“justice-involved individuals”

NY Post:  The neo-Orwellianism comes to us from the bizarre flurry of last-minute diktats, regulations and bone-chilling threats collectively known to fanboys as Obama’s Gorgeous Goodbye.

In another of those smiley-faced, but deeply sinister, “Dear Colleague” letters sent to universities and college this week, Obama’s Education Secretary John King discouraged colleges from asking applicants whether they were convicted criminals.

An accompanying pamphlet was called “Beyond the Box: Increasing Access to Higher Education for Justice-Involved Individuals.”

So rapists, burglars, armed robbers and drug dealers aren’t criminals anymore. These folks are simply “involved” with “justice,” according to Obamanoids.

“All body mutilation is a tragic joke, except for gender mutilation, which is a wondrous thing”

Daniel Harris, as quoted by Bookworm on a post titled Sex and State Power - What's Behind Obama's Transgender Push.  (via Instapundit)

. . . TGs (transgenders) have ambushed the debate and entangled us in a snare of such trivialities as the proper pronouns with which to address them, protocol as Byzantine and patronizing as the etiquette for addressing royalty. They insult us with the pejorative term “cisgender,” which they use to describe those of us who accept, however unenthusiastically, our birth gender, as opposed to the enlightened few who question their sex. Moreover, they shame us into silence by ridiculing the blunders we make while trying to come to grips with their unique dilemmas, decrying our curiosity about their bodies as prurience and our unwillingness, or even inability, to enter into their own (often unsuccessful) illusion as narrow‑mindedness.

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While I fervently support TGs’ rights to transition and to do so without fear of reprisal, I believe that the whole phenomenon of switching one’s gender is a mass delusion. For one, the physical manipulation involved in transforming oneself into a man or woman is apparently different in kind—or so the transgender community presumes—from the nips and tucks undertaken by the trophy wife or celebrity, anti‑heroes of a materialistic culture with whom the TG, having taken advantage of the same merchandising of the body promoted by commercialized medicine, bears a strong and unfortunate resemblance. The general public almost universally disapproves of plastic surgery and laughs derisively at celebrities who present a face “different from the one they rode in on,” as one commentator referred to their futile—and often ruinous—efforts to roll back the hands of time. The obscene trout pout of Donatella Versace, the misshapen nipples and oblong breasts of Tara Reid, the Joker’s grimace of Kim Novak, are all fair game for that most American and democratic of blood sports, the desecration of the rich and famous in tabloids and gossip blogs.

And yet what is the actual difference between Michael Jackson whittling his nose down to a brittle sliver of bone and whitening his skin with alpha hydroxy acid and arsenic in order to efface his blackness and the TG sanding down her brow bone and hacking off a sizeable chunk of her mandible in order to efface her gender? Why is the one decried as a racially reprehensible instance of self‑mutilation, self‑denial, and self‑loathing and the other extolled as a celebratory instance of self‑liberation? Why is it not only okay but valiant for Caitlyn Jenner to liberate her inner woman through rhinoplasties and laryngeal shaves while it is deplorable and pathetic for Michael Jackson to liberate his inner Caucasian through bleaching and cleft chin augmentation? When Rachel Dolezal goes to the Palm Beach tanning salon for her weekly $30 dip, she is committing the unconscionable crime of appropriating blackness (or, in her case, as the Gawker put it, not blackness but “Medium Brown Spray Tan”), but when Laverne Cox, one of the breakout performers on the television show Orange Is the New Black, slaps on a transdermal estrogen patch, she is lauded as a hero and role model. All of the arguments against plastic surgery—that it is dangerous, even fatal, often botched, and symptomatic of either extreme body dysmorphia or a lamentable effort to accommodate Hollywood’s chauvinistic ageism—can be leveled against those who transition from one sex to another. The trophy wife and the TG swim, it seems, in the same surgeon‑infested seas.

It's a long article, but if you really want to understand what is at stake, what the push is really about please read the whole thing. I found it eye opening.

Obama tirelessly tests executive powers

Trying to picture media reaction if Sarah Palin, in 2008, claimed that Obama would put the fed govt in charge of who uses school bathrooms.

— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) May 13, 2016

"President Obama will Issue Transgender Bathroom Decree For Public Schools Students."

