Anachronistic Daylight Savings Time

Anachronistic Daylight Savings Time

 

If you didn’t spring forward at 2 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) and re-set your clocks ahead to 3 a.m. Daylight Savings Time (DST) on March 9th since it’s the second Sunday in March, you’re already late, or early, or something.  

That is, unless you never bothered to fall back and re-set those same clocks from 2 a.m. (DST) to 1 a.m. (EST) last November 3rd since it was the first Sunday in November, in which case you’re right on schedule though you may have been early, or late, for the last four months. 

That is, unless you’re smarter than the rest of us and live in Arizona or Hawaii, states that have always stayed on God’s Own Time (GOT) and have always rejected the idea of playing the annual American Clock Silliness Game (CSG).

Got all that?

The bad news that you’re losing an hour’s DST sleep today is offset when you recover that hour come November 2 this year EST but nothing ameliorates the fact that the concept of Daylight Savings Time is an antiquated anachronism that has outlived its usefulness, if it ever had any.

Widely regarded as a twentieth century brainchild, DST was actually first suggested in 1784 by one of our Founding Fathers, Ben Franklin, as a method of conserving candles . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=36202.)

Ms. Rachel Manning, Ungrateful Teenaged Superbitch

Ms. Rachel Manning, Ungrateful Teenaged Superbitch

 

(The following is the sad tale of a spoiled American teenaged girl, out of control, obsessed with a sense of entitlement, on a slippery slope to a life that often befalls such teens.)

Pretty eighteen year old Rachel Canning’s attorney Tanya Helfand groomed her client well for her appearance in New Jersey’s Morris County Court.

Demurely decked out in her Morris Catholic High School uniform, Rachel, a cheerleader and honors student, posed as a modestly dressed, sweet young lady with barely a smidgen of makeup, subtle lipstick, and teen-requisite eye liner and eyebrow sculpting, and a butter-wouldn’t-melt-in-her-mouth look that belied her true nature as a nasty, ungrateful, vengeful bitch who is pissed that her parents refused to pay for her errant wild lifestyle–and because they regard her boyfriend as a corruptive influence.

Rachel is suing her parents, Sean and Elizabeth Canning, for ”abandoning” her, calling her “fat” and ”porky,” causing her to become bulimic, and, for good measure, for her retired police chief dad getting her drunk and kissing her inappropriately. 

Not content with those unsubstantiated slanders, previously dismissed as the complaints of  a “spoiled” child, Rachel saw fit to publicly air details of her parents’ annual income to show they were well able to afford to fund her needs after she stormed out of her comfortable home when she hit eighteen.

On the stand in New Jersey’s Morris County Family Court, Rachel whined in front of her incredulous, weeping parents, “My parents simply will not help me any longer. They want nothing to do with me and refuse to even help me financially outside the home although they certainly have the ability to do so. . . . I am unable to support myself and provide for my food, shelter, clothing, transportation and education.”

Poor baby.

Maybe if she hadn’t run away from home she’d be a more sympathetic figure.  Or, maybe if she hadn’t moved into her boyfriend’s house effectively declaring herself fully emancipated, or maybe if she didn’t subsequently relocated to the mansion of Jon Inglesino, father of her best buddy who allegedly had allowed her to get so drunk when she was a 15-year-old and who hosted alcohol-fueled parties for her and her fellow teens and is now funding her legal costs, or maybe if she hadn’t theatened to sue the teacher who got her suspended after he caught caught her drunk with some boys  outside her Homecoming Dance, . . .

Nah, forget the sympathy.  Rachel Manning deserves none . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=36168.)

The Remarkable Rise of Young Blue Eyes, Ronan Farrow

The Remarkable Rise of Young Blue Eyes, Ronan Farrow

 

His mother, Mia Farrow, says she doesn’t know whether ’ol blue eyes, Frank Sinatra, or ol’ perv eyes, Woody Allen, impregnated her and Allen thinks “he does look a lot like” Sinatra but the paternity of Satchel Ronan O’Sullivan Farrow, now Ronan Farrow, is obviously irrelevant to his bewildering rise to stardom on MSNBC.

Touted as a veritable reincarnation of Walter Cronkite after being given the “Cronkite Award for Excellence in Exploration and Journalism” after just three days on that low-rated cable network, the twenty six year old Farrow was named to Vanity Fair’s international best-dressed list in December, described as a “reluctant” television star by the New York Times, and as a “humblebrager,” a prideful individual hiding behind a self-deprecating veneer, by PopWatch.
Ronan Farrow certainly has reason to be proud and not self-deprecating. 

He sports a résumé that would be the envy of Chris Matthews or any other  MSNBC personality.

