On this episode of Strictly Right, Andrew has a wide-ranging discussion with Victor Davis Hanson, talks about a sad story of government trying to replace the parents, the threat of radical Islam, and a tale of political correctness with Dennis Lennox.
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At least, that’s what the gentleman in this video thinks.
Get the scoop at BlazingCatFur and Vlad Tepes Blog
“We are launching a new protest campaign that aims to drive a wedge into the thin crack between leftists and the Muslims.
We’re going to do this with this image, and the slogan: “Allah is Mohammed’s Imaginary Friend”.
We aim for protesters to get arrested for having a picture that shows Mohammed talking to a giant bunny. In fact, participants must insist on being arrested, and on being tried.
By doing this we proclaim our fundamental rights, which were not granted to us, but were always ours, and are only now being taken away by the tyranny of state power.
These rights include the freedom of speech, the freedom of conscience, and the freedom of religion — including the right to have no religion at all.
From Fox News Online:
A school in Florida has not only banned Christmas – but everything associated with the Christian holiday.
Teachers at Heathrow Elementary School have been ordered to banish images of Santa Claus from classrooms – along with traditional Christmas colors like red and green.
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The parent, who serves as a volunteer room mother, said she was recently given a list of guidelines that listed the holiday restrictions.
She said the basic theme of the letter was, “We don’t want to offend anyone who doesn’t believe in Santa Claus or the Christian beliefs.”
The school board issued a response saying that they want to celebrate a “winter theme” but that red and green, as colors, were not explicitly banned. You’ll probably hear me say this a couple more times over the next month, but my annual policy still stands: Say ‘Merry Christmas’ to everyone you see, even the ones wearing Hijabs and Yarmulkes. In fact, especially those ones. Last year, on Christmas Day, I went through the drive through at the local coffee shop. Greeting me was a young Muslim girl wearing a Santa Clause hat on top of a Hijab. Interestingly, it doesn’t seem like the grassroots Muslims are the ones who overly care about this Christmas business, it’s their leadership, and White, Godless liberals (see “Kwanzaa.”)
H/T RightNetwork
“It Must Be a Liberal” returns in this episode of Strictly Right. As well, Andrew and Ari chat about political correctness in the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping, more on Obama’s ‘shellacking,’ and loads more!
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It’s finally happened.
The new Alberta movement to stop racism in Edmonton sends a rather unambiguous message on the first step to do so:
So, assuming that I’ve acknowledged this supposed “original sin” that I inherited based solely upon my whiteness, I’m supposed to then preach the gospel of the evils of Whitey from the mountaintops of Alberta. As if.
Interestingly, this movement doesn’t start from a few disgruntled black folks. It isn’t even from a group of self-loathing white folks (okay, it sort of is.) This campaign to end racism actually comes from the provincial government of Alberta, and the Edmonton municipal government.
As Blazing Cat Fur points out, this is tantamount to the accusation of Ontario Human Rights Commissioner Barbara Hall, who claimed that caucasians were inherently guilty of being part of some massive “white hegemony” conspiracy.
Despite the millions of government dollars poured into ending racism — and I apologize if my veil of White privilege is keeping me from getting the whole picture here — I’m not sure that racism is even an issue anymore, save for the racism against White people. By no means am I claiming that I feel oppressed based on race, I will admit that there are a whole bunch more hurdles that caucasians need to jump over in terms of job-hunting, applying to post-secondary education, apartment-hunting, and attempting to do any work with the government that minorities no longer need to worry about, thanks to affirmative action.
Seriously, when was the last time you ran into someone or read about someone who genuinely felt that minorities were lesser individuals than Whites? With the exception of the multicultural pity-party that the Liberal Party of Canada holds to claim the minority vote, racism isn’t the elephant in the room that people refuse to talk about. Racism is the elephant that died 50 years ago that self-loathing White people are still mourning over.
As a warning, this blog post may, in fact, turn into a rant that looks like I’m attacking other conservatives. I’m not looking to “go after” anyone, but this has been weighing on my mind for several months, and a recent Newsbusters piece on Anderson Cooper gave me the ounce of motivation to much my frustration tank into a state of overflow.
So, what attitude of conservatives in the media is bothering me? Well, I’m glad you asked!
