…is a horrible carbon spewing stadium, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is The Daley Gator, with a post on a veteran’s family wanting the Obama admin to treat them as well as illegal aliens.
BTW, she throws better than Obama.
Read: If All You See… »
Bruce Springsteen decides to belatedly join the “pro-gender confused in whatever bathroom/shower/locker room they choose that day” crowd
(WTVD) Bruce Springsteen canceled Sunday’s concert in Greensboro, citing HB2 and the rights of LGBT citizens.
Springsteen wrote in a statement to fans that the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act is “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.”
Springsteen apologized to his fans on his website and tweeted a link to his entire statement. Tickets will be refunded at point of purchase.
So, rather than uphold his commitment, he has a hissy fit and cancels, in what is surely just a way to patronize certain people. His full statement
As you, my fans, know I’m scheduled to play in Greensboro, North Carolina this Sunday. As we also know, North Carolina has just passed HB2, which the media are referring to as the “bathroom” law. HB2 – known officially as the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act – dictates which bathrooms transgender people are permitted to use. Just as important, the law also attacks the rights of LGBT citizens to sue when their human rights are violated in the workplace. No other group of North Carolinians faces such a burden. 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. Right now, there are many groups, businesses, and individuals in North Carolina working to oppose and overcome these negative developments. Taking all of this into account, I feel that this is a time for me and the band to show solidarity for those freedom fighters. As a result, and with deepest apologies to our dedicated fans in Greensboro, we have canceled our show scheduled for Sunday, April 10th. Some things are more important than a rock show and this fight against prejudice and bigotry – which is happening as I write – is one of them. It is the strongest means I have for raising my voice in opposition to those who continue to push us backwards instead of forwards.
A question for Bruce: will he demand that every venue he plays from now on have a policy that allows the transgendered to use the bathroom of their gender identity? How about anywhere else he goes? Restaurants, bars, golf clubs, gyms, stores, etc? If not, then this cancellation is simply narcissistic bloviating. Every company I’ve asked as to their TG bathroom policies has refused to answer, barring one bar in Durham.
You can ask Bruce that question here.
An associated issue is the lack of penalty, which I’ve been discussing on Twitter
@WilliamTeach Agreed, but we now have a bathroom law specifying who can use which public bathroom, but no associated penalty for violation
— Barry Nash (@barryonash) April 9, 2016
The point of HB2 is not to penalize transgenders, it is to restrict government. Any privately owned area can allow their own policies on the subject. The policy for government buildings is set for all levels of NC government, which says you go to the bathroom, locker room, and shower of your biological sex. But, why no penalties? Because this is all about rolling back the power of the government to force social compliance on private entities and citizens. It creates choice. Something Liberals apparently only like when it comes to aborting a baby.
Meanwhile, for all the liberals caterwauling about hate, discrimination, sexism, etc, they refuse to decry radical Islam.
Well, no, of course not, the Editorial Board is Very Upset over a Donald Trump fundraiser
Mr. Trump Reopens the Wounds of a Hate Crime
Donald Trump is scheduled to speak at a Republican Party fund-raiser on Thursday in Patchogue, a village on the south shore of Long Island, about 60 miles from Manhattan.
This is a wretched development, a disgraceful provocation by the Suffolk County Republicans and their chairman, John Jay LaValle, who invited him.
There is no place that should welcome Mr. Trump’s politics, but the choice of Patchogue is particularly repellent. Patchogue is where Marcelo Lucero, an Ecuadorean immigrant, was fatally stabbed in 2008 by a white teenager, one of a marauding gang of high school boys who had made a nighttime sport of assaulting Latino men. The Republicans will be toasting Mr. Trump in a dance hall called the Emporium, on the same street as the crime scene, steps away from where Mr. Lucero fell.
That attack helped to identify Long Island with vicious anti-immigrant attitudes and violence. After the killing, scores of Latino residents came forward to say that they, too, had been hunted and harassed by white youths for years. The Suffolk County Police Department had routinely ignored their complaints; widespread reports of racial profiling and other police abuses prompted a Justice Department investigation and oversight.
