Category Archives: Society

The Ingrates of Wrath

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Well, Obama’s army is at it again, both in the streets of Washington, and the editorial meetings of the Associated Press.  This time we find terrorists damaging critical infrastructure that our economy depends upon.  Why?  Because one group of union thugs is upset that their strike (or whatever, I don’t care) was upended by — wait for it — the hiring of different union workers.  Ooh, those filthy capitalist yankee running dogs! How dare those pigs hire people from a different union?

Hundreds of Longshoremen stormed the Port of Longview early Thursday, overpowered and held security guards, damaged railroad cars, and dumped grain that is the center of a labor dispute, said Longview Police Chief Jim Duscha.

Six guards were held hostage for a couple of hours after … Continue reading →

Hey House: Ditch Obama's Jobs Speech

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[UPDATE: Mother Jones writer says no need to watch… see below]
House Republicans are deserting the Obama jobs speech scheduled for Thursday evening.  They simply won’t attend.   Speaker John Boehner, who stuffed the President on his blatant attempt to summon Congress to sit before him, has now decided that the flimsy $300 billion half-hearted jobs speech is not worth rebutting.  An increasing number of NBC affiliates won’t even show the speech itself, opting instead to stick with their regularly scheduled Saints-Packers pre-game show.  It’s a sham, and they know it.  Obama knows it, and he thinks that we are too dumb.  He wants to use the Congress as a political prop, and some in Congress aren’t having any of it.

[Update] Even this writer for Mother … Continue reading →

Soulja Boy Attempts Apology–Accepted, With Comment

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Perhaps you’ve heard of the furore surrounding comments by a rapper about the military.  I hadn’t, and I don’t care what most useless art-ticks think.  I was somewhat impressed, however, with the attempted apology from this guy “Soulja Boy”, in that it sounded mostly sincere.  Oh, he gets in his Bush-bashing and his mistaken notions about poverty or unemployment being caused by defense spending (I thought federal spending created — oh nevermind).  But for all his misjudgements and subsequent bad advice in rough rhyme, he does seem to genuinely regret at least part of this unhappy episode, and not just the catching some serious death stares from the military part.

At one point he rapped “f*** the troops” in a song or something (how the Hell would I … Continue reading →

The Insanity of Chaz Bono and Her Mother

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Chaz Bono is a mentally ill woman who has been mutilated by talented but twisted doctors. This process of “gender re-assignment” is a cultural phenomenon and a sign that we live in some very sick times. People become convinced of many things which are not true, but this does not obligate doctors to perform surgery in honor of such madness.

I wrote about this several years ago, in the case of a Florida city manager:

This is no simple personal elective surgery that Steve Stanton has chosen. It is not like removing an appendix before journeying to Antarctica, or having those tonsils out after a series of non-specific illnesses. Those are procedures which rational arguments can be mustered both for and against. The procedure … Continue reading →

What, No Zoroastrians?

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[dc]G[/dc]et this:   The descendants of slave-holding Native American plantation owners (yes, that’s right) have ejected the descendants of the African-American slaves from the tribe.

The Cherokee nation voted after the Civil War to admit the slave descendants to the tribe.
But on Monday, the Cherokee nation Supreme Court ruled that a 2007 tribal decision to kick the so-called “Freedmen” out of the tribe was proper.

So there’s that. The problem comes in when people start calling this “21st century apartheid”, when the whole point of a federal tribal system is to protect Native Americans and not other sorts of Americans.
On the other hand, there’s a good argument that the “Freedmen” have earned a place in the tribe:

Some 4,000 Indians died during the forced march, which … Continue reading →

Entitlements: Plan C

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[pullquote]Plan C is you can shiver hungry in the dark for all I care[/pullquote]

You boomers are in trouble.  Your parents lived through the depression or were directly impacted by it, and they came up with a whole circus of social safety nets.  This system was never built to last even if it had not been abused, but it has been ransacked.  They used it as intended, and you have abused it, hollowing out the programs while expanding them, so that all that remains is a system of empty shells.  Now you want to retire on it, and there’s nothing left.  So you’ve borrowed the money from overseas, and told them that my generations will pay for it.

Well maybe we will, and maybe we won’t.

It’s not … Continue reading →

Respect for Huma

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I am disappointed in some of the comments I see about Huma Abedin, wife of disgraced classless jerk Anthony Weiner.

Anthony Weiner mixed up his personal and professional lives, and did so in a really offensive way. The original actions are outrageous, and his subsequent actions even more so.

Huma on the other hand, has done nothing of the sort. I’d like to know how taking cheap shots at her at this point is anything other than yet another example of attacking a pretty woman with whom one disagrees.  She’s pretty and there’s a media firestorm in her house, so I understand the interest.  But not the vitriol.

She seems to be the only person on the democrat side who hasn’t made a hash of this.  There was … Continue reading →

Inequality In Equality

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The DoD briefs that it will not create a new data category for sexual orientation, that it will not require personnel to identify sexual preference.

Fine, but then where does that leave all the bean-counting for race, sex, religion, and “ethnicity”?  Either data categories are necessary to ensure fairness or not.

Conversely, either a some behavior is protected just like immutable characteristics or not.  I understand that the DoD is complying with requirements handed down from above, but this implementation seems to carve out a zone of preferential treatment for homosexuals.

If the argument is that the behavior connected with sexual orientation rises to the same level of protection as genuinely immutable characteristics such as sex and race, and constitutionally protected behavior such as religion, then all of … Continue reading →

Religious not Agrarian Impulse to Civilization

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Ten thousand year old structures easily world’s oldest, help debunk Communist narrative about “agrarian revolution” triggering civilization.

On a hilltop in Southern Turkey, researchers have found evidence that civilization is older and more subtle than we have admitted.  Read the article for more information, but the find is seven thousand years older than the great pyramids.  On top of a hill.  With no local stone.  And nobody lived there.  Or even grew crops.

The assemblage was built some 11,600 years ago, seven millennia before the Great Pyramid of Giza. It contains the oldest known temple. Indeed, Göbekli Tepe is the oldest known example of monumental architecture—the first structure human beings put together that was bigger and more complicated than a hut. When these … Continue reading →