With the Liberal Media brimming daily with stories about BLTs (Bi-sexuals, Lesbians, Transgenders) you probably wondered - as did the editors at RedStateVT - just how many individuals of each category there are here in America.
Well, wonder no more.
A ground-breaking study using state-of-the-art statistical analysis has recently been completed by RedStateVT which answers this question. The results may surprise you.
RedStateVT developed a proprietary sampling methodology which for competitive reasons we will not disclose. We can say, however, that our approach was to first tabulate the frequency of stories about BLTs in the New York Times and on Rachel Maddow's show on MSNBC and then to compare this number to overall U.S. demographics.
Here are the results:
Bisexuals - 29%
Lesbians - 21%
Transgenders - 12%
Not BLT - 51%
(Note - numbers do not add up to 100% due to rounding and overlap between BLTs, i.e. some Bisexuals are also Lesbians, some Transgenders are also Bisexual.)
Clearly America is at a tipping point. RedStateVT predicts that within 18 months, the "Not BLT" group will be less than 50%.
Other predictions:
Hillary Clinton will be the first bi-sexual president.
Vermont will have a transgender governor before the end of 2015.
Histrionics
Mr. Baquet becomes the first African-American to serve as The Times’s executive editor. Ms. Abramson’s hiring also made history — she was the first woman to run the newspaper. Her dismissal, after less than three years in the job, was met with disappointment by some women in the newsroom, and could be perceived as a step backward in the cause of female leadership at The Times and elsewhere in the industry. (New York Times, 5/15/2014)
At the Times, the recent management change is all about checking off the boxes to prove how open minded they are. The first lesbian is replaced by the first African-American, presumably to be eventually replaced by the first transgendered individual. Only then will we know that the Times is serious about equality!
We will know that the Times is serious about running their business as a business when they announce that they have hired "the most qualified person for the job."
College Daze
In a story that only a Liberal newspaper could or would write about higher education in America, the New York Times asks the question: Who Gets to Graduate? Yes, who GETS to graduate, as though graduating from college is not the result of hard work, but rather of privilege. Helpfully, the Times tells us this:
"...whether a student graduates or not seems to depend today almost entirely on just one factor — how much money his or her parents make. To put it in blunt terms: Rich kids graduate; poor and working-class kids don’t." (New York Times, 5/15/2014)
We are not sure how that works. Rich kids buy their diplomas maybe? Helpfully, the Times presents us with a poor victim, Vanessa. Here are a few facts about Vanessa:
....Vanessa’s mother, then a high-achieving high-school senior in a small town in Arkansas, became pregnant with Vanessa.....Vanessa’s parents divorced when she was 12.....And then, a month into the school year, Vanessa stumbled. She failed her first test in statistics, a prerequisite for admission to the nursing program.
Call us crazy, but maybe there is something else besides wealth going on here.
Liberal Contributions to Culture
Speaking of higher education, read below what one Professor Victor Corona of FIT has to say about one Michael Alig who was released from prison:
Victor P. Corona, a sociology professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology, said that Mr. (Michael) Alig is a bona fide fashion icon, one who paid his debt to society and made a lasting contribution to culture. In a planned book, “Downtown Superstars: Inside Three Generations of New York Fame,” he makes the case that Mr. Alig is a bridge between Andy Warhol’s Factory and Lady’s Gaga’s fashion and music. (New York Times, 5/15/2014)
Wow, a bridge between Andy Warhol and Lady Gaga! But, we are still skeptical, what exactly did this cultural icon do to land himself in prison? Oh, this:
On a Sunday night in March 1996, Mr. Alig and Robert Riggs, known as Freeze, killed Mr. Melendez during an argument over money and drugs in Mr. Alig’s apartment on West 43rd Street. During a scuffle, Mr. Riggs hit Melendez with a hammer. Mr. Alig then suffocated him with a sweatshirt and poured Drano down his throat, he said, before dumping the body in the bathtub, pouring ice over it and abandoning the apartment for the next nine days. Then, high on heroin, Mr. Alig dismembered the corpse to get rid of it.
Got it.
Maybe Vanessa and others are better off NOT going to college....
Americans - even many of the poorest - enjoy a level of material abundance unthinkable just a generation ago. (New York Times, 5/1/2014)
Despite this promising opening, the New York Times - in its latest discussion of poverty in America - reverts to true form and serves up three victims of poverty. Let's meet them.