Why is there so much hate in a county that typically votes majority Democrat? And while the attack was certainly disgraceful, is the New York Times Editorial Board really advocating that no candidate should hold a campaign rally anywhere near where something shameful happened? Because that would leave lots of areas where Democrats cannot go. Hillary and Bernie support open borders and illegal aliens, even ones who have committed crimes. Well, a goodly chunk of California would be out of bounds, as would NY City and other areas. The Democrats are the party of the KKK, segregation, Jim Crow, and slavery. That means the majority of the South is out of bounds.
Of course, the NYTEB is not advocating any of that. They are simply manufacturing Apoplexy and Outrage. They create Offendedness for the sake of being Offended, because they despise Donald Trump. Seriously, there are many things to complain about when it comes to Trump: this is silly. But, then, this is what Democrats worry about. Things like ISIS, radical Islam, illegal aliens bringing crime and disease, tyrannical government, none of them seem to worry Democrats.
Crossed at Right Wing News.
Read: NY Times Calls For Democrats To Never Campaign Near Where An Illegal Alien Committed A Crime »
Whether or not you are a fan of Donald Trump, things like this should concern you
(NJ.com) Â A West Long Branch man has been ticketed for flying Donald Trump flags outside his home.
The police department says he’s in violation of a municipal ordinance prohibiting the display of lawn signs more than 30 days before an election.
The resident, Joseph Hornick, says the ordinance doesn’t apply to him because he’s flying flags — not displaying lawn signs. He contends banning his flags is a violation of his right to free speech.
The original article at NJ.com is here, and notes that he could be fined $2,000 for this, and that he will not give up. Nor should he. Hit either link to see the pictures of the flags, which do not say anything like “Elect Trump”. The poll at the first link is running around 88% in favor of Hornick. If the flag was for Hillary, Bernie, Obama, you name it, it should be allowed. This is our Free Speech.
…is a horrible capitalist field requiring vast amounts of non-renewable water, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Neo-neocon, with a post on America united.
Read: If All You See… »
Welcome to Pakistan, a nation heavy with Islamic terrorists, Taliban, and Islamic radicals and sympathizers. A nation that has been hit with numerous terrorist attacks, and is continuously trying to fend off radicalization. But, hey, Hotcoldwetdry
(Pakistan Observer) Adviser on Foreign affairs, Sartaj Aziz has stated that the climate change poses a greater danger to Pakistan than does terrorism. Massive floods, droughts in some areas while heavy rains in the other areas are some effects of climate change. Another aspect of climate change is heat wave that has badly affected Pakistan especially Sindh. In June 2015, a severe heat wave struck Sindh, particularly Karachi that put the citizens in adverse circumstances.
So, Hotcoldwetdry. In a nation that has had floods, droughts, etc, you know, weather, forever.
Frequent electric power break down and water shortage further added to their woes. In this dreadful situation the Provincial government was seen absolutely unresponsive and apathetic despite the warnings and predictions made by Met office. It could be witnessed in the failure of government hospitals to treat the patients of heat strokes because of lack of ambulances and unavailability of other basic medical necessities. Heat wave together with above cited lapses led to the deaths of 2000 citizens.
Or, it could just be an incompetent government with an uneducated, backwards populace dreaming of their 72 virgins.
Of course, Warmists will immediately follow along with this meme, because they want to protect radical Islam with everything they have. This is the way they think. They’re more concerned with bathrooms for the gender confused over a large chunk of Islam treating women in a horrible manner.
Read: Climate Change Is Worse Than Terrorism Says Advisor Of Terrorist Country »
This is one those “self-awareness failures” Obama is well known for
(The Hill) President Obama on Thursday warned Democrats against adopting a “Tea Party mentality†that could lead to deep divisions within the party and harm its chances of winning national elections.
Following the rise of the Tea Party and Donald Trump, Obama said infighting within the Republican Party is much worse than it is on the Democratic side.
But he urged his party’s voters to be mindful of that danger in the midst of a heated primary battle between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
“The thing Democrats have to guard against is going in the direction that the Republicans are much further along on, and that is this sense ‘we are just going to get our way, and if we don’t, then we’ll cannibalize our own, kick them out and try again,’ †he said at a town-hall meeting with law students in Chicago.
