Hard to argue this one

 This is re-printed from 'The Catholic Register:

Treating Blacks As Inferior Bill Donohue January 28, 2026  Scenario:   "The Jones family lives in apartment 3A in an inner-city neighborhood, populated by non-whites. On a Friday night, they hear a child in 3B screaming his head off, begging the attacker not to hit him again. But the yelling and crying escalate. Mrs. Jones calls the city’s child services unit, alerting them to this dire situation. She does not leave her name for fear of reprisal. "New York State Gov. Kathy Hochul says Mrs. Jones is the problem, not the abused child. Indeed, she believes Jones is fomenting racism. That is why she recently signed a law making anonymous tips to the Administration for Children’s Services illegal. She says what Mrs. Jones did helps drive “inexcusable racial disparities that disproportionately impact Black and Brown families by leading to unnecessary interactions with child welfare services.” Looks like a "Karen" to me. "It does not matter to Hochul that black children are more than three times (three times) as likely to die of abuse and neglect than white children. Nor does it matter to her that the data show that anonymous tips are very reliable and lead to more children being saved. Even more bizarre, it does not matter to her that those who leave anonymous tips about minority children being endangered are typically of the same racial and ethnic group. To be blunt, Whitey does not live in 3B. "Hochul’s mindset is the problem, and it is one that is shared by left-wing theorists and activists across the country. They believe that racial  disparities are a function of discrimination, though they make an exception when it comes to sports: there is no problem with having an all-black basketball team. But when it comes to academic achievement, if blacks do poorly vis-a-vis whites and Asians, instead of helping them do better, they attack the test. They do so because they sincerely don’t believe blacks can do better. "Oregon led all states in developing “equity education.” Because academic achievement standards, namely testing, revealed racial disparities, the state declared war on testing. A few years ago, it suspended the graduation requirement for math, reading, and writing until the 2027-2028 academic year. It did so in the name of “equity.” “Equity,” however, means fairness, and it is manifestly unfair to blacks that their white liberal teachers and administrators have totally given up on them, choosing to kill the test rather than helping them pass it. Black parents, we have seen from other studies, resolutely believe in testing, otherwise, they say, how do they know if their child is succeeding or not. "New York City has embraced “equity education.” Educators did away with Regents exams as a condition of receiving a diploma, choosing instead to evaluate students on such attributes as “cultural competence,” whatever that means. They have made it almost impossible for students to fail. "Students who are chronically absent obviously do not do well in school, but that doesn’t bother white liberals such as former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. What bothered him was teachers keeping tabs on attendance; blacks were more likely to be absent than whites. "De Blasio “solved” this problem by eliminating “seat time” as a requirement to pass. His black successor, Mayor Eric Adams, made attendance optional, proving that black liberals have also given up on black students. The result: four in ten low-income and minority students are chronically absent. Many can’t read, write or do arithmetic. "Those who run Catholic schools and charter schools place demands on their students, regardless of race or class. They succeed because they treat blacks as equals. Something novel. "When I taught in a Catholic elementary school in Spanish Harlem, a public school teacher who occasionally taught remedial subjects to struggling students took issue with me for rejecting a homework assignment from one of my students because the paper she turned in was ripped from a coiled-ring loose-leaf binder. The jagged edges, I said, were unacceptable. "The teacher told me that we can’t expect anything different from these students because they come from a bad neighborhood. I know about the neighborhood, I replied—I spend more time in it than you do, I said. Then I asked her if she would accept such a sloppy homework assignment from a white student in a middle-class neighborhood. She just stared at me. "This teacher, and legions like her, would bristle at the mere suggestion that they are racists. But their refusal to hold blacks to the same standards as everyone else, demanding proficiency, is demonstrably racist in effect, if not intent. "The same is true of Hochul. Her major concern is the appearance of racial disparities, not the underlying reasons for them. In this case, it means more black kids will be beaten and abused now that anonymous tips are rejected. "Low expectations breed low demands, which yields low performance. When they are selectively employed on the basis of race, it smacks of racism. If only Hochul and her ilk treated blacks as equals, and not as inferior, we would have a shot at achieving real racial equality.

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You can kiss that goodbye

 CUSMA.  Thanks to Carney, that deal is dead.  As a doornail.  Whether or not Trump was looking for an excuse to kill it, Carney has driven in the last nail.

With Trump all over the map with announcements, tariffs and havoc in Minneapolis, the world is on the back foot on every front and Carney isn't helping with his mendacious speech in Davos -- a direct attack on Trump, but without the direct part.  Didn't make any difference.  Trump came down hard on us.  

Expect more of this

How this will eventually play out all depends on the pressure the governors of those states negatively affected by his tariffs put on him.  They are the only ones who can effect change.  Or can they?  Trump can't run again, so maybe it's damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead while he can.  Who cares about the governors!

As I have said many times, Carney doesn't even live here.  He and his family live in New York.  He also holds Irish and British passports and has billions in a "blind" trust, managed by his inside man Sabia, to fall back on.  He'll be fine.  

