Joe Biden shows how much he loves this country on President’s Day.
Censorship is coming to a Book store near you.
And the royals in Malibu don’t appreciate the attention they so desperately crave.
Deep Thoughts
I was listening to a commercial on the radio and Starbucks tried to do some virtue signaling.
I hate Starbucks. Their coffee is bad, they’re very expensive and their employees are spoiled little prigs. The first time I saw a pronouns button was on a gal who used every pronoun except the right ones. But I digress.
The Starbucks commercial starts with the statement, “This is a story about kindness.” I’m thinking they donated food to homeless puppies or something but that is me being short-sighted. Leftist companies aren’t that charitable. Apparently, there was this woman who dropped her kids off at the bus stop. She decided to go to Starbucks but forgot her wallet. A woman behind her offered to pay for her coffee. The broad, then, decided to go home and write an E-mail saying how great Starbucks is. Then Starbucks decided to make this commercial.
OK, I have a few problems with this story.
First, this gal doesn’t sound like she was going to work. She just decided to go to Starbucks. If you forgot your wallet, get your ass back in your car, go home, get your wallet and then go back to Starbucks and get your macchiato or whatever the hell it’s called.
Second, if this broad has the time to spend 37 minutes in line in a Starbucks, she has time to drop her kids off at school!. That’s right, I’m saying she’s a bad mother. The school buses aren’t electric yet so they’re not yet cool like Kamala Harris is preaching.
Finally, Starbucks makes an 800% profit on every cup of coffee. Shouldn’t the kindness have been from Starbucks? Maybe Starbucks should have taken the hit for the cup of coffee and not one of their customers? Just because a customer was kind to someone in your store doesn’t mean that the store is kind. In fact, this puts a bad light on Starbucks.
What’s the moral of this story? If you are going to claim virtue, make sure you are the one doing what is virtuous.
News
Here is some news:
- In sad news, Jimmy Carter, the former President, has been put under hospice care at his home.
- Carter turned 98 in October. He was the 39th president of the United States.
- I liked Carter as a person.
- He is a key figure for Habitat for Humanity. He actually was building houses up until a few months ago.
- He is an intellectual. He read every bill before signing it when he was President.
- He’s an extremely religious Christian (though he could be anti-Jewish).
- He was incompetent as a President and was one of the worst President in the modern times. Joe Biden is beating him right now.
- Police in Texas said this week that the 16-year-old suspected of shooting three people at an El Paso mall was shot by a citizen who was legally carrying a firearm at the mall.
- According to police, the alleged shooter was shot by 32-year-old Emmanuel Duran as he fled the scene.
- After Duran shot the suspect, he and an off-duty police officer “rendered aid” to him before he was taken into police custody and transported to the hospital where he was in stable condition.
- Police said the violence was triggered after a “confrontation” between two groups at the food court.
- Dom Lemon may have seen his last days on CNN.
- It has been reported that he will be going on a sabbatical to, “clear his head”. Yeah, he’s been suspended.
- This is all after he made a crack about women not being in their prime as the reason Nikki Haley should not be President. She is 51.
- All this, even after he apologized for the comments. Of course, he apologized to all women except Nikki Haley.
- Joe Biden made a surprise visit to Kyiv, Ukraine.
- Of course he promised more money to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
- I can think of a couple of places within the United States on President’s Day.
- San Francisco to see the homeless, mental health and drug crisis.
- Chicago to see the crime crisis.
- Texas and Arizona to see the border crisis.
- East Palestine, Ohio to see the environmental crisis that the Transportation Secretary, Pete Buttplug doesn’t want to deal with.
- But, hey, the United States ain’t that important to a globalist President.
- David O’Connell, 69, the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, was shot dead in his home in the Los Angeles County suburb of Hacienda Heights Saturday afternoon.
- There is no suspect or motive, which is strange.
- He was appointed by Pope Francis and appears to be a pretty Left wing guy, especially when it comes to illegal immigration.
- Finally, actor and comedian Richard Belzer, famous for playing Detective John Munch on “Law & Order: SVU,” died early Sunday at his home in France.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-president-jimmy-carter-spend-remaining-time-home-receiving-hospice-care
https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-mall-shooting-suspect-stopped-by-citizen-with-gun-police
https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnns-don-lemon-wont-appear-on-mondays-this-morning-breakfast-show-after-nikki-haley-remarks
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-warned-russia-bidens-visit-ukraine-hours-departure
https://www.dailywire.com/news/los-angeles-bishop-shot-and-killed-in-his-home
https://www.dailywire.com/news/f-you-motherers-comedian-richard-belzer-dies-delivers-last-words-worthy-of-caustic-law-order-role
This Is Real Censorship
I buy books. Lots of books. So many books, I have a feeling the Josie will leave me if I don’t stop buying books. The problem Josie has is that I read all the books I buy and her daughter likes talking about the books. She has also grabbed one or two and started reading them. Josie also likes books. One of our nicest trips is to Barnes and Noble. She always buys herself a book, gets some crap for her grandchildren and I buy a bunch more.
