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                Well, he’s gone and done it.  Our kitten Blackie has got himself a lawyer and is suing his brother Bullie.  As noted in a prior post, Blackie resents the discrimination he has suffered because of his orange-striped brother’s Orange Privilege.  We all know that for 400 years or so the systemic kittenism practiced by those kittens with Orange Privilege has left black (and brown) kittens at significant economic and social disadvantages, even in our enlightened 2020.  For example, when we take both to the vets, the vet typically greets and treats Bullie first and leaves Blackie for last.  Bullie often pushes Blackie away from his food bowl, despite the fact that each has his own bowl.  Bullie is always the first one in to a fresh litterbox even if it means shouldering Blackie out of the way.  Bullie demands attention first and for longer than Blackie.  Bullie takes the more comfortable napping spots, especially on the window sills on sunny days. 

                Blackie tries to protest but Bullie also has the local law enforcement authorities, namely Mopsie the Wonder Dog, in his back pocket.  Mopsie, though suffering from her own Dog Privilege, has been completely corrupted by Bullie’s payoffs of treats and so plays amicably with him, but is rougher with Blackie and just generally is not as nice to Blackie as to Bullie.  Mopsie won’t let Blackie on the couch with her, but will let Bullie snuggle sometimes.  We also have noticed that Bullie’s fur is softer and easier to stroke than Blackie’s so we’re apt to do it more often, so there is “fur discrimination” at work too it seems. 

                Anyway, Blackie apparantly has had enough and has resorted to the legal system and seeks a trial by a jury of his peers.  Of course, jury selection is stacked against Blackie since numerous studies over the years have proven that Orange Privilege is a factor in kitten juries too.  So his lawyer is advocating for a change in the law to make kitten defendants exercising a peremptory challenge to state sensible reasons therefor to the judge. 

                Blackie is also claiming a great deal of emotional distress.  He claims he has suffered numerous incidences of hate speech, rhetoric and actions, and has had to “endure the emotional exhaustion of carrying on in a household that disregards cultural diversity and sensitivities.”  Putting up with this kind of stuff he claims has “impacted his ability to focus adequately on his kitten responsibilities, such as tearing up toilet paper and paper towel rolls, peeing in the corner, staring out the window, lazing in the sun, getting up onto the closet shelf by climbing up the hanging clothes, and being curled up on daddy’s lap.” 

                There’s no telling how all this will shake out, it is still early in the process.  The next step is for Bullie to file an answer to Blackie’s Complaint.  We’ll see what that looks like.  But it is a sad state of affairs around here for sure.

If you’re interested, The National Review maintains a lengthy list of cancel culture cancellations, both actual and threatened at https://www.nationalreview.com/news/the-cancel-counter/?itm_source=parsely-api

                At Syracuse University, Apparently The Snowflakes Are In Charge

                First, a Syracuse University professor is on the ropes because on a class syllabus he reportedly wrote “Wuhan Flu” and Chinese Communist Party Flu.”  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/syracuse-students-speak-out-over-professor-s-chinese-communist-party-flu-notes/ar-BB18z4C1?ocid=msedgdhp

                “The derogatory language used by a professor on his course syllabus is damaging to the learning environment for our students and offensive to Chinese, international and Asian-Americans everywhere who have experienced hate speech, rhetoric and actions since the pandemic began,” said a joint statement from Karin Ruhlandt, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences,               and John Liu, the university’s interim vice chancellor and provost.

                “A lot of students are uncomfortable with the decision to place Zubieta on administrative leave. We expected him to be fired,” said a sophomore who is an organizer for #NotAgainSU and (unsurprisingly) asked not to be identified.

                Graduate student Taylor Krzeminski, who is not even in this fellow’s class, saw a screenshot of the syllabus on The Tab Syracuse, “which documents student and campus life through memes, and decided to call him out.  ‘It’s not safe for students to be in a classroom with a professor who thinks their ethnicity should be blamed for a pandemic,’ she said. ‘I agree he should be on leave but the investigation better be quick because to me it’s incredibly straight-forward. He used political and racist language in a chemistry class.” 

