Four authors to read before the woke censors come after them

 American Thinker   "Especially among conservative circles, it is easy to see how works published or written longer ago than the current year might come under harsh scrutiny from the editors of large publishing houses.  It is not the time to panic just yet.  However, with Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming becoming subject to rewrites and censorship as well as large retailers banning certain books from their platforms, it might be time to ponder what books you have been meaning to buy before you either cannot or it has been altered past the author's intent.  Granted, while some of these books are politically controversial, it would be foolish to suppose that any such censorious instincts end at politics or the hot-button topic of the minute.

"Therefore, with a focus on literature and entertainment, let's dive in to four books I'd ask you to consider before to acquire while they are unmolested and purchasable.". . .

1. The Children of Hurin, by JRR Tolkien, is one of the more controversial works by the esteemed professor.  The dust cover states that this is one of Tokien's earliest Middle Earth creations, with its origins possibly being from his WW1 days.  It is not very difficult to see why one would want to obtain the earliest of Tolkien's work unmolested.  On the matter of controversy, not even all Lord of the Rings fans are universal in adoration of this work.  To summarize what divides them: there is no happy ending, and good does not necessarily triumph.  Nonetheless, the book is a great work of tragedy.  If you do not want to support the Tolkien Estate's questionable decisions, I would advise tracking down a used hardcover.

Rep. Katie Porter (California) attacks Riley Gaines, gets her head handed to her by Piers Morgan and Bill Maher as audience applaud

Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) - run state

 Thomas Lifson   "Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) is supposed to be very smart, what with Yale undergraduate and Harvard Law degrees and a tenured professorship in her background. But she was made a fool of on national TV, perhaps because she spends too much time with members of the House Progressive Caucus, of which she is Chairperson.

Perhaps that is why it came as a surprise to her that biological males competing in women’s sports are not nearly as popular as she thought, even on a lefty show like Real Time with Bill Maher. And that attacking Riley Gaines (verbally, not physically like the thugs at San Francisco State University) does not generate a lot of support.  

Matt Margolis of PJ Media describes Porter’s blunder:

She likely assumed that she was in friendly territory and ended up embarrassing herself multiple times. One exchange that did her no favors was during a discussion on transgender athletes competing in sports.

Porter tried to sound measured on the issue but got destroyed after mocking Riley Gaines, who has been speaking out in defense of women’s sports.. . .

“ 'I think that it should be up to sporting bodies to make the decisions about who—”

“ 'What has she said that is actually wrong?” Morgan asked.

"Porter then accused Gaines of trying to “get likes and get clicks,” which didn’t sit well with Morgan. ". . .

"The Biden administration has proposed a new Title IX rule change that would prevent schools from banning transgender athletes, including that no school or college that receives federal funding to impose rules that would prevent transgender athletes from competing."

California Hits the Gas on Its Way to Failed Commie Statehood  "I am well aware that many who read today’s headline will think, “On its way?!?!?”

"California is a lot more than what people outside of it see. I lived there for four years when I was a kid and spent over 20 years there as an adult. There are still a lot of good people there, and the physical beauty of the state remains unchanged.

"The politics, sadly, are rotten to the core.

"When I left there a little over five years ago, the politics in Sacramento were descending into a hideous place they hadn’t been in all the time I’d lived there. Still, I Ioved Los Angeles (judge away, haters) so much that I had to tear myself away.

"In the time that I’ve been away, the state has suffered under the draconian egomania of Gavin Newsom, and it hasn’t been pretty. Newsom began his political career in San Francisco, the city that spawned bottom-feeding haters of liberty like Dianne Feinstein, Granny Boxwine Pelosi, and the cackling weirdo who is currently one heartbeat away from the presidency, Kamala Harris.

"Under normal circumstances, the governor’s vibe wouldn’t affect so much of what goes on in the state. The Wuhan Chinese Bat Flu Plague, however, gave Democrat governors like Newsom a taste of tyrannical power that they have been reluctant to give up. The Golden State is now very much a reflection of its Soviet-esque chief executive. A couple of recent stories just reek of the Newsomness of it all. The first one from Rick:". . .

