Get Your Brain Up to Speed

The activists associated with the Black Lives Matter movement have been busy. Most recently they have torn down or beheaded several statues, including several of Christopher Columbus (in Boston, Miami and Virginia) and four in Virginia depicting leaders of the Confederacy, all of which have stood for hundreds of years and are a part of our nation's historic tapestry. Attacking the works of art with axes, hatchets and mallets, the protesters hoped to obliterate the past, which as we all know is impossible without taking lots and lots of LSD.

HBO Max, always looking to make a buck and thus ever-vigilant on the desires of the public, yesterday pulled the 1939 Oscar-winning film, "Gone With the Wind" from its roster due to its perceived racial, i.e. racist, content. One of the most popular films of all time, the epic tale of the South during the Civil War featured actress Hattie McDaniel, who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her efforts and was the first African American to do so.

Of course many books have to go too. Humorist and novelist Mark Twain, himself a national treasure, wrote the long-beloved, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, about which Ernest Hemingway said, "All modern American Literature comes from that one book." But, having been written in 1884 it contain the dreaded "N-word" that must never be uttered (except by every gold-toothed black rap star who rakes in millions of dollars screaming it into a microphone) more than 200 times, so into the trash it goes. Or at least off of the shelves in bookstores, schools and libraries across the country.

Yet despite all that, racism remains. People have memories -- that's the problem. So beginning in January 2021, Americans can register to have all memories of slavery removed. "The problem lies within our heads," said CDC Director Dr. Anthony Fauci. Speaking to a group of reporters assembled outside the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, he explained, "We now have the ability, thanks to technology and advances in brain science, to obliterate all memory of that heinous time in our history. We can also remove any other unpleasant memories associated with racial bias, including the Holocaust in Germany, anything to do with Hitler and the massacre of the American Indians by the white man. This will allow people to live their lives happily in the present, without past indignities weighing on them."

It us unknown at this time whether insurance will cover the procedure. Of course if the Democrats win in November it will be free of charge, just like a college education, housing, health care, food and clothing.

RIP, Whoever You Were

Last Sunday was the deadliest day in six decades in the city of Chicago, with 18 people murdered. The grand total for the weekend was 25, with another 85 wounded. All the dead were African Americans, killed by other African Americans. None of them will have a gold casket pulled through the city on a horse-drawn carriage, like George Floyd. In fact, we will never learn their names or a thing about them. The Reverend Al Sharpton, so loquacious at several of George Floyd's memorial services in different cities and at his funeral, has not said a word about these 25 lost lives. So we must conclude that black lives matter a whole lot more when they are ended by a white cop.

Mob Rule Matters

"Think like we do, or else shut up!"

Things are getting scarier in America every day, and I don't mean because cops are roaming around killing black people with abandon. First of all, they aren't, although nobody can deny the existence of plenty of wacko cops patrolling our big cities with hatred in their hearts for people of color. That's a given, and it must be rectified soon.

But something equally scary is how the media no longer even pretends to be fair and balanced, leaving us to glean truth from the droppings of our friends and the crumbs we get from the few remaining reputable reporters out there (like Bret Baier, Brit Hume and Juan Williams, all on Fox News by the way).

As for the media giants, they're so over, it's heartbreaking. Newspaper bigwigs are quitting for minor infractions that upset the snowflakes working in the trenches. By now we all know about the New York Times editorial page editor who resigned amid staff protests concerning a published opinion piece by a Republican senator registering his agreement with President Trump. (Good Golly Miss Molly, we can't have that!)

Now we learn that the long-time editor of the Philadelphia Enquirer was pushed out because he allowed the headline, "Buildings Matter, Too." It ran above an article by an architecture critic who worried that buildings damaged by the recent racial unrest could leave a gaping hole in the heart of the city. The staff freaked out, saying it diminished the importance of the BLM movement. That editor didn't last even a week.

This is of course sick. Lots of things matter; for example, my cat. He matters a lot -- to me. Ditto my son and my husband and all my friends and even people I don't know who might not even be black. But most of all, Mob Rule Matters. It foretells the end of life as we have known it in this country. Say goodbye to it now, and weep with me.

Jumping on the Racism Bandwagon

"The bandwagon effect is a phenomenon whereby the rate of uptake of beliefs, ideas, fads and trends increases the more that they have already been adopted by others. In other words, the bandwagon effect is characterized by the probability of individual adoption increasing with respect to the proportion who have already done so. As more people come to believe in something, others also "hop on the bandwagon" regardless of the underlying evidence." -- Wikipedia

So now not only can I no longer find my favorite brand of ice cream because the people of Maine have decided the owner of that particular company is racist and every single store has cleaned out its stock and now presents empty shelves where that brand stood, but I won't be able to work out at my CrossFit gym because the CEO of that organization wrote a one-word tweet that has been deemed "insensitive" to the Black Lives Matter movement and so the gym must "disassociate" from the parent company that made it what it is today and caused its membership to swell.

