Happy Graduation Debtors!

More than one hundred colleges and universities are holding unofficial graduation ceremonies this week for LGBT students. They are calling it their "Lavender Graduation."

Those identifying as intersex, queer, or allies are also welcome. The purpose of the ceremony is to "acknowledge their achievements and contributions to the University." Their main contribution has been financing the diversicrats.

The ceremony was started by Dr. Ronni Sanlo, a Jewish Lesbian (the source material capitalized the word, "lesbian"). She was "denied the opportunity to attend the graduations of her biological children because of her sexual orientation." That sounds made up. Did they post a guard at the high school to keep her out?

Wikipedia says that she came out as lesbian, and divorced her husband. Then Anita Bryant had a Dade County anti-discrimination ordinance overturned. The ordinance banned discrimination in areas of housing, employment, and public accommodation based on sexual orientation. It is never explained exactly what role this development played in her losing custody of her kids.

Anyway, the color lavender is very important to homosexuals. "It is a combination of the pink triangle that gay men were forced to wear in concentration camps and the black triangle designating lesbians as political prisoners in Nazi Germany," according to Human Rights Campaign.

A symbol meant to segregate and single out persons is the symbol they choose to represent their desire to integrate fully into society? And what is it with all the Nazi imagery? Something about Nazis must really give faggots the tingles.

San Diego State is hosting their own Lavender Graduation next week. The flyer states that "attire is open to graduate’s discretion." Homosexuals displaying discretion over their attire would be something new. How great it must be to be a student today. The temptation to show up as dressed as a Nazi would be very high.

There are so many different fields of study today, too! San Diego State now offers a major in LGBT Studies. The fact that this course of study even exists is a market signal that the higher education bubble is ready to pop.

The page for the LGBT Studies Department claims that a major or minor in LGBT Studies prepares students for a large variety of careers." Bullshit. A major in LGBT Studies only prepares a student to become an LGBT professor or professional activist.

There is a market for people with "expertise in diversity," because corporations are being pressured to demonstrate a certain level of deviant inclusion. But this is a parasitical activity, not a productive one. Advising the HR Department at a tech firm to hire a black lesbian coder only insures that you and the coder will be the first to go in a downturn.

Hillary Nags, Donald Negs

My pet electoral theory is that the candidate considered more virile invariably wins. We pick our elected officials in much the same way we buy a new car. When we go to buy a car, we usually know what make and model we want. We appreciate a salesman who assumes the sale is his, though he doesn't show it.

It gets a little trickier to predict outcomes when you have a female candidate. The energy that is produced by a confident male does have an analogue with women. But I think much of our processing is done at a subconscious level.

It seems fairly certain that our Presidential electoral match-up is going to be Trump vs. Clinton. Hillary's people will profess a preference to going against Trump. They think they have the female vote in the bag.

Maybe they do, and maybe they don't.

Clinton's team will talk about Trump's "misogyny." He has made derogatory comments about Rosie O'Donnell, Megyn Kelly, and Carly Fiorina, for starters. He said that Hillary got, "schlonged" by Obama in 2008. He commented about his "endowment." All of these things should turn women away from him, right?

What if Trump is actually using "game?"

Perhaps Donald Trump is unconsciously "negging" female voters. Negging is using backhanded compliments or insults to undermine someone's confidence. In theory, the person will attempt to overcome this insult by proving themselves worthy.

Donald Trump's polling is very negative with women. This is always framed as Donald's "women problem." But Hillary's poll numbers with men are just as bad. This is never framed as Hillary's "men problem."

What's more likely, Donald recovering with women, or Hillary recovering with men?

Hillary's virility is wrapped up in her bitchiness, and men will never get around that. It's the elemental fear of mother. But Donald's virility is linked to his business success, and his ability to attract high-status women. Like Melania, who represents an archetype of the way women see themselves, smart, and beautiful.

