Cancel Culture Is Coming After The National Anthem (Again)

By William Teach June 25, 2020 – 10:30 am

They’ve tried before. Will they succeed this time? Will they push hard for this? It’s great how a Lindsay Parker, editor in chief of Yahoo Music, wants to censor music

Why it might be time to finally replace ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ with a new national anthem

In an increasingly antiracist era when problematic iconography — ranging from Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben to even the Dukes of Hazzard General Lee car and country band Lady Antebellum’s name — is being reassessed, revised or retired, America’s national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” seems to be striking a wrong note.

Last week, protesters in San Francisco toppled a statue of the song’s composer, Francis Scott Key, a known slaveholder who once said that African-Americans were “a distinct and inferior race of people, which all experience proves to be the greatest evil that afflicts a community.” This week, Liana Morales, an Afro-Latinx student at New York’s Urban Assembly School for the Performing Arts, refused to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at her virtual graduation ceremony, explaining to the Wall Street Journal, “With everything that’s happening, if I stand there and sing it, I’m being complicit to a system that has oppressed people of color.” Instead, Morales performed “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” a hymn widely considered to be the “Black national anthem.”

So, is it time for this country to dispense with “The Star-Spangled Banner” and adopt a new anthem with a less troubling history and a more inclusive message? Historian and scholar Dr. Daniel E. Walker, the author of No More, No More: Slavery and Cultural Resistance in Havana and New Orleans and producer of the documentary How Sweet the Sound: Gospel in Los Angeles, says yes.

“The 53-year-old in me says, we can’t change things that have existed forever. But then there are these young people who say that America needs to live up to its real creed,” Walker tells Yahoo Entertainment. “And so, I do side with the people who say that we should rethink this as the national anthem, because this is about the deep-seated legacy of slavery and white supremacy in America, where we do things over and over and over again that are a slap in the face of people of color and women. We do it first because we knew what we were doing and we wanted to be sexist and racist. And now we do it under the guise of ‘legacy.’”

Most of this is about how Key grew up in a slave holding family and such, hence, the song is bad. Perhaps they want to replace it with hip hop, which extols misogyny, racism towards non-black, black supremacy, violence, and crime?

In fact “The Star-Spangled Banner,” based on a poem Key wrote about his eyewitness account of the War of 1812, originally featured a little-heard third stanza that was blatantly racist: “No refuge could save the hireling and slave/From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave/And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave/O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.” While that version of the song is rarely performed today, Powell has been aware of it for years, and, like Morales, has therefore refused to sing the anthem since he was in high school in the 1980s, when he first learned of its history.

“I grew up in hip-hop,” says Powell, who used to write for Vibe magazine, “and I remember how people would criticize hip-hop for being violent. Yet ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ is riddled with violence. How are you criticizing a rap song for being violent, but when we get to kindergarten, we are literally teaching children violence through song? I said, ‘I can’t participate anymore.’ So I stopped a long time ago.’”

Of course the song is riddled with violence: it was about the British bombing Ft McHenry during the War of 1812. Wars are rather violent. It was written as a poem, then set to music in 1931.

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NRDC Decides Now Is A Good Time To Take On The Sustainability Of Toilet Paper

By William Teach June 25, 2020 – 8:47 am

How many people are going to care about this and how many will think they are just nutball cultists who need to mind their own business? Because people want their good, soft, strong toilet paper. Noticing you only have one roll of TP left will have you running to the store, right? It will give you anxiety when it is low, right? How’d you feel walking into the supermarket actually needing TP and seeing empty shelves? So, of course, the National Resource Defense Council decides this is the perfect time to whine about people using TP

Toilet Paper and Climate Change: NRDC’s Updated “Issue With Tissue” Ranks Brands on Sustainability

NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) today released an updated analysis of the climate impacts caused by the “tree to toilet” pipeline destroying the climate-critical Canadian boreal forest. The “Issue with Tissue 2.0” report includes a new sustainability ranking for toilet paper brands and other tissue products made by major U.S. producers.

While toilet paper’s emergence as one of the most sought-after products in America was an unexpected side effect of COVID-19, the toilet paper shortage has brought to the forefront the urgency of creating a more sustainable, resilient means of production of tissue products. Currently, the industry clearcuts one million acres of boreal forest each year – leading Canada to rank third globally, behind Russia and Brazil, in terms of global intact forest loss – in part to produce pulp that U.S. tissue makers roll into the ultimate disposable product: toilet paper.