First up we have Tammie Hagen-Noey age 49. What do learn about Tammie? Well, according to the Times, she "tapped at an iPhone as she sat on the porch of the group home where she lives..." Yes, Tammie has an iPhone. We know wealthy people who do not have iPhones, but apparently Tammie deems it a bare necessity. Readers can easily do the math to figure what the purchase and ongoing fees cost Tammie. Just a thought, but would it be cheaper for Tammie to have a basic cell phone without a data plan? Apparently an expensive smartphone is de rigueur for some of today's poor. Next we learn that Tammie "is trying to rebuild her finances, which have been decimated by divorce, government liens and addiction." Sounds like Tammie has made some bad choices along the way. How much, we wonder, has Tammie spent along the way on her addiction? And finally, we see a picture of Tammie in her group home bedroom. Wearing a sleeveless shirt we note that Tammie is sporting a large tatoo. How much did THAT cost? Yes Tammie is a victim. A victim of her own poor decisions, maybe?
Next we meet Tiffany Beroid who is 29 and works at Walmart. Good for her! Tiffany is married and her husband also works. Good for them! So far so good. There is a problem, however. Tiffany and her husband are getting pinched financially the Times tells us because of the high cost of child care. So while we applaud both Tiffany and her husband for their work ethic, we do have to question their decision to have child. An entirely voluntary decision. We know many working couples over the years who have delayed having children until they could afford to do so. Is it the responsibility of taxpayers - including those with no children or those with grown children or the elderly - to subsidize those who have children that they apparently cannot afford?
Finally we meet the also hard-working 38 year old Bobby Bingham. Bobby works three jobs and seven days a week. In that sense, Bobby is our hero. He gets up every morning, puts his boots on and gets to work. There is (again) a problem though. Bobby owes $30,000 in student loans and has $12,000 in credit card debt. How did THAT happen? What caused Bobby to rack up such massive debt? We don't know because the Times does not tell us, but there is, no doubt, some explanation which deserves further examination. Did Bobby too make some poor decisions along the way?
And so while President Obama and fellow Democrats talk incessantly about income inequality, RedStateVT again asks: to what extent are the poor in America responsible for their own condition? Our Judeo Christian heritage calls for compassion for those in need and we heartily embrace (and practice) lending a hand to the less fortunate. Oh, and we also embrace the concept of "tough love."
Land Ho!
Gov. Peter Shumlin is willing to sell the East Montpelier land back to his next-door neighbor for the money he’s put into it, his lawyer said Wednesday.
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Shumlin bought the property last year for $58,000 from Dodge, who faced losing the home he’d inherited from his parents because of overdue taxes. Friends and family of Dodge recently raised questions about the fairness of the deal for a 16-acre property now assessed at $140,000. They said Dodge, who didn’t finish high school and has been in and out of jail for various misdemeanors, lacked the ability to understand his options.
The unusual deal that Shumlin originally penned on the back of a manila folder, has generated a lot of interest among Vermonters and created an image problem for the governor. Some contend he was a savvy, millionaire real estate developer outfoxing a man who was down on his luck. Shumlin has argued he was responding to a neighbor’s request for help when no one else appeared willing. (Burlington Free Press, 6/7/2013)
OK RedStateVT readers here is a test. What does the sleazy real estate deal of Vermont's Governor remind you of? We'll give you a hint...think Chicago.
That's right, congratulations! The answer is Barack Obama's shady real estate deal with convicted felon Tony Rezko.
Here is an extra credit question. What ELSE does the sleazy real estate deal of Vermont's Governor remind you of? The hint this time is...think the backwoods of Arkansas.
Right again! Bill and Hill Clinton's infamous Whitewater scandal. (No, we haven't let the scandal in which the revered senior statesman of the Democrat party committed adulterous acts with a White House employee make us forget one of the earlier of Bill's many other scandals.)
What IS it with Dems and their shady real estate deals?
Inheritance
Mr. Obama acknowledged that he had hesitations when he inherited the program from George W. Bush, but told reporters that he soon became convinced of its necessity. “You can’t have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience,” he said. “We’re going to have to make some choices as a society.” (NYT, 6/7/2013)
Perhaps the best thing Obama has said as president. We also appreciated it when he added: "And it turns out George Bush and Dick Cheney were right all along."
OK, we made up that last part.
Robusto
President Obama on Friday offered a robust defense of the government surveillance programs revealed this week, and sought to reassure the public that his administration has not become a Big Brother with eyes and ears throughout the world of online communications. (NYT, 6/7/2013)
This may be nitpicking, but did the New York Times ever refer to a Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld defense of the Patriot Act as a "robust defense?" We don't think so.
