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Source: Asghar Farhadi wins the Oscar for best foreign film | Daily Mail Online

It’s not really a surprise to witness the ever expanding circle of nutters that collectively push the ‘progressive’ movement these days.  No subset of the population is so fringe that they can’t get sympathetic support from the inclusive and tolerant folk. No anti-social pronouncements or activities are considered too extreme for the loving left.

Part of a group that bombed police stations in your youth? Welcome aboard; heck, let’s instill you as a college professor. Unapologetic anti- semite and supporter of a radical black society? Hey, you get to be vice chairman of the Democrats!  Want the law to support your use of opposite sex washrooms because you just say you identify with that sex? You’re a prized member! Want free school, free health care, free housing and open borders? Well now that’s the core of the movement!

We’ve become accustomed to the endless parade of delusional people insisting that their sensibilities be accepted in some moral or even legal way. But even as the left has managed to lionize past dictators and murderers alike in romantic depictions, the most recent knee slapper at the Academy Awards has to make even the most ardent liberal pause to reflect on just how far over the abyss the left has moved.

Asghar Farhadi, an Iranian filmmaker had an acceptance speech readied for his award, which he didn’t expect to win, and so was delivered by a surrogate. But the speech was less one of appreciation than one of a scolding condemnation of the U.S. policy on immigrant screening. Apparently, it isn’t enough these days, “just to be nominated”.  To use his words, the U.S. policy is “inhumane”.  Think of that.  An Iranian citizen invoking the “I” word.  That’s as preposterous as Colonel Sanders lecturing on the rights of chickens.  Of course, the partisan sheeple in the audience clapped enthusiastically like trained seals in approval of his message.  It even earned a shaking fist of approval from Tehran.

Iran; ground central for terrorism funding, for honor killings, for public canings, for mandating that half of its citizens dress in body bags in 100 degree heat.  But that pales in comparison to the inhumane U.S. immigration procedures.  The guy made the correct decision not to come.  Who’d want to come to this hell hole anyway? Maybe he’ll stay out.

Update: Iran censors presenters

Source: The Doomsday Clock just advanced, ‘thanks to Trump’: It’s now just 2½ minutes to ‘midnight.’ – The Washington Post

You know what they say about a broken clock.  In that case, a broken clock would be more accurate than the ‘doomsday clock’ propagated by this cabal of atomic scientists for decades now.

The recent claim from this group is that because of Trump, the clock now figuratively points to a few minutes before kaboom day. Not North Korea’s version of Elmer Fudd playing with matches, not Iran enriching uranium for nuclear weapons, not Pakistan and India whom are already in possession of them and not Russia with their aggressive leader Putin.  Apparently, it’s the election of Donald Trump that pushes the minute hand on the death clock.

This of course is just one of the numerous swords of Damocles looming above the human race if you paid attention to the numerous chicken little industries that always seem to flourish.  The tin foil hat business should be booming.  When not paralyzed by the imminent threat of nuclear annihilation, people are also paying through confiscatory taxes to assuage the effects of hysterical global warming, also incidentally on the verge of irreversible damage.  Or at least, was a while ago.  They’ll have to push the date back a bit to get more money. But we get it; the end of the world isn’t always that easy to pinpoint.

No less than Stephen Hawking has raised the imminent possibility of alien takeover, not to mention the likelihood of a catastrophic asteroid strike. At various points in my lifetime, hysteria has been pushed on imminent human extinction events ranging from: starvation, disease, overpopulation, religious retribution, Y2K, global cooling, now of course, global warming, atomic war, asteroid crashes and alien takeover.  The one that will soon be in vogue will be robot takeover, so we may want to stock up on metal detectors.

Someone can certainly make a lot of money on this.  There’s no point being paralyzed like myotonic goats awaiting death. As mentioned earlier, fashionable tin foil hats can be offered for sale on Amazon.  What about worry beads? They’d have to be sustainable of course…though that shouldn’t really matter.  How about special lotion for all the hand wringing brought on by on-going angst? We hear of billionaires building bunkers in anticipation of the final kabing, so someone’s already taking advantage of the gullible.  Whatever the product, it may as well be shameless because there’s no downside.  If it all ends, well then you’ve done your bit.  If it doesn’t end, you at least get rich. Now that is a good ending.