A strange interruption

Manhattan Infidel has an exclusive interview with Barack Obama, and gets Hillary and Bill also!

Monday humor

It's Monday, so how about some good humor? Go here to read the best joke I have seen in a while.

"There's always someone to get offended."

Bookworm writes,

A casualty of the culture wars: Humor. One of the things that’s anathema to dictators is humor. That’s why jokes in the former Soviet Union were such a transgressive act. (That’s probably true in Putin’s Russia, too.) In America, we’ve been trained away from telling the old jokes people used to tell — the ones about husbands, wives, mothers-in-law, immigrants, etc. We haven’t just stopped telling the manifestly offensive ones. We’ve stopped telling all of them. There’s always someone to get offended.

...The culture wars ensure only one view on campus. Even if you’re tenured, it takes an enormous amount of moral strength to stand up against those of your “liberal” faculty members who outnumber you by as many as 12 to 1, and to tell them that you’re planning on voting for a man they have convinced themselves is Satan incarnate. They don’t actually have data for his satanism, but he’s vulgar, and of course he’s racist (because he says Mexico unloads criminals on America) and he’s Islamophobic (because he said we should stay immigration from Islamic hot spots until we can vet “refugees” for terror ties or leanings). Meanwhile, they refuse to listen to substantive, fact-based arguments about Hillary’s lawlessness, her disastrous socialist policies, her terrible tenure at State, her health problems, and her savage attacks on women.

Read more here.

Signing on with the mob

Stella Morabito writes in The Federalist,

Mass delusion is an important tool of oppressors because they can’t survive free expression. That’s why the First Amendment’s a target.

...many newly propagandized ideas seem to have taken America by storm just in the past decade or so. Same-sex marriage is only one of those ideas. Transgenderism is now eclipsing that notion, and its propaganda techniques—wrapped in the language of civil rights—are getting Americans on board with the idea of erasing all sex distinctions in law, including their own. It’s as though Americans are buying into a fast-talking sales pitch without being allowed to read the print, whether it’s large print or small.

...There’s more on the horizon: a singles’ rights movement that promises to end legal recognition of all marriage. Then there is transhumanism, which includes a push to end “fleshism” by enacting laws that protect non-biological entities from discrimination.

TED2 anyone?

American conservatives are by and large clueless about propaganda methods and tactics. And it shows. There are virtually no conservative social psychologists around.

Meanwhile, the Left has been employing social psychology and depth psychology on the masses for decades. President Obama’s campaign staff was filled with social psychologists. In this context, those who believe conservatives can subsist on reason and logic alone are kidding themselves. It’s no wonder GOP leaders are caving on so many principles, and being absorbed so easily into the Left’s machine.

A lot of people are scratching their heads today, wondering how life got to be so surreal, so fast in the United States of America. Based on the silencing tactics revealed by the LGBT lobby, many observers are likely now thinking: “Gee, I thought marriage equality was merely a gay rights movement. I didn’t realize that fascism was part of that package.” The Great Unraveling continues at a rapid clip when slipping on a pronoun in these days of transgender rule could cost you your career or earn you massive social media rallies chanting “hater” at you.

Even benign reminders of the First Amendment—embodied in Religious Freedom Restoration Acts—are quickly dispatched by mob hysteria. One day a supposedly principled leader like Indiana Gov. Mike Pence promotes the RFRA, and the next day he folds and essentially signs on with the mob.

There seem to be few independent thinkers left. But even they don’t seem to know what hit them. A woman gets banned by her gym and labelled a bigot because she told management that a man—who she only later learned “identified as female”—entered the locker room while she was getting undressed. Comedians who dare tread into trans territory are shut down. Never before have the media and pop culture dictated in such a draconian manner how each and every one of us is supposed to think about identity. Our own identity.

The list goes on. The unrest and rioting from Ferguson to Baltimore seem to be happening on cue also, with media propaganda that urges it on. There is no real debate on the merits of policies that depend on a blind faith in man-made global warming: those who disagree are labelled “deniers.”