Few terms evoke such strong emotions in conservatives nowadays (real ones, not the Murkowski types) as “tea-bagger.” Coined by the bitch evening broadcaster, Rachel Maddow, the phrase has now become common among those in the liberal blogosphere and the liberal pundit world as being the generally accepted way to refer to members of the tea party movement. Is it disrespectful? Yes. Is it gross? Yes. Is it important? Heck no! I enjoy the occasional jabs toward the subjects of my punditry, but I’ve never been too much of a fan of name-calling in either direction. Not that I find it offensive, I just think people get too caught up in the names that they don’t think about the debate. Another issue altogether though.
Conservatives like myself who vehemently oppose political correctness are constantly offering two words of advice to the Left: “lighten up!” With the term “tea-bagger,” why can we not take our own lesson to heart. When Rahm Emanuel used the word “retarded,” I was frustrated when Sarah Palin came out and campaigned so actively against the use of that word when, while it is politically incorrect, it’s not the biggest of our problems in politics today.
If the Left wants to apply a grotesque term to the majority of average, working Americans, let them. As Rush Limbaugh says, “life’s not fair.” We don’t have a natural right to not have our feelings hurt (well, in Canada we kinda do. See “Canadian Human Rights Commission”) so we need to stop whining about being called a name and focus on fighting back.
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On this Strictly Right, Andrew and Ari chat about political correctness in the healthcare system, Obama’s ‘big lie’ when it comes to healthcare, and whether or not Obama is Carter 2.0. All this and a great interview with Senator Pamela Gorman!
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A preacher in North Carolina was fired for doing the unthinkable. He mentioned “Jesus.” No, he didn’t use the name of the Lord in vain, he invoked Jesus’ name at a moment that you’d never expect it…at the end of a prayer. Pastor Ron Baity was invited to lead prayer for a week at the North Carolina State House of Representatives this summer, but had to have his prayers pre-approved by the bureaucracy:
Baity’s troubles began during the week of May 31. He said a House clerk asked to see his prayer. The invocation including prayers for our military, state lawmakers and a petition to God asking him to bless North Carolina.”
“When I handed it to the lady, I watched her eyes and they immediately went right to the bottom of the page and the word Jesus,” he told FOX News Radio. “She said ‘We would prefer that you not use the name Jesus. We have some people here that can be offended.’”
When he politely declined to remove the fact that he was praying in Jesus’ name, he was no longer welcome to pray for the elected officials of North Carolina.
Once again, 1st amendment rights apply only to non-Christians and those of no religion at all. Christians are at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to equal rights, and they are the top target for the political correctness gestapo that seems to be running both private and public entities now. Not being able to say “Merry Christmas” in your office is the tip of the iceberg. Now, even your prayers have to be censored.
H/T to Jeremy Sarber for this one.
In Jesus’ name:
Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name;
Thy kingdom come;
Thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation;
but deliver us from evil.
A while back, renowned psychology professor Philippe Rushton of the University of Western Ontario was criticized within the academic community for publishing a work culminating a lot of the research he’d been doing for years. Essentially, he proved that white people are smarter than black people; and Asians are smarter than white people. His research accurately took into consideration things like test scores, aptitude tests, and other assessments, it also looked at measurable qualities like brain size, gestation period, maturity rate, etc.
That didn’t matter though! The university attempted to get rid of him, the premier of the province of Ontario attempted to have him discredited. All this happening until other scientists finally had the balls to step up and say, “but he’s right.”
Now, it looks like a daring individual in government of Canada decided to challenge political correctness and use, well, facts.
Prosaically titled “Social and Economic Outcomes of Second Generation Youth,” the four-page memo showed little regard for the political correctness typical of government correspondence. “Chinese and South Asians are the most likely to have university degrees or higher, and to be employed in high-skilled occupations,” observed the summary, which was prepared by departmental bureaucrats and released recently through access to information. Second-generation youth of Caribbean and Latin American origin don’t fare so well, the memo went on; they tend to obtain lower levels of education than native-born Canadian kids and wind up in less skilled jobs.
Of course, remember that even when something is scientifically proven, it’s racist. Thank you.
In this episode of Strictly Right Ari and Andrew discuss public breast feeding, Helen Thomas’ fair-well, Obama’s (non-)commemoration of D-Day, a fantastic It Must Be A Liberal, a full Islam stack and more.
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