Iran And Russia Conducting Joint Military Operations

             I can’t keep up. I stated in my July 30 blog, “The New Evil Empire,” that Iran, Russia, China and North Korea are forming a defacto military alliance. That is disconcerting to say the least, as they, along with ISIS, form the five biggest threats to the United States.

Since then, the story broke that Iran and Russia are conducting joint military operations this week. Russian warships docked in Iran’s Anzali port this past Sunday in preparation for “naval exercises.” Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Naval Commander Ali Fadavi stated that Iran is “ready to give such a powerful response to the slightest move of the U.S. that it won’t be able to make any other moves.”

That kind of insane and provocative language is the opposite of what one hears out of the U.S. State Department, which at times appears comatose and at others seems actually in league with our enemies.

We’ve also learned recently that Iran has published a book on how to outwit the U.S. and destroy Israel. Step one: get U.S. citizens to elect a “community organizer” who wants to “fundamentally transform” his own country.

Okay, that’s not really in the book. But this is: the intention to, “eliminate the cancerous tumor” that is Israel, the “ally of the American Great Satan.”

And this administration begged for, signed off on -and is hell-bent on ratifying- a treaty with this nation?!

Grin And Bear It?

                 Lance Crosby, a 63 year old hiker and (ironically) a seasonal urgent care employee of Medcor, was killed in a suspected grizzly bear attack in Yellowstone National Park late this past week. His body was found partially consumed.

                The bear, if located, is not scheduled to be put down. No world-wide outrage has been detected, nor has any social-media firestorm broken out. The bear’s den has not been vandalized as of this writing. No one has yet called Mr. Crosby “beloved,” or “iconic.” It is not believed the bear had the proper license to take Mr. Crosby, and, in fact, the bear has poached other animals in the recent past. No entity is calling for the bear to be extradited. It is not known if the grizzly attempted to lure Mr. Crosby out of the park.

According to authorities, bear attacks in the park are extremely rare. Experts are blaming the attack on a severe toothache that was afflicting the big bruin. One such expert lamented, “Mr. Crosby didn’t need to die. All that bear needed was a good dentist.”

                

These Are Not Your Father's Flags

                 There are now so many “official” flags of the various component groups of the LGBTG-Pride movement in existence that it’s hard to keep track of them all. There is the basic, garden-variety Rainbow Flag. Also, the Asexual Flag, the Genderqueer Flag, the Pansexual Flag, the Bear Flag, the Bi Pride Flag, the Leather Pride Flag, the Lesbian Pride Flag, the Gay Pride Flag and the Transgender Flag, just to name a few. (If you don’t think I’m serious, Google it/them). I don’t even know what some of them mean, or where they came from.

                What I am curious about, as we are about to start running these flags up real, “official” flag-poles, is what would cause LGBTG leaders to lower their flags to half-mast out of sorrow and/or respect, much as the American flag has been flown lately.

                Would it be the soaring price of dental dams? The cancellation of “Glee,” “Modern Family,” or “the New Normal?”

                What is the proper way to handle these flags? When, exactly, should they be flown?

                Inquiring minds want to know!

Gay Youths More Likely Than Straight Peers To Get Pregnant!

               “More gay teens are getting pregnant” read the headline on the front page of the August 6^th edition of the StarTribune newspaper.

                No they are not.

                I didn’t analyze the data, nor did I interview pregnant youths as researchers for the Rainbow Health Initiative did. Yet, I can still state with certainty that gay teens are not getting pregnant. Period. By definition. (Unless there are young lesbians keen to be artificially inseminated).

                The article the headline was touting opened, “At a time when teen pregnancy rates across the state are at historic lows, the numbers for gay teens are surprisingly high.” Surprisingly! It further stated, “In Minnesota, these young people are far more likely than their straight peers to become pregnant or have gotten someone pregnant, according to a recent analysis of data on adolescent sexual health.” (Italics mine). Hmm.

