For two plus years the left and the media have been going after the police. You’ve had dem pols rushing to defunding then, attacks in media, academia, social media and in the various cultural bastions. You have them in a position where in some blue cities they won’t even answer calls for some serious crimes.
And after years of that you expect them, near the anniversary of the George Floyd incident to rush in guns blazing against a teen of color?
Like hell they are.!
That among other things, is why I have no respect for anything the left has to say about this business. This is exactly the police force they wanted. One that doesn’t go after criminals.
Yesterday I concentrated on my team in the 1970 Draft league, if anyone is interested I managed to win game 3 as Mike Torrez pitched a complete game shutout and Ron Fairly added an insurance run with his first HR of the season for a 2-0 win, but Minnesota came to town and Willie Mays, Tony Perez, Cito Gaston and Duke Sims all homered against me which more than compensated for Pete Rose’s first blast of the year off Luis Tiant who remains a Pilot killer as Minnesota delivered a devastating 12-5 defeat in our first meeting.
However while that loss will have a minor effect on the standings of a 162 game season the State Farm “Like a Creepy Neighbor” story has had a stronger footprint as Don Surber notes:
when the week began, GenderCool had 23 corporate sponsors who funded the purchase of LGBT-friendly books and materials for kindergarteners and other kids in public schools. As of this afternoon, there are 13.
State Farm was the first. It was outed on Monday. An uproar ensued and forced the SJWs running the company to act like a good neighbor instead of the neighborhood pervert.
And what a difference a bit of sunlight makes:
After Wokenfreude hit State Farm, 9 other corporate sponsors either dropped GenderCool like a hot rock or asked that their sponsorship be placed on the QT.
The sponsors quietly distancing themselves are the USDA (Biden loves kids and in a sick way), General Mills, Adobe, Oracle, Capital One, Sprout Special, Bank of America, NBC Universal, Prudential and Indeed.
But it’s not all bad news for the groomers, The Allstate foundation has jined the groom crew and they managed some fundraising over the attention. Moreover the groom crew is getting some help from the Biden Administration:
K-12 schools must allow boys into girls’ private areas to obtain federal funds for lunches, breakfasts, and snacks, the Biden administration announced this month. A U.S. Department of Education spokesman told The Federalist the Biden administration’s press releases from several agencies announcing this policy will be followed by formal rulemaking in June.
So let boys into the girls bathroom in your kids school or no federal lunch programs for you!
I remember ten years ago when my co-host on the radio John Weston said this was the endgame of the Obama Years and people didn’t believe him. Events have proved him prophetic.
When one looks back the great artists–and I dislike this term–of the classic rock era of the mid-1960s thru the early 1970s, the usual big names to come to mind, the Beatles, the Who, the Rolling Stones, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Bob Dylan.
One name–and he just released his 43rd studio album last week–is generally overlooked. And that artist is Van Morrison, also known as Van the Man and the Belfast Cowboy. Oh sure, he’s recorded some memorable hits, such as “Brown Eyed Girl,” along with “Moondance” and “Have I Told You Lately.” Before Morrison’s first album, Blowin’ Your Mind, was released in 1967, he was the frontman for Them. That band’s anthemic “Gloria” deservedly appears on many best-ever song lists.
But Morrison isn’t a much of a self-promoter–he doesn’t do many interviews and he’s not the best media conversationalist–even though Van the Man’s lyrics are generally eloquent and articulate.
Two years ago Morrison began attracting media attention for his impassioned opposition to COVID-19 lockdowns, which, during the height of them, prevented Van, who turns 77 this summer, from performing live.
Morrison just concluded a short USA tour, a British tour begins Monday.
In 2020, Morrison released three anti-lockdown songs, “Born to Be Free” and “As I Walked Out,” as well as “No More Lockdown.” That same year Eric Clapton recorded a Morrison-penned anti-lockdown song, “Stand and Deliver.” Clapton, who celebrated his 77th birthday in March, was diagnosed with COVID-19 last week. Hey, no reasonable person believes COVID is un-catchable.
