Category: Hipster

Goddard Hipsters Tap Capital Punisher As Commencement Speaker

Danny and Maureen Faulkner Goddard Hipsters Tap Capital Punisher As Commencement Speaker

Danny and Maureen Faulkner at their wedding in 1979

The hipster undergrads at the Vermont campus of Goddard College have tapped murderer Mumia Abu-Jamal to be a “commencement” speaker this Sunday, Oct. 5, showing they are just fine with capital punishment providing the subject of such is one whose existence violates their sense of aesthetics.

Danny Faulkner, the Philadelphia policeman who Jamal murdered on Dec. 9, 1981 solely because he was a Philadelphia policeman doing his job, is one such whose life the hipsters hold cheap.

Jamal, of course, will not be able to appear in person so he will subject the hipster undergrads to his hipster, progressive, transgressive wisdom via a recording which we suspect will justly bore them silly.

May it last at least two hours.

Goddard is a private liberal arts college with campuses in Plainfield, Vt, Port Townsend, Wa. and Seattle, Wa.  that is designed to be an experimental and non-traditional educational institution.

It holds 20 commencement ceremonies annually to provide personalized graduation ceremonies in each degree program, according Interim President Bob Kenny.

The choice of the murderer Jamal was made by the students but is strongly supported by the administration showing that the school’s support for selective capital punishment goes all the way to the top.

“Choosing Mumia as their commencement speaker, to me, shows how this newest group of Goddard graduates expresses their freedom to engage and think radically and critically in a world that often sets up barriers to do just that,” Kenny said.

Daniel J. Faulkner was murdered two weeks before his 26th birthday. He was the youngest of seven children in an Irish Catholic family from Southwest Philadelphia.  His father, who drove a trolley car, died of a heart attack when Faulkner was five. Faulkner’s mother went to work and relied on her older children to help raise him. Faulkner dropped out of high school, but earned his diploma and an associate’s degree in criminal justice while serving in the United States Army.

After leaving the army In 1975, he  worked briefly as a corrections officer, and then joined the Philadelphia Police Department. Aspiring to be a city prosecutor, Faulkner enrolled in college to earn his bachelor’s degree in criminal justice.

He married in 1979.

His wife, Maureen, has been an outspoken defender of the truth about what happened that night and the guilt of Jamal and the cruelty of his act.

May Goddard and the soulless bastards who support it rot.

Goddard Hipsters Tap Capital Punisher As Commencement Speaker

 

 

Hipster Burn His Mouth?

Riddle me this:  Why did the hipster burn his mouth?

He drank his coffee before it was cool!

Hat tip Mary at According to Hoyt.

Why did the hipster burn his mouth?

Why did the hipster burn his mouth?

 

 

Obama Parties While World Burns

Obama Parties While World Burns

Obama parties while world burns

Riots have erupted in the environs of St. Louis after  police in the suburb of Ferguson shot and killed an unarmed black kid named Michael Brown.

Questions and even anger are appropriate but when passersby are attacked just because they can be attacked and stores are looted just because they can be looted, the matter of Mr. Brown’s death gets buried beneath more pressing matters of right and wrong.

Just about all those rioters, if they voted, voted for Barack Obama for president. It is not unreasonable to think that he can calm things down and stop the destruction of property belonging to innocent people not to mention assaults on those people

So where is he? Why he’s golfing on Martha’s Vineyard.

Bombs are falling on Iraq, Christians are being killed by Islamic progressives; unattended children are being pushed across the Mexican border; Russia is conspiring to invade Ukraine, and may have inadvertently shot down a Malaysian jetliner as part of the conspiracy; U.S. wages are down 23 percent and a deadly disease is threatening to engulf the world.

And he’s out golfing.

For two weeks.

Way to go hipsters.

 

Obama Parties While World Burns

 

 

Juiceboxers Take Media Ignorance To New Level

As bad as the bias was that permeated the institutions that supplied the news for most Americans things have taken a frightening turn for the worse.

Those who write for the sources our self-described intellectual elites favor have shown themselves to be not merely ignorant of the basics of their beats but shamelessly so.

It’s like something out of movie Idiocracy, which was made but eight years ago.

Mollie Hemingway writing for TheFederalist.Com lays things out in all their ugliness.

She notes that New York Times writer Kate Zernike had no idea who Friedrich Hayek was. (Answer: the author of “Road to Serfdom” and the Nobel Prize winner for Economic Sciences in 1974.)

She excoriates David Savage of the Los Angeles Times who wrote earlier this month about that Supreme Court decisions under Chief Justice John Roberts saying they  “rely on well-established rights, such as freedom of speech and free exercise of religion, but extend those rights for the first time to corporations, wealthy donors and conservatives.”

So people who disagree with him who he calls “conservatives” didn’t have free speech until now?

How do these idiots get hired?

Ms. Hemingway describes how Ron Fournier of Vox (a new media site that hipsters think is hip) mixed up a map showing rates of gun ownership with that of gun violence.

She  points out that fellow Voxster Matt Yglesias mocked an airline for saying that the African nation of Ghana has giraffes by tweeting out a map of Africa saying “Where giraffes live versus where Ghana is”.

She gives a special category to Yglesias who wrote about South Florida without knowing what the Everglades was.

