Right As Usual

There is a coffeehouse in the Boston area where the 23-year old daughter of the owner posted some cop-hostile comments on Facebook. The over-the-top response to that has, apparently, led to the shop having to close down, due to lack of customers. The mother, horrified about the comments from her daughter, immediately insisted that she take down her comments. She also reached out to the local cops, to assure them that they were welcome. Too late. The online mob had already gotten some people with nothing better to do stirred up. Protests gathered at the business, customers stayed away, and the business went down the tubes. The comments to the story in the Boston Globe are varied, passionate, and copious. So, what is the take-away from this? If you are planning to start a business, or already have a business, make sure that your entire extended family knows that political/cultural/social commentary that is controversial, and could be linked in ANY way to the business will res...

The trouble with propaganda and 'Fake News' is that a lot of people - including me, in the past, will say: No Smoke Without Fire This explanation for much of the behavior of Comey and others whose actions first brought this to public attention is reasonable. Frankly, it's the only explanation for some of it. The dossier, and the allegations connected with it, were used as an excuse to dip into Trump's business practices. The opposition's steadfast belief that all businessmen were crooked was the rationale for getting the ridiculous allegations out there. They planned, all along, to fan their base's appetite for 'getting him' by providing a flimsy rationale for calling for an independent prosecutor. They expected the original claims to be dismissed, but, they anticipated that the IP would manage to dig out some other juicy stuff that would keep the investigation going, until they could find any behavior that they could hang an impeachment c...

It's a new day, and I've run out of sites to see. I'm bored with my usual, have MUCHO work to do, preparing for my trip tomorrow, and really need to get moving. So, I'm going to be offline for a few days. IF I find the time, I MAY write, and schedule a few posts - probably short - for the next week. I want to be able to: Finish the revisions Plan out the next book, before NaNoWriMo starts. Shockingly, it's less than 2 weeks away. Share

I've been wandering around the web working VERY hard, honest. And, I've somehow managed to find some interesting links: Sharyl Atkinson's new book - The Smear (with a much longer subtitle that I don't want to bother about right now). The reviews I've seen are good. I'm on the wait list for an e-copy at my library. I have reading a-plenty for my trip to Cleveland this week (mostly family-related). I've checked out some of D'Souza's works, including his most recent, Stealing America. I saw a 3-part interview with Bill Whittle, and it was riveting. Here is a link to the first part. The Progressive Media Meltdown continues. You may not have been aware of it, but - did you realize that you Deplorables are just not Smart Enough for the Progressive Stars? They don't want you in their audience, and have said so. Naturally, this means that you will be limited to Pat Boone records and Hee-Haw re-runs, because you will have no other choice. Un...

One reason that women hesitate to bring these sexual harassment incidents to public attention is that they know the world will judge THEM for it happening. Like it's their fault, as Donna Karan said (and, later, semi-retracted): Karan, who is also a friend of Weinstein’s, told  the Daily Mail  that he was “wonderful”. Karan said women must consider if the way they dress suggests they are “asking for it”. “I think we have to look at ourselves,” she said on the red carpet at the CinéFashion film awards in Los Angeles. “Obviously, the treatment of women all over the world is something that has always had to be identified. Certainly in the country of Haiti where I work, in Africa, in the developing world, it’s been a hard time for women. “I also think how do we display ourselves? How do we present ourselves as women? What are we asking? Are we asking for it by presenting all the sensuality and all the sexuality?” Karan said women who dressed provocatively were askin...

First, my background: I've known non-native residents in the US - both legal and illegal (mostly my students and/or their parents). It's true that they generally aren't lazy and will work hard (those not involved in illegal pursuits, of course). But, that's also true of many Americans. So, why hire the illegals? They will work under-the-table. In fact, many of them prefer that - they get no access to benefits, such as Workers' Comp or collecting Social Security. So, why pay the money for a benefit they won't receive? They can be intimidated by threats of contacting the authorities - and I have an interesting suggestion on how to curb that further down. There are a lot of them, with few barriers to hiring, and few penalties for the boss if their status is discovered. Note what he says about those who get displaced for the illegal workers. They COULD do the jobs, but they are rejected, because hiring them will put more demands/restrictions on the c...

