The Idiot Caucus Has Now Declared War On Cotton

The Hayride

"One of the more difficult things to stomach in this new age of the Social Justice Snowflake Warrior is the perpetual search for new things to be outraged and unhinged about, and the constant pell-mell retreat by normal human beings in the face of the outraged and unhinged. We bring you a pair of incidents showing the extremes the social justice crowd is finding in their attempts to destroy civil society – with the new front being, believe it or not, cotton stalks used as decorations in white people’s houses.

"First, to Lipscomb University in Tennessee…

" 'Got that? The president of the university invited a bunch of students to his home, and his wife has set up a centerpiece at the dining room table made up of cotton stalks – which has been a Southern decorative thing forever – and this is a celebration of slavery. Or something. So naturally there would be a row over such a centerpiece when black students come out to the house." . . . Read more.

How do you solve a problem like Hollywood?

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Patricia McCarthy  "You ignore it.  Aside from the D.C. establishment of both parties, there are no people who revere themselves more than the core of the wealthiest and most privileged members of the film and television industry. 

"The Emmy awards program was an outsized testament to their self-love and to their contempt for all those who do not live by their mindless devotion to the ideology of the anti-American left.  They all believe they are unique, special and gifted.  Some of them are talented but talent does not always come with brains or a moral compass.  Those who graced the stage at the Emmys were the worst of the worst:  Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Alec Baldwin, Kate McKinnon, etc.  It is a long list of arrogant, elitist snobs who have ruined the television and film industries with their politicization of entertainment and endless self-aggrandizement. 

"The program was a three-hour roast of Donald Trump, which made him the actual star of the show.   The jokes were not amusing.  They were vile.  These people demeaned themselves as did the cheering audience.  Had one person said just one such thing about Obama when he was in office, this bunch would still be talking about how offended they were.  They live by very different rules than what they attempt to impose on the rest of us." . . .

And THIS: Total disrespect for the 63 million who voted for President Trump.

. . . "Let me suggest to Clinton that she should sit down and watch the Emmys of 2017.  The explanation for her defeat can be found in that show and so many of the people who came on stage to make fools of themselves." . . .

Diversity Can Spell Trouble

History’s other positive example is the United States, which has proven one of the only truly diverse societies in history to remain fairly stable and unified—at least so far. Although the Founders are now caricatured as oppressive European white men, they were not tribal brutes. 

Victor Davis Hanson  "America is experiencing a diversity and inclusion conundrum—which, in historical terms, has not necessarily been a good thing. Communities are tearing themselves apart over the statues of long-dead Confederate generals. Controversy rages over which slogan—“Black Lives Matter” or “All Lives Matter”—is truly racist. Antifa street thugs clash with white supremacists in a major American city. Americans argue over whether the USC equine mascot “Traveler” is racist, given the resemblance of the horse’s name to Robert E. Lee’s mount “Traveller.” Amid all this turmoil, we forget that diversity was always considered a liability in the history of nations—not an asset.

"Ancient Greece’s numerous enemies eventually overran the 1,500 city-states because the Greeks were never able to sublimate their parochial, tribal, and ethnic differences to unify under a common Hellenism. The Balkans were always a lethal powder keg due to the region’s vastly different religions and ethnicities where East and West traditionally collided—from Roman and Byzantine times through the Ottoman imperial period to the bloody twentieth century. Such diversity often caused destructive conflicts of ethnic and religious hatred. Europe for centuries did not celebrate the religiously diverse mosaic of Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant Christians, but instead tore itself apart in a half-millennium of killing and warring that continued into the late twentieth century in places like Northern Ireland.

"In multiracial, multiethnic, and multi-religious societies—such as contemporary India or the Middle East—violence is the rule in the absence of unity. " . . .

If America’s set of values becomes a pick-and-choose potpourri, there is no unity. And then America will certainly become yet another one of history’s casualties of diversity.

Getting Rid of La Raza

By Mike Gonzalez* at The American Interest

The government should not be in the business of funding ethnic factions, which only reinforce the power of the elites.

Aztlan La Raza

. . . "No less a liberal lion than U.S. Representative Henry Gonzalez of Texas took to the floor of the House on April 22, 1969, to decry the Ford Foundation’s creation of “a very grave problem” in his district. “I cannot accept the belief that racism in reverse is the answer for racism and discrimination,” he said. It is worth quoting Gonzalez at some length, as the dysfunctions he identified remained a fixture of the group:

As deeply as I must respect the intentions of the foundation, I must at the same time say that where it aimed to produce unity, it has so far created disunity. The Ford Foundation believed that the greatest need of this particular minority group [Mexican Americans] was to have some kind of effective national organization…. This good desire may have rested on a false assumption; namely that such a disparate group could, any more than our black brothers or our white ‘Anglo’ brothers, be brought under one large tent.

