Cutting a Pink Slip Off At the Pass

Minneapolis

CBS:

Minnesota governor weighs in on Chris Kluwe’s release

With the Vikings cutting punter Chris Kluwe earlier this week, we’ve debated how much of his dismissal had to do with his punting ability vs. his outspokenness on a number of issues that might have alienated some of his coaches.

Now, Mark Dayton, the governor of Minnesota, is making his voice heard.

“I don’t feel good about it,” Dayton, a Democrat, said. “I mean I’m not in position to evaluate the role and their punting abilities. But it seems to me the general manager said right after the draft that they were going to have competition. Well, then he brings the one guy [fifth-round pick Jeff Locke] in, he kicks for a weekend and that’s the competition? I mean, I just think sports officials ought to be honest about what the heck is going on. Same way I think public officials should be honest about what’s going on. So that bothers me probably as much if not more than the actual decision.”

Here we go. Every big time pro athlete who senses that he’s about to be cut or have something done to him that he won’t like will either come out as “gay” or start mouthing off about gay rights, just to create a handy excuse/rationalization/lawsuit fodder.

That’s Winning

America

McPaper:

Managers to Millennials: Job interview no time to text

Many college grads lack interview skills. They take calls, text and sometimes bring their parents or pets to interviews. HR execs blame a coddled generation weaned on smartphones and social media.

Newly minted college graduates soon entering the job market could be facing another hurdle besides high unemployment and a sluggish economy. Hiring managers say many perform poorly — sometimes even bizarrely — in job interviews.

Human resource professionals say they’ve seen recent college grads text or take calls in interviews, dress inappropriately, use slang or overly casual language and exhibit other oddball behavior.

(snip)

Fall and other HR executives say such quirks have become more commonplace the past three years or so, and are displayed by about one in five recent grads. They’re prompting recruiters to rule out otherwise qualified candidates for entry-level positions and delay hiring decisions.

(snip)

Fall says Millennials also have been coddled by parents. “It’s (a mindset of) ‘You’re perfect just the way are,’ ” he says. ” ‘Do whatever you’re comfortable doing.’ “

Not just the parents.  It’s also the educational system which enforces standards of deportment and decorum about as often as one finds a tooth on a hen.

But we should stop looking at this as a bug and start looking it as a feature.  Instilling high self-esteem in students has been the number one priority of the American educational system for the past generation.  In that, they have been wildly successful.

If you do Personnel and you don’t want to hire a 23-year old wearing a crop top or halter top with a picture of a pot leaf and the word “Fuck” above or below it, then you’re just an old fuddy duddy who is behind the times.  Get ready for a ‘scrimination lawsuit.  And don’t laugh — You know that one day soon it will be against the law to “discriminate” against these worthies, because these overly self-esteemed brats have doting helicopter parents that can really put the pressure on Democrat/liberal politicians.

And also…I’m waiting for the first news article about a man or woman with a Ph.D. who can’t read.

LGBTQMIAPDLOLPLPLTH Gets Its Pound of Flesh

Boston Washington, D.C.

More like its 255 pounds of flesh.  And it goes by the very pedestrian and forgettable name “Jason Collins.”  Except organized LGBTQMIALOLPLPLTH will never let us forget that name, for all history.

I said many times before now in this space and elsewhere that the thing precluding the first current major sports league professional athlete who is LGBTQMIAPDLOLPLPLTH from coming out wasn’t fear of his teammates, but fear of the media, that once whoever the first one was to come out did that, he could forget about ever being asked about his job ever again, and instead the media would dwell on sex and sexuality.  Well, my theory is a bit off kilter here, because I doubt anyone was ever standing around Jason Collins’s locker to ask him about his job.

He’s a 34-year old seven foot even tall journeyman center.  How much do you want to bet that he came out mainly to extend his career a few years?  Can’t cut or trade him now — Oh no, you just can’t do that to The First, the New Jackie Robinson.  Especially in an LGBTQMIAPDLOLPLPLTH hotbed (no pun intended) like Boston.  Cutting him now would be *-phobic.

As far as I can tell, Jason Collins’s only real link to St. Louis is that he was a freshman at Stanford the season they made the Final Four (1997-98), and Stanford made the Final Four after winning the Midwest regional bracket in St. Louis.  Who knows?  Maybe while he was here, he hit The Grove.

