If Congress authorizes B.O.'s billion-dollar climate change crapola fund, the Redcoats should be invited back to finish doing to Washington DC what they started in 1814.
If B.O. really cares about the drought-stricken California farmers, he would tell the EPA to screw the Delta Smelt (some of them are libertine Democrats and would try it) and give the farmers their irrigation back. Just like in Ethiopia, there's nothing like liberal policies to turn a farmer's paradise into a smoking desert. Your speeches won't help, Prez. Manure they already have.
Repeat after me, Tea Partiers:
John Boehner is not the enemy; he is an obstacle that can be moved. Barack Obama is the enemy, Harry Reid is the enemy, Nancy Pelosi is an enemy, Eric Holder is the enemy. We must make the Republicans allies or we will lose the future presently.
Moderate Republicans can be persuaded; Ronald Reagan did it. Nothing he did cannot be repeated if we learn from him. Persuasion works better than abuse. Abusing and demeaning Boehner while he was co-operating with us during the "shut-down" was a mistake. No-one will shake hands and become our allies while we are throwing bricks at them.
Nothing the moderates in the GOP want to do is nearly as stupid as carbon dioxide sequestration in air-tight containers in the soil, keeping the carbon dioxide from the plants that need it to grow. The Republican moderates do not wish to take over the health industry completely. They do not wish to destroy the coal industry and cripple American energy production. They do not want to destroy the California farming industry to protect a worthless five-inch fish. They do not want to force-feed student insufficient lunches that "taste like vomit". It is Democrats that want to do that.
Paul Ryan can be repaired. Harry Reid cannot.
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Friday, February 7, 2014
Why I don't use the term "gay"
I've been twittering (?) for 6-8 weeks now. It's often fun, it gives you a chance to correspond with the rich and/or famous (Charlie Daniels is a very nice man), and sometimes sadly it's an interesting cross-section of Internet humanity. Recently I had an experience that reminded me of why I refuse to call homosexuals "gay".
I saw an exchange of tweets between +KillerBunnyFooFoo (one of my favorites) and a self-professed homosexual man. Unsurprisingly, if you know our Bunny, they had a disagreement. Instead of meeting her on the intellectual fields of battle, he made it clear that he wanted to call her ... the 4 letter c-word that is not in the vocabulary of decent people. Bunny responded that homosexual men have often called her that illogical, unspeakable word. Being in a cheerful humor that night, I chipped in with my doubts that a homosexual man would not recognize one of the items he had referred to if he saw one. (Actually, the fact that he called Bunny one is proof positive that he knows not of what he speaks.) Looking back, I should have taken the clod's handle off of my response. Another mistake, I guess.
Most people, when they have been called out for being obnoxious, will back out of trouble with as much good grace as they can muster. Not our zero, though. He wrote "Your picture is a good start."
Now, the picture I use for my Twitter account is of one of my heroes, Marshal Josef Pilsudski, the hero of the Second Polish Republic. In fact, it is this photo:
... and boy genius called this picture a good start at understanding what one of "those" looks like.
That's too often the case with outspoken homosexuals. They are reflexively and venomously hostile to anyone and everyone who declines to celebrate their sexual disorientation. I would refuse to use the term "gay" anyway, because it is a smoke-screen meant to deceive instead of an accuracy meant to describe. However, my resolution is made far easier by the nasty, brutish way that certain homosexuals allow their reflexive hate overwhelm their desire to be persuasive or even logical.
Theories abound as to why homosexuals are so hostile to everyone who doesn't condone their behavior. My personal theory is that deep down, instinctively and without any regard for their protestations to the contrary, they know that there is something deeply wrong with them, no matter what the culture tells them.
If they wantto be treated with compassion (and most of us do), they could try being civil. That might help.
I saw an exchange of tweets between +KillerBunnyFooFoo (one of my favorites) and a self-professed homosexual man. Unsurprisingly, if you know our Bunny, they had a disagreement. Instead of meeting her on the intellectual fields of battle, he made it clear that he wanted to call her ... the 4 letter c-word that is not in the vocabulary of decent people. Bunny responded that homosexual men have often called her that illogical, unspeakable word. Being in a cheerful humor that night, I chipped in with my doubts that a homosexual man would not recognize one of the items he had referred to if he saw one. (Actually, the fact that he called Bunny one is proof positive that he knows not of what he speaks.) Looking back, I should have taken the clod's handle off of my response. Another mistake, I guess.
