Hijab Barbie Is Totally The Way To Stick It To Trump Or Something

By William Teach November 24, 2017 – 10:30 am

Yeah, nothing like propagating a symbol of repression and misogyny to #Resist, coming from the same sort of people who denounce Christianity and Judaism

Hijab Barbie: Perfect Christmas gift for non-Muslim parents who want to stick it to Trump

Meet hijab Barbie — just in time for Christmas! Talk about mixed messages.

Mattel Inc. has introduced a devout Muslim version of the popular Barbie doll, inspired by American Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad. She has brown eyes and dark skin, dresses modestly and has long dark hair in a bun that you can’t see.

Some conservatives have criticized Mattel for hijab Barbie. Yes, it is obviously a nod to political correctness and a transparent attempt to keep the Barbie franchise edgy. Muslim modesty is in, both as a fashion and political statement. And the political angle is why we are unlikely to see other avatars of feminine modesty such as evangelical Barbie wearing a cross or frum Orthodox Jewish Barbie in her sheitel. How about Amish Barbie? Buggy sold separately.

Is there a big demand for hijab Barbie? Mattel thinks so. One obvious market for the doll is the liberal, non-Muslim parent who wants to make a statement to the world about tolerance and intersectionality.

In other words, buy it to virtue signal that you…..support intolerance towards and subjugation of women in Islam.

This is the kind of person who dresses a baby boy in pink to trap the unwary into an uncomfortable/sanctimonious discussion about gender roles. These parents will have a special glow of virtue about them in the checkout line. In fact, they will make a special effort to go to the mall instead of ordering online so they can chat up the patient checkout person about the social importance of their purchase.

See, it’s not about actual support, it’s about thinking that this makes oneself superior. Just a bunch of smug elitists being narcissistic.

Mattel says hijab Barbie is about empowerment. And yes, in recent decades Barbie has been all about feeding aspirations. Small children have big dreams. The real life-changing empowerment might come when Muslim girls in traditional homes make the choice to take Barbie’s hijab off — and leave it off.

No mention of beatings for taking the hijab off, or things like honor killings.

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Illegal Alien “Dreamers” Attempt To Ruin Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade

By William Teach November 24, 2017 – 7:21 am

What better way to attempt to sway people to your plight than to ruin an event people wanted to watch with their kids?

(NorthJersey.com) Several people were removed Thursday after they attempted to block the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade as part of a protest to press lawmakers to pass legislation that would allow undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children to stay in the country without fear of deportation.

Protesters demonstrated near West 70th Street and Central Park West on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Several demonstrators attempted to block the parade but were removed by New York police. None was charged.

The demonstration was organized by the Seed Project, a nonviolent organization that aims to be a voice for undocumented immigrant youth and bring them permanent protection from removal.

Great idea: let’s annoy people. A better one would be to ask nicely, rather than demanding.

Among those who demonstrated was 26-year old Osvaldo Rodriguez from Red Bank, a DACA recipient. Rodriguez was born in Mexico and moved to New Jersey when he was 11 years old. He graduated from high school in New Jersey, went to college for a few semesters and now owns a photography business. Rodriguez said he loves baseball, has adapted to the American culture and its values and feels American.

“We just want to give back to this country what this country has given us,” Rodriguez said before the demonstration.

Rodriguez said he wanted to participate in Thursday’s action to draw attention to the situation and the looming deadline that DACA recipients are facing.

That deadline is on them. They shouldn’t be here. And they can blame Obama for instituting an un-Constitutional program which gave these illegals false hope.

“This is the only way that we are going to shift the mindset of people, because we are doing nonviolence,” he said. “When people are sharing a meal in their homes, there are families that are being separated, and there is no reason why, whether you are poor or rich, you should be separated.”

Families are separated all the time when a member is busted for a crime and has to do time. Regardless, the more the illegals like the Dreamers pull stunts the more people are hardened against giving them a chance. If your friend, child, spouse, etc, are browbeating you to do something, are you more or less likely to listen and do that thing? That’s right, less.

Meanwhile, in Canada, “immigrants” are, shockingly, not all that likely to assimilate by learning French in the province of Quebec.

