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June 2, 2016

Cambridge, MA High School Students Recognize Difference Between Perception and Reality









“In Cambridge, there’s a difference between perception and reality,” [student Gregorio Leon] said. “There’s this perception of being an ultra-liberal utopia, which can often lead to a lack of questioning about who we really are. That complacency is very dangerous, and good to challenge.” is an accurate observation not limited to CRLS. 



Tell that to $37 billion endowed Harvard University, local, state and US governments which abuse taxpayers and voters. 



One Cambridge gentleman was described as a retired drug dealer for 35 years by the FBI as part of covering up serious criminal government abuses, while others described the same gentleman as homeless and crazy. Police and politicians joined in bullying a vulnerable person. This works in many areas.

http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20160602/NEWS/160609476/?Start=1

'Our Truths' student production highlights issues facing Cambridge teens
By Natalie Handy
nhandy (at) wickedlocal.com
Posted Jun. 2, 2016 at 10:42 AM
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle

April 12, 2016

Multiculturalism in Thought and Practice, Theory and Reality




[From article]
Once upon a time there were people who naively fantasized about how all the incompatible cultures of the world were going to magically blend, weaving a beautiful tapestry of colors and variations. They called this “Multiculturalism”. Increasingly, the tapestry is made up of glass shards and human remains. At what point do we begin to tally the lives ruined or taken by members of all the “guest” cultures from members of all the host cultures? Pretty soon, I hope, since that seems to be a recurring element of multiculturalism. Wherever you see one, you see the other.
Cultures are either consciously abandoned, or consciously enforced. The theory of multiculturalism has always been a tonic for simpletons, since it celebrates the perpetuation and imposition of an incompatible culture, still being practiced by those who carry it, upon a host culture with which it is mutually exclusive. Multiculturalism is entirely subversive. It is intended to force one or more cultures upon the hosts who do not want or need them. Since both cultures cannot successfully coexist within the host, which has its own successful working culture, the purpose of the exercise has always been fraudulent. The “melting pot” concept worked not because of the concept of multiculturalism, but as testament against it. Those who came here in our parents’ and grandparents’ generation consciously chose to abandon the cultures they left in favor of the American culture. They became Americans, embracing one culture.



If one was being less generous than to call multiculturalism a tonic for simpletons, it would be more accurate to say that modern leftist multiculturalism is actually a weapon. Its purpose is not to enhance the host, but to consume it. If the host’s culture is peaceful, it has no use for malcontents who insist upon the dominance of their native culture.
[. . .]
Europe is being forced to account for its misguided multiculturalism on a grand scale, as it is being invaded and conquered voluntarily by the proponents and carriers of multiculturalism. Belgium, which prides itself on its diversity and multiculturalism, has been duly thanked this week by those it welcomed and upon whom it gifted its liberties and freedoms. France has also recently been thanked. So too has been the UK, Germany, Sweden, and all the rest, as their own cultures are being swept aside to accommodate those who intend to assassinate the culture, rather than assimilate.
Increasingly, among the practitioners of aggressive multiculturalism, their gratitude is often measured in lives destroyed and the quantity of blood spilled to overwhelm the host. It is measured in rapes, and violent crimes, and pedophilia, and human trafficking, and all of the niceties of the guest cultures that have been blindly welcomed or ignored by the host, whose tolerance was only exceeded by its stupidity.



Indeed, Americans have been thanked and continue to be thanked by all sorts of carriers of multiculturalism. The open southern border, an instrument of forced multiculturalism, has brought us gangs, and criminals, and drugs, and murderers, and cartels, all of which are simply part of the cultures of the countries from which their carriers traveled to enrich us with their superiority. The left so values these contributions, including the senseless murders of Americans by repeat offenders who prey on American citizens with the tacit permission of our government, that they proudly tout their “sanctuary cities”, which aid and abet the predators, while sacrificing the prey in the name of tolerance and smug superiority.
We have been similarly thanked by radical Islamists, who have bombed us, shot us, and terrorized us for not surrendering to their culture, with all the superiority that comes with honor killings, female mutilation, subjugation of women, beheadings, throwing gays from rooftops, genocide and hatred of everyone and everything that is incompatible with their culture. Our government so approves of this that it facilitates the “migration”/importation of even more carriers of such culture in the form of Syrian Muslim immigrants whom it cannot vet, many of whom travel on forged visas created by ISIS to permit them to enter target countries undeterred.
Even among Americans, who are free and have unlimited opportunities available to them, we are beginning to understand the extent of the anti-American subcultures that have arisen, and are working just as diligently to defeat us. There is within our own borders a rising culture of anti-Constitutional, anti-American aggression and fascism, perpetrated upon Americans by other Americans who are so assured of their own moral and intellectual superiority that they have no need of laws that constrain their dominance over their fellow citizens. They are smarter and better than the rest of us, because they say so.