Most people, when they have been called out for being obnoxious, will back out of trouble with as much good grace as they can muster. Not our zero, though. He wrote "Your picture is a good start."
Now, the picture I use for my Twitter account is of one of my heroes, Marshal Josef Pilsudski, the hero of the Second Polish Republic. In fact, it is this photo:
... and boy genius called this picture a good start at understanding what one of "those" looks like.
That's too often the case with outspoken homosexuals. They are reflexively and venomously hostile to anyone and everyone who declines to celebrate their sexual disorientation. I would refuse to use the term "gay" anyway, because it is a smoke-screen meant to deceive instead of an accuracy meant to describe. However, my resolution is made far easier by the nasty, brutish way that certain homosexuals allow their reflexive hate overwhelm their desire to be persuasive or even logical.
Theories abound as to why homosexuals are so hostile to everyone who doesn't condone their behavior. My personal theory is that deep down, instinctively and without any regard for their protestations to the contrary, they know that there is something deeply wrong with them, no matter what the culture tells them.
If they wantto be treated with compassion (and most of us do), they could try being civil. That might help.
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Thoughts on Burt Prelutsky's February 5 blog posting
One reason I read every Burt Prelutsky blog posting is that he writes so many things that are fun to respond to. Not that I disagree -- far from it. You want to add detail and answer Burt's questions for him. It's like when I correspond with my friend Tony the Libertarian. It's about 15% debate and 85% sharing of information. (When we get together in person it's debate, information, and beer.)
For example, Burt wrote:
"Recently, Robert Gates garnered a great deal of attention for writing a book in which he took Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, to task. Once you got past the totally insincere compliments he apparently felt obliged to pay the first two, he basically made a case that none of them was to be trusted. Inasmuch as I had already come to that conclusion without his prompting, my question is why he didn t resign when he first discovered the truth about them."
The answer is that Robert Gates is old Beltway Bob, the man who just wants to be important among the government elites. He would run a department for any President - George Bush or Barack Obama, George Washington or Bill Clinton, George Patton or George McClellan. I always imagine him standing on a Washington DC street corner holding a sign "Will run government department for stature".
Then there was
" In the case of (NJ Governor Chris) Christie, it shouldn t have taken the bridge scandal to open the eyes of those morons who decided he should be our answer to Hillary in 2016. It s one thing for a guy who comes off like a thug to be the governor of New Jersey, and quite another to have his rump perched in the Oval Office."
I hope that Christie learned the lesson of the media laser beam focussed on him these last few weeks. When a Republican like Christie or John McCain spends too much time in the media spotlight, it's not because the media loves them for themselves, or because they're a "new kind of Republican". It's because the media is using them to divide and damage the GOP. When given an opportunity to destroy their "favorite Republican", however, the searchlight is intensified into a laser beam, and the basking becomes the burning.
Burt finished with this:
"Speaking of schools, the Civil Rights office in the Department of Education thinks it s because of racism that black and Hispanic students are suspended or kicked out of schools for disciplinary infractions far more often than white kids.
Just curious, but has it occurred to these bureaucratic pinheads that the lack of discipline might somehow be the result of illegitimacy rates that show that 72.3% of black kids are being raised by unmarried women, 53.3% of Hispanic kids and only 29.1% of white kids?
I grant that 29.1% is nothing to brag about. That is until you compare it to what s going on in the minority communities, where the overwhelming majority of males have gone AWOL, leaving it up to all those terrible white bigots to support their women and children.
But I expect it s too much to ask that people who are being paid to spot civil rights infractions ever bother looking into the actual source of the problem. After all, as the schools, the media and left-wing politicians keep insisting, members of minority groups must never be held responsible for their problems.
Besides, it s so much easier and a lot more fun to simply holler Racism! in a crowded theater."
To this I just shout "Amen!!"
To Fox News: Put this man on the air! The world has seen enogh of Karl Rove!
To everyone else: Subscribe to Burt Prelutsky's newsletter. It's a good source of information and a great source of fun, and don't we need THAT in Obamamerica?
