Free at Last… Free at Last!

selfies-678x349After nearly eight years of oppression, we white people have finally broken the shackles of political correctness.

Kory Duquette – Arab, Alabama:

Trump has eliminated “that uncomfortable feeling of being afraid to speak your mind as a white man. There is nothing wrong with being white.”

Christine Bolan – St. Paul, Minnesota:

“Obama cared more about black people.” Democratic politicians have too often tried to make her “ashamed to be white.”

Richard Spencer – Whitefish, Montana:

“… white Americans of all classes revolting against political correctness.”

Feel better?

Religious Inclusiveness in Oklahoma

ok-earthquakeOklahoma Governor Mary Fallin recently compromised her Christian faith. She issued her annual “Oilfield Prayer Day” proclamation that stated, “Christians are invited to thank God for the blessings” created by the industry and to “seek His wisdom and ask for protection.” It also declared that Christians believe oil and natural gas are “created by God.”

Bowing to pressure from non-believers, she revised her decree to invite people of all faiths to pray for the industry. Apparently the blessings of fossil fuels apply to all, regardless of their religious beliefs.

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More From Molly

molly-ivins-color_img2Molly Ivins from 2003, Texas is the future:

“These are Shiite Republicans – they don’t compromise, they don’t deal, they don’t look for the middle way. Because they believe they’re right. They think it’s them against evil. And everybody who ain’t them is evil. I’m just warning you. This is about to happen everywhere. The whole country is being turned into the state whose proudest boast is that sometimes we’re ahead of Mississippi.”

Homelessness – the Way It Used to Be

sullivan1The Banfield Expressway plowed through Sullivan’s Gulch in the 1950s, displacing the few holdouts in what had been one of the largest homeless encampments in Portland. The “Hoovervilles” were named for President Herbert Hoover, who presided over the country’s descent into the Great Depression. By 1933, the northeast “Shantytown” had a population of 333 living in 131 shacks made from scrap wood, car parts, corrugated tin and cardboard boxes.

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