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On August 31st GraniteGrok posted a report about a banana peel with the power to put the full meaning in the word retreat. An Ole Miss Greek Life event came to a screeching (weeping, horribly terrifying) halt (followed by a full retreat) when a banana peel was found in a tree.
In a letter to the editor, Makala McNeil and her sorority sister share the details of this life-changing event and (of course) how it made them feel.
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The Joel Osteen fiasco says a lot about American Christianity https://t.co/5SYUMa3u6g pic.twitter.com/L7usmGgBVV — BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) August 31, 2017 https://twitter.com/Moj_kobe/status/903738772017209345 Twitchy
Chicago Trib Reporter Rex Huppke has some fun at the expense of the stereotypical Whole Foods Cultist. The beef? Amazon is lowering prices.
Good grief. Now eating ground beef that has been animal-welfare-rated won’t seem so special. And the days of silently mocking people who eat irresponsibly-farmed salmon are over, all thanks to a corporate giant that sells virtually everything on Earth EXCEPT status.
I have no idea who this is but she is interesting, and she makes some important points, from the perspective a person who has lived many years in a former Eastern Bloc country (Hungary) looking Westward at the nonsense going on in America.
This is curious. He also said that the situation with the Russian diplomatic property resembles “paroxysms” (an attack or sudden increase in symptoms of a disease) caused by the “exceptionalism” demonstrated by former US President Barack Obama. All of the “exchange of sanction moves” were initiated by the Obama administration to undermine relations and hinder the incoming president from changing the … Read more
A long time activist for American Indian rights, who has tried for years to get rid of the Cleveland Indian’s name and Chief Wahoo mascot (it’s Racist!) has been charged with embezzling tens of thousands of dollars in federal money meant for American Indian Children. Former Oberlin College Professor, Robert Roche, 70, of Cleveland, is … Read more
On Monday the 28th I did two radio programs. My weekly stint on Girard at Large, and an hour in Nashua on WSMN 1590AM on a program called Conservative Chick Chat. We talked about what happened to GrokTALK!, Harvey and the Texas Flood, the New Media Militia, recent violence and of course free speech. Here’s … Read more
New Hampshire can rest easy knowing that Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter is not the dumbest member of congress. Glenn Reynolds suggested it could be at least a 100-way tie when linking to a story from the Free Beacon about one of the leading contenders for the “honor.” A woman who once complained that Hurricane names were … Read more
New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez is, “… accused of having a “quid pro quo” relationship (with Florida-based ophthalmologist Salomon Melgen) going as far back as 2006. Prosecutors say that in exchange for luxurious vacations and large donations to his campaign coffers, Menendez used his power to advocate for various personal and business interests of Melgen’s within the … Read more
A half-Japanese, a Samoan, and a reporter walk into a park… and a mob breaks out. This is not really a surprise because the park is in Berkley California, home of the Orwellian “Free Speech Movement” — which was for lots of things, but freedom of speech was not one of them. The story below … Read more
We created an emergency fund for #HurricaneHarvey survivors facing addtl barriers who are seeking abortion care: https://t.co/MayWORduEY pic.twitter.com/iDTP8NXKVZ — Lilith Fund (@lilithfund) August 31, 2017 More at Twitchy.com
Army Lt. Gen. Stephen J. Townsend, the commander of Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve (Iraq), expressed the appreciation of commanders in the field with regard to the current administrations approach to decision making. “I will say that probably a key result of that is that we don’t get second-guessed a lot. Our judgment … Read more
“Nearly 70% of the country is either female, people of color, or young adults between 18 and 35, or a combination of the three. The angry white guy is dying out, and the Census Bureau has already told us that by 2050, white people are going to be the minority, and I’m not sad to … Read more
Each generation wonders about future generations. What should we make of this?
A Greek Life retreat at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) was promptly canceled this weekend after a banana peel was found hanging in a tree.
“To be clear, many members of our community were hurt, frightened, and upset by what occurred at IMPACT,” Interim Director of Fraternity and Sorority Life Alexa Lee Arndt remarked in an email between Greek leaders, according to The Daily Mississippian. “Because of the underlying reality many students of color endure on a daily basis, the conversation manifested into a larger conversation about race relations today at the University of Mississippi.”
The peel was present because a student could not locate a trash bin and decided to toss it up into a tree instead. In doing so he culturally weaponized it, turning it into a banana peel of “Greek retreat destruction.”
On August 18th, New Hampshire Congressperson Carol-Shea-Porter proudly announced her Co-Introduction of an Anti-White-Supremacy Resolution aimed at President Donald Trump. In a press release titled ‘Shea-Porter: President Trump’s Charlottesville Comments “A Disgrace to Our Nation,” ‘ she says,
“There are no ‘very fine’ neo-Nazis. I never thought we would hear such disgusting and outrageous comments from a President of the United States – comments that were immediately praised by David Duke, the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan. Today’s comments from President Trump are a disgrace to our nation,” said Shea-Porter.
That’s great except that Trump never said Neo-Nazis are ‘very-fine’ so David Duke can’t possibly have been thanking him for that.
In an August, 18th Los Angeles Times Op-Ed, Richard L. Hasen, the Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science at UC Irvine, offered his insight into the problem of “cheap speech.”
Framing the context in an opening paragraph that fingers White Supremacists in Charlottesville, President Trump’s twitter feed, and Facebook, Hasen warns,
The rise of what we might call “cheap speech” has, … fundamentally altered both how we communicate and the nature of our politics, endangering the health of our democracy. The path back to a more normal political scene will not be easy.
You’d think the Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science at UC Irvine would know we don’t live in a Democracy, but let’s not choke on small bones when we have much bigger fish to fry.
A Professor is out of work after claiming on social media that Texas deserved the destruction wrought by Harvey for Voting Republican. TAMPA, Fla. —The University of Tampa has fired a visiting assistant professor who suggested in a tweet that Hurricane Harvey’s destruction is “instant karma” for Texas because it voted Republican. Sociology professor Kenneth … Read more
This has been a long time coming.
“Our democracy has no room for inciting violence or endangering the public, no matter the ideology of those who commit such acts,” the California Democrat said in a statement. “The violent actions of people calling themselves Antifa in Berkeley this weekend deserve unequivocal condemnation, and the perpetrators should be arrested and prosecuted.”
Is it possible that the minority House leader has had a vision? One where using the actions of violent thugs to advance the Democrat Parties “all Republicans are into White Supremacy” narrative is beginning to backfire?
Hillary lost because she was a lousy candidate, but that’s no reason not to try and make money on it. So someone wrote a book for her and put Hillary’s name on it so she can cash the advances. (She should not plan on too much in royalties. Outside of gag gifts and Clinton Crime Family Cult Members–which includes everyone in the media–no one else cares why her ghost writer thinks she lost.)
As part of this repeat-defeat cleansing ritual, she will be stopping in New Hampshire. Joy.