Category Archives: Hypocrites & Hypocrisy

Hypocrisy, Writ in Yellow in the Snow

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Companies are pulling out of North Carolina for that new segregation law, HB2. Social media is atwitter with peeps calling out those companies for not pulling out of countries with human rights violations.

An 'All Genders' bathroom in Kentucky

Pot. Kettle.

If you want to stop doing business with those countries, folks, go right ahead. Don’t buy from Walmart. Or Target. Or the Dollar Store. Or Peebles or Nordstrum or Costco. Don’t buy a new television or a new sound system or an Apple iPhone. Don’t buy a lithium battery. Every store on the list buys from countries with human rights violations. Every one. All your electronics gear has components from countries with human rights violations. Every one. Don’t buy a new car. Every new car has castings made in China. Every one.

North Carolina’s HB2, passed in minutes by the General Assembly and signed that same night by Gov. Pat McCrory, nullifies local ordinances around the state. The new “Public Facilities Segregation Act” makes it illegal for cities to pass ordinances that regulate discrimination and more.

“…this Article and other applicable provisions of the General Statutes supersede and preempt any ordinance, regulation, resolution, or policy adopted or imposed by a unit of local government or other political subdivision of the State…”

North Carolina’s new law sets a statewide definition of the classes of people who are protected against discrimination: race, religion, color, national origin, age, handicap or biological sex. Sexual orientation is not protected under state law despite recent the legalization of same-sex marriage.

All Conservatives and Libertarians should boycott North Carolina, too. After all, HB2 is, more than anything else, another law in the Conservative arsenal to wrest local control away from the local voters.

The photo is from a building in Kentucky.

 

He Had a Wide Stance

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Bruce Springsteen canceled his North Carolina show to protest the bathroom law.

Mr. Springsteen and the E Street Band were booked in the Greensboro Coliseum yesterday. 15,000 ticket holders will all be eligible for a refund.

Gov. Pat McCrory (R-NC) signed the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act, HB2, last month after the North Carolina General Assembly called a special session to push the law through after the Charlotte City Council passed a non-discrimination ordinance.

“[The abominable Charlotte act] allows grown men to share bathrooms and locker facilities with girls and women,” one North Carolina Repuglican said.

Be very afraid!

The newly enacted law requires individuals to use bathrooms that correspond to the gender on their birth certificate.

“To my mind, it’s an attempt by people who cannot stand the progress our country has made in recognizing the human rights of all of our citizens to overturn that progress,” Mr. Springsteen said in a statement.

Update:
PayPal pulled 400 jobs from North Carolina. Braeburn Pharma is pulling out. The NBA All Star game probably won’t happen in NC. Some 100 national companies have decried the law.

“F**k Springsteen,” my friend Dino Russell said. “Wanna see what sex you identify with? Look in your underwear.”

Dino is a world traveler so I’m pretty sure he has peed and pooped in Europe. I didn’t know he much cared then if the next guy was male, female, both, or anything in between.

“I don’t give a crap for me,” he said. “My daughters and granddaughters presumably do and I do give a crap if the next guy over is, well, a guy with his cellphone on the floor looking up her snatch. Or whatever. Bad enough they have to deal with the weirdos of their own sex.”

Pfui. It’s Victorian. We need to get over the legal idea that there’s something secret or dirty about our bodies.

“You are being stupid,” he said. “This is an issue of increased potential for rape. Pull your head out of your ass.”

In case you missed it, please notice a number of bathroom references here.

I’m being stupid about yet another salvo in Conservative attempts to wrest local control away from the local voters.

Liz Arden gives us a few points that Dino and the other ostriches would do well to understand.

a) Just because someone thinks they’re female or homosexual or asexual or nonsexual does not mean they are pervs who will violate your person or your privacy.

b) There are pervs who will violate your daughters’ and granddaughters’ privacy and threaten their sense of safety and well-being. Period. They could be sitting next to you in church.

c) North Carolina and the other states don’t care a whit about pervs with cellphones in bathrooms. They care about competition in the bathrooms. Oh, yeah. And they care about catering to the emotional idiocy of people and the Sharia belief that they can impose their religious interpretation on everyone within 10 feet of them. Or within 3,000 miles.

