Predictable: Salon.com Comes Out Against 4th of July Celebrations, But Not For Usual Reasons

Please minimize your fireworks display this July 4th as not to worsen global warming
and help prevent respiratory genocide in your neighborhood

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Independence Day is upon us, which means that millions of patriotic Americans are preparing to celebrate our nation’s most important holiday. It also means that liberals, who hate America, are preparing to ruin the day like they do with every holiday. Salon took a unique approach this year. Instead of going for the “it supports slavery” or “it promotes the killing of indigenous people” crap, they went with the “4th of July causes air pollution, contributes to global warming, and kills people” thing.

Those 4th of July fireworks spectaculars are causing huge spikes in dangerous air pollution author Lindsay Abrams warns:

"The most important lesson you learn on the environment beat is that nearly everything we humans do has consequences, oftentimes dangerous ones. And according to a new study from scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, that includes celebrating our nation’s independence with fireworks displays, which cause levels of harmful particle pollution to spike significantly each July 4th......"

I learned a very important lesson last year, which is just because there is a case to made for not setting off fireworks doesn’t mean people are going to be receptive to the idea, and they’ll probably send you angry emails that, just saying, are very much not in the holiday spirit. So to all those who say a little potential “premature death and adverse cardiovascular [and respiratory] effects“ is a small price to pay for celebrating America, I say, power to you."

Abrams just said that 4th of July fireworks cause premature death and lung disease. It’s not that she isn’t in the holiday spirit; she straight up hates America. She resents the freedom and history of this country so much that she’s trying to ruin the celebration with lies in the pettiest way possible.

Maybe there’s a reason no one invited her to a 4th of July barbecue.

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— Salon.com (@Salon) June 30, 2015

The NYTs explains why they run imagery offensive to Judeo-Christians but not images offensive to Muslims.

The Story Here

.....and I also refer you to the previous post below.

Marching Happily Toward Our Cultural Decline

Cultural Collapse is the decline, decay, or disappearance of a native population's rituals, habits, interpersonal communication, relationships, art, and language. It coincides with a relative decline of population.  National identity and group identification being lost while revisionist history is applied to demonize or find fault with the majority population. 

The Western world is being colonized in reverse, not by weapons or hard power, but through a combination of progressivism, low reproductive rates and third world immigration. These three factors will lead to a complete cultural collapse of many Western nations within the next 100 years.

Cultural decline begins in earnest when the natives feel shame or guilt for who they are, their history, their way of life, and where their ancestors came from. They will let immigrant groups criticize their customs without protest, or they simply embrace immigrant customs instead with religious conversion and inter-ethnic marriages. Nationalistic pride will be condemned as a “far-right” phenomenon and popular nationalistic politicians will be compared to Hitler. Natives learn the art of self-censorship, limiting the range of their speech and expressions, and soon only the elderly can speak the truths of the cultural decline while a younger multiculturalist within earshot attributes such frankness to senility or racist nostalgia.

Religion has been a powerful restraint for millennia in preventing humans from pursuing their base desires and narcissistic tendencies so that they satisfy a god. Family formation is the central unit of most religions, possibly because children increase membership at zero marginal cost to the church (i.e. they don’t need to be recruited). Even though many people in the West today claim to believe in god, they may not step inside a church but once or twice a year for special holidays. Religion went from being a lifestyle, a manual for living, to something that is thought about in passing.

Some examples of Cultural Decline:

1. Removal of religious narrative from people’s lives, replaced by a treadmill of scientific and technological "progress." 

2. Elimination of traditional sex roles through feminism, gender equality, political correctness, cultural Marxism and the mainstreaming of deviant behaviors. 

3. Destruction of the family unit by government dependency and by women pursuing careerist lifestyles while men wait in confused limbo. 

4. Decreasing birth rate among majority populations. 

5. Government enactment of open immigration policies in the guise of  compassion and spurring the economic. 

6. Immigrant refusal to fully acclimate, forcing host culture to adapt to their rituals and beliefs while being out-reproduced. 

7. Majority ethnic population becomes marginalized in their own country.

Sound familiar?  It should. The few points above are just modern news headlines written in simple truths instead of progressive Orwellian doublespeak we get from the media.  As our attention is diverted by silly stories or celebrity adventures, social media hastags and facebook posts about of our lunches, the very under pinning of Western civilization are being knocked out from under us, one at a time.  

American culture is being turned from a melting pot into a boiling cauldron of hate and separation spurred be racial animosity and fueled by retribution and the Utopian visions of a perfect, just society, only without the type of clear thinkers that brought it into existence in the first place...........and the Barbarians wait patiently just beyond the gate.

 Blind Ignorance speaks and displayed in all it's glory.

If we’re crazy, they made us this way!

The same people who told us 30 years ago that “marriage is just a stupid piece of paper” now insist that it’s a “human right.”

The same people who told us that “a flag is just a meaningless piece of material” now want certain flags banned and others raised — or else.

The same people who say you can’t change who you want to f*ck tell us you CAN change the bits you f*ck them with.

The same people who said “Hey, if you don’t like it, change the channel” now run #StopRush and try to ban Ann Coulter et al from campuses.

The same people who used to tell us to “lighten up” and “learn to take a joke” now fire people who make them.

LITERALLY the same people.

If we’re “crazy,” they made us that way.

 (Cathy Shaidle) 

"Darling, I'll never forget where we were when the Supreme Court decision came down.... 
third stall, men's room, highway 15 rest stop."

 

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Philosophical Conservatism

"A man may believe in something, but his belief is useless and of no practical significance if he does not possess the courage to defend it.  Even compassion, if it does not have the courage to carry out what is required ceases to be compassion. Courage is the attitude associated with the idea of principle. 

