Tuesday, October 12, 2021



Happy Columbus Day, My Fellow Indigenous People

Today is Columbus Day or, to hear whiny leftists and thin-skinned losers tell it, it’s Indigenous People’s Day. I don’t really give a damn about the latter, it’s made up because liberals want to destroy the former. But reality is reality, and in 1492, Christopher Columbus solidified the belief that the world is round. Celebrate it, it’s a great thing. And recognize that you, too, if you were born here, are an indigenous person.

First off, we have to address the whining leftists who insist Columbus committed genocide. This is as lazy an argument as it is stupid. Did diseases that Indians didn’t have defenses for make their way across the Atlantic? Of course they did. As did diseases going in the other direction that Europeans didn’t have natural immunity against. So what?

Do Democrats really think no one would have ever noticed there was a whole other half of the planet? That Indians would’ve been saved from disease in perpetuity? That’s impossible. Whose fault is it that Europeans were significantly more developed in every conceivable way than the tribes in the Americas?

People existed in both places pretty much the whole time, one side created clothing, trade, and ships to travel the world, and the other side didn’t. We have no idea why, but we do know the why doesn’t matter. It just is.

Someone was going to cross the ocean sooner or later. Since it was unlikely to be in a canoe, things unfolded the only way things could have unfolded.

As for the “Columbus brought slavery” garbage, slavery existed here long before Chris ever showed up. So did brutality and war. Tribes fought each other, region fought each other. Just because they didn’t have cannons and swords doesn’t mean they were civilized peacemakers. That’s just a lie the left perpetrates to call Europeans savages, but invading neighboring towns to rape and pillage had pretty much gone away in Europe, which still thriving here.

Democrats would have you believe it was Utopia here until this day 529 years ago, but that would be as big of a lie as the declaration that Joe Biden’s trillions in spending have an actual cost of zero.

And none of this reality has even touched on the fact that if the Indians had developed travel and weaponry first, they would have done the same thing to every other part of the world. Asia has disease and slavery, Africa had disease and slavery, nowhere didn’t. You want to talk about a “big lie,” listen to a progressive Democrat talk about what this day is commemorating.

That brings us to the renaming of the day to “Indigenous People’s Day.” Is there a more condescending name for so-called holiday? “We’re celebrating you because you’re so special and valid and important,” said the rich white liberal lady, likely named Karen, divorced with two kids, Jayden and some new spelling of Megan she’ll spend the rest of her life correcting people over.

These people can’t leave anything alone because their lives are empty. They need something external to validate them, to give them purpose. It isn’t their kids, they just remind them of the “damage” we’re doing to the planet. They feel guilty for having them, so they turn them into pretentious little monsters and bury them in participation ribbons.

No, they need to impact society as a whole because nothing short of judging everyone else to be inferior gives them a sense of purpose. So you change Christmas to “holidays” and mourn on July 4th; you make Martin Luther King Jr Day a high holy day while working against everything the man stood for and said. And you fight to change the definition of words and destroy reality by declaring absurd things to be true, like gender isn’t real, and working tirelessly to destroy anyone who says differently.

Well, before they managed to change more words, know that Merriam-Webster (currently) defines indigenous as “produced, living, or existing naturally in a particular region or environment.” By that definition, you are an indigenous person to wherever you were born. However you want to look at it – city, state, country, hemisphere, planet – you are an indigenous persons.

Let the leftists choke on that as they try to further divide us and wipe history clean so they can grab more control and power. To hell with them, this is your day! Happy Indigenous Person’s Day, which just so happens to fall on Columbus Day. So you have two things to celebrate today.

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Newsom Signs Bill Requiring Gender-Neutral Toy Aisles for Large Retailers in California

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a bill into law that mandates large retailers have a gender-neutral toy aisle.

The law, signed Saturday, requires stores with at least 500 employees to keep a gender-neutral section of children’s items and toys, regardless of whether those items have previously been marketed toward boys or girls. Children's clothes will be excluded from this mandate.

The legislation was introduced by Assemblyman Evan Low (D) and will not ban items that have traditionally been marketed for either boys or girls. Stores that violate the new law once it goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2024 will face a civil penalty of as much as $250 for the first violation and $500 for any subsequent violations.

Low said he was "incredibly grateful" that Newsom signed the bill. The state Legislature's previous attempts to pass similar legislation were unsuccessful in 2019 and 2020.

"We need to stop stigmatizing what’s acceptable for certain genders and just let kids be kids," Low told The Associated Press. "My hope is this bill encourages more businesses across California and the U.S. to avoid reinforcing harmful and outdated stereotypes."

But the law has drawn sharp criticism from conservatives, who say that the government should not dictate how parents shop for their children.

The initiative was the third time that Democrats in the state Legislature have tried to pass this law, with similar bills failing in 2019 and 2020.

California is the first state in the country to enact a law of this kind but some large department stores have already moved to more gender-neutral displays.

In 2015, Target Corp. announced that its 1,915 stores across the United States would no longer use some gender-based signs.

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Are We Defining Black Deviancy Down?

In 1993, New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan coined the phrase “defining deviancy down” to describe our nation’s continual lowering of the bar for acceptable behavior.