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Warmist Monbiot: We Need To Stop Living Modern Lives To Solve ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach November 24, 2017 – 7:04 am

Crazy George Monbiot attempts to couch this in “environmental” terms as a placeholder for his real Belief in anthropogenic climate change, and, he does have a few points regarding over-consumption, let’s be honest, but, at the end, it’s all about changing the whole system

Too right it’s Black Friday: our relentless consumption is trashing the planet

Everyone wants everything – how is that going to work? The promise of economic growth is that the poor can live like the rich and the rich can live like the oligarchs. But already we are bursting through the physical limits of the planet that sustains us. Climate breakdown, soil loss, the collapse of habitats and species, the sea of plastic, insectageddon: all are driven by rising consumption. The promise of private luxury for everyone cannot be met: neither the physical nor the ecological space exists. (snip)

With every generation, the baseline of normalised consumption shifts. Thirty years ago, it was ridiculous to buy bottled water, where tap water is clean and abundant. Today, worldwide, we use a million plastic bottles a minute.

Every Friday is a Black Friday, every Christmas a more garish festival of destruction. Among the snow saunas, portable watermelon coolers and smartphones for dogs with which we are urged to fill our lives, my #extremecivilisation prize now goes to the PancakeBot: a 3D batter printer that allows you to eat the Mona Lisa, the Taj Mahal, or your dog’s bottom every morning. In practice, it will clog up your kitchen for a week until you decide you don’t have room for it. For junk like this, we’re trashing the living planet, and our own prospects of survival. Everything must go.

He kinda has a point, right? Interestingly, his Warmists brethren are pretty bad at practicing what they preach

The ancillary promise is that, through green consumerism, we can reconcile perpetual growth with planetary survival. But a series of research papers reveal there is no significant difference between the ecological footprints of people who care and people who don’t. One recent article, published in the journal Environment and Behaviour, says those who identify themselves as conscious consumers use more energy and carbon than those who do not.

Well, now, that’s a heck of thing, isn’t it? That “green” consumers are hypocrites. Regardless, Monbiot attempts to go to blame “the Rich”, whom he apparently believes are middle class and up, if we read on. They’re bad, because they recycle and stuff, then take fossil fueled flights for vacations. What he recommends is decoupling, which, in practical terms, means killing off growth

A global growth rate of 3% means that the size of the world economy doubles every 24 years. This is why environmental crises are accelerating at such a rate. Yet the plan is to ensure that it doubles and doubles again, and keeps doubling in perpetuity. In seeking to defend the living world from the maelstrom of destruction, we might believe we are fighting corporations and governments and the general foolishness of humankind. But they are all proxies for the real issue: perpetual growth on a planet that is not growing.

It’s always interesting when Warmists trot down the road to doing away with any form of capitalism for their cult, even as they beat around the bush to say it.

Green consumerism, material decoupling, sustainable growth: all are illusions, designed to justify an economic model that is driving us to catastrophe. The current system, based on private luxury and public squalor, will immiserate us all: under this model, luxury and deprivation are one beast with two heads.

We need a different system, rooted not in economic abstractions but in physical realities, that establish the parameters by which we judge its health. We need to build a world in which growth is unnecessary, a world of private sufficiency and public luxury. And we must do it before catastrophe forces our hand.

If you read that last link, it is all about government being in charge. They build the swimming pools and such for the public to use. There would be no private ones. But, oh, they would all be controlled by “communities”. Basically, this is all an outshoot of Marxist theory. They do not care about the environment nor ‘climate change’: they’re merely excuses to initiate a far left economic system with government control.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 23, 2017 – 2:04 pm

…is a horrible carbon pollution producing turkey, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Creeping Sharia, with a post on Islamism and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

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Happy Thanksgiving Pinup!

By William Teach November 23, 2017 – 9:52 am

All links were ones up at the time of posting. Happy Thanksgiving to all of you out there. Enjoy the day!

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CoC: Go Ahead And Start That Thanksgiving Fight On ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach November 23, 2017 – 7:43 am

Happy Thanksgiving! Nothing says “a lovely gathering of friends and family” like intentionally starting a fight

Go Ahead and Start a Climate Change Debate at the Thanksgiving Table

When you pass the turkey gravy on Thursday consider stuffing a hunk of climate change discourse down your uncle Jeb’s gullet.

Let him stew until he’s good and fermented, then agitate as needed to see the fruits of your labor.

If you’re passionate about the subject, don’t let Thanksgiving get in the way of trying to change the minds of your loved ones.

That’s according to some experts, who say that family gatherings like the one about to take place are a great opportunity to change the minds of those close to you.

