Newest Newspeak

Hate is love ... peace through violence ... suppressing free speech is Constitutional ... being attacked is incitement ... denouncing the KKK is racist ... rioting is peace-loving ... castigating neo-Nazi is anti-Semitic ... killing cops is justified payback ... enforcing immigration law is xenophobic ... embracing Afro-American leaders is racism ... refuting fake media news is anti-American ... black-masked fascism is patriotic ... fighting terrorism is Islamophobic ... telling it like it is, is lying -- some of the newest Newspeak

Basket Case

According to Hellary Clinton, because I now support Donald Trump, there is a good chance that I am a xenophobe, a homophobe, a sexist, or a racist ... or, as she would like to shame me, one of the "basket of deplorables" ... see: CNN Story. (I think she might have also tagged us as being Islamophobic.) Now there is a slight possibility that I might have one or more of these "deplorable" traits ... but I am not stupid. I will not vote for this evil woman just to assuage myself of some smidgen of guilt for my supposed prejudice. Unfortunately, there must be many Americans who would pull her lever as penance for their thought sins ... otherwise why would she trot out this ugly campaign tactic?

To me, this attempt to emulate her predecessor and further divide Americans is nothing more than a sign of desperation on her part. The polls have tightened up and even a few free-thinkers in the liberal media are asking her tough questions. Even though she can still raise oodles of "access money" on Martha's Vineyard, Southampton and Hollywood, she can only draw sparse audiences wherever she tries to rally her base ... suggesting that, unless the graves open up again like they did for Obummer, her voter turnout may not come close to matching Trump's ... whose rallies are always overflowing with enthusiastic supporters.

No, Hellary, you will not cow me into voting for you ... nor will I try to buy access to your criminal enterprise. You typify almost everything that is wrong with our political system today. Although Donald Trump also has his share of faults, next to you, he is St. Peter.

Phobia-phobic

Let me tiptoe into this subject. Carl Paladino, the GOP candidate for governor in New York State, recently said that parents should not expose their young children to Gay Pride parades. See this story. Now, I did a quick scan of the Internet via Google and came up with the following images taken at these parades … see above and below. And believe me; I have excluded a great many frontal-nude pictures that are even more egregious (showing what is said in “Monty Python” as the “naughty bits”). Yes, I go along with candidate Paladino in his assertion about such parades are damaging to young minds.  It just seems that a civilized society should have its limits … unfortunately, most of which have been trampled on decades ago.  Why, to show that I have no problem with gays, must I also have no problem with such out-of-bounds behavior?  And more to the disturbing point ... are all the homosexuals taking part in these festivities "proud" of these all-too-frequent images?

And on a similar theme … what’s with this term “homophobic?” I don’t think many in our modern culture are irrationally fearful of gays. Just as most labeled “racists” are not irrationally fearful of blacks. Yet, I am a little “islamophobic” in that I have seen what some people in this religion are capable of doing to apostates.