-  Sir Winston Churchill

A Good Monday Morning

Stretching first thing in the morning is proven vitality important for proper posture. 
It has also been shown to be beneficial in improving cardiac health by increased 
blood flow in some who may happen to be in the near vicinity. 

Diogenes' Middle Finger Turns Five

This weekend marks the fifth anniversary of the beginning of this little venture called Diogenes Middle Finger.  And I can say again this year, it has been by far the best year yet. It was never an intention, nor a dream to ever receive the recognition or the honors from fellow bloggers that it has. I thank my many blog brothers and sisters.   

And thanks in part to our new found fame being labeled as  "Unamerican / Uncosmopolitan Despicable Hooligans" as we are called by John Kerry, and our ongoing feud with the Hilton Hotel Chain, our growth in readership has increased at an amazing pace. I thank You All who come here and spend time.

This will be the last celebration of it's kind here until year number 10, that's if we last that long, and avoid being scooped up be the Secret Service or interred in Re-education Camp. 

So I must take time to thank my regular commenters for you wit and serious discussions on my topics (and for your corrections of my sometime poor English ;) ) and especially to my sometime collaborator and friend, The Incomparable Earl of Taint. And a Thank You to Cardigan for the generous linkage and all the gang at IOTWR, as well as my many readers from Michelle's Mirror. 

  

I pledged two things at the start (1- give readers something different than the same stuff they see on 20 other blogs they may read before they come here  (2- make them wonder what they will find if they do come back. I feel I've succeeded on both counts.

Thank You All for making what I do here worth the time and effort. - Jan

Notorious RBG

Why Kagan and Ginsburg Should Have Recused Themselves From Gay Marriage Decision

Both Justices Recently Performed Gay Marriage Ceremonies

Federal law states: "Any justice, judge, or magistrate judge of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned." 

A repost from April 27,2015

Why Justice Kagan Should Recuse Herself, But Won't 

Just last September Justice Kagan officiated at a same-sex wedding.  That's just the latest of a long history of Kagan's LGBT activism.  Justice Kagan is hugely biased on LGBT issues (for obvious reasons) and should recuse herself, but I doubt she will.  She, as well as the 'Wise Latina" Justice Sotomayor were nominated for the court not because of their knowledge and wisdom in all things constitutional, but solely to advance minority agendas. 

Kagan has been committed to the radical campaign pushing acceptance of homosexuality and transgenderism as “Civil Rights." Her unprecedented activism supporting that view as Dean of Harvard Law School calls into question her ability to judge fairly and impartially on same-sex “marriage”.   Working hand in hand with students to expel military recruiters in protest over the Armed Forces’ ban on homosexuals (a “moral injustice of the first order,” she wrote) is only the most obvious example of Kagan’s passionate dedication to this controversial and immoral agenda.

Even before her nomination to the Court, her enthusiastic and committed pro-homosexuality activism at Harvard (including her recruitment to the faculty of radical “gay” activist scholars like former ACLU lawyer William Rubenstein and elevation of radical out lesbian Professor Janet Halley) was highly significant for the making of the nation's next generation of Lawyers and Judges.

So going in, the "Same-Sex Marriage" forces have 3 solid votes, Kagan, Sotomayor and the senile old bat, Buzzy Ginsburg, who also has recently performed same sex marriages ceremonies, and who's record of twisted liberal logic and written dissenting opinion against the spirit of the Constitution is on record for all to see. That leaves only two votes needed to ensconce the LGBT agenda firmly into the fabric of the nation.  

And I doubt very seriously these same 3 Justices would ever see fit to rule assuring my right to self defense by legalizing my carry permit in all fifty states. 

Great Moments in History #24

1949 - George Orwell finishes his Classic Novel  of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, socialism, thoughtcrime and historical revisionism.

California and Mandatory Vaccination Laws

The "Everything Confederate Must Go" Comes to Town

I listened with interest to the radio this morning for what I knew was sure to come, it has come before in just such similar situations as we have presently......

"Local NAACP President Lloyd Thompson says it’s time for the monument to go. He says it’s a symbol of hate and stirs emotions of divisiveness. He’s asking parish leaders to come up with the funding to tear the structure down. 

But the monument and the land it sits on are owned by the Daughters of the Confederacy and that group has issued this statement: 

"The monument belongs to the Shreveport Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. It is on the National Registry of Historical Sites and it will not be moved."

Parish Commissioners say it will cost $300,000 to take down the monument. Thompson is also asking that it be removed from the National Registry of Historic Sites."

This particular monument has special significance in Civil War History, and Southern Heritage. On the grounds of the Caddo Parish court house stands the monument erected in 1902 at the last Confederate Capital, near the spot the last Confederate flag was lowered over land after the end of the war.  

It has been a target of groups like the ACLU before, despite it's significance to American history, as well as a representation of a specific period of American Art history.

The Caddo Parish Confederate Monument is of statewide significance under Criterion A as one of four major Louisiana monuments representing what is known by historians as "the Cult of the Lost Cause." More specifically, these monuments are Louisiana's most important representations of the Memorial Period, or second phase (1883 to 1907), of the Civil War Commemorative Sculpture Movement. These monuments represent a significant physical reminder of the period: reflecting the introduction and presence of Civil War monument construction in Louisiana and the role women played in the memorial period. This is an example of Art as History. The Cult of the Lost Cause continued to dominate Southern cultural history in the early twentieth century, and is still alive and well today. - National Park Service - Registry of Historic Places

Regardless of what you views are of this chapter of American history, it is woven into our fabric. You can argue is was an unjust rebellion or justifiable uprising. But what remains as a reminder of it all is not to be destroyed because some opportunist fain offense at the images of America and it's past. If we start down roads such as this, some may not like where it leads.....