The name “juiceboxers” has been coined for these hip young precious pumpkins who were raised to believe  that whatever they said was right as long as it parroted political and social fashion.

Let us make sure they are not the future of communication.

 

Hat tip Ed Driscoll.

 

Juiceboxers Take Media Ignorance To New Level

Juiceboxers Take Media Ignorance To New Level

 

 

 

Little Lambs Become Adult Sheep

Jimmy Kimmel a few nights ago featured in his “Lie Witness News” skit a reporter asking the hipsters attending the SXSW Festival whether they liked fictitious bands.

The festival goers not only praised the bands but provided authoritative opinions as to why the bands were good and likely to go places.

Better to be a hip fool that fits in than a self-thinking square it seems for this crowd.

There is a fair chance the interviewees were in on the joke — we really, really hope so — but just the same doesn’t the Millennial generation have any self-respect? Why be a sheep? Why tell the world you are one?

Parents, when you accept schools designed for little lambs don’t be surprised at what they are when they leave them.

Below is the skit. Hat tip Bryan Preston at PJmedia.com

SXSW stands for South by Southwest and is held in Austin, Tx.

 

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Hep C, Hipsters And Tats

Hep C, Hipsters And Tats — A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine estimated that the number of people in the United States infected with the  Hepatitis C virus is between 3.2 and 3.5 million.

The disease may go for years without  symptoms but if left untreated
producse chronic liver disease, cirrhosis, and cancer. About 85 percent
of people infected with the virus develop such things. Hep C, Hipsters And Tats

And what are the primary causes of the disease? Intravenous abuse of drugs and tattooing.

Just something to consider when making unforced lifestyle choices.

Hat tip Dr. Theodore Dalrymple.

Hep C, Hipsters And Tats

Hipster Billionaire Has $9m wedding

Sean Parker, the first president of Facebook and co-founder of Napster who has a net worth estimated at $2 billion, married his singer girlfriend and mother of his child,  Saturday at a ceremony in Big Sur, California that cost $9 million.

Landscapers spent weeks building fake waterfalls, ruins and a $600,000 stone gate. The couple and guests were garbed by Oscar-winning designer Ngila Dickson.

Wow. How many poor children could he have fed with that money? How many illegal immigrants could he have supplied with health care?

OTOH, one supposes it beats giving it to Democrats as he had been doing.

Hipster Billionaire Has $9m wedding

Hipster Billionaire Has $9m wedding

PepsiCo Beaten Women Are Funny

PepsiCo Beaten Women Are Funny — PepsiCo contracted rapper Tyler, The Creator, to make a commercial for Mountain Dew.

Oh boy, did he. It featured a  white woman with bruises on her face, a brace around her neck and leaning on a crutch trying to pick  her assailant from a police lineup that featured young black men dressed as thugs and a goat. The goat mouths gangster-type threats at her and the ad ends with her fleeing from the room while a detective sips on a Mountain Dew.

PepsiCo pulled the ad and scrubbed it from YouTube as some strangely found it offensive.

It is offensive.

Drink Coke. Heck, drink Sam’s Club or some other store brand. It beats supporting this garbage.

PepsiCo Beaten Women Are Funny

PepsiCo Beaten Women Are Funny

 

PepsiCo Beaten Women Are Funny

Jeremy Irons Gay Marriage Open Debate

Jeremy Irons Gay Marriage Open Debate — Actor Jeremy Irons mused some concerns about gay marriage that actually got to the heart of the issue, namely money.

“I mean tax-wise it’s an interesting one, because you see, could a father not marry his son?” Irons said.

Steve Colbert, who is a major source of news for Democrats and low-information types  immediately missed the point and began merciless mocking.

“So, if gay marriage is legalized in England, Jeremy Irons’ son Max, get ready to make your father the happiest man alive!” he said.

Mocking is about the only response supporters of gay marriage have. That and twisting the motivations of opponents.

Few, and nobody serious, wants to prohibit ceremonies. They are private. matters of speech and protected by the First Amendment.

The issue is the money part. For instance, if a father marries his son, as Irons noted, the son escapes paying inheritance taxes. He might even be eligible for other tax breaks, health coverage and certain survivor benefits not originally expected to go to adult children.

Now, some may — like Colbert —  say that a father marrying his son is  silly and  unfair and violates the spirit of this compassionate policy. So explain the rational as to why two unrelated men should be allowed these breaks?

With a widow whose work consisted of bearing and raising children rather than pulling in an income it should be obvious as to why she should get them but clueless and callous one-percenters — like Colbert — have the ability to insulate themselves, at least for the short term, from the consequences of the policies they push. They fail to comprehend the very good reasons why social norms and traditions developed. And except for sneers and mocking, they will be unable to provide a good answer as to why two gay men should be allowed the civil benefits bestowed upon a man and woman who have joined together for the serious and difficult job of creating the future.

Jeremy Irons Gay Marriage Open Debate

Jeremy Irons Gay Marriage Open Debate

Energy Costs Rising Says Obama

Energy Costs Rising Says Obama — In his hip Fireside Hangout on Google+ on Valentines Day, President Obama admitted that his environmental policies will rise the cost of energy,  reports Breitbart.com.

He still is expected to be able to afford his $1,000 per hour golf lessons.

 

Energy Costs Rising Says Obama