                One student, again not in the class, said “‘There is no need for an investigation if there is proof. It went viral, so the evidence is there,’ she said. ‘These stereotypes and biases that are incorporated in the class by faculty will allow for unsafe spaces for students.'”

                Well, last we checked this corona virus started in Wuhan, China, so calling it the Wuhan Flu would appear to be fair game.  Chinese Communist Party Flu, well, even if that is a little iffier, which we don’t think it is, so what?  There certainly is plenty of evidence that the CCP authorities concealed the seriousness of the virus to the detriment of the rest of the world.  Nevertheless, to suggest that just using the words has somehow created an unsafe environment for students is classic snowflake ideology in which any hurt feeling, no matter how ludicrous and idiosyncratic, has to be validated and supported, even if it costs the reputation and livelihood of someone who otherwise has led an exemplary life.  This foolishness has got to stop.

                Not To Be Outdone, “Blackflakes” Rule At The University Of Southern California

                Second, this time at USC, a Communications Professor has been placed on leave after using a Chinese word that apparently sounds something like the word “nigger.”  https://www.nationalreview.com/news/usc-communications-professor-placed-on-leave-after-using-chinese-word-that-sounds-like-racial-slur/   (Yes, we’re going to use the actual word, not this “n-word” crap.)
                According to the National Review article, “Greg Patton, a professor at the university’s Marshall School of Business, was giving a lecture about the use of ‘filler words’ in speech during a recent online class when he used the word in question, saying, ““’If you have a lot of ‘ums and errs,’ this is culturally specific, so based on your native language.  Like in China, the common word is ‘that, that, that.’ So in China it might be ‘nèi ge, nèi ge, nèi ge.’”

                This, of course, sent the campus into an uproar – this is in the People’s Republic of California after all.  “A group of black MBA candidates threatened to drop his class rather than ‘endure the emotional exhaustion of carrying on with an instructor that disregards cultural diversity and sensitivities’ following the instructor’s use, while teaching, of a Chinese word that sounds like a racial slur.”  https://www.nationalreview.com/news/usc-professor-placed-on-leave-after-black-students-complained-his-pronunciation-of-a-chinese-word-affected-their-mental-health/

                According to this article:

                “Our mental health has been affected,” the group continued. “It is an uneasy feeling allowing him to have the power over our grades. We would rather not take his course than to endure the emotional exhaustion of carrying on with an instructor that disregards cultural diversity and sensitivities and by extension creates an unwelcome environment for us Black students.” 

                The students added that the incident “has impacted our ability to focus adequately on our studies.”

                “’No matter what way you look at this, the word was said multiple times today in three different instances and has deeply affected us. In light of the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and the recent and continued collective protests and social awakening across the nation, we cannot let this stand,’ the group concluded, before calling for an immediate remedy to the    situation.” Presumably that “remedy” is to cancel Professor Patton.

                Of course, USC has now stepped in and rather than support a professor doing his or her job, it has apologized and is falling all over itself “offering supportive measures to any student, faculty, or staff member who requests assistance,’ the statement added, saying the school is ‘committed to building a culture of respect and dignity where all members of our community can feel safe, supported, and can thrive.'”

                “According to a brief bio on the school’s website, Patton is ‘an expert in communication, interpersonal and leadership effectiveness’ who has received ‘numerous teaching awards, been ranked as one of the top teaching faculty at USC and helped USC Marshall achieve numerous #1 worldwide rankings for Communication and Leadership skill development.’”

                This group of snowflakes (or “blackflakes” in this case) certainly don’t sound ready for the real world when they graduate.  The “emotional exhaustion of carrying on with” this teacher’s class so bad that they can’t “focus adequately on our studies” and which creates an “unwelcome environment” for a bunch of black MBA wannabes?   That MBA program is what ought to be cancelled, not Professor Patton.

