Thursday, December 31, 2020

My Thank You to All You DMFers


I'd like to take this last opportunity of 2020 to Thank You All for your support of DMF, our best year yet.  And to also wish each and everyone one of yous guys (seen and unseen) A Safe and Hopefully Healthy & Prosperous 2021. - Jan


Let's hope this time next year we can look back at 2021 and say this was the year's theme song......

2020 Was a Great Year........


From an essay by James Madison

"In 2020, the elites learned to live in complete isolation from the riff-raff, working from home, dining on Cava from Uber Eats, and resupplied with hand disinfectant and toilet paper by Amazon. They may never return to the polluted, unlivable, expensive, crime-ridden, lousy-school, high tax environs they created. And why should they?  The whiny Millennials have nothing vested in those downtown, hip condos they bought on Reddit.  So they will buy a car on Carvana, place a Bernie sticker on the bumper, rub the sticker to make it look old, and head for greener pastures.  They are choosing to take up new residences and vote for Democrats in places like Georgia, North Carolina, and Texas.  They are compelled by justice and Instagram to turn those places into the places they left. We cannot blame them.

Our new elites spent their infancy (years 1-22) in paper diapers, so they were taught to poop in their pants/nests and then, leave it for others to clean up.  These bankers, lawyers, web millionaire-wanna-be’s, and malleable executives, represent the elitist of “elite privilege,” and elite privilege is better than white privilege or a bottle of Pétrus with a ‘friend’ who is not my wife at “Daniel” in New York.  After all, elite privilege can buy your child acceptance to the best mediocre state college or a prestigious job with a boutique, investment raider.  So, 2020 was the year for the elites to abandon city life, and adopt new mantras like, “Goodbye Manhattan, I’m off to the shore by way of Staten”, “It is hasta luego to dull San Diego”, and “So long to ‘ol Boston, I landed in Austin.”

Meanwhile, those who work with their hands or in service got $600 to end in 2020. Praise be to the patricians who rule us!  And even better, that pleb political movement led by a barbarian rube was doused in a national ‘selection’ just in the nick of time before the methane in the DC swamp ignited.

So let’s give a loud hosanna for the administrative state! The return of the ruling class to town is being greeted with celebrations and salutations in the diverse media ranks (mostly white males) as our saviors ride into the capital bearing that breezy bag-of-wind vane Joe “IQ” Biden on their backs.

Those of us who are part of the 74 million deniers have much to be thankful for. We, along with the 83 million people both dead and alive who voted for the President-Select, will all soon feel the nation’s woke centurions spread their warmth and love in 2021, and we will feel it good and hard. Thank you 2020.

2020 was also the year the media confirmed why newsprint is so cheap by reporting on everything from the hidden facts behind Russian Collusion, the sinister Russian misinformation campaign about Hunter Biden’s internships, and the kindly efforts of Antifa and BLM to bring about peaceful harmony.

But the media’s main stories were fables.  Using replica truth, CNN, AP, WaPo, NYT, NBC, George and Amal Clooney (from their private plane and modest villa on Lago ‘Cuomo’), and The China People’s Daily, remain dedicated to “making the world a better place” or, at least, in their own images which are really quite beautiful.  They remain steadfast in refuting the lying eyes of the common man and his primitive value system, replacing it with the Code of the Hamptons, the Vineyard Compact, the French Laundry List, and the Rodeo Drive Tablets.  The people must live a modest, green life with crime, bad schools, and thermostats set to 55˚, so our burdened rulers can fly on their private planes to Palm Springs for a round of golf (or off to the French Caribbean For Christmas).

Thus, the mass media is dedicated to this paramount principle: Tell the people what to think and if they disobey, accuse them in scrolling chyrons of being primal, racist, nativist, gender-phobic, racist, anti-science, violent, sexist, racist, right-wing terrorists, dumb, ugly, without fashion sense, left-handed, racist, poor, stupid, allowing-their-Vogue-subscription-to-run-out, racist, uneducated, and unwilling to bow down to doctorates in education from Delaware Tech and Auto Repair School, …, as well as being racist of course.

A new patrician aristocracy made up of the old aristocracy has returned to save us in 2021.  Yummy. They did so well before."

Wednesday, December 30, 2020

And Now They're Mugging Homer


I've read The Iliad & The Odyssey five times. Once reluctantly because I had to. Four times because I wanted to. It was part of my youth and education that I cherish to this day because of the way it was taught to me. Some will understand that. Most won't. But it was really no surprise considering the present day cancel culture when I opened my email and saw the link sent to me by a old schoolmate. It made me realize this is truly no longer the world I was born into.......

"A sustained effort is under way to deny children access to literature. Under the slogan #DisruptTexts, critical-theory ideologues, schoolteachers and Twitter agitators are purging and propagandizing against classic texts—everything from Homer to F. Scott Fitzgerald to Dr. Seuss.