A condensed list of Farrow’s amazing achievements over the course of his 26 years: Bard College grad at 11; Yale Law School at 18; liaison and speech writer for his late mentor Richard Holbrooke; special adviser to Secetary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; UNICEF Spokesperson for Youth; active fundraiser for the United Nations; advocate for Darfuri refugees; Special Adviser for Humanitarian and Non-Governmental Affairs in the Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan; Special Adviser for Global Youth Issues; and Director of the State Department’s Office of Global Youth Issues.

On top of all that, Farrow managed to attend Oxford University for a while to study international relations on a Rhodes Scholarship and was included in New York magazine’s list of  people ”on the verge of changing their worlds” even before he could legally buy adult beverages.

(Some of the preceding was gleaned from Wikipedia so I’m not about to vouch for all it.)

Either Mr. Young Blue Eyes is the most outstanding prodigy to arrive on the world scene since Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, and Barack Obama or he’s the best-connected boy-genius in television history.

A big favorite among the Big Apple’s liberal-leftist A-list, Farrow impressed MSNBC president Phil Griffin from the get-go.  Griffin gushed, “Within 20 minutes [of meeting him] I wanted to hire him.  He’s got it.” And now Farrow’s “got it,” namely an MSNBC contract reportedly in the millions.

However, there appears to be a major chink in the gold-plated armor of Mia’s biological son. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=36141.)

Boy Scouts, Planned Parenthood, and Spike Lee's New York

Boy Scouts, Planned Parenthood, and Spike Lee's New
York

BOY SCOUTS.

When the Boy Scouts of America
shamefully caved to pressure from the homosexual lobby and agreed to accept
openly-gay applicants into its ranks and thereby abandon its century-old,
Christian moral traditions, one of the BSA’s motivations had to have been the
expectation of continued and much-needed
corporate financial support.

However, although they agreed to admit homosexual boys as scouts, the
BSA still wisely denied membership to adult homosexuals as troop leaders, camp counselors, etc. in the interests of
preserving the health and safety of their
charges.

That BSA resolution was implemented on January 1st, 2014 and, barely
two months later, the Walt Disney Company
announced it will end funding to the Boy Scouts of America as of 2015
because they stood firm on banning gay adult leaders. Disney made no
announcement of its decision to punish the Scouts for trying to protect kids and
it only became public after the president of a local Boy Scout council in
Orlando, Florida alerted local troops.

Word to the wise: Never underestimate the influence of the LGBT set
and its fellow travelers. Not content with getting the Boy Scouts to radically
change its philosophy regarding gay membership, they are now using the power
of the purse to influence the BSA into allowing known adult homosexuals to
directly interact with their predominantly-minor Scouts.

No one has yet speculated on who will pay the settlements from
lawsuits following sexual assaults committed by Jerry Sandusky
wannabes.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD.

No one should underestimate the depths to which America’s busiest
abortion provider will sink,
either.

Repeatedly caught aborting pre-born babies of underaged and imported
sex slaves as well as botching the abortions of many of its customers, the
baby-killing mills of Planned Parenthood of America are now branching out–into
teaching kids about how to “safely” engage
in sado-masochism and BDSM, and all on the taxpayers’ dimes.

For instance, Planned Parenthood of Northern New England produced a video targeting teens and promoting
sado-masochism and BDSM and suggesting techniques on how to “safely” engage
in such activities. In 2012 , that same Planned Parenthood facility was given
more than over $2.75 million in taxpayer funding and raked in even more last
year.

Their video informs gullible teens that for “National Kink Month,”
BDSM [bondage, discipline, dominance, submission, sadism, masochism] is an
“appropriate topic” they should be talking about. Hosted by National Kink Month
spokesperson Laci Green, she very questionably asserts, “People sometimes think
that those who practice BDSM are emotionally scarred or were once abused–not
true, it’s a total myth. BDSM relies upon and creates trust.”

It sounds like the effusive Ms. Green is a BDSM aficionado and has
been there/done that but for her and the PPoA to propose using a semi-graphic
video to induce children to consensually engage in such sexual behavior seems to
me to be as illegal as it is bizarre. . . . (Read more at
http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=36104.)

Inside the "Progressive" Mind of NYC's Mayor DeBlasio

Inside the "Progressive" Mind of NYC's Mayor DeBlasio

 

I was a one-time liberal, before I grew up and learned something.  I was certainly not in the same class as today’s liberal-leftists in the Democrat Party and I always (ok, usually) get a good laugh at the extremes to which the lib-left goes nowadays.

Take, for example, the new Communist-Democrat mayor of New York City, “progressive” Bill DeBlasio.

Even prior to his November election, he courageously announced he would rescue hansom carriage horses from their involuntary servitude hauling tourists around Central Park.  If implemented, DeBlasio’s rescue plan would send dozens of carriage drivers to unemployment lines and probably consign their well-tended horses to glue factories or cans of Alpo.

As with all “progressives,” the mayor regards misplaced charities as more important than the well-being of human beings.