"La Raza was “invented for the purpose of receiving the grant,” said Gonzalez, and in its first year of existence had “not given any assistance that I know of to bring anybody together,” existing only to “promote the rather odd and I might say generally unaccepted and unpopular views of its directors.”

"And that’s just it. Political scientist Peter Skerry describes groups such as La Raza as participants in a game called “elite network politics.” Even though these networks have “weak community ties,” the groups involved win policy brawls by participating in “a process of specialization and professionalization by which politics become more and more an insiders’ game…a politics increasingly turned in upon itself and insulated from the surrounding social flux.”

"In La Raza’s case, that meant a turnstile relationship with the Obama Administration that the president himself boasted about." . . .

*Pointedly added.

American Silliness: Schools named after Jefferson, Madison, and Franklin targeted for renaming in Dallas

Rick Moran

What's happening should become known as the Second Salem Witch Trials.  Those who stand accused are unable to defend themselves.

 . . . "Mr. Marshall must have flunked history.  He forgot to mention something germane to the current debate; Benjamin Franklin founded the very first anti-slavery society in America.  But he is white and hung around with slavers, so he's got to go.

"What is most disturbing to me about this mad dash to bury American history is that there is no effort whatsoever to bring any kind of balanced analysis to the examination of a historical figure's fitness to be honored with a statue or school name. 

"Human beings are not one-dimensional.  Being human, they have flaws – many of them serious.  Why don't we apply the same scrutiny we are applying to the Founding Fathers to a man like Ted Kennedy, who may not have owned slaves, but treated women as property, not to mention dozens, perhaps hundreds of cases of pushing himself on women that today might be considered sexual assault?  Whatever good he did as a legislator must be seen in balance with his faults."

Is America a Christian Nation?

Roger Taylor   "Former President Obama has said that America is not a Christian nation.  Was that far left atheism, pro-Islamic proselytizing, or just wishful thinking? 

"A few months ago a young second generation Iranian woman came to my office.  I asked if she had Assyrian (a persecuted Christian group) heritage.  She said that her parents were secular if not atheistic Muslims and made no effort to enforce any belief system on her.  She said that she had decided to become a Christian.  She answered my unspoken question by stating that she wanted and needed a personal God.  Has she converted because of American values or Christian values?  Are they the same?" . . .

. . .  "Many people believe that we should open our borders to anyone to come here.  They say that American ideals of fairness and religious tolerance dictate the need to do this.  And it is tempting to say yes, because we are a giving and generous people.  But it begs the question*.  Should we open the floodgates to people who will not assimilate, and whose goal is to fundamentally change America (sound familiar) to a system that does not respect individual freedom, and to force Sharia law upon us.  Let us hope for wisdom in Washington.  It will not happen, but if the radical left were to fully embrace Allah, then God help us."

*Finally; the term used correctly!

What happened in Clinton emails

Power Line  "Hillary Clinton devotes one chapter of What Happened to her use of a private email setup to conduct the official business of the United States. Jack Shafer suffered through it to spare others the pain. His account is posted at Politico under the headline “Hillary Clinton is sorry, not sorry.” As I read the quotes that Shafer serves up, Clinton reiterates all the evasions she served up during the campaign. She continues to “take responsibility” for her lying and misconduct, although she doesn’t put it that way.

"The State Department continues slowly to roll out the emails under court order in the lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch under the Freedom of Information Act. Last week Judicial Watch released an additional 1,617 pages procured through its FOIA lawsuits along with an accompanying cheat sheet declaring “It’s amateur hour at State.” Judicial Watch emphasizes the additional evidence of classified information on display. 

"The New York Post devotes an editorial to the newly released emails. The editorial notes that the emails show Clinton Foundation honcho Doug Band “working with Clinton aide Huma Abedin to get favors for donors, from visas to Cuba to meetings in Singapore.”

"The Post quotes Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton: “It’s there in black and white. And I don’t understand why the Justice Department hasn’t gotten its act together and reinitiated an investigation as to what went on here. Because we all know [Jim] Comey’s investigation was a sham. They need to restart it up.”

"The conclusion of Judicial Watch’s summary alludes to Madam Hillary’s new memoir: “These emails show ‘what happened’ was that Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin obviously violated laws about the handling of classified information and turned the State Department into a pay for play tool for the corrupt Clinton Foundation. The clear and mounting evidence of pay for play and mishandling of classified information warrant a serious criminal investigation by an independent Trump Justice Department.”

The Hillary Clinton email controversy explained: what we know so far

Hillary laughs off Awan scandal  . . . "Which brings us to her latest attempt to laugh off a scandal. Truepundit.com has published a video taken by Jason Goodman, editor of CrowdSource the Truth, at a book signing, who asked Hillary about the Awan scandal. She replied with her characteristic and most unattractive cackle.  Yep, that’s a knee-slapper, all right.  And then she added a remark that may very well express her certainty that this scandal, too, will be buried." . . .
Too bad that his aborted attempt to get video gave us only the sound of Clinton's voice. But that was vintage Hillary by itself.