NY Rat Czar; let the animal rights violence begin in three...two...one...

 

Meet New York City’s new ‘rat czar’: A former elementary school teacher who became an anti-vermin advocate and has ‘a long history with rats’  "Every New York City mayor has waged war — and mostly lost — against one of humanity’s most cunning and enduring foe: rattus norvegicus. But has the city’s vilest enemy, better known as the common brown rat, finally met its match?

"Mayor Eric Adams introduced a former elementary school teacher and anti-rat activist as his new “rat czar” on Wednesday. Officially, Kathleen Corradi, the mayor’s new hire, will be known as the director of rodent mitigation.

"Corradi is tasked with battling the potentially millions of rats lurking in myriad urban nooks and crannies, subway tunnels and empty lots.

"Hers is a new job, which the city advertised with a help-wanted ad seeking applicants who are “bloodthirsty,” possess “killer instincts” and could commit to the “wholesale slaughter” of rats.

“ 'When I first saw this job posting, I wasn’t sure if it was real. ‘Blood thirsty’ is not a word you usually see in a job description and it’s certainly not a word I usually (use to) describe myself,” Corradi said in a news conference at a Harlem park.". . .

 Meanwhile: Byron York TORCHES D.A. Alvin Bragg for ignoring actual CRIME in New York City and it’s PERFECT – twitchy.com

See? I told you. PETA Says New York City Shouldn’t Kill “Sensitive” Rats… | Weasel Zippers  . . .“ 'The rats you see on the streets are still sensitive, intelligent animals and they deserve better than to be killed in gruesome, painful ways,” she added."

Biden Returns From Vacation Overseas, Leaves on Another Vacation, and Insults His Interior Sec –

  RedState

How much more do we have to put up, before someone finally decides to throw in the towel and say he needs to resign? 

  "Joe Biden embarrassed us before the world while he was on his vacation of Northern Ireland and Ireland.

"First, Biden got confused about where his office was and had a huge security breach while he was in Northern Ireland. Then he snapped at his son Hunter in a deli in Ireland and twisted the words of Pope John Paul II about the Catholic faith. He managed to insult the British by calling a rugby team the “Black and Tans.” He even ticked off the Irish president’s dog. He told a bunch of stories that couldn’t have happened in a speech to the Irish Parliament. He couldn’t even respond to a simple question from a child and had to have Hunter help him multiple times. Then he made up another story that he told the kids, which couldn’t possibly be true. Finally, his parting words were about how we’re all doomed by climate change, but we could “lick the world.”

"Fortunately, Biden finished his embarrassing tour on Saturday. But as he was leaving, he said that he would be heading out on yet another vacation, to his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. I guess being on vacation already must have been so hard, he needed to rest up from spending our money in Ireland—by spending our dime at the beach.". . .

Protesters call for transgender women to be removed from all-female NJ prison

  NY Post

"Protesters are demanding that transgender women be removed from New Jersey’s only all-female prison — where 10 transgender women, including one who says she has a “taste for blood,” are held out of a total of 356 prisoners.

"#GetMenOut activists held a protest at the state Capitol in Trenton on Friday, reading letters from four biologically female inmates at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility, where one transgender inmate impregnated two women last year.

"The women described from behind bars their fears at being housed with biological men who identify as women.

“ 'I was repeatedly raped as a child until I was in my teens,” wrote Dawn Jackson, 51, who stabbed her adoptive stepfather in 1999 after what she said were years of sexual abuse.

"Jackson was featured on Kim Kardashian’s “The Justice Project” on the Oxygen network last year.". . .

California Goes Full Communist: Utilities to Base What They Charge on How Much You Make

 California: 'How Much Is My Bill?' 'How Much Have You Got?' – PJ Media

Also, people will see that there is no point in working harder to try to earn more money, as the state will just confiscate it in various ways. Consequently, people will work less, and less hard. 

