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Mimosa, Bloody Mary, nice flute of champagne — or maybe a favorite tipple in your coffee. Make yourself one and join me at our own Algonquin Round Table, the spirit of Dorothy Parker abides.
Happy Sunday! Here, I’ve already got your first flute of champagne poured. Dog-days of summer are upon us, so buttery croissants, chilled fruit, jams and a selection of sorbets for us to sample while trying to hang on to a shred of sanity when faced with Leftwing antics. Let’s get to it, dears.
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Those of us of a certain age remember the debacle of the Jimmy Carter presidency. Not the least of which was his Malaise speech and all the other excuses he made for Americans needing to learn to do with less … less driving, flying, heating the home … lower your thermostat and put on sweater, he drawled.
Today, 40 years later, one might conclude Democrats are eager to eschew the future and live in the past. They certainly are determined to normalize the unacceptable.
What’s more important: Keeping the lights on 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, or solving the climate crisis?
Ah! First assume that which has yet to be proven.
An attorney representing the Sierra Club argued that Glendale officials had exaggerated the need for the gas plant as they urged the City Council to spend an estimated $170 million to keep burning fossil fuels. An attorney for the city countered that the investment — which the council approved in a 4-1 vote — is desperately needed to provide reliable electricity to Glendale’s roughly 190,000 residents, and avoid blackouts.
It’s a highly technical dispute. But it’s part of a larger conversation about how much blackout risk we consider acceptable in modern society — and whether our expectations should evolve in the name of preventing climate catastrophe.
Don’t you just love that appeal to collective suffering in “we”? As if us hoi poloi dragging mattresses outside on the lawn on a summer night will not notice the working compressors on the Ruling Class homes behind the security gates.
“Yes, comrade, we all sweat together for the Common Good!”
Again and again, I’ve found myself asking: Would it be easier and less expensive to limit climate change — and its deadly combination of worsening heat, fire and drought and flood — if we were willing to live with the occasional blackout?
Oh, honey, time and again I’ve found myself reading passive-aggressive calls to curtail the freedoms of the lesser folk and I always have the same answer.
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Does anyone at NPR read or listen to NPR? pic.twitter.com/oOlPUMrT0L
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 24, 2023
Again, Magic 8-ball says “No.”
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Ignore the fact that Barbie is a toy and so is her pink mansion — gotta get those kiddies into the proper goose-stepping mindset:
CBS insisted that, due to intense heat waves, changing Barbie’s Dreamhouse could be necessary to help humanity “thrive.”
Barbie’s home may be a Dreamhouse, but as her state of California continues to experience a brutal heat wave sending temperatures to the triple digits, it may not be a dream setup for long. But there is a way to help her thrive.
It’s pink, it’s plastic, it’s covers as much real estate as a small bath mat but we gotta get Barbie on the climate crisis all-electric train.
DUDES, it’s a toy!
Dears, how about we break out the bourbon? A really good old-fashioned and none of those bright red cherries whose claim of “maraschino” is as authentic as Adam Schiff’s integrity. Bring on the Luxardo.
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Victory Girls’ Kim gave a cook’s tour of the reactions to the Barbie movie. But between all the finger-pointing about feMInISm v tHePATriaRcHY, who knew it biggest flaw was in being “too white.”
It’s wild that the first Barbie doll dropped in 1959, and even though Black people were everywhere, we didn’t get a Black version until two decades later. But this is 2023, and the movie should be way more progressive than the company’s history, right? Wrong. I watched the trailer and was overwhelmed with whiteness. (snip)
As a family, we must be intentional when we buy Black dolls, books with Black queens and princesses and allow her to watch cartoons like “Gracie’s Corner,” “OmoBerry” and “Karma’s World.” And no, we are not teaching her to only connect with Black art; it’s just that everything white is always available and at the forefront of everything. You don’t have to search for white content; it’s already in your face.
I never heard a white person say, “The representation was poor; I just don’t see myself in the art,” yet Black people and people of color deal with this daily. America intentionally and unintentionally shoves whiteness down our throats every day, every minute, every second, and there’s not much we can do about it, other than thoughtfully curating a child’s experience.
Oh, the poor guy. Black folk in America are still only 12.5% of the population but “whiteness” and “white art” are being shoved down his throat. Every.second. Shoved.
Oh, but he isn’t that guy to try and tell how artists what is/isn’t acceptable. Oh heaven’s not! Just keep running up to him and shoving his face in whiteness, he’s just thinking about his little girl. It really is about her, you know.
Really.
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Another day of the week ending in “y”.
In remarks Thursday, Harris blasted efforts in some states to ban books and “push forward revisionist history.”
“Just yesterday in the state of Florida, they decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery,” she said at a convention for the traditionally Black sorority Delta Sigma Theta Inc. “They insult us in an attempt to gaslight us, and we will not stand for it.”
This is a brazen lie. It’s an astonishing lie. It’s an evil lie. It is so untrue — so deliberately and cynically misleading — that, in a sensible political culture, Harris would be obligated to issue an apology. Instead, NBC confirms that she will repeat the lie today during a speech in Jacksonville.
The Left holds the reins of power across corporate, academic and government institutions. Why shouldn’t Her Lady of Inappropriate Cackling lie like a rug whenever the opportunity arises? NR author Cooke brings the receipts but whose gonna pay attention? Certainly not the people just looking for any excuse to jump on the 1619 fantasy project.