Women will come around to Donald Trump because something is clearly amiss with today's woman. Everybody knows it but them.

Climate Jesus

When I heard that Prince had died the other day, my first thought was, "why would God take such a gifted soul and not Leonardo DiCaprio?"

God must have other plans for Leo. Among them, speaking at the United Nations as their Messenger of Peace.

His full title is Messenger of Peace with a special focus on climate change. In other words, Leo is Climate Jesus.

DiCaprio evoked slavery and President Lincoln in his address to the U.N.

"President Abraham Lincoln was also thinking of bold action 150 years ago when he said: 'The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present, as our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves and then we shall save our country.'"

Therefore, denying climate change is literally like supporting slavery. DiCaprio should know what he's talking about, because he played a racist slave -owner in a movie once.

Why compare climate skepticism to an endorsement of slavery? Why not compare it to the Nazis? Climate skeptics are literally Hitler has such a nice resonance.

You can probably understand why DiCaprio used the Lincoln reference. Climate alarmists these days want to use the power of the state to punish anyone who commits wrongthink. Expressing a belief that humans are not causing global warming is borderline criminal. It's not illegal - yet. But slavery was legal for a while also.

What DiCaprio would enjoy is the United States submitting to United Nations authority. He seeks an "upheaval..that leads to a new collective consciousness."

Hey Leo, would this "upheaval" be accomplished by suspending habeas corpus, like Lincoln did? This act of Lincoln's was justified by the fact that southern states were in a state of rebellion.

How much climate wrongthink must one display to be considered rebellious?

And on the third day, he ascended into heaven astride his 450 -foot yacht, The Rising Sun.

Roar

Katy Perry's Roar is derivative schlock. And it's her anthem. It's hard to pick on someone who has worked hard to get ahead, and persevered through countless rejections to make it big. But Katy Perry is a whore of the highest order, selling her tits and using the proceeds to help propel the career of Chicago Jesus.

I watched the video at the gym the other day. It's a shameless rip-off, from the lyrics to the production.

A damsel, a jungle, a wrecked plane, and an insouciant treasure-hunter archetype. That was really cool when it was Romancing The Stone.

The jungle throws everything it has at our damsel. A tiger carries away her fella. A tarantula crawls down her blouse, representing the hairy hand of a sweaty jock trying to get into her bra. After she flicks it away, her transformation begins, and we see that she is an apex predator.

"I got the eye of the tiger," she sings. Er, shouldn't you have to license that phrase from Survivor?

"Now I'm floating like a butterfly, Stinging like a bee, I earned my stripes, I went from zero, to my own hero." Timeless, classic words, flagrantly stolen from Cassius Clay.

Her orange spray-tan and white teeth remind you of a 50/50 bar.

The group of hunters shoot their arrows toward our heroine. The hunters represent the vast army of suitors aiming their phallus' in pursuit of her, the trophy prey.

Her shrill warning to the hunters turn back their army of semen and shrivel the scrotal mercenaries.

After she tames the jungle, our heroine gets to fem-spread and let her sweaty labia breathe.

Prince Dementia

I was driving east on the Coronado Bay Bridge when I heard the news. I was returning from dog beach with my two dogs, who were wet, salty, and tired. So I guess I will always remember where I was when I heard the news that Prince had died.

My initial response was shock, although that is overstating it. There doesn't seem to be a word that captures the feeling of, "oh, someone in the entertainment industry has suddenly died of probably unnatural causes."

I don't want to be that guy, the one who says they never liked somebody. When David Bowie died, there were lots of people who said they didn't like him. But I also don't want to be that other guy, who wails incoherently in grief at an icon's passing. The truth is, my feelings are somewhere in the middle. He was just okay.

With the exception of his song When Doves Cry. That is one of the single most insipid pieces of music ever recorded. Even John Yoo wouldn't sign off on using that song for enhanced interrogation.

