Things are a tad more complicated this time, with several reports of racist graffiti, vandalism and personal insults based upon race apparently targeted at black and Asian students.
Of course this is all wrong. I would use a better word, reprehensible, but particularly ignorant members of a certain class of word police would suspect I'm just hiding the word, prehensile in there somewhere and then sparks would fly. You can't be too careful these days 'cause the word police, like dung beetles, believe they have a job to do and they're fanatical about it as they chew American culture to pieces, bit by bit.
Semantics seem to experience a very difficult time at Syracuse U. Chancellor Kent Syverud and various student protestors decry "hate speech," whose horrors or violations I am astounded to find are listed nowhere in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Nevertheless, we also behold allegations of "hate crimes," which in my day, an older day to be sure, were merely called crimes and adjudicated accordingly without extra displays of pomp and circumstance or with assumptions of one victim becoming more important than another victim under our supposed system of equality under the law. Life never should have become so complicated.
As racist comments and vandalism fell over the Syracuse University campus, "stranger things" began to happen, especially the formation of a gaggle of students not only incensed about racism, but also self-encouraged to formulate a list of demands. A list of demands?
Among these demands was a threat to the very job of Chancellor Syverud, and this is where I part company and sympathy with actions taken by college administrations. Time and again across the country, it appears, when campus situations become heated, almost invariably groups of agenda-based students insist upon firing the person at the top -- in this case, Mr. Syverud. Then, it sometimes occurs, if the top -- gasp! white -- person exits, a miraculous event occurs and the new replacement is a person of color.
I'm going to go a tad pseudo-racist here and suggest that the progressive rot devouring colleges and universities all over the nation has a very well laid-out agenda, and as I see every day by watching emerging news regarding goings-on in such institutions, there exists an increasingly hostile and just plain insane hatred and lessening of white people by those of other colors and races. Just check out my two college-related links in the margin to experience the hell we're in.
This is not something I would have dared even think, were it not for eight years of a supreme race-baiting president and his race-baiting buddies, and I do indeed speak of President Obama and his bevy of accomplices who certainly did nothing to bring people together as the United States was weakened in so many ways. I always looked forward to the country's first black president. He, sadly, was not the one.
And before I'm attacked from various sides denouncing me as an old white racist, I remind one and all that I served in Air Force hospitals during the Vietnam years and helped care for thousands of all races of everybody -- and my first supervisor at the Air Force's fifth largest hospital was a black man who wrote glowing performance reports for me (I kept and cherish them).
Frankly, despite the efforts of Chancellor Syverud, were I he I would not back down and speak so lovingly toward juvenile protestors who haven't lived long enough or accomplished enough to even deserve to present a list of "demands" to anybody. It wasn't Syverud who posted racist graffiti -- but you'd think he did, the way these fools carry on like childish brats. They need to let the police system work and in the meantime get an education and shut up unless they have more constructive things to "demand" than one more firing of a university president so they can work to replace him with -- whom exactly, and through what process?
Meanwhile, everybody plays the old schoolhouse game, blame everybody for the actions of one or a few. Syracuse U. has now instituted mandatory "healthy masculinity training" for all campus fraternity members. What? Huh? Who came up with this? What freaking group of man-hating morons? This is almost -- almost -- as crazy as a $50,000 reward put out there by some anonymous "benefactor" for the identification of whomever is/are promoting racism on campus. Fifty K?!! Wow, wouldn't that be better placed in the hands of a student toward his or her university expenses, already absurd and due to increase in order to continue feeding crazed bastions of progressive faculty thought?
Then, as if the situation weren't hot enough, there comes New York's governor, Andrew Cuomo, who just couldn't resist stepping in to pounce on the chancellor over his handling of the race issue. Cuomo, he of undeniable White Privilege, strangely, governs far away from Upstate or Central NY, leaving declining roads, highways and infrastructure to fend for themselves -- yet, put out a hot plate of nice, steaming race controversy and this one smells it in Albany, immediately addressing the subject as every minority's best Democrat friend, even suggesting that the university board replace Syverud.
Pardon my frankness, but there are some megalomaniac folk of the elite political class whose time has come to just shut the hell up and let local officials deal with certain matters. Like this one.
We fear that Chancellor Syverud and S.U. board members will kowtow to the usual forces which tend to erupt and overtake campuses these days, forces at least as frightening as contemporary racist activities -- and if he actually packs his suitcase and waves a hanky full of tears as he departs dear old Syracuse as a just-so replacement is sought, don't say we didn't warn, as we often do, beware, beware, beware.
In other news. . .
Colin Kaepernick: Don't give a damn today any more than I did yesterday. Betsy Ross' work probably didn't belong on a shoe, anyway.
President Trump pardons military members: Good. It's long been my opinion that the military is pretty heavy with the lawyer class, and from what I've heard of soldiers' family members and others representing them, military officer egos of the attorney variety searching for higher personal ground and rank sometimes neglect to do their jobs effectively.
Besides, if Obama pardoned Chelsea Manning from prison (!!!!!!!), I'm not sure how one can criticize Trump for his actions here.
Pete Buttigieg's quest for the presidency: Okay, but America is not ready for, um, who -- The First Gentleman? Mr. First Gentleman? Mr. First Lady? Yikes. Well, I think you can see the problem -- other than all the other far lefty disaster issues Mayor Pete would happily tow along with him to the White House. Not happening, sorry.
Pope Francis wants to proclaim an 11th Commandment regarding care for the environment. First, I don't think Moses would want him to take up that much of the biblical spotlight, though I could be wrong. Further, eleven just isn't a very appealing number to most people, and thinking back to old Dennis the Menace comic books, I believe this cartoon child was fond of voicing the numeral, "eleventeen." The Eleventeenth Commandment might sound right, but a naked eleven? I don't think so. No wonder my father couldn't wait to escape Catholic school as a kid.
The New New New Wall: Oh, this IS fascinating. For a billion dollars engineers believe they can build Trump's border wall with Terra Block (?). Easy to move, easy to install by the Army Corps of Engineers and others, as near-foolproof as one can currently imagine and ready to do the job. Funny how a billion dollars seem like chicken feed, though even chicken feed isn't cheap off the shelf anymore, either.
Lt. Col. Vindman in Washington: I've no quarrels with his exemplary military record. But his name reminds me of old Universal Studios horror movies from the thirties and forties where Bela Lugosi would threaten people with names similar to his: For instance (think of Lugosi's accent), "Vindman, you will not escape me!". . ."Vindman, you have betrayed me with the local sheriff and I will have my revenge!". . .Vindman, I'm warning you, stay away from that tub of acid!" Perfection.
End of the Democrat Party? Shed the lunatics and sham-seekers, and they might have a framework from which to rebuild. As the party currently exists, the approach equals re-education camps, loudspeakers and megaphones, all courtesy of the complicit mainstream media. If Pelosi and Schiff aren't arrested for sedition -- and they won't be -- crumbling walls of decaying politics will continue to fall in the meantime.
Except. . .Oh oh. Deval Patrick, Obama buddy, jumping into the prez race while others divert their attention to burying Trump? Oh oh. Oh oh.
The Fed: Bless 'em, they just keep on printing billions in phony money to feed the banks and keep stock marketers happy. At least we'll have plenty of paper cash to land softly upon, should the descent begin. Me, I'm going back to bed.