At the same time, we have a cultural movement embodied by innumerable young adults, trained to be perpetual crybabies and losers, convinced of their entitlement to steal the property and money of others, whom they mindlessly hate for successes that they cannot fathom, animated by puppeteers who themselves are paragons of failure. They think nothing of employing violence against those whom they have never met and do not know, but hate entirely.
Make no mistake. The anti-American subculture growing in the United States is surprisingly deeply rooted and has even more potential to destroy this country than anything the left can import. They are carriers of their pathology, and they use our politics and media to infect. Like the other corrosive cultures, theirs celebrates lawlessness, injustice, and violence because they advance the goals of fear and intimidation. The extent of violence is the only remaining question mark, since most anti-American culturalists have not yet engaged in open homicide of their ideological enemies. The obvious exception is the Black Lives Matter subculture, which long ago jumped over that line and was rewarded by their allies with publicity and fake credibility.
Will relative restraint continue if a candidate is nominated for president who recognizes the cancer that the anti-American culturalists represent to our national survival? Don’t count on it. These are the ideological children of Bill Ayers. We will transition from a war of words to the inevitable war of violence, because they will start it to survive, confident they won’t be blamed. Watch what happens this summer in Cleveland, by which time it will have begun, and how it is covered. Either we win, or they do, but our cultures are mutually exclusive.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/03/the_fruits_of_multiculturalism_abroad_and_at_home.html

March 26, 2016
The Fruits of Multiculturalism, Abroad and at Home
By Jeffrey T. Brown

December 22, 2015

Inability To Recognize Reality Can be Dangerous




[From article]
To me, terrorism is a form of revolution, the killing of innocents by self-righteous fools. Do you think that the rabble who chopped off Marie Antoinette's head were productive, gentle people?
Juan Williams on Fox News said that he was afraid of Muslims on a plane, and he lost his job at PBS. It's a joke that PBS would fire liberal Juan. Juan is so liberal that a Muslim would hate him for his extreme licentiousness.
[. . .]



How can Muslims respect a president who wears mom jeans and encourages gay marriage and gay soldiers?
[. . .]
After everyone has called the slaughter in San Bernardino terrorism, he is still stumbling on about workplace violence.
He should stop his cowardly words. I am sixty-eight years old, and he'd probably last about ten seconds with me in the ring.



Obama has turned the world upside-down. He meant well. Or he didn't mean well and pretended that he meant well. Oh, well. He has failed as our commander and chief and our president.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/12/thinking_about_muslims_on_the_subway.html

December 15, 2015
Thinking about Muslims on the subway
By David Lawrence

June 19, 2015

Trump Makes Business While Politicians Flounder




[From article]
our resident elites resolutely refuse to take Trump seriously.
They should. Not because he will be nominated, but because the Trump constituency will represent a vote of no confidence in the Beltway ruling class of politicians and press.
Votes for Trump will be votes to repudiate that class, whole and entire, and dump it onto the ash heap of history.
[. . .]
A vote for Trump is a vote to say that both parties have failed America and none of the current crop of candidates offers real hope of a better future.
The first book in Arthur Schlesinger’s trilogy about FDR’s ascent to power was “The Crisis of the Old Order.” That title is relevant to our time. For there is today a crisis of the regime in America — a crisis of confidence, a crisis of competence, a crisis of legitimacy.
[. . .]
Trump says America is becoming a “dumping ground” for mass immigration from the failed states of the Third World, that Mexico is not “sending us her best and finest,” that China is stealing American jobs, that invading Iraq was a blunder.
Politically incorrect and socially insensitive certainly, but is he entirely wrong?
[. . .]
Do Americans not have the right to decide who shall come to our country, how many, and whence they shall come?
[. . .]
As in America, dominant parties like the Tories and Labour in Britain are losing loyalists to the “a-plague-on-both-your-houses” dissident parties.
[. . .]
If Trump wants to stake his claim as a different kind of Republican, he will go to Washington and pound the Boehner-McConnell Congress until it gives up on Obamatrade and fast track.

http://buchanan.org/blog/the-anti-politician-16164

The Anti-Politician
Friday - June 19, 2015 at 12:09 am
By Patrick J. Buchanan

May 14, 2015

Some Suffering Is Greater Than Others?