"The state of California is implementing full Marxism before our very eyes under the guise of “equity.” And so now there can be no possible doubt if there ever was for anyone: instituting Communism has been what “equity” initiatives have been about all along. Now three of its most powerful utility companies are saying that they’re going to charge based not on how much of their product was used, but on how much money the user makes.

"In simpler times, if you bought something, you paid for it. Rich or poor, tall or short, black or white, female or male, wise or foolish, everyone paid the same amount for a product. But in our more enlightened era, we know how unjust that really is. It deprives the poor of access to vital goods and services, and that injustice must be redressed.

"That’s what Communism is all about, at least in theory: leveling out economic differences between people by confiscating earnings from the rich and awarding them to those who have less. This is the fundamental reason why Marxism, despite its extraordinarily bloody historical record, still appeals to so many people, rich, poor, and in between: it appears to redress the injustices in life and provide everyone with a decent living.

"The problem with it arises from the fact that capitalism is inescapable. It is an iron law. It is not actually an economic system that can be discarded and replaced with a better one. It is simply the way human interactions work. If the California utility companies are going to make people who have more money pay more for the same goods and services they could get for less money if they had less, there will be several results: wealthier people will seek to hide their wealth through various means, so as to pay the lower rate. Some enterprising entrepreneurs will make a good living by helping them do this. So from the Marxism of the utility companies will come more capitalism.". . .

Humor behind the iron curtain: "We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us".

Poll: Majority of Americans Accuse Churches of Abandoning Basic Tenets of Christianity –

  RedState  "Question: Have you noticed over the last several years or longer how the more the left attacks the basic tenets of Christianity, the more some Christian churches seemingly rush to abandon or water down fundamental Christian doctrine in an attempt to placate the “Christian left”? Yeah—me, too.

"So, how’s that twisted symbiotic relationship working out?

"According to a recent Rassmussen poll, a majority of respondents believe America is losing “that old-time religion.” While more than 75 percent of online poll respondents said religious faith is important in their daily lives, adults who attend services at least weekly are most likely to strongly agree that too many religious institutions today are watering down or abandoning their traditional beliefs.

"That view is shared by 52 percent of evangelical Christians, as well as 34 percent of Catholics, 30 percent of Protestants, and 41 percent of Jews, Rasmussen found. Is it any wonder? Consider the following:

"The churches, which refer to themselves as “Reproductive Freedom Congregations” [how “clever”] are united in their public support of a woman’s “right” to an abortion and are determined to “take God back” from the religious right.

"God was unavailable for comment, although sources suggest He might weigh in, later.

"I’ll just leave this here:

No Biggie: Just a Church Hosting Drag Queen Prayer Time for Children

This is everybody’s first time they’ve ever seen a drag queen? Well, hello. I am also a boy most of the time when I’m here, but today I [tosses hair] am beautiful today.

More here...

 Methodist Church’s First Drag Queen Pastor: ‘God Is Nothing’ - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics    "In a new poem, a gender-bending minister for the nation’s third-largest denomination says that queerness is divine."

From what seminary did he come?

UPDATE: The Christian Left: How Liberal Thought Has Hijacked the Church: Lucas Miles   "The Christian Left unveils how liberal thought has entered America’s sanctuaries, exchanging the Trinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for the trinity of diversity, acceptance, and social justice. This in-depth look at church history, world politics, and pop culture masterfully exposes the rise and agenda of the Christian Left. Readers will learn how to:

• identify and refute the lies of the Christian Left
• uncover the meaning of love as Jesus defined it
• navigate controversial subjects such as abortion, gender identity, and the doctrine of hell
• gain confidence in upholding biblical values
• come face-to-face with the person of Jesus, who is neither left nor right but the embodiment of truth and grace

"Equip yourself with a firm understanding of issues facing the church today and become empowered to elevate God’s truth, justice, and wisdom."

Biden Returns From Vacation Overseas, Leaves on Another Vacation, and Insults His Interior Secretary

  RedState   

"Joe Biden embarrassed us before the world while he was on his vacation of Northern Ireland and Ireland.

