Policeman Insulted by a Barista

This holiday weekend my son an I were talking about where we purchase coffee. I've been a lifelong Dunkin Donuts man while my son, a young professional living in Chicago says that Starbucks is his frequent go-to coffee shop.

A police officer in Oklahoma was given a cup with the word PIG on it.

That DD was on my path to work was true enough, but there is a Starbucks on my way as well.

Truth is, I've always felt out of place in a Starbucks, sort of like Paulie Walnuts in The Sopranos.

This story affirms my feeling, and it is not the first situation of this ilk for Starbucks.

I know, and the officer knows, that this is not a Starbucks corporate policy, it is only the action of impolite child.

The suspension might not be enough, this would be a firing offense in my business.

Applying a stiff punishment for improper behavior sets the correct tone for remaining employee moral and treatment of customers.

You would never see this behavior from an employee at Chick Fil A.

Huskies, Stop Barking

Found this over at Gatestone, catching my interest as having been a school I almost attended.
Alan M. Dershowitz doing more positive work, attempting to assuage the Simpson and Epstein defenses.

Connecticut: Where Ridicule is a Crime

In northeast Connecticut, two students are charged with ridiculing African Americans by using the N-word as part of a game. The game was recorded and posted on the internet, causing righteously angry responses.  A local news report can be seen within the following link.
The students were not directing the comments at any particular person, in fact were walking in an empty parking lot. The students have been arrested and face a courts hearing based on an old Connecticut law that says.

Section 53-37

Ridicule on account of creed, religion, color, denomination, nationality or race.

Any person who, by his advertisement, ridicules or holds up to contempt any person or class of persons, on account of the creed, religion, color, denomination, nationality or race of such person or class of persons, shall be guilty of a class D misdemeanor.

This law is in conflict with the 1st Amendment of the Constitution is a giant way. Almost surely, the state will argue that the two dopes were creating an imminent threat. The hearing has already been pushed back once, to 13-November.

By the way, the full effect of the potential punishment is under $100.

Thank God for the Deep State

Former CIA Director John McLaughlin suggesting that the intelligence community is last bastion of objectivity and the truth.

The irony is deep and the laughter hurts.

David Cutcliffe and the Duke Band

My brother Les is a huge Alabama fan, loves to travel and watch the games, has the means to do so. To kick off this year's season he came to Atlanta and was kind enough to share a ticket. Alabama was playing the Duke Blue Devils.
The Blue Devils are led by Peyton Manning's mentor  David Cutcliffe, a man that I consider to be an arrogant jerk-off, good coach but a real prick. For the past few years he has enjoyed making fun the Georgia Tech triple option offense, comparing it to a high school offense. There really is no great science in any football offense, only a heard mentality of coaches that intimidated by what they cannot control. Admittedly Coach Cutcliffe has backed up his mouth and had good success against my alma mater.
Circling back to the game, after about a quarter, Alabama got is act together and started beating the feathers out of Duke. In the second half, in an attempt to eat up clock and slow the game down, he started running triple option plays, and fairly often. Duke even got penalized for some cut blocks.
I enjoy the triple option offense, run well it is more exciting than and pass happy spread scheme.

The last point I want to make is that the band for Duke has taken on the persona of their head coach in their arrogance. Pictured above the Duke band taunting Alabama fans before the game. Both are assholes and deserve the David Cup.

God and the Doctor

My grandfather was a doctor who spent his career as a psychiatrist working in state hospitals all over the south. He started in the late 20's and retired middle 60's. As a little boy I remember him having a framed picture which included the poem that follows......

God and the Doctor we alike adore

But only when in danger, not before;  

The danger o'er, both are alike requited,  

God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted.

This poem was penned by an interesting man named Robert Owen,  a social activist to whom many quotations are attributed.
Interestingly enough, the framed picture, now at my parent house, the poem is incorrectly attributed to another poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Wilcox's best known quote is…….

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone.

F*** the Chinese Government

Adam Silver has had much success as the NBA Commissioner. Under his leadership the league has promoted a star-centric promotional policy and in general given the players the upper hand in determining how rosters are composed. The balance of power in the league has shifted from the owners to the players. This fan does not appreciate the selfish players-first mentality, but I guess that it has been there all along just under the veneer of the now absent good taste.