Their ethos holds that children shouldn’t have to read stories written in anything other than the present-day vernacular—especially those “in which racism, sexism, ableism, anti-Semitism, and other forms of hate are the norm,” as young-adult novelist Padma Venkatraman writes in School Library Journal. No author is valuable enough to spare, Ms. Venkatraman instructs: “Absolving Shakespeare of responsibility by mentioning that he lived at a time when hate-ridden sentiments prevailed, risks sending a subliminal message that academic excellence outweighs hateful rhetoric.”

The subtle complexities of literature are being reduced to the crude clanking of “intersectional” power struggles. Thus Seattle English teacher Evin Shinn tweeted in 2018 that he’d “rather die” than teach “The Scarlet Letter,” unless Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel is used to “fight against misogyny and slut-shaming.”

Outsiders got a glimpse of the intensity of the #DisruptTexts campaign recently when self-described “antiracist teacher” Lorena Germán complained that many classics were written more than 70 years ago: “Think of US society before then & the values that shaped this nation afterwards. THAT is what is in those books.”

Jessica Cluess, an author of young-adult fiction, shot back: “If you think Hawthorne was on the side of the judgmental Puritans . . . then you are an absolute idiot and should not have the title of educator in your twitter bio.” An online horde descended, accused Ms. Cluess of racism and “violence,” and demanded that Penguin Random House cancel her contract. The publisher hasn’t complied, perhaps because Ms. Cluess tweeted a ritual self-denunciation: “I take full responsibility for my unprovoked anger toward Lorena Germán. . . . I am committed to learning more about Ms. Germán’s important work with #DisruptTexts. . . . I will strive to do better.”

That didn’t stop Ms. Cluess’s literary agent, Brooks Sherman, from denouncing her “racist and unacceptable” opinions and terminating their professional relationship. The demands for censorship appear to be getting results. “Be like Odysseus and embrace the long haul to liberation (and then take the Odyssey out of your curriculum because it’s trash),” tweeted Shea Martin in June. “Hahaha,” replied Heather Levine, an English teacher at Lawrence (Mass.) High School. “Very proud to say we got the Odyssey removed from the curriculum this year!”

When I contacted Ms. Levine to confirm this, she replied that she found the inquiry “invasive.” The English Department chairman of Lawrence Public Schools, Richard Gorham, didn’t respond to emails.   
“It’s a tragedy that this anti-intellectual movement of canceling the classics is gaining traction among educators and the mainstream publishing industry,” says science-fiction writer Jon Del Arroz, one of the rare industry voices to defend Ms. Cluess. “Erasing the history of great works only limits the ability of children to become literate.” 

He’s right. If there is harm in classic literature, it comes from not teaching it. Students excused from reading foundational texts may imagine themselves lucky to get away with YA novels instead—that’s what the #DisruptTexts people want—but compared with their better-educated peers they will suffer a poverty of language and cultural reference. Worse, they won’t even know it."

If there is something wrong with classic literature, it's because it's not being taught. Students who do not have the right to read such great works will suffer from language poverty and lack of cultural references. Τhe sad thing is that these views of proglodytes and fanatics are becoming more and more numerous. Western civilization, instead of moving forward by holding on solid foundations, is moving towards the disappearance of its very essence.

~ Thank You WHATFINGER NEWS for the Linkage! ~

Monday, December 28, 2020

Joe Biden's Pickle


I have listened with interest to what is, and has been for awhile now, coming from the mouths of the soft skulls on the far-left. I have enjoyed in particular the so called black social justice warriors, now in full racial bluster with their new network shows spouting off their bigotry with full license from their networks. And also to what is being said, or should I say veiled attacks, from some on the far left pointed at Joe Biden. The far left believes it's their time. They long ago signaled their true intentions.  Joe Biden is seen now as their unruly Useful Idiot. 

The Far Left (as now anything left of center should be tagged) made it through the first “crisis”, the rancor of the 1960s,  and were greeted with appeasement from the Right. They got everything they wanted more or less.  Abortion, affirmative action, virtually open borders, normalizing perversion and even at will able to redefining word usage without a hint of  push back for conservatives.  Instead of holding the line, the Right bought a few years of peace. That only achieved a short-term benefit without realizing the consequences to subsequent generations.

The Left is never satisfied since they are fanatical in their desires. Their wants, desires, and demands increase in lunacy to the point they've even blurred the lines between the definitions of the sexes. They push harder and harder to the point where being white is considered evil (they use the word “privileged”), that there should be no such thing as national borders, that Christianity and doctrine is “so 1600’s,” and that anyone who speaks out against them should be censored (they call it “fact-checking”). They are emboldened because any effective resistance was minimal at best, and because they captured the very institutions that could have been a check on their desires- academia and the media.

Since the 1960s, there has been a slow build up of grievances. There have been well-meaning attempts at reconciliation, a compromise here or there that slapped a band-aid on the problem, some misjudgments, and a perception that “this crisis” will soon blow over and we will all be alright. Kumbaya and all, ya know. 

But, something happened in 2020 that makes me think there may be no surviving the most recent crises. Lockdowns in the face of a pandemic, the peaceful violence we saw on the streets of our cities at the hand of BLM/antifa in the name of justice, and the ultimate kick in the crotch, a fraudulent election, may have drained any good will that minimally existed pre-2020. 