"First, Biden got confused about where his office was and had a huge security breach while he was in Northern Ireland. Then he snapped at his son Hunter in a deli in Ireland and twisted the words of Pope John Paul II about the Catholic faith. He managed to insult the British by calling a rugby team the “Black and Tans.” He even ticked off the Irish president’s dog. He told a bunch of stories that couldn’t have happened in a speech to the Irish Parliament. He couldn’t even respond to a simple question from a child and had to have Hunter help him multiple times. Then he made up another story that he told the kids, which couldn’t possibly be true. Finally, his parting words were about how we’re all doomed by climate change, but we could “lick the world.”

"He’s spent 40 percent of his time in office on vacation. That is a ridiculous waste of our tax dollars. He claims that he’s only been to the Rehoboth home “10 times” — I’m guessing he means since he’s been occupying the White House. But we’re also having to pay for a wall being built around the beach home that costs more than half a million dollars. Because walls work for his security; we’re just not allowed to have them for the security of our nation.

"Biden also said that he’d made up his mind about running again, although he wasn’t ready to announce it just yet.". . .

BOOM! Conservatives Send Clear Message to Major US Companies; Get Woke, Go Broke!

 BOOM! Conservatives Send Clear Message to Major US Companies | The Kevin Jackson Network (theblacksphere.net)

“It’s good to learn from your mistakes. It’s better to learn from other people’s mistakes.” -Warren Buffett

Those marketing ploys cost their companies not only their fan base, but their bottom lines.

. . ."For nearly 80 years, soft drink giant Coca-Cola was the most powerful beverage force in the industry since its inception in 1886. WIth the exception of the newly formed Pepsi-Cola in 1898, Coca-Cola literally had no competition.

"However, in the mid 1980’s, that had all but changed. By 1985, they had continued to lose significant market shares to diet and non-drink alternatives. To make matters worse, blind taste tests proved that consumers preferred Pepsi by large margins. In response to those results, Coca-Cola made a bold move-‘New Coke’ was introduced. The backlash was ‘bold’, to say the least.

"'New Coke left a bitter taste in the mouths of the company’s loyal customers. Within weeks of the announcement, the company was fielding 5,000 angry phone calls a day. By June, that number grew to

"8,000 calls a day, a volume that forced the company to hire extra operators.

" 'I don’t think I’d be more upset if you were to burn the flag in our front yard,” one disgruntled drinker wrote to company headquarters. At protests staged by grassroots groups such as “Old Cola Drinkers of America,” consumers poured the contents of New Coke bottles into sewer drains.

"One Seattle consumer even filed suit against the company to force it to provide the old drink. The outrage caught Coca-Cola executives by surprise. They had hardly made a rash decision unsupported by data. After all, they had performed 190,000 blind taste tests on U.S. and Canadian consumers.". . .

Al Goodwyn - 

Whistleblowers: Female Inmates in Washington State Prison Forced to Bunk With Male Rapists and Murderers; Punished if They Object

  American Greatness (amgreatness.com) Female prison inmates inside the Washington Corrections Center For Women (WCCW) revealed in secret video footage this week how biological males are gaming the state’s Transgender Housing Program and victimizing vulnerable women.

"Washington State’s Department of Corrections (DOC) boasts that it has been “a leader in the nation working with incarcerated transgender individuals providing gender affirming care to include housing in gender appropriate facilities.”

"DOC officials, however, reportedly refuse to disclose how many genitally intact biological males have been incarcerated in state women’s prisons, and are not taking allegations of sexual abuse seriously, according to whistleblowers.

"An inmate at WCCW in Gig Harbor, whose voice was altered to protect her identity, explained to an O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) journalist how the state’s radical “gender-affirming” policies have victimized women.

" 'Rapists, murderers, child rapists, and men who have killed women get put in our rooms,” the woman said, adding that women have been sexually assaulted, but the state hasn’t reported the incidents.

" 'Imagine coming into your room one day and you’re in closed custody and you turn around, and there’s a man peeing in the toilet,” the woman, identified as “Inmate #1,” said. “There’s nothing you can do!”