                I realize there have been remarkable advances in science and technology lately, but to the best of my knowledge males are still incapable of becoming pregnant and females can’t naturally impregnate other females. Therefore, I knew, the culprit-as usual- had to be the politically-correct parsing of words. I turned to page eight and read on, as eventually some honesty leached into the story.

                The findings lumped bisexual, transgender, questioning and “gender-fluid” kids in with gays and lesbians and simply, lazily used the term “gay” to label them all. Turns out, among the “revelatory” findings, bisexual females (the promiscuous) were five times more likely to have been pregnant than straight females. Knock me over with a feather.

                Also, the students broadly painted with the big, “gay” brush were twice as sexually active as their straight peers. Still, some analysts were purportedly shocked by the extent of this group’s risk-taking behavior. Really?

                Incredibly, some pointed to a general lack of sexual health education for LGBTQ youth as a factor. The massive onslaught of sex education in general and recognition and promotion of alternative lifestyles is literally impossible to avoid. There are clubs, support groups, hotlines, websites, etc., specifically for LGBTQ youth, in addition to free birth control accoutrements in almost every high school and community in the nation.

                Later on we learn that, “The use of alcohol or drugs during sex was more common among LGBTQ youths,” at least according to a Teenwise Minnesota report. Another shocker. “This may be a contributing factor to higher rates of pregnancy among LGBQ youth,” the report’s authors wrote. You guys are on a roll! Teenwise is obviously staffed by budding sleuths that would make Sherlock Holmes look like Inspector Clouseau! Alcohol and drug use contributes to higher pregnancy rates for all humans. Possibly robins, lemurs and wombats, too, for all we know.

                One girl spoke of being high while having sex with men. “I was with this, like, drug dealer guy when I shot up meth, so me, like, sleeping with men actually ties in with my drug addiction,” she said in the report. “Because, like, whenever I get high or need drugs, because my addiction was really bad, I would sleep with guys. Which is really bad. It was just gross and disgusting.”

                So, like, she used her body to ply drugs out of these men, and didn’t call her whorish behavior or drug use disgusting? I’m sure she feels like a victim. She did smear heterosexuals and the act that made her as “gross and disgusting.” If an allegedly “homophobic” (rather than “heterophobic”) person had made those remarks to describe gay sex, they would be charged with “hate speech.” Or worse.

                “Unintended pregnancy is huge in the LGBT youth world,” averred the director of clinical programs for a local community sexual health clinic. No, it’s not. It is, apparently, in the BT community. It is impossible in the LG community, or else they have been miscategorized.

                The clinic’s director also was quoted as saying, “sexual identity is complex and more fluid than most people realize.”

                Just like the left’s view of the Constitution.

                Or truth.

                

Obama Administration To Push Paid Sick Leave

Washington, D.C.

August 5, 2015

                The Obama administration has drafted an executive order that would force any company that contracts with the federal government to give paid leave to employees who are sick, seeking medical attention (?) or need to care for a sick ‘relative.’ Well, that’s cut and dried. No room for interpretation or abuse there!

Washington, D.C.

August 12, 2015

                Administration officials say the executive order is still under review and open to “enhancement.” Some in the Obama camp want to “open up” and reword the order so as to further liberalize it. Suggestions are being weighed, such as forcing said companies to extend paid leave to those  employees that are “sick and tired, sick and tired of being sick and tired, sick of work, seeking attention, and also to those who need to care for a sick acquaintance.”  

Founderphobia (Jefferson Lives?)

                In response to the latest backlash against “white privilege” and its attendant pro-slavery symbols and history, Jefferson (Bus) Lines is re-branding itself as “George Jefferson Bus Lines,” after the beloved black protagonist in the hit television series that ran from 1975 until 1985. A company spokesperson said, “We just wanted to clarify which Jefferson we were really named after. We couldn’t be more proud of our history or our namesake.” Jefferson Lines was established in 1919.

                In a related story, the iconic rock band Jefferson Starship (aka Jefferson Airplane) released a statement earlier today allowing that they will henceforth be known as “Lincoln Starship.”