What's upsetting to me is the all-out cultural effort to lionize Prince. President Obama made a statement about Prince's passing from his overseas trip. I'm a little surprised he didn't cut his trip short. Obama said that "Few artists have... touched quite so many people with their talent."

Yawn.

I'm trying to think of a single cultural icon who's passing would affect me on a personal level. I can't say that anyone famous suddenly dying would make me feel even a tiny bit sad. I wonder if I have been so red-pilled that I can't un-see the packaging and confection.

If a random celebrity were to die today, my default feeling would be apathy. Unless Eddie Vedder trips and falls into a wood chipper or Roger Waters has a heroin balloon explode in his stomach. Then I would feel joy. And a little Protestant guilt at feeling joyful. But mostly joy.

I wonder if this apathetic feeling is sublimated rage at misplaced priorities. In the twenty-four hours since Prince died, there have been thousands of abortions. How many of those little Princes or Princesses would have gone on to create masterpieces? We'll never know.

I don't think I feel jealous of his success. I'm not really wired that way. I actually feel like certain people deserve success, and some people don't.

I don't feel threatened by his seemingly gender-fluid style. It helped him pull Appolonia. Although she looked better to my 80's eyes. To my current sensibilities, she looks a little like a trans-female.

All in all, I would rather still be walking that sandy wet track, totally immersed in the urgency of throwing the ball for her, and the utter lack of urgency for anything else in the world. It's still there, the cold salty water, crashing waves, the citizens of dog beach catering to each single, timeless moment in the sun.

Moral Confusion

Robert Conquest's second law of politics states that any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing. Time to revise the law.

Every organization will eventually virtue-signal itself into a progressive organization.

Even Chick-fil-A sponsors an LGBTQ film festival. Other examples abound. The Boy Scouts starting allowing feygeleh boys to join in 2013. Two years later, the ban on gay scout leaders was rescinded.

The Episcopal Church, the place of my baptism and confirmation, made the rite of marriage available to all people, regardless of gender, in 2015.

The United States Marine Corps has opened all combat MOS positions to women, in spite of the fact that all male units were able to better march long distances carrying heavy loads and also were able to fire their weapons more accurately after marching over distance.

Even The Citadel is considering allowing uniform exemptions for women in burkas.

That's why it's no surprise to see the virtue-signaling from the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church once took the side of freedom from oppression. The statue of Pope John Paul II and Ronald Reagan in Gdansk, Poland, reflects the Polish people's reverence for the two leaders.

Today we have a Pope who thinks the moral high road is keeping carbon in the ground. Pope Francis makes common cause with Raul and Fidel Castro, and more recently, Bernie Sanders. The Pope even traveled to Lesbos and brought several migrant families back as souvenirs.

There may be a downside to all the virtue signaling. Chuck Johnson has a theory that the more frantic the prog signaling you see from a CEO, the worse trouble his company is in.

Well, the United States is frantically signaling to the world via our cultural imperialism. We are exporting the value of gay marriage, which can only mean that our republic is in serious trouble.

Bullies Are Effectually Hitler

Bullying is treated like a public health crisis these days. The highest echelons of our government are mustered to fight the name-calling. They screened the movie Bully at the White House, and then Valerie Jarrett wrote a term paper about it.

The Department of Health & Human Services manages a dot gov website to better manage the hive mind in the service of ending bad words. So fighting bullying can be big business.

Keep in mind that research shows that schools with anti-bullying programs actually experience more bullying. These programs may teach abusers ways to hide their behaviors.

Eight women have decided that what the internet really needs is a doxing service. Social Autopsy (@socialcoroner) is an inaptly-named "search database that aggregates people's social behavior and creates real profiles for them," according to founder Candace Owens.

"What we do," Owens says, "is attach their words to their places of employment." In other words, if you go on Facebook and post something about Caitlyn Jenner's cock 'n' balls, they will publish your workplace and, hopefully, get you fired. The project's Kickstarter page, which was suspended for unexplained reasons, features a photo of the Taylor Swift squad.

