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Matt Walsh:

 

 

Bruce Jenner won the ESPN courage award last night.

 

It's a shame that courage, of all the virtues, has been so cheapened in our culture. It's the one thing we need most, but most lack, or most often fail to understand. Just look at that story out of DC from a few weeks ago. A man was beaten and stabbed to death in the middle of the day, on the middle of a train, while dozens of other men huddled in corners watching it happen.

 

The assailant, I should mention, was something like five and a half feet tall, a buck twenty. He could have been easily overpowered by one other man, certainly two. Unless this dude was a martial arts master ninja, there's no way he could have killed the whole train with one sharp object. Yet the other men sat and hid and watched a young college student get hacked to death. Nobody tried to help. Nobody.

 

Courage. We need courage. We need courage in less dramatic ways. We need courage in the routine, everyday sense of the word. The courage to be moral, honest, upright. The courage to lead our families, to stay loyal, to maintain our character and integrity in these trying times.

 

But this is what we get instead. A bunch of fawning children handing a courage award to a rich man in a dress. It should come as no surprise that reports today indicate Jenner's PR team asked ESPN to give him the courage award in exchange for mentions on his reality show.

 

It's all a fraud. It's all a joke. But still the sycophants on social media fell over themselves applauding Bruce for his courage.

 

No, Bruce Jenner is not courageous, and I'll give you several reasons why:

 

1) Courage is defined as the willingness to do the right thing in the face of adversity. Mutilating your genitals and playing dress up is not "the right thing." It's the sick thing, the delusional thing, but certainly not the right thing.

 

2) There was no adversity here. Aside from myself and a small minority of other commentators, virtually everyone has applauded Bruce, using the sorts of glowing adjectives previously reserved for saints and war heroes. Courage is not the ability to cope with near-universal praise and adoration. Courage is not the willingness to be complimented and told how awesome and beautiful you are.

 

3) Jenner stood to gain financially from this decision. He's reaped millions in TV deals, book deals, and other promotional revenue. Courage is not the audacity to stand firm while people hand you massive wads of cash.

 

4) Jenner cut himself up and started wearing girl clothes because he wanted to. It makes him feel good. It satisfies some disordered desire in his mind.

 

Even without the fame and fortune he has earned from this perverse charade, he would still be doing it merely because it satisfies an urge. Notice that a true courageous person often feels the urge NOT to do whatever it is he's doing because he knows he will not benefit from it at all. If one man had stood up on that train in DC and tried to stop that murder from happening, he would have been acting against his desires and urges, thus he'd have been courageous.

 

5) Due to all the bad publicity, ESPN made up some other award to give Lauren Hill, the teenage basketball player who died of cancer earlier this year. But that does not absolve them.

 

Before dying, she dedicated her last moments on Earth to raising awareness about the disease, and money for research. She also pursued and achieved her goal of taking the court for a college basketball game. She faced down her own mortality and acted with immense bravery and dignity, despite not profiting at all from it. She knew she wouldn't be around to benefit from the money she raised. She knew she'd likely die before she achieved any kind of fleeting fame. There were no TV contracts or book deals. No commercial spots. No PR teams. No stunts. No gimmicks. No self-congratulation. She just lived out her abbreviated life with poise, grace, and strength, and inspired millions in the process.

 

ESPN snubbed her for Jenner. They say it's a myth that she was "runner up." I believe them. Turns out, she was never even considered. Jenner was the only one they ever thought about, according to them. That is a disgrace. Ms. Hill had courage that Bruce Jenner can't even conceive of. She did something that dwarfs anything Jenner has achieved, and that includes winning an Olympic medal. If anyone in sports deserved a courage award, it was her.

 

6) If you look at the rest of Bruce's life, you find estranged children, ex-wives, broken families, and a dead woman who he recently killed in a car crash. The fact that we are awarding this sort of man with any kind of attention, much less a damned courage award, is lunacy. He needs counseling. Extensive, prolonged counseling. And Jesus. And I think he should think about taking some of his millions and maybe think about giving a few bucks to the family of the woman he killed. Just a thought. You know, because he's so courageous and all.

