The complete Benghazi timeline, now augmented with information from eyewitness testimony before Congress, various leaks from the warring Obama/Clinton camps…
My cars are dirty.
Sure, I could wash ‘em, but I’m not very good at it.
Anyone know where one might get car-washing lessons?
Or maybe a, you know … tutor?
(What? I’m the dirty one? Why, that’s just ridic… uhm, well, okay, yeah, reckon I do need a shower.)
Okay, then, anyone know where one can get shower lessons?
Wellp … gotta hand it to this lying SoS.
He’s pretty dagnab consistent:
The law is irrelevant.
That’s largely irrelevant.
[T]hat’s a largely irrelevant fact.
Okay, folks. Everything’s obviously irrelevant.
Nothing to see here.
Reckon we can all just relax, now.
[yawns, stretches] Yep, iiiit’s all good.
Just added a brand spankin’ new Rope n’ Chains archive wiki.
(Somebody stop me, before I wiki again!)
two-fer sale!
They truly are Irony Impaired.
LGBT Inclusion at Work: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Managers A resource from DOJ Pride[PDF], the Association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Employees of the U.S. Department of Justice and Their Allies
Yep. DoJPride.org.
Here’s #1:
Make the Right Assumptions & Avoid Making the Wrong Ones
DO assume that LGBT employees and their allies are listening to what you’re saying (whether in a meeting or around the proverbial water cooler) and will read what you’re writ- ing (whether in a casual email or in a formal document), and make sure the language you use is inclusive and respectful.
DON’T assume all employees are (or a particular employee is) heterosexual.
The employer – the Gobt. — is instructing employees what to think and that they are being thought-watched.
DO let your employees know they’ll be treated with fairness and respect, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity, by “coming out” as a straight ally. For example:
• Display a symbol in your office (DOJ Pride sticker, copy of this brochure, etc.) indicating that it is a “safe space.”
The employer – the Gobt. — is requiring employees to display particular symbols of compliance with Correct Thinking — regardless of their own thoughts, whatever those may be.
Committed Christian? back in the closet with you! Those ideas are Incorrect. [I can't wait til some Committed [but mostly peaceful] Moslem runs up against this… Proggie heads will explode! Metaphorically, of course.]
This goes beyond requiring the basic professional behavior required to keep any workplace drama-free and focused on the work/mission at hand. So far beyond.
• Attend LGBT events sponsored by DOJ Pride and/or the Department, and invite (but don’t require) others to join you.
“(but don’t require)” Irony. Impaired.
Know How to Respond If an Employee Comes Out to You
DON’T judge or remain silent. Silence will be interpreted as disapproval.
Paging Mr Orwell. To the white neutral courtesy telephone please.
Here’s yer twofer:
…sweeping speech codes just imposed by the Departments of Justice and Education on virtually every college campus in the United States. …The new rules apply to all colleges and universities receiving any sort of federal money, including Pell grants, federally backed student loans, and more.
so that’s pretty much every college.
The new mandate was revealed in a letter from the DOJ and DOE to the University of Montana* that states “sexual harassment should be more broadly defined as ‘any unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature,” including “verbal conduct.”
Here’s the Big Change bit:
The letter contends the conduct in question need not be offensive to an “objectively reasonable person of the same gender in the same situation.”
The Objectively Reasonable Person has been a standard in Law for, like evar. [maybe some of our legal thinkers on the Porch can speak more knowledgeably to this?] Now it is gone — on campuses. How long before it disappears from the workplace, then The Street, then your livingroom and my kitchen?
Want to hit back at that Prof that gave you a C+? Want revenge against that person you wanted to have hit on you but didn’t? Want to take out any rival at all?
Just become the biggest whingey baby you can manage, say you were offeeeended at any-damn-thing at all and You Win!
Stupid jokes, overheard [or misinterpreted] comments, clumsy approaches, a look — all fair game tkx to the DoJ!
Win Teh Future!!!
When you’ve lost The New Yorker…
OBAMA DENIES ROLE IN GOVERNMENT
President Obama used his weekly radio address on Saturday to reassure the American people that he has “played no role whatsoever” in the U.S. government over the past four years.
“Right now, many of you are angry at the government, and no one is angrier than I am,” he said. “Quite frankly, I am glad that I have had no involvement in such an organization.”
The President’s outrage only increased, he said, when he “recently became aware of a part of that government called the Department of Justice.”
“The more I learn about the activities of these individuals, the more certain I am that I would not want to be associated with them,” he said. “They sound like bad news.”
Mr. Obama closed his address by indicating that beginning next week he would enforce what he called a “zero tolerance policy on governing.”
“If I find that any members of my Administration have had any intimate knowledge of, or involvement in, the workings of the United States government, they will be dealt with accordingly,” he said.
PatrickP
Your assignment is to go read Jeffrey Brown’s “A Liberal/Progressive Epiphany” over at American Thinker.
Go ahead, we’ll wait.
… *tick*tick*tick*tick*tick*tick* …
Pretty good, huh?
Look, I harbor no illusions that the scales will fall from the eyes of very many true-believer Progs.
Their entire self-worth, their social life, and their incomes depend upon the Progressive view.
Their constituents are mainly gov’t addicts, arrogants, and dupes, few of which I expect to understand all this.
They are, for want of a better term, bitter clingers.
No, the most we can hope for is a sobering-up of their main enabling class, the media.
Without that cover, Progs will be faced with having to deal with the truth on occasion, both personally and publicly;
and the truth shall set us free … again.
…Piers Morgan, who engaged in some of the worst demagoguery outside of the White House and Capitol Hill over the last six months on that issue, routinely derided the idea that the American government couldn’t be trusted to abide by the law and tell the truth. Now, after watching what happened at the IRS — and to the Associated Press — the CNN host admits to Penn Jillette that maybe people had a point about creeping tyranny after all…