It's Canada that will be left in ruins, thanks to his hubris and need to personally assert himself.  B calls it "ducks' disease", i.e., his a-se is too close to the ground.  The short man syndrome has taken hold in Carney and I believe that.  As I also say, everything is personal and all policies come from a leader's life experience.  Just human nature.

So, hang onto your hats, folks!  As the great Bette Davis said in 'All About Eve',  "It's going to be a bumpy night!"

 

 

The crap up with which they must put

I'm talking about teachers.  As you know, I am a volunteer tutor, grades two and four, for both English and French immersion students at the local elementary school and the tales I have heard from teachers are appalling.

"It was the worst and most abusive meeting I have ever had to attend," one teacher told me the other day.  In this case, the teacher had to endure an hour-long harangue by the parents of a very difficult and barbaric student who pulls her hair, sticks gum into it and stomps on other students.

This is what teachers have to put up with.

"Wasn't the vice principal there?" I asked.  "Yes, but that didn't stop them."  How appalling.  This teacher even missed a dinner with her Father because she had to sit and endure diatribes and peroration from the very parents who had created the little monster.

What has happened to our educational system?  Since when do seven-year-olds get to behave like that?  And since when have parents been allowed to climb all over teachers when it's their own kids who are the problem?  Back when I was in school, if anything went wrong, the parents always backed the teachers.  

I know, I know, people say the teachers have it easy -- big summer and Christmas vacations, huge salaries and benefits -- but I have seen firsthand what they have to put up with.  Frankly, it shocked me.

Kids wander the halls at will, yell and pretty much do as they please, regardless of how much it upsets fellow classmates and teachers.

So, the next time you're tempted to complain about teachers and their perks, remember this tale.  There are many others similar.

Societal norms are expanding

 

Normalizing Obscenities  Bill Donohue January 21, 2026  A Catholic League staffer was recently having dinner with friends at a New York steakhouse when she witnessed a table of several mature women talking loudly, some of whom were throwing around the “f-word" with abandon. It used to be that such language would be heard in pubs, but not in pricey restaurants, much less by women in their senior years. (Note:  I use it frequently, but never in an offensive way.) But times have changed. The dumbing down of language, just like the dumbing down of virtually every other standard of decency, has become the norm. President Trump, and Biden before him, have certainly made their contributions to this end.   We can blame the entertainment industry and the media for normalizing obscenities. Movies have long featured expletives, but now TV shows and the mainstream media are following suit.   Last Friday I was reading a news story in the New York Times on the anti-ICE protest in Minneapolis. It quoted the Minneapolis mayor, Jacob Frey, saying the government's position was "bull - - -," I have been reading this newspaper for decades, and I honestly don't recall reading this word spelled out in a news article before. Then I read the next sentence. It quoted Frey telling ICE to "get the f---out” of Minneapolis"; the obscene word was printed in full.   Last night, I heard Fox News host Greg Gutfeld complaining how insincere the anti-ICE protesters are about the welfare of illegal aliens. He said, "they don't give two s---s about these people." He was not censored. The show airs at a time when children watch TV.   Today, in the New York Times, there is an op-ed by John McWhorter, a linguist who teaches at Columbia University. He is celebrating the increased use in public of the "f-word." He says, "I actually think it's a positive development." He opined, "The normalization of the word…is a sign of maturity in American English." Ironically, he chose not to spell it, instead referring to it as the "F-word." He concluded saying he was "happy" that we are "getting to the point where we can all speak the way we think and live."   What about the "n-word"? Would McWhorter, who is black (I happen to admire his work on race), celebrate its invocation on TV and in newspapers? If not, why not? Why wouldn't it be a sign of maturity?   A number of years ago on CNN I was objecting to the display of some obscene artistic display when the host smugly chided me for not respecting free speech, the way the cable channel does. I immediately challenged him, saying they would not allow me to say the "n-word" on TV, only I actually said the word." I smiled, but he didn't, when they – rightfully – censored me. "See," I said.   We decided to find out how some of the big media have been handling this issue. We looked at AP (Associated Press), the New York Times and the Washington Post. We found that in more recent times, all three are more likely to spell out the "f-word" than the "n-word." Nice to know what offends, and does not offend, liberal elites.   Why should this matter? Every survey in this century on the subject of civility and the moral order shows that Americans – across all demographics – are genuinely concerned about what has been happening. Things are going south. When people treat linguistic offenses like pedestrian commentary, they are letting their guard down. By itself such a phenomenon will not change our cultural landscape, when it is coupled with other attempts to normalize deviancy, it certainly does.   In the 1990s, Daniel Patrick Moynihan warned that "we have been redefining deviancy so as to exempt much conduct previously stigmatized, and also quietly raising the 'normal' level in categories where behavior is not abnormal by any earlier standard." Agreeing with him in his American Educator article, "Defining Deviancy Down," was Jon Cole. As an example of what Moynihan noted, he said were increased incidents of "profane and abusive language" targeted at teachers by their students.   Normalizing obscenities is not worth celebrating. It only increases the coarseness that has engulfed our society.