In that scenario, Democrats could “stake out positions so extreme, they alienate the broad public,†Obama added. “I don’t see that being where the Democrats go, but it’s always something we have to pay attention to.†(snip)
“The danger, whether for Democrats or Republicans, is in a closed-loop system where everybody is just listening to the people who agree with them,†he said.
This is coming from a man who tends to listen only to his small circle of advisors. And donors. Can’t forget about them. What he’s advocating is that the Democrat big wigs not listen to the people who vote for them. Not listen to the base. I wholly endorse that idea. Remember, it was the Tea Party that propelled the GOP to regain the House in a historic beatdown of the Democrats in the 2010 midterms. And then more wins in the House in 2012 and gains in the Senate. Then taking back the Senate in 2014.
Of course, the Republican bigwigs mostly failed to listen to the Tea Party afterwards, much as they’ve relied on the Conservative base to get out the vote then ignored us.
“A lot of Democrats supported me and still support me got frustrated is because a bunch of the country doesn’t agree with me or them and they have votes too. And they elect members of Congress. That’s how our democracy works,” Obama said.
“If you don’t get everything you want, it’s not always because the person you elected sold you out,” he continued. “It may just be because in our system, you end up taking half loaves.”
O actually has a point on this. That is politics. Sometimes you have to give a little to get a little. Sometimes you have to compromise. You can’t always get what you want, especially in a big country with over 300 million people who will have differing priorities based on political views and location. There’s a reason why the federal government was not meant to be so strong. States tend to be as big or bigger than many nations around the world, especially the European ones at the time the Constitution was written.
But, it is cute that O yammers on about democracy and half loaves when he’s laid out a my way or the highway vision during his period in office and tends to act that way with regulation and rules.
Read: Man Who Lives In Bubble Tells Dems Not To Listen To People In Bubble »
Did you see the video of Bill Clinton having one heck of an argument with Black Lives Matters screechers? Slate’s Excitable Michelle Goldberg is incensed over Billy Jeff daring to respond back, and wants the Hillary campaign to fire him
Fire Bill Clinton
No one is doing more damage to Hillary’s campaign than her husband.I wonder if there’s a part of Bill Clinton that doesn’t really want Hillary Clinton to become president, particularly if she has to distance herself from his legacy to do so. How else to explain why one of the world’s most talented and agile politicians is so consistently flat-footed and destructive when advocating on his wife’s behalf? How else to explain his terrible and destined-to-be-viral confrontation Thursday with Black Lives Matter protesters in Philadelphia?
It started when the demonstrators interrupted Bill Clinton’s speech to protest his draconian 1994 crime bill, which, among other things, expanded the scope of the death penalty, enshrined “three-strikes†provisions into federal law, and allocated almost $10 billion in funding for prison construction. That bill is now widely seen as contributing to the human catastrophe of mass incarceration. Hillary Clinton is proposing a diametrically different approach to criminal justice, and even Bill Clinton renounced the law last year, though today, bafflingly, he went back to defending it.
And how did he defend it?
“I don’t know how you would characterize the gang leaders who got 13-year-olds hopped up on crack and sent them out into the street to murder other African American children,†he shouted at the protesters. “Maybe you thought they were good citizens. She didn’t. She didn’t! You are defending the people who kill the lives you say matter.†The crowd cheered, but most Hillary supporters who watch it online will be aghast, if only out of political self-interest. Right-wing outlets like the Daily Caller and the Weekly Standard rushed, naturally, to post video of Bill’s hectoring.
So, it’s apparently a horrible thing in Liberal World to want to get the people who feed crack to kids and turn them into members of gangs who go out and kill (much of the law in question was about reducing and cracking down on the growing gang activity). By all the complaints from liberals, one would get the idea that they prefer the young black kids on crack and killing.