“By making toilet paper from ancient forests essential to the climate fight, tissue companies are flushing away our forests and our planet’s future,” said Shelley Vinyard, NRDC’s Boreal Campaign Manager and report co-author. “Instead of exacerbating the climate crisis, companies like Procter & Gamble must take urgent action to create more sustainable products. Our planet has no time for the largest companies in the world to take half-measures or deflect blame,” said Vinyard.

NRDC’s 2020 scorecard ranks 26 toilet paper brands, giving an A or A+ score to 11 brands, including the new winner “Who Gives A Crap,” which received the top grade for its rolls made of 100 percent recycled materials, including 95 percent postconsumer recycled product. Major brands — Charmin, Cottonelle, and Quilted Northern — bring up the rear with F grades, because they are made entirely of virgin forest fiber. NRDC evaluated facial tissue and paper towel brands, as well.

Now, I’m all for protecting forests and the environment, but, first, the NRDC is making this more about ‘climate change’ than the environment, and second, are you thinking more about your posterior comfort than if the world’s temperature might possibly maybe go up a bit some time in the future? But, hey, if you’re a Warmist, you’re going to run out and buy the most expensive stuff which is good for the climate, right? It doesn’t matter if it is scratchy and uncomfortable, you’re doing your cult part.

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NY BLM Leader Says They Will “Burn It Down” If They Don’t Get What They Want

By William Teach June 25, 2020 – 8:22 am

Are NY liberals good with this? How about other liberals? Because if things are getting burned down, literally or figuratively, it will mostly happen in liberal cities and liberal neighborhoods

(Breitbart) Appearing Wednesday on the Fox News Channel’s The Story with host Martha MacCallum, Greater New York Black Lives Matter president Hawk Newsome warned that if the United States “doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it.”

MARTHA MACCALLUM: People watch what you say in that video, that you now want to show legislation down people’s throats now that you have everyone’s attention and you’ve also said violence is sometimes necessary in these situations. What exactly is it that you hope to achieve through violence?

HAWK NEWSOME: Wow, it’s interesting that you would pose that question like that because this country is built upon violence. What was the American Revolution, what’s our diplomacy across the globe? We go in and we blow up countries and we replace their leaders with leaders who we like. So for any American to accuse us of being violent is extremely hypocritical.

That sounds like he’s proposing actual violence. Which, let’s be honest, is something that has happened throughout history in all sorts of countries. This has been happening in South Africa, but, there are a hell of a lot more non-blacks in the US than blacks, unlike SA.

MACCALLUM: The only reason why I posed that first question to you the way that I did is I watched you talking on a bunch of different interviews today and you said, “burn it down.” You said, “burn it down, it’s time.” That makes me think you want to burn it down.

HAWK NEWSOME: I said If this country doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down the system and replace it. All right? And I could be speaking figuratively, I could be speaking literally. It’s a matter of interpretation. Let’s be very real and let’s observe the history of the 1960s. When black people were rioting, we have their highest growth and wealth, in property ownership. Think about the last few weeks. Since you started protesting there have been eight cops fired across the country. Remember you were telling us that there was Due Process?

That’s why the cop that choked Eric Gardner kept his job and kept receiving raises for five years. Anytime a cop hurt a woman, a child, our elders, there was always a call for due process. But the moment people start destroying property, now cops can be fired automatically. What is this country rewarding? What behavior is it listening to? Obviously not marching. But, when people get aggressive and they escalate their protests, cops get fired, now, you have police officers and Republican politicians talking about police reform. I don’t condone nor do I condemn rioting but I’m just telling what I observed.

This is a good way for people to tune out when they’re hearing a message of blackmail and threats: “give us what we want or we just might get violent.” This is much the way the mafia operated. And one reason the FBI along with federal, state, and local justice departments went after them.

Mark Levin notes

“This is a civil society,” Levin continued. “It’s a great country. You don’t like it? Pick up your a– and leave. We have people trying to get into this country by the millions, from every continent on the face of the earth. Every color, every background. Why? Because we’re systemically racist? We’re not systemically racist and the police force isn’t systemically racist.

“Now, these are Bernie Sanders radicals,” Levin added. “These are Marxists. They go out and get hats, and they get shirts, and they burn things down and break things in Democrat cities because these pathetic left-wing Democrat mayors won’t stand up to them.”

Exactly. If they don’t like it, leave. If they want change, do it peaceably. And, perhaps they could tell their fellow Modern Socialists to leave the climate change, trans this and trans that, and all the other stuff out of it. Once you start mixing the messages, making them muddled, people tune out.