Meanwhile, the power elites who now control the media, academia, and Hollywood seem to understand social psychology well enough to exploit it on a massive scale. They have engaged in psychological warfare against the private mind by inducing “collective belief formation.” There’s really nothing new here. Conditioning and nudging the masses into groupthink is a very old trick of all wannabe dictators. The bloody twentieth century is filled to the gills with examples.

...Yet it feels like we’ve awakened to an ambush.

...Family breakdown led to community breakdown, which we can see in the decline of trust in society. Ignorance was cultivated in the schools through political correctness and squashing free debate. The academy’s disparaging of western civilization virtually wiped out respect for any serious study of history and civics, as well as for the Socratic method and the rules of civil discourse. Political correctness sewed confusion into the language, particularly regarding identity politics. Youth are now set to be programmed for conformity through the K-12 “Common Core” curriculum mandates.

...“Equality” is not the reason for what is happening with such mobs. It is the pretext for what they are doing. Like all such deceptions, its sole purpose is as a vehicle to transfer power from individuals to an increasingly centralized state. The fuel, as usual, is the emotional blackmail of people of goodwill, the uses of mass mobilization to exploit that goodwill, then, finally, to render all such goodwill meaningless.

...With the continued chipping away of the organic family of mother-child-father, human relationships inevitably become diluted and more subservient to a mass state. This detachment cultivates human alienation, which draws more people to answer to the call of the mass state’s mob.

...the First Amendment is not negotiable if we are to have any semblance of freedom in this country.

...We can never fight back as long as we are in the dark about how our minds can be manipulated. So we absolutely must try to fully understand the methods and tactics of mental coercion and share that knowledge with others as much as possible.

Turning the negative of humorlessness into the postive of moral superiority

Jon Gabriel writes at Ricochet,

Lefties also have turned the negative of humorlessness into the positive of moral superiority. Sniffing “That’s not funny!” at an inoffensive Caitlyn Jenner joke signals that you are more evolved than the average cis-het-white-oppressor. The same people who laughed at Dana Carvey’s “Church Lady” now aspire to be her.

More and more, comedians are realizing that their progressive allies are the ones trying to silence them, not those unsophisticated conservatives comics love to mock. Perhaps comics should seize this opportunity to joke about humorless liberals before it’s too late.

Read more here.

Four entertainers having fun

Thanks to Ann Voskamp

"I can break these cuffs!"

How to restrain a woman

Thanks to Ace of Spades.

Set your sights high!

Yesterday I met a young boy. I asked him his age. He answered, "Seven." I asked him what grade he was in. He answered, "First grade." Then, he added excitedly, "In seven more years I won't be in the first grade any more!"

His mom explained that she and he had just been having a conversation about how many years it would be before he would be going to a new school.

Area dad gives rebuttal to Obama's State of the Union

The Onion reports

PHILADELPHIA—Reiterating numerous themes from last year’s rebuttal while offering several searing critiques of tonight’s speech, area dad Bill Shaw delivered his official response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address tonight directly into the television screen, household sources reported. “Well, there you go, folks—same canned lines we’ve been hearing for the last two years with a couple of empty nods to the little guy, just how I said it would be,” the area father of two said, squaring his body toward the front of the family room and looking directly into the television set as he delivered his impassioned thoughts on the issues of immigration, health care, the middle class, China, that holier-than-thou look Obama always has on his face, and the Toyota Prius.

Scientists confirm Al Gore's warnings

Spring officially arrives next week, so scientists are warning that oceans could soon be rising. The Onion has the story:

Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration sounded a strong warning about rising seas Monday, saying that ocean levels around the world are projected to increase by 12 inches or more should a bunch of people go swimming at the same time. “According to our latest analysis, an increase in global mean sea level of several inches is inevitable at this point given the approach of summer beach season, when millions of people will simultaneously go for a swim,” said oceanographer Paul Acosta at a press conference, adding that the increase could be “significantly higher” than currently predicted if lots of beachgoers choose to hold their breath and go under all the way. “Coastal cities and low-lying islands are the most vulnerable to rising sea levels, particularly if it’s not just kids who go for a dip, but full-grown adults as well. Our best hope now is moderating the rise as much as we can by convincing people to only wade in up to their waists.” Acosta also warned about the devastating possibilities of catastrophic tsunamis should everyone jump into the ocean together from a dock or off the side of a boat.