For example, Burt wrote:
"Recently, Robert Gates garnered a great deal of attention for writing a book in which he took Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, to task. Once you got past the totally insincere compliments he apparently felt obliged to pay the first two, he basically made a case that none of them was to be trusted. Inasmuch as I had already come to that conclusion without his prompting, my question is why he didn t resign when he first discovered the truth about them."
The answer is that Robert Gates is old Beltway Bob, the man who just wants to be important among the government elites. He would run a department for any President - George Bush or Barack Obama, George Washington or Bill Clinton, George Patton or George McClellan. I always imagine him standing on a Washington DC street corner holding a sign "Will run government department for stature".
Then there was
" In the case of (NJ Governor Chris) Christie, it shouldn t have taken the bridge scandal to open the eyes of those morons who decided he should be our answer to Hillary in 2016. It s one thing for a guy who comes off like a thug to be the governor of New Jersey, and quite another to have his rump perched in the Oval Office."
I hope that Christie learned the lesson of the media laser beam focussed on him these last few weeks. When a Republican like Christie or John McCain spends too much time in the media spotlight, it's not because the media loves them for themselves, or because they're a "new kind of Republican". It's because the media is using them to divide and damage the GOP. When given an opportunity to destroy their "favorite Republican", however, the searchlight is intensified into a laser beam, and the basking becomes the burning.
Burt finished with this:
"Speaking of schools, the Civil Rights office in the Department of Education thinks it s because of racism that black and Hispanic students are suspended or kicked out of schools for disciplinary infractions far more often than white kids.
Just curious, but has it occurred to these bureaucratic pinheads that the lack of discipline might somehow be the result of illegitimacy rates that show that 72.3% of black kids are being raised by unmarried women, 53.3% of Hispanic kids and only 29.1% of white kids?
I grant that 29.1% is nothing to brag about. That is until you compare it to what s going on in the minority communities, where the overwhelming majority of males have gone AWOL, leaving it up to all those terrible white bigots to support their women and children.
But I expect it s too much to ask that people who are being paid to spot civil rights infractions ever bother looking into the actual source of the problem. After all, as the schools, the media and left-wing politicians keep insisting, members of minority groups must never be held responsible for their problems.
Besides, it s so much easier and a lot more fun to simply holler Racism! in a crowded theater."
To this I just shout "Amen!!"
To Fox News: Put this man on the air! The world has seen enogh of Karl Rove!
To everyone else: Subscribe to Burt Prelutsky's newsletter. It's a good source of information and a great source of fun, and don't we need THAT in Obamamerica?
Monday, February 3, 2014
Simple Truths for Complex Times
Just a few points and reminders:
Making law by executive order is unconstitutional, and therefore illegal. the states and the people are under no obligation to obey illegal laws, whether they be imposed by the power-mad President B.O. or by power-mad regulators. Encourage your state and local governments to decline to obey illegal enactments like the EPA's anti-scientific CO2 standards.
There is nothing in the Constitution that allows one federal judge the power to nullify the votes of millions of citizens who have expressed themselves by ballot and referendum. When a federal judge attempts to overrule a state law on anything - ANYTHING - that is not spelled out in the Constitution as a federal judicial power, the states should (politely, if possible; otherwise if necessary) tell the black-robed buttinski "Thanks for your opinion, but since you're not in our chain of command, we shall go forward as our citizens have determined to."
As Alan Caruba never tires of reminding us, carbon dioxide (usually deceptively referred to as carbon) is not a pollutant. It is, in fact, the second most important gas to life on Earth. It's plant oxygen. Anyone who tells you by any communications medium that CO2 is a danger to the planet is a charlatan or a simpleton, and should be treated accordingly.
On a less serious subject, isn't it high time the NFL dropped its silly Roman-numeraling of the Super Bowls? If they refuse, I think we should petition to have the next game played in Iowa and dubbed Super Bowl EIEIO.
