What next for "Black Lives Matter"?

‘Black Lives Matter’—a Year From Now
"Exploring the many reasons why the slogan “Black Lives Matter” will be gone within a year. What will replace it?"

"This is CNN"

. . . "But like all the other past racially chauvinistic movements, “Black Lives Matter” will fail to convince anyone outside a small subset of African-American urban youth to embrace its ideology and advocacy. A year from now it will become another artifact like “It’s a black thing.” It was, after all, the logical denouement to Rev. Wright and the Obamas’ “get in their face,” “punish our enemies,” “typical white person,” “clingers,” “downright mean country,” “never been proud before,” “stereotyping police,” Travyon as the son Obama never had, and the assorted “you didn’t build that,” “not the time to profit,” and lectures about knowing when to quit making money. At some point whining causes weariness.

"There are many reasons why Black Lives Matter will be gone within a year." . . .

Read the full article here.

Parents ranked Miley Cyrus worst celebrity role model

PJ Media

"I want to be the most influential role model for my children. They will be exposed to all kinds of garbage in society that will threaten to rock their faith and challenge their moral foundation. The reality is, however, they might be tempted to not follow the virtues I have instilled in them.

"It comes as no surprise that in a recent poll given to parents, Miley Cyrus earned the title of “worst role model for children,” receiving 78% of the vote. What happened to “Hannah Montana”? I get that she grew up and wanted to shed her Disney persona, but smoking pot on stage and performing lewd acts with a blow-up doll atop a gold car isn’t really necessary to make that point. Besides, Madonna wore that strategy out decades ago.

"Children are going to be exposed to things that may not be healthy. So how can parents minimize that exposure?

1. Keep the lines of communications open. Talk about sex, drugs, and alcohol.

2. Practice what you preach. Children learn by watching you, so you be the best example.

3. Know their friends and their friends’ parents. If their friends are being inappropriate, it may be time to have a talk.

4. Trust but verify. Check up on your kids’ social media and text messages.

5. Turn electronics off at a specific time each day. Kids are more susceptible to inappropriate content when an adult isn’t around."

Via Julie Prince at Conservative Bloggers on Facebook

The Obama Priorities

"A policeman's lot is not a happy one"

 

Police Work, in Black and White   . . .  "Officer Weir, do you have a problem with black people?" he asked.
"Excuse me, Sir?"
" 'I have a letter here from a man who says you used a racial slur when giving him a ticket," he growled, tossing the letter on the desk for me to read.
"Lieutenant, I assure you that's an outright lie," I protested after perusing the ragged document.
" 'Really?" he replied, furrowing his brow.  "I doubt the man would go through the trouble of sending a letter unless he was outraged by your insult."
" 'Sir, I was very respectful toward that guy."  I went on to explain what happened, but the lieutenant seemed intent on finding me guilty." . . .Strongly suggest you read this entire article!

James

“We Need To Start Killing These Officers”
. . . "The officer said that as he went to arrest the woman he was surrounded by a crowd that was voicing anti-police sentiments, including “We need to start killing these officers.” …
"The older woman punched the officer in the face and grabbed him by the throat, according to the release."

"Police said Latonya B. James, 40, of Madison threatened many times to kill the officer while on her way to jail."

Hillary digs herself deeper

Thomas Lifson  . . . "For a candidate perceived as a liar and arrogant, this approach is the worst possible approach. So why is she doing it? The girl can’t help it. These are accurate perceptions. Oh, and to come clean about why she set up a server that would escape public scrutiny would involve explaining that she intended to do a lot of things, such as raising hundreds of millions of dollars for the family foundation that pays the salaries of her campaign aides in waiting and the private jet trips and five star hotel bills of her family, that would raise awkward questions.

"She compounded the damage by pleading incompetence as the explanation for her private server:

"I was not thinking a lot when I got in. There was so much work to be done. We had so many problems around the world. I didn't really stop and think, 'what kind of email system will there be?'"

“I was not thinking a lot” will become her trademark quotation if she stays in the race. This is the woman whose entire candidacy premise is competence and experience, and she has just undermined her ability to make that argument.
"Short of a personality transplant, I cannot see how Hillary can arrest her fall in the polls:" . . .

Clinton paid State Department IT staffer out of her own pocket to maintain server

Computer issues

Tunnel dweller has some computer issues to solve and hopes to be back on line Monday.

Why Clinton remains inevitable — almost

 

Charles Krauthammer

 

"Unless she’s indicted, Hillary Clinton will win the Democratic nomination.

"That kind of sentence is rarely written about a major presidential candidate. But I don’t see a realistic third alternative (except for one long-shot, below).

"Clinton is now hostage to the various investigations — the FBI, Congress, the courts — of her e-mails. The issue has already damaged her seriously by highlighting once again her congenital inability to speak truthfully. When the scandal broke in March, she said unequivocally that she “did not e-mail any classified material to anyone.” That’s now been shown to be unequivocally false. After all, the inspector general of the intelligence community referred her e-mails to the Justice Department precisely because they contain classified material.