                Hank Newsome chairs Black Lives Matter (BLM) of Greater New York.  In a recent interview he was offered multiple opportunities to disavow comments, discussed by us a couple of weeks ago, made by a Chicago BLM organizer Ariel Atkins condoning looting as “reparations.”  https://dailycaller.com/2020/08/18/martha-maccallum-hawk-newsome-reparations-looting/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=mixi&utm_campaign=dailycaller

“’I don’t care if somebody decides to loot a Gucci or a Macy’s or a Nike because that makes sure that that person eats,’” Atkins said. . . “’That makes sure that that person has clothes. That’s reparations. That is reparations.’”

                When asked if he agreed with those sentiments, Newsome continually ducked the question and tried to redirect the discussion.  The interviewer, having none of that, persisted.  Newsome’s ultimate response was “‘if you want to talk to me about reparations, nothing falls short of a solution other than people cutting a check. If you want to do something about reparations, cut the check. And we’re not talking about going in every day Americans’ pockets, we are talking about banks … who benefited from slavery. Other insurance companies that sold insurance policies on …’” Yeah, like any of that money doesn’t ultimately come from you or us. At any rate, we apparently can forget about all that nonsense about reparations meaning making investments in black and disadvantaged communities and businesses, eliminating zoning barriers to black migration to the suburbs, etc., etc.

                The check’s in the mail, pal.

                Naomi Osaka is the number ten ranked female tennis player in the world and the highest paid female athlete for 2019.   Last week, she “announced on her Twitter feed that she was boycotting her semifinal match at the Western & Southern Open against the Belgian player Elise Mertens to protest the shooting for Jacob Blake. Ms. Osaka wrote: ‘Watching the continued genocide of black people at the hands of police is honestly making me sick to my stomach.’ She argued that her move would hopefully ‘start a conversation in a majority white sport.’”  https://news.yahoo.com/tennis-pauses-protest-103050856.html.

                Putting aside the fact that she clearly has no idea what a “genocide” actually is (just ask the Jews, Gypsies and Armenians), she’s certainly a spoiled brat who didn’t refuse to play at some cost to herself.  She was well aware as one of the stars of the sport that in the current climate the match would just get postponed for a day or two since she didn’t withdraw from the tournament. So it sure wasn’t any cost to her.  Had she actually withdrawn from the tournament and forgone a payday maybe one could give her a little credit.  In fact, she got a lot of lefty publicity from her stunt, so she benefitted immensely.  She is a fine tennis player and hopefully will be for years to come, but she certainly overstepped her brief here.

                Then this week, she appeared at the opening rounds of the U.S. Open with seven face masks bearing the names of blacks allegedly murdered by racist police scum, one to wear for each round of the tournament.   https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/tennis/osaka-keen-to-spread-awareness-about-racial-injustice/ar-BB18zKWA?ocid=msedgdhp; https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/tennis/naomi-osaka-s-blm-masks-aren-t-just-a-protest-they-re-the-future/ar-BB18B62j?ocid=msedgdhp.  She supposedly wants to “spread awareness about racial injustice.”  “When asked about the masks Osaka said during a post-match interview, ‘It’s quite sad that seven masks isn’t enough for the number of names.’”

                Our objection is not that athletes should be seen and not heard, that’s not the point here.  It is this.  Until a year or so ago, she had both Japanese and American citizenship.  Her mother is Japanese, her mother Haitian, and she apparently “identifies” as black.  She was born in Japan, but moved to Florida when she was three.  Last year she decided to renounce her American citizenship so she could represent Japan in the Olympics.  She could have kept it and represented the US, but for her own reasons she chose not to.  Well, that choice has some consequences, one of which is that she has, in our view, forfeited any right to criticize the US like she’s actually a citizen of it and suffers because of it.