What these women really want is to be popular. "Hey, let's get an IT guy fired for joking about the word "dongle" at a tech conference. Then we'll be the popular ones!"

They aren't going to win any awards for competence. Start with the name. An autopsy is something that is performed on a deceased person's body, to determine the cause of death. If they wanted to convey an image of forensics expertise, then why not "Digital Forensics?" Or even "Digital Rape Kit?" Their motto could be: "We Dig Deeper!"

Whoever is posting on @socialcoroner timeline is a strutting, illiterate fuck-wit. "Having an opinion and perpetuation lies to a group of people that rely on your for facts is harmful."

Social Autopsy lists as partners the Tyler Clementi Foundation, who believe that people who are bullied are "effectually the same," as "German jews in 1940 being walked to gas chambers."

Bullies are effectually Hitler.

The best thing that could happen to Social Autopsy would be for someone to commit suicide so their website can go viral. They've already convinced themselves that telling someone to drink bleach is a death threat, and saying "I hope you get raped," is a rape threat. I wonder if they can convince someone to turn off notifications?

Property Is Theft

California Governor Jerry Brown signed another employment-related bill yesterday. It's called an expansion of paid family leave benefits, but it's really an indirect tax on employment.

There is a unifying logic behind the progressive push for mandating these type of employee benefits: the belief that being an employee is a form of slavery. This is informed by the progressive repulsion to capitalism, and belief that property is theft.

Progressives make a distinction between property and a possession. Property is something like a factory, where someone owns the means of production, and the workers have to work for the property owner, to produce his surplus. A piece of property like a house is a possession as long as it isn't being used to exploit workers.

The California paid family leave isn't just a tax on employment. Since women are usually primary caregivers, the law is a subsidy on females in the workplace. Paid for by men.

The only good thing about this expansion of benefits, is that it is totally funded by employee contributions into the SDI fund. Employers in San Francisco aren't so lucky, though. With California providing partial pay for six weeks off, San Francisco employers are going to have to cough up the rest, to give the employee 100% pay for six weeks.

This benefit will come at the expense of pay raises. The reason we have a system where health insurance is connected to employment is a vestige of the wage-and-price controls of World War II. Employers could not attract scarce workers with higher pay, so the benefit of health care was added as enticement.

Now the government is mandating higher pay and benefits. Because, according to the L.A. Times, The United States lags behind other countries in providing parental leave and is the only major industrialized nation that doesn't require paid leave.

The United States also lags behind other countries in intractably high unemployment rates.

California Governor Brown has lost all reason. He said the paid family leave law is "to compensate for the gross inequality that is not an abstraction but it's bringing down the lives of a lot of people who live in California."

Why not stop importing unskilled, illiterate workers, then?

I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues

Elton John has unwittingly made a compelling argument against allowing homosexual male couples to raise children. The National Enquirer is running a cover story which alleges, Elton John Betrayed By Cheating Husband.

Clicking on the link is not recommended unless you are interested in reading about sweet man on man intercourse. The link is really just there for attribution. What's hilarious is the black bar across the faces of John and his, er, husband, David Furnish. Like anyone's anonymity, let alone Elton John's, is protected by a thin black rectangle.

Elton John has asked for an injunction against publication of the story in the U.K. edition, on the grounds that he does not want his children to see it. The Enquirer further reports that John's lawyers contend that Furnish did not have an affair because the singer knew about his extra-marital relationship.

If Elton John knew about the affair, then he is condoning and enabling an unfaithful spouse. This type of perfidy is highly likely to be risky, unprotected, gay butt-sex.

Attempting to hide it only draws curiosity, increasing the likelihood his beloved offspring, the fruit of his loins, will become aware of the affair. Consider that nearly one in three homosexual men will have more than 1,000 sexual partners. Also consider that eighty percent of those partners will be strangers. Oh, but give us gay marriage, and you'll see, the faggots are going to get married and be monogamous. Riiight.

