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As I have said in the past, I’ve flown over 500,000 miles for business and most of those on United.  In the past, I was a Premier Exec level frequent flier for multiple sequential years in the past.  Most of the employees I came into contact with were always cordial and polite (even if getting harassed by folks that had lost their minds and sense of “adultness”).

This event, where a doctor was knocked out by airport security / police and then dragged up the aisle simply because he wouldn’t “voluntarily” give up his seat so that a United employee could sit in it instead of him (a paying customer)?  Totally out of bounds.

• Yes, because of the “carriage laws”, an airline has the right to remove you for whatever reason they want.
• Yes, they’ve deserved their $750 million whack in their valuation during the day (even at a $22+ billion valuation, it should get the Board of Directors’ attention).
• Yes, their CEO is a complete fool.  I can understand backing your employees, but knocking out a paying passenger??  And the video kinda throws water on the CEO’s claims.

I’ve been in that passenger’s shoes –

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Every time that I think I have heard “the most stupid thing evah!” coming out of our Precious Snowflake colleges, out comes another that’s just that much worse.  Politically Correct speech, made up gender bender terms, the totalitarian reactions if you don’t adhere to what someone demands, and the utter bizarreness of what these kids dig up (at the coaching of Professors that seemed to be consumed with grievances of all types) and stating that THIS is something “important” – who can keep up with the ever changing Totem Pole of Badness?  Who WANTS to do this?  Can’t we get college kids to start swallowing gold fish again, or trying to stuff as many people as they can into a small car or a phone booth (er, sorry, showing my age there; is there such a thing as reverse ageism?)?

But I never had the inkling that HAIR is now the newest source of oppression.  Seriously, there’s a “HAIR privilege”?

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Yeah, NH Speaker Shawn Jasper, the formerly Democrat appointed NH Speaker of the House, is upset with Republicans, well, who are acting like Republicans.  Jasper is willing to go for bigger government – these Republicans aren’t.  Jasper is willing to spend more – these Republicans won’t.  He couldn’t get his budget passed – they stopped him and his fellow Democrats.  Stalwarts, they be, I say.  He called them WHAT???

“I am not a person that gives in to essentially terrorism,” said Jasper, R-Hudson, during a lengthy interview Friday about the maverick team of 32 conservatives who helped block passage of the budget.

Yeah, that’s rhetoric right out of the Democrat playbook.  I know – that’s the kind of language the Progressives (who ALWAYS rachet up government) used against us in the TEA Party movement.  They did so because we wanted a government that stayed within its Constitutional bounds, was frugal, and espoused Free Markets.  And Jasper calls this new NH Freedom Caucus “terrorists”?  Standing up for Principles – Republican principles?

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https://twitter.com/EngageTheRebels/status/850370359123693568

While I have not posted much about it, I have been watching the disaster that has become Sweden’s effort to be “nice” as they deliberately took in more Muslim refugees per capita than any other EU nation.  In all these nations, crime has gone up especially sex crimes (and their governments and media have tamped down the size and reporting of the crime rates).  In Sweden, Malmo is the shining example of “no-go” zones where first responders won’t venture in without police protection.  It is also clear that even armed police are starting to lose control and do not wish to go into majority Muslim neighborhoods.  Like other EU nations, they are now starting to realize that they have imported their own society’s suicide. Germany, France, Luxembourg, Britain; all have experienced Islamic terrorism.

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“How cool is that to actually make the Chinese politburo sit through a night of American targeted bombing?”

And it’s not a bad Russian translation like Hillary’s “overcharge” of a reset button.  Mark Steyn is a NH treasure and here are some words concerning Trump vs Obama and Trump’s messaging to the rest of the world.  He campaigned that his main thrust would be America First – certainly Steyn thinks that Trump is delivering on his promises:

How Syria shakes out in three, five years time, we can’t know. and we should be cautious about that after what’s happened in Libya and Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere. But simply as a response to a provocation, I mean, basically, Assad said, ‘The world hasn’t changed. For the last eight years I’ve been able to kill my own people and get away with it.’

They put dead babies on the world’s TV screens and Trump said enough of this. And that’s a change. That’s a real Russian reset button. That’s a real reset button upon the world.

It shows you he responds to things. He’s very nimble and able to respond to things. The disgusting aspect of the last eight years is that Obama mistook the sidelines for the moral high ground.

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“…Any country that chooses to defend the atrocities of the Syrian regime will have to do so in full public view, for all the world to see”

(H/T: Instapundit)

And this really is SMART “soft power” (which Obama utilized to little effect) – knowing that world now knows that America’s soft power is now backed up with hard power.  You cannot have one without the other – and the willpower and wisdom to know which one to use when.

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It’s always a trip to go over to Treehugger because it shows me what and how the other side thinks of issues.  It is clear that they are Progressive in their authors topics and contents and some of their commenter are REAL hardcore. Not only are they hardcore in renewables, recyling, EVs, and their outlook but they often show the Progressive “you don’t need that” and more than a whiff of micro-totalitarianism in being adamant that no one should have (or enjoy) those activities, discussions or property of which they would disallow.   This post by Katherine Martinko was no exception (emphasis mine):

Why we should pay more for clothes

Shopping for new clothes is a pleasurable experience for most people. It feels good to acquire stylish new items for one’s wardrobe, especially when those clothes don’t cost much. But as soon as shopping means handing over hefty sums of money that really gouge your wallet, the experience becomes less pleasurable and more painful.

This mercurial relationship between buying and paying is at the root of an interesting suggestion made by Quartz’s fashion reporter Marc Bain. Bain has set himself a goal of spending at least $150 whenever he wants to add something new to his wardrobe. This amount – which would vary from person to person – has to be enough to “make you sweat a little.”

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And Progressives / Socialists worship Government to bring a “Heaven on Earth” and they have their orthodoxy and liturgy to which there is no dissent including that there can not be anything else before it.  Yeah, I wanna believe that the former Soviet Union, the early Communist China, Viet Nam, Venezuela and of course, North Korea are EXACTLY what the Workers’ Paradise was supposed to look like. Those on the Political Correctness college campuses all over the US may now believing in a religion all of their own (a self-flagellation type)? From a post at Instapundit, three sections of a “behind a paywall” post at the WSJ: JONATHAN HAIDT ON THE CULTURAL ROOTS OF CAMPUS RAGE:

Emphasis mine – and the money line is in the last ‘graph:

When a mob at Vermont’s Middlebury College shut down a speech by social scientist Charles Murray a few weeks ago, most of us saw it as another instance of campus illiberalism. Jonathan Haidt saw something more—a ritual carried out by adherents of what he calls a “new religion,” an auto-da-fé against a heretic for a violation of orthodoxy.

“The great majority of college students want to learn. They’re perfectly reasonable, and they’re uncomfortable with a lot of what’s going on,” Mr. Haidt, a psychologist and professor of ethical leadership at New York University’s Stern School of Business, tells me during a recent visit to his office. “But on each campus there are some true believers who have reoriented their lives around the fight against evil.”

However, the “evil” is not about the tradition Christian sense of goodness and sin, but around political discourse (again, Conservatives think Progressives are misguided; Progressives believe Conservatives are EVIL).  And like any fundamentalist religion, well, these folks act like Westboro Baptist church members.

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