Yesterday a friend of mine who has often described herself as "racist" and admits she still "has a problem" with black people, i.e. doesn't like them, due to having grown up among racism -- her grandmother owned a plantation and employed what she called 20 slaves -- made a big show of attending a rally to show her "solidarity" with the movement, of course posting it on her Instagram page. 

It's not just the little people who are crowding onto this particular wagon. The editor of the Opinion Page at the New York Times was forced to resign a day after after publishing an article written by a Republican senator that some snowflakes construed as racist.  OMG! Thankfully he quit before the furious staff members, all of them comfortably seated on the bandwagon, could stone him to death. 

We'd better all hope that Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon and Whole Foods, doesn't make a silly mistake and say something insensitive. Then where would we shop and get all our cool stuff?

My Advice for the Graduating Class of 2020

You can't say anything these days without being accused of racism, so it's best not to say anything at all. Just keep your mouth shut and your head down and go about your business and in 65 or 70 years or so it will all be over.

For example, here in Maine where the most recent demographic count shows 94% of the population (1, 345,790 people) is white and 1.34% is black, still it's a powder keg. Most recently, the owner of  Shain's of Maine, a company that makes the best ice cream you or anyone else ever tasted, "used a racial slur" when he asked a young black employee why blacks could use the you-know-what word and white people can't. Well, fuggedaboutit!

Next thing you know the teenager told her mother, who posted it on Twitter, and before you could say "mob rule" Shain's is losing customers left and right and banned from baseball games with the local team after a 26-year-long relationship. So here's my advice: if you get a chance before the company goes bankrupt, try their Peppermint Stick ice cream. It's to die for.

Goodbye Officer Krupke

There is a movement afoot to defund the police. Activist actress Jane Fonda is on board, as is Steve Carrell and a host of other Hollywood celebrities. When I first heard about this idea I scoffed, thinking it would just make our world less safe. But after further deliberation, and an extensive education from my 32-year-old son who is wise in such matters, I'm thinking it's the answer to many of society's problems, police brutality being very high on the list.

It's not like there would be no authorities to call upon in times of distress, it's just that it might be a social worker, therapist, community organizer or mediator who would arrive on the scene unarmed, equal in stature to everyone else and lacking the power to make things worse. Just for a moment, consider the many dead-for-no-reason African Americans -- and of course people of other races too -- who would still be with us today, living out their fruitful lives had it not been for the violent intervention of an armed police officer. It boggles the mind. 

Crazy Conspiracy Theories

Ever wonder where conspiracy theories come from? We've all heard some crazy ones; I certainly have. Like the CIA killed JFK. Or that Mary Jo Kopechne was pregnant with Teddy Kennedy's child and that's why he drowned her at Chappaquiddick.  Or that the horrible tragedy of 9/11, wherein 3,000 Americans died, was an inside job, accomplished with the help/knowledge of George W. Bush, using controlled demolitions in order to start a war with Iraq to avenge his father's failures. Or that Dick Cheney, generally considered by all Democrats as The Devil Incarnate, was behind it.

Then there was the one that claimed that the tragedy of the Sandy Hook massacre was not real; that all the dead children and their families in Newtown, Connecticut were paid actors, the whole thing a staged stunt to further the cause of gun control and masterminded by opponents of the NRA, which means Democrats. More recently, there was the whole Trump/Russia/Ukraine thing, which turned out to be a bust that we no longer talk about in polite society.

Now we have George Floyd, who may or may not be dead. Possibly a paid actor now living comfortably in a fabulous villa in an undisclosed location, Floyd (not his name anymore) never died. And about that Minneapolis police officer who held him down for almost nine minutes: Who would do such a thing, knowing that his actions were being recorded the entire time? And the ensuing protests and riots, now going into a second week, all choreographed by the Democrats to further demonize Trump as a racist and win back the White House in November.

I have no idea who comes up with all this stuff. Except for that last one; that was me. 

How Ironic

So our national obsession with Covid-19 -- the rising case numbers, the death tolls per state, the masks or no masks controversy, the daily press conferences, the whining of Dr. Fauci -- fades into the background as the looters and protesters take center stage.

They will dominate the news until the coronavirus comes roaring back with a vengeance in a few weeks, after the hundreds of thousands of protesters and rioters, all in very close proximity to one another, spitting and sweating profusely, have reactivated it, undoing whatever progress was made in beating it back through the forced lockdowns.

