If Everything’s Racist Say “Thank You Obama!”

It’s been less than a week and I’ve already found something else the SJWs have ruined: the Olympics.

It seems there was a bit of a kerfuffle over who would carry the flag for Team USA in the opening ceremony. The honor is determined by a vote of the the eight American winter sports federations that participate in the Olympics. This year their vote split 4-4 for Erin Hamlin (female, white) and Shani Davis (male, black). In the event of a tie the US Olympic committee has previously established a procedure whereby the designated flag bearer is determined by the flip of a coin, generally considered a fair and unbiased way to settle such things. Hamlin won the toss, end of story, right?

Wrong, not if the loser is a black male who thinks his story - growing up on the streets of Chicago and dealing with the teasing of his friends to train as a competitive speed skater to become the first African-American to make the U.S. speedskating team and the first black Winter Olympian to win an individual Winter Olympic gold medal (Turin,  2006) - is better than Erin’s story – whatever it may be. She may be a girl but she’s a girl born into white privilege. In other words, she didn’t really do that by herself; somebody else did that for her.

Now that’s not exactly the way Shani put it,

but that’s exactly what he meant. He thought he deserved the honor more than Erin because of his skin color and the story it bears. To not recognize that is “dishonorable.” Oh, and it’s Black History month!

In order to register his objections to the unfairness of this coin toss decision he skipped the opening ceremony altogether, saying he never intended to attend any way as it conflicted with this training schedule. So either he intended to show up simply to carry the flag and then go home to bed or the whole thing is a moot point.

And just when you think it can’t get much worse than that none other than Jesse Jackson, the man who practically invented race baiting politics, jumped into the fray:

Because coin tossing is racist. Or something.

The old SJW is accustomed  to organizations and corporations saying “how high” when he calls for them to jump so I suspect Team USA will immediately revise this racist coin toss policy. Never again will a black man suffer a humiliating loss to a white girl, be forced to issue an angry tweet, skip the opening ceremony and scream “racist!” from afar into a packed arena.

“To paraphrase Jon Gabriel’s classic tweet about the Obama era, my favorite part about the Olympics is all the racial healing.” Ed Driscoll

Next time instead of using a coin to settle the tie, they will use a card.

File this post under “If everything’s racist, well, thank you, Obama!”

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FLOTUS Friday: Bare Gams Edition

the Dow is down! No, the Dow is up! No, wait – it’s down!

The government’s shut! No, the government’s open!

Whatever.

Let’s just move immediately to FLOTUS Friday.

She’s like a bright, sunny day after a week of gray skies. I grow weary of people demanding she be more than that. I for one am quite happy she doesn’t “use her platform” as the angry liberals think she should to advance their causes.

Although I will confess, I would not be unhappy if she could use her position (and her phenomenal legs) to return hosiery to their proper place in a woman’s wardrobe. Because the bare-legged craze of the past two decades is simply the stupidest north of the equator fashion trend since padded shoulders.

Because let’s face it: few women have Melania’s gams.

And even if you believe in global warming with all your heart, your own weather gurus admit that we’re in for at least a few decades of global cooling. And I remember from my saddle shoe days that bare legs are very uncomfortable in the middle of a blizzard.

Pinterest: is there anything you can’t find there?

Answer: no

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Standing For Illegals

I have no idea what Nancy Pelosi was flapping her jibs about all day yesterday.

Two old bags and a crone walk into a bar…

I do know that instead of working with her fellow members of the House to reach a resolution on the DACA/immigration problem she spent the day protesting the impasse. The record-setting 8 hour speech was Nancy’s allocated 1 minute floor time - proving yet again that if you give a Democrat an inch they’ll take a mile.

I think Nancy called on Hillary’s Dr. Feelgood before the speech and got one of his magic reanimation shots. The onlookers were not as fortunate so they needed to be traded out every couple of hours in order to prevent them from entering a permanent deep sleep.

California Democratic Rep. Doris Matsui

I was surprised that Nancy didn’t have a translator on hand in order to provide a Spanish version of her marathon remarks for the benefit of Dreamers who haven’t gotten around to learning English yet. Just as well though; I had visions of her translator having a meltdown like Muammar Gaddafi’s did during his 2009 rambling speech at the UN:

After struggling to turn Khadafy’s insane ramblings at the UN into English for 75 minutes, the Libyan dictator’s personal interpreter got lost in translation.

