The Political Corruption of Roget's Thesaurus

The Political Corruption of Roget's Thesaurus

 

We all reasonably hope and expect that resources such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, and similar publications either on the Internet or in hard copy form are reliable fonts of objective, unbiased information, the purpose of which is to inform and clarify.

With the notable exception of the often left-wing slanted “Wikipedia,” most similar publications have long faithfully fulfilled that weighty responsibility, until recently, that is.

The venerable, two hundred nine year old “Roget’s Thesaurus,” one of the most widely used resources for English-language synonyms, word  connotations, and grammar, recently abandoned any semblance of unbiased objectivity in favor of distorted, liberal-leftist political correctness. . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=38803.)  

The Ferguson Aftermath: More of the Same

The Ferguson Aftermath: More of the Same

 

Two years ago, the rabidly-leftist Center for American Progress (CAP) published a report by Sophia Kerby detailing the gross inequities in America’s justice system.

A self-described “civil rights and social justice advocate passionate about issues that impact communities of color and women,” Ms. Kerby is the Special Assistant for Progress 2050 at American Progress and serves as the Policy Associate for the Brennan Center for Justice working with “civil rights, social justice, and democracy organizations to develop policy goals and share information critical to advancing civil rights in federal policy.”

Unfortunately, though the information in her analysis of the comparative number of arrests, incarcerations, and executions of blacks as contrasted with whites in America cited a number of statistics, it omitted the reasons of those arrests, etc.

For example, Ms. Kerby references the fact that people of color, some 30% of the U.S.’ population, account for 60% of men in prison and that incarceration rates of men of color far exceed the rates of white men.

Among other damning facts, she correctly states that:

–A third of black men will end up in prison at some time in their lives and incur longer sentences than whites; 

–Individuals of color have a disproportionate number of encounters with law enforcement, attributable to racial profiling;

–Non-white students face more frequent and more severe punishment in our schools and are arrested more often than white kids;

–The war on drugs has been waged mainly in minority communities and people of color are usually charged with ”higher offenses”;

–Over the thirty year span of 1980 through 2007, a third of the 25.4 million adults arrested on drug charges were African-American;

–Voter laws prohibiting those with felony convictions from voting ”disproportionately impact men of color.” 

What Sophia Kerby curiously and egregiously fails to mention are the uncomfortable realities that people of color are disproportionately disposed to commit crimes and, by virtue of that fact, are treated appropriately in our courts of law and are being arrested, incarcerated, denied voting privileges, etc. just as whites would be. . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=38776.)

America Goes to Pot

America Goes to Pot

 

When liberal-leftist comedienne/actress Sarah Silverman surprisingly won an Emmy Monday night and in front of millions of viewers including children, she brazenly displayed the vaporizer pen she uses for smoking marijuana and later told an NBC reporter it contained liquified pot.

 

An open aficionado of the drug, Silverman, who told an interviewer last year that, “I have very few vivid memories because I smoke a lot of pot,” unfortunately is not an exception among the entertainment set but rather serves in the vanguard of a radical movement in our country to intentionally or unintentionally make us forget how we got here. 

 

Led by our Pothead-in-Chief, America is rapidly and inexorably becoming the world’s foremost exemplar of the social, legal, and medical repercussions that legalized marijuana is capable of wreaking on a nation.

Sure, other countries are way ahead of us in making weed legally available to the masses–think the Netherlands, for example–but what other country is able to boast that its head of state, the person who should be a role model for his people, started out in life as a pothead?

In his supposed memoir, “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance,” Barack Hussein Obama proudly conceded he was a heavy pot smoker in his misbegotten youth in Hawaii as well as a member, indeed, a leader, of law-breakers known as the “Choom Gang,” choom referring to smoking weed. 

According to David Maraniss’ “Barack Obama: The Story,” then-Barry Obama popularized a new, pot-smoking trend known as “TA” (“total absorption”) and “roof hits,” (smoking joints with car windows rolled up to keep any smoke escaping), and he often cut the choom line when a joint was being passed around yelling “interception.”

In 2004, President Obama sent a mixed message when he declared, “I think the War on Drugs has been an utter failure . . . but I’m not somebody who believes in the legalization of marijuana.”  In other words, the War on Drugs has been a total travesty, thereby suggesting that marijuana and other drug laws were somehow flawed, at the same time he indicated he fully supported their enforcement.

To his credit, and he deserves precious little credit for anything, . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=38750.)

Rachel Mennet, a Break from Dreary News

Rachel Mennet, a Break from Dreary News

 

It's healthful for mind and soul to now and then take a break from the ugly and violent which pervade the news today and reflect on some of the less momentous yet heart warming issues, if only to reassure ourselves that even if the world may be going to hell in the proverbial handbasket if we don’t smile we’ll have to cry.

The story of eight year old Rachel Mennet falls neatly into the genuinely heart warming category.  

Rachel is a little girl endowed with a heart of gold as well as a child who understands the plight and needs of wounded warriors far better than the Veterans’ Administration. 

That federal agency, charged with providing the physical care and overall well-being of our brave servicemen and servicewomen, has proven itself both uncaring and inept and so it is left to good people like Rachel Mennet to fill the void. . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=38705.)