Today, we hear dangerous words more at home in the mid-1800s like “nullification,” “secession,” and “revolution.”  Crazy talk and bad decisions need not succeed to allow the drunk drivers of politics, the socialist Left and their Democrat Party patsies, to redefine in their demented image what this country is and represents.  Only total, committed opposition is what will save this country from either total balkanization or government tyranny.

Biden’s talk of “healing” is simply hollow words from a hollow man. The lengths to which the Left went to demonize DJT and then install Biden as their puppet has left a chasm of ill-will in its wake. The fanatical drunk driver will never learn their lesson until they fatally crash into a tree. In this case, we need to assure that tree is the Tree of Liberty. 

~ Thank You MJA@IOTWReport for the Linkage! ~

A Good Monday Morning

Saturday, December 26, 2020

Your Sunday Open Thread

Your Beloved Blog Editrix turns things over to you, the readers. 
Post your links. Say your piece.



Wednesday, December 23, 2020

An Open Letter to Journalists at the End of the Toughest Year of our Careers

 by JulieWolfe - News Director @WHAS11 Louisville, Kentucky

This is fantastic letter, Julie. We’ve never needed journalists more than we do right now to guide us to the truth. Being a journalist takes brains, determination, modesty and the ability to see both sides of.....🤣…I can’t. I tried. 

Curb your self-importance sweetie!

The Cognitive Dissonance here should be studied in a lab. You really have it rough compared to all those people who lost jobs or their business.  You had to work from home while they just had to sit around and enjoy their funemployment. Thank goodness you made it ok.  How many journalists have lost their incomes and livelihoods as the result of the “toughest year of their lives”?  The world is melting down, people are losing everything and the average corporate journalist has to try and climb up on that cross.

And Master zoom?? So we're doing that whole participation trophy thing for journalists now too? Like a 6 year old remote learning his colors. Impressive. Stunning. Brave. Patting yourself on the back for “mastering zoom” is like feeling accomplishment for successfully velcroing your shoes. But one journalist really "mastered" Zoom this year, 'Jackoff Jeff '.

Jackin' Jeffery Toobin

Is "2020 Journalist" the new word for "activist" now that "activist" means "peaceful rioter?" It's hard to keep up with internet slang. 

Journalism is basically dead. Establishment activists are posing as journalists to abuse the benefits and protections given by the title. It's been happening for years and any anti-establishment voice is now smeared as "far-right". These activists are the enemy of any free person. Yes there are good journalists, but what most seem to not understand is this has been a hard year for EVERYONE. Journalists weren't hit harder, yet they act like martyrs. Out-of-touch, elitist, self-aggrandizing journalists (which seem to be the majority) make the profession hated. People don't hate journalists, they hate liars. The problem is the degree to which those roads have converged.

Journalists are the only ones who think journalists did anything of value this year. I don't think you appreciate the level of hatred and contempt the average person feels toward the media as a whole.  Honestly crying and depressed corporate journalists is one of the few bright spots of 2020.  Congratulations on going from a disliked group of people to an extremely extraordinarily distrusted and disliked group of people! Cheers!

Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Bend Over and Smile. The Emergency Covid Bill is Finally Here

If you're watching the government spend $900 billion to cut $126 billion in relief checks, and you still think government-run healthcare will *save* money, you're a hopeless fool.

After months of Democrats delaying tactics to win an election, a COVID Relief bill has finally passed congress. A bill so large it had to be rolled into the capital on a cart.  Now that the details are seeping out we find out the years people spent getting political on warring sides, dividing this nation socially is now shown to be misspent energy.  With this bill both parties are now seen as corrupt and venal entities.

Thinking there is a significant difference between these avaricious bodies is foolhardy. For months these bickering brigands were posturing as if they were desperately hammering out aid for the citizenry. In fact, it is a just budget bill that has the relief bill spot-welded to it in order to justify the wasteful payouts. The two bills had been connected so the House voted to avoid the normal 72 hour period to vet the content. This was done in order to pass this like the fecal matter through the proverbial goose, much like they did with Obamacare. 

There is so much unneeded and wasted handout in this fiasco of a rescue that you will be asking for the riots that were tearing apart Portland for months to be unleashed inside the beltway.

This relief bill should have consisted of a single page — a dollar amount, and a sum delivered. Done.

Included in this new bill are the paltry $600 checks to be sent out that amounts to only $200 billion of the $900 billion bill. There are other needed assists in the bill, like $325 billion aimed at small business relief, and another $125 billion is paid out for unemployment benefits.  But this bill will do little to save the nation's second largest employer, the restaurant business. In total these payouts amount to roughly $600 billion, so where is the rest of this payout going?

For starters, the politicians saw fit to include not only illegal immigrants in the payouts this time around but also their family members. They also made this payout retro-active, so those who had been excluded in the first relief package will receive that payment as well. This translates to non-citizens becoming eligible for a $1,800 payment.

And remember the The Kennedy Center for the Arts? They got a cool 25 Mil. last round of covid relief,  and then shuttered the doors. Yeah, they got 40 Mil. this round. You can Read More about the details, but I warn you of potential indigestion if you do.