" 'Somehow in this institution, they are adopting ways to apply these so-called mandated laws, that came out of nowhere to prohibit segregation for certain individuals,” a second whistleblower told OMG.  “Usually sex offenders are not in general population,” the woman noted.

“ 'Some of these men are not confused. They’re just manipulating the system,” Inmate #1 said. The woman complained that the policies appear to prioritize the “rights” of the self-identified trans inmates over the rights of biological women in the facility.

“ 'They kind of cater to the trans community,” she explained." . . . 

JAILHOUSE FOOTAGE: Male Inmates in Womens' Prison Claiming to be Transgender.

"Rapists, Murderers, Child Rapists, and Men Who Have Killed Women in Our Rooms"#MillionDollarBaby pic.twitter.com/l1QbZc4Snv

— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) April 14, 2023

WATCH! Inmates of women's prison say men are faking transgenderism to get in (wnd.com)  . . ."A report from The Gateway Pundit said, "The footage shines light on male inmates inside the women's prison claiming to be transgender."

"One inmate, like others on the video with an identity that was concealed with camera blurring and voice alteration, said, "Imagine coming into your room one day and and you're in close custody and you turn around and there's a man standing there peeing in the toilet, because you have the bathroom in your room in CCU. … There's nothing you can do."

"The anonymous testimonies continued, "I know there's some having sex with women. There was some like, assaulting but no one reported it.' ". . .

Biden, the leader of U.S. foreign policy

Former CIA Officer Larry Johnson: This Is A Controlled Leak To Prepare The Public For "Crash Landing" Of U.S. Foreign Policy | Video | RealClearPolitics

. . ."LARRY JOHNSON: This is a coordinated media strategy, this is a disinformation campaign. The documents are real. I’m not saying the documents are fabrications, they are not. But this cover story that's been manufactured to explain how these documents came to be produced, it just falls apart. It simply falls apart based on one document, which is listed as "CIA Operations Center Report: Top Secret." I worked in the CIA operations center, and I helped prepare those reports, that's an internal CIA document. No one on a U.S. military base anywhere in the world will have access to that kind of document.

"ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Who or what is spreading the misinformation? Is this CIA feeding garbage to their friends in the American and British media?

"LARRY JOHNSON: I'd put it above the CIA. This is elements connected to the Director of National Intelligence.". . .

"Imagine being a dem?!? Trying to convince yourself and others that Bidens doing a great job and Trump was the moron?!!?!?"

DAVID MARCUS: Our declining president and Hunter parade around on their corrupt family vacation | Daily Mail Online   . . ."Look, we all accept and understand that Joe loves his son. And any father recognizes only too well the want to forgive and forget your child's misdeeds. But by publicly flaunting Hunter - who has flouted decency, very possibly the law, and above all else, potentially implicated the president – is a flat-out insult.

"Joe is either driven by disdain for the American people or stupidity. And it may be the latter.

"In one particularly bizarre moment on this increasingly pointless tour, Joe and Hunter were meeting with locals in Belfast when a young Irish lad, clearly using a regional phrase, asked Joe for his advice on the 'top step' to success.

"Nonetheless, our commander-in-chief couldn't handle the query. So, Hunter explained to his father that the boy was asking about, 'keys to success.' "

Hunter Biden Helps President Biden Answer Child’s Question on Key to Success | CNSNews

Will Latest Revelations Of Corruption Get Biden Impeached? – Issues & Insights (issuesinsights.com)  "With each day, it seems, we hear something new about how President Joe Biden and his ever-eager son, Hunter, used the power of Biden’s various political offices to make money for the Biden family. If even half of the allegations are true, Biden’s in big trouble. Will that make him think twice about running for a second term in 2024?

"American voters are a thick-skinned lot, and know pretty much that many politicians are scoundrels. But Biden is a different breed.

"His family has, for years, received mysterious piles of money — we’re talking millions of dollars here — from questionable overseas sources, including Chinese Communist-linked executives, Russians with ties to Vladimir Putin and huge sums from Ukraine and its giant Burisma energy company.". . .