UPDATE

Oops on my part:  His most recent team was the Washington Wizards, and now he’s a free agent.  But that provides another motive for his coming out now:  Being able to wield the *-phobia accusation at any team or maybe the whole league if someone doesn’t sign him.

Yeah. Shocked. Really.

Houston

This year’s first overall draft pick for a sports league whose players are overwhelmingly lesbian and whose fans are overwhelmingly lesbian has just come out as a lesbian.

Really.

Maybe this will make Mark Cuban want to draft her (?) even more.

That’s My Boy

West Hollywood, California

Magic Johnson is proud of his young adult son.

Because he aced his MCAT and was accepted into Hopkins Med…er, no.

Because he made it through Marine Corps boot camp…er, no.

Because he saved a kid from drowning…er, no.

Because he’s projected to be a lottery pick in the upcoming NBA draft…er, definitely not.

Well, then, what?

Because he did something that virtually all postpubescent people do — He chose an orientation.

On the one hand, we’re supposed to relegate sexual orientation to such a level of triviality and nonchalance that we’re not supposed to give the formerly “queer” choice a second thought.  But on the other hand, we’re supposed to be so “proud” of people who make the choice formerly known as “queer,” or they demand that we be proud of them for doing so.

Question:  Would Magic Johnson be proud of his son if he would have chose heterosexual?

Really Really Want

Washington, D.C.

Politico:  Republican barnacle class wants SCOTUS to “get it over” and legalize gay “marriage” right away.  Their reasoning is that if SCOTUS does that, it will take the issue off the table as a wedge issue for the left, and in fact will take it off the table as an issue in general.

Sure, just like Roe v Wade did for aborticide.

This is why you read this space, and why I get paid the big bucks — To translate this kind of bullshit into English.

What this really means is that the barnacle class of Republican consultants is for gay “marriage,” and they want SCOTUS to rule in favor of it as forcefully as they can so they have the skirt of a SCOTUS decision to hide behind, an excuse not to oppose it and to marginalize people and candidates who want to oppose it.  The Neal Boortz right-libertarian types, who wish the “religious right” would just shut up and go away (but keep on voting Republican), are coveting that SCOTUS is as profound on the “libertine” side of the gay “marriage” cases in front of them right now as they were in Roe v Wade.  They can say, “the issue is settled, the Supreme Court has spoken, so quit talking about social issues.”

Here’s an analogy I can use for our side — The Heller and McDonald decisions.  With SCOTUS precedent firmly on our side, it is for our side of the 2A question a convenient bludgeon to demoralize the other side.

Married to the World

Unitarian Church

WaPo:

The joke about Unitarians is that they’re where you go when you don’t know where to go. Theirs is the religion of last resort for the intermarried, the ambivalent, the folks who want a faith community without too many rules. It is perhaps no surprise that the Unitarian Universalist Association is one of the fastest-growing denominations in the country, ballooning 15 percent over the past decade, when other established churches were shrinking. Politically progressive to its core, it draws from the pool of people who might otherwise be “nones” – unaffiliated with any church at all.

But within the ranks of the UUA over the past few years, there has been some quiet unrest concerning a small but activist group that vociferously supports polyamory. That is to say “the practice of loving and relating intimately to more than one other person at a time,” according to a mission statement by Unitarian Universalists for Polyamory Awareness (UUPA). The UUPA “encourages spiritual wholeness regarding polyamory,” including the right of polyamorous people to have their unions blessed by a minister.

(snip)

The UUPA has received its share of attention over the years – a PBS interview, a San Francisco Chronicle article – but mostly it has caused anguish and dissent among Unitarians. In 2007, a Unitarian congregation in Chestertown, Md., heard a sermon by a poly activist named Kenneth Haslam, arguing that polyamory is the next frontier in the fight for sexual and marriage freedom. “Poly folks are strong believers that each of us should choose our own path in forming our families, forming relationships, and being authentic in our sexuality.”

Well, we know the next letter in The Great Acronym will be related to polyamory.

Let’s just cut to the chase and do the only thing that’s right by social justice and equality as far as this issue goes:  Once a person anywhere on Earth is of legal age, he or she or heshe or it is automatically married to every other person on Earth of legal age.

Bifurcation

Phoenix

Arizona…where men are men, and women are women, and shower accordingly.

Because…you had to figure at some point that sanity was finally going to wake up, get out of bed and put its boots on after the freaks are already halfway across the world.