Meanwhile, Newsome also has other thoughts

The Black Lives Matter movement will develop an armed branch of “peace officers” to combat police brutality in black communities during the so-called war on police, according to one of its leaders.

Protests broke out across the country following the death of unarmed Minneapolis black man George Floyd while in police custody, bringing the BLM movement back into national focus. In an interview with the Daily Mail, BLM New York chapter Chairman Hawk Newsome described how the group plans to follow in the footsteps of the Black Panthers Party by matching fire with fire – when necessary.

He’s talking about creating armed officer units to patrol black areas and clash with real government forces. It’s not quite at the “no-go” with sharia law officers in European nations, but, seriously, what could possibly go wrong with armed “officers” wandering around interfering with the operations with duly enabled government law enforcement officers? How’s it going to look when they are protecting actual criminals?

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Minnesota AG Keith Ellison Sues Oil Companies Over Climate Crisis (scam)

By William Teach June 24, 2020 – 3:06 pm

Having solved all the crime issues in Minnesota, everything is hunky dory in Minneapolis, Keith turns his sights on oil companies

AG Ellison Sues Oil Companies, Saying They Deceived Minnesotans About Climate Change

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has filed a major lawsuit against big oil companies.

The newly-filed lawsuit names ExxonMobil, Koch Industries, and American Petroleum Institute. Ellison argues that these companies lied about the impact of their operations, pertaining to the subject of climate change.

“When corporations and trade associations break the law and hurt Minnesotans, it’s my job and my duty to hold them accountable. The fraud, deceptive advertising, and other violations of Minnesota state law and common law that the lawsuit shows they perpetrated have harmed Minnesotans’ health and our state’s environment, infrastructure, and economy,” Ellison said.

The suit claims fraud against the companies cited, arguing that they violated Minnesota statues that prohibit consumer fraud, deceptive trade practices and false advertising, and did so for decades.

As usual, I have two things. First, when will Ellison give up his own use of fossil fuels? How about requiring the entire AG’s office to give up official use? The Minnesota Department of Justice? How about all the police? Heck, the entire government of Minnesota? Why not make all the citizens stop using fossil fuels? That would work well during the winter months, eh?

Second, I would love to see these sued companies say “you want to really do this, Sparky? Fine. We’ll cease selling our products to the state government of Minnesota. Good luck with your operations!” Heck, threaten to pull all sales out of the state. See what the citizens think.

As usual, this is probably going to fail, as all the others have. They are basically shakedowns, and their Ivy league lawyers can keep these suits going for decades.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 24, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is a world turning to desert from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Flopping Aces, with a post on Bubba Wallace wanting to make a Statement.

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Bubba Wallace Doubles Down On Racism Accusations Despite FBI Investigation

By William Teach June 24, 2020 – 10:38 am

I’ve ignored this story, because we all knew the way it was going to end. Just like most all the others, as a hoax, as people being over-wrought over something that wasn’t real, that they just saw things the wrong way. The very minute it was noted that the “noose” was attached to the garage door most rational thinking people said “door rope”. Instead of saying something like “I’m so glad that the FBI found that it was not a noose” Bubba has double down

Bubba Wallace defiant, calls rope ‘straight-up noose’ after FBI says no crime occurred

In all his years in auto racing, NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace said Tuesday night, he has never seen anything like what he described as a “straight-up noose” that was being used as a door pull in the garage he was assigned last week at Talladega Speedway in Alabama.

“I’ve been racing all of my life,” Wallace told CNN’s Don Lemon. “We’ve raced out of hundreds of garages that never had garage pulls like that. So people that want to call it a garage pull and put out all the videos and photos of knots being as their evidence, go ahead, but from the evidence that we have – and I have – it’s a straight-up noose.”

The FBI determined Tuesday that the rope had been hanging in the garage since last year and it wasn’t intended as a hate crime against Wallace.

He said he hadn’t seen the noose himself but had seen photos of it.

“It wasn’t directed at me,” Wallace added, “but it was a noose.”

So he didn’t actually see it? He literally says he has proof

CNNLOL: Have you seen ropes like that hanging from garages. It’s that fairly typical?

BUBBA WALLACE: Don, the damage I have of what I’ve seen of what was hanging in my garage is not a garage pull. I’ve been racing all my life, we’ve raced out of hundreds of garages that have never had garage pulls like that. So people who want to call it a garage pull and put out videos and photos of knots as their evidence, go ahead. But from the evidence that we have, that I have, it’s a straight-up noose. The FBI has stated it was a noose over and over again. NASCAR leadership has stated that it was a noose. I can confirm that. I actually got evidence of what was hanging in my garage, over my car, around my pit crew guys, to confirm that it was a noose. Never seen anything like it. I talked to my crew chief about it. I said, Is this something like — I wanted to make sure we weren’t jumping the gun. And I said this isn’t a knot, this isn’t — and he’s like, Bubba; this isn’t something that can be done within a second of just tying a knot and being on the way. This is something that took time.