 

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Down here in the Southern Ocean, where men are becoming less so, due to the slavish adoration of 'merican culture by our young, the Jenner speech and award were given prime time attention and adulation.

 

Shame really.

 

On the one hand I have no issues with any gay, bi, trans, whatever, goings on, it's their lives and they're welcome to it.

 

What I will say is I don't want it in my face. No reason to publicise it, over and above, an 'oddity' story on page 11 of the cheaper rags.

 

Too much money to be made by f*ckknuckles like the Hilton spawn, Kardashian bottoms and egos trapped in low IQs.

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Looks like Prez O forgot about the children...

 

Report suggests US children left behind in economic recovery

 

Report on child welfare suggests many US children were left behind in economic recovery

 

http://news.yahoo.com/report-suggest-us-children-left-053001123.html

 

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- A new report on child welfare that found more U.S. children living in poverty than before the Great Recession belies the fanfare of the nation's economic turnaround.

 

Twenty-two percent of American children were living in poverty in 2013 compared with 18 percent in 2008, according to the latest Kids Count Data Book, with poverty rates nearly double among African-Americans and American Indians and problems most severe in South and Southwest...

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Too sad for any comment from me...

 

White House Lit Up in Rainbow Colors For Gay Marriage Within Hours, But Took 5 Days to Lower Flag For Dead Marines

 

Obama finally makes the decision after intense criticism

 

http://www.infowars.com/white-house-lit-up-in-rainbow-colors-for-gay-marriage-within-hours-but-took-5-days-to-lower-flag-for-dead-marines/

 

The Obama administration lit up the White House in rainbow colors within hours of the Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage, but it took five days for flags to be lowered to half mast in honor of the four murdered Marines in Chattanooga.

 

In fact, the

official White House Twitter account still has the rainbow colored building as its main background image weeks later.

“President Obama has ordered flags at the White House and other public buildings to fly at half-staff after mounting criticism over the delay in honoring five armed forces members killed last week by a gunman,â€

reports Politico.

 

Numerous conservatives expressed confusion at why Obama had not ordered the flag to be lowered like he had after previous mass shootings. Various governors across the country had already given the order.

 

As we

reported last week, before Obama even took time out to honor the dead Marines – who were gunned down by an Islamic extremist – or comment on the shooting at all, he sent out a statement lecturing Americans about how Islam was a religion of peace that needed to be respected, prompting a furious reaction.

 

Several Twitter users also noted the discrepancy about the flag lowering.

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What is with this guy :dunno:

 

 

 

McCain and the POW cover-up

 

The sum of the secrets McCain has sought to hide is not small

 

http://www.infowars.com/mccain-and-the-pow-cover-up/

 

John McCain, who has risen to political prominence on his image as a Vietnam POW war hero, has, inexplicably, worked very hard to hide from the public stunning information about American prisoners in Vietnam who, unlike him, didn’t return home. Throughout his Senate career, McCain has quietly sponsored and pushed into federal law a set of prohibitions that keep the most revealing information about these men buried as classified documents. Thus the war hero who people would logically imagine as a determined crusader for the interests of POWs and their families became instead the strange champion of hiding the evidence and closing the books.

 

Almost as striking is the manner in which the mainstream press has shied from reporting the POW story and McCain’s role in it, even as the Republican Party has made McCain’s military service the focus of his presidential campaign. Reporters who had covered the Vietnam War turned their heads and walked in other directions. McCain doesn’t talk about the missing men, and the press never asks him about them.

 

The sum of the secrets McCain has sought to hide is not small. There exists a telling mass of official documents, radio intercepts, witness depositions, satellite photos of rescue symbols that pilots were trained to use, electronic messages from the ground containing the individual code numbers given to airmen, a rescue mission by a special forces unit that was aborted twice by Washington – and even sworn testimony by two Defense secretaries that “men were left behind.†This imposing body of evidence suggests that a large number – the documents indicate probably hundreds – of the U.S. prisoners held by Vietnam were not returned when the peace treaty was signed in January 1973 and Hanoi released 591 men, among them Navy combat pilot John S. McCain.

