Commencement Fail Week at College Insurrection

College Insurrection

 

"If nothing else, the Class of 2014 will be remembered for commencement season.

• “Thanks for Not Disinviting Me”
• Condoleezza Rice Defended by… The New York Times?
• Smith College Economics Profs Decry Campus Activists for IMF Director’s Commencement Cancellation
• Former Princeton President Blasts College Students for Speaker Controversy
• Harvard joins list of schools giving its commencement speaker the “brownshirt” treatment
• P.J. O’Rourke tells Rutgers Grads to ‘Go Forth and Fail’

"Where did these students get the idea to act in such a way?

• Nancy Pelosi Tells College Grads to be Disruptors

"They’re listening to you, Nancy…

• UC Berkeley Students Demand “Sustainable Cap And Gowns”
• Former Quinnipiac Student Stages Graduation Bomb Threat to Hide Dropout Status

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The Blame Bush Meme*

The Right Planet

"Blame Bush … because we are Democrats! And we are as pure as the wind-driven snow. That’s why we are never wrong. We, the liberal Democrats, can’t be wrong, because we are liberal Democrats. Of course, it’s Bush’s fault. Who else’s fault would it be? Not George Bush?

"HAHAHAHA!!!!

"Only those who are not liberals can be fascists or racists … like George Bush … or you, if you’re not a progressive liberal. If you are reading this, and you don’t agree, you are racist or fascist, possibly both, and maybe worse. This has been confirmed by British researchers. Everybody knows that. "      More here. Unless George Bush has hacked your computer, of course.

*Meme:   "A meme (/ˈmiːm/ meem) is "an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture." A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme. " ...

Message from Hell — An Interview with a Former Black Panther

Noisy Room   "This is a riveting and revealing discussion with former Black Panther Anthony Bryant, who is interviewed by G. Edward Griffin on his experience as a prisoner in Castro’s prisons in the video above.

"The late Mr. Bryant hijacked a National Airlines jetliner en route from New York to Miami and directed it to Cuba back in 1969. He was arrested in Cuba and spent 10 years in prison after being accused of being a CIA agent by Cuban authorities. Tony Bryant authored the book Hijacked and detailed his experiences as a prisoner in Castro’s Cuba."
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" ...Informers working for the CDR watched everyone twenty-four hours a day, and marked down anyone who came into the block. If someone visited someone’s home and stayed longer than a few hours, the police would pay them a visit to see what they were doing. You cannot visit neighbors and stay as long as you like, even if you’re invited. If you do, you will be arrested, according to Bryant."

It was at this time that Bryant began to question his own belief and devotion to socialist-style revolution. Bryant asked, “Was this what they had been fighting for?” Bryant attributes his turn away from Communism to God.
One of the YouTube commenters claims he has this video interview with G. Edward Griffin and Anthony Bryant on VHS tape, and expressed displeasure with the individual who posted the video, alleging a portion of the video had been cut off at the very end … the portion where Bryant allegedly says, “Communism is humanity’s vomit; and we need to clean it up.”

Sen. Pat Roberts on free political speech and Harry Reid’s unhinged Koch addition

Bookworm Room  "It will take a little less than 15 minutes of your time and is well worth it. Roberts does a lovely job of eviscerating the opposition to the Citizens United decision as well as Harry Reid’s obsessive, disturbing, and increasingly unhinged opposition to Charles and David Koch:"
 

Poland's Walesa says the US no longer world leader

Yahoo News   "Poland's former president and Nobel Peace laureate, Lech Walesa, said Friday he plans to urge President Barack Obama to take a more active world leadership role when he visits Poland in June.

 

"Speaking to The Associated Press, Walesa said "the world is disorganized and the superpower is not taking the lead. I am displeased."

 

"The former Solidarity leader said that when he meets Obama in Warsaw, he wants to tell him that the U.S. should inspire and encourage the world into positive action." ...

Andrew Klavan: Why Democrats Call You Racist

The Daley Gator  
 

 

Hat tip to Restoring America Together

These Photos Show WWII History Just Beneath The Surface Of Our Cities

On 14 October 1940, during the London blitz, a bomb partially destroyed the Balham station civilian air raid shelter     From The Guardian

More here from The Guardian

HuffPo   "Behind every wall, under every paving stone, there are layers of hidden stories that ordinarily remain confined to history books.

"Thanks to artist Halley Docherty, however, some of these hidden histories have once again been made visible. Docherty used Google Street View to map archive photos from World War II onto today's streets, reviving life during the war years. The series was published in The Guardian.

"Docherty's fascinating images bridge the distance between the gruesome war years and today's events by contrasting familiar, modern street scenes with the same locations at a darker time -- when Nazi Germany occupied France, London was under siege during the Blitz, and Japan was devastated by atomic bombs. "

German soldiers parade down the Champs-Elysées in Paris, June 1940. (Halley Docherty/The Guardian)

The Veterans Scandal: Socialized Medicine on Trial

Roger L. Simon

Many have wondered about Barack Obama’s prolonged silence concerning the disastrous situation at the Veterans Administration hospitals and then his odd detached demeanor (well, maybe not that odd for him) when he finally did discuss it at a press conference.