“Conversations among family members and friends are more likely than messages from experts and pundits to lead to us finding common ground on climate change and beyond,” states an article on Tuesday in Scientific American.

When you’re advising that people “stuffing discourse” down a relative’s throat and letting him stew (getting him angry), you aren’t looking for a conversation, you’re looking for a fight. People love listening when people start fights and get abusive, am I right? You listen to that, right?

We also have

Fortunately, the Daily Beast has movies to recommend

Look, times are tough.

The world appears to be coming apart at the seams, as climate change continues to wreak havoc on the environment, and every morning you’re stirred awake by the 280-character ravings (often targeting black people) of an orange, cotton candy-haired man-child. On top of all that, you’re headed home for Thanksgiving, where a two-beers-deep confrontation with your not-so-tolerant relatives and/or in-laws looms.

In times like these, your local cinema offers a much-needed refuge: two whole hours to escape into a world of make-believe, while stuffing your face full of buttered popcorn.

Could it possibly be that the people who are the real intolerant ones are the ones starting these arguments? Yes. My recommendation for conversations? Kill them with kindness, if you engage. Give them a lot of “that’s nice’s” and “uh-huh’s”.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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You Too Can Have A Woke Thanksgiving If You’re Unhinged

By William Teach November 22, 2017 – 3:58 pm

This comes yet again from the unhinged tools at Newsweek, which is now apparently attempting to compete with Slate and Salon for nuttiest web outlet

https://twitter.com/WilliamTeach/status/933315894813560832

From the link

Media outlets have taken notice and are offering quick guidelines on how to best avoid stirring the pot on Turkey Day. But Thanksgiving offers a unique opportunity to civically engage with those closest to us. It’s the dirty work all democracies depend on. So, in an effort to promote thoughtful discussion, here’s Newsweek’s guide to having a conscious, or “woke”, Thanksgiving.

Here are the ideas (you can hit the link if you want the moonbat details

  • Center the struggles facing Native American communities. (you know, those people far, far away that Liberals never see and never meet in places liberals would never go)
  • Volunteer at a local food drive or soup kitchen—and then keep doing it. (this is the kind of thing Christians do just because, not because they are attempting to make themselves feel smug and superior)
  • Climate change is real, so don’t waste food. (better yet, don’t eat)
  • The NFL hid the truth about concussion for decades. Don’t let them get away with it. (well, certainly, this is a real issue. The suggestion here is to nag everyone with it.)
  • The problem is much bigger than Donald Trump. (so, nag everyone about the GOP, tax cuts for the rich, refusing to do amnesty, etc. Better yet, send a check to the IRS and take a bunch of illegals in to your own casa)

So, there you go. A woke T-giving.

BTW, over at the Washington Post, Jeb Lund advises to skip all the guides to arguing with your relatives and friends on Thanksgiving. Even as he positions it from a leftist moonbat #resist POV, he makes sense.

And, unless I run across something really, really good, no more politics, immigration, climate change, etc posts till Friday. Everything will be something else.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 22, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil carbon producing turkey, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is A View From The Beach, with a post on the IRS scoundrels wanting the evidence of their crimes hidden.

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Dreamers On Hunger Strike Till Thanksgiving For Clean Amnesty Bill

By William Teach November 22, 2017 – 10:48 am

Remember back in the beginning of October when I mentioned that illegal alien “Dreamers” and their supporters were starting to make noise in favor of a “clean immigration bill”, where the bill would only be about giving legalized status on the way to amnesty, and not include any sort of border security or anything else?

(Breitbart) Illegal aliens shielded from deportation under the President Obama-created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program are staging a hunger strike in the days leading up to Thanksgiving Day.

The group of illegal aliens from New Jersey have promised to not eat until Thanksgiving, according to WNYC, while they lobby Republican members of Congress to pass an amnesty for the nearly 800,000 DACA recipients in the U.S.

“I’m sitting here looking at my last meal and trying to imagine what my meals would be like if I was sent back to Mexico,” DACA illegal alien Adriana Delgado told WNYC.

“People think that I’m crazy for doing this hunger strike but I’m willing to suffer for three days if it means not suffering for a lifetime,” Delgado continued. “There will be thousands of families who will have broken dinner tables if nothing is done.”