 

Mass of Evidence

 

The Pentagon had been withholding significant information from POW families for years. What’s more, the Pentagon’s POW/MIA operation had been publicly shamed by internal whistleblowers and POW families for holding back documents as part of a policy of “debunking†POW intelligence even when the information was obviously credible.

 

The pressure from the families and Vietnam veterans finally forced the creation, in late 1991, of a Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs. The chairman was John Kerry. McCain, as a former POW, was its most pivotal member. In the end, the committee became part of the debunking machine.

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Too sad for any comment from me...

 

White House Lit Up in Rainbow Colors For Gay Marriage Within Hours, But Took 5 Days to Lower Flag For Dead Marines

 

Obama finally makes the decision after intense criticism

 

http://www.infowars....r-dead-marines/

 

The Obama administration lit up the White House in rainbow colors within hours of the Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage, but it took five days for flags to be lowered to half mast in honor of the four murdered Marines in Chattanooga.

 

In fact, the official White House Twitter account still has the rainbow colored building as its main background image weeks later.

“President Obama has ordered flags at the White House and other public buildings to fly at half-staff after mounting criticism over the delay in honoring five armed forces members killed last week by a gunman,†reports Politico.

 

I'll comment. Nothing to do with timing - the gay thing - was known to be coming, allowing planning for the event to take place.

 

The sad deaths on Chattanooga, unexpected, so maybe it took a little time, to get the order out.

 

But even so, what do they want - speed mourning? That they were mourned, is the important point and a sedate mourning is appropriate.

 

Several Twitter users also noted the discrepancy about the flag lowering.

 

Now that's really important! - more than two, but less than ten people, were moved to comment, in half sentences on electronic devices. I'm glad they are watching over the world.

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What is with this guy :dunno:

 

 

 

McCain and the POW cover-up

 

The sum of the secrets McCain has sought to hide is not small

 

http://www.infowars....e-pow-cover-up/

 

John McCain, who has risen to political prominence on his image as a Vietnam POW war hero, has, inexplicably, worked very hard to hide from the public stunning information about American prisoners in Vietnam who, unlike him, didn’t return home. Throughout his Senate career, McCain has quietly sponsored and pushed into federal law a set of prohibitions that keep the most revealing information about these men buried as classified documents. Thus the war hero who people would logically imagine as a determined crusader for the interests of POWs and their families became instead the strange champion of hiding the evidence and closing the books.

 

Almost as striking is the manner in which the mainstream press has shied from reporting the POW story and McCain’s role in it, even as the Republican Party has made McCain’s military service the focus of his presidential campaign. Reporters who had covered the Vietnam War turned their heads and walked in other directions. McCain doesn’t talk about the missing men, and the press never asks him about them.

 

The sum of the secrets McCain has sought to hide is not small. There exists a telling mass of official documents, radio intercepts, witness depositions, satellite photos of rescue symbols that pilots were trained to use, electronic messages from the ground containing the individual code numbers given to airmen, a rescue mission by a special forces unit that was aborted twice by Washington – and even sworn testimony by two Defense secretaries that “men were left behind.†This imposing body of evidence suggests that a large number – the documents indicate probably hundreds – of the U.S. prisoners held by Vietnam were not returned when the peace treaty was signed in January 1973 and Hanoi released 591 men, among them Navy combat pilot John S. McCain.

 

Mass of Evidence

 

The Pentagon had been withholding significant information from POW families for years. What’s more, the Pentagon’s POW/MIA operation had been publicly shamed by internal whistleblowers and POW families for holding back documents as part of a policy of “debunking†POW intelligence even when the information was obviously credible.

 

The pressure from the families and Vietnam veterans finally forced the creation, in late 1991, of a Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs. The chairman was John Kerry. McCain, as a former POW, was its most pivotal member. In the end, the committee became part of the debunking machine.

 

 

 

John Kerry could care less about those left behind either. The presumption is that they're all dead by now. Australian journalist John Everingham was in Laos after the communist takeover, and he says he was told that many US POWs remained in Laos after the "release". He figures they finally just killed them.

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