                Additionally, the Jefferson City, Missouri, City Council announced yesterday that the town would forevermore be known as “Obama City,” and that it is deeply proud of “this fundamental transformation of our fair burg.”

                Last week, Bloomington Jefferson High School in Bloomington, Minnesota, announced it will now be officially dubbed, “Bloomington LGBTG High School,” in honor of our more deserving sexually and gender-diverse communities.

                Moreover, the Obama administration has announced plans to remove Jefferson from the nickel beginning in 2016. He will be replaced by Louis Farrakhan. In addition, “In God We Trust” will be replaced on the formerly-Jefferson-nickel by the slogan “Screw You Jew Bastards.” The term “Liberty,” also on the previously-Jefferson-adorned coin will be supplanted by “Arbeit Machs Du Frei, Ya?” The depiction of Monticello on the back of the nickel will go away, as well, to be replaced by a hammer and sickle.

                President Obama released a statement just hours ago, “affirming how proud I am of the progress this country has made under my peerless leadership, despite the objections and obfuscations of the religious troglodytes, the reactionary racists, the Fox News Fascists, the country-music-loving, Confederate-flag-waving-whackos, those in fly-over country pathetically and dangerously clinging to their God and their guns, and other assorted name-calling and mean-spirited weirdos that keep us from coming together as one great nation.”

                

"What Lion?"

            Oddly enough, Zimbabwe’s officials, at least in the immediate aftermath of Cecil the lion’s demise, were perplexed at the reaction in the U.S. and elsewhere. Zimbabwe’s acting information minister, Prisca Mupfumira, asked “What lion?” when initially pressed for a comment about Cecil. Since then, the government has realized they have been handed a golden opportunity to claim victim status and have donned that mantle, even calling for Walter Palmer to be extradited to Zimbabwe. The country’s residents have far more pressing concerns, however, such as attempting to stay alive, and remain astonished at  American furor over the issue.

Zimbabwe’s unemployment rate currently stands at about 80%. The country has little or no electricity. Water is in short supply. They are still recovering from an inflation rate of roughly one billion percent a decade or so ago. It takes 175 quadrillion Zimbabwean dollars to buy an American five-dollar bill. Honest Abe.

                “Why are the Americans more concerned than us,” stated one villager. “We never hear them speak out when villagers are killed by lions and elephants in Hwange.”

                Box.

Death To American Credibility

                 The Obama administration (along with several other nation’s governments) reached a tentative “accord” with Iran on a nuclear weapons treaty last week. Even as negotiators worked towards an agreement, Iran’s “Supreme Leader” was excoriating the United States. Now that the agreement has been achieved, he is still calling for the struggle against the U.S. to continue, amid his countrymen’s chants of, “Death to America!” and “Death to Israel!”

                In fact, recently he tweeted out a graphic showing President Obama holding a gun to his head, implying that it would be suicide for him to mess with Iran. And the Democrats called  ‘W’ a cowboy?! The message with the graphic stated in part, “If any war happens, the one who will emerge loser will be the aggressive and criminal U.S.”(Note to the Ayatollah, get a better translator/proofreader!).

                And we still went through with the deal and are even now committed to it?!! Doesn’t make us look pathetic at all, does it? What we need to do, in young people’s parlance, is “go all Teddy Roosevelt on his ass.” A simple, “Shut up and go lay by your dish,” would’ve sufficed. A little Reagan-esque humor is called for, too, “The bombing begins in ten minutes. Oh, the mike is still on?” (That “throwaway” line may have helped prevent World War III. Literally).

                What other serious military or weapons systems negotiations have taken place, let alone been concluded, with one party continually berating the other in the most brazen and unhinged manner?

                Even during the Paris Peace Accords, the North Vietnamese communists didn’t try threatening the U.S. with destruction or call the United States “the Great Satan.” No wonder why Israel is incredulous- and angry.