“I just can’t take it any more,” Khadafy’s interpreter shouted into the live microphone – in Arabic. – NY Post

That would have been bad television. And we all know what happens to people who create bad television.

In the end all we really learned was that Nancy was willing to stand in 4 inch heels for illegal aliens for over 8 hours. It would be nice if she would stand for her fellow American citizens occasionally as well.

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SJWs Ruin Everything. That Leaves Only Facebook,

There is so many things that SJWs have ruined that it’s hard to know where to start. Here’s a partial list:

• The English language
• The Internet
• Fashion
• Football
• Movies
• Wedding cakes
• Sex/Gender
• Intellectual debate
• Civil discussion
• Education in general and College in particular
• Freedom of speech/expression
• Progressivism (no tears division)
• The LGBTQ community

In SJWs Destroy Everything Rod Dreher drills down on a few of them - education, religion and sex/gender; it’s a disturbing read. He starts by chronicling the breakdown of education, specifically that of a once elite public school system in Edina, MN. Nobody was spared:

“The school district’s All for All plan mandated that henceforth “all teaching and learning experiences” would be viewed through the “lens of racial equity,” and that only “racially conscious” teachers and administrators should be hired.

Even bus drivers had to be reeducated:

The training session was entitled “Edina School DIstrict Equity and Racial Justice Training: Moving from a Diversity to a Social Justice Lens.” In it, trainers instructed bus drivers that “dismantling white privilege” is “the core of our work as white folks,” and that working for the Edina schools requires “a major paradigm shift in the thinking of white people.” Drivers were exhorted to confess their racial guilt, and embrace the district’s “equity” ideology.

How are things working out, after just 4 years?

You will not be surprised to discover that for all the wokeness forced upon the public schools in Edina, academic scores for black students there have not improved, but in fact gone down.

But on an optimistic note, the administrators, teachers and most of all the brain-washed students themselves are certainly more “racially and class conscious” – as if that is a good thing.

At Edina High School, the equity agenda is the leading edge of a full-scale ideological reeducation campaign. A course description of an 11th-grade U.S. Literature and Composition course puts it this way: “By the end of the year, you will have . . . learned how to apply marxist [sic], feminist, post-colonial [and] psychoanalytical . . .lenses to literature.”

The article proceeds to explain how SJWs are destroying the Episcopal Church:

The Episcopal church in the Diocese of Washington, D.C., passed a resolution last week to stop using masculine pronouns for God in future updates to its Book of Common Prayer.

Why, you ask? Because patriarchy:

“Many of us are waiting and need to hear God in our language, in our words and in our pronouns,”

“By expanding our language for God, we will expand our image of God and the nature of God,” they stated.

I suspect God would prefer that they get over their narcissism and just listen to His message. It’s not all about them and their gender, however they care to define it.

And that brings us to the next thing the article cites as a victim of the Social Justice Marauders: sex/gender. To be honest, this section is so disturbing I almost want to tell you to skip it but I guess it’s best to know what the hell the whacked out Left is seeking to normalize these days. The answer of course is anything that is not normal. First is body mutilation in the interest of “transitioning” to an alternate gender. And while there may be only 2 sexes, in the New Normal you are no longer restricted to the mundane male/female/neuter options in selecting a new gender. In fact you may be surprised to learn that your gender options have grown to over100. Apparently if you can dream it you can be it. Whatever “it” is.

Perhaps “Anongender” - a gender that is unknown to both yourself and others

Something else that I discovered has been “normalized,” in the most ironic sense of the word, is anal sex…for teenaged girls. No Virginia, it’s not just for gay boys any more. If you doubt me just check the link in the article to Teen Vogue’s how-to guide to anal sex for teen girls.

So how have SJWs ruined everything? It would appear it was as simple as rejecting all things normal in favor of all things abnormal (by definition) and turning them into the “New Normal.” And if you don’t accept their new standards for the New Normal you’re no better than Hitler.

“Normalcy should be discarded (as) it creates this mythical standard that forces individuals to compare themselves to others.”

No problem there, for all intents and purposes normalcy has been handily discarded as a white male construct, at least in education.  But if SJW’s  don’t think we should compare themselves to others, how do they explain Facebook?