"The answer is simple.  His lifetime dream of a free public (single payer) healthcare system for all just disintegrated in front of him. Forget the wildly ambitious and pervasive “Affordable Care Act,” the government couldn’t even handle the health of our wounded servicemen, acknowledged for years to be by far the group most deserving of medical attention in our country.  With veterans dying while waiting lists are falsified, it’s hard to see government healthcare as anything but incompetent, disgraceful and quite possibly criminal.

"Government has failed utterly ^[1].  Does anyone have any doubt that Halliburton or even the dreaded Koch brothers could have better handled the health of our wounded warriors? Probably almost any business would have.  " ...

 

Krauthammer: Who made the pivot to Asia? Putin.

Charles Krauthammer  ...."This is huge. By indelibly linking producer and consumer — the pipeline alone is a $70 billion infrastructure project — it deflates the post-Ukraine Western threat (mostly empty, but still very loud) to cut European imports of Russian gas. Putin has just defiantly demonstrated that he has other places to go.

"The Russia-China deal also makes a mockery of U.S. boasts to have isolated Russia because of Ukraine. Not even Germany wants to risk a serious rupture with Russia (hence the absence of significant sanctions). And now Putin has just ostentatiously unveiled a signal 30-year energy partnership with the world’s second-largest economy. Some isolation."

 "The contrast with President Obama’s own vaunted pivot to Asia is embarrassing (to say nothing of the Keystone pipeline with Canada). He went to Japan last month also seeking a major trade agreement that would symbolize and cement a pivotal strategic alliance. He came home empty-handed. " ...  (Emphasis added. TD)
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"Decline is not a condition. Decline is a choice. In this case, Obama’s choice. And it’s the one area where he can be said to be succeeding splendidly."

 

 

http://comicallyincorrect.com/2014/03/04/putin-vs-obama/

Alan Caruba: The Slow, Sure Death of "Climate Change" Lies

Warning Signs

 

... "The irony of the latest NIPCC report, of course, is that it responds to the claims of global warming and carbon dioxide’s role at a time when the Earth is cooling. It makes one wish that all the talk about “greenhouse gases” is true enough to help us escape from the present cooling.
 

"One thing we do know for sure is that the Greens talk of climate change has lost its grip on the public imagination and attention. As the cooling cycle continues, people around the world will be far more focused on increased evidence of massive ice sheets at both poles, on frozen lakes and rivers, on shortened growing seasons, and on the desperate need for more fossil fuels to warm our homes and workplaces."

 

Repeal the Minimum Wage; We’ve long known the economic case. The humanitarian case is even stronger.

Amity Schlaes   "The economic case against the minimum wage exists, and has been made by me and others often enough. But there’s another, even stronger case against the rule. That is the humanitarian case. And until that case, too, receives consideration, the debate will always be a lopsided one.

"Consider the current employment culture. Sit down with an employment officer at the company where you hope to work, and something feels strange. After a while, you realize what it is: The party on the other side of the desk is not a company executive, it is Jacqueline Berrien, the head of the EEOC. The process moves in similarly creepy fashion when you are the one offering the job ..."   More...

Amity Shlaes chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation. 

On the bureaucracy that liberals want to control your healthcare

Lawyer: VA Delay Killed Washington State Man  ... "A biopsy confirmed it was cancerous. But it was four months before the hospital scheduled an appointment for him to have it removed — and by then, it had spread, wrapping around a facial nerve and eventually getting into his blood." ...

 

California Veteran Can't Get Care Under Obamacare   "It's not just veterans at VA hospitals who are having trouble finding care. One young Marine veteran in California can't find a doctor who will accept his Anthem Blue Cross insurance plan he purchased through Covered California, the state's Obamacare exchange. KPIX-TV reports: 

 

Lucianne is a great go-to source of info, including these next four:

O'Reilly: Obama 'At the Tipping Point,' 'Gives Power to Incompetent People' " .. Bill O’Reilly used his opening “Talking Points Memo” monologue segment to rail against just how bad things have gotten under President Barack Obama’s leadership with not only the VA scandal, but in other areas as well."

 

 Here We Go Again: Dem Senator Says People Who Don’t Like ObamaCare Are Racist Or Something

 

CURL: Obama, the unaccountable president  "Has there ever been a president in the history of America who knew less than President Obama?
"With each new crisis and scandal, Mr. Obama tells Americans that he just didn’t know." ...

However...
Obama transition team was told about 3 audits showing VA misreported wait times  "President Obama’s transition team was warned in 2008 that repeated audits showed the Veterans Affairs Department was misreporting wait times for medical treatment, including one audit revealing delays nearly 10 times worse than the department was officially acknowledging."
How can he blame Bush and still say he did not know about this mess?

Krauthammer’s Take: VA Mismanagement Evidence of Big Government’s Failures .
"Democratic outrage over the fatal mismanagement at the Department of Veterans Affairs is the “precisely the paradox” of the failures of an expansive government that they advocate for, Charles Krauthammer noted on Wednesday’s Special Report. The allegations that the widespread malpractice led to several deaths in facilities nationwide is proof of the perils and limitations of a large bureaucratic, centralized system." More...