                Our view is that someone who has affirmatively renounced her US citizenship (or any non-citizen, for that matter), doesn’t have any business complaining about the alleged racist history of the country nor current events in the country.  She isn’t complaining about racial injustice in Japan, is she? If she wants to be Japanese, then let her, but there certainly do not appear to be many actual Japanese people railing or protesting about the racial situation in the US like it’s a burden to them personally.  We’ll listen, whether we like it or not, to a lot of guff from a lot of people if they have the standing to complain.  But not from entitled rich people who not only are not citizens, but who once were but renounced their citizenship.  If this country isn’t good enough for her anymore, then she can just shut her yap about its perceived shortcomings.  So sayonara Naomi!

Original Story From https://reason.com/2020/08/06/tulane-cancels-life-of-a-klansman-edward-ball-students-racist/

                You just can’t make this stuff up. We are simply going to have to stop calling colleges and universities institutions of “higher” learning, since that does not appear to be the case at all.  Witness the latest lunacy (and possible illiteracy).  Edward Ball is the great-grandson of a KKK member.  He apparently has spent his adult life promoting anti-racism and using his relatives and their actions as examples of what not to do or be.  This fellow was woke before any of these Tulane “higher” education students were even born, and way before “woke” was even a thing.  One would think lefties would applaud such wokeness decades ahead of its time and be eager to hear what he had to say.  But no….

                A few days ago he was scheduled to speak at Tulane University about his most recent book, Life of a Klansman: A Family History of White Supremacy.  His prior book, the National Book Award-winnning 1998 Slaves in the Family “‘traces the histories of people enslaved by Ball’s own ancestors. In Klansman, Ball tells the story of a racist great-grandfather who joined the Ku Klux Klan.'” 

                According to the article, no less a lefty authority than the New York Times “hailed it as ‘a haunting tapestry of interwoven stories that inform us not just about our past but about the resentment-bred demons that are all too present in our society today,’ and the anti-racism scholar Ibram X. Kendi participated in a virtual discussion about it with Ball.  Tulane University was slated to host another such event, featuring Ball and Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, an assistant professor of geography and African American studies.”  National Public Radio called the book “‘resonant and important.’ The New Republic . . . wrote that Ball ‘builds a psychological portrait of white supremacy, which then radiates outward and across time, to explain the motives and historical background behind racist violence.'”

                Despite knowing exactly what the discussion was supposed to be about through Tulane’s own publicity for the event – anti-racism, that is – “the university opted to postpone it following blinkered outrage from students who insisted that the event was ‘not only inappropriate but violent towards the experience of Black people in the Tulane community and our country.’ Other members of the Tulane community called it “harmful and offensive,” and demanded its cancellation. Still others said the university should apologize and take action against whoever approved the event. . . .  ‘The last thing we need to do is allow someone who is even reflecting on the hatred of their ancestors to speak about white supremacy, even if their efforts come from a place of accountability,’ one student wrote on Instagram.  ‘There is nothing that a book on white supremacy written by the descendant of a Klansman can do to promote or influence an anti-racism atmosphere,’ wrote another.”

                Lest you think these are just some odd comments from a few doltish students, “Tulane’s student government weighed in as well. In a letter to the administration ‘on behalf of the entire student body,’ Undergraduate Student Government Vice President Ingeborg Hyde and Liberal Arts Student Government President Amanda Krantz demanded the event’s cancellation. And they did not mince words.  ‘An apology is the first step in undoing the harm you have caused many members of the community, but is in no way the last,’ they wrote. ‘In the current political atmosphere, it is imperative that we are all actively anti-racist, and endorsing speakers like these is antithetical to the anti-racist work being done by students, faculty, and staff on our campus.'”

                Sometimes you just run out of things to say about nuts.  What is particularly interesting is that this anti-racism advocate received exactly the same reception from the same people he would have received had he been a white supremacy advocate! Go figure.