Because lying is annoying. Saying slaves gained skills that benefited them because of their own resilience isn’t the same thing as saying slavery was beneficial. If you want to be a part of the dialogue, at least try to represent others’ position correctly. pic.twitter.com/1RI8MPdY03
— Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) July 28, 2023
Here’s a Sunday come to meeting truth for everyone. Slavery was/is the third oldest profession in human history. It isn’t remarkable by any stretch of rational reflection that it persisted into the 18th century …
Hell’s bell, dears, it exists today!
… what is remarkable is that Europe and America got rid of it, forcefully, and in very short fashion to boot.
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These are the teens we need to celebrate.
A group of Arizona high school seniors came to the aid of a beloved teacher by raising nearly $10,000 to help cover the cost of his wife’s crucial heart surgery.
“We just need more kind acts, no matter how small it is or how large it is,” Parker Bond, 18, a 2023 graduate of Arcadia High School in Phoenix, told Fox News Digital.
Clayton Guy, by all description, is an engaging and effective teacher. A man who loves his job and shows it in the enthusiasm he as for his students and teaching. And when the kids noticed him missing class, emotionally down and stressed, they were worried.
And they did something about it.
Bond said he and a few other students researched the details of Angel Guy’s heart surgery and learned that it was pricey, “even with insurance.”
“We knew he was very stressed. With his wife needing open-heart surgery — that’s not a very fun thing to have to go through.”
If you recall Ecclesiastes 11:1, Clayton Guy has been casting bread upon the water and has gotten quite the return.
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And here we are, done with the last Sunday of July. Only 147 days until Christmas! HA! No croissants left for you to toss at me! Have a wonderful rest of the day, dears, and I’ll see you next week.
Cheers!
featured image, original graphic by Darleen Click
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Anna A says: I remember going to an art exhibition that was black artists showing their people. To me, one of the most moving paintings had 2 or 3 black women on a couch, and one had her arms in a position like she was holding a baby. The baby had been cut out. The write up talked about black women raising white children, and not their own. My thoughts were about how more black babies are aborted than white ones.
Cameron says: I never heard a white person say, “The representation was poor; I just don’t see myself in the art,”
Because we don’t worry about stupid shit like that. Maybe you should follow our lead. You’d be a lot happier.
NTSOG says: “… how much blackout risk we consider acceptable in modern society — and whether our expectations should evolve in the name of preventing climate catastrophe.”
Blackouts would appear to be a perfect opportunity for criminals to raid neighbourhoods without power on any given night. Planned blackouts might allow criminals to schedule their ‘operations’ better. Of course, some business and private residences might have petrol-powered generators, but I have read that there is a move to ban such useful machines.
GWB says: Blackouts seem – based on your point – like a great opportunity for some low light practice.
Remember to train like you’re going to use it in real life!
GWB says: It’s a highly technical dispute.
No, it isn’t. It’s a highly emotional argument on the Sierra Club side. There’s no “technical” to it, at all. There’s no actual science to support the concept of anthropogenic global warming. Period.
how much blackout risk we consider acceptable
Funny, because when it comes to your arguments for something, things like “If it saves even one life…” are a dime a dozen. And in these inflationary times, that’s sayin’ somethin’. Because grandma on her COPD machine or oxygen is evidently just not that important.
dragging mattresses outside on the lawn on a summer night
If you do that, make sure you’re upwind of said lights, and start REALLY big fires to keep the bugs away. Ones that produce massive amounts of smoke to go obscure those lights….
I’ve found myself asking
I’ve found myself asking if removing all fundamentalist Progressive church believers from our society would be a good thing. Then I find myself buying more ammo and saving up for a backhoe.
GWB says: DUDES, it’s a toy!
You’re assuming gender!
Also, I say we redo Barbie in the Maoist style to sell to these folks: grey unisex tunic, chopped hair, no makeup, a shovel in one hand, a little red book in the other. And we can put Ken in one of those really tall dunce caps with “BIGOT” on it in big letters.
I watched the trailer (emphasis added)
Note she didn’t even watch the movie. Just the TRAILER. And she came away with racial grievance. Some people….
You don’t have to search for white content
Hmmmm, I think I see the one who’s the racist here….
I never heard a white person say
Then you aren’t listening. Which isn’t surprising at all.
shoves whiteness down our throats
Can you define “whiteness”? Or is it entirely that you’re viewing everything through the lens of someone obsessed with skin color? Are you one of those black families living an “inauthentic” lifestyle, surrounded by whites? Or is it that your child is so invested in the electronic soma that they never see anyone who isn’t on screen? Or, maybe, you should think about getting out of your own racist bubble?
GWB says: enslaved people benefited from slavery
I mentioned the other day that we shouldn’t even use this argument. (And, yes, I have heard it used numerous times by conservatives.) We should instead state that slavery is bad, yes; but, the slaves that happened to be freed in the United States benefitted by being freed in the United States. They – except where Reconstruction took the vengeful mode and led to blacks being almost as oppressed before as after – had a serious advantage in being in a place where freedom was a principle (and over which its citizens had recently fought and died) and equality of opportunity was better than anywhere else in the world. The post-slave population of America bent itself to proving itself the equal of the Founders and it succeeded to a great extent. Before the war on poverty came along.
Hell’s bell, dears, it exists today!
Only a Progressive would have any reason for thinking it doesn’t. The belief in moral evolution of man is a core belief for Progs.
These are the teens we need to celebrate.
These are teens who have learned something worthwhile. And it isn’t a school subject. Kudos to them.
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