Turns out that Hunter, with no real experience at all in the energy business, was asked to join Ukraine-based Burisma’s board of directors on April 18, 2014 — the same month that President Barack Obama made Biden his “point man” on Ukraine, then in the midst of a growing conflict with Russia.

The latest revelation is just stunning.

REVEALED: Shadow Billionaire Funding Sexual Assault Suit Against Trump Is LinkedIn's Founder (trendingpoliticsnews.com)   "The mysterious billionaire funding a sexual assault lawsuit levied against former President Donald Trump by E. Jean Carroll has been revealed after years of speculation.

"Reid Hoffman, a billionaire co-founder of social media networking giant Linkedin and now a top donor for the Democrats, has been quietly bankrolling Carroll’s rape suit against Trump, according to court records revealed Thursday.

"Hoffman’s identity as the shadow funder for Carroll was disclosed in “last-minute” correspondence between lawyers for both sides.

"According to the Daily Beast, Hoffman is not just bankrolling Democrats but also dead set on weakening Trump’s position as the de facto leader of the Republican Party. . ."

'The only one they wanna prosecute is Donald Trump!': Ex-president tells NRA conference | Daily Mail Online  "Ex-President tells NRA conference crime is so bad under Biden people get shot when they 'go out for a loaf of bread'- and tears into prosecutors for going after HIM instead of 'thugs and hoodlums' ". . .

He promised he would direct the Department of Justice to investigate every 'radical' DA and attorney general, like Bragg and 'racist in reverse' James. 'They're either stupid or they hate our country ... I believe they hate our country.' . . .

Los Angeles DA George Gascón: Menace to Society

 Los Angeles DA George Gascón: Menace to Society – PJ Media

"What new evidence suggesting that the officers should bear criminal culpability in the Mitchell shooting has emerged in the years since Jackie Lacey cleared them? None. Yet George Gascón now relies on his own hindsight, distorted by racial grievance and an animus for police officers, to bring a case against them." 

"Los Angeles cannot be rid of district attorney George Gascón quickly enough. Two weeks after charging seven California Highway Patrol officers and a nurse with manslaughter in the case of a man who died from an overdose of methamphetamine, he now comes after two Torrance police officers for a shooting in which they had been cleared — with abundant justification — by his predecessor. Like the case involving the CHP, the one against the Torrance officers is unwinnable for the prosecution or would be in a just world.

"But it is not a just world, and nowhere is it more unjust than in those jurisdictions where so-called “progressive” prosecutors like Gascón have been installed. In these cities, the rights of criminals are prioritized above those of crime victims and far, far above those of police officers. An unethical prosecutor, especially when abetted by dishonest news reporting, can get a jury to believe almost anything.

"On Dec. 9, 2018, Torrance police officers Matthew Concannon and Anthony Chavez responded to a report of a stolen car being driven in that city. The car’s owner, who had reported it stolen to the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department, had the strange luck of seeing his own Honda Civic being driven down the street right in front of him.

"At the wheel of the stolen Honda was Christopher Mitchell, 23, who pulled into the parking lot of a supermarket and parked. The uniformed officers stopped their marked patrol car behind the Honda and approached, one on each side of the car.

"The Honda’s windows were tinted, preventing the officers from seeing inside. Officer Concannon opened the driver’s door, illuminated Mitchell with a flashlight, and ordered him to put his hands on the steering wheel.

"Both officers were able to see what appeared to be the butt of a firearm between Mitchell’s legs. Concannon ordered Mitchell to get out of the car, at which time Mitchell dropped his hands toward the weapon and leaned forward. Concannon fired one round from his service pistol, and Chavez fired two. There was a delay in rendering medical aid to Mitchell as it was determined that a SWAT team and an armored vehicle should be used to approach him. Paramedics declared him dead at the scene. The weapon between his legs was found to be a pellet rifle from which the stock had been removed.". . .

Government made of the likes of Gascon, AOC and the Squad, Joe Biden and his cabinet would not have stood a chance of governing America but for an ignorant, silly, and malleable voting public whose opinions are shaped by MSNBC, CNN, the ladies of "The View" and Hollywood. TD