"The fallback — every Clinton defense has a fallback — is that she did not mishandle any material “marked” classified. But that’s absurd. Who could even have been in a position to mark classified something she composed and sent on her own private e-mail system?" . . .

"The parallel scandal looming over Clinton is possible corruption involving contributions to the Clinton Foundation while she was secretary of state. 
. . .  "We are unlikely to get a straight answer from Clinton. In fact, we may never get the real answer. So Clinton marches on regardless. Who is to stop her?". . .

I doubt a Biden-Warren ticket will happen, but it remains the only threat to Clinton outside of some Justice Department prosecutor showing the same zeal in going after Hillary Clinton as the administration did in going after David Petraeus.

Otherwise the Democrats remain lashed to Clinton. Their only hope is that the Republicans self-destruct in a blaze of intraparty warfare. Something for which they are showing an impressive talent.

 

More campus fascism -- and some pushback!

 

David Limbaugh

David Limbaugh highlights incident of 'professors conspiring against common sense'

. . . "The Daily Caller reports that in his “Introduction to Multicultural Literature” syllabus, professor John Streamas warned white students that “to do well in this class,” they must “reflect” their “grasp of history and social relations” by “deferring to the experiences of people of color.” This professor once berated a student who advocated limits on illegal immigration as “just a white s–-bag.”
"He continued in his syllabus: “Conservative skeptics wonder why we need to study ‘multicultural’ texts, suggesting that the only criterion for selecting books should be literary excellence. … The conservative notion is flawed by the very fact that it is advanced by white people who just happen to think that the very best books and ideas come from white people – they have an investment in proving themselves superior.”
"There was also this gem: “Finally, understand and consider the rage of people who are victims of systematic injustice. James Baldwin wrote that people of color have an obligation to feel rage over this nation’s history of racism. If injustice does not fill you with rage, then perhaps you should ask yourself why.”
"Professor Selena Lester Breikss told students of her “Women & Popular Culture” class that they would risk “failure for the semester” if they used the terms “males” or “females,” because they are “gross generalizations” and “derogatory/oppressive language.”
"American studies professor Rebecca Fowler advised students they would “suffer a deduction of one point” each time they said “illegal alien.' ” . . .

 

HOW TO WRITE A NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED IN THREE EASY STEPS!

 Yes, Trump's base are "less-educated." This is as opposed to Democratic voters, who couldn't figure out how to fill in a Florida ballot in 2000.

Ann Coulter  " Today we'll talk about how to write a New York Times op-ed in 45 minutes or less. We all like labor-saving tips!

"The main point to keep in mind is that your op-ed is not intended to elucidate, educate or amuse. These are status pieces meant to strike a pose, signaling that you are a good person.

"After reading your op-ed, readers should feel the warm sensation of being superior to other people -- those who don't agree with you. The idea is to be in fashion. It's all about attitude, heavy on eye-rolling.

"(1) Psychoanalyze conservatives as paranoid and insecure. Liberals -- who, to a man, have been in psychoanalysis -- enjoy putting people they disagree with on the operating table and performing a vivisection, as if conservatives are some lower life form.

"Thus, for example, an op-ed in this week's Times by Arthur Goldwag was titled "Putting Donald Trump on the Couch."

"This should not be confused with Justin A. Frank's 2004 book, "Bush on the Couch," offering a detailed diagnosis of Bush's alleged mental disorders.

"Nor should it be confused with a column that went up on Daily Kos the day after I wrote this column, psychoanalyzing me. (I'm just glad I snubbed the guy in high school.)

. . .

"-- "The Tea Party, to be most benign about it, is primarily white, it is witnessing a country changing around it. It feels angry, feels -- the diversity." -- Katrina Vanden Heuvel, MSNBC, May 24, 2012

"(You want angry? Go to an Al Sharpton rally.)
. . .

 

 A lot of people are followers by nature. They just want to be told: Here are the politicians you admire, and here are the ones you disdain; here are the people you worship, and here are the ones you disparage; here are the TV shows you like, and here are the ones you despise.

"Times writers are like personal shoppers for people too lazy to form their own opinions. Just don't imagine that this is good writing, comedy or art. But it's not bad for something you can dash off in about 45 minutes!"

 

Why a crucial problem is back in the national conversation.  . . . "Those last comments are particularly pertinent to the core of Europe’s current immigrant problem: many are Muslims who worship a faith radically different from the liberal culture of freedom, tolerance, and individual rights that created Europe and the United States. Hence most of the violence Powell predicted has come from unassimilated young Muslims–– the terrorists who bombed London in 2005 and Madrid in 2004, the rapists in England and Malmo who target non-Muslim women, the French “youths” who periodically smash hundreds of cars or murder journalists and Jews, and the Muslim who assassinated Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh and drove Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Geert Wilders into hiding. And in most cases, these criminals have been the beneficiaries of welfare largesse, their violence often rewarded with increased “social welfare spending.”