Shocker: London Bomb Suspect a Syrian Refugee

Jammie Wearing Fools  "Let’s all hear some of those awesome jokes about how President Trump is afraid of widows and orphans again. Those are particularly hilarious when a “refugee” commits a terrorist attack.

The first images of one of the suspects being held by U.K. police after the bomb blast on a London subway train on Friday have appeared in British media.Yahyah Farroukh, a 21-year-old from Syria, is being questioned under Britain’s Terrorism Act, meaning that he is suspected of being involved in extremist-related activities.He was recently registered as a resident at an address that police searched in the British country of Surrey, to the southwest of London after the attack. Officers detained him at a fried chicken shop named Aladdin’s on Saturday night, according to reports by Sky News.On Friday at around 8.20 a.m. local time an improvised explosive device, or IED, detonated inside a bag bearing the name of German supermarket Lidl, injuring 29 at Parsons Green subway station in west London, most with flash burns. Fitted with a timer, the device did not detonate fully.Farroukh’s Facebook page says that he is from the Syrian capital, Damascus, which has been wracked by fighting for more than six years in the protracted civil war.

Julia Louis-Dreyfuss slams Trump, supporters as ‘Nazis’ during Emmys

Let’s face it — if you support the president, Hollywood leftists hate your guts.

Joe Newby  "On Sunday, Hollywood liberals gathered for the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards, which, the Daily Caller said, “got political” right from the beginning, “with mentions of President Donald Trump, the Russia investigation and global warming, just to name a few.”

"Julia Louis-Dreyfus, for example, sang about how nice it would be to have a president who “was not beloved by Nazis,” the UK Daily Mail said.

"Keep in mind that according to liberals, pretty much anyone who supports the president is a white supremacist and a Nazi.

"The Daily Mail added:

The 56-year-old actress won Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series for the the sixth consecutive year en route to tying a record for most acting awards ever.
The big win for HBO comedy series Veep ties her with acting legend Cloris Leachman for most ever by a performer as they both have eight gongs total.
But during her speech, she managed to get another jab at the 45th President.

“ 'We did have a whole storyline about impeachment but we abandoned that because we were worried that someone else might get to it first,” she said while accepting her trophy." . . .

College: Normal-Sized Seats Are a Microaggression

7ummit Magazine

"The New School, a university in New York City, has published a guide on avoiding microaggressions.

"The university defines microaggressions as "brief and commonplace verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or not, that communicate a hostile, derogatory, or negative slight or insult toward a targeted group."

" 'Microaggression is powerful and insidious and can be as damaging as 'explicit' aggression," the guide reads.

"One of the guidelines involves the size of classroom seats. Most are too small for many people, resulting in embarrassment, The New School says." . . .

Christian Dairy Queen owner proudly triggers libs with warning sign praising God, mocking snowflakes

BizPacReview  

"A christian(sp) Wisconsin Dairy Queen owner has put social justice warriors on notice with a “politically incorrect” trigger warning sign.

“This restaurant is politically incorrect,” the sign reads. “We have been known to say ‘Merry Christmas, Happy Easter (and) God Bless America.”

“ 'We salute and honor the flag, give thanks to our troops, police officers and firefighters, give thanks for the USA and give free sundaes to veterans on veterans day.”

"And it concludes with a warning for the perennially offended crowd. 

“ 'If this offends you, you are welcome to contact the owner at kewaskumdq@gmail.com and arrange a ‘snowflake safe space’ a minimum 24 hours in advance.”

"The words “In God We Trust” appear at the bottom of the sign."

Big Al Sharpton Threatens Boycott if ESPN Fires Racist Host

Downtrend

"ESPN continues to have problems after its employee Jemele Hill unleashed a series of defamatory tweets against President Donald Trump on Monday.

"Ms. Hill accused Trump of being a “white supremacist”, a smear that despite no evidence that would support such an assertion has nonetheless become accepted as holy writ by the left.

"Rather than move quickly to fire or at least discipline Hill, the network allowed the situation to fester to the point that they are essentially being held hostage by their blatantly racist host.

"Now the Reverend Al Sharpton is involved and threatening to lead a boycott against the disgraced network if Hill is held accountable.

"Sharpton is a seasoned race-baiter with a media presence as well as a history of leeching onto figures of dubious character to bolster his street cred as a civil rights crusader.

"Add Jemele Hill to that list." . . .

ESPN Head To Staff: ‘ESPN Is Not A Political Organization’  . . . "The White House continued to hammer ESPN on Friday, calling it "hypocritical" for what it deems a double-standard in how the network handles conservative and liberal employees.

"White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said during the daily briefing that ESPN once suspended longtime anchor Linda Cohn while distancing itself but not firing Hill this week." . . .