And just as stores and restaurants across the nation were set to reopen, they cannot because they've been destroyed in the name of racial "justice." What a coincidence! I wonder who planned this.

A Really Sick Facebook Post!

I feel compelled to share this with my readers who are fortunate enough not to follow the Facebook stream of my husband's sick and twisted twin cousins, who are also morbidly obese and hideous which I add just to be mean. Anyway, this post comes off the Facebook page of the one of them, written by a woman named Wendy (I won't give her full name because I am so nice) who is apparently as sick and twisted as they are. This is what today's Democrats really look like:

"By January 1st of 2017 I had completely exorcized every single republican who even said we should give him a chance from my entire existence. I didn't just unfriend or block them on social media. I have entirely cut every single trump supporter out of my life entirely. I will not knowingly or willingly be in the same room with them. I will not accept texts or phone calls from them. I will not go to a social event, including even a wedding or a funeral with them. And I certainly will not engage with them on social media. I ascertained very early on that there were zero excuses for them and I maintained from that moment and every moment forward that, with the exception of the uber rich whose first motivation was greed,  Every. Single. Person. Who voted for trump is a lowlife pond-scum racist asshole. To. A. Person. They can try to talk to me about the economy or whatever other bullshit excuse they come up with, but every time I called out their bullshit and returned to pointing out their inherent blatant racism, whether they chose to own up to it in themselves or not. I maintain to this day that it is the sole reason people outside of the uber-rich protecting and growing their assets support him. Many of my like-minded friends said that I was a bit harsh. That there are other reasons people support him. Nope. I have never wavered from that position. And there is a smug little me inside whispering, I told y'all so...
It has to end."

I love the part where she says that anyone who voted for Trump "is a lowlife pond-scum racist asshole." Really Ms. Kissinger, that's quite a blanket condemnation of half the country, even worse than calling them a basket of deplorables.  

Some Black Lives Matter More Than Others

People the world over now know the name George Floyd. They know him because he was killed by a cop in Minneapolis on a routine arrest. What they may not know is that Floyd was charged in 2007 with armed robbery in a home invasion in Houston and in 2009 was sentenced to five years in prison as part of a plea deal, according to court documents. 

Floyd was passing a counterfeit $20 bill when the police were called and one very twisted cop ended his life. Yes, we all agree his death is terrible, sad and unnecessary. But let's not forget that Floyd was a criminal: armed robbery, home invasion and passing counterfeit bills are not what you want on your resume. 

Despite that, the media, hungry for red meat with the coronavirus story getting stale, has turned Floyd into a martyr. He is about to have not one, not two, but three funerals in different cities. Al Sharpton is doing the eulogy at one of them, and Hollywood director Tyler Perry has offered Floyd's family his private plane to ferry them around to all three.

On the other hand, few people know the name Dave Patrick Underwood, another unjustly murdered black man who was killed because of Floyd George. Underwood was an officer in the Department of Homeland Security's Federal Protective Service. Last Friday he was standing guard outside the U.S. Courthouse in Oakland, California with another officer. Both of them were targeted by an unidentified person shooting from a passing car. Underwood was killed, while the other officer lived. (Nobody knows his name either.)

Dave Patrick Underwood, 53, died on the job, protecting a U.S. courthouse where scumbags like the ones in that car, if caught, will likely get the benefit of due process of the law. “He was a good man, everybody in the community loved him,” his friend Antwon Cloird said. Ours is a truly sick society, wherein a two-bit criminal becomes a national hero just for dying while a true hero protecting our Democratic institutions is kicked to the curb.

It's Not All Black and White

I am sick and tired of being accused of "white supremacy." This term is usually hurled at me by some self-righteous columnist for The New York Times, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, or any number of similar self-serving publications groveling for more readers. A perfect example appeared in the opinion pages of yesterday's New York Times by author Roxane Gay, who blames the current mess we find ourselves in on white supremacy. She writes:  "Black people will continue to wait, despite the futility of hope, for a cure for racism. We will live with the knowledge that a hashtag is not a vaccine for white supremacy."  

That's certainly one way to look at it. Here's another: Black lives would "matter" a lot more if burning down buildings, torching police cars, breaking into and vandalizing stores and restaurants, stealing from innocent shopkeepers, destroying private and government property and terrorizing local residents were not their typical, and by now expected, responses to a horrific and wrongful death. Perhaps if black Americans would begin to value and respect their own neighborhoods, and in so doing, their own lives, white people would follow suit. No vaccine needed.