A coin toss is racist

Posted on Saturday, February 10, 2018 by BZ

Another issue ripped from today’s screaming headlines.

#YouCan’tMakeThisShitUp

Winter Olympics 2018: Shani Davis suggests decision to make Erin Hamlin US flag bearer was racially motivated

by Ian Ransom

American speed skater posted on Twitter that the toss of a coin decision was ‘dishonourable’ before adding the hash tag ‘BlackHistoryMonth’ after he skipped the opening ceremony

American luger Erin Hamlin said it was “too bad” that there was disappointment about her carrying the United States’ flag at the 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony and that any athlete would have felt honoured to accept the task.

Bronze medallist Hamlin was awarded the flag over Shani Davis by the toss of a coin, angering the twice Olympic champion speed skater who became the first black athlete to claim an individual medal in 2006.

The flag-bearer is chosen by a vote of the eight US winter sports federations but the result was tied at 4-4 between Hamlin and Davis and a coin was used to break the tie, in keeping with United States Olympic Committee [USOC] rules.

Okay. Anyone can be disappointed by losing a coin toss to represent the United States. I get it. Olympians are competitive.

But wait; there’s more.

Hamlin, who will retire after the Games, became the first American female luger to win an Olympic medal when she won bronze in Sochi four years ago.

Davis had tweeted that the coin toss was a “dishonorable” method to decide and added the hashtag “BlackHistoryMonth2018”, suggesting racial bias was involved. He declined to march at the opening ceremony.

Okay, so a puerile, jejune competitor decides to “sit out” the opening of the 2018 Winter Olympics because he lost a coin toss? No, actually it’s much more than that. It’s the underlying foundation of why he made the decision and proffered his statements.

It’s because he feels entitled to do so due to recent actions by black NFL players and Colin Kaepernick. It’s because he knows it’s the “milk run” of retorts. It’s also because of two additional factors: he has insufficient intelligence to make an otherwise cogent rebuttal and, finally, he exposes his own racism.

It’s the easiest route of a racist lout.

Sorry, it really doesn’t get more complicated than that.

And it’s so damned tedious.

BZ’s Berserk Bobcat Saloon Radio Show, Thursday, 2-8-18

Posted on Friday, February 9, 2018 by BZ

Featuring Right thinking from a left brain, doing the job the American Media Maggots won’t, embracing ubiquitous, sagacious perspicacity and broadcasting behind enemy lines in Occupied Fornicalia from the veritable Belly of the Beast, the Bill Mill in Sacramento, Fornicalia, I continue to proffer my thanks to the SHR Media Network for allowing me to utilize their studio and hijack their air twice weekly, Tuesdays and Thursdays, thanks to my shameless contract, as well as appear on the Sack Heads Radio Show each Wednesday evening.

Tonight I walked up to the locked studio gate and realized that I had actually remembered to bring all the keys — as opposed to last Tuesday. See? I can possess a memory when necessary.

It was an in-depth 35-tab show so I crossed fingers, toes and eyes hoping that the laptop driving my audio and article cuts stayed alive. I was hoping no one drank my technological milkshake.

“May you live in interesting times” doesn’t even cut it any more. The playing field changes not just monthly but weekly and daily and — these days — hourly.

No competent writer of fiction could come up with such a tangled, complicated, arcane, conspiratorial and corruptive story.

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Your happiest songs?

Posted on Thursday, February 8, 2018 by BZ

You and I both have a song. Maybe a number of songs.

A song that, when heard, simply brings a smile to your face. You just can’t help it.

Name some. Name one. Name two.

Here are some of my submissions coming immediately to mind.

1. Mr Blue Sky, by ELO

2. Reelin’ In The Years, by Steely Dan

3. Candy O, by the Cars.

4. Sergeant Fury, by the Sensational Alex Harvey Band

5. Livin’ In the Sunlight, by Geoff Muldaur

6. C’mon Everybody, by Humble Pie

7. California Man, by Cheap Trick

8. Long Cool Woman, by The Hollies

Shh. Quiet. Don’t tell anyone that I like to sing each and every one of these songs.

And these are only a few.

What are the songs that immediately bring a smile to your face — or that you associate with good times?

BZ’s Berserk Bobcat Saloon Radio Show, Tuesday, 2-6-18

Posted on Tuesday, February 6, 2018 by BZ

Tonight I walked up to the locked studio gate and realized, at the last moment, that I didn’t have my keys. I’d already spent 20 minutes to get there. I drove 20 minutes back to my wife’s house in order to nab said set of keys, then drove 20 minutes returning to the studio. By that time it was five minutes to showtime. Gulp!