The already infamous New Jersey lane closures on the George Washington Bridge going into Manhattan was scarcely the worst example of political retribution in the last five years. I remember the wildfires in Texas which threatened to burn down a large area of wooded land and make homeless many, many more people than were inconvenienced on the GW Bridge. (Also, you might consider which would upset you more -- getting stuck in a traffic jam or having your home burn down.) It became plain that the reason that B.O. refused to designate the wildfire areas as disaster areas was because Texas's Republican governor, Rick Perry, had criticised and challenged (albeit briefly) the great Bolshevik Barry. Knowing what we now know of the petty vindictiveness of the current President, I wouldn't be surprised to discover that B.O. let the homes burn to punish Texans for clinging to their guns, religion, and governor.
The notorious Hillary Rodham Clinton once scandalously said to General David Petraeus that accepting his testimony on the "Surge" in Iraq (which succeeded brilliantly) required "a willing suspension of disbelief". Accepting Hillary Clinton's testimony on any subject requires "a willing suspension of disbelief."
Making law by executive order is unconstitutional, and therefore illegal. the states and the people are under no obligation to obey illegal laws, whether they be imposed by the power-mad President B.O. or by power-mad regulators. Encourage your state and local governments to decline to obey illegal enactments like the EPA's anti-scientific CO2 standards.
There is nothing in the Constitution that allows one federal judge the power to nullify the votes of millions of citizens who have expressed themselves by ballot and referendum. When a federal judge attempts to overrule a state law on anything - ANYTHING - that is not spelled out in the Constitution as a federal judicial power, the states should (politely, if possible; otherwise if necessary) tell the black-robed buttinski "Thanks for your opinion, but since you're not in our chain of command, we shall go forward as our citizens have determined to."
As Alan Caruba never tires of reminding us, carbon dioxide (usually deceptively referred to as carbon) is not a pollutant. It is, in fact, the second most important gas to life on Earth. It's plant oxygen. Anyone who tells you by any communications medium that CO2 is a danger to the planet is a charlatan or a simpleton, and should be treated accordingly.
On a less serious subject, isn't it high time the NFL dropped its silly Roman-numeraling of the Super Bowls? If they refuse, I think we should petition to have the next game played in Iowa and dubbed Super Bowl EIEIO.
The already infamous New Jersey lane closures on the George Washington Bridge going into Manhattan was scarcely the worst example of political retribution in the last five years. I remember the wildfires in Texas which threatened to burn down a large area of wooded land and make homeless many, many more people than were inconvenienced on the GW Bridge. (Also, you might consider which would upset you more -- getting stuck in a traffic jam or having your home burn down.) It became plain that the reason that B.O. refused to designate the wildfire areas as disaster areas was because Texas's Republican governor, Rick Perry, had criticised and challenged (albeit briefly) the great Bolshevik Barry. Knowing what we now know of the petty vindictiveness of the current President, I wouldn't be surprised to discover that B.O. let the homes burn to punish Texans for clinging to their guns, religion, and governor.
The notorious Hillary Rodham Clinton once scandalously said to General David Petraeus that accepting his testimony on the "Surge" in Iraq (which succeeded brilliantly) required "a willing suspension of disbelief". Accepting Hillary Clinton's testimony on any subject requires "a willing suspension of disbelief."
Friday, January 17, 2014
Questions for the Prominent for a Friday
For Attorney General Eric Holder:
How long did it take you to find a white defendant to prosecute for a "hate crime" -- the knockout game?
How many black defendants did you pass on prosecuting while you were searching for a white man to prosecute?
Did you remember to make sure the defendent you settled on isn't a homosexual?
For the editorial board at the New York Times (a former newspaper):
Now that you have created the term "white Hispanic" for George Zimmerman, how much longer will it take you to call some conservative black like Deneen Borrelli or Herman Cain a "black Caucasian"?
For any spokeman for the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration:
When the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, they rounded up and massacred government leaders, military officers, college professors, and other potential leaders. Then they declared that they would have to run Poland, since the Poles had no leaders capable of running a government. Didn't you do something similar when you stopped counting the coldest temperature reading stations between one publicized calculation of global temperature and the next, so that you could falsely claim that the temperature had gone up "according to your readings"?
For the Love Canal Media:
Hundreds of people died of Fast and Furious. Four Americans were killed in Bengazi. How many died in the George Washington Bridge traffic jam?
How long did it take you to find a white defendant to prosecute for a "hate crime" -- the knockout game?
How many black defendants did you pass on prosecuting while you were searching for a white man to prosecute?