Keeping the news off the front page won't keep their kids from knowing. Attempting to hide the affair only makes it seem that much more shameful. A less futile and much more magnificent gesture would be to vow to buy every copy of that issue of the Enquirer in existence.

Elton John paid an anonymous woman in California a huge sum of money to gestate his issue. I wonder how she will feel when she reads the news in about ten years, when the baby she carried is found dead, in a hotel room, with a needle sticking out of his arm. I hope the money was worth it to her.

Lawfare On Energy Producers

America is being run by people who think we are all idiots. The biggest lie that came out of Obama's mouth during his interview with Chris Wallace yesterday was Obama's comment about the importance of people being "involved" in our "democracy."

"My whole, you know, operating assumption, in terms of our democracy, is the more people are involved, the more they know, the more they are involved, the more responsive our government is." Actually, our ruling class prefers us to be ignorant at worst, and at best, indoctrinated through the government-run educational system.

Take the example of "climate change." Focus-group tested messaging and EPA regulations aren't getting us out of our cars, so the government wants to punish energy producers.

It began last May, when Rhode Island Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post. His premise, that oil companies are deceiving the public about the dangers of their product.

Just like the tobacco companies did.

Whitehouse proposed that oil companies be sued using racketeering laws, under RICO statutes. The oil companies have funded research that "contradicts the vast majority of peer-reviewed climate science."

Then a few months later, Congress asked the SEC to investigate Exxon-Mobil's climate disclosures. They contend that Exxon-Mobil knew way back in the 1970's that there was "a threat of global warming from the burning of fossil fuels." The scientific consensus in the 1970's was that we were entering a new ice age, but oh well.

The pattern is starting to emerge. It is not co- incidental that congressional Democrats, the Justice Department and the regulatory apparatus are all focusing on energy producers. This is straight from the White House. Look at the White House visitor's logs to see who is meeting with Valerie Jarrett.

The most recent effort by the Progressive Industrial Complex to put energy companies in the dock was revealed last week. Seventeen state attorneys general vowed to fight fossil fuel industry fraud. They were flanked by the Climate Change Pimp Daddy himself, Al Gore. They aim to fight the "confusion" and "misrepresentation" being fed to the public.

"There is no dispute, but there is confusion," New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said.

"Part of the problem has been one of public perception," Connecticut Attorney General George Jepson said.

"Every night on the news it’s like a nature hike through Revelations," Al Gore said.

Wait, the problem is that the messaging hasn't been coherent, except for all the biggest news outlets nightly pursuing an alarmist agenda?

The problem for the alarmists is that climate skeptics are perfectly aware of the fraud being perpetrated by the alarmists. At a House hearing last month, Rep. Lamar Smith scolded NOAA for failing to respond to a document subpoena from November. All NOAA is doing is adjusting "weather station, buoy and ship data upwards to correct for “biases” they claimed was causing thermometers to show less warming than is actually occurring."

Adjusting data?

Meanwhile, one of the biggest frauds pushed on America, Obamacare, should have the SEC's attention, but doesn't. If a stockholder materially affected by non-disclosure from Exxon-Mobil warrants SEC investigation, what about United Healthcare? They are warning just now that they may lose more than a billion dollars from Obamacare. Because people are signing up outside the enrollment period and demanding healthcare services. That's how the law was designed, and everybody saw this coming. Aetna is also forecasting eleven-digit losses. Where are the lawmakers demanding investigations of health insurers?

"Obamacare will be great for insurers because they will have millions of new customers," is a material misrepresentation, just like fraudulent climate science.

California's Off -Ramp From Reason

Governor Brown signed the law increasing California's minimum wage yesterday. Brown admits that the law will be an economic disaster for workers. "Economically, minimum wages may not make sense," he said.