South Park Puts NBA to Shame, Says ‘F*** the Chinese Government’

I had understood that Adam Silver was gay, but after reading his bio at Wikipedia must admit to being mistaken. After seeing the NBA cancel games and expel fans who held up mildly worded posters decrying the actions of the Chinese in Hong Kong, I am convinced that Adam Silver is simply a capitalist posing as woke.

A Tale of Two Coups

I could not agree more. The similarities between resistance to the Brexit and Trump votes are obvious. Men who expected to continue as is, willfully ignoring the measures, by votes, the desires of the people.

          A Tale of Two Coups

They are doing worthwhile work over at Gatesone, check them out.

Convert, Marry Me, or Die

The Gatestone Institute is a non-partisan, non-profit policy think tank that works to fill the gaps left by common sources of media.

Convert, Marry Me, or Die': Persecution of Christians, July 2019

Written by Raymond Ibrahim, this is of a series that describes the slaughter of Christians, attacks on churches, attacks on apostates, rape and murder of Christians, and the general abuse of everything non-Muslim. Much of this occurs in the middle east, far east and Africa. At times showing the relationship between Europe and its southern neighbors in Africa.

Fatemeh Azad, a 58-year-old Muslim woman who had converted to Christianity against her Muslim husband's will and fled to Germany, was denied asylum there and deported back to Iran. There she was immediately arrested by authorities waiting for her plane to land.... "When Fatemeh made her asylum appeal, her lawyers argued that apostasy (conversion away from Islam) is punishable by the death penalty in Iran." This, however, was insufficient for Germany. — Persecution.org; July 25, 2019, Iran, Germany.

We see parallel behavior in the United States with its immigration policies toward religious minorities from the middle east and Africa. Persons from the persecuting (majority) religion claiming asylum successfully, while the afflicted minority being denied the right to live in our place of religious freedom.
There is certainly a contingent of Europhiles in the United States, seeking to play follow the socialist state central planners who disguise their racism.
Maybe we are not quite of free as we thought.

Done For

Is it "complete", "finished" or "completely finished"?
No English dictionary has been able to adequately explain the difference between these two words - "Complete" or "Finished".
In a recent linguistic competition held in London and attended by, supposedly, the best in the world, Samdar Balgobin, a Guyanese man, was the clear winner with a standing ovation which lasted over 5 minutes.
The final question was: 'How do you explain the difference between COMPLETE and FINISHED in a way that is easy to understand?  Some people say there is no difference between COMPLETE and FINISHED.'
Here is his astute answer:
"When you marry the right woman, you are COMPLETE.  When you marry the wrong woman, you are FINISHED.   And when the right one catches you with the wrong one, you are COMPLETELY FINISHED!"
He won a trip around the world and a case of 25 year old Scotch !

Unfreedom of the Press

Unfreedom of the Press was published during the summer of 2019, this is the first book that I ever advance ordered because of radio commentary or advice. Written by Mark Levin, the book is short at only 227 pages in the hardback version. Come to think of it, this probably is not released in paperback format.
As anyone can tell from watching or listening to Mr. Levin's, the author is intelligent, well researched and passionate. The intelligence and research are evident in this offering, conveying the emotion is understandably tough to accomplish.
The history of the press's reporting of political news in the United States has ranged from newspapers and pamphleteers being openly aligned with one political party, to the practice of objective reporting which for me would be the equivalent of the scientific method. The writing work may of given themselves too mush credit because objective reporting has morphed into objective reporting with a thinly veiled alignment. In other readings, this development has paralleled the progressive movement in America, triggered by the German philosopher of the Bismarck era, and taking local form with progressive practices initiated by Woodrow Wilson and like minded politicians.
One of my favorite quotes from the book is.....

Now it is often a euphemism for the prerogative of reported to produce their synthetic commodity.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Boorstin was Librarian of Congress from 1975 to 1987, a educated man of high standing and a former communist that wrote a book titled The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events  in America.
Anyway, this a book worth reading, especially of you are a fan of the radio show.