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Volunteer, 90 Years Old, Booted by MS Society

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Dinosaurs went extinct because their world changed. What will be our excuse?

After 60 years’ service to the charity, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society has booted a 90-year-old volunteer (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13088453/ms-society-slammed-firing-elderly-volunteer-pronouns.html).

Why did they do that? Embezzled funds? Nope, no way. Bizarre behavior? Uh-uh.

No–she was canned for “breaching its diversity and inclusion policy after she asked what pronouns were.” What does that even mean? I’m guessing it means she “offended” some trannies by forgetting to use their B.S. “preferred pronouns.”

That’s what you get for 60 years’ service.

Well, now that we know what the MS Society’s priorities are, I guess we can stop donating money to them. Move over, Salvation Army: another great charity has betrayed its mission.

Yeah, Standards Are Slipping, All Right…

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[Warning: Disgusting content. Read at your own risk.]

Remember when it was, like, romantic to fly aboard an airliner? It was high-class travel, jet set stuff, fly the friendly skies with celebrities, etc. Very classy! Big prestige.

Well, it ain’t anymore.

A Delta airliner en route from Amsterdam to Detroit (that was their first mistake) had to turn back to the airport when it started raining rotten fish and live maggots on the passengers (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/delta-flight-amsterdam-detroit-forced-turn-around-after/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=delta-flight-amsterdam-detroit-forced-turn-around-after). Someone had a suitcase full of rotten fish infested with maggots, stored in an overhead compartment–and somehow it broke open.

[Here the report loses coherence as the “reporter” tries to avoid using normal pronouns and stfarts referring to single persons as “they” and “them.” So we don’t really know how many people were to blame for this; but I’m guessing just one. Or hoping just one.]

An eyewitness said of a fellow passenger, “The maggots were falling on her head.” Where’s Burt Bacharach when you need him? (If you’re too young to know what I’m talking about, look up Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head…) I do wish I could get this image out of my mind.

The romance of airline travel. Next time bring an umbrella.

‘Polluting Your Mind’ (2015)

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Y’know what? This stuff shouldn’t have a picture. Here’s a nice hamster instead.

The ancients believed you could contract a spiritual pollution by doing certain things, or frequenting certain places. Obviously no one believes that anymore.

Which doesn’t mean it isn’t true.

Polluting Your Mind

Remember all those 50 Shades of Grey Knockoffs from a few years back? We discovered that you didn’t have to go to the polluting place; thanks to modern technology, it would come to you. Or at least to your neighborhood multiplex theater. Or to your local supermarket.

It’s getting kind of hard to avoid this dreck.

Gasp! “Racial Trauma”!

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This is the guy who’s going to protect you from “hurtful remarks”?

[Thanks to Susan for the nooze tip.]

Speaking of new words for liberals, there’s a new thing bobbing up and down out there–“Racial Trauma.” Internet’s full of articles about it. Meanwhile, the fat-head in the White House is calling everyone who didn’t vote for him “fascists” and “white supremacists” and, of course, Haters and Biggits, etc. But that’s okay–you can’t virtue-signal without taking pot shots at white people. Boo, hiss.

Did you know you can actually go into therapy for this? They don’t want you cracking up because you heard some “hurtful remarks.” Yatta-yatta. They’d also like to make some money off you.

But the real purpose behind spreading racial paranoia is political. Democrats work night and day to make us hate and fear each other–because that’s their ticket to ride. Scare everybody. “Only a Democratic government can protect you!” “Big Brother’s got your back!” They’ve also got your vote: that’s what this is for.

They mustn’t be allowed to manipulate us. We must refuse to hate and fear each other. Basic human decency is how we fight this garbage. They want us at each other’s throats, they want us to depend on them to keep us safe. It always boils down to the fox guarding the chicken coop.

They’ve gotten away with this for far too long.

 

‘What Makes People Stupid?’ (NWV, 2013)

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Ten years ago, stupidity was rampant.