"But we Americans shouldn’t feel superior, for we have our own immigration problems, especially with illegal aliens. Our problems aren’t as severe as Europe’s, for the vast majority of our immigrants come from countries that are essentially Western, rather than from Muslim countries whose religion is inherently hostile to Christianity and the West. But we have compromised that advantage by indulging the same carelessness about policing the border or dispensing social welfare largesse. We too have problems with crime from illegal aliens, ranging from drug-gangs and murder to the daily disorder and disregard for law that makes life more difficult in many communities. And we also have an anti-assimilationist lobby that leverages white guilt and self-loathing into political power.

"But we too, for now, seem to have a prophet. Whatever his flaws and weaknesses, Donald Trump has thrust the problems of lax immigration policies and weak enforcement of immigration laws back into the national conversation. Like Enoch Powell, politicians from both parties have tried to marginalize him. But in the age of the Internet, YouTube, and cable news, the citizens who agree with Trump can voice their approval more loudly than in Powell’s day. And they delight in the rough treatment he gives to immigration hacks like Univision’s Jorge Ramos, whom Trump tossed out of a news conference. Let’s just hope that a critical mass of people is listening, and that the Republicans embrace Trump’s warnings on illegal immigration instead of demonizing him."  Bruce S. Thornton

What Makes Donald Run?
. . . "After nearly seven years of Obama, the public is worn out by sanctimoniousness — by all the Professor Gates/Trayvon Martin/Ferguson lectures on race by an abject racialist, by all the sermons on climate change by a global jet-setter, by all the community-organizing banality by one who always has preferred the private school and the tony neighborhood, by all the us-versus-the-1-percent warfare by one who feels at home on the golf course only with celebrities and stock hounds. Given all that, the Republican base, at least for a few more weeks, wants someone to be unapologetically unacceptable — both to the liberal establishment that Obama ushered in, and to the wink-and-nod elite Republican opposition." . . .

And Trump so far has managed to make real outliers — non-establishment political mavericks like Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Scott Walker, and Chris Christie, who were the choices of the Tea Party movements just a fortnight ago — look like Eric Cantor/Mitch McConnell company men. That such gifted conservative politicos are considered functionaries is abjectly unfair, but it is nonetheless the jaded perception so far of much of the Republican electorate.

Victor Davis Hanson

 

IBD

In a comment to this cartoon, Not-a-RINO wrote: 

"Ramirez should have shown the perpetrator AND the victims are more than likely black persons in his cartoon. Even Jesse Jackson made the following observation: “There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps... then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.” The racial agitators are clouding the issues black persons are facing by making the police the enemy rather than their own reprehensible, illegal behavior.

"It's time for new leadership in urban areas as the corrupt, liberal Democrat rule is proving to be a dismal failure on all levels. It occurred to me not so long ago when I turned on the 6 o'clock news and heard, "A 4 year old was shot and killed this afternoon in her Detroit house as she watched cartoons on television at her grandmother's house. A stray bullet from a gang turf war killed her instantly...". All too often we think, "What do you expect? It's just Detroit." Such senseless violence is desensitizing the public to the tragic crime and murder in the streets.

"Due to the amount of violent crime I am fortunate enough to have three reliable shields: The County Sheriff, the State Police and a concealed Smith and Wesson M&P Shield 40 caliber on my hip. I certainly appreciate all three!"

Our Weasel Of The Week!

Nice Deb  "Yes, once again, It’s time to present this week’s statuette of shame, The Golden Weasel!!

"Every Tuesday, the Council nominates some of the slimiest, most despicable characters in public life for some deed of evil, cowardice or corruption they’ve performed. Then we vote to single out one particular Weasel for special mention, to whom we award the statuette of shame, our special, 100% plastic Golden Weasel. This week’s nominees were particularly slimy and despicable, but the votes are in and we have our winner…the envelope please…"


 Raciali$t Organizer and Cop Hater Carol (Sunshine) Sullivan!

 

"Less than 24 hours before Bryce Williams aka Vesper Lee Flanagan II shot and killed two WBDJ journalists, Alison Parker and Adam Ward on the air Black activist Carol (Sunshine) Sullivan, an organizer of F***YoFlag on her radio blog show hosted from Texas called, “Sunshine’s F***ing Opinion Radio Show” allegedly gave members of #FYF911 or #FukYoFlag and #BlackLivesMatter a platform from which the hate/terrorist organizations called for the lynching of white people and law enforcement officers.

"Two days after Parker and Ward were killed, Shannon J. Miles, a Black male pumped fifteen bullets into Sheriff’s Deputy Darren Goforth at a gas station in Houston, Texas."