Of course, these are college kids for the most part, so one has to make some allowance for their immaturity and closed-mindedness since they already know everything already.  But institution of “ignorant” education for Tulane at least seems a better fit – whatever it is they’re learning, it certainly isn’t “higher”.  In any event, it certainly doesn’t seem worth the roughly $65,000/year in tuition and room-and-board their poor parents are paying. Someone should be looking for a refund.                      

Figures from https://studentaccounts.tulane.edu/sites/studentaccounts.tulane.edu/files/2020-2021_Full_Time_UG_costs_v2.pdf

                Yes, it sounds too loony to be true, but read the news story and actual quotes from a BLM Chicago Organizer for yourself at https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/black-lives-matter-chicago-organizer-defends-looting-that-s-reparations/ar-BB17RrBq?ocid=msedgdhp.  This is an excerpt:

“Ariel Atkins [a BLMChicago organizer] spoke outside a police station in the South Loop on 18th and South State Street on Monday, where protesters had gathered to call for the release of those who were arrested.  ‘I don’t care if somebody decides to loot a Gucci or a Macy’s or a Nike because that makes sure that that person eats. That makes sure that that person has clothes, Atkins said, according to NBC Chicago.  ‘That’s reparations. That is reparations. Anything they want to take, take it because these businesses have insurance. They’re going to get their money back. My people aren’t getting anything.’  Atkins also hit back at Rev. Jesse Jackson, who tweeted earlier on Monday that the looting that had taken place in Chicago was ‘morally wrong.’  He wrote: ‘This act of pillaging, robbing & looting in Chicago was humiliating, embarrassing &morally wrong. It must not be associated with our quest for social justice and equality.’  But Atkins maintained that Jackson ‘has nothing to do with Black Lives Matter.’  She added: ‘Jesse Jackson was not there for the creation of Black Lives Matter. Jesse Jackson can keep his opinions to himself.'” (emphasis supplied)

                Yes, “unhinged” appears to be the correct word here, at first glance anyway.  But when you think about it, perhaps all we whities ought to agree.  We suggest that if we agree that looting by black people constitutes reparations, then over the last 55 years reparations have been fully repaid by rioting and looting in Chicago, Detroit, Watts, Harlem, Boston, Portland, etc., etc., etc.  That should also include all property theft by blacks over the years, all of which together certainly adds up to way more than reparations should be worth. So let’s not hear anymore about it.  The end.  Actually, we should send BLM a bill for the overage.

Definition of re-education in English, from https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/re-education:

            re-education:  NOUN.  Education or training to change someone’s beliefs or behavior.

            Anyone with even a nodding familiarity with Nazi, Soviet, Chinese and Vietnamese (and others) “reeducation camps” has to feel a chill run up his or her spine when we read about the tidal wave of “diversity and inclusion training” and “anti-racism training” that employees. students, teachers, etc. are going to have to go through to satisfy the baying woke mob.  Do any of these clowns even know what a “gulag” is?  Likely not.  Or they do and they approve.  It’s one or the other.  It’s bad enough that new college students have for years had to undergo mandatory “sensitivity” or “diversity and inclusion” training, and that many employers torture their poor employees and at least go through the motions of mandating such training.  But really, those have all been surface-scratching etiquette programs that in the end are targeted towards trying to create a more civil workplace or schoolplace, not really any attempt to delve into the historical depths supposedly necessary eradicate this alleged systemic racism business.  But don’t worry, BLM is on the job and will set all this aright.

            So now the demands are ever more extreme and you don’t only have to be nice to blacks, but you have to study their history and be indoctrinated into believing the tale of collective racist evil practiced in the country over the past 400 years.  To listen to them you’d think that Americans invented slavery.  Well, slavery is as old as mankind, as the Jewish people among others would be only too glad to remind you.  Who do you think built the pyramids in Egypt or the viaducts in Rome or the various ancient temples in the Americas?  Who do you think rowed Cleopatra’s barge?  Do you think Spartacus was some Roman of noble birth?  Do you think African tribes who won in battle did not enslave the losers?  In fact, until recently enslavement was the typical fate of the losers.  (Except where the US is the winner, however, since this country paid for and rebuilt Japan and Germany after demolishing them.  But we all know no good deed goes unpunished.).