How many rapes happen in the famed Parisian unisex public toilets?

How many by transgender folk or even cross dressers?

Weirdos are weirdos. A person who genuinely feels they are female despite having XY chromosomes and penises, well, that weirdness does not in the slightest threaten Dino, his wife, his daughters, his granddaughters, nor any other human being on the planet.

Unless they are carrying an axe like, say, Carrie Nation. Or the lawmakers who passed HB2 or HB 1523. Then be very afraid.

Dino’s daughters and granddaughters would do well to understand that. Dino would do well to understand that. There are already laws banning pervs from being in the bathroom looking up the little girls’ snatches. Or raping them.

Update:
Bryan Adams has canceled his show at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum this Thursday, because that state’s new “Religious Liberty” Act, HB 1523, discriminates against gay couples or members of the LGBT community.

We gotta get over the legal idea that there’s something secret or dirty about our bodies.

It’s tough, though.

He merely had a “wide stance.”

A (now-former) Republican senator pled guilty to a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge after his arrest at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Former Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) had been caught flat-footed by a police detective investigating lewd behavior in an airport men’s room. His 28 ultra conservative years in Congress, years spent fighting gay rights at every turn, put him in second place in Idaho history, behind only Sen. William Borah (R-ID).

Former Sen. Craig barred extension of rights to same-sex couples. He voted “yes” on an Idaho constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages. He voted against extending the federal definition of hate crimes to cover sexual orientation. And so on.

Who’s making odds on how Former Sen. Craig would have voted on HB2 or HB 1523?

For the record, I’m OK with Balian Buschbaum (formerly Yvonne Buschbaum) or Erik Schinegger (formerly Erika Schinegger), Jaiyah Saelua (formerly Johnny Saelua), Mianne Bagger (formerly Michael Bagger), or Caster Semenya (formerly Caster Semenya) sharing the restroom with me or with my great-granddaughters. Caitlyn Jenner (formerly Bruce), though, I’m not so sure of.

“Buncha pansies who think it strikes too close to home,” Miz Arden said.

And there you have it.

 

Not Lion

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My Liberal friends are very afraid.

Cowards need everyone else to be cowardly.

My Liberal friends are afraid of all the things that are little real danger.
My Liberal friends embrace all the actors who would kill them.

Example 1 (murder):
Wesley Cook who took the name Mumia Abu-Jamal murdered Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. Mr. Cook was convicted and sentenced to death in 1982. End of story, right?

The black nationalist and member of the Black Panther Party became the cause célèbre of activists and actors and liberal groups so our Liberal friends invited this murderer to give the commencement addresses at Antioch College and Goddard College.

“Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.”
— George Bernard Shaw

Example 2 (mayhem):
Payton Head grew up on Chicago’s South Side where black murderers killed 282 other blacks by mid-year. Mr. Head enrolled in the University of Missouri where someone called him the n-word. They didn’t shoot him dead. They didn’t beat him senseless. They called him names. He ran for and won election as class president.

Our Liberal friends were so afraid of the n-word that they forced Mizzou’s president to resign.

“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

Examples 3 (murder):
The four coordinated September 11 attacks were committed by Islamic terrorists. A homegrown Islamic jihadist fatally shot a Canadian soldier on ceremonial sentry duty at Parliament Hill in Ottawa in 2014. 20 died in the mass Islamic terrorist murders at Charlie Hebdo. At least 129 people have died at six separate sites in the Islamic terrorist massacre Paris last week.

“Canadians know acts such as these committed in the name of Islam are an aberration of your faith…” Justin Trudeau said in an address to Parliament just after the Ottawa attack.

“I just hope that people realize that once again this was not the action of innocent Muslims who want peace in the world as much as we do,” a Liberal friend wrote immediately after the Paris murders.

“Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.”
–Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Example 4 (control):
The Independence USA PAC targets politicians with millions in television ads to scare you.

“Joe Baca sided with polluters voting for a dirty water bill…” Michael “I’m a bully and proud of it” Bloomberg proclaimed in his Independence USA ad aired days before the 2012 elections. He took aim at two candidates in Illinois because the NRA gave them each an “A.” He calls Florida’s Pam Bondi “an attorney general for polluters, not for us” because she joined a majority of U.S. states to sue the EPA for their overreaching new regulation.

“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.”
— Thucydides

Mr. Baca called the ad “gutter politics at its worst” but it’s more. It’s a fear campaign.

We’re made to fear “pollution.” When that loses its edge, we’re made to fear “guns.” When that loses its edge, we’re made to fear “global warming.”

“Carbon will fucking kill you,” Mr. Bloomberg would have you believe in these latest ads. So where is the Independence USA ad showing the EPA as polluters, Mr. Bloomberg?

Liberals take control by making the rest of us fearful, not by giving us the facts.

Note: My very Liberal editor requires the following caveat — This rant applies only to those Liberal politicians who bend over for terrorists and the fellow travelers who elect and support and nurture them. My other Liberal friends are no more cowardly than the rest of us. Other than in their choice of politics. And, yes, I know that Audie Murphy was probably a Democrat.

 

Flag on the Play

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Flags of Conquered CountriesI’m a Yankee. My mother was born to a quiet Quaker lady whose father was an abolitionist. Still, I have no dog in this fight except one: Freedom of speech and expression in the United States is protected as our first and most fundamental Right. I also have one or two observations:

• The U.S. bested Great Britain in more than one war. The Union Jack still flies.
• The U.S. bested the Cherokee in the Chickamauga war. The Cherokee Nation banner still flies.
• The U.S. bested Eyalet of Tripolitania and the Sultanate of Morocco in the First Barbary War. The Royal Standard of Morocco still flies. The flag of Ottoman Tripolitania flew until 1911 when the seeds of Libya were sewn.
• The U.S. bested Spain in more than one war. The flag of Spain still flies (adopted in its current version in 1978).
• The U.S. bested Regency of Algiers in war. The flag of Algieria still flies.
• The U.S. and the Republic of Texas bested the Comanche Nation in war. The flag of the Comanche still flies.
• The U.S. bested Greek pirates in the Aegean Sea Operations. The flag of Greece still flies.
• The U.S. bested Fiji, Samoa, and Tabiteuea in an “Exploring Expedition.” The flags of the Republic of Fiji, the Independent State of Samoa, and the land of no chiefs still fly.
• The U.S. bested Mexico in the Mexican-American War. The Mexican still flies.
• The British Empire, France, and the U.S. finally bested the Qing Dynasty in war. The flag of the Qing Dynasty flew until 1912.
• The U.S. bested the Confederate States in war. The Confederate Battle Standard still flies. Oh. Wait.
• The U.S. allies bested China again in the Boxer Rebellion. The flag of the Qing Dynasty flew until 1912.
• The U.S. bested Germany and Mexico in the Mexico-United States border war. The flag of the German Empire flew until 1918.
• The U.S. bested Germany and Nicaraguan Liberals in war. The Republic of Nicaragua’s flag still flies.
• The U.S. bested Germany in more than one war. The flag of Germany still flies (adopted in its current version in 1949).
• The U.S. bested Japan in war. The Rising Sun still flies.
• The U.S. and Jamaica bested Grenada in war. The national flag of Grenada still flies.
• The U.S. deposed Manuel Noriega and bested Panama in war. The Panamanian flag still flies.
• The U.S. and allies deposed Muammar Gaddafi and bested Tripoli in war. The Libyan flag still flies.
• The U.S. bested Iraq in war. The Iraqis have had many flags; at least one may still be flying.
• Vietnam bested the U.S. in war. The American flag still flies (adopted in its current version in 1960).