There’s Trouble in Social Justice Paradise

Rhode Island

Uh oh.  The intersectionality between race and LGBTQMIAPDLOLPLPLTH yielded a car wreck.

What happened to “love is just love?”  One would think that a relationship that is both homosexual and interracial would catapult the lucky couple to the top of the totem pole of tolerance.

The good news is that this isn’t anything that one big group shower wouldn’t solve.

“Fucked Up”

New York

Which one looks more fucked up to you?

I would ask this in the form of a poll question, but I don’t want Madonna stuffing the virtual ballot box.

It’s a Who-Whom Thing

Washington, D.C.

The 2A question is basically another front in the culture wars by any other name.

Remember, when you’re hearing a lot of political and social chatter about “what,” it usually is a smokescreen for “who” and “whom.”  See also:  Cigarettes.

Dispatches from the Culture Wars

Massachusetts and Connecticut

First story:  The school district in Medford, Massachusetts thinks it’s found a solution to the “problem” of transgendered use of certain facilities.  The answer is to give the “Ts” their own restrooms and locker room.

Yeah, but what what if a man living as a woman doesn’t want to shower with a woman living as a man?  Whole new can of worms.  Eventually, you’ll have to have restrooms and locker rooms for not only straight men and straight women, but also one for every member of the LGBTQMIAPD alphabet gang, sometimes more than one for each “letter” depending on the circumstance.

This is why I’ve been predicting:  The only real social justice-y solution is everyone in one big shower.  Because…diversity.

Second story:  We may know the next two letters that will be added to The Great Acronym:  Something to do with incest, and something to do with bestiality.

Getting It Right

Mount Airy, Maryland

Me, on January 15:

I think we get it bassackwards as a society.

First we let let young people, especially boys and young men, play these gory shoot-em-up war simulation video games, largely based on algorithms that were specifically developed to desensitize new soldiers to the concept of killing, and then we present them with real firearms.  We’d be a lot better off if we did it the other way around first — Introduce them to the real thing first, which will teach them how to be good cowards, that these things have real power, give you the power to end a lot of life really quickly, and are by no means toys, then after they fully grok that, then they can play these games if they want.  To the extent they will still want to, they won’t have any desire to translate fiction into reality, because good cowardice will be their base instinct.

In this WaPo feature about what remains of Maryland’s rural “gun culture” (I hate that phrase, but I’m using it for the lack of a better one), toward the end, we find out about one household that did just that.

Two More Letters Rise Tall

LGBTQMIAPDLOLPLPLTH Community

The official acronym is now LGBTQMIAPD.

The two new members of the catch-all acronym that refers to anyone who is not a pair-bonding heterosexual are “P” and “D.”  “P” is for “Pansexual,” which is someone who is romantically attracted to anyone of any orientation or any real or perceived or self-adopted gender.  It’s a wider net than plain ole regular Bisexuality because bisexuals aren’t attracted to transgender/transsexual individuals, only to people whose chosen gender identity is the same as their biological identity.  “D” is for “Demisexual,” a halfway point between a normal person with normal sexual urges and Asexual (hence the “A”) in this acronym, basically someone whose libido is so lethargic that he/she/heshe/it really has to get into someone before wanting sexual intercourse.  Demisexuals can seem to be heterosexual, but they can also be someone whose proclivities are covered by The Great Acronym.

It has been the great ambition of the community of alternate orientation to go for the Holy Grail — An acronym that involves every letter of the alphabet.  Ten down and sixteen to go.

Everyone Ever Is to Blame

Wal-Martinez Parking Lot

A hot topic on talk radio this afternoon was Black Friday Creep.

Someone, can’t remember who. floated the question:  Do you think the people standing in line for days waiting for a cheap piece of crap from a big box store are Democrats or Republicans, and why?

My answer:

Yes.

What I mean by that is that I think that it’s easy to tell that it’s mainly Democrat types who line up, because of their drone attitudes.  But, ironically enough, they’re participating in an economic/consumerist culture paving over our real culture largely endorsed by Republicans and “economic man” social ideology.