            As just one shining example of a classic “shakedown” or extortion in the name of racial purity/reeducation/reparations, consider the list of “demands” made by one BLM outfit in Louisville, Kentucky.  In Louisville, there is an area called the NuLu Market District, which apparently was created by what the BLM mafia calls “gentrification.”  The idea seems to be that to create and build this district, minorities were dislocated and have never reaped any of the benefits of this now-prosperous area.  Therefore, the “demands” state that:

1.         Businesses will adequately represent the black population of Louisville by having a minimum of 23% black staff (including management) in front of house positions, and maintain commitment and accountability to increasing that number (accountability roundtable information below).

2.         Retail locations will include a minimum of 23% inventory of black retailers OR make a recurring monthly donation of 1.5% of net sales to black local organizations.

3.         Business owners will require diversity, equity, & inclusion training for their staffs, to be conducted by any one of the black women leaders on the attached list. Training will be conducted thereafter on a bi-annual basis.

4.         Customize your own OR display one of the attached written statements in a viable location within your business to increase awareness and show support for the reparations movement.

5.         Non-profits in NuLu district will submit to a voluntary, external audit of their board of trustees and take necessary steps towards 23% representation on those boards.

6.         Business owners & non-profit leaders will participate in quarterly roundtable discussions to be held accountable for their communities to these demands, and work together towards increased equity.

7.         Maintain adequate black representation in any entertainment and performances booked at your business.

8.         Dress code policies inherently discriminate against black folks, women, and the transgender community. You must eliminate dress code policies that promote profiling towards patrons and employees, including their hair requirements or stipulations, which can disproportionately target black folks.

9.         23% black representation on the board of the NuLu Business Association.

A failure to comply with these “demands” will result in the following five “repercussions” – that is, you won’t be protected from BLM unless you satisfy their demands:

-Reduction in Racial Index Score/bias report to the Better Business Bureau.

-Social Media Blast: Notification, via all social media platforms, of non-compliance.

-Boycott: Public boycott, coordinated through social media and mail announcements, of your NuLu establishment AND any other business ventures owned by you.

-Protest: Visible, media-covered demonstration/sit-in outside your establishment.

-Invasive Reclamation: Placement of booths/tables outside your establishment where competing Black proprietors will offer items comparable to those offered by you.

            And on top of that, you have to sign a “contract.”  If you thought those demands were nutty, just read the following (sorry about the pagination here):

          

 

So, Comrades, leave the keys to your business on the counter and get ready to entrain for the reeducation camps – AFTER, of course, you’ve taken care of your reparations.

Nature has ways of trying to keep humans in check, and always has, but not always as successfully as she may wish.  What is always unaddressed in the so-called climate change debate is overpopulation.  It would certainly appear to any reasonable and sane alien observer that there just is a limit to the number of people this planet can comfortably support.  For historical perspective, when we were born in 1955 the world population was approximately 2,773,019,936 (figures from https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/).  Today, that number is almost 8 billion.  So in about 65 years, the world population has just about trebled (that is, increased by about 300%).  In stark contrast, in the year 1600 the world population was about 500,000,000, compared with the year 1700 (about 610,000,000), an increase of about 110 million over a full century, or about a 22% increase.  See the trend?  And according to the UN, the world population is projected to reach 9.8 billion in 2050, and 11.2 billion in 2100.  https://www.un.org/development/desa/en/news/population/world-population-prospects-2017.html.  Anyone who thinks this isn’t a fundamental problem is deluding themselves. 