But I buy books for another reason. I buy them because they could be banned or edited one day. One huge example would be Mark Twain. Mark Twain was an abolitionist and one of his books, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is about a boy who helps a slave escape slavery by getting him to the free states in the north. No one thinks of that, but they do get upset when Twain uses the n-word a bunch of times. I even gotten into a fight from my brother-in-law about it. Of course, he’s never read the book.
Well, this stuff is happening. According to Fox News:
A publisher has altered children’s books by Roald Dahl – the author of several well-received children’s books that were later made into hit movies, including “Matilda,” “James and the Giant Peach,” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” – to remove language now deemed offensive.
Puffin, the publisher of Dahl’s classic works, has hired sensitivity readers to make changes to certain portions of the author’s wording in the U.K. editions as part of an effort to ensure the books “can continue to be enjoyed by all today.”
The publisher’s rewrite, first reported by The Telegraph, altered numerous descriptions of certain characters’ physical appearances, removed references to some characters being fat, and changed some language to be gender-neutral.
So, what did they change?
- The character Augustus Gloop in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is no longer called “fat.” Instead he is described as “enormous.”
- The word ugly has been removed. Instead, people will be called “beastly”.
- Instead of being called “small men,” Oompa-Loompas are now “small people.”
- In his 1983 book The Witches, he writes that witches are bald beneath their wigs. According to The Telegraph, an added line in new editions says, “There are plenty of other reasons why women might wear wigs and there is certainly nothing wrong with that.”
- In the new edition of “Witches,” a supernatural female posing as an ordinary woman may be working as a “top scientist or running a business” instead of as a “cashier in a supermarket or typing letters for a businessman.”
- The word “black” was removed from the description of the terrible tractors in 1970s “The Fabulous Mr. Fox.” The machines are now simply “murderous, brutal-looking monsters.”
- In previous editions of James and the Giant Peach, the Centipede sings: “Aunt Sponge was terrifically fat / And tremendously flabby at that,” and, “Aunt Spiker was thin as a wire / And dry as a bone, only drier.” Both verses have been removed, and in their place are the rhymes: “Aunt Sponge was a nasty old brute / And deserved to be squashed by the fruit,” and, “Aunt Spiker was much of the same / And deserves half of the blame.”
- References to “female” characters have disappeared. Miss Trunchbull in Matilda, once a “most formidable female”, is now a “most formidable woman”.
- Gender-neutral terms have been added in places – where Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’s Oompa Loompas were “small men”, they are now “small people”.
Roald Dahl is a children’s writer. He is a great children’s writer. His books and movies have been enjoyed by kids for decades. Yes, he is not politically correct because he is trying to by funny (we know comedy is a no-no).
I also want to point out that writing is not meant to be politically correct! Authors are meant to pick a subject and create conflict. This is not always clean and diverse and equitable. I know this is a shock, but, sometimes, conflict sucks. The more the conflict sucks, the better the story.
One guy the Left wants to get rid of is William Shakespeare. They want to get rid of him for two reasons. The first is that he is a massive influence on Western Civilization. The Left can’t have someone who shows the intellect and beauty of Western Civilization. They are trying to kill off Mozart and Bach for the same reasons.
Second, Shakespeare has a ton of relevancy, even today. His histories like Julius Caesar, gives a dramatic retelling of actual history. His comedies, like A Midsummers Nights Dream, are entertaining and show the sexual tension within relationships. His tragedies, like King Lear, are a study in the human soul and intellect and exposes all the weaknesses of the human condition. He has been quoted not only by English teachers but by philosophers and psychologists.
Here’s what sucks about the Left, they say that the right is banning books. Well, only some books. Books that should be banned. Books like The Gender Book, Gender Queer and My Anti-Racist Baby. These books have no business in school. That doesn’t mean parents can’t get them for their kids if they want. They just shouldn’t be in a school library. I also think A Clockward Orange, Less Than Zero and American Psycho shouldn’t be in school libraries but I should be able to buy it on Amazon.
Anyway, Dahl has been dead for a while now. Leave his books alone.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/roald-dahl-childrens-books-rewritten-delete-references-fat-characters-add-inclusive-gender-terms
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/17/roald-dahl-books-rewritten-offensive-matilda-witches-twits/
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/18/roald-dahl-books-rewritten-to-remove-language-deemed-offensive
We Are All Racist
White people denying that they’re racist is literal violence because all white people are racist pic.twitter.com/eyP8RTjVme
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 21, 2023