Good Head

Celebutard America

VDH:

How can some individual just call up an FBI friend (?) and thereby instigate an FBI investigation? And how did that lead to an FBI agent photographing himself bare-chested and apparently infatuated with a married mother of three? How can a Ph.D. candidate, without any journalistic or historical credentials, become the public face of a four-star general and be privy to information to the point of hitting the lecture circuit to pontificate about a CIA annex in Benghazi? How did an early-middle-aged married mother of two suddenly morph into a court biographer who lectured on everything from military practice to leadership to national-security challenges? How can a Florida socialite by any stretch of the imagination merit a vast e-mail correspondence with the nation’s highest ranking warriors entrusted to conduct our most critical struggles? What in the world is an honorary consul general and who extends such Alice Through the Looking Glass titles? Why do generals seek to go back stage to meet a Denzel Washington or have Angelina Jolie pop up for a photo-op?

The answers to Questions #1-5 is that they all give good head.  The answer to the first part of Question #6 is a woman who gives good head.  The answer to the second part of Question #6 is an important man getting good head.  I doubt blow jobs can answer Question #7, though.

Moral of the story:  Most of life’s not so mysterious mysteries can be explained by quality blow jobs.

Cause and Effect

And how many of those 32,101 girls and women of reproductive age that become pregnant each year were raped because the men that raped them were regular readers of Hustler magazine and therefore had an entitlement/piece of meat mentality when it came to the fairer sex?

Where Was This When I Was In College?

St. Joseph

“Gender neutral housing.”

Translation:  A man pretends to be transgender or transsexual to scam his way into being able to look at naked women.

Coming Out

Era of LGBTQMIALOLPLPLTH

The reason why a male professional athlete in a major sport has not yet come out of the closet isn’t because he fears hazing and bullying from his teammates, but because he fears the media.  To put it another way, the first one that comes out will become an eternal “civil rights” icon, and after every game will be 50 reporters around his locker wanting to talk about his orientation instead of his job.

High Marks

New York City

GLAAD gives the CW television network high marks. 

Because Nielsen sure doesn’t.

The only reason the CW is even profitable with its MSNBC-style ratings is because it engages in narrowcasting, i.e. its programming appeals to a certain demographic, in the CW’s case, teenagers and young adults.  Madison Avenue loves narrowcasting;  it’s an easy path to the eyeballs of a certain demographic.  If you make zit cream, you’re buying on the CW, not the CBS Evening News.  Vice versa if you make incontinence diapers.

Sex and Violence to Little Kids

Connecticut

The Hill:

McMahon, Murphy to face off in Connecticut Senate race

(snip)

…”"Linda McMahon is a greedy CEO who made millions marketing sex and violence to little kids…”

Hollywood, public schools.  ‘Nuff said.

Criminalizing Chicken

KCMO

UMKC has a Chick-Fil-A.  You knew it was only a matter of time.

Why now?  Chick-Fil-A’s corporate politics re LGBTQMIALOLPLPLTH issues has been what it is for a long time.  Why are the LGBTQMIALOLPLPLTHers grinding for a fight now?  I don’t think it and the looming elections are just a coincidence.  Mark me — This Three Months Hate campaign against Chick-Fil-A is being coordinated straight out of the White House, and is an effort to gin up LGBTQMIALOLPLPLTH turnout in November.

Stop Taking About “Asses”

Washington, D.C.

I’ll make this really easy for you.

The 74-page report, “Back of the Line: The State of AIDS Among Black Gay Men in America,” says black gay and bisexual men make up one in 500 Americans overall, but account for one in four new HIV infections in the United States.

And:

Wilson also faulted mainstream gay rights groups for putting the HIV-AIDS crisis on the back burner, now that it is no longer a pressing issue for affluent gays in big cities whose bigger concern today is marriage equality.

“There are almost no national LGBT organizations today that give a rat’s ass about the lives of black gay men as they are impacted by HIV-AIDS, and that’s disgraceful,” he said.

Why should the “mainstream” (read: white) LGBTQMIALOLPLPLTH orgs worry that much about HIV/AIDS, when condoms and ARV drugs, and now the new blocker drug, has halted the spread of HIV/AIDS among those who take proper precautions?

Keeping Out the Joneses

Kearney, Missouri

2:

Missouri Boy Scout Kicked Out of Camp for Being Gay

A Missouri Boy Scout says everything he has worked for over the past 10 years is gone because he finally admitted who he really is.

Eric Jones says he was kicked out of a Boy Scout summer camp where he worked because he is gay.

Jones, 19, says he knew what the Boy Scouts of America stood for. He even says the Scouts made him who he is today. However, his title, his job and his Boy Scout honor were stripped away on Sunday when he told the director at the camp where he worked in St. Joseph, Missouri, that he is gay.

