Uncommon Commentary #493: UC #159 Follow-Up

During Obama’s first term as US president, when undercover, independent filmmakers exposed multiple ACORN (Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now!) offices as being willing to help establish a business importing underage girls from El Salvador for the purpose of prostitution (see Stingers VersusStinkers), the US Senate voted 83-7 to deny the ACORN its customary federal housing-money, which would have amounted to over 1.6 million dollars.  That even seven members of what some call “the world’s greatest deliberative body” voted to preserve such funding was disgraceful, but at least the cutoff passed promptly and overwhelmingly.  This past year, an undercover, independent filmmaker exposed multiple Planned Parenthood offices as conducting a side business in the sale of whole and partial corpses.  Trafficking in cadavers and parts thereof is not the same as trafficking in living human beings, but Planned Parenthood’s ghastly harvesting has been condemned about as widely as was the ACORN’s scandalous behavior, and so: Why is the parallel between the story of the ACORN and that of PP incomplete?  Why, when the US Senate belatedly passed a bill to defund Planned Parenthood, did the measure receive only 52 votes (in a chamber that counts 54 Republicans!), far below the 67 needed to override a presidential veto?  How can the moral standards of any country, even one subjected to the influence of Emperor Nerobama and to that of our odious popular culture, be falling so rapidly as ours are?

Uncommon Commentary #492: “We Need More Time! You Can’t Ruin a Country in Only Two Terms!”

Whomever the Democratic Party nominates to be the next US president ought to use the following campaign slogan: “As if eight years of Obama weren’t bad enough, let’s elect another Democrat to the Oval Office!”

Uncommon Commentary #491: It’s Good that Her Parents Didn’t Name Her for His Sherpa Guide, Tenzing Norgay

I have made occasional reference here at the Doman Domain to the fact that Hillary [sic] Clinton is a liar, and also to the fact that she has a reputation for high intelligence despite misspelling her own first name, which correctly has just one “l”.  I’ve always made the latter reference facetiously, but our non-candid candidate seems to have concern over the issue, for she recently asserted that she was named for the mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary—even though she was already six years old when that Hillary became famous by climbing Mount Everest.  If all her falsehoods should ever manifest physically and be heaped together, they would form a mountain that not even Sir Edmund could scale!

Uncommon Commentary #490: Whether to Vote Against Dunghillary Is Not One of the Hard Choices

According to Judicial Watch, State Department personnel who held concerns about inaccuracy and disclosure of classified information in Hard Choices made an effort to have draught copies destroyed.  If only they’d destroyed the final version!

Uncommon Commentary #489: A Right to Riot?

If in no other respect, 2015 has been a good year for persons who seek to abuse the principle of freedom of speech (or, as it is sometimes stated, “expression”; see below).  In April, Baltimore Mayoress Stephanie Rawlings-Blake made the following remarkable remark: “I worked with the police and I instructed them to do everything that they could to ensure that the protesters could exercise their right to free speech.  It is a very delicate balancing act because while we tried to make sure that they were protected from the cars and the other things that were going on, we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that as well.” (“Rawlings-Blake”—I don’t know the reason for the two surnames; perhaps she considers herself to be too important to have just one—has subsequently asserted that she didn’t mean what she might have seemed to be saying, and that her words were taken out of context, but a senior law-enforcement source confirmed that the hyphenated official gave an order for police to desist from performing their duty to protect the law-abiding as riots, arson, and looting erupted.) And Oklahoma City has given Satanist Adam Daniels a permit to, on this Christmas Eve, pour stage blood, treated with sulfur powder and ash, over a statue of the Virgin Mary that stands before St. Joseph Old Cathedral.
Courts have ruled that expression can, at least in some cases, be considered an equivalent of speech; if someone wanted to, for example, create a painting with a political message (such as, in my judgment, the depiction of the burning of a flag [v.i.]), it would be his prerogative to do so.  A painting, however, is a product of creative rather than destructive expression; positing a constitutional or human right to lay waste to a neighborhood, or to commit public desecration (presumably on private property), or to put a torch to a flag, is like arguing that one has the right to slash a painting by someone else.
Lastly: If violating someone else’s rights indeed is subsumed under free speech, I propose that Christians in Oklahoma City pour stage blood, treated with sulfur powder and ash, over Adam Daniels!

Uncommon Commentary #488: Don’t Monkey Around with Human Nature

I recently learned of a scientific study in which captive vervet monkeys were allowed to play with toys of their own choice; according to the television program that was the source of this information, it was found that “Just like human children, male vervet monkeys prefer toy cars and balls, while females prefer dolls and cooking-pots.  Most scientists believe that male primates [v.i.] are genetically programmed to play in a way that helps them to develop hunting-and-gathering skills; females are more likely to choose toys that teach them about child care.”  Since we of the species Homo sapiens are also primates, do not the results of this experiment further discredit those brownskirts (see the list of domanisms, below) who deny that there are psychological differences between men and women?

Uncommon Commentary #487: Never Call Out to a Female Sibling “It’s I, Sis!”

The ISIS claimed responsibility for the terrorist atrocity in Paris, and it has been confirmed that Tashfeen Malik, of San-Bernardino-attack infamy, pledged loyalty to that same group.  It’s been said that “What happens in France happens here 10 years later” (see UC#59), but, sometimes, we don’t have to wait even that long.