                Imagine the negotiations for the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact before World War II. Of course it was a sham and a ploy, but what if Stalin had called Hitler a “Nancy-Boy” and stated that the Soviet Union could “crush the silly Third-Reich with one arm tied behind our collective backs!” Helpful? Or if Hitler had continually made fun of Stalin’s height or his vodka choices and called the USSR, say, “’the Union of Poor, Vodka and Borscht-Besotted, Potato Lovers,’ who better watch out or we’ll kick your ass…but please sign the pact.” Probably not going to help the process along.

                This president is famously thin-skinned when a Republican, or anyone else, in his native country disagrees with him or simply doesn’t show him total deference. Yet he allows himself to be pushed around and mocked, abused and bullied by almost every other nation’s heads and representatives.

                And it has also come to light that the International Atomic Energy Agency (I.A.E.A.) has negotiated separate “side deals” with Iran that Iran claims cannot be revealed to the Americans- or anybody else. These deals were allowed to occur because the Obama administration agreed to allow the I.A.E.A. and Iran to go forward with them, explicitly against U.S. law.

                Incredible.

                Or how I wish that it was.

                

News Blues

                Cecil the lion has been shot! But you probably know that unless you’ve been in a coma the last few days, as it has literally been front page news every day since.

                In yet another example of our rapidly deteriorating ability to rationally prioritize, here are the three headlines/topics, top to bottom, deemed worthy of front page, center, coverage for the Friday, July 31, edition of the StarTribune. Top, above the fold, “U.S. to probe lion’s death.” (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials admitted that the lion is not protected under U.S. law, but said they share Zimbabwe’s interest in protecting threatened animals. Animal-rights imperialism is here!).

                Second, just below the fold, “AMID WALLEYE CRISIS, OLD ENMITIES.” (Walleye “crisis”? Yes, one popular central Minnesota lake’s walleye population is down. And yes, the headline was in all caps).

                And at bottom, “Vaccine for turkey flu could be announced within a week.” (The article went on to bemoan the fact that the flu has wiped out about 10% of Minnesota’s annual turkey production).

                It wasn’t until page three that the paper got around to printing the story of authorities possibly finding parts of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, and how the relatives of those 239 souls aboard the plane have been in an agonizing limbo, as the A.P. article accurately termed it, for the past 16 months since the plane went missing.

                The article headlined, “War’s youngest victims,” was on page three as well, below the one on Malaysian Flight 370, but this one only chronicled the 4 million refugees who’ve fled Syria’s brutal civil war. Oh yeah, and the 10,000 children who have died in the four-year old conflict.

I mean, hello, it’s not like a lion was shot or anything.

Addendum: as of Saturday evening, August 1^st, there are ( amazingly poorly written, nearly incoherent) news reports online stating that “Jericho,” Cecil’s brother, has been poached as well. Or not, depending on which hysterical source one cares to believe, if any. If true, this could push the world over the edge.

Hillary Clinton, Lois Lerner, Tom Brady...And A Call To Reason

Lois Lerner and her missing, now assuredly self-abused hard-drive, haven’t caused much, if any, real angst among Americans. Targeting  specific groups is “A, OK” with the leftists who control the mainstream media, as is covering that fact up and obstructing justice. As long as those targeted groups are conservative.

                Neither can Americans work up any kind of anger or disgust for Hillary Clinton’s abuse of State Department protocols, or her numerous “missing” e-mails,  connected as they may or may not be to the Clinton Foundation’s receiving millions of dollars from foreign countries.

                Those issues only involve the integrity of the Republic’s elected officials and our national security.

                Tom Brady throwing away his cell-phone, however? Well, by God, that’s beyond the pale! A person’s sense of ethics can only take so much abuse! And, if he is trying to cover up potential knowledge of some footballs being under-inflated by a couple of pounds-per-square-inch, well, that would be too heinous to contemplate!

                There are those who honestly would be happier if Walter Palmer, D.D.S., had shot Tom Brady the Patriot instead of Cecil the lion.