Hence over the ages Nature has used various strategies for attempting to keep the population in check.  Wars, of course, and various genocides – something innate in humans makes us seem to covet what others have, and/or to impose one’s culture/religion on others, or to just destroy things and people.  The Black Death of the Middle (or “Dark”) Ages, to the flu pandemic of 1918, which reportedly killed roughly 50-100 million people worldwide, SARS, MERS, the annual flu panic, etc.  Not to mention the usual hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, tornadoes, that don’t so much affect the US, but devastate Asian countries in particular.  And of course, diseases such as cancer and various forms of distracted driving, two of the principal plagues of modern lifestyles.

And over the last few centuries since the Renaissance, humans have inventively fought back and developed their own strategies for combatting Nature, far too successfully as it turns out.  Vaccines, the constant “progress” of medicine and medical care (however much in resources they soak up), the fight against cancer, weather radar, early warning systems, hurricane-earthquake-tornado proof buildings, evacuations, and now mass quarantines and lock-downs and maskings of entire populations bringing economic ruin to millions due to the Covid19.  But humans have been pretty effective overall in combatting some natural phenomena, the health care system being a principal culprit.  But Nature continues to fight back.  As the Boston Globe Magazine noted last week, scientists are currently engaged in a mad race to combat so-called drug-resistent superbugs, germs that evolved to avoid the efficacy of antibiotics.  https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/05/magazine/racing-clock-stop-drug-resistant-superbugs/.  Similarly, this Covid19 and other viruses appear to continually mutate, so even if one form is tamed others spring up.  We see it in the flu vaccine every year, which usually only protects against one strain and not dozens of others.

Now we have Covid19.  On top of the medical community becoming deranged and panicked, of course the politicians have to get into the act and pass ridiculous legislation sending everyone in the country a couple of checks to help with the disruption, which really is just a couple of costly sops to get the do-gooders off of their cases since they sure aren’t going to be paying for it themselves – their kids and their kids’ kids will.  And also they set up a situation where about 2/3ds of people collecting unemployment actually make more than they were making pre-unemployment – that’s just nutty, but it is an election year after all.

Moreover, for every nickel you get from the feds, your descendents (probably not you) will be paying it back with interest since it will just increase the national debt.  Apparently no one understands what the national debt is – it is widely ignored but is no different that you maxing out all your credit cards with no means to repay them and then continually seeking an increase in your credit limit and maxing it out again every year.  We old folks (Boomers, if you like) already have mortgaged our kids’ and grandkids’ futures quite enough as it is what with the national debt and social security going the wrong way and fossil fuels killing the planet.  We don’t need to be making it any worse for them.

And for what do we make these efforts?  Why should we be reacting like this and trying to prevent it?  “You’re against social justice,” some will cry.  Well, Darwin didn’t get the idea for natural selection out of the blue.  He observed Nature at work and observed that the strong survive and adapt and the weak and sickly perish – that is social justice in the real world at work.  Nature created that, and humans’ efforts to avoid it is just going to generate ever more vicious responses from Nature.

Thus, humanity’s efforts to thwart Nature’s efforts to align resources with population are what has brought us to the place where there is a great deal of panic about rising sea levels (never mind that sea levels have risen and fallen hundreds of times over the last couple of billion years), greenhouse gases choking us all to death, superstorms savaging the population.   And of course our favorite, “we only have 12 years left to fix this!” or the planet will – well, will what exactly?  Right.  But actually if you buy that theory, you should also be wholeheartedly in favor of decreasing the world population and thus support Nature’s efforts.  That means doing nothing during this “pandemic,” not more.  If people want to be personally dumb enough to go maskless,  or go to bars, the beach and parties, etc., and expose themselves to some death-dealing virus, then that should be considered to be all to the good – we don’t need those dopes sucking up resources. 

Now of course someone (probably lots of do-gooder someones) will say, well, life is precious and we need to preserve every one we can.  Well, if history has taught the human race anything, it’s how cheap and ephemeral life is, not how precious it is.  Sure, on an individual basis we want to protect our family and those we know and love.  But from a species and planet-preservation perspective, it makes far more sense to let Nature take its course and whoever dies, dies, and whoever lives, lives.  Of course, that’s not politically correct and is anti-progress and the social media “shaming” coming our way probably wouldn’t be pleasant if we cared enough to pay any attention to the rantings of short-sighted and ignorant morons. 

