It’s Monday, September 10th, 2018…but before we begin, submitted for your perusal, two examples of the what The Left’s gospel of entitlement and outrage have wrought.  First, Exhibit “A”, which demonstrates success in athletics doesn’t carry with it even a scintilla of class, decorum or…humility:

Serena Williams accuses umpire of sexism in US Open loss

This travesty can be encapsulated in three comments:

“An upset Serena Williams attributed a crucial call by the chair umpire that led to her U.S. Open loss to Naomi Osaka to an issue of gender. (WHAT…is Naomi Osaka possessed of a penis?!?)

“I have a daughter and I know what’s right for her.“

“You know my character,…” (Yes, we certainly do!)

Sorry, but Billie Jean King’s inane ramblings notwithstanding, if you don’t like the rules, either change them…or don’t play the game!

Then there’s Exhibit “B”, which highlights the increasing inability of Americans to deal with personal inconvenience on any level:

American Airlines flight attendant’s absurd solution for passenger when plane’s toilets overflow

“An American Airlines flight to Hawaii became a trip from hell when a flushed diaper caused the plane’s toilets to overflow, forcing passengers to urinate in bags and bottles.

…Reps for American Airlines confirmed to Fox News that despite the toilet issue in the high skies, which unfolded two hours before the flight’s scheduled landing, the nearest suitable airport for the plane to land was the destination…”

For the sake of argument, it’s roughly 5-3/4 hours from Los Angeles to Kona; so if the flight was two hours from touchdown, it would have taken some 3-1/2 hours (with favorable winds) for the fragrant flight to reach the mainland, and closer to 5 hours to return to Phoenix.  Thus, some idiot having flushed a diaper down the commode despite conspicuous bilingual placards to contrary, what would the anonymous videographer have preferred the flight crew have done: turned back to L.A.?  Returned to Phoenix?

And as Business Insider reports:

“The woman who filmed the video of the flight attendant said she was offered $240 in vouchers and 17,500 miles for compensation, but declined because she thought it was not enough.“

We don’t know which is worse: the woefully inaccurate FOX description of the flight attendant’s suggestion to pee in a bag as “absurd”, or the patently absurd response to uncomfortable yet uncontrollable events demonstrated by the poor, delicate little flower.  When an unexpected 8 hours of flight time off the Kitty Hawk (in 1981 a record duration for carrier-based air ops) forced us to urinate thrice into a 1-gallon ziplock bag (which ain’t easy while flying and of Irish descent!), our only compensation was the knowledge we’d done what circumstances required. 

Here’s the juice: when life gives you lemons, you should always at least attempt to make lemonade.  But when, as inevitably happens, the lemons are replaced with a sh*t sandwich, sometimes…sometimes…you’re forced to take a bite.

At which point, it’s best to hold your nose and proceed as best you can…a lesson Ms. Williams and the inconvenienced American passenger would do well to learn.

Meanwhile, if the Social Media gazillionaires ever wanted to give the world proof their Leftist leanings require governmental oversight, this forward from Jeff Foutch offers it:

TWITTER SUSPENDS BENGHAZI HERO After Criticism of President Obama!

Until then, feel free to drag The Donald‘s dick through the dirt; just don’t presume to pass judgment on The Obamao. 

Now, here’s The Gouge!

Since we’re on the subject of wild rides, we lead off the Monday edition with the great Stilton Jarlsberg, as he lends his incomparable wit to explaining what so many seem incapable of grasping:

Including, as Kayleigh McEnany details at FOX News, The Donald’s inexecrable predecessor:

Obama tries to demonize Trump voters, following Hillary’s losing strategy

“Former President Obama gave the nation some insights into the Democratic Party’s midterm election strategy Friday with a political speech demonizing Americans who elected Donald Trump as president and doubling down on the failed liberal ideology that devastated our economy.

In a moment reminiscent of Hillary Clinton’s outrageous characterization of Trump voters as “deplorable” and “irredeemable,” President Obama said: “I have to say this…Over the past few decades, the politics of division and resentment and paranoia has unfortunately found a home in the Republican Party.”

Labeling the 63 million Trump voters as “deplorable” and “irredeemable” didn’t work out for Hillary Clinton when she ran a failed presidential campaign against Trump in 2016. Labeling the same voters as divisive, resentful and paranoid will not work for Democrats in the November midterm elections.

Democrats continually demonstrate a fundamental misunderstanding and active demonization of Trump voters. They are clearly wrong but don’t realize they’re wrong.

I traveled the country in search of the Trump voter for my book, “The New American Revolution: The Making of a Populist Movement.” Here is what I found: a mother who lost her only son to an illegal immigrant; a wife whose husband died while languishing on a waitlist for health-care from the Department of Veterans Affairs; a mom whose entire family perished in a terrorist attack; factory workers whose jobs went overseas; and so many other great Americans who wanted change – a change from the Obama presidency.

These are some of the millions of Americans who made Donald Trump our president in an election that the liberal media, pollsters, and political elite never saw coming. They never saw it coming because they never took the time to talk to voters and understand their one simple request: change…”

In all candor, if honesty were dynamite, Barack Hussein couldn’t blow his nose.  Which should come as no surprise, given his…

…heredity.