"Morally and socially and politically, they (minimum wages) make every sense," Brown said. The nerve of someone who has never had to make payroll, lecturing others about morality!

They just don't make "economic sense", noted. If they did, lawmakers wouldn't have put an "off-ramp" to the annual wage increase. In the event of certain recessionary conditions, future governors can pause the increase in the minimum wage. Using the term "off-ramp" gives the clause a California feel, cause we have lots of freeways.

Putting in a recession "stop" order is effectively admitting that a minimum wage increase itself has a recessionary effect on the job market. If the recession is deep enough, will the governor have the power to lower the minimum wage? If we go into another Great Depression with 25% unemployment, will the governor be willing to abolish the minimum wage?

When your new law is celebrated by avowed socialist Bernie Sanders, maybe it's not a productive approach. Sanders said that he was proud that we "will be increasing the minimum wage to a living wage of $15 an hour."

"A living wage" is the slogan. To keep up with inflation, they say, the minimum wage should be much higher. However, inflation can be caused by wage increases just as easily as raw materials price increases. Some of us are old enough to remember Nixon's wage and price controls, which was thought to be a reasonable approach to high inflation.

Surely those who work for the minimum will be happy today. But for how long? If your job primarily involves touching money and doing transactions, you will need to find another line of work very soon. Cashiers are going to be replaced by apps.

If you work at a call center or in customer service, your job will be taken over by IBM Watson, if it hasn't already been outsourced to India.

If you assemble things in a factory, you might want to start thinking about night school or university extension. Your career path may come down to a choice between learning how to program the machine that will take your job, or taking a job that a machine can't do. Like plumbing.

If you have any job where your wages will go up because of this new law, you should invest all your new-found wealth in robotics companies.

The labor market will find an equilibrium no matter the disruption. Creative destruction is the natural selection process of free markets. It's just too bad that the only ones with an off-ramp are the politicians.

Trickle Down Economics

Ronald Reagan is known for saying, "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction." Reagan never made a speech with meaningless platitudes like "our shared values," or "that's not who we are."

Reagan continued, "We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."

A legacy of freedom is not what is being passed down to our kids. Pew Research found last year that forty percent of millennials believe that "hate speech" should be limited.

Millennial voters are the most pandered to group ever, and they have a decent chance to drive Bernie Sanders to the Democratic nomination. All Bernie Sanders has to do is get around sixty-five percent of the remaining delegates, and he's in. That's the same percentage of remaining delegates that Donald Trump needs to ensure a first-ballot nomination.

Millennial voters have been indoctrinated in a cultural environment and educational system in which it's very likely they have never been exposed to any classical liberal ideas. To them, market forces must be controlled by the state.

The successes of the Reagan-Bush-Clinton era - forty million new jobs and a quadrupling of government revenue - are portrayed as failures. The constant complaint is that since the rich get richer, they are stealing from everyone else. "Trickle down economics has wiped out the middle class!" is the gist of it.

The rich are getting richer, but that is largely because asset values - stocks, real estate - are appreciating. They took a bigger haircut during the last recession than everyone else.

Trickle down economics, also known as supply-side economics, is always called by its derogatory slur and is always portrayed as "tax cuts for the wealthy." The millennial voter is largely unaware that John F. Kennedy was a modern supply-sider, and lowered the top tax rate from 91% to 70%.

Millennial voters seem convinced that increasing wages leads to prosperity. It's the other way around! Millennials know that a lot of economic activity is consumption. What they don't know is that consumption doesn't have a strong multiplier effect. They think that buying a television and putting a little money in Amazon's coffers is going to have a trickle-up effect?

Stronger multiplier effects are found when lowering barriers to production. That's all supply-side is. Lower regulations, and more will be produced. When more is produced, prices are lower and demand is higher.

When taxes are lower, people with capital find productive uses for that capital. It's not being sheltered in municipal bonds or in offshore accounts.