From YoungCons....




Well, it looks like the PC Police have struck once again, winning another battle in their war to suck the happiness, joy, and comedy right out of life, as the New York Mets announce they’ll no longer be featuring opposing players in their Kiss Cam.

Can you guess why?

The delicate wallflowers on the left say it’s “homophobic” and “offensive.”

I’m not sure how cracking a lighthearted joke promotes the illogical fear of homosexuals, but hey, I’m not a left-wing nutjob, so whatever.

From The Huffington Post:

In response to accusations of homophobia, the New York Mets announced Wednesday, in an exclusive statement to HuffPost Live, that the team would no longer include two opposing players on its “Kiss Cam.”

A spokesperson for the Mets wrote to HuffPost Live:

We have, on occasion, included players from opposing teams in our popular in-game Kiss Cam feature. While intended to be lighthearted, we unintentionally offended some. We apologize for doing so and no longer will include players in the feature. Our organization is wholly supportive of fostering an inclusive and respectful environment at games.

The longtime stadium ritual shows a series of couples in the crowd on the Jumbotron and encourages them to kiss on camera. At Citi Field, the couples, always heterosexual, are followed by a joke pairing of two male players from the visiting team, as if to say in the most sophomoric way: what if these two Major League Baseball players were to kiss?

Longtime Mets fan Etan Bednarsh began tweeting about the gag in April, asking the organization to stop with the “punchline” of placing two male players on the Kiss Cam:

So what’s the lesson here, folks?

If you whine and cry hard enough about being offended, even if it’s just you and some other dude locked in his mom’s basement, you can force the majority of the world to bend to your will.

People are so sensitive these days that no one has a sense of humor. People are too busy being angry, spewing fake outrage all over the Internet for no good reason at all. Well, other than making themselves look “cool.”

Comedy is dying a slow, painful death, and it’s all because of political correctness.

Yes, there was so much apparent danger that between the officials and the cops they neglected to evacuate the school.

Kiss my ass with "what if" questions too. At that point why don't we just ask "what if he flew away on his magic carpet and shot fire out of his ass at the children ... won't someone think of the children ?!?!?!"

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the fact that bristol palin moves the headline meter is more appalling than another idiotic cop busting a kid for no reason.

I think that was actually a video game from the mid 90s

You have to say this, The Pres only seems to get involved at certain times. Didn't hear a peep out of him when the White Kids where being harassed over the Christian TShirts they where wearing and told to either change them or be sent home.

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

There is no such thing as a Christian T shirt and if there were anyone wearing one should be shot.

Okay then what about American Flag T Shirts?

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

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Taken out back...

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Ill think about it

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

So you are for executing people based on what they wear?

Maybe ...

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
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Quit reading sites like that. It's not too late. I love the article where noted deep thinker, Kirk Cameron, has thoughts about Obama's "war on stay at home moms".

Mike, websites like that are making you dumber by the day.



http://www.salon.com/2014/02/27/i_lost_ ... _hysteria/

I lost my dad to Fox News: How a generation was captured by thrashing hysteria

Old, white, wrinkled and angry, they are slipping from polite society in alarming numbers. We’re losing much of a generation. They often sport hats or other clothing, some marking their status as veterans, Tea Partyers or “patriots” of some kind or another. They have yellow flags, bumper stickers and an unquenchable rage. They used to be the brave men and women who took on America’s challenges, tackling the ’60s, the Cold War and the Reagan years — but now many are terrified by the idea of slightly more affordable healthcare and a very moderate Democrat in the White House.

We’re losing people like my father to the despair of Fox News, and it’s all by design.

My dad is 67 years old, a full year younger than the average Fox viewer, who is 68, according to an analysis in New York magazine by columnist Frank Rich. I’ve read accounts of people my age — 40 or so — losing parents to cancer or Alzheimer’s, but just as big a tragedy are the crops of grandmothers and grandfathers debilitated by Fox News-induced hysteria.

I enjoyed Fox News for many years, as a libertarian and frequent Republican voter. I used to share many, though not all, of my father’s values, but something happened over the past few years. As I drifted left, the white, Republican right veered into incalculable levels of conservative rage, arriving at their inevitable destination with the creation of the Tea Party movement.

When I finally pulled the handle for Obama in 2012, my father could not believe how far I’d fallen. I have avoided talking politics with him as much as possible ever since. Last week, I invited him to my house for dinner with the express purpose of talking about politics and most especially his Fox News addiction. Since he retired, he only watches Fox. As we started chatting up politics, I repeated one mantra over and over: “Please, please, consume another source of information.” I repeated my plea a dozen times. He defended with stridency his choices, citing his favorites, like Stuart Varney, “The Five” and the great Charles Krauthammer. When it came to any other source of information he was emphatic.

“I don’t care to see any more of that liberal bullshit,” he said in one form or another all night.

We rehashed some issues, starting with his absolute skepticism about global warming and evolution. “Science and religion are the same thing,” he said. And, “We didn’t come from a fucking monkey,” he added like he always does.

In real life Archie Bunker isn’t that cute. If he’s Archie, that makes me either Meat Head or Sallie Struthers (the very definition of lose-lose).