It was an in-depth 33-tab show so I rushed quick like a bunny so as to begin the broadcast in a timely fashion; that is to say, at the time I customarily start.

Tonight I promised we’d get into any number of issues about illegal immigration but, for good or bad, I focused on the memo, the dossier, the state of our nation and what it all means.

I wrapped things up by belatedly acknowledging my one year anniversary with the SHR Media Network. I am humbled and honored to be on this network and to have had owners Shaun and Clint place no obstacles whatsoever in the path of my show and, further, to have them place no strictures on its content. One could not ask for a more free and Constitution-adhering set of owners or company.

So then I did some politics.

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The FBI: massacred by mid-and-upper management

Posted on Monday, February 5, 2018 by BZ

Few trust the FBI any more.

With good reason considering recent revelations.

It used to be the premiere federal law enforcement agency. I worked for the FBI. They are a proud organization used to adhering to the triad of Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity.

They are no longer so. Mid-to-upper level management — particularly James Brien Comey — ensured most of the trust the organization garnered in decades past has “left the building.”

The 7th floor couldn’t be more corrupt. Oh wait, yes it could. James Comey could walk back there for a visit.

It is now revealed: the FBI paid for the dossier. Cash. Your hard-earned American Taxpayer dollars. For oppo research. You know the rest. From the WashingtonTimes.com:

FBI hired dossier author Steele to investigate Trump, fired him for lying about media leaks

by Rowan Scarborough

The FBI officially authorized payments to Christopher Steele, who wrote the infamous Trump–Russia dossier, but then fired the former British spy for lying to agents about his covert leaks to the news media.

That’s a rather heady first paragraph.

Direct linkage from the FBI to the dossier. In terms of cash money. Paid. For oppo research. And former FBI agent Josh Campbell expects us to cry buckets of tears because he feels offended that the FBI has somehow become diminished in the eyes of the American public. Suck it up, buttercup. Your “leadership” put you there. I drink your disingenuous tears. You can pull the Martyr Bayonet out of your chest now. It ain’t playing and, worse, it’s poor stage blood.

The sequence of events is outlined in the declassified memo released Friday by Rep. Devin Nunes, California Republican and chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

The Nunes memo is the first official confirmation that the FBI hierarchy made a decision to start paying Mr. Steele and why the deal fell through. Justice Department witnesses in public have declined to confirm such a deal.

But wait. Hasn’t it been the various guilty parties who’ve insisted our alphabet agencies are strictly secular and have no political inclinations whatsoever? Like, say, the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, et al?

James Clapper unmasked members of Congress for Barack Hussein Obama.

Didn’t James Clapper unmask Donald John Trump?

These cuts, of course, are conveniently forgotten and purposely avoided by the American Media Maggots because they doesn’t “fit.” You know why.

The memo shows that the bureau was using Mr. Steele’s unverified Democratic Party-financed dossier not only to obtain a court-ordered wiretap on Trump volunteer Carter Page, but it also wanted a commitment to a longer-term financial agreement with the former British intelligence officer to continue investigating President Trump.

If he had not lied, Mr. Steele, who vowed to ruin the Trump candidacy, could have been investigating Mr. Trump from the postelection transition into his presidency.

Your FBI at work, continuing to cement the relationship between — wait. What?

Apparently Leftists fervently believe we have no memory or access to this kind of unusual thingie called the internet. Where moments in time can live in perpetuity.

More damning yet is this:

Mr. Steele denied to the FBI that he was feeding his discredited information to the press. But on Oct. 30, 2016, an article in Mother Jones magazine quoted an unidentified former spy — who was obviously Mr. Steele — discussing his dossier and the FBI investigation.

The narrative is laid out in the Nunes memo. It notes that at the time the FBI sought the Page warrant on Oct. 21 “the FBI had separately authorized payment to Steele” for the same information the bureau submitted to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court for the warrant. Mr. Steele wrote his last election dossier memo on Oct. 19, apparently ending his $160,000 in payments from Fusion GPS, the investigative firm that had hired him to produce the dossier.

How wonderful for you. Paying taxpayer dollars for the device that a politicized FBI and DOJ via the NSA decided to weaponize against, first, an American citizen (in violation of section 702), a presidential candidate and then an actual sitting president because — do we know precisely when the surveillance stopped?

No. We do not. But this is also important:

The dossier was exclusively funded by Democrats beginning in June 2016 through Fusion GPS, according to court and congressional hearings. The Washington Free Beacon had paid Fusion for Trump opposition research but broke off that arrangement in April.

Your FBI.