Did you remember to make sure the defendent you settled on isn't a homosexual?
For the editorial board at the New York Times (a former newspaper):
Now that you have created the term "white Hispanic" for George Zimmerman, how much longer will it take you to call some conservative black like Deneen Borrelli or Herman Cain a "black Caucasian"?
For any spokeman for the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration:
When the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, they rounded up and massacred government leaders, military officers, college professors, and other potential leaders. Then they declared that they would have to run Poland, since the Poles had no leaders capable of running a government. Didn't you do something similar when you stopped counting the coldest temperature reading stations between one publicized calculation of global temperature and the next, so that you could falsely claim that the temperature had gone up "according to your readings"?
For the Love Canal Media:
Hundreds of people died of Fast and Furious. Four Americans were killed in Bengazi. How many died in the George Washington Bridge traffic jam?
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Chris Christie, Bob Gates, and my solution for carbon dioxide
Dammit, Chris Christie, you gave the media exactly what they wanted! You've given them something to cover other than Obama scandals, incompetence, and cronyism. Can you be surprised that you are under so many spotlights that you can't even distinguish any one of them individually? To think that some people thought this bumptious blimp could beat out Hillary in the Presidential race! Of course, even if your governorship made George Washington look like Bill Clinton, they would still make a scandal up to use against you. (Do you remember Mitt Romney, Bain Capital, and Joe Septic?) At least we can try to bust frauds.
(If you want to imagine something truly appalling, imagine an actual footrace between Hillary Clinton and Chris Christie.)
Now that I've done yelling at CC (for the moment), a warning for the rest of you. B e ready for the Love Canal Media to stretch this bridge fiasco as long as they can, with endless breathless updates and "exclusives". The LCM wants to keep their gaze (and hopefully, in their eyes, yours, too) on the figure of Chris Christie (pun intended) until they catch another Republican doing or saying something they can make a scandal out of. As the media pirates yell, "Prepare to be bored!"
Few sights amuse more than the consternation of the Left when they are wounded by the turncoats they prepared to join their crew. They are shocked that Robert "Beltway Bob" Gates would dare to criticise their Mickey Mouse Club foreign and military policies. Turnabout, I call it. How do you suppose we Republicans felt when Gates consented to stay on as Secretary of Defense. You kept him because he was pliable, and would change teams to stay in office. Why are you surprised when he leaves the ship and tells the reading public (that which remains) and the media of the brainlessness of the captain and his officers. Bob Gates may be fond of the military, but he's more fond of Bob Gates, and it's only Bob to make more money and TV time for himself.
Be the President Republican or Democrat, George W or Barry O, a tiger is a tiger, a jackel is a jackel, and a Gates is a Gates.
If coal industry executives are, shall we say, reluctant to trust Democrats and environmentalists, one can hardly blame them. The "war on coal" goes back longer than you may realize.
First the coal power plant owners were ordered to either retrofit their plants to use clean coal or install costly "stack scrubbers" in their smokestacks. They complied.
Then they were told that they had to install stack scrubbers into the smokestacks of the plants that had converted to clean coal. There were protests, but "no mercy, no quarter" - they had to do it or face business-killing fines. Again they complied. The real pollutants that made "smog" a word in the dictionary virtually disappeared from our air.
So naturally, the enviros and their Democrat wage-slaves declared the second most important gas for life on earth a pollutant, so that they could continue their torture-murder of a great American industry. Their theories are wildly, transparently false, but that never stops a dedicated power-hungry lefty.
Personally, I think that if every member of radical environmental groups like the Sierra Club would just stop exhaling, it would do more good for the planet than the shutting down of every coal-fired plant in America.
I know I'd breathe easier.
(If you want to imagine something truly appalling, imagine an actual footrace between Hillary Clinton and Chris Christie.)
Now that I've done yelling at CC (for the moment), a warning for the rest of you. B e ready for the Love Canal Media to stretch this bridge fiasco as long as they can, with endless breathless updates and "exclusives". The LCM wants to keep their gaze (and hopefully, in their eyes, yours, too) on the figure of Chris Christie (pun intended) until they catch another Republican doing or saying something they can make a scandal out of. As the media pirates yell, "Prepare to be bored!"