I’m overeducated in the humanities, so I’m an imperfect ambassador for science. I respect scholarship, peer review and the scientific method. When I tell my dad he should believe the experts in climate science, he gets really mad.

“Global warming is your religion,” he says. Because I’m an atheist, calling me religious is the worst insult he can summon, so he uses it often.

My father sincerely believes that science is a political plot, Christians are America’s most persecuted minority and Barack Obama is a full-blown communist. He supports the use of force without question, as long as it’s aimed at foreigners. He thinks liberals are all stupid, ignorant fucks who hate America.

I don’t recall my father being so hostile when I was growing up. He was conservative, to be sure, but conventionally and thoughtfully so. He is a kind and generous man and a good father, but over the past five or 10 years, he’s become so conservative that I can’t even find a label for it.

What has changed? He consumes a daily diet of nothing except Fox News. He has for a decade or more. He has no email account and doesn’t watch sports. He refuses to so much as touch a keyboard and has never been on the Internet, ever. He thinks higher education destroys people, not only because of Fox News, but also because I drifted left during and after graduate school.

I do not blame or condemn my father for his opinions. If you consumed a daily diet of right-wing fury, erroneously labeled “news,” you could very likely end up in the same place. Again, this is all by design. Let’s call it the Fox News effect. Take sweet, kindly senior citizens and feed them a steady stream of demagoguery and repetition, all wrapped in the laughable slogan of “fair and balanced.” Even watching the commercials on Fox, one is treated to sales pitches for gold and emergency food rations, the product cornerstones of the paranoid. To some people the idea of retirees yelling at the television all day may seem funny, but this isn’t a joke. We’re losing the nation’s grandparents, and it’s an American tragedy.

People talk about the imminent “death” of Fox News itself, because of an ever-aging demographic. Again, Frank Rich makes this case, but I think his argument is dubious. Certainly the audience is graying to oblivion, but it’s a cold comfort to those of us who watch our parents or grandparents drown in an incessant downpour of outrage. We will only see the “End of Fox News” when my father and his contemporaries die. I do not want to watch my father and his entire generation spend their remaining years enraged at utter nonsense.

My cohort, Generation X, is stuck between two generations of suffering Americans. The millennial generation is losing job opportunities and income as the nation stagnates. They put off marriage and buying homes. While white, Fox News-addicted baby boomers have lost their sense of hope. They’ve been passed over by shifting attitudes about gay marriage, the role of government and a host of issues. They still think of themselves as the “silent majority,” when in reality they are a wounded and thrashing legacy of white hegemony. My parents’ generation is becoming fragile antiques, relics by choice, reassured by Fox News that they are still the only voice that matters.

I, and people like me, have managed to break the cycle of conservative red-and race-baiting. I’ve noticed similar attitude shifts among some of my close friends, who have likewise drifted from the televised rage of our fathers. I only wish I could do something to ease the anxiety of those I love, an emotion that is a cash cow for exploitative right-wing commentators. But I have no real solution, other than to turn off the television. Sadly, for some of the nation’s elderly, they seem to have no desire whatsoever to rethink the politics of fear and Fox News. It’s a criminal waste of retirement.

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That's all they have left. "What if..." and "What about...."

Yes.

I'd expect that from you because have are a psycho and have well documented issues but from RPB?

No way, man.

Mike, you would be better served avoiding websites like young cons, and Breitbart. I am not your problem, websites like these are. This is the nonsense that fuels your rage, and causes you to make a fool out of yourself, when you try to go with this garbage.

During a speech in Rhode Island today, President Obama stressed the importance of public pre-school in America, pointing out that the cost of daycare was getting too high, which was horribly misinterpreted as Obama's "war on stay at home moms".





http://www.youngcons.com/what-obama-jus ... sgusts-me/

This article is absolutely priceless.

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At least I've passed 5th grade English.

The real war on stay-at-home moms has been the networks cancelling all the soap operas.

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I'm a stay at home dad, so that means Obama has declared war on me.

Thanks, Barry.

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don't read young cons or breibart!

*posts salon article*

You understand the difference between a guy writing an article about how FOX brainwashed his father, and another completely misinterpreting Obama's speech about the expense of child care as a "war on stay at home moms", solely to rile up lunatics, like PittMike?

I hope for your sake that you can see the difference between a column, and lies masquerading as news.

I'm trying to help Mike wean himself off the media outlets that use fear mongering and paranoia, which in turn, fuels his incoherent rage. When people like you try to come after me, you are just giving him the justification that he is craving. It makes for great theater, but Mike desperately needs our help.

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just like those other organizations, that article reeks of over exaggerations and a pigeon holed narrative. all cut from the same cloth.

Apples and chainsaws.

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The watch guy was Chuck Daly

The story was ask Hubie what time it was and he would tell you how to build a watch. They would ask one question and Hubie's answer would fill a 20 minute segment.

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Elections have consequences.

Im for executing everyone all the time for any bullshit reason we can come up with.

Replaced with Medical School via TV (The Doctors)

They also use to play a drop of Chuck asking do you want to see my watch? Because Chuck always was dressed to kill