At a time when Hillary Clinton is dependent on black voters and campaigning with mothers who’ve lost sons to police violence, Bill Clinton yoked her to his own discredited policies. He reminded everyone that, in defense of his bill, she’d once spoken about underage “superpredators,†language she has since apologized for. Then, Bill Clinton aped the maddening right-wing tendency to derail conversations about criminal justice abuses by invoking black-on-black crime. He might as well have said, “All lives matter!â€
Goldberg is referring to this part
The former president noted that Hillary had nothing to do with his reforms, but defended them anyways. “Because of that bill, we had a 25-year low in crime, a 33-year low in the murder rate, and listen to this, because of that and the background check law, a 46-year low in the deaths of people of gun violence. And how do you think those lives were, that mattered? Whose lives were saved, that mattered?â€
How horrible! Giving stats of reducing crime, which affected the Black community. For this, Goldberg wants him fired, and ended her missive with that exactly.
Of course, Bill is correct on two points. There is a big problem with what is termed Black In Origin (Black on Black) crime which far outpaces any other same-on-same crime. Of the well over 300 murders in Baltimore in 2015, very few were of any other race, and very few were committed by any other race. The same goes for Chicago and other Democratic Party run cities. BLM doesn’t like to discuss this crime, and also calls it a myth. How do you fix something if you don’t acknowledge the problem?
Bill also characterized BLM as being against free speech. He was entirely correct on that point, as well.
Crossed at Right Wing News.
Read: Bill Clinton Is A Horrible Person For Telling The Truth Regarding Black On Black Crime Or Something »
Apparently, it’s a day for lists of questions. Let’s jump into another
Via @DailySignal's @KatrinaTrinko: 8 Questions for @PayPal on Its Decision to Boycott N. Carolina https://t.co/aTcxiLDc2Y #ncpol #ncga #HB2
— Sister Toldjah ???? (@sistertoldjah) April 7, 2016
Here’s bit from the article
Mr. Schulman,
On Tuesday, you announced PayPal, where you are the president and CEO, was no longer going to open a new operations center in Charlotte, N.C.,  because “legislation has been abruptly enacted by the state of North Carolina that invalidates protections of the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender citizens and denies these members of our community equal rights under the law.â€
I have a few questions for you about PayPal’s decision.
1 North Carolina’s new law would ensure that public multi-occupancy bathrooms—not bathrooms controlled by private companies or individuals, such as the PayPal bathrooms—correspond  to a person’s biological sex as listed on their birth certificates (which can be changed). Why does PayPal object to that? Does PayPal believe that providing LGBT Americans “equal rights under the law†requires allowing people who are biologically male to use women’s bathrooms?
7 You wrote in your statement that “the new law perpetuates discrimination.†Does PayPal intend to leave and/or not start company operations in states such as Oregon, where Aaron and Melissa Klein paid a $135,000 fine for not baking a cake for a same-sex couple, or New York, where Robert and Cynthia Gifford have been forced to change their wedding business because they won’t host same-sex weddings at their home? If not, why? What kinds of discrimination does PayPal oppose, and does it include discrimination that people of faith face in America?
Here’s another one: will PayPal pull out of Malaysia?
(Daily Caller) But PayPal’s values didn’t keep the company from opening and maintaining a global operations center in Malaysia, where homosexual acts are punishable by public lashings and jail sentences up to 20 years.
The same day that Schulman issued his statement, Malaysian student Hazim Ismail was granted asylum by Canada because he is gay and it would be too dangerous for him to return to his home country. Ismail testified that he faced persecution in the heavily-Muslim Malaysia because he had been publicly outed as a homosexual. So far, Schulman has remained silent on the persecution of homosexuals in Malaysia.
How about
https://twitter.com/WilliamTeach/status/718176935340322817
That’s a question I’ve asked lots of companies, CEOs, and private citizens, such as Charles Barkley, Pepsi and their CEO Indra Nooyi, the NBA, NCAA, local media outlets, local businesses, and, except for one, the Fullstream Brewery in Durham, NC, none have answered. Perhaps that’s because, unlike Fullstream, none have policies allowing the gender confused to use the bathroom of their “gender identity”?
Let’s be clear, making your single stall bathrooms “gender neutral” is a cop out.
…is a world turning to dirt from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is Patterico’s Pontifications, with a post on the appearance of NY Values.
Read: If All You See… »
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