Dietary habits of the average American family

More and more information is coming out about problems associated with fast food. The Onion interviewed one mother of three children to find out how these new revelations are affecting her family.

“Hey, I’d love for my children to be eating perfect five-dollar florets of broccoli and fresh-caught fish from a fancy organic grocer, but the closest one of those stores is four towns away and, after paying for a roof over my kids’ heads and keeping the water flowing in our home, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that our food budget might not be quite big enough to feed me seven nights a week, let alone three growing kids. So I can’t say these hard new truths about fast food have really been a deal-breaker for my family’s dietary habits.” Ford added that she would definitely sit right down and intently watch the full documentary the minute she had a few hours free from her 75-hour workweek and around-the-clock parenting duties.

Know what you want, then settle for something realistic

It may be just the sites I bookmark, but the internet seems to be overflowing with inspiration. Thankfully, there is always The Onion, which seems to overflow with cynicism. Joel Bennett penned this sarcastic piece there:

I always pictured myself as a successful architect, designing gleaming modern buildings that bear my name. So when the opportunity came up to pursue the subject at college, study hard to get ahead in the notoriously tough field, and begin the long journey to prominence by interning at a local architecture firm, I didn’t think twice. Nope, I enrolled in communications instead because I heard it was easy and then coasted by with a 2.6 GPA.

The key is to constantly remind yourself that it’s okay to focus on your dreams and then, without ever trying to muster up even a sliver of initiative, settle instead for the familiar, risk-free status quo.

Trust me, if you follow my lead, you can achieve blandly practical and unremarkable things too, while slowly allowing yourself to be eaten away by the perpetual realization that you don’t have anything that truly matters to you and you never even tried. And before you know it, you’ll be wholly blending in with the crowd and feebly limping toward that finish line with a firm sense of resignation, just like me. That’s my guarantee to you.

Zipline sledding: a new sport for the Winter Olympics?

Maybe not.



I found the video here.

He's got it goin' on

How are you feeling today?



I found the video here.

Giggles

So, today I was at the dentist's office getting two root canals and a "build up" of another tooth that they root-canalled recently. There was not a door between the room I was in and the room next to me, where a seven-year-old boy was the patient.

"I don't want to be here. I hate coming to the dentist,"

The assistant said, "Look up there on the ceiling; I put on Shrek for you!"

The boy replied, "I don't want Shrek. I hate Shrek! Take it off!"

The dentist comes in.

The boy looks at him and says, "I don't want to giggle! Your gloves are disgusting. Don't stick them in my mouth."

The dentist explains that he may not have to do anything today, but he first must take a look, because the boy's parents had seen something that they wanted the dentist to look at. The boy reluctantly opens his mouth for the dentist to take a quick look. The dentist says he won't have to do anything today, and if the boy is good, the next time he comes in the dentist will give him some prizes. No prizes today, though, for obvious reasons.

The dentist finishes up with the boy and comes in to my room. I tell him I want prizes, and I also want giggles.

"Just don't go!"

More snow? "Just don't go!"



Thanks to Ann Voskamp

We can work it out!

It's Not About the Nail from Jason Headley on Vimeo.

Thanks to Dennis Prager for sharing the link.

I guess she told him!

Source

Sounds like

Ten-year-old Sara came home from school the other day. Her mother asked what she learned.

"Our teacher showed us an orgasm!"

Her mother, thinking that this Common Core thing has got to be stopped, replied, "An orgasm?"

Sara answered, "Yes. All living things are made up of orgasms."