In a sweeping victory for LGBT activists concerned about the recent slew of so-called "bathroom bills," the White House on Thursday announced that President Obama would be issuing a transgender bathroom decree which would protect students in public school districts across the country. The decree, which is set to be delivered to schools on Friday, addresses fears some have expressed that banning transgender students from using the bathroom of their identified-gender could result in bullying or violence against those students. In a statement to The New York Times on Thursday evening, Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. reaffirmed the president's beliefs that transgender students were owed protections that the numerous bathroom bills circling state politics otherwise stripped. (read the whole thing)

"Barack Obama to visit Hiroshima"

Mr Obama and Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will make the May 27 visit “to highlight his continued commitment to pursuing the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said in a statement. It will be Mr Obama's fourth visit to Japan.

When President Obama first visited Japan in November 2009, he said he hoped he would one day visit both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where the United States dropped atomic bombs during the very final days of World War II.

“The memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are etched in the minds of the world, and I would be honored to have the opportunity to visit those cities at some point during my presidency,” Mr Obama said at the time.

At least 140,000 people were killed, most of them civilians, when the city became synonymous with the first wartime use of a nuclear weapon on August 9 1945. Three days later, the US dropped a second atomic device on the city of Nagasaki and within a week Japan had surrendered to Allied forces. (read more)

Bad Men

Obama says tampons are likely taxed as luxury items because men were making the laws - in interview with @ingridnilsen #youtubeasksobama

— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) January 15, 2016

Transcript:

Nilsen: Now, something that’s really important to me — and my audience — is women’s health. And recently, I was shocked to learn that pads, tampons, and other menstrual products are taxed as luxury goods in over, in 40 states. And I don’t know anyone who has a period that thinks it’s a luxury, because it’s-

Obama: I think that’s fair to say. Michelle would agree with you on this.

Nilsen: Yes! Because it’s something that’s part of our everyday lives and is really crucial to our health as women. And so, I want to know, why do these items continue to be taxed?

Obama: I have to tell you, I have no idea why states would tax these as luxury items. I suspect it’s cuz men were making the laws when those taxes were passed. 

Via Twitchy

Eric Garner entrepreneur

Apparently, Eric Garner was addressing the "Hey Buddy, got a cigarette?" crowd at street level in his individual way. Selling cigarettes one at a time.

I keep reading his big crime requiring police action was avoiding state cigarette taxes, exorbitant to begin with as luxury items to 1) discourage smoking 2) rake in tax revenue. Government always does know what is best for us governed. But from what I can see I believe that is wrong. There is nothing about the cigarettes themselves being illegal. I think Eric bought cigarettes legally, paid the state tax, then resold them individually at a profit. Was he expected to collect tax again? I don't think so. The problem is he was selling them as singles and that alone was made illegal by the city of New York.

Did Eric Garner buy duty free cigarettes or roll them himself from home-grown tobacco?

The problem is the ridiculous law forbidding selling single cigarettes.

It's rather clever. But seems a waste of entrepreneurial energy. With that kind of thinking applied otherwise Garner could have done much better.

The second problem is expecting police to enforce ridiculous laws. But enforce they must. Either write a law expected to be enforced or reconsider writing the law. And once reconsidered, reconsider again. And keep doing that until you arrive at the conclusion I really do want this law enforced with ... force.

This is a liberal city. It is a liberal law. It is a liberal unionized police force. It is liberal through and through. This is the result of pure liberalism and  there is no other way to see this. And now Eric Garner is dead.

It has nothing to do with race. Any white guy skirting liberal law and resisting arrest would have more pressure applied similarly if not precisely the same way, piled on to submission each officer torquing their own direction to get the man handcuffed. Not necessarily with chokeholds but if that is what it took then that is what would happen.

President Obama on Eric Garner, "We are not going to let up."

CNN

WTF? This is not the executive's business. It's looking clear that Barack Hussein Obama intends leaving Hillary Rodham Clinton with a steaming pile of poo for her or whoever to clean up.

Making a racial issue of Grand Jury clearing the policeman for chokehold is another fake issue to keep blacks angry. You hire a community organizer for president, you get community agitation on a national scale. Then he stands back apart and above and watches the race war that ensues with a sinister grin. Maintaining lookout for the next incident to respond to and agitate. Can you honestly expect anything else?