 

The Vicious Murder of Carroll Jordan, Age 86

The Vicious Murder of Carroll Jordan, Age 86

 

For obvious reasons, President Barack Hussein Obama’s mainstream media and their cohorts in the entertainment world still refuse to concede that there is an ongoing war conducted by blacks in America against anyone not black despite mounting evidence to the contrary.
 
Motivated by their blind loyalty to the man they enthusiastically supported for over six years as the savior of our country and the planet, they can’t now admit the president is largely responsible for that war thanks to his racist policies so they simply deny the existence of the conflict.

For example, the MSM have dutifully ignored or downplayed the “knockout game” in which young black men–who could very well resemble the president’s sons–cold cock innocent, unsuspecting white people to prove their self-conceived superiority by cowardly flattening them and often videotaping their assaults as verification of their masculinity.

As he scoffed on “The Daily Show,” Comedy Central’s liberal-leftist “newscaster” Jon Stewart firmly believes the rarely-reported yet widespread incidents of the “knockout game” are wildly exaggerated and Stewart certainly doesn’t favor more severe legal penalties for such assaults because, well, because they occur so rarely.

Not that it would bother them or convince how gravely wrong the mainstreamers and people like Stewart have been, but eighty-six year old, Carroll Jordan might beg to differ–if he were able about America’s epidemic of black violence. 

The Korean War veteran was not a “knockout game” victim but rather the. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=38707.)

When P.C. Runs Amok

When P.C. Runs Amok

 

Officials at Brooks Elementary School in Newnan, Ga. have banned birthday cupcakes, birthday cookies, indeed, any goodies associated with birthdays because they are worried that kids with food allergies might feel sad and excluded. They made no mention of whether young boys and girls at Brooks could feel sad over being unable to share their special days with classmates or whether anyone had complained about the long tradition.

At Dyer County High School in Tennessee, senior Kendra Turner graciously said “Bless you” in violation of a class rule when another student sneezed and was rebuked by her teacher for using language reserved for church.  The teacher added that “godly speaking” was verboten in her class and Ms. Turner courageously responded that it was her constitutional right to say what she did, was remanded to the principal’s office, and was promptly suspended from school.

The Fresno Unified School District hired Peter Beck to teach three cultural studies classes in its new Rutherford B. Gaston Middle School since Mr. Beck was deemed the best qualified candidate for the position.  Some local Fresno residents objected, not on the basis of his qualifications or the content of his character but due to the color of his skin with activist Rev. Karen Crozier explaining, ”We’re just saying what the community wants. We didn’t fight for a white male or female teacher to educate our babies.”

However the birthday cupcake fiasco in Georgia, the mini-constitutional crisis in Tennessee, and the black bigotry in California eventually play out is somewhat irrelevant.  The overriding issue is when Americans’ patient tolerance of intolerant political correctness in our schools and society will wear out?

Were P.C. extremes confined to three states, they would still be unacceptable but, in fact, the insidious disease of political correctness is pervasive in America and goes far beyond birthday cupcakes, religious freedom, and agitators clamoring for racially exclusionary rights. 

A brain child of liberal-leftists, political correctness was originally conceived as an effort to forcibly impose their standards with regards to correct language usage and their views on ideas and policies regarding any sort of discrimination against designated “protected classes,” such as gender, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age and disability.

Most likely by design, P.C. has devolved into a sickness infecting virtually every facet of American life, extending even into our nation’s immigration policies, our domestic policies, and our international relations.

For example, we have been conditioned by politically correct fanatics to willingly accept . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=38664.)

Obama's Complicity in the Beheading of James Foley

Obama's Complicity in the Beheading of James Foley

 

President Barack Hussein Obama interrupted his latest Martha’s Vineyard vacation to devote all of five minutes in condemning in no uncertain terms the grisly, videotaped beheading of American photojournalist James Foley and the Muslim perpetrators of that horrendous crime before hopping on his motorcade to tend to more important business, working on his golf game.

Well, he didn’t actually condemn adherents to the religion of peace but he defiantly did say, “One thing we can all agree on is a group like ISIL has no place in the 21st century.”

That alone, in his mind, would be more than sufficient to deter a threatened second beheading of an American should the U.S. continue bombing the barbaric, Islamic terrorists.

If not in name, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), al-Qaeda’s philosophical heirs, are virtually synonymous, especially in regard to their murderous jihadist practices and their quest for a worldwide caliphate based on Sharia law and the Koran. 

If successful, their movement would effectively turn back the world’s clock to the time of the Holy Prophet Muhammad’s seventh century. 

From an expedient political point of view, it’s eminently comprehensible why Obama would abbreviate his statement on James Foley’s brutal decapitation. 

As with the assassination of U.S. Major General Harold Greene in Afghanistan on August 5th, the first killing of an American general in a war zone in 141 years, to draw excessive attention to either tragedy would only vividly highlight yet other failures of his policies so our commander in chief chose to skip Greene’s funeral and minimize his comments on Foley’s murder. 

With regard to the latter, Obama had an even greater incentive to go golfing instead of elaborating on the moral degradation of Islam–his direct complicity in Foley’s kidnapping and torture two years ago as well as his involvement in Foley's brutal decapitation. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=38643.)