Both pre- and post-election, De Blasio made it vividly clear that he considered the highly-effective NYPD policy of stopping, questioning, and frisking suspected criminals constituted racial profiling and was racially discriminatory.  On assuming the mayoralty, he banned the practice, ignoring the reality that stop-question-frisk mainly benefitted blacks in black neighborhoods by getting dangerous miscreants off their streets.

Liberal-leftist politicians proudly and invariably favor criminals' rights over the rights of their law-abiding constituents.

Ever-faithful to his campaign promises, last week the new resident of Gracie Mansion launched his threatened war against what are by far the best alternatives to the miserably-failing New York City’s public school system, charter schools. 

Those alternatives also happen to be the bane of De Blasio’s most avid supporters, the National Education Association and the New York State United Teachers.

DeBlasio, the NEA and the NYSUT oppose and despise charters because, by virtue of their educational achievements; those schools accent the failures of public school systems and the mayor is counting on the products of those schools to (God forbid!) reelect him in four years.

Last Thursday, De Blasio scrapped former Mayor Bloomberg’s green-lighting of two new Success Academy . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=36085.)

Is World War III Beginning in Ukraine?

Is World War III Beginning in Ukraine?

 

World War I, optimistically dubbed the “war to end all wars,” didn’t begin because Gavrilo Princip assassinated Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie by on June 28th, 1914 but because the rabble of Europe had long been embroiled in their petty and major squabbles that were resolvable had they wanted resolution; the assassinations were nothing more than the catalyst for a conflict that would have erupted sooner or later anyway due to the European penchant for warring.

World War II didn’t begin because Germany invaded Poland on September 1st, 1939 but because the Western powers had failed to enforce the Treaty of Versailles by permitting Hitler to remilitarize the Rhineland in March 1936, by failing to intervene when he annexed Austria in 1938, and by acquiesing in his seizure of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia; those failures were the direct result of the prevailing pacifism in the West which sought “peace for our time” at any cost.

The First World War led to the deaths of 37 million people, the Second to the loss of 60 million lives.  If and when it comes, World War III promises to dwarf those numbers and, like the previous conflicts, could be avoided given competent and courageous leadership on the part of the presumptive “Leader of the Free World,” America’s President Barack Hussein Obama. 

Based on his proven record of dithering hesitancy, terminal international naiveté, and questionable interest in anything aside from campaigning, fund raising, and golf, we shouldn’t expect much, and that’s exactly what we’re getting. 

Mercifully not yet a fait accompli, the opening salvos of the Third World War may already have been heard in Ukraine.

Despite Obama’s dire public warning to Russia on Friday that there would be (typically unspecified) costs for any military intervention in Ukraine, a threat that probably gave Russian President Vladimir Putin a hearty chuckle and provoked Russian lawmakers to ask for the recall of the country’s ambassador to America, nothing  changed.

Despite Obama’s 90 minute Saturday phone call to Putin vapidly expressing his ”deep concern over Russia’s clear violation of Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity” and urging Putin to de-escalate tensions by withdrawing  his invading troops back to Crimea, nothing changed.

Despite the request by the United Nations’ Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for “an immediate restoration of calm and direct dialogue between all concerned to solve the current crisis” in Ukraine and his vow to call Putin to express his “grave” concerns, nothing changed.

Well, “nothing changed” isn’t quite correct.  

Changes have occurred, none of them good and all of them the consequences of our weak and disrespected president. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=36065.)

Oscar Hypocrisy

Oscar Hypocrisy

Some 40 million people are expected to tune in Sunday night to watch the 86th annual AcademyAwards when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences pats itself on the back for jobs well done and confers Oscars on those actors, actresses, directors, etc. who best reflect excellence in the film industry–and who are deemed most politically correct in conforming to Hollywood’s liberal-leftist standards of achievement.

True, there are rare exceptions to that unwritten rule, when the almost 6,000 Academy voting members are beset by nagging guilt over their biased choices and toss a bone to a conservative.  That conscience attack occurred in 1970 when they awarded Republican conservative John Wayne the Oscar for Best Actor in “True Grit.”

More probably, they were rewarding Wayne for being a liberal during his misguided younger days.

However, almost always, they reserve their top honors for those who obediently march in their political lock step and this year there will be no exceptions to the Academy’s cardinal PC rule.

Don’t expect writer-director Peter Berg or actor Mark Wahlberg to walk to the stage at L.A.’s Dolby Theater to accept an award for “Lone Survivor” anymore than Mel Gibson was recognized by the movie industry for his 2004 “Passion of the Christ. 

You see, Hollywood-types despise war movies that depict incredibly courageous American soldiers who sacrifice their lives out of a sense of national honor as much as they can’t stand religious movies even if they are accorded multiple other awards, attract record audiences, and earn over $600,000,000. 

Comically, . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=36050.)