Mao’s Cultural Revolution: Ivy League Dartmouth style

Remember that word: submission.  Be it Islam or Progressivism, that is the desired outcome of you to it.  In my previous post, I wondered if this Safe Space / Freedom from Offense / PC Totalitarianism of only designated Speech was going to burn hot / flame out or spread like Ebola into a more general population and accomplish the age old goal of Socialist Democrats everywhere: first, the overthrow of the First Amendment and then rapidly, everything else in the Constitution that was created to both limit Government and keep it (supposedly) out of our day to day lives.  Sadly, a lot of that last bit has already been lost – is this now throwing gas onto that emerging Freedom conflagration?  If we look at Dartmouth, perhaps (emphasis mine):

My friend is texting me about a Black Lives Matter protest that happened at Dartmouth last night. Apparently it started as a standard march and chant across campus and devolved into black students screaming at individuals in the library and calling them out by name for not protesting. It’s finals period so the library is packed with people trying to study, and some of the protesters screamed at people they knew who were doing work and demanded to know why they weren’t protesting. One kid sang a song in the library (when the protest was still “peaceful”) and people clapped when he was done. Then a girl in the protest said “F*** you, white people. You can clap for us but you aren’t f***ing standing up here with us. F*** you.”

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Well then, why didn’t Paris have a “safe space”

The inanity of this crybabies-on-campus just keeps going, prattling on about non-existent “white Privilege” (a made up Political Correctness submission tool”), “violating safe spaces” (a made up Political Correctness submission tool”), “micro-aggressions” (a made up Political Correctness submission tool”),  “trigger warnings” (a made up Political Correctness submission tool), “college is supposed to be a healing space” (funny, … Read more

Data Point – Muslim immigration to the US

And this morning on pretty much all of the talking head shows, Ben Rhodes (Obama’s national security advisor) has said that importing Syrians will continue apace and they will probably be enlarging those numbers even as the US has no way to properly vet those refugees to make sure they are really refugees.  From Conservative Review, a quick status of Muslim immigration into the US:

1.Numbers: We have admitted approximately 1.6 million immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries from 2001-2013, double the average rate prior to 9/11.

2.Recent Trend: Immigration from Muslim countries is the fastest growing segment of our annual admissions. The countries with the highest percentage increase since 2010 have all been predominantly Muslim countries. Saudi Arabia (up 93 percent); Bangladesh up 37 percent); Iraq (up 36 percent); Egypt (up 25 percent); Pakistan, India, and Ethiopia (all up 24 percent); Nigeria and Ghana (both up 21 percent).

And with them, a propensity for Shar’ia Law over any other system of laws, including our own.  So where is this heading?

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I daresay we are more governed by Administrative Law than by Legislation

After all, our esteemed elected leaders are seemingly, more and more, are of the mind to pass such legislation that makes broad brushstrokes and “throws over the wall” the hard, detailed work to bureaucrats to actually make the law governable.  In other words, legislators (both in DC and in Concord) are failing to do their … Read more

A curious statement: “Our party represents the full spectrum of conservatism”

I don’t even know what that means – a full spectrum.  This is from a Union Leader piece on “GOP voters still seeking their conservative candidate” and quoted NH GOP Chair Horn:

Jennifer Horn, chairwoman of the New Hampshire Republican Party, said every Republican candidate is presenting a stronger vision for America than the Democrats in the race. She said the GOP candidates are conveying conservative messages and solutions.

“Our party represents the full spectrum of conservatism,” Horn said.

What DOES that mean?  What is a full spectrum?  Is this just another way to paraphrase Gene Chandler (former Speaker of the NH House and Establishment Republican) pronouncement that “Any person with an R after their name is a good Republican”.  Lately, the Party has been working hard to make the moral equivalence that being a Republican is automatically a conservative.  Sorry, you can’t skirt the issue that way for it is clear with ratings groups at the national and NH levels, it is CLEAR that many moderate Republicans are often “outvoted” in support of the Constitution and Party Platform by Democrats – so how does that play into being “conservative”?

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Notable Quote – Bob Higgs

Despite constant claims to the contrary, governments do not really provide their subjects with genuine security. They provide only the illusion of security. This, unfortunately, is enough to satisfy most people, who are incapable of exercising appropriate skepticism about the government’s claims. –Bob Higgs And in Paris yesterday, we saw this in its full truth … Read more

Data Point – Obamacare wealth distribution

As I mentioned yesterday on GrokTALK!, we can now see the wealth flow, as Obama and Saul Alinsky put it, from the Haves to the Have-Nots (the actual purpose of Obamacare). Note the flows out of the next higher quintiles on a percentage basis.  As opposed to what we were told by Obama and the … Read more

“Deductibles are too damn high!”

Obamacare -Year of the SnakeYeah, politicians and their promises.  All we hear from the sycophants of Obama and Obamacare is that it is “affordable” for low income folks to buy an Obamacare insurance policy – and now we know that TANSTAFFL still applies because as Government artificially lowers that rate for the Have-Nots, the premium prices necessarily rise for everyone else. But those same sycophants will NEVER want to willingly talk about deductions.  Here is the  post from the NY Times, well, because they deserve it and finally having to admit (emphasis mine, reformatted):

Many Say High Deductibles Make Their Health Law Insurance All but Useless

I just LOVE saying this: we TOLD you so! The Laws of Economics can only be distorted for so long and in so many ways before they snap back on you like an oversized rubber band.  Unfortunately, it isn’t on the sycophants but by the folks that have to deal with it – herein the actual results of what Obama and the Democrats have wrought:

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GrokTALK! – that silliness of ideology over biology

Yeah, what I mentioned on the show today.  It is this kind of thinking that is stewed from the same goo vat that is giving us – we have a beta male over at a Feminist blog believing that sex is not determined by your chromosomes.  Can we say “Leftism ideology runs amok in the pursuit of abject and total relativism”?.  A couple of absolutely unhinged (or is that unfathomable?) snippets from Everyday Feminism:

Here Are 20 Examples of Cissexism That We’ve Probably All Committed at Some Point

That’s just the title – go ahead and tell me if you’re not hep (is “hep” still hep?) on the PC lexicon, what is Cissexism?