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Bumped into one today

"He's amassed a billion dollars since he took over," said a guy at the pool this morning.  "Carney," I assumed.  "No, Trump.  Carney has completely divested himself of all his companies, so he's clean," said this Albertan dunce.

"He was one of the only leaders who got a standing ovation," he added, proving in his mind how brilliant Carney was.  No, he got a standing ovation because everyone at Davos is like-minded and completely ineffectual, not because he was brilliant.

After his little tirade at the WEF, Carney hightailed it out of town before Trump arrived.  Remember when we used to ring people's doorbells and run away?  Ya, like that.

I didn't even bother to respond.  He is one of the 80 percenters who still think Carney is doing a great job.  Their ignorance is breathtaking!  Canadians still think Carney is in it for Canada.  Have another think, folks.  Carney still has all his Brookfield stock and guess where so many contracts the government lets are going?  Rhetorical.

His portfolio is managed in a "blind" trust by none other than his old buddy the clerk of the Privy Council, Michael Sabia.  Talk about a conflict of interest.  Ethics commissioner Konrad von Finkenstein should hang is head in shame.  Better still, if he continues to hang out in concert with the big dogs who break all the rules he is supposed to enforce, he should resign.

Tash Kheiriddin has a great take on what Canada is facing.  "The U.S. is waging a hybrid war on our country.  We are now in direct economic and political conflict with our formerly closest ally.

"Canada cannot defend our Arctic against Russia and China.  Mark Norman, former deputy chief of the defence staff, believes we should establish a permanent NATO command base at Iqaluit, with boots on the ground.  

"Canada should align itself with other NATO allies in the Arctic because if we are to survive as a nation, we need all the help we can get."

I agree with Norman, but Carney is fancifully pirouetting around Davos with his buddies dancing the horn pipe and I don't think gives a toss about Canada and our precarious plight.  Afterall, his billions are safe.  He lives in New York, so perhaps the Stars and Stripes Trump draped all over a map of Canada yesterday doesn't fuss him in the least.

Our fate?

He also holds Irish and British passports, two more safe havens to which he can dash if Canada is swallowed up by the U.S.  The rest of us, however, are stuck.

A 'Homey' from 'The Hood' goes to Buckingham Palace

But she didn't last long.  I mean, you can take the girl out of The Hood, but you can't take The Hood out of the girl.  Of course, I'm talking about the odious Meghan Markle.   

Meghan from 'The Hood'.

Meghan, deviously now white.

When this all-star, blue ribbon, naked opportunist set her sights on the hapless Prince Harry, he was doomed.  Even as an actress, she couldn't pull off pretending to be a princess.  Her all-consuming jealousy and desire to be 'numero uno' overcame her; she couldn't abide the pecking order of the Monarchy.  I mean, did she actually think she could, or was entitled to, upstage the Queen and Princess of Wales?!  Evidently yes.

That mocking and appalling curtsey of The Queen she pulled on that interview showed just how really tawdry and low-class she is.  It was cringe-worthy.

I guess there's something to be said about breeding -- even the "in" variety.  Royals are bred to behave and to conform to age-old norms and rules.  Meghan, on the other hand, was bred to scratch and claw her way up the ladder, stepping on and destroying anyone and anything in her path.  She has dropped and shunned countless friends along the way.  

(It's important to remember that I am writing about stereotypes on both sides, not all cases of each culture.) 

Witness her poor father, the guy who raised her, paid for education and got her into show business.  He's now been kicked to the curb, even as he lies gravely ill in a hospital with an amputated leg.  I mean, what kind of person does that?

Apparently, Harry was so p-ssy-whipped he succumbed.  An acquaintance of ours once revealed she kept her husband under control that way:  "P-ssy power", she called it, pointing to that region of her body and laughing.  I kid you not.  So, Meghan dragged poor Harry to where she was most comfortable:  The Hood, where any tactic is fair game.  Now, according to polls, she is the most disliked public figure in the world and he's a figure of pity and ridicule.

Great work, Harry!  By hooking up with this vile person, you went from being the most popular Royal to the least!

Now they are nobodies and disillusioned Harry has realized he is a cuckhold who's been had.  The rumours -- allegedly, reportedly -- are that it was Markel who destroyed Ben and Jessica Mulroney's marriage by sleeping with a duped Ben.  Hitherto, she and Jessica had been BFFs -- her kids were even in the wedding party -- but that all went kaput because of the alleged infidelity.

Now he's a hostage in California, where Meghan will be keeping his kids.  All he can do is visit The King now and then.  That's what he has been reduced to, just his father because William and the rest of the family have written him off entirely.

It's all so sad, but that's what you get when you marry the wrong person.  As my sensible Mother used to say, "It's easier to marry within your own station, dear."

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As always, this is not racist.  I don't care what colour you are, we are all the same race, the Human one.  Everything else is culture, upbringing and personal decisions.