[From article]
It can be exhausting trying to bring white people up to a basic racial literacy.
Many don’t even know what they don’t know about privilege and history, and often either don’t take responsibility for their own education or expect you to educate them.
And I wish there were a racial primer out there somewhere — mandatory reading — with five or 10 basic facts about housing, education, criminal justice and employment.
[. . .]
I’m an extrovert. I genuinely love people and since we share this country, my instinct is always to try to understand. So let me say this: For everybody who recalls the hard work and sacrifice of their parents or grandparents, and all the ways they’ve had to struggle to make their way in this world, I hear you. I do not doubt the heart and authenticity of those success narratives. I just ask that you also understand those narratives simply do not hold true for huge swaths of your fellow Americans.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/lonnae-oneal-a-lot-of-white-folks-could-use-a-racial-primer/2015/05/08/440657fe-f4bb-11e4-b2f3-af5479e6bbdd_story.html

Lonnae O’Neal: A lot of white folks could use a racial primer
By Lonnae O'Neal
Columnist
May 10, 2015

March 8, 2015

Can't Fool Mother Nature




[From article]
Why not free insurance for all Americans? Does that include undocumented Americans? And… who will pay for it? The government, you say. But, aren’t WE the government, ask We The People?
[. . .]
The primary purpose of healthcare reform, per multiple statements by President Obama in 2009, was to “bend down the spending curve” for U.S. healthcare. So, how does committing our nation to $2.6 trillion of new spending accomplish that goal?
Do the first grade math. Two million newly insured at a cost of $2.6 trillion equals $1,300,000 per person! How does that qualify as “Affordable” health care?
[. . .]
In fact, ACA takes money for Medicare services to pay for federal bureaucracy. It also takes large chunks of money out of your wallet, without you knowing: seventeen new-but-hidden taxes or increased ones already in force.
[. . .]
Current estimates range from as low as 350,000 lost jobs to as many as 2.6 million “able-bodied adults [who will] drop out of the labor force.” How is this a “smashing success” or something to be “appreciated”?
[. . .]
Even as CoveredCalifornia (The Golden State’s ACA Health Exchange) signed up 1.3 million new Medicaid enrollees, California doctors, or at least 70 percent of them, said they could not afford to care for ACA-insured patients. Reimbursements were below their cost of staying in business. So, more insured persons and fewer doctors to care for them. Sounds like the average person will experience what our veterans are used to at VA Hospitals.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/03/reality_always_wins.html

March 4, 2015
Reality Always Wins
By Deane Waldman

December 7, 2014

Progressives Argue In The Name Of Good, With No Details




[From article] Progressiv When so much of progressive argument consists of scrappy anecdotes or soaring rhetoric, it isn’t cynicism to inquire where all this forward-thinking is actually going.
[. . .]
For New York City’s progressives, however, it’s the thought that counts. All sins of logic or arithmetic—whether in the realms of children’s laundry or $50 million luxury apartment sales—are covered by the appeal to reducing inequality.

http://www.city-journal.org/2014/eon1205sb.html

SETH BARRON
In the Name of Progress
New York City progressives like rhetoric, not details.
5 December
 2014

November 29, 2014

American Dream Is Just That, A Dream




[From article]
Gregory Clark is sharing his research as a hard truth with no hope—whether or not you can get ahead in America is as predictable as any formula.
In fact, he says, the formulas for social mobility in the United States show there’s nothing to dream about.
“America has no higher rate of social mobility than medieval England, Or pre-industrial Sweden,” he said. “That’s the most difficult part of talking about social mobility is because it is shattering people s dreams.”
[.  . .]
“My students always argue with me, but I think the thing they find very hard to accept, is the idea that much of their lives can be predicted from their lineage and their ancestry,” he said.
Stuck in a social status is no American Dream—Clark says it’s the American reality.
“The good news is that this is coming from an economist, because economists are used to being unpopular, and so we are the right people to bear this message that the world is a limiting place,” he said.
There’s one caveat to the study, and that is for any one of us, there is always an exception to the rule.
Clarks’ study was published by the Council on Foreign Relations.


http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2014/11/26/uc-davis-economics-professor-there-is-no-american-dream/

UC Davis Economics Professor: There Is No American Dream
November 26, 2014 11:44 PM
Steve Large
CBS News Sacramento CA

February 8, 2014

Reality Is What I say It Is, Nothing More


[From article]
Barack Obama, the first president shaped by the celebratory culture in which every child who plays soccer gets a trophy and the first whose campaign speeches were his qualification for the office, perhaps should not be blamed for thinking that saying things is tantamount to accomplishing things, and that good intentions are good deeds. So, his presidency is useful after all, because it illustrates the perils of government run by believers in magic words and numbers.
[. . .]
Many of the words and numbers bandied by Obama and his administration may reflect an honest belief that the world is whatever well-intentioned people like them say about it. So, Obama’s critics should reconsider their assumption that he is cynical. It is his sincerity that is scary.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-president-obamas-magic-words-and-numbers/2014/02/07/220fbc04-8f76-11e3-84e1-27626c5ef5fb_story.html