Cissexism is pretty much unchecked cis privilege or an otherwise shoddy awareness of the social monopoly on binary gender.

Yeah unfathomable to the regular Joe or Jane.  Or better put, who really cares except from those subject to the absolute tiniest of First World problems (and yes, I am of the stance that stuff like this registers as an asterick (if that) with me.  Maybe Mike’s “sub-asterick” from this morning’s GrokTALK! is more like it).

Now, to clarify: Cissexism isn’t necessarily a mindset that a person holds with either maliciousness or awareness. You may have no clue you’re cissexist.

Of COURSE – how lunkheaded am I?

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You want to march so that others have to pick up your college education? #EarnIt

Sure – go ahead and do so!  After all, my two sons did exactly this, Keely and your Million Student March, you over coddled, self-righteous, product of helicopter parenting with a “I showed up!” trophy: I wanted money for school, so I marched too… #millionstudentmarch This one was about 25 miles… #USMC pic.twitter.com/bS6QN0KDtb — Say … Read more

#CAIR – Lying again about #TerrorismHasNoReligion

You really think we take this propaganda seriously? We must remember #TerrorismHasNoReligion — CAIR National (@CAIRNational) November 14, 2015 Last time I looked, I didn’t see any backrow Baptists throwing lead from AK-47’s and dressing themselves in the latest couture of plastic explosives. (H/T: The Blaze)

Mr. President? Sir?

"No challenge poses a greater threat to our future than climate change." —@POTUS: http://t.co/WHt0jT8KmX #ActOnClimate — White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) August 25, 2015 Would you like to reconsider this pronouncement given the 15 year old emergent threat that just killed 158+ people in Paris?  With one attacker heard to be saying “This is for Syria”?  Methinks … Read more

So, given what has happened in Paris, what is President Obama unleashing on us today?

Obama Admin Moves to Speed Up Admission of More Syrian Refugees

On today’s GrokTALK!, it came to our attention that the first of Obama’s 10,000 Syrian refugees were deposited in Louisiana (of course, a Red State whose governor, Bobby Jindal, has been quite outspoken against Obama – that old “punish our enemies” schtick).  And he’s promising more to be delivered.  And here’s this morning’s backdrop:

From Gateway Pundit:

ISIS promised us that they were going to embed ISIS soldiers / terrorists amongst the millions of Muslim refugees flowing into Europe.  Promise Kept.  And this:

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So, given what has happened in Paris, what is President Obama unleashing on us today? Part 2

Cicero: You may not be interested in politics but be assured, politics is interested in you.

Muslim Jihadist translation:  You may not be interested in our Jihad but be assured, we don’t care what you think.

A couple more tidbits from last night; be prepared for more.  Why?  See above.

1. In summer 2014, Newsweek reported on polling that indicated one in six French citizens, or 16 percent, sympathizes with ISIS. The ISIS approval number spikes to 27 percent (over one in four) in the fighting-age demographic, ages 18 to 24.

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Data Point – illegal aliens, taxes paid, welfare taken

“According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, approximately 11.4 million individuals in the U.S. illegally paid $11.84 billion in state and local taxes in 2012. The conservative Heritage Foundationestimated unlawful immigrant households paid $39.2 billion in 2010, but received $93.7 billion in government services.” (H/T: The Blaze)

How many times can an interviewee have that “deer in headlights” look?

Pitiful, simply pitiful.  Here we have a college co-ed, a national spokesdweeb for the Million Student Day to Demand Silly Stuff Because They Don’t Want To Pay For It (aka “Student Million March”), made the fatal mistake of coming onto a show where the host understands how to ask very simple questions.  Students want:

  • Free College (“It should be a Right!”)
  • $15/hr minimum wage
  • Total loan forgiveness (to the tune of $1.2 Trillion)

You do need to listen to this sad sack of a superficial simpleton – I present Keely Martin, completely adrift in things economic:

Apparently, this Free Rider has never learned the moral of TANSTAAFL. Neil Cavuto (Fox News, 4pm) EVISERATES her even as she stands there with the sharp edge of a single question: “And how is that going to be paid“?

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Europe blaming the Jews again

From a post at Instapundit labeled “THE EU SLAPS DISCRIMINATORY LABELS ON ISRAELI PRODUCTS:” As Giulio Meotti wrote in Y-Net, as linked to by Roger Simon in a 2012 post ominously titled “A Jew-Free Europe,” “To quote psychiatrist Zvi Rex: ‘Europe will never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz.’ Europe doesn’t want to live under the psychological burden of Auschwitz … Read more

This Is Your Colorado River on EPA…Part 3 – the reward

“The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.” – President Barack Obama, Inauguration, 1/20/09 Well, once again, we see what Obama’s Administration believes … Read more

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