Now look at us.

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Yeah: this was how dumb we were before COVID and three years of Jobydin dremmeling around in the White House. A thousand superhero movies later, what’s left of our brains isn’t much.

And today’s the Stupor Bowl! A national festival of… oh, let’s be kind and call it “pfudd.”

‘Disney+’ loses 1 Million-Plus Subscribers

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Honk if you’re at all surprised:

Disney Corp’s “Disney-Plus” streaming service lost 1.3 million subscribers–in the last quarter of 2023 (https://www.newsweek.com/disney-plus-mocked-over-subscriber-loss-1868083).

Social media platforms are buzzing with comments summed up by “Go woke, go broke–and it serves you right!” Unsatisfied customers cite Disney’s continual mud-flow of Far Left Stupid content–grooming children for sex, etc., all the usual garbage. They’re also unhappy with the prices, after a recent increase.

Golly gee, stop the presses–Disney+ is toxic waste. Who knew? Well, a million subscribers knew. That’s why they’ve stopped subscribing.

Y’know, Disney’s product was a huge part of my childhood in the 1950s, from Mickey Mouse to Davy Crockett and all points in between. We watched The Mickey Mouse Club and sent away for Mickey Mouse ears and T-shirts. Walt Disney himself was still alive and running the show, and he kept it clean–or else. They say he wasn’t an easy man to work for. I wonder how many Disney personnel would still be employed if Walt came back.

Who will mourn its passing if Disney Corp goes out of business?

Not me. How about you?

‘The Food Fight Over Richard III’ (My Newswithviews Column, Feb. 8)

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“A wheelchair! A wheelchair! My kingdom for a wheelchair!”

History is supposed to teach us the difference between wisdom and folly, progress and disaster, etc., etc. But it can’t do that unless it’s true history; and that’s getting harder and harder to come by.

How, for instance, is any truth to struggle out of … this?

The Food Fight Over Richard III

And if it weren’t enough to mangle history and jam it full of lies, the Wokies are also committed to erasing it. That’s why they tear down statues. They don’t mind arguments over, say, Christopher Columbus; but they’d like it even better if us plebs didn’t know Columbus had ever existed. Better still: “America was discovered by a disabled Woman of Color and a crew of LGBTQ poets and philosophers…”

But let me permanently disqualify myself from being Woke; these few little words will do it:

Truth is better than lies.

‘Not Only Dumb, But Evil’ (2015)

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Back in 2015 I was reading and reviewing a lot of teen-lit. Eventually I had to stop: those books were creeping me out.

Not Only Dumb, but Evil

I wonder if I ought to start again. Has young adults’ fiction gotten any better, or is it even more sinister and toxic than it was ten years ago? Waddaya think?

‘And Here’s an Even Worse Book’ (2011)

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Years ago, I read and reviewed a lot of Young Adults fiction. Most of it isn’t fit to line a bird cage. I have not yet figured out why that should be… unless it has a sinister purpose. Wouldn’t put it past ’em.

Anyway, here’s one of those books I hoped to help teen readers avoid.

And Here’s an Even Worse Book

I don’t know which is worse–giving all the characters in your book these trendy names that nobody has in real life, except maybe porn stars; or a not-very-intelligent adult’s efforts to write teen slang. This book has both. You will need more than one barf-bag.

I see fewer and fewer young people reading, these days; and my generation isn’t any better. Reading is going out of style.

It’s up to us to save it.

‘Repeat: There’s No Such Thing’ (2020)

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Nice puppies! And if you know cyber-politics, you know why they’re here.

It should be obvious that transgender mania is satanic in its origin. And no one has yet explained how society can benefit from it. Surely there must be some perfectly silly reason!

Repeat: There’s No Such Thing

Making an out-and-out fantasy, a lie, a cornerstone of our civilization is bound to end badly.

But ask them if they care.