In second grade, Eric Jones took the Boy Scout oath, to do his best, obey the scout law, and keep himself morally straight.

“Everything in the scout oath, everything is standing up for what’s right,” said Jones, who says that for more than a decade he wore his scouting uniform with pride. “Scouting was an outlet for me. An activity. Something I love and I was passionate about.”

At 17, Jones earned the rank of Eagle Scout, and this summer he was working at a scout summer camp in St. Joseph.

“That’s really one of my passions is helping other people, scouting has taught me that,” said Jones.

But Jones says part of helping other people and living up to the scout oath meant he needed to be open about who he is.

“You know this is an organization that is focused on middle school and high school and to tell them that they have to hide who they are of course puts even more stress on them,” said Jones.

(snip)

“This is having an effect on our youth,” said Jones. “You are seeing it. If anything, have some kind of compassion for them. Imagine if this was your child or a neighbor, a close friend that was going through this.”

Mr. Jones didn’t just discover his LGBTQMIALOLPLPLTHness.  And he had to have known about the BSA’s policy on such matters since he was old enough to know that “gay” doesn’t mean “happy” anymore.  The differential in time between him picking an orientation and his outing himself to his superiors is a time when he was being deceitful and un-Scout-like.

“Tell them they have to hide…more stress on them…having an effect on our youth.”

Look at the other side of this coin.  You talk about stress and hiding and having an effect?  This is the era of Jerry Sandusky.  What sort of cow would the parents of these Scouts at the summer camp where he is a counselor have had when they found out that their sons are sometimes naked with a homosexual man with authority within close quarters?  Yes, I know, no real link between male homosexuality and pedophilia, any correlation is statistical noise.  But not everybody knows that.

Not Hot Rodders (In a Sense of Speaking)

LGBTQMIALOLPLPLTH Community

Hawking Volts to the “Proud” people because of their energy efficiency?

Wait until they find out that you have to burn coal to produce the electricity to recharge it.

“Women’s” = Lesbian

Long Island

Understand that, and this article becomes perfectly clear.  Yes, Obama, I said “perfectly clear.”

Me and My Self-Esteem

London

Business Insider:

People With Low Self-Confidence Are More Likely To Be Successful

You’ve been told your entire career that confidence is what you need to get ahead, but if your self-esteem isn’t soaring high above everyone else’s, you can still do really well professionally.

“There is no bigger cliché in business psychology than the idea that high self-confidence is key to career success,” Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, professor of Business Psychology at University College London, tells Jen Hubley Luckwaldt at Payscale.com “It is time to debunk this myth. In fact, low self-confidence is more likely to make you successful.”

And the reason why is because those with lower self-confidence are able to digest negative feedback from bosses more easily. They’re most able to take this criticism and turn it into something positive.

But this theory doesn’t include people with extremely low self confidence, but with “just-low-enough confidence,” which Chamorro-Premuzic says leads people to create realistic goals, but they’re not so low that they constantly suffer from anxiety or doubt everything they tackle.

Other versions of this same story go on to say that people with high self-esteem are too cocky to listen to constructive criticism or learn from their mistakes.  They’re sometimes so self-esteemed that they don’t think they can even make mistakes or that any of their previous mistakes are mistakes.

This is something I have instinctively known for years.

And this study borks perhaps a generation of accepted wisdom in public education.

Up To Their New Tricks

Paranoia-Industrial Complex

Guess who.

These people are supposed to be so proud of themselves and their orientation.  They say they’re proud once a year when they march down the street in freak outfits or practically ass naked.  Most of them won’t stop until they can get legally “married.”

So what’s their problem with someone else using this picture?

As for the SPLC, they only recently jumped on the LGBTQMIALOLPLPLTH bandwagon, and only because their traditional money trees started dying.  If I were gay militant or pro-gay obsessive, I’d be asking the SPLC what took them so long.

Ready, Set, Go

Boston

He’s 72.  He’s 42.

You can’t exactly say that the 72-year old is looking for young piece of ass, because he’s probably the packee not the packer in that relationship.

That’s not controversial, but a 30-18 in St. Louis is.

You Know How This Story Ends

New Britain, Connecticut

Hartford Courant:

The day Alexandra Pennell addressed an anti-hate rally at Central Connecticut State University about the anti-gay messages scrawled on her door…

You can take it from here.

The LGBTQMIALOLPLPLTH hoaxers are merely doing what the racial hoaxers have for years.