The phrase can be found atop this report subtitled, “How We’ve Become Accustomed to Alarming Levels of Crime and Destructive Behavior.” Moynihan, a Democrat iconoclast if ever there was one, wrote the report in response to the sharp increase in violent crime during the early 1990s. Years earlier, in 1965, he’d written one of the bravest and most prescient pieces ever produced by a DC bureaucrat when, while a staffer in Lyndon Johnson’s Department of Labor, he issued a report titled, “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action.” Not surprisingly, he was demonized for his truth-telling, and weak-kneed politicians have been tip-toeing around the issue of race ever since.

Although he died in 2003, we can’t help but wonder what Moynihan would’ve thought of two stories this week: one out of Chicago, where two gangs opened fire on each other, in a neighborhood, in broad daylight, killing one; and another out of Texas, where a young man opened fire on and wounded multiple classmates before surrendering to police.

In both cases, arrests were made. And in both cases, just days after the arrests, the perpetrators, young black men, were set free. How is this possible? we can imagine a slack-jawed Moynihan wondering.

In Chicago, which has been a one-party town for decades and has become increasingly ungovernable — at least as long as the latest Democrat, Lori Lightfoot, is in office — we can chalk it up to wokeism and idiocy. There, more than 70 spent shells were recovered from the shootout, which was captured by a city camera. What’s more, a set of uniformed officers in a marked squad car arrived while the shooting was still ongoing. One combatant was killed and five others were arrested. But Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx inexplicably refused to press felony charges against the two surviving aggressors, despite the pleas of Mayor Lightfoot and five alderman.

Foxx’s statement read in part: “The detectives reached out to our office on Friday and acknowledged at the outset that given the chaotic nature at the scene they were unable to determine how the events unfolded. We reviewed the evidence that was presented to us in consultation with the detectives and they agreed we were unable to approve charges based on the evidence presented.”

Got that? The shootout was captured on videotape, and the cops were there to witness it. If charges can’t be filed under these conditions, when can they?

But what about Texas? There, it seems even more shocking. An 18-year-old Timberview High School student is accused of wounding multiple people at his school — three classmates, one of them critically wounded, and one teacher who tried to stop him — but has since been released from jail on bail.

“The student accused of injuring four people in a shooting in Arlington on Wednesday was released on bail from the Tarrant County Jail on Thursday,” The Star Telegram reported, adding that the suspect was charged “with three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.”

How is this young man not behind bars? What must the parents of the wounded students be thinking, given that the would-be killer of their kids made bail?

The assailant’s family says he’d been bullied because of his wealth. “He was scared, he was afraid,” said a family spokesperson at a press conference outside the family’s home. “It wasn’t just one person that would attack him and bully him, taking his money, harassing him because he had more things than maybe others. … It could have been a situation where he took the other turn and decided to commit suicide.”

This is an awful story. The question, though, is whether we’re defining black deviancy down with respect to crime and punishment; whether “the soft bigotry of low expectations” that George W. Bush decried 21 years ago has spread from educational achievement to other aspects of life; and whether we’re simply so hell-bent on “equity,” as opposed to equality, that we’re holding blacks to a lower standard than every other racial group. Years before Black Lives Matter became a thing, our Mark Alexander called this phenomenon black privilege.

These are ugly, troubling questions. But that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be pondered. A system of justice that doesn’t hold criminals equally accountable isn’t a system of justice at all. It’s a system of injustice, and its victims are invariably the innocent.

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Whistleblower Claims Capitol Police Botched Jan. 6 Response and Lied to Congress About It

Over the course of the next several months, we are going to learn quite a bit about the events of January 6th, but not everything that we hear is going to be taken at face value.

This is due to the fact that the select committee investigating the attempted insurrection has been largely seen as a partisan affair after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi barred certain members of the Republican Party from participating, forcing the GOP to rescind all of their picks. Regardless of the merit of the endeavor, the phony left v. right paradigm is likely to taint the results.

But, outside of the committee’s work, there are truly worrisome revelations coming to light, and it could change the way that we view the event entirely.

A former high-ranking Capitol Police official with knowledge of the department’s response to the Jan. 6 attack has sent congressional leaders a scathing letter accusing two of its senior leaders of mishandling intelligence and failing to respond properly during the riot.

The accusations were heavy, to say the least.

The whistleblower, who requested anonymity for privacy reasons and left the force months after the attack, sent the 16-page letter late last month to the top members of both parties in the House and Senate. His missive makes scorching allegations against Sean Gallagher, the Capitol Police’s acting chief of uniformed operations, and Yogananda Pittman, its assistant chief of police for protective and intelligence operations — who also served as its former acting chief.

The whistleblower accuses Gallagher and Pittman of deliberately choosing not to help officers under attack on Jan. 6 and alleges that Pittman lied to Congress about an intelligence report Capitol Police received before that day’s riot. After a lengthy career in the department, the whistleblower was a senior official on duty on Jan. 6.

And that’s not all:

The whistleblower’s criticism went beyond Capitol Police leaders to Congress. Without naming specific lawmakers, his letter accuses congressional leaders of having “purposefully failed” to tell the truth about the department’s failures.

The January 6th select committee made other headlines this week as well, after seeing several of their subpoenas defied by former White House officials and Trump aides, with the former President instructing them to claim “executive privilege” in the matter.

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My other blogs. Main ones below:

http://dissectleft.blogspot.com (DISSECTING LEFTISM)

http://edwatch.blogspot.com (EDUCATION WATCH)

http://antigreen.blogspot.com (GREENIE WATCH)

http://australian-politics.blogspot.com (AUSTRALIAN POLITICS)

http://snorphty.blogspot.com/ (TONGUE-TIED)

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