had the power to upset a lot of our classmates.”And by “pre-war southern culture,” I reckon the young lady was referring to the Civil War. There’s just one minor flaw in Kappa Delta Epsilon’s reasoning – the first running of the Kentucky Derby was held in 1875 – during Reconstruction.
…No ma’am. It’s a horse race – with a bunch of ladies wearing fancy hats. It would be akin to accusing Colonel Sanders of being a racist because he fries chicken. Or refusing to wear clothing made from cotton because of its significance in “pre-war southern culture.”
- I also mentioned that I listen to NHPR’s “It’s Only A Game” as I drive down to Concord to do that show and that yesterday’s show, with the regular host out, became quite the SJW snorefest (at least in the beginning segment of “Three Stories You Should Know“). After all, one of the stories that guest Jay Kang brought up: “The Unbearable Whiteness of Baseball” and the respite host and other guest piled on – turning what is a rather nice show about sports and personalities into a race infested set of glasses of “culture” and skin color and the SJW ethos (and attention paid to the wrong things) instead of about the games themselves.
- Really? Planned Parenthood president: It’s important to ‘really humanize’ abortion
- Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards on Wednesday praised an episode of ABC’s “Scandal,” in which the main character terminates a pregnancy, for its effort to “really humanize” abortion. “It really has to do with bodily autonomy when it comes down to it,” Ms. Richards told Interview Magazine. “I do think that was such a powerful episode.”
No, it isn’t about body autonomy, Ms. Richards, it is ALL about you and the special interest that is the abortion / baby killing industry in dehumanizing the singular life that, in the overwhelming number of cases, is the result of a decision to engage in behavior that could result in that new life. Body autonomy? If you want to cut off your arm, take out your appendix, donate an appendix, liposuction, have at it and knock yourself out – that IS your body and what you want to do with it, have fun (just don’t demand that Government take my money to have you do it).
Call it a zygote, a foetus, a mass of tissue, a clump of cells – all you are doing is avoiding the use of the right word: baby. I’ll break Godwin’s Law here – we’ve already seen what happens when people dehumanize an entire religion – we saw what happened with the German gas chambers. And we saw it again in the Balkans with the mass graves. And again in Africa in the tribal warfare.
Your ONLY hope of keeping this killing of the unborn going is by dehumanizing that which you have little regard in killing – a new life, an innocent life, and yes, a dependent life simply for “convenience” or as an “oops”. Let’s face it, Cecile, with most of your Planned Parenthood clinics located near the black inner urban areas, you are still carrying out your founder’s (Margaret Sanger) wishes of eliminating “the underclass” via eugenics.