Don Lemon forgot to ask for that proof. Let’s see it, Bubba. Because the FBI, which wasted the time of 15 agents on this, said it wasn’t, and NASCAR is saying they are glad it wasn’t. And it wasn’t hanging over the car, it hangs on the side of the door.

These pulls are tied so they do not slide, so you have a handle. A noose would slide, grabbing fingers. They all have it. Why was the rope cut so no one could see it? In today’s society there is no way a million pictures and videos weren’t taken of it. Essentially, every garage has a “noose.”

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Democrat Big Wigs Battle It Out On Climate Policy

By William Teach June 24, 2020 – 8:44 am

It’s rather like watching like watching two different Nazi groups debate. The first are just Nazi troops, the other are members of the SS. Both are hardcore, but one is more hardcore. The difference between Stalin and Mao: both are horrible, but 3 million to 20 million died under Stalin, and 20-46 million under Mao

DNC ‘Snubs’ Climate Movement Just as Greenpeace Endorses Democratic Panel’s Visionary Plan

Despite mounting pressure on the party to craft a 2020 platform that includes ambitious climate policies, Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez on Monday announced a drafting committee that, in the words of journalist Emily Atkin, “snubs progressive climate activists again.”

Perez’s announcement followed reporting that Democratic Party leadership was “irked” when the DNC Council on the Environment and Climate Crisis released policy recommendations for the platform on June 4 that are bolder than the proposals in presidential candidate Joe Biden’s climate plan. Party insiders told Reuters the panel is an “insurgent” group that is not “taken seriously.”

Several climate advocacy groups have endorsed the panel’s recommendations, including Greenpeace USA on Tuesday. Charlie Jiang, a campaigner for the group, declared that “as we confront the interwoven crises of climate change, white supremacy, and Covid-19, we must demand nothing short of a visionary, transformative agenda from Democratic leadership.”

See, this really isn’t about climate, but pure politics.

Perez, for his part, said in a statement that “crafting our party platform is important work, and I’m confident that the members of this committee will engage Americans in a substantive dialogue of ideas and solutions that will articulate our party’s vision for the country and mobilize voters in every community to elect Joe Biden.”

In other words, they’re trying to minimize the crazy to appear not crazy come election time

However, the positions and backgrounds of those charged with drafting that Democratic Party’s platform suggest the final version could fall far short of climate activists’ demands. As Atkin detailed in her HEATED newsletter Tuesday..

Let’s face it, even Warmists like Tom Perez know that ‘climate change’ is low hanging fruit that most people do not really care about, at least in practice.

Atkin’s analysis came after she reported for HEATED last month that Michelle Deatrick, who chairs the DNC climate panel, was worried that the platform drafting committee “would be filled with people who don’t prioritize progressive climate policy like the Green New Deal.” As Atkin put it Tuesday: “Her fears were founded.”

Heck, even those who submitted the Green New Deal are not prioritizing it. In the Senate, every Dem voted “present”, including sponsor Ed Markey, who has failed to demand a proper debate on it. In the House, Dem Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the House sponsor, has failed to demand a debate and vote on it. If they aren’t prioritizing it, why would anyone else.

The panel suggested spending $10-$16 trillion on tackling the climate crisis over the next decade and committing to various emissions and renewable energy targets—specifically, “near-zero emissions by 2040; 100% clean renewable energy by 2030 in electricity generation, buildings, and transportation; and 100% zero-carbon new building infrastructure by 2025.”

Submit that as a platform, and then try and explain how it will be paid for. Explain what happens to people’s cost of living. Better yet, try and get Joe Biden, who seems to be not in a good place mentally, to explain it. You really want Trump to come after Joe on it and watch Joe try to explain it on live TV?

“As platform negotiations continue, we hope to see more details emerge as to how the part plans to meet its important goals for achieving 100% clean power, transportation, buildings, agriculture, and industry; deploy federal investments quickly and equitably; and meaningfully engage with impacted workers and communities,” Jiang added. “We must prioritize racial and economic justice for frontline communities while mobilizing the full power of the federal government to tackle the historic crises we face.”

Yeah, this isn’t about science.