Those anti-lockdown songs led Northern Ireland’s health minister, Robin Swann, to write a Rolling Stone op-ed attacking Morrison, where Swann declared, “Some of what is he saying is actually dangerous.”
Which brings us to “Dangerous,” the opening track of Morrison’s brand-new album, What’s It Gonna Take?
Somebody said I was dangerous I said something bad, but it must’ve been good Somebody said I was dangerous I must be getting close to the truth, alright, alright
But Morrison isn’t done with lockdowns, as the first ten songs of this 15-song effort attack COVID-19 restrictions on varying levels.
On the title track, Morrison opines,
Politicians don’t represent the people Government doesn’t represent us at all Government takes and ruins all our business Big tax about to take it all.
In life, I’ve learned that sometimes life is just blah blah blah. Really, because that’s another great tune here, entitled of course, “Sometimes It’s Just Blah Blah Blah.”
How do you like the new normal? Tell me, how is that going for you? How did you overcome the restrictions? How do you handle the news? Do you still think the government’s not lying to you? Oh, has the penny dropped yet? Seems there’s no way out of this impasse Is it something we’ll live to regret?
What’s It Gonna Take? is absolutely an essential musical release but I suspect it will be savaged by the critics, most of whom are liberals. Morrison’s prior collection, a double album, Latest Record Project, Volume 1, also blew the whistle on lockdown restrictions, as well as social media–quite obviously so on the song “Why Are You On Facebook?” It’s a good album, albeit a bit long, but still far better than the swill that passes as 21st century music. And the critics for the most part hated that Latest Record Project, Volume 1.
As recently as 2017 Morrison described himself as apolitical. Clearly, at least in regards to COVID lockdowns and government overreach, he is now a strident libertarian.
Rock music, with few exceptions, hasn’t been the soundtrack of rebellion for decades. It’s ironic that the most rebellious rocker today–or perhaps he’s a bluesman?–is a man in his late 70s, the Belfast Cowboy, Van Morrison.
Here’s one final brilliant lyrical excerpt from Van’s latest album, this time from “Damage and Recovery.”
Snowflakes hiding in their houses Most of us need to get right back to work Money doesn’t grow on trees Jobs don’t thrive on barren ground Narrow-minded politics So-called social scientist tricks Telling lies, they’re meant to be Watching morons on TV.
There are a couple of references to “Gates,” as in Bill Gates, a COVID-alarmist. A couple of weeks ago, the Microsoft founder and self-appointed virus expert said about COVID-19, “We didn’t understand that it’s a fairly low fatality rate and that it’s a disease mainly in the elderly, kind of like flu is, although a bit different than that.”
Wow. Two years ago, if someone posted that sentence on Facebook or Twitter, they’d probably have their accounts suspended.
Morrison was right in 2020 about lockdowns and Gates was wrong.
There’s a little bit of Van Morrison in all of us. There’s a lot of Van Morrison in all thinking people.
Yesterday multiple United Kingdom news outlets reported that Morrison has turned the tables on Robin Swann. He’s suing the Northern Ireland health minister.
John Ruberry regularly blogs at Marathon Pundit, he’s married to Mrs. Marathon Pundit. Morrison’s “Have I Told You Lately” plays on their wedding video.
You might recall a while back I did an interview with a young woman from Iraq who told me her story of live there, fleeing the country and coming to America and what it meant to her.
Yesterday I attended her college graduation in Worcester. Her class was a cacophony of people, a majority were woman and people of color
Now bad for a land of inequality and oppression eh? Of course I suspect if you tried to make that argument to Hanna she wouldn’t buy it.
From refugee in fear of her life and oppressed because of her sex and religion to college grad in the US.
Here is the base interview from 2018
Her graduation is not a bad ending for that story but of course the story of this young lady is just beginning.
Postscript: Speaking of happy ending when I got home from the Graduation guess what I found at my house:
Happy Birthday to Me
Maybe that’s why DaWife wanted me out of the house on my Birthday. So two happy endings in one day!
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