But not willing to suffer through Thanksgiving. According to most articles. Only one, down at the end of this post, says different

The group of illegal aliens is demanding an unconditional amnesty that permanently allows all DACA recipients to remain in the United States and puts them on a pathway to citizenship, when they can eventually bring their foreign relatives to the U.S. as well.

The DACA recipients say they are not satisfied with an amnesty that ties the legalization of potentially 3.3 million eligible illegal aliens to pro-American immigration reforms like an end to chain migration or the termination of the Diversity Visa Lottery.

Over to the WNYC article cited

According to Make The Road NJ, which is organizing the hunger strike, the dreamers will be staying at a church all week and visiting the offices of the five New Jersey Republicans in Congress. Advocates want a “clean” bill passed by Congress that is not tied to conservative immigration proposals, like funding for more deportations or construction of a larger wall on the Mexican border.

The Trentonian (Trenton, NJ) features this photo at the beginning of an opinion piece (which also makes the claim that they are staying on hunger strike through Thanksgiving, and is the only one to do so)

As I noted back in October

This is the exact kind of thing that will cause people who are willing to consider some sort of legal option (I would support Rand Paul’s legislation, though there are still a few issues) to turn away. The illegals want to have their cake and eat it too. If there are no border protections, no measures to reduce illegal immigration, no penalties, all those who are open to a compromise will turn away, including more than enough elected Republicans who will vote any sort of “clean bill” down.

And then where will you be, illegals/Dreamers? Calling for legislation that gives you everything while enabling even more illegal immigration is not the answer. If legalization for Dreamers fails, this will be on you. You really shouldn’t be given any sort of legalization pathway. Do you want to destroy the change to get one? Choose wisely.

We are not going to give up amnesty for nothing in return. And people here illegally do not get to dictate what should happen. They should be asking nicely, not demanding.

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There’s A Climate (scam) Dark Side Behind Your Thanksgiving Or Something

By William Teach November 22, 2017 – 7:52 am

Yet another in a long line of unhinged, shrieking, annoying, deranged bat-guano insane articles on Thanksgiving. Which will be recycled for Christmas, you know

Behind the delicious foods, Thanksgiving has a dark side

The shame of chowing down enough turkey to feed an entire village of Pilgrims isn’t the only reason to feel guilty this Thanksgiving. The environmental impact of a turkey feast for eight is approximately 44 pounds of carbon dioxide, a gas that contributes significantly to global warming. At the root cause of all this damage are a few of the staples that make up our dinner table this Thursday.

1. Gobble gobbling up the Earth’s atmosphere

About 60 percent of the Thanksgiving carbon footprint comes from the life cycle of the turkey alone. Though red meat like beef generates the greatest amount of greenhouse gases, farm-raised poultry like turkey is still considered to be “high impact.”

If you couldn’t care less about climate change (or remain one of those that deny its existence), something to take into consideration is the tremendous amount of waste involved in making a turkey dinner. It’ll takes at least 915,200 barrels of oil to produce and ship all the turkeys Americans eat, according to the Center for Food Safety.

So if you’re feeling a bit guilty this Thursday, pardon the turkey, make less of it and try composting your table scraps.

Notice that Climahysteric Kirthi Dronamraju doesn’t recommend “don’t have turkey if you believe in anthropogenic climate change.” As typical, Warmists are advised to just make a token amend afterwards.

Kirthi also tells us about all the evil carbon pollution from planes, trains, and automobiles for the trips taken. No recommendation for Warmists to just stay home.

Your “beige foods”, meaning all the sides, are bad, as well, because of all the road miles. But, hey, you can go to your local fancy, expensive, local farmer’s market and get the veggies there. Though, according to Kirthi, you’ll pay a whole lot more. I guess that’s something in Liberal World areas. The farmer’s market’s down here are not expensive.

And then we’re on to food waste. Well, yes, this is a real issue. Recycling and composting are nice, but, good luck composting in a Leftist run city, which often have laws against doing this within city limits, because it can be dirty and smelly. Environmentally, limiting food waste is a good idea. It’s also good for your pocketbook

While you’re composting your biodegradable scraps instead of sending them away to landfills, consider going completely paperless at the table. Stick with reusable forks, knives, spoons, plates and glasses, as well as cloth napkins (not paper ones) and tablecloths. And rather than throwing away meals, freeze or recycle them for delicious leftovers.

It’s so tedious that Warmists hijack real environmental issues for their own unhinged purposes. It’s also tedious that they have to ruin everything, especially holidays, with their climate scam rants.

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