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Lunatics Plan To Tear Down Emancipation Memorial, Crazy Democrat Introduces Legislation To Take It Down

By William Teach June 24, 2020 – 8:14 am

Everything is bad and must be torn down, you know. These no-longer protesters because they are using violence are pledging to tear the memorial down today

Petition calls for removal of Emancipation Statue in Capitol Hill’s Lincoln Park; Some fight to protect it

As the debate over confederate statues and other monuments continues to heat up around the country and here at home, equal rights advocates are shifting their attention to another controversial statue on Capitol Hill and now a petition to bring it down.

The Emancipation statue, at the center of Lincoln Park, has stood high for more than a century. It depicts President Abraham Lincoln standing over a freed enslaved African American who appears to be kneeling at his feet with broken shackles around his wrists. The statue was erected in 1876 to pay homage to the president, but many have taken issue with its ‘degrading racial undertones,’ as described in a new petition.

Marcus Goodwin, a D.C. native and candidate for an at-large seat on the D.C. Council, started an online petition after scaling the statue for an up-close-and- personal view. From his vantage point, it stirred up a lot of thoughts and emotion about racial inequality in America and imagery that depicts African Americans as inferior to others.

Someone was Offended, hence, things must be censored

“I really got up close to see the Abraham Lincoln Statue in a way that I don’t think many people have ever seen it,” Goodwin said. “ Washington, D.C. is a country African-Americans have contributed to socially, culturally, economically and we need imagery that represents that, not statues and memorials that demean or degrade us.”

So, pay for it. Build it.

The statue is the result of contributions from freed slaves, who wanted to honor President Lincoln on the 11th anniversary of his death. He was assassinated in 1865.

A former slave named Charlotte Scott used her first five dollars earned in freedom to launch a fundraising campaign for the statue that would honor him, according to the National Park Service (NPS). The funds were collected solely from freed slaves, though the organization controlling the effort and keeping the funds was a white-run, war-relief agency based in St. Louis, according to  NPS.

They dishonor their forebears by wanting to destroy the memorial.

DC Congresswoman to introduce legislation to remove Emancipation Memorial from Lincoln Park

D.C. Congresswoman Del. Eleanor Norton announced plans Tuesday to introduce legislation to remove the Emancipation Memorial from Lincoln Park.

“You will soon see my bill to remove this problematic statue from Lincoln Park,” Nortan said in a statement.

Norton said the statue fails to note how enslaved African Americans pushed for their own emancipation.

So submit a bill calling for building one about that ending. Instead, she will submit one that violates the 1st Amendment, that calls for censorship. True censorship, since this is Government doing it. These same people hold that burning an American flag is freedom of speech. Well, then, so are monuments.

This is why Republicans should mostly stay silent, including Trump. Let the Democrats do this, let them own it. Drop a few comments here and there for context, but, as the saying goes “never interrupt an enemy in the middle of making a mistake.”

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Wisconsin Governor Asks Citizens For Ideas On Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach June 23, 2020 – 3:54 pm

I actually fully agree with this

Wisconsin governor asking public for policy suggestions on climate change

As Gov. Tony Evers begins crafting his second budget, his administration is asking for suggestions on ways the state can fight and adapt to climate change.

The Governor’s Task Force on Climate Change, headed by Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, will hold a series of listening sessions over the next month as the group crafts policy recommendations for the 2021-2023 budget.

Loosely modeled on the listening sessions Evers held around the state before introducing his first budget request — which he dubbed “the people’s budget” — the online climate meetings will include presentations as well as small group discussions. Participants will be able to offer commentary and recommendations.

Barnes is encouraging all Wisconsin residents to participate, but especially those from low income and predominantly minority communities.

“In Wisconsin and across the globe, communities of color and low-income communities often experience the worst consequences of climate change, and for far too long, they have been excluded from the policy-making process,” Barnes said in a statement provided to the State Journal. “These communities know best which policies will work for them, and that’s why we are centering their knowledge and experience as we craft our recommendations.”

So, of course they have to make this about race and inequality, because it is not about science, but politics.

But, yes, I fully agree with this. First, because the Warmists should be making recommendations that will negatively affect their own lives and wallets. Their money. Let them deal with the fallout. And if stuff is implemented, they shouldn’t be allowed to escape to other states.

It will be interesting to see if the climate cultists do their normal and recommend policies that only affect Other People.

Second, Wisconsin could end up with lots and lots of people saying “no, we’re good. This is a bunch of mule fritters, a low hanging issue of non-importance, let’s deal with real issues.”

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 23, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is an area flooded by carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Chicks On The Right, with a post noting one of the statues defaced was of guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan.

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