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Deconstructing the Russian Collusion

It’s not often that the blood they’re smelling is their own. There is more than a hint of panic in the Democrat camp right now; their primary weapons – lies and deceit – are being neutralized by exposure to light and oxygen. They fight back by throwing more chum in the water.

They may soon need to resort to the last weapon in their arsenal: deconstruction of fact by redefining words.

"It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is.

Although the complete quote is far more telling of what is and  what is not:

Thanks to the Clinton Democratic Party legacy a BJ is no longer considered sex and “is” is a state of mind that has no existential specificity.

So if by “Russian collusion” you mean the Democrats’ libelous construction of a 100% fake dossier planted in the fake media and used as fake evidence to illegally obtain authorization from the FISA court to spy on and discredit the opposition candidate - and later duly elected President of the United States - well then, yes, there certainly was Russian collusion.

“Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”

“Sometimes it’s sedition”

It all depends on “its” proper deconstruction.

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Senescence By Proxy

I think Ann Althouse might be onto something:

“Did you watch the cold open on ‘SNL’ last night? Alec Baldwin was back, playing the part of Donald Trump, and it’s just uncanny. Baldwin seems to be weathering into the Trump impersonation, even as Trump floats above the usual quick-aging that besets American Presidents. It’s as if Baldwin is aging for Trump, like ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray.'”

I fear it is yet another complication caused by Trump Derangement Syndrome symptom: premature aging. I’m not a doctor but I think it’s brought on by too much bile in the system, and I’m pretty sure it belongs somewhere along the Munchausen by Proxy spectrum.

I’ve coined it Senescence by Proxy, and frankly I see no need to do anything about it.

  Chelsea Handler, Kathy Griffith, Nancy Pelosi…

and the boys: Michael Moore, Robert De Niro, Alec Baldwin

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Another Super Bowl Another Chance to Hate and Eat

Here we are, Super Bowl Sunday. I have only watched 2 playoff games all year but I most assuredly will be watching the Super Bowl because, unlike some 84% of my fellow Americans, I’m a New England Patriots fan. Worse, for many of you, a Tom Brady fan. Been one since he took the helm as Michigan’s QB back in the 90’s. Hate me if you must, it’s a Wolverine thing.

It is a shame that something as intrinsically American as a Sunday turf battle has turned into another political battleground. Not just because the NFL welcomed the #BLM premise and antics onto the field; now some of the sports hacks want us to view the annual matchup as another battle in the long wars: Right vs. Left: Woke Eagles, Trump-loving Patriots are on opposite sides of political spectrum.

The two franchises also seem to come from polar opposite ends of the political spectrum, too, setting up a clash between one of the most socially conscious teams in the NFL — and President Trump’s favorite football franchise.

The evidence, according to the New York Post’s Evan Grossman:

Not long ago, Patriots QB Tom Brady displayed a “Make America Great Again” hat in his locker. Trump considers owner Bob Kraft and head coach Bill Belichick close friends, too, and Kraft was one of the most generous among Trump-friendly NFL owners, forking over $1 million to help fund his inauguration.

Vs:

Contrasting with New England’s deep Trump ties, the Eagles have emerged as one of, if not the most socially active team in the NFL. They have been referred to as “the wokest” team in the league.

In case there’s any ambiguity about the author’s virtue signaling his message is “how could you possible root against the Social Justice Warriors?” But if you’re still not convinced here’s the Eagle’s indisputable credential of authenticity and superiority:

The differences between the two teams are striking. While Kraft is a close Trump friend and supporter, Eagles owner Jeff Lurie earned a doctorate in social policy from Brandeis University.

Aside from the statement being a classic example of liberal logic, it is patently silly: Newsbuster’s appropriate response to this:

“Wow! And duh! Lurie is currently running a football team, and Trump is directing social policy at the nation's highest level.”

So do as you wish today: watch or don’t watch, root or don’t root. Just be sure to whip up some Super Bowl worthy chow - nachos, wings, ribs, brats, chili – because you have to eat!  I’m making a batch of my accidental chili: classic chili with ground beef, left over pulled pork, black and pinto beans and a mess of those roasted Hatch chilies we put up and packed in the freezer last fall. I’ll post a picture when I finally get it pulled together. And maybe I’ll make a batch of those ham and cheese sliders, it’s going to be a long day. And leftovers are great for breakfast.

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