President Obama’s magic words and numbers
By George F. Will
Published: February 7

November 4, 2013

Americans Cannot Distinguish Virtual, From Real World



[From article]
We can communicate information at the speed of light but have trouble finding anything meaningful to send back and forth.
[. . .]
the critical moments of the mission to kill Osama bin Laden. The president apparently was not glued to live video feeds, as the photos from his re-election campaign suggested.
"Most people were like down in the Situation Room," Love said, "and [the president] was like, 'I'm not going to be down there, I can't watch this entire thing.' So he, myself, Pete Souza, the White House photographer, Marvin [Nicholson], we must have played 15 games of spades."
The commander in chief was playing cards while Navy Seals risked their lives to kill America's No. 1 enemy -- only later to use photos of himself watching live feeds for his re-election sloganeering: "bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!"
That pretense sums up the growing void between real and trivial America.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0813/hanson082213.php3#.UlERnt00i6Y

Jewish World Review
August 22, 2013/ 16 Elul, 5773
Two Americas
By Victor Davis Hanson

October 29, 2013

World View Gap Widens Among Americans


If people saw themselves as Americans instead of political Americans, would these findings change? Hello? How many polls are meaningless? What geniuses make up the questions? This poll conducted treating Americans as members of a collective, not as individuals. It is one more effort dividing Americans against each other assisting the KGB's main mission in America. It is not as if they need any more help. From the President down through the federal, state and local bureaucracies, Democrats are relentless dividing Americans by race, class, age, gender, sexual preference, and citizenship status. Destroying individualism and individual rights is almost complete. 

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/10/polll-finds-vast-gaps-in-basic-views-on-gender-race-religion-and-politics/

Poll Finds Vast Gaps in Basic Views on Gender, Race, Religion and Politics
By Gary Langer
Oct 28, 2013 7:00pm

November 5, 2012

Aftermath of Storm, Worse Than Media Reports

[From article]
“It’s so bad here, a lot worse than how its being portrayed by the
media. They are finding bodies left and right, elderly people who
don’t even watch the news or who knew the storm was coming. I was just
with one of my best friends from high school and college, and his
house is completely gone. One story I heard was about this one guy who
evacuated his house during Hurricane Irene but then it got looted. So
when they told him to evacuate for Sandy, he said, ‘I’m not leaving.’
Now they can’t find him, his 13-year-old daughter is dead, and his
wife is in critical condition at the hospital.


http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/11/02/sons-of-anarchy-irene-staten-island/

'Sons of Anarchy' star: Storm aftermath 'a lot worse than how it's
being portrayed by media'
by Lynette Rice
NOV 2, 2012
01:03 PM ET

November 18, 2011

Politicians Ignore Reality

[From article]
"It is hard to understand politics if you are hung up on reality. Politicians leave reality to others. What matters in politics is what you can get the voters to believe, whether it bears any resemblance to reality or not.
[. . .]
Politicians can solve almost any problem -- usually by creating a bigger problem. But, so long as the voters are aware of the problem that the politicians have solved, and unaware of the bigger problems they have created, political "solutions" are a political success."

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell101811.php3

Jewish World Review
Oct 18, 2011 / 20 Tishrei, 5772
Random thoughts
By Thomas Sowell

February 24, 2010

Obama and Reality

[From article]

"While he's at it, Obama should go right ahead and outlaw unemployment. Then he could make foreclosures illegal. That would fix all our problems.

Heck, if any problems remain in health care after he has jammed his bill through Congress before his co-conspirators get run out of town, Obama could just make sickness illegal.

Maybe he could outlaw death."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/prez_newest_idea_simply_outlaw_reality_A9lsWAXwaEQj2UheOJojIK

Prez's newest idea: Simply outlaw reality

New York Post

Last Updated: 4:02 PM, February 23, 2010

Posted: 2:51 AM, February 23, 2010

headshotCharles Hurt

February 22, 2010

Harvard and Culture Wars

"'Culture war' isn't a term we hear that often anymore [. . .]
But the concept (first coined by professor James Davison Hunter) still best explains where we are today in US politics -- [. . .]
Cultural power, explains Hunter, is the power to 'name reality.' Culture is mostly created in urban centers and spread to the periphery. E.g.: Harvard Law School decides that gay marriage is a basic human right, which spreads through judges until it runs smack up into the one source of cultural power in America that isn't controlled by urban centers -- the American people."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/why_everyone_sick_of_washington_zK7Fi4jtFoYY5VYYt6CCHJ

Why everyone's sick of Washington
By MAGGIE GALLAGHER
New York Post
Last Updated: 4:16 AM, February 17, 2010
Posted: 1:17 AM, February 17, 2010