...it's all the others, who will blackball them and destroy their careers if they talk about his predation. Let's not sugar-coat it - those others helped Harvey cover it all up, because they were, themselves, not standing there with clean hands. Sexual abuse in the entertainment industry is a poorly-kept secret. Open discussion of it is virtually NIL. They might occasionally talk about "The Hollywood System" of the earlier years, and acknowledge that the Casting Couch was a vital part of making the careers of many actresses - and a few actors. Once one of these guys has gotten past his money-making and star-making prime, they're fine with piling up on him, finally telling their stories of his abuses, in order to knock him off. They just don't do it until there's not an advantage in keeping their silence. Some bravery. Some concern for women. Here's another take on the current scandal, and how our liberalizing of acceptable morality has put w...

No, I'm NOT talking about 50 Shades of Grey-type pain. I'm talking about NECESSARY pain - the pain that, over time, doesn't just tear you down, but builds you up. I've done exercise programs in the past. My success has been directly linked to just one thing: Would I endure past the immediate pain of muscle fatigue/sore muscles, or would I wimp out and quit? That's it. That's 90% of the reason for any success or failure that I had. If I endured, I would lose weight and tone up. If I quit, I would stay the same, or, even, deteriorate further. At The Declination, Dystopic writes about the value of pain to humans . Puerto is NOT just experiencing the problems caused by the recent hurricane. It is also experiencing the problems caused by their own government's corruption and incompetence. They have been given a lot of help - supplies and manpower. But, the island of Puerto Rico (ironically, the Rich Port) is - as a nation - mired in Poverty Thinking...

There's a guy, Jeremy Kaufmann, who has created an application that allows you to get, and view, videos, without worrying about YouTube censorship. Could it be used for porn? Sure. As well as a lot of videos that governments and Leftist institutions want to keep you from seeing. Get the beta here. Share

Contact your Congressmen/Senators - ASAP. Let THEM put the pressure on the White House. House Site Senate Site Oh, and SHARE this. Everywhere. Share

I really wanted to put this issue to rest for a while, but the connections just keep popping up. This is a full treatment of the corrupt and biased Holder DoJ. Please follow the links to other sites - you'll get a broader understanding of just how bad they really were. I had a hard time not blowing my top when I read about Dobinsky, a lawyer who used her position as a party to confidential information - and whose job it was to make sure that it did not improperly get out and prejudice the jury pool - to use that access to smear the defendants and work to get them convicted. But - that's Holder-town, Jake. Every other Justice Department lawyer who blogged about their New Orleans case has been fired, except Dobinski. This case, along with so many others, stinks of corrupt and unlawful actions. The DoJ needs to be reformed, from top to bottom. I have a suggestion for that: Get a squad of computer geeks in - vet them BEFORE they are hired, to prevent unwittingly putting ...

I've said it before - if the only education you have is what you got in school, you're right where the Leftists want you to be. The Ultimate Goal of Leftists everywhere is to gain power. That is made a LOT easier if the people they seek to rule over are ignorant. To that aim, BEFORE they completely take over, it's paramount to stupify - literally, to make stupid - the citizens. Hence, the #FakeNews - which has become an open secret - just how slanted the MSM is, and how pervasive is their reach into the culture. Just one example - the news about the Puerto Rican hurricane. The Leftists have promoted the idea that This Will Be Trump's Katrina! The Enlightening Expose of Incompetence that Will Bring Down Trump! People: Jennifer Lopez - Progressive, Singer, Self-Promoter - will donate $1 million to aid. Sounds great, and very generous, too. Not so fast. She has agreed to donate $1 million from " the proceeds of her Las Vegas show to aid hurricane relief in...

My church, St. Anne, in Rock Hill, SC, purchased access to Formed - an app that provides mobile access to a variety of Catholic learning resources. As the digital platform is more popular with younger parishioners, this could be a way of helping them to form their thinking on Catholic topics. I've already read the biography of Mother Dolores Hart, the nun that turned away from a successful movie career to enter the cloistered life. It wasn't what I expected, but was an amazing journey of a woman in Catholic vows during the transitional years after Vatican II. If you've ever wondered how the relatively tame women's movement transformed into the radical feminism and abortion-promoting industry that exists today, Subverted, How I Helped the Sexual Revolution Hijack the Women's Movement, by Sue Browder , a former writer for Cosmopolitan, has the inside scoop. She was there at the start of it all, and has the perspective of how it has become so entrenched in Americ...