Sorta Fun Stories in the News

Sorta Fun Stories in the News

 

Lately, there have been very few news stories that could be even remotely considered “funny” or even pathetically or ironically amusing.

However, what with all that’s currently going on in America and the world, from the implosion of a presidency, to a record-breaking number of scary administration scandals, to the gradual realization that Barack Hussein Obama has deftly snatched defeat from victory in Iraq and Afghanistan, to the disintegration of America’s former position as the world’s superpower, to our grossly mismanaged economy, to our devolution from a “race neutral” society into a racially-divided nation, we all need a good laugh, right?

(By the way, anyone who disagrees with the seriousness of those issues should try to keep up by watching something other than liberal-leftist news channels and reading something other than the lib-left mainstream media.  Or, at the very minimum, try to get out more.)

If for no other reason than a good chuckle, a smattering of humor, as tenuous and sardonic as that humor may be, goes a long way as a stress reliever, I offer the following which are not necessarily listed in order of the most risible but rather in the order I thought of them:

—As widely reported by honest media outlets, Chicago’s Paul Robeson High School recently celebrated its prom.  Since most promenading students today select a theme to highlight their achievements.  The Robeson kids chose as their theme, “This Is Are Story.”

Now, keeping in mind that high school activities, including annual proms, are customarily supervised teachers, it doesn’t reflect well on the Chicago school system or its products that no one there seems to know the difference between “are” and “our.”  That stupidity also doesn’t say much about the racist remark made last October by the Chicago Teachers Union’s President Karen Lewis that the city “belongs” to African Americans and not white people, a view seconded by CTU organizer Brandon Johnson.  Or does it?

Anyway, that is there story!

 —The estimable Barbara Walters, a legend in her own mind perhaps best known as “Baba Wawa” by Gilda Radner fans on “Saturday Night Live” and for famously asking Katherine Hepburn, “What kind of tree are you?” has been saying much about nothing for fifty years and said even less during her recent appearance with Jimmy Fallon on “The Tonight Show.”

The 83 year old liberal-leftist Walters who looks like she has had almost as many facelifts as Joan Rivers reminisced over rejecting Clint Eastwood’s dinner invite in 1982.  She admitted that she decided take another shot at seducing the conservative director-actor last Monday by arranging to sit next to him at the premiere of  his “Jersey Boys.”

All bedecked in the “right outfit” replete with fake eyelashes and knowing, I guess, that the conservative Eastwood gets really impressed by phoniness, Walters struck out.  Big time. . . .(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=37671.) 

Chelsea, Hillary, Kids, and Boko Haram

Chelsea, Hillary, Kids, and Boko Haram

 

Large segments of Barack Hussein Obama’s mainstream media have been all agog of late not nearly so much over the horrors of Benghazi, the multiplicity of scandals in the president’s administration, or even the potentiality of  World War III beginning in Ukraine but rather in the imminent grandmotherhood of Hillary Rodham Clinton.

As a grandfather of five, and counting, I can semi-share the excitement over the birth of Chelsea Victoria Clinton Mezvinsky’s new baby who will become the first grandchild of the former president and his very accomplished wife.

Thirty-four year old Chelsea rarely if ever uses her married name, Mezvinsky, but I’m certain her husband of four years, investment banker Marc Mezvinsky, is even more thrilled than I over the upcoming, blessed event especially since his wife has ostensibly been chosen to be the Democrat Party standard bearer down the line which could make their baby a lady or gentleman-in-waiting for that honor.

It’s often been suggested in Obama’s media, previously the Clinton media, that Mrs. Clinton-Mezvinsky is being carefully groomed as a future Democrat candidate for the presidency despite the reality that, at this point in her life, she has fewer qualifications for that position than Barack Obama had.

Aside from an ineffectual stint as a campaigner for her mother in 2008, she has had little involvement in public life unless serving as co-chairperson for her father’s Clinton Foundation, board member on the School of American Ballet, and as a lackluster reporter on “Rock Center” and “NBC Nightly News” qualify.

As Tim Graham, a director at the Media Research Center, said of Chelsea, “She doesn’t have the charisma” to make it big in politics.  Also, she once surprisingly and insensitively told a child reporter, “I’m sorry, I don’t talk to the press and that applies to you, unfortunately, even though I think you’re cute.”

Wasn’t overflowing sensitivity one of Bill “I feel your pain” Clinton’s hallmarks?

However, far more indicative of both Chelsea’s and Hillary’s characters is their evident disregard for human life, although  Hillary does care deeply for those unfortunate Nigerian girls and their kidnappers, an Islamic, al Qaeda-affiliated group of terrorist thugs that calls itself Boko Haram, loosely meaning “Western education is a sin.”

In 2013, the US belatedly listed Boko Haram as a foreign terrorist organization, a listing delayed due to Mrs. Clinton’s State Department’s refusal to accept that designation although she finally signed on to the condemnation of Boko Haram following the kidnapping and threatened enslavement of the girls. 

In retrospect, as she prepared another run for the highest office in the land, Hillary has now characterized the kidnapping as “an act of terrorism [that] really merits the fullest response possible.”

Really?  So, Boko Haram’s years-long history of violence and murder, its bombings and assassinations, its militant commitment to establishing an Islamic state as a recruiting ground for jihadis, and its dedication to the idea that women are the property of husbands and mere instruments of reproduction, didn’t merit any response from your State Department? 

Obviously not.

On the other hand, Hillary Clinton’s response to the issue of extinguishing pre-born human lives has never been ambivalent . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=37069.)