In a related item brought to us by FOX News, Lauren Appell relates the depths of…

Deep State desperation: NYT op-ed, Woodward book and Kavanaugh antics reveal turmoil in DC

“The Washington establishment is frantically melting down, fearing that the end of the Trump era might not be near, and admitting that – surprise – the Deep State really does exist after all and is working overtime to stop President Trump.

President Trump’s opponents are scared that the big blue wave they hope will give Democrats majority control of the House of Representatives and Senate in the November midterm elections may never materialize, and may simply be a figment of their imaginations, hopes and dreams…”

Then there’s the reality revealed by the latest nameless attack on Trump, as, writing at NRO, David French pens…

“Dear Anonymous,

This isn’t normal Washington politics anymore. It’s not a game. Your instantly infamous New York Times op-ed has painted us a picture of your character, and it’s not pretty.

Let’s put this as bluntly as possible: If you’re actively defying the president to pursue your own preferred policies, you’re subverting an American presidential election. If you’re withholding from the American people actual hard evidence of presidential unfitness, then you’re placing your own career before your country. If you’re lying or badly exaggerating the facts for the thrill of constant media contact or the approval of your peers, then you’re just despicable.

…So here’s what you have to do: You have to identify yourself. You have to state the basis of your claims, name the cabinet members who “whispered” about removing the president, and state the reasons for their alarm. If what you say is true, the American people need to know. You need to tell them, and you need to do it not in a television interview or the pages of the Times, but in Congress, under oath, in front of the nation.

Yes, this will be hard. But if you truly believe the president is unfit, basic patriotism demands nothing less…”

Seriously, hike up your pants…or panties…and grow a set!!! 

Which brings us to another offering at NRO from Andy McCarthy, who asks what inquiring minds truly want to know:

Which begs the question why The Donald ever appointed him in the first place?!?

“For precisely what federal crimes is the president of the United States under investigation by a special counsel appointed by the Justice Department?

It is intolerable that, after more than two years of digging — the 16-month Mueller probe having been preceded by the blatantly suspect labors of the Obama Justice Department and FBI — we still do not have an answer to that simple question.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein owes us an answer.

To my mind, he has owed us an answer from the beginning, meaning when he appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller on May 17, 2017. The regulations under which he made the appointment require (a) a factual basis for believing that a federal crime worthy of investigation or prosecution has been committed; (b) a conflict of interest so significant that the Justice Department is unable to investigate this suspected crime in the normal course; and (c) an articulation of the factual basis for the criminal investigation — i.e., the investigation of specified federal crimes — which shapes the boundaries of the special counsel’s jurisdiction.

This last provision is designed to prevent a special counsel’s investigation from becoming a fishing expedition — or what President Trump calls a “witch hunt,” what DAG Rosenstein more diplomatically disclaims as an “unguided missile,” and what Harvard’s Alan Dershowitz, invoking Lavrentiy Beria, Stalin’s secret-police chief, pans as the warped dictum, “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.” In our country, the crime triggers the assignment of a prosecutor, not the other way around…”

Turning to The Lighter Side:

Then there’s this series of assorted memes forwarded by Balls Cotton:

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Finally, courtesy of the WSJ, we’ll call it a day with…

A ‘Cosby Show’ Lesson

Cast member Geoffrey Owens on the dignity of honest work.

A funny thing happened on the way to job-shaming a once-famous actor who was found working at a minimum-wage job. Instead of mocking the man’s fall from show-biz celebrity, America has embraced him as a champion of the work ethic.

In his younger days, Geoffrey Owens played Bill Cosby’s son-in-law Elvin on the hit series, “The Cosby Show.” When news broke last week that Mr. Owens was spotted bagging groceries at a Trader Joe’s in surburban New Jersey, he says he was devastated. But on ABC’s Good Morning America on Tuesday—where he appeared proudly sporting a Yale cap and his red Trader Joe’s badge—Mr. Owens said the devastation didn’t last long because of the outpouring of support he received.

One of those supporters was former NFL player and actor Terry Crews. “I swept floors AFTER the @NFL,” he tweeted. “If need be, I’d do it again. Good honest work is nothing to be ashamed of.” To Mr. Owens’ delight, Mr. Crews’ view turned out to be the dominant one.

This is a lesson for those inclined to speak contemptuously of “McJobs” or “dead end jobs,” as Mr. Owens explained. No one should feel sorry for him, he said. He’s had a great life and is doing what he wants to do. (See our opening at the top of the page.) Though some jobs may pay better or be more glamorous, no job is morally superior to another.

Though this story will soon pass, Mr. Owens said, “I hope what doesn’t pass is this rethinking of what it means to work, the honor of the working person and the dignity of work.”

To which we can only add a hearty AMEN!!!

Magoo

P.S.  We’ll shortly be heading west for the 2018 Bob Hope Invitational at Lakeside Golf Club, the greatest golf tournament on the planet.  So, likely ’til Wednesday, September 19th…

Magoo