This Covid19 is not a crisis.  It is Nature doing its job.  That’s why we should be doing nothing, for the betterment of the species and the preservation of the planet.  We should be looking at the big picture, not the little picture.  Otherwise we are just setting the stage for another quasi-Hitlerian situation of the human race running out of room for its population and needing and seeking lebensraum, and we’ve seen how that turns out. Anyway, we’re getting on a Space X flight to Mars as soon as we can, so it won’t be our problem.

                Unsettled by the police response to proposed police reform legislation in Massachusetts (which, among other things, is that such legislation is a knee-jerk reaction to troubles elsewhere in the nation) the baying woke mob has had to reach back 9 years to resurrect what appears to be the only “recent” Massachusetts situation where a black person was killed by a police officer under possibly questionable circumstances so they can argue that all the cops in Massachusetts are racist murderers run amok like everywhere else in the country, so all Massachusetts cops and police departments must be disestablished or defunded and their lives and reputations in splinters. 

                As reported by The Boston Globe at https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/01/metro/eurie-stamps-died-2011-police-shooting-now-there-are-new-calls-justice-his-death/:

              “Eurie Stamps Sr., [was] a retired MBTA maintenance worker shot and killed in his home by Framingham police in 2011.  But as demonstrators recite the names of Black people who have died from police violence amid demands for justice, calls for public recognition of Stamps have grown louder as Massachusetts faces its own reckoning over systemic racism in policing.  In Cambridge Saturday, organizers of a march from City Hall to Hoyt Field in the name of Stamps, who grew up in that city, said they wanted to tell his story, honor his legacy, and demand accountability for his death, said Selvin L. Chambers III, one of the march’s organizers. . . .

                “Nearly a decade ago, on Jan. 5, 2011, the Framingham police SWAT team executed a search warrant on the Fountain Street apartment Stamps shared with his wife and then-20-year-old stepson.  Police were acting on a report that Stamps’s stepson and others were selling crack cocaine from the apartment. They did not suspect Stamps of any crime. Officers entered the apartment and ordered Stamps to lie on his stomach on the floor.  [One officer, Duncan,]. . . moved to handcuff and search Stamps. The officer pointed a rifle at Stamps, his finger on the trigger, according to documents filed in federal court as part of a later lawsuit by Stamps’s family.  Stamps, who had no history of violence, was shot in the face and later pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.

                “After investigation, ‘then-Middlesex District Attorney Gerard T. Leone Jr. said Duncan lost his balance and fell, causing the officer to fire his weapon accidentally.  No charges were filed against Duncan following the investigation by Leone’s office and State Police.'”

                Now, nine years later, on the basis of no discernable evidence or even any alleged “new” evidence, “[o]rganizers of the Cambridge march Saturday alleged a cover-up in the case” and that this event is proof of the systemic racism in policing in the Commonwealth continuing today.

                Well, it’s a terrible thing for a baying woke mob when the facts don’t back up their theories and hopes, but that obviously has never stopped them from being creative and making wild claims.  In fact, they’re likely to go even further and just make up more facts – what a surprise that would be, NOT!  Some dolt(s) undoubtedly will even argue that the absence of such facts actually proves the existence of the cover-up, since their non-existence only proves that the alleged cover-up worked.  So if you assert a cover-up, and cannot find any facts supporting a cover-up, you were right!  Our college logic professor would have a field day with that one!

                However, it is a terrible thing for all of us when guesswork, conjecture, assumptions, allegations, whispers, rumors, graffiti and the like are substituted for actual evidence of some sort of wrongdoing.  That is exactly what happened in the 1950s when Senator McCarthy was cancelling out so many lives, and in Salem/Danvers during the witch trials and hangings in the 1600s.  Welcome to the new world, same as the old world.