Few sights amuse more than the consternation of the Left when they are wounded by the turncoats they prepared to join their crew. They are shocked that Robert "Beltway Bob" Gates would dare to criticise their Mickey Mouse Club foreign and military policies. Turnabout, I call it. How do you suppose we Republicans felt when Gates consented to stay on as Secretary of Defense. You kept him because he was pliable, and would change teams to stay in office. Why are you surprised when he leaves the ship and tells the reading public (that which remains) and the media of the brainlessness of the captain and his officers. Bob Gates may be fond of the military, but he's more fond of Bob Gates, and it's only Bob to make more money and TV time for himself.
Be the President Republican or Democrat, George W or Barry O, a tiger is a tiger, a jackel is a jackel, and a Gates is a Gates.
If coal industry executives are, shall we say, reluctant to trust Democrats and environmentalists, one can hardly blame them. The "war on coal" goes back longer than you may realize.
First the coal power plant owners were ordered to either retrofit their plants to use clean coal or install costly "stack scrubbers" in their smokestacks. They complied.
Then they were told that they had to install stack scrubbers into the smokestacks of the plants that had converted to clean coal. There were protests, but "no mercy, no quarter" - they had to do it or face business-killing fines. Again they complied. The real pollutants that made "smog" a word in the dictionary virtually disappeared from our air.
So naturally, the enviros and their Democrat wage-slaves declared the second most important gas for life on earth a pollutant, so that they could continue their torture-murder of a great American industry. Their theories are wildly, transparently false, but that never stops a dedicated power-hungry lefty.
Personally, I think that if every member of radical environmental groups like the Sierra Club would just stop exhaling, it would do more good for the planet than the shutting down of every coal-fired plant in America.
I know I'd breathe easier.
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Surrounded by Lispers in ADA America
I am beset by lispers on the airwaves. One of the local sponsors of my favorite local conservative radio show, The Bill Nojay Show on my favorite New York talk radio channel, WYSL, has a lisper read their online ad. It irritates me so much I don't even remember whose ad it is.
What's worse, the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops website has a lisper recording the psalms I get with my daily Bible readings. Hearing the psalms spoken as if the reader just finished having dental work done is exasperating! I don't listen to my Bible readings in the morning to start the day irritated. But irritated I am.
I blame the Americans with Disabilities Act. The Act was sold to us as a law that would prevent unfair discrimination against the disabled, which was preventing them from obtaining jobs they were capable of performing. Sounded nice to most, although some of us knew where this would end up.
As we all know, hand a trial lawyer in or out of government a chopstick, and he'll turn it into your suppository.
So it proved with the Americans with Disabilities Act. From the prevention of unnecessary discrimination against the handicapped (yes, I will use the old word), the focus soon became the enrichment of trial lawyers. (This happens to most laws.) Gradually employers realized that they were likely to be hauled into court anytime you turn down anyone with a handicap, no matter what it is, and no matter how relevant that handicap is to the job duties. Do you remember the blind firefighter?
So we are beset with lispers on the radio and barely coherent telemarketers. Do you see why I invoke Shakespeare and intone "I trust not fair terms and a villain's mind"?
What's worse, the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops website has a lisper recording the psalms I get with my daily Bible readings. Hearing the psalms spoken as if the reader just finished having dental work done is exasperating! I don't listen to my Bible readings in the morning to start the day irritated. But irritated I am.
I blame the Americans with Disabilities Act. The Act was sold to us as a law that would prevent unfair discrimination against the disabled, which was preventing them from obtaining jobs they were capable of performing. Sounded nice to most, although some of us knew where this would end up.
As we all know, hand a trial lawyer in or out of government a chopstick, and he'll turn it into your suppository.
So it proved with the Americans with Disabilities Act. From the prevention of unnecessary discrimination against the handicapped (yes, I will use the old word), the focus soon became the enrichment of trial lawyers. (This happens to most laws.) Gradually employers realized that they were likely to be hauled into court anytime you turn down anyone with a handicap, no matter what it is, and no matter how relevant that handicap is to the job duties. Do you remember the blind firefighter?
So we are beset with lispers on the radio and barely coherent telemarketers. Do you see why